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Beautiful accident leads to advances in high pressure materials synthesis

Nov 18, 2016 (SPX)

Unexpected results from a neutron scattering experiment at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory could open a new pathway for the synthesis o...

UK 'space junk' project highlights threat to missions

Nov 18, 2016 (AFP)

The mass of "space junk" orbiting the Earth poses a serious threat to future exploration, a British scientist said on Friday at the launch of a project to raise...

NASA microthrusters achieve success on ESA's LISA Pathfinder

Nov 17, 2016 (JPL)

A next-generation technology demonstration mission has just passed a big milestone. The Space Technology 7 Disturbance Reduction System (ST7-DRS) is a system of...

Dry adhesive holds in extreme cold, strengthens in extreme heat

Nov 17, 2016 (SPX)

Researchers from Case Western Reserve University, Dayton Air Force Research Laboratory and China have developed a new dry adhesive that bonds in extreme tempera...

Elbit Systems Reveals New Emergency Scenarios Virtual Reality Trainer

Nov 16, 2016 (SPX)

Elbit Systems will showcase its Emergency Scenarios Virtual Reality Trainer (ESVRT) at HLS and Cyber 2016 in Tel Aviv, November 14-17. The new VR-based simulati...

2-D material a brittle surprise

Nov 16, 2016 (SPX)

Scientists at Rice University have discovered that an atom-thick material being eyed for flexible electronics and next-generation optical devices is more brittl...

Self-healing materials for semi-dry conditions

Nov 14, 2016 (SPX)

Before we have self-healing cars or buildings, we need strong materials that can fully self-repair in water-free environments. Self-healing materials work very ...

International engineering team develop self-powered mobile polymers

Nov 14, 2016 (SPX)

One of the impediments to developing miniaturized, "squishy" robots is the need for an internal power source that overcomes the power-to-weight ratio for effici...

Exotic property of salty solutions discovered

Nov 14, 2016 (SPX)

Water and aqueous solutions can behave strangely under pressure. Experiments carried out at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences using Raman spectrosc...

A new type of convection is proven in granular gases

Nov 14, 2016 (SPX)

In physics, thermal convection of a fluid is exhibited by the appearance of geometric structures through which the fluid moves, forming closed circuits. This ph...

Researchers discover new material to improve de-icing

Nov 14, 2016 (SPX)

Icy conditions can be deadly, whether you're flying into bad weather or too close to power transmission lines during a storm. Researchers at the University of H...

Advanced Radioactive Threat Detection System Completes First Large-Scale Citywide Test

Nov 14, 2016 (SPX)

On a recent sunny fall day in the nation's capital, several hundred volunteers-each toting a backpack containing smartphone-sized radiation detectors-walked for...

First random laser made of paper-based ceramics

Nov 14, 2016 (SPX)

Working with physicists from the University of Rome, a team led by Professor Cordt Zollfrank from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) built the first contr...

Scientists have 'scared away' microparticles with laser light

Nov 14, 2016 (SPX)

Olga Vinogradova, Professor at the Faculty of Physics, the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Director of laboratory at the Frumkin Institute of Physical chemis...

Tiny magnifying glass reveals chemical bonds between atoms

Nov 14, 2016 (SPX)

For centuries, scientists believed that light, like all waves, couldn't be focused down smaller than its wavelength, just under a millionth of a metre. Now, res...

Finland cancels plan to close troubled nickel mine

Nov 11, 2016 (AFP)

Finland's government decided Friday to grant new public funding for its troubled Talvivaara mine, cancelling a previous plan to permanently close what was once ...

Study: Math scares everyone, even physicists

Nov 11, 2016 (UPI)

Math is hard, even for physicists. New research suggests physicists are less likely to lend their focus to theories underpinned by complex mathematical details....

We gather here today to join lasers and anti-lasers

Nov 09, 2016 (SPX)

Bringing opposing forces together in one place is as challenging as you would imagine it to be, but researchers in the field of optical science have done just t...

Spin liquid on a peak

Nov 09, 2016 (SPX)

A little frustration can make life interesting. This is certainly the case in physics, where the presence of competing forces that cannot be satisfied at the sa...

Studying structure to understand function within 'material families'

Nov 09, 2016 (SPX)

As Francis Crick, one of Britain's great scientists, once said: "If you want to understand function, study structure." Within the realm of chemical physics, a c...