Search results for 4-D printing

Engineering Apr 4, 2018

Air Force looking to additive manufacturing to expand hypersonic flight capabilities

The Air Force is testing materials produced through ceramic additive manufacturing to advance their potential future use in hypersonic flight vehicles.

Environment Apr 4, 2018

Hawaiian-language newspapers illuminate an 1871 hurricane

A major hurricane struck the islands of Hawai'i and Maui on August 9, 1871 and wrought widespread destruction from Hilo to Lahaina. A recent study by two scientists, a Hawaiian language expert, and an educator from the University ...

Optics & Photonics Feb 20, 2018

Using a laser to wirelessly charge a smartphone safely across a room

Although mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones let us communicate, work and access information wirelessly, their batteries must still be charged by plugging them in to an outlet. But engineers at the University of ...

Environment Dec 14, 2017

The truth about bioplastics

Bioplastics are often touted as being eco-friendly, but do they live up to the hype?

Engineering Sep 6, 2017

PupilScreen aims to allow parents, coaches, medics to detect concussion, TBIs with a phone

University of Washington researchers are developing the first smartphone app that is capable of objectively detecting concussion and other traumatic brain injuries in the field: on the sidelines of a sports game, on a battlefield ...

General Physics Aug 17, 2017

Researchers found that rotation causes the zig-zag of rising particles

Every curious person must have observed air bubbles rising through an aquarium tank of water.

Space Exploration Jan 26, 2017

Image: Visualization of proposed temple atop Shackleton Crater

A near-perpetually sunlit peak close to the Moon's south pole has been selected by ESA's artist-in-residence as the site of a building like no other.

Space Exploration Nov 21, 2016

How bad is the radiation on Mars?

Human exploration of Mars has been ramping up in the past few decades. In addition to the eight active missions on or around the Red Planet, seven more robotic landers, rovers and orbiters are scheduled to be deployed there ...

Astronomy Sep 26, 2016

Pulsar discovered in an ultraluminous X-ray source

(Phys.org)—A team of European astronomers has discovered a new pulsar in a variable ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) known as NGC 7793 P13. The newly found object is the third ultraluminous X-ray pulsar detected so far, ...

Space Exploration Jun 3, 2016

New space savers: Small satellites

Suddenly, everyone from the U.S. government, commercial satellite companies, universities and even high school students needs to have a small satellite.

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