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New catalytic converter composite reduces rare earth element usage
Jun 08, 2017 (SPX)
However, it requires the use of the rare-earth element Cerium (Ce), which is increasing in price and can suffer from supply problems. Professor Masato Machida f...
Metal-ion catalysts and hydrogen peroxide could green up plastics production
Jun 08, 2017 (SPX)
Many plastics are made from molecules called olefins that are derived from organic materials such as fossil fuels. To form these types of plastics, olefin molec...
Computers are helping scientists discover new materials
Jun 08, 2017 (UPI)
Machine learning allowed the model to acquire an understanding of the structural properties of different materials. The algorithm uses its knowledge to predict ...
New sound diffuser is 10 times thinner than existing designs
Jun 08, 2017 (SPX)
In a typical room with flat walls, sound waves usually bounce off the walls, like light reflecting off a mirror. This creates echoes and overlapping sound waves...
Extracting Insight from the Data Deluge Is a Hard-to-Do Must-Do
Jun 08, 2017 (SPX)
Getting good at that exercise of data synthesis and interpretation ought to open new, quicker routes to identifying threats, tracking disease outbreaks, and oth...
New ways of representing information could transform digital technology
Jun 08, 2017 (SPX)
These magnetic bits are stable against perturbations, such as from heat, by a form of strength in numbers: any moment that inadvertently has its orientation rev...
Indian Space Agency to Work on Electric Propulsion for Large Satellites
Jun 07, 2017 (Sputnik)
Unlike chemical propulsion, electric propulsion is not limited in energy which can send spacecraft to a longer distance at low level thrust with very little mas...
Study proves viability of quantum satellite communications
Jun 07, 2017 (SPX)
Their study, published in the new journal Quantum Science and Technology, demonstrates the first quantum key distribution transmissions from a ground transmitte...
Saudi deal for counterfire radars approved by U.S. State Department
Jun 06, 2017 (UPI)
The Foreign Military Sales package would help Saudi Arabia meet its border security requirements and give the country the ability to locate and counter the sour...
BAE Systems, Helios to collaborate on liquid armor
Jun 02, 2017 (UPI)
Known as a 'custard'-style armored vest, the liquid armor is considered an improvement over standard Kevlar and ceramic plate models already in use. Opposed to ...
Mitsubishi Electric Completes New Satellite Component Production Facility
Jun 02, 2017 (SPX)
The new facility, Mitsubishi Electric's core production and testing site for solar array panels, structural panels and other satellite components, is expected t...
Computer scientists simplify deep learning
Jun 01, 2017 (UPI)
The simplification technique is similar to methods commonly used to minimize the amount of math required for data analysis. "This applies to any deep-learning a...
Bamboo inspires optimal design for lightness and toughness
Jun 01, 2017 (SPX)
Light and tough, bamboo is widely used as a natural, functional material in Japan and other Asian countries. Bamboo is light because of its hollow structure, wh...
When gold turns invisible
Jun 01, 2017 (SPX)
Some materials luminesce, changing their color and intensity when under mechanical forces such as grinding or rubbing. These luminescent "mechanochromic" materi...
Northrop Grumman receives AESA radar contract
Jun 01, 2017 (UPI)
The $243.9 million contract is for Active Electronically Scanned Array, or AESA, radars. Active Electronic Scanned Array radar is a phased array antenna detecti...
Model for 2-D materials based RRAM found
May 31, 2017 (SPX)
The research group led by Dr. Mario Lanza, a Young 1000 Talent Professor born in Barcelona (Spain) and based in Soochow University (China), is leading a global ...
New method allows real-time monitoring of irradiated materials
May 31, 2017 (SPX)
The new findings appear in the journal Applied Physics Letters, in a paper by graduate student Cody Dennett and assistant professor of nuclear science and engin...
Solving the riddle of the snow globe
May 31, 2017 (SPX)
A new Tel Aviv University study finds the sedimentation of asymmetric objects in liquid is very different from that of symmetrical objects like spheres. The res...
Breaking glass in infinite dimensions
May 31, 2017 (SPX)
The highly-ordered nature of crystals makes them fairly simple to understand mathematically, and physicists have developed theories that capture all sorts of cr...
New scaling law predicts how wheels drive over sand
May 31, 2017 (SPX)
Scientists can then apply scaling laws - mathematical relationships of proportionality - to extrapolate how a full-size jet would perform, based on the behavior...
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