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February 19, 2018
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Fast-spinning spheres show nanoscale systems' secrets



Houston TX (SPX) Feb 15, 2018
Spin a merry-go-round fast enough and the riders fly off in all directions. But the spinning particles in a Rice University lab do just the opposite. Experiments in the Rice lab of chemical engineer Sibani Lisa Biswal show micron-sized spheres coming together under the influence of a rapidly spinning magnetic field. That's no surprise because the particles themselves are magnetized. But how they come together is of interest as the particles first gather into a disorganized aggregated cluster and t ... read more

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Scalable and cost-effective manufacturing of thin film devices
New Brunswick, NJ (SPX) Feb 15, 2018
Engineers at Rutgers University-New Brunswick and Oregon State University are developing a new method of processing nanomaterials that could lead to faster and cheaper manufacturing of flexible thin ... more
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Scientists observe nanowires as they grow
Hamburg, Germany (SPX) Feb 15, 2018
At DESY's X-ray source PETRA III, scientists have followed the growth of tiny wires of gallium arsenide live. Their observations reveal exact details of the growth process responsible for the evolvi ... more
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More-sensitive DNA nanowires promise better measurements of biological processes
Washington (UPI) Feb 12, 2018
Scientists have developed a new, gold-tipped nanowire that is 100 times more sensitive than previous versions of the technology. The nanowires could be used to more precisely measure multiple biological processes at the same time. ... more
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Ultra-efficient removal of carbon monoxide using gold nanoparticles on a molecular support
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 15, 2018
Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a way to mount gold nanoparticles on a molecular support known as a polyoxometalate (POM). They successfully applied this to realize nea ... more


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On the rebound as nanoparticles self-heal
Lemont IL (SPX) Feb 02, 2018
Our bodies have a remarkable ability to heal from broken ankles or dislocated wrists. Now, a new study has shown that some nanoparticles can also "self-heal" after experiencing intense strain, once ... more
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Let the good tubes roll
Richland WA (SPX) Feb 01, 2018
Materials scientists, led by a team at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, designed a tiny tube that rolls up and zips closed. These hollow nanotubes are thousand ... more
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Touchy nanotubes work better when clean
Houston TX (SPX) Feb 01, 2018
Carbon nanotubes bound for electronics need to be as clean as possible to maximize their utility in next-generation nanoscale devices, and scientists at Rice and Swansea universities have found a wa ... more
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Piecework at the nano assembly line
Munich, Germany (SPX) Feb 05, 2018
Scientists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed a novel electric propulsion technology for nanorobots. It allows molecular machines to move a hundred thousand times faster than ... more
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Optical nanoscope allows imaging of quantum dots
Basel, Switzerland (SPX) Feb 03, 2018
Physicists have developed a technique based on optical microscopy that can be used to create images of atoms on the nanoscale. In particular, the new method allows the imaging of quantum dots in a s ... more
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Ultra-thin optical fibers offer new way to 3-D print microstructures
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 19, 2018
For the first time, researchers have shown that an optical fiber as thin as a human hair can be used to create microscopic structures with laser-based 3D printing. The innovative approach might one ... more
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Building molecular wires, one atom at a time
Onna, Japan (SPX) Jan 19, 2018
Electronic devices are getting smaller and smaller. Early computers filled entire rooms. Today you can hold one in the palm of your hand. Now the field of molecular electronics is taking miniaturiza ... more
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Nanowrinkles could save billions in shipping and aquaculture
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 19, 2018
A team of chemistry researchers from the University of Sydney Nano Institute has developed nanostructured surface coatings that have anti-fouling properties without using any toxic components. ... more
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Nanotube fibers in a jiffy
Houston TX (SPX) Jan 15, 2018
The terms "handmade" and "high tech" are not commonly found in the same sentence, but they both apply to a Rice University method to quickly produce fibers from carbon nanotubes. The method develope ... more
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Silver nanoparticles take spectroscopy to new dimension
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 03, 2018
As medicine and pharmacology investigate nanoscale processes, it has become increasingly important to identify and characterize different molecules. Raman spectroscopy, a technique that leverages th ... more


