The coronavirus pandemic reinforced and fanned the flames of our addictions, from our unhealthy dependence on screens, incessant online shopping, ordering food instead of cooking, and online learning and work-from-home settings becoming the new norm. The Broken Home imagined by Integrated Field (IF) addresses the reality of such (and most) […]
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Fixing the Broken Supply Chain
The past two years have demonstrated that the familiar formula of minimizing costs and maximizing efficiency in global supply chains is no longer enough. The system of just-in-time inventory failed miserably. Now, supply chain analysts insist that redundancy and resilience should be added to the equation to decrease supply chain […]
Stronger in the Broken Places
Defects and structural instabilities can sometimes occur when alloys are produced from multiple materials. Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering are figuring out how to use these flaws to make the material stronger yet retain its flexibility by designing metastable alloys. In a study published in Science Advances, […]