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Stop and smell the metaverse roses: Virtual world on display at CES

Jan 08, 2023 (AFP)

Some entrepreneurs at the annual CES gadget fest that ends Sunday in Las Vegas were eager to combine real and virtual worlds to help people stop and smell the r...

From bees to bullets, CES tech show gives gamers the feels

Jan 08, 2023 (AFP)

At the CES tech show, the video game industry is showing off just how lifelike gaming can be made with new vests, head cushions and other simulation products. "...

Retired NASA satellite expected to fall to Earth on Sunday

Jan 06, 2023 (UPI)

The U.S. Defense Department has predicted that the 5,400-pound Earth Radiation Budget Satellite will reenter the atmosphere sometime within a 17-hour window of ...

Voyager Space and Airbus announce partnership for Starlab Space Station

Jan 06, 2023 (SPX)

Airbus Defence and Space will provide technical design support and expertise for the Starlab space station which will serve as an on-orbit laboratory for astron...

High-performance visible-light lasers that fit on a fingertip

Jan 05, 2023 (SPX)

Despite its success, integrated photonics has been missing a key component to achieve complete miniaturization: high-performance chip-scale lasers. While some p...

Ditching concrete for earth to build a cleaner future

Jan 04, 2023 (AFP)

Climate change has spurred renewed interest in the ancient technique which sees polluting concrete swapped where possible for earth. For centuries, mud and clay...

Momentus launches Vigoride Orbital Service Vehicle on Transporter-6 Mission

Jan 03, 2023 (SPX)

The Vigoride OSV is designed to support a range of transportation and in-space infrastructure services. A key part of the Vigoride spacecraft is the Microwave E...

D-Orbit Launches two ION Satellite Carrier on its seventh orbital transportation mission

Jan 03, 2023 (SPX)

The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off today, January 3rd, 2023, at 9:56 a.m. ET (14:56 UTC) from the Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Sta...

Waste not want not: Santiago's poorest district plants recycling seed

Jan 03, 2023 (AFP)

For nearly two decades, the residents of La Pintana have been pioneers of recycling in Chile -- South America's largest garbage generator. Under a project start...

NASA and HAARP conclude asteroid experiment

Jan 01, 2023 (SPX)

The asteroid, 2010 XC15, is estimated to be about 500 feet across and is passing by Earth at two lunar distances, which is twice the distance between the Earth ...

China approves first foreign video games since crackdown

Dec 28, 2022 (AFP)

Beijing moved against the country's vibrant gaming sector last August as part of a sprawling crackdown on big tech companies, including a cap on the amount of t...

Space junk bill passes Senate unanimously

Dec 27, 2022 (SPX)

"From satellite communications to rockets carrying humans into deep space, space debris is a massive threat to space operations," said Hickenlooper, chair of th...

Elucidating the mechanism of high proton conduction to develop clean energy materials

Dec 22, 2022 (SPX)

However, conventional ceramic proton conductors face one problem-in order to exhibit adequate proton conductivity, they need to have oxygen vacancies that enabl...

Making the unimaginable possible in materials discovery

Dec 22, 2022 (SPX)

Chemists work in a similar way when inventing new compounds. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, Northwestern Univ...

NASA enables future of science observation through tri-band antennas

Dec 20, 2022 (SPX)

Now, the network has integrated four new global antennas to further support science and exploration missions. In December 2022, antennas in Fairbanks, Alaska; W...

3M to phase out 'forever chemicals' PFAS by 2025

Dec 20, 2022 (AFP)

3M will exit polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) manufacturing by the end of 2025 and discontinue use across its product portfolio under the same timeframe, moves...

Fortnite-maker to pay $520 million over US child allegations

Dec 19, 2022 (AFP)

The FTC said the settlements from one of the biggest names in video gaming set records with Epic found responsible for knowingly targeting under-13 players of F...

Say hello to the toughest material on Earth

Dec 18, 2022 (SPX)

The team, led by researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, published a study describing their rec...

Cubic silicon carbide wafers demonstrate high thermal conductivity, second only to diamond

Dec 18, 2022 (SPX)

Professor David Cahill (Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering and co-director of the IBM-Illinois Discovery Accelerator Institute) and Dr. Zhe Cheng (Post...

AST SpaceMobile and NASA sign agreement to improve spaceflight safety

Dec 18, 2022 (SPX)

The Space Act Agreement formalizes the prompt, detailed, and open sharing of information between AST SpaceMobile and NASA, enabling a deeper level of coordinati...