Confectionery has a plastic problem. From storage containers to conveyor belts, plastic is used at every stage of production. Yet nowhere is the industry’s reliance more visible than in its packaging.

A basic comparison between CoWoS, wafer-scale integration, and CoWoP establishes distinctions among package substrate, ...

Companies are stepping up efforts to cut waste from flexible plastic packaging as new environmental rules target one of the ...

Flexible packaging manufacturers must address substrate challenges, printing technology upgrades, and quality control systems ...

Seventeen states challenge California's packaging law, arguing it forces national compliance and delegates authority to ...

For all the pushback against plastics, the material remains widely embedded in food and drinks packaging. From vacuum-packed fruit and veg to yoghurt pots, black plastic meat trays and milk jugs, the ...

Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians. What does that mean for their future? Credit...Illustrations by Yoshi ...

Abstract: The development of quantum annealing has stimulated interest in solving NP-hard problems, including various industrial problems, such as quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO), ...

This paper deals with the two-dimensional strip packing problem (2D-SPP) with the order/or multi-drop and vertical stability constraints. The existing exact algorithm that solves this problem is not ...

“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...

OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved conjecture in geometry, which was first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. If this sounds ...