TECH SPACE - AFRICA DAILY

NASA to launch Raven to develop autonomous rendezvous capability

Feb 15, 2017 (SPX)

Launching soon, aboard the 10th SpaceX commercial resupply mission, will be a technology module called Raven, which will bring NASA one step closer to having a ...

Lasers could give space research its broadband moment

Feb 15, 2017 (JPL)

Thought your Internet speeds were slow? Try being a space scientist for a day. The vast distances involved will throttle data rates to a trickle. You're lucky i...

New study shows how 3-D printing at home saves big bucks

Feb 15, 2017 (SPX)

Interested in making an investment that promises a 100 percent return on your money, and then some? Buy a low-cost, open-source 3-D printer, plug it in and prin...

NASA and MIT collaborate to develop space-based quantum-dot spectrometer

Feb 15, 2017 (SPX)

A NASA technologist has teamed with the inventor of a new nanotechnology that could transform the way space scientists build spectrometers, the all-important de...

Researchers engineer thubber a stretchable rubber that packs a thermal conductive punch

Feb 14, 2017 (SPX)

Carmel Majidi and Jonathan Malen of Carnegie Mellon University have developed a thermally conductive rubber material that represents a breakthrough for creating...

After 15 years, SABER on TIMED Still Breaks Ground from Space

Feb 14, 2017 (SPX)

About 21 years ago, team members started building and testing the Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry, or SABER instrument. Back then...

New mechanical metamaterials can block symmetry of motion

Feb 14, 2017 (SPX)

Engineers and scientists at The University of Texas at Austin and the AMOLF institute in the Netherlands have invented the first mechanical metamaterials that e...

NASA's TDRS-M space communications satellite begins final testing

Feb 14, 2017 (SPX)

Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Feb 14, 2017 The Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) project has begun final testing on a new satellite that will replenish N...

Scientists predicted new high-energy compounds

Feb 14, 2017 (SPX)

Using theoretical methods, an international group of scientists led by Artem R. Oganov, Professor of Skoltech, Stony Brook University and Moscow Institute of Ph...

Research reveals novel quantum state in strange insulating materials

Feb 10, 2017 (SPX)

Researchers from Brown University have shown experimentally how a unique form of magnetism arises in an odd class of materials called Mott insulators. The findi...

ANU scientists make new high-tech liquid materials

Feb 10, 2017 (SPX)

Scientists at The Australian National University (ANU) have controlled wave-generated currents to make previously unimaginable liquid materials for new technolo...

Most stretchable elastomer for 3-D printing

Feb 10, 2017 (SPX)

Due to its excellent material properties of elasticity, resilience, and electrical and thermal insulation, elastomers have been used in a myriad of applications...

A new sensitive and stable self-powered photodetector

Feb 10, 2017 (SPX)

Researchers in Singapore and China have collaborated to develop a self-powered photodetector that can be used in a wide range of applications such as chemical a...

Big data for the universe

Feb 10, 2017 (SPX)

Astronomers at Lomonosov Moscow State University in cooperation with their French colleagues and with the help of citizen scientists have released "The Referenc...

Cooling roofs and other structures with no energy

Feb 10, 2017 (SPX)

A team of University of Colorado Boulder engineers has developed a scalable manufactured metamaterial - an engineered material with extraordinary properties not...

Terahertz chips a new way of seeing through matter

Feb 10, 2017 (SPX)

Electromagnetic pulses lasting one millionth of a millionth of a second may hold the key to advances in medical imaging, communications and drug development. Bu...

Record-breaking material that contracts when heated

Feb 10, 2017 (SPX)

Machines and devices used in modern industry are required to withstand harsh conditions. When the environmental temperature changes, the volume of the materials...

Meta-lenses bring benchtop performance to small, hand-held spectrometer

Feb 10, 2017 (SPX)

A research team of physicists from Harvard University has developed new hand-held spectrometers capable of the same performance as large, benchtop instruments. ...

Orbit Logic Software to be used for BridgeSat Laser Comm Scheduling

Feb 08, 2017 (SPX)

Orbit Logic has announced that BridgeSat has awarded Orbit Logic a contract to provide software for its optical ground telescope network to plan laser communica...

New material that contracts when heated holds great industrial potential

Feb 08, 2017 (UPI)

Materials scientists in Japan have discovered a new material that contracts when heated, a rarity. The metal-ceramic composite material is composed of calcium, ...