Producing chocolate, one of the world's most beloved sweets, is a multistep process beginning with freshly harvested cocoa beans. People have been experimenting with chocolate-making for millennia, ...

A research group from China has developed a novel dirt-detection system for PV plants that uses a series of image-processing techniques, as well as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with cameras flying ...

There are three main nondestructive inspection/nondestructive testing (NDI/NDT) technologies currently under development to help qualify surface preparation techniques and evaluate the quality of both ...

The United States led global production of rare earth elements (REEs) until the mid-1990s, when China emerged as the dominant supplier. China maintained near-total control of the market until 2012.