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Iran Launches New Home-Made Satellite into Orbit

Feb 10, 2012 (FNA)

Iran on Friday successfully sent another domestically-made satellite, named 'Navid-e Elm-o Sana'at' (Promise of Science and Industry), into orbit. The satellite...

Northrop Grumman Delivers 25,000th Electro-Optic Laser System to U.S. Army

Feb 10, 2012 (SPX)

Northrop Grumman has announced that its Laser Systems business unit recently delivered its 25,000th electro-optic (EO) laser system in support of U.S. warfighte...

Russia to build powerful laser facility

Feb 09, 2012 (UPI)

Russia intends to build the world's most powerful laser research station at an estimated cost of $1.5 billion, a Russian nuclear official said. The station woul...

No more Brownie: Kodak gives up making cameras

Feb 09, 2012 (AFP)

Photography pioneer Eastman Kodak, whose cheap Brownie camera brought photography to the masses a century ago, said Thursday it would stop producing cameras alt...

A bronze matryoshka doll: The metal in the metal in the metal

Feb 09, 2012 (SPX)

A doll in a doll, and then one more, enveloping them from the outside - this is how Thomas Faessler explains his molecule. He packs one atom in a cage within an...

Ailing Kodak shutters its camera operations

Feb 09, 2012 (AFP)

Eastman Kodak, whose cheap Brownie camera brought photography to the masses a century ago, said Thursday it would stop producing cameras altogether as its strug...

Samsung can continue selling Galaxy tabs in Germany: court

Feb 09, 2012 (AFP)

South Korea's Samsung Electronics can continue to sell its Galaxy Tab 10.1N tablet computer in Germany, a German court ruled Thursday, rejecting a bid by arch-r...

Redu Space Services To Build EDRS Mission Operation Centre

Feb 09, 2012 (SPX)

Redu Space Services (RSS) has announced that Astrium has awarded it a contract for the design, development, testing and delivery of the Mission Operation Centre...

New methodology assesses risk of scarce metals

Feb 09, 2012 (SPX)

Yale researchers have developed a methodology for governments and corporations to determine the availability of critical metals, according to a paper in Environ...

Amazon in streaming video deal with Viacom

Feb 08, 2012 (AFP)

Amazon announced a deal with entertainment giant Viacom on Wednesday, building up its arsenal of television shows as it takes on video streaming market leader N...

Crystalline materials enable high-speed electronic function in optical fibers

Feb 08, 2012 (SPX)

Scientists at the University of Southampton, in collaboration with Penn State University have, for the first time, embedded the high level of performance normal...

Phobos Crash Test Dismisses U.S. Link

Feb 07, 2012 (RIA Novosti)

Tests carried out by Russian space agency Roscosmos have ruled out the possibility a U.S. radar could be linked to the failure of the Phobos-Grunt Mars probe, R...

Home security cameras exposed images

Feb 07, 2012 (UPI)

A U.S. maker of security cameras has acknowledged a flaw that allowed live feeds from its home security cameras to be accessed online without a password. TRENDn...

3D printer creates new jaw for woman

Feb 06, 2012 (UPI)

A Belgium woman is able to chew, speak and breathe normally after the implantation of a new jawbone created on a 3D printer, doctors say. The replacement jaw, c...

iPhone leaps to third place in mobile market

Feb 06, 2012 (AFP)

An outbreak of iPhone fever made Apple the third hottest mobile phone maker worldwide at the end of 2011, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC)....

Apple's iPhone hot but Android handsets on fire

Feb 06, 2012 (AFP)

An outbreak of iPhone fever made Apple the hottest smartphone maker worldwide at the end of 2011 but handsets powered by Google's Android software were shaping ...