TECH SPACE - AFRICA DAILY

NASA Satellite Servicing Office Becomes a Projects Division

Dec 21, 2016 (SPX)

Since 2009, the Satellite Servicing Capabilities Office (SSCO) has been building upon the heritage of satellite servicing and repair that began with NASA's succ...

Mind-controlled toys: The next generation of Christmas presents?

Dec 21, 2016 (SPX)

The next generation of toys could be controlled by the power of the mind, thanks to research by the University of Warwick. Led by Professor Christopher James, D...

Rice, Baylor team sets new mark for 'deep learning'

Dec 20, 2016 (SPX)

Neuroscience and artificial intelligence experts from Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine have taken inspiration from the human brain in creating a n...

Microseeding: A new way to overcome hemihedral twinning?

Dec 20, 2016 (SPX)

Twinning is a crystal-growth disorder in which the specimen is composed of distinct domains whose orientations differ but are related in a particular, well-defi...

Method enables machine learning from unwieldy data sets

Dec 20, 2016 (SPX)

When data sets get too big, sometimes the only way to do anything useful with them is to extract much smaller subsets and analyze those instead. Those subsets h...

Macromolecules: Light to design precision polymers

Dec 20, 2016 (SPX)

Chemists of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have succeeded in specifically controlling the setup of precision polymers by light-induced chemical reactio...

Discovery to inspire more radiation-resistant metals

Dec 16, 2016 (UPI)

Metals exposed to radiation at high temperatures swell. That's a problem for the nuclear energy and aerospace industries. Scientists at the University of Michig...

High Resolution Imaging of Hypervelocity Impacts

Dec 16, 2016 (SPX)

Specialised Imaging reports on how the Institute of Astronautics, Technical University of Munich, Germany has used a SIM-X ultra-high speed framing camera to re...

Researchers work to improve the lifecycle of materials

Dec 16, 2016 (SPX)

When most living creatures get hurt, they can self-heal and recover from the injury. But, when damage occurs to inanimate objects, they don't have that same abi...

Researchers discovered elusive half-quantum vortices in a superfluid

Dec 16, 2016 (SPX)

Researchers in Aalto University, Finland, and P.L. Kapitza Institute in Moscow have discovered half-quantum vortices in superfluid helium. This vortex is a topo...

The hidden side of sulfur

Dec 16, 2016 (SPX)

Synthetic organic chemistry consists of transforming existing molecules into new molecular structures or assemblies. These new molecular systems are then used i...

Amazon aims to blur lines between game, real life

Dec 15, 2016 (AFP)

On Amazon's streaming game platform Twitch, the world of gaming is being intermingled with real life. A feature unveiled Thursday by Amazon called IRL -- the ac...

Velodyne LiDAR makes breakthrough for tiny, low cost solid-state LiDAR sensors

Dec 14, 2016 (SPX)

Velodyne LiDAR has announced a groundbreaking design for a solid-state LiDAR sensor that can deliver a subsystem cost of under $50 U.S. when sold in high-volume...

Supercomputer simulation reveals 2-D glass can go infinitely soft

Dec 14, 2016 (SPX)

Scientists in Japan have revealed that if a glassy solid possesses a planar (sheet-like) structure, it can exhibit enhanced thermal vibration motion due to the ...

Raytheon to produce additional Air and Missile Defense Radar equipment

Dec 14, 2016 (UPI)

Raytheon has received a $110 million contract modification to produce additional material for the U.S. Navy's Air and Missile Defense Radar Program. The modific...

U.S. State Dept. approves Sea Giraffe 3D radars for the Philippines

Dec 14, 2016 (UPI)

The U.S. State Department has approved the proposed sale of AN/SPS-77 Sea Giraffe 3D Air Search Radars to the government of the Philippines. The pending sale in...

Uncovering the secrets of water and ice as materials

Dec 13, 2016 (SPX)

Water is vital to life on Earth and its importance simply can't be overstated - it's also deeply rooted within our conscience that there's something extremely s...

Deep-frozen helium molecules

Dec 13, 2016 (SPX)

Helium atoms are loners. Only if they are cooled down to an extremely low temperature do they form a very weakly bound molecule. In so doing, they can keep a tr...

Chemical trickery corrals 'hyperactive' metal-oxide cluster

Dec 13, 2016 (SPX)

After decades of eluding researchers because of chemical instability, key metal-oxide clusters have been isolated in water, a significant advance for growing th...

UNIST engineers thermoelectric material in paintable liquid form

Dec 12, 2016 (SPX)

A new study, led by Professor Jae Sung Son of Materials Science and Engineering at UNIST has succeeded in developing a new technique that can be used to turn in...