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Designing a flexible material to protect buildings, military personnel
May 27, 2020 (SPX)
Now, a team of engineers led by Guoliang Huang, a James C. Dowell Professor in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of Missouri...
UK commits new funding to combat space debris
May 27, 2020 (SPX)
There are an estimated 900,000 pieces of space debris larger than 1 cm orbiting the Earth, with only a small proportion of them tracked. The UK Space Agency is ...
Solving the space junk problem
May 26, 2020 (SPX)
Orbital use fees would also increase the long-run value of the space industry, said economist Matthew Burgess, a CIRES Fellow and co-author of the new paper. By...
SpaceChain invests in Core Semiconductor to drive open Direct Satellite-to-Devices Communication
May 26, 2020 (SPX)
With security inherently built-in, the technology is designed with the blockchain industry in mind and to bring blockchain applications to a global user base. C...
A primordial world of minerals litters Atacama desert
May 25, 2020 (ESA)
In this image, captured on 26 June 2019, a specific area in the Tarapaca Region, in northern Chile, is featured - where some of the largest caliche deposits can...
New Army 3-D printing study shows promise for predictive maintenance
May 25, 2020 (SPX)
A new study published recently in the International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology showed that the Army could detect and monitor the wear and tear...
US video game industry sees record April sales: survey
May 22, 2020 (AFP)
A total of $1.5 billion was spent on video game hardware, software, accessories and game cards, eclipsing a previous April high of $1.2 billion spent in the US ...
Study unveils details of how a widely used catalyst splits water
May 22, 2020 (SPX)
The new findings are reported this week in the journal Nature Catalysis, in a paper by MIT Professor Yang Shao-Horn, recent graduate students Reshma Rao, Manuel...
Fireflies helps companies get more out of meetings
May 22, 2020 (SPX)
The startup Fireflies.ai is helping people get the most out of their meetings with a note-taking, information-organizing virtual assistant named Fred. Fred tran...
The flame of discovery grows as Saffire sets new fires in space
May 21, 2020 (SPX)
Just like Saffires I, II and III, the researchers began the experiment in Cygnus after it completed its primary International Space Station resupply mission and...
Machine-learning tool could help develop tougher materials
May 21, 2020 (SPX)
The system, which MIT researchers hope could be used to develop stronger protective coatings or structural materials - for example, to protect aircraft or space...
Amazon puts heat on eSports giants with 'Crucible'
May 20, 2020 (AFP)
Release of the free online title by Amazon Game Studios comes as people staying home to avoid the deadly coronavirus turn to video games for entertinament and s...
Emissions from road construction could be halved using today's technology
May 19, 2020 (SPX)
"We identified several low hanging fruits, and if we address those first, it will become easier and cheaper to make bigger emission reductions in the future," s...
Scientists use pressure to make liquid magnetism breakthrough
May 19, 2020 (SPX)
The answer is a magnetic liquid, which seems counterintuitive. Liquids become solids under pressure, but not generally the other way around. But this unusual pi...
AFRL pushes boundaries in metals printing with new research
May 19, 2020 (SPX)
Metal additive manufacturing allows the manufacturing of parts with complex geometries that are otherwise un-manufacturable, producing unique, performance-enhan...
Self-repairing rubber made from waste ideal for variety of uses
May 18, 2020 (UPI)
Researchers created the rubber using only waste materials, including sulfur, canola cooking oil and dicyclopentadiene from petroleum refining. When damaged, sci...
AFRL satellite duo probing Earth's radiation belts
May 18, 2020 (SPX)
DSX launched into a 6000 km by 12000 km orbit on June 25, 2019 aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy as part of the STP-2 mission sponsored by the DoD Space Test Program...
New algorithm predicts optimal materials among all possible compounds
May 18, 2020 (SPX)
The computational method developed by Skoltech professor Artem R. Oganov and his PhD student Zahed Allahyari solves this major problem of theoretical materials ...
Ultra-long-working-distance spectroscopy with 3D-printed aspherical microlenses
May 15, 2020 (SPX)
Researchers from the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Poland, have designed tiny lenses (with dimensions as small as a fraction of the human hair diame...
Russian Meteor-M satellite resumes work after meteoroid strike
May 14, 2020 (Sputnik)
Russia's Meteor-M No.2-2, which was struck by a micrometeoroid in December, has come back online and resumed its normal operations, a Roscosmos spokesman has co...
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