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Japanese scientists move objects using acoustic levitation
Jan 06, 2014 (Voice of Russia)
Japanese scientists have been successful in moving an object in a three-dimensional space through a complex system of acoustic levitation, surpassing previous r...
Supercomputers Join Search for 'Cheapium'
Jan 06, 2014 (SPX)
In the search for cheaper materials that mimic their purer, more expensive counterparts, researchers are abandoning hunches and intuition for theoretical models...
Two new radar stations to be placed into service in Russia in 2014
Jan 06, 2014 (Voice of Russia)
Two new radar stations of the missile warning system will be placed into service in Russia's Kaliningrad and Irkutsk regions this year, the Defence Ministry's p...
3D-printed components flown in British fighter jet
Jan 05, 2014 (AFP)
A Tornado fighter jet fitted with metal components created on a 3D printer undertook a successful test flight in Britain last month, defence company BAE Systems...
AVX Announces Market Introduction of First Space-Level BME MLCC
Jan 03, 2014 (SPX)
AVX Corporation has announced the market introduction of the first space-level, base metal electrode (BME), X7R dielectric MLCCs. Exhibiting capacitance voltage...
Large-aperture planar lens antennas with gradient refractive index
Jan 01, 2014 (SPX)
It was recently shown that large-aperture lens antennas can be designed by using gradient-index (GRIN) metamaterials and that higher directivity and gain can be...
Mission to test laser communications across space distances a success
Dec 31, 2013 (UPI)
NASA says tests using spacecraft in orbit around the moon confirm the potential of using lasers to communicate across space. The Lunar Laser Communication Demon...
New computer memory can hold data 20 years without power
Dec 30, 2013 (UPI)
Researchers in Singapore say they've developed new computer memory that can store more data and keep it intact 20 times longer than current magnetic memory. Eng...
Laser Demonstration Reveals Bright Future for Space Communication
Dec 27, 2013 (SPX)
The completion of the 30-day Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration or LLCD mission has revealed that the possibility of expanding broadband capabilities in sp...
Scientific data lost at alarming rate
Dec 25, 2013 (SPX)
Eighty per cent of scientific data are lost within two decades, according to a new study that tracks the accessibility of data over time. The culprits? Old e-ma...
Solitons in a crystal
Dec 24, 2013 (SPX)
Soliton water waves can travel several kilometers without any significant change in their shape or amplitude, as opposed to normal waves, which widen as they tr...
Resistance makes waves
Dec 24, 2013 (SPX)
Even physics can give pointers for energy saving. An international team working together with the Centre for Quantum Materials, run by the Max Planck Society in...
Throwing out the textbook: Salt surprises chemists
Dec 23, 2013 (SPX)
Table salt, sodium chloride, is one of the first chemical compounds that schoolchildren learn. New research from a team including Carnegie's Alexander Goncharov...
Salty surprise -- ordinary table salt turns into 'forbidden' forms
Dec 23, 2013 (SPX)
High-pressure experiments with ordinary table salt have produced new chemical compounds that should not exist according to the textbook rules of chemistry. The ...
Penn Researchers Grow Liquid Crystal 'Flowers' That Can Be Used as Lenses
Dec 23, 2013 (SPX)
A team of material scientists, chemical engineers and physicists from the University of Pennsylvania has made another advance in their effort to use liquid crys...
Salt under pressure is not NaCl
Dec 23, 2013 (SPX)
In the very beginning of the school chemistry course, we are told of NaCl as an archetypal ionic compound. Being less electronegative, sodium loses its electron...
Toward lowering titanium's cost and environmental footprint for lightweight products
Dec 22, 2013 (SPX)
A novel method for extracting titanium, a metal highly valued for its light weight, high strength, corrosion resistance and biocompatibility, could lower its co...
Researchers Design First Battery-Powered Invisibility Cloaking Device
Dec 22, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have proposed the first design of a cloaking device that uses an external source of energy to significantly bro...
'Macrocells' influence corrosion rate of submerged marine concrete structures
Dec 22, 2013 (SPX)
Using numerical modeling, an Italian research team has discovered the role 'macrocells' play in the corrosion of hollow submerged marine concrete structures suc...
Russia rebuilding lost radar coverage
Dec 22, 2013 (Voice of Russia)
The commissioning of a Konteyner radar station in the Russian region of Mordovia east-southeast of Moscow has marked the completion of the latest part of Russia...
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