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Canada, US seek to reduce dependency on China for rare earth minerals

Sep 30, 2019 (AFP)

He said that in his last meeting with US President Donald Trump, "I highlighted that Canada has many of the rare earth minerals that are so necessary for modern...

Celestia Technologies Group UK gears up for eScan expansion in the UK

Sep 27, 2019 (SPX)

Four new appointments have been made at senior level at the company's UK headquarters in Harwell, Oxfordshire to build on the current Celestia UK team and boost...

ESA selects AdaCore's qualified multitasking solution for spacecraft software development

Sep 27, 2019 (SPX)

As part of this contract, AdaCore has implemented a pre-qualified version of the Ravenscar Small Footprint (SFP) library - a configurable Ada run-time library t...

Gem-like nanoparticles of precious metals shine as catalysts

Sep 24, 2019 (SPX)

Made mainly of precious metals, these coveted catalysts are shaped like gems. Each particle has 24 different faces that present atoms at the surface in ways tha...

MIT engineers develop 'blackest black' material to date

Sep 24, 2019 (SPX)

The researchers have published their findings in the journal ACS-Applied Materials and Interfaces. They are also showcasing the cloak-like material as part of a...

Mining industry seeks to polish tarnished reputation

Sep 22, 2019 (AFP)

Wildcat miners, including children, are risking their lives daily to unearth metals and minerals they sell to mining companies. In return, they earn a subsisten...

L3Harris awarded nearly $12.8M for Eglin AN/FPS-85 radar work

Sep 19, 2019 (UPI)

The contract, announced Wednesday by the Department of Defense, applies to a previously awarded contract to L3 Harris Technologies, Colorado Springs, Colorado f...

New global Space Safety Coalition established

Sep 19, 2019 (SPX)

The new coalition, the Space Safety Coalition (SSC), is comprised of space operators, space industry associations and space industry stakeholders. SSC aims to l...

US Space Module Genesis II Might Crash into Relict Russian Satellite

Sep 18, 2019 (Sputnik)

While the odds of a crash are only 5.6 percent, Bigelow Aerospace, the owner of Genesis II, says it's another troubling sign that Earth's orbit is becoming dang...

Spider silk, wood combination replicates material advantages of plastic

Sep 16, 2019 (UPI)

Extensibility is the extent to which a material can be stretched without causing it to tear or break, and until now, scientists have struggled to pair the mater...

Bolivia, with huge untapped reserves, gears up for soaring lithium demand

Sep 15, 2019 (AFP)

Bolivia, among the poorest countries in South America, sits on one of the world's largest lithium reserves, at the Salar de Uyuni -- or Uyuni Salt Flats -- read...

Suomi-NPP Satellite Instrument Restored After Radiation Damage

Sep 10, 2019 (SPX)

After the instrument, the Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS), was damaged by radiation as it flew on the Suomi-NPP satellite, the team made a successful switch...

Shaken but not stirred: Konnect satellite completes vibration tests

Sep 09, 2019 (ESA)

The test demonstrates the ability of the satellite to withstand the strong shaking that occurs during launch. The project partners - ESA, Thales Alenia Space, C...

China data centres set to consume more power than Australia: report

Sep 09, 2019 (AFP)

While China leads the world in renewable energy capacity, data centres in the country remain dependent on coal. Nearly three-quarters of the electricity used by...

Seeking moments of disorder

Sep 05, 2019 (SPX)

In the paper "Field-tunable quantum disordered ground state in the triangular-lattice antiferromagnet NaYbO2," published in the journal Nature Physics, Wilson a...

ESA spacecraft dodges large constellation

Sep 04, 2019 (ESA)

On Monday morning, the Agency's Aeolus Earth observation satellite fired its thrusters, moving it off a potential collision course with a SpaceX satellite in th...

Smarter experiments for faster materials discovery

Sep 02, 2019 (SPX)

From Galileo and Newton to the recent discovery of gravitational waves, performing scientific experiments to understand the world around us has been the driving...

FEFU scientists developed brand-new rapid strength eco-concrete

Sep 02, 2019 (SPX)

New concrete is more environmentally friendly compared with traditional samples. When pouring, steam-heat treatment is not required, so there is no extra heat e...

In NASA Glenn's Virtual Reality Lab, Creative-Minded Employees Thrive

Sep 02, 2019 (SPX)

Inside the Graphics and Visualization Laboratory, known as GVIS, people with various creative educational backgrounds help weave data and analyses from engineer...

Defrosting surfaces in seconds

Sep 02, 2019 (SPX)

A group of researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Kyushu University has developed a way to remove ice and frost from surfaces extreme...