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January 05, 2015

3D printing could revolutionise war and foreign policy
Paris (AFP) Jan 05, 2015
3D printing will revolutionise war and foreign policy, say experts, not only by making possible incredible new designs but by turning the defence industry - and possibly the entire global economy - on its head. For many, 3D printing still looks like a gimmick, used for printing useless plastic figurines and not much else. But with key patents running out this year, new printers that use metal, wood and fabric are set to become much more widely available - putting the engineering world on the ... read more

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South Korean Satellite Faces Collision With Space Junk: Reports A South Korean geological monitoring satellite is on course to come within close hazardous proximity with space debris, Yonhap reports. The South Korean Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Pla ... more		Isro's Mangalyaan Completes 100 Days in Mars Orbit India's Mars Orbiter (Mangalyaan) completed 100 days of its Martian orbit on the New Year's Day 2015 Thursday, space agency officials said. The Mars Orbiter was inserted in Martian orbit September ... more		NASA launching spacecraft with 19 foot lasso NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive, SMAP, will measure moisture in the Earth's soil, which will help farmers combat the effects of drought. ... more
				Six-Eyed Spider to Verify Big Bang Theory American cosmologists at the South Pole marked the New Year with the launch of a balloon equipped with six telescopes focused on verifying the Big Bang, The New York Times reports. The experim ... more		Ancient, hydrogen-rich waters discovered deep underground A team of scientists, led by the University of Toronto's Barbara Sherwood Lollar, has mapped the location of hydrogen-rich waters found trapped kilometres beneath Earth's surface in rock fractures i ... more

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Russian space medic who led Mars experiment dies at 64 Boris Morukov, a Russian cosmonaut and doctor who led an extraordinary experiment in which volunteers simulated a flight to Mars while never leaving a Moscow car park, has died at 64, his scientific institute said Friday. ... more		U.S. military seeks new UAV perception technology The U.S. military is seeking the development of enhanced unmanned aerial vehicle technology for autonomous operations within complex indoor spaces. ... more		Russia offers to extend nuclear arms limits with US Saudi Arabia and Pakistan sign mutual defense pact Brazil, Chile sign defense agreement		UK Home Office Flat Out Rejected Nuclear Winter Threat in 1984: Archives The British Home Office rejected the in-depth study of the nuclear winter effect in 1984 claiming the threat of nuclear war was exaggerated, documents released on the UK National Archives' website T ... more
				A repulsive material In a world-first achievement published in Nature, scientists from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science in Japan, along with colleagues from the National Institute of Material Science and the ... more		Studies on exotic superfluids in spin-orbit coupled Fermi gases reviewed Ultracold atomic gases have been widely considered as ideal platforms for quantum simulation. Thanks to the clean environment and the highly tunable parameters in these systems, many interesting phy ... more

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Gift-wrapped gas molecules A group of scientists led by researchers at the Universite de Versailles' Institut Lavoisier in France has worked out how to stably gift-wrap a chemical gas known as nitric oxide within metal-organi ... more		Electronics show a window into the 'Internet of Me' New technology is getting more personal. So personal, it is moving to connect and analyze our movements, our health, our brains and our everyday devices. ... more		Ex-US climate envoy: Trump threatening 'consensus science' worldwide How did an Indian zoo get the world's most endangered great ape? Australian scientists grapple with 'despicable' butterfly heist		Global tech spending sputters amid economic woes The outlook for global technology spending is uncertain after nearly flat growth in the past year, with turbulent economic conditions making a forecast difficult, an industry gathering was told Sunday. ... more
Elon Musk divorces actress wife Talulah Riley Internet entrepreneur Elon Musk and his British actress wife Talulah Riley have agreed to "amicably" end their marriage, according to a joint statement received Friday. ... more		Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes, More Common Than Previously Thought? by Dr. Tony Phillips Each day, thunderstorms around the world produce about a thousand quick bursts of gamma rays, some of the highest-energy light naturally found on Earth. By merging records of e ... more		Germany Wraps Up a Successful Year in Spaceflight 2014 was a very successful and eventful year for the German Aerospace Center (DLR). Germany was active in the field of human spaceflight as the country's astronaut Alexander Gerst spent six months a ... more		A simulation of the universe with realistic galaxies An international team of astronomers, based at the Universities of Leiden in the Netherlands and Durham in the UK and, led by professor Joop Schaye (Leiden University), developed a simulation of the ... more

	Space Simulation Chamber Prepared for Testing Webb Telescope This photo was captured from outside the enormous mouth of NASA's giant thermal vacuum chamber, called Chamber A, at Johnson Space Center in Houston. Previously used for manned spaceflight mis ... more		China Launches New Meteorological Satellite The Fengyun-II 08 satellite, launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province, will be used to collect meteorological and environmental information. The data will be used for we ... more

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Radar testing for JLENS aerostat

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China experimental fast reactor runs at full capacity

Microscopy reveals how atom-high steps impede oxidation of metal surfaces

NASA software to increase flight efficiency, decrease aircraft noise

Mysteries of 'molecular machines' revealed

Bettter rechargeable batteries by focusing on graphene oxide paper

Tiny 'life detector' could sense alien movement: study

Navy prepares for Jan. 20 communications satellite launch

Iran must end isolation for economy to boom: Rouhani

Russia Remains World Leader in Space Launches: Roscosmos

New Taiwan corvette joins naval exercise

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