TECH SPACE - NANO DAILY

AI spurs scientists to advance materials research

Sep 01, 2022 (SPX)

Engineers rely on this knowledge daily. Knowing the exact melting temperatures is a critical parameter for building any high-performance materials. From the bui...

Digging through patents to make mining greener

Sep 01, 2022 (SPX)

All of these depend in some way on the industry that extracts and processes the raw materials used to make most green technologies: the mining industry. But the...

Outpost raises $7M seed round to develop reusable satellites for Earth return service

Sep 01, 2022 (SPX)

The company has developed, and flight tested a novel re-entry method that enables satellites to safely return to Earth with precision landing. This technology n...

Chinese giant acquires French game studio Quantic Dream

Aug 31, 2022 (AFP)

It marks NetEase Games's first major push in Europe, having already invested in the studio in 2019. Quantic Dream said it "will still operate independently". "T...

Tencent buys stake in Japanese gaming firm behind Elden Ring

Aug 31, 2022 (AFP)

Tencent, the world's largest games publisher by revenue, has performed dismally since Beijing imposed a limit on gameplay for children of three hours per week l...

Scientists identify liquid-like atoms in densely packed solid glasses

Aug 30, 2022 (SPX)

However, this all-solid notion has now been challenged. Prof. BAI Haiyang from the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has recently sh...

Virtual reality revives Iraq's war-ravaged heritage

Aug 29, 2022 (AFP)

Islamic State group fighters captured a third of Iraq in a lightning offensive in 2014, seizing the northern city of Mosul as their stronghold and vandalising o...

PPE can be recycled to make stronger concrete

Aug 29, 2022 (SPX)

The RMIT team is the first to investigate the feasibility of recycling three key types of PPE - isolation gowns, face masks and rubber gloves - into concrete. P...

Working in Tandem: NASA's Networks Empower Artemis I

Aug 28, 2022 (SPX)

Although uncrewed, Artemis I will test essential systems for future crewed missions to the lunar region, including the first-ever launch of NASA's most powerful...

NRL fungal experiment launches as Artemis I payload

Aug 28, 2022 (SPX)

"We're interested in factors that affect eukaryotic survival in space," said Jennifer Yuzon, postdoctoral scientist for NRL's Laboratory for Biomaterials and Sy...

ESA astronaut rad-detectors on Artemis

Aug 28, 2022 (ESA)

A set of five ESA Active Dosimeter - Mobile Units (EAD-MUs) will map the deep space and lunar radiation environment in as complete a manner as possible, allowin...

AFRL partners with NASA, academia, industry on spacecraft flight experiment

Aug 28, 2022 (SPX)

A SpaceX cargo Dragon spacecraft delivered the experiment named 16 Materials International Space Station Experiment, or MISSE-16, to the ISS July 16, 2022. It c...

AFRL's oscillating heat pipes are even cooler in space

Aug 28, 2022 (SPX)

"We now have a treasure trove of data," said Jon Allison, the thermal thrust lead, for the Spacecraft Component Technology Branch of the AFRL Space Vehicles Dir...

Turkey revokes permission for Brazil's 'asbestos ship'

Aug 26, 2022 (AFP)

Brazilian navy's NAE Sau Paulo had been due to be taken apart near Turkey's Aegean coast city of Izmir in the coming weeks under a contract awarded to a local s...

Quantum Dot instrument enables spacecraft-as-sensor concept

Aug 26, 2022 (SPX)

Solving the mysteries of our home planet, solar system, and beyond is a key priority for NASA, and the new sensor could be a powerful tool in the investigation....

Researchers design new inks for 3D-printable wearable bioelectronics

Aug 25, 2022 (SPX)

A team of researchers at Texas A and M University has developed a new class of biomaterial inks that mimic native characteristics of highly conductive human tis...

North American Helium brings third helium facility into production

Aug 25, 2022 (SPX)

Commenting on this operational milestone, Mr. Marlon McDougall, President and COO stated, "As NAH continues to execute on its operating and development plans, w...

Engineers fabricate a chip-free, wireless electronic skin

Aug 25, 2022 (SPX)

Most wireless sensors today communicate via embedded Bluetooth chips that are themselves powered by small batteries. But these conventional chips and power sour...

By design: from waste to next-gen carbon fiber

Aug 25, 2022 (SPX)

The key to opening up lignin's potential was chemically altering some of its properties. High Molecular Weight Esterified Linkage Lignin (HiMWELL) was designed ...

Leanspace and Valispace team up to demonstrate the power of Digital Continuity in space mission management

Aug 23, 2022 (SPX)

In the current context of commercialization of the space industry, where every organization strives to become more agile, reduce costs and increase efficiency, ...