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Hosokawa Micron Limited Expands Daresbury Site to Triple cGMP Contract Processing Capacity

Hosokawa Micron Limited has expanded its contract development and manufacturing operations at Daresbury, increasing its cGMP-grade processing capacity from one suite to three.

From Hosokawa Micron Ltd 28 May 2026

Tescan Launches Orage™ 2 Ga+ FIB-SEM for Materials Science, Setting New Standard in Automated TEM Sample Preparation

Tescan announces the launch of Orage™ 2, a next-generation Ga+ FIB-SEM column integrated into the AMBER 2 platform for advanced materials science applications.

From Tescan Group 28 May 2026

New ‘Super Hydrogel’ Pulls Drinking Water From Thin Air for Months at a Time

Researchers have developed a more durable moisture-harvesting hydrogel that resists metal-triggered degradation, allowing it to continuously pull drinkable water from the air for months.

22 May 2026

Grounded Metamaterials Keep Their Shape-Shifting Mechanics Stable

Grounded reconfigurable metamaterials preserved nearly identical displacement fields across rectangular, parallelogram, and random geometries, overcoming a key shape-performance trade-off in mechanical metamaterials. By combining transformation elasticity, grounded body torques, and Willis springs, the system enabled programmable deformation modes, including asymmetric tension without bending and tension-induced buckling.

20 May 2026

Scientists Use Powerful X-Rays to Visualize Hidden Dynamics Inside Opaque Fluids

Using powerful X-rays and computer models, researchers at Argonne and the University of Chicago linked nanoscale particle motion to surprising flow behaviors in soft materials.

14 May 2026

Jenike Granted Patent for Jen-Zero™ Biomass Feeding Technology

Jenike & Johanson, a global leader in bulk solids handling and processing, has been granted a patent for its Jen-Zero™ technology—an engineered solution designed to overcome one of the most persistent challenges in biofuels production: reliably feeding low-density biomass and municipal solid waste (MSW) feedstocks into high-pressure reactors.

14 May 2026

Recycled Glass Bottles Find New Life Through Advanced 3D Printing

Glass bottles tossed in the trash are finding new life thanks to a collaboration between the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Vitriform3D, an advanced manufacturing company.

12 May 2026

How Electricity Could Slash Cement Emissions by 98%

Researchers developed an electrochemical process that converts limestone and silica into calcium silicate hydrate at 60 °C and 1 bar, enabling belite-rich cement clinker to form at 650 °C rather than the conventional 1200 °C. Using waste cement as the calcium feedstock, the modeled process could reduce production-stage CO2 emissions to 20 kg per ton of cement, a 98% reduction compared with conventional cement production.

12 May 2026

New Method Enables Ferroelectric Switching in Aluminum Nitride Semiconductors

Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory showed they can "write" ferroelectric regions into aluminum nitride by using a helium ion beam to create precise defects while keeping the crystal intact.

11 May 2026

Scientists Discover Predictable Patterns to Design New Superconductors

Many breakthrough materials have been found by accident. The first superconductor, for example, was discovered while researchers were looking for something else.

6 May 2026

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