TECH SPACE - SKY NIGHTLY

Commercial Satellite Built by Maxar Technologies' SSL Successfully Begins On-Orbit Operations, Demonstrating Leadership in New Space Economy

Mar 08, 2018 (SPX)

It will begin firing its main thruster tomorrow to propel toward its final geostationary orbit. The satellite incorporates technical innovations that will help ...

Navy turns to Raytheon for radar upgrades

Mar 08, 2018 (UPI)

The deal, which the Department of Defense announced Wednesday, is valued at more than $19.9 million under the terms of cost-plus-fixed-fee contract. The agreeme...

Russia successfully tests first atmospheric satellite

Mar 08, 2018 (Sputnik)

"Sova's tests in the stratosphere in the summer of 2017 were successful. There was a long flight at an altitude of about 20,000 meters (66,000 feet). Unfortunat...

Chemists find metal in 'metal-free' catalysts

Mar 06, 2018 (SPX)

Graphene has been widely tested as a replacement for expensive platinum in applications like fuel cells, where the material catalyzes the oxygen reduction react...

Helium ions open whole new world of materials

Mar 06, 2018 (SPX)

The research, Superplastic nanoscale pore shaping by ion irradiation, was published in Nature Communications and authored by Dr Morteza Aramesh, Dr Mayamei Yash...

InDyne to support Solid State Phased Array Radar System

Mar 06, 2018 (UPI)

The deal, announced Monday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $417.7 million under the terms of a firm-fixed-price contract. The agreement bet...

The superionic form of water

Mar 06, 2018 (SPX)

Its name is "superionic water"; it doesn't exist on Earth but it could be abundant inside certain planets of the solar system such as Uranus and Neptune and on ...

Virtual predator is self-aware, behaves like living counterpart

Mar 06, 2018 (SPX)

Unlike most other AI entities, Cyberslug has a simple self-awareness, said University of Illinois molecular and integrative physiology professor Rhanor Gillette...

Reaching new heights in laser-accelerated ion energy

Mar 06, 2018 (SPX)

The acceleration of protons to energies in the 100 mega-electron-volts range was achieved by exciting a hybrid ion acceleration scheme in an ultrathin foil targ...

Common bricks can be used to detect past presence of uranium, plutonium

Mar 06, 2018 (SPX)

Robert Hayes, an associate professor of nuclear engineering at NC State and co-author of a paper on this work, previously used simulations to demonstrate the co...

Technique to see objects hidden around corners

Mar 06, 2018 (SPX)

This scenario is one of many that researchers at Stanford University are imagining for a system that can produce images of objects hidden from view. They are fo...

Researchers convert CO to CO2 with a single metal atom

Mar 06, 2018 (SPX)

The research, published in the journal Nature Catalysis, could improve catalytic converter design and also has major implications in the field of computational ...

Powerful new imaging method reveals in detail how particles move in solution

Mar 06, 2018 (SPX)

The new method will allow for the visualization of many more biological molecules, providing critical information about what is inside molecules to scientists w...

Dual frequency comb generated on a single chip using a single laser

Mar 06, 2018 (SPX)

A frequency comb is a special kind of light beam with many different frequencies, or "colors," all spaced from each other in an extremely precise way. When this...

Majorana runners go long range: New topological phases of matter unveiled

Mar 06, 2018 (SPX)

In a recent paper published in Physical Review Letters, these researchers explain how they improve the propagation of Majorana particles at the edge of a topolo...

Splitting crystals for 2-D metallic conductivity

Mar 06, 2018 (SPX)

Researchers at Japan's Tohoku University, with an international team of colleagues, recently identified the atomic structure of a group of perovskite-related ma...

The fine-tuning of two-dimensional materials

Mar 05, 2018 (SPX)

Two-dimensional materials are films only an atom or two thick. Researchers make 2-D materials by the exfoliation method - peeling a slice of material off a larg...

Squid skin could be the solution to camouflage material

Feb 28, 2018 (SPX)

The chromatophore organs, which appear as hundreds of multi-colored freckles on the surface of a cephalopod's body, contribute to fast changes in skin color. In...

Radioactive cylinder found on Lebanon coast: authority

Feb 28, 2018 (AFP)

The Lebanese Atomic Energy Commission (LAEC) said the cylinder was discovered on Tuesday at Ouzai just south of the capital, adding none of the substance escape...

Atomic structure of ultrasound material not what anyone expected

Feb 26, 2018 (SPX)

"This work gives us information we can use to better understand how and why PMN behaves the way it does - and possibly other relaxor materials as well," says Ja...