Russia and the United Arab Emirates will fund efforts to develop a light fifth generation jet, Russian Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov said on Monday. “We’ve signed an agreement on industrial cooperation in the field of military engineering,” Manturov said at the 13th international weapons show IDEX -2017. Isis not clear what the …
For over four years, NASA’s Kepler mission measured the bright-ness of objects within a 100 square-degree patch of sky in the direction of the constellations Cygnus and Lyrae. The program’s targets were primarily selected to address the Kepler mission goals of discovering Earth-like planets orbiting other stars. Kepler targeted over 150,000 stars, primarily with a …
Erez Livneh spoke about the potential of virus decoys to transform health care. Here’s a snapshot into this moonshotter’s background: Erez spent a decade conducting and leading bioresearch programs in both academia and biotech companies. Today, he is the Founder and CEO of Vecoy Nanomedicines, a NanoPharma company that develops a new generation of nanomedicines …
A palm-sized device invented at Cornell that uses water surface tension as an adhesive bond could enable humans to walk on walls like spiderman The rapid adhesion mechanism could lead to such applications as shoes or gloves that stick and unstick to walls, or Post-it-like notes that can bear loads, according to Paul Steen, professor …