TECH SPACE - INTERN DAILY

Feb 21, 2017 (SPX)

Heat transport is of similar fundamental importance and its control is for instance necessary to efficiently cool the ever smaller chips. An international team ...

Scientists look to tick 'cement' as potential medical adhesive

Feb 20, 2017 (UPI)

Researchers in Austria are exploring the potential of tick "cement" as a super-strong bioadhesive. Once ticks lodge themselves onto their victims and begin to f...

New synchrotron powder diffraction facility for long running experiments

Feb 17, 2017 (SPX)

Synchrotron beamlines and their instruments are built to harness the photon beam power of synchrotron radiation (SR), which has special properties - ideally sui...

Breakthrough in 'wonder' materials paves way for flexible tech

Feb 17, 2017 (SPX)

Gadgets are set to become flexible, highly efficient and much smaller, following a breakthrough in measuring two-dimensional 'wonder' materials by the Universit...

Curtiss-Wright offers COTS Module for measuring microgravity acceleration

Feb 17, 2017 (SPX)

Curtiss-Wright's Defense Solutions division has introduced the space industry's first COTS-based solution for measuring microgravity acceleration. Previously, t...

Sky and Space signs agreement with US Department of Defence

Feb 17, 2017 (SPX)

Sky and Space Global Ltd reports it has signed a Cooperation Agreement for Sharing Space Situational Awareness Services (Agreement) with the Department of Defen...

Penn researchers are among the first to grow a versatile 2-dimensional material

Feb 17, 2017 (SPX)

University of Pennsylvania researchers are now among the first to produce a single, three-atom-thick layer of a unique two-dimensional material called tungsten ...

NASA and MIT collaborate to develop space-based quantum-dot spectrometer

Feb 15, 2017 (SPX)

A NASA technologist has teamed with the inventor of a new nanotechnology that could transform the way space scientists build spectrometers, the all-important de...

Lasers could give space research its broadband moment

Feb 15, 2017 (JPL)

Thought your Internet speeds were slow? Try being a space scientist for a day. The vast distances involved will throttle data rates to a trickle. You're lucky i...

NASA to launch Raven to develop autonomous rendezvous capability

Feb 15, 2017 (SPX)

Launching soon, aboard the 10th SpaceX commercial resupply mission, will be a technology module called Raven, which will bring NASA one step closer to having a ...

New study shows how 3-D printing at home saves big bucks

Feb 15, 2017 (SPX)

Interested in making an investment that promises a 100 percent return on your money, and then some? Buy a low-cost, open-source 3-D printer, plug it in and prin...

New mechanical metamaterials can block symmetry of motion

Feb 14, 2017 (SPX)

Engineers and scientists at The University of Texas at Austin and the AMOLF institute in the Netherlands have invented the first mechanical metamaterials that e...

NASA's TDRS-M space communications satellite begins final testing

Feb 14, 2017 (SPX)

Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Feb 14, 2017 The Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) project has begun final testing on a new satellite that will replenish N...

Researchers engineer thubber a stretchable rubber that packs a thermal conductive punch

Feb 14, 2017 (SPX)

Carmel Majidi and Jonathan Malen of Carnegie Mellon University have developed a thermally conductive rubber material that represents a breakthrough for creating...

After 15 years, SABER on TIMED Still Breaks Ground from Space

Feb 14, 2017 (SPX)

About 21 years ago, team members started building and testing the Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry, or SABER instrument. Back then...

Scientists predicted new high-energy compounds

Feb 14, 2017 (SPX)

Using theoretical methods, an international group of scientists led by Artem R. Oganov, Professor of Skoltech, Stony Brook University and Moscow Institute of Ph...

Terahertz chips a new way of seeing through matter

Feb 10, 2017 (SPX)

Electromagnetic pulses lasting one millionth of a millionth of a second may hold the key to advances in medical imaging, communications and drug development. Bu...

Record-breaking material that contracts when heated

Feb 10, 2017 (SPX)

Machines and devices used in modern industry are required to withstand harsh conditions. When the environmental temperature changes, the volume of the materials...

Big data for the universe

Feb 10, 2017 (SPX)

Astronomers at Lomonosov Moscow State University in cooperation with their French colleagues and with the help of citizen scientists have released "The Referenc...

Cooling roofs and other structures with no energy

Feb 10, 2017 (SPX)

A team of University of Colorado Boulder engineers has developed a scalable manufactured metamaterial - an engineered material with extraordinary properties not...