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A team at the University of Groningen has demonstrated a way to switch off antibiotic agents after just a few hours using warmth or sunlight.

or exposed to sunlight, they reverted to the Z-form, which is all but useless as an antibiotic.

Flower power, a device due to be launched towards the end of this year by Paris-based wireless tech company Parrot, measures sunlight, soil moisture, temperature and nutrient levels in plants,

and whether they should be moved to change sunlight levels. Flower power and related technologies could be vital in developing countries with dry climates.

Cleveland-based quasar energy group uses organic waste to produce a renewable energy source known as biogas which is converted then into Compressed natural gas (CNG) one of two fuels that can power the 2015 Chevrolet Bi-fuel Impala.

Since biogas can be made from most organic materials quasar insources raw materials otherwise considered waste from a variety of industries.

Anheuser-busch Columbus brewery provides an organic by-product to quasar for conversion to methane gas. f you can buy renewable fuel at $1. 95 per gallon

while reducing greenhouse gas emissions everybody winssaid Mel Kurtz president of quasar energy group. uasar Columbus facility can produce 1. 3 million gasoline gallon equivalents of CNG each year. hat

More information on Chevrolet models can be found at www. chevrolet. com. quasar is a Cleveland Ohio based renewable energy company that designs builds owns

and operates anaerobic digestion systems. quasar has thirteen operational anaerobic digestion facilities throughout the United states with several more under construction

or in the planning stage. qng (quasar natural gas) is derived from the anaerobic digestion of regional organic waste streams

and is available to the public at quasar stations in Columbus Zanesville and Wooster Ohio

the team installed it on a mobile laboratory used during NASA DISCOVER-AQ campaign, which analyzed pollution on the ground and from the air last September.

#Smart sensors that harvest power from sun heat or vibrations European researchers have developed advanced energy harvesting technology that allows wireless sensor networks to power themselves from the sun, heat or vibrations.

But what if sensors could harness energy directly from their environment from the sun, from ambient heat, from radio waves or vibrations?

"Harvesting the sun, vibrations and radio waves The SWAP team are studying, testing and deploying novel technologies that enable sensors to use solar

and assess large numbers of proteins in a very short space of time, thus opening up much wider possibilities for genuinely novel vaccines.

It demands a lot of sun, good soil, water and cold temperatures. But how do you install an environmentally friendly and sustainable cooling system in a country so warm?

"We all get heat from sun. We feel it on our bodies when it's warm,

but who ever heard of getting cold from sun? That's what MEDISCO is about.

The process involves single axis tracking concentrating collectors that essentially orient panels towards the sunlight.

View from space DORIS used the new mapping technologies offered by the Copernicus system of Earth observation satellites operated by the European space agency.

which involves taking images at different points in the satellite orbit and then combining them to detect sub-centimetre-scale height differences on the Earth surface.

Using SAR, DORIS has proved it can record Earth movements and deformation over time. he ability to construct long time series,

and the high spatial resolution provided by modern SAR sensors has meant that we could observe changes in urban

As it user friendly and doesn cost the earth, this could really change the way we farm

#From sunlight to jet fuel: EU project makes first'solar'kerosene An EU-funded research project called SOLAR-JET has produced the world's first'solar'jet fuel from water and carbon dioxide (CO2), a promising technology for a better

using simulated sunlight. However, the results give hope that in future any liquid hydrocarbon fuels could be produced from sunlight

CO2 and water. The process In a first step concentrated light-simulating sunlight-was used to convert carbon dioxide

and water to synthesis gas (syngas) in a high-temperature solar reactor containing metal-oxide based materials developed at ETH Zürich.

Although producing syngas through concentrated solar radiation is still at an early stage of development, the processing of syngas to kerosene is already being deployed by companies,

of aeronautics and astronautics and an adjunct professor in physics. The reactor called the dynomak started as a class project taught by Jarboe two years ago.

The design builds on existing technology and creates a magnetic field within a closed space to hold plasma in place long enough for fusion to occur allowing the hot plasma to react and burn.

The researchers say this technology would be useful in places where sun and radio waves can t always penetrate such as inside walls

and his team to absorb specific nonvisible wavelengths of sunlight. e can tune these materials to pick up just the ultraviolet

#Material snags CO2 from natural gas Rice university rightoriginal Studyposted by Mike Williams-Rice on June 9 2014scientists have created an Earth-friendly way to separate carbon dioxide a greenhouse gas from natural gas right

the team installed it on a mobile laboratory used during NASA DISCOVER-AQ campaign, which analyzed pollution on the ground and from the air last September.

and generate more heatâ##all in a smaller and smaller space as evidenced by the warmth emanating from the bottom of a laptop.

