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Military training and simulation revenues to remain steady

Aug 01, 2014 (UPI)

Revenues in the world's military training and simulation market will remain steady in the near future. The forecast was made by market analysis firm Frost & Sul...

A new way to make microstructured surfaces

Jul 31, 2014 (SPX)

A team of researchers has created a new way of manufacturing microstructured surfaces that have novel three-dimensional textures. These surfaces, made by self-a...

Tough foam from tiny sheets

Jul 31, 2014 (SPX)

Tough, ultralight foam of atom-thick sheets can be made to any size and shape through a chemical process invented at Rice University. In microscopic images, the...

Building the Foundation for Future Synthetic Biology Applications with BRICS

Jul 31, 2014 (SPX)

The development of increasingly sophisticated techniques and tools to sequence, synthesize and manipulate genetic material has led to the rapidly maturing disci...

Discovery is key to metal wear in sliding parts

Jul 30, 2014 (SPX)

Researchers have discovered a previously unknown mechanism for wear in metals: a swirling, fluid-like microscopic behavior in a solid piece of metal sliding ove...

Printing the Metals of the Future

Jul 30, 2014 (JPL)

3-D printers can create all kinds of things, from eyeglasses to implantable medical devices, straight from a computer model and without the need for molds. But ...

Chemist develops X-ray vision for quality assurance

Jul 30, 2014 (SPX)

A DTU researcher has developed a method that uses X-rays for the rapid identification of substances present in an indeterminate powder. The new technique has th...

New Approach to Form Non-Equilibrium Structures

Jul 30, 2014 (SPX)

Although most natural and synthetic processes prefer to settle into equilibrium-a state of unchanging balance without potential or energy-it is within the realm...

Common mineral capable of making and breaking bonds

Jul 30, 2014 (SPX)

Reactions among minerals and organic compounds in hydrothermal environments are critical components of the Earth's deep carbon cycle, they provide energy for th...

New characteristics of complex oxide surfaces revealed

Jul 30, 2014 (SPX)

A novel combination of microscopy and data processing has given researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory an unprecedented look at...

Collecting just the right data

Jul 30, 2014 (SPX)

Much artificial-intelligence research addresses the problem of making predictions based on large data sets. An obvious example is the recommendation engines at ...

Russian gecko satellite unresponsive in transit orbit

Jul 29, 2014 (Voice of Russia)

The Russian space agency Roscosmos is struggling to re-establish contact with the Foton-M satellite, launched last Saturday. The spacecraft is not responding to...

Building 'invisible' materials with light

Jul 29, 2014 (SPX)

A new method of building materials using light, developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge, could one day enable technologies that are often consid...

Amazon launches 3D printing store

Jul 28, 2014 (AFP)

Amazon announced Monday the launch of an online store for 3D printed items to allow consumers to customize and personalize items like earrings, pendants, dolls ...

UAMS To Help Establish NSBRI Center for Space Radiation Research

Jul 28, 2014 (SPX)

The National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) will establish, fund, and operate the Center for Space Radiation Research (CSRR) under the leadership o...

Laser experiment reveals liquid-like motion of atoms in an ultra-cold cluster

Jul 28, 2014 (SPX)

A new study by researchers from the University of Leicester has furthered our understanding of how tiny nanosystems function, unlocking the potential to create ...

Carbyne morphs when stretched

Jul 28, 2014 (SPX)

Applying just the right amount of tension to a chain of carbon atoms can turn it from a metallic conductor to an insulator, according to Rice University scienti...

Oregon chemists eye improved thin films with metal substitution

Jul 24, 2014 (SPX)

The yield so far is small, but chemists at the University of Oregon have developed a low-energy, solution-based mineral substitution process to make a precursor...

A new multi-bit 'spin' for MRAM storage

Jul 23, 2014 (SPX)

Interest in magnetic random access memory (MRAM) is escalating, thanks to demand for fast, low-cost, nonvolatile, low-consumption, secure memory devices. MRAM, ...

Romanian city opens plastic bottle bridge in litter protest

Jul 23, 2014 (AFP)

Timisoara in western Romania on Wednesday inaugurated a 23-metre (75 feet) bridge made of more than 157,000 collected plastic bottles to warn against the devast...