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The formula for turning cement into metal
Jun 03, 2013 (SPX)
In a move that would make the Alchemists of King Arthur's time green with envy, scientists have unraveled the formula for turning liquid cement into liquid meta...
Radiation Exposure Associated with a Trip to Mars Calculated
Jun 03, 2013 (SPX)
On November 26, 2011, the Mars Science Laboratory began a 253-day, 560-million-kilometer journey to deliver the Curiosity rover to the Red Planet. En route, the...
Charred micro-bunny sculpture shows promise of new material for 3-D shaping
Jun 03, 2013 (SPX)
Though its surface has been turned to carbon, the bunny-like features can still be easily observed with a microscope. This rabbit sculpture, the size of a typic...
NASA Partners With Utah State University's Space Dynamics Lab
Jun 03, 2013 (SPX)
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center's Innovative Partnerships Office in Greenbelt, Md., has entered into a Space Act Agreement with Utah State University's Space...
After factory shutdown, Italian workers 'recycle' jobs
Jun 02, 2013 (AFP)
A group of Italian factory workers who lost their jobs at an auto component maker due to the recession, have taken over their disused factory near Milan and are...
Snap-proof space tether
May 31, 2013 (ESA)
Space tethers hold intriguing potential for satellite manoeuvring, attitude control and even power generation. But about half of all orbital tether tests have e...
NASA, Air Force Seek Next Generation Space Processor Program
May 31, 2013 (SPX)
NASA and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory in Albuquerque, N.M., are requesting research and development proposals to define the type of spacecraft computi...
Radiation Measured by Curiosity During Mars Trip Has Implications for Human Missions
May 31, 2013 (JPL)
Measurements taken by NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission as it delivered the Curiosity rover to Mars in 2012 are providing NASA the information it nee...
One Year Anniversary of KOMPSAT-3 Launch
May 30, 2013 (SPX)
Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) has announced successful operation of KOMPSAT-3 for one year since its launch on May 18, 2012. For the first year of o...
Radiation exposure considered significant risk in manned Mars mission
May 30, 2013 (UPI)
Astronauts who might journey someday to Mars would be subject to significant radiation risks, a NASA Curiosity rover study released Thursday concluded. Research...
NASA, Researchers Use Weightlessness of Space to Design Better Materials for Earth
May 30, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers from Northeastern University are among the many scientists helping NASA use the weightlessness of space to design stronger materials here on Earth. ...
Crystal-clear method for distinguishing between glass and fluids
May 29, 2013 (SPX)
Many solids are produced from melting. Depending on how quickly they cool off, invariably, internal tensile stresses begin to build up. One example are Prince R...
Just how secure is quantum cryptography
May 29, 2013 (SPX)
Quantum communication systems offer the promise of virtually unbreakable encryption. Unlike classical encryption, which is used to send secure data over network...
Helicopter-light-beams - a new tool for quantum optics
May 29, 2013 (SPX)
A light wave oscillates perpendicular to its propagation direction - that is what students learn in school. However, scientists of the Vienna University of Tech...
UBC engineer helps pioneer flat spray-on optical lens
May 28, 2013 (SPX)
A University of British Columbia engineer and a team of U.S. researchers have made a breakthrough utilizing spray-on technology that could revolutionize the way...
New analysis yields improvements in 3D imaging
May 27, 2013 (SPX)
Research conducted at Curtin University in Perth has enabled significant increases in image quality in a widely used 3D printing technique that is more than 100...
Magnetic fingerprints of superfluid helium-3
May 24, 2013 (SPX)
With their SQUIDs, low-temperature specialists of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) have made it possible for the magnetic moments of atoms of the...
Professor who once had to work at Subway makes math breakthrough
May 24, 2013 (UPI)
A virtually unknown U.S. professor has taken a major step in solving a numerical problem that has baffled mathematicians for centuries, experts said. Yitang Zha...
Ecuador's only satellite may have been damaged in space collision
May 23, 2013 (UPI)
Ecuador's first satellite, launched last month, has collided with debris from an old Russian rocket but it is unclear if it has been damaged, officials say. The...
Computational tool translates complex data into simplified 2-dimensional images
May 23, 2013 (SPX)
In their quest to learn more about the variability of cells between and within tissues, biomedical scientists have devised tools capable of simultaneously measu...
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