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Raytheon starts low-rate radar production
May 04, 2017 (UPI)
Production of three AN/SPY-6(V) radar ship sets began Wednesday following notification that the company was receiving a $327,146,998 Fixed Price Incentive modif...
Ground Control Satellite Dish Arrives at University of Leicester
May 03, 2017 (SPX)
The roof has been reinforced in preparation to receive the system. It's 2.4 metre satellite dish is now visible to all working at, studying at and visiting the ...
Device allows users to manipulate 3-D virtual objects more quickly
May 03, 2017 (SPX)
The device, called CAPTIVE, offers six degrees of freedom (6DoF) for users - with applications ranging from video gaming to medical diagnostics to design tools....
Why space dust emits radio waves upon crashing into a spacecraft
May 03, 2017 (SPX)
A new study published this week in the journal Physics of Plasmas, from AIP Publishing, uses computer simulations to show that the cloud of plasma generated fro...
Russian scientists create new system of concrete building structures
May 03, 2017 (SPX)
The development has unique characteristics, enabling the increase of load-carrying capability by more than 200% and decrease in specific density of the construc...
The Day Space Stood Still
May 03, 2017 (SPX)
Human activity in space has produced societal benefits that improved the quality of life on Earth. Those first satellites, designed to study the space environme...
Scientists at MIPT explain the way Weyl particles 'dance' on crystal surface
May 03, 2017 (SPX)
The Weyl particle - or the Weyl fermion, to use a more precise term - was predicted in the early 20 century by Hermann Weyl, a German physicist. Despite his ear...
MIT wireless device can see through walls to detect walking speed
May 02, 2017 (SPX)
Unfortunately, it's hard to accurately monitor walking speed in a way that's both continuous and unobtrusive. Professor Dina Katabi's group at MIT's Computer Sc...
Raytheon receives $327M radar contract for U.S. Navy
May 02, 2017 (UPI)
The contract will cover the procurement of three initial systems, including the equipment and engineering systems needed to produce, the Department of Defense a...
New organic lasers one step closer to reality
May 02, 2017 (SPX)
Researchers at Kyushu University's Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics Research (OPERA) reported an optically pumped organic thin-film laser that can c...
First luminescent molecular system with a lower critical solution temperature
May 02, 2017 (SPX)
However, it is rare for non-polymeric mixtures to have a lower critical solution temperature because small molecules usually become more soluble as they are hea...
A material inspired by a sea worm changes according to the environment
May 01, 2017 (SPX)
Chemical engineer Francisco Martin-Martinez, a Spanish researcher at the MIT Laboratory for Atomistic and Molecular Mechanics and co-author of the paper, explai...
Control of molecular motion by metal-plated 3-D printed plastic pieces
May 01, 2017 (SPX)
EPFL scientists have now developed a similar device for splitting beams of molecules, where high-voltage electrodes are used to control the motion of the molecu...
For first time, researchers measure forces that align crystals and help them snap together
May 01, 2017 (SPX)
Called van der Waals forces, the attraction provides insights into how crystals self-assemble, an activity that occurs in a wide range of cases in nature, from ...
Augmented reality increases maintenance reliability at a space station
Apr 28, 2017 (SPX)
An international project led by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland developed a new augmented reality (AR) tool for the ESA. In the future, it is envisaged...
A plastic-eating caterpillar
Apr 27, 2017 (SPX)
"We have found that the larva of a common insect, Galleria mellonella, is able to biodegrade one of the toughest, most resilient, and most used plastics: polyet...
Diamond quantum sensor reveals current flows in next-gen materials
Apr 27, 2017 (SPX)
Capable of imaging the behaviour of moving electrons in structures only one atom in thickness, the new technique overcomes significant limitations with existing...
Penn researchers quantify the changes that lightning inspires in rock
Apr 27, 2017 (SPX)
In a new set of experiments at Penn, researchers have probed the power of lightning in a less risky but much more technologically advanced fashion. Chiara Elmi,...
NIST method sees through concrete to detect early-stage corrosion
Apr 27, 2017 (SPX)
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are using the same principle, but in a more powerful form, to detect corrosion, the pri...
MIT engineers manipulate water using only light
Apr 27, 2017 (SPX)
The system, reported in the journal Nature Communications, was developed by MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, School of Engineer...
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