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New space industry emerges: on-orbit servicing
Nov 17, 2018 (AFP)
When satellites run out of fuel, they can no longer maintain their precise orbit, rendering them useless even if their hardware is still intact. "It's literally...
Scientists engineer a functional optical lens out of 2D materials
Nov 16, 2018 (SPX)
But even though metalenses are much thinner than glass lenses, they still rely on "high aspect ratio" structures, in which the column or fin-like structures are...
Space making the virtual a reality
Nov 16, 2018 (ESA)
Usually associated with video games, this ultra-immersive technology is quickly being recognised for its real-world potential. VR is a computer-generated enviro...
Electronic skin points the way north
Nov 16, 2018 (SPX)
As this e-skin is extremely thin and malleable, it can easily be affixed to human skin to create a bionic analog of a compass. This might not only help people w...
Space Tango unveils ST-42 for scalable manufacturing in space for Earth-based applications
Nov 16, 2018 (SPX)
Launching in the mid 2020's, ST-42 aims to harness the unique environment of microgravity to produce high value products across industries; from patient therape...
Optimization of alloy materials: Diffusion processes in nano particles decoded
Nov 15, 2018 (SPX)
Nano structures responsible for material quality Alloy elements such as scandium and zircon are added to the aluminium matrix to improve the strength, corrosion...
UTA researchers find cheaper, less energy-intensive way to purify ethylene
Nov 15, 2018 (SPX)
Ethylene is produced from crude oil but is usually obtained as a mixture containing ethane. Manufacturing processes using ethylene usually require pure, or 99.9...
3D Printing, Virtual Reality, Simulated Stardust and More Headed to Orbiting Lab
Nov 14, 2018 (SPX)
Read more about some of the science NG CRS-10 delivers to the space station: Refabricator demonstrates an integrated 3D printer and recycler for the first time ...
Cells require background levels of radiation for normal growth
Nov 14, 2018 (SPX)
Castillo, professor of microbiology in the Aerospace Physiology program at Embry-Riddle, was a collaborator on the Low Background Radiation Experiment (LBRE) st...
A two-atom quantum duet
Nov 12, 2018 (SPX)
The spin is a fundamental quantum mechanical object and governs magnetic properties of materials. In a classical picture, the spin often can be considered like ...
Thermal testing of the magnetometer boom
Nov 12, 2018 (ESA)
The tests were run as part of the MAG boom development programme in order to validate current engineering assumptions and guarantee the overall thermal performa...
Creating better devices: The etch stops here
Nov 09, 2018 (SPX)
"In the last five years, there has been a huge gold rush where researchers figured out we could make 2D materials that are naturally only one molecule thick but...
Unlocking the secrets of metal-insulator transitions
Nov 09, 2018 (SPX)
"Correlated materials have interesting electronic, magnetic, and structural properties, and we try to understand how those properties change when their temperat...
Flow units: Dynamic defects in metallic glasses
Nov 08, 2018 (SPX)
Recent studies found that amorphous materials are intrinsically spatially and temporally heterogeneous, which implies the possibility to identify the dynamic de...
Doing the wave: how stretchy fluids react to wavy surfaces
Nov 08, 2018 (SPX)
Researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) have brought us one step closer by demonstrating how viscoelastic flui...
Making steps toward improved data storage
Nov 07, 2018 (SPX)
Compact discs might be falling out of fashion, but they may have inspired the next generation of computer nanotechnology. A glass layer in CDs consists of a pha...
Laser blasting antimatter into existence
Nov 06, 2018 (SPX)
How do scientists make antimatter? When electrons, negatively charged subatomic particles, move back and forth they give off light. If they move very fast, they...
Flying focus: Controlling lasers through time and space
Nov 06, 2018 (SPX)
A "flying focus" combines a lens that focuses specific colors of light at different locations with the recent Nobel Prize winning chirped-pulse amplification te...
Physicists name and codify new field in nanotechnology: 'electron quantum metamaterials'
Nov 06, 2018 (SPX)
"It's a bit like driving past a vineyard and looking out the window at the vineyard rows. Every now and then, you see no rows because you're looking directly al...
Russian physicists upgrade cheap diode laser for use in precise measurements
Nov 05, 2018 (SPX)
The study came out Oct. 26 in Nature Photonics and was co-authored by researchers fr om the Russian Quantum Center (RQC), the Moscow Institute of Physics and Te...
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