Sarah McDonnell

MIT

Today in Manufacturing Podcast

Today in Manufacturing Podcast

Today in Manufacturing has a new podcast brought to you by the editors of Industrial Media. In each episode, we discuss the five biggest stories in manufacturing, and the implications they have on the industry moving forward.

The MIT team has achieved the thinnest and lightest complete solar cells ever made, they say. To demonstrate just how thin and lightweight the cells are, the researchers draped a working cell on top of a soap bubble, without popping the bubble.

Solar Cells as Light as a Soap Bubble

Imagine solar cells so thin, flexible, and lightweight that they could be placed on almost any material or surface.

This is a view inside the Alcator C-Mod tokamak.

Researchers May Have Found Key to Making Fusion Work

In a result so surprising that the researchers themselves found it hard to believe their own results, it turns out that turbulence can account for the mysterious mismatch between theory and experimental results.