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Turning plastic waste back into high-quality plastic with advanced steam cracking

Oct 19, 2019 (SPX)

The fact that plastics do not break down, and therefore accumulate in our ecosystems, is one of our major environmental problems. But at Chalmers, a research gr...

Space Traffic Controller Not A Job, But An Adventure

Oct 18, 2019 (SPX)

It is likely that these positions will be located in an international metropolis such as Washington, Paris, London, Hong Kong, Rome or Moscow. Applicants must p...

Sounding rocket tech could enable simultaneous, multi-point measurements

Oct 18, 2019 (SPX)

With such technology, sounding rockets could deploy multiple soda can-sized sub-payloads to varying altitudes where their onboard miniaturized instruments could...

Ten highlights from NASA's Van Allen Probes mission

Oct 18, 2019 (SPX)

"This mission spent seven years in the radiation belts, and broke all the records for a spacecraft to tolerate and operate in that hazardous region, all with no...

Highest throughput 3D printer is the future of manufacturing

Oct 18, 2019 (SPX)

Called HARP (high-area rapid printing), the new technology enables a record-breaking throughput that can manufacture products on demand. Over the last 30 years,...

Chains of atoms move at lightning speed inside metals

Oct 16, 2019 (SPX)

"The phenomenon we have discovered changes the way we think about mass transport in metals. It explains properties of metals that we have, until now, not been a...

Physicists shed new light on how liquids behave with other materials

Oct 16, 2019 (SPX)

The authors provide a firm conceptual framework for tailoring the properties of new materials, including finding super-repellant substrates, such as expelling w...

Analysis of Galileo's Jupiter entry probe reveals gaps in heat shield modeling

Oct 16, 2019 (SPX)

Researchers at the Universidade de Lisboa and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign report their findings from new fluid radiative dynamics models usin...

Unlocking the biochemical treasure chest within microbes

Oct 15, 2019 (SPX)

Now, a team of microbiologists and genomicists led by the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI) has invented a genetic engineering tool, called CRAG...

Unique sticky particles formed by harnessing chaos

Oct 15, 2019 (SPX)

The findings, described in the journal Nature Materials, hold the potential for advances in gels, pastes, foods, nonwovens and coatings, among other formulation...

There's a new Clean Up Sheriff in LEO

Oct 15, 2019 (SPX)

This organization is focused on supporting commercial, civil and military activities in creating innovative new technologies and systems in order to strengthen ...

Celebrating a mission that changed how we use radar

Oct 14, 2019 (JPL)

The SIR-C instrument, built by NASA'S Jet Propulsion Laborator in Pasadena, California, and the X-SAR instrument, built by the German Aerospace Center (DLR), co...

Astroscale takes next step towards commercial active debris removal mission

Oct 11, 2019 (SPX)

"We are excited to be taking this next step in building our groundbreaking mission," said Seita Iizuka, Project Manager. "ELSA-d is an incredibly complex satell...

AFRL reimagines tech development with virtual reality

Oct 10, 2019 (SPX)

At the Air Vehicles Technology Symposium, held Sept. 10-12 in Dayton, the Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality for Aircraft Maintenance, or VAMRAM, team demons...

German shooter video stays online despite crackdown

Oct 10, 2019 (AFP)

Roughly 24 hours after the attack, video and links to an anti-Semitic "manifesto" published a week earlier by the gunman were also still available online using ...

Electronic solid could reduce carbon emissions in fridges and air conditioners

Oct 10, 2019 (SPX)

The device is based on layers of a material composed of oxygen and three metallic elements known as PST, and it displays the largest electrocaloric effects - ch...

How do the strongest magnets in the universe form?

Oct 10, 2019 (SPX)

The researchers used large computer simulations to demonstrate how the merger of two stars creates strong magnetic fields. If such stars explode in supernovae, ...

German chemical industry sketches costly carbon-neutral path

Oct 09, 2019 (AFP)

A study showed reaching net zero output of greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) by mid-century would cost 45 billion euros ($49.4 billion) in additional investme...

SwRI, international team use deep learning to create virtual 'super instrument'

Oct 08, 2019 (SPX)

"Deep learning is an emerging capability that is revolutionizing the way we interact with data," said Dr. Andres Munoz-Jaramillo, senior research scientist at S...

When debris overwhelms space exploitation

Oct 08, 2019 (SPX)

For example, Amazon is planning to launch 3,236 satellite and SpaceX is already building the first of 4,000 multi-hundred-kilogram spacecraft. Add all of the br...