TECH SPACE - AFRICA DAILY

Clothes of the future will adjust to the weather, body temperature

Mar 09, 2016 (UPI)

A group of scientists in Finland are the definition of fashion forward. They're working on designing the clothes of the future -- smart clothes. Their work is p...

New laser achieves wavelength long sought by laser developers

Mar 08, 2016 (SPX)

Researchers at the University of Bath, United Kingdom have created a new kind of laser capable of pulsed and continuous mid-infrared (IR) emission between 3.1 a...

Stretchable electronics that quadruple in length

Mar 08, 2016 (SPX)

Conductive tracks are usually hard printed on a board. But those recently developed at EPFL are altogether different: they are almost as flexible as rubber and ...

UMass Amherst team offers new, simpler law of complex wrinkle patterns

Mar 08, 2016 (SPX)

In a new paper, researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Oxford University describe a new, more general law for predicting the wavelength of c...

Scaling up tissue engineering

Mar 08, 2016 (SPX)

A team at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and the Harvard John A. Paulson School for Engineering and Applied Scie...

Electron-beam imaging can see elements that are 'invisible' to common methods

Mar 08, 2016 (SPX)

Electrons can extend our view of microscopic objects well beyond what's possible with visible light--all the way to the atomic scale. A popular method in electr...

How metal clusters grow

Mar 08, 2016 (SPX)

First the nucleus, then the shell: Researchers from Marburg and Karlsruhe have studied stepwise formation of metal clusters, smallest fractions of metals in mol...

New radar system set for testing

Mar 07, 2016 (UPI)

Emirates Technology Innovation Center says its locally conceived and developed radar system is set to be tested this summer. The July test of the radar for dete...

University of Kentucky physicist discovers new 2-D material that could upstage graphene

Mar 04, 2016 (SPX)

A new one atom-thick flat material that could upstage the wonder material graphene and advance digital technology has been discovered by a physicist at the Univ...

Disney automated system lets characters leap and bound realistically in virtual worlds

Mar 04, 2016 (SPX)

Virtual game characters can leap, roll and climb so realistically that simply watching them could seemingly exhaust a player. Generating the precise instruction...

New catalyst makes hydrogen peroxide accessible to developing world

Mar 02, 2016 (SPX)

Hydrogen peroxide is one of the most common and versatile of household products. In dilute form, it can disinfect wounds and bleach hair, whiten teeth and remov...

New trigger for self-powered mechanical movement

Mar 02, 2016 (SPX)

A new way to use the chemical reactions of certain enzymes to trigger self-powered mechanical movement has been developed by a team of researchers at Penn State...

Braille maps for blind and visually impaired created with 3-D printer

Mar 02, 2016 (SPX)

Using a high-tech 3-D printer, a Rutgers undergraduate and his professor created sophisticated braille maps to help blind and visually impaired people navigate ...

Spacepath Communications creates new joint venture with Polarity in US

Mar 02, 2016 (SPX)

Spacepath Communications and Polarity Inc. have formed a new company, Stellar Satcom, based in Rancho Cordova, California, to provide marketing and customer sup...

California researchers reveal how to hack a 3D printer

Mar 02, 2016 (UPI)

How do you steal intellectual property from a 3D printer? Just listen very closely. Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have revealed a security...

New NIST method may find elusive flaws in medical implants and spacecraft

Mar 01, 2016 (SPX)

Medical implants and spacecraft can suddenly go dead, often for the same reason: cracks in ceramic capacitors, devices that store electric charge in electronic ...

Research demonstrates that air data can be used to reconstruct radiological releases

Mar 01, 2016 (SPX)

New research from North Carolina State University demonstrates that experts can use data from air sampling technology to not only detect radiological releases, ...

Bone research could yield stronger synthetic materials

Feb 29, 2016 (UPI)

Researchers at Cornell University have discovered a unique property of cancellous bone -- the bone near joints and found in the vertebrae. It maintains its stre...

Physicists discover new laws governing the 'developmental biology of materials'

Feb 26, 2016 (SPX)

When one atom first meets another, the precise nature of that interaction can determine much about what kinds of physical properties and behaviours will emerge....

Eco-friendly food packaging material doubles shelf-life of food products

Feb 26, 2016 (SPX)

Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have successfully developed an environmentally-friendly food packaging material that is free from ch...