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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A first glimpse inside a macroscopic quantum state

Mar 31, 2015 (SPX)

In a recent study published in Physical Review Letters and highlighted by the magazine Science News, the research group led by ICREA Prof at ICFO Morgan Mitchel...

Engineers speed up simulations in computational grand challenge

Mar 31, 2015 (SPX)

Engineers at the University of California, San Diego, have developed a new family of methods to significantly increase the speed of time-resolved numerical simu...

Australia eyes new air search radar

Mar 30, 2015 (UPI)

A proposal to replace air search radar aboard Royal Australian Navy frigates has received First Pass approval from the government. The approval for project SEA ...

Molecule from trees could make our roads and roofs greener

Mar 30, 2015 (SPX)

Construction crews may someday use a plant molecule called lignin in their asphalt and sealant mixtures to help roads and roofs hold up better under various wea...

Desalination using a nanoporous graphene membrane

Mar 30, 2015 (SPX)

Less than 1 percent of Earth's water is drinkable. Removing salt and other minerals from our biggest available source of water - seawater - may help satisfy a g...

Colombia transforms old tires into green housing

Mar 30, 2015 (AFP)

The highlands around the Colombian capital are scattered with small buildings that look like out-of-place igloos but are in fact innovative houses made from the...

Scuttling satellites to save space

Mar 28, 2015 (ESA)

It takes a lot of ingenuity - not to mention a massive quantity of sheer force - to get satellites into orbit. Now space engineers are applying comparable ingen...

Additives to biodegrade plastics don't work

Mar 26, 2015 (SPX)

Recycling plastic works; additives to biodegrade plastic do not. A new study from Michigan State University shows that several additives that claim to break dow...

Cluster satellite catches up

Mar 26, 2015 (ESA)

One of the four Cluster satellites has shifted its orbit to ensure a safe reentry when the time comes, as well as providing a rare opportunity to study how a sa...

New transitory form of silica observed

Mar 26, 2015 (SPX)

A Carnegie-led team was able to discover five new forms of silica under extreme pressures at room temperature. Their findings are published by Nature Communicat...

An explanation for the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam system problem

Mar 26, 2015 (SPX)

A team of researchers, led by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute professor Yuri Lvov, has found an elegant explanation for the long-standing Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU...

Landmark study proves that magnets can control heat and sound

Mar 26, 2015 (SPX)

Researchers at The Ohio State University have discovered how to control heat with a magnetic field. In the journal Nature Materials, they describe how a magneti...

Want to snag a satellite? Try a net

Mar 25, 2015 (ESA)

One of humanity's oldest technologies, the humble fishing net, may yet find a new role in space: bringing down dead satellites. The behaviour of nets in orbit w...

Processing Paradigms That Accelerate Computer Simulations

Mar 25, 2015 (SPX)

Whether designed to predict the spread of an epidemic, understand the potential impacts of climate change, or model the acoustical signature of a newly designed...

Slight surface movements on the radar

Mar 25, 2015 (ESA)

Scientists are making advances in the use of satellite radar data - such as those from the Sentinel-1 mission - to monitor Earth's changing surface. Italy's Phl...