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Quantum computers: Trust is good, proof is better
Oct 09, 2013 (SPX)
A quantum computer can solve tasks not tractable with conventional supercomputers. The question of how one can, nevertheless, verify the reliability of a quantu...
Lockheed Martin and Concord Blue to Deploy Advanced Gasification Technology Globally
Oct 09, 2013 (SPX)
Lockheed Martin and Concord Blue USA, Inc., have reached an agreement to offer an advanced waste conversion system to address waste disposal, energy security an...
Ultraviolet light to the extreme
Oct 09, 2013 (SPX)
When you heat a tiny droplet of liquid tin with a laser, plasma forms on the surface of the droplet and produces extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light, which has a hi...
3D Printing: The Greener Choice
Oct 08, 2013 (SPX)
3D printing isn't just cheaper, it's also greener, says Michigan Technological University's Joshua Pearce. Even Pearce, an aficionado of the make-it-yourself-an...
Disney Research develops algorithm for rendering 3-D tactile features on touch surfaces
Oct 08, 2013 (SPX)
A person sliding a finger across a topographic map displayed on a touch screen can feel the bumps and curves of hills and valleys, despite the screen's smooth s...
World's Largest Solar Sail, Sunjammer, Completes Test
Oct 07, 2013 (SPX)
NASA officials, team partners, and local students were on hand to witness a key milestone for the Sunjammer Mission as it successfully deployed a quadrant of it...
Ultrasound system gives virtual feeling of objects in mid-air
Oct 07, 2013 (UPI)
Scientists in Britain say they've develop a technology that uses sound waves to create a "force field" that can simulate the feel of objects in mid-air. Researc...
A thermoelectric materials emulator
Oct 05, 2013 (SPX)
Discovered in the 19th century, thermoelectric materials have the remarkable property that heating them creates a small electrical current. But enhancing this c...
Protecting underground pipelines from corrosion in sub-zero environments
Oct 04, 2013 (SPX)
Northern Canada's permafrost and semi-permafrost environment is a huge challenge for designing and engineering underground pipelines, and a critical aspect of p...
AREVA awarded funding for innovative manufacturing technology
Oct 04, 2013 (SPX)
The AREVA group, together with a network of eight Burgundy-based corporate and academic partners and research labs, has received funding from the French public ...
Lockheed Martin Powers on First GOES-R Weather Satellite
Oct 04, 2013 (SPX)
Lockheed Martin has powered on the system module of the GOES-R satellite for the first time. The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R series (GOE...
Making household items on 3D printer said greener than factory versions
Oct 03, 2013 (UPI)
Making a plastic household item on a home 3D printer is greener than making them en masse in a factory and shipping them to a warehouse, a U.S. study found. Whi...
S. Korean steel plant in India could displace 22,000, says UN
Oct 01, 2013 (AFP)
United Nations human rights experts said Tuesday a giant steelmaking project by South Korean giant Posco in eastern India could displace up to 22,000 people who...
How to make ceramics that bend without breaking
Oct 01, 2013 (SPX)
Ceramics are not known for their flexibility: they tend to crack under stress. But researchers from MIT and Singapore have just found a way around that problem ...
China to be world's top gold buyer this year: experts
Oct 01, 2013 (AFP)
China is set to overtake India to become the world's top gold consumer this year, as the driving forces in the market shift from West to East, an industry assoc...
Bright, laser-based lighting devices
Oct 01, 2013 (SPX)
As a modern culture, we crave artificial white lights -- the brighter the better, and ideally using less energy than ever before. To meet the ever-escalating de...
Paradigm shift: Need something in space? Print it, don't ship it
Sep 30, 2013 (UPI)
The first 3D printer will launch into space in 2014 aboard commercial spaceflight provider SpaceX's Dragon capsule, the California-based printer provider said. ...
NGC Completes Safety of Flight Testing on Common Infrared Countermeasure System
Sep 27, 2013 (SPX)
Northrop Grumman has achieved another significant milestone on its Common Infrared Countermeasure (CIRCM) program by completing safety of flight testing on prot...
Domain walls as new information storage medium
Sep 25, 2013 (SPX)
While searching for ever smaller devices that can be used as data storage systems and novel sensors, physicists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) hav...
Invention jet prints nanostructures with self-assembling material
Sep 25, 2013 (SPX)
A multi-institutional team of engineers has developed a new approach to the fabrication of nanostructures for the semiconductor and magnetic storage industries....
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