TECH SPACE - AFRICA DAILY

Aug 05, 2015 (SPX)

Studies of the impact a droplet makes on solid surfaces hark back more than a century. And until now, it was generally believed that a droplet's impact on a sol...

NYU scientists bring order, and color, to microparticles

Aug 04, 2015 (SPX)

A team of New York University scientists has developed a technique that prompts microparticles to form ordered structures in a variety of materials. The advance...

Auburn and NASA sign Space Act Agreement on additive manufacturing

Aug 04, 2015 (SPX)

Auburn University and NASA today signed a Space Act Agreement to explore and advance the applications of additive manufacturing, or 3-D printing. The signing to...

Photoaging could reverse negative impact of ultraviolet radiation

Aug 04, 2015 (SPX)

While all human organs undergo normal, chronological aging, human skin undergoes an additional type of aging because of its direct contact with the environment....

Yarn from slaughterhouse waste

Jul 30, 2015 (SPX)

Some 70 million tonnes of fibres are traded worldwide every year. Man-made fibres manufactured from products of petroleum or natural gas account for almost two-...

Metal organic frameworks show unexpected flexibility

Jul 30, 2015 (SPX)

Metal organic frameworks (MOFs) are proving to be incredibly flexible with a myriad of potential applications including as antimicrobial agents, hydrogen-storag...

ASU researchers demonstrate the world's first white lasers

Jul 30, 2015 (SPX)

While lasers were invented in 1960 and are commonly used in many applications, one characteristic of the technology has proven unattainable. No one has been abl...

Lobster-Eye imager detects soft X-ray emissions

Jul 30, 2015 (SPX)

Solar winds are known for powering dangerous space weather events near Earth, which, in turn, endangers space assets. So a large interdisciplinary group of rese...

Controlling phase changes in solids

Jul 30, 2015 (SPX)

Rewritable CDs, DVDs and Blu-Ray discs owe their existence to phase-change materials, those materials that change their internal order when heated and whose str...

New chemistry makes strong bonds weak

Jul 30, 2015 (SPX)

Researchers at Princeton have developed a new chemical reaction that breaks the strongest bond in a molecule instead of the weakest, completely reversing the no...

China's Alibaba to invest $1.0 bn in cloud computing

Jul 29, 2015 (AFP)

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba will invest $1.0 billion in its cloud computing arm to expand its international presence, the company said Wednesday, as it loo...

GOES-S sensor gets clean bill of health from hospital

Jul 29, 2015 (SPX)

One of the sensors that will fly aboard NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S was recently given a clean bill of health from Massachusetts ...

Researchers predict material with record-setting melting point

Jul 29, 2015 (SPX)

Using powerful computer simulations, researchers from Brown University have identified a material with a higher melting point than any known substance. The comp...

World's most powerful laser fired in Japan

Jul 29, 2015 (UPI)

Scientists at Osaka University in Japan say they've fired the world's most powerful laser. The beam was intact for just one picosecond, a trillionth of a second...

Smart hydrogel coating creates 'stick-slip' control of capillary action

Jul 29, 2015 (SPX)

Coating the inside of glass microtubes with a polymer hydrogel material dramatically alters the way capillary forces draw water into the tiny structures, resear...

U.S. military service buys Israeli radar for testing

Jul 29, 2015 (UPI)

A tactical surveillance radar for force and border protection applications from RADA Electronic Industries has been bought for testing by the U.S. military. RAD...

Twin discoveries, 'eerie' effect may lead to manufacturing advances

Jul 29, 2015 (SPX)

The discovery of a previously unknown type of metal deformation - sinuous flow - and a method to suppress it could lead to more efficient machining and other ma...

Insights into catalytic converters

Jul 28, 2015 (SPX)

Modern catalytic converters for the treatment of exhaust gases in vehicles with a combustion engine have largely contributed to reducing of pollutant emissions....

Canada buying radar from Rheinmetall Canada and Elta Systems

Jul 28, 2015 (UPI)

Canada's Department of National Defense has contracted Rheinmetall-Canada and Elta Systems for the provision of medium-range radar. Israel Aerospace Industries,...

Cages offer new direction in sustainable catalyst design

Jul 28, 2015 (SPX)

University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have developed a new approach to structuring the catalysts used in essential reactions in the chemical and energy fiel...