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Setting a satellite to catch a satellite
Jul 12, 2016 (ESA)
The target is set: a large derelict satellite currently silently tumbling its way through low orbit. If all goes to plan, in 2023 it will vanish - and efforts a...
Learning from the mussel, scientists create a biologically active titanium surface
Jul 12, 2016 (SPX)
Titanium is used medically in applications such as artificial joints and dental implants. While it is strong and is not harmful to tissues, the metal lacks some...
Researchers improve catalyst efficiency for clean industries
Jul 11, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers have developed a way to use less platinum in chemical reactions commonly used in the clean energy, green chemicals, and automotive industries, accor...
India May Buy Russian Microcircuits for Its Space Program
Jul 11, 2016 (Sputnik)
Russia's Angstrem microelectronics manufacturer is in talks on supplying some 10,000 radiation-resistant circuits for India's space program, local media said Tu...
Space Debris Solutions - Revisited
Jul 11, 2016 (SPX)
The topic of "space debris" continues to be covered in the technical and popular media. Several articles report that a solution is just beyond the horizon. As c...
A sharper focus for plasmonic lasers
Jul 11, 2016 (SPX)
Lasers have become indispensable to modern life since they were invented more than fifty years ago. The ability to generate and amplify light waves into a coher...
Raytheon to help develop new Army radar
Jul 11, 2016 (UPI)
Raytheon has received a $1.1 million grant from the Army Research Laboratory to develop technology for the Army's next-generation radar program, the company ann...
Researchers report record performance for bismuth-based Zintl material
Jul 11, 2016 (SPX)
An international team led by researchers from the University of Houston has reported record thermoelectric performance from rarely studied bismuth-based Zintl p...
Researchers improve performance of cathode material by controlling oxygen activity
Jul 11, 2016 (SPX)
An international team of researchers has demonstrated a new way to increase the robustness and energy storage capability of a particular class of "lithium-rich"...
Winning Students Selected for Future Engineers Star Trek Replicator Challenge
Jul 08, 2016 (SPX)
Making objects in outer space has always been a scene from science fiction, but with 3-D printing NASA is making it science fact. In February 2016, Star Trek an...
Researchers determine fundamental limits of invisibility cloaks
Jul 08, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have been able to quantify fundamental physical limitations on the perfor...
Theoretical climbing rope could brake falls
Jul 08, 2016 (SPX)
University of Utah mathematicians showed it is theoretically possible to design ideal climbing ropes to safely slow falling rock and mountain climbers like brak...
Japan satellite made 'surprise' find before failure
Jul 08, 2016 (AFP)
A Japanese satellite recorded unprecedented observations of the Perseus galaxy before it disappeared from contact, scientists said, offering precious new inform...
How water gets its exceptional properties
Jul 08, 2016 (SPX)
Water is liquid at room temperature - astounding for such a small molecule. Insights into the causes are provided by a new simulation method, which has its orig...
New plastic material begins to oscillate spontaneously in sunlight
Jul 08, 2016 (SPX)
Materials that move all by themselves under the influence of light - this phenomenon has been known for a number of years. However, since the source tends to be...
Russian Scientists Propose Charging Satellites Using Land-Based Lasers
Jul 07, 2016 (Sputnik)
Russian scientists from the Novosibirsk-based Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics have proposed a project in the field of space communications that envisages ch...
Penn chemists establish fundamentals of ferroelectric materials
Jul 07, 2016 (SPX)
Ferromagnetic materials, like compass needles, are useful because their magnetic polarization makes them rotate to align with magnetic fields. Ferroelectric mat...
A little impurity makes nanolasers shine
Jul 07, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists at The Australian National University (ANU) have improved the performance of tiny lasers by adding impurities, in a discovery which will be central t...
New mid-infrared laser system could detect atmospheric chemicals
Jul 06, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers at MIT and elsewhere have found a new way of using mid-infrared lasers to turn regions of molecules in the open air into glowing filaments of electr...
A drop of water as a model for the interplay of adhesion and stiction
Jul 06, 2016 (SPX)
How can a gecko move across a ceiling upside down? Two mechanisms are responsible: Adhesion via billions of extremely fine hairs on its feet, which enable it to...
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