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Nanotechnology will enhance future telescopes

A new way of bending X-ray beams developed by MIT researchers could lead to greatly improved space telescopes, as well new tools for biology and for the manufacture of semiconductor chips.

X-rays from space provide astronomers with...

Sheila Kennedy creates designs for flexible photovoltaic materials

Sheila Kennedy, an expert in the integration of solar cell technology in architecture who is now at MIT, creates designs for flexible photovoltaic materials that may change the way buildings receive and distribute energy.

These new...

A team of students, including some from MIT, has developed a more portable solar cooker.

In many villages throughout Tibet, there are two ways to cook a meal. There's the traditional open fire, fueled by yak dung or the region's increasingly scarce wood. And then there are solar cookers, concentrating mirrors made of two-inch-thick...

GLAST Has New Target Launch Date: June 11,2008

The launch of NASA’s GLAST spacecraft aboard a United Launch Alliance
Delta II rocket has a new targeted launch date of no earlier than Wednesday, June 11, during a window that extends from 11:45 a.m. to 1:40 p.m. EDT. The change was...

Security at nuclear plant improved by satellite telecommunications

An ESA supported project has recently begun field trials connecting a nuclear power plant in Slovakia to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)headquarters in Vienna, Austria as part of an alarm and surveillance system based on satellite...

Broadband on trains becomes commercial service (Thalysnet)

True broadband access for Thalys high-speed train passengers traveling between Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam and Cologne is now available, representing a great technological achievement - establishing a continuous, two-way link between a train...

Inching Towards Perfect Harmony

The countdown to the unveiling of the mightiest accelerator in the world has begun. Bikash Sinha gives an account of this incredible adventure. While camping in Divonne, a charming little French village about 20 kilometres from the world’s...

New details on venusian clouds revealed

As ESA's Venus Express orbits our sister planet, new images of the cloud structure of one of the most enigmatic atmospheres of the Solar System reveal brand-new details. Venus is covered by a thick layer of clouds that extends between 45 and...

Climate fix could deplete polar ozone

Scientists seeking to cool Earth’s climate by injecting millions of tons of sulfuric acid droplets high in the atmosphere might trim rising temperatures but could also destroy much of the ozone in polar regions, a new study suggests. Major...

Chesterfield-based Access Engineering now operate a £350,000 Bystronic water jet cutting machine.

Chesterfield-based Access Engineering now operate a £350,000 Bystronic water jet cutting machine. The machine is fitted with a shuttle table that the company believes will give huge cost savings for customers by eliminating loading and unloading...

The first high altitude balloon launched by the Balloon Experiment And Research Program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

FAIRBANKS, Alaska—The Alaska Space Grant Program and the Arctic Amateur Radio Club formed the Balloon Experiment And Research Program—or B.E.A.R. for short—in December 2007. The program's aim was to launch a high altitude balloon equipped with two...

New Cost Effective Quantum Key Distribution

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a simpler and potentially lower-cost method for distributing strings of digits, or “keys,” for use in ...

Smart Medical Systems and Technology

Since astronauts on long-duration missions will not be able to return quickly to Earth, new methods of remote medical diagnosis and treatment are necessary. It is possible that medical procedures may have to be performed by a non-physician...

New Image-Recognition Software

Question: What do you see in the red circles? A bottle, a cell phone, a person, a shoe? The answer: They're all the same. Professor Antonio Torralba,created these low-resolution images, in which the circled shapes were inserted and are all...

PEER Leads Tall Buildings Initiative

Several west coast cities are seeing an upsurge in the construction of high-rise buildings. This tall buildings boom has created a demand for performance-based approaches that will enable construction using new framing systems rising to heights...

MIT creates new material for fuel cells:Increases power output by more than 50 percent

MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) engineers have improved the power output of one type of fuel cell by more than 50 percent through technology that could help these environmentally friendly energy storage devices find a much broader...

ESA Takes Vital Role to Ocean Carbon Cycle Research

The Earth’s oceans play a vital role in the carbon cycle, making it imperative that we understand marine biological activity enough to predict how our planet will react to the extra 25 000 million tonnes of carbon dioxide humans are pumping into...

Physicist Re-Create the Conditions a Fraction of a Millisecond After the Big Bang Using Unprecedented Energy

For a research physicist, Sandra Ciocio knows all about the trials of the construction site. In recent years she’s seen 7,000 tons of sensitive equipment lowered down a 100-m shaft to prepare for a single grand experiment. The technology was...

ESA and Poland Made an Agreement for European Cooperating State (PECS)

Poland reinforced its relations with ESA by signing the Plan for European Cooperating State Charter. This is a direct follow up to the signing of the European Cooperating State Agreement in April 2007. The Plan for European Cooperating State...

GIOVE-B Spacecraft Now in Good Condition Completing its Launch and Early Operations Phase

After its successful launch by a Soyuz Rocket from Baiknour on 27 April and accurate insertion into its target orbit by the Fregat autonomous upper stage, GIOVE-B is now completing its Launch and Early Operations Phase (LEOP), which will shortly...