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Iron-platinum alloys could be new-generation hard drives
May 23, 2013 (SPX)
Meeting the demand for more data storage in smaller volumes means using materials made up of ever-smaller magnets, or nanomagnets. One promising material for a ...
ThalesRaytheonSystems, Kazakhstan in radar deal
May 23, 2013 (UPI)
Fully digital 3D air defense radars are to be developed and delivered to the air force of Kazakhstan under an agreement with ThalesRaytheonSystems. The company ...
Ecuador warns satellite could hit rocket remains
May 22, 2013 (AFP)
An Ecuadoran satellite launched last month could collide with the remains of a Russian rocket in the coming hours, the country's civilian space agency warned We...
3-D modeling technology offers groundbreaking solution for engineers
May 22, 2013 (SPX)
Software developed at the University of Sheffield has the potential to enable engineers to make 'real world' safety assessments of structures and foundations wi...
NASA Seeks High-Performance Spaceflight Computing Capabilities
May 20, 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...
Physicists say they know how to turn light into matter
May 19, 2013 (UPI)
The creators of Star Trek were certainly stretching the realm of possibility -- employing their creative license -- when they first featured teleportation on th...
3-D printing technology transforms dentistry, real estate and more
May 19, 2013 (UPI)
It wouldn't be an understatement to say the Internet has changed everything. But what's next? Some -- economists, journalists, human scientists and others -- sa...
Observation of second sound in a quantum gas
May 17, 2013 (SPX)
Below a critical temperature, certain fluids become superfluid and lose internal friction. In addition, fluids in this state conduct heat extremely efficiently,...
SPUTNIX is granted a license for space activity
May 17, 2013 (SPX)
SPUTNIX has been granted has been granted a license by the Russian Federal Space Agency for engaging in space activity, namely: creating and modernizing small a...
Beautiful flowers self-assemble in a beaker
May 17, 2013 (SPX)
"Spring is like a perhaps hand," wrote the poet E. E. Cummings: "carefully / moving a perhaps / fraction of flower here placing / an inch of air there... / with...
Stacking 2-D materials produces surprising results
May 17, 2013 (SPX)
Graphene has dazzled scientists, ever since its discovery more than a decade ago, with its unequalled electronic properties, its strength and its light weight. ...
Northrop Grumman's SABR Brings Fifth Generation Fighter Radar Capabilities to F-16 Aircraft
May 17, 2013 (SPX)
Northrop Grumman Scalable Agile Beam Radar (SABR) designed for the F-16 fighter aircraft recently demonstrated its autonomous, all-environment precision targeti...
Stanford Engineers' New Metamaterial Doubles Up on Invisibility
May 17, 2013 (SPX)
One of the exciting possibilities of metamaterials - engineered materials that exhibit properties not found in the natural world - is the potential to control l...
Airborne surveillance program Gorgon Stare getting Exelis sensors
May 15, 2013 (UPI)
Additional infrared sensors for a U.S. military wide-area airborne surveillance program are being supplied by Exelis under a $25 million contact. The program is...
Scientists uncover the fundamental property of astatine, the rarest atom on Earth
May 15, 2013 (SPX)
An international team of scientists, including a University of York researcher, has carried out ground-breaking experiments to investigate the atomic structure ...
Cornstarch proves to be worth its weight in gold
May 14, 2013 (AFP)
Scientists said Tuesday they have found a way to extract gold from ore using a seemingly unlikely pantry item -- cornstarch. Traditional leaching employs poison...
Exelis advancing sensor detection system
May 14, 2013 (UPI)
An airborne multi-directional long-wave infrared hyperspectral sensor to detect and identify threatening substances and gases has been flight tested by Exelis. ...
Heady mathematics
May 14, 2013 (SPX)
Bubble baths and soapy dishwater, the refreshing head on a beer and the luscious froth on a cappuccino. All are foams, beautiful yet ephemeral as the bubbles po...
Another 'trophy' for the chemistry cabinet
May 13, 2013 (SPX)
The search for cleaner, low temperature nuclear fuels has produced a shock result for a team of experts at The University of Nottingham. First they created a st...
One order of steel; hold the greenhouse gases
May 13, 2013 (SPX)
Anyone who has seen pictures of the giant, red-hot cauldrons in which steel is made - fed by vast amounts of carbon, and belching flame and smoke - would not be...
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