TECH SPACE - AFRICA DAILY

Trusty, not rusty, pipelines owe a debt to space

Aug 13, 2015 (ESA)

When a Dutch company working on soil pollution teamed up with ESA to build a better, bacteria-based air filter for space, they also created the foundation for a...

Caltech Announces Discovery in Fundamental Physics

Aug 13, 2015 (SPX)

When the transistor was invented in 1947 at Bell Labs, few could have foreseen the future impact of the device. This fundamental development in science and engi...

How CubeSats are Revolutionizing Radio Science

Aug 12, 2015 (JPL)

Next time you tune in to public radio or the hottest Top 40 radio station, you'll be using some of the same tools NASA uses to unravel the mysteries of the univ...

Researcher uses vibrations to identify materials' composition

Aug 12, 2015 (SPX)

A researcher now at the University of Central Florida has developed a new method for identifying materials' unique chemical "fingerprints" and mapping their che...

Big data analytical advances to exploration of universe

Aug 12, 2015 (SPX)

Statisticians have combined state-of-the-art analytical techniques from the academic and business worlds to tackle the Big Data challenges confronting astrophys...

New device converts DC electric field to terahertz radiation

Aug 10, 2015 (SPX)

Terahertz radiation, the no-man's land of the electromagnetic spectrum, has long stymied researchers. Optical technologies can finagle light in the shorter-wave...

Disney Research produces 3D objects with variable elasticity using single material

Aug 07, 2015 (SPX)

A 3D-printed teddy bear can have a stiff head, a pliable tummy and bendable arms, even though all of it is made of the same relatively stiff material, using a n...

A droplet's pancake bounce

Aug 05, 2015 (SPX)

Studies of the impact a droplet makes on solid surfaces hark back more than a century. And until now, it was generally believed that a droplet's impact on a sol...

Satcoms Linking Rural Schools in South Africa and Italy

Aug 05, 2015 (ESA)

Teachers and students from rural schools in South Africa and Italy are benefiting from an ESA-supported project that enriches education through satcoms. Twelve ...

Cooking up altered states

Aug 05, 2015 (SPX)

Churning raw milk sufficiently creates butter. Squirting lemon juice coagulates it into curd. These two phenomena are not as straightforward as they sound on th...

Auburn and NASA sign Space Act Agreement on additive manufacturing

Aug 04, 2015 (SPX)

Auburn University and NASA today signed a Space Act Agreement to explore and advance the applications of additive manufacturing, or 3-D printing. The signing to...

Photoaging could reverse negative impact of ultraviolet radiation

Aug 04, 2015 (SPX)

While all human organs undergo normal, chronological aging, human skin undergoes an additional type of aging because of its direct contact with the environment....

NYU scientists bring order, and color, to microparticles

Aug 04, 2015 (SPX)

A team of New York University scientists has developed a technique that prompts microparticles to form ordered structures in a variety of materials. The advance...

Metal organic frameworks show unexpected flexibility

Jul 30, 2015 (SPX)

Metal organic frameworks (MOFs) are proving to be incredibly flexible with a myriad of potential applications including as antimicrobial agents, hydrogen-storag...

ASU researchers demonstrate the world's first white lasers

Jul 30, 2015 (SPX)

While lasers were invented in 1960 and are commonly used in many applications, one characteristic of the technology has proven unattainable. No one has been abl...

Lobster-Eye imager detects soft X-ray emissions

Jul 30, 2015 (SPX)

Solar winds are known for powering dangerous space weather events near Earth, which, in turn, endangers space assets. So a large interdisciplinary group of rese...

New chemistry makes strong bonds weak

Jul 30, 2015 (SPX)

Researchers at Princeton have developed a new chemical reaction that breaks the strongest bond in a molecule instead of the weakest, completely reversing the no...

Yarn from slaughterhouse waste

Jul 30, 2015 (SPX)

Some 70 million tonnes of fibres are traded worldwide every year. Man-made fibres manufactured from products of petroleum or natural gas account for almost two-...

Controlling phase changes in solids

Jul 30, 2015 (SPX)

Rewritable CDs, DVDs and Blu-Ray discs owe their existence to phase-change materials, those materials that change their internal order when heated and whose str...

China's Alibaba to invest $1.0 bn in cloud computing

Jul 29, 2015 (AFP)

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba will invest $1.0 billion in its cloud computing arm to expand its international presence, the company said Wednesday, as it loo...