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A 'hot' new development for ultracold magnetic sensors
Oct 22, 2015 (SPX)
Magnetoencephalography, or MEG, is a non-invasive technique for investigating human brain activity for surgical planning or research, and has been used in hospi...
Scientists gain insight into origin of tungsten-ditelluride's magnetoresistance
Oct 22, 2015 (SPX)
Scientists recently discovered that tungsten ditelluride (WTe2) is electronically three-dimensional with a low anisotropy. Anisotropy reflects the change in pro...
Super-slick material makes steel better, stronger, cleaner
Oct 22, 2015 (SPX)
Steel is ubiquitous in our daily lives. We cook in stainless steel skillets, ride steel subway cars over steel rails to our offices in steel-framed building. St...
Western Digital buys SanDisk in $19 bn tech deal
Oct 21, 2015 (AFP)
Global computer disk drive leader Western Digital announced Wednesday that it will pay $19 billion for flash memory specialist SanDisk, the latest mega-deal in ...
Prolonged exposure to low doses of radiation ups cancer risk: study
Oct 21, 2015 (AFP)
Prolonged exposure to even low doses of radiation increases the risk of cancer, according to a new study of workers in the nuclear sector in Britain, France and...
TeleCommunications Systems receives another $5 million for satellite systems sustainment
Oct 21, 2015 (UPI)
TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. has received $5 million in incremental funding from the U.S. Army to sustain AN/TSC-198A SNAP and other systems. TeleCommunicati...
Army orders more counter-fire target radars
Oct 20, 2015 (UPI)
The U.S. Army has ordered additional counter-fire target acquisition radars from Lockheed Martin to track incoming enemy fire. The order is for seven AN/TPQ-53 ...
Is black phosphorous the next big thing in materials
Oct 20, 2015 (SPX)
A new experimental revelation about black phosphorus nanoribbons should facilitate the future application of this highly promising material to electronic, optoe...
'Molecular accordion' drives thermoelectric behavior in promising material
Oct 20, 2015 (SPX)
Engines, laptops and power plants generate waste heat. Thermoelectric materials, which convert temperature gradients to electricity and vice versa, can recover ...
IBM plays down earnings miss as part of evolution
Oct 20, 2015 (AFP)
IBM's top executive on Tuesday played down an earnings miss that hammered the technology old-timer's shares, saying the company is evolving to thrive in a new a...
NY Times teams with Google on virtual reality project
Oct 20, 2015 (AFP)
The New York Times and Google announced plans Tuesday to team up on a virtual reality project which will distribute more than a million of the tech firm's Cardb...
Air Force sees future in 3D-printed engine parts
Oct 19, 2015 (UPI)
The Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex, a maintenance organization at Tinker Air Force Base, is finalizing plans to expand 3-D printing in their operations. Th...
Patterning oxide nanopillars at the atomic scale by phase transformation
Oct 16, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers at Tohoku University's Advanced Institute for Materials Research (AIMR) have carried out a collaborative study aimed at precisely controlling phase ...
Colombia receives Northrop Grumman AN/TPS-78 radar
Oct 16, 2015 (UPI)
The Colombian Air Force has received Northrop Grumman's new AN/TPS-78 3-D radar, following two flights from the United States to deliver the product. Four syste...
Hot stuff: Magnetic domain walls
Oct 16, 2015 (SPX)
Magnetic nanostructures - or rather: the interaction between charge, spin and current flow as a function of a temperature gradient in such structures - this is ...
Haze particles hard enough to cause abrasive damage on industrial alloys
Oct 15, 2015 (SPX)
Rapid economic growth and urbanization in developing countries are accompanied by serious particulate air pollution, i.e. haze. The haze has raised worldwide co...
Mathematicians find 'magic key' to drive Ramanujan's taxi-cab number
Oct 15, 2015 (SPX)
Taxi-cab numbers, among the most beloved integers in math, trace their origins to 1918 and what seemed like a casual insight by the Indian genius Srinivasa Rama...
New deposition technique enhances optoelectronic properties of lasers
Oct 15, 2015 (SPX)
A simple new electron-beam multilayer deposition technique for creating intracavity contacts - an important component of gallium nitride-based (III-nitride) ver...
Mode control for square microresonator lasers suitable for integration
Oct 15, 2015 (SPX)
Totally internal confined whispering-gallery modes can have high Q factors in wavelength scale optical microresonators, such as microspheres and two-dimensional...
Methodology could lead to more sustainable manufacturing systems
Oct 15, 2015 (SPX)
Engineers at Oregon State University have developed a new "sustainable development methodology" to help address a social and regulatory demand for manufacturing...
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