Counting down the days to Spielberg’s upcoming sci-fi action flick Ready Player One? There’s now another reason to get excited, as Warner Bros. has revealed a partnership with HTC Vive to bring the film’s world direct to ...
Marching around the snowy hellscape of Hoth slicing up rebel troopers as Darth Vader proved to be an unparalleled joy in 2015’s Star Wars Battlefront, putting you right in the thick of the iconic sci-fi universe. That being said, ...
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It has been a week of dramatic deep space exploration for an abundance of PlayStation 4 owners, thanks to the release of the eagerly anticipated No Man’s Sky. However, rather like an episode of Red Dwarf, it hasn’t been ...
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Occhio presents The Universe at Light + Building Fair Munich-based Occhio presented “The Universe” at this year’s Light + Building Fair, being held from March 13 to 18. Their 400 square meters stand has planets floating ...
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e2v inc of Milpitas, CA, USA (which provides solutions, sub-systems and components to the medical & science, aerospace & defense and commercial & industrial markets) has signed a strategic re-seller agreement to be the sole provider to the ...
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Plasma process equipment maker Plasma-Therm LLC of St Petersburg, FL, USA says that a new Apex SLR ICP (inductively coupled plasma) etch system from its Advanced Vacuum division in Lomma, Sweden (which supplies vacuum solutions including ...
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Fresh food grown in the microgravity environment of space officially is on the menu for the first time for NASA astronauts on the International Space Station. Expedition 44 crew members, including NASA's one-year astronaut Scott Kelly, are ...
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The biggest FESPA show ever, FESPA 2015 opened today and will run till May 22, 2015 in Cologne, where visitors will be able to see technologies from over 700 exhibitors. FESPA 2015 incorporates four events under one roof, addressing ...
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Unveiled today at the New York Toy Fair, the reimagined View Master is a $30 augmented reality gadget powered by Google’s Cardboard tech. Mattel has teamed with Google to revive the View Master and bring virtual reality into the ...
Researchers have demonstrated how noise in a microwave amplifier is limited by self-heating at very low temperatures (J Schleeh et al, ‘Phonon black-body radiation limit for heat dissipation in electronics’, Nature Materials, 10 ...
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A month ago, Tetra Pak began a campaign to force packaging companies to increase supply chain sustainability. Resource efficiency means looking at packaging's entire life cycle, the company emphasized. "You need to understand your supply ...
Five years ago today, on March 6, 2009, NASA's Kepler Space Telescope rocketed into the night skies above Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida to find planets around other stars, called exoplanets, in search of potentially habitable ...
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope have discovered the splattered remains of comets colliding together around a nearby star; the researchers believe they are witnessing the total destruction ...
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Fully autonomous robots could transform the way we live, but so far such machines remain beyond the reach of our most advanced technologies. Existing robots are generally limited to performing simple, well-structured tasks in controlled ...
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Early Earth's accidental deluge via water-carrying comets has long been a stumbling block for those interested in life on other planets. Scientists agree that life needs water to evolve. But if water only arrives through chance impacts ...
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