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Amazon gives new power to personal assistant, 'Alexa'

Apr 08, 2015 (AFP)

Amazon's personal assistant speaker is taking over more functions for home automation networks. The device introduced last year as Amazon Echo, which responds t...

Physicists create new molecule with record-setting dipole moment

Apr 08, 2015 (SPX)

A proposed pathway to construct quantum computers may be the outcome of research by a University of Oklahoma physics team that has created a new molecule based ...

First ASU-built space instrument ready for final lab tests

Apr 08, 2015 (SPX)

The first space instrument to be built at Arizona State University has just received the electronics it will use in flight. This starts the final laboratory tes...

Pick a color, any color

Apr 08, 2015 (SPX)

In 2005, scientists studying tiny sac-like creatures called sea squirts found bacteria containing two types of chlorophyll (a and b) in cavities inside the squi...

Vietnam hunts for missing box of radioactive material

Apr 08, 2015 (AFP)

Vietnamese authorities are searching for a lead box containing hazardous radioactive material which has gone missing from a steel factory, an official said Wedn...

Upgrade in works for Norway's counter-battery radar

Apr 08, 2015 (UPI)

The Norwegian Army's current mobile counter-battery radar is in line for modernization by Saab, which is to design and produce the mid-life upgrade prototype. T...

Raytheon expands radar production facility

Apr 08, 2015 (UPI)

Raytheon has completed the expansion of its radar and electronic warfare systems facility in Mississippi amid an expected increased production orders. The facil...

Skin tough

Apr 05, 2015 (SPX)

When weighing the pluses and minuses of your skin add this to the plus column: Your skin - like that of all vertebrates - is remarkably resistant to tearing. No...

ISRO Says Multi-Object Tracking Radar Ready for Trials

Apr 05, 2015 (IANS)

The indigenously designed Rs. 245-crore multi-object tracking radar (MOTR) is ready to undergo trials, said a senior space scientist at Sriharikota on Saturday....

Building sound foundations: A matter of granular dynamics

Apr 05, 2015 (SPX)

Sand, rocks, grains, salt or sugar are what physicists call granular media. A better understanding of granular media is important - particularly when mixed with...

From tobacco to cyberwood

Apr 05, 2015 (SPX)

Humans have been inspired by nature since the beginning of time. We mimic nature to develop new technologies, with examples ranging from machinery to pharmaceut...

Femto-snapshots of reaction kinetics

Apr 02, 2015 (SPX)

Using quantum chemical calculations, they were successful in interpreting the data and obtaining a detailed picture of the intermediates and reaction kinetics. ...

Twisted nanofibers create structures tougher than bulletproof vests

Apr 01, 2015 (SPX)

Researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas have created new structures that exploit the electromechanical properties of specific nanofibers to stretch to ...

Catching and releasing tiny molecules

Apr 01, 2015 (SPX)

Employing an ingenious microfluidic design that combines chemical and mechanical properties, a team of Harvard scientists has demonstrated a new way of detectin...

Study reveals novel technique for handling molecules

Apr 01, 2015 (SPX)

Like vast international trading companies, biological systems pick up freight items (in the form of small molecules), transport them from place to place and rel...

A method to simplify pictures makes chemistry calculations a snap

Apr 01, 2015 (SPX)

A method smartphones use to simplify images when storage space is limited could help answer tough chemistry problems. In a report appearing in ACS Central Scien...

Building shape inspires new material discovery

Apr 01, 2015 (SPX)

Physicists inspired by the radical shape of a Canberra building have created a new type of material which enables scientists to put a perfect bend in light. The...

Sewage could be a source of valuable metals and critical elements

Apr 01, 2015 (SPX)

Poop could be a goldmine - literally. Surprisingly, treated solid waste contains gold, silver and other metals, as well as rare elements such as palladium and v...

Rare-earth innovation to improve nylon manufacturing

Apr 01, 2015 (SPX)

The Critical Materials Institute, a U.S. Department of Energy Innovation Hub led by the Ames Laboratory, has created a new chemical process that makes use of th...

Goddard releases open source core flight software suite to public

Apr 01, 2015 (SPX)

The Innovative Technology Partnerships Office at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, announced the release of its core Flight System (cFS...