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A 100-fold leap to GigaDalton DNA nanotech
Boston MA (SPX) Dec 14, 2017
DNA, present in almost every cell, is increasingly being used as a building material to construct tiny, but sophisticated structures such as autonomous 'DNA walkers' that can move along a microparti ... more
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Discovery sets new world standard in nano generators
Edmonton, Canada (SPX) Dec 18, 2017
A team of University of Alberta engineers developed a new way to produce electrical power that can charge handheld devices or sensors that monitor anything from pipelines to medical implants. ... more
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New nanowires are just a few atoms thick
Boston MA (SPX) Dec 07, 2017
"Two-dimensional materials" - materials deposited in layers that are only a few atoms thick - are promising for both high-performance electronics and flexible, transparent electronics that could be ... more
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Physicists explain metallic conductivity of thin carbon nanotube films
Moscow, Russia (SPX) Nov 30, 2017
An international team of researchers from MIPT; Lebedev Physical Institute, RAS; Prokhorov General Physics Institute, RAS; Skoltech; and Aalto University (Finland) has examined the optical and diele ... more
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Semiconducting carbon nanotubes can reduce noise in interconnects
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 27, 2017
Crosstalk and noise can become a major source of reliability problems of CNT based VLSI interconnects in the near future. Downscaling of component size in integrated circuits (ICs) to nanometer scal ... more
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Ceria nanoparticles: It is the surface that matters
Karlsruher, Germany (SPX) ov 27, 2017
Exhaust gas cleaning of passenger cars, power generation from sunlight, or water splitting: In the future, these and other applications may profit from new findings relating to ceria. At Karlsruhe I ... more
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NASA's OSIRIS-REx Captures New Earth-Moon Image
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 15, 2018
As part of an engineering test, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captured this image of the Earth and Moon using its NavCam1 imager on January 17 from a distance of 39.5 million miles (63.6 million km). When the camera acquired the image, the spacecraft was moving away from home at a speed of 19,000 miles per hour (8.5 kilometers per second). Earth is the largest, brightest spot in the center ... more
+ NASA's Lunar Outpost will Extend Human Presence in Deep Space
+ New study sheds light on moon's slow retreat from frozen Earth
+ India Prepares For Second Lunar Mission with Chandrayaan-2
+ UCF Seeks New Way to Mine Moon for Water
+ Chinese volunteers spend 200 days on virtual 'moon base'
+ CubeSats for hunting secrets in lunar darkness
+ Russia at work on new station, lunar trips: says top rocket scientist
Long March rockets on ambitious mission in 2018
Xichang, China (XNA) Feb 15, 2018
The Long March-3B rocket launched Monday from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province marked the seventh successful mission of the Long March rocket series since the beginning of 2018. The year 2018 will be an ambitious year for China's space program, with the largest number of Long March rocket launches. According to Cen Zheng, rocket system command ... more
+ Chinese taikonauts maintain indomitable spirit in space exploration: senior officer
+ China launches first shared education satellite
+ China's first X-ray space telescope put into service after in-orbit tests
+ China's first successful lunar laser ranging accomplished
+ Yang Liwei looks back at China's first manned space mission
+ Space agency to pick those with the right stuff
+ China to select astronauts for its space station


