Design can exist without "the research." But if we don't study the world, we don't always know how or what to create. Recently, my colleague Ben McAllister contributed a piece to this section called ...

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As a researcher who has used a wide variety of methodologies, I understand the importance of acknowledging that we, as researchers, do not pick the methodology; rather, the research question dictates ...

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- For centuries, the standard recipe for metals development has been to take useful metals and add a small amount of other elements to enhance performance. Today, ...

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