#Aristotl learning system aims to rejuvenate STEM learning with platform heavy on visualization FORT COLLINS A Fort Collins man is aiming to revitalize the American education system with a new STEM-focused visual
and owner of a popular downtown Fort Collins bar says a teaching position at Colorado Technical University he accepted in 2005 opened his eyes to how technology could be used to create a more engaging and visual learning experience. began thinking there must be a better
Small family-run fields and co-ops worldwide are also reaping better results by maximizing production and reducing waste.
I know a crime against nature when I see one. While there is certainly much public
or if the wearer is a child, alert a parent or guardian via text message.
and highways where there's lots of traffic and by association lots of air pollution. But what if those billboards could be transformed into giant air purifiers scrubbing the air and turning polluted areas into fresh ones?
According to the World Meteorological Association Lima has the highest air pollution levels in all of South america most of it related to transportation and factories.
But moving kids, pizzas and even entire households with pedal power is catching on big time in the U s. Cargo bikes are he new station wagon,
Roughly 75 million cubic meters of sewage and 35000 metric tons of food waste collected from households along with local grocery stores and food manufacturers is treated annually at Bristol sewage treatment works located in the suburb of Avonmouth.
while spending 45 days in a previously unexplored region of the continent, are beaming their medical information back to civilization while wearing Astroskin graphicastroskin.
#High-tech Exosuit gives divers access to unexplored ocean canyons Michael Lombardi the dive safety officer for the American Museum of Natural history trains in the Exosuit.
10 Scariest Sea Creatures The one-of-a-kind Exosuit on display at the American Museum of Natural history (AMNH) now through March 5 measures 6. 5 feet (2 meters) tall
and flashing patterns of bioluminescent organisms or to effectively collect fishes and invertebrates from deep reefs John Sparks a curator in the American Museum of Natural history's Department of Ichthyology said in a statement.
and famed American adventurer Steve Fossett commissioned a single-seater sub capable of diving to the bottom of the Marianas Trench before his untimely death in 2007 a
or increase the column spacing and they'll know immediately how much more or less steel and concrete might be needed and its impact on cost.
the richest man in the world, Bill gates, once drank their poop out of a Mason jar. Of course, the disease-eradicating,
one man trash is another man treasure, "Gates explains. We'll drink to that
#How low can you go?:Nature News The ones and zeroes that propel the digital world the fording of electrons across a transistor,
#North american tree deaths accelerate: Nature News Trees in the western United states and Canada are dying more quickly than they used to,
California explains the mortality increase in financial terms:""Think of it like a compounded interest rate; the difference between a 1%return and 2%return compounded annually over 50 years will be huge."
They too have seen an increase in mortality. So far, the correlation with increased temperature is just that:
And the mortality increases that Mantgem and his team captured may be symptoms of climatic stress that make the forests more liable to such catastrophes."
the Uttar Pradesh and Bihar provinces in India, where vaccine effectiveness has been hampered by poor sanitation and high population density;
"This project will benefit farming families in Africa by showing how they can reverse declining soil fertility,
is launched today at the Tropical Soil Biology and Fertility Institute in Nairobi, which is leading the initiative.
The viruses all belong to the rhinovirus family, and have RNA genomes. Their sequences, published this week in Science1,
"says virologist Carita Savolainen-Kopra of the National Institute for Health and Welfare in Helsinki, Finland.
And although adults may suffer merely a runny nose or scratchy throat, colds in children can cause middle-ear infections or increase the likelihood of developing asthma.
Nature News A man may have been cured of both HIV and leukaemia after receiving a stem-cell transplant from a donor who is genetically resistant to HIV.
Project leader Svante Pääbo will announce the results of the preliminary genomic analysis at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in Chicago
""There are three pillars to my agenda, "Kundra told Nature in an interview last December.""Engaging citizens, driving transparency and greatly decreasing the cost of government operations."
