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From Stone Age to Space Age: bone pigment helps probe

Feb 12, 2014 (AFP)

A pigment once daubed on cave walls by prehistoric Man will help shield an unmanned probe that will fly close to the Sun, the European Space Agency (ESA) said W...

Diagnosis just a breath away with new laser

Feb 12, 2014 (SPX)

University of Adelaide physics researchers have developed a new type of laser that will enable exciting new advances in areas as diverse as breath analysis for ...

Scientists use 'voting' and 'penalties' to overcome quantum errors

Feb 11, 2014 (SPX)

Seeking a solution to decoherence-the "noise" that prevents quantum processors from functioning properly-scientists at USC have developed a strategy of linking ...

China gold consumption leaps 41% in 2013

Feb 11, 2014 (AFP)

China's gold consumption soared 41.36 percent in 2013, industry data showed, with state media reporting Tuesday the country has probably overtaken India as the ...

Theorists predict new forms of exotic insulating materials

Feb 11, 2014 (SPX)

Topological insulators - materials whose surfaces can freely conduct electrons even though their interiors are electrical insulators - have been of great intere...

MDA announces Canada's DND Sapphire satellite completes commissioning

Feb 07, 2014 (SPX)

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. reports that the Sapphire satellite developed by MDA for Canada's Department of National Defence (DND) has completed it...

Towards tailor-made adhesives

Feb 07, 2014 (SPX)

Tape, self-adhesive labels, Post-it notes and masking tape all contain soft adhesives. This makes them easy to remove-a process referred to as debonding. French...

NASA Boards the 3-D-Manufacturing Train

Feb 07, 2014 (SPX)

Given NASA's unique needs for highly customized spacecraft and instrument components, additive manufacturing, or "3-D printing," offers a compelling alternative...

Scalable Agile Beam Radar Rapidly Achieves Major Program Milestones

Feb 06, 2014 (SPX)

Northrop Grumman reports that its Scalable Agile Beam Radar (SABR) has already completed several significant program development milestones. Last July, SABR was...

Amazon buys videogame studio Double Helix

Feb 06, 2014 (AFP)

Amazon said Thursday it was buying a California-based videogame studio, fueling speculation that the online retail titan plans to release its own console for ho...

Quicker method paves the way for atomic-level design

Feb 05, 2014 (SPX)

A new X-ray method will enable the development of more efficient catalysts. The method opens up new opportunities to work on atomic level in a number of areas o...

Google mystery barge may be homeless

Feb 05, 2014 (AFP)

A mystery barge being built by Google on a pier at a former Navy base in the San Francisco Bay may be told to cast off. It turns out that officials running the ...

Photon recoil provides new insight into matter

Feb 04, 2014 (SPX)

Quantum logic spectroscopy - which is closely linked with the name of the 2012 Nobel prize laureate, David J. Wineland - has been significantly extended: this n...

Faster X-ray technology paves the way for better catalysts

Feb 04, 2014 (SPX)

By using a novel X-ray technique, researchers have observed a catalyst surface at work in real time and were able to resolve its atomic structure in detail. The...

Storage system for 'big data' dramatically speeds access to information

Feb 04, 2014 (SPX)

As computers enter ever more areas of our daily lives, the amount of data they produce has grown enormously. But for this "big data" to be useful it must first ...

New NASA Laser Technology Reveals How Ice Measures Up

Feb 03, 2014 (SPX)

New results from NASA's MABEL campaign demonstrated that a photon-counting technique will allow researchers to track the melt or growth of Earth's frozen region...

Oman orders NASAMS air defense system

Feb 03, 2014 (UPI)

An advanced surface-to-air missile system developed by Raytheon and Norway's Kongsberg Defense Systems is being purchased by the Sultanate of Oman. The purchase...

Chameleon of the sea reveals its secrets

Feb 03, 2014 (SPX)

Scientists at Harvard University and the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) hope new understanding of the natural nanoscale photonic device that enables a small...

A Proposal For The Space Debris Society

Feb 03, 2014 (SPX)

Almost every constituency of the space community has a society representing the interests of that group. However, there is no such organization for those of us ...

Microwires as mobile phone sensors

Feb 03, 2014 (SPX)

Microwires were created in the former Soviet Union for military purposes. They formed the basis of the camouflage of a model of spy plane used by the Soviet arm...