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Bacteria enlisted in French push for rare earths autonomy
Jul 20, 2021 (AFP)
The tonnes of discarded ore, which contain nickel, copper and cobalt, are the continent's only domestic source of rare earths, along with discarded phones, comp...
Britain supports U.S. plan for deep space radar station
Jul 19, 2021 (UPI)
Air Chief Marshal Sir Michael Wigston, in the United States to examine the plans, said Britain is "very interested" in hosting an element of the Deep Space Adva...
Rescuing Integral: No thrust? No problem
Jul 19, 2021 (ESA)
In summer 2020, while the Integral Flight Control Team in Germany were getting used to a very different working environment - learning to fly their mission from...
New UK Space Fund aims to make space safer
Jul 15, 2021 (SPX)
One collision could create thousands of small, fast-moving fragments, damaging the satellites that provide everyday services such as communications, weather for...
Lockheed Martin opens new spacecraft facility in Florida
Jul 15, 2021 (UPI)
Lockheed Martin says the new STAR Center in Titusville is now a "digitally transformed factory of the future" that will help produce spacecraft to take astronau...
Scientists created several samples of glasses for protection against nuclear radiation
Jul 15, 2021 (SPX)
One of the latest results - glasses based on barium fluoride - was described by the team in the Optic magazine. But the best results have bismuth borate glasses...
Northrop Grumman's SABR Radar Goes Agile
Jul 15, 2021 (SPX)
The transition to Lean-Agile was achieved in partnership with the U.S. Air Force development teams at Hill Air Force Base, Eglin Air Force Base and Air National...
DARPA announces researchers to exploit infrared spectrum for understanding 3D scenes
Jul 14, 2021 (SPX)
Current autonomous systems require active illumination to navigate in the dark (headlights, lidar, or some other emitting sensor), but these active signatures c...
Developing cohesive, domestic rare earth element technologies
Jul 14, 2021 (SPX)
"Biomining," an approach that uses microbes to extract or separate target metals like gold or copper from a variety of sources is not yet useful for REEs becaus...
Energy production at Mutriku remains constant even if the wave force increases
Jul 12, 2021 (SPX)
In general, technologies that harness the power of the waves to produce electricity are in their infancy, and this is precisely what is being explored by the UP...
A touch of sun heats up material scieces at ESTEC
Jul 12, 2021 (SPX)
The near infrared detector assembly of the Flexible Combined Instrument (FCI) imager aboard the Meteosat Third Generation - Imaging (MTG - I) satellite was foun...
Marine Corps corporal gets 3D-printed teeth with jaw reconstruction
Jul 09, 2021 (UPI)
A tumor prompted the removal of most of Cpl. Jaden Murry's jaw in a November 2020 surgery. It was reconstructed using a portion of his fibula, or lower leg bone...
NASA orders satellite container and trolley from RUAG Space
Jul 08, 2021 (SPX)
Reusable container for three NASA missions From 2022 onwards this container will enable ground handling of satellites on Earth for up to three NASA missions, in...
Tencent to use facial ID to snag China's late-night child gamers
Jul 08, 2021 (AFP)
China bans people under 18 from playing online games between 10pm and 8am, part of a raft of rules introduced to weed out the excesses of gaming culture among t...
A crystal made of electrons
Jul 07, 2021 (SPX)
In doing so, they have confirmed a theoretical prediction that was made almost ninety years ago and which has since been regarded as a kind of holy grail of con...
Defense Dept. cancels $10 billion JEDI cloud contract given to Microsoft
Jul 06, 2021 (UPI)
A Pentagon representative told reporters that instead, the department will be soliciting new proposals from cloud service providers. "Today, the Department of D...
China begins construction of new survey telescope to detect space debris
Jul 02, 2021 (XNA)
The multi-application survey telescope array, MASTA, developed by the Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is under construction in t...
Reprogrammable satellite shipped to launch site
Jul 01, 2021 (ESA)
Developed under an ESA Partnership Project, Quantum will be able to respond to changing demands on Earth during its 15-year lifetime, providing data, communicat...
Amazon stays atop fast-growing cloud computing market: survey
Jun 29, 2021 (AFP)
A Gartner survey released Monday showed the so-called "infrastructure as a service" market grew 40.7 percent last year to $64.3 billion. Amazon held nearly 41 p...
NIST method uses radio signals to image hidden and speeding objects
Jun 28, 2021 (SPX)
The new method, described in Nature Communications, could provide critical information to help reduce deaths and injuries. Locating and tracking first responder...
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