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Scientists film chemical bond making, breaking

Jan 17, 2020 (UPI)

Now, for the first time, scientists have filmed chemical bond making and breaking in action. The breakthrough -- described this week in the journal Science Adva...

NASA-funded space radiation studies could save astronauts' lives

Jan 17, 2020 (UPI)

NASA has awarded a $550,000 grant to the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne to begin the three-year machine learning project next month. Computer algo...

Nestle to invest 2bn Swiss francs in recycled plastics

Jan 16, 2020 (AFP)

The company, whose brands include Nespresso coffee, Vittel water and Smarties chocolates, also plans to invest in new types of sustainable packaging to meet its...

No need to dig too deep to find gold

Jan 15, 2020 (SPX)

Not only did the researcher discover that the depth of the deposits influences the quantity of metals produced but also that over 95% of the gold is lost to the...

Four nations to be protected with Lockheed Martin's next generation radar

Jan 15, 2020 (SPX)

The basis of SSR is the Long Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR), which the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) selected Lockheed Martin to develop in 2015 with an on-tr...

Slow light to speed up LiDAR sensors development

Jan 15, 2020 (SPX)

A team from Yokohama National University in Japan believes they have developed a method to obtain such a sensor by taking advantage of slow light, an unexpected...

Russian spy satellite has broken up in space says harvard astronomer

Jan 14, 2020 (Sputnik)

Russia's Kosmos-2491 military satellite may has disintegrated in space, either by accident or after deliberately self-destructing, Harvard-Smithsonian astronome...

Skin-like sensors bring a human touch to wearable tech

Jan 13, 2020 (SPX)

Dubbed artificial ionic skin - or AISkin for short - the researchers believe the innovative properties of AISkin could lead to future advancements in wearable e...

NUS scientists create world's first monolayer amorphous film

Jan 13, 2020 (SPX)

This major research breakthrough was led by Professor Barbaros Ozyilmaz, Head of the NUS Department of Materials Science and Engineering. The results were publi...

Penn shows giving entire course of radiation treatment in less than a second is feasible

Jan 10, 2020 (SPX)

In a new report published in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, and Physics, researchers detail how they used proton radiation to generat...

Ultrasound can make stronger 3D-printed alloys

Jan 10, 2020 (SPX)

A study just published in Nature Communications shows high frequency sound waves can have a significant impact on the inner micro-structure of 3D printed alloys...

Randomness opens the gates to the land of attophotography

Jan 10, 2020 (SPX)

There are only a few X-ray lasers in the world today. These sophisticated devices can be used to record even extremely fast processes such as the changes in the...

Human-based models to study space radiation and countermeasures

Jan 10, 2020 (SPX)

TRISH seeks and funds high-risk, high-reward solutions for predicting and protecting the health of future astronauts on deep space missions. Galactic cosmic rad...

China launches new communication technology experiment satellite

Jan 09, 2020 (XNA)

The satellite has entered the preset orbit. It will be used in communication, radio, television and data transmission, as well as high throughput technology tes...

Study details how hydrogen causes embrittlement of steels

Jan 09, 2020 (UPI)

Many scientists and policy makers remain hopeful that a hydrogen economy -- the use of hydrogen fuel to power cars, trucks, planes and more -- will dramatically...

Air Force to cancel Raytheon contract for ground-based radar system

Jan 09, 2020 (UPI)

The Three-Dimensional Expeditionary Long Range Radar, or 3DELRR, system was to be a gallium nitride-based radar that operated on the C-band. It was intended to ...

Nanoscale sensors see how high pressure affects materials

Jan 08, 2020 (SPX)

As the researchers reported in the journal Science, that matters because, "Pressure alters the physical, chemical and electronic properties of matter." Understa...

A new way to make chemicals by copying nature's tricks

Jan 08, 2020 (SPX)

The new technique, pioneered by Imperial College London scientists, could reduce the need to use fossil fuels to create chemicals, plastics, fibres and fuels. C...

Sustainable supply of minerals and metals key to a low-carbon energy future

Jan 07, 2020 (SPX)

The amount of cobalt, copper, lithium, cadmium, and rare earth elements needed for solar photovoltaics, batteries, electric vehicle (EV) motors, wind turbines, ...

Ceramic materials that are IR-transparent

Dec 30, 2019 (SPX)

Due to the submicron size of the grains and their even distribution in the whole volume of the material, the yttrium oxide and magnesium oxide (Y2O3-MgO) cerami...