Cyberattacks are costly, and things could get worse: US report
Washington (AFP) Feb 16, 2018
Cyberattacks cost the United States between $57 billion and $109 billion in 2016, a White House report said Friday, warning of a "spillover" effect for the broader economy if the situation worsens. A report by the White House Council of Economic Advisers sought to quantify what it called "malicious cyber activity directed at private and public entities" including denial of service attacks, d ... more
+ Thousands of websites infected by 'crypto mining' malware
+ Decisive Analytics awarded $59M contract for missile defense cybersecurity
+ China orders microblog companies to ramp up censorship
+ Data doom: 5 steps from Davos to digital dystopia
+ China calls AU spying report 'preposterous'
+ China tightens screws on social media
+ Canadian professor suspected of spying for China
NASA's OSIRIS-REx Captures New Earth-Moon Image
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 15, 2018
As part of an engineering test, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captured this image of the Earth and Moon using its NavCam1 imager on January 17 from a distance of 39.5 million miles (63.6 million km). When the camera acquired the image, the spacecraft was moving away from home at a speed of 19,000 miles per hour (8.5 kilometers per second). Earth is the largest, brightest spot in the center ... more
+ NASA's Lunar Outpost will Extend Human Presence in Deep Space
+ New study sheds light on moon's slow retreat from frozen Earth
+ India Prepares For Second Lunar Mission with Chandrayaan-2
+ UCF Seeks New Way to Mine Moon for Water
+ Chinese volunteers spend 200 days on virtual 'moon base'
+ CubeSats for hunting secrets in lunar darkness
+ Russia at work on new station, lunar trips: says top rocket scientist
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Fast-spinning spheres show nanoscale systems' secrets
Houston TX (SPX) Feb 15, 2018
Spin a merry-go-round fast enough and the riders fly off in all directions. But the spinning particles in a Rice University lab do just the opposite. Experiments in the Rice lab of chemical engineer Sibani Lisa Biswal show micron-sized spheres coming together under the influence of a rapidly spinning magnetic field. That's no surprise because the particles themselves are magnetized. But ho ... more
+ Scientists observe nanowires as they grow
+ Scalable and cost-effective manufacturing of thin film devices
+ More-sensitive DNA nanowires promise better measurements of biological processes
+ Ultra-efficient removal of carbon monoxide using gold nanoparticles on a molecular support
+ On the rebound as nanoparticles self-heal
+ Optical nanoscope allows imaging of quantum dots
+ Let the good tubes roll
Tracking a typhoon's seismic footprint
Princeton NJ (SPX) Feb 16, 2018
Climatologists are often asked, "Is climate change making hurricanes stronger?" but they can't give a definitive answer because the global hurricane record only goes back to the dawn of the satellite era. But now, an intersection of disciplines - seismology, atmospheric sciences, and oceanography - offers an untapped data source: the continuous seismic record, which dates back to the early 20th ... more
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+ ESA Cluster mission unveils the magnetosphere
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+ Chinese company hitches space ride on UK satellite
+ Ozone at lower latitudes not recovering, despite ozone hole healing


Fast-spinning spheres show nanoscale systems' secrets
Houston TX (SPX) Feb 15, 2018
Spin a merry-go-round fast enough and the riders fly off in all directions. But the spinning particles in a Rice University lab do just the opposite. Experiments in the Rice lab of chemical engineer Sibani Lisa Biswal show micron-sized spheres coming together under the influence of a rapidly spinning magnetic field. That's no surprise because the particles themselves are magnetized. But ho ... more
+ Scientists observe nanowires as they grow
+ Scalable and cost-effective manufacturing of thin film devices
+ More-sensitive DNA nanowires promise better measurements of biological processes
+ Ultra-efficient removal of carbon monoxide using gold nanoparticles on a molecular support
+ On the rebound as nanoparticles self-heal
+ Optical nanoscope allows imaging of quantum dots
+ Let the good tubes roll
Can a cockroach teach a robot how to scurry across rugged terrain?
Baltimore MD (SPX) Feb 14, 2018
When they turn up in family pantries or restaurant kitchens, cockroaches are commonly despised as ugly, unhealthy pests and are quickly killed. But in the name of science, Johns Hopkins researchers have put these unwanted bugs to work. In a crowded, windowless lab, scholars and students are coaxing the insects to share some crucial locomotion tips that could help future robotic vehicles tr ... more
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+ Quantum algorithm could help AI think faster
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+ Army researchers develop new algorithms to train robots
+ Bezos hails Alexa as Amazon profits surge
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Orbital ATK contracted for testing of drone missile targets
Washington (UPI) Feb 15, 2018
Orbital ATK has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Navy for development, testing and evaluation of the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division Ground Launch Drone Missile, or GQM-163A. The contract, announced Wednesday by the Department of Defense, is valued at $79.4 million under a cost-plus-fixed-fee indefinite-delivery indefinite-quantity contract for operation and maintenance sup ... more
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+ Programming drones to fly in the face of uncertainty
+ Alleged Iranian UAV captured by Israel is 'copy' of US' Sentinel UAV
+ Drones showcase wildlife-counting skills in the EpicDuckChallenge
+ Improving drone performance in headwinds
+ L-3 awarded $8.2M for retrofits to Predator simulators
+ General Atomics awarded $49M for Reaper drone software development
Fingerprints of quantum entanglement
Vienna, Austria (SPX) Feb 16, 2018
The ultimate goal of quantum information science is to develop a quantum computer, a fully-fledged controllable device which makes use of the quantum states of subatomic particles to store information. As with all quantum technologies, quantum computing is based on a peculiar feature of quantum mechanics, quantum entanglement. The basic units of quantum information, the qubits, need to cor ... more
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+ Method uses DNA, nanoparticles and lithography to make optically active structures


