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Metal leads to the desired configuration

Oct 10, 2018 (SPX)

Dye-sensitized solar cells have been considered a sustainable alternative to conventional solar cells for many years, even if their energy yield is not yet full...

Army research lights the way for new materials

Oct 10, 2018 (SPX)

This is exactly what scientists Dr. David Baker and Dr. Joshua McClure from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory are doing to lighten the load and enhance the powe...

Copper ions flow like liquid through crystalline structures

Oct 09, 2018 (SPX)

Becoming a popular topic of study only within the past five years, superionic crystals are a cross between a liquid and a solid. While some of their molecular c...

Spheres can make concrete leaner, greener

Oct 09, 2018 (SPX)

To Rice materials scientist Rouzbeh Shahsavari and graduate student Sung Hoon Hwang, the spheres represent building blocks that can be made at low cost and prom...

New 3D-printed cement paste gets stronger when it cracks

Oct 09, 2018 (SPX)

Purdue University researchers have 3D-printed cement paste, a key ingredient of the concrete and mortar used to build various elements of infrastructure, that g...

Study opens route to flexible electronics made from exotic materials

Oct 09, 2018 (SPX)

Now MIT engineers have developed a technique to fabricate ultrathin semiconducting films made from a host of exotic materials other than silicon. To demonstrate...

University of Toronto chemists advance ability to control chemical reactions

Oct 09, 2018 (SPX)

The team of U of T chemists, led by Nobel Prize-winning researcher John Polanyi, have found a means to select the impact parameter or miss-distance by which a r...

Google drops out of bidding for massive Pentagon cloud contract

Oct 09, 2018 (AFP)

The decision by Google, confirmed to AFP in an email Tuesday, leaves a handful of other tech giants including Amazon in the running for the Joint Enterprise Def...

Maxar's SSL selected by NASA to develop critical technologies for on-orbit servicing

Oct 09, 2018 (SPX)

A technology is considered by NASA to be at a tipping point if an investment in a demonstration is likely to result in a high likelihood of infusion into a comm...

Study identifies genetic mutations among children of soldiers exposed to radiation

Oct 05, 2018 (UPI)

Prior to the 1990s, most radar systems were poorly insulated. Those operating and working in close proximity to the systems were regularly exposed to the unconf...

Brazil says Norsk Hydro lacked waste license for stalled plant

Oct 04, 2018 (AFP)

The company on Wednesday announced it had to stop production at the facility, located near the city of Belem in Brazil's northwest. The news sent Norsk Hydro's ...

Reaction of a quantum fluid to photoexcitation of dissolved particles observed for the first time

Oct 04, 2018 (SPX)

Now Koch and his team have achieved a breakthrough in the research on completely novel molecular systems. By means of femtosecond spectroscopy, which allows ult...

NTU Singapore scientists develop smart technology for synchronized 3D printing of concrete

Oct 04, 2018 (SPX)

Developed by Assistant Professor Pham Quang Cuong and his team at NTU's Singapore Centre for 3D Printing, this new multi-robot technology was published in Autom...

Researchers discover highly active organic photocatalyst

Oct 04, 2018 (SPX)

Photocatalytic solar hydrogen production - or water splitting - offers an abundant clean energy source, but only if the energy in sunlight can be harvested effe...

Norsk Hydro halts output at key Brazil plant, share plunges

Oct 03, 2018 (AFP)

The company's share price plunged by 13.8 percent in morning trading on the Oslo Stock Exchange. Norsk Hydro has since March been ordered to halve its productio...

NASA, NOAA convene GOES 17 Mishap Investigation Board

Oct 03, 2018 (SPX)

During postlaunch testing of the satellite's Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) instrument, it was discovered that the instrument's infrared detectors cannot be mai...

Northrop Grumman to provide spares for Hawkeye radar planes

Oct 03, 2018 (UPI)

The order, announced Tuesday by the Department of Defense, provides for 163 spare parts in support of the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft. Work will be performed...

Lockheed Martin to marry machine learning with 3-D printing

Oct 02, 2018 (SPX)

That's why Lockheed Martin and the Office of Naval Research are exploring how to apply artificial intelligence to train robots to independently oversee-and opti...

Scientists solve the golden puzzle of calaverite

Oct 01, 2018 (SPX)

A gold tellurite with the chemical formula AuTe2, calaverite may not only be a source of gold, but displays highly incommensurate modulation in the positions of...

Firmware at the blink of an eye: Scientists develop new technology of alloy steel rolling

Oct 01, 2018 (SPX)

Due to its high strength, the seamless pipes made of alloy and high alloy steel are actively used in gas, oil, chemical, and energy industries. The process of p...