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NanoRacks space station airlock Bishop completes CDR, moves to fab stage
Apr 24, 2018 (SPX)
Detailed design drawings such as those for the critical pressure shell will be signed and released to NanoRacks fabrication partner, Thales Alenia Space, in ord...
Rusal shares surge in Hong Kong after US eases sanctions stance
Apr 24, 2018 (AFP)
US President Donald Trump on April 6 imposed restrictions on Russian oligarchs close to President Vladimir Putin following the diplomatic crisis sparked by the ...
Marines 3D-print replacement part for F-35 landing gear door
Apr 24, 2018 (UPI)
Last week, Marines with Combat Logistic Battalion 31, with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, out of Marine Corps bases in Japan, announced they are capable of...
Study recommends strong role for national labs in 'second laser revolution'
Apr 23, 2018 (SPX)
An investment in this so-called "second laser revolution" promises to open up a range of applications, from machining to medicine to particle acceleration, acco...
Angola loses first satellite, plans successor
Apr 23, 2018 (AFP)
The Russian-made Angosat-1 struggled with repeated setbacks immediately after its launch from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan. Contact with the satellit...
Rare earth magnet recycling is a grind - this new process takes a simpler approach
Apr 23, 2018 (SPX)
Ryan Ott, a scientist at Ames Laboratory and a member of the CMI research team, said that with an ever-increasing amount of discarded electronics globally, it m...
Artificial intelligence accelerates discovery of metallic glass
Apr 22, 2018 (SPX)
Although metallic glass shows a lot of promise as a protective coating and alternative to steel, only a few thousand of the millions of possible combinations of...
KAIST succeeds in producing 50x more stable adsorbent
Apr 22, 2018 (SPX)
Professor Minkee Choi from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and his team succeeded in developing amine-containing adsorbents that show hi...
Polymer synthesis gets a jolt of caffeine
Apr 22, 2018 (SPX)
Using caffeine as a catalyst, the researchers have devised a way to create gummy, biocompatible gels that could be used for drug delivery and other medical appl...
Invertebrates inspire first fully 3-D printed active materials for robots
Apr 22, 2018 (SPX)
The U.S. Army uses robots that are structurally rigid, making them impractical when performing military operations in highly congested and contested urban envir...
Scientists identify unique binding mechanism of antifreeze molecule
Apr 20, 2018 (SPX)
Their results were published in early April in the Journal of the American Chemical Society as a cover article. "On the Earth, there are extremely severe enviro...
Spider silk key to new bone-fixing composite
Apr 20, 2018 (SPX)
Repairing major load-bearing bones such as those in the leg can be a long and uncomfortable process. To facilitate repair, doctors may install a metal plate to ...
New type of opal formed by common seaweed discovered
Apr 19, 2018 (SPX)
The findings, published in Science Advances and led by Drs Heather Whitney and Ruth Oulton from the University of Bristol, show that the bright blue and green i...
Writing and deleting magnets with lasers
Apr 19, 2018 (SPX)
Researchers of the HZDR, an independent German research laboratory, studied an alloy of iron and aluminum. It is interesting as a prototype material because sub...
'Artificial mole' could warn of cancer: study
Apr 18, 2018 (AFP)
The implant, or "biomedical tattoo," as researchers call it, has been tested in lab animals, lasts about a year and recognizes the four most common types of can...
Polymer-graphene nanocarpets to electrify smart fabrics
Apr 18, 2018 (SPX)
The entire structure is highly stable; it is less prone to degradation over time that makes the study promising for the development of flexible organic electron...
Army engineers develop technique to make adaptive materials
Apr 18, 2018 (SPX)
This on-demand control of composite behavior could enable a variety of new capabilities for future Army rotorcraft design, performance and maintenance. ARL's Dr...
Virtual contact lenses for radar satellites
Apr 18, 2018 (SPX)
The melting of the polar ice cap would have a drastic effect: Sea level would rise by several meters around the world, impacting hundreds of millions of people ...
NIST's new quantum method generates really random numbers
Apr 17, 2018 (SPX)
The new NIST method generates digital bits (1s and 0s) with photons, or particles of light, using data generated in an improved version of a landmark 2015 NIST ...
Plants fix UV damage to DNA with robust repair system
Apr 17, 2018 (UPI)
The new study, published this week in the journal Nature Communications, marks the first time scientists have mapped the "nucleotide excision repair" system ins...
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