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Trust Automation gets Lockheed contract for Q-53 radar

Aug 10, 2016 (UPI)

Trust Automation announced on Tuesday its fifth manufacturing contract with Lockheed Martin for work on the Q-53 radar's vehicle automation system. The deal, fo...

Stanford scientists consider 3D printing Mars rock samples

Aug 10, 2016 (UPI)

The combination of remote 3D imaging and 3D printing could one day allow scientists to study faraway rocks, like Martian or lunar formations, by reconstructing ...

Scientists invent new type of 'acoustic prism'

Aug 10, 2016 (UPI)

Scientists in Switzerland have invented an "acoustic prism" capable of splitting a sound into its basic frequencies. Like an optical prism, which relies on the ...

World's first virtual reality camera satellite to be launched into space

Aug 10, 2016 (SPX)

SpaceVR, a platform for creating cinematic, live, virtual space tourism, reports it has signed a launch agreement with NanoRacks LLC to send Overview 1, the wor...

Cement design should take into account the water confined in the smallest pores

Aug 10, 2016 (SPX)

As it is a basic building material used across the world, cement is subjected to a vast range of conditions, both physiological and meteorological, no matter wh...

From unconventional laser beams to a more robust imaging wave

Aug 10, 2016 (SPX)

Here's the scene: a suspicious package is found in a public place. The police are called in and clear the area. Forced to work from a distance and unable to pee...

Transmitting energy in soft materials

Aug 10, 2016 (SPX)

Soft materials are great at damping energy - that's why rubber tires are so good at absorbing the shock of bumps and potholes. But if researchers are going to b...

Researchers immobilize underwater bubbles

Aug 10, 2016 (SPX)

Controlling bubbles is a difficult process and one that many of us experienced in a simplistic form as young children wielding a bubble wand, trying to create b...

Living Structural Materials Could Open New Horizons for Engineers and Architects

Aug 10, 2016 (SPX)

The structural materials that are currently used to construct homes, buildings, and infrastructure are expensive to produce and transport, wear out due to age a...

Towards the T-1000: Liquid metals propel future electronics

Aug 10, 2016 (SPX)

Science fiction is inching closer to reality with the development of revolutionary self-propelling liquid metals - a critical step towards future elastic electr...

Self-cleaning, anti-reflective, microorganism-resistant coatings

Aug 10, 2016 (SPX)

Coatings or paints are materials applied to different surfaces basically for decorative and protective purposes. Yet today the market for these materials is bei...

Hot 'new' material found to exist in nature

Aug 09, 2016 (SPX)

One of the hottest new materials is a class of porous solids known as metal-organic frameworks, or MOFs. These man-made materials were introduced in the 1990s, ...

Putting the pressure on platinum

Aug 08, 2016 (SPX)

Superconductors are materials that, when cooled below a certain temperature, conduct free-flowing electricity without it being impeded by resistance. They are u...

'Liquid fingerprinting' technique instantly identifies unknown liquids

Aug 08, 2016 (SPX)

A new company will commercialize sensing technology invented at Harvard University that can perform instant, in-field characterization of the chemical make-up a...

Biomimicry is a promising approach for driving innovation

Aug 08, 2016 (SPX)

A recent case study, "Biomimicry: Streamlining the Front End of Innovation for Environmentally Sustainable Products," shows that biomimicry, a relatively new fi...

Crystallization frustration predicts metallic glass formation

Aug 04, 2016 (SPX)

Researchers have discovered a way to predict which alloys will form metallic glasses. The research could pave the way for new strong, conductive materials. Meta...

Real and artificially generated 3-D films are nearly impossible to distinguish

Aug 04, 2016 (SPX)

For viewers it seems to be very difficult to tell the difference between real and artificially rendered 3-D films. Psychologists at Johannes Gutenberg Universit...

Aladin wind probe ready for Aeolus

Aug 04, 2016 (ESA)

It has been years in the making, but one of the trickiest pieces of space technology ever developed is finally ready to join its satellite for launch by the end...

New metamaterials can change properties with a flick of a light-switch

Aug 04, 2016 (SPX)

Invisibility cloaks have less to do with magic than with metamaterials. These human-engineered materials have properties that don't occur in nature, allowing th...

Unlocking the secrets of creeping concrete

Aug 04, 2016 (SPX)

College students have used it to make cheap furniture, China has had shortages of it, and main character Michael Scott of "The Office" once famously buried his ...