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Cosmonauts launch 3D-printed satellite from space station
Aug 18, 2017 (UPI)
Some new reports are claiming the satellite is the first built from 3D-printed components to be launched into space, but in June, NASA launched a cube satellite...
Surprise discovery in the search for energy efficient information storage
Aug 17, 2017 (SPX)
For portable devices such as mobile phones and tablets, other forms of non-magnetic memory are used because the technology based on magnetism is impractical and...
The critical point in breaking the glass problem
Aug 17, 2017 (SPX)
Until now, researchers' understanding has been splintered at best, with mutually incompatible interpretations of the physical processes underlying the emergence...
Researchers discover new class of chemical reaction
Aug 17, 2017 (SPX)
This fourth class, which the researchers have named "chemically termolecular reactions," was first hypothesized by Cyril Hinshelwood and Nikolay Semenov in thei...
Marine Corps testing mobile 3D printing lab
Aug 16, 2017 (UPI)
Marine Corp Systems Command and the 2nd Maintenance Battalion at Camp Lejeune are overseeing the field evaluation of a prototype X-FAB, or expeditionary fabrica...
Archinaut Project conducts first large-scale 3D build in space-like environment
Aug 16, 2017 (SPX)
"To our knowledge, this is the first time additive manufacturing has been successfully tested on such a large scale in the vacuum and temperature conditions of ...
2-faced 2-D material is a first at Rice
Aug 16, 2017 (SPX)
The Rice laboratory of materials scientist Jun Lou has made a semiconducting transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMD) that starts as a monolayer of molybdenum dise...
Air Force tests new radar receivers for rescue helicopters
Aug 16, 2017 (UPI)
The recent milestone indicates the Air Force's confidence in the technical maturity of the receiver and comes more than one year before the HH-60W combat rescue...
Researchers 3-D print first truly microfluidic 'lab on a chip' devices
Aug 16, 2017 (SPX)
The accomplishment, which is a major breakthrough toward mass-producing the medical diagnostic devices cheaply, is detailed online in academic journal Lab on a ...
Fewer defects from a 2-D approach
Aug 16, 2017 (SPX)
Modern-day electronics rely on technologies that can develop almost perfect crystals of silicon; flawless to the atomic level. This is crucial because defects a...
Electricity and silver effective at keeping bacteria off plastics
Aug 15, 2017 (UPI)
The breakthrough could prove a godsend for hospitals, where plastics are ubiquitous and bacterial infections are a constant risk. Scientists have known about th...
Lockheed Martin integrates first modernized A2100 satellite
Aug 14, 2017 (SPX)
Built for Arabsat and King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia, the satellite will provide advanced telecommunications capabilities, includi...
NASA, Norway to develop Arctic laser-ranging station
Aug 09, 2017 (SPX)
The Arctic station will be the latest addition to a global network of space geodetic stations, which measure and monitor the size and shape of Earth, its orient...
NASA Tests Autopilot Sensors During Simulations
Aug 09, 2017 (SPX)
Held at Lockheed Martin's Space Operations Simulation Center (SOSC), this round of testing involved a Vision Navigation System (VNS) light detection and ranging...
Tiny terahertz laser could be used for imaging, chemical detection
Aug 09, 2017 (SPX)
But many of those applications depend on small, power-efficient sources of terahertz rays, and the standard method for producing them involves a bulky, power-hu...
Machine learning could be key to producing stronger, less corrosive metals
Aug 09, 2017 (SPX)
OK, that's not catchy at all, but here's the point: grain boundaries are a big deal. They are the microscopic, disordered regions where atom-sized building bloc...
BAE Systems reveals iMOTR radar system
Aug 08, 2017 (UPI)
The radar is designed to be a less expensive alternative to other systems while retaining advanced capabilities. It uses C or X-band active electronically scann...
Materials governed by light
Aug 07, 2017 (SPX)
Rebeca Sola, a researcher in the Department of Physical Chemistry in the UPV/EHU's Faculty of Science and Technology, has developed and exhaustively characteris...
Smart underwear proven to prevent back stress with just a tap
Aug 07, 2017 (SPX)
A team of Vanderbilt University engineers is changing that with a design that combines the science of biomechanics and advances in wearable tech to create a sma...
Software lets designers exploit the extremely high resolution of 3-D printers
Aug 07, 2017 (SPX)
Such precise control of printed objects' microstructure gives designers commensurate control of the objects' physical properties - such as their density or stre...
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