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Strengthening thin-film bonds with ultrafast data collection
Oct 24, 2014 (SPX)
When studying extremely fast reactions in ultrathin materials, two measurements are better than one. A new research tool invented by researchers at Lawrence Liv...
What a Star Wars laser bullet really looks like
Oct 24, 2014 (SPX)
Action-packed science-fiction movies often feature colourful laser bolts. But what would a real laser missile look like during flight, if we could only make it ...
'Cloud' lifts Microsoft earnings above expectations
Oct 24, 2014 (AFP)
Microsoft on Thursday reported quarterly profits ahead of most expectations, as revenues got a boost from its Xbox consoles and Internet "cloud" services for en...
Triplet threat from the sun
Oct 23, 2014 (SPX)
The most obvious effects of too much sun exposure are cosmetic, like wrinkled and rough skin. Some damage, however, goes deeper-ultraviolet light can damage DNA...
Argentina launches its first telecom satellite
Oct 21, 2014 (RIA Novosti)
Argentina has successfully launched its first domestically designed and developed geostationary communications satellite Thursday, USA Today reported. "ARSAT-1 ...
Goldilocks principle wrong for particle assembly
Oct 21, 2014 (SPX)
Microscopic particles that bind under low temperatures will melt as temperatures rise to moderate levels, but re-connect under hotter conditions, a team of New ...
Light bending material facilitates the search for new particles
Oct 20, 2014 (SPX)
Particle physicists have a hard time identifying all the elementary particles created in their particle accelerators. But now researchers at Chalmers University...
A simple and versatile way to build 3-dimensional materials of the future
Oct 20, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers in Japan have developed a novel yet simple technique, called "diffusion driven layer-by-layer assembly," to construct graphene into porous three-dim...
ORNL research reveals unique capabilities of 3-D printing
Oct 20, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have demonstrated an additive manufacturing method to control the structure and properti...
EIAST: KhalifaSat design completed
Oct 20, 2014 (SPX)
The Emirates Institution for Advanced Science and Technology (EIAST) has announced the completion of KhalifaSat's design, the first satellite that will be desig...
Engineers find a way to win in laser performance by losing
Oct 20, 2014 (SPX)
Energy loss in optical systems, such as lasers, is a chief hindrance to their performance and efficiency, and it occurs on an ongoing, frustrating basis. To hel...
SSL Begins Post-Launch Maneuvers For Intelsat 30
Oct 20, 2014 (SPX)
Space Systems/Loral (SSL) has announced that a satellite designed and built for Intelsat, was launched yesterday and is successfully performing post-launch mane...
LockMart Team Delivers Lightning Mapper Instrument For Weather Satellite
Oct 20, 2014 (SPX)
A Lockheed Martin team delivered the first Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) instrument that will provide earlier alerts of severe storms and contribute to m...
ORNL makes first observation of atoms moving inside bulk material
Oct 17, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have obtained the first direct observations of atomic diffusion inside a bulk material. ...
'Data smashing' could unshackle automated discovery
Oct 15, 2014 (SPX)
A little known secret in data mining is that simply feeding raw data into a data analysis algorithm is unlikely to produce meaningful results, say the authors o...
Raytheon, Polish firm to explore military radar opportunities
Oct 15, 2014 (UPI)
Raytheon and Poland's PIT-RADWAR are planning to cooperate in the area of radar systems and sub-systems for the country's military and international market. The...
Sticky business: bonding ultrastable space missions
Oct 15, 2014 (ESA)
A new ultrastable adhesive identified through ESA research could be a key to assembling rock-solid structures for space, including large telescopes, instruments...
JLENS radar data integrates with NORAD system
Oct 14, 2014 (UPI)
A series of laboratory tests have proven that data collected by the JLENS aerostat-radar system can be successfully be converted into a format for use by NORAD....
Major Grant To Fund Research Into Advanced, Economically Viable Bioproducts
Oct 14, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Minnesota and Argonne National Laboratory will explore ways to produce renewable plastic pre...
Tailored flexible illusion coatings hide objects from detection
Oct 14, 2014 (SPX)
Developing the cloak of invisibility would be wonderful, but sometimes simply making an object appear to be something else will do the trick, according to Penn ...
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