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Indra renews SMOS maintenance and development contract

Sep 22, 2015 (SPX)

The European Space Agency has extended until 2017 the maintenance and development contract of the SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) mission user segment, ...

Acoustic imaging with outline detection

Sep 22, 2015 (SPX)

Reverberated sound can make objects visible. The sonar is used in the shipping industry to acquire information about the seabed or shoals of fish, while gynaeco...

NASA Seeks Big Ideas from Students for Inflatable Heat Shield Technology

Sep 22, 2015 (SPX)

NASA is giving university and college students an opportunity to be part of the agency's journey to Mars with the Breakthrough, Innovative, and Game-changing (B...

A thermal invisibility cloak actively redirects heat

Sep 22, 2015 (SPX)

Light, sound, and now, heat - just as optical invisibility cloaks can bend and diffract light to shield an object from sight, and specially fabricated acoustic ...

De Beers says 'challenging' time for diamonds

Sep 21, 2015 (AFP)

De Beers, the world's largest diamond producer, said Monday the economic slowdown in China and a strong US dollar meant a "challenging" year for the industry, w...

Engineers unlock remarkable 3-D vision from ordinary digital camera technology

Sep 18, 2015 (SPX)

Modern digital cameras are equipped with an impressive array of functions - from autofocus and image stabilization to panoramas and high-definition video. Recen...

Physicists defy conventional wisdom to identify ferroelectric material

Sep 18, 2015 (SPX)

A team of physicists has defied conventional wisdom by inducing stable ferroelectricity in a sheet of strontium titanate only a few nanometers thick. The discov...

Yale lab finds new ways to synthesize HIV inhibitor

Sep 18, 2015 (SPX)

Yale University chemists have created a new process for synthesizing an organic, nitrogen-based compound that inhibits HIV. The process represents a fundamental...

Making 3-D objects disappear

Sep 18, 2015 (SPX)

Invisibility cloaks are a staple of science fiction and fantasy, from Star Trek to Harry Potter, but don't exist in real life, or do they? Scientists at the U.S...

Scientists offer new method for mapping the cosmos in 3-D

Sep 18, 2015 (UPI)

Scientists in Canada have proposed a new strategy for measuring how far away distant galaxies are. The method could also help researchers map the distribution o...

Big Iron gets technology boost

Sep 18, 2015 (ESA)

ESA deploys 'big iron' to communicate with its deep-space missions: three 35 m-diameter dishes employing some of the world's most advanced tracking technology. ...

Platinum and iron oxide working together get the job done

Sep 17, 2015 (SPX)

Platinum is a great catalyst and can be used for many different applications. It's expensive stuff though, so tiny platinum nanoparticles sitting on cheap metal...

Tokyo videogame show transports fans to new realities

Sep 17, 2015 (AFP)

It may not quite be the Matrix, but videogames giant Sony took fans on a journey into its own virtual reality on Thursday when it unveiled its revamped Morpheus...

Dynetics and Rocketdyne perform gas generator test using 3D printer

Sep 17, 2015 (SPX)

The Dynetics and Aerojet Rocketdyne team recently performed with its NASA partner the second successful gas generator test series of the F-1 engine as part of t...

New tool for studying magnetic, self-propelled bacteria

Sep 16, 2015 (SPX)

In the Marvel Comics universe, Professor Xavier and the X-Men are only able to fend off their archrival Magneto, the magnetic mutant with the ability to control...

DARPA seeks new composite process for making small parts

Sep 16, 2015 (SPX)

The manufacturing process for defense systems-from aircraft to vehicles to ships-is extremely complex and fragmented, often demanding unique materials and proce...

One step closer to a new kind of computer

Sep 16, 2015 (SPX)

An international group of physicists, including Aleksandr Golubov, head of the MIPT Laboratory of Topological Quantum Phenomena in Superconductor Systems, recen...

VT chemical engineers outline new approach to materials design

Sep 16, 2015 (SPX)

A novel approach that should "significantly accelerate materials discovery" is the subject of a new article in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. The fi...

Tracking slow nanolight in natural hyperbolic metamaterial slabs

Sep 16, 2015 (SPX)

Researchers at CIC nanoGUNE (Basque Country) in collaboration with colleagues at ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences (Catalunya) have imaged how light mov...

Researchers develop 'instruction manual' for futuristic metallic glass

Sep 16, 2015 (SPX)

Creating futuristic, next generation materials called 'metallic glass' that are ultra-strong and ultra-flexible will become easier and cheaper, based on UNSW Au...