TECH SPACE - AFRICA DAILY

Penn researchers help show new way to study and improve catalytic reactions

Jul 19, 2013 (SPX)

Catalysts are everywhere. They make chemical reactions that normally occur at extremely high temperatures and pressures possible within factories, cars and the ...

Stanford scientists break record for thinnest light-absorber

Jul 19, 2013 (SPX)

Stanford University scientists have created the thinnest, most efficient absorber of visible light on record. The nanosize structure, thousands of times thinner...

Homemade 3D guns in US stir more buzz than bang

Jul 18, 2013 (AFP)

Like many Americans, Travis Lerol has owned guns for much of his life, but the single-shot Liberator he made himself in his basement with a tabletop 3D printer ...

Resonator Gyro Achieves 25 Million Operating Hours in Space

Jul 18, 2013 (SPX)

Northrop Grumman's patented hemispherical resonator gyro (HRG) technology, which is used for military and commercial space applications, recently achieved a maj...

ASC Signal Doubles Mission Capabilities Across Its Satellite Antenna Line

Jul 18, 2013 (SPX)

With the introduction of a new, dual-band feed system for the company's 9.4m antenna, ASC Signal Corporation has extended dual X- and Ka-band capabilities acros...

Raytheon touts company developments

Jul 18, 2013 (UPI)

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency and American allies will soon be able to obtain deployment-ready ballistic missile defense radars. The first cooling equipment u...

Surface porosity and wettability are key factors in boiling heat transfer

Jul 17, 2013 (SPX)

A team of MIT researchers has succeeded in carrying out the first systematic investigation of the factors that control boiling heat transfer from a surface to a...

Taking the Random out of a Random Laser

Jul 17, 2013 (SPX)

Random Lasers are tiny structures emitting light irregularly into different directions. Scientists at the Vienna University of Technology have now shown that th...

Earth's gold may have been born in cataclysmic cosmic collisions

Jul 17, 2013 (UPI)

All gold in the universe likely came from massive cosmic collisions of the dead cores of stars that previously exploded as supernovas, U.S. astronomers say. Gol...

Royal Air Force's Tornado aircraft getting new RF jamming pods

Jul 17, 2013 (UPI)

A radio frequency jamming pod for use by Tornado GR Mk4 aircraft is to be designed, developed and delivered by Selex ES to Britain's Royal Air Force. Selex ES' ...

Researchers crush diamond with biggest laser in world

Jul 17, 2013 (UPI)

Scientists wanted to better understand what conditions are like deep inside giant, carbon-rich planets. To find out, they blasted a diamond with the world's big...

New UV laser capabilities being developed for Army

Jul 17, 2013 (UPI)

Next-generation ultraviolet laser capabilities are to be developed for military use by Daylight Defense LLC under a U.S. Army contract. The value of the award w...

Researchers develop systems that convert ordinary language to code

Jul 16, 2013 (SPX)

Many birds feeds on mosquitoes that spread the West Nile virus, a disease that killed 286 people in the United States in 2012 according to the Centers for Disea...

Saab, Selex ES sign radar contract deal

Jul 16, 2013 (UPI)

Swedish defense company Saab is to equip its Gripen Next Generation fighters with Active Electronically Scanned Array radar from Finmeccanica-Selex ES. The cont...

NASA's OPALS to Beam Data From Space Via Laser

Jul 12, 2013 (JPL)

NASA will use the International Space Station to test a new communications technology that could dramatically improve spacecraft communications, enhance commerc...

Cool it, quick: Rapid cooling leads to stronger alloys

Jul 12, 2013 (SPX)

A team of researchers from the University of Rostock in Germany has developed a new way to rapidly produce high strength metallic alloys, at a lower cost using ...

Experts row over 'earliest' Chinese inscriptions find

Jul 12, 2013 (AFP)

Fierce debate has erupted among experts in China over the discovery of 5,000-year-old inscriptions that some believe represent the earliest record of Chinese ch...

Rocket part made by 3D printing in successful hot-fire test

Jul 12, 2013 (UPI)

NASA say it has completed a series of test firings of its first rocket engine part made using 3D printing technology. Custom 3D printers spraying layers of meta...

Silicon oxide memories transcend a hurdle

Jul 11, 2013 (SPX)

A Rice University laboratory pioneering memory devices that use cheap, plentiful silicon oxide to store data has pushed them a step further with chips that show...

Bioengineers Use Adhesion to Combine Silicones and Organic Materials

Jul 11, 2013 (SPX)

Introductory chemistry students learn that oil and water repel each other. So do other hydrophobic substances, which carry no electric charge, and hydrophilic s...