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Strength of hair inspires new materials for body armor
Jan 18, 2017 (SPX)
In a new study, researchers at the University of California San Diego investigate why hair is incredibly strong and resistant to breaking. The findings could le...
Dressing a metal in various colors
Jan 18, 2017 (SPX)
DGIST announced that Professor Kyung-in Jang's research team succeeded in developing a technology that can control various color changes by coating several nano...
The power of attraction
Jan 18, 2017 (SPX)
Engineered nanometer- and micrometer-scale structures have a vast array of uses in electronics, sensors and biomedical applications. Because these are difficult...
Theory lends transparency to how glass breaks
Jan 17, 2017 (SPX)
Over time, when a metallic glass is put under stress, its atoms will shift, slide and ultimately form bands that leave the material more prone to breaking. Rice...
Thales supplying Crowsnest radar system to Royal Navy
Jan 17, 2017 (UPI)
Thales is to supply Britain's Royal Navy with a new airborne and surveillance capability under a subcontract from Lockheed Martin UK. The Crowsnest system to be...
Electron diffraction locates hydrogen atoms
Jan 17, 2017 (SPX)
Diffraction-based analytical methods are widely used in laboratories, but they struggle to study samples that are smaller than a micrometer in size. Researchers...
China develops world's brightest VUV free electron laser research facility
Jan 17, 2017 (SPX)
A team of Chinese scientists announced on Jan. 15 that they have developed a new bright VUV FEL light source, the Dalian Coherent Light Source (DCLS), which can...
China to develop prototype super, super computer in 2017
Jan 17, 2017 (AFP)
China plans to develop a prototype exascale computer by the end of the year, state media said Tuesday, as it seeks to win a global race to be the first to build...
CO2, the philosopher's stone to obtain valuable pharmaceuticals
Jan 17, 2017 (SPX)
Researchers at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ) in Tarragona have developed a method that transforms cyclic carbonates -that can be easily...
Manchester scientists tie the tightest knot ever achieved
Jan 13, 2017 (SPX)
Scientists at The University of Manchester have produced the most tightly knotted physical structure ever known - a scientific achievement which has the potenti...
Researchers use nature's weaving formula to engineer advanced functional materials
Jan 13, 2017 (SPX)
For the first time, UNSW biomedical engineers have woven a 'smart' fabric that mimics the sophisticated and complex properties of one nature's ingenious materia...
3-D printing could transform future membrane technology
Jan 13, 2017 (SPX)
Researchers at the University of Bath suggest developments in 3D printing techniques could open the door to the advancement of membrane capabilities. This work ...
York Space Systems signs Cooperative Research and Development Agreement
Jan 13, 2017 (SPX)
York Space Systems, an aerospace company specializing in complete space segment customer solutions and the manufacture of small and medium class spacecraft, thi...
How to inflate a hardened concrete shell with a weight of 80 tons
Jan 13, 2017 (SPX)
Concrete shells are efficient structures, but not very resource efficient. The formwork for the construction of concrete domes alone requires a high amount of l...
Unusual physics phenomenon could improve telecommunications, computing
Jan 13, 2017 (SPX)
Researchers at the University of California San Diego have demonstrated the world's first laser based on an unconventional wave physics phenomenon called bound ...
NIST physicists 'squeeze' light to cool microscopic drum below quantum limit
Jan 13, 2017 (SPX)
Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have cooled a mechanical object to a temperature lower than previously thought possible,...
Researchers reveal world's most precise metronome
Jan 12, 2017 (UPI)
Scientists in Germany have synchronized a system of lasers with record precision. The metronome's laser-microwave network stretches a kilometer wide, or 3,280 f...
Patent Awarded to Design and 3D Print Rocket Fuel
Jan 11, 2017 (SPX)
Rocket Crafters has announced a U.S. patent was granted to co-founder, President and CTO Ronald Jones for a method for designing and fabricating flawless, high-...
2-D materials enhance a 3-D world
Jan 11, 2017 (SPX)
In the past decade, two-dimensional, 2D, materials have captured the fascination of a steadily increasing number of scientists. These materials, whose defining ...
Scientists recreate stellar combustion conditions using compact lasers
Jan 11, 2017 (UPI)
Until now, recreating the conditions inside a star required the use of massive lasers -- lasers the size of football stadiums. Experiments at Colorado State Uni...
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