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Responsive material could be the 'golden ticket' of sensing
Jan 08, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers from the University of Cambridge have developed a new self-assembled material, which, by changing its shape, can amplify small variations in tempera...
Why some geckos lose their ability to stick to surfaces
Jan 08, 2015 (SPX)
A study led by biologists at the University of California, Riverside has found that evolution can downgrade or entirely remove adaptations a species has previou...
Uruguay receives mobile border surveillance system
Jan 07, 2015 (UPI)
Turkish defense company Aselsan A.S. reports it has completed a contract to equip the Uruguayan Army with a mobile surveillance radar system. The system, mounte...
Electromagnetic waves linked to particle fallout in Earth's atmosphere
Jan 06, 2015 (SPX)
In a new study that sheds light on space weather's impact on Earth, Dartmouth researchers and their colleagues show for the first time that plasma waves buffeti...
Freshmen-level chemistry solves the solubility mystery of graphene oxide films
Jan 06, 2015 (SPX)
A Northwestern University-led team recently found the answer to a mysterious question that has puzzled the materials science community for years--and it came in...
3D printing could revolutionise war and foreign policy
Jan 05, 2015 (AFP)
3D printing will revolutionise war and foreign policy, say experts, not only by making possible incredible new designs but by turning the defence industry -- an...
China replaces rare earth quotas with export permits
Jan 05, 2015 (AFP)
China has instituted a system of export permits for rare earth metals, used in hi-tech goods such as mobile phones, the government said, with state-run media de...
NASA launching spacecraft with 19 foot lasso
Jan 04, 2015 (UPI)
NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive, SMAP, will measure moisture in the Earth's soil, which will help farmers combat the effects of drought. Set to launch on Ja...
South Korean Satellite Faces Collision With Space Junk: Reports
Jan 04, 2015 (Sputnik)
A South Korean geological monitoring satellite is on course to come within close hazardous proximity with space debris, Yonhap reports. The South Korean Ministr...
Fukushima Radiation to Reach Peak Levels Off US West Coast in 2015
Jan 02, 2015 (Sputnik)
The report, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is the first systematic study of the arrival of the Fukushima radioactivity...
A repulsive material
Jan 02, 2015 (SPX)
In a world-first achievement published in Nature, scientists from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science in Japan, along with colleagues from the National...
Lawsuit accuses Apple of storage sleight of hand
Jan 02, 2015 (AFP)
Apple on Friday faced a lawsuit accusing it of promising more available storage space than it actually delivers in iPhones, iPads, and iPod touch devices. The s...
Gift-wrapped gas molecules
Jan 02, 2015 (SPX)
A group of scientists led by researchers at the Universite de Versailles' Institut Lavoisier in France has worked out how to stably gift-wrap a chemical gas kno...
Studies on exotic superfluids in spin-orbit coupled Fermi gases reviewed
Jan 02, 2015 (SPX)
Ultracold atomic gases have been widely considered as ideal platforms for quantum simulation. Thanks to the clean environment and the highly tunable parameters ...
Technology Innovations Spin NASA's SMAP into Space
Jan 02, 2015 (JPL)
It's active. It's passive. And it's got a big, spinning lasso. Scheduled for launch on Jan. 29, 2015, NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) instrument will...
Microscopy reveals how atom-high steps impede oxidation of metal surfaces
Dec 30, 2014 (SPX)
Rust never sleeps. Whether a reference to the 1979 Neil Young album or a product designed to protect metal surfaces, the phrase invokes the idea that corrosion ...
Atom-high steps halt oxidation of metal surfaces
Dec 30, 2014 (SPX)
In the race to design the world's first universal quantum computer, a special kind of diamond defect called a nitrogen vacancy (NV) center is playing a big role...
Hands on: Crafting ultrathin color coatings
Dec 29, 2014 (SPX)
In a sub-basement deep below the Laboratory for Integrated Science and Engineering at Harvard University, Mikhail Kats gets dressed. Mesh shoe covers, a face ma...
Second ballistic missile defense radar deployed in Japan
Dec 29, 2014 (UPI)
A second radar system for the detection of ballistic missiles is being deployed in Japan by the U.S. Department of Defense and Japan's Ministry of Defense. The ...
New algorithm a Christmas gift to 3D printing - and the environment
Dec 29, 2014 (SPX)
Just in time for Christmas, Simon Fraser University computing science professor Richard Zhang reveals how to print a 3D Christmas tree efficiently and with zero...
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