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  Moscow, Russia (SPX) Jan 12, 2021 Russian researchers have proposed a new method for synthesizing high-quality graphene nanoribbons - a material with potential for applications in flexible electronics, solar cells, LEDs, lasers, and more. Presented in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, the original approach to chemical vapor deposition, offers a higher yield at a lower cost, compared with the currently used nanoribbon self-assembly on noble metal substrates. Silicon-based electronics are steadily approaching their limits, and on ... read more |
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Nanodiamonds feel the heatOsaka, Japan (SPX) Jan 19, 2021 A team of scientists from Osaka University, The University of Queensland, and the National University of Singapore's Faculty of Engineering used tiny nanodiamonds coated with a heat-releasing polyme ... more  
New nanostructured alloy for anode is a big step toward revolutionizing energy storageCorvallis OR (SPX) Jan 12, 2021 Researchers in the Oregon State University College of Engineering have developed a battery anode based on a new nanostructured alloy that could revolutionize the way energy storage devices are desig ... more  
Detecting COVID-19 antibodies in 10-12 secondsPittsburgh PA (SPX) Jan 11, 2021 Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University report findings on an advanced nanomaterial-based biosensing platform that detects, within seconds, antibodies specific to SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible ... more  
Scientists see competition of magnetic orders from 2D sheets of atomsWashington DC (UPI) Jan 6, 2021 For the first time, scientists have observed competition between magnetic orders from coupled sheets of atoms. The observations, described Wednesday in the journal Nature, promise new insights into the quantum qualities of two-dimensional materials. ... 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 
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  
NASA's ELaNa 20 Mission First to Fly on Virgin Orbit LaunchKennedy 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 ... 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  
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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Russian scientists improve 3D printing technology for aerospace composites using oil wasteMoscow, Russia (SPX) Nov 26, 2020 Scientists from NUST MISIS have improved the technology of 3D printing from aluminum, having achieved an increase in the hardness of products by 1,5 times. The nanocarbon additive to aluminum powder ... more |
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Colombian Air Force initiates its 2nd Nanosatellite mission with GomSpaceAalborg, Denmark (SPX) Nov 13, 2020 GomSpace has signed a contract with CODALTEC / Colombian Air Force ("FAC") to initiate the FACSAT-2 satellite mission and associated intensive virtual technology transfer program. The contract is wo ... more 
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 |
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 Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Jan 15, 2021  The Orion spacecraft for NASA's Artemis I mission is taking one more step closer to its flight to the Moon. On Jan. 14, the spacecraft was lifted out of the stand in the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida where engineers have meticulously outfitted it with thousands of components and tested its systems and subsystems to ensure it can a ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 19, 2021  Three major components of China's space station program have passed technical and quality assessments and are ready for upcoming missions, the China Manned Space Agency said.
Experts from the agency, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp reviewed the design, construction and test reports on the space station's Tianhe core module, the Tianzhou 2 car ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) Jan 14, 2021 
Russia on Thursday compared the decision of social media giants to suspend US President Donald Trump's accounts to a "nuclear blast in cyber space" with the consequences hard to predict.
"The decision of US internet platforms to block the head of state can be compared to a nuclear blast in cyber space," Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Facebook.
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Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Jan 15, 2021 The Orion spacecraft for NASA's Artemis I mission is taking one more step closer to its flight to the Moon. On Jan. 14, the spacecraft was lifted out of the stand in the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida where engineers have meticulously outfitted it with thousands of components and tested its systems and subsystems to ensure it can a ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jan 6, 2021 
For the first time, scientists have observed competition between magnetic orders from coupled sheets of atoms. The observations, described Wednesday in the journal Nature, promise new insights into the quantum qualities of two-dimensional materials.
Ever since a pair of British researchers were awarded the Nobel Prize in 2010 for the discovery of graphene, material scientists, electrica ... more |
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 Geneva, Switzerland (SPX) Jan 18, 2021 
Earth Observation [EO] data provides a billion-dollar opportunity for economies on the African continent, one that could create jobs and build new resilience after COVID-19.
The newly released report Unlocking the Potential of Earth Observation to address Africa's critical challenges lays out the multiple economic benefits from EO data. The report was written in collaboration with Digital ... more |
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Washington DC (UPI) Jan 6, 2021
For the first time, scientists have observed competition between magnetic orders from coupled sheets of atoms. The observations, described Wednesday in the journal Nature, promise new insights into the quantum qualities of two-dimensional materials.
Ever since a pair of British researchers were awarded the Nobel Prize in 2010 for the discovery of graphene, material scientists, electrica ... more |
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 Quebec City, Canada (SPX) Jan 12, 2021 
An international team of researchers, including Professor Roberto Morandotti of the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), just introduced a new photonic processor that could revolutionize artificial intelligence, as reported by the prestigious journal Nature.
Artificial neural networks, layers of interconnected artificial neurons, are of great interest for machine learning ... more |
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 White Salmon WA (SPX) Jan 18, 2021 
Sagetech Avionics, an innovative technology company providing industry-leading situational awareness solutions for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), has received a U.S. Air Force Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) contract for the initial development phase of components for a type-certifiable detect-and-avoid (DAA) system.
The resulting system will enable UAS to safety operate beyond v ... more |
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 Yeongi-gun, South Korea (SPX) Jan 12, 2021 
The Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) has announced that the research team led by Dr. Kim Kyoung-Whan at the Center for Spintronics has proposed a new principle about spin memory devices, which are next-generation memory devices. This breakthrough presents new applicability that is different from the existing paradigm.
Conventional memory devices are classified into volatile ... more |
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 Minneapolis MN (SPX) Jan 12, 2021 
A team led by University of Minnesota Twin Cities researchers has discovered a groundbreaking one-step process for creating materials with unique properties, called metamaterials. Their results show the realistic possibility of designing similar self-assembled structures with the potential of creating "built-to-order" nanostructures for wide application in electronics and optical devices.
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 Beijing (AFP) Jan 14, 2021 
Two Canadians detained in China for over two years on spying charges were allowed to call their families out of "humanitarian considerations" over Christmas, Beijing said Thursday.
Relations between Beijing and Ottawa have spiralled since China detained former diplomat Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael Spavor in 2018 - days after the arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) Jan 15, 2021  A remarkable prediction of Einstein's theory of general relativity - the theory that connects space, time, and gravity - is that rotating black holes have enormous amounts of energy available to be tapped.
For the last 50 years, scientists have tried to come up with methods to unleash this power. Nobel physicist Roger Penrose theorized that a particle disintegration could draw energy from ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Jan 12, 2021 
Scientists have used a "galaxy-sized" space observatory to find possible hints of a unique signal from gravitational waves, or the powerful ripples that course through the universe and warp the fabric of space and time itself.
The new findings, which appeared recently in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, hail from a U.S. and Canadian project called the North American Nanohertz Observatory ... more |
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 Binghamton NY (SPX) Jan 12, 2021 
A team of researchers from Binghamton University has been selected to receive $2.6 million from the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) to develop ways to reliably support higher amounts of solar power on the grid.
The three-year project will focus on advanced grid-forming photovoltaic (PV) inverter control technologies so that the renewable energy source can ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Jan 18, 2021 
OneWeb, the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite communications company jointly owned by the UK Government and Bharti Global, has secured additional funding from SoftBank Group Corp. ("SoftBank") and Hughes Network Systems LLC ("Hughes"), bringing OneWeb's total funding to $1.4 billion. The capital raised to date positions the Company to be fully funded for its first-generation satellite fleet, total ... more |
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