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Phoenix Rising: New Video Shows Advances in Satellite Repurposing Program

Jan 25, 2013 (SPX)

Inserting new capabilities into a satellite is no simple task. Doing so as that satellite hurdles through space 22,000 miles above the Earth is a bit more chall...

Novel sensor provides bigger picture

Jan 24, 2013 (SPX)

Duke University engineers have developed a novel sensor that is more efficient, versatile and cheaper for potential use in such applications as airport security...

Dutch architect to build house with 3D printer

Jan 23, 2013 (AFP)

A Dutch architect has designed a house "with no beginning or end" to be built using the world's largest 3D printer, harnessing technology that may one day be us...

Computer breakthrough: Code of life becomes databank

Jan 23, 2013 (AFP)

Scientists in Britain on Wednesday announced a breakthrough in the quest to turn DNA into a revolutionary form of data storage. A speck of man-made DNA can hold...

Bamboo math documents called China's earliest

Jan 23, 2013 (UPI)

Chinese archaeologists say they have discovered the country's earliest mathematics document, written on bamboo more than 2,200 years ago. The document is a math...

World's Most Complex 2D Laser Beamsteering Array Demonstrated

Jan 22, 2013 (SPX)

Most people are familiar with the concept of RADAR. Radio frequency (RF) waves travel through the atmosphere, reflect off of a target, and return to the RADAR s...

Researchers Create Method for More Sensitive Electrochemical Sensors

Jan 22, 2013 (SPX)

Graphene and related materials hold promise for the future of electrochemical sensors - detectors that measure the concentration of oxygen, toxic gases, and oth...

Kim Dotcom apologises for Mega bugs

Jan 22, 2013 (AFP)

Megaupload founder and alleged online piracy kingpin Kim Dotcom apologised for teething problems with his new file-sharing service Tuesday, saying massive globa...

NASA Beams Mona Lisa to Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter at the Moon

Jan 21, 2013 (SPX)

As part of the first demonstration of laser communication with a satellite at the moon, scientists with NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) beamed an imag...

Researchers move Barkhausen Effect forward

Jan 21, 2013 (SPX)

Almost 100 years after the initial discovery, a team of scientists at the University of Alberta and the National Institute for Nanotechnology in Edmonton have h...

Sustainable reinforcement for concrete has newly discovered benefits

Jan 18, 2013 (SPX)

Fashionable people may turn up their noses at jute - the cheap fiber used to make burlap, gunny sacks, twine and other common products - but new research is enh...

New surfaces repel most known liquids

Jan 18, 2013 (SPX)

In an advance toward stain-proof, spill-proof clothing, protective garments and other products that shrug off virtually every liquid - from blood and ketchup to...

Record high radiation level found in fish: TEPCO

Jan 18, 2013 (AFP)

A fish contaminated with radiation levels more than 2,500 times the legal limit has been caught near Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, its opera...

ECAPS signs contract with Skybox for complete propulsion system

Jan 16, 2013 (SPX)

ECAPS has announced its first commercial flight contract in the U.S., with Skybox Imaging (Skybox), an emerging provider of timely imagery services. ECAPS will ...

Boeing Grows Composite Manufacturing Capability in Utah

Jan 16, 2013 (SPX)

Boeing has announced the purchase of a new building in Salt Lake County, Utah. Employees at the new site, located in West Jordan, will focus on fabrication of c...

Government funding for 'super-material'

Jan 14, 2013 (SPX)

A select group of universities will receive 21.5 million Pounds in government funding to explore commercial uses for graphene. Announced by the Chancellor of th...

Molecular machine could hold key to more efficient manufacturing

Jan 14, 2013 (SPX)

An industrial revolution on a minute scale is taking place in laboratories at The University of Manchester with the development of a highly complex machine that...

Study reveals ordinary glass's extraordinary properties

Jan 11, 2013 (SPX)

Technologically valuable ultrastable glasses can be produced in days or hours with properties corresponding to those that have been aged for thousands of years,...

Bottom-up approach provides first characterization of pyroelectric nanomaterials

Jan 11, 2013 (SPX)

By taking a "bottom-up" approach, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have observed for the first time that "size does matter" in rega...

Chemical modules that mimic predator-prey and other behaviors

Jan 11, 2013 (SPX)

Scientists are reporting development of chemical modules that can reproduce, on an "unprecedented" molecular level, changes and interactions that occur in natur...