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NASA Challenges Students to Design 3-D Space Containers
May 15, 2015 (SPX)
Calling all students! NASA needs your help to design containers that could be used in space. The 3-D Space Container Challenge is the second in series of Future...
Separating rare earth metals with UV light
May 15, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers from the KU Leuven Department of Chemical Engineering have discovered a method to separate two rare earth elements - europium and yttrium - with UV ...
Superhydrophobic glass coating offers clear benefits
May 15, 2015 (SPX)
A moth's eye and lotus leaf were the inspirations for an antireflective water-repelling, or superhydrophobic, glass coating that holds significant potential for...
A climate signal in the global distribution of copper deposits
May 15, 2015 (SPX)
Climate helps drive the erosion process that exposes economically valuable copper deposits and shapes the pattern of their global distribution, according to a n...
Telescope-Laser Cannons to Clean Up Dangerous Space Junk
May 15, 2015 (Sputnik)
The low Earth orbit is filled with what amounts to an outer space junk yard, left behind by decades of discarded satellites, collisions, and debris. And now Ope...
GE engineers used 3-D printer to build jet engine
May 14, 2015 (UPI)
Engineers at General Electric recently used a 3-D printer to build a jet engine, employing a technique called additive manufacturing. Despite the machine's comp...
Researchers develop artificial membranes with programmable surfaces
May 14, 2015 (SPX)
Decorating the outside of cells like tiny antenna, a diverse community of sugar molecules acts like a telecommunications system, sending and receiving informati...
Tiny silicone spheres come out of the mist
May 14, 2015 (SPX)
Technology in common household humidifiers could enable the next wave of high-tech medical imaging and targeted medicine, thanks to a new method for making tiny...
Patria Space unit now part of RUAG
May 13, 2015 (UPI)
Patria of Finland has completed the sale if its Space business unit to Switzerland's RUAG Space for an undisclosed sum. The transaction included all the unit's ...
Space lab to elucidate how liquid cocktails mix
May 12, 2015 (SPX)
What does space experimentation have in common with liquid cocktails? Both help in understanding what happens when multiple fluids are mixed together and subjec...
DARPA developing zoom lens to spot distant space objects more clearly
May 12, 2015 (SPX)
Imaging of Earth from satellites in space has vastly improved in recent years. But the opposite challenge-using Earth-based systems to find, track and provide d...
New modular, scalable radar passes Critical Design Review
May 12, 2015 (UPI)
An advanced integrated air and ballistic missile defense radar for the U.S. Navy has passed a critical design review by Raytheon and the U.S. Navy. The CDR of t...
See flower cells in 3-D - no electron microscopy required
May 09, 2015 (SPX)
Scientists require high-resolution imaging of plant cells to study everything from fungal infections to reproduction in maize. These images are captured with sc...
Space radiation: CSU studies risks for astronauts journeying to Mars
May 09, 2015 (SPX)
A new research facility at Colorado State University - the only one of its kind in the world - will be established with a $9 million grant from NASA to help rev...
Real stereotypes continue to exist in virtual worlds
May 09, 2015 (SPX)
Stereotypes related to gender and appearance that burden women in the real world could follow them into virtual ones, according to researchers. In a study of ho...
Researchers match physical and virtual atomic friction experiments
May 08, 2015 (SPX)
Technological limitations have made studying friction on the atomic scale difficult, but researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Cal...
NASA Test Materials to Fly on Air Force Space Plane
May 07, 2015 (SPX)
Building on more than a decade of data from International Space Station (ISS) research, NASA is expanding its materials science research by flying an experiment...
Space debris from satellite explosion increases collision risk for space craft
May 07, 2015 (SPX)
Debris from the US Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) F13 satellite, which recently exploded in orbit, could pose a threat to other spacecraft and ...
Damaging Radiation Effects on Travelers to Mars
May 07, 2015 (SPX)
We already know that interplanetary travel will be extremely expensive and may take months or years to achieve one-way trips to Mars and other planets. In addit...
Weighing - and imaging - molecules one at a time
May 05, 2015 (SPX)
Building on their creation of the first-ever mechanical device that can measure the mass of individual molecules, one at a time, a team of Caltech scientists an...
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