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Japan to receive digital radar systems from Raytheon
May 30, 2018 (UPI)
The contract, from the U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, is valued $90 million under the terms of an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contrac...
An elastic fiber filled with electrodes set to revolutionize smart clothes
May 29, 2018 (SPX)
The fibers were developed at EPFL's Laboratory of Photonic Materials and Fiber Devices (FIMAP), headed by Fabien Sorin at the School of Engineering. The scienti...
Could a particle accelerator using laser-driven implosion become a reality?
May 29, 2018 (SPX)
Scientists at Osaka University discovered a novel particle acceleration mechanism called 'Micro-bubble implosion,' in which super-high energy hydrogen ions (rel...
Scientists discover new magnetic element
May 29, 2018 (SPX)
The use of ferromagnetism, or the basic mechanism by which certain materials (such as iron) form permanent magnets or are attracted to magnets, reaches back as ...
Phase Four Tapped by Astro Digital as Certified Propulsion Provider for Landmapper Constellation
May 29, 2018 (SPX)
As part of a two-pronged agreement, Phase Four will supply Astro Digital with multiple thrusters for its Landmapper data-collection constellation, while the res...
Phase Four Signs Contract with NASA to Vet its Propulsion System for Upcoming Small Satellite Missions
May 25, 2018 (SPX)
The Phase Four thruster is part of an Integrated Propulsion Assembly (IPA) that contains: propellant storage and management, engine control electronics, power p...
Astonishing effect enables better palladium catalysts
May 24, 2018 (SPX)
The catalytic grains often have a diameter spanning many thousands of atoms, and the support on which they rest should thus not affect chemical reactions on the...
Glass-forming ability: fundamental understanding leading to smart design
May 24, 2018 (SPX)
The tendency for materials to show glassy behavior is known as "glass-forming ability" and given the undeniable success of the familiar silicon-based material, ...
Advanced materials: processing glass like a polymer
May 24, 2018 (SPX)
"It has always been a big challenge to combine highly pure quartz glass and its excellent properties with a simple structuring technology," says Dr. Bastian E. ...
Rutgers researchers create a 3D-printed smart gel that walks underwater, moves objects
May 23, 2018 (SPX)
The watery creation could lead to soft robots that mimic sea animals like the octopus, which can walk underwater and bump into things without damaging them. It ...
New material detects the amount of UV radiation and helps monitor radiation dose
May 23, 2018 (SPX)
This is currently achieved by using mainly organic molecules that change colour under UV radiation. The downside of using these molecules, however, is their poo...
Space Station Panic
May 23, 2018 (SPX)
Once on board the ISS they are exposed to high radiation levels, weightlessness and the vacuum of space. In fact, they are at the mercy of the elements for the ...
Aireon System Deployment Continues with Sixth Successful Launch
May 23, 2018 (SPX)
At 12:47:58 PM PDT (19:47:58 UTC) Tuesday May 22nd, a flight-proven SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, bringing the...
Supercomputing the emergence of material behavior
May 22, 2018 (SPX)
A team of chemists at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) has now designed a two-dimensional protein crystal that toggles between states of varying p...
Focus on space debris
May 22, 2018 (SPX)
On the afternoon of 10 February 2009, the operational communications satellite Iridium 33 collided with the obsolete Cosmos 2251 communications satellite over S...
Deep space radiation treatment reboots brain's immune system
May 22, 2018 (SPX)
NASA and private space companies like SpaceX plan to send humans to the red planet within the next 15 years - but among the major challenges facing future crewe...
Keep the light off: A material with improved mechanical performance in the dark
May 21, 2018 (SPX)
However, inorganic semiconductors are brittle, which can lead to device failure and limits their application range, particularly in flexible electronics. A grou...
Space Situational Awareness is Space Battle Management
May 18, 2018 (SPX)
While catalog maintenance is a part of the SSA mission set, SSA enables the continuous preparation of the battlespace in order to fight and win a war in space. ...
Your body is transparentized in a virtual environment
May 18, 2018 (SPX)
Illusory body ownership can be induced by visual-tactile synchronicity such as the rubber hand illusion (passive method) and by visual-motor synchronicity such ...
Latest Updates from NASA on IMAGE Recovery
May 17, 2018 (SPX)
Just after midnight on May 9, however, Scott Tilley - the amateur astronomer who first rediscovered IMAGE - noticed that the spacecraft unexpectedly began trans...
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