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  Washington DC (SPX) Oct 23, 2019 Nanoracks Space Outpost - Europe (Nanoracks IT) and Kayser Italia have announced that the organizations have sign an agreement to broaden research opportunities onboard the International Space Station which leverage the Bioreactor Express Service. Kayser Italia, in partnership with the European Space Agency, will have access to the KUBIK Incubator, under the Bioreactor Express Service partnership agreement. KUBIK is a small controlled-temperature incubator or cooler with removable inserts designed ... read more |
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Nanoracks signs with Maritime Launch on re-use of C4M stages for in-orbit outpostsWashington DC (SPX) Oct 24, 2019 Nanoracks, the world's leading provider of commercial access to space, is pleased to announce that it has signed an agreement with Canada's Maritime Launch Services to work on re-purposing and re-us ... more  
Why modified carbon nanotubes can help the reproducibility problemTokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 19, 2019 Our search for sustainable energy generation technology has led researchers to investigate various materials and their combinations in many types of devices. One such synthetic material is called "p ... more  
Flexible, wearable supercapacitors based on porous nanocarbon nanocompositesLondon, UK (SPX) Oct 19, 2019 Evening gowns with interwoven LEDs may look extravagant, but the light sources need a constant power supply from devices that are as well wearable, durable, and lightweight. Chinese scientists have ... more  
Energy flow in the nano rangeWurzburg, Germany (SPX) Oct 19, 2019 Plants and bacteria lead the way: They can capture the energy of sunlight with light-harvesting antennas and transfer it to a reaction centre. Transporting energy efficiently and in a targeted fashi ... more |
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NanoRacks to make space more accessible to the world from the United Arab EmiratesAbu Dhabi UAE (SPX) Sep 20, 2019 NanoRacks, the world's leading provider of commercial access to space, is pleased to announce that it's opening and staffing its first office in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in Abu Dhabi's Hub71, ... more 
GomSpace and Leaf Space sign MoU to strengthen ground segment collaborationAalborg, Danmark (SPX) Sep 20, 2019 Space, provider of ground station services, and GomSpace, manufacturer of nanosatellite solutions and operations services, will ensure that their respective solutions are fully integrated with each ... more 
Scientists create a nanomaterial that is both twisted and untwisted at the same timeBath UK (SPX) Sep 23, 2019 A new nanomaterial developed by scientists at the University of Bath could solve a conundrum faced by scientists probing some of the most promising types of future pharmaceuticals. Scientists ... more  
Cutting edge UK led satellite will help to identify natural resources from spaceLondon, UK (SPX) Sep 12, 2019 The Mission and Agile Nanosatellite for Terrestrial Imagery Services (MANTIS) satellite, which received funding this week will help energy and mining businesses identify new resources thanks to its ... more  
Nanoparticles could grant humans permanent night visionWashington (UPI) Aug 27, 2019 Built-in night vision may not be far off. Scientists have developed nanoparticles that allow mice to see near-infrared light. ... more |
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New study reveals carbon nanotubes measurement possible for the first timeSwansea UK (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 Swansea University scientists have reported a new approach to measuring the conductivity between identical carbon nanotubes which could be used to help improve the efficiency of electrical power cab ... more  |
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How do atoms vibrate in graphene nanostructures?Vienna, Austria (SPX) Aug 13, 2019 In order to understand advanced materials like graphene nanostructures and optimize them for devices in nano-, opto- and quantum-technology it is crucial to understand how phonons - the vibration of ... more 
Momentus and NanoRacks announce working relationshipSanta Clara, CA (SPX) Aug 07, 2019 Momentus, a provider of in-space shuttle services that move satellites between orbits, has announced a working relationship with NanoRacks to utilize the Bishop Airlock Module for Vigoride services ... more
NanoRacks flies science mission for first Emirati AstronautWebster TX (SPX) Jul 30, 2019 The 18th cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station from SpaceX delivered a historic mission for NanoRacks. NanoRacks, the leading provider of commercial access to low-Earth orbit, tr ... 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 |
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 Xiamen, China (XNA) Oct 29, 2019 
China plans to launch the Chang'e-5 probe in 2020 to bring moon samples back to Earth, according to Wu Weiren, chief designer of China's lunar exploration program.
The Long March-5 carrier rocket, China's current largest launch vehicle, will be used to send the probe into space, Wu, also an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said at the first China Space Science Assembly, w ... more |
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 Xiamen (XNA) Oct 30, 2019 
China plans to launch four new science satellite missions by 2023, and scientists have completed concept research on another five to be launched in the next 10 years.
Successful Chinese science satellites launched since 2015 include the Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE), the Quantum Experiments at Space Scale (QUESS) and the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT). These were under a sp ... more |
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 San Francisco (AFP) Oct 24, 2019 
Hackers are targeting United Nations and humanitarian aid workers with a scheme designed to trick members into revealing passwords, security researchers said Thursday.
