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Graphene smart textiles developed for heat adaptive clothing

Jun 19, 2020 (SPX)

A team of scientists from The University of Manchester's National Graphene Institute have created a prototype garment to demonstrate dynamic thermal radiation c...

Quantum rings in the hold of laser light

Jun 19, 2020 (SPX)

An optical lattice is a structure built of light, i.e. electromagnetic waves. Lasers play a key role in the construction of such lattices. Each laser generates ...

Reducing the risk of space debris collision

Jun 19, 2020 (SPX)

In a new paper published in EPJ Special Topics, authors Antonio Delson Conceicao de Jesus and Gabriel Luiz F. Santos, both from the State University of Feira de...

UK space sector gets a boost with the installation of a giant new satellite test chamber

Jun 18, 2020 (SPX)

The enormous chamber will be used by the space industry to test spacecraft up to 7 tonnes for the harsh conditions of space. The chamber can be heated and coole...

Could we run out of sand? Scientists adjust how grains are measured

Jun 15, 2020 (SPX)

Yet in some areas, sand is in short supply and scientists have discovered the way we keep track of this resource has given us misleading information. In many in...

Freshly printed magnets using Metal 3D laser printing

Jun 15, 2020 (SPX)

The unassuming material sample goes to show that 3D printing with the help of laser beams and metal powder is not only suitable for creating new geometric shape...

A breakthrough in developing multi-watt terahertz lasers

Jun 15, 2020 (SPX)

Sushil Kumar, associate professor in Lehigh University's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and his research team are working at the forefront o...

Speed of space storms key to protecting astronauts and satellites from radiation

Jun 11, 2020 (SPX)

Scientists at the University of Reading found that by calculating the speed of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) when they hit Earth, forecasters could provide more...

Sony pulls back curtain on PlayStation 5 console

Jun 11, 2020 (AFP)

The Japanese consumer electronics giant did not reveal pricing or a launch date for the PS5, which will take on a new Xbox Series X from Microsoft when the riva...

After a century of searching, scientists find new liquid phase

Jun 11, 2020 (SPX)

The team describes the discovery of what scientists call a "ferroelectric nematic" phase of liquid crystal in a study published in the Proceedings of the Nation...

Lab makes 4D printing more practical

Jun 10, 2020 (SPX)

Rafael Verduzco and graduate student Morgan Barnes of Rice's Brown School of Engineering developed a method to print objects that can be manipulated to take on ...

How magnetic fields and 3D printers will create the pills of tomorrow

Jun 10, 2020 (SPX)

Engineers and pharmaceutical scientists from the University of Sussex and The University of Texas at Austin have developed a triggerable and remotely controllab...

Digital lift-off: Roscosmos and Zyfra to jointly develop digital technologies for Russia's space industry

Jun 10, 2020 (SPX)

The document was signed by the Director of the Roscosmos' Department of Digital Development, Konstantin Shadrin, and the Zyfra CEO Igor Bogachev. According to t...

How is a metal formed

Jun 08, 2020 (SPX)

In collaboration involving scientists from the Czech Republic, USA, and Germany, the research team of Pavel Jungwirth from the Institute of Organic Chemistry an...

Sony to unveil PS5 games in online event

Jun 08, 2020 (AFP)

The online event titled "The Future of Gaming" was postponed last week due to unrest in cities over police misconduct and race discrimination. "We needed to ste...

New technique for engineering living materials and patterns

Jun 08, 2020 (SPX)

Living cells have many properties that non-living materials simply don't. The ability of controlling the emergent behaviours of cells and organising them into a...

Lightning fast algorithms can lighten the load of 3D hologram generation

Jun 08, 2020 (SPX)

The term hologram may still have a sci-fi ring to it, but holography, the science of making records of light in 3D, is used everywhere, from microscopy, fraud p...

Astroscale US enters the GEO satellite life extension market

Jun 04, 2020 (SPX)

These moves make Astroscale the only company solely dedicated to on-orbit services across low-earth ("LEO") and geostationary ("GEO") orbits and bring the compa...

NASA announces challenge seeking innovative ideas to advance missions

Jun 04, 2020 (SPX)

The agency's Science Mission Directorate (SMD) is seeking novel ideas reflective of those currently trending in the commercial sector - particularly in areas su...

Recycling plastics together, simple and fast

Jun 03, 2020 (SPX)

Researchers Tingan LIN and Limin BAO of Shinshu University and their colleague examined the recyclability and sustainable development of thermoplastic materials...