The higher a man s PSA level, the more likely it is that he has prostate cancer,
I wanted to found a prize to reflect the new challenges faced by humanity#such as climate change, energy shortages, emerging diseases, clashes of cultures and ideas,
promote Chinese culture and make the world a better place. It targets areas that have become increasingly important in modern society
when the fusion of different cultures#Western and Eastern#and the exchange of ideas gave rise to enormous prosperity and self-confidence,
These are the ideals not only of Chinese civilization, but also of humanity at large. That is what the Tang Prize seeks to promote.
says George Church a molecular geneticist at Harvard Medical school in Boston, Massachusetts, who encoded a draft of his latest book in DNA last year2."
roughly the same amount as Church s team did. But Church s team used a simple code, where the DNA bases adenine or cytosine represented zeroes,
and guanine or thymine represented ones. This sometimes led to long stretches of the same letter,
And Church says that these estimates may be too pessimistic, as"the cost of reading and writing DNA has changed by a million-fold in the past nine years,
The stimulus flags up the new leadership s determination that research should pull its weight in dragging Japan s economy out of recession.
#"The population density is high and the country consumes so much energy, Lee adds, we have a different perspective on fusion energy compared to the United states. ITER has experienced repeated delays
following the discovery that a well-known family of durable ceramics can repel water. That is surprising because most ceramics are hydrophilic.
It s only a matter of time before a movie villain pulling off the crime of the century needs a cutting tool that is harder than anything else On earth.
Pugach confirmed an ancient association between the genomes of Australians New Guineans and the Mamanwa#a Negrito group from the Philippines.
The high court s refusal to consider an appeal in the case of Sherley v. Sebelius ends a more than 3-year effort by the plaintiffs, two adult-stem-cell researchers,
from leftover embryos at fertility clinics that would have been thrown away. The NIH does not fund the derivation of the lines, only the subsequent research.
and some flouted orthodoxy by blocking other RNA strands from being translated into protein. But almost all were linear.
US guidelines set by the Adult Treatment Panel (ATP) have lowered gradually acceptable levels for LDL bad cholesterol,
babies born up to three months before full term can already distinguish between spoken syllables in much the same way that adults do,
What is more, the parts of the cortex used were the same as those used by adults for sophisticated understanding of speech and language.#
manufacturers could grow cell cultures in which key genes are turned off until activated by a signal compound, permanently turning on production of a drug, for example,
It is also causing more serious illness and deaths than usual, particularly among the elderly,
when they or someone in their family are experiencing symptoms of ILI. Flu Near You, a system run by the Healthmap initiative co-founded by Brownstein at Boston Children s Hospital,
#Small-molecule drug drives cancer cells to suicide Cancer researchers have pinned down a molecule that can kick-start the body s own tumour-destroying systems,
triggering cell death in cancerous but not healthy tissue in mice. The molecule, TIC10, activates the gene for a protein called TRAIL (tumour-necrosis-factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand),
It was especially effective at triggering cell suicide in glioblastoma, a kind of brain tumour that is notoriously difficult to treat2.
which apoptosis#or cell death#is induced in cancer cells immediately next to healthy ones. Healthy cells are stimulated also to increase the amount of TRAIL receptors on their cell surface.
This is by no means the only mechanism thought to trigger cell death in cancer. In particular, cancer researchers have been developing a number of drugs,
Depositing human embryonic stem cells in cultures using a 3-D printer offers some advantages.
it could also be used to create vaccines for human diseases that are caused by viruses of the same family, such as hand, foot and mouth disease,
says James Turk, executive director of the Canadian Association of University Teachers in Ottawa, Ontario.""There is a consistent pattern of steering money away from basic research,
The connection has earned the 2b the nickname of death receptor. The researchers also investigated how differences in binding affected chemical cascades.
says Michel Sadelain, a researcher at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New york and an author of the study.
By the time the man started the trial, 70%of his bone marrow was tumour. Brentjens, Sadelain and their colleagues then extracted T cells from the patient
and identify mutations that might be causing the undiagnosed diseases that afflict his clients families.
"I don t think there are red flags but I do think there are yellow flags. Her main concern is one of scale."
in colonies of up to 12,000 adults. They typically build their conical, mud-based nests into the sides of cliffs,
and stuffing#gathering 104 vehicle-killed adults and 134 adults killed accidentally in nets used for the study.
