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New model for the thermo-elasto-plasticity deformation of crystals
May 01, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers have proposed a new thermo-elasto-plasticity constitutive model based on the interatomic potential and solid mechanics for metal crystals. Through t...
Seeing Stars Through The Cloud
May 01, 2015 (SPX)
SKA Organisation and AWS are launching the AstroCompute in the Cloud grant programme to accelerate the development of innovative tools and techniques for proces...
Space radiation may harm astronauts' brains: study
May 01, 2015 (AFP)
Flying people to deep space -- like Mars or an asteroid -- is high on NASA's wish list, but research on mice suggested Friday that extended radiation exposure p...
Autonomous convergence and divergence of self-powered soft liquid metals
Apr 30, 2015 (SPX)
The autonomous locomotion for a macroscopic machine remains an intriguing issue for the researchers to explore. Recently, Professor LIU Jing and his group from ...
Electron spin brings order to high entropy alloys
Apr 30, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers from North Carolina State University have discovered that electron spin brings a previously unknown degree of order to the high entropy alloy nickel...
3-D printing is so last year! We're onto 4-D printing now
Apr 29, 2015 (SPX)
4D printing is unfolding as technology that takes 3D printing to an entirely new level. The fourth dimension is time, shape shifting in fact, and the ARC Centre...
Graphene brings 3-D holograms clearer and closer
Apr 29, 2015 (SPX)
From mobile phones and computers to television, cinema and wearable devices, the display of full colour, wide-angle, 3D holographic images is moving ever closer...
Team develops faster, higher quality 3-D camera
Apr 29, 2015 (SPX)
When Microsoft released the Kinect for Xbox in November 2010, it transformed the video game industry. The most inexpensive 3-D camera to date, the Kinect bypass...
GoPro buys virtual reality firm Kolor
Apr 28, 2015 (AFP)
The company that makes the popular GoPro cameras announced plans Tuesday to buy Kolor, a French-based firm specializing in virtual reality and other video techn...
ASC Signal To Supply Globecomm With Earth Stations and Upgrades
Apr 27, 2015 (SPX)
ASC Signal Corporation has been awarded a contract by Globecomm to expand and upgrade the company's earth station antennas at Globecomm's Maryland teleport. The...
Perseverance paves way for wind laser
Apr 27, 2015 (ESA)
Developing new satellite instruments is always challenging, but at times more head-scratching is needed to create something truly cutting-edge. ESA's Aeolus mis...
Mechanical cloaks of invisibility - without complicated mathematics
Apr 27, 2015 (SPX)
A honeycomb is a very stable structure. If it has a larger hole, however, stability is largely lost. What might a honeycomb look like, which survives external f...
Reducing big data using quantum theory
Apr 27, 2015 (SPX)
Analysing the large volumes of data gathered by modern businesses and public services is problematic. Traditionally, relationships between the different parts o...
Fast and accurate 3-D imaging technique to track optically trapped particles
Apr 27, 2015 (SPX)
Optical tweezers have been used as an invaluable tool for exerting micro-scale force on microscopic particles and manipulating three-dimensional (3-D) positions...
Russian Mission Control Adjusts ISS Orbit to Avoid Space Junk
Apr 24, 2015 (Sputnik)
Russia's space agency Roscosmos adjusted the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) due to a threat of collision with fragments of a former spacecraft, ...
Notre Dame paper opens the door to the study of a new class of materials
Apr 23, 2015 (SPX)
A new paper by a team of researchers led by Karel Matous, College of Engineering Associate Professor of Computational Mechanics in the Department of Aerospace a...
New 'space trash' laser may tidy up Earth's orbit
Apr 23, 2015 (Sputnik)
A new combination telescope-laser is currently in development, to combat the growing issue of space trash - debris released into Earth's orbit from human activi...
A blueprint for clearing the skies of space debris
Apr 23, 2015 (SPX)
An international team of scientists have put forward a blueprint for a purely space-based system to solve the growing problem of space debris. The proposal, pub...
Tethers Unlimited to recycle ISS plastic waste into 3D printer filament
Apr 22, 2015 (SPX)
NASA has announced that its Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program has selected Tethers Unlimited, Inc. (TUI) for award of a Phase II contract to dev...
How many gold atoms make gold metal?
Apr 21, 2015 (SPX)
Researchers at the Nanoscience Center at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, have shown that dramatic changes in the electronic properties of nanometre-sized ...
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