University Holds Tenth Annual Space Horizons Workshop
Providence RI (SPX) Feb 13, 2018
This past weekend, students, faculty and aerospace professionals gathered in Barus and Holley to participate in the tenth annual Space Horizons workshop. The event focused on the industry's shift toward the private sector, a change that has become increasingly prevalent in recent years. The workshop was designed to provide an informal setting for conversation and interaction with the audie ... more
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+ Last NASA Communications Satellite of its Kind Joins Fleet
+ Self-Driving Servicer Now Baselined for NASA's Restore-L Satellite-Servicing Demonstration
+ Navy turns to Raytheon for aircraft sensor upgrades
+ Advances in lasers get to the long and short of it
+ A new way of generating ultra-short bursts of light
+ Why bees soared and slime flopped as inspirations for systems engineering
MGM China to open mega resort in Macau as high rollers return
Macau (AFP) Feb 15, 2018
MGM China is opening its new multi-billion-dollar mega resort in Macau's glitzy Cotai strip on Tuesday following multiple delays and last-minute hiccups in the government approval process. The launch of the $3.4-billion resort comes as Macau is undergoing something of a renaissance, with gaming revenues bouncing back after being hard hit by a corruption crackdown launched by China's Presiden ... more
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+ Vatican's delicate China mission runs into trouble
+ China says Swedish publisher held under criminal law
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Captured electrons excite nuclei to higher energy states
Lemont IL (SPX) Feb 15, 2018
For the first time, physicists from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and their collaborators, led by a team from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, demonstrated a long-theorized nuclear effect. This advance tests theoretical models that describe how nuclear and atomic realms interact and may also provide new insights into how star elements are created. Phys ... more
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+ Supermassive black holes can feast on one star per year
+ Large Hadron Collider experiment shows potential evidence of quasiparticle sought for decades
+ New technique can capture images of ultrafast energy-time entangled photon pairs
New method enables high-resolution measurements of magnetism
Uppsala, Sweden (SPX) Feb 13, 2018
In a new article, published in Nature Materials, researchers from Beijing, Uppsala and Julich have made significant progress allowing very high resolution magnetic measurements. With their method it is possible to measure magnetism of individual atomic planes. Magnetic nanostructures are used in a wide range of applications. Most notably, to store bits of data in hard drives. These structu ... more
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+ NASA Technology to Help Locate Electromagnetic Counterparts of Gravitational Waves
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United Sun Systems and DoE launch new super cheap solar battery system
Aiken, SC (SPX) Feb 16, 2018
United Sun Systems and the CEO Lars Jacobsson has signed an exclusive license agreement on a high-temperature, metal hydride-based thermal energy storage technology for concentrating solar power, with Savannah River National Laboratory. The technology is based on metal hydride materials that efficiently store thermal energy in the form of chemical bonds and then release that energy when th ... more
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+ Greensmith Energy storage technology selected to deliver reliable solar power in Massachusetts
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+ China's Solar-Powered Drone Test-Fires Missiles in Near Space
+ Cost-reduction roadmap outlines two pathways to meet DOE residential solar cost target for 2030
+ Researchers discover new lead-free perovskite material for solar cells
Airbus and human spaceflight: from Spacelab to Orion
Noordwijk, Netherlands (SPX) Feb 13, 2018
Thirty-four years ago, Spacelab was placed in orbit, paving the way for Europe's human spaceflight programme. It began a legacy of pioneering technology that includes the ATVs, Columbus and the Orion European Service Module. Spacelab's launch on 28 November 1983 was the first of 22 Spacelab missions involving cutting-edge scientific experiments in fields such as new materials, processing o ... more
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+ 2018 in Space - Progress and Promise
+ UK companies seek cooperation with Russia in space technologies
+ GovSat-1 Successfully Launched on SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket
+ Brexit prompts EU to move satellite site to Spain
+ Europe's space agency braces for Brexit fallout
+ Xenesis and ATLAS partner to develop global optical network
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