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Flipping the switch on ammonia production
Feb 07, 2017 (SPX)
Nearly a century ago, German chemist Fritz Haber won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for a process to generate ammonia from hydrogen and nitrogen gases. The proces...
New high-performance computing cluster at the Albert Einstein Institute in Potsdam
Feb 07, 2017 (SPX)
The new supercomputer "Minerva" has been put into operation at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute, AEI). With 9,504 c...
Scientists discover helium chemistry
Feb 07, 2017 (SPX)
Although helium is the second most-abundant element (after hydrogen) in the universe, it doesn't play well with others. It is a member of a family of seven elem...
Japan's troubled 'space junk' mission fails
Feb 06, 2017 (AFP)
An experimental Japanese mission to clear 'space junk' or rubbish from the Earth's orbit has ended in failure, officials said Monday, in an embarassment for Tok...
UCLA physicists map the atomic structure of an alloy
Feb 03, 2017 (SPX)
In the world of the very tiny, perfection is rare: virtually all materials have defects on the atomic level. These imperfections - missing atoms, atoms of one t...
Anatomy of a debris incident
Feb 03, 2017 (ESA)
A space debris avoidance manoeuvre planned for ESA's Swarm mission proved unnecessary last week, but the close encounter highlighted the growing risk from space...
Thin, flexible, light-absorbent material for energy and stealth applications
Feb 03, 2017 (SPX)
Transparent window coatings that keep buildings and cars cool on sunny days. Devices that could more than triple solar cell efficiencies. Thin, lightweight shie...
The shape of melting in two dimensions
Feb 03, 2017 (SPX)
Snow falls in winter and melts in spring, but what drives the phase change in between? Although melting is a familiar phenomenon encountered in everyday life, p...
Understanding breakups
Feb 01, 2017 (SPX)
As interest and demand for nanotechnology continues to rise, so will the need for nanoscale printing and spraying, which relies on depositing tiny drops of liqu...
NASA's New Shape-Shifting Radiator Inspired by Origami
Feb 01, 2017 (SPX)
Japan's ancient art of paper folding has inspired the design of a potentially trailblazing "smart" radiator that a NASA technologist is now developing to remove...
Facebook's Oculus ordered pay $500 mn in suit on stolen tech
Feb 01, 2017 (AFP)
A US jury Wednesday ordered Facebook and creators of its Oculus Rift to pay $500 million to gaming software firm ZeniMax in a lawsuit that claimed the virtual r...
How X-rays in matter create genetoxic low-energy electrons
Feb 01, 2017 (SPX)
Researchers led by Kiyoshi Ueda of Tohoku University have investigated what x-rays in matter really do and identified a new mechanism of producing low-energy fr...
A new approach to 3-D holographic displays greatly improves the image quality
Jan 31, 2017 (SPX)
The potential applications of three-dimensional (3D) digital holograms are enormous. In addition to arts and entertainment, various fields including biomedical ...
New white paper reviews latest support for Redefinition of the Kilogram by 2018
Jan 31, 2017 (SPX)
The NewKILO JRP, a three-year project of the European Metrology Research Programme (EMRP) involving 13 National Metrology Institutes (NMIs) and co-funded by the...
Aavid Thermacore Europe's technology will keep solar satellite cool
Jan 31, 2017 (SPX)
A solar satellite with a deep space mission to capture the most spectacular images ever taken of the Sun will be cooled by technology pioneered by a North East ...
U.S. Navy orders radar detection kits for MH-60R aircraft
Jan 31, 2017 (UPI)
The U.S. Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin a $45.8 million contract to deliver automatic radar detection kits to support MH-60R Seahawk helicopters. The order co...
Japan 'space junk' collector in trouble
Jan 31, 2017 (AFP)
An experimental 'space junk' collector designed to pull rubbish from the Earth's orbit has run into trouble, Japanese scientists said Tuesday, potentially a new...
NASA studies cosmic radiation to protect high-altitude travelers
Jan 30, 2017 (SPX)
NASA scientists studying high-altitude radiation recently published new results on the effects of cosmic radiation in our atmosphere. Their research will help i...
For this metal, electricity flows, but not the heat
Jan 27, 2017 (SPX)
There's a known rule-breaker among materials, and a new discovery by an international team of scientists adds more evidence to back up the metal's nonconformist...
NanoSpace receives commercial order to supply components to TURKSAT 6A
Jan 27, 2017 (SPX)
NanoSpace AB - a subsidiary of GS Sweden AB - has received an order of Xenon flow control components from The Scientific and Technological Research Counsil of T...
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