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  Usurbil, Spain (SPX) Apr 23, 2019 Compared to so-far used global heating schemes, which are slow and energy-costly, light-controlled heating, using optical degrees of freedom such as light wavelength, polarisation, and power, allows to implement local, efficient, and fast heating schemes for the use in nanomagnetic computation or to quantify collective emergent phenomena in artificial spin systems. Single-domain nanoscale magnets interacting via contactless magneto-static interactions are key metamaterials for magnetic data storag ... read more |
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2D gold quantum dots are atomically tunable with nanotubesHoughton, MI (SPX) Apr 17, 2019 Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors are promising for quantum computing and future electronics. Now, researchers can convert metallic gold into semiconductor and customize the material atom-by-atom ... more 
Harnessing microorganisms for smart microsystemsToyohashi, Japan (SPX) Apr 16, 2019 A research team at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Toyohashi University of Technology has developed a method to construct a biohybrid system that incorporates Vorticella microorganisms. ... more 
AD alloyed nanoantennas for temperature-feedback identification of viruses and explosivesVladivostok, Russia (SPX) Apr 03, 2019 Scientists of Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) in collaboration with colleagues from Far Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (FEB RAS), ITMO University and Swinburne University of Tec ... more 
Quantum optical cooling of nanoparticlesVienna, Austria (SPX) Apr 03, 2019 Tightly focused laser beams can act as optical "tweezers" to trap and manipulate tiny objects, from glass particles to living cells. The development of this method has earned Arthur Ashkin the last ... more |
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Breakthrough nanoscience discovery made on flight from New York to JerusalemJerusalem (SPX) Feb 20, 2019 Professor Uri Banin, founder of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and his colleagues Professor Richard Robinson and Professor Tobias Hanrath at Cornell ... more 
Customized mix of materials for three-dimensional micro- and nanostructuresKarlsruher, Germany (SPX) Feb 14, 2019 Three-dimensional structures on the micrometer and nanometer scales have a great potential for many applications. An efficient and precise process to print such structures from different materials i ... more 
Nano drops a million times smaller than a teardrop explodes 19th century theoryWarwick UK (SPX) Feb 13, 2019 Droplets emanating from a molecular "nano-tap" would behave very differently from those from a household tap 1 million times larger - researchers at the University of Warwick have found. This is pot ... more 
Rice lab adds porous envelope to aluminum plasmonicsHouston TX (SPX) Feb 11, 2019 When Rice University chemist and engineer Hossein Robatjazi set out to marry a molecular sieve called MOF to a plasmonic aluminum nanoparticle two years ago, he never imagined the key would be the s ... more 
Research details sticky situations at the nanoscaleProvidence RI (SPX) Feb 08, 2019 Brown University researchers have made a discovery about the way things stick together at tiny scales that could be helpful in engineering micro- and nanoscale devices. In a series of papers, ... more |
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Aerosol-assisted biosynthesis strategy enables functional bulk nanocompositesBeijing, China (SPX) Jan 29, 2019 In the movie Avengers: Infinity War, one of the coolest scenes occurs when Iron Man activates his nanotech armor and controls nanoparticles to form the armor upon his skin. Actually, developing such ... more  |
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Platinum forms nano-bubblesHamburg, Germany (SPX) Jan 28, 2019 Platinum, a noble metal, is oxidised more quickly than expected under conditions that are technologically relevant. This has emerged from a study jointly conducted by the DESY NanoLab and the Univer ... more 
New applications for encapsulated nanoparticles with promising propertiesBasque Country, Spain (SPX) Jan 23, 2019 Nanotechnology and nanoscience are disciplines in which minute molecular structures with special physical and chemical properties are designed, manufactured and studied. One of the types of particle ... more 
Chemical synthesis of nanotubesTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 11, 2019 For the first time, researchers used benzene - a common hydrocarbon - to create a novel kind of molecular nanotube, which could lead to new nanocarbon-based semiconductor applications. Researc ... more 
Carrying and releasing nanoscale cargo with 'nanowrappers'Upton NY (SPX) Jan 04, 2019 This holiday season, scientists at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) - a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory - have wrapped a box ... more 
Illuminating nanoparticle growth with X-raysUpton NY (SPX) Jan 02, 2019 Hydrogen fuel cells are a promising technology for producing clean and renewable energy, but the cost and activity of their cathode materials is a major challenge for commercialization. Many fuel ce ... more |
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 Beijing (Sputnik) Apr 29, 2019 
China has set an ambitious goal of building a scientific research centre on the moon in "about 10 years" in the area of its South Pole, the state agency Xinhua reported citing the head of the China National Space Administration (CSNA), Zhang Kejian.
The aim is quite a departure from what NASA attained as a result of its six successful Apollo missions that landed in close proximity to the M ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) April 24, 2019 
Beijing plans to send a manned mission to the moon and to build a research station there within the next decade, state media reported Wednesday, citing a top space official.
China aims to achieve space superpower status and took a major step towards that goal when it became the first nation to land a rover on the far side of the moon in January.
