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Discovery of a new structure family of oxide-ion conductors SrYbInO4

Oct 26, 2017 (SPX)

Many researchers have investigated the optical, electrical, and magnetic properties of CaFe2O4-type materials, but the CaFe2O4-type pure oxide-ion conductors ha...

Laser beams for superconductivity

Oct 26, 2017 (SPX)

It is well known that this compound, with the chemical formula K3C60, can behave as a superconductor - that is, conduct without dissipating energy - below a cri...

Canadian SAR aircraft to feature Elta Systems radars

Oct 24, 2017 (UPI)

The ELM-2022 is multi-mode radar for detection, localization, classification, and tracking of targets over water and land in all weather conditions. It is made ...

Xenesis Licenses Cutting Edge IP from NASA/JPL

Oct 24, 2017 (SPX)

The agreement allows Xenesis to license NASA/JPL optical hardware, which will lead the global communications industry into the next technological era. The inven...

Using space to study ultra-cold materials

Oct 24, 2017 (SPX)

University of Virginia physicist Cass Sackett is part of the mission. "We will make use of the near-weightless conditions of orbit to help us suspend atoms, slo...

High field magnet at BER II offers Insights into a hidden order

Oct 23, 2017 (SPX)

At temperatures below 17.5 Kelvin, a new internal order emerges: Something in the material orders in some yet undisclosed way, releasing a certain amount of hea...

Turning a material upside down can sometimes make it softer

Oct 20, 2017 (SPX)

This is the result of the interaction between the localised flexoelectric polarisation caused by the mechanical stress gradient of the indentation, on the one h...

Solid or liquid? Researcher proposes a new definition of glass

Oct 20, 2017 (SPX)

A more elaborate alternative definition is this: "Glass is a non-equilibrium, non-crystalline condensed state of matter that exhibits a glass transition. The st...

Two-dimensional materials gets a new theory for control of properties

Oct 20, 2017 (SPX)

Two-dimensional (2D) materials have been the focus of intense study in the last decade, but prior to the work of Yuanxi Wang, a recent Penn State doctoral gradu...

These headsets are made for walking over Mars

Oct 20, 2017 (JPL)

Starting today, everyone can get a taste of what that feels like. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, collaborated with Google to produce ...

Electrode materials from the microwave oven

Oct 19, 2017 (SPX)

Hope is pink: The powder that Jennifer Ludwig carefully pours into a glass bowl and which glows pink in the light of the laboratory lamp has the potential to si...

New material for digital memories of the future

Oct 19, 2017 (SPX)

The phenomenon can be used for small and flexible digital memories of the future, and for completely new types of solar cells. In an article published in the pr...

Stiff fibers spun from slime

Oct 19, 2017 (SPX)

These small worm-like animals, which look like a cross between an earthworm and a caterpillar, spray a sticky liquid to ward off enemies or catch prey that is p...

The drop that's good to the very end

Oct 18, 2017 (SPX)

"We've identified a splashing behavior that nobody's seen before," said Yannis Hardalupas, one of the authors of this new research appearing in a cover article ...

Study shows how rough microparticles can cause big problems

Oct 18, 2017 (SPX)

"We heard about problems companies were having with pumping suspensions and became curious about what was causing these problems," says Lilian Hsiao, an assista...

Missing link between new topological phases of matter discovered

Oct 18, 2017 (SPX)

The HZB researchers studied crystalline semiconductor films made of a lead, tin, and selenium alloy (PbSnSe) that were doped additionally with tiny amounts of t...

Chemical treatment improves quantum dot lasers

Oct 18, 2017 (SPX)

"When we properly tailor the compositional profile within the particles during their fabrication, and then inject two or more electrons in each dot, they become...

Dutch open 'world's first 3D-printed bridge'

Oct 17, 2017 (AFP)

There was applause as officials wearing hard hats and workmen's jackets rode over the bridge on their bikes at the inauguration in the southeastern town of Geme...

Marines test system to 3D-print spare parts in the field

Oct 16, 2017 (UPI)

The U.S. Marines said the unit is the 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment at Camp Lejuene, N.C., which has been testing how the system can be employed in various...

Space radiation won't stop NASA's human exploration

Oct 16, 2017 (SPX)

"Some people think that radiation will keep NASA from sending people to Mars, but that's not the current situation," said, Pat Troutman, NASA Human Exploration ...