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Researchers peel back another layer of chemistry with 'tender' X-rays

Sep 12, 2016 (SPX)

Scientists can now directly probe a previously hard-to-see layer of chemistry thanks to a unique X-ray toolkit developed at the Department of Energy's Lawrence ...

RapidScat Team Investigating Power System Anomaly

Sep 12, 2016 (JPL)

Mission managers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, and NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama, are assessing two powe...

Towards the workplace of the future - with virtual reality

Sep 07, 2016 (SPX)

Virtual reality (VR) does not just help companies save money when it comes to testing new technologies; it also enables trainees and students to quickly and int...

Experts warn booming seaweed industry

Sep 07, 2016 (SPX)

A rising number of valuable uses being found for seaweed - from food and fertilizer to pharmaceuticals and industrial gels - is driving the rapid growth of an i...

Super-resolution microscope builds 3-D images by mapping negative space

Sep 07, 2016 (SPX)

Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have demonstrated a method for making three-dimensional images of structures in biological material under natura...

NASA Searches for Big Idea from Students for In-Space Assembly of Spacecraft

Sep 07, 2016 (SPX)

In the 2017 Breakthrough, Innovative, and Game-changing (BIG) Idea Challenge, NASA is engaging university-level students in its quest to reduce the cost of deep...

Marines order more advanced radars from Northrop Gruman

Sep 07, 2016 (UPI)

The U.S. Marine Corps has ordered additional Ground/Air Task-Oriented Radar systems from Northrop Grumman. The nine AN/TPS-80 G/ATOR systems incorporate advance...

Dell finalizes huge EMC deal to become tech titan

Sep 07, 2016 (AFP)

US computer maker Dell said Wednesday it completed the acquisition of data storage firm EMC, creating the largest privately held technology group with a range o...

Plastic crystals could improve fabrication of memory devices

Sep 06, 2016 (SPX)

Applying an electric field to some materials causes their atoms to "switch" their electric polarization from one direction to another, making one side of the ma...

'Materials that compute' advances as Pitt engineers demonstrate pattern recognition

Sep 06, 2016 (SPX)

The potential to develop "materials that compute" has taken another leap at the University of Pittsburgh's Swanson School of Engineering, where researchers for ...

A data-cleaning tool for building better prediction models

Sep 06, 2016 (SPX)

Big data sets are full of dirty data, and these outliers, typos and missing values can produce distorted models that lead to wrong conclusions and bad decisions...

Stanford engineers develop a plastic clothing material that cools the skin

Sep 06, 2016 (SPX)

Stanford engineers have developed a low-cost, plastic-based textile that, if woven into clothing, could cool your body far more efficiently than is possible wit...

3D skulls from Henry VIII's doomed warship placed online

Sep 05, 2016 (AFP)

British archaeologists on Monday published detailed 3D models of skulls and artefacts found on board English king Henry VIII's warship as part of a digital expe...

Mega tech fair IFA dives head-first into virtual reality

Sep 04, 2016 (AFP)

Always wanted to know what it would be like to watch a TV talkshow in the studio? Or zoom in on a particular player in a Bundesliga game rather than see a wides...

London lab recreates horrors of war with 3D technology

Sep 02, 2016 (AFP)

Starvation, torture and rape: the grim daily realities of prisoners inside Syria's Saidnaya military prison have been recreated in harrowing 3D detail by a Lond...

New plastic clothing material could keep people cool

Sep 02, 2016 (AFP)

American researchers have created a low-cost textile made of a plastic base that could cool the body when woven into clothing. The engineers suggested in the US...

Copernicus Sentinel-1A satellite hit by space particle

Sep 02, 2016 (ESA)

ESA engineers have discovered that a solar panel on the Copernicus Sentinel-1A satellite was hit by a millimetre-size particle in orbit on 23 August. Thanks to ...

Northrop Grumman gets $375 million G/ATOR radar contract

Sep 01, 2016 (UPI)

Northrop Grumman has been awarded a $375 million U.S. Navy contract for procurement of the Ground/Air Task-Oriented Radar, or G/ATOR, system. The four-year, fix...

New optical material offers unprecedented control of light and thermal radiation

Sep 01, 2016 (SPX)

A team led by Nanfang Yu, assistant professor of applied physics at Columbia Engineering, has discovered a new phase-transition optical material and demonstrate...

Shrinking the inside of an explosion

Sep 01, 2016 (SPX)

Testing explosions is epic science. The most detailed studies of explosive charges have been conducted at national laboratories using a gun as big as a room to ...