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Not so fantastic: Can Japan end its love affair with plastic?

Mar 20, 2019 (AFP)

The push comes ahead of the G20 summit, which Japan will host in Osaka in June. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government wants to use the meeting to push for an a...

Raytheon tests EASR all-purpose surveillance radar for U.S. Navy

Mar 20, 2019 (UPI)

The rotating array of radar components was mounted on a 100-foot tower at the Navy's Surface Combat Systems Center at Wallops Island, Va., and will undergo syst...

Acucela Signs Agreement to Develop a Compact OCT for NASA's Deep Space Missions

Mar 19, 2019 (SPX)

Approximately 63% of long-duration spaceflight crewmembers present with one or more signs of Spaceflight Associated Neuro-ocular Syndrome (SANS), including opti...

Materials could delay frost up to 300 times longer than existing anti-icing coatings

Mar 19, 2019 (SPX)

Now, researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Engineering describe for the first time several unique properties of materials known as p...

Researchers eye huge supply of rare-earth elements from mining waste

Mar 15, 2019 (SPX)

The research, led by Idaho National Laboratory and Rutgers University with support from the Critical Materials Institute, is online and in an upcoming issue of ...

ANU research set to shake up space missions

Mar 15, 2019 (SPX)

It could influence the type of materials used to build everything from satellite electronics to solar cells and batteries - making future space missions more ac...

Researchers turn liquid metal into a plasma

Mar 15, 2019 (SPX)

For the first time, researchers at the University of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) have found a way to turn a liquid metal into a plasma and...

Ultrathin and ultrafast: Scientists pioneer new technique for two-dimensional material analysis

Mar 15, 2019 (SPX)

The study, led by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and in collaboration with other institutions, including the U...

Spontaneous spin polarization demonstrated in a two-dimensional material

Mar 15, 2019 (SPX)

Two-dimensional materials are the subject of numerous studies. As they are only a few atomic layers thick, they have different physical properties from their th...

Raytheon contracted for SPY-6 radars for DDG 51 Flight III destroyers

Mar 15, 2019 (UPI)

The company received options for the Air and Missile Defense Radar Program low-rate initial production, the Department of Defense and the company announced Thur...

Physicists proposed fast method for printing nanolasers from rerovskites

Mar 14, 2019 (SPX)

Recently, scientists have been actively working on miniature light sources or nanolasers. It is required, for example, to produce optical chips that could proce...

CesiumAstro raises $12M to develop faster comms for aerospace platforms

Mar 14, 2019 (SPX)

Additional investors in the round include Kleiner Perkins, Franklin Templeton Venture Fund, Lavrock Ventures, Honeywell Ventures, and Analog Devices Ventures. F...

S.Africa medics use 3-D printer for middle ear transplant

Mar 14, 2019 (AFP)

The technique "may be the answer to conductive hearing loss -- a middle ear problem caused by congenital birth defects, infection, trauma or metabolic diseases,...

Common foundations of biological and artificial vision

Mar 13, 2019 (SPX)

The study, supervised by Professor Zoccolan and Dr. Federica B. Rosselli (a SISSA graduate and now postdoctoral researcher in the Caesar centre of the Max Plank...

Light provides control for 3D printing with multiple materials

Mar 13, 2019 (SPX)

Successful applications have come despite the fact that most 3D printing techniques can only produce parts made of one material at a time. More complex applicat...

Researchers engineer a tougher fiber

Mar 11, 2019 (SPX)

"A good way of explaining the material is to think of rubber bands and metal wires," says Michael Dickey, corresponding author of a paper on the work and Alcoa ...

Researchers find potential new source of rare earth elements

Mar 11, 2019 (SPX)

The approach could benefit clean energy technology, according to researchers at Rutgers University-New Brunswick and other members of the Critical Materials Ins...

DARPA seeks tools to capture underground worlds in 3D

Mar 11, 2019 (SPX)

Today, the majority of the underground environments are uncharted or inadequately mapped, including human-made tunnels, underground infrastructure, and natural ...

How to freeze heat conduction

Mar 11, 2019 (SPX)

Researchers all over the world are looking for such materials. Certain materials with a cage-like structure have proved particularly promising, for example clat...

Magnetization reversal achieved at room temperature using only an electric field

Mar 11, 2019 (SPX)

In the era of information technology revolution, electronics demand rapid evolution facilitated by greater efforts from materials researchers to pave the way fo...