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Recreating interstellar ions with lasers
Jul 07, 2017 (SPX)
While H3+ is astronomically abundant, no scientist understood the mechanisms that form it from organic molecules. Until now. Using lasers, Michigan State Univer...
Long Duration Experiments Reach 1,000th Day
Jul 07, 2017 (Spx)
"Understanding the rate at which hydration occurs in cement, a process that can take anywhere up to 50 years, is very important to help us predict the behaviour...
Custom-made clothes for all within reach says top designer
Jul 05, 2017 (AFP)
"We can design every type and shape of garment to be a precise fit to the wearer's figure," he told AFP after showing his digitally created haute couture collec...
NIST 'noise thermometry' yields accurate new measurements of boltzmann constant
Jul 03, 2017 (SPX)
These results will contribute to a worldwide effort to redefine the kelvin, the international unit of temperature, and could lead to better thermometers for ind...
Johns Hopkins scientists develop super-strong metal for next tech frontier
Jul 03, 2017 (SPX)
The trouble is: These sensors are mostly made of the material silicon, which has its limits. Johns Hopkins University materials scientist and mechanical enginee...
New measurement will help redefine international unit of mass
Jul 03, 2017 (SPX)
The new NIST measurement of Planck's constant is 6.626069934 x 10-34 kg-m2/s, with an uncertainty of only 13 parts per billion. NIST's previous measurement, pub...
The multi-colored photons that might change quantum information science
Jul 03, 2017 (SPX)
In their paper published in Nature, the team demonstrates that photons can become an accessible and powerful quantum resource when generated in the form of colo...
Northrop Grumman awarded contracts for P-8 radar systems
Jul 03, 2017 (UPI)
The contracts, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, include depot level repairs and refurbishment of the AN/ALQ-240 and the spare parts necessary. Wor...
Seawater makes ancient Roman concrete stronger
Jul 03, 2017 (UPI)
In a new study, researchers detailed the chemical effects of seawater on the minerals and microscale structures inside ancient Roman concrete. The analysis of g...
New polymer goes for a walk when illuminated
Jul 03, 2017 (SPX)
When illuminated it goes for a walk all on its own. This small device, the size of a paperclip, is the world's first machine to convert light directly into walk...
The sharpest laser in the world
Jul 03, 2017 (SPX)
This precision is useful for various applications such as optical atomic clocks, precision spectroscopy, radioastronomy and for testing the theory of relativity...
Fixation of powder catalysts on electrodes
Jul 03, 2017 (SPX)
The developed technique is potentially interesting for hydrogen production by water electrolysis. A team involving Dr Corina Andronescu, Stefan Barwe and Prof D...
True romance in the air at Tokyo virtual reality show
Jun 29, 2017 (AFP)
Japanese firm FutureLeap claims it has just the thing for in-the-mood couch potatoes with a virtual reality system so realistic you'd swear that cyber date just...
Scientists find 3,000-year-old cloth, earliest evidence of chemical dyeing
Jun 29, 2017 (UPI)
Researchers say the record-setting wool and linen fragments offer insights into the textile industry that supported a highly hierarchical society in Israel's Ti...
SES and MDA Announce First Satellite Life Extension Agreement
Jun 29, 2017 (SPX)
SES will be the first commercial customer to benefit from the satellite refuelling service, and will be able to activate the service whenever required with mini...
Study: Plants use hydrogen peroxide as sunscreen
Jun 29, 2017 (UPI)
New research shows hydrogen peroxide plays an important role in protecting plants from sun damage. Hydrogen peroxide, H2O2, serves as sunscreen for plants. H2O2...
Stanford engineers design a robotic gripper for cleaning up space debris
Jun 29, 2017 (SPX)
What makes tidying up especially challenging is that the debris exists in space. Suction cups don't work in a vacuum. Traditional sticky substances, like tape, ...
Making ferromagnets stronger by adding non-magnetic elements
Jun 28, 2017 (SPX)
It was so unlikely they called it a "counterintuitive experimental finding" in their published work on the research. "People don't talk much about scandium when...
One billion suns: World's brightest laser sparks new behavior in light
Jun 28, 2017 (SPX)
By focusing laser light to a brightness one billion times greater than the surface of the sun - the brightest light ever produced on Earth - the physicists have...
Piling on pressure solves enduring mystery about metal's makeup
Jun 28, 2017 (SPX)
Their discovery reveals important fundamental aspects of the element lithium, the lightest and simplest metal in the periodic table. The material is commonly us...
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