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Scientists grow dandelions to make rubber

Jul 27, 2016 (UPI)

Scientists have developed a dandelion strain with natural rubber in its roots. The summer weed that invades suburban lawns could be the next rubber tree. Resear...

NUS scientists develop plastic flexible magnetic memory device

Jul 27, 2016 (SPX)

It looks like a small piece of transparent film with tiny engravings on it, and is flexible enough to be bent into a tube. Yet, this piece of "smart" plastic de...

Chinese scientists develop new metal 3D printing technology

Jul 26, 2016 (XNA)

Researchers with Huazhong University of Science and Technology in central China's Hubei Province have successfully manufactured metal parts and molds using new ...

A third of U.S. adults say they'd be enthusiastic about a microchip implanted in brain

Jul 26, 2016 (UPI)

A third of U.S. adults in a recent Pew Research Center survey said they'd be "enthusiastic" about a brain chip to enhance their thinking power. The survey of 4,...

NASA Establishes Institute to Explore New Ways to Protect Astronauts

Jul 25, 2016 (SPX)

NASA is joining with Baylor College of Medicine in Houston to operate a new institute charged with researching and developing innovative approaches to reduce ri...

Active tracking of astronaut rad-exposures targeted

Jul 22, 2016 (ESA)

Radiation is an invisible hazard of spaceflight, but a new monitoring system for ESA astronauts gives a realtime snapshot of their exposure. The results will gu...

Thales to modernize German army simulators

Jul 21, 2016 (UPI)

Thales Deutschland is to modernize all small arms/handheld anti-tank weapons shooting simulator training devices in use with the German army. The work is to be ...

NASA to Begin Testing Next Generation of Spacecraft Heat Exchangers

Jul 21, 2016 (SPX)

Crew members aboard the International Space Station (ISS) are receiving a unique hardware delivery today that can help shape NASA's human journey beyond Earth a...

U.S. Army delivers Q-36 Firefinder radar to Ukrainian military

Jul 21, 2016 (UPI)

The U.S. Army delivered AN-TPQ-36 Firefinder radar systems to the Ukrainian military, the service's Security Assistance Command said Wednesday. The delivery too...

Computational design tool transforms flat materials into 3-D shapes

Jul 19, 2016 (SPX)

A new computational design tool can turn a flat sheet of plastic or metal into a complex 3-D shape, such as a mask, a sculpture or even a lady's high-heel shoe....

'Green' electronic materials produced with synthetic biology

Jul 19, 2016 (SPX)

Scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst report in the current issue of Small that they have genetically designed a new strain of bacteria that spi...

Fallout Fungi From Chernobyl Flee Earth on ISS Radiation Study Mission

Jul 19, 2016 (Sputnik)

Fungi found growing in the fallout from the world's worst nuclear disaster are to be sent into space. Samples from eight different types of fungi taken from the...

Exploring superconducting properties of 3-D printed parts

Jul 19, 2016 (SPX)

3-D printing is revolutionizing many areas of manufacturing and science. In particular, 3-D printing of metals has found novel applications in fields as diverse...

'Jumping film' harnesses the power of humidity

Jul 19, 2016 (SPX)

Scientists from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS) and the University of Tokyo have developed a film that curls up and straightens out autonomo...

Passive Attitude Control For Small Satellites

Jul 19, 2016 (SPX)

Small spacecraft technology has come of age in the past several years. Both cost and development time have been reduced significantly, especially with the CubeS...

Rice's 'antenna-reactor' catalysts offer best of both worlds

Jul 19, 2016 (SPX)

In a find that could transform some of the world's most energy-intensive manufacturing processes, researchers at Rice University's Laboratory for Nanophotonics ...

Scientists move 1 step closer to creating an invisibility cloak

Jul 19, 2016 (SPX)

Scientists at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) have made an object disappear by using a composite material with nano-size particles that can enhance speci...

Chemists create microscopic and malleable building blocks

Jul 19, 2016 (SPX)

Taking a page from Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels", a team of scientists has created malleable and microscopic self-assembling particles that can serve as...

Researchers build a crawling robot from sea slug parts and a 3-D printed body

Jul 19, 2016 (SPX)

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have combined tissues from a sea slug with flexible 3-D printed components to build "biohybrid" robots that crawl...

3D printer helps scientists scale up nanostructures

Jul 18, 2016 (UPI)

Nanostructures are prized for their seemingly infinite material qualities, whether mechanical, chemical, electrical or optical. But scientists have struggled to...