The Air Force Research Laboratory and DZYNE Technologies Incorporated successfully completed a two-hour initial flight of a revolutionary Robotic Pilot Unmanned Conversion Program called ROB... Read more
Lockheed Martin Skunk Works®, the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School and Calspan Corporation successfully demonstrated manned/unmanned teaming to improve... Read more
Researchers from Case Western Reserve University, Dayton Air Force Research Laboratory and China have developed a new dry adhesive that bonds in extreme temperatures—a quality that could mak... Read more
One of the impediments to developing miniaturized, “squishy” robots is the need for an internal power source that overcomes the power-to-weight ratio for efficient movement. An international... Read more
Hypersonic missiles could be here faster than you know it. By 2020, the Air Force is likely to have operational prototypes ready for a program of record and testing to develop an operational... Read more
Using components made from smart shape-memory materials with slightly different responses to heat, researchers have demonstrated a four-dimensional printing technology that allowed creation... Read more
An international team of scientists has developed what may be the first one-step process for making seamless carbon-based nanomaterials that possess superior thermal, electrical and mechanic... Read more
A new world of flexible, bendable, even stretchable electronics is emerging from research labs to address a wide range of potentially game-changing uses. The common, rigid printed circuit bo... Read more
“Sometimes the great discoveries are looking right at us and waiting.” Berkeley Lab researchers have developed a nano-sized optical antenna that can greatly enhance the spontane... Read more
Device could improve wireless communications systems During a thunderstorm, we all know that it is common to hear thunder after we see the lightning. That’s because sound travels much slower... Read more
The new circulator has the potential to double the useful bandwidth in wireless communications Researchers at the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have ach... Read more
“We believe this shows that there is a real possibility for a new type of graphene-based electronics.” Using electrons more like photons could provide the foundation for a new type of electr... Read more
Potentially eliminating the need for traditional machine components such as switches and power sources. Microvehicles and other devices that can change shape or move with no power source oth... Read more
A new study has revealed that the stunning iridescent wings of the tropical blue Morpho butterfly could expand the range of innovative technologies. Scientific lessons learnt from these butt... Read more
The technique could facilitate the use of nanoparticles for optical, electrical, optoelectronic, magnetic, catalysis and other applications Using star-shaped block co-polymer structures as t... Read more
