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Huge helium discovery 'a life-saving find'

Jul 01, 2016 (SPX)

A new approach to gas exploration has discovered a huge helium gas field, which could address the increasingly critical shortage of this vital yet rare element....

Getting a grip on slippery cell membranes

Jul 01, 2016 (SPX)

Within each of our cells is a distribution system that uses molecular motors and filaments to move proteins, organelles, and other tiny bits of cargo along its ...

New antenna brings enhanced capabilities to the battlefield

Jun 29, 2016 (SPX)

The 460th Space Communications Squadron, Air Force Wideband Enterprise Terminals Program office, Tobyhanna Army Depot and Radome Services have been working toge...

Augmented reality helmet helps pilots see through clouds, fog

Jun 29, 2016 (UPI)

Pilots must be able to detect hazards as early as possible in order to quickly plot a path around them. In thick fog or clouds, however, this can be difficult. ...

Airbus Defence and Space top construct new clean rooms in Poland

Jun 28, 2016 (SPX)

Head of Space Systems Francois Auque announced that Airbus Defence and Space, the world's second largest space company, will be constructing a complex of clean ...

A new bio-ink for 3-D printing with stem cells

Jun 28, 2016 (SPX)

The new stem cell-containing bio ink allows 3D printing of living tissue, known as bio-printing. The new bio-ink contains two different polymer components: a na...

10,000 windows onto biomolecular information processing

Jun 24, 2016 (SPX)

A Franco-Japanese research group at the University of Tokyo has developed a new "brute force" technique to test thousands of biochemical reactions at once and q...

Quantum calculations broaden the understanding of crystal catalysts

Jun 24, 2016 (SPX)

Using numerical modelling, researchers from Russia, the US, and China have discovered previously unknown features of rutile TiO2, which is a promising photocata...

Scientists consider building cities of the future out of bone

Jun 24, 2016 (UPI)

Researchers at Cambridge University are considering the potential of more sustainable building materials -- the materials that will build the next generation of...

Measuring Planck's constant, NIST's watt balance brings world closer to new kilogram

Jun 24, 2016 (SPX)

In a secure vault in the suburbs of Paris, an egg-sized cylinder of metal sits in a climate-controlled room under three glass bell jars. It is the mass against ...

Innovative device allows 3-D imaging of the breast with less radiation

Jun 22, 2016 (SPX)

Preliminary tests have demonstrated that a new device may enable existing breast cancer imagers to provide up to six times better contrast of tumors in the brea...

Marrying superconductors, lasers, and Bose-Einstein condensates

Jun 22, 2016 (SPX)

Chapman University Institute for Quantum Studies (IQS) member Yutaka Shikano, Ph.D., recently had research published in Scientific Reports. Superconductors are ...

SSL Satellite For Dish Begins Post-Launch Maneuvers According To Plan

Jun 22, 2016 (SPX)

Space Systems Loral reports that the EchoStar XVIII satellite, designed and built for DISH Network was launched on Saturday and is performing post-launch maneuv...

SSL-Built Satellite For Indonesian Bank Is Performing Post-Launch Maneuvers According To Plan

Jun 22, 2016 (SPX)

Space Systems Loral reports that the satellite designed and built for PT. Bank Rakyat Indonesia, the oldest and most profitable bank in Indonesia, was launched ...

Researchers open hairy new chapter in 3-D printing

Jun 22, 2016 (SPX)

These days, it may seem as if 3-D printers can spit out just about anything, from a full-sized sports car, to edible food, to human skin. But some things have d...

Unveiling the distinctive features of a promising industrial microorganism

Jun 22, 2016 (SPX)

Clostridium tyrobutyricum, a Gram-positive, anaerobic spore-forming bacterium, is considered a promising industrial host strain for the production of various ch...

A new trick for controlling emission direction in microlasers

Jun 22, 2016 (SPX)

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have found a way to give photons, or light packets, their marching orders. The researchers have capitalized on...

Building the Future: Space Station Crew 3-D Prints First Student-Designed Tool in Space

Jun 20, 2016 (SPX)

When NASA fired up the Additive Manufacturing Facility on the International Space Station to begin more testing of the emerging 3-D printing technology in orbit...

World's fastest supercomputer powered by Chinese chip technology

Jun 20, 2016 (UPI)

The reign of American-made semiconductors may be over. China recently unveiled the world's fastest supercomputer. Unlike China's previous supercomputers, this o...

New approach to microlasers

Jun 19, 2016 (SPX)

Terahertz radiation - the band of electromagnetic radiation between microwaves and visible light - has promising applications in security and medical diagnostic...