Concern is growing that the spread of COVID cases and city lockdowns in China will have massive downstream effects for global supply chains that could dwarf previous disruptions since the start of the pandemic.

Last May, the huge Yantian container terminal at the Port of Shenzhen throttled down to 30% of normal productivity for a month to stamp out a handful of positive cases there. Hundreds of thousands of shipments that couldn’t enter the port accumulated in factories and warehouses, and...



Engineers introduce the Oreometer

When you twist open an Oreo cookie to get to the creamy center, you're mimicking a standard test in rheology -- the study of how a non-Newtonian material flows when twisted, pressed, or otherwise stressed. MIT engineers have now subjected the sandwich cookie to rigorous materials tests to get to the center of a tantalizing question: Why does the cookie's cream stick to just one wafer when twisted apart?



A New Employee Workforce Trend

A survey from Microsoft says that employees have a "worth it" equation.

Trying to keep up with what employees are thinking and doing these days is difficult. So Microsoft conducted a very large study – 31,000 people in 131 countries – and came to a few conclusions, in their Work Trends Index 2022.

Employees have a new "worth it" equation...