A report released by cybersecurity firm Lookout said the campaign aimed at UN-connected relief organizations has been active since early this year, and is crafted to lure workers to fake websites where their credentials may be ... more |
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Xiamen, China (XNA) Oct 29, 2019
China plans to launch the Chang'e-5 probe in 2020 to bring moon samples back to Earth, according to Wu Weiren, chief designer of China's lunar exploration program.
The Long March-5 carrier rocket, China's current largest launch vehicle, will be used to send the probe into space, Wu, also an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, said at the first China Space Science Assembly, w ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Oct 19, 2019 
Evening gowns with interwoven LEDs may look extravagant, but the light sources need a constant power supply from devices that are as well wearable, durable, and lightweight. Chinese scientists have manufactured fibrous electrodes for wearable devices that are flexible and excel by their high energy density. A microfluidic technology was key for the preparation of the electrode material was a mic ... more |
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 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 25, 2019  On 23 October 2019, the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) and the U.S. company Teledyne Brown Engineering (TBE) will announce the start of routine operations for the 'DLR Earth Sensing Imaging Spectrometer' (DESIS).
This instrument will be operated by DLR and TBE. It is the most powerful hyperspectral Earth observation instrument in orbit and addresse ... more |
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London, UK (SPX) Oct 19, 2019
Evening gowns with interwoven LEDs may look extravagant, but the light sources need a constant power supply from devices that are as well wearable, durable, and lightweight. Chinese scientists have manufactured fibrous electrodes for wearable devices that are flexible and excel by their high energy density. A microfluidic technology was key for the preparation of the electrode material was a mic ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 25, 2019 
A Russian-developed anthropomorphic space-faring robot can now perform the important function of deploying fasteners to handrails during spacewalks, cosmonaut Sergei Kud-Sverchkov said Thursday.
Speaking at a presentation as part of the annual International Astronautical Congress in Washington, Kud-Sverchkov said that ground experiments and simulations carried out with the robot included " ... more |
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 Delft, Netherlands (SPX) Oct 24, 2019 
Researchers have presented a swarm of tiny drones that can explore unknown environments completely by themselves. This work, presented in Science Robotics on 23 October, forms a significant step in the field of swarm robotics.
The challenge comes from the fact that the tiny 33-gram drones need to navigate autonomously while having extremely limited sensing and computational capabilities. T ... more |
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 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark (SPX) Oct 18, 2019 
Quantum mechanics is one of the most successful theories of natural science, and although its predictions are often counterintuitive, not a single experiment has been conducted to date of which the theory has not been able to give an adequate description.
Along with colleagues at bigQ (Center for Macroscopic Quantum States - a Danish National Research Foundation Center of Excellence), cent ... more |
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 Seville, Spain (SPX) Oct 28, 2019 
University of Seville researchers, led by the professor Francisco Luis Cumbrera, together with colleagues from the University of Zaragoza and CSIC, have found a procedure for producing the phase B6C of boron carbide. This phase had been described from a theoretical point of view, but obtaining it and describing its character were a task that remained unfulfilled.
This scientific-technologi ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Oct 29, 2019  Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong was barred Tuesday from standing in an upcoming local election, after months of huge and frequently violent protests in the city.
Wong, one of the most prominent figures in the otherwise leaderless and faceless movement, accused the government of "political screening" after an election officer ruled his nomination for the November poll invalid.
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 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 23, 2019 
Galaxy clusters, active galactic nuclei, supernova remnants and X-ray binaries have one thing in common - they are incredibly hot and therefore emit X-rays. This type of radiation can reveal a great deal about the Universe, and it is being observed by the German eROSITA (extended ROentgen Survey with an Imaging Telescope Array) instrument.
Between 17 and 19 October 2019, all seven of eROSI ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Oct 16, 2019 
Astronomers at MIT and elsewhere have used a massive cluster of galaxies as an X-ray magnifying glass to peer back in time, to nearly 9.4 billion years ago. In the process, they spotted a tiny dwarf galaxy in its very first, high-energy stages of star formation.
While galaxy clusters have been used to magnify objects at optical wavelengths, this is the first time scientists have leveraged ... more |
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 Kirtland AFB NM (SPX) Oct 28, 2019 
The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, is developing space-based solar power transmission capability using high-efficiency solar cells to collect the sun's energy, convert it to radio frequency, and beam it to earth.
"Energy is a strategic enabler and potential vulnerability for our nation and our Department of Defense" said U.S. Air Force Col. Eric Felt, director of AFRL's Space Vehi ... more |
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 Darmstadt, Germany (SPX) Oct 28, 2019 
ESA and the French space agency CNES have signed an important agreement that will see the two agencies improve interoperability between their mission control facilities on ground, enhancing the abilities of each organisation in space.
The European 'Network of Operations Centres' will enable opportunities for joint action, knowledge sharing and technical interchange, and allow engineers and ... more |
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