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DNA origami joins forces with molecular motors to build nanoscale machines![]() Boston MA (SPX) Jul 22, 2019 Every year, robots get more and more life-like. Solar-powered bees fly on lithe wings, humanoids stick backflips, and teams of soccer bots strategize how to dribble, pass, and score. And, the more researchers discover about how living creatures move, the more machines can imitate them all the way down to their smallest molecules. "We have these amazing machines already in our bodies, and they work so well," said Pallav Kosuri. "We just don't know exactly how they work." For decades, research ... read more |
DARPA Announces Microsystems Exploration ProgramWashington DC (SPX) Jul 17, 2019 Over the past few decades, DARPA's Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) has enabled revolutionary advances in electronics materials, devices, and systems, which have provided the United States with ... more
Monitoring the lifecycle of tiny catalyst nanoparticlesBochum, Germany (SPX) May 07, 2019 Nanoparticles can be used in many ways as catalysts. To be able to tailor them in such a way that they can catalyse certain reactions selectively and efficiently, researchers need to determine the p ... more
Fast and selective optical heating for functional nanomagnetic metamaterialsUsurbil, 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 ... more
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 |
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Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Feb 25, 2019 Nanowires have the potential to revolutionize the technology around us. Measuring just 5-100 nanometers in diameter (a nanometer is a millionth of a millimeter), these tiny, needle-shaped crystallin ... more
A new spin in nano-electronicsDresden, Germany (SPX) Feb 26, 2019 In recent years, electronic data processing has been evolving in one direction only: The industry has downsized its components to the nanometer range. But this process is now reaching its physical l ... more
Nanoparticle computing takes a giant step forwardSeoul, South Korea (SPX) Feb 26, 2019 Computation is a ubiquitous concept in physical sciences, biology, and engineering, where it provides many critical capabilities. Historically, there have been ongoing efforts to merge computation w ... more
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 |
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Chandrayaan-2 enters Lunar Transfer Trajectory New Delhi, India (SPX) Aug 15, 2019
The final orbit raising manoeuvre of Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft was successfully carried out August 14, 2019 at 02:21 am IST. During this maneuver, the spacecraft's liquid engine was fired for about 1203 seconds. With this, Chandrayaan-2 entered the Lunar Transfer Trajectory. Earlier, the spacecraft's orbit was progressively increased five times during July 23 to August 06, 2019.
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China launches first private rocket capable of carrying satellites Beijing (AFP) July 25, 2019
A Chinese startup successfully launched the country's first commercial rocket capable of carrying satellites into orbit Thursday, as the space race between China and the US heats up.
Beijing-based Interstellar Glory Space Technology - also known as iSpace - said it launched two satellites into orbit around 1:00 pm Beijing time (0500 GMT) from Jiuquan, a state launch facility in the Gobi de ... more |
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US formalizes ban on govt contracts to China's Huawei, others Washington (AFP) Aug 7, 2019
The United States unveiled rules on Wednesday formally banning technology giant Huawei and other Chinese firms from government contracts in the latest move in the countries' escalating trade war.
The interim rule will preclude any US federal agency from purchasing telecom or technology equipment from the firms "as a substantial or essential component of any system, or as a critical technolog ... more |
Chandrayaan-2 enters Lunar Transfer Trajectory New Delhi, India (SPX) Aug 15, 2019
The final orbit raising manoeuvre of Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft was successfully carried out August 14, 2019 at 02:21 am IST. During this maneuver, the spacecraft's liquid engine was fired for about 1203 seconds. With this, Chandrayaan-2 entered the Lunar Transfer Trajectory. Earlier, the spacecraft's orbit was progressively increased five times during July 23 to August 06, 2019.
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DNA origami joins forces with molecular motors to build nanoscale machines Boston MA (SPX) Jul 22, 2019
Every year, robots get more and more life-like. Solar-powered bees fly on lithe wings, humanoids stick backflips, and teams of soccer bots strategize how to dribble, pass, and score. And, the more researchers discover about how living creatures move, the more machines can imitate them all the way down to their smallest molecules.
