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Unilever to cut carbon footprint in cleaning items

Sep 02, 2020 (AFP)

The initiative, worth the equivalent of $1.2 billion, will replace all the carbon derived from fossil fuels used in the production of some of Unilever's best-kn...

Making Perwave

Sep 02, 2020 (ESA)

Perwaves, or Percolating Reaction-Diffusion Waves, set metal powder on fire to study how it burns in a chamber. This is done in weightless conditions because th...

Altius Space Machines to develop innovative technologies for satellite servicing

Sep 02, 2020 (SPX)

Altius submitted proposals for the SBIR and STTR programs alongside notable partners such as Virginia Tech in order to not only explore the potential of its EPM...

Purdue, US Army to collaborate on next-generation energetic materials

Sep 01, 2020 (SPX)

Although the modern military makes use of many new technologies such as advanced computing, data analytics, artificial intelligence, robotics, hypersonic aviati...

New laser-based tool is so fast it can observe chemical reactions

Sep 01, 2020 (UPI)

The new technology is 100 times faster than previous spectrometers, according to a study published Tuesday in the journal Communications Physics. Infrared spect...

TWTS and 3D Printing

Aug 31, 2020 (SPX)

The modern TWTs used today are sophisticated vacuum electronic devices made of advanced metal alloys and ceramics, and bear little resemblance to their lower fr...

NASA selects proposals for new space environment missions

Aug 31, 2020 (SPX)

Each of these Medium-Class Explorer proposals will receive $1.25 million to conduct a nine-month mission concept study. Following the study period, NASA will ch...

US to spend $625 mn on super-computing research centers

Aug 26, 2020 (AFP)

An additional $340 million will be contributed by the private sector and academic institutions, bringing the total planned investment close to $1 billion, accor...

Spacepath Communications wins large order for solid-state RF power amplifiers

Aug 26, 2020 (SPX)

SpacePath Communications has signed an agreement to supply a leading Asian telecommunications company with its solid-state power amplifiers (SSPA). The latest d...

NASA engineers checking InSight's weather sensors

Aug 25, 2020 (JPL)

Called the Auxiliary Payload Sensor Suite (APSS), the sensors collect data on wind speed and direction, air temperature and pressure, and magnetic fields. Throu...

NOAA selects Orbit Logic for enterprise scheduling

Aug 25, 2020 (SPX)

The Office of Satellite and Product Operations (OSPO) sought a solution to integrate the multiple facets of scheduling for NOAA operations. The EASI system will...

New ground station brings laser communications closer to reality

Aug 24, 2020 (SPX)

The state-of-the-art ground station, called Optical Ground Station 2 (OGS-2), is the second of two optical ground stations to be built that will collect data tr...

Nellis AFB, Nev., opens pilots' virtual training center

Aug 24, 2020 (UPI)

The Virtual Test and Training Center, ceremonially opened last week, will "house the future of joint aerial combat training," an Air Force statement said. The C...

'FreeFortnite' tournament taunts Apple amid legal battle

Aug 21, 2020 (AFP)

"All of your friends. Awesome prizes. And one bad apple," Epic Games said in a post on its website. The "FreeFortnite Cup" is free to enter and prizes include a...

Army researchers explore self-healing materials

Aug 19, 2020 (SPX)

The first-of-its-kind, 3-D printable and stimuli-responsive polymeric materials are expected to enable massive reconfigurability in future military platforms, w...

Novel method of heat conduction could be a game changer for server farms and aircraft

Aug 19, 2020 (SPX)

Boreyko was the recipient of a Young Investigator Research Program award in 2016, given by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. This award funded the de...

A bit of gold grants crystals new electric properties

Aug 19, 2020 (UPI)

Crystals are not defined by their chemical contents, but by the ordered, symmetrical structure of their molecules -- material scientists like patterned structur...

New Flight Simulator game takes off with French studio in cockpit

Aug 18, 2020 (AFP)

The bestselling title dates all the way back to 1982 -- when home computers had less processing power than a graphics card today -- and Microsoft tasked French ...

NASA selects SwRI to participate in $6B Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition IV Contract

Aug 16, 2020 (SPX)

The Rapid IV contracts serve as a fast and flexible means for the government to acquire spacecraft and related components, equipment and services in support of ...

Altius Space Machines to support on-orbit servicing for the Dynetics Human Landing System

Aug 14, 2020 (SPX)

Leveraging its deep expertise in space robotics, Altius develops on-orbit servicing technology, specializing in on-orbit assembly and manufacturing, orbital ren...