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  Brisbane, Australia (SPX) Apr 22, 2020 QUT researchers have proposed the design of a new carbon nanostructure made from diamond nanothreads that could one day be used for mechanical energy storage, wearable technologies, and biomedical applications. Dr Haifei Zhan, from the QUT Centre for Materials Science, and his colleagues successfully modelled the mechanical energy storage and release capabilities of a diamond nanothread (DNT) bundle - a collection of ultrathin one-dimensional carbon threads that store energy when twisted or stretc ... read more |
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A new way to cool down electronic devices, recover waste heatNew York NY (SPX) Apr 24, 2020 Using electronic devices for too long can cause them to overheat, which might slow them down, damage their components or even make them explode or catch fire. Now, researchers reporting in ACS' Nano ... more  
Quantum research unifies two ideas offering an alternative route to topological superconductivityCopenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Apr 24, 2020 A pencil shaped semiconductor, measuring only a few hundred nanometers in diameter, is what researches from the Center for Quantum Devices, Niels Bohr Institute, at University of Copenhagen, in coll ... more  
Scientists have devised method for gentle laser processing of perovskites at nanoscaleSt Petersburg, Russia (SPX) Apr 23, 2020 Scientists of Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) in partnership with colleagues from ITMO University, and universities in Germany, Japan, and Australia, have developed a method for precise, fast ... more  
Cool down fast to advance quantum nanotechnologyVienna, Austria (SPX) Apr 22, 2020 The team, led by physicists at the Technische Universitat Kaiserslautern (TUK) in Germany and University of Vienna in Austria, generated the Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) through a sudden change in ... more |
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New eletronics mimic brain's low-power computing abilitiesWashington DC (UPI) Apr 20, 2020 Engineers have developed a new electronic device that mimics the brain's synapses. The miniature technological tools, called memristors, send electric signals across protein nanowires with unprecedented efficiency. ... more 
Pushing the limits of 2D supramoleculesTampa FL (SPX) Apr 17, 2020 Scientists at the University of South Florida have reached a new milestone in the development of two-dimensional supramolecules - the building blocks that make areas of nanotechnology and nanomateri ... more  
UCI-led team designs carbon nanostructure stronger than diamondsIrvine CA (SPX) Apr 16, 2020 Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and other institutions have architecturally designed plate-nanolattices - nanometer-sized carbon structures - that are stronger than diamonds as a ... more  
Tight spaces tip presence of petrochemicalsHouston TX (SPX) Apr 16, 2020 Rice University engineers have put to rest a long-held theory about the detection of oil and gas that hides inside the nanoscale pores of shale formations. The Rice researchers determined that ... more  
Russian scientists propose new approach to measuring atomsSaint Petersburg, Russia (SPX) Apr 06, 2020 Today, when new drugs are designed with the help of supercomputers, and electronic devices operate on a nanoscale, it is very important for scientists to understand how neighboring molecules behave ... more |
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 Magnetic nanoparticles help researchers remotely release adrenal hormones 
New "refrigerator" super-cools molecules to nanokelvin temperaturesBoston MA (SPX) Apr 09, 2020 For years, scientists have looked for ways to cool molecules down to ultracold temperatures, at which point the molecules should slow to a crawl, allowing scientists to precisely control their quant ... more  |
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Electric jolt to carbon makes better water purifierNagoya, Japan (SPX) Apr 06, 2020 Nagoya University scientists have developed a one-step fabrication process that improves the ability of nanocarbons to remove toxic heavy metal ions from water. The findings, published in the journa ... more 
'Spillway' for electrons could keep lithium metal batteries from catching fireSan Diego CA (SPX) Mar 13, 2020 Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego developed a safety feature that prevents lithium metal batteries from rapidly heating up and catching fire in case of an internal short circui ... more  
New satellite mission contract and second US office for NanoAvionicsColumbia IL (SPX) Mar 12, 2020 NanoAvionics announced the reception of a full mission contract for two 6U nanosatellites and the opening of a new sales and engineering support office in Columbia (IL), USA. The mission contract in ... more 
Space video company Sen awards multimillion-euro contract to NanoAvionicsLondon, UK (SPX) Mar 06, 2020 Sen, a British space company establishing video streaming media to provide real-time and timely Ultra-High Definition (UHD) video of Earth, has contracted NanoAvionics to build the first five nano-s ... more 
Bristol scientists demonstrate first non-volatile nano relay operation at 200CBristol UK (SPX) Mar 05, 2020 Researchers at the University of Bristol have come up with a new type of nanoelectromechanical relay to enable reliable high-temperature, non-volatile memory. The work, which is reported in Na ... more |
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 Flagstaff AZ (USGS) Apr 23, 2020 
Have you ever wondered what kind of rocks make up those bright and dark splotches on the moon? Well, the USGS has just released a new authoritative map to help explain the 4.5-billion-year-old history of our nearest neighbor in space.
For the first time, the entire lunar surface has been completely mapped and uniformly classified by scientists from the USGS, in collaboration with NASA and ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Apr 26, 2020 
China's first Mars exploration mission has been named Tianwen-1, announced the China National Space Administration (CNSA) on Friday, China's Space Day.
