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December 12, 2013

Quails in orbit: French cuisine aims for the stars
Paris (AFP) Dec 11, 2013
It's your 150th day in space, and life is starting to resemble the movie "Groundhog Day" - a repetitive daily routine interspersed with tugs of longing for life back on Earth. Then, all of a sudden, things start to look up. Mission Control has declared that today will be a "special day," and you can look forward to a lip-smacking, finger-lickin'-good gourmet meal at the end of it. This is where France's space chefs come in. In an initiative backed by top-of-the-line cuisinier Alain Duc ... read more

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Intense 2-color double X-ray laser pulses: a powerful tool to study ultrafast processes A team working at the SACLA X-ray Free-Electron Laser (XFEL) in Japan has succeeded in generating ultra-bright, two-color X-ray laser pulses, for the first time in the hard X-ray region. These light ... more		Citrus fruit inspires a new energy-absorbing metal structure It has been said that nature provides us with everything that we need. A new study appearing in Springer's Journal of Materials Science may lend credence to that claim. Researchers from the Fo ... more		Highly insulating windows are very energy efficient, though expensive Highly insulating triple-pane windows keep a house snug and cozy, but it takes two decades or more for the windows to pay off financially based on utility-bill savings, according to a report by ener ... more
				Added molecules allow metal-organic frameworks to conduct electricity Scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Sandia National Laboratories have added something new to a family of engineered, high-tech materials called metal-organi ... more		Silver corrosion provides clues about performance in atmospheric conditions Small test strips made of silver or other metals, called "coupons," are frequently used to assess and predict the speeds at which metals used in outdoor environments-pipelines, aircraft, bridges, as ... more

NASA Developing Natural Hazard Warning Systems Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., and Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have enhanced existing GPS technologies to develop new systems for Californi ... more		NASA Engineers Crush Giant Fuel Tank To Improve Rocket Design Think of it as high-tech can crushing. Only the can is enormous, as big as part of the largest rocket ever made. During a series of tests from Dec. 9-13 at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Hun ... more		Sidekick autonomy software guides YFQ-42A test mission for CCA program Infleqtion lists shares on NYSE as neutral atom quantum firm Top Chinese gaming companies continue to challenge		First Boeing-built Inmarsat-5 Global Xpress Satellite Sends Initial On-Orbit Signals The first Boeing Inmarsat-5 satellite has launched and sent signals from orbit, the initial step to establishing Global Xpress, the world's first globally available high-speed mobile broadband servi ... more
				NASA Developing Legs for ISS Robonaut 2 NASA engineers are developing climbing legs for the International Space Station's robotic crewmember Robonaut 2 (R2), marking another milestone in space humanoid robotics. The legless R2, curr ... more		Berkeley Lab Researchers Create a Nonlinear Light-generating Zero-Index MetaMaterial The Information Age will get a major upgrade with the arrival of quantum processors many times faster and more powerful than today's supercomputers. For the benefits of this new Information Age 2.0 ... more

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New thermoelectronic generator Through a process known as thermionic conversion, heat energy - such as light from the sun or heat from burned fossil fuels - can be converted into electricity with very high efficiency. Bec ... more		Shortage of rare materials said holding back technology development A shortage of "rare earth" metals, used in high-tech electronic devices, is hampering the growth of a number of technologies, U.S. experts say. ... more		Solar-driven ionosphere charges may nudge stressed faults toward rupture Stable black carbon in mangrove soils boosts coastal climate role Low crystallinity iron minerals show promise for chromium cleanup and carbon storage		Study shows how water dissolves stone, molecule by molecule Scientists from Rice University and the University of Bremen's Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (MARUM) in Germany have combined cutting-edge experimental techniques and computer simulations ... more
				An ecosystem-based approach to protect the deep sea from mining Five hundred miles southeast of Hawai'i, in international waters far out of sight of any land, there are vast mineral resources 5,000 meters below the sea. Manganese nodules, rich in commercially va ... more		KAIST developed the biotemplated design of piezoelectric energy harvesting device A research team led by Professor Keon Jae Lee and Professor Yoon Sung Nam from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at KAIST has developed the biotemplated design of flexible piezoele ... more

Citrus fruit inspires a new energy-absorbing metal structure

Berkeley Lab Researchers Create a Nonlinear Light-generating Zero-Index MetaMaterial

An ecosystem-based approach to protect the deep sea from mining

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Boeing Tests Validate Performance of FAB-T Satellite Communications Program

Intelsat General To Provide Satellite Services To US Marines

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