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CubeSats could serve as building blocks for larger missions

Editorial Team Aug 19, 2016

In future the miniature satellites known as CubeSats that play a variety of roles in space, could also serve as the building blocks of other, larger missions by being docked together in orbit. CubeSats are nanosatellites of standardized…

Optoelectronics

Data growth limits on the internet proposed

Editorial Team Aug 19, 2016

According to leading computer scientists, the world should consider ways to limit data growth on the internet to prevent run-away energy consumption and help limit carbon emissions. Researchers from Lancaster University argue that the…

Trends

Plant enzyme research could address global food threat

Editorial Team Aug 19, 2016

An important advance in understanding the natural diversity of a key plant enzyme has been made by plant scientists and could help us address the looming threat of global food security. Rubisco is the central enzyme responsible for…

A&D

Airbus working to make real flying cars a reality in the next 10 years

Editorial Team Aug 19, 2016

Commuting can be quite the hassle for anyone living in urban areas. We've been hearing a lot about companies developing methods of everyday flight transportation for consumer use, but Airbus wants to make the concept a reality over the next…

Energy

Soft robotic caterpillar is powered, controlled by light

Editorial Team Aug 18, 2016

The field of soft robotics is booming, with new technology being revealed all the time. Engineers are always trying to create robots that mirror the different modes of locomotion found in nature. Now, researchers from the University of…

Energy

Annual report confirms wind energy pricing remains attractive

Editorial Team Aug 18, 2016

According to an annual report released by the US Department of Energy and prepared by the Electricity Markets and Policy Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), wind energy pricing remains attractive to utility and…

Materials

$16m to be invested in computer design of materials

Editorial Team Aug 18, 2016

It has been announced by the US Department of Energy that it will invest $16m over the next four years to accelerate the design of new materials through use of supercomputers. Two four-year projects—one team led by DOE’s Lawrence Berkeley…

Wearables

Rio de Janeiro sports a wearable contactless payment solution

Editorial Team Aug 18, 2016

In partnership with RioCard, Brazil’s smart card system for transportation in the state of Rio de Janeiro, NXP Semiconductors has announced the launch of a contactless wearable – adding a new form factor to RioCard’s NXP MIFARE contactless…

Consumer

Flow Hive design creates honey on tap

Daisy Stapley-Bunten Aug 18, 2016

Raising 17386% of their fund total and receiving over 35,000 orders, the #1 most funded Indiegogo campaign of all time, Flow Hive, have created a beehive to revolutionize beekeeping. Designed and created by father and son, Stuart and Cedar…

A&D

1969 Image shows MIT computer scientist with NASA’a Apollo flight software

Editorial Team Aug 18, 2016

What appears to be simply a woman standing next to a tall stack of papers is actually one of the computer scientists that wrote the code that helped put NASA astronauts on the Moon in 1969. Margaret Hamilton began working as a…