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May 01, 2019 (SPX)

Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences transmitted a recording of Martin's classic "Volare" wirelessly via a se...

Ice-proof coating for big structures relies on a 'beautiful demonstration of mechanics'

May 01, 2019 (SPX)

The spray-on coatings, developed at the University of Michigan, cause ice to fall away from structures--regardless of their size--with just the force of a light...

Making glass more clear

May 01, 2019 (SPX)

Now a multi-institutional team including Northwestern University, North Dakota State University and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) ha...

NASA Funds Development of Novel Diffractive Solar Sails

Apr 29, 2019 (SPX)

NASA announced it is providing RIT Professor Grover Swartzlander a Phase II award through its NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program to explore the fe...

Scientists develop low-cost energy-efficient materials

Apr 24, 2019 (SPX)

Today, scientists from different countries are facing the task of creating new materials which would help to reduce losses in electricity transmission and trans...

UNH scientists find auroral 'speed bumps' are more complicated

Apr 24, 2019 (SPX)

"We knew these satellites were hitting "speed bumps", or "upswellings", which cause them to slow down and drop in altitude," said Marc Lessard, a physicist at U...

Quantum gas turns supersolid

Apr 24, 2019 (SPX)

Two research teams led by Francesca Ferlaino, one at the Institute for Experimental Physics at the University of Innsbruck and one at the Institute for Quantum ...

Green plastic production made easy

Apr 23, 2019 (SPX)

An international team, including Kiyotaka Nakajima of Hokkaido University, Japan, and Emiel Hensen of Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands, has d...

Plastic's carbon footprint

Apr 23, 2019 (SPX)

Now researchers at UC Santa Barbara have determined the extent to which plastic contributes to climate change, and what it would take to curb these emissions. T...

RIT researcher collaborates with UR to develop new form of laser for sound

Apr 23, 2019 (SPX)

Now a Rochester Institute of Technology researcher has teamed up with experts at the University of Rochester to create a different kind of laser - a laser for s...

Modified 'white graphene' for eco-friendly energy

Apr 23, 2019 (SPX)

Prof Raul Rodriguez from the TPU Research School of Chemistry and Applied Biomedical Sciences explains: 'For the first time, we have managed to covalently funct...

Shrinking the carbon footprint of a chemical in everyday objects

Apr 23, 2019 (SPX)

In an effort to help reduce this energy use and the related emissions, MIT chemical engineers have devised an alternative approach to synthesizing epoxides, a t...

Defying the laws of physics? Columbia engineers demonstrate bubbles of sand

Apr 23, 2019 (SPX)

Now, a recent discovery by Chris Boyce, assistant professor of chemical engineering at Columbia Engineering, explains a new family of gravitational instabilitie...

Debris of Satellite Destroyed by India May Threaten ISS - Russian MoD

Apr 23, 2019 (Sputnik)

"On 27 March, India successfully tested anti-satellite weapons, as a result of the destruction of the spacecraft, more than 100 fragments were formed in the alt...

Raytheon awarded $28M for AN/SPY-6(V) radar integration, production

Apr 22, 2019 (UPI)

The contract will include support for continued combat system integration and testing, engineering, training, software and depot maintenance as well as field en...

The ethical gold rush: Gilded age for guilt-free jewellery

Apr 21, 2019 (AFP)

Specialised producers now tack a "fairmined" ecologically friendly label on their output, and the Swiss house Chopard last year became the first big name to com...

China to complete $545 mn modernisation for Tajik smelter

Apr 19, 2019 (AFP)

A representative for Talco confirmed to AFP via telephone that "the contract between CMEC (China Machinery Engineering Corporation) and Talco was signed on Apri...

Industrial 3D printing goes skateboarding

Apr 17, 2019 (SPX)

A team led by engineers from Michigan Technological University and re:3D, Inc. developed and tested the Gigabot X, an open source industrial FPF 3D printer, whi...

India's ASAT 'Justified'

Apr 17, 2019 (Sputnik)

According to Indian daily The Hindu, the Pentagon has defended India's need for anti-satellite (ASAT) missile capabilities, arguing that India needs the technol...

Wonder materials: 2D phosphorene nanoribbons and 2D borophene get a closer look

Apr 17, 2019 (SPX)

Unlike its carbon cousin, two-dimensional borophene can't be reduced from a larger natural form. Bulk boron is usually only found in combination with other elem...