TECH SPACE - AFRICA DAILY

Move over, lasers: Scientists can now create holograms from neutrons, too

Oct 25, 2016 (SPX)

For the first time, a team including scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have used neutron beams to create holograms of la...

Big-data algorithms could cut analysis times from months to days

Oct 25, 2016 (SPX)

Last year, MIT researchers presented a system that automated a crucial step in big-data analysis: the selection of a "feature set," or aspects of the data that ...

How water flows near the superhydrophobic surface

Oct 24, 2016 (SPX)

Water (and other liquids) has an unusual property when it flows closely to some specially designed surfaces: its speed isn't equal to zero even in the layer tha...

Metamaterial uses light to control its motion

Oct 24, 2016 (SPX)

Researchers have designed a device that uses light to manipulate its mechanical properties. The device, which was fabricated using a plasmomechanical metamateri...

Louisiana Tech University professor develops new mechanism for strengthening materials

Oct 24, 2016 (SPX)

Dr. Kasra Momeni, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Advanced Hierarchical Materials by Design Lab at Louisiana Tech University, ...

Terma radar for Royal Malaysian Navy

Oct 23, 2016 (UPI)

A combined navigation and helicopter control radar from Danish electronics firm Terma A/S is to equip two Royal Malaysian Navy frigates. Terma's SCANTER 6000 ra...

New kind of supercapacitor made without carbon

Oct 21, 2016 (SPX)

Energy storage devices called supercapacitors have become a hot area of research, in part because they can be charged rapidly and deliver intense bursts of powe...

Polymer breakthrough to improve things we use everyday

Oct 20, 2016 (SPX)

Medicine, mobile phones, computers and clothes could all be enhanced using the process for making paint, according to research by the University of Warwick. A b...

Pushing the boundaries of magnet design

Oct 20, 2016 (SPX)

For physicists, loss of magnetisation in permanent magnets can be a real concern. In response, the Japanese company Sumitomo created the strongest available mag...

Lego-like wall produces acoustic holograms

Oct 18, 2016 (SPX)

Research Triangle engineers have developed a simple, energy-efficient way to create three-dimensional acoustic holograms. The technique could revolutionize appl...

Achieving ultra-low friction without oil additives

Oct 18, 2016 (SPX)

Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new process for treating metal surfaces that has the potential to improve efficiency in piston e...

Efficiency plus versatility

Oct 17, 2016 (SPX)

Antimicrobial cutting boards. Flame-retardant carpets. Friction-resistant bearings. Engineered surfaces add value to the things we use, providing extra layers o...

Mars astronauts face chronic dementia risk from cosmic ray exposure

Oct 14, 2016 (SPX)

Will astronauts traveling to Mars remember much of it? That's the question concerning University of California, Irvine scientists probing a phenomenon called "s...

U.S. State Dept. approves $194 million radar sale to Kuwait

Oct 14, 2016 (UPI)

The U.S. State Department has approved a proposed $194 million radar sale to Kuwait, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency announced Thursday. The sale would ...

Beijing to merge chemicals giants

Oct 14, 2016 (AFP)

Beijing is planning a mega-merger of chemicals giants Sinochem and China National Chemical Corp. in a massive deal that would reshape the chemicals industry, Bl...

Novel method creates important industrial chemicals simply, cheaply

Oct 14, 2016 (SPX)

A Washington State University research team has used a simple, common industrial process in a new way to create chemicals used widely as fuel additives and as f...

TES team evaluates new data collection method after age-related issue

Oct 13, 2016 (JPL)

Mission managers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, are evaluating an alternate way to collect and process science data from the Troposp...

Novel 3-in-1 'Rheo-Raman' microscope enables interconnected studies of soft materials

Oct 12, 2016 (SPX)

An innovative three-in-one instrument that allows scientists to correlate the flowability of soft "gooey" materials such as gels, molten polymers and biological...

Technique mass-produces uniform, multilayered particles

Oct 12, 2016 (SPX)

Microencapsulation, in which a tiny particle of one material is encased within a shell made from another, is widely used in pharmaceuticals manufacturing and ho...

A breakthrough in the study of how things break, bend and deform

Oct 12, 2016 (SPX)

Every material can bend and break. Through nearly a century's worth of research, scientists have had a pretty good understanding of how and why. But, according ...