ILC Dover, the designer and manufacturer of NASA's space suits and a wide range of engineered film and fabric products, announced today it was awarded an 18 month contract to design, manufacture and test the next generation of NASA's ...
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The day’s events will include discussion of near-shoring and the creation of innovation “hubs” across the nation. Government officials from across the country—Gov. Bill Haslam (R-Tenn.); Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D - ...
Aerogels, developed in the 1930s and first used as insulating materials in industrial and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) applications, now are finding their way into outdoor apparel, footwear and other outdoor gear. ...
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Expanding beyond its own OpenStack hosted services, Rackspace is offering to build OpenStack deployments for other hosting providers as well, such as telecommunication companies. "We're getting into the business of helping large service ...
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Cheese consists of proteins and fat from milk, usually the milk of cows, buffalo, goats, or sheep. It is produced by coagulation of the milk protein casein. Typically, the milk is acidified and addition of the enzyme rennet causes ...
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Don't set your Google Inactive Account Manager just yet, but there are billions of tons of solar matter hurtling toward the Earth at more than 600 miles (970 kilometers) per second. NASA estimates the plasma will hit our atmosphere late ...
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SPIE leaders said they were encouraged to see proposed increases in funds for scientific research and development and a greater emphasis on STEM education in President Obama’s 2014 budget proposal released last Wednesday. At the same ...
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NASA's proposed $17.7 billion budget includes plans to capture and redirect an asteroid into orbit around Earth so astronauts can study it. Ultimately, the project looks to learn more about the makeup of asteroids in an attempt to protect ...
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Scientists at the University of Washington are working on a rocket that they say could enable astronauts to reach Mars in just 30 days. NASA has estimated that, using current technology, a round-trip human mission to Mars would take more ...
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found the oldest, most distant supernova ever discovered, which experts say could help scientists better understand the evolution of the universe. A supernova is the explosive death of a star, which emits ...
A little-publicized provision in a U.S. government budget resolution that largely prohibits four agencies from using Chinese-made IT products could backfire, several tech trade groups said. The provision, in a 2013 budget resolution ...
SAP has moved to defend the users of its Sybase database software by filing suit against Pi-Net International, a "patent troll" that has filed several patent infringement lawsuits against SAP customers in the US financial services sector ...
APPLE has issued an apology to Chinese consumers after government media attacked its repair policies for two weeks in a campaign that reeked of economic nationalism. A statement Apple posted in Chinese on its website on Monday said the ...
An American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts blasted off on what is expected to be the fastest trip to the International Space Station in the history of space flight. A Soyuz spacecraft lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in ...
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The robotic arm on the International Space Station released the SpaceX Dragon early this morning, sending the capsule on its way home. The Dragon capsule, loaded with about 2,600 pounds of used hardware, completed experiments and trash, ...