TECH SPACE - NANO DAILY

How the tide turned on data centres in Europe

Sep 15, 2022 (AFP)

Not so long ago, European countries were falling over each other to welcome the firms that run these warehouses, known as data centres or bit barns. Wide-eyed p...

How the tide turned on data centres in Europe

Sep 14, 2022 (AFP)

Not so long ago, European countries were falling over each other to welcome the firms that run these warehouses, known as data centres or bit barns. Wide-eyed p...

Vestigo Aerospace raises $375K in seed funding to spur deorbit systems

Sep 13, 2022 (SPX)

The seed funding and the matching NASA SBIR Phase II-E award will enable Vestigo Aerospace to establish the commercial manufacturing process for Vestigo's produ...

In Nigeria, finding value in waste recycling

Sep 13, 2022 (AFP)

In Africa's biggest economy and most populous country, collecting, sorting and recycling trash is despairingly rare. But there is also good news. Some entrepren...

Through the quantum looking glass

Sep 13, 2022 (SPX)

Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light have reported on a device that could replace a roomful of equip...

New ice-shedding coating is 100x stronger than others

Sep 13, 2022 (SPX)

The principle of the new "fracture-controlled material" lies in the fact that for detachment of any external solid object from a surface (like ice from an airpl...

Ramon and Kythera partner to deliver autonomous communications payload solutions

Sep 13, 2022 (SPX)

The Ramon.Space Computing Platform offers advanced features including channelization, beamforming, regeneration, L2/L3 IP networking, beam hopping, spectral ana...

Ocean lidar remote sensing technology based on Brillouin scattering spectrum

Sep 12, 2022 (SPX)

Ocean laser remote sensing mainly measures environmental information by analyzing the backscattered echo energy or the spectral information. In the energy dimen...

Porosity in metals additively manufactured by laser powder bed fusion

Sep 12, 2022 (SPX)

Various materials including metals, intermetallics, polymers, ceramics, and composites, can be additively manufactured. Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF, also know...

Recycling firm battles Jakarta's plastic waste emergency

Sep 09, 2022 (AFP)

Tridi Oasis Group, which employs 120 people, has recycled more than 250 million bottles since it was founded six years ago. "I don't see discarded plastic as tr...

Northrop Grumman reduces manufacturing time and cost with high-temperature materials

Sep 09, 2022 (SPX)

"We are pioneering a rapid fabrication process that does not require tooling to manufacturing aerospace-grade, continuous fiber integrated composite structures,...

Antenna enables advanced satellite communications testing

Sep 07, 2022 (SPX)

Prior to the installation of the MBTT in 2017, the laboratory relied on a variety of smaller antennas for SATCOM testing, including the Over-the-Air Ka-band Tes...

Game on at Gamescom

Sep 06, 2022 (ESA)

As ever, the most anticipated event of Gamescom was the live show on the opening night. Packed with game reveals and surprises, it attracted a capacity turnout ...

Steel sector cracks on Ukraine, energy price spikes

Sep 06, 2022 (AFP)

The first half of this year saw global output of the metal slide 5.4 percent over the same period last year to a total 1.1 billion tonnes, according to the Worl...

China's Tencent ups investment in France's Ubisoft

Sep 06, 2022 (AFP)

Ubisoft said that Tencent was to buy a 49.9 percent stake in the holding company of the Guillemot family which founded the French creator of "Assassin's Creed" ...

NASA awards LISA mission laser instrument contract

Sep 05, 2022 (SPX)

The total value of the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract is $11,906,675, and the period of performance is from Sept. 1, 2022, through April 1, 2025. The work will be...

Google's immersive Street View could be glimpse of metaverse

Sep 02, 2022 (AFP)

There was not yet talk of online life moving to virtual worlds when a "far-fetched" musing by Google co-founder Larry Page prompted Street View, which lets user...

AFRL experiments with heat flow to manipulate quantum materials

Sep 02, 2022 (SPX)

"The question we're exploring in our lab is, what are the limits of cryogenic-free phonon engineering for shielding delicate quantum systems from the noisy ther...

Selfridges targets 'circular' sales for almost half its goods

Sep 02, 2022 (AFP)

Selfridges' goal is for 45 percent of transactions to be for so-called "circular" goods and services -- either second-hand, rented, repaired or recycled -- by 2...

Digging through patents to make mining greener

Sep 01, 2022 (SPX)

All of these depend in some way on the industry that extracts and processes the raw materials used to make most green technologies: the mining industry. But the...