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A new 'periodic table' for nanomaterials![]() Kyoto, Japan (SPX) Jul 24, 2018 The approach was developed by Daniel Packwood of Kyoto University's Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) and Taro Hitosugi of the Tokyo Institute of Technology. It involves connecting the chemical properties of molecules with the nanostructures that form as a result of their interaction. A machine learning technique generates data that is then used to develop a diagram that categorizes different molecules according to the nano-sized shapes they form. This approach could help mat ... read more |
Physicists uncover why nanomaterial loses superconductivitySalt Lake City UT (SPX) Jul 17, 2018 The struggle to keep drinks cold during the summer is a lesson in classical phase transitions. To study phase transitions, apply heat to a substance and watch how its properties change. Add heat to ... more
Squeezing light at the nanoscaleBoston MA (SPX) Jun 18, 2018 Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a new technique to squeeze infrared light into ultra-confined spaces, generating an intens ... more
A new way to measure energy in microscopic machinesWashington DC (SPX) Jun 11, 2018 What drives cells to live and engines to move? It all comes down to a quantity that scientists call "free energy," essentially the energy that can be extracted from any system to perform useful work ... more
AI-based method could speed development of specialized nanoparticlesBoston MA (SPX) Jun 04, 2018 A new technique developed by MIT physicists could someday provide a way to custom-design multilayered nanoparticles with desired properties, potentially for use in displays, cloaking systems, or bio ... more |
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Making massive leaps in electronics at nano-scaleJohannesburg, South Africa (SPX) May 31, 2018 Researchers at the University of the Witwatersrand have found ways to control the spin transport in networks of the smallest electrical conductor known to man. By chemically attaching nano-par ... more
Columbia researchers squeeze light into nanoscale devices and circuitsNew York NY (SPX) May 29, 2018 As electronic devices and circuits shrink into the nanoscale, the ability to transfer data on a chip, at low power with little energy loss, is becoming a critical challenge. Over the past decade, sq ... more
Novel method to fabricate nanoribbons from speeding nano dropletsUlsan, Korea (SPX) May 29, 2018 An international team of researchers, affiliated with UNIST has discovered a novel method for the synthesis of ultrathin semiconductors. This is a unique growth mechanism, which yielded nanoscopic s ... more
Valves for tiny particlesZurich, Switzerland (SPX) May 27, 2018 Researchers from ETH Zurich have developed tiny valves that enable individual nanoparticles in liquids to be separated and sorted. The valves can be used for a very broad range of tiny particles, in ... more
NIST puts the optical microscope under the microscope to achieve atomic accuracyWashington DC (SPX) May 28, 2018 Over the last two decades, scientists have discovered that the optical microscope can be used to detect, track and image objects much smaller than their traditional limit - about half the wavelength ... more |
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Porous materials make it possible to have nanotechnology under controlAndalusia, Spain (SPX) May 21, 2018 Half metal, half organic structure, like Robocop himself, is the material known as MOF, short for Metal Organic Framework. MOF has been developed by scientists and applied to a myriad of products fr ... more |
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A new Bose-Einstein condensate created at Aalto UniversityHelsinki, Finland (SPX) Apr 22, 2018 Nearly a hundred years ago, Albert Einstein and Satyendra Nath Bose predicted that quantum mechanics can force a large number of particles to behave in concert as if they were only a single particle ... more
Course set to overcome mismatch between lab-designed nanomaterials and nature's complexityWashington DC (SPX) Apr 22, 2018 Cells and the machinery they encase are soft matter - shape-shifting multicomponent systems with an overwhelming richness of forms. But, these squishy packages are hard targets for potential therape ... more
Robot developed for automated assembly of designer nanomaterialsTokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 19, 2018 A current area of intense interest in nanotechnology is van der Waals heterostructures, which are assemblies of atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) crystalline materials that display attractive con ... more
This 2-D nanosheet expands like a Grow MonsterBuffalo NY (SPX) Apr 19, 2018 Grow Monsters. Expandable water toys. Whatever you call them, they're plastic-like figurines that swell when placed in water. New materials science research borrows from this concept; only ins ... more
A treasure trove for nanotechnology expertsLausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 21, 2018 2D materials, which consist of a few layers of atoms, may well be the future of nanotechnology. They offer potential new applications and could be used in small, higher-performance and more energy-e ... more |
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At 60, NASA shoots for revival of moon glory days Tampa (AFP) July 27, 2018
Sixty years ago, spurred by competition with the Soviet Union, the United States created NASA, launching a journey that would take Americans to the moon within a decade.
Since then, the US space agency has seen glorious achievements and crushing failures in its drive to push the frontiers of space exploration, including a fatal launch pad fire in 1967 that killed three and two deadly shuttle ... more |
China developing in-orbit satellite transport vehicle Beijing (XNA) Jul 23, 2018
China is developing a space vehicle to help transport orbiting satellites that have run out of fuel, Science and Technology Daily reported Thursday.
Fuel is a key factor limiting the life of satellites. Most satellites function for years after entering orbit, but eventually, they have to end their missions and burn up into the atmosphere due to fuel exhaustion.
The vehicle is being d ... more |
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US, Australia work to improve cyber capabilities Washington (AFP) July 24, 2018 The United States and Australia have signed an agreement that will enable the two allies to conduct research and development to advance their combined cyber capabilities, officials said Tuesday.
