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NASA Goddard Provides Superfast Sensors for New MMS Mission

Mar 13, 2015 (SPX)

Scheduled to lift off on March 12, 2015, NASA's new Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, mission consists of four identical spacecraft that each carry 25 sensors ...

INDRA Radars Will Reinforce The Management Of Chinese Air Space

Mar 13, 2015 (SPX)

Indra has acquired new contracts for deploying its radar surveillance systems in China. The company will implement 5 systems to reinforce control of the Shangha...

A new way to control information by mixing light and sound

Mar 13, 2015 (SPX)

For once, slower is better in a new piece of technology. A Yale lab has developed a new, radio frequency processing device that allows information to be control...

New preschool lesson teaches programming theories

Mar 12, 2015 (UPI)

A new activity designed for preschoolers allows participants to program a robot named Dragonbot to respond to series of stimuli. What appears to be little more ...

Spaceflight Industries Raises $20 Million to Accelerate Growth

Mar 12, 2015 (SPX)

Spaceflight Industries has announced it has secured $20 million in Series B funding co-led by RRE Venture Capital and Vulcan Capital with additional investment ...

German govt okays bill to boost electronic appliance recyling

Mar 11, 2015 (AFP)

German consumers will have the right to hand in discarded electronic appliances, from toasters to TV sets, at large specialist shops under a draft recycling law...

Understanding The Electromagnetic Environmental Effects On Space Systems

Mar 10, 2015 (SPX)

The electromagnetic environment in most space systems is typically very complex. Recent advances in communications technologies and electronic devices has creat...

Google gearing Android for virtual reality: report

Mar 07, 2015 (AFP)

Internet giant Google is making a version of its Android operating system to power virtual reality apps, the Wall Street Journal reported. The California-based ...

Breakthrough in nonlinear optics research

Mar 06, 2015 (SPX)

A method to selectively enhance or inhibit optical nonlinearities in a chip-scale device has been developed by scientists, led by the University of Sydney. The ...

X-ray imaging of a single virus in 3-D

Mar 06, 2015 (SPX)

Since the determination of the molecular structure of myoglobin in 1957, X-ray crystallography has been the defining tool of structural biology, allowing resear...

New material detects neutrons emitted by radioactive materials

Mar 06, 2015 (SPX)

Scientist Christopher Lavelle of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, together with a team of researchers from the University of Maryland an...

Biomolecular force generation based on the principle of a gas spring

Mar 06, 2015 (SPX)

When cells divide, their genetic information is passed on to both daughter cells in a highly complex process. Thereby, an important role is played by small, cyl...

New paint makes tough self-cleaning surfaces

Mar 06, 2015 (SPX)

A new paint that makes robust self-cleaning surfaces has been developed by a team led by UCL researchers. The coating can be applied to clothes, paper, glass an...

Video game makers grapple with need for diversity

Mar 06, 2015 (AFP)

An increasingly diverse fan base is challenging the video game industry to shake off its "boys only" image and better reflect the demographics of its exploding ...

ESA experts assess risk from exploded satellite

Mar 05, 2015 (ESA)

After studying the recent explosive break-up of a US satellite, ESA space debris experts have concluded this event does not increase the collision risk to nearb...

NASA uses CubeSat bus to to test re-enter drag device

Mar 05, 2015 (SPX)

NASA mission controllers confirmed that a small satellite launched from the International Space Station at 5:30 p.m. PST on Tuesday, March 3, has successfully e...

Game makers lured into virtual worlds

Mar 05, 2015 (AFP)

Video game makers are being lured into virtual worlds in the hope players will dive in behind. Virtual reality head gear makers including Sony and Facebook-owne...

Sony virtual reality head gear set for 2016 release

Mar 04, 2015 (AFP)

Sony was at a major game developers' gathering Wednesday showing off a prototype of "Morpheus" virtual reality head gear set for release next year. The Japanese...

NREL refines method to convert lignin to nylon precursor

Mar 04, 2015 (SPX)

A new study from the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) demonstrates the conversion of lignin-derived compounds to adipic acid, an ...

UK Space Agency's second CubeSat mission is taking shape

Mar 04, 2015 (SPX)

The UK Space Agency's next CubeSat mission, AlSat Nano, is starting to take shape, following the selection of the mission's payloads. The suite of 3 payloads wi...