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  Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Dec 15, 2020 Ten NASA-sponsored CubeSats are preparing to fly on the agency's next Educational Launch of Nanosatellites (ELaNa) mission, making this the first payload carried by Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne rocket. With the small satellites safely secured inside the payload fairing, and the fairing mated to the rocket, Virgin Orbit is gearing up for ELaNa 20, the Dec.19, 2020, Launch Demo 2 flight from the Mojave Air and Space Port in California. "This initiative actually enables the market for future Cube ... read more |
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International research project investigates photosensitive carbon nanoparticlesNuremberg, Germany (SPX) Dec 15, 2020 An international team of researchers, including researchers from Friedrich-Alexander Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg (FAU) headed by Prof. Dr. Dirk M. Guldi have now managed to identify the fundamenta ... more  
Nanoengineered cement shows promise for sealing leaky gas wellsUniversity Park PA (SPX) Dec 15, 2020 Leaking natural gas wells are considered a potential source of methane emissions, and a new nanomaterial cement mixture could provide an effective, affordable solution for sealing these wells, accor ... more  
Weak force has strong impact on nanosheetsHouston TX (SPX) Dec 16, 2020 You have to look closely, but the hills are alive with the force of van der Walls. Rice University scientists found that nature's ubiquitous "weak" force is sufficient to indent rigid nanoshee ... more  
Nanoracks Bishop airlock takes flightCape Canaveral, FL (SPX) Dec 09, 2020 The privately-owned Nanoracks Bishop Airlock, has reached ISS after a successful launch onboard the CRS-21 mission. "This is a monumental moment for Nanoracks," says CEO Jeffrey Manber. "We ca ... more |
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Making 3D nanosuperconductors with DNAUpton NY (SPX) Nov 11, 2020 Three-dimensional (3-D) nanostructured materials - those with complex shapes at a size scale of billionths of a meter - that can conduct electricity without resistance could be used in a range of qu ... more  
No matter the size of a nuclear party, some protons and neutrons will pair up and danceBoston MA (SPX) Nov 10, 2020 Atoms in a gas can seem like partiers at a nanoscopic rave, with particles zipping around, pairing up, and flying off again in seemingly random fashion. And yet physicists have come up with formulas ... more  
Next-generation computer chip with two headsLausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Nov 06, 2020 It's a major breakthrough in the field of electronics. Engineers at EPFL's Laboratory of Nanoscale Electronics and Structures (LANES) have developed a next-generation circuit that allows for smaller ... more 
Researchers share design for affordable single-molecule microscopeWashington DC (UPI) Nov 06, 2020 With education budgets shrinking at universities in many parts of the world, every expense matters. Thanks to a team of scientists and students from the University of Sheffield, stocking the chem lab just got a little less expensive. ... more 
Scientists grow carbon nanotube forest much longer than any otherTokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 05, 2020 Today, a multitude of industries, including optics, electronics, water purification, and drug delivery, innovate at an unprecedented scale with nanometer-wide rolls of honeycomb-shaped graphite shee ... more |
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Industrial-strength brine, meet your kryptoniteHouston TX (SPX) Nov 04, 2020 A thin coating of the 2D nanomaterial hexagonal boron nitride is the key ingredient in a cost-effective technology developed by Rice University engineers for desalinating industrial-strength brine. ... more |
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New protein nanobioreactor designed to improve sustainable bioenergy productionLiverpool UK (SPX) Nov 04, 2020 Researchers at the University of Liverpool have unlocked new possibilities for the future development of sustainable, clean bioenergy. The study, published in Nature Communications, shows how bacter ... more 
Rice finds path to nanodiamond from grapheneHouston TX (SPX) Nov 02, 2020 Marrying two layers of graphene is an easy route to the blissful formation of nanoscale diamond, but sometimes thicker is better. While it may only take a bit of heat to turn a treated bilayer ... more  
Space company NanoAvionics invests and expands in the UKBasingstoke UK (SPX) Nov 02, 2020 NanoAvionics, a leading nanosatellite bus manufacturer and mission integrator, is expanding its space sector business in the United Kingdom by moving to a new, larger facility for satellite assembly ... more 
Scientists explain the paradox of quantum forces in nanodevicesSaint-Petersburg, Russia (SPX) Oct 28, 2020 Researchers from Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) proposed a new approach to describe the interaction of metals with electromagnetic fluctuations (i.e., with random burst ... more 
Rice rolls out next-gen nanocarsHouston TX (SPX) Oct 28, 2020 Nanomechanics at Rice University and the University of Houston are getting ready to rev their engines for the second international Nanocar Race. While they'll have to pump the brakes for a bit ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Dec 15, 2020 
The Chang'e 5 probe made its first orbital correction on Monday morning on its way back to Earth, according to the China National Space Administration.
The orbiter-reentry capsule combination activated two 25-newton-thrust engines at 11:13 am. The engines were operational for 28 seconds and completed the maneuver, the administration said in a statement.
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 Beijing (XNA) Nov 30, 2020 
China plans to launch a space telescope for research in electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational waves in December, according to the National Space Science Center under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
The telescope, Gravitational Wave High-energy Electromagnetic Counterpart All-sky Monitor (GECAM), will be launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's S ... more |
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 San Francisco (AFP) Dec 16, 2020 
Facebook said Tuesday that it had removed two networks based in Russia and one linked to the French military, accusing them of carrying out interference campaigns in Africa.