It now plans to build a scientific researc ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) April 27, 2019 
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday slammed the jailing of agent Maria Butina in the United States as "arbitrary", adding that he did not understand why she had been incarcerated.
"There is nothing we could accuse her of, but to make this case not look completely ridiculous, she was sentenced to 18 months in prison," he told journalists on the sidelines of a summit in Beijing.
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Beijing (Sputnik) Apr 29, 2019
China has set an ambitious goal of building a scientific research centre on the moon in "about 10 years" in the area of its South Pole, the state agency Xinhua reported citing the head of the China National Space Administration (CSNA), Zhang Kejian.
The aim is quite a departure from what NASA attained as a result of its six successful Apollo missions that landed in close proximity to the M ... more |
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 Usurbil, Spain (SPX) Apr 23, 2019 
Compared to so-far used global heating schemes, which are slow and energy-costly, light-controlled heating, using optical degrees of freedom such as light wavelength, polarisation, and power, allows to implement local, efficient, and fast heating schemes for the use in nanomagnetic computation or to quantify collective emergent phenomena in artificial spin systems.
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 23, 2019 
Whether they're idyllic floating cotton balls on an otherwise blue sky or ominous grey swirls that block the sun, clouds all begin as an invisible dot of water vapor. This elusive gas has been tricky to measure and track - until now.
Research scientists at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, have created a new airborne instrument that can directly measure water vapor and f ... more |
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Usurbil, Spain (SPX) Apr 23, 2019
Compared to so-far used global heating schemes, which are slow and energy-costly, light-controlled heating, using optical degrees of freedom such as light wavelength, polarisation, and power, allows to implement local, efficient, and fast heating schemes for the use in nanomagnetic computation or to quantify collective emergent phenomena in artificial spin systems.
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 15, 2019 
Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos and Rocket and Space Corporation Energia have received FEDOR (Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research) anthropomorphic robot for its potential use in manned space missions, Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin said on Thursday.
"FEDOR - anthropomorphic rescue robot developed by the Android Technology R and D Company as well as the Rus ... more |
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 Warminster, PA (SPX) Apr 29, 2019 
Navmar Applied Sciences Corporation (NASC) received a Special Airworthiness Certification in the Experimental Category from the FAA for two of its NASC TigerShark-XP aircraft, the N1740X and N1750X. The TigerShark-XP is a variant of the US Navy RQ-23A Group III Unmanned Aircraft System. The RQ-23A saw service in both Iraq and Afghanistan with over 100,000 flight hours.
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 Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Apr 24, 2019 
University of Copenhagen researchers have developed a nanocomponent that emits light particles carrying quantum information. Less than one-tenth the width of a human hair, the miniscule component makes it possible to scale up and could ultimately reach the capabilities required for a quantum computer or quantum internet. The research result puts Denmark at the head of the pack in the quantum rac ... more |
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 Rochester NY (SPX) Apr 29, 2019 
Scientists have been floating designs for solar sails to propel spacecraft for decades, but a new approach being developed by a Rochester Institute of Technology professor could be the key to helping spacecraft photograph the poles of the Sun for the first time.
NASA announced it is providing RIT Professor Grover Swartzlander a Phase II award through its NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts ( ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) April 30, 2019 
President Xi Jinping urged China's youth on Tuesday to be loyal to the Communist Party as he sought to whip up patriotic sentiment in a nationalist speech marking the centennial of a student protest.
Xi delivered his hour-long plea at the Great Hall of the People to commemorate the May Fourth Movement, a landmark protest against colonialism and imperialism that rocked China in 1919.
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 Perth, Australia (SPX) Apr 30, 2019 
Astronomers have discovered rapidly swinging jets coming from a black hole almost 8000 light-years from Earth.
Published in the journal Nature, the research shows jets from V404 Cygni's black hole behaving in a way never seen before on such short timescales.
The jets appear to be rapidly rotating with high-speed clouds of plasma--potentially just minutes apart--shooting out of the bl ... more |
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 Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Apr 23, 2019 
On March 17, 2002, the German-US satellite duo GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) were launched to map the global gravitational field with unprecedented precision. After all, the mission lasted a good 15 years - more than three times as long as expected. When the two satellites burnt up in the Earth's atmosphere at the end of 2017 and beginning of 2018, respectively, they had record ... more |
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 Bochum, Germany (SPX) Apr 30, 2019 
The use of proteins involved in the photosynthetic process enables the development of affordable and efficient devices for energy conversion. However, although proteins such as photosystem I are robust in nature, the use of isolated protein complexes incorporated in semi-artificial electrodes is associated with a considerably short long-term stability. In consequence, the technological applicati ... more |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 29, 2019 
In the San Augustine Plains of central New Mexico, 27 radio telescopes stand tall, operating nearly 24 hours, 7 days a week capturing extremely weak signals emitted from all over the Universe. This flat and vast land, once a seabed, sits at an altitude of 7,000 feet and is surrounded by 360 degrees of mountains. Despite the ideal conditions of this location, "listening" to these faint radio emis ... more |
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