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Scientists count microscopic particles without microscope

Aug 15, 2016 (SPX)

Scientists from Russia and Australia have put forward a simple new way of counting microscopic particles in optical materials by means of a laser. A light beam ...

New algorithm for optimized stability of planar-rod objects

Aug 15, 2016 (SPX)

During the annual top conference of the Special Interest Group for Computer Graphics (SIGGRAPH) of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), which took pla...

Sierra Nevada Corporation helps Juno Keep Cool and Science On

Aug 15, 2016 (SPX)

Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) is celebrating the early success of NASA's Juno spacecraft as it stabilizes its orbit around Jupiter and begins powering on scie...

Saab gets Australian army air defense and radar contract

Aug 15, 2016 (UPI)

Saab has signed a contract with the Australian Defense Force to upgrade RBS 70 air defense and Giraffe AMB radar systems, the company announced Monday. The deal...

De-icing agent remains stable at more than a million atmospheres of pressure

Aug 15, 2016 (SPX)

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists have combined X-ray diffraction and vibrational spectroscopy measurements together with first-principle calcul...

Nothing - and something - give concrete strength, toughness

Aug 12, 2016 (SPX)

What does one need to strengthen or toughen concrete? A lot of nothing. Or something. The "nothing" is in the form of microscopic voids and the "something" cons...

New method helps stabilize materials with elusive magnetism

Aug 12, 2016 (SPX)

Magnetic materials displaying what is referred to as itinerant ferromagnetism are in an elusive physical state that is not yet fully understood. They behave lik...

Undergraduates Build Star-Tracking Instrument for NASA Research Rockets

Aug 12, 2016 (SPX)

Rochester Institute of Technology undergraduates are making a "compass" for rockets using a new kind of detector technology. The instrument will fly on a NASA t...

Transmitting energy in soft materials

Aug 10, 2016 (SPX)

Soft materials are great at damping energy - that's why rubber tires are so good at absorbing the shock of bumps and potholes. But if researchers are going to b...

Living Structural Materials Could Open New Horizons for Engineers and Architects

Aug 10, 2016 (SPX)

The structural materials that are currently used to construct homes, buildings, and infrastructure are expensive to produce and transport, wear out due to age a...

Stanford scientists consider 3D printing Mars rock samples

Aug 10, 2016 (UPI)

The combination of remote 3D imaging and 3D printing could one day allow scientists to study faraway rocks, like Martian or lunar formations, by reconstructing ...

Towards the T-1000: Liquid metals propel future electronics

Aug 10, 2016 (SPX)

Science fiction is inching closer to reality with the development of revolutionary self-propelling liquid metals - a critical step towards future elastic electr...

Tailored AFM probes created via 3-D direct laser writing

Aug 10, 2016 (SPX)

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is a technique that allows researchers to analyze surfaces at the atomic scale, and it's based on a surprisingly simple concept: A...

From unconventional laser beams to a more robust imaging wave

Aug 10, 2016 (SPX)

Here's the scene: a suspicious package is found in a public place. The police are called in and clear the area. Forced to work from a distance and unable to pee...

Cement design should take into account the water confined in the smallest pores

Aug 10, 2016 (SPX)

As it is a basic building material used across the world, cement is subjected to a vast range of conditions, both physiological and meteorological, no matter wh...

Researchers immobilize underwater bubbles

Aug 10, 2016 (SPX)

Controlling bubbles is a difficult process and one that many of us experienced in a simplistic form as young children wielding a bubble wand, trying to create b...

Scientists invent new type of 'acoustic prism'

Aug 10, 2016 (UPI)

Scientists in Switzerland have invented an "acoustic prism" capable of splitting a sound into its basic frequencies. Like an optical prism, which relies on the ...

World's first virtual reality camera satellite to be launched into space

Aug 10, 2016 (SPX)

SpaceVR, a platform for creating cinematic, live, virtual space tourism, reports it has signed a launch agreement with NanoRacks LLC to send Overview 1, the wor...

Trust Automation gets Lockheed contract for Q-53 radar

Aug 10, 2016 (UPI)

Trust Automation announced on Tuesday its fifth manufacturing contract with Lockheed Martin for work on the Q-53 radar's vehicle automation system. The deal, fo...

Self-cleaning, anti-reflective, microorganism-resistant coatings

Aug 10, 2016 (SPX)

Coatings or paints are materials applied to different surfaces basically for decorative and protective purposes. Yet today the market for these materials is bei...