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MUOS - a Vital Next Step for Narrowband Satellite Communications
Feb 25, 2015 (SPX)
All of us at Intelsat General congratulate our government colleagues at SPAWAR PMW-146 on the successful launch of MUOS-3. MUOS, the Mobile User Objective Syste...
Data-storage for eternity
Feb 23, 2015 (SPX)
Scrolls thousands of years old provide us with a glimpse into long-forgotten cultures and the knowledge of our ancestors. In this digital era, in contrast, a la...
Apple to invest 1.7bn euros in Ireland, Denmark data centres
Feb 23, 2015 (AFP)
US tech giant Apple said Monday it would invest 1.7 billion euros ($1.9 billion) in two data centres located in Ireland and Denmark, to boost online services in...
Building trustworthy big data algorithms
Feb 23, 2015 (SPX)
Much of our reams of data sit in large databases of unstructured text. Finding insights among emails, text documents, and websites is extremely difficult unless...
See here now: Telescopic contact lenses and wink-control glasses
Feb 20, 2015 (SPX)
An estimated 285 million people are visually impaired worldwide. Age-related macular degeneration alone is the leading cause of blindness among older adults in ...
UV exposure keeps damaging skin after sunset: study
Feb 20, 2015 (AFP)
Significant ultraviolet radiation damage to skin can still occur hours after its exposure to sunlight, scientific researches have determined. Exposure to sunlig...
OHB and AAC develop InnoSat platform
Feb 20, 2015 (SPX)
OHB Sweden, Stockholm, and AAC Microtec, Uppsala, have been appointed by the Swedish National Space Board (SNSB) to deliver a highly capable small satellite pla...
3-D printing with custom molecules creates low-cost mechanical sensor
Feb 20, 2015 (SPX)
Imagine printing out molecules that can respond to their surroundings. A research project at the University of Washington merges custom chemistry and 3-D printi...
Getting in shape
Feb 20, 2015 (SPX)
New research from the Micro/Bio/Nanofluidics Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) looks at how to create various n...
From Vomit Comet to CubeSat
Feb 19, 2015 (SPX)
Several small-scale experiments aboard NASA's vomit comet have led to a NASA grant to study early planet formation aboard a satellite in low-Earth orbit for a y...
Breakthrough may lead to industrial production of graphene devices
Feb 18, 2015 (SPX)
With properties that promise faster computers, better sensors and much more, graphene has been dubbed the 'miracle material'. But progress in producing it on an...
SSL-Built High-Throughput Satellite For Telenor Ready For Launch
Feb 18, 2015 (SPX)
Space Systems/Loral (SSL) has announced that the THOR 7 satellite, designed and built for Telenor Satellite Broadcasting (TSBc), is ready for launch and will sh...
Mighty mollusc: Limpet teeth have super strength
Feb 18, 2015 (AFP)
The teeth of the common limpet, an unremarkable mollusc found along the European sea shore, may be made of the strongest natural material known to man, scientis...
NASA Team Develops New Ka-Band Communications System to Break Through the Noise
Feb 18, 2015 (SPX)
The radio frequency band that many NASA missions use to communicate with spacecraft - S-band - is getting a bit crowded and noisy, and likely to get more jammed...
New self-stretching material developed at University of Rochester
Feb 17, 2015 (SPX)
Although most materials slightly expand when heated, there is a new class of rubber-like material that not only self-stretches upon cooling; it reverts back to ...
New design tool for metamaterials
Feb 17, 2015 (SPX)
Metamaterials - artificial nanostructures engineered with electromagnetic properties not found in nature - offer tantalizing future prospects such as high resol...
Arachnid Rapunzel: Researchers spin spider silk proteins into artificial silk
Feb 17, 2015 (SPX)
Incredibly tough, slightly stretchy spider silk is a lightweight, biodegradable wonder material with numerous potential biomedical applications. But although hu...
Better catalysts, made-to-order
Feb 17, 2015 (SPX)
Most of our food, medicine, fuel, plastics and synthetic fibers wouldn't exist without catalysts, materials that open favorable pathways for chemical reactions ...
How iron feels the heat
Feb 17, 2015 (SPX)
As you heat up a piece of iron, the arrangement of the iron atoms changes several times before melting. This unusual behavior is one reason why steel, in which ...
Researchers glimpse distortions in atomic structure of materials
Feb 17, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers from North Carolina State University are using a technique they developed to observe minute distortions in the atomic structure of complex materials...
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