That is roughly the same efficiency at which the best commercially available solar cells convert sunlight into electricity.

#Lely Astronaut A4 milking robot lets cows milk themselves If cow milking recalls a bucolic image of a farmer strolling out to the barn with a bucket and stool,

A case in point is the Astronaut 4 from Dutch agricultural firm Lely. With this robotic milker, the farmer needn't come any closer to the action than a readout on a smartphone,

The Astronaut 4 is one of a range of robotic farming systems made by Lely, including robotic cowshed cleaners and forage pushers.

The Astronaut 4 system is designed to be as easy as possible for the cow to use.

and the Astronaut 4 version is developed a more model. It looks formidable, but that because it designed to be stable

and pen of the Astronaut 4 are equipped also with sensors to detects signs of mastitis.

#Panasonic#s new technology purifies water with sunlight and photocatalysts Drinking clean water is something that many people in the world can't take for granted as they rely on polluted sources

In response to that problem Panasonic is developing a new technology that looks to the sun to clean water extracted from the ground.

The company recently presented a system that uses sunlight and photocatalysts to purify polluted water at a high reaction rate to improve access to clean water where it's needed.

#Will 3d printing bring space-based solar power to reality? Spiderfab 3-D robotic printer Since the 1970##s, space-based solar power has been a futuristic fantasy

but the advent of 21st#century 3-D printing may bring it a step closer to reality.

and the ability to fabricate space system components on-orbit instead of building them on the ground,

Inc. TUI has won two rounds of funding for its Spiderfab 3-D robotic printer from the#NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts#(NIAC) program.

##Our analysis shows we can get orders of magnitude improvement in the stowed volume and mass of space systems,

##3-D printing and robotic construction of components on-orbit would allow a smaller, less expensive launch rocket that will##improve performance per cost by orders of magnitude,

Once#in space, TUI s Trusselator, the first step in the Spiderfab architecture, would use 3-D printing techniques

It would##enable construction of large support structures for systems such as multi-hundred-kilowatt solar arrays, large solar sails,

##For#space-based solar power (SBSP), there would be two basic steps, Hoyt explained. First, the 3-D printer would build a carbon fiber truss structure that would act as a frame for the system.

##We haven t yet looked in detail at space-based solar, ##Hoyt said. But a just-completed design analysis for a 300-kilowatt orbital solar array verified that Spiderfab can provide the projected tenfold decrease in stowed volume

##explained NASA Apollo 11 lunar landing vehicle manager Hubert Davis, a member of#the Solar High Study Group#of nine former NASA and Apollo program scientists and retired

The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency has alsoworked on it. The delivered cost of power from SBSP

according to#August 2012 calculationsby NASA Apollo program engineer Philip Chapman, would be $0. 10 to $0. 11 per kilowatt-hour.

##But the maximum radio frequency intensity of the transmission##is only one-fourth that of sunlight,##according to former NASA wireless power transmission engineer Richard Dickinson.

if there was any interruption at the earth station.####Aircraft can safely traverse the beam and tests have demonstrated that even the sensitive honeybee is unaffected,

##Given the way#NASA#is funded, Spiderfab is three years to five years out, ##Hoyt said.##

##But##on-orbit fabrication with Spiderfab,##a TUI presentation#promises,##will enable NASA to accomplish ten times more science per dollar.##

perhaps, depleting) planet.####Meat will become a luxury food and will become very expensive, ##Professor Post said.

The earth atmosphere is a far more elegant water distribution system than rivers, reservoirs, and underground waterways.

Using solar wind, and other forms of passive energy, our future water networks will be operate with far more efficiency and convenience than anything imaginable today.

Here are some of the true innovators in this space: Fogquest is a Canadian nonprofit that uses modern fog collectors to bring drinking water and water for irrigation and reforestation to rural communities in developing countries around the world.

It will generate between 1-3 Gallons Water/day depending on the humidity conditions and sun conditions.

Last month, Greenpeace released a short video that imagines a future in which swarms of robotic bees have been deployed to save our planet after the real insects go extinct.

#New LED light technology sheds light on the future of food LED growing lights, delivering sunlight whatever the weather.

and can save space and energy and improve crop yield. It takes advantage of the vertical space of city buildings rather than turning over wide expanses of land to agriculture and uses advanced greenhouse technology:

hydroponics or aeroponics, and environmental controls that regulate temperature, humidity and light to produce vegetables, fruits and other crops year-round.

