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Give it the plasma treatment: strong adhesion without adhesives

Dec 27, 2018 (SPX)

A clean way to make industrial polymers adhesive is urgently needed. Now, a team at Osaka University has achieved just that. They have developed a suite of plas...

New composite advances lignin as a renewable 3D printing material

Dec 27, 2018 (SPX)

The discovery, detailed in Science Advances, expands ORNL's achievements in lowering the cost of bioproducts by creating novel uses for lignin - the material le...

A major step closer to a viable recording material for future hard disk drives

Dec 27, 2018 (SPX)

Perpendicular recording HDDs store data as tiny areas of "up" or "down" magnetization within a thin layer on the surfaces of the disks. Each tiny area represent...

'Frozen' copper behaves as noble metal in catalysis: study

Dec 27, 2018 (SPX)

A team led by Dr. SUN Jian of the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) gives a positive answer. The team's recen...

Sustainable 'plastics' are on the horizon

Dec 27, 2018 (SPX)

The invention was the fruit of a multidisciplinary collaboration between Dr. Alexander Golberg of TAU's Porter School of Environmental and Earth Sciences and Pr...

Finding ways to protect crews from the effects of space radiation

Dec 21, 2018 (SPX)

A new experiment aboard the International Space Station, The Growth of Large, Perfect Protein Crystals for Neutron Crystallography (Perfect Crystals) study, aim...

NASA industry team creates and demonstrates first quantum sensor for satellite gravimetry

Dec 21, 2018 (SPX)

The prototype sensor, developed in collaboration with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, employs a revolutionary measurement technique c...

Droplet clustering inside clouds confirmed by airborne digital holography

Dec 21, 2018 (SPX)

For 20 years, atmospheric scientists have conjectured that water droplets do indeed cluster inside clouds, largely owing to the knowledge that turbulent airflow...

Raytheon awarded $114M for AN/SPY-6V radar integration, production

Dec 20, 2018 (UPI)

The contract, announced Wednesday by the Department of Defense, covers support for combat system integration, testing, engineering and maintenance, as well as t...

New type of low-energy nanolaser that shines in all directions

Dec 19, 2018 (SPX)

Lack of control of the variables determining the response of a system is usually seen as a curse in science and technology. But what about a slight pinch of imp...

New megalibrary approach proves useful for the rapid discovery of new materials

Dec 19, 2018 (SPX)

The options are nearly infinite, particularly at the nanoscale (a nanometer is one-billionth of a meter) where material properties - optical, structural, electr...

Celestia wins major ESA contract for UK

Dec 19, 2018 (SPX)

The three-year programme will create a fully electronic scanning (eScan) ground station, capable of tracking and communicating simultaneously with multi satelli...

Data storage using individual molecules

Dec 19, 2018 (SPX)

Around the world, researchers are attempting to shrink data storage devices to achieve as large a storage capacity in as small a space as possible. In almost al...

System monitors radiation damage to materials in real-time

Dec 19, 2018 (SPX)

Now, researchers at MIT and Sandia National Laboratories have developed, tested, and made available a new system that can monitor radiation-induced changes cont...

The stiffest porous lightweight materials ever

Dec 17, 2018 (SPX)

A research team from ETH Zurich and MIT led by Dirk Mohr, Professor of Computational Modeling of Materials in Manufacturing, has developed and fabricated materi...

NYU researchers pioneer machine learning to speed chemical discoveries, reduce waste

Dec 17, 2018 (SPX)

Now, researchers at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering are tapping a new set of capabilities in this field of artificial intelligence, combining artificial ne...

Astroscale enters technical cooperation with European Space Agency

Dec 13, 2018 (SPX)

There are more than 750 000 pieces of debris larger than 1 cm in size in Earth orbit today; any impact with a functioning satellite, like those used for vital t...

FEFU young scientists developed unique method to calculate transparent materials porosity

Dec 13, 2018 (SPX)

Scientists of the Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) have used a unique mathematical model to calculate the data of 3D images of defects in the volume of tra...

Physicists edge closer to controlling chemical reactions

Dec 13, 2018 (SPX)

This refers to the probability that an electron will bypass the potential barrier and escape from its parent molecule. The new algorithm, presented in a paper i...

Green production of chemicals for industry

Dec 13, 2018 (SPX)

But they are expensive and, hence, have been economically unattractive so far. Researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have now developed a new b...