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NASA team first to demonstrate x-ray navigation in space
Jan 15, 2018 (SPX)
The demonstration, which the team carried out with an experiment called Station Explorer for X-ray Timing and Navigation Technology, or SEXTANT, showed that mil...
EU unveils supercomputer plan to rival China
Jan 11, 2018 (AFP)
China overtook the United States in numbers and performance for supercomputers in a ranking last November, followed by non-EU Switzerland and Japan in third and...
3-D printing creates super soft structures that replicate brain and lungs
Jan 11, 2018 (SPX)
Imperial College London researchers have developed a new method for creating 3D structures using cryogenics (freezing) and 3D printing techniques. This builds o...
ESA researching see-through metals
Jan 10, 2018 (ESA)
How humanity has mastered metallurgy is synonymous with progress, with historians labelling periods such as the Bronze Age and the Iron Age. Most metals used to...
Bio-based compound offers a greener carbon fiber alternative
Jan 10, 2018 (SPX)
One way that cars, bicycles, airplanes and other modes of transportation have become lighter over the last several decades is by using carbon fiber composites. ...
Room-temperature multiferroic thin films and their properties
Jan 09, 2018 (SPX)
Multiferroic materials show magnetically driven ferroelectricity. They are attracting increasing attention because of their fascinating properties such as magne...
Japan's Aerospace Agency Developing Radar Detecting Space Micro-Debris
Jan 09, 2018 (Sputnik)
According to the Yomiuri newspaper, the current JAXA's radar is capable of finding the debris only of over 150 centimeters in Earth orbit, whereas the future ra...
Bacteria makes blue jeans green
Jan 08, 2018 (AFP)
To satisfy the world's seemingly insatiable demand for blue denim, more than 45,000 tonnes of indigo dye are produced every year, with much of the waste making ...
NASA Holds 2nd Satellite Servicing Tech Day
Jan 05, 2018 (SPX)
On Jan. 30, 2018, NASA will host a satellite servicing industry day at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, as part of ongoing efforts to ...
Orbital ATK receives order for 2nd In-Orbit Satellite Servicing Vehicle
Jan 05, 2018 (SPX)
Orbital ATK is now producing MEV-1, the industry's first commercial in-space satellite servicing system, for Intelsat with launch scheduled for late 2018. Under...
Raytheon to support Silent Knight Radar development
Jan 05, 2018 (UPI)
The terms of the deal, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, taps Raytheon to provide line items for the Silent Knight Radar Operational Flight progr...
New lensless camera creates detailed 3-D images without scanning
Jan 03, 2018 (SPX)
The camera is compact and inexpensive to construct because it consists of only a diffuser - essentially a bumpy piece of plastic - placed on top of an image sen...
Nature's smallest rainbows, created by peacock spiders, may inspire new optical technology
Jan 03, 2018 (SPX)
One species of peacock spider - the rainbow peacock spider (Maratus robinsoni) - is particularly impressive, because it showcases an intense rainbow iridescent ...
Single metalens focuses all colors of the rainbow in one point
Jan 02, 2018 (SPX)
Now a team of researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has developed the first single lens that can focus th...
Russian scientists suggested a new technology for creating magnet micro-structures
Jan 02, 2018 (SPX)
The team created films that are hundreds to dozens nanometers thick. The developed films are formed of iron silicides synthesized on a silicon substrate. Iron s...
Data scientists mine government data for evidence of historical events
Dec 29, 2017 (UPI)
For journalists and historians, sorting through government records is a tedious but important job. Though many government records aren't released until after a ...
Self-healing glass: a cracking discovery from Japan
Dec 28, 2017 (AFP)
The discovery opens the way for super-durable glass that could triple the lifespan of everyday products like car windows, construction materials, fish tanks and...
A new theory to describe widely used material
Dec 27, 2017 (SPX)
One of the most commonly used materials in organic electronics is the conducting polymer PEDOT:PSS, and tens of thousands of scientific articles have been publi...
3-D nanoscale imaging made possible
Dec 27, 2017 (SPX)
However, imaging like this would be useful e.g. for investigating spongy electrodes, thus helping to increase capacity and charging speed of next generation bat...
A shoe-box-sized chemical detector
Dec 27, 2017 (SPX)
It could potentially be used to identify traces of drugs and explosives, as well as speeding the analysis of certain medical samples. A portable infrared chemic...
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