"We have these amazing machines already in our bodies, and t ... more |
Monitoring the Matterhorn with millions of data points Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Aug 17, 2019
The summer heatwave of 2003 triggered a rockfall that shocked both researchers and the general public: 1,500 cubic metres of rock broke away from the Hoernli ridge - a volume roughly equivalent to two houses. The fracture event exposed bare ice on the surface of the steep scarp. Experts soon realised that the record temperatures had warmed the rock down to such a depth that the ice contained in ... more |
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DNA origami joins forces with molecular motors to build nanoscale machines Boston MA (SPX) Jul 22, 2019
Every year, robots get more and more life-like. Solar-powered bees fly on lithe wings, humanoids stick backflips, and teams of soccer bots strategize how to dribble, pass, and score. And, the more researchers discover about how living creatures move, the more machines can imitate them all the way down to their smallest molecules.
"We have these amazing machines already in our bodies, and t ... more |
NASA Robots Compete Underground in DARPA Challenge Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 15, 2019
Robots from all over the world will compete to find objects in the DARPA Subterranean Challenge Systems Competition, held Aug. 15-22 in mining tunnels under Pittsburgh. Among them will be a team led by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, that features wheeled rovers, drones and climbing robots that can rise on pinball-flipper-shaped treads to scale obstacles.
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AFRL conducts first flight of robopilot unmanned air platform Wright-Patterson AFB OH (SPX) Aug 16, 2019 The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Center for Rapid Innovation (CRI) and DZYNE Technologies Incorporated successfully completed a two-hour initial flight of a revolutionary Robotic Pilot Unmanned Conversion Program called ROBOpilot Aug. 9 at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah.
"This flight test is a testament to AFRL's ability to rapidly innovate technology from concept to application in ... more |
New perovskite material shows early promise as an alternative to silicon Onna, Japan (SPX) Aug 09, 2019 |
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SEAKR reports Canada Patent for Advanced ASIC RF processing technology for satellite applications Centennial CO (SPX) Aug 13, 2019
SEAKR Engineering, Inc. (SEAKR) is pleased to announce it has been granted a Canadian patent for an advanced RF processing Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) technology. SEAKR's Canadian patent CA 2,953,837 "Integrated Mixed-Signal ASIC with Analog Digital Converter (ADC), Digital Analog Converter (DAC) and Digital Signal Processing (DSP)" marks the firm's 4th patent received globall ... more |
China detains critic of online censorship for 'provoking trouble' Beijing (AFP) Aug 15, 2019
China has detained a former journalist who gained prominence after urging the US to help "tear down" Beijing's online censorship regime during a 2014 meeting with top US diplomat John Kerry.
Police detained Zhang Jialong Tuesday for "picking quarrels and provoking troubles," according to an official detention notice seen by AFP.
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Atomic 'Trojan horse' could inspire new generation of X-ray lasers and particle colliders Stanford CA (SPX) Aug 15, 2019 How do researchers explore nature on its most fundamental level? They build "supermicroscopes" that can resolve atomic and subatomic details. This won't work with visible light, but they can probe the tiniest dimensions of matter with beams of electrons, either by using them directly in particle colliders or by converting their energy into bright X-rays in X-ray lasers. At the heart of such scie ... more |
A key piece to understanding how quantum gravity affects low-energy physics Trieste, Italy (SPX) Aug 09, 2019 Researchers have, for the first time, identified the sufficient and necessary conditions that the low-energy limit of quantum gravity theories must satisfy to preserve the main features of the Unruh effect.
In a new study, led by researchers from SISSA (Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, the Complutense University of Madrid and the University of Waterloo, a solid theoretica ... more |
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Organic dye in zinc oxide interlayer stabilizes and boosts the performance of organic solar cells Wurzburg, Germany (SPX) Aug 17, 2019
Organic solar cells are made of cheap and abundant materials, but their efficiency and stability still lag behind those of silicon-based solar cells. A Chinese-German team of scientists has found a way to enhance the electric conductivity of organic solar cells, which increases their performances. Doping the metal oxide interlayer, which connected the electrode and active layer, with a modified ... more |
ThinKom Solutions Unveils New Multi-Beam Reconfigurable Phased-Array Gateway Solution for Next-Generation Satellites Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 15, 2019
ThinKom Solutions reveals its new innovative solution for efficient and effective land-based gateways designed to accommodate current and next generation low-Earth-orbit (LEO) and medium-Earth-orbit (MEO) satellite constellations.
The new gateway concept, which ThinKom describes as an "array of arrays," will provide a superior alternative to the large "antenna farms" of parabolic dishes cu ... more |
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