TECH SPACE - NANO DAILY

Sweden gives go-ahead for controversial mining project

Mar 22, 2022 (AFP)

Jokkmokk Iron Mines, a British-owned company that filed an application for the Kallak mine in 2013, is eyeing Sweden's largest-known cache of untapped quartz-ba...

DARPA gives new life to old concrete structures through vascularization

Mar 18, 2022 (SPX)

Missile silos and naval piers, for example, are often many decades old and not easily replaced, and the DoD relies on concrete airfield pavements that are subje...

New toolkit aids discovery of mineral deposits crucial to 'green economy' transition

Mar 17, 2022 (SPX)

A study led by Lawrence Carter from the University of Exeter's Camborne School of Mines, has given fascinating new insights into how to discover porphyry-type c...

Beyond Gravity boosts its capacity for satellite dispenser systems in Linkoping and creates 60 new jobs with new production facility

Mar 17, 2022 (SPX)

Beyond Gravity is the world's leading manufacturer for dispensers used for satellite constellations where multiple satellites of the same design are launched in...

NASA adds giant new dish to communicate with deep space missions

Mar 17, 2022 (JPL)

Called Deep Space Station 53, or DSS-53, the 111-foot (34-meter) antenna is part of NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN). It's now operational at the network's facil...

Spire Global signs deal with NorthStar Earth and Space for a dedicated constellation

Mar 17, 2022 (SPX)

With this dedicated constellation, NorthStar will be able to monitor space from space, delivering timely and precise orbit determination, collision avoidance, n...

Unlimited 3D printing for space

Mar 17, 2022 (ESA)

What is also known as 'Additive manufacturing' is an essential enabling technology for deep space crewed missions. Built to operate in weightlessness - meaning ...

Scientists, undergraduates team up to protect astronauts from radiation

Mar 15, 2022 (SPX)

Their story is an epic tale of twirling streams of gas larger than humans can really imagine. But, like most astronomical phenomena, the Magellanic Clouds are f...

Amid NFT boom, artists worry about climate costs

Mar 14, 2022 (AFP)

But when the South African started thinking about selling his work as crypto-art on a blockchain, he hesitated. "I'm not fully for it because of the energy cons...

The untapped nitrogen reservoir

Mar 10, 2022 (SPX)

No growth without nitrogen Nitrogen is an important component of all living organisms, and no growth is possible without nitrogen uptake. Although almost 80 per...

Tiny switches give solid-state LiDAR record resolution

Mar 10, 2022 (SPX)

Since a then, inexpensive, chip-based cameras and radar systems have moved into the mainstream for collision avoidance and autonomous highway driving. Yet, LiDA...

Chile: Copper, quakes and inequality

Mar 09, 2022 (AFP)

But Chile looks set to embark on a new path of greater social equality as leftist Gabriel Boric takes over the presidency on Friday with the country at a crossr...

Why people rush for iodine tablets over nuclear, cancer risk

Mar 08, 2022 (AFP)

France said it would send 2.5 million doses of the chemical compound to Ukraine after Russian forces there seized the defunct Chernobyl nuclear site and damaged...

NeoPhotonics offers ultra-narrow linewidth laser for LEO satellites

Mar 08, 2022 (SPX)

NeoPhotonics' current Nano-ITLA laser is in high volume production for terrestrial fiber optics applications and is used by many of the leading optical networki...

Using NB-IoT connectivity to boost hybrid terrestrial-satellite networks

Mar 07, 2022 (SPX)

In addition to cost reduction, when compared with existing satellite connectivity, the solution being developed by Alif and OQ is expected to be superior due to...

Bendy robotic arm twisted into shape with help of augmented reality

Mar 07, 2022 (SPX)

Instead of being constrained by rigid limbs and firm joints, the versatile arm is readily bendable into a wide variety of shapes. In practice, people working al...

Neural networks behind social media can consume an infinite amount of energy

Mar 07, 2022 (SPX)

These networks are frequently used in social media, streaming, online gaming and areas where users are targeted with posts, movies, fun games or other content t...

'Chemical recycling' of plastic slammed by environmental group

Mar 07, 2022 (AFP)

Advanced recycling, also known as chemical recycling, is a relatively new technique touted by industry groups that breaks plastic down to its molecular building...

Robotic OSAM-1 mission completes its Critical Design Review

Mar 04, 2022 (SPX)

NASA and Maxar Technologies successfully completed the mission CDR in February 2022, less than a year after the same milestone was reached for the mission's spa...

Scientists think an old rocket just hit the Moon going 5,800 mph

Mar 04, 2022 (AFP)

According to orbital calculations, a rocket hurtling through space for years crashed into the Moon on Friday, but the strike wasn't directly observed, and there...