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Slow light to speed up LiDAR sensors development
Jan 15, 2020 (SPX)
A team from Yokohama National University in Japan believes they have developed a method to obtain such a sensor by taking advantage of slow light, an unexpected...
Russian spy satellite has broken up in space says harvard astronomer
Jan 14, 2020 (Sputnik)
Russia's Kosmos-2491 military satellite may has disintegrated in space, either by accident or after deliberately self-destructing, Harvard-Smithsonian astronome...
NUS scientists create world's first monolayer amorphous film
Jan 13, 2020 (SPX)
This major research breakthrough was led by Professor Barbaros Ozyilmaz, Head of the NUS Department of Materials Science and Engineering. The results were publi...
Skin-like sensors bring a human touch to wearable tech
Jan 13, 2020 (SPX)
Dubbed artificial ionic skin - or AISkin for short - the researchers believe the innovative properties of AISkin could lead to future advancements in wearable e...
Penn shows giving entire course of radiation treatment in less than a second is feasible
Jan 10, 2020 (SPX)
In a new report published in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, and Physics, researchers detail how they used proton radiation to generat...
Ultrasound can make stronger 3D-printed alloys
Jan 10, 2020 (SPX)
A study just published in Nature Communications shows high frequency sound waves can have a significant impact on the inner micro-structure of 3D printed alloys...
Randomness opens the gates to the land of attophotography
Jan 10, 2020 (SPX)
There are only a few X-ray lasers in the world today. These sophisticated devices can be used to record even extremely fast processes such as the changes in the...
Human-based models to study space radiation and countermeasures
Jan 10, 2020 (SPX)
TRISH seeks and funds high-risk, high-reward solutions for predicting and protecting the health of future astronauts on deep space missions. Galactic cosmic rad...
China launches new communication technology experiment satellite
Jan 09, 2020 (XNA)
The satellite has entered the preset orbit. It will be used in communication, radio, television and data transmission, as well as high throughput technology tes...
Air Force to cancel Raytheon contract for ground-based radar system
Jan 09, 2020 (UPI)
The Three-Dimensional Expeditionary Long Range Radar, or 3DELRR, system was to be a gallium nitride-based radar that operated on the C-band. It was intended to ...
Study details how hydrogen causes embrittlement of steels
Jan 09, 2020 (UPI)
Many scientists and policy makers remain hopeful that a hydrogen economy -- the use of hydrogen fuel to power cars, trucks, planes and more -- will dramatically...
A new way to make chemicals by copying nature's tricks
Jan 08, 2020 (SPX)
The new technique, pioneered by Imperial College London scientists, could reduce the need to use fossil fuels to create chemicals, plastics, fibres and fuels. C...
Nanoscale sensors see how high pressure affects materials
Jan 08, 2020 (SPX)
As the researchers reported in the journal Science, that matters because, "Pressure alters the physical, chemical and electronic properties of matter." Understa...
Sustainable supply of minerals and metals key to a low-carbon energy future
Jan 07, 2020 (SPX)
The amount of cobalt, copper, lithium, cadmium, and rare earth elements needed for solar photovoltaics, batteries, electric vehicle (EV) motors, wind turbines, ...
Ceramic materials that are IR-transparent
Dec 30, 2019 (SPX)
Due to the submicron size of the grains and their even distribution in the whole volume of the material, the yttrium oxide and magnesium oxide (Y2O3-MgO) cerami...
Lasers learn to accurately spot space junk
Dec 27, 2019 (SPX)
"The possibility of successfully navigating an asteroid field is approximately 3,720 to one!" exclaimed C-3PO as Han Solo directed the Millennium Falcon into an...
New nano-barrier for composites could strengthen spacecraft payloads
Dec 27, 2019 (SPX)
CFRP is used in current space missions, but its applications are limited because the material absorbs moisture. This is often released as gas during a mission, ...
Solving the challenges of long duration space flight with 3D Printing
Dec 20, 2019 (SPX)
This logistics support system works well for a spacecraft that is orbiting 250 miles above Earth and readily accessible to cargo resupply missions. It is not pr...
Northrop Grumman lands $1B contract for F-16 AESA radars
Dec 20, 2019 (UPI)
The contract, announced Thursday, funds development and production of up to 372 active electronically scanned array radars -- computer-controlled antennae in wh...
Capricorn Space and Infostellar cooperate to enable On Demand ground segment services
Dec 18, 2019 (SPX)
Established by Capricorn Space to provide global satellite operators southern hemisphere coverage from the Indian Ocean to across the Australian continent, AGN-...
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