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Engineering Breakthrough Will Allow Cancer Researchers to Create Live Tumors With a 3D Printer
Apr 30, 2014 (SPX)
Drexel's Wei Sun, PhD, Albert Soffa chair professor in the College of Engineering, has devised a method for 3D printing tumors that could soon be taking cancer ...
Laser-powered farewell to Moon mission
Apr 29, 2014 (ESA)
Just before NASA's latest Moon mission ended last week, an ESA telescope received laser signals from the spacecraft, achieving data speeds like those used by ma...
ViaSat Awarded Damages in Patent Infringement and Breach of Contract Lawsuit Against Space Systems/Loral
Apr 29, 2014 (SPX)
ViaSat has announced that a federal court jury has awarded ViaSat $283 million in damages in its patent infringement and breach of contract case against Space S...
When things get glassy, molecules go fractal
Apr 28, 2014 (SPX)
Colorful church windows, beads on a necklace and many of our favorite plastics share something in common -- they all belong to a state of matter known as glasse...
Vacuum Ultraviolet Lamp of the Future Created in Japan
Apr 28, 2014 (SPX)
A team of researchers in Japan has developed a solid-state lamp that emits high-energy ultraviolet (UV) light at the shortest wavelengths ever recorded for such...
Better thermal-imaging lens from waste sulfur
Apr 28, 2014 (SPX)
Sulfur left over from refining fossil fuels can be transformed into cheap, lightweight, plastic lenses for infrared devices, including night-vision goggles, a U...
How Productive are the Ore Factories in the Deep Sea?
Apr 28, 2014 (SPX)
Hydrothermal vents in the deep sea, the so-called "black smokers", are fascinating geological formations. They are home to unique ecosystems, but are also poten...
Thinnest feasible membrane produced
Apr 28, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers have produced a stable porous membrane that is thinner than a nanometre. This is a 100,000 times thinner than the diameter of a human hair. The memb...
Scientists discover a new shape using rubber bands
Apr 28, 2014 (SPX)
While setting out to fabricate new springs to support a cephalopod-inspired imaging project, a group of Harvard researchers stumbled upon a surprising discovery...
New material coating technology mimics nature's lotus effect
Apr 28, 2014 (SPX)
Ever stop to consider why lotus plant leaves always look clean? The hydrophobic - water repelling - characteristic of the leaf, termed the "Lotus effect," helps...
Bake Your Own Droplet Lens
Apr 28, 2014 (SPX)
A droplet of clear liquid can bend light, acting as a lens. Now, by exploiting this well-known phenomenon, researchers have developed a new process to create in...
Big data poses great challenges and opportunities for databases
Apr 27, 2014 (SPX)
Advances in the technology frontier have resulted in major disruptions and transformations in the massive data processing infrastructures. For the past three de...
Mantis Shrimp Stronger than Airplanes
Apr 27, 2014 (SPX)
Inspired by the fist-like club of a mantis shrimp, a team of researchers led by University of California, Riverside, in collaboration with University of Souther...
Close collaboration in optical communication between space and Earth
Apr 27, 2014 (SPX)
An exchange of knowledge and scientists across borders, joint research projects and workshops - with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding on 16 April 20...
AVX To Present At The 2014 Space Parts Working Group
Apr 27, 2014 (SPX)
AVX Corporation will deliver two presentations about its high reliability base metal electrode (BME) and tantalum capacitor technologies at the 43rd annual Spac...
Space terrorism, floating debris pose threats to US
Apr 27, 2014 (Voice of Russia)
The United States is increasingly vulnerable to space terrorism, according to a new report, as it is more reliant on its satellites and other installations in s...
Steering chemical reactions with laser pulses
Apr 25, 2014 (SPX)
Usually, chemical reactions just take their course, much like a ball rolling downhill. However, it is also possible to deliberately control chemical reactions: ...
'Off-the-shelf' equipment used to digitize insects in 3-D
Apr 25, 2014 (SPX)
Scientists have developed a cost-effective, off-the-shelf system to obtain natural-color 3D models of insects, according to results published April 23, 2014, in...
Information storage for the next generation of plastic computers
Apr 22, 2014 (SPX)
Inexpensive computers, cell phones and other systems that substitute flexible plastic for silicon chips may be one step closer to reality, thanks to research pu...
Chiral breathing: Electrically controlled polymer changes its optical properties
Apr 22, 2014 (SPX)
Electrically controlled glasses with continuously adjustable transparency, new polarisation filters, and even chemosensors capable of detecting single molecules...
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