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Augmented reality for space station maintenance

02 May, 2017

The VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is leading an international project to develop a new augmented reality (AR) tool for the European Space Agency (ESA).


Femtosatellite launcher 3D printed in space

20 April, 2017

The winning design of the International Space Station (ISS) Design Challenge, an initiative of Mouser Electronics, has been 3D printed in space.


Australia's biggest e-waste recycling plant

10 April, 2017

Metals business Nyrstar is upgrading its smelter in Port Pirie, South Australia, to a multimetals processing and recovery facility that will also provide the technology to process e-waste.


Renesas joins LoRa Alliance

28 March, 2017

Renesas Electronics has joined the LoRa Alliance, a non-profit association that supports the standardisation and adoption of LoRaWAN.


Advanced manufacturing facility opens in Launceston

23 March, 2017

The University of Tasmania has opened its new Advanced Sensor Manufacturing Facility (ASMF), to be operated in partnership with Launceston firm Definium Technologies.


New technique to measure 2D wonder materials

14 March, 2017

Researchers have developed a method to measure the electronic structures of stacks of two-dimensional materials, whose features such as flatness, atomic thinness, high conductivity and extreme strength make them highly desirable for use in electronic devices.


Exploring the next generation of wireless R&D

13 March, 2017 by Ken Karnofsky

In 2017 and beyond, the next generation of wireless communications systems is driving a new level of technology integration.


Miniature MEMS actuators under development

27 February, 2017

STMicroelectronics is collaborating with audio start-up USound on the industrialisation and production of the world's first miniature piezoelectric MEMS actuators for smart audio systems in portable devices.


Ingestible sensors powered by stomach acid

13 February, 2017

MIT researchers have designed a voltaic cell that is sustained by the acidic fluids in the stomach.


STMicroelectronics joins EV charging initiative

08 February, 2017

The Charging Interface Initiative, founded to develop and establish the Combined Charging System (CCS) as the standard for charging all kinds of battery-powered electric vehicles, has announced STMicroelectronics as its newest member.


Turning soybeans into graphene

03 February, 2017

Scientists led by CSIRO have made the world's strongest material more commercially viable with the help of the humble soybean.


'Textile muscles' enabled through electroactive fabric

01 February, 2017

By coating normal fabric with an electroactive material, Swedish researchers have endowed the fabric with the ability to actuate in the same way as muscle fibres.


High currents can pass through graphene

10 January, 2017

European researchers have discovered that electrons in graphene are extremely mobile and react very quickly, enabling high currents to pass through the substance and allowing imbalances in electric charge to be rapidly rectified.


Advantech joins LoRa Alliance

09 January, 2017

Intelligent systems provider Advantech has joined the LoRa Alliance, a non-profit association committed to developing a new industrial standard to empower the Internet of Things (IoT).


Growing atomic-scale materials

17 November, 2016

New York University scientists have developed a method for growing an atomic-scale electronic material at what is said to be the highest quality ever reported.


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