Nowhere "is the need for innovation more critical than in cyber, which continues to be a pervasive threat to our militaries and to our businesses," Australian Defence Minister Marise Payne said at a ... more |
At 60, NASA shoots for revival of moon glory days Tampa (AFP) July 27, 2018
Sixty years ago, spurred by competition with the Soviet Union, the United States created NASA, launching a journey that would take Americans to the moon within a decade.
Since then, the US space agency has seen glorious achievements and crushing failures in its drive to push the frontiers of space exploration, including a fatal launch pad fire in 1967 that killed three and two deadly shuttle ... more |
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A new 'periodic table' for nanomaterials Kyoto, Japan (SPX) Jul 24, 2018
The approach was developed by Daniel Packwood of Kyoto University's Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) and Taro Hitosugi of the Tokyo Institute of Technology. It involves connecting the chemical properties of molecules with the nanostructures that form as a result of their interaction.
A machine learning technique generates data that is then used to develop a diagram t ... more |
Preparing to fly the wind mission Aeolus Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Jul 25, 2018
The launch of Aeolus - ESA's mission to map Earth's wind in real-time - is getting tantalisingly close, with the satellite due for lift-off on 21 August from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. With the wind in their sails, mission teams are busily preparing this unique satellite for its upcoming journey.
Aeolus will carry a sophisticated atmospheric laser Doppler instrument, dubb ... more |
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A new 'periodic table' for nanomaterials Kyoto, Japan (SPX) Jul 24, 2018
The approach was developed by Daniel Packwood of Kyoto University's Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) and Taro Hitosugi of the Tokyo Institute of Technology. It involves connecting the chemical properties of molecules with the nanostructures that form as a result of their interaction.
A machine learning technique generates data that is then used to develop a diagram t ... more |
Russia Mulls Sending Two of Its FEDOR Humanoid Robots Into Space Next Year Moscow (Sputnik) Jul 23, 2018
The ambitious FEDOR project has received a number of upgrades in recent years, with plans to make the robots self-learning and even to use them to create colonies on the moon and fly solo space missions in the early 2020s.
A source in the Russian space and rocketry industry has told Sputnik that a team of two FEDOR (Russian acronym Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research) robots m ... more |
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Insitu awarded contract for RQ-21 unmanned aerial vehicles Washington (UPI) Jul 24, 2018
Insitu has received an $8.9 million order for spare parts and maintenance services for an existing contract for RQ-21A unmanned aerial vehicles.
Work on the contract, announced Monday by the Department of Defense, will be performed in Bingen, Wash., and is expected to be completed by March 2019. Marine Corps fiscal 2017 procurement funds in the amount of $8.9 million will be obligated a ... more |
Writing the future of rewritable memory Edmonton, Canada (SPX) Jul 27, 2018
Scientists at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada have created the most dense, solid-state memory in history that could soon exceed the capabilities of current hard drives by 1,000 times.
Faced with the question of how to respond to the ever-increasing needs of our data-driven society, the answer for a team of scientists was simple: more memory, less space. Finding the way to do ... more |
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Researchers unravel more mysteries of metallic hydrogen Rochester NY (SPX) Jul 24, 2018
Metallic hydrogen is one of the rarest materials on Earth, yet more than 80 percent of planets - including Jupiter, Saturn, and hundreds of extrasolar planets - are composed of this exotic form of matter.
Its abundance in our solar system - despite its rarity on Earth - makes metallic hydrogen an intriguing focus for researchers at the University of Rochester's Laboratory of Laser Energeti ... more |
Tibet bans religious activities for students Beijing (AFP) July 24, 2018
Students in Tibet have been banned from taking part in religious activities over the summer holidays, Chinese state media reported Tuesday.
The ban will fall hard on Tibet's large Buddhist community, already under pressure as Chinese President Xi Jinping tightens controls over religious observance.
The school regulations apply to all "underage students" in Tibet, the state-run Global Tim ... more |
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World's fastest man-made spinning object could help study quantum mechanics West Lafayette IN (SPX) Jul 23, 2018
Researchers have created the fastest man-made rotor in the world, which they believe will help them study quantum mechanics.
At more than 60 billion revolutions per minute, this machine is more than 100,000 times faster than a high-speed dental drill.
"This study has many applications, including material science," said Tongcang Li, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy, and ... more |
GRAVITY Confirms Predictions of General Relativity Near Galactic Center Paris, France (SPX) Jul 27, 2018
Observations made with the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) have, for the first time, detected the effects of general relativity predicted by Einstein, in the movement of a star passing into the intense gravitational field of Sagittarius A*, a massive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way.
These results were obtained by the GRAVITY consortium, led b ... more |
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NRL increases UAV endurance with Solar Soaring technology Washington DC (SPX) Jul 26, 2018
Researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory are developing technology for unmanned aerial vehicles that has given them the ability to fly for more than 12 hours by harvesting energy from the atmosphere and the sun.
Solar-Soaring is a pair of endurance enhancer technologies. They aid the warfighter by enabling a UAV to fly longer without carrying extra weight in batteries.
"One ... more |
Rockwell Collins and Iridium Partner to Deliver Next-Generation Aviation Services McLean VA (SPX) Jul 24, 2018
Iridium Communications Inc. has announced Rockwell Collins as the newest Iridium Certus service provider for the aviation industry. Rockwell Collins will be adding the service to its comprehensive suite of aircraft connectivity applications for commercial, government and ARINCDirect business customers.
In addition to being a service provider, Rockwell Collins is also a value added manufact ... more |
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