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British police seize 3D printer and suspected printed gun parts
Oct 25, 2013 (UPI)
Police in Britain say they seized a 3D printer and suspected printed components for a gun, believed to be first-ever seizure of such a next-generation weapon. T...
Crystal mysteries spiral deeper
Oct 25, 2013 (SPX)
New York University chemists have discovered crystal growth complexities, which at first glance appeared to confound 50 years of theory and deepened the mystery...
Copper Shock: An Atomic-scale Stress Test
Oct 25, 2013 (SPX)
Scientists used the powerful X-ray laser at the U.S. Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to create movies detailing trillionths-of-a-sec...
NASA Laser Communication System Sets Record with Data Transmissions to and from Moon
Oct 24, 2013 (SPX)
NASA's Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration (LLCD) has made history using a pulsed laser beam to transmit data over the 239,000 miles between the moon and Ea...
Suez Environnement sees skies clearing for waste disposal
Oct 24, 2013 (AFP)
French utilities group Suez Environnement reported a 5.0-percent rise in underlying profit for the first nine months of the year on Thursday, but international ...
NSF Awards $12 Million to SDSC to Deploy Comet Supercomputer
Oct 23, 2013 (SPX)
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, has been awarded a $12-million grant from the National Science Foundation ...
Cracked metal, heal thyself
Oct 22, 2013 (SPX)
It was a result so unexpected that MIT researchers initially thought it must be a mistake: Under certain conditions, putting a cracked piece of metal under tens...
Out-of-fuel European satellite to come crashing down
Oct 22, 2013 (AFP)
A satellite monitoring Earth's gravity field since 2009 will run out of fuel "in the coming days" and eventually crash, with little risk to humans, the European...
Europe's ambitious aim to 3D print a single-piece satellite
Oct 22, 2013 (Voice of Russia)
The European Space Agency (ESA) launched its AMAZE project on Tuesday to take 3D printing into the metal age by building parts for spacecraft, jet engines and f...
Students creating satellite with self-healing material
Oct 22, 2013 (UPI)
A group of Canadian college students is trying to raise money to create a satellite that will test a new material that can heal itself. Space Concordia, made up...
Rice scientists create a super antioxidant
Oct 22, 2013 (SPX)
Scientists at Rice University are enhancing the natural antioxidant properties of an element found in a car's catalytic converter to make it useful for medical ...
Satellite's gravity-mapping mission is over: ESA
Oct 21, 2013 (AFP)
A satellite measuring Earth's gravity since 2009 ran out of fuel Monday and will reenter the atmosphere within three weeks, when it will mostly disintegrate, th...
Electrically powered in a geostationary orbit
Oct 21, 2013 (SPX)
OHB System AG has been awarded a contract for the development of a telecommunications satellite known as Electra which will be powered solely by electricity. Th...
SES Partners With ESA To Develop Innovative Satellite Platform Electra
Oct 17, 2013 (SPX)
SES has announced a public-private partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA) for the development of an innovative full-electric propulsion satellite plat...
'Walking droplets'
Oct 16, 2013 (SPX)
A research team led by Yves Couder at the Universite Paris Diderot recently discovered that it's possible to make a tiny fluid droplet levitate on the surface o...
British engineers hope to reboot 50-year-old computer
Oct 16, 2013 (UPI)
Engineers in Britain said they are working to reboot a 50-year-old computer nicknamed Flossie, one of the oldest surviving mass-produced computers. The National...
Circadian rhythms in skin stem cells protect us against UV rays
Oct 14, 2013 (SPX)
Human skin must cope with UV radiation from the sun and other harmful environmental factors that fluctuate in a circadian manner. A study published by Cell Pres...
Thousands march in Romania against Canadian mine plan
Oct 13, 2013 (AFP)
Thousands marched Sunday across Romania to protest against a Canadian company's plans to open a gold mine seen as a threat to the environment, and called for th...
Northwestern Researchers Develop Compact, High-Power Terahertz Source at Room Temperature
Oct 10, 2013 (SPX)
Terahertz (THz) radiation - radiation in the wavelength range of 30 to 300 microns - is gaining attention due to its applications in security screening, medical...
Himawari and Mitsubishi Electric Complete Facilities For Weather Satellite Ops
Oct 09, 2013 (SPX)
Himawari Operation Enterprise Corporation (Himawari Operation Enterprise) and Mitsubishi Electric have announced the completion of the ground operations system ...
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