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Video game titans get back in stride at E3

Jun 19, 2015 (AFP)

The world's leading video game show ended Thursday with the industry feeling renewed vigor after years of worry that play on mobile devices was leading to decli...

Oculus out to let people touch virtual worlds

Jun 18, 2015 (AFP)

Behind closed doors on the show floor of the world's premier video game show, Facebook-owned Oculus was letting people touch virtual worlds. Oculus provided a s...

A protective shield for sensitive catalysts

Jun 18, 2015 (SPX)

An international research team has found a way of protecting sensitive catalysts from oxygen-caused damage. In the future, this could facilitate the creation of...

Jordanian AF receiving Thales radar system

Jun 18, 2015 (UPI)

Thales has announced it is to supply additional I-Master SAR/GMTI all-weather tactical surveillance radars to the Royal Jordanian Air Force. The contract announ...

New honeycomb-inspired design delivers superior protection from impact

Jun 18, 2015 (SPX)

Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a groundbreaking new energy-absorbing structure to better ...

Squid inspires camouflaging smart materials

Jun 18, 2015 (SPX)

Researchers from the University of Bristol have shown it is possible to create artificial skin that can be transformed at the flick of a switch to mimic one of ...

Penn researchers develop a new type of gecko-like gripper

Jun 18, 2015 (SPX)

Picking things up and putting them down is a mainstay of any kind of manufacturing, but fingers, human or robotic, are not always best for the task at hand. Res...

Buckle up for fast ionic conduction

Jun 18, 2015 (SPX)

ETH material engineers found that the performance of ion-conducting ceramic membranes that are so important in industry depends largely on their strain and buck...

Framework materials yield to pressure

Jun 17, 2015 (SPX)

Pressure is a powerful thermodynamic variable that enables the structure, bonding and reactivity of matter to be altered. In materials science it has become an ...

Surfaces get smooth or bumpy on demand

Jun 17, 2015 (SPX)

An MIT team has developed a way of making soft materials, using a 3-D printer, with surface textures that can then be modified at will to be perfectly smooth, o...

Students Hope 3D-Printed Rocket Engine Will Break Records

Jun 17, 2015 (Sputnik)

After successfully testing a 3D-printed rocket engine, a group of UC San Diego students are looking to break the world record for the longest flight by a propul...

University of Cincinnati, industry partners develop low-cost, 'tunable' window tintings

Jun 17, 2015 (SPX)

Technology developed by the University of Cincinnati and industry partners can do something that neither blinds nor existing smart windows can do. This patent-p...

Radar system approved for allies

Jun 16, 2015 (UPI)

AN/TPY-2 ballistic missile defense radar, for use in forward-based mode, can now be procured by allies through the Foreign Military Sales program. Raytheon, mak...

Turning paper industry waste into chemicals

Jun 16, 2015 (SPX)

Researchers at the KU Leuven Centre for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis have found a more eco-friendly way to derive lignin - a paper industry waste product - f...

Console kings battle with grand games and virtual worlds

Jun 16, 2015 (AFP)

Console kings Microsoft and Sony battled for players' hearts with blockbuster games and the lure of virtual worlds as the Electronic Entertainment Expo was pois...

Researchers develop ultra-tough fiber that imitates the structure of spider silk

Jun 16, 2015 (SPX)

Professors Frederick Gosselin and Daniel Therriault, along with their master's student Renaud Passieux, are not related to Spiderman. Nevertheless, these Polyte...

Robot to 3D-print steel canal bridge in Amsterdam

Jun 16, 2015 (AFP)

A Dutch startup has unveiled plans to build the world's first 3D-printed bridge across an Amsterdam canal, a technique that could become standard on future cons...

Recovering a rare metal from LCDs to avoid depleting key resource

Jun 15, 2015 (SPX)

Life without bright screens on our smart phones and TVs is hard to imagine. But in 20 years, one of the essential components of the liquid-crystal displays, or ...

MIT team creates ultracold molecules

Jun 15, 2015 (SPX)

The air around us is a chaotic superhighway of molecules whizzing through space and constantly colliding with each other at speeds of hundreds of miles per hour...

First US deep space weather satellite reaches final orbit

Jun 11, 2015 (SPX)

More than 100 days after it launched, NOAA's Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite has reached its orbit position about one million miles from Earth...