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Adjustable adhesion power
Jan 05, 2016 (SPX)
Imagine a new type of tyres whose structure has been designed to have greater adhesion on the road. Quite a timely discussion during the long winter nights. Fre...
Coulomb blockade in organic conductors found, a world first
Jan 05, 2016 (SPX)
Generally, organic conductors has disorder structures so charge transfers from one place with high conductivity to another place with high conductivity. In such...
New technique offers strong, flawless 3-D printed ceramics
Jan 04, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers have developed a way to create ceramics using 3D printing that results in a strong material with little tendency to crack that can be fabricated int...
Oculus to start taking virtual reality headset orders
Jan 04, 2016 (AFP)
Facebook-owned Oculus VR will begin taking orders for its Rift virtual reality headsets on Wednesday, as the doors of Consumer Electronics Show gadget extravaga...
Transition metal catalyst prompts 'conjunctive' cross-coupling reaction
Jan 04, 2016 (SPX)
By employing a third reactant, researchers at Boston College have developed a new type of 'cross coupling' chemical reaction, building on a Nobel Prize-winning ...
Scientists hope to make concrete tougher by studying its defects
Jan 03, 2016 (UPI)
Calcium silicate hydrate, or C-S-H, accounts for the strength of cement and cement-based materials. It is the component of cement paste that holds concrete toge...
Japanese research team earns right to name Element 113
Jan 01, 2016 (UPI)
Whoever finds it, names it. It's sort of like the scientific equivalent of "finders keepers." But when it comes to atomic elements, it's not always clear who fo...
Tooth fillings of the future may incorporate bioactive glass
Jan 01, 2016 (SPX)
A few years from now millions of people around the world might be walking around with an unusual kind of glass in their mouth, and using it every time they eat....
Infrared encoding of images with metasurfaces
Jan 01, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers at MINAO, a joint lab between The French Aerospace Lab in Palaiseau and the Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures in Marcoussis, have recen...
Watch: Six decades worth of space junk orbit Earth
Jan 01, 2016 (UPI)
In 1957, the discarded rocket that carried the Soviet Union's Sputnik 1 satellite into orbit became the first piece of space trash. Today, pieces of space debri...
UCLA researchers create exceptionally strong and lightweight new metal
Dec 31, 2015 (SPX)
A team led by researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has created a super-strong yet light structural metal with extre...
Nature's masonry: The first steps in how thin protein sheets form polyhedral shells
Dec 28, 2015 (SPX)
Scientists have for the first time viewed how bacterial proteins self-assemble into thin sheets and begin to form the walls of the outer shell for nano-sized po...
Port of call at 36,000 KM for in-orbit servicing
Dec 25, 2015 (SPX)
Speaking to a St. Louis audience in September, Pam Melroy outlined the next space revolution, adding that it will happen in geosynchronous orbit. "What if you c...
Move aside carbon: Boron nitride-reinforced materials are even stronger
Dec 24, 2015 (SPX)
Carbon nanotubes are legendary in their strength - at least 30 times stronger than bullet-stopping Kevlar by some estimates. When mixed with lightweight polymer...
Super strong, lightweight metal could build tomorrow's spacecraft
Dec 24, 2015 (UPI)
A new metal, a combination of magnesium and ceramic silicon carbide nanoparticles, is promising to change how airplanes, spacecraft and cars are manufactured. I...
BAE Systems to provide radar support for U.S. Air Force
Dec 23, 2015 (UPI)
The U.S. Air Force has awarded BAE Systems a five-year contract to support the Instrumentation Radar Support Program. The contract, valued at approximately $278...
Algorithm helps turn smartphones into 3-D scanners
Dec 23, 2015 (SPX)
While 3-D printers have become relatively cheap and available, 3-D scanners have lagged well behind. But now, an algorithm developed by Brown University researc...
Modeling microstructures in polycrystalline materials
Dec 22, 2015 (SPX)
Most solid materials are of polycrystalline nature. In which way the individual grains are oriented in the material can be relevant for its functional propertie...
Piece by piece NASA is 3-D printing a rocket engine
Dec 21, 2015 (SPX)
A NASA team moved a step closer to building a completely 3-D printed, high-performance rocket engine by manufacturing complex engine parts and test firing them ...
Scientists create atomically thin boron
Dec 19, 2015 (SPX)
A team of scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, Northwestern University and Stony Brook University has, for the fir...
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