TECH SPACE - AFRICA DAILY

Engineers develop micro-sized, liquid-metal particles for heat-free soldering

Apr 29, 2016 (SPX)

Martin Thuo likes to look for new, affordable and clean ways to put science and technology to work in the world. His lab is dedicated to an idea called frugal i...

Folding molecules into screw-shaped structures

Apr 29, 2016 (SPX)

Artificial molecules are like sheets of paper. Chemists can fold them into specific shapes. Transferring the shape of one molecule to another, however, poses a ...

ORNL researchers discover new state of water molecule

Apr 29, 2016 (SPX)

Neutron scattering and computational modeling have revealed unique and unexpected behavior of water molecules under extreme confinement that is unmatched by any...

Researchers list '7 chemical separations to change the world'

Apr 29, 2016 (SPX)

Thermally-based industrial chemical separation processes such as distillation now account for 10 to 15 percent of the world's annual energy use. Slaking the glo...

All Belgians to get iodine pills in case of nuclear accident: report

Apr 28, 2016 (AFP)

Belgium is to provide iodine pills to its entire population of around 11 million people to protect against radioactivity in case of a nuclear accident, the heal...

Model makes designing new antennas orders of magnitude faster

Apr 27, 2016 (SPX)

Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a model that allows antenna designers to identify efficient configurations for antenna designs in ...

3D-printed foam proves more durable than traditional cellular materials

Apr 27, 2016 (UPI)

According to material scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 3D-printed foam is more durable and functional than cellular materials. Traditional ...

Team builds first quantum cascade laser on silicon

Apr 27, 2016 (SPX)

A team of researchers from across the country, led by Alexander Spott, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, have built the first quantum cascade laser ...

Specialist equipment helping the International Space Station in Orbit

Apr 27, 2016 (SPX)

This week we celebrate 15 years of European astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS). And it has been quite the journey. Umberto Guidoni made history...

New material combines useful, typically incompatible properties

Apr 27, 2016 (SPX)

Mild-mannered Dr. Jekyll and malicious Mr. Hyde were opposite aspects of the same man, and their story ended in tragedy because the two couldn't peacefully coex...

Researchers coax molecules into assembling themselves

Apr 26, 2016 (SPX)

Imagine throwing Lego pieces into the air and seeing them fall to the ground assembled into the shape of a house or plane. Nature effortlessly does the equivale...

Companies named for Navy's open RF program

Apr 26, 2016 (UPI)

A dozen U.S. companies have won places on a multiple-award, IDIQ contract for the Navy's Electromagnetic Maneuver Warfare Command and Control program. The indef...

Liquid spiral vortex discovered

Apr 26, 2016 (SPX)

In many plumbing and pipework systems in general, there are junctions and connections to move liquids such as water in different directions, but have you ever t...

Antimatter helps to unveil the secrets of liquid crystals

Apr 26, 2016 (SPX)

The chaos typical of liquid molecules, and the ordering characteristics of crystals. There are states of matter connecting such contradictory features: liquid c...

Nano-magnets produce 3-dimensional images

Apr 25, 2016 (SPX)

Conventional 3D displays, such as stereo displays with glasses and glass-free autostereoscopic displays, show two-dimensional images for each eye. Therefore, us...

Magnetic vortices defy temperature fluctuations

Apr 25, 2016 (SPX)

Magnetic nanovortices in magnetite minerals are reliable witnesses of the earth's history, as revealed by the first high-resolution studies of these structures ...

Victorian Age technology could boost virtual reality

Apr 25, 2016 (SPX)

Virtual and augmented reality have the potential to profoundly impact our society, but the technologies have a few bugs to work out to better simulate realistic...

Exfoliating thinner flakes of phosphorene at higher yield

Apr 25, 2016 (SPX)

In the past two years, phosphorene has attracted increased attention due to its potential in thin, flexible electronics. And because it is naturally a semi-cond...

Video shows how heat moves through materials at the speed of sound

Apr 22, 2016 (SPX)

Using a state-of-the-art ultrafast electron microscope, University of Minnesota researchers have recorded the first-ever videos showing how heat moves through m...

Using methane rather than flaring it

Apr 22, 2016 (SPX)

Methane is an abundant and inexpensive gas. Although it would be a suitable energy source and base material for the chemical industry, huge quantities of it are...