This increases efficiency, not just in terms of energy use but by allowing layers of growing plants to be packed more densely, making more efficient use of space.

#New 3d printed materials lighter than water and as strong as steel A Nanoscribe 3d printer can print models of the Empire state building in a space the width of a human hair using precision lasers.

A rocket s skin, for example, needs to contain a column of super-pressurized fuel and at the same time weigh as little as possible.

Like arches in the Roman Coliseum, the shape of all those tiny spaces maximizes strength

That information is combined with multi-spectral images of fields taken by advanced camera systems from satellites and airplanes.

The system then combines the field data with a diversity of public data from the National oceanic and atmospheric administration the National aeronautics and space administration and the U s. Geological Survey and private data from companies like Earth Networks.

they are crucial for technologies in the aerospace and alternative-energy industries. China currently controls the vast majority of supplies.

#Mini robot space surgeon to climb inside astronauts It could one day answer the prayers of astronauts who need surgery in deep space.

The hope is that such robots will accompany future astronauts on long deep-space missions, when the chances are higher that someone will experience physical trauma."

if you would consider surgery in space, "says team member Shane Farritor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Medical emergency For now, the only humans in space venture no further than the International space station.

Astronauts are screened carefully for health issues before leaving Earth, and the ISS has an escape capsule standing by in case of emergencies,

Many worrisome health issues that can occur in space return to normal back On earth. But NASA has plans for human missions to an asteroid and eventually Mars

and getting home quickly won't be an option. Surgery in space would be extremely difficult. Without gravity, it is easy for bodily fluids like blood to float free

and contaminate the cabin. And space capsules can only carry a certain amount of weight, so medical tools need to be relatively light but capable of handling many kinds of situations."

"Everything that we take for granted, even something as simple as putting a Band aid down on a table,

is difficult in space, "says Dmitry Oleynikov at the University of Nebraska Medical center.""That difficulty increases logarithmically

Space surgeons Prototypes have performed several dozen procedures in pigs. The team says the next step is to work in human cadavers

Remote-operated technologies would have a disadvantage in space because the further away a spaceship gets, the greater the time delay in communications signals.

Virtual Incision hopes to avoid this problem by training astronauts to perform procedures on each other.

James Burgess at Carnegie mellon University in Pittsburgh thinks robots like these could be particularly useful

and performed in space, "says Burgess. This article will appear in print under the headline"Surgery bot fits in astronaut's gut a

#Beating battery drain Stream video on your smartphone or use its GPS for an hour or two and you ll probably see the battery drain significantly.

But their advisor, Jonathan How, a professor of aeronautics and astronautics who directs of the Aerospace Controls Laboratory,

without needing to know details of the underlying hardware. ee doing the same thing for the drone space,

and to convert carbon dioxide to fuels for applications On earth and in space. Today industrial infrastructure manages basic resources linearly

for the agricultural industry. arth as a spaceshipecovolt is valuable today as a solution to Earth water issues.

But the core technology began as a bit of aerospace ingenuity and has since found its way back to space.

Meeting at MIT in 2006 over a shared fondness for biotech, Silver, then a research scientist in MIT Space Systems Lab,

and Buck, a biological engineering graduate student, won a grant from the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts program to create a life-support system that could treat waste

and generate electricity for astronauts. Soon, they came across exoelectrogens; a 1999 study had revealed that exoelectrogens could,

in fact, generate more amps per square centimeter than was thought previously. This made exoelectrogens a third and largely better candidate for wastewater treatment, over aerobic or anaerobic methods.

In 2012, NASA began funding a Cambrian project, called Exogen, that uses electromethanogenesis to more efficiently extract oxygen or fuel from CO2 for long-duration space flights.

NASA currently carries out oxygen recovery from CO2 in a multistep chemical process; Exogen will make it a simplified, one-step process.

Surprisingly, shifting from aerospace to Earth applications, and back again, has been an easy transition, Silver says. he challenge of supporting astronauts in space is very similar to sustainability On earth,

he says. hat youe looking to do in space is maximize reuse, while minimizing energetics. If we look at Earth as the spaceship, it the same problem.

With Ecovolt, and its other ongoing projects, Cambrian overall aim, Silver says, is to leverage biotechnology to advance a sustainable ndustrial ecology,

where the waste of industry is recycled to create energy and value much like in natural ecosystems. n a natural ecosystem,

Plants typically make use of only about 10 percent of the sunlight available to them,

the switches in the inductor path are flipped. n this technology space, there usually a trend to lower efficiency as the power gets lower,

These spaces are very important for this architecture said Purdue postdoctoral research associate Vinodkumar Etacheri.

