TECH SPACE - AFRICA DAILY

3-D printing aids in understanding food enjoyment

Nov 23, 2015 (SPX)

Tasting food relies on food volatiles moving from the back of the mouth to the nasal cavity, but researchers have wondered why airflow doesn't carry them in the...

Primordial goo used to improve implants

Nov 23, 2015 (SPX)

Australia's national science research organisation, CSIRO, has developed an innovative new coating that could be used to improve medical devices and implants, t...

Virtual reality app brings crisis zones closer to home

Nov 23, 2015 (AFP)

Bombed-out buildings tower overhead, and rubble is piled high in the deserted streets of Syria's onetime economic hub Aleppo. Gunshots can be heard in the dista...

Network analysis shows systemic risk in mineral markets

Nov 20, 2015 (SPX)

A shortage of a rare mineral could spur global market instabilities, according to a new analysis of international commodity trade networks. Shortages of natural...

UW team refrigerates liquids with a laser for the first time

Nov 20, 2015 (SPX)

Since the first laser was invented in 1960, they've always given off heat - either as a useful tool, a byproduct or a fictional way to vanquish intergalactic en...

Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, invents first 'porous liquid'

Nov 19, 2015 (SPX)

Scientists at Queen's University Belfast have made a major breakthrough by making a porous liquid - with the potential for a massive range of new technologies i...

Power up: Cockroaches employ a 'force boost' to chew through tough materials

Nov 19, 2015 (SPX)

New research indicates that cockroaches use a combination of fast and slow twitch muscle fibers to give their mandibles a 'force boost' that allows them to chew...

Simple errors limit scientific scrutiny

Nov 19, 2015 (SPX)

Researchers have found more than half of the public datasets provided with scientific papers are incomplete, which prevents reproducibility tests and follow-up ...

Researchers find way to make metals stronger without sacrificing ductility

Nov 18, 2015 (SPX)

Researchers at North Carolina State University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a technique to make titanium stronger without sacrificing any ...

Hydrogel superglue is 90 percent water

Nov 18, 2015 (SPX)

Nature has developed innovative ways to solve a sticky challenge: Mussels and barnacles stubbornly glue themselves to cliff faces, ship hulls, and even the skin...

Researchers discover a new form of crystalline matter

Nov 18, 2015 (SPX)

Dust is everywhere: under the bed, on the stairs and even inside of plasmas. A team of researchers from Auburn University, the University of Iowa and the Univer...

A new way to look at MOFs

Nov 18, 2015 (SPX)

An international collaboration of scientists led by Omar Yaghi, a renowned chemist with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), has developed ...

Sea urchin spurs new ideas for lightweight materials

Nov 18, 2015 (SPX)

Materials researchers love sea creatures. Mother-of-pearl provokes ideas for smooth surfaces, clams inspire gluey substances, shark's skin is used to develop ma...

Computers tackle one of chemistry's greatest challenges

Nov 17, 2015 (SPX)

Researchers from the University of Bradford have joined forces with German high-tech company, Avant-garde Materials Simulation, to successfully predict the crys...

ORNL device combines power of mass spectrometry, microscopy

Nov 17, 2015 (SPX)

A tool that provides world-class microscopy and spatially resolved chemical analysis shows considerable promise for advancing a number of areas of study, includ...

Conducting gels - from waste to wealth

Nov 17, 2015 (SPX)

Research by scientists at the University of York has demonstrated an innovative way of using a gel to extract precious metals such as silver and gold from waste...

Lockheed Martin introduces Digital Array Row Transceiver

Nov 17, 2015 (UPI)

Lockheed Martin introduced its next-generation radar technology, the Digital Array Row Transceiver, on Tuesday. The technology, known as DART, improves the perf...

Lasers could rapidly make materials hotter than the Sun

Nov 17, 2015 (SPX)

Lasers could heat materials to temperatures hotter than the centre of the Sun in only 20 quadrillionths of a second, according to new research. Theoretical phys...

Ultra-thin, tunable, broadband microwave absorber may advance radar cloaking

Nov 17, 2015 (SPX)

Microwave absorbers are a kind of material that can effectively absorb incident microwave energy to make objects invisible to radar; therefore they are commonly...

JILA's quantum crystal is now more valuable

Nov 15, 2015 (SPX)

Physicists at JILA have made their "quantum crystal" of ultracold molecules more valuable than ever by packing about five times more molecules into it. The dens...