TECH SPACE - INTERN DAILY

6 teams share honors and money in NASA's 2nd 3-D Print a Habitat challenge

Jul 10, 2017 (SPX)

For this level, which is the second of three sub-competitions within Phase 2, teams had to 3-D print a beam for bend testing. Scores were calculated based on th...

ANU invention may help to protect astronauts from radiation in space

Jul 07, 2017 (SPX)

Lead researcher Dr Mohsen Rahmani from ANU said the material was so thin that hundreds of layers could fit on the tip of a needle and could be applied to any su...

Scanning the surface of lithium titanate

Jul 07, 2017 (SPX)

LiTi2O4 is the only known example of a so-called spinel1 oxide superconductor. Its rarity makes LiTi2O4 of enormous interest to those studying the origins of su...

Monash Earth Scientists involved in discovery of a new mineral

Jul 07, 2017 (SPX)

The mineral - Nataliyamalikite - is new, and did not exist before, explains Professor Joel Brugger, the lead author in a recently published paper in American Mi...

The comeback kid - black phosphorus and its new potential

Jul 07, 2017 (SPX)

Now, one group reports in Nano Letters that some commonly held assumptions about black phosphorus are incorrect and that the material is exceptionally tunable. ...

Recreating interstellar ions with lasers

Jul 07, 2017 (SPX)

While H3+ is astronomically abundant, no scientist understood the mechanisms that form it from organic molecules. Until now. Using lasers, Michigan State Univer...

Long Duration Experiments Reach 1,000th Day

Jul 07, 2017 (Spx)

"Understanding the rate at which hydration occurs in cement, a process that can take anywhere up to 50 years, is very important to help us predict the behaviour...

Custom-made clothes for all within reach says top designer

Jul 05, 2017 (AFP)

"We can design every type and shape of garment to be a precise fit to the wearer's figure," he told AFP after showing his digitally created haute couture collec...

Fixation of powder catalysts on electrodes

Jul 03, 2017 (SPX)

The developed technique is potentially interesting for hydrogen production by water electrolysis. A team involving Dr Corina Andronescu, Stefan Barwe and Prof D...

The sharpest laser in the world

Jul 03, 2017 (SPX)

This precision is useful for various applications such as optical atomic clocks, precision spectroscopy, radioastronomy and for testing the theory of relativity...

New measurement will help redefine international unit of mass

Jul 03, 2017 (SPX)

The new NIST measurement of Planck's constant is 6.626069934 x 10-34 kg-m2/s, with an uncertainty of only 13 parts per billion. NIST's previous measurement, pub...

Johns Hopkins scientists develop super-strong metal for next tech frontier

Jul 03, 2017 (SPX)

The trouble is: These sensors are mostly made of the material silicon, which has its limits. Johns Hopkins University materials scientist and mechanical enginee...

NIST 'noise thermometry' yields accurate new measurements of boltzmann constant

Jul 03, 2017 (SPX)

These results will contribute to a worldwide effort to redefine the kelvin, the international unit of temperature, and could lead to better thermometers for ind...

Seawater makes ancient Roman concrete stronger

Jul 03, 2017 (UPI)

In a new study, researchers detailed the chemical effects of seawater on the minerals and microscale structures inside ancient Roman concrete. The analysis of g...

New polymer goes for a walk when illuminated

Jul 03, 2017 (SPX)

When illuminated it goes for a walk all on its own. This small device, the size of a paperclip, is the world's first machine to convert light directly into walk...

The multi-colored photons that might change quantum information science

Jul 03, 2017 (SPX)

In their paper published in Nature, the team demonstrates that photons can become an accessible and powerful quantum resource when generated in the form of colo...

Northrop Grumman awarded contracts for P-8 radar systems

Jul 03, 2017 (UPI)

The contracts, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, include depot level repairs and refurbishment of the AN/ALQ-240 and the spare parts necessary. Wor...

Stanford engineers design a robotic gripper for cleaning up space debris

Jun 29, 2017 (SPX)

What makes tidying up especially challenging is that the debris exists in space. Suction cups don't work in a vacuum. Traditional sticky substances, like tape, ...

Study: Plants use hydrogen peroxide as sunscreen

Jun 29, 2017 (UPI)

New research shows hydrogen peroxide plays an important role in protecting plants from sun damage. Hydrogen peroxide, H2O2, serves as sunscreen for plants. H2O2...

True romance in the air at Tokyo virtual reality show

Jun 29, 2017 (AFP)

Japanese firm FutureLeap claims it has just the thing for in-the-mood couch potatoes with a virtual reality system so realistic you'd swear that cyber date just...