TECH SPACE - SKY NIGHTLY

Engineers find way to evaluate green roofs

Jul 10, 2017 (SPX)

Green roofs are flat, vegetated surfaces on the tops of buildings that are designed to capture and retain rainwater and filter any that is released back into th...

Sorting complicated knots

Jul 10, 2017 (SPX)

Why care about knots? Making perfect knots on ties and quick knots on shoes are good skills to have, but why are mathematicians so interested in knots? It turns...

Giant enhancement of electromagnetic waves revealed within small dielectric particles

Jul 10, 2017 (SPX)

The problem of miniaturization of basic elements in electronics requires new approaches. In this connection, it has become very important to be able to create i...

Recreating interstellar ions with lasers

Jul 07, 2017 (SPX)

While H3+ is astronomically abundant, no scientist understood the mechanisms that form it from organic molecules. Until now. Using lasers, Michigan State Univer...

The comeback kid - black phosphorus and its new potential

Jul 07, 2017 (SPX)

Now, one group reports in Nano Letters that some commonly held assumptions about black phosphorus are incorrect and that the material is exceptionally tunable. ...

ANU invention may help to protect astronauts from radiation in space

Jul 07, 2017 (SPX)

Lead researcher Dr Mohsen Rahmani from ANU said the material was so thin that hundreds of layers could fit on the tip of a needle and could be applied to any su...

Monash Earth Scientists involved in discovery of a new mineral

Jul 07, 2017 (SPX)

The mineral - Nataliyamalikite - is new, and did not exist before, explains Professor Joel Brugger, the lead author in a recently published paper in American Mi...

Long Duration Experiments Reach 1,000th Day

Jul 07, 2017 (Spx)

"Understanding the rate at which hydration occurs in cement, a process that can take anywhere up to 50 years, is very important to help us predict the behaviour...

Scanning the surface of lithium titanate

Jul 07, 2017 (SPX)

LiTi2O4 is the only known example of a so-called spinel1 oxide superconductor. Its rarity makes LiTi2O4 of enormous interest to those studying the origins of su...

Custom-made clothes for all within reach says top designer

Jul 05, 2017 (AFP)

"We can design every type and shape of garment to be a precise fit to the wearer's figure," he told AFP after showing his digitally created haute couture collec...

Johns Hopkins scientists develop super-strong metal for next tech frontier

Jul 03, 2017 (SPX)

The trouble is: These sensors are mostly made of the material silicon, which has its limits. Johns Hopkins University materials scientist and mechanical enginee...

The multi-colored photons that might change quantum information science

Jul 03, 2017 (SPX)

In their paper published in Nature, the team demonstrates that photons can become an accessible and powerful quantum resource when generated in the form of colo...

New polymer goes for a walk when illuminated

Jul 03, 2017 (SPX)

When illuminated it goes for a walk all on its own. This small device, the size of a paperclip, is the world's first machine to convert light directly into walk...

New measurement will help redefine international unit of mass

Jul 03, 2017 (SPX)

The new NIST measurement of Planck's constant is 6.626069934 x 10-34 kg-m2/s, with an uncertainty of only 13 parts per billion. NIST's previous measurement, pub...

Northrop Grumman awarded contracts for P-8 radar systems

Jul 03, 2017 (UPI)

The contracts, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, include depot level repairs and refurbishment of the AN/ALQ-240 and the spare parts necessary. Wor...

NIST 'noise thermometry' yields accurate new measurements of boltzmann constant

Jul 03, 2017 (SPX)

These results will contribute to a worldwide effort to redefine the kelvin, the international unit of temperature, and could lead to better thermometers for ind...

Seawater makes ancient Roman concrete stronger

Jul 03, 2017 (UPI)

In a new study, researchers detailed the chemical effects of seawater on the minerals and microscale structures inside ancient Roman concrete. The analysis of g...

Fixation of powder catalysts on electrodes

Jul 03, 2017 (SPX)

The developed technique is potentially interesting for hydrogen production by water electrolysis. A team involving Dr Corina Andronescu, Stefan Barwe and Prof D...

The sharpest laser in the world

Jul 03, 2017 (SPX)

This precision is useful for various applications such as optical atomic clocks, precision spectroscopy, radioastronomy and for testing the theory of relativity...

Stanford engineers design a robotic gripper for cleaning up space debris

Jun 29, 2017 (SPX)

What makes tidying up especially challenging is that the debris exists in space. Suction cups don't work in a vacuum. Traditional sticky substances, like tape, ...