Despite graphene's many impressive properties, its lack of a bandgap limits its use in electronic applications. In a new study, scientists have theoretically shown that a bandgap can be opened in graphene by folding 2D graphene sheets ...
Tags: Graphene, Electrical, Electronics
Gaia, the European Space Agency's long-awaited space observatory, is set to launch on Thursday from the agency's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The €700 million mission is designed to pin down the three-dimensional positions and ...
Tags: Gaia, space observatory, space telescope, astrometry, stellar distances
A man from Wisconsin was sentenced for participating in a DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack by hacker group Anonymous on a Kansas company. Eric J. Rosol, 38, is admitted that on Feb. 28, 2011, he took part in a denial of service ...
Tags: Ddos Attack, Fined
Cardiovascular Systems, a US-based medical device company, has obtained a premarket approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Diamondback 360 coronary orbital atherectomy system (OAS), designed to treat severely ...
Siemens received a large order from the Middle East. Saudi Arabia has put forward to Siemens group requirements once again. On Thursday, Siemens said that they will provide a driverless metro (worth 1.5 billion euros) to the Saudi ...
Tags: Siemens, Metro, Driverless Metro, Transportation
American International Group (AIG) has rolled out Launch Plus 10, a new product that provides risk coverage for satellite owners and operators for the first 10-years of their satellite’s in-orbit operation. The new product will be ...
This cluster of illuminated balloons allows for those magical childhood dreams to shine brightly in your decor. These blown glass diffusers offer an infinite sparkling glow of a far away land of childhood fantasy and celebration. ...
Researchers in the U.S. have managed to spoof GPS (Global Positioning System) signals to send a yacht hundreds of meters off course, while fooling the crew into thinking the yacht was remaining perfectly on course. The test, conducted ...
Tags: GPS, Electrical, Electronics
Scientists have discovered a solar system with three super-Earths that could possibly hold liquid water,meaning they have the ability to support life. The three potentially habitable planets are part of a system of at least six planets ...
Tags: Neighbors, planets, galaxy, super-Earths
NASA wants to find asteroids that could threaten Earth and figure out what to do about them and it wants your help doing it. The space agency today issued an asteroid-focused Grand Challenge, calling on scientists and citizen scientists ...
INVISALIGN, a San Jose company, uses 3-D printing to make each mouthful of customised, transparent braces. Mackenzies Chocolates, a confectioner in Santa Cruz, uses a 3-D printer to pump out chocolate molds. And earlier this year, Cornell ...
Tags: 3-D Printing, Printing, Reality
The Soyuz spacecraft carrying three astronauts successfully blasted off from Kazakhstan this afternoon and is now chasing down the International Space Station. The Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft lifted off at 4:31 p.m. ET and is only the second ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
Pressure sensors from American Sensor Technologies (AST) are serving as components in a remote monitoring system that ensures optimal operations of safety trailers used on remote sites as emergency first aid stations. Mining, ...
Tags: Industrial Equipment
A Japanese government institute has warned that satellite transmissions, GPS readings, and power lines could be affected over the next two weeks if a recent spate of solar flares continues. Four large solar flares have been detected over ...
Tags: Solar Flares, GPS
Anyone remotely within the orbit of SAP lately knows that its number-one focus is the HANA in-memory database and development platform. At this week's Sapphire conference in Orlando, the vendor sought to show the progress it is making in ...
Tags: SAP, HANA Platform, Ecosystem