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Students design furniture for other planets

  Modular furniture is conceived for the moon, Mars and in between [caption id="attachment_4150" align="alignright" width="200"] A team of Rice University engineering students has designed a flexible chair for space habitats. Along with a custom,…

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Boiling down viscous flow

A new simplified model predicts patterns that form from honey-like fluids. CAMBRIDGE, Mass-- Drizzling honey on toast can produce mesmerizing, meandering patterns, as the syrupy fluid ripples and coils in a sticky, golden thread. Dribbling…

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€15 million boost for European astronomy

Dwingeloo-- Astronomers and astroparticle physicists today are celebrating a €15 million EU funding boost European telescopes with the launch of the ASTERICS project, which will help solve the Big Data challenges of European astronomy and…

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CeBIT Australia – the launch pad of the…

Product, software and technology launches abound at CeBIT Entrepreneurs, inventors, business leaders and academics have used CeBIT Australia – the most significant business technology exhibition and conference in our region as a platform to launch…