TECH SPACE - AFRICA DAILY

Nov 18, 2015 (SPX)

An international collaboration of scientists led by Omar Yaghi, a renowned chemist with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), has developed ...

Lasers could rapidly make materials hotter than the Sun

Nov 17, 2015 (SPX)

Lasers could heat materials to temperatures hotter than the centre of the Sun in only 20 quadrillionths of a second, according to new research. Theoretical phys...

Conducting gels - from waste to wealth

Nov 17, 2015 (SPX)

Research by scientists at the University of York has demonstrated an innovative way of using a gel to extract precious metals such as silver and gold from waste...

Lockheed Martin introduces Digital Array Row Transceiver

Nov 17, 2015 (UPI)

Lockheed Martin introduced its next-generation radar technology, the Digital Array Row Transceiver, on Tuesday. The technology, known as DART, improves the perf...

Computers tackle one of chemistry's greatest challenges

Nov 17, 2015 (SPX)

Researchers from the University of Bradford have joined forces with German high-tech company, Avant-garde Materials Simulation, to successfully predict the crys...

Ultra-thin, tunable, broadband microwave absorber may advance radar cloaking

Nov 17, 2015 (SPX)

Microwave absorbers are a kind of material that can effectively absorb incident microwave energy to make objects invisible to radar; therefore they are commonly...

ORNL device combines power of mass spectrometry, microscopy

Nov 17, 2015 (SPX)

A tool that provides world-class microscopy and spatially resolved chemical analysis shows considerable promise for advancing a number of areas of study, includ...

Trampolining water droplets

Nov 15, 2015 (SPX)

If you travel by plane in the coming months, you might witness a wintry aviation ritual in which ice and snow are cleared off the wings with a special liquid. T...

Vector network analysis using lasers

Nov 15, 2015 (SPX)

Vector network analyzers (VNA) are among the most precise high-frequency measurement devices available today. Due to continuous development within the last deca...

JILA's quantum crystal is now more valuable

Nov 15, 2015 (SPX)

Physicists at JILA have made their "quantum crystal" of ultracold molecules more valuable than ever by packing about five times more molecules into it. The dens...

Structure of 'concrete disease' solved

Nov 15, 2015 (SPX)

Researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) teamed up with colleagues from the Swiss Materials Science Lab Empa to study a degenerative sign of ageing in...

The social and legal complexities of augmented reality

Nov 15, 2015 (SPX)

Augmented reality is the enhancement of human perception through overlaying technologies that can expand, annotate and even record the user's moment-to-moment e...

High-Q crystal microresonator fabricated by femtosecond laser

Nov 15, 2015 (SPX)

High-quality (high-Q) whispering-gallery-mode (WGM) microresonators can efficiently confine light in a very small volume via total internal reflection, leading ...

Electron microscopy method sculpts 3-D structures at atomic level

Nov 13, 2015 (SPX)

Electron microscopy researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a unique way to build 3-D structures with finely cont...

BU Satellite Team Gets Big Boost from NASA

Nov 13, 2015 (SPX)

On March 10, 1989, a solar eruption blasted plasma toward Earth. Canadian utility Hydro-Quebec noticed a hop-skip-and-jump in the voltage on its grid two days l...

Researchers find way to create wide variety of new holograms

Nov 13, 2015 (SPX)

Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed techniques that can be used to create ideal geometric phase holograms for any kind of optical patt...

System helps novices design 3-D-printable robotic creatures

Nov 13, 2015 (SPX)

Even a novice can design and build a customized walking robot using a 3-D printer and off-the-shelf servo motors with the help of a new design tool developed by...

Queen's University professor to unveil self-levitating displays

Nov 13, 2015 (SPX)

An interactive swarm of flying 3D pixels (voxels) developed at Queen's University's Human Media Lab is set to revolutionize the way people interact with virtual...

Study shows some 3-D printed objects are toxic

Nov 13, 2015 (SPX)

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have found parts produced by some commercial 3D printers are toxic to certain fish embryos. Their results...

The solution to faster computing? Sing to your data

Nov 12, 2015 (SPX)

Nothing is more frustrating that watching that circle spinning in the centre of your screen, while you wait for your computer to load a programme or access the ...