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Space fishing: Japan to test 'magnetic net' for space junk
Jan 19, 2014 (Voice of Russia)
Japan's space agency is subcontracting a fishing net company to develop a technology to clean up the space junk that poses a direct threat to Earth's communicat...
ISS delays planned orbit raise due to space junk threat
Jan 19, 2014 (Voice of Russia)
The International Space Station's manoeuvre to raise orbit has been delayed by two days over the threat of collision with space junk that could severely damage ...
Towards perfect control of light waves
Jan 17, 2014 (SPX)
A team at the Laboratory for Attosecond Physics (LAP) in Garching (Germany) has constructed a detector, which provides a detailed picture of the waveforms of fe...
IBM to invest $1.2 bn to expand 'cloud'
Jan 17, 2014 (AFP)
US computing giant IBM said Friday it would be investing $1.2 billion to expand Internet "cloud" services, by opening up new data centers around the world. "Thi...
Boeing Space Surveillance System Reduces Risk of Satellite Loss by 66 Percent
Jan 17, 2014 (SPX)
Boeing Space-Based Space Surveillance (SBSS) system has helped the U.S. Air Force cut the danger of satellites being lost by two-thirds in the past year by dete...
ORNL-UT researchers invent 'sideways' approach to 2-D hybrid materials
Jan 16, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville have pioneered a new technique for forming a ...
Big data: A method for obtaining large, phylogenomic data sets
Jan 16, 2014 (SPX)
Traditional molecular systematic studies have progressed by sequencing genes one by one, a time- and cost-intensive task that has limited the amount of data a r...
Penn research helps lay out theory for metamaterials that act as an analog computer
Jan 16, 2014 (SPX)
The field of metamaterials has produced structures with unprecedented abilities, including flat lenses, invisibility cloaks and even optical "metatronic" device...
Japan scientists test tether to clear up space junk
Jan 16, 2014 (AFP)
Japanese space scientists are set to trial a tether they hope will help pull junk out of orbit around Earth, clearing up tonnes of planetary clutter, they said ...
Bio-inspired glue keeps hearts securely sealed
Jan 16, 2014 (SPX)
When a child is born with a heart defect such as a hole in the heart, the highly invasive therapies are challenging due to an inability to quickly and safely se...
Starting Fire With Water
Jan 14, 2014 (SPX)
When firefighters want to extinguish a blaze, they often douse it with water. Astronauts on board the ISS, however, are experimenting with a form of water that ...
SimCity coming down from the cloud
Jan 13, 2014 (AFP)
Hugely popular SimCity will be coming down from the cloud, letting fans play the rich world simulation game without needing to be connected to the Internet. Ele...
GPM Completes Spacecraft Alignments
Jan 12, 2014 (SPX)
After a holiday break, final tests for the GPM Core Observatory resumed on Dec. 30, 2013, with alignment measurements. The spacecraft's instruments and componen...
S. Asia takes 71 percent of market for ship breaking
Jan 09, 2014 (AFP)
The world market for ship demolition remains strong, with India, Bangladesh and Pakistan together accounting for more than two-thirds of business, a French moni...
3D printing poised to shake up shopping
Jan 09, 2014 (AFP)
A 3D printing trend playing out at the Consumer Electronics Show bodes a future in which shoes, eyeglass frames, toys and more are printed at home as easily as ...
Sony unveils game service as PS4 sales top 4.2 million
Jan 07, 2014 (AFP)
Sony on Tuesday announced a hotly-anticipated streaming game service along with the news that it sold more than 4.2 million PlayStation 4 consoles by the start ...
RAMBO a small but powerful magnet
Jan 07, 2014 (SPX)
Rice University scientists have pioneered a tabletop magnetic pulse generator that does the work of a room-sized machine - and more. The device dubbed "RAMBO" -...
ISRO raises GSAT-14's orbit
Jan 07, 2014 (IANS)
The Indian space agency on Monday successfully completed the first orbit raising operations of its communication satellite GSAT-14. According to the Indian Spac...
New compounds discovered that are hundreds of times more mutagenic
Jan 07, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers at Oregon State University have discovered novel compounds produced by certain types of chemical reactions - such as those found in vehicle exhaust ...
Two new radar stations to be placed into service in Russia in 2014
Jan 06, 2014 (Voice of Russia)
Two new radar stations of the missile warning system will be placed into service in Russia's Kaliningrad and Irkutsk regions this year, the Defence Ministry's p...
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