Trondheim, Norway (SPX) Nov 08, 2021 A research group at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) has developed a method for making an ultra-high material efficient solar cell using semiconductor nanowires. If this is placed on...
Nov 10, 2021
Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Oct 28, 2021 Megan Valentine, a professor of mechanical engineering and co-director of the California NanoSystems Institute at UC Santa Barbara, has been awarded a $1.8 million collaborative grant by the National Science ...
Nov 10, 2021
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 28, 2021 Space missions, such as NASA's Orion that will take astronauts to Mars, are pushing the limits of human exploration. But during their transit, spacecrafts encounter a continuous stream of damaging cosmic ra...
Nov 10, 2021
Munich, Germany (SPX) Oct 28, 2021 The European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA) is a scientific collaboration bringing together teams of astronomers around the largest European radio telescopes, as well as groups specialized in data analysis and mod...
Nov 10, 2021
Groningen, Netherlands (SPX) Oct 27, 2021 It is an intuitive rule of thumb: if you reduce the density of a material, its stiffness will also be reduced. But scientists from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the US noticed that mater...
Nov 10, 2021
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 25, 2021 Nanoracks, in collaboration with Voyager Space and Lockheed Martin, has formed a team to develop the first-ever free flying commercial space station. The space station, known as Starlab, will be a continuously c...
Nov 10, 2021
Wright-Patterson AFB OH (SPX) Oct 25, 2021 The Air Force Research Laboratory is working to increase availability of rare nanomaterials and strengthen U.S. scientific and manufacturing ties with India. Nanomaterials are thin - about 1/100,000t...
Nov 10, 2021
Sofia, Bulgaria (SPX) Oct 05, 2021 EnduroSat and Exolaunch have signed f launch agreements for sending two EnduroSat NanoSats into orbit aboard SpaceX's Falcon 9. The 6U XL SharedSat nanosatellites, built by EnduroSat for its customers, wi...
Nov 10, 2021
Buenos Aires (AFP) Oct 1, 2021 Graphene, a Nobel Prize-awarded material with promising applications for greener energy and nanomedicine, has been the topic of much disinformation by coronavirus anti-vaxxers claiming it can be used to "magn...
Nov 10, 2021
Pohang, South Korea (SPX) Sep 24, 2021 When optical gain or loss are precisely controlled using nanophotonics, a new physical event called the non-Hermitian phenomenon can be observed, potentially the next-generation technology of optical signa...
Nov 10, 2021
