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ESA boosts the satellite-enabled 5G media market

Jun 22, 2022 (ESA)

This week ESA signed an agreement to work with the European Broadcast Union - an alliance of public service media organisations - that will enable Europe to gai...

MOONRISE: LZH and TU Berlin bring 3D printing to the Moon with laser and AI

Jun 22, 2022 (SPX)

In the MOONRISE project, the research team wants to explore the question of how we can use lasers to build landing sites, roads or buildings out of lunar dust i...

China develops new coating for spacecraft thermal control

Jun 21, 2022 (XNA)

The new coating works in two ways: providing low solar absorption to help reduce the sun's effect on the spacecraft's interior temperature; and providing low in...

UCLA engineers create single-step, all-in-one 3D printing method to make robotic materials

Jun 21, 2022 (SPX)

A study that outlined the advance, along with the construction and demonstration of an assortment of tiny robots that walk, maneuver and jump, was published in ...

Moon sculptures, NFTs at futuristic Art Basel fair

Jun 19, 2022 (AFP)

Non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, are all the rage at the Art Basel fair in Switzerland, where the world of digital assets is taking off. Artist Jeff Koons plans to...

A new ESA giant in Australia

Jun 19, 2022 (ESA)

ESA representatives met with representatives from Australia's national and regional governments and from the Australian Space Agency, 16 June, to kick off activ...

Time to rebuild construction

Jun 16, 2022 (SPX)

As China, Australia and other countries struggle to maintain construction industry stability, a new assessment led by Malaysia's Universiti Teknologi Petronas C...

Smartphone technology provides satellites with increased computing power

Jun 14, 2022 (SPX)

A general challenge for computer systems in satellites is that cosmic radiation can interfere with their operation. "If a radiation particle impacts a digital m...

Meta's Quest VR gear to let people 'hang out' in fake worlds

Jun 11, 2022 (AFP)

The tweak heading for the latest model Quest from Meta-owned Oculus will let wearers hop into virtual settings with friends, chief Mark Zuckerberg said in a pos...

Faster computing results without fear of errors

Jun 10, 2022 (SPX)

Their system boosts the speeds of programs that run in the Unix shell, a ubiquitous programming environment created 50 years ago that is still widely used today...

Irvine scientists observe effects of heat in materials with atomic resolution

Jun 10, 2022 (SPX)

Using cutting-edge electron microscopes and novel techniques, a team of researchers at the University of California, Irvine, the Massachusetts Institute of Tech...

Moving furniture in the micro-world

Jun 10, 2022 (SPX)

In their recent study in Physical Review X, the researchers found that the reduction in static friction of a microscopic object on a crystalline surface can be ...

Amsterdam physicists build an atom laser that can stay on forever

Jun 10, 2022 (SPX)

Meanwhile, quantum mechanics tells us that particles like atoms should also be thought of as waves. As a result, we can build 'atom lasers' containing coherent ...

Superworms capable of munching through plastic waste

Jun 10, 2022 (SPX)

Scientists discovered the common Zophobas morio 'superworm' can eat through polystyrene, thanks to a bacterial enzyme in their gut. Dr Chris Rinke and his team ...

Recovering rare-earth elements from e-waste

Jun 10, 2022 (SPX)

The teams will develop novel extraction chemistries and explore practical limits of yield, extraction efficiency, and purity to recover a selective list of crit...

SEAKR Engineering Demonstrates Optical Communications on DARPA's Mandrake 2 Satellites

Jun 09, 2022 (SPX)

"This was a demonstration not only of optical communications in space but also a closer look at some of the foundational building blocks needed for a networked ...

Zuckerberg staying at Meta helm for years 'makes sense': Clegg

Jun 09, 2022 (AFP)

Succession at the mega company has been in the headlines in recent weeks with the announcement of the departure of Sheryl Sandberg after 14 years as the firm's ...

James Webb telescope hit by micrometeoroid: NASA

Jun 09, 2022 (AFP)

"After initial assessments, the team found the telescope is still performing at a level that exceeds all mission requirements despite a marginally detectable ef...

Styrofoam-munching superworms could hold key to plastic upcycling

Jun 09, 2022 (AFP)

Scientists at Australia's University of Queensland have now discovered that superworms -- the larvae of Zophobas morio darkling beetles -- are eager to dine on ...

Isar Aerospace and EXOTRAIL partner on cloud-based simulation software ExoOPSTM

Jun 08, 2022 (SPX)

Isar Aerospace, the leading European launch service provider focusing on small and medium satellite deployment, will use ExoOPSTM - Mission Design to answer the...