RUSSO DAILYNEWS FROM THE RUSSO-SPHERE

TECH SPACE

News About Technology For Space

8,757 articles

NASA laser communication payload undergoing integration and testing
Dec 19, 2017 (SPX)
"LCRD is a big step in the evolution of space communications," said Dave Israel, LCRD's principal investigator. "LCRD will demonstrate how laser communications ...
Software enables robots to be controlled in virtual reality
Dec 18, 2017 (SPX)
The software connects a robot's arms and grippers as well as its onboard cameras and sensors to off-the-shelf virtual reality hardware via the internet. Using h...
Northrop Grumman producing RF threat detection system
Dec 15, 2017 (UPI)
Production of the AN/APR-39D(V)2 comes under a $124.7 million award following a period of development and testing. Northrop, however, did not specify the contra...
Brittle starfish shows how to make tough ceramics
Dec 14, 2017 (SPX)
A beautiful, brainless brittle star that lives in coral reefs has the clue to super tough glass. Hundreds of focal lenses are located on the arms of this creatu...
Seeing through walls of unknown materials
Dec 14, 2017 (SPX)
The study was published in the journal Optica on Dec. 5, 2017. "Most technologies that can see through walls use a broad range of frequencies, which makes them ...
Boeing tapped to sustain Space-Based Space Surveillance system
Dec 14, 2017 (UPI)
The deal, announced Wednesday by the Department of Defense and worth more than $21.9 million under the terms of the contract, is classified as a cost-plus-incen...
Physicists excited by discovery of new form of matter, excitonium
Dec 14, 2017 (SPX)
The team studied non-doped crystals of the oft-analyzed transition metal dichalcogenide titanium diselenide (1T-TiSe2) and reproduced their surprising results f...
Blackbody radiation from a warm object attracts polarizable objects
Dec 14, 2017 (SPX)
The tiny effect is much like the effect a laser has on an atom in a device called optical tweezers, which are used to trap and study atoms, a discovery that led...
Better mastery of heat flow leads to next-generation thermal cloaks
Dec 13, 2017 (SPX)
Materials for such cloaks would need to offer zero thermal conductivity to help camouflage the heat. Now, Liujun Xu and colleagues from Fudan University, Shangh...
First step toward practical application of holographic memory with magnetic assist
Dec 11, 2017 (SPX)
In magnetic hologram recording, a medium is magnetized in one direction; then the medium is irradiated with an information-bearing beam (signal beam) and a refe...
Army taps Northrop Grumman for new radar risk reduction work
Dec 11, 2017 (UPI)
The work under the contract issued by the Army's Lower Tier Program Office, or LTPO, is intended to replace the Army's 50-year-old Patriot radars. "We are excit...
NASA Selects Three Companies to Develop 'FabLab' Prototypes
Dec 11, 2017 (SPX)
The selected companies are: Interlog Corporation of Anaheim, California; Techshot, Inc. of Greeneville, Indiana; and Tethers Unlimited, Inc. of Bothell, Washing...
Penn researchers establish universal signature fundamental to how glassy materials fail
Dec 11, 2017 (SPX)
"In order to understand how a system chooses its rearrangement scenario," said Douglas Durian, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Pennsylva...
Virtual reality makes journalism immersive, realism makes it credible
Dec 11, 2017 (SPX)
In a study, participants indicated that stories experienced in virtual reality - VR - significantly outperformed text-based articles in several categories, such...
Sea urchin spines inspire fracture-resistant cement
Dec 08, 2017 (SPX)
The research team Physical Chemistry, headed by Professor Helmut Colfen, successfully synthesised cement at the nano-level according to this "brick and mortar p...
Nature's toughest substances decoded
Dec 08, 2017 (SPX)
In a study that required more than 400 computer simulations of platelet-matrix composite materials like mother-of-pearl, Rice materials scientist Rouzbeh Shahsa...
Clear leads to fully transparent devices
Dec 08, 2017 (SPX)
Ultrathin semiconductor sheets that are composed of transition metals associated with chalcogen atoms, such as sulfur, selenium and tellurium, present exception...
Russia says 'satellite' could have caused radioactive pollution
Dec 08, 2017 (AFP)
Russia's Rosatom nuclear agency in November asked scientists at the Nuclear Safety Institute to look into the origin of "extremely high" readings of radioactive...
US has lost dominance in highly intense, ultrafast laser technology to Europe and Asia
Dec 08, 2017 (SPX)
The report makes five recommendations that would improve the nation's position in the field, including for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to create a broad...
'Magnetoelectric' material shows promise as memory for electronics
Dec 08, 2017 (SPX)
Devices tend to store that information in two ways: through electric fields (think of a flash drive) or through magnetic fields (like a computer's spinning hard...
Buy Advertising About Us Editorial & Other Enquiries Privacy statement
The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, is Copyright 1995-2026 Space Media Network. All websites are published in Australia and are solely subject to Australian law and governed by Fair Use principles for news reporting and research purposes.