Washington State weighs permanent ban on funding port automation
The state senate is considering a new bill that would block state funds from going toward port automation, with longshore workers adding their support. Continue reading →
Fast-tracked project schedules boost heavy-lift air freight volumes
A drop in air freight charter rates has put the option of project cargoes moving by air back on the table. Continue reading →
STB rejects UP-NS merger application as ‘incomplete’
The regulator’s decision was unanimous, but Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern can fix what is deficient in the application and resubmit it at a later date. Continue reading →
Can American batteries keep up the pace? – This Week in Cleantech
On this episode of the This Week in Cleantech podcast, Nico Rivero from the Washington Post discusses how the rapid growth of grid-scale batteries in the U.S. is likely to pause in 2026. Continue reading →
TransCelerate CEO Janice Chang wants trials to become part of routine care
Clinical trials are drowning in data. In a TransCelerate/Tufts analysis published in late 2025, phase 3 protocols averaged more than 5.9 million data points, up 67% since 2020. The researchers found that nearly one-third of procedures and associated data were non-core or non-essential. In other...
STEERLife’s FragMelt platform manufactures drugs with heat sensitive active ingredient
Bionpharma announced Wednesday the FDA approval of its etravirine tablets, an HIV therapy developed in partnership with STEERLife. The therapy was developed using STEERLife’s proprietary FragMelt continuous processing platform, which enables a sustainable, solvent-free manufacturing process....
Can you find enough power for your DC?
In decades past, a warehouse was simply a large building used for storing goods and materials you didn’t need to access anytime soon. The best place to build these facilities was in rural areas far from cities, where land was cheap and back roads were good enough to support the occasional truck...
Moving with the times
With its distribution center lease set to expire and facing rising West Coast leasing costs, women’s fashion brand Cabi Clothing (cabi) embarked on a DC relocation journey in early 2024 that yielded big results in short order. In just two years, the California-based fashion business has retooled...
New StackWarp Hardware Flaw Breaks AMD SEV-SNP Protections on Zen 1–5 CPUs
A team of academics from the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security in Germany has disclosed the details of a new hardware vulnerability affecting AMD processors. The security flaw, codenamed StackWarp, can allow bad actors with privileged control over a host server to run malicious...