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Of the high-tech stories out there today, additive manufacturing (AM) tops them all. In fact, AM is almost becoming "normal." With all of the interest in AM, we will be focusing the Academic Pulse column in 2020 exclusively on AM. Here's a look at just a few of the stories we have been talking about. New powders for AM are being developed constantly. A research project - High Strength Aluminum Powder for Additive Manufacture (HighSAP) - to further develop and optimize Aeromat International's AM powder, A20X, has resulted in "one of the strongest aluminum additive manufacturing powders commercially available." Similarly, with the launch of 7A77 aluminum powder, California's HRL Laboratories is reported to have created the strongest AM aluminum to date.