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NASA to Begin Testing Next Generation of Spacecraft Heat Exchangers
Jul 21, 2016 (SPX)
Crew members aboard the International Space Station (ISS) are receiving a unique hardware delivery today that can help shape NASA's human journey beyond Earth a...
U.S. Army delivers Q-36 Firefinder radar to Ukrainian military
Jul 21, 2016 (UPI)
The U.S. Army delivered AN-TPQ-36 Firefinder radar systems to the Ukrainian military, the service's Security Assistance Command said Wednesday. The delivery too...
'Jumping film' harnesses the power of humidity
Jul 19, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS) and the University of Tokyo have developed a film that curls up and straightens out autonomo...
'Green' electronic materials produced with synthetic biology
Jul 19, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst report in the current issue of Small that they have genetically designed a new strain of bacteria that spi...
Chemists create microscopic and malleable building blocks
Jul 19, 2016 (SPX)
Taking a page from Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels", a team of scientists has created malleable and microscopic self-assembling particles that can serve as...
Passive Attitude Control For Small Satellites
Jul 19, 2016 (SPX)
Small spacecraft technology has come of age in the past several years. Both cost and development time have been reduced significantly, especially with the CubeS...
Fallout Fungi From Chernobyl Flee Earth on ISS Radiation Study Mission
Jul 19, 2016 (Sputnik)
Fungi found growing in the fallout from the world's worst nuclear disaster are to be sent into space. Samples from eight different types of fungi taken from the...
Scientists move 1 step closer to creating an invisibility cloak
Jul 19, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) have made an object disappear by using a composite material with nano-size particles that can enhance speci...
Rice's 'antenna-reactor' catalysts offer best of both worlds
Jul 19, 2016 (SPX)
In a find that could transform some of the world's most energy-intensive manufacturing processes, researchers at Rice University's Laboratory for Nanophotonics ...
Computational design tool transforms flat materials into 3-D shapes
Jul 19, 2016 (SPX)
A new computational design tool can turn a flat sheet of plastic or metal into a complex 3-D shape, such as a mask, a sculpture or even a lady's high-heel shoe....
Exploring superconducting properties of 3-D printed parts
Jul 19, 2016 (SPX)
3-D printing is revolutionizing many areas of manufacturing and science. In particular, 3-D printing of metals has found novel applications in fields as diverse...
Researchers build a crawling robot from sea slug parts and a 3-D printed body
Jul 19, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have combined tissues from a sea slug with flexible 3-D printed components to build "biohybrid" robots that crawl...
3D printer helps scientists scale up nanostructures
Jul 18, 2016 (UPI)
Nanostructures are prized for their seemingly infinite material qualities, whether mechanical, chemical, electrical or optical. But scientists have struggled to...
World's smallest hard disk stores data atom by atom
Jul 18, 2016 (UPI)
Researchers in the Netherlands have unveiled the world's smallest hard disk. The disk uses chlorine atoms to represent each bit of information, the most efficie...
Safran gets $304 million Laser Target Module Locator II Army contract
Jul 14, 2016 (UPI)
Safran Optics 1 has been awarded a $304 million firm-fixed-price, multi-year U.S. Army contract for the Laser Target Locator Module II. Bids were solicited onli...
FAU researchers show how gels develop their solid properties
Jul 13, 2016 (SPX)
Gels are found in wide range of products that we use on a day-to-day basis. But what gives gels their solid properties? What stops the particles that they are m...
Reconfiguring active particles into dynamic patterns
Jul 13, 2016 (SPX)
From swarming bees to clustering bacteria colonies, nature stuns with its ability to self organize and perform collective, dynamic behaviors. Now researchers ha...
Lockheed Martin's INFIRNO sensor makes first Black Hawk flight
Jul 13, 2016 (UPI)
Lockheed Martin's INFIRNO sensor system recently completed its maiden flight on an H-60 Black Hawk helicopter, the company announced. The company-funded test va...
New record in microwave detection
Jul 12, 2016 (SPX)
Aalto University scientists have broken the world record by fourteen fold in the energy resolution of thermal photodetection. The record was made using a partia...
Setting the gold standard
Jul 12, 2016 (SPX)
A team of University of Florida researchers has figured out how gold can be used in crystals grown by light to create nanoparticles, a discovery that has major ...
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