TECH SPACE - AFRICA DAILY

Jun 20, 2017 (SPX)

The system, which also consumes far less energy than conventional techniques, could greatly shrink the environmental impact of producing metals from raw materia...

Recycled tires create stronger concrete

Jun 20, 2017 (SPX)

The researchers experimented with different proportions of recycled tire fibres and other materials used in concrete - cement, sand and water - before finding t...

Thales introduces ground variant of Sea Fire radar

Jun 20, 2017 (UPI)

The digital Ground Fire radar family, displayed at this week's Paris Air Show, uses Active Electronically Scanned Array, or AESA, technology and can be deployed...

Sea urchin protein provides insights into self-assembly of skeletal structures

Jun 20, 2017 (SPX)

New York University College of Dentistry (NYU Dentistry) researchers are studying how nature creates three-dimensional CaCO3 inorganic/organic based materials t...

Northrop Grumman tests flat-panel radar

Jun 20, 2017 (UPI)

The system is a multi-function radar that features an open architecture system, allowing it to be easily reprogrammed with different software packages. This can...

Universal stabilization

Jun 20, 2017 (SPX)

An everyday example of this is a salad dressing made of oil and vinegar: its main constituents, vinegar (effectively water) and oil, do not mix on their own and...

Octopus inspires S. Korea 'breakthrough' adhesive patch

Jun 19, 2017 (AFP)

Octopuses are among the most intelligent and behaviourally diverse of all invertebrates, but it was their extreme strength that attracted the interest of the re...

From luxury hotels to slums, Haiti puts used soap to good use

Jun 18, 2017 (AFP)

The project, simple but effective, has had a remarkable impact. Laure Bottinelli discovered the idea of soap-recycling while spending time in Southeast Asia. In...

Ammonia on-demand? Alternative production method for a sustainable future

Jun 16, 2017 (SPX)

In the Haber-Bosch process, which is the main method of ammonia synthesis, nitrogen reacts with hydrogen using a metal catalyst to produce ammonia. However, thi...

New waterproofing and antifouling materials developed by Swansea Scientists

Jun 16, 2017 (SPX)

New materials have been developed by scientists in the Energy Safety Research Institute (ESRI) at Swansea University which is nontoxic, economical and shows pro...

Changing the color of laser light on the femtosecond time scale

Jun 16, 2017 (SPX)

However, observing this nonlinear effect requires a polar crystal in which inversion symmetry is broken. For this reason, identifying crystals that can elicit s...

Study explains how jewel scarab beetles appear golden

Jun 16, 2017 (UPI)

Scientists at the University of Exeter in Great Britain conducted experiments that suggest the beetle's unique "optical signature" is created by the color, text...

New form of carbon that's hard as a rock, yet elastic, like rubber

Jun 16, 2017 (SPX)

Carbon is an element of seemingly infinite possibilities. This is because the configuration of its electrons allows for numerous self-bonding combinations that ...

Magnets, all the way down

Jun 16, 2017 (SPX)

It turns out that assemblies of metallic nanoparticles, which can be carefully arranged at multiple length scales, behave like bulk magnets and display intrigui...

Researchers create 3-D printed tensegrity objects capable of dramatic shape change

Jun 16, 2017 (SPX)

The new objects use tensegrity, a structural system of floating rods in compression and cables in continuous tension. The researchers fabricated the struts from...

Oyster shells inspire new method to make superstrong, flexible polymers

Jun 15, 2017 (SPX)

This multiscale ordering can make the base material almost an order of magnitude stiffer while still retaining the desired deformability and lightweight behavio...

New technique enables 3-D printing with paste of silicone particles in water

Jun 15, 2017 (SPX)

In a paper published this week in Advanced Materials, corresponding author Orlin Velev and colleagues show that, in a water medium, liquid silicone rubber can b...

The first nanometrically-sized superelastic alloy

Jun 14, 2017 (SPX)

Superelasticity is a physical property by which it is possible to deform a material to a considerable extent, up to 10%, which is much higher than that of elast...

Cloudy with a chance of radiation: NASA studies simulated radiation

Jun 14, 2017 (SPX)

Radiation is one of the most dangerous risks to humans in space, and one of the most challenging to simulate here on Earth. The risk to human health significant...

Liquids are capable of supporting waves with short wavelengths only

Jun 12, 2017 (SPX)

Liquids are the least understood state of matter and for a long time it has been believed that they can sustain both gas-like waves with long wavelengths and so...