TECH SPACE - AFRICA DAILY

Mar 06, 2018 (SPX)

Its name is "superionic water"; it doesn't exist on Earth but it could be abundant inside certain planets of the solar system such as Uranus and Neptune and on ...

Common bricks can be used to detect past presence of uranium, plutonium

Mar 06, 2018 (SPX)

Robert Hayes, an associate professor of nuclear engineering at NC State and co-author of a paper on this work, previously used simulations to demonstrate the co...

Researchers convert CO to CO2 with a single metal atom

Mar 06, 2018 (SPX)

The research, published in the journal Nature Catalysis, could improve catalytic converter design and also has major implications in the field of computational ...

Reaching new heights in laser-accelerated ion energy

Mar 06, 2018 (SPX)

The acceleration of protons to energies in the 100 mega-electron-volts range was achieved by exciting a hybrid ion acceleration scheme in an ultrathin foil targ...

Powerful new imaging method reveals in detail how particles move in solution

Mar 06, 2018 (SPX)

The new method will allow for the visualization of many more biological molecules, providing critical information about what is inside molecules to scientists w...

Dual frequency comb generated on a single chip using a single laser

Mar 06, 2018 (SPX)

A frequency comb is a special kind of light beam with many different frequencies, or "colors," all spaced from each other in an extremely precise way. When this...

Virtual predator is self-aware, behaves like living counterpart

Mar 06, 2018 (SPX)

Unlike most other AI entities, Cyberslug has a simple self-awareness, said University of Illinois molecular and integrative physiology professor Rhanor Gillette...

Majorana runners go long range: New topological phases of matter unveiled

Mar 06, 2018 (SPX)

In a recent paper published in Physical Review Letters, these researchers explain how they improve the propagation of Majorana particles at the edge of a topolo...

Helium ions open whole new world of materials

Mar 06, 2018 (SPX)

The research, Superplastic nanoscale pore shaping by ion irradiation, was published in Nature Communications and authored by Dr Morteza Aramesh, Dr Mayamei Yash...

Splitting crystals for 2-D metallic conductivity

Mar 06, 2018 (SPX)

Researchers at Japan's Tohoku University, with an international team of colleagues, recently identified the atomic structure of a group of perovskite-related ma...

Technique to see objects hidden around corners

Mar 06, 2018 (SPX)

This scenario is one of many that researchers at Stanford University are imagining for a system that can produce images of objects hidden from view. They are fo...

The fine-tuning of two-dimensional materials

Mar 05, 2018 (SPX)

Two-dimensional materials are films only an atom or two thick. Researchers make 2-D materials by the exfoliation method - peeling a slice of material off a larg...

Radioactive cylinder found on Lebanon coast: authority

Feb 28, 2018 (AFP)

The Lebanese Atomic Energy Commission (LAEC) said the cylinder was discovered on Tuesday at Ouzai just south of the capital, adding none of the substance escape...

Squid skin could be the solution to camouflage material

Feb 28, 2018 (SPX)

The chromatophore organs, which appear as hundreds of multi-colored freckles on the surface of a cephalopod's body, contribute to fast changes in skin color. In...

Atomic structure of ultrasound material not what anyone expected

Feb 26, 2018 (SPX)

"This work gives us information we can use to better understand how and why PMN behaves the way it does - and possibly other relaxor materials as well," says Ja...

Sixty years of technology in space - what's changed?

Feb 23, 2018 (SPX)

But unlike the USSR's Sputnik satellite launched a few months earlier, which simply demonstrated the feasibility of getting a satellite to orbit the earth, Expl...

DARPA Seeks to Expand Real-Time Radiological Threat Detection to Include Other Dangers

Feb 22, 2018 (SPX)

In the hands of terrorists and rogue nation states, however, these capabilities could be misused to concoct chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and hig...

Jordan 3D lab prints limbs for war wounded, disabled kids

Feb 22, 2018 (AFP)

Abdullah was wounded in a mine blast as Iraqi forces battled to oust the jihadists from Iraq's second city Mosul last year. His right hand was also seriously wo...

Friction found where there should be none: In superfluids near absolute zero

Feb 20, 2018 (SPX)

"For now, we have to study the phenomenon itself more in depth, before we can have insight exhaustive enough to be applied to experimental research and developi...

A new way of generating ultra-short bursts of light

Feb 20, 2018 (SPX)

Until now, these lesser-known light sources have been mostly confined to the lab because their setup leaves little room for error - even a minor jostle could kn...