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Protein pores packed in polymers make super-efficient filtration membranes
Jan 29, 2020 (SPX)
Led by Manish Kumar, associate professor in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, the research team describes their new high-...
Space telescope could collide with junked military satellite
Jan 29, 2020 (Sputnik)
The Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS), a massive 954 kg joint US, Dutch and British space telescope launched in 1983, is plotting a course to collide with ...
Russia considers assessing risk of Soviet-made nuclear-powered satellites falling to Earth
Jan 29, 2020 (Sputnik)
The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)'s Council for Space Exploration plans to recommend that the country's relevant ministries and departments keep a more watc...
Tethers Unlimited reports successful operation of space-debris removal device
Jan 29, 2020 (SPX)
In early September 2019, an automated timer unit on the Prox-1 satellite, launched in late June 2019 by the Air Force Research Laboratory's University Nanosatel...
Crab-shell and seaweed compounds spin into yarns for sustainable and functional materials
Jan 29, 2020 (SPX)
The team studied how differences in the concentration of each component, the size of the nanoparticles, and other variables affect the mechanical properties and...
Buildings can become a global CO2 sink if made out of wood instead of cement and steel
Jan 28, 2020 (SPX)
Second, it can turn buildings into a carbon sink as they store the CO2 taken up from the air by trees that are harvested and used as engineered timber. However ...
DirecTV races to de-orbit satellite it fears could explode
Jan 27, 2020 (UPI)
In a filing submitted to U.S. regulators this week and originally reported by Space News, the broadcast satellite provider requested temporary authority to "de-...
Astroscale awarded grant From to commercialize active debris removal services
Jan 24, 2020 (SPX)
Astroscale received the maximum amount covering half of its US $9 million application and will use the funds over three years to commercialize its ADR services ...
Texas AM engineers develop recipe to dramatically strengthen body armor
Jan 24, 2020 (SPX)
Researchers at Texas A and M University have formulated a new recipe that can prevent weaknesses in modern-day armor. By adding a tiny amount of the element sil...
Smart materials are becoming smarter
Jan 24, 2020 (SPX)
Composites are a new type of materials that consist of heterogeneous components (metals, ceramics, glass, plastic, carbon, etc) and combine their properties. To...
TV provider shifting satellite to high orbit over explosion fears
Jan 24, 2020 (AFP)
DirecTV had told the Federal Communications Commission its Boeing-built Spaceway-1 satellite had suffered a "major anomaly" in its batteries and did not have ti...
Longbow nabs $235.8M contract for Fire Control Radar support
Jan 24, 2020 (UPI)
The foreign military sales funds the contract, which funds production support for Apache attack helicopters in South Korea, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, United...
Copper Age Italy hosted large, complex networks of metal exchange
Jan 23, 2020 (UPI)
Recent studies have revealed Neolithic populations in Italy were using surprisingly complex technologies to extract copper much earlier than previously thought....
NASA funds AnalySwift, Purdue tech to speed up composite deployable structure design
Jan 22, 2020 (SPX)
AnalySwift LLC, a Purdue University-affiliated commercial software provider, has received a $125,000 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant from NASA. ...
Study reveals unexpected rise in potent greenhouse gas
Jan 21, 2020 (UPI)
HFC-23 is the byproduct of the production of HCFC-22, another hydrofluorocarbon that is commonly used in cooling systems in developing economies. India and Chin...
Scientists film chemical bond making, breaking
Jan 17, 2020 (UPI)
Now, for the first time, scientists have filmed chemical bond making and breaking in action. The breakthrough -- described this week in the journal Science Adva...
NASA-funded space radiation studies could save astronauts' lives
Jan 17, 2020 (UPI)
NASA has awarded a $550,000 grant to the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne to begin the three-year machine learning project next month. Computer algo...
Nestle to invest 2bn Swiss francs in recycled plastics
Jan 16, 2020 (AFP)
The company, whose brands include Nespresso coffee, Vittel water and Smarties chocolates, also plans to invest in new types of sustainable packaging to meet its...
Four nations to be protected with Lockheed Martin's next generation radar
Jan 15, 2020 (SPX)
The basis of SSR is the Long Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR), which the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) selected Lockheed Martin to develop in 2015 with an on-tr...
Slow light to speed up LiDAR sensors development
Jan 15, 2020 (SPX)
A team from Yokohama National University in Japan believes they have developed a method to obtain such a sensor by taking advantage of slow light, an unexpected...
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