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NASA Selects High Performance Spaceflight Computing (HPSC) Processor Contract

Mar 27, 2017 (SPX)

NASA has selected Boeing Company in St. Louis for the High Performance Spaceflight Computing Processor (Chiplet) contract for the development of prototype Chipl...

Argon is not the 'dope' for metallic hydrogen

Mar 27, 2017 (SPX)

Hydrogen is both the simplest and the most-abundant element in the universe, so studying it can teach scientists about the essence of matter. And yet there are ...

Invention May Give Spacecraft Improved Damage Report

Mar 27, 2017 (SPX)

There are few ways for astronauts to know exactly when the outside of their spacecraft has been damaged, but that may change in the future with an invention tha...

Turning to Chemistry for New Computing Concepts

Mar 27, 2017 (SPX)

As the complexity and volume of global digital data grows, so too does the need for more capable and compact means of processing and storing data. To address th...

Scientists aim to create self-propelling liquid, a new kind of matter

Mar 24, 2017 (UPI)

Researchers at Brandeis University in Massachusetts are inching close to the creation of a new kind of matter -- a self-propelling liquid. Scientists at Brandei...

Pulverizing electronic waste is green, clean - and cold

Mar 23, 2017 (SPX)

Researchers at Rice University and the Indian Institute of Science have an idea to simplify electronic waste recycling: Crush it into nanodust. Specifically, th...

ADATS could assist X-planes with large, super-fast data transmission

Mar 23, 2017 (SPX)

A network and communication architecture that can more efficiently move data from research aircraft, while using half the bandwidth of traditional methods, coul...

New study maps space dust in 3-D

Mar 23, 2017 (SPX)

Berkeley Lab-led research raises new questions about properties of dust in local and distant reaches of Milky Way. Consider that the Earth is just a giant cosmi...

Rare-earths become water-repellent only as they age

Mar 23, 2017 (SPX)

Surfaces that have been coated with rare earth oxides develop water-repelling properties only after contact with air. Even at room temperature, chemical reactio...

Researchers use light to remotely control curvature of plastics

Mar 23, 2017 (SPX)

Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a technique that uses light to get two-dimensional (2-D) plastic sheets to curve into three-dimens...

Molecular 'treasure maps' to help discover new materials

Mar 23, 2017 (SPX)

Scientists at the University of Southampton working with colleagues at the University of Liverpool have developed a new method which has the potential to revolu...

Visualizing nuclear radiation

Mar 23, 2017 (SPX)

Extraordinary decontamination efforts are underway in areas affected by the 2011 nuclear accidents in Japan. The creation of total radioactivity maps is essenti...

Why water splashes: New theory reveals secrets

Mar 21, 2017 (SPX)

New research from the University of Warwick generates fresh insight into how a raindrop or spilt coffee splashes. Dr James Sprittles from the Mathematics Instit...

'Flying saucer' quantum dots hold secret to brighter, better lasers

Mar 21, 2017 (SPX)

Fresh insights into living cells, brighter video projectors and more accurate medical tests are just three of the innovations that could result from a new way o...

Transparent ceramics make super-hard windows

Mar 21, 2017 (SPX)

Scientists have synthesised the first transparent sample of a popular industrial ceramic at DESY. The result is a super-hard window made of cubic silicon nitrid...

How fullerite becomes harder than diamond

Mar 21, 2017 (SPX)

Physicists have simulated the structure of a new material based on fullerite and single crystal diamond to show how this material can obtain ultrahigh hardness....

Airbus ships first high-power all-electric EUTELSAT 172B satellite to Kourou for Eutelsat

Mar 17, 2017 (SPX)

EUTELSAT 172B, the first high power all-electric telecommunications satellite, is now ready for shipment on 20 March from the Airbus satellite assembly facility...

Next-gen steel under the microscope

Mar 17, 2017 (SPX)

Next-generation steel and metal alloys are a step closer to reality, thanks to an international research project involving a University of Queensland scientist....

Groundbreaking process for creating ultra-selective separation membranes

Mar 17, 2017 (SPX)

A team of researchers, led by the University of Minnesota, has developed a groundbreaking one-step, crystal growth process for making ultra-thin layers of mater...

Using lasers to create ultra-short pulses

Mar 17, 2017 (SPX)

Physicists at Friedrich-Alexander Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg (FAU) have entered new territory with regard to the pulsing of electron beams. Their method coul...