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World's Most Complex 2D Laser Beamsteering Array Demonstrated
Jan 22, 2013 (SPX)
Most people are familiar with the concept of RADAR. Radio frequency (RF) waves travel through the atmosphere, reflect off of a target, and return to the RADAR s...
NASA Beams Mona Lisa to Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter at the Moon
Jan 21, 2013 (SPX)
As part of the first demonstration of laser communication with a satellite at the moon, scientists with NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) beamed an imag...
Researchers move Barkhausen Effect forward
Jan 21, 2013 (SPX)
Almost 100 years after the initial discovery, a team of scientists at the University of Alberta and the National Institute for Nanotechnology in Edmonton have h...
New surfaces repel most known liquids
Jan 18, 2013 (SPX)
In an advance toward stain-proof, spill-proof clothing, protective garments and other products that shrug off virtually every liquid - from blood and ketchup to...
Record high radiation level found in fish: TEPCO
Jan 18, 2013 (AFP)
A fish contaminated with radiation levels more than 2,500 times the legal limit has been caught near Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, its opera...
Sustainable reinforcement for concrete has newly discovered benefits
Jan 18, 2013 (SPX)
Fashionable people may turn up their noses at jute - the cheap fiber used to make burlap, gunny sacks, twine and other common products - but new research is enh...
Boeing Grows Composite Manufacturing Capability in Utah
Jan 16, 2013 (SPX)
Boeing has announced the purchase of a new building in Salt Lake County, Utah. Employees at the new site, located in West Jordan, will focus on fabrication of c...
ECAPS signs contract with Skybox for complete propulsion system
Jan 16, 2013 (SPX)
ECAPS has announced its first commercial flight contract in the U.S., with Skybox Imaging (Skybox), an emerging provider of timely imagery services. ECAPS will ...
Molecular machine could hold key to more efficient manufacturing
Jan 14, 2013 (SPX)
An industrial revolution on a minute scale is taking place in laboratories at The University of Manchester with the development of a highly complex machine that...
Government funding for 'super-material'
Jan 14, 2013 (SPX)
A select group of universities will receive 21.5 million Pounds in government funding to explore commercial uses for graphene. Announced by the Chancellor of th...
Study reveals ordinary glass's extraordinary properties
Jan 11, 2013 (SPX)
Technologically valuable ultrastable glasses can be produced in days or hours with properties corresponding to those that have been aged for thousands of years,...
How the kilogram has put on weight
Jan 11, 2013 (SPX)
Post-Christmas and most of us are feeling the over-indulgence. But take heart - experts at Newcastle University, UK, have shown even the kilogram itself has put...
Chemical modules that mimic predator-prey and other behaviors
Jan 11, 2013 (SPX)
Scientists are reporting development of chemical modules that can reproduce, on an "unprecedented" molecular level, changes and interactions that occur in natur...
Bottom-up approach provides first characterization of pyroelectric nanomaterials
Jan 11, 2013 (SPX)
By taking a "bottom-up" approach, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have observed for the first time that "size does matter" in rega...
Oscillating Gel Gives Synthetic Materials the Ability to Speak
Jan 10, 2013 (SPX)
Self-moving gels can give synthetic materials the ability to "act alive" and mimic primitive biological communication, University of Pittsburgh researchers have...
3D printing creates 'virtual' fossil
Jan 10, 2013 (UPI)
Paleontologists in Brazil say a combination of CT scanning and 3D printing has taken the discovery and recreation of ancient fossils into the 21st century. Serg...
Counting the twists in a helical light beam
Jan 10, 2013 (SPX)
At a time when communication networks are scrambling for ways to transmit more data over limited bandwidth, a type of twisted light wave is gaining new attentio...
Japan to survey Pacific seabed for rare earth
Jan 10, 2013 (AFP)
Japan will launch a survey of its Pacific seabed, an official said Thursday, hoping to find rare earth deposits large enough to supply its high-tech industries ...
LEON: the space chip that Europe built
Jan 09, 2013 (ESA)
Just like home computers, the sophisticated capabilities of today's space missions are made possible by the power of their processor chips. ESA's coming Alphasa...
That's not what I meant: A new phase in reading photons
Jan 08, 2013 (SPX)
Human communication is fraught with misinterpretation. Written out in longhand, words and letters can be misread. A telegraph clerk can mistake a dot for a dash...
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