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Amateur satellite-tracker finds NASA's lost IMAGE spacecraft
Jan 30, 2018 (UPI)
Instead, he found IMAGE, a NASA spacecraft missing since 2005. Tilley first observed the spacecraft while scanning S-band frequency data on Jan. 20. On Monday, ...
Sierra Nevada's STPSat-5 satellite completes ground compatibility testing
Jan 29, 2018 (SPX)
STPSat-5 hosts five Department of Defense (DoD) experiments to test emerging space technologies and is expected to launch in 2018. SNC completed mechanical inte...
Better than a hologram: Research produces 3-D images floating in 'thin air'
Jan 29, 2018 (SPX)
BYU electrical and computer engineering professor and holography expert Daniel Smalley has long had a goal to create the same type of 3D image projection. In a ...
Aerojet Rocketdyne seeks to reduce debris with recent SBIRS launch
Jan 29, 2018 (SPX)
The launch of the Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) Geosynchronous Earth Orbit satellite 4 (GEO Flight-4) aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket...
UK to launch new radar against 'severe' Russian threat
Jan 27, 2018 (AFP)
In a return to the Cold War days when Shetland had hosted an early warning radar, the new Royal Air Force facility is being built to track unidentified military...
Researchers find first evidence of sub-Saharan Africa glassmaking
Jan 26, 2018 (SPX)
The discovery is discussed in "Chemical Analysis of Glass Beads from Igbo Olokun, Ile-Ife (SW Nigeria): New Light on Raw Materials, Production and Interregional...
Scientists achieve high power with new smaller laser
Jan 26, 2018 (SPX)
Lasers are a critical part of modern technology--they're used in everything from our automobiles to medical equipment to the satellites orbiting Earth. Now, res...
Micius satellite enables intercontinental quantum communications
Jan 23, 2018 (SPX)
In contrast, quantum key distribution (QKD) uses individual light quanta (single photons) in quantum superposition states to guarantee unconditional security be...
Self-healing fungi concrete could provide sustainable solution to crumbling infrastructure
Jan 19, 2018 (SPX)
Congrui Jin, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Binghamton University, has researched concrete and found that the problem stems from the smallest ...
Ultra-thin memory storage device paves way for more powerful computing
Jan 19, 2018 (SPX)
A team of electrical engineers at The University of Texas at Austin, in collaboration with Peking University scientists, has developed the thinnest memory stora...
Physicists succeed in measuring mechanical properties of 2-D monolayer materials
Jan 19, 2018 (SPX)
Working in collaboration with a team from the Leibniz Institute for New Materials, a group of physicists at Saarland University, led by Professor Uwe Hartmann, ...
Kilopower: What's Next?
Jan 19, 2018 (SPX)
That's why NASA is conducting experiments on Kilopower, a new power source that could provide safe, efficient and plentiful energy for future robotic and human ...
Russian scientists found excitons in nickel oxide for the first time
Jan 19, 2018 (SPX)
The presence of an exciton in the studied area allows for detailed research of edge parameters in permitted energy bands. This may be useful for the development...
Scientists develop a new material for manipulating molecules
Jan 19, 2018 (SPX)
According to a study published in the leading journal Science, Rafael Luque - a research scientist at the University of Cordoba Department of Inorganic Chemistr...
The world's first all-Si laser
Jan 19, 2018 (SPX)
Si lasers are the key to achieve integrated Si photonics. However, the optical gains of Si are lower than those of III-V compound semiconductors by one order of...
Applications now open for the Space Debris Training Course
Jan 18, 2018 (ESA)
The Space Debris Training Course will be hosted at the ESA Academy's Training and Learning Centre in ESEC, Redu, Belgium, from 16 to 20 April 2018. University s...
Pulsating dissolution found in crystals
Jan 17, 2018 (SPX)
"What we see are waves or rings," said lead investigator Cornelius Fischer, who conducted this research at MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at t...
Novel 3-D printing technique yields high-performance composites
Jan 16, 2018 (SPX)
Since ancient civilizations first combined straw and mud to form bricks, people have fabricated engineered composites of increasing performance and complexity. ...
Gyroscopes lead scientists to unusual state of matter in a disorganized structure
Jan 16, 2018 (SPX)
Using a set of gyroscopes linked together, physicists explored the behavior of a material whose structure is arranged randomly, instead of an orderly lattice. T...
Breaking bad metals with neutrons
Jan 15, 2018 (SPX)
The research, to be published in Science, shows how well scientists can predict the properties and functionality of materials, allowing us to explore their pote...
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