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Researchers identify a natural shield against harmful radiation belt
Nov 27, 2014 (SPX)
High above Earth's atmosphere, electrons whiz past at close to the speed of light. Such ultrarelativistic electrons, which make up the outer band of the Van All...
NASA's Van Allen Probes Spot an Impenetrable Barrier in Space
Nov 27, 2014 (SPX)
Two donuts of seething radiation that surround Earth, called the Van Allen radiation belts, have been found to contain a nearly impenetrable barrier that preven...
Cooling with the coldest matter in the world
Nov 25, 2014 (SPX)
Physicists at the University of Basel have developed a new cooling technique for mechanical quantum systems. Using an ultracold atomic gas, the vibrations of a ...
U.S. supplies Ukraine with counter-mortar radar systems
Nov 24, 2014 (UPI)
Ukraine's military is receiving counter-mortar radar systems from the United States as part of a $118 million equipment and training arrangement. The Defense De...
Versatile bonding for lightweight components
Nov 21, 2014 (SPX)
New materials are making cars, planes and all sorts of other things lighter. The catch is that many of these materials can't be welded. Now there's an alternati...
A new approach to the delivery of satellites to orbit
Nov 20, 2014 (SPX)
Celestia Aerospace starts operations in Barcelona for the development and launch of low weight satellites with an innovative approach. Its primary goal is to of...
Cloaking device hides across continuous range of angles
Nov 20, 2014 (SPX)
Inspired perhaps by Harry Potter's invisibility cloak, scientists have recently developed several ways--some simple and some involving new technologies--to hide...
Swedish military gets upgraded radar facilityw/lll
Nov 20, 2014 (UPI)
A refurbished and upgraded radar facility for air and surface surveillance has been returned to the Swedish armed forces. The handover of the Radar 871 facility...
Boeing Stacks Two Satellites to Launch as a Pair
Nov 19, 2014 (SPX)
Boeing has successfully mated two 702SP (small platform) satellites in a stacked configuration in preparation for the first-ever conjoined satellite launch. The...
Eurofighter unveils 1.0-billion-euro radar upgrade
Nov 19, 2014 (AFP)
Europe's Eurofighter consortium committed Wednesday to a 1.0-billion-euro ($1.25-billion) upgrade to equip Typhoon combat jets with a more advanced type of rada...
New form of crystalline order good for thermoelectric uses
Nov 18, 2014 (SPX)
Since the 1850's scientists have known that crystalline materials are organized into fourteen different basic lattice structures. However, a team of researchers...
Supercomputing progress slows
Nov 17, 2014 (UPI)
An updated list of the world's fastest supercomputers suggests computer power progress has tapered off, at least momentarily. The new iteration of the Top500 li...
Paris pop-up store immortalises shoppers with 3D printed figurine
Nov 17, 2014 (AFP)
A new pop-up shop in the hip Marais district of Paris is giving people the opportunity to immortalise themselves with a tiny printed 3D figurine for the not so ...
An efficient method to measure residual stress in 3D printed parts
Nov 17, 2014 (SPX)
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers have developed an efficient method to measure residual stress in metal parts produced by powder-bed fusion ad...
How Satellite Laser Ranging Got its Start 50 Years Ago
Nov 14, 2014 (SPX)
Fifty years ago, NASA announced the first successful tracking of a satellite using a laser, a technique now standard for precisely determining satellite orbits....
New Process Isolates Promising Material
Nov 14, 2014 (SPX)
After graphene was first produced in the lab in 2004, thousands of laboratories began developing graphene products worldwide. Researchers were amazed by its lig...
Shaking the topological cocktail of success
Nov 13, 2014 (SPX)
Graphene is the miracle material of the future. Consisting of a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb lattice, the material is extremely stable, ...
Creating Bright X-Ray Pulses in the Laser Lab
Nov 12, 2014 (SPX)
X-rays are widely used in medicine and in materials science. To take a picture of a broken bone, it is enough to create a continuous flux of X-ray photons, but ...
Drexel Engineers Improve Strength, Flexibility of Atom-Thick Films
Nov 12, 2014 (SPX)
Making a paper airplane in school used to mean trouble. Today it signals a promising discovery in materials science research that could help next-generation tec...
Lockheed Martin partners for space debris research
Nov 12, 2014 (UPI)
Lockheed Martin is co-operating the largest infrared telescope in the Western Hemisphere to study space debris and for other research studies. The partnership t...
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