When he and Bomberger Brown noticed a decline in the annual number of roadkills #even though the overall population was compared increasing#they the wing measurements of both types of stuffed bird.
or on the ability to culture the mystery culprit. By contrast, her team sequenced everything in their samples#an approach"that meant we didn t have to know what we were looking for,
After all, human hepatitis can be caused by at least five viruses. TDAV belongs to the family Flaviviridae,
and associations in big data might be a necessary incubation step for formulating well-defined hypotheses. On this platform, the researchers reconstructed a large-scale simulation of human brain activity in a 3d virtual reality environment.
and gel density and optimizing the culture matrix and media to make this work with human muscle cells,
During culture, myobundles maintain functional acetylcholine receptors and structurally and functionally mature, evidenced by increased myofiber diameter and improved calcium handling and contractile strength.
Chief Scientist for The ALS Association. he fact that TBK1 accounts for one percent of ALS adds significantly to our growing understanding of the genetic underpinnings of the disease.
, the Åke Wiberg Foundation and the Clas Groschinsky Memorial Fund s
#Molecular Inhibitor Breaks Cycle That Leads to Alzheimer's A molecular chaperone has been found to inhibit a key stage in the development of Alzheimer disease and break the toxic chain reaction that leads to the death of brain cells, a new study shows.
The research provides an effective basis for searching for candidate molecules that could be used to treat the condition.
While some recent AD genome-wide association studies (GWAS), which search the entire human genome for small variations,
other studies have found no association. In comparison, a number of studies have found a strong association between MAPT and other neurodegenerative disorders,
such as PD. hough a tremendous amount of work has been conducted showing the involvement of the tau protein in Alzheimer disease,
The recent association of genetic variation in the MAPT gene with AD risk and the emerging availability of tau imaging are now leading to a recognition that perhaps tau changes are key in the pathophysiologic pathway of AD
the National Institute of General Medical sciences (GM62142), the American Heart Association (11post7380034), the Johns Hopkins Post-Baccalaureate Research Education Program, the International Fulbright Science and Technology Award,
It is progressive#impairing memory destroying motor skills and eventually causing death. The U s. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates 5. 3 million Americans currently have Alzheimer s disease
Some genes have been identified in families however 95 percent of cases are#sporadic#with no link to a gene or family history of Alzheimer s.
Researchers have known long about disease-related protein accumulations (called amyloid plaques) in the brains of Alzheimer s patients.
This study received support from the National institutes of health (MH076145 and T32 DA07315 T32 AG 000216) and the Shaffer Family Foundation.
000 times slower per pixel, says George Church, a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical school who was not part of the research team.
Did some person a woman you thought you knew really well? did that someone racist post on Facebook really stick in your craw
According to the press release, uscle progenitors were injected directly into the matrix sheaths that define the position of each muscle. he leg was left to culture in a bioreactor for five days.
that we can culture the entire construct over prolonged periods of time, and that we can repopulate the vascular system
#Pakistan Heatwave Death Toll Passes 1, 000 The death toll from Pakistan killer heatwave rose past 1, 000 on Thursday, with more fatalities expected,
and dehydration. 16 U s. Weather Photos that Will Amaze Youhe death toll is more than 1,
it is illegal for Muslims to eat or drink in public during daylight hours in Ramadan.
The majority of the deaths in Karachi have been among the elderly, the poor and manual labourers who toil outdoors,
Doctor Qaiser Sajjad of the Pakistan Medical Association in Karachi said that a lack of understanding of heatstroke among the public how to spot symptoms
and treat them had contributed to the deaths. he main reason was a lack of awareness among the public no one knew how to cope in such a situation,
and can aid in evaluating heart drugs for safety, particularly for pregnant women. The tiny hearts could also serve as models to treat damaged hearts.
Despite all the tech that is already out there, they hope to increase the connectivity between car and man.
"Mapping man with machine provides an interesting investigation of control, he said, "We think the data might show a different view of who's really driving."
particularly among pregnant women. The researchers are now preparing a larger scale trial for the $34 device,
But the Korean patient appears to have infected at least 22 family members, health care workers, and fellow patients at a hospital where he was treated from 15 may to 17 may.