The name comes from the long poem "Tianwen," meaning Questions to Heaven, written by Qu Yuan (about 340-278 BC), one of the greatest poets of ancient China.
In "Tianwen," Qu Yuan raised a series of questions in verse involving the sky ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Apr 23, 2020 
Secretary of Defense Mark Esper on Thursday criticized a proposal to deploy a nationwide network to provide 5G and internet-of-things services, saying it could disrupt GPS services millions of Americans rely on daily.
The FCC approved the proposal Monday, which would see Ligado Networks deploy 5G and internet-of-things services using L-band spectrum that runs adjacent to spectrum used f ... more |
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Flagstaff AZ (USGS) Apr 23, 2020
Have you ever wondered what kind of rocks make up those bright and dark splotches on the moon? Well, the USGS has just released a new authoritative map to help explain the 4.5-billion-year-old history of our nearest neighbor in space.
For the first time, the entire lunar surface has been completely mapped and uniformly classified by scientists from the USGS, in collaboration with NASA and ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Apr 13, 2020 
Scientists have developed a way to remotely control the release of adrenal hormones like adrenaline and cortisol.
Previous studies have linked problems with the regulation of hormones from the adrenal gland with mental health disorders, such as depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.
The new research, detailed in the journal Science Advances, could help scientists investig ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Apr 22, 2020 
Earth can sometimes feel like the last place you'd want to be. Indeed, a number of explorers have devised inventive ways to move civilization off this planet.
It's no surprise: The promise of a better life in the mysterious beyond can be seductive. But the fact is the more we learn about out there the more we realize how special it is here. The first astronauts to look from space back at E ... more |
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Washington DC (UPI) Apr 13, 2020
Scientists have developed a way to remotely control the release of adrenal hormones like adrenaline and cortisol.
Previous studies have linked problems with the regulation of hormones from the adrenal gland with mental health disorders, such as depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.
The new research, detailed in the journal Science Advances, could help scientists investig ... more |
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 San Francisco (AFP) April 9, 2020 
Long maligned as job-stealers and aspiring overlords, robots are being increasingly relied on as fast, efficient, contagion-proof champions in the war against the deadly coronavirus.
One team of robots temporarily cared for patients in a makeshift hospital in Wuhan, the Chinese city where the COVID-19 outbreak began.
Meals were served, temperatures taken and communications handled by mac ... more |
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 San Clemente CA (SPX) Apr 24, 2020 
Teams from Swift Tactical Systems, in partnership with its Japanese counterpart, Swift-Xi, both subsidiaries of Swift Engineering, completed personnel search and rescue and animal identification missions as part of a contract with Okayama Prefecture in Japan.
The proof of concept program validates Swift's unmanned aerial systems and capabilities under unique scenarios. First, the team's ab ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 24, 2020 
Quantum computing is increasingly becoming the focus of scientists in fields such as physics and chemistry, and industrialists in the pharmaceutical, airplane, and automobile industries. Globally, research labs at companies like Google and IBM are spending extensive resources on improving quantum computers, and with good reason.
Quantum computers use the fundamentals of quantum mechanics t ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 24, 2020 
A 30th birthday is a big milestone for anyone, and a spacecraft is no exception. Tomorrow, the Hubble Space Telescope celebrates its 30th year in space, but it didn't get to this point without having to overcome its fair share of challenges. Over the years, it has not only been fixed, but continuously upgraded to make it the discovery-producing machine that it is today.
Servicing (refueling, fi ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) April 24, 2020 
Chinese human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang says he is drained after years in jail but ready to fight to reunite with his family in Beijing as authorities keep him confined in a distant province.
Detained in 2015 as part of a sweeping crackdown on hundreds of lawyers and rights activists, Wang was freed earlier this month after four-and-a-half years behind bars in a case that drew internation ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) Apr 24, 2020 
The National Science Foundation recently awarded researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Louisiana State University, Georgia Tech and West Virginia University grants totaling more than $2.3 million to support further development of the Einstein Toolkit (https://einsteintoolkit.org).
The Einstein Toolkit is a community-developed code ... more |
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 Hannover, Germany (SPX) Apr 21, 2020 
The expectations of the gravitational-wave research community have been fulfilled: gravitational-wave discoveries are now part of their daily work as they have identified in the past observing run, O3, new gravitational-wave candidates about once a week. But now, the researchers have published a remarkable signal unlike any of those seen before: GW190412 is the first observation of a binary blac ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 21, 2020 
NASA's long-term, global view of Earth from space includes data on sunlight, wind, temperature and precipitation, all key elements in understanding how our planet works. That same, information is also being put to very practical use on Earth by improving the energy efficiency of buildings and siting renewable energy technology like wind turbines and solar panels.
NASA's Prediction of the W ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Apr 22, 2020 
Elon Musk's SpaceX launched 60 Starlink satellites on time at 3:30 p.m. EDT Wednesday into a clear blue sky from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
It was the seventh such launch for SpaceX's communications satellite network, which is the largest constellation in history. The company has launched 422 of the spacecraft in a little over a year.
The space company also landed the missi ... more |
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