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Sandstone arches formed by gravity and stress, not erosion

Jul 21, 2013 (UPI)

Sandstone arches, alcoves and pillars are scattered across the globe, monuments to nature's strange beauty -- odd, gravity-defying shapes carved by the wind and...

World's cheapest computer gets millions tinkering

Jul 21, 2013 (AFP)

It's a single circuit board the size of a credit card with no screen or keyboard, a far cry from the smooth tablets that dominate the technology market. But the...

Penn researchers help show new way to study and improve catalytic reactions

Jul 19, 2013 (SPX)

Catalysts are everywhere. They make chemical reactions that normally occur at extremely high temperatures and pressures possible within factories, cars and the ...

Stanford scientists break record for thinnest light-absorber

Jul 19, 2013 (SPX)

Stanford University scientists have created the thinnest, most efficient absorber of visible light on record. The nanosize structure, thousands of times thinner...

Unusual material expands dramatically under pressure

Jul 19, 2013 (SPX)

If you squeeze a normal object in all directions, it shrinks in all directions. But a few strange materials will actually grow in one dimension when compressed....

Milikelvins drive droplet evaporation

Jul 19, 2013 (SPX)

Evaporation is so common that everybody thinks it's a well understood phenomenon. Appearances can be, however, deceptive. Recently, a new, earlier not predicted...

Thyroid cancer risk for 2,000 Fukushima workers: TEPCO

Jul 19, 2013 (AFP)

Around 2,000 people who have worked at Japan's wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant face a heightened risk of thyroid cancer, its operator said Friday. Tokyo Electri...

ASC Signal Doubles Mission Capabilities Across Its Satellite Antenna Line

Jul 18, 2013 (SPX)

With the introduction of a new, dual-band feed system for the company's 9.4m antenna, ASC Signal Corporation has extended dual X- and Ka-band capabilities acros...

Raytheon touts company developments

Jul 18, 2013 (UPI)

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency and American allies will soon be able to obtain deployment-ready ballistic missile defense radars. The first cooling equipment u...

Resonator Gyro Achieves 25 Million Operating Hours in Space

Jul 18, 2013 (SPX)

Northrop Grumman's patented hemispherical resonator gyro (HRG) technology, which is used for military and commercial space applications, recently achieved a maj...

Homemade 3D guns in US stir more buzz than bang

Jul 18, 2013 (AFP)

Like many Americans, Travis Lerol has owned guns for much of his life, but the single-shot Liberator he made himself in his basement with a tabletop 3D printer ...

Royal Air Force's Tornado aircraft getting new RF jamming pods

Jul 17, 2013 (UPI)

A radio frequency jamming pod for use by Tornado GR Mk4 aircraft is to be designed, developed and delivered by Selex ES to Britain's Royal Air Force. Selex ES' ...

New UV laser capabilities being developed for Army

Jul 17, 2013 (UPI)

Next-generation ultraviolet laser capabilities are to be developed for military use by Daylight Defense LLC under a U.S. Army contract. The value of the award w...

Taking the Random out of a Random Laser

Jul 17, 2013 (SPX)

Random Lasers are tiny structures emitting light irregularly into different directions. Scientists at the Vienna University of Technology have now shown that th...

Surface porosity and wettability are key factors in boiling heat transfer

Jul 17, 2013 (SPX)

A team of MIT researchers has succeeded in carrying out the first systematic investigation of the factors that control boiling heat transfer from a surface to a...

Earth's gold may have been born in cataclysmic cosmic collisions

Jul 17, 2013 (UPI)

All gold in the universe likely came from massive cosmic collisions of the dead cores of stars that previously exploded as supernovas, U.S. astronomers say. Gol...

Researchers crush diamond with biggest laser in world

Jul 17, 2013 (UPI)

Scientists wanted to better understand what conditions are like deep inside giant, carbon-rich planets. To find out, they blasted a diamond with the world's big...

Researchers develop systems that convert ordinary language to code

Jul 16, 2013 (SPX)

Many birds feeds on mosquitoes that spread the West Nile virus, a disease that killed 286 people in the United States in 2012 according to the Centers for Disea...

Saab, Selex ES sign radar contract deal

Jul 16, 2013 (UPI)

Swedish defense company Saab is to equip its Gripen Next Generation fighters with Active Electronically Scanned Array radar from Finmeccanica-Selex ES. The cont...

NASA's OPALS to Beam Data From Space Via Laser

Jul 12, 2013 (JPL)

NASA will use the International Space Station to test a new communications technology that could dramatically improve spacecraft communications, enhance commerc...