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Vacuums provide solid ground for new definition of kilogram

Oct 28, 2013 (SPX)

Of all the standard units currently in use around the world, the kilogram - the official unit of mass in the International System of Units (SI) - is the only on...

Cheap metals can be used to make products from petroleum

Oct 28, 2013 (SPX)

The ancient alchemists sought to transform base metals, like lead, into precious gold. Now a new process developed at the University of Illinois at Chicago sugg...

CU-Boulder researchers develop 4-D printing technology for composite materials

Oct 28, 2013 (SPX)

Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have successfully added a fourth dimension to their printing technology, opening up exciting possibilities for...

Birthing a new breed of materials

Oct 28, 2013 (SPX)

Where two different materials meet on the atomic level, a new material can be born that is neither one nor the other. The two parent materials do not mix - they...

It's raining satellite: Europe's gravity field explorer to fall back to Earth in two weeks

Oct 28, 2013 (Voice of Russia)

A one-ton European Space Agency satellite, which for four years has being mapping the Earth's gravity, has run out of fuel and will reenter the atmosphere in tw...

Copper Shock: An Atomic-scale Stress Test

Oct 25, 2013 (SPX)

Scientists used the powerful X-ray laser at the U.S. Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to create movies detailing trillionths-of-a-sec...

British police seize 3D printer and suspected printed gun parts

Oct 25, 2013 (UPI)

Police in Britain say they seized a 3D printer and suspected printed components for a gun, believed to be first-ever seizure of such a next-generation weapon. T...

Crystal mysteries spiral deeper

Oct 25, 2013 (SPX)

New York University chemists have discovered crystal growth complexities, which at first glance appeared to confound 50 years of theory and deepened the mystery...

Suez Environnement sees skies clearing for waste disposal

Oct 24, 2013 (AFP)

French utilities group Suez Environnement reported a 5.0-percent rise in underlying profit for the first nine months of the year on Thursday, but international ...

NASA Laser Communication System Sets Record with Data Transmissions to and from Moon

Oct 24, 2013 (SPX)

NASA's Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration (LLCD) has made history using a pulsed laser beam to transmit data over the 239,000 miles between the moon and Ea...

NSF Awards $12 Million to SDSC to Deploy Comet Supercomputer

Oct 23, 2013 (SPX)

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, has been awarded a $12-million grant from the National Science Foundation ...

Rice scientists create a super antioxidant

Oct 22, 2013 (SPX)

Scientists at Rice University are enhancing the natural antioxidant properties of an element found in a car's catalytic converter to make it useful for medical ...

Europe's ambitious aim to 3D print a single-piece satellite

Oct 22, 2013 (Voice of Russia)

The European Space Agency (ESA) launched its AMAZE project on Tuesday to take 3D printing into the metal age by building parts for spacecraft, jet engines and f...

Out-of-fuel European satellite to come crashing down

Oct 22, 2013 (AFP)

A satellite monitoring Earth's gravity field since 2009 will run out of fuel "in the coming days" and eventually crash, with little risk to humans, the European...

Students creating satellite with self-healing material

Oct 22, 2013 (UPI)

A group of Canadian college students is trying to raise money to create a satellite that will test a new material that can heal itself. Space Concordia, made up...

Cracked metal, heal thyself

Oct 22, 2013 (SPX)

It was a result so unexpected that MIT researchers initially thought it must be a mistake: Under certain conditions, putting a cracked piece of metal under tens...

Electrically powered in a geostationary orbit

Oct 21, 2013 (SPX)

OHB System AG has been awarded a contract for the development of a telecommunications satellite known as Electra which will be powered solely by electricity. Th...

Satellite's gravity-mapping mission is over: ESA

Oct 21, 2013 (AFP)

A satellite measuring Earth's gravity since 2009 ran out of fuel Monday and will reenter the atmosphere within three weeks, when it will mostly disintegrate, th...

SES Partners With ESA To Develop Innovative Satellite Platform Electra

Oct 17, 2013 (SPX)

SES has announced a public-private partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA) for the development of an innovative full-electric propulsion satellite plat...

'Walking droplets'

Oct 16, 2013 (SPX)

A research team led by Yves Couder at the Universite Paris Diderot recently discovered that it's possible to make a tiny fluid droplet levitate on the surface o...