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Earlier today, officials from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) announced that the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is finally opened for business, after many years of construction. ESO also released a number of images showing the telescope and its surroundings.
Located 5,000 meters (16,40... |
3 October 2011
10:58 GMT |
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Researchers at the Finnish company Patria announce the development of a new type of communication antenna that can be bent, twisted, even soaked in water and then dried up, without losing function. The remarkable achievement open the way towards the creation of more advanced life vests, which could be used on airplan... |
29 September 2011
10:20 GMT |
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On Wednesday, July 27, the first European antenna built to augment the capabilities of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) reached its new home, the Array Operations Site.The AOS is located in Chile, where the ALMA site is being constructed. When completed, the Array will be one of the largest and... |
28 July 2011
10:46 GMT |
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University of Michigan (U-M) experts have developed a method of producing extremely small antennas in mass. The thing about these minute devices is that they were miniaturized to a point where they are approaching the fundamental minimum size limit for their bandwidth. What this means is that it will soon become impo... |
6 July 2011
03:40 GMT |
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A group of investigators at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, announces that it will soon become able to analyze peculiar celestial flashes that appear in the night sky. But this will become possible only when a new telescope, now under construction, is completed.Eventually, the New M... |
3 May 2011
05:45 GMT |
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The Deep Space Network (DSN) facility in Canberra, Australia, is bound to become one of the main beneficiaries of the modernization and upgrade program currently underway at the American space agency. The facility will get two new antennas. The new 34-meter (112-foot wide) beam waveguide antennas will be installed ne... |
20 January 2011
10:28 GMT |
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After more than seven months of hard work, engineering crews at NASA have finally concluded work on the space agency's famous “Mars antenna.” This is the most widely-used name for the NASA Deep Space Network (DSN), which is located in Goldstone, California, and that is used primarily to contact rover... |
2 November 2010
05:51 GMT |
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In a development that could see devices such as quantum computers and quantum cryptography circuits becoming more capable and efficient than eve, researchers developed a new type of optical antenna, that can easily make devices handling small amounts of photons better. The achievement was reached in Barcelona, Spain,... |
24 August 2010
05:29 GMT |
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As per schedule, the seven-astronaut crew aboard the shuttle Discovery conducted today the mandatory heat shield inspection of their spacecraft. They used a sensor-laden pole to take pictures of the underside of the ship, both of its bellies and the lower part of the wings, and then attempted to broadcast the dataset... |
6 April 2010
10:18 GMT |
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Scientists at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, announce that work has begun on repairing an iconic antenna of the American space agency. Used for the past 40 years for keeping in touch, and keeping track with deep-space missions, including those on Mars, the famous equipment now need... |
9 March 2010
15:11 GMT |
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In a paper published in the latest issue of the respected scientific journal Animal Behavior, experts detail the amazing smelling abilities of Tunisian desert ants. The creatures are part of a larger group of animals that can sense two different smells, coming from two different directions, at the same time. This all... |
1 March 2010
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The American space agency, NASA, admitted a long time ago that its space communication capabilities were dwindling, and beginning to crumble under the large amounts of strain that were being placed on them by an ever-increasing number of simultaneous missions. As a direct measure, officials there decided to reorganiz... |
26 February 2010
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A collaboration of scientists from the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and partners in the industry and academia, was able to develop small-scale antennas that acted just like the real deal. In fact, the innovative devices are so good at what they were built to do, that there is no significa... |
27 January 2010
19:11 GMT |
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Scientists are thrilled about the creation of a new class of devices, bendable antennas that could see numerous applications in the near future. Ranging from advanced portable devices to gadgets that need to be folded or rolled up before deployment could all benefit from the new instruments, which can be bent, twiste... |
1 December 2009
04:09 GMT |
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Scientists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have recently developed a new type of nanostructures that is extremely efficient in capturing, filtering and steering light at the nanoscale. The group, based at the Berkeley Lab Molecular Foundry, says that th... |
13 November 2009
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Over the past few years, lasers have become indispensable scientific instruments, which are used for a variety of tasks, ranging from measuring the distance from the Earth to the Moon and analyzing air composition, to offering a focal point for the active optics systems in modern telescopes. But, when firing a high-p... |
2 November 2009
09:48 GMT |
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Finland-based Patria Aviation Oy is currently one of the few companies in the world seeking to create personal satellite-communication antennas out of textile materials. Its instrument is roughly similar to the one members of Enterprise used in the Star Trek series. A simple touch of a badge was enough to open a comm... |
29 September 2009
20:01 GMT |
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Every year, hoards of hundreds of millions of monarch butterflies migrate from Canada to Mexico, across the continental US, in a 4,000-mile journey led entirely by the Sun. Scientists have wondered for a long time how come the small insects can navigate sophisticatedly enough to follow the path of the star non-stop, ... |
25 September 2009
05:53 GMT |
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The first two prototype antennas, out of a total of 13,000 to be constructed at the new Long Wavelength Array (LWA) observatory, have recently made their first measurements, as scientists in charge of the project have begun to calibrate and test them. They are, at this point, part of the Long Wavelength Demonstrator ... |
19 August 2009
03:03 GMT |
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Engineers dealing with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), currently under construction in the Chilean Andes and the result of an international cooperative effort, announced another milestone in the project, namely the construction and connection of two of the future telescope's antennas... |
7 May 2009
16:51 GMT |
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An international scientific team, comprised of experts from Germany, the United States, and Spain, have managed to establish new methods of controlling light on the nanoscale, through the use of nano-antennas and also of some concepts from radio-frequency technology. The innovation could help create a new generation ... |
21 April 2009
10:13 GMT |
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Sony Ericsson, one of the largest mobile phone makers in the world, is reported to have taken a license for using multi-band antenna technology from Antenova in high-performance handsets. The news comes shortly after the company announced having financial problems, translated into a massive loss during the ongoing qu... |
23 March 2009
09:34 GMT |
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