Riding an asteroid: China's next goal in space
After sending a probe to Mars in 2020, China plans to explore three asteroids and land on one of them to conduct scientific research, according to a Chinese asteroid research expert. The "China's Space
Scientific And Technical Development
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Understanding transition
The discovery of plasma crystals (that are colloidal particles introduced into a charge neutral plasma) has led to several insights into the dynamics of melting and freezing. Hubertus Thomas and
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Atom: the whole picture
X ray holography, a neoteric way of studing atomic configurations, promises to give a three dimensional picture of the arrangement of atoms in a crystal
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Airy assets
Compressed air energy storage is one of the several energy storage technologies developed for the power industry. There are two separate portions in the storage cycle: compression and expansion.
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Now robomops!
Engineers from the University of Surrey, UK, have created an intelligent robot that accomplishes hazardous feats like cleaning up contaminated wastes in nuclear reactors. The robot has been
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Smart wings
Scientists in the optics and laser technology department of British Aerospace's Sowerby Research Centre at Filton in South UK are planning to develop 'smart' aircraft wings that look after
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Space age tools
Designers from the Research Centre of Building Power Tools, Russia have designed tools that, they claim, disobey the sacrosanct third law of motion laid down by Newton. The tools are specially
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Bridging yawns
Sounds bizarre, but a new design concept promises to bridge gaps more than 3.48 km apart
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Sourcing the sources
Use of linear accelerators and free electron lasers is all set to revolutionise the creation of fourth generation X ray sources
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Robots from Lilliput
Electronic devices are getting smaller and smaller and human workers and conventional robots are finding it increasingly difficult to assemble them. Peter Will of the Information Sciences
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Magnetic trap
A new method for detecting fingerprints at the scene of crime is sure to give criminals some second thoughts