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China rejects US military claims of laser attacks on pilots
May 04, 2018 (AFP)
Beijing, which operates a naval base in the Horn of Africa country, denied Pentagon accusations that Chinese personnel have targeted US pilots in the country wi...
Improving 3-D printing of plastic parts
May 03, 2018 (SPX)
Now, one group reports in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces that using a simple modification to the manufacture of the starting materials improves the toughn...
US military pilots injured by Chinese lasers in Djibouti: Pentagon
May 03, 2018 (AFP)
Officials have issued a formal diplomatic complaint and demanded Beijing investigate a series of incidents dating back several weeks, spokeswoman Dana White sai...
DARPA taps MIT for research on high-value molecules
May 03, 2018 (UPI)
The deal, announced Wednesday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $11 million under the terms of a cost-reimbursement contract, which is a modi...
Ultrafast laser pulse created by golden nanoparticles
May 03, 2018 (SPX)
'We wanted to find out how fast we can turn our laser device on and off. Generating laser pulses quickly can be very useful in information processing and can im...
It all comes down to roughness
May 03, 2018 (SPX)
"This phenomenon appears in all suspensions with high particle density, such as cement," says Lucio Isa, Professor of Interfaces, Soft matter and Assembly at ET...
Ames Lab takes the guesswork out of discovering new high-entropy alloys
May 02, 2018 (SPX)
These materials are made up of multiple elements (four or more) and highly sought after for their simple structures, excellent mechanical properties over a wide...
Dellingr baselined for CubeSat mission to Van Allen Belts
May 02, 2018 (SPX)
This mission of firsts will serve as a pathfinder for new radiation-tolerant technologies that could help scientists realize a long-sought dream: deploying a co...
Research team engineers a better plastic-degrading enzyme
May 02, 2018 (SPX)
While working to solve the crystal structure of PETase - a recently discovered enzyme that digests PET - the team inadvertently engineered an enzyme to be even ...
New terahertz semiconductor laser enables record-high output
Apr 30, 2018 (SPX)
Lasers also find a home in atomic and molecular spectroscopy used in various branches of science as well as for the detection and analysis of a wide range of ch...
Achieving unprecedented frequency control in miniature lasers
Apr 30, 2018 (SPX)
The need for better radar in World War II drove the development of radio frequency control, and its miniaturization in subsequent decades revolutionized a host ...
NASA seeks research proposals for space technologies to flight test
Apr 30, 2018 (SPX)
The Flight Opportunities program strategically invests in the growth of the commercial spaceflight market while helping advance technologies that will enable fu...
Army researcher uses math to uncover new chemistry
Apr 30, 2018 (SPX)
Dr. B. Christopher Rinderspacher, a theoretical chemist with the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, recently published a paper describing the process of using mathe...
India recalls GSAT-11 satellite from launch site for more tests
Apr 26, 2018 (IANS)
"Due to additional technical checks with the Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) GSAT-11 satellite, to be conducted from the ISRO Satellite Centre (ISAC...
Engineers get a grip on slippery surfactants
Apr 26, 2018 (SPX)
The lab of Rice chemical engineer Walter Chapman customized a well-worn model to analyze surfactant-containing fluids that are pumped into wells to coax as much...
As tellurium demands rise, so do contamination concerns
Apr 26, 2018 (SPX)
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, Canada is the leading supplier of tellurium to the U.S. While tellurium can be found naturally at low concentrations in...
Progress toward 'infinitely recyclable' plastic
Apr 26, 2018 (AFP)
Unlike plastics made from petroleum products, the new kind can be converted back to its original small-molecule state, and remade into new plastics over and ove...
World's oldest insect inspires a new generation of aerogels
Apr 26, 2018 (SPX)
The material, known as an aerogel, is the most porous material known to man and ultralight, with a piece the size of a family car weighing less than a kilogram....
Northrop Grumman wins contract for REAM program
Apr 26, 2018 (UPI)
The deal, announced Wednesday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $7.2 million under the terms of a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract. The contract ...
Watching nanomaterials form in 4-D
Apr 26, 2018 (SPX)
For decades, these high-powered instruments had been limited to taking static snapshots of specimens, which only tell part of the story. Now researchers from No...
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