#Toward a low-cost'artificial leaf'that produces clean hydrogen fuel For years scientists have been pursuing artificial leaf technology a green approach to making hydrogen fuel that copies plants'ability to convert sunlight into a form of energy they can use.

Peidong Yang Bin Liu and colleagues note that harnessing sunlight to split water and harvest hydrogen is one of the most intriguing ways to achieve clean energy.

Producing hydrogen at low cost from water using the clean energy from the sun would make this form of energy

and exposed to sunlight produces hydrogen gas. The scientists say that the technique could allow their technology to be scaled up at low cost.

Last spring Fan received a proof-of-concept grant from the Department of energy through the North Central Regional Sun Grant Center to determine

Sun Grant promotes collaboration among researchers from land-grant institutions government agencies and the private sector to develop

from the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leeds and a co-author of the paper.

a Phd student from the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leeds and the lead author of the research paper.

Professor Evans and his team have all of the membrane proteins required to construct a fully working mimic of the way plants capture sunlight.

Hydrogen is virtually everywhere on the planet, but the element is bonded typically with other elements

Researchers have known long that some single-celled organisms use a protein called bacteriorhodopsin (br) to absorb sunlight

If the researchers wanted to power their generators with sunlight, they'd need to improve on that.

It's a pitfall that could be important to understand in the development of long-lasting solar cells where sun could provide risky heat into the equation.

Satellite Signals A wireless device developed by researchers at Duke university that converts microwaves into electricity could eventually harvest Wi-fi or satellite signals for power according to its creators.

or satellites to improve efficiency and make lost energy usable. â##It s possible to use this design for a lot of different frequencies

practically anything on the planet certainly sperm cells even skin cells (as this reseach so obviously shows.

At rest it looks like a tiny spaceship from a 1930s comic book. It s a type of Vertical Takeoff or Landing (VTOL) rarely done with humans on board because#that transition from vertical to horizontal and back again is difficult for onboard human pilots to manage.

#Urban vegetable garden system with LED lighting Keystone Technology LED vegetable garden system is a cultivation system for indoor plant factories that uses LED lighting instead of sunlight.

The most defining feature of the system on display at the company showroom in Yokohama is its 3-dimensional use of space. his is tiered a 5 cultivation system.

and does not have the coarse quality of lettuce grown in sunlight. Because it is softer it is a vegetable that is easy to eat even for elderly people.

and polyphenols than with vegetables grown in sunlight. ith this system there will be differences in production capacity depending on the shape of the plant.

#NASA's drone is part chopper, part airplane Answer: NASA'S latest drone prototype, GL-10.

Better known by it's pop culture-inspired moniker, Greased Lightning, it is an innovative new concept for an unmanned vehicle (UAV) from NASA's Langley Research center in Hampton, Virginia.

The battery-powered drone has a 10-foot (3-meter) wingspan, 10 electric motors (eight on the wings,

one of the aerospace engineers working on the project, in a NASA press release.""We were ecstatic. Now we're working on our second goal--to demonstrate that this concept is four times more aerodynamically efficient in cruise than a helicopter."

as well as demonstrating the drone at various NASA events throughout the year. More from Tomorrow Transforme e

This amalgamation makes it a terrifically attractive material to apply to scientific developments in a wide variety of fields, such as electronics, aerospace and sports.

#Engineers Develop Optical devices That Shape Light in Exotic Ways Engineers from the Jet propulsion laboratory and the California Institute of technology have developed innovative flat,

whereas waves in natural sunlight vibrate in all directions. Manipulating the polarization of light is essential for the operation of advanced microscopes, cameras and displays;

Elizabeth Landau, NASA Jet propulsion Laborator S

#Bioadhesive Nanoparticles Help Protect Your Skin From the Sun Dermatologists from Yale university have developed a new sunscreen made with bioadhesive nanoparticles that doesn penetrate the skin,

eliminating serious health concerns associated with commercial sunscreens. Most commercial sunblocks are good at preventing sunburn,

Its applications range from medicine, advanced energy, electronics, aerospace design and many others. Despite these groundbreaking characteristics,

The company is a worldwide leader in the manufacurting and retailing of graphene and other advanced materials, with clients such as NASA, Ford motor, Apple, Samsung, Harvard and Stanford.

