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Russian firm mulls sending duplicate 3D Bioprinter to ISS after Soyuz failure

Oct 15, 2018 (Sputnik)

"Organ.Aut and cosmonauts have a duplicate [of the printer], it will be ready to fly to the ISS in the near future. We will work out a separate cycle graph of t...

Light melts matter differently than heat, study shows

Oct 15, 2018 (UPI)

Scientists have long suspected light melts matter differently than heat, but a new study -- published Monday in the journal Nature Physics -- is the first to co...

HII plans installation of first 3D-printed aircraft carrier part

Oct 12, 2018 (UPI)

The company announced Thursday that it has worked with the U.S. Navy to develop methods of additive manufacturing of metal parts for its nuclear-powered warship...

Raytheon's new AN/SPY-6V radar tracks ballistic missile in test

Oct 12, 2018 (UPI)

The company announced this week the AN/SPY-6 radar tracked multiple threats at the same time, as well as a ballistic missile through intercept. It was the first...

Shareholders in Chile miner file suit over sale to China's Tianqi

Oct 12, 2018 (AFP)

Pampa Calichera, Potasios de Chile and Global Mining -- collectively known as the Pampa Group which holds 29.12 percent of SQM -- said in the suit filed Wednesd...

A 'recipe book' that creates color centers in silicon carbide crystals

Oct 11, 2018 (SPX)

Now, a group of researchers has created a list of "recipes" physicists can use to create specific types of defects with desired optical properties in SiC. In on...

Sports industry gears up for virtual reality revolution

Oct 11, 2018 (AFP)

"It's going to disrupt all aspects of sport that you can imagine," virtual reality expert Michael Ludden told the two-day Leaders Sport Business Summit at Chels...

When debris overwhelms space

Oct 11, 2018 (SPX)

SpaceX alone plans on launching over 4,000 of these multi-hundred-kilogram spacecraft that are now being built in Redmond, Washington. Add all of the broadband ...

Boeing HorizonX Ventures invests in Accion Systems to propel satellite capabilities

Oct 11, 2018 (SPX)

Accion's new Tiled Ionic Liquid Electrospray (TILE) in-space propulsion system aims to increase the lifespan and maneuverability of satellites and other vehicle...

Aluminum on the way to titanium strength

Oct 11, 2018 (SPX)

The developed modifiers for 3D printing can be used in products for the aerospace industry. The developed modifying-precursors, based on nitrides and aluminum o...

Novel machine learning based framework could lead to breakthroughs in material design

Oct 11, 2018 (SPX)

But how do materials scientists actually invent new materials? Through experimentation, explains Sanket Deshmukh, an assistant professor in the chemical enginee...

Chemists of TU Dresden develop highly porous material, more precious than diamonds

Oct 11, 2018 (SPX)

In search of the stability limits of such frameworks, researchers of the TU Dresden's Faculty of Chemistry broke a world record: DUT-60 is a new crystalline fra...

Metal leads to the desired configuration

Oct 10, 2018 (SPX)

Dye-sensitized solar cells have been considered a sustainable alternative to conventional solar cells for many years, even if their energy yield is not yet full...

Discovering New Molecules for Military Applications

Oct 10, 2018 (SPX)

Current approaches to develop molecules for specific applications, however, are intuition-driven, mired in slow iterative design and test cycles, and ultimately...

Army research lights the way for new materials

Oct 10, 2018 (SPX)

This is exactly what scientists Dr. David Baker and Dr. Joshua McClure from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory are doing to lighten the load and enhance the powe...

Copper ions flow like liquid through crystalline structures

Oct 09, 2018 (SPX)

Becoming a popular topic of study only within the past five years, superionic crystals are a cross between a liquid and a solid. While some of their molecular c...

Spheres can make concrete leaner, greener

Oct 09, 2018 (SPX)

To Rice materials scientist Rouzbeh Shahsavari and graduate student Sung Hoon Hwang, the spheres represent building blocks that can be made at low cost and prom...

Google drops out of bidding for massive Pentagon cloud contract

Oct 09, 2018 (AFP)

The decision by Google, confirmed to AFP in an email Tuesday, leaves a handful of other tech giants including Amazon in the running for the Joint Enterprise Def...

Study opens route to flexible electronics made from exotic materials

Oct 09, 2018 (SPX)

Now MIT engineers have developed a technique to fabricate ultrathin semiconducting films made from a host of exotic materials other than silicon. To demonstrate...

New 3D-printed cement paste gets stronger when it cracks

Oct 09, 2018 (SPX)

Purdue University researchers have 3D-printed cement paste, a key ingredient of the concrete and mortar used to build various elements of infrastructure, that g...