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Russian startup seeks to solve space junk problem with 'Artificial Star'

Apr 04, 2016 (Sputnik)

Space junk, old, decommissioned objects in the Earth's upper atmosphere, is a major problem which could potentially trap humans on Earth forever. Now, a startup...

More efficient system for the synthesis of organic compounds

Apr 01, 2016 (SPX)

Chemists at The University of Texas at Arlington have devised a safer, more environmentally friendly, less expensive and more efficient water-based system for t...

How to make metal alloys that stand up to hydrogen

Apr 01, 2016 (SPX)

High-tech metal alloys are widely used in important materials such as the cladding that protects the fuel inside a nuclear reactor. But even the best alloys deg...

Physicists 'undiscovered' technetium carbide

Apr 01, 2016 (SPX)

An international team of scientists led by Artem Oganov, Head of Computational Materials Discovery Lab at MIPT, has proven that technetium carbide does not exis...

Study finds metal foam handles heat better than steel

Apr 01, 2016 (SPX)

A new study from North Carolina State University researchers finds that novel light-weight composite metal foams (CMFs) are significantly more effective at insu...

Students learn astrophysics through mixed-reality computer simulation

Mar 31, 2016 (SPX)

Had the "learn'd astronomer's" charts and theorems inspired the 19th century writer Walt Whitman as much as strolling under the nighttime sky, Whitman might hav...

For the first time scientists can observe the nano structure of food in 3-D

Mar 31, 2016 (SPX)

"There is still a lot we don't know about the structure of food, but this is a good step on the way to understanding and finding solutions to a number of proble...

Microsoft begins first shipments of HoloLens

Mar 30, 2016 (AFP)

Microsoft began its first shipments of its HoloLens augmented reality headgear Wednesday, staking its place in what is expected to be an emerging computing plat...

Lockheed Martin Opens Space Fence Test Facility

Mar 29, 2016 (SPX)

Objects in space will soon be monitored by a radar array for the U.S. Air Force's Space Fence as part of Lockheed Martin's (NYSE: LMT) new test site representat...

Quantum effects at work in the world's smelliest superconductor

Mar 29, 2016 (SPX)

The quantum behaviour of hydrogen affects the structural properties of hydrogen-rich compounds, which are possible candidates for the elusive room temperature s...

A new method of trapping multiple particles using fluidics

Mar 29, 2016 (SPX)

Precise control of an individual particle or molecule is a difficult task. Controlling multiple particles simultaneously is an even more challenging endeavor. R...

Staying in shape: How wood chemistry relates to structural stability

Mar 29, 2016 (SPX)

Wood has many uses, which require to know its shrinking1 and swelling capacity in relation to humidity (known as dimensional stability). Researchers from the CN...

Engineering black gold, as light as the bones of birds

Mar 29, 2016 (SPX)

A team of Korean research team, led by Professor Ju-Young Kim (School of Materials Science and Engineering) of Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technolog...

Printing nanomaterials with plasma

Mar 28, 2016 (SPX)

Printing has come a long way since the days of Johannes Gutenberg. Now, researchers have developed a new method that uses plasma to print nanomaterials onto a 3...

Microagents with revolutionary potential

Mar 28, 2016 (SPX)

Salvador Pane was on a trolleybus in Zurich one day after work. He was deep in thought when the bus came to a sudden stop because the cable was disrupted. He wa...

Local fingerprint of hydrogen bonding captured in experiments

Mar 28, 2016 (SPX)

Molecules are composed of atoms that maintain specific intervals and angles between one another. However, the shape of a molecule can change, for example, throu...

A new model for how twisted bundles take shape

Mar 28, 2016 (SPX)

In the current issue of Nature Materials, polymer scientists Greg Grason, Douglas Hall and Isaac Bruss at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with Justin B...

A new-structure magnetic memory device developed

Mar 25, 2016 (SPX)

The research group of Professor Hideo Ohno and Associate Professor Shunsuke Fukami of Tohoku University has developed a new-structure magnetic memory device uti...

Lehigh scientists extend the reach of single crystals

Mar 25, 2016 (SPX)

Materials scientists and physicists at Lehigh University have demonstrated a new method of making single crystals that could enable a wider range of materials t...

New way to control particle motions on 2-D materials

Mar 24, 2016 (SPX)

Researchers at MIT and other institutions have found a new phenomenon in the behavior of a kind of quasiparticles called plasmons as they move along tiny ribbon...