An emerging super-black nanotechnology that is to be tested for the first time this fall on the International Space Station will be applied to a complex, 3-D component critical for suppressing stray light in a new, smaller, ...
Space Exploration
Oct 23, 2014
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Europe's powerful Milky Way mapper is facing some problems as controllers ready the Gaia telescope for operations. It turns out that there is "stray light" bleeding into the telescope, which will affect how well it can see ...
Astronomy
Jun 17, 2014
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Decades after the bullets have stopped flying, wars can leave behind a lingering danger: landmines that maim civilians and render land unusable for agriculture. Minefields are a humanitarian disaster throughout the world, ...
General Physics
Aug 15, 2011
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Sandia National Laboratories, with help from The Boeing Company, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), and others, is leading an effort to develop a commercially viable, fuel cell-powered mobile lighting ...
Engineering
Oct 20, 2009
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