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  Toulouse, France (SPX) Dec 21, 2020 ANYWAVES, the only European "pure player" antenna equipment manufacturer for satellite constellations, has just been selected by the French Space Agency (CNES) to demonstrate the technical feasibility of a Reflectarray antenna for nanosats. Selected from a call for tender, the French manufacturer is now launching the development of a folding antenna, Reflectarray type, working from the X to the Ka band and perfectly suited to the smallest platforms. The goal is to develop the French industrial sec ... read more |
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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  
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  
Goldilocks and the three quantum dots: Just right for peak solar panel performanceMelbourne, Australia (SPX) Dec 22, 2020 Scientists in Australia have developed a process for calculating the perfect size and density of quantum dots needed to achieve record efficiency in solar panels. Quantum dots, man-made nanocr ... more  
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 |
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Smaller than ever - exploring the unusual properties of quantum-sized materialsTokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 13, 2020 The development of functional nanomaterials has been a major landmark in the history of materials science. Nanoparticles with diameters ranging from 5 to 500 nm have unprecedented properties, such a ... more  
Telling when a nanolithography mold will break through dropletsTokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 12, 2020 Ultraviolet nanoimprint lithography is powerful method of producing polymer nanostructures by pressing a curable resin onto a mold. However, there are no convenient methods to determine the lifetime ... more 
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 |
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 Researchers share design for affordable single-molecule microscope 
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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TAU builds and plans to launch a small satellite into orbitTel Aviv, Israel (SPX) Nov 05, 2020 The TAU-SAT1 nanosatellite, approximately the size of a shoebox, is currently undergoing pre-flight testing at the Japanese space agency JAXA prior to a planned launch by NASA in the first quarter o ... more 
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  
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 |
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 Beijing (XNA) Dec 21, 2020 
President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory message on Thursday on the success of the Chang'e 5 mission, China's most sophisticated and challenging space adventure, which has brought back the world's first lunar samples in more than 40 years.
On behalf of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, the State Council and the Central Military Commission, Xi extended warm congratulations a ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Dec 21, 2020 
China plans to launch four manned spacecraft as part of its space station construction program in the next two years, said an official with the China National Space Administration (CNSA) Thursday.
China's manned space program will be very busy in 2021 and 2022, said Wu Yanhua, vice administrator of the CNSA, at a press conference on China's Chang'e-5 lunar mission.
Wu said a total of ... more |
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 Ottawa (AFP) Dec 18, 2020 
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday he hoped to get "good news" about two Canadian citizens who have been held in what he called "arbitrary detention" in China for two years.
Michael Kovrig, a former diplomat working as a senior advisor for the International Crisis Group, and businessman Michael Spavor were first detained on December 10, 2018 on spying charges.
Their arrest came ju ... more |
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Beijing (XNA) Dec 21, 2020
President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory message on Thursday on the success of the Chang'e 5 mission, China's most sophisticated and challenging space adventure, which has brought back the world's first lunar samples in more than 40 years.
On behalf of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, the State Council and the Central Military Commission, Xi extended warm congratulations a ... 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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 London, UK (SPX) Dec 18, 2020 
Researchers are using Cold War spy satellite images to explore changes in the environment, including deforestation in Romania, marmot decline in Kazakhstan and ecological damage from bombs in Vietnam.
Ecologists have harnessed new advances in image processing to improve analysis of declassified US military intelligence photographs and detect previously unseen changes in the environment. Dr ... 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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 Southampton UK (SPX) Dec 14, 2020  New research has shown robots can encourage people to take greater risks in a simulated gambling scenario than they would if there was nothing to influence their behaviours. Increasing our understanding of whether robots can affect risk-taking could have clear ethical, practiCal and policy implications, which this study set out to explore.
Dr Yaniv Hanoch, Associate Professor in Risk Manag ... more |
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 San Diego CA (SPX) Dec 22, 2020 
Northrop Grumman has completed the first flight for the Global Hawk Ground Station Modernization Program (GSMP) at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. earlier this month. Leveraging agile development and an open architecture design, the GSMP team transformed both the human-machine interface and the underlying software, paving the way for interoperability with other Air Force systems, enhanced respons ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Dec 16, 2020 
Light-emitting diodes - LEDs - can do way more than illuminate your living room. These light sources are useful microelectronics too.
Smartphones, for example, can use an LED proximity sensor to determine if you're holding the phone next to your face (in which case the screen turns off). The LED sends a pulse of light toward your face, and a timer in the phone measures how long it takes th ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 22, 2020 
Astroscale Holdings Inc. ("Astroscale"), the market leader in securing long-term orbital sustainability, has shipped its End-of-Life Services by Astroscale demonstration (ELSA-d) satellite to Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a March 2021 launch on a Soyuz rocket.
"Shipment is always a significant milestone on any satellite development program," said Gene Fujii, Astroscale Chief Engine ... more |
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 London (AFP) Dec 21, 2020 
Hong Kong democracy activist Nathan Law on Monday said he has applied for asylum in Britain, after fleeing in the wake of China's new security legislation.
The 27-year-old founding member of Demosisto, a pro-democracy party that disbanded on the same day the law was imposed on the semi-autonomous territory, relocated to Britain in July.
"I've struggled with the question of whether I shou ... more |
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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Dec 22, 2020 
The mystery surrounding the whereabouts of a supermassive black hole has deepened. Despite searching with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have no evidence that a distant black hole estimated to weigh between 3 billion and 100 billion times the mass of the Sun is anywhere to be found.
This missing black hole should be in the enormous galaxy in the ce ... 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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 Melbourne, Australia (SPX) Dec 22, 2020 
Scientists in Australia have developed a process for calculating the perfect size and density of quantum dots needed to achieve record efficiency in solar panels.
Quantum dots, man-made nanocrystals 100,000 times thinner than a sheet of paper, can be used as light sensitisers, absorbing infrared and visible light and transferring it to other molecules.
This could enable new types of ... more |
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 Germantown MD (SPX) Dec 17, 2020 
Hughes Network Systems has been chosen by OneWeb, the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) broadband satellite communications company, to develop and manufacture essential ground system technology for the new LEO constellation. In a three-year contract valued at approximately $250 million, Hughes will produce the gateway electronics for the OneWeb system as well as the core module that will be used in every us ... more |
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