TECH SPACE - AFRICA DAILY

Honeywell gives European Space Agency new satellite technology

Apr 21, 2015 (SPX)

Honeywell has announced that its Global Tracking solution has passed the final acceptance test for use on the European Space Agency's (ESA) Galileo search and r...

ADS NEWTON products enable agile satellite missions

Apr 21, 2015 (SPX)

Since late 2011, when the Pleiades A satellite was launched from Kourou, GN&C equipment built by Airbus Defence and Space Electronics have allowed Earth Observa...

Inventing a 2-D liquid

Apr 21, 2015 (SPX)

Where water and oil meet, a two-dimensional world exists. This interface presents a potentially useful set of properties for chemists and engineers, but getting...

IBM earnings dip as sales fall again

Apr 20, 2015 (AFP)

Technology heavyweight IBM reported Monday lower profits in the first quarter following another drop in revenues, this time partly due to the strong dollar. Ear...

Technique could slash energy used to produce many plastics

Apr 19, 2015 (SPX)

A new material developed at the University of Colorado Boulder could radically reduce the energy needed to produce a wide variety of plastic products, from groc...

Disney develops layered fabric 3-D printer

Apr 17, 2015 (UPI)

Most plastic is pretty hard -- not ideal for making soft, squeezable toys and playthings for little ones. New technology from Disney aims to solve the problem. ...

Scientists examine rarest elements of periodic table

Apr 17, 2015 (SPX)

A little-known element called californium is making big waves in how scientists look at the periodic table. According to new research by a Florida State Univers...

New order for Selex ES search-and-rescue radars

Apr 17, 2015 (UPI)

Search-and-rescue radar for special mission jets of Cobham Aviation Services in Australia have been ordered from Britain's Selex ES, the company announced. Unde...

Scientists create invisible objects without metamaterial cloaking

Apr 15, 2015 (SPX)

Physicists from ITMO University, Ioffe Institute and Australian National University managed to make homogenous cylindrical objects completely invisible in the m...

Zuckerberg sees 'wild' future for virtual reality

Apr 15, 2015 (AFP)

Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg sees a wild future in store for virtual reality. During a written question-and-answer session available at his Facebook page...

Solution-grown nanowires make the best lasers

Apr 15, 2015 (SPX)

Take a material that is a focus of interest in the quest for advanced solar cells. Discover a "freshman chemistry level" technique for growing that material int...

Radar-jamming decoy system completes testing

Apr 15, 2015 (UPI)

Raytheon's Miniature Air Launched Decoy-Jammer is closer to full-rate production for the U.S. Air Force following completion of operational testing. "MALD-J's u...

Britain orders Kelvin Hughes radar system

Apr 14, 2015 (UPI)

New offshore patrol vessels for Britain's Royal Navy are to be outfitted with an integrated radar system from Kelvin Hughes called SharpEye. SharpEye consists o...

Intel lifted by data centers, as PC market flounders

Apr 14, 2015 (AFP)

US technology giant Intel said Tuesday its profits edged higher in the first quarter, as gains in its data center operations help offset weakness in the persona...

Heat-Converting Material Patents Licensed

Apr 12, 2015 (JPL)

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, has licensed patents on high-temperature thermoelectric materials to Evident Technologies, Troy, New Yor...

MIPT researchers grow cardiac tissue on 'spider silk' substrate

Apr 12, 2015 (SPX)

Genetically engineered fibers of the protein spidroin, which is the construction material for spider webs, has proven to be a perfect substrate for cultivating ...

Terrain-following autopilot capability eyed for Rafale fighters

Apr 09, 2015 (UPI)

French Air Force and Navy authorities are jointly working to develop an autopilot terrain-following capability for its single-seat Rafale fighters. The terrain-...

Frustrated magnets - new experiment reveals clues to their discontent

Apr 08, 2015 (SPX)

An experiment conducted by Princeton researchers has revealed an unlikely behavior in a class of materials called frustrated magnets, addressing a long-debated ...

Camera chip provides superfine 3-D resolution

Apr 08, 2015 (SPX)

Imagine you need to have an almost exact copy of an object. Now imagine that you can just pull your smartphone out of your pocket, take a snapshot with its inte...

A new breakthrough in thermoelectric materials

Apr 08, 2015 (SPX)

French physicist Jean Charles Athanase Peltier discovered a key concept necessary for thermoelectric (TE) temperature control in 1834. His findings were so sign...