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SSL selected to provide new high throughput satellite to Telesat

Nov 26, 2015 (SPX)

Space Systems Loral (SSL) has announced that it has been selected to build a powerful, high throughput communications satellite for Telesat, one of the world's ...

A new symmetry underlies the search for new materials

Nov 26, 2015 (SPX)

A new symmetry operation developed by Penn State researchers has the potential to speed up the search for new advanced materials that range from tougher steels ...

Advancing the Design and Modeling of Complex Systems

Nov 26, 2015 (SPX)

Complex interconnected systems are increasingly becoming part of everyday life in both military and civilian environments. In the military domain, air-dominance...

Creating a new vision for multifunctional materials

Nov 26, 2015 (SPX)

Multifunctional materials with sensory capabilities like those of vision, touch or even smell could profoundly expand the possibilities of industrial design in ...

Ultrastable materials investigated in depth

Nov 26, 2015 (SPX)

Space holds numerous fascinating objects which we can only investigate by observing their radiation - even beyond the visible range. For space telescopes such a...

Hardened steels for more efficient engines

Nov 26, 2015 (SPX)

Combustion engines still have much potential to save energy and reduce emissions. The present trend is to use smaller engines of the same or even increased powe...

Puffed rice compaction unveils new materials science phenomenon

Nov 26, 2015 (SPX)

There's more to the snap, crackle and pop of Rice Krispies than meets the ear. A recent study by San Diego State University civil engineering professor Julio Va...

Bringing the chaos in light sources under control

Nov 26, 2015 (SPX)

Noise is an issue in optical telecommunications. And findings means of controlling noise is key to physicists investigating light-emitting diodes or lasers. Now...

Virtual reality app brings crisis zones closer to home

Nov 23, 2015 (AFP)

Bombed-out buildings tower overhead, and rubble is piled high in the deserted streets of Syria's onetime economic hub Aleppo. Gunshots can be heard in the dista...

From nanocrystals to earthquakes, solid materials share similar failure characteristics

Nov 23, 2015 (SPX)

Apparently, size doesn't always matter. An extensive study by an interdisciplinary research group suggests that the deformation properties of nanocrystals are n...

Primordial goo used to improve implants

Nov 23, 2015 (SPX)

Australia's national science research organisation, CSIRO, has developed an innovative new coating that could be used to improve medical devices and implants, t...

3-D printing aids in understanding food enjoyment

Nov 23, 2015 (SPX)

Tasting food relies on food volatiles moving from the back of the mouth to the nasal cavity, but researchers have wondered why airflow doesn't carry them in the...

Network analysis shows systemic risk in mineral markets

Nov 20, 2015 (SPX)

A shortage of a rare mineral could spur global market instabilities, according to a new analysis of international commodity trade networks. Shortages of natural...

UW team refrigerates liquids with a laser for the first time

Nov 20, 2015 (SPX)

Since the first laser was invented in 1960, they've always given off heat - either as a useful tool, a byproduct or a fictional way to vanquish intergalactic en...

Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, invents first 'porous liquid'

Nov 19, 2015 (SPX)

Scientists at Queen's University Belfast have made a major breakthrough by making a porous liquid - with the potential for a massive range of new technologies i...

Simple errors limit scientific scrutiny

Nov 19, 2015 (SPX)

Researchers have found more than half of the public datasets provided with scientific papers are incomplete, which prevents reproducibility tests and follow-up ...

Power up: Cockroaches employ a 'force boost' to chew through tough materials

Nov 19, 2015 (SPX)

New research indicates that cockroaches use a combination of fast and slow twitch muscle fibers to give their mandibles a 'force boost' that allows them to chew...

Sea urchin spurs new ideas for lightweight materials

Nov 18, 2015 (SPX)

Materials researchers love sea creatures. Mother-of-pearl provokes ideas for smooth surfaces, clams inspire gluey substances, shark's skin is used to develop ma...

Researchers discover a new form of crystalline matter

Nov 18, 2015 (SPX)

Dust is everywhere: under the bed, on the stairs and even inside of plasmas. A team of researchers from Auburn University, the University of Iowa and the Univer...

Researchers find way to make metals stronger without sacrificing ductility

Nov 18, 2015 (SPX)

Researchers at North Carolina State University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a technique to make titanium stronger without sacrificing any ...