TECH SPACE - AFRICA DAILY

Sep 01, 2015 (IANS)

The Indian space agency on Sunday said it had successfully deployed the large antenna of military communication satellite GSAT-6 and also raised its orbit. Acco...

Smallest 3-D Camera Offers Brain Surgery Innovation

Aug 31, 2015 (JPL)

To operate on the brain, doctors need to see fine details on a small scale. A tiny camera that could produce 3-D images from inside the brain would help surgeon...

A new way to detect ortho-para conversion in water

Aug 27, 2015 (SPX)

New research by scientists from the University of Southampton has found that water molecules react differently to electric fields, which could provide a new way...

Combined disciplines, computational programs determine atomic structure

Aug 27, 2015 (SPX)

A team from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Indiana University combined two techniques to determine the structure of cyanostar, a new abiolog...

Scientists from NTU Singapore find electrifying solution to sticky problem

Aug 27, 2015 (SPX)

Inspired by the limitations of biomimetic glues in wet environments, scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have invented a...

Record-high pressure reveals secrets of matter

Aug 27, 2015 (SPX)

A research team at Linkoping University, together with colleagues in Europe and the United States, has shown that at extremely high pressure even the innermost ...

3D-printed microscopic fish do more than swim

Aug 26, 2015 (SPX)

Nanoengineers at the University of California, San Diego used an innovative 3D printing technology they developed to manufacture multipurpose fish-shaped micror...

Researchers developing next generation of high power lasers

Aug 25, 2015 (SPX)

Researchers at the University of Strathclyde are developing groundbreaking plasma based light amplifiers that could replace traditional high power laser amplifi...

'Magic' sphere for information transfer

Aug 25, 2015 (SPX)

In several years - maybe in one or two decades, but maybe sooner or never - one of the existing problems will be solved in an original way: our computers, nanoa...

Britain orders more Saab radar systems

Aug 24, 2015 (UPI)

Britain's Ministry of Defense has ordered additional Giraffe AMB radars from Saab as well as upgrades to Giraffe systems already in use. The contract is worth a...

Small, cheap femtosecond laser for industry available

Aug 21, 2015 (SPX)

A team at the University of Warsaw, Faculty of Physics has created a laser capable of generating ultrashort pulses of light even under extremely difficult exter...

Laser-burned graphene gains metallic powers

Aug 21, 2015 (SPX)

Rice University chemists who developed a unique form of graphene have found a way to embed metallic nanoparticles that turn the material into a useful catalyst ...

Manchester team reveal new, stable 2-D materials

Aug 21, 2015 (SPX)

The problem has been that the vast majority of these atomically thin 2D crystals are unstable in air, so react and decompose before their properties can be dete...

India to Set Up Space Research and Satellite Monitoring Station in Fiji

Aug 21, 2015 (Sputnik)

The Indian Space Research Organization has announced plans to open a new space research and satellite monitoring station on the Fiji Islands. Prime Minister Nar...

Connected sports shirt promises 'smart,' at a price

Aug 21, 2015 (AFP)

A connected workout shirt from designer Ralph Lauren is hitting the market this month, promising to deliver "smart" fashion, at a hefty price. The new "PoloTech...

Hydrogen sulfide loses its electrical resistance under high pressure at -70C

Aug 20, 2015 (SPX)

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germany observed that hydrogen sulfide becomes superco...

The unbearable lightness of helium may not be such a problem after all

Aug 20, 2015 (SPX)

Helium gas - essential for MRI scanners, semiconductor manufacture (and according to some, party balloons) - may not be on the verge of running out after all. P...

Dancing droplets launch themselves from thin fibers

Aug 19, 2015 (SPX)

We've all seen dewdrops form on spider webs. But what if they flung themselves off of the strands instead? Researchers at Duke University and the University of ...

Programming and prejudice

Aug 19, 2015 (SPX)

Software may appear to operate without bias because it strictly uses computer code to reach conclusions. That's why many companies use algorithms to help weed o...

Breakthrough optics pave way for new class of intriguing technologies

Aug 19, 2015 (SPX)

A new class of fascinating technologies - including optics in computing, telecommunications links and switches, and virtually any other optical component - coul...