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Researchers create biosensor by turning spider silk into optical fiber

Aug 03, 2022 (SPX)

"Glucose sensors are crucial to people with diabetes, but these devices tend to be invasive, uncomfortable and not cost-efficient," said research team leader Ch...

Engineers repurpose photography technique to make stretchy, color-changing films

Aug 03, 2022 (SPX)

By applying a 19th-century color photography technique to modern holographic materials, an MIT team has printed large-scale images onto elastic materials that w...

Using artificial intelligence to control digital manufacturing

Aug 03, 2022 (SPX)

Often, an expert operator must use manual trial-and-error - possibly making thousands of prints - to determine ideal parameters that consistently print a new ma...

Magnetic quantum material helps probe next-gen information technologies

Aug 03, 2022 (SPX)

The discovery provides a test bed for future studies of physics phenomena that may drive next-generation information technologies. These include fractons, or co...

Space Operations Center lifts comms performance using ViaLite HWDR links

Aug 02, 2022 (SPX)

The industry leading links support frequencies between 400-2500 MHz while offering a Spurious-Free Dynamic Range (SFDR) of up to 115 dB/Hz2/3. This represents a...

Chinese booster rocket makes uncontrolled return to Earth

Jul 31, 2022 (AFP)

US Space Command "can confirm the People's Republic of China (PRC) Long March 5B (CZ-5B) re-entered over the Indian Ocean at approx 10:45 am MDT on 7/30," the U...

Rocket debris fall back to Earth

Jul 29, 2022 (XNA)

The debris' atmospheric reentry and crash took place around 12:55 am (Beijing time), the agency said in a brief statement, noting the touchdown site is in water...

Researchers 3D print sensors for satellites

Jul 28, 2022 (SPX)

The 3D-printed and laser-cut hardware performed as well as state-of-the-art semiconductor plasma sensors that are manufactured in a cleanroom, which makes them ...

Innovation with the additive advantage

Jul 28, 2022 (SPX)

"Combined with powerful technology, analysis tools and new materials, Northrop Grumman is reshaping how it approaches design and manufacturing processes, like u...

Raytheon to upgrade Australian border surveillance aircraft with advanced radar

Jul 28, 2022 (SPX)

Under the contract, RI&S will upgrade Cobham's fleet of Dash 8 fixed-wing aircraft to the most advanced version of its SeaVue multi-domain surveillance radar in...

Emerging technology could help extract lithium from new sources

Jul 27, 2022 (SPX)

Scientists and engineers are now looking to unconventional water sources, including oil- and gas-produced water, geothermal brines, and rejected brines from sea...

Floors in ancient Greek luxury villa were laid with recycled glass

Jul 26, 2022 (SPX)

New secrets have now been revealed by an international research team, with Professor and expert in archaeometry, Kaare Lund Rasmussen from University of Souther...

Decoding the structure and properties of near-infrared reflective pigments

Jul 26, 2022 (SPX)

In particular, functional inorganic pigments are an attractive candidate on this front. In fact, Dr. Ryohei Oka and his colleague from Nagoya Institute of Techn...

Understanding friction, the unavoidable enemy

Jul 26, 2022 (SPX)

New research led by the University of Pittsburgh unveils the atomic-scale friction of a single tungsten asperity, or rough edge, in real time, showing atomic mo...

Making Muons for Scientific Discovery, National Security

Jul 25, 2022 (SPX)

DARPA's Muons for Science and Security program (MuS2 - pronounced Mew-S-2) aims to create a compact source of deeply penetrating subatomic particles known as mu...

Chemists unlock secrets of molten salts

Jul 25, 2022 (SPX)

UC College of Arts and Sciences research associate and computational chemist Yu Shi and his collaborators developed a new simulation method to calculate free en...

France plans fashion revolution with climate-impact labels

Jul 21, 2022 (AFP)

Well, it depends. Recycling has obvious benefits, but the process shortens cotton fibres and so usually has to be mixed with some oil-based material to keep it ...

Laser Terminal Bound for ISS arrives at Goddard for testing

Jul 20, 2022 (SPX)

In May, ILLUMA-T (formally the "Integrated Laser Communications Relay Demonstration Low-Earth Orbit User Modem and Amplifier Terminal") arrived at NASA's Goddar...

World's first bioplastic vinyl record launched in the UK

Jul 20, 2022 (AFP)

Bioplastics are derived from sources such as sugars and starches -- rather than oil or gas -- and do not create any toxic waste in their production. The new bio...

NASA seeks public's designs to throw shade in space

Jul 20, 2022 (SPX)

These devices block glare from stars when observing planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets, from the ground. The Hybrid Observatory for Earth-lik...