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Researchers offer overview of composite metal foams and potential applications

Mar 15, 2017 (SPX)

Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a range of composite metal foams (CMFs) that can be used in applications from armor to hazardous m...

Dramatic improvement in surface finishing of 3-D printing

Mar 15, 2017 (SPX)

Waseda University researchers have developed a process to dramatically improve the quality of 3D printed resin products. The process combines greatly improved s...

Switching oxygen on and off

Mar 15, 2017 (SPX)

Oxygen atoms are highly reactive, yet the world does not spontaneously burn, even though everything is surrounded by this aggressive element. Why? The reason is...

IAI unveils radar that detects targets in dense forests

Mar 14, 2017 (UPI)

Israel Aerospace Industries on Tuesday revealed a new radar capable of identifying targets traveling through heavily wooded areas. The radar, known as the ELM-2...

MIPT physicists predict the existence of unusual optical composites

Mar 13, 2017 (SPX)

Physicists from MIPT have predicted the existence of transparent composite media with unusual optical properties. Using graphics card based simulations, scienti...

Orbiting in sunshine

Mar 13, 2017 (ESA)

Following three days of intensive work, mission control has declared the newly launched Sentinel-2B satellite fit and ready for commissioning. The 1100 kg Senti...

Conquering metal fatigue

Mar 13, 2017 (SPX)

Metal fatigue can lead to abrupt and sometimes catastrophic failures in parts that undergo repeated loading, or stress. It's a major cause of failure in structu...

Cancer-Causing Radiation Biggest Threat to Humans on Deep Space Missions

Mar 13, 2017 (Sputnik)

Researchers looking into the effects of deep space travel on the human body may have just discovered something that could jeopardize humankind's chances of a su...

Sandia creates 3-D metasurfaces with optical possibilities

Mar 13, 2017 (SPX)

Metamaterials don't exist in nature, but their ability to make ultra-thin lenses and ultra-efficient cell phone antennas, bend light to keep satellites cooler a...

Photonic doping makes class of metamaterials easier to fabricate

Mar 13, 2017 (SPX)

The field of metamaterials, an intersection of materials science, physics, nanotechnology and electrical engineering, aims to produce structures with unusual el...

Scientists develop new surface finishing for 3D-printing

Mar 13, 2017 (UPI)

Researchers at Waseda University in Japan developed a process they say dramatically improves the quality of 3D-printed resin products. The new technique improve...

New application of the selective laser melting method

Mar 13, 2017 (SPX)

Scientists of Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) and Delft University of Technology developed a technology for obtaining new metal st...

First exact model for diffusion in magnesium alloys

Mar 13, 2017 (SPX)

The movement of atoms in solids controls everything. In order to develop new materials, material engineers need to be able to predict how fast impurity atoms di...

Understanding what's happening inside liquid droplets

Mar 09, 2017 (SPX)

For most people, the drip, drip, drip of a leaking faucet would be an annoyance. But for Georgia Institute of Technology Ph.D. candidate Alexandros Fragkopoulos...

Scientists create new form of matter, a time crystal

Mar 09, 2017 (SPX)

Salt, snowflakes and diamonds are all crystals, meaning their atoms are arranged in 3-D patterns that repeat. Today scientists are reporting in the journal Natu...

Physicists design a device inspired by sonic screwdriver

Mar 09, 2017 (SPX)

Physicists have designed a handheld device inspired by the sonic screwdriver in Doctor Who and the tricorder in Star Trek that will use the power of MRI and mas...

Polymer-coated silicon nanosheets - an alternative to graphene

Mar 09, 2017 (SPX)

Silicon nanosheets are thin, two-dimensional layers with exceptional optoelectronic properties very similar to those of graphene. Albeit, the nanosheets are les...

U.S. Naval Research Lab develops light, transparent armor

Mar 08, 2017 (UPI)

Research chemists at U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have developed and patented a transparent thermoplastic elastomer armor to reduce weight, inherent in ...

Mikros contracted for U.S. Navy radar support systems

Mar 08, 2017 (UPI)

The U.S. Navy awarded Mikros Systems Corporation with an $11.5 million contract to perform engineering and technical support services for radar support systems....

Space surveillance radar system fully operational

Mar 07, 2017 (UPI)

A C-band space surveillance radar system jointly operated by the United States and Australia has reached Full Operational Capability, the Australian Department ...