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How to make ceramics that bend without breaking

Oct 01, 2013 (SPX)

Ceramics are not known for their flexibility: they tend to crack under stress. But researchers from MIT and Singapore have just found a way around that problem ...

Paradigm shift: Need something in space? Print it, don't ship it

Sep 30, 2013 (UPI)

The first 3D printer will launch into space in 2014 aboard commercial spaceflight provider SpaceX's Dragon capsule, the California-based printer provider said. ...

NGC Completes Safety of Flight Testing on Common Infrared Countermeasure System

Sep 27, 2013 (SPX)

Northrop Grumman has achieved another significant milestone on its Common Infrared Countermeasure (CIRCM) program by completing safety of flight testing on prot...

Domain walls as new information storage medium

Sep 25, 2013 (SPX)

While searching for ever smaller devices that can be used as data storage systems and novel sensors, physicists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) hav...

Invention jet prints nanostructures with self-assembling material

Sep 25, 2013 (SPX)

A multi-institutional team of engineers has developed a new approach to the fabrication of nanostructures for the semiconductor and magnetic storage industries....

Space oddity: the mystery of 2013 QW1

Sep 25, 2013 (ESA)

Last month, ESA's near-Earth asteroid coordination centre triggered a series of European observations that confirmed an unknown object was, in fact, of human or...

New Model Should Expedite Development of Temperature-Stable Nano-Alloys

Sep 24, 2013 (SPX)

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new theoretical model that will speed the development of new nanomaterial alloys that retain t...

New sensor could prolong the lifespan of high-temperature engines

Sep 24, 2013 (SPX)

A temperature sensor developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge could improve the efficiency, control and safety of high-temperature engines. The s...

Balkans gold rush prompts pollution fears

Sep 24, 2013 (AFP)

Plans by mining companies to dig for gold in Romania and Greece have triggered massive opposition, with academics and environmentalists stressing that risks far...

Environmentally friendly cement is stronger than ordinary cement

Sep 22, 2013 (SPX)

New research from the Niels Bohr Institute shows that cement made with waste ash from sugar production is stronger than ordinary cement. The research shows that...

Green photon beams more agile than optical tweezers

Sep 22, 2013 (SPX)

Romanian scientists have discovered a novel approach for the optical manipulation of macromolecules and biological cells. Their findings, published in EPJ B, st...

X-ray science taps bug biology to design better materials and reduce pollution

Sep 22, 2013 (SPX)

Bug spray, citronella candles, mosquito netting - most people will do anything they can to stay away from insects during the warmer months. But those creepy cra...

Banishing explosive sparks in underground mines

Sep 19, 2013 (ESA)

Vintage space technology was dug up recently to make mines around the world safer by reducing the risks of explosions. Deep beneath Earth's surface, mining equi...

GPS 3 And OCX Satellite Launch and Early Orbit Operations Successfully Demonstrated

Sep 18, 2013 (SPX)

Lockheed Martin and Raytheon have completed the third of five planned launch and early orbit exercises to demonstrate the launch readiness of the world's most p...

Yahoo Japan develops 3D search engine-printer

Sep 18, 2013 (AFP)

Yahoo Japan Corp. has developed a voice-activated Internet search that links to a 3D printer, letting users look online for blueprints to deliver solid objects ...

Northrop Grumman Delivers AEHF Flight 4 Antenna Precision Pointing Unit

Sep 18, 2013 (SPX)

The recent delivery of an electronics unit that precisely positions a highly sophisticated suite of antennas for the U.S. Air Force's fourth Advanced Extremely ...

Catalysts team up with textiles

Sep 18, 2013 (SPX)

In future, it will be much easier to produce some active pharmaceutical substances and chemical compounds than was the case to date. An international team worki...

Study indicates space weather may be to blame for some satellite failures

Sep 18, 2013 (SPX)

Is your cable television on the fritz? One explanation, scientists suspect, may be the weather - the weather in space, that is. MIT researchers are investigatin...

Raytheon, Falck Schmidt unveil remotely operated long-range surveillance system

Sep 17, 2013 (SPX)

Raytheon and Falck Schmidt Defence Systems are debuting a remotely operated, mast-mounted, long-range reconnaissance and surveillance (LRRS) forward looking inf...

'Terminator' polymer that regenerates itself

Sep 17, 2013 (SPX)

Scientists in Spain have reported the first self-healing polymer that spontaneously and independently repairs itself without any intervention. The new material ...