TECH SPACE - AFRICA DAILY

Astroscale enters technical cooperation with European Space Agency

Dec 13, 2018 (SPX)

There are more than 750 000 pieces of debris larger than 1 cm in size in Earth orbit today; any impact with a functioning satellite, like those used for vital t...

Terahertz laser for sensing and imaging outperforms its predecessors

Dec 13, 2018 (SPX)

The optimized laser can be used to detect interstellar elements in an upcoming NASA mission that aims to learn more about our galaxy's origins. Here on Earth, t...

Gaming firm settles VR lawsuit with Facebook-owned Oculus

Dec 12, 2018 (AFP)

A US jury early last year ordered that Facebook and creators of Oculus Rift pay $500 million in a lawsuit that contended that Rift virtual reality gear was deve...

Compelling evidence for small drops of perfect fluid

Dec 12, 2018 (SPX)

Scientists are studying this hot soup made up of quarks and gluons - the building blocks of protons and neutrons - to learn about the fundamental force that hol...

Multifunctional dream ceramic matrix composites are born

Dec 12, 2018 (SPX)

hey improved fracture toughness and electrical conductivity of AI2O3/Ti composites while simultaneously giving them photocatalytic ability through chemical and/...

Supercomputers without waste heat

Dec 12, 2018 (SPX)

Researchers from the Department of Physics at the University of Konstanz have now demonstrated that the lossless electrical transfer of magnetically encoded inf...

Are amorphous solids elastic or plastic?

Dec 12, 2018 (SPX)

Unlike crystals, amorphous solids, such as glasses, granular matter, gels, foams, and emulsions, have disordered particle configurations. How do amorphous solid...

DRS to provide power modules for the Air and Missile Defense Radar

Dec 10, 2018 (UPI)

The contract, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, provides for up to 12 ship sets for the Arleigh Burke-class under the Flight III destroyer construc...

New model for assessing the effect of ionizing radiation on microelectronic devices

Dec 07, 2018 (SPX)

The ionizing radiation in outer space adversely affects electronic devices, resulting in reduced service life and sudden failures or malfunctions. Mathematical ...

Multifunctional dream ceramic matrix composites are born!

Dec 06, 2018 (SPX)

hey improved fracture toughness and electrical conductivity of AI2O3/Ti composites while simultaneously giving them photocatalytic ability through chemical and/...

World's smallest wearable device warns of UV exposure, enables precision phototherapy

Dec 06, 2018 (SPX)

The device's underlying physics, and extensions of the platform to a broad array clinical applications are reported in this study to be published Dec. 5 in Scie...

Force Push VR brings Jedi powers to life

Dec 04, 2018 (SPX)

In the interim, stalwart practitioners of Jedi ways and other Force-sensitive beings can look to the small screen and thank Virginia Tech researchers for a rece...

First study of terahertz radiation in liquids

Dec 04, 2018 (SPX)

Terahertz electromagnetic radiation can easily pass through most materials except metals and water. Today, it is widely used in security systems used to detect ...

Borophene advances as 2D materials platform

Dec 04, 2018 (SPX)

Borophene is extremely flexible, strong, and lightweight - even more so than its carbon-based analogue, graphene. These unique electronic and mechanical propert...

To replicate physical objects for virtual reality, just turn on your smartphone

Dec 04, 2018 (SPX)

A global team of computer scientists have developed a novel method that replicates physical objects for the virtual and augmented reality space just using a poi...

SUTD researchers discover new black silver nanomaterial

Dec 04, 2018 (SPX)

The key to the material's remarkable performance is its nanostructure, which strongly interacts with visible and infrared light. This nanomaterial is easily coa...

A big step toward the practical application of 3D holography with powerful computers

Dec 04, 2018 (SPX)

Holography has a long history. Since 1960 when the first laser was invented, many works involving laser holograms have been produced. For digitalizing these ana...

Easy to use 3D bioprinting technique creates lifelike tissues from natural materials

Dec 04, 2018 (SPX)

As a proof of concept, the UC San Diego team used their method to create blood vessel networks capable of keeping a breast cancer tumor alive outside the body. ...

Millennium Space Systems Completes Successful ALTAIR Pathfinder Mission

Dec 04, 2018 (SPX)

"ALTAIR Pathfinder has been a resilient and flexible satellite," said Griffith Russell, Millennium's mission director. "Combining autonomous routine operations ...

ESA team blasts Intel's new AI chip with radiation at CERN

Dec 04, 2018 (ESA)

The Myriad 2 harnesses artificial intelligence for high-performance, low-power vision processing. It can be pre-trained with data to recognise particular featur...