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Jason-3 Satellite Arrives at California Launch Site
Jun 25, 2015 (JPL)
The Jason-3 satellite has arrived at California's Vandenberg Air Force Base, after a journey from France, in preparation for launch Aug. 8, 2015, aboard a Space...
Cleaning Up Orbital Debris - Not!
Jun 25, 2015 (SPX)
There has been a great deal of media coverage regarding orbital debris and its possible removal. As it turns out, there is some good news and some bad news abou...
JPL, Caltech Team Up to Tackle Big-Data Projects
Jun 25, 2015 (JPL)
There's a growing need among scientists and engineers for tools that can help them handle, explore and analyze big data. A new collaboration between NASA's Jet ...
Penn research simplifies recycling of rare-earth magnets
Jun 22, 2015 (SPX)
Despite their ubiquity in consumer electronics, rare-earth metals are, as their name suggests, hard to come by. Mining and purifying them is an expensive, labor...
Speeding Up Synthetic Chemistry
Jun 22, 2015 (SPX)
Synthetic molecules are the foundation for many products critical to the Department of Defense's mission-from active pharmaceutical ingredients found in a medic...
Cellulose from wood can be printed in 3-D
Jun 22, 2015 (SPX)
A group of researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have managed to print and dry three-dimensional objects made entirely by cellulose for the first tim...
Aperiodic crystals and beyond
Jun 22, 2015 (SPX)
Once a contradiction in terms, aperiodic crystals show instead that "long-range order" has never been defined. Whatever it means, decades of intense research ha...
A new look at surface chemistry
Jun 22, 2015 (SPX)
For the first time in the long and vaunted history of scanning electron microscopy, the unique atomic structure at the surface of a material has been resolved. ...
Researchers create transparent, stretchable conductors using nano-accordion structure
Jun 22, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers from North Carolina State University have created stretchable, transparent conductors that work because of the structures' "nano-accordion" design. ...
Mantis shrimp inspires new body armor and football helmet design
Jun 22, 2015 (SPX)
The mantis shrimp is able to repeatedly pummel the shells of prey using a hammer-like appendage that can withstand rapid-fire blows by neutralizing certain freq...
Raytheon producing more radars for P-8A Poseidon aircraft
Jun 19, 2015 (UPI)
Littoral and overland surveillance radars for use of P-8A Poseidon aircraft are to be produced by Raytheon for the U.S. Navy under a $153 million award. The con...
Video game titans get back in stride at E3
Jun 19, 2015 (AFP)
The world's leading video game show ended Thursday with the industry feeling renewed vigor after years of worry that play on mobile devices was leading to decli...
Oculus out to let people touch virtual worlds
Jun 18, 2015 (AFP)
Behind closed doors on the show floor of the world's premier video game show, Facebook-owned Oculus was letting people touch virtual worlds. Oculus provided a s...
New honeycomb-inspired design delivers superior protection from impact
Jun 18, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a groundbreaking new energy-absorbing structure to better ...
A protective shield for sensitive catalysts
Jun 18, 2015 (SPX)
An international research team has found a way of protecting sensitive catalysts from oxygen-caused damage. In the future, this could facilitate the creation of...
Buckle up for fast ionic conduction
Jun 18, 2015 (SPX)
ETH material engineers found that the performance of ion-conducting ceramic membranes that are so important in industry depends largely on their strain and buck...
Jordanian AF receiving Thales radar system
Jun 18, 2015 (UPI)
Thales has announced it is to supply additional I-Master SAR/GMTI all-weather tactical surveillance radars to the Royal Jordanian Air Force. The contract announ...
Penn researchers develop a new type of gecko-like gripper
Jun 18, 2015 (SPX)
Picking things up and putting them down is a mainstay of any kind of manufacturing, but fingers, human or robotic, are not always best for the task at hand. Res...
Squid inspires camouflaging smart materials
Jun 18, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers from the University of Bristol have shown it is possible to create artificial skin that can be transformed at the flick of a switch to mimic one of ...
Surfaces get smooth or bumpy on demand
Jun 17, 2015 (SPX)
An MIT team has developed a way of making soft materials, using a 3-D printer, with surface textures that can then be modified at will to be perfectly smooth, o...
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