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Rare earths: the latest weapon in the US-China trade war
May 29, 2019 (AFP)
Here are some key questions and answers on the prized elements. - What are rare earths? - The bedrock of electrical manufacturing, rare earths are 17 elements t...
China steps up threat to deprive US of rare earths
May 29, 2019 (AFP)
The warning is the latest salvo in a dispute that has intensified since President Donald Trump ramped up tariffs against China and moved to blacklist telecom gi...
Origami-inspired materials could soften the blow for reusable spacecraft
May 27, 2019 (SPX)
Landing is stressful on a rocket's legs because they must handle the force from the impact with the landing pad. One way to combat this is to build legs out of ...
A new sensor for light, heat and touch
May 23, 2019 (SPX)
Robotics, prostheses that react to touch, and health monitoring are three fields in which scientists globally are working to develop electronic skin. They want ...
Cement as a climate killer: Using industrial waste to produce carbon neutral alternatives
May 23, 2019 (SPX)
A team of geoscientists from Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) has found a way to produce more environmentally friendly and sustainable alternativ...
Clean and effective electronic waste recycling
May 23, 2019 (SPX)
Currently, e-waste recycling involves mechanical crushers and chemical baths, which are expensive, and manual labor, which can cause significant health and envi...
How usable is virtual reality?
May 23, 2019 (SPX)
This can be both time-consuming and cost-intensive. Dr Patrick Harms from the Institute of Computer Science at the University of Gottingen has developed a techn...
U.S. Air Force's Space Fence Detects Debris from India Anti-Satellite Test
May 23, 2019 (SPX)
As MICROSAT-R was expected to pass through the un-cued surveillance fence, Space Fence automatically issued a "breakup alert" indicating there were multiple obj...
How to program materials
May 23, 2019 (SPX)
Many of these properties have their origin deep inside the materials. Metal or wood, plastic or ceramics, stone or gel - all of these have been examined many ti...
Small but Mighty: Mini Version of Extreme Environments Chamber Extends Planetary Science
May 22, 2019 (SPX)
These tests in high-temperature (up to up to 932 F), high-pressure (over 90 times the Earth's surface pressure), toxic atmospheric planetary conditions, are per...
New lidar instruments peer skyward for clues on weather and climate
May 22, 2019 (SPX)
Collaborators from Montana State University (MSU) in Bozeman and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo. will discuss the work dur...
Fears rise China could weaponise rare earths in US tech war
May 22, 2019 (AFP)
A seemingly routine visit by President Xi Jinping to a Chinese rare earths company this week is being widely read as an obvious threat that Beijing is standing ...
Kilogram to be based on physical absolute instead of single, physical object
May 20, 2019 (UPI)
Scientists around the world will be able to reproduce the mass constant. Until now, a kilogram unit was based on the mass of a cylinder made of platinum-iridium...
Louisiana-based Geocent's Advanced Aerospace Materials to Fly Aboard International Space Station
May 16, 2019 (SPX)
Geocent, with its partners Plasma Processes Inc, The University of Tennessee, and The University of Alabama in Birmingham, was awarded NASA Small Business Innov...
Reprogrammable satellite takes shape
May 16, 2019 (ESA)
The assembly of Eutelsat Quantum took place in the Airbus facility in Toulouse, France, on 10 May. The satellite has been developed as an ESA Partnership Projec...
BAE Systems Radiation-hardened Electronics in Orbit a Total of 10,000 Years
May 15, 2019 (SPX)
"Our radiation-hardened electronics are operating aboard more than 300 satellites today, and power key national space assets such as Juno and InSight, that are ...
Elkem's Silgrain Powering Space Exploration and Research
May 15, 2019 (SPX)
EaglePicher Technologies is the leading provider of battery solutions for U.S. space missions. EaglePicher has powered launch vehicles, satellites, landers, and...
Mission-Saving NASA Instrument Secures New Flight Opportunity; Slated for Significant Upgrade
May 15, 2019 (SPX)
The miniaturized fluxgate magnetometer, developed by instrument engineer Todd Bonalsky at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, proved that...
Researchers create 'force field' for super materials
May 10, 2019 (SPX)
When curved and rolled into cylinders, thin graphene layers form CNT structures. These rolled sheets of carbon can be a thousandth of the diameter of human hair...
Discovery may lead to new materials for next-generation data storage
May 10, 2019 (SPX)
A team of researchers led by Cornell University and the University of California Berkeley made a discovery that opens up a plethora of materials systems and phy...
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