TECH SPACE - AFRICA DAILY

U.S. military service buys Israeli radar for testing

Jul 29, 2015 (UPI)

A tactical surveillance radar for force and border protection applications from RADA Electronic Industries has been bought for testing by the U.S. military. RAD...

Smart hydrogel coating creates 'stick-slip' control of capillary action

Jul 29, 2015 (SPX)

Coating the inside of glass microtubes with a polymer hydrogel material dramatically alters the way capillary forces draw water into the tiny structures, resear...

World's most powerful laser fired in Japan

Jul 29, 2015 (UPI)

Scientists at Osaka University in Japan say they've fired the world's most powerful laser. The beam was intact for just one picosecond, a trillionth of a second...

Researchers predict material with record-setting melting point

Jul 29, 2015 (SPX)

Using powerful computer simulations, researchers from Brown University have identified a material with a higher melting point than any known substance. The comp...

Twin discoveries, 'eerie' effect may lead to manufacturing advances

Jul 29, 2015 (SPX)

The discovery of a previously unknown type of metal deformation - sinuous flow - and a method to suppress it could lead to more efficient machining and other ma...

GOES-S sensor gets clean bill of health from hospital

Jul 29, 2015 (SPX)

One of the sensors that will fly aboard NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S was recently given a clean bill of health from Massachusetts ...

Canada buying radar from Rheinmetall Canada and Elta Systems

Jul 28, 2015 (UPI)

Canada's Department of National Defense has contracted Rheinmetall-Canada and Elta Systems for the provision of medium-range radar. Israel Aerospace Industries,...

Cages offer new direction in sustainable catalyst design

Jul 28, 2015 (SPX)

University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers have developed a new approach to structuring the catalysts used in essential reactions in the chemical and energy fiel...

Radiation protection vest being investigated for use in space

Jul 28, 2015 (UPI)

Radiation shielding technology by StemRad Ltd. is being jointly investigated with Lockheed Martin for possible use to protect astronauts. StemRad's 360 Gamma pr...

Insights into catalytic converters

Jul 28, 2015 (SPX)

Modern catalytic converters for the treatment of exhaust gases in vehicles with a combustion engine have largely contributed to reducing of pollutant emissions....

Satellite time transfer method based on two-way common-view comparison

Jul 27, 2015 (SPX)

Time synchronization between ground and satellites is a key technology for satellite navigation system. With dual-channel satellite, a method called Two-Way Com...

Smarter window materials can control light and energy

Jul 27, 2015 (SPX)

Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin are one step closer to delivering smart windows with a new level of energ...

NASA approves AVX's Space-Level X7R BME MLCCs

Jul 27, 2015 (SPX)

AVX Corporation has announced that, after several years of extensive testing, NASA has approved its space-level X7R base metal electrode (BME) multilayer cerami...

Scientists reveal 'woodquakes'

Jul 27, 2015 (SPX)

Wood and its response to stress or strain has been less known at a fundamental level - until now. The structural properties of brittle materials like rock or ce...

Syntactic foam sandwich fills hunger for lightweight yet strong materials

Jul 27, 2015 (SPX)

A team of researchers reports success in pioneering tests of a layered material with a lightweight metal matrix syntactic foam core that holds significant poten...

Rock paper fungus

Jul 27, 2015 (SPX)

Believe it or not: X-ray works a lot better on rocks than on paper. This has been a problem for conservators trying to save historical books and letters from th...

Cold crystallization has a dual nature

Jul 24, 2015 (SPX)

In some vitrous substances, when heated, not one, but two physical mechanisms are reponsible for crystallization, as scientists working at the Insitiute of Nucl...

New mussel-inspired surgical protein glue

Jul 22, 2015 (SPX)

One of the most basic yet important surgical skills to keep a patient alive and intact may be closing wounds. It seems that doctors will now get the job done wi...

Battling Satellite Interference

Jul 22, 2015 (SPX)

As satellite communications becomes a more important piece of both day-to-day life and national security, interference with those communications becomes a criti...

Simulations lead to design of near-frictionless material

Jul 22, 2015 (SPX)

Argonne scientists used Mira to identify and improve a new mechanism for eliminating friction, which fed into the development of a hybrid material that exhibite...