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GaN-based LEDs in harsh radiation environments
Dec 16, 2014 (SPX)
Gallium nitride (GaN) based devices are attractive for harsh environment electronics because of their high chemical and the mechanical stability of GaN itself t...
BAE Systems to produce prototype counter-radar system
Dec 10, 2014 (UPI)
A prototype system for detecting and countering emerging radar threats from air defense systems is to be produced by BAE Systems. The prototype is for Phase 2 o...
Airbus Defence and Space signs contract for Microwave Sounder instruments
Dec 10, 2014 (SPX)
Airbus Defence and Space, the world's second largest space company, has signed a contract to build three MicroWave Sounder (MWS) instruments for the MetOp Secon...
Solid-state proteins maximize the intensity of fluorescent-protein-based lasers
Dec 09, 2014 (SPX)
The same research team that developed the first laser based on a living cell has shown that use of fluorescent proteins in a solid form rather than in solution ...
China developing space-based 3D printing machine
Dec 09, 2014 (XNA)
Scientists have produced a 3D printing machine, the first of its kind in China, which astronauts will be able to use while on space missions, according to the C...
Marie Curie gets advice from Albert Einstein in lost letter
Dec 08, 2014 (UPI)
"Haters gonna hate." That is the message of a 1911 letter from Albert Einstein to Marie Curie where the scientist told his colleague not to listen to her critic...
Bioplastic -- greener than ever
Dec 04, 2014 (SPX)
Plastic waste is one of today's major environmental concerns. Most types of plastic do not biodegrade but break up into ever smaller pieces while remaining a po...
Geckos are sticky without effort
Dec 04, 2014 (SPX)
Geckos, found in places with warm climates, have fascinated people for hundreds of years. Scientists have been especially intrigued by these lizards, and have s...
Researchers develop clothes that can monitor and transmit biomedical info on wearers
Dec 04, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers at Universite Laval's Faculty of Science and Engineering and Centre for Optics, Photonics and Lasers have developed smart textiles able to monitor a...
Space travel is a bit safer than expected
Dec 04, 2014 (SPX)
Analysis of data from the MATROSHKA experiment, the first comprehensive measurements of long-term exposure of astronauts to cosmic radiation, has now been compl...
See it, touch it, feel it
Dec 03, 2014 (SPX)
Technology has changed rapidly over the last few years with touch feedback, known as haptics, being used in entertainment, rehabilitation and even surgical trai...
Chemists fabricate novel rewritable paper
Dec 03, 2014 (SPX)
First developed in China in about the year A.D. 150, paper has many uses, the most common being for writing and printing upon. Indeed, the development and sprea...
MatSE researchers develop inexpensive hydrolyzable polymer
Dec 03, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have figured out how to reverse the characteristics of a key bonding material-polyurea-providing a...
Penn Research Shows Way to Design 'Digital' Metamaterials
Dec 03, 2014 (SPX)
Metamaterials, precisely designed composite materials that have properties not found in natural ones, could be used to make light-bending invisibility cloaks, f...
Street cleaners in New York have help from insect garbage-munchers
Dec 02, 2014 (UPI)
For junk food-loving insects, New York City is the place to be. According to new research, urban-dwelling bugs -- millipedes, ants, spiders and cockroaches -- r...
Laser link offers high-speed delivery
Dec 01, 2014 (ESA)
Marking a first in space, Sentinel-1A and Alphasat have linked up by laser stretching almost 36 000 km across space to deliver images of Earth just moments afte...
Researchers develop building material that cools by reflecting heat into space
Dec 01, 2014 (UPI)
Researchers at Stanford say they've developed a material that cools itself by beaming excess heat into space; they hope it can one day be used to keep buildings...
Graphene may be a the best material for body armor
Nov 30, 2014 (UPI)
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst have found graphene to be twice as effective as traditional materials in bulletproof vests. The research...
World's first computer dates to 205 BCE, earlier than thought
Nov 29, 2014 (UPI)
Long considered the world's first computer, the Antikythera Mechanism is now thought to be 100 years older than first determined, researchers said. The bronze m...
Star Trek-like invisible shield found thousands of miles above Earth
Nov 28, 2014 (SPX)
A team led by the University of Colorado Boulder has discovered an invisible shield some 7,200 miles above Earth that blocks so-called "killer electrons," which...
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