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Can 'large stars' anti-aging research' help future memory devices

Aug 23, 2017 (SPX)

While investigating "anti-aging therapy" of large stars, researchers at the Center for the Theoretical Physics of the Universe, within the Institute for Basic S...

Understanding brittle crack behaviors to design stronger materials

Aug 22, 2017 (SPX)

The results of this study will help researchers better understand how fragile materials, such as glass, ceramic, polymers, and bone break - often catastrophical...

Researchers use vacuum for hands-free patterning of liquid metal

Aug 21, 2017 (SPX)

Liquid metals are promising as soft, stretchable electrical components such as antennas, circuits, electrodes and wires. These applications often require the ab...

Defeating cyberattacks on 3-D printers

Aug 21, 2017 (SPX)

"They will be attractive targets because 3D-printed objects and parts are used in critical infrastructures around the world, and cyberattacks may cause failures...

NASA protects its super heroes from space weather

Aug 21, 2017 (SPX)

Outside Earth's protective magnetic field and atmosphere, the ionizing radiation in space will pose a serious risk to astronauts as they travel to Mars. High-en...

Cosmonauts launch 3D-printed satellite from space station

Aug 18, 2017 (UPI)

Some new reports are claiming the satellite is the first built from 3D-printed components to be launched into space, but in June, NASA launched a cube satellite...

Surprise discovery in the search for energy efficient information storage

Aug 17, 2017 (SPX)

For portable devices such as mobile phones and tablets, other forms of non-magnetic memory are used because the technology based on magnetism is impractical and...

The critical point in breaking the glass problem

Aug 17, 2017 (SPX)

Until now, researchers' understanding has been splintered at best, with mutually incompatible interpretations of the physical processes underlying the emergence...

Researchers discover new class of chemical reaction

Aug 17, 2017 (SPX)

This fourth class, which the researchers have named "chemically termolecular reactions," was first hypothesized by Cyril Hinshelwood and Nikolay Semenov in thei...

Air Force tests new radar receivers for rescue helicopters

Aug 16, 2017 (UPI)

The recent milestone indicates the Air Force's confidence in the technical maturity of the receiver and comes more than one year before the HH-60W combat rescue...

Researchers 3-D print first truly microfluidic 'lab on a chip' devices

Aug 16, 2017 (SPX)

The accomplishment, which is a major breakthrough toward mass-producing the medical diagnostic devices cheaply, is detailed online in academic journal Lab on a ...

Fewer defects from a 2-D approach

Aug 16, 2017 (SPX)

Modern-day electronics rely on technologies that can develop almost perfect crystals of silicon; flawless to the atomic level. This is crucial because defects a...

Archinaut Project conducts first large-scale 3D build in space-like environment

Aug 16, 2017 (SPX)

"To our knowledge, this is the first time additive manufacturing has been successfully tested on such a large scale in the vacuum and temperature conditions of ...

2-faced 2-D material is a first at Rice

Aug 16, 2017 (SPX)

The Rice laboratory of materials scientist Jun Lou has made a semiconducting transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMD) that starts as a monolayer of molybdenum dise...

Marine Corps testing mobile 3D printing lab

Aug 16, 2017 (UPI)

Marine Corp Systems Command and the 2nd Maintenance Battalion at Camp Lejeune are overseeing the field evaluation of a prototype X-FAB, or expeditionary fabrica...

Electricity and silver effective at keeping bacteria off plastics

Aug 15, 2017 (UPI)

The breakthrough could prove a godsend for hospitals, where plastics are ubiquitous and bacterial infections are a constant risk. Scientists have known about th...

Lockheed Martin integrates first modernized A2100 satellite

Aug 14, 2017 (SPX)

Built for Arabsat and King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia, the satellite will provide advanced telecommunications capabilities, includi...

NASA Tests Autopilot Sensors During Simulations

Aug 09, 2017 (SPX)

Held at Lockheed Martin's Space Operations Simulation Center (SOSC), this round of testing involved a Vision Navigation System (VNS) light detection and ranging...

NASA, Norway to develop Arctic laser-ranging station

Aug 09, 2017 (SPX)

The Arctic station will be the latest addition to a global network of space geodetic stations, which measure and monitor the size and shape of Earth, its orient...

Tiny terahertz laser could be used for imaging, chemical detection

Aug 09, 2017 (SPX)

But many of those applications depend on small, power-efficient sources of terahertz rays, and the standard method for producing them involves a bulky, power-hu...