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Physicists create world's smallest engine![]() Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 Theoretical physicists at Trinity College Dublin are among an international collaboration that has built the world's smallest engine - which, as a single calcium ion, is approximately ten billion times smaller than a car engine. Work performed by Professor John Goold's QuSys group in Trinity's School of Physics describes the science behind this tiny motor. The research, published in international journal Physical Review Letters, explains how random fluctuations affect the operation of microscopic ... read more |
DNA origami joins forces with molecular motors to build nanoscale machinesBoston 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 r ... 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 |
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Defects help nanomaterial soak up more pollutant in less timeHouston TX (SPX) Mar 14, 2019 Cleaning pollutants from water with a defective filter sounds like a non-starter, but a recent study by chemical engineers at Rice University found that the right-sized defects helped a molecular si ... more 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 |
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NASA Seeks BIG Ideas from Universities for Tech to Study Dark Regions on the Moon Washington DC (SPX) Aug 23, 2019
NASA plans to land humans on the Moon by 2024 with the Artemis program. Before astronauts step on the lunar surface again, new technology instruments will study the surface.
NASA is engaging the university community for ideas to help achieve some of these activities through its annual Breakthrough, Innovative and Game-changing (BIG) Idea Challenge, which is asking university teams to submi ... more |
China's newly launched communication satellite suffers abnormality Beijing (XNA) Aug 21, 2019
China's new communication satellite ChinaSat 18, sent into space on Monday, has experienced abnormalities, and space engineers are investigating the cause.
The ChinaSat 18 satellite was launched at 8:03 p.m. (Beijing Time) on a Long March-3B carrier rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province.
The satellite separated with the carrier rocket a ... more |
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German army seeks out gamers in hunt for computer-savvy recruits Cologne, Germany (AFP) Aug 24, 2019
Among countless stands of car manufacturers, software developers and engineering universities at Cologne's video games convention, the sight of fatigue-clad soldiers manning the German military's brightly-lit stall draws in the curious.
With a stand boasting a helicopter simulator and ultra-fast games, the Bundeswehr, Germany's army, has turned to the Gamescom fair in its bid to recruit comp ... more |
NASA Seeks BIG Ideas from Universities for Tech to Study Dark Regions on the Moon Washington DC (SPX) Aug 23, 2019
NASA plans to land humans on the Moon by 2024 with the Artemis program. Before astronauts step on the lunar surface again, new technology instruments will study the surface.
NASA is engaging the university community for ideas to help achieve some of these activities through its annual Breakthrough, Innovative and Game-changing (BIG) Idea Challenge, which is asking university teams to submi ... more |
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Physicists create world's smallest engine Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Aug 23, 2019
Theoretical physicists at Trinity College Dublin are among an international collaboration that has built the world's smallest engine - which, as a single calcium ion, is approximately ten billion times smaller than a car engine.
Work performed by Professor John Goold's QuSys group in Trinity's School of Physics describes the science behind this tiny motor. The research, published in intern ... more |
GRACE-FO shows the weight of Midwestern floods Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 21, 2019
In May 2019, after the wettest 12 months ever recorded in the Mississippi River Basin, the region was bearing the weight of 8 to 12 inches (200 to 300 millimeters) more water than average. New data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) mission, which launched in May 2018, showed that there was an increase in water storage in the river basin, extending east arou ... more |
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Physicists create world's smallest engine Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Aug 23, 2019
Theoretical physicists at Trinity College Dublin are among an international collaboration that has built the world's smallest engine - which, as a single calcium ion, is approximately ten billion times smaller than a car engine.
Work performed by Professor John Goold's QuSys group in Trinity's School of Physics describes the science behind this tiny motor. The research, published in intern ... more |
Russia sends 'Fedor' its first humanoid robot into space Moscow (AFP) Aug 22, 2019
Russia on Thursday launched an unmanned rocket carrying a life-size humanoid robot that will spend 10 days learning to assist astronauts on the International Space Station.
Named Fedor, for Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research with identification number Skybot F850, the robot is the first ever sent up by Russia.
Fedor blasted off in a Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft at 6:38 am Moscow ... more |
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Iraq paramilitary force says Israel behind latest drone attack Baghdad (AFP) Aug 25, 2019
Iraq's Hashed al-Shaabi accused Israel of a deadly drone attack on Sunday that left one paramilitary fighter dead, the first time the force has directly blamed the Jewish state for such a raid.
The attack struck a position held by Brigade 45, a Hashed al-Shaabi unit based near Al-Qaim about 15 kilometres (10 miles) from Iraq's western desertic border with neighbouring Syria.
It is the l ... more |
New perovskite material shows early promise as an alternative to silicon Onna, Japan (SPX) Aug 09, 2019 |
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Scientists develop a metamaterial for applications in magnonics Moscow, Russia (SPX) Aug 23, 2019
Physicists from Russia and Europe have demonstrated the real possibility of using superconductor/ferromagnet systems to create magnonic crystals, which will be at the core of spin-wave devices to come in the post-silicon era of electronics. The paper was published in the journal Advanced Science.
Magnonics investigates the possibilities of using spin waves to transmit and process informati ... more |
As protests ebb and flow, Hong Kong activists bank on creativity Hong Kong (AFP) Aug 22, 2019 Notifications for the "War Room" WhatsApp group ping relentlessly as an organiser of Hong Kong's biggest political rallies in decades explains the challenge of keeping an exhausted, battle-weary protest movement on the streets.
The semi-autonomous city is in its third month of pro-democracy demonstrations, as Chinese rhetoric against them hardens.
"We're mentally and physically strained, ... more |
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Towards an 'orrery' for quantum gauge theory Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Aug 23, 2019
The interaction between fields and matter is a recurring theme throughout physics. Classical cases such as the trajectories of one celestial body moving in the gravitational field of others or the motion of an electron in a magnetic field are extremely well understood, and predictions can be made with astonishing accuracy.
However, when the quantum character of the particles and fields inv ... 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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SolAero to supply solar modules to Maxar for Lunar Gateway Power and Propulsion Element Albuquerque, NM (SPX) Aug 22, 2019
SolAero Technologies Corp. (SolAero), has been awarded a contract by Maxar Technologies, a trusted partner and innovator in Earth Intelligence and Space Infrastructure, to power the Power and Propulsion Element of NASA's Gateway.
Under the terms of the contract, SolAero will design and manufacture Solar Power Modules (SPMs) that will supply nearly 70 kilowatts to the Gateway as part of NAS ... more |
KLEOS Space funding will start procurement of 2nd cluster of satellites Luxembourg (SPX) Aug 23, 2019
Kleos Space S.A., a space-powered Radio Frequency Reconnaissance data-as-a-service (DaaS) company, is pleased to announce it has entered into a binding term sheet for a EUR 1.83 million debt instrument, to be issued in the form of secured convertible notes.
Andy Bowyer, CEO of Kleos, said, "This investment is targeted to enable us to accelerate business development and revenue generating a ... more |
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