TECH SPACE - SKY NIGHTLY

A material inspired by a sea worm changes according to the environment

May 01, 2017 (SPX)

Chemical engineer Francisco Martin-Martinez, a Spanish researcher at the MIT Laboratory for Atomistic and Molecular Mechanics and co-author of the paper, explai...

Augmented reality increases maintenance reliability at a space station

Apr 28, 2017 (SPX)

An international project led by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland developed a new augmented reality (AR) tool for the ESA. In the future, it is envisaged...

MIT engineers manipulate water using only light

Apr 27, 2017 (SPX)

The system, reported in the journal Nature Communications, was developed by MIT associate professor of mechanical engineering Kripa Varanasi, School of Engineer...

A plastic-eating caterpillar

Apr 27, 2017 (SPX)

"We have found that the larva of a common insect, Galleria mellonella, is able to biodegrade one of the toughest, most resilient, and most used plastics: polyet...

Berkeley Lab scientists discover new atomically layered, thin magnet

Apr 27, 2017 (SPX)

The scientists found that a 2-D van der Waals crystal, part of a class of material whose atomically thin layers can be peeled off one by one with adhesive tape,...

Penn researchers quantify the changes that lightning inspires in rock

Apr 27, 2017 (SPX)

In a new set of experiments at Penn, researchers have probed the power of lightning in a less risky but much more technologically advanced fashion. Chiara Elmi,...

NIST method sees through concrete to detect early-stage corrosion

Apr 27, 2017 (SPX)

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are using the same principle, but in a more powerful form, to detect corrosion, the pri...

System can 3-D print an entire building

Apr 27, 2017 (SPX)

Structures built with this system could be produced faster and less expensively than traditional construction methods allow, the researchers say. A building cou...

Diamond quantum sensor reveals current flows in next-gen materials

Apr 27, 2017 (SPX)

Capable of imaging the behaviour of moving electrons in structures only one atom in thickness, the new technique overcomes significant limitations with existing...

Man-Made Space Junk Puts Astronauts, Operational Spacecraft in Serious Danger

Apr 26, 2017 (Sputnik)

During a conference on space debris, held in Germany this week, the ESA expressed concerns over the increasing danger of orbiting space trash. Some experts are ...

SES Offers Panoramic Glimpse into the Future of TV with Live Virtual Reality Demo

Apr 26, 2017 (SPX)

The live VR broadcast will originate from Fraunhofer HHI's OmniCam-360 camera, which will capture the sights and sounds of the SES event booth at NAB. The 10K x...

BAE Systems unveils 3D warning system for aircraft

Apr 25, 2017 (UPI)

The 3DAWS product suite protects aircraft in a multi-threat environment using layered countermeasure defense. It maximizes the effectiveness of current flare an...

Finding order and structure in the atomic chaos where materials meet

Apr 24, 2017 (SPX)

"We've known that these grain boundaries influence material characteristics for many decades," says Srikanth Patala, corresponding author of a paper on the work...

Changing the game

Apr 24, 2017 (SPX)

The jump from supercomputers to video games began when Song asked if hardware called 3D stacked memory could do something it was never designed to do: help rend...

Engineering technique is damaging materials research reveals

Apr 24, 2017 (SPX)

This remarkable capability transformed scientific fields ranging from materials science and engineering to biology and earth sciences. FIB is now an essential t...

Lockheed Martin secures $1.6 billion contract for counterfire radars

Apr 24, 2017 (UPI)

Lockheed recently completed building it's 100th unit of the system in January, and the contract includes service and support of the system, along with anticipat...

Two-dimensional melting of hard spheres experimentally unravelled after 60 years

Apr 24, 2017 (SPX)

Researchers from the group of Professor Roel Dullens at Oxford's Department of Chemistry have experimentally elucidated how melting of a two-dimensional solid o...

By listening to optical 'noise,' researchers discover new way to track hidden objects

Apr 24, 2017 (SPX)

The approach could help advance real-time remote sensing for military and other applications. For example, it could be used to track vehicles or aircraft travel...

Nature: 3-D-printing of glass now possible

Apr 24, 2017 (SPX)

The scientists mix nanoparticles of high-purity quartz glass and a small quantity of liquid polymer and allow this mixture to be cured by light at specific poin...

Can virtual reality help us prevent falls in the elderly and others?

Apr 24, 2017 (SPX)

In a study published in Nature Scientific Reports, a research team led by Jason R. Franz, PhD, assistant professor in the Joint UNC/NC State department of biome...