Further field tests are necessary to see how the nano-dispensers perform in sunlight varying temperatures and humidity levels.

A variant of the Tupolev was used in experiments by Nasa, and American and Russian aerospace industries, in a joint research program after the end of the Cold war.

The end of the Concorde and Tupolev airliners left the supersonic market empty. But now, 12 years after the Concorde fleet last flew,

At the AIAA Hypersonic Space Plane conference in Glasgow in Scotland in July, a paper submitted by Lapcat-II researchers said their early airliner tests suggested such a design would be greener than current aircraft,

Fuel factorjohan Steelant, a senior research engineer at the European space agency (Esa) and coordinator of Lapcat-II,

Nasa used the same stuff to power the Space shuttle. f there is leak, the hydrogen is

In Asia, Japan aerospace exploration agency (Jaxa) is also working on a hypersonic airliner called Hytex intended to cross the Pacific ocean in two hours at speeds of Mach 5. Both Lapcat-II

and Jaxa are part of a hypersonic knowledge-transfer project between Europe and Japan called Hikari.

The fuel consumption is one-fifth that of rocket engines, says Hideyuki Taguchi, leader of Jaxa hypersonic airplane research.

Hunger for hydrogenbut, deriving hydrogen efficiently is one main factor for high operating costs. If the hydrogen can be sourced from natural gas, instead of from the electrolysis of water,

Spike Aerospace, another US company, plans to launch a similar supersonic business passenger plane with internal video screens linked to external cameras instead of windows.

Nasa is working with Lockheed martin and Boeing to design airplanes that break the sound barrier more quietlyanother problem is that of the uperboomwhich develops

Nasa is working with Lockheed martin and Boeing to design airplanes that break the sound barrier more quietly.

The Jaxa project has studied the potential market for hypersonic airliners travelling at Mach 5 and found a 100-passenger aircraft flying two round trips per day is realistic based on market research.

its protecting corona is removed and only the hydrophobic core remains. These akedhydrophobic plastic beads are stabilized not anymore

too much sun can be worse than too little. The fact that chlorophyll absorption spectrum makes things surprisingly green reflects the compromises inherent in being able to capture every photon possible

added Jarolimkova. emoving water and storing the produce as powder will allow for maximum utilization of space during transport and storage as well as significantly prolonged shelf life.

Furthermore, we envision the powder to be used in culinary areas as a fruit and vegetable replacement in humanitarian aids, food for space missions, molecular gastronomy,

000 suns The latest in solar power comes to us from Swiss inventors working for Airlight Energy, Dsolar (a subsidiary of Airlight),

it tracks the sun and cools itself by pumping water through its veins like a plant.

this method entails using reflectors to concentrate the sun, as well as highly efficient photovoltaic cells (known as gallium arsenide photovoltaic cells) to convert that concentrated solar energy into electricity.

According to Gianluca Ambrosetti, Airlight's head of research, the Solar Sunflower's reflectors concentrate the sun"to about 5, 000 suns."

000 suns. To counteract this, the Sunflower makes use of a hot water cooling system invented by the project's IBM collaborators.

This amalgamation makes it a terrifically attractive material to apply to scientific developments in a wide variety of fields, such as electronics, aerospace and sports.

HILLS AND POTHOLESMANY of these types of flexible electronic devices will rely on thin films of organic materials that catch sunlight

2015first superconducting graphene created by UBC researchers September 9th, 2015hybrid solar cell converts both light and heat from sun's rays into electricity (video) September 9th,

Understanding motions of thin layers may help design solar cells, electronics and catalysts of the future September 10th, 2015hybrid solar cell converts both light and heat from sun's rays into electricity (video) September 9th,

#Desalination with nanoporous graphene membrane Less than 1 percent of Earth's water is drinkable. Removing salt and other minerals from our biggest available source of water--seawater--may help satisfy a growing global population thirsty for fresh water for drinking, farming, transportation, heating, cooling and industry.

The sun is an abundant and practically infinite source of energy, so researchers around the world are racing to create novel approaches to"harvest"clean energy from the sun or transfer that energy to other sources.

This week in the journal Applied Physics Letters("Metamaterial electromagnetic energy harvester with near unity efficiency"),researchers from the University of Waterloo in Canada report a novel design for electromagnetic energy harvesting based on

Among the most important is space solar power, an emerging critical technology that can significantly help to address energy shortages.

with plans to begin harvesting solar power from space by 2030.""Our research enables significantly higher energy absorption than classical antennas,

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