TECH SPACE - AFRICA DAILY

Two new satellites now operational to expand US space situational awareness

Sep 14, 2017 (SPX)

GSSAP provides enhanced space-based space situational awareness to improve the ability to rapidly detect, warn, characterize and attribute disturbances to space...

Ultrathin spacecraft will collect, deposit orbital debris

Sep 13, 2017 (Sputnik)

A proposed design for a space trash collector has received a second round of funding from NASA, and the technologies involved could benefit developments in mini...

Dormant, Yet Always-Alert Sensor Awakes Only in the Presence of a Signal of Interest

Sep 13, 2017 (SPX)

It's just the sort of intelligence, reconnaissance, and surveillance (ISR) technology that can increase situational awareness while minimizing the need for pote...

192 Indian space objects currently in orbit

Sep 12, 2017 (IANS)

He was citing the August 2017 issue of "Orbital Debris", a quarterly published by NASA. "Space objects include functional satellites as well as debris. The term...

Europe's biggest X-ray laser begins operations

Sep 12, 2017 (UPI)

XFEL, located in Hamburg, Germany, is one of the most powerful video cameras in the world, capable of filming individual atoms and molecules, capturing their mo...

Chinese video site offers virtual escape from 'boring' reality

Sep 11, 2017 (AFP)

Her alternative world is bilibili.com, a Shanghai-based video-sharing platform that has attracted more than 150 million Chinese users with its eclectic mix of u...

New microscopy method for quick and reliable 3-D imaging of curvilinear nanostructures

Sep 07, 2017 (SPX)

Using TEM to reconstruct 3D images instead usually requires tilting the sample through an arc to image hundreds of views of it and needs sophisticated image pro...

Van Allen probes survive extreme radiation five years on

Sep 04, 2017 (SPX)

But NASA's Van Allen Probes have been traveling through this hazardous area since Aug. 30 2012 - they are now celebrating their fifth year in space studying thi...

Bit data goes anti-skyrmions

Sep 04, 2017 (SPX)

Most digital data is stored in the cloud as magnetic bits within massive numbers of magnetic disk drives. Over the past several decades these magnetic bits have...

Molecules move faster near sticky surfaces

Sep 04, 2017 (SPX)

Since more than 20 years, several researchers have been studying the behaviour of certain polymers, biomolecules, and liquid crystals at the nano-scale near an ...

Making 3-D printing safer

Aug 31, 2017 (SPX)

Recent studies on 3-D printers have found that when operating, the devices can release volatile organic compounds, aldehydes and nanoparticles into the air. All...

Artificial intelligence analyzes gravitational lenses 10 million times faster

Aug 31, 2017 (SPX)

"Analyses that typically take weeks to months to complete, that require the input of experts and that are computationally demanding, can be done by neural nets ...

Clamping down on causality by probing laser cavities

Aug 30, 2017 (SPX)

A question that was not asked until recently is - what happens if you shine a laser beam through another laser cavity? It may not seem a practical question to a...

Non-thermal atmospheric pressure plasma treatment for leather products

Aug 30, 2017 (SPX)

Considering this, group of researchers in India have explored atmospheric pressure non-thermal plasma treatment to improve natural dyeing of leather in order to...

Why does rubbing a balloon on your hair make it stick?

Aug 30, 2017 (SPX)

Triboelectric charging causes toner from a photocopier or laser printer to stick to paper, and likely facilitated the formation of planets from space dust and t...

Rare-metals in the Himalayas: The potential world-class treasure

Aug 30, 2017 (SPX)

The Himalayan leucogranite is unique with petrolgoical characteristics similar to the well -known rare-metal granites worldwide. However, relatively few studies...

New insights into fundamental mechanisms for optical control of magnetic memory

Aug 29, 2017 (SPX)

The demands placed on digital storage media are continuously increasing. Rapidly increasing quantities of data and new technological applications demand memory ...

NASA Awards $400,000 to Top Teams at Second Phase of 3D-Printing Competition

Aug 29, 2017 (SPX)

The agency has awarded first place and a prize of $250,000 to Team Foster + Partners | Branch Technology of Chattanooga, Tennessee, for successfully completing ...

Scientists tie flexible crystals into knots

Aug 29, 2017 (UPI)

"Crystals are something we work with a lot -- they're typically grown in small blocks, are hard and brittle, and when struck or bent they crack or shatter," Joh...

Major leap towards data storage at the molecular level

Aug 28, 2017 (SPX)

Now scientists at the University of Manchester have proved that storing data with a class of molecules known as single-molecule magnets is more feasible than pr...