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Ecliptic RocketCam Captures Sirius Antenna Deployment In Geo Orbit

Mar 06, 2014 (SPX)

An advanced antenna reflector designed and built by Harris has been deployed in space onboard the Sirius FM-6 satellite which was designed and built by Space Sy...

Ultra-fast laser spectroscopy lights way to understanding new materials

Mar 06, 2014 (SPX)

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory are revealing the mysteries of new materials using ultra-fast laser spectroscopy, similar to high-...

New formula to calculate hue improves accuracy of color analysis

Mar 05, 2014 (SPX)

A stroll through the produce aisle in your local grocery store exhibits a plethora of vivid colors. From opposing hues, like red apples next to green celery, to...

Game play remains at heart of changing lifestyles

Mar 05, 2014 (AFP)

For almost as long as there have been computers, there have been people intent in playing games with them. Since young programmers at the Massachusetts Institut...

ADS builds 'space furnace' to test materials of the future on the ISS

Mar 04, 2014 (SPX)

Airbus Defence and Space has built the Electromagnetic Levitator (EML) facility which was developed under parallel contracts of the European Space Agency ESA an...

New Record Set for Data-Transfer Speeds

Mar 04, 2014 (SPX)

Researchers at IBM have set a new record for data transmission over a multimode optical fiber, a type of cable that is typically used to connect nearby computer...

Novel optical fibers transmit high-quality images

Feb 27, 2014 (SPX)

After having recently discovered a new way to propagate multiple beams of light through a single strand of optical fiber, engineers at the University of Wiscons...

Science publisher fooled by gibberish papers

Feb 27, 2014 (AFP)

Publisher of science journals Springer said Thursday it would scrap 16 papers from its archives after they were revealed to be computer-generated gibberish. The...

Big Mechanism Seeks the Whys Hidden in Big Data

Feb 27, 2014 (SPX)

As commercial technologies become more advanced and widely available, adversaries are rapidly developing capabilities that put our forces at risk. To counter th...

USAF reveals 'neighborhood watch' satellite program

Feb 26, 2014 (Voice of Russia)

The United States plans to send into orbit a pair of satellites to monitor spacecraft from other countries, as well as to track space debris, the head of Air Fo...

EIAST showcases DubaiSat-2 results, plans for KhalifaSat at space conference in Singapore

Feb 26, 2014 (SPX)

The Emirates Institution for Advanced Science and Technology (EIAST) shared the success of its DubaiSat-2 launch and the significance of its latest ambitious go...

Silver gone astray

Feb 26, 2014 (SPX)

It has long been known that, in the form of free ions, silver particles can be highly toxic to aquatic organisms. Yet to this day, there is a lack of detailed k...

A New Way to Create Porous Materials

Feb 26, 2014 (SPX)

A team of UConn chemists has discovered a new way of making a class of porous materials that allows for greater manufacturing controls and has significantly bro...

Scientists twist sound with metamaterials

Feb 26, 2014 (SPX)

A Chinese-U.S. research team is exploring the use of metamaterials -- artificial materials engineered to have exotic properties not found in nature -- to create...

In the eye of a chicken, a new state of matter comes into view

Feb 26, 2014 (SPX)

Along with eggs, soup and rubber toys, the list of the chicken's most lasting legacies may eventually include advanced materials such as self-organizing colloid...

Penn Researchers 'Design for Failure' With Model Material

Feb 26, 2014 (SPX)

When deciding what materials to use in building something, determining how those materials respond to stress and strain is often the first task. A material's ma...

From a distance: New technique for repair work

Feb 26, 2014 (SPX)

Numerous German companies are operating globally these days: They develop products domestically, but production is done in other countries like China, Brazil or...

Study finds 2 biodegradable mulches to be suitable polyethylene alternatives

Feb 26, 2014 (SPX)

Polyethylene plastic mulch offers a range of benefits and has become standard for growers of a variety of agricultural and horticultural crops. Despite the reco...

UT Dallas-led team makes powerful muscles from fishing line and sewing thread

Feb 26, 2014 (SPX)

An international team led by The University of Texas at Dallas has discovered that ordinary fishing line and sewing thread can be cheaply converted to powerful ...

Scalable Agile Beam Radar Brings Advanced Capabilities to Global F-16 Fleets

Feb 24, 2014 (SPX)

Northrop Grumman Scalable Agile Beam Radar (SABR) will help bring advanced capabilities to existing global F-16 fleets, keeping them formidable beyond 2025, acc...