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Breaking through insect shells at a molecular level

Feb 08, 2016 (SPX)

With their chitinous shells, insects seem almost invulnerable - but like Achilles' heel in Greek mythology, their impressive armor can still be attacked. Resear...

Researchers discover new phase of boron nitride and a new way to create pure c-BN

Feb 08, 2016 (SPX)

Researchers at North Carolina State University have discovered a new phase of the material boron nitride (Q-BN), which has potential applications for both manuf...

A fast solidification process makes material crackle

Feb 08, 2016 (SPX)

What does it sound like when liquids solidify very fast? Researchers from the Centre of Excellence in Computational Nanoscience at Aalto University and their co...

Russia to Debut 3D Printed Armata Tank

Feb 07, 2016 (Sputnik)

Russian Defense has been widely using the method of creating physical objects in a digital 3D model, or if simply said, 3D printing. The development of solid ob...

NASA's ICESat-2 equipped with unique 3-D manufactured part

Feb 03, 2016 (SPX)

NASA's follow-on to the successful ICESat mission will employ a never-before-flown technique for determining the topography of ice sheets and the thickness of s...

The strain allows to control the magnetic properties of individual iron atom

Feb 02, 2016 (SPX)

The iron Fe2+ atom embedded in a semiconductor exhibits a single non-degenerate ground state of zero magnetic moment. A team of scientists from the University o...

ChemChina 'eyeing Syngenta' in biggest ever Chinese takeover

Feb 02, 2016 (AFP)

China National Chemical Corp is closing in on a $43 billion deal to buy the Swiss pesticide giant Syngenta, according to reports Tuesday, which would be the big...

Will Space Debris be Responsible for World War III?

Feb 01, 2016 (SPX)

In recent weeks there has been a bit of speculation that collisions between active satellites and space debris could spark WW III. Vitaly Adushkin from the Russ...

NASA Engineers Tapped to Build First Integrated-Photonics Modem

Jan 31, 2016 (SPX)

A NASA team has been tapped to build a new type of communications modem that will employ an emerging, potentially revolutionary technology that could transform ...

A new quantum approach to big data

Jan 29, 2016 (SPX)

From gene mapping to space exploration, humanity continues to generate ever-larger sets of data - far more information than people can actually process, manage,...

Apple quietly working on virtual reality: report

Jan 29, 2016 (AFP)

Apple has a team secretly working on virtual and augmented reality gear in a budding challenge to Facebook-owned Oculus Rift and Microsoft HoloLens, the Financi...

Breakthrough enables ultra-fast transport of electrical charges in polymers

Jan 29, 2016 (SPX)

A research team at Umea University in Sweden has showed, for the first time, that a very efficient vertical charge transport in semiconducting polymers is possi...

Energy harvesting via smart materials

Jan 29, 2016 (SPX)

Energy harvesting is emerging as a viable method for electronic devices to pull ambient energy from their surrounding environment and convert it into electrical...

Researchers develop completely new kind of polymer

Jan 29, 2016 (SPX)

Imagine a polymer with removable parts that can deliver something to the environment and then be chemically regenerated to function again. Or a polymer that can...

Imaged 'jets' reveal cerium's post-shock inner strength

Jan 29, 2016 (SPX)

Recent synchrotron advances and the development of dynamic compression platforms have created the ability to investigate extreme states of matter on short times...

For this nanocatalyst reaction, one atom makes a big difference

Jan 29, 2016 (SPX)

Combining experimental investigations and theoretical simulations, researchers have explained why platinum nanoclusters of a specific size range facilitate the ...

DuPont announces breakthrough platform technology for long sought-after molecule

Jan 29, 2016 (SPX)

Today, science and agricultural leaders DuPont Industrial Biosciences (DuPont) and Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) announced a new breakthrough process wit...

Harnessing the oxidising power of air

Jan 29, 2016 (SPX)

Researchers report the catalysis of a highly specific chemical reaction where oxygen from the air is one ingredient and the other, an organic molecule, is selec...

Novel 4-D printing method blossoms from botanical inspiration

Jan 29, 2016 (SPX)

A team of scientists at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and...

Acoustic tweezers provide much needed pluck for 3-D bioprinting

Jan 28, 2016 (SPX)

Researchers, including Carnegie Mellon University President Subra Suresh and collaborators Tony Jun Huang from the Pennsylvania State University and Ming Dao fr...