TECH SPACE - ROBO DAILY

Noble gases hitch a ride on hydrous minerals

Jun 21, 2013 (SPX)

The noble gases get their collective moniker from their tendency toward snobbishness. The six elements in the family, which includes helium and neon, don't norm...

'Chemical architects' build materials with potential applications in drug delivery and gas storage

Jun 21, 2013 (SPX)

Home remodelers understand the concept of improving original foundations with more modern elements. Using this same approach-but with chemistry-researchers in t...

Raytheon extends ballistic missile defense capability through radar modernization effort

Jun 19, 2013 (SPX)

A U.S. Middle East security partner moved one step closer to gaining an enhanced ballistic missile defense capability when Raytheon completed the redesign of ei...

An innovative material for the green Earth

Jun 19, 2013 (SPX)

Researchers from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), S. Korea, developed a novel, simple method to synthesize hierarchically nanoporous ...

e2v releases the first space qualified GHz-class microprocessor

Jun 19, 2013 (SPX)

e2v has announced the launch of a space qualified version of the Power Architecture PC7448, the first GHz class microprocessors in the world which can be integr...

Scientists say pearls 'ratchet' themselves to form perfect spheres

Jun 19, 2013 (UPI)

Spanish researchers say pearls are the most perfectly spherical large objects in nature because they turn inside oyster tissue in response to movement. Research...

DNA brings materials to life

Jun 19, 2013 (SPX)

A colloid is a substance spread out evenly inside another substance. Everyday examples include milk, styrofoam, hair sprays, paints, shaving foam, gels and even...

New method to distinguish between neighbouring quantum bits

Jun 19, 2013 (SPX)

Researchers at the University of New South Wales have proposed a new way to distinguish between quantum bits that are placed only a few nanometres apart in a si...

Working backward: Computer-aided design of zeolite templates

Jun 19, 2013 (SPX)

Taking a page from computer-aided drug designers, Rice University researchers have developed a computational method that chemists can use to tailor the properti...

Scientists see Earth's most abundant mineral for the first time

Jun 18, 2013 (UPI)

It's hard to be ubiquitous and well-concealed, but that's what silicate-perovskite has been for some time -- until now. Having recently been seen by scientists ...

LONGBOW Receives Contract for Saudi Arabia Apache Radar Systems

Jun 18, 2013 (SPX)

The LONGBOW Limited Liability Company, a joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, received a $90.6 million contract to provide Saudi Arabia with L...

Raytheon awarded contract for F-15C AESA radars

Jun 18, 2013 (SPX)

Boeing Company has awarded Raytheon a follow-on contract for the sixth production lot of APG-63(V)3 active electronically scanned array radars for United States...

Laser survey reveals detail of 'lost' city hidden in Cambodian jungle

Jun 18, 2013 (UPI)

Aircraft equipped with lasers have revealed a lost city near Angkor Wat in Cambodia, hidden for centuries under a dense forest cover, researchers say. Details o...

China supercomputer world's fastest: report

Jun 17, 2013 (AFP)

A Chinese supercomputer is the fastest in the world, according to survey results announced Monday, comfortably overtaking a US machine which now ranks second. T...

Discovery of new material state counterintuitive to laws of physics

Jun 17, 2013 (SPX)

When you squeeze something, it gets smaller. Unless you're at Argonne National Laboratory. At the suburban Chicago laboratory, a group of scientists has seeming...

Selex ES is upgrading RAT 31 DL radar in Turkey

Jun 17, 2013 (UPI)

NATO support agency NSPA has tapped Selex ES to upgrade RAT 31 DL three-dimensional air defense radars that are in use in Turkey. The three radar systems by Sel...

MakerBot Opens New Manufacturing Factory in Brooklyn

Jun 17, 2013 (SPX)

MakerBots are made with Brooklyn Pride! With its original roots in the Brooklyn community, MakerBot, the leader in the desktop 3D printing industry, has expande...

Echoes can reveal the shape of a room

Jun 17, 2013 (AFP)

A snap of a finger, a handful of scattered microphones and a computer algorithm are all it takes to create an accurate three-dimensional map of a room, Swiss an...

Water is no lubricant

Jun 17, 2013 (SPX)

Water in the Earth's crust and upper mantle may not play such an important role as a lubricant of plate tectonics as previously assumed. This is a result geosci...

Chinese astronauts complete warm-up maintenance work in space module

Jun 16, 2013 (XNA)

Chinese astronauts installed new floor boards in the orbiting Tiangong-1 space module on Friday morning, according to the Beijing Aerospace Control Center. The ...