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JFSCC tracks Tiangong-1's reentry over the Pacific Ocean
Apr 04, 2018 (SPX)
The JFSCC used the Space Surveillance Network sensors and their orbital analysis system to confirm Tiangong-1's reentry, and to refine its prediction and ultima...
The Problem With Space Junk is We Don't Know Where Most Objects Are
Apr 04, 2018 (Sputnik)
Sputnik: How accurate can you say the predictions were for the trajectory of Tiangong's descent? Dr. Alice Gorman: It seems there was a reasonable amount of div...
Laser beam traps long-lived sound waves in crystalline solids
Apr 03, 2018 (UPI)
Researchers believe the so-called bulk crystalline optomechanical systems could be used for information processing and storage. When an intense laser beam passe...
What a mesh
Apr 03, 2018 (SPX)
In a new study, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, the University of California-Los Angeles, the University of Ca...
Mars mission: how increasing levels of space radiation may halt human visitors
Apr 03, 2018 (The Conversation)
A new study, published in the journal Space Weather, has shown that radiation received from outside our solar system has been increasing steadily for the last f...
Finding order in disorder demonstrates a new state of matter
Apr 03, 2018 (SPX)
"Our research shows for the first time that classical systems such as artificial spin ice can be designed to demonstrate topological ordered phases, which previ...
ESA reentry expertise
Apr 03, 2018 (ESA)
Each year, about 100 tonnes of defunct satellites, uncontrolled spacecraft, spent upper stages and discarded items like instrument covers are dragged down by Ea...
3-DIY: Printing your own bioprinter
Mar 30, 2018 (SPX)
The researchers - Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) and Biomedical Engineering (BME) Associate Professor Adam Feinberg, BME postdoctoral fellow TJ Hinton,...
Raytheon awarded contract for AN/ALR-69A radar receiver system
Mar 30, 2018 (UPI)
The indefinite-quantity contract, worth $460 million, includes the design, creation and testing of line replaceable units and shop replaceable units for the sys...
Point Nemo, Earth's watery graveyard for spacecraft
Mar 30, 2018 (AFP)
By sheer fluke, anything that didn't burn up in the atmosphere is expected to have plopped down somewhere near the forlorn spot that is amongst the most remote ...
Researchers create microlaser that flies along hollow optical fiber
Mar 30, 2018 (SPX)
"The flying microlaser could potentially be used to deliver light inside the body," said Richard Zeltner of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, G...
New device uses biochemistry techniques to detect rare radioactive decays
Mar 30, 2018 (SPX)
Physics tells us that matter is created side by side with antimatter. But if matter and antimatter are produced equally, then all of the matter created in the e...
Taming chaos: Calculating probability in complex systems
Mar 30, 2018 (SPX)
Researchers from the Universidad de la Republica in Uruguay and the University of Aberdeen in Scotland have devised a new method to transform data from complex ...
Femtosecond laser fabrication: Realizing dynamics control of electrons
Mar 29, 2018 (SPX)
Recently, researchers realized a new method termed electrons dynamics control for ultrafast laser micro/nano fabrication. For the first time, the localized tran...
Microsoft shakes up ranks to shoot for the cloud
Mar 29, 2018 (AFP)
Restructuring moves laid out in a memo from chief executive Satya Nadella included the departure of longtime Microsoft executive and Windows head Terry Myerson....
Is glass transition driven by thermodynamics?
Mar 29, 2018 (SPX)
In Physical Review X, researchers from The University of Tokyo's Institute of Industrial Science (IIS) give a detailed study of the structural changes during gl...
Pressing a button is more challenging than appears
Mar 28, 2018 (SPX)
"This research was triggered by admiration of our remarkable capability to adapt button-pressing", explains Professor Antti Oulasvirta at Aalto University. "We ...
Oracle's big-money case against Google gets new life
Mar 27, 2018 (AFP)
A federal appellate court revived Oracle's case, ruling that the application programming interface (API) code at issue is protected by copyright law and sending...
Researchers use 3-D printing to create metallic glass alloys
Mar 23, 2018 (SPX)
"Metallic glasses lack the crystalline structures of most metals - the amorphous structure results in exceptionally desirable properties," says Zaynab Mahbooba,...
New 'AR' Mobile App Features 3-D NASA Spacecraft
Mar 21, 2018 (JPL)
JPL developed the Spacecraft AR app in collaboration with Google. The app uses Google's ARCore technology to bring 3-D spacecraft into users' devices using nati...
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