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  • Wireless device converts 'lost' energy into electric power

    Using inexpensive materials configured and tuned to capture microwave signals, researchers at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering have designed a power-harvesting device with efficiency similar to that of modern solar panels.

    The device wirelessly

  • Strong M6.6 earthquake struck near east coast of Kamchatka

    Strong earthquake with recorded magnitude of 6.6 struck near the east coast of Kamchatka on Tuesday, November 12, 2013 at 07:03 UTC. USGS measured depth at 47 km, EMSC at 40 km.

    Epicenter was located 172 km (107 miles) S of Ust'-Kamchatsk Staryy

  • Laser communications: from vision to reality

    Since its inception in 1958, NASA has relied exclusively on radio frequency (RF)-based communications as the only viable medium for exchanging data between a mission and a spacecraft. Today, with missions demanding communication with higher data rates than ever

  • Major X1.1 solar flare erupted from Earth facing AR 1890

    Active Region 1890, located almost at the center of the disk, erupted with impulsive X1.1 solar flare at 05:14 UTC on November 10, 2013. A very bright Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) has been observed and the bulk mass seems to be heading well south of the

  • ESA's GOCE satellite about to fall to the Earth

    After nearly tripling its planned lifetime, the ESA's Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer – GOCE – has completed its mission. The satellite will re-enter our atmosphere this weekend and break-up into pieces. It is

  • Astronomers discovered asteroid spouting six comet-like tails

    Astronomers have observed a unique and baffling object in asteroid belt with six comet like tails of dust radiating from it. While this object is on an asteroid-like orbit, it looks like a comet, and is sending out tails of dust into space.

    Unlike all other