TECH SPACE - AFRICA DAILY

New technique enables magnetic patterns to be mapped in 3-D

Jul 09, 2015 (SPX)

An international collaboration has succeeded in using synchrotron light to detect and record the complex 3-D magnetization in wound magnetic layers. This techni...

Study: Violent video games offer stress release, but at a cost

Jul 09, 2015 (UPI)

A new study finds that violent video games offer momentary stress relief, but the respite comes at an emotional price. According to researchers at the Universit...

Engineers give invisibility cloaks a slimmer design

Jul 09, 2015 (SPX)

Researchers have developed a new design for a cloaking device that overcomes some of the limitations of existing "invisibility cloaks." In a new study, electric...

New computer program may fix billion-dollar bit rot problem

Jul 09, 2015 (UPI)

Bit rot is a billion-dollar problem for software developers. But now computer engineers may have designed the ideal code-fixing program to combat it. High perfo...

A cool way to form 2-D conducting polymers using ice

Jul 09, 2015 (SPX)

A piece of deep frozen ice and electronic gadgets may seem to have little connection (except that they are both 'cool' to have on you), but ice could now play a...

Lower cost ultrasound degassing now possible in processing aluminum

Jul 09, 2015 (SPX)

Having proved that ultrasound degassing of molten aluminium alloys is cleaner, greener and cheaper than current methods, a team of scientists from Brunel Univer...

Rubber expansion threatens biodiversity and livelihoods

Jul 09, 2015 (SPX)

Increasing amounts of environmentally valuable and protected land are being cleared for rubber plantations that are economically unsustainable, new research sug...

Making new materials with micro-explosions: ANU media release

Jul 07, 2015 (SPX)

Scientists have made exotic new materials by creating laser-induced micro-explosions in silicon, the common computer chip material. The new technique could lead...

Ball delivers optical reference units for GRACE follow-on mission

Jul 07, 2015 (SPX)

Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. has delivered key components to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for a laser ranging system designed to achieve grea...

'Pac-Man' space probe to gobble-up space debris

Jul 06, 2015 (UPI)

Low Earth orbit is littered with space debris. But if the latest mission by Switzerland's EPFL Center for Space Engineering is successful, space will be less cr...

Why the seahorse's tail is square

Jul 05, 2015 (SPX)

Why is the seahorse's tail square? An international team of researchers has found the answer and it could lead to building better robots and medical devices. In...

Liquids on fibers - slipping or flowing?

Jul 05, 2015 (SPX)

Thin fibers play a tremendous role in many areas of our daily life, from the use of glass fibers in ultra-fast data transmission to textile fibers in our clothi...

Effective conversion of methane by a new copper zeolite

Jul 03, 2015 (SPX)

A new bio-inspired zeolite catalyst, developed by an international team with researchers from Technische Universitat Munchen (TUM), Eindhoven University of Tech...

Advanced radar to feature on upgraded Singapore fighters

Jul 02, 2015 (UPI)

The government of Singapore has detailed the upgrade of its fleet of F-16 fighters, which first entered service with its military in 1998. The modernization of ...

Physicists shatter stubborn mystery of how glass forms

Jul 01, 2015 (SPX)

A physicist at the University of Waterloo is among a team of scientists who have described how glasses form at the molecular level and provided a possible solut...

The peaks and valleys of silicon

Jul 01, 2015 (SPX)

When the new iPhone came out, customers complained that it could be bent - but what if you could roll up your too big 6 Plus to actually fit in your pocket? Tha...

RADA Electronics receives radar order

Jul 01, 2015 (UPI)

Israel's RADA Electronic Industries has announced it is to produce a tactical air surveillance radar system for an unidentified European defense contractor. The...

Graphene flexes its electronic muscles

Jul 01, 2015 (SPX)

Flexing graphene may be the most basic way to control its electrical properties, according to calculations by theoretical physicists at Rice University and in R...

Study: South Africans used milk-based paint 49,000 years ago

Jul 01, 2015 (UPI)

Nearly 50,000 years ago, the people of South Africa used milk- and ochre-based paints to adorn themselves, as well as stones and wooden slabs. The use of paint ...

Helium 'balloons' offer new path to control complex materials

Jul 01, 2015 (SPX)

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a new method to manipulate a wide range of materials and their behavior u...