Two networks running multiple Facebook accounts were assigned to people associated with the Russian Internet Research Agency, and the third had "links to individuals associated with French military," the social media pla ... more |
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Beijing (XNA) Dec 15, 2020
The Chang'e 5 probe made its first orbital correction on Monday morning on its way back to Earth, according to the China National Space Administration.
The orbiter-reentry capsule combination activated two 25-newton-thrust engines at 11:13 am. The engines were operational for 28 seconds and completed the maneuver, the administration said in a statement.
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 Houston TX (SPX) Dec 16, 2020 
You have to look closely, but the hills are alive with the force of van der Walls.
Rice University scientists found that nature's ubiquitous "weak" force is sufficient to indent rigid nanosheets, extending their potential for use in nanoscale optics or catalytic systems.
Changing the shape of nanoscale particles changes their electromagnetic properties, said Matt Jones, the Norman an ... more |
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 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 16, 2020 
UP42 has announced that image data and information from the planned LatConnect 60 constellation of mid-inclined orbit remote sensing satellites will be available on the UP42 developer platform for Earth observation data and analytics.
In early 2022, LatConnect 60 will launch its first two "smart" small satellites equipped with onboard Artificial Intelligence (AI) for data pre-processing an ... more |
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Houston TX (SPX) Dec 16, 2020
You have to look closely, but the hills are alive with the force of van der Walls.
Rice University scientists found that nature's ubiquitous "weak" force is sufficient to indent rigid nanosheets, extending their potential for use in nanoscale optics or catalytic systems.
Changing the shape of nanoscale particles changes their electromagnetic properties, said Matt Jones, the Norman an ... more |
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 Redondo Beach CA (SPX) Dec 16, 2020 
Northrop Grumman is set to begin collaborating and investing in Deepwave Digital, to support research, development and integration of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. This partnership will improve communications processing power for key, next-generation capabilities for customers.
"We're evolving the way we think and the way we work, to use emerging commercial technologies to pro ... more |
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 Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD (SPX) Dec 14, 2020 
When an aircraft veers upwards too much, the decrease in lift and increase in drag may cause the vehicle to suddenly plummet. Known as a stall, this phenomenon has prompted many drone manufacturers to err on the side of extreme caution when they plan their vehicles' autonomous flight movements.
For vertical takeoff and landing tail-sitter drones, most manufacturers program the aircraft so ... more |
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 Buffalo NY (SPX) Dec 14, 2020 
University at Buffalo researchers are reporting a new, two-dimensional transistor made of graphene and the compound molybdenum disulfide that could help usher in a new era of computing.
As described in a paper accepted at the 2020 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, which is taking place virtually next week, the transistor requires half the voltage of current semiconductors. It al ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Dec 15, 2020 
Space can be a dangerous place for astronauts and spacecraft, with harsh conditions and orbital debris that travels at incredibly high speeds. However, imagine a warning system that could be stitched into the fibers of spacesuits or integrated into the exterior of spacecraft that could detect debris impacts and send an early hazard alert. This is the goal of a new study by researchers at the Mas ... more |
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 The Hague (AFP) Dec 14, 2020 
International Criminal Court prosecutors have rejected calls by exiled Uighurs to investigate China for alleged genocide and crimes against humanity, the chief prosecutor's office said in a report on Monday.
The Uighurs handed a huge dossier of evidence to the court in July accusing China of locking more than one million Uighurs and other mostly Muslim minorities in re-education camps and o ... more |
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 Brussels, Belgium (SPX) Dec 15, 2020 
Since the very beginning of quantum physics, a hundred years ago, it has been known that all particles in the universe fall into two categories: fermions and bosons. For instance, the protons found in atomic nuclei are fermions, while bosons include photons - which are particles of light- as well as the BroutEnglert-Higgs boson, for which Francois Englert, a professor at ULB, was awarded a Nobel ... more |
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 Xichang, China (XNA) Dec 10, 2020 
China sent two satellites for the detection of gravitational waves into planned orbit from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province on Thursday morning.
The two satellites, which compose the Gravitational Wave High-energy Electromagnetic Counterpart All-sky Monitor (GECAM) mission, were launched by a Long March-11 carrier rocket at 4:14 am (Beijing Time), according to the ce ... more |
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 Hiroshima, Japan (SPX) Dec 14, 2020 
Researchers at Hiroshima University in Japan have blended together various polymer and molecular semiconductors as photo-absorbers to create a solar cell with increased power efficiencies and electricity generation. These types of solar cells, known as organic photovoltaics (OPV), are devices that generate electricity when light is incident upon their photo-absorbers.
The efficiency of a s ... more |
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 Vostochny, Russia (SPX) Dec 15, 2020  Flight ST29, the first commercial mission from Vostochny Cosmodrome performed by Arianespace and its Starsem affiliate, will put 36 of OneWeb's satellites into a near-polar orbit at an altitude of 450 kilometers. After separation, the satellites will raise themselves to their operational orbit.
The first six OneWeb satellites were successfully orbited by Arianespace on Soyuz Flight VS21 fr ... more |
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