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Momentus Announces Orders are Open for the Vigoride Orbit Transfer Service
Feb 07, 2019 (SPX)
A graduate of the prestigious Y combinator program and based in Santa Clara, California, Momentus is currently perfecting both Vigoride and Vigoride Extended to...
3D printed tires and shoes that self-repair
Feb 06, 2019 (SPX)
Assistant Professor Qiming Wang works in the world of 3D printed materials, creating new functions for a variety of purposes, from flexible electronics to sound...
Observing hydrogen's effects in metal
Feb 06, 2019 (SPX)
Now, researchers at MIT have figured out a way around that problem, creating a new technique that allows the observation of a metal surface during hydrogen pene...
Researchers use artificial neural networks to streamline materials testing
Feb 06, 2019 (SPX)
The work, led by Nikhil Gupta, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at NYU Tandon, with Ph.D. student Xianbo Xu and collaborators at 2D g...
Atom probe tomography reveals chinks in iron crystals that can 'heal'
Feb 05, 2019 (SPX)
Unfortunately, when exposed to oxygen and moisture, iron oxidizes - or rusts. And rust is relentless. Knowing more about the chemical reactions that drive and s...
Raytheon's Spy-6 Navy radar passes most complicated test
Feb 05, 2019 (UPI)
The AN/SPY-6(V)1 AMDR searched for, detected and maintained track of a short-range ballistic missile target launched from the Pacific Missile Range Facility in ...
UC Riverside physicists create exotic electron liquid
Feb 05, 2019 (SPX)
The achievement opens a pathway for development of the first practical and efficient devices to generate and detect light at terahertz wavelengths - between inf...
Supercomputing helps study two-dimensional materials
Feb 04, 2019 (SPX)
The frontier of materials science research lies not in alchemical trial and error, though; to better understand and improve materials today, researchers must be...
Magnetic teeth hold promise for materials and energy
Feb 04, 2019 (SPX)
The mollusk, called a gumboot chiton, scrapes algae off ocean rocks using a specialized set of teeth made from the magnetic mineral magnetite. The teeth have th...
Artificial intelligence ARTIST instantly captures materials' properties
Feb 01, 2019 (SPX)
ARTIST, which stands for Artificial Intelligence for Spectroscopy, instantly determines how a molecule will react to light - clinch-pin knowledge for creating t...
Capella Space Selects Phase Four for Maxwell On-Orbit Propulsion System
Feb 01, 2019 (SPX)
Capella Space is well-respected for its Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) technology designed to detect sub-meter changes on the Earth's surface. The leader in rad...
New 3D printer shapes objects with rays of light
Feb 01, 2019 (SPX)
Nicknamed the "replicator" by the inventors - after the Star Trek device that can materialize any object on demand - the 3D-printer can create objects that are ...
Green alternative to PET could be even greener
Feb 01, 2019 (SPX)
An alternative to PET can be made from bio-based furan molecules, but to polymerize these furans you need toxic catalysts and high temperatures. Now, polymer ch...
Self-growing materials that strengthen in response to force
Feb 01, 2019 (SPX)
Hokkaido University researchers have developed a strategy to fabricate materials that become stronger in response to mechanical stress - mimicking skeletal musc...
South African-Scottish research team demonstrate fractal light from lasers
Feb 01, 2019 (SPX)
These patterns are all examples of fractals, the geometry of nature. Fractals are the complex shapes that we see every day in nature. They have the distinctive ...
Environmentally stable laser emits exceptionally pure light
Feb 01, 2019 (SPX)
Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory, USA describe their new laser in Optica, The Optical Society's journal for high ...
Observers Puzzled by Mysterious 'Empty Trash Bag' Orbiting Earth
Jan 31, 2019 (Sputnik)
Northolt Branch Observatories has posted a video that captured a so-called "empty trash bag object" orbiting Earth with an unusual, retrograde trajectory. What ...
Maxar/SSL ends participation in DARPA's robotic satellites servicing program
Jan 31, 2019 (SPX)
SSL has notified DARPA that it has decided to discontinue its participation in RSGS, an option available at this time under the terms of the Other Transaction A...
Laser-fabricated crystals in glass are ferroelectric
Jan 30, 2019 (SPX)
"This includes the ability to uniformly orient and reverse orient the ferroelectric domains with an electric field?despite the fact that the crystal is strongly...
Fluid-inspired material self-heals before your eyes
Jan 30, 2019 (SPX)
A Northwestern University team has developed a new coating strategy for metal that self-heals within seconds when scratched, scraped or cracked. The novel mater...
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