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Gecko Grippers Get a Microgravity Test Flight
Dec 26, 2014 (JPL)
There are no garbage trucks equipped to leave the atmosphere and pick up debris floating around the Earth. But what if we could send a robot to do the job? Scie...
Breakthrough in predictions of pressure-dependent combustion reactions
Dec 26, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers at Sandia and Argonne national laboratories have demonstrated, for the first time, a method to successfully predict pressure-dependent chemical reac...
'Mind the gap' between atomically thin materials
Dec 26, 2014 (SPX)
When it comes to engineering single-layer atomic structures, "minding the gap" will help researchers create artificial electronic materials one atomic layer at ...
Back to future with Roman architectural concrete
Dec 23, 2014 (SPX)
No visit to Rome is complete without a visit to the Pantheon, Trajan's Markets, the Colosseum, or the other spectacular examples of ancient Roman concrete monum...
Theory details how 'hot' monomers affect thin-film formation
Dec 23, 2014 (SPX)
Like a baseball player sliding into third, a hot monomer skids in a straight line along a cold surface until it's safely among its fellow molecules. This is not...
Penn Researchers Show Commonalities in How Different Glassy Materials Fail
Dec 23, 2014 (SPX)
Glass is mysterious. It is a broad class of materials that extends well beyond the everyday window pane, but one thing that these disparate glasses seem to have...
Lead islands in a sea of graphene magnetize the material of the future
Dec 23, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers in Spain have discovered that if lead atoms are intercalated on a graphene sheet, a powerful magnetic field is generated by the interaction of the e...
Inmarsat-2 F2 satellite retired after more than 23.5 years of GEO operations
Dec 20, 2014 (SPX)
Inmarsat-2 F2, the second Eurostar satellite designed and built by Airbus Defence and Space, was retired from operational service and safely decommissioned this...
NASA just emailed the space station a new socket wrench
Dec 19, 2014 (UPI)
Astronauts on the International Space Station have a new socket wrench. But it didn't come via cargo ship. It was emailed from planet Earth -- beamed up into sp...
Danish radars for new British offshore patrol boats
Dec 19, 2014 (UPI)
Three new River-class offshore patrol vessels of Britain's Royal Navy are to operate 2D naval and air surveillance radars from Terma of Denmark. The SCANTER 410...
Penn Research Outlines Basic Rules for Construction With a Type of Origami
Dec 18, 2014 (SPX)
Origami is capable of turning a simple sheet of paper into a pretty paper crane, but the principles behind the paper-folding art can also be applied to making a...
Earth's most abundant mineral finally has a name
Dec 18, 2014 (SPX)
An ancient meteorite and high-energy X-rays have helped scientists conclude a half century of effort to find, identify and characterize a mineral that makes up ...
Dutch Navy LPD getting new radar system
Dec 18, 2014 (UPI)
An amphibious warfare ship of the Royal Netherlands Navy, HNLMS Rotterdam, is to be outfitted with S-band active electronically scanned array radar from Thales....
CAE receives new military contracts for training simulators
Dec 17, 2014 (UPI)
Full-flight training simulators and other equipment and services are to be provided to military organizations by CAE of Canada. The separate contracts received ...
New high-entropy alloy light as aluminum, as strong as titanium
Dec 17, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers from North Carolina State University and Qatar University have developed a new "high-entropy" metal alloy that has a higher strength-to-weight ratio...
Composite materials can be designed in a supercomputer virtual lab
Dec 17, 2014 (SPX)
UCL scientists have shown how advanced computer simulations can be used to design new composite materials. Nanocomposites, which are widely used in industry, ar...
Live images from inside materials
Dec 17, 2014 (SPX)
X-rays are a tried and tested way to investigate components and materials. Researchers are now developing an X-ray detector capable of delivering particularly h...
The gold standard
Dec 16, 2014 (SPX)
Precious elements such as platinum work well as catalysts in chemical reactions, but require large amounts of metal and can be expensive. However, computational...
Squid supplies blueprint for printable thermoplastics
Dec 16, 2014 (SPX)
Squid, what is it good for? You can eat it and you can make ink or dye from it, and now a Penn State team of researchers is using it to make a thermoplastic tha...
Exelis providing radar signal simulators to Air Force
Dec 16, 2014 (UPI)
A $6.3 million U.S. Air Force task order has been given to Exelis for the supply of equipment to test radar warning receivers on aircraft. The task order for AN...
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