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Smartphone hacks 3-D printer by measuring 'leaked' energy and acoustic waves

Sep 13, 2016 (SPX)

The ubiquity of smartphones and their sophisticated gadgetry make them an ideal tool to steal sensitive data from 3-D printers. That's according to a new Univer...

UMD physicists discover 'smoke rings' made of laser light

Sep 13, 2016 (SPX)

Most basic physics textbooks describe laser light in fairly simple terms: a beam travels directly from one point to another and, unless it strikes a mirror or o...

New material with exceptional negative compressibility

Sep 13, 2016 (SPX)

Our intuition tells us that a sample of material compressed uniformly from all sides should reduce its dimensions. Only a few materials subjected to hydrostatic...

Chemists devise revolutionary 3-D bone-scanning technique

Sep 12, 2016 (SPX)

Chemists from Trinity College Dublin, in collaboration with RCSI, have devised a revolutionary new scanning technique that produces extremely high-res 3D images...

RapidScat Team Investigating Power System Anomaly

Sep 12, 2016 (JPL)

Mission managers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, and NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama, are assessing two powe...

Ceramic Composites Revolutionize Engine Efficiency

Sep 12, 2016 (SPX)

Lighter, faster, more efficient. Whenever you advance a technology, that's the goal. As NASA looks to transform the commercial aircraft of the future, efficient...

Researchers peel back another layer of chemistry with 'tender' X-rays

Sep 12, 2016 (SPX)

Scientists can now directly probe a previously hard-to-see layer of chemistry thanks to a unique X-ray toolkit developed at the Department of Energy's Lawrence ...

Chemists watch the insides of batteries in 3D

Sep 12, 2016 (UPI)

Researchers at New York University have developed a new technique for imaging the insides of batteries in 3D. The high-resolution imaging allows scientists to w...

Subatomic microscopy key to building new classes of materials

Sep 12, 2016 (SPX)

Researchers at Penn State and the Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are pushing the limits of electron microscopy into the tens of pico...

Marines order more advanced radars from Northrop Gruman

Sep 07, 2016 (UPI)

The U.S. Marine Corps has ordered additional Ground/Air Task-Oriented Radar systems from Northrop Grumman. The nine AN/TPS-80 G/ATOR systems incorporate advance...

NASA Searches for Big Idea from Students for In-Space Assembly of Spacecraft

Sep 07, 2016 (SPX)

In the 2017 Breakthrough, Innovative, and Game-changing (BIG) Idea Challenge, NASA is engaging university-level students in its quest to reduce the cost of deep...

Towards the workplace of the future - with virtual reality

Sep 07, 2016 (SPX)

Virtual reality (VR) does not just help companies save money when it comes to testing new technologies; it also enables trainees and students to quickly and int...

Experts warn booming seaweed industry

Sep 07, 2016 (SPX)

A rising number of valuable uses being found for seaweed - from food and fertilizer to pharmaceuticals and industrial gels - is driving the rapid growth of an i...

Super-resolution microscope builds 3-D images by mapping negative space

Sep 07, 2016 (SPX)

Scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have demonstrated a method for making three-dimensional images of structures in biological material under natura...

Dell finalizes huge EMC deal to become tech titan

Sep 07, 2016 (AFP)

US computer maker Dell said Wednesday it completed the acquisition of data storage firm EMC, creating the largest privately held technology group with a range o...

A data-cleaning tool for building better prediction models

Sep 06, 2016 (SPX)

Big data sets are full of dirty data, and these outliers, typos and missing values can produce distorted models that lead to wrong conclusions and bad decisions...

Plastic crystals could improve fabrication of memory devices

Sep 06, 2016 (SPX)

Applying an electric field to some materials causes their atoms to "switch" their electric polarization from one direction to another, making one side of the ma...

'Materials that compute' advances as Pitt engineers demonstrate pattern recognition

Sep 06, 2016 (SPX)

The potential to develop "materials that compute" has taken another leap at the University of Pittsburgh's Swanson School of Engineering, where researchers for ...

Stanford engineers develop a plastic clothing material that cools the skin

Sep 06, 2016 (SPX)

Stanford engineers have developed a low-cost, plastic-based textile that, if woven into clothing, could cool your body far more efficiently than is possible wit...

3D skulls from Henry VIII's doomed warship placed online

Sep 05, 2016 (AFP)

British archaeologists on Monday published detailed 3D models of skulls and artefacts found on board English king Henry VIII's warship as part of a digital expe...