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A new way to print 3-D metals and alloys
Jan 14, 2016 (SPX)
A team of Northwestern University engineers has created a new way to print three-dimensional metallic objects using rust and metal powders. While current method...
Russia Building a Powerful New Early Warning Radar Network
Jan 13, 2016 (Sputnik)
Earlier this month, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that 2016 will see the introduction of three powerful 'Voronezh'-series early warning radar systems. ...
Self-adaptive material heals itself, stays tough
Jan 12, 2016 (SPX)
An adaptive material invented at Rice University combines self-healing and reversible self-stiffening properties. The Rice material called SAC (for self-adaptiv...
Space Protection - A Financial Primer
Jan 12, 2016 (SPX)
Last week, Space News aired a timely and important article by Mike Gruss on "Satellites in the Crosshairs." We rarely hear details about the highly classified a...
How seashells get their strength
Jan 12, 2016 (SPX)
Seashells and lobster claws are hard to break, but chalk is soft enough to draw on sidewalks. Though all three are made of calcium carbonate crystals, the hard ...
China chemical giant to acquire Germany's KraussMaffei
Jan 11, 2016 (AFP)
China's biggest state-owned chemical firm on Monday announced it will buy Germany's KraussMaffei Group, which makes machinery for producing plastics and rubber,...
New wave in tech: hacking the brain
Jan 09, 2016 (AFP)
The next frontier for the tech sector is the human brain. A new breed of neuro-hacker is finding ways to capture and manipulate brainwaves to improve health, wi...
Vietnam army probes mysterious 'space balls'
Jan 08, 2016 (AFP)
Vietnam's military is investigating the appearance of three mysterious metal balls -- believed to be debris from space -- which landed in the country's remote n...
Tech tethers dog lovers remotely to their pets
Jan 08, 2016 (AFP)
Gadgets galore are letting dog lovers stay connected to their pets even when they can't take canine companions with them on the go. A sea of innovations on disp...
Newly developed 'metallic glue' could replace welding
Jan 08, 2016 (UPI)
Researchers at Northeastern University -- a professor and two PhD students -- have invented a new sealant capable of creating a metal bond. They're calling it "...
Consumer Electronics Show awash with altered realities
Jan 08, 2016 (AFP)
Altered realities abounded at the Consumer Electronics Show gadget-fest on Thursday, touching everything from sex and sports to sales and space exploration. Vir...
Researchers squeeze hydrogen into 'metallic state'
Jan 08, 2016 (UPI)
Inside laboratories in Scotland, hydrogen has assumed a strange new state -- one only found naturally inside gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn. Scientists at t...
Sugar-based carbon hollow spheres that mimic moth eyes
Jan 07, 2016 (SPX)
Antireflective coatings are used to cut surface glare in everything from eyeglasses and camera lenses to solar cells, TV screens and LED devices. Now researcher...
MBRSC complete final design of KhalifaSat engineering model
Jan 07, 2016 (SPX)
MBRSC announced the final design completion of the KhalifaSat Engineering Model in addition to the software and systems within the satellite (Critical Design Re...
Thor's hammer to crush materials at 1 million atmospheres
Jan 07, 2016 (SPX)
A new Sandia National Laboratories accelerator called Thor is expected to be 40 times more efficient than Sandia's Z machine, the world's largest and most power...
Setting the Standard for 3-D Printed Rocket Engines
Jan 07, 2016 (SPX)
Aerojet Rocketdyne received a $6 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to define the standards that will be used to qualify additively manufactured component...
3D-Printed Ceramics Could be Used in Future Space Flights
Jan 07, 2016 (Sputnik)
Researchers have used a 3D printer to create customized ceramic parts that are strong, lightweight and handle heat better than many metals, but that do not crac...
UTC delivers first sonar dome rubber window of new US Navy contract
Jan 06, 2016 (SPX)
UTC Aerospace Systems has delivered, on schedule and on budget, the first sonar dome rubber window to the U.S. Navy on a new five-year indefinite delivery, inde...
The Space Environment
Jan 05, 2016 (SPX)
The study of the space environment cuts across several fields of research. Findings impact astronautical engineering and space physics. All space applications a...
Chameleons deliver powerful tongue-lashing
Jan 05, 2016 (SPX)
Chameleons are known for sticking their tongues out at the world fast and far, but until a new study by Brown University biologist Christopher Anderson, the tru...
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