TECH SPACE - AFRICA DAILY

To make ultra-black materials that won't weigh things down, consider the butterfly

Mar 11, 2020 (SPX)

"Some animals have taken black to an extreme," said Alex Davis, a graduate student in the lab of Duke University biologist Sonke Johnsen. The butterflies they s...

Terahertz radiation technique opens a new door for studying atomic behavior

Mar 10, 2020 (SPX)

The new technique takes advantage of a form of light called terahertz radiation, instead of the usual radio-frequency radiation, to manipulate the beams of elec...

Discovery points to origin of mysterious ultraviolet radiation

Mar 10, 2020 (SPX)

A new study that published on March 9 in Nature Astronomy provides evidence that the energy source is at the center of star-forming galaxies, around which the L...

Caltech and JPL launch hybrid high rate quantum communication systems

Mar 09, 2020 (SOX)

To support the increasing data bandwidth requirement of deep space exploration, NASA tasked JPL with implementing the Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) p...

Lego's colourful plastic bricks to go green

Mar 08, 2020 (AFP)

Once revolutionary, then a ubiquitous material, plastic is increasingly being shunned due to the lasting harm its chemical components do to the planet. As a res...

Tech lifestyles enable 'safe escape' from coronavirus

Mar 08, 2020 (AFP)

Those wanting to avoid crowds can have meals delivered from restaurants, stream blockbuster films, socialize online with friends, and work remotely. The latest ...

Using molecules to draw on quantum materials

Mar 05, 2020 (SPX)

Professor Emanuele Orgiu, a researcher at INRS and a specialist in quantum materials. These materials are only a few atoms thick, but have remarkable optical, m...

SpaceLogistics selected by DARPA as Commercial Partner for Robotic Servicing Mission

Mar 05, 2020 (SPX)

The groundbreaking mission will feature the first-ever commercial robotic servicing spacecraft and aims to expand the market for satellite servicing of both com...

Deep Space Antenna Upgrades to Affect Voyager Communications

Mar 05, 2020 (JPL)

About the size of a 20-story office building, the dish has been in service for 48 years. Some parts of the 70-meter antenna, including the transmitters that sen...

3D-printed thrust chamber passes first tests for Vega evolutions

Mar 04, 2020 (ESA)

"These test results are encouraging, confirming that our propulsion teams are right on track along the development path identified for such novel technology for...

Satellite design applied to superyacht

Mar 04, 2020 (ESA)

This uniquely contemporary 81 m-long three-masted schooner was recently transported by barge from the company's shipyard in Vollenhove to Royal Huisman Amsterda...

Cloud data speeds set to soar with aid of laser mini-magnets

Mar 04, 2020 (SPX)

Chemists have studied a new magnetic material that could boost the storage capacity and processing speed of hard drives used in cloud-based servers. This could ...

Airbus now 'foaming' on board the International Space Station

Mar 04, 2020 (ESA)

The FOAM-C experiment studies the stability of foams away from the influence of Earth's gravity. The scientists are interested in the behaviour of the foams at ...

Magnetic whirls in future data storage devices

Mar 04, 2020 (SPX)

A team of scientists from the Max Planck institutes (MPI) of Microstructure Physics in Halle and for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden and the Martin Luther...

Hope for a new permanent magnet that's cheap and sustainable

Mar 04, 2020 (SPX)

Most permanent magnets are made from alloys of rare earth metals - but the mining and processing of these materials produces toxic by-products, leading to ecolo...

Northrop Grumman awarded $262.3M modification for AESA radar systems

Mar 03, 2020 (UPI)

The deal modifies a previous contract awarded in May 2017 for $243.8 million. Active Electronic Scanned Array radar is a phased array antenna detection system t...

Space weather model gives earlier warning of satellite-killing radiation storms

Mar 03, 2020 (SPX)

"Radiation storms from the Van Allen belts can damage or even knock out satellites orbiting in medium and high altitudes above the Earth, but predicting these s...

OceanGate working with NASA to develop new carbon fiber pressure vessels

Feb 28, 2020 (SPX)

NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, will serve as the facility where the development and manufacturing of a new aerospace-grade hull is ...

Virus game 'Plague' app pulled in China: developer

Feb 28, 2020 (AFP)

Users based in China could not download "Plague Inc" on Friday after the cyberspace watchdog ordered its removal over "illegal" content, UK-based Ndemic Creatio...

SpaceLogistics completes first docking of Mission Extension Vehicle-1 to the Intelsat 901 satellite

Feb 27, 2020 (SPX)

MEV-1, launched Oct. 9, 2019, recently completed its orbit raising to an orbit approximately 180 miles above geosynchronous orbit. IS-901 is a fully operational...