Alerted by the Korean government that the man had been in close contact with a MERS patient,
Researchers could identify which individual cellsrom a tumor or a strain of bacteriaurvive a drug treatment and study them further, something that's not possible with current culture-and-stain tests,
who was involved not in the study. he importance of this work cannot be underestimated as the world population is aging rapidly. ultiple groups of scientists have shown that adding the blood of older mice to younger animalsbodies makes them sluggish, weaker,
the adults produced lanosterol and had no cataracts. So the researchers wondered: What if lanosterol helped prevent
China has partnered also with a Luxembourg-based firm called Luxspace to send a tiny spacecraft called the Manfred Memorial Moon Mission around the moon.
and a governor of the Association of British Investigators says the notion of space-based detection is fascinating.
A new project proposing that galaxy-spanning alien civilisations should generate detectable heat has turned up a few dozen galaxies that hold promise as harbours for life.
what alien civilisations may be like. This approach is very different says Franck Marchis at the SETI Institute in California who was involved not in the project.
because it doesn't put any constraints on the origin of the civilisation or their willingness to communicate.
Could that mean we have already found alien civilisations that have spread across galaxies? If by'found them'you mean that WISE detected the waste heat from them then yes that's right
if these sorts of energy-hungry civilisations exist WISE should have detected them Wright says. But identifying them is another story.
and galaxies that raised the infrared flag in the WISE survey and figure out if there are more ordinary processes at work.
#Crystal cocoons kept bacteria safe in space ASTEROIDS have a killer reputation taking the blame for death and destruction on massive scales.
when the movement of the wind's particles is perpendicular to the sun's magnetic field they resemble a fluid with sections that are smooth interrupted by bursts of violence.
#NASA orbiter will use laser to bring broadband to moon The man in the moon is about to get his own version of a broadband connection as well as a visit from China.
We've never taken a picture of it IBEX mission scientist Eric Christian said today in a teleconference.
and paint a picture of the solar system using atoms instead of light Christian says. One surprise is that
As an alternative says Sarri the beams can be used to mimic the way particle fountains from black holes
The capsule will carry two men Nie Haisheng and Zhang Xiaoguang and one woman Wang Yaping.
and allowing them to keep growing until they were massive enough to overcome the death spiral.
when it reached a 5-kilometre-high mound of layered sediments in the middle of the crater.
when it reached a 5-kilometre-high mound of layered sediments in the middle of the crater.
Curiosity will keep heading for the layered sediments in the crater's central mound officially named Aeolis Mons
Interdisciplinary approachthe Institute-wide CPI will bring together scholars from three key disciplinary pillars: engineering social science and management.
and academic component to MIT and adds an important pillar to the formal strategic partnership announced by MIT and MGH last month.
We re showing we get much higher degrees of tumor cell death when we deliver the drug locally.
or programmed cell death in tumor cells near the capsules. However doxorubicin delivered to the brain did not perform as well as systemic injection of doxorubicin.
The research was supported by the U s. Department of energy the MIT Energy Initiative and the Chang family y
and has the additional benefits of absorbing sunlight from a wide range of angles and withstanding extremely high temperatures.
you might think of the popular science-fiction films inority Report (2002) or ron Man (2008). In those films, the protagonists use their hands
and, in 2008, for Jon Favreau ron Man, which both depicted similar technologies. Seeing this technology on the big screen inspired Underkoffler to refine his MIT technology,
#Neuroscientists reverse memories emotional associations Most memories have some kind of emotion associated with them: Recalling the week you just spent at the beach probably makes you feel happy
Furthermore the researchers found that they could reverse the emotional association of specific memories by manipulating brain cells with optogenetics a technique that uses light to control neuron activity.
Previous research has shown that many aspects of memory including emotional associations are malleable. Psychotherapists have taken advantage of this to help patients suffering from depression
when their hippocampal cells were activated showing that a pleasant association had replaced the fearful one. This reversal also took place in mice that went from reward to fear conditioning.
