TECH SPACE - SKY NIGHTLY

Massive US tech show becomes a digital event

Jan 11, 2021 (AFP)

Some 1,800 exhibitors are participating in the show -- normally staged in the US gaming resort of Las Vegas but facing a challenge to replicate the glitz of pre...

Autonomous in-space assembly and manufacturing moves closer to reality

Jan 11, 2021 (SPX)

The technology advanced by COSM uses an electron beam to deposit metal from a spool of wire into a large complex part. Capitalizing on decades of experience usi...

EOS supports Texas Rocket Engineering Laboratory (TREL) to fuel additive manufacturing education

Jan 11, 2021 (SPX)

EOS is providing TREL-a collegiate rocket laboratory committed to providing students the resources and guidance needed to succeed in the New Space Industry-with...

Major CES gadget show turns to tech for virtual salvation

Jan 10, 2021 (AFP)

The deadly pandemic that has derailed in-person conferences around the world during the past year forced the Consumer Technology Association to follow suit with...

Physicists observe competition between magnetic orders

Jan 07, 2021 (SPX)

The special feature of such materials is that they possess novel properties that can only be explained with the help of the laws of quantum mechanics and that m...

Smart gel will change shape when exposed to light

Jan 07, 2021 (SPX)

The engineers also developed a 3D-printed stretchy material that can reveal colors when light changes, according to their study in the journal ACS Applied Mater...

A good GRASP on the New Year

Jan 06, 2021 (ESA)

Grasp stands for Gravitational References for Sensimotor Performance and seeks to better understand how the central nervous system integrates information from d...

Debris from failed Russian rocket falls into sea near French Polynesia

Jan 06, 2021 (UPI)

The U.S. 18th Space Control Squadron confirmed the 4 p.m. Wednesday re-entry The Persei upper stage was part of a heavy-lift rocket. The debris weighed an estim...

Russian rocket is in uncontrolled descent to Earth

Jan 05, 2021 (UPI)

Much of the rocket is expected to burn up as it plunges through the atmosphere, so there likely will not be major damage when it hits. According to Russia's sta...

Defects aid mother-of-pearl's assembly, according to new research

Jan 04, 2021 (UPI)

According to a new study, published Monday in the journal Nature Physics, structural defects in the material's self-assembly process ensure nacre's incredible u...

Spontaneous robot dances highlight a new kind of order in active matter

Jan 01, 2021 (SPX)

In the 19th century, scientists and engineers developed the discipline of statistical mechanics, which predicts how groups of simple particles transition betwee...

Scientists and philosopher team up, propose a new way to categorize minerals

Dec 31, 2020 (SPX)

Each of these diamonds differs from the others in both composition and genesis, but all are categorized as "diamond" by the authoritative guide to minerals - th...

Order and disorder in crystalline ice explained

Dec 30, 2020 (SPX)

"In an ideally ordered piece of ice the hydrogen atoms of each water molecule should point in the same direction, like soldiers in a platoon looking in front of...

New radiation vest technology protects astronauts, doctors

Dec 25, 2020 (UPI)

Solar storms with high doses of radiation are among the biggest threats to astronauts on deep space missions. The worst such storms could make space flyers too ...

NTU Singapore scientists invent glue activated by magnetic field

Dec 23, 2020 (SPX)

Conventional adhesives like epoxy which are used to bond plastic, ceramics and wood are typically designed to cure using moisture, heat or light. They often req...

China launches bid to become commodities market player

Dec 23, 2020 (AFP)

The Shanghai International Energy Exchange (INE), a division of the Shanghai Commodity Exchange, opened the contract for the so-called eternal metal to foreign ...

Chemists describe a new form of ice

Dec 23, 2020 (SPX)

Ice is a highly complex substance with multiple polymorphic modifications that keep growing in number as scientists make discoveries. The physical properties of...

Space bauble

Dec 23, 2020 (ESA)

In this image, electrostatic forces are pulling the bubble upwards and making it spherical, producing not only a cool image but also cool insights into the boil...

Virtual idols take to the real-life stage in China

Dec 22, 2020 (AFP)

On Saturday "Amy" won a breakthrough virtual talent show in China, where computer-generated entertainers perform in front of real-life judges and tens of millio...

Astroscale Ships ELSA-d Spacecraft to Launch Site

Dec 22, 2020 (SPX)

"Shipment is always a significant milestone on any satellite development program," said Gene Fujii, Astroscale Chief Engineer. "We have officially moved from th...