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'Twist and shine': Development of a new photoluminescent sensor material

Apr 20, 2017 (SPX)

Such light-based sensing molecules, also called photoluminescent mechanophores, are not new, but currently available applications are single-use only. They woul...

Leybold simplifies repairs and maintenance through Augmented Reality

Apr 20, 2017 (SPX)

The real-time visualizations and context-related information concepts are not new to the renowned pump manufacturer. Since the year 2016, Leybold has been using...

Lasers measure jet disintegration

Apr 20, 2017 (SPX)

Rocket engines, gas turbines and diesel engines experience conditions in their combustion chamber that exceed the critical conditions of their fuel, and supercr...

Japanese Cloud Radar payload ready for final spacecraft assembly

Apr 20, 2017 (SPX)

In the coming weeks, JAXA and ESA teams will run final checks on the instrument before giving a "green light" to the Airbus project team to integrate it with th...

Computers create recipe for two new magnetic materials

Apr 20, 2017 (SPX)

Although magnets abound in everyday life, they are actually rarities - only about five percent of known inorganic compounds show even a hint of magnetism. And o...

Tweaking a molecule's structure can send it down a different path to crystallization

Apr 20, 2017 (SPX)

"The findings address an ongoing debate about crystallization pathways," said materials scientist Jim De Yoreo at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest N...

Apple touts greater use of recycled metal in gadgets

Apr 20, 2017 (AFP)

"Traditional supply chains are linear," it said. "Materials are mined, manufactured as products, and often end up in landfills after use. Then the process start...

Tiny Probes Hold Big Promise for Future NASA Missions

Apr 20, 2017 (SPX)

The Conformal Ablative Thermal Protection System, or CA-TPS, will be installed on a small probe flight article provided by Terminal Velocity Aerospace (TVA) and...

Waste Cadets: space plans mean more space junk, harder space exploration

Apr 19, 2017 (Sputnik)

A variety of companies, including Google, SpaceX, Boeing and Samsung, are vying to launch global broadband networks via the deployment of thousands of micro sat...

France's Melenchon returns with campaigning hologram

Apr 18, 2017 (AFP)

For his last major rally before Sunday's nailbiting first-round vote, the resurgent leftwinger killed seven birds with one stone by transmitting his onstage app...

Space debris problem getting worse, say scientists

Apr 18, 2017 (AFP)

In less than a quarter of a century, the number of orbiting fragments large enough to destroy a spacecraft has more than doubled, a conference in Germany heard....

SSL completes agreement to partner with DARPA on satellite servicing

Apr 18, 2017 (SPX)

SSL is a U.S. company, which employs more than 2,000 people in Palo Alto, California, where it has done business for 60 years. The work scope for the DARPA miss...

New method for 3-D printing extraterrestrial materials

Apr 13, 2017 (SPX)

Northwestern University's Ramille Shah and her Tissue Engineering and Additive Manufacturing (TEAM) Laboratory have demonstrated the ability to 3D-print structu...

Humans to Mars Official NASA Goal, But What About Radiation

Apr 12, 2017 (SPX)

And for the first time, the NASA budget adds human exploration of Mars as an official goal for the agency. The president spoke at the signing ceremony. Trump sa...

Ultra-thin multilayer film for next-generation data storage and processing

Apr 12, 2017 (SPX)

The nano-sized thin film, which was developed in collaboration with researchers from Brookhaven National Laboratory, Stony Brook University, and Louisiana State...

NASA Fellow studies new heatshield-making technique

Apr 12, 2017 (SPX)

TPS, or heatshields, form the outer surface of spacecraft - called the aeroshell - and provide protection as the vehicle plunges through planetary atmospheres. ...

USC Viterbi researchers develop new class of optoelectronic materials

Apr 12, 2017 (SPX)

Researchers at USC Viterbi, led by Jayakanth Ravichandran, an assistant professor in the Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Material Sciences an...

Recent advances and new insights into quantum image processing

Apr 12, 2017 (SPX)

Quantum image processing (QIP) is an emerging sub-discipline that is focused on extending conventional image processing tasks and operations to the quantum comp...

DARPA Wades into Murky Multimedia Information Streams to Catch Big Meaning

Apr 10, 2017 (SPX)

The U.S. government has always had an interest in developing and maintaining a strategic understanding of events, situations, and trends around the world. In re...

EDA launches 3D printing study for security

Apr 10, 2017 (SPX)

MBDA Systems and Fundacion Prodintec will collaborate on the new project, called the "Additive Manufacturing Feasibility Study and Technology Demonstration." Th...