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SES And ESA To Collaborate On Electra To Develop First All-Electric Small/Medium Sized Satellite Platform In Europe
Dec 06, 2012 (SPX)
SES has announced its participation in the upcoming Artes-33 programme "ELECTRA" of the European Space Agency (ESA). Under the ELECTRA programme, SES and ESA wi...
NASA Investigates Use of 'Trailblazing' Material for New Sensors
Dec 06, 2012 (SPX)
Tiny sensors - made of a potentially trailblazing material just one atom thick and heralded as the "next best thing" since the invention of silicon - are now be...
Judge calls for global peace in Apple-Samsung war
Dec 06, 2012 (AFP)
A judge mulling whether to trim or overturn Apple's billion-dollar damages award against Samsung on Thursday called for a ceasefire in the ongoing patent war be...
Boeing and JVC Add More Realism to Military Training Simulation
Dec 06, 2012 (SPX)
This week at the 2012 Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) in Orlando, Boeing [NYSE: BA] is demonstrating new technolog...
Organic metamaterial flows like a liquid, remembers its shape
Dec 06, 2012 (SPX)
A bit reminiscent of the Terminator T-1000, a new material created by Cornell researchers is so soft that it can flow like a liquid and then, strangely, return ...
Apple's CEO to bring production back to US
Dec 06, 2012 (AFP)
Apple plans to bring some manufacturing of its computers from China to the United States next year, chief executive Tim Cook said, in a move aimed at sparking m...
Countdown begins to the next generation of satellites
Dec 05, 2012 (SPX)
Leading technology design and development firm Cambridge Consultants has been selected by Iridium Communications Inc. to play a key role in the deployment of Ir...
A better way to make chemicals?
Dec 05, 2012 (SPX)
Bulk solvents, widely used in the chemical industry, pose a serious threat to human health and the environment. As a result, there is growing interest in avoidi...
Bismuth provides perfect dance partners for quantum computing qubits
Dec 05, 2012 (SPX)
New research has demonstrated a way to make bismuth electrons and nuclei work together as qubits in a quantum computer. The discovery, published in Nature Mater...
Android gains on Apple in surging tablet sector: survey
Dec 05, 2012 (AFP)
The global market for tablet computers is growing faster than earlier estimates suggested, with Android-powered devices gaining on the market-leading iPads, a s...
Android extends global smartphone lead: survey
Dec 04, 2012 (AFP)
Google's Android operating system will power more than two-thirds of smartphones sold worldwide in 2012, and will remain the dominant platform for at least the ...
Maths helps mobiles and tablets match eyes' ability to switch from sunshine to shadow
Dec 04, 2012 (SPX)
Researchers have pushed the boundaries of High Dynamic Range (HDR) video to match our own eyes' ability to cope with the real world's ever rapidly changing ligh...
ORNL develops lignin-based thermoplastic conversion process
Dec 04, 2012 (SPX)
Turning lignin, a plant's structural "glue" and a byproduct of the paper and pulp industry, into something considerably more valuable is driving a research effo...
New York art museum to display video games
Dec 03, 2012 (AFP)
Are video games a form of art? New York's Museum of Modern Art thinks so, and starting in March several games will become an integral part of the museum's colle...
Sender of first text message 'amazed' 20 years on
Dec 03, 2012 (AFP)
The British software engineer who sent the world's first text message 20 years ago said on Monday that he is amazed at how the technology has developed. The eng...
Schriever squadrons assure safe passage in space domain
Dec 03, 2012 (SPX)
Members of the 1st and 7th Space Operations Squadrons took notice when an upper stage Russian rocket disintegrated in low earth orbit Oct. 16. The break up intr...
The music of the silks
Nov 30, 2012 (SPX)
Pound for pound, spider silk is one of the strongest materials known: Research by MIT's Markus Buehler has helped explain that this strength arises from silk's ...
Americans love (and hate) their mobile phones: survey
Nov 30, 2012 (AFP)
Americans love them, and hate them. And many say they can't imagine living without their mobile phones. A survey released Friday shows the mixed emotions people...
UTC Aerospace Systems Selects Headwall Hyperspectral Imaging Sensor For SYERS-2 Program
Nov 29, 2012 (SPX)
Headwall Photonics announces that its Hyperspec sensor has been chosen by UTC Aerospace Systems (formerly Goodrich Corporation) for the Senior Year Electro-Opti...
NASA Technologists Test 'Game-Changing' Data-Processing Technology
Nov 29, 2012 (SPX)
It's a digital world. Or is it? NASA technologist Jonathan Pellish isn't convinced. In fact, he believes a computing technology of yesteryear could potentially ...
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