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Newly developed 'metallic glue' could replace welding

Jan 08, 2016 (UPI)

Researchers at Northeastern University -- a professor and two PhD students -- have invented a new sealant capable of creating a metal bond. They're calling it "...

3D-Printed Ceramics Could be Used in Future Space Flights

Jan 07, 2016 (Sputnik)

Researchers have used a 3D printer to create customized ceramic parts that are strong, lightweight and handle heat better than many metals, but that do not crac...

Sugar-based carbon hollow spheres that mimic moth eyes

Jan 07, 2016 (SPX)

Antireflective coatings are used to cut surface glare in everything from eyeglasses and camera lenses to solar cells, TV screens and LED devices. Now researcher...

Thor's hammer to crush materials at 1 million atmospheres

Jan 07, 2016 (SPX)

A new Sandia National Laboratories accelerator called Thor is expected to be 40 times more efficient than Sandia's Z machine, the world's largest and most power...

MBRSC complete final design of KhalifaSat engineering model

Jan 07, 2016 (SPX)

MBRSC announced the final design completion of the KhalifaSat Engineering Model in addition to the software and systems within the satellite (Critical Design Re...

Setting the Standard for 3-D Printed Rocket Engines

Jan 07, 2016 (SPX)

Aerojet Rocketdyne received a $6 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to define the standards that will be used to qualify additively manufactured component...

UTC delivers first sonar dome rubber window of new US Navy contract

Jan 06, 2016 (SPX)

UTC Aerospace Systems has delivered, on schedule and on budget, the first sonar dome rubber window to the U.S. Navy on a new five-year indefinite delivery, inde...

The Space Environment

Jan 05, 2016 (SPX)

The study of the space environment cuts across several fields of research. Findings impact astronautical engineering and space physics. All space applications a...

Adjustable adhesion power

Jan 05, 2016 (SPX)

Imagine a new type of tyres whose structure has been designed to have greater adhesion on the road. Quite a timely discussion during the long winter nights. Fre...

Chameleons deliver powerful tongue-lashing

Jan 05, 2016 (SPX)

Chameleons are known for sticking their tongues out at the world fast and far, but until a new study by Brown University biologist Christopher Anderson, the tru...

Coulomb blockade in organic conductors found, a world first

Jan 05, 2016 (SPX)

Generally, organic conductors has disorder structures so charge transfers from one place with high conductivity to another place with high conductivity. In such...

Transition metal catalyst prompts 'conjunctive' cross-coupling reaction

Jan 04, 2016 (SPX)

By employing a third reactant, researchers at Boston College have developed a new type of 'cross coupling' chemical reaction, building on a Nobel Prize-winning ...

Oculus to start taking virtual reality headset orders

Jan 04, 2016 (AFP)

Facebook-owned Oculus VR will begin taking orders for its Rift virtual reality headsets on Wednesday, as the doors of Consumer Electronics Show gadget extravaga...

New technique offers strong, flawless 3-D printed ceramics

Jan 04, 2016 (SPX)

Researchers have developed a way to create ceramics using 3D printing that results in a strong material with little tendency to crack that can be fabricated int...

Scientists hope to make concrete tougher by studying its defects

Jan 03, 2016 (UPI)

Calcium silicate hydrate, or C-S-H, accounts for the strength of cement and cement-based materials. It is the component of cement paste that holds concrete toge...

Watch: Six decades worth of space junk orbit Earth

Jan 01, 2016 (UPI)

In 1957, the discarded rocket that carried the Soviet Union's Sputnik 1 satellite into orbit became the first piece of space trash. Today, pieces of space debri...

Japanese research team earns right to name Element 113

Jan 01, 2016 (UPI)

Whoever finds it, names it. It's sort of like the scientific equivalent of "finders keepers." But when it comes to atomic elements, it's not always clear who fo...

Tooth fillings of the future may incorporate bioactive glass

Jan 01, 2016 (SPX)

A few years from now millions of people around the world might be walking around with an unusual kind of glass in their mouth, and using it every time they eat....

Infrared encoding of images with metasurfaces

Jan 01, 2016 (SPX)

Researchers at MINAO, a joint lab between The French Aerospace Lab in Palaiseau and the Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures in Marcoussis, have recen...

UCLA researchers create exceptionally strong and lightweight new metal

Dec 31, 2015 (SPX)

A team led by researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has created a super-strong yet light structural metal with extre...