TECH SPACE - AFRICA DAILY

Mar 31, 2017 (SPX)

Nowadays we communicate via radio signals and send electrical pulses through long cables. This could change soon, however: Scientists have been working intensel...

U.S. Army orders Counter Fire Target Acquisition Radar System

Mar 31, 2017 (UPI)

Lockheed Martin received $1.5 billion from the U.S. Army to produce and deploy the Counterfire Target Acquisition Radar System. The radar system, also known as ...

NASA laser communications to provide Orion faster connections

Mar 31, 2017 (SPX)

NASA is working to forever change the way astronauts communicate to and from space using an advanced laser communications system called LEMNOS, which will enabl...

Modern alchemy creates luminescent iron molecules

Mar 31, 2017 (SPX)

A group of researchers at Lund University in Sweden have made the first iron-based molecule capable of emitting light. This could contribute to the development ...

Space blanket floats away during historic spacewalk

Mar 30, 2017 (AFP)

A space blanket floated away from American astronaut Peggy Whitson on Thursday as she made a historic spacewalk outside the International Space Station, setting...

'Ground Control' Arrives at Leicester University

Mar 29, 2017 (SPX)

Scientists at the University of Leicester will be step closer to controlling their own satellite missions after a new satellite ground station dish is installed...

Researchers plan simulations of laser pulse-material interactions

Mar 29, 2017 (SPX)

With the advent of laser technology in the 1960s, materials scientists gained a new tool to both study and modify materials. Today, lasers allow researchers to ...

Argon is not the 'dope' for metallic hydrogen

Mar 27, 2017 (SPX)

Hydrogen is both the simplest and the most-abundant element in the universe, so studying it can teach scientists about the essence of matter. And yet there are ...

NASA Selects High Performance Spaceflight Computing (HPSC) Processor Contract

Mar 27, 2017 (SPX)

NASA has selected Boeing Company in St. Louis for the High Performance Spaceflight Computing Processor (Chiplet) contract for the development of prototype Chipl...

A simple route to developing new sensors

Mar 27, 2017 (SPX)

Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have found a material used for decades to color food items ranging from corn chips to ice creams could potentiall...

Turning to Chemistry for New Computing Concepts

Mar 27, 2017 (SPX)

As the complexity and volume of global digital data grows, so too does the need for more capable and compact means of processing and storing data. To address th...

Promising results obtained with a new electrocatalyst that reduces the need for platinum

Mar 27, 2017 (SPX)

Platinum is a very expensive metal and it is therefore one of the bottlenecks hindering the growth of renewable energy. Platinum is used as the catalyst in elec...

Invention May Give Spacecraft Improved Damage Report

Mar 27, 2017 (SPX)

There are few ways for astronauts to know exactly when the outside of their spacecraft has been damaged, but that may change in the future with an invention tha...

Researchers make flexible glass for tiny medical devices

Mar 27, 2017 (SPX)

Brigham Young University researchers have developed new glass technology that could add a new level of flexibility to the microscopic world of medical devices. ...

Ancient Art of Weaving Ready to Head to Mars and Beyond

Mar 27, 2017 (SPX)

Weaving processes created millennia ago are part of the most cutting-edge technology on NASA's Orion spaceship that may one day shield humans from heat as they ...

Scientists aim to create self-propelling liquid, a new kind of matter

Mar 24, 2017 (UPI)

Researchers at Brandeis University in Massachusetts are inching close to the creation of a new kind of matter -- a self-propelling liquid. Scientists at Brandei...

Visualizing nuclear radiation

Mar 23, 2017 (SPX)

Extraordinary decontamination efforts are underway in areas affected by the 2011 nuclear accidents in Japan. The creation of total radioactivity maps is essenti...

Rare-earths become water-repellent only as they age

Mar 23, 2017 (SPX)

Surfaces that have been coated with rare earth oxides develop water-repelling properties only after contact with air. Even at room temperature, chemical reactio...

Molecular 'treasure maps' to help discover new materials

Mar 23, 2017 (SPX)

Scientists at the University of Southampton working with colleagues at the University of Liverpool have developed a new method which has the potential to revolu...

New study maps space dust in 3-D

Mar 23, 2017 (SPX)

Berkeley Lab-led research raises new questions about properties of dust in local and distant reaches of Milky Way. Consider that the Earth is just a giant cosmi...