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Nuclear radiation used to transmit digital data wirelessly

Nov 11, 2021 (SPX)

Radio waves and mobile phone signals relies on electromagnetic radiation for communication but in a new development, engineers from Lancaster University in the ...

LEOcloud to offer space edge cloud services on Orbital Assembly Space Stations

Nov 10, 2021 (SPX)

This will enable researchers and commercial entities on board Orbital Assembly's facilities to run their services or application workloads locally in a hybrid c...

Facebook whistleblower 'extremely concerned' by metaverse as deals worth billions emerge

Nov 10, 2021 (AFP)

Faced with a barrage of bad publicity due to Haugen's revelations, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced plans late last month to create a digital world where ...

Mystery object detected near China's space debris cleaner fuels fears of 'satellite-crushing weapon'

Nov 09, 2021 (Sputnik)

US space tracking has detected a mysterious object orbiting along with China's Shijian-21 satellite, launched on 23 October to "test and verify space debris mit...

Digantara and OrbAstro announce service agreement for space debris tracking mission on 6U satellite

Nov 09, 2021 (SPX)

The mission will focus on demonstration of a novel LiDAR-based technology developed by Digantara, and will serve as the pilot for their LEO constellation provid...

Tiny grains, severe damage: Hypervelocity dust impacts on a spacecraft produce plasma explosions and debris clouds

Nov 09, 2021 (SPX)

New research by scientists at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado, Boulder and the Johns Hopkins University Ap...

Indian star Kamal Haasan to launch metaverse avatar

Nov 08, 2021 (AFP)

Haasan, who turned 67 on Sunday, said in a statement on his birthday that he was "excited to explore the emerging intersection of the digital and physical world...

Healable carbon fiber composite offers path to long-lasting, sustainable materials

Nov 08, 2021 (SPX)

In a paper published Nov. 2 in the journal Carbon, a team of researchers describes a new type of carbon fiber reinforced material that is as strong and light as...

Georgia State University astronomy researcher wins grant to improve detection, monitoring of satellites

Nov 05, 2021 (SPX)

The new technique could have implications for astronomers trying to spot small, dim objects hidden in the light of companions, and could assist the government i...

Securing data transfers with relativity

Nov 04, 2021 (SPX)

When a person - the so called 'prover' - wants to confirm their identity, for example when they want to withdraw money from an ATM, they must provide their pers...

Chinese rocket re-enters Earth atmosphere uncontrolled over the Pacific Ocean

Nov 04, 2021 (UPI)

U.S. Space Command tweeted a confirmation that the rocket re-entered the Earth's atmosphere over the south-central Pacific Ocean at 4:01 a.m. Friday. The rocket...

Simulations in 3D improve understanding of energetic-particle radiation and help protect space assets

Nov 03, 2021 (SPX)

"For the first time ever, we can use 3D simulations from fundamental physics principles to model the production of energetic ions and electrons in those magneti...

An artificial material that can sense, adapt to its environment

Nov 03, 2021 (SPX)

In a recent study published in Nature Communications, a journal of Nature, researchers at the University of Missouri and University of Chicago have developed an...

Reinventing steelmaking for a green revolution

Nov 02, 2021 (AFP)

But making the method work at scale poses major challenges and the technique may not be the 'silver bullet' everyone is hoping for. Critics argue it may just pu...

Gaming giant Epic pulls back on Fortnite China over crackdown

Nov 02, 2021 (AFP)

Beijing has embarked on a wide-ranging regulatory clampdown on a number of industries as part of a drive to tighten its control of the economy, with tech firms ...

Roblox begins gradual return online after two-day outage

Oct 31, 2021 (AFP)

"We have identified root cause and solution," the California-based collaborative platform tweeted, adding it was "working on getting things back online." By Sun...

The New York 'canners' recycling discarded bottles to survive

Oct 31, 2021 (AFP)

Marin, who is 80, is one of New York's estimated 10,000 "canners," mostly older migrants from Latin America and China who scrape a living sorting and recycling ...

Stronger than spider silk: Bagworm silk enables strong conducting fibers

Oct 28, 2021 (SPX)

Owing to its high flexibility and strength, spider silk has received much attention for uses ranging from medicine to aerospace applications. By combining natur...

AiRANACULUS awarded Phase II NASA contract for Advanced Space Communications System

Oct 28, 2021 (SPX)

Under the new contract, AiRANACULUS will demonstrate and deliver an intelligent network platform to increase performance, efficiency and reliability of mission ...

Bio-inspired autonomous materials

Oct 28, 2021 (SPX)

Led by Rae Robertson-Anderson, a professor of physics and biophysics at the University of San Diego, the team also includes Jennifer Ross at Syracuse University...