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Blue phosphorus mapped and measured for the first time

Oct 18, 2018 (SPX)

Now, another allotrope has been identified: In 2014, a team from Michigan State University, USA, performed model calculations to predict that "blue phosphorus" ...

Ultra-light gloves let users 'touch' virtual objects

Oct 18, 2018 (SPX)

Scientists at EPFL and ETH Zurich have just made a major step toward this goal with their new haptic glove, which is not only lightweight - under 8 grams per fi...

High entropy alloys hold the key to studying dislocation avalanches in metals

Oct 18, 2018 (SPX)

While researchers have studied individual dislocations in the past, a team from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Tennessee, and...

ELTA nabs $55M contract for combat aircraft radars for Asian customer

Oct 17, 2018 (UPI)

IAI announced the contract Tuesday, which was awarded by an unnamed Asian customer. The contract is a repeat order, however, which the company said reflects "th...

Virtual reality can boost empathy

Oct 17, 2018 (UPI)

Empathy is the ability to understand and relate to other perspectives, thoughts and emotions of others. Studies show higher levels of empathy are linked with al...

Lockheed Martin reaches technical milestone for Long Range Discrimination Radar

Oct 17, 2018 (SPX)

In preparation for full-rate manufacturing starting in the beginning of 2019, Lockheed Martin utilized production hardware, tactical backend processing equipmen...

Researchers quickly harvest 2-D materials, bringing them closer to commercialization

Oct 15, 2018 (SPX)

These materials could be stacked together like Lego bricks to form a range of devices with different functions, including operating as semiconductors. In this w...

Russian firm mulls sending duplicate 3D Bioprinter to ISS after Soyuz failure

Oct 15, 2018 (Sputnik)

"Organ.Aut and cosmonauts have a duplicate [of the printer], it will be ready to fly to the ISS in the near future. We will work out a separate cycle graph of t...

Light melts matter differently than heat, study shows

Oct 15, 2018 (UPI)

Scientists have long suspected light melts matter differently than heat, but a new study -- published Monday in the journal Nature Physics -- is the first to co...

Shareholders in Chile miner file suit over sale to China's Tianqi

Oct 12, 2018 (AFP)

Pampa Calichera, Potasios de Chile and Global Mining -- collectively known as the Pampa Group which holds 29.12 percent of SQM -- said in the suit filed Wednesd...

HII plans installation of first 3D-printed aircraft carrier part

Oct 12, 2018 (UPI)

The company announced Thursday that it has worked with the U.S. Navy to develop methods of additive manufacturing of metal parts for its nuclear-powered warship...

Raytheon's new AN/SPY-6V radar tracks ballistic missile in test

Oct 12, 2018 (UPI)

The company announced this week the AN/SPY-6 radar tracked multiple threats at the same time, as well as a ballistic missile through intercept. It was the first...

Chemists of TU Dresden develop highly porous material, more precious than diamonds

Oct 11, 2018 (SPX)

In search of the stability limits of such frameworks, researchers of the TU Dresden's Faculty of Chemistry broke a world record: DUT-60 is a new crystalline fra...

Boeing HorizonX Ventures invests in Accion Systems to propel satellite capabilities

Oct 11, 2018 (SPX)

Accion's new Tiled Ionic Liquid Electrospray (TILE) in-space propulsion system aims to increase the lifespan and maneuverability of satellites and other vehicle...

Aluminum on the way to titanium strength

Oct 11, 2018 (SPX)

The developed modifiers for 3D printing can be used in products for the aerospace industry. The developed modifying-precursors, based on nitrides and aluminum o...

When debris overwhelms space

Oct 11, 2018 (SPX)

SpaceX alone plans on launching over 4,000 of these multi-hundred-kilogram spacecraft that are now being built in Redmond, Washington. Add all of the broadband ...

A 'recipe book' that creates color centers in silicon carbide crystals

Oct 11, 2018 (SPX)

Now, a group of researchers has created a list of "recipes" physicists can use to create specific types of defects with desired optical properties in SiC. In on...

Novel machine learning based framework could lead to breakthroughs in material design

Oct 11, 2018 (SPX)

But how do materials scientists actually invent new materials? Through experimentation, explains Sanket Deshmukh, an assistant professor in the chemical enginee...

Sports industry gears up for virtual reality revolution

Oct 11, 2018 (AFP)

"It's going to disrupt all aspects of sport that you can imagine," virtual reality expert Michael Ludden told the two-day Leaders Sport Business Summit at Chels...

Discovering New Molecules for Military Applications

Oct 10, 2018 (SPX)

Current approaches to develop molecules for specific applications, however, are intuition-driven, mired in slow iterative design and test cycles, and ultimately...