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Researchers in Kiel can control adhesive material remotely with light
Jan 27, 2017 (SPX)
Adhesive mechanisms in the natural world, as used by geckos and other animals when they walk upside down on the ceiling, have many advantages: they are always s...
New beam pattern yields more precise radar, ultrasound imaging
Jan 27, 2017 (UPI)
University of Rochester researchers have developed a novel beam pattern that promises to lend unprecedented sharpness to ultrasound and radar images. The beam's...
New class of materials could revolutionize biomedical, alternative energy industries
Jan 27, 2017 (SPX)
Polyhedral boranes, or clusters of boron atoms bound to hydrogen atoms, are transforming the biomedical industry. These manmade materials have become the basis ...
Metallic hydrogen, once theory, becomes reality
Jan 27, 2017 (SPX)
Nearly a century after it was theorized, Harvard scientists have succeeded in creating the rarest - and potentially one of the most valuable - materials on the ...
Sci-fi holograms a step closer with ANU invention
Jan 25, 2017 (SPX)
Physicists from The Australian National University (ANU) have invented a tiny device that creates the highest quality holographic images ever achieved, opening ...
Melting solid below the freezing point
Jan 24, 2017 (SPX)
Phase transitions surround us - for instance, liquid water changes to ice when frozen and to steam when boiled. Now, researchers at the Carnegie Institution for...
First European-built all-electric satellite EUTELSAT 172B getting ready to fly
Jan 24, 2017 (SPX)
Construction of EUTELSAT 172B, the first high-power all-electric telecommunications satellite built in Europe, is now complete at the Airbus satellite assembly ...
Spanish scientists create a 3-D bioprinter to print human skin
Jan 24, 2017 (SPX)
This research has recently been published in the electronic version of the scientific journal Biofabrication. In this article, the team of researchers has demon...
Breaking the optical bandwidth record of stable pulsed lasers
Jan 24, 2017 (SPX)
The Ultrafast Optical Processing Group at INRS (Institut national de la recherche scientifique) has redefined the limitations and constraints for ultra-fast pul...
NSC to deliver virtual training gear to British army
Jan 24, 2017 (UPI)
Britain's Ministry of Defense has selected NSC to manufacture and deliver its Unit Based Virtual Training program to the country's army. The program, also known...
A new invisibility cloak to conceal objects in diffusive atmospheres is devised
Jan 24, 2017 (SPX)
As Carlos Garcia-Meca of the UPV's Centre for Nanophotonic Technology explained, diffusive environments are those in which the light is not propagated in a stra...
Brits, Czechs claim world's most powerful 'super laser'
Jan 24, 2017 (AFP)
A team of British and Czech scientists on Tuesday said they had successfully tested a "super laser" they claim is 10 times more powerful than any other of its k...
Sundance goes green as VR makers aim to save the planet
Jan 24, 2017 (AFP)
When consumers get excited about advances in virtual reality, they are usually thinking about videogaming, new and immersive movie-watching or -- let's face it ...
Explaining how 2-D materials break at the atomic level
Jan 20, 2017 (SPX)
Cracks sank the 'unsinkable' Titanic; decrease the performance of touchscreens and erode teeth. We are familiar with cracks in big or small three-dimensional (3...
ChemChina 'to file for anti-trust approval in US' for takeover
Jan 20, 2017 (AFP)
China's state-owned chemical corporation ChemChina has asked US anti-trust regulators to greenlight its $43 billion acquisition of Swiss seed giant Syngenta, a ...
A toolkit for transformable materials
Jan 20, 2017 (SPX)
Metamaterials - materials whose function is determined by structure, not composition - have been designed to bend light and sound, transform from soft to stiff,...
Glass's off-kilter harmonies
Jan 20, 2017 (SPX)
Asegun Henry wants to avert the worst effects of climate change by finding new forms of renewable energy and improving the materials that contribute to energy u...
Swiss air force upgrading surveillance radars
Jan 19, 2017 (UPI)
Master air defense radars of the Swiss air force are to be modernized by Thales to extend their operational capabilities until the year 2030. The work is part o...
China's quantum communication satellite delivered for use
Jan 19, 2017 (XNA)
China's quantum communication satellite, launched last August, is officially operational after four months of in-orbit testing, the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...
U.S. Army taps Leidos for training and simulation equipment
Jan 19, 2017 (UPI)
Leidos has received a $22 million contract to provide training and simulation equipment for the U.S. Army. The order was placed under the Synthetic Environment ...
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