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NATO orders deployable 3D air defense radars
Jul 15, 2015 (UPI)
NATO is enhancing its air defense radar capabilities with the addition of Lanza 3D longe-range deployable radar from Indra of Spain. The contract to procure two...
Density-near-zero acoustical metamaterial made in China
Jul 15, 2015 (SPX)
When a sound wave hits an obstacle and is scattered, the signal may be lost or degraded. But what if you could guide the signal around that obstacle, as if the ...
Disney gives sneak peek for planned China theme park
Jul 15, 2015 (AFP)
US entertainment giant Disney on Wednesday unveiled details of its planned theme park in Shanghai, promising Chinese features and new attractions not found in i...
Advanced composites may borrow designs from deep-sea shrimp
Jul 15, 2015 (SPX)
New research is revealing details about how the exoskeleton of a certain type of deep-sea shrimp allows the animal to survive scalding hot waters in hydrotherma...
Nonmagnetic elements form unique magnet
Jul 15, 2015 (SPX)
Titanium and gold are usually not magnetic and cannot be magnets - unless you combine them just so. Scientists at Rice University did so and discovered what is ...
China Focus: Sino-UK remote sensing satellite constellation launched
Jul 14, 2015 (XNA)
Three one-meter resolution optical Earth observation satellites were successfully launched early Saturday, according to operator Twenty First Century Aerospace ...
Better memory with faster lasers
Jul 14, 2015 (SPX)
DVDs and Blu-ray disks contain so-called phase-change materials that morph from one atomic state to another after being struck with pulses of laser light, with ...
Nanospiked bacteria are the brightest hard X-ray emitters
Jul 10, 2015 (SPX)
In a step that overturns traditional assumptions and practice, researchers at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai and Institute for Plasma Resear...
Omnidirectional free space wireless charging developed
Jul 10, 2015 (SPX)
Mobile devices, such as smartphones and laptops, have become indispensable portable items in modern life, but one big challenge remains to fully enjoying these ...
Chameleon satellite to revolutionise telecom market
Jul 10, 2015 (ESA)
Telecom satellites are set to enter a new age, as ESA, Eutelsat and Airbus Defence and Space begin designing the most flexible payload ever. The Quantum program...
To conduct, or to insulate? That is the question
Jul 10, 2015 (SPX)
A new study has discovered mysterious behaviour of a material that acts like an insulator in certain measurements, but simultaneously acts like a conductor in o...
Rubber expansion threatens biodiversity and livelihoods
Jul 09, 2015 (SPX)
Increasing amounts of environmentally valuable and protected land are being cleared for rubber plantations that are economically unsustainable, new research sug...
A cool way to form 2-D conducting polymers using ice
Jul 09, 2015 (SPX)
A piece of deep frozen ice and electronic gadgets may seem to have little connection (except that they are both 'cool' to have on you), but ice could now play a...
New computer program may fix billion-dollar bit rot problem
Jul 09, 2015 (UPI)
Bit rot is a billion-dollar problem for software developers. But now computer engineers may have designed the ideal code-fixing program to combat it. High perfo...
Engineers give invisibility cloaks a slimmer design
Jul 09, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers have developed a new design for a cloaking device that overcomes some of the limitations of existing "invisibility cloaks." In a new study, electric...
Lower cost ultrasound degassing now possible in processing aluminum
Jul 09, 2015 (SPX)
Having proved that ultrasound degassing of molten aluminium alloys is cleaner, greener and cheaper than current methods, a team of scientists from Brunel Univer...
New technique enables magnetic patterns to be mapped in 3-D
Jul 09, 2015 (SPX)
An international collaboration has succeeded in using synchrotron light to detect and record the complex 3-D magnetization in wound magnetic layers. This techni...
Study: Violent video games offer stress release, but at a cost
Jul 09, 2015 (UPI)
A new study finds that violent video games offer momentary stress relief, but the respite comes at an emotional price. According to researchers at the Universit...
Making new materials with micro-explosions: ANU media release
Jul 07, 2015 (SPX)
Scientists have made exotic new materials by creating laser-induced micro-explosions in silicon, the common computer chip material. The new technique could lead...
Ball delivers optical reference units for GRACE follow-on mission
Jul 07, 2015 (SPX)
Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. has delivered key components to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for a laser ranging system designed to achieve grea...
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