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Raytheon awarded $92 million Navy radar contract
Aug 22, 2016 (UPI)
Raytheon has been awarded a $92 million U.S. Navy contract for engineering and manufacturing development of the Enterprise Air Surveillance Radar, or EASR, the ...
Scientists have created a ceramic, resistant to extreme temperatures
Aug 22, 2016 (SPX)
Physicists and technicians of the TSU and Institute of Strength Physics and Materials Science SB RAS are developing experimental samples of ceramics that are re...
New ceramic is resistant to temperature extremes
Aug 19, 2016 (UPI)
Scientists in Russia are currently perfecting a new type of ceramic that can withstand extreme temperatures. The material could prove useful in space aeronautic...
Researchers watch catalysts at work
Aug 19, 2016 (SPX)
Physicists at the University of Basel have succeeded in watching a silver catalyst at work for the first time with the aid of an atomic force microscope. The ob...
Shining a light on damage within polymers
Aug 19, 2016 (SPX)
When it comes to even the most advanced materials, the adage "if it does not bend, it breaks" is often true. But before that final snap, most materials experien...
Vector Space launches new software platform to support space entrepreneurs
Aug 19, 2016 (SPX)
Vector Space Systems, a space systems company focused on micro launches and micro space platforms and comprised of new-space and enterprise software industry ve...
Slicing through materials with a new X-ray imaging technique
Aug 18, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have created a new imaging technique that allows scientists to probe the internal ...
Your brain on Google Glass
Aug 17, 2016 (SPX)
"Smart" eyewear - that can integrate augmented reality with your own, feed you live information about your surroundings and even be used in the operating room -...
Computer programming made easier
Aug 17, 2016 (SPX)
Nobody said computer programming was easy. But maybe in the future, it could be. In order to simplify program development, a National Science Foundation (NSF)-s...
Long-term health effects of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs not as dire as perceived
Aug 17, 2016 (SPX)
The detonation of atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945 resulted in horrific casualties and devastation. The long-term ...
New algorithm for optimized stability of planar-rod objects
Aug 15, 2016 (SPX)
During the annual top conference of the Special Interest Group for Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH) of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), which took pla...
New approach doubles 3-D resolution of fluorescence microscopy
Aug 15, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers have developed a new fluorescence microscopy approach that significantly improves image resolution by acquiring three views of a sample at the same ...
Sierra Nevada Corporation helps Juno Keep Cool and Science On
Aug 15, 2016 (SPX)
Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) is celebrating the early success of NASA's Juno spacecraft as it stabilizes its orbit around Jupiter and begins powering on scie...
De-icing agent remains stable at more than a million atmospheres of pressure
Aug 15, 2016 (SPX)
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists have combined X-ray diffraction and vibrational spectroscopy measurements together with first-principle calcul...
Scientists count microscopic particles without microscope
Aug 15, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists from Russia and Australia have put forward a simple new way of counting microscopic particles in optical materials by means of a laser. A light beam ...
Saab gets Australian army air defense and radar contract
Aug 15, 2016 (UPI)
Saab has signed a contract with the Australian Defense Force to upgrade RBS 70 air defense and Giraffe AMB radar systems, the company announced Monday. The deal...
Nothing - and something - give concrete strength, toughness
Aug 12, 2016 (SPX)
What does one need to strengthen or toughen concrete? A lot of nothing. Or something. The "nothing" is in the form of microscopic voids and the "something" cons...
New method helps stabilize materials with elusive magnetism
Aug 12, 2016 (SPX)
Magnetic materials displaying what is referred to as itinerant ferromagnetism are in an elusive physical state that is not yet fully understood. They behave lik...
Undergraduates Build Star-Tracking Instrument for NASA Research Rockets
Aug 12, 2016 (SPX)
Rochester Institute of Technology undergraduates are making a "compass" for rockets using a new kind of detector technology. The instrument will fly on a NASA t...
Tailored AFM probes created via 3-D direct laser writing
Aug 10, 2016 (SPX)
Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is a technique that allows researchers to analyze surfaces at the atomic scale, and it's based on a surprisingly simple concept: A...
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