TECH SPACE - AFRICA DAILY

How water gets its exceptional properties

Jul 08, 2016 (SPX)

Water is liquid at room temperature - astounding for such a small molecule. Insights into the causes are provided by a new simulation method, which has its orig...

Winning Students Selected for Future Engineers Star Trek Replicator Challenge

Jul 08, 2016 (SPX)

Making objects in outer space has always been a scene from science fiction, but with 3-D printing NASA is making it science fact. In February 2016, Star Trek an...

Penn chemists establish fundamentals of ferroelectric materials

Jul 07, 2016 (SPX)

Ferromagnetic materials, like compass needles, are useful because their magnetic polarization makes them rotate to align with magnetic fields. Ferroelectric mat...

A little impurity makes nanolasers shine

Jul 07, 2016 (SPX)

Scientists at The Australian National University (ANU) have improved the performance of tiny lasers by adding impurities, in a discovery which will be central t...

Russian Scientists Propose Charging Satellites Using Land-Based Lasers

Jul 07, 2016 (Sputnik)

Russian scientists from the Novosibirsk-based Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics have proposed a project in the field of space communications that envisages ch...

A drop of water as a model for the interplay of adhesion and stiction

Jul 06, 2016 (SPX)

How can a gecko move across a ceiling upside down? Two mechanisms are responsible: Adhesion via billions of extremely fine hairs on its feet, which enable it to...

The switch that could double USB memory

Jul 06, 2016 (SPX)

Scientists at Hokkaido University have developed a device that employs both magnetic and electronic signals, which could provide twice the storage capacity of c...

New mid-infrared laser system could detect atmospheric chemicals

Jul 06, 2016 (SPX)

Researchers at MIT and elsewhere have found a new way of using mid-infrared lasers to turn regions of molecules in the open air into glowing filaments of electr...

Triple external quantum efficiencies - a new material TADF was developed

Jul 06, 2016 (SPX)

An international joint research group succeeded in developing a novel thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) material which displays emission of light ...

New plastic material spontaneously oscillates in sunlight

Jul 05, 2016 (UPI)

A new material developed by researchers at the Eindhoven University of Technology is the first to move spontaneously in the presence of sunlight. Previously, re...

WSU researchers develop shape-changing 'smart' material

Jul 03, 2016 (SPX)

Washington State University researchers have developed a unique, multifunctional smart material that can change shape from heat or light and assemble and disass...

No need in supercomputers

Jul 03, 2016 (SPX)

A group of physicists from the Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, the Lomonosov Moscow State University, has learned to use personal computer for calculat...

OrbitOutlook integrates diverse network to help avoid collisions in space

Jul 03, 2016 (SPX)

More than 500,000 pieces of manmade space debris-including spent rocket stages, defunct satellites, and fragments as small as flecks of paint-currently hurtle a...

Getting a grip on slippery cell membranes

Jul 01, 2016 (SPX)

Within each of our cells is a distribution system that uses molecular motors and filaments to move proteins, organelles, and other tiny bits of cargo along its ...

A shampoo bottle that empties completely - every last drop

Jul 01, 2016 (SPX)

It's one of life's little annoyances: that last bit of shampoo that won't quite pour out of the bottle. Or the last bit of hand soap, or dish soap, or laundry d...

Huge helium discovery 'a life-saving find'

Jul 01, 2016 (SPX)

A new approach to gas exploration has discovered a huge helium gas field, which could address the increasingly critical shortage of this vital yet rare element....

Missing link between glass formation and crystallization found

Jul 01, 2016 (UPI)

What accounts for the unique structure of glass? Recently, scientists at Germany's Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz used a combination of light scattering an...

Augmented reality helmet helps pilots see through clouds, fog

Jun 29, 2016 (UPI)

Pilots must be able to detect hazards as early as possible in order to quickly plot a path around them. In thick fog or clouds, however, this can be difficult. ...

New antenna brings enhanced capabilities to the battlefield

Jun 29, 2016 (SPX)

The 460th Space Communications Squadron, Air Force Wideband Enterprise Terminals Program office, Tobyhanna Army Depot and Radome Services have been working toge...

Airbus Defence and Space top construct new clean rooms in Poland

Jun 28, 2016 (SPX)

Head of Space Systems Francois Auque announced that Airbus Defence and Space, the world's second largest space company, will be constructing a complex of clean ...