This suggests that emotional associations also called valences are encoded somewhere in the neural circuitry that connects the dentate gyrus to the amygdala the researchers say.
and amygdala cells that encode positive associations. That plasticity of the connection between the hippocampus and the amygdala plays a crucial role in the switching of the valence of the memory Tonegawa says.
the team analysis shows that the lead from a single car battery could produce enough solar panels to provide power for 30 households.
Plasmodium falciparum a blood-borne parasite carried by mosquitoes is responsible for most of the estimated 219 million cases and 655000 deaths from malaria per year.
Melanie Gonick/MIT Instead she and Zhu chose to manufacture an array of microscopic pillars that uniformly tilt in response to a magnetic field.
and bonded the nickel pillars to a soft transparent layer of silicone. The researchers exposed the material to an external magnetic field placing it between two large magnets
and found they were able to control the angle and direction of the pillars which tilted toward the angle of the magnetic field.
and the pillars will follow the field in real time Zhu says. Tilting toward a fieldin experiments the team piped a water solution through a syringe and onto the microhair array.
which the pillars tilted while being pinned highly or fixed in all other directions#an effect that was seen even
Through a combination of surface tension and tilting pillars water climbed up the array following the direction of the pillars.
while tilting the pillars at various angles and found she could control how much light passed through based on the angle at which the pillars bent.
In principle she says more complex magnetic fields could be designed to create intricate tilting patterns throughout an array.
Or depending on how you design the magnetic field you could get the pillars to close in like a flower.
Joining him on the paper are Ramesh Raskar the NEC Career development Professor of Media Arts and Sciences and director of the Media Lab s Camera Culture group and Berkeley s Fu-Chung
The display is a variation on a glasses-free 3-D technology also developed by the Camera Culture group.
They could also reproduce another Camera Culture project which diagnoses vision defects. So the same device could in effect determine the user s prescription
This could lead for example to more relevant online ads as well as enhanced gaming and online learning experiences.
and is resolved not by end that s a red flag el Kaliouby says. Affectiva has been working with advertisers to optimize their marketing content for a couple of years.
and families working together to achieve it. This is a pivotal moment says Thomas Insel director of the National institute of mental health (NIMH.
and a needed parallel effort to increase resources for services that can help patients and their families.
you may want your family to be able to share the pictures you post on a social-networking site.
What their quality of life? There are people who work on those buildings. We can provide them with better information to do their jobs,
flat-screen TVS, gaming consoles, laptops, electric bikes, and air conditioners, while reducing the cost of manufacturing.
#Glasses-free 3-D projector Over the past three years, researchers in the Camera Culture group at the MIT Media Lab have refined steadily a design for a glasses-free, multiperspective, 3-D video screen,
and Ramesh Raskar, the NEC Career development Associate professor of Media Arts and Sciences and head of the Camera Culture group built a prototype of their system using off-the-shelf components.
The researchers will present their work at the annual meeting of the Association for Computational linguistics in June.
which is caused by the death of dopamine-generating cells. Jasanoff lab is also working on sensors to track other neurotransmitters,
and Exposition, cosponsored by IEEE and the Power Sources Manufacturers Association. Taking home the infrastructure and resources prize was another MIT team, ulink,
At least among amputees Herr says Biom could help by fitting elderly populations with leg prostheses equal in biomechanical agility and control to a young adult s legs:
or consumers. conomists tend to think what drives international price differences are things like transportation costs, information costs, tariffs, cultural differences, and other factors,
This work shows that CRISPR can be used successfully in adults and also identifies several of the challenges that will need to be addressed moving forward to the development of human therapies says Charles Gersbach an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Duke university who was not part of the research team.
Other methods such as immunoassays, cultures, or polymerase chain reactions (PCR, which copies DNA) may be efficient in one area,
#How tumors escape About 90 percent of cancer deaths are caused by tumors that have spread from their original locations.
Additional benefits to the system Hynes says include reducing brake wear and maintenance and the time employees spend filling up at gas stations.
and now account for 70 percent of cancer mortality worldwide. Early detection has been proven to improve outcomes
The diagnostic which works much like a pregnancy test could reveal within minutes based on a urine sample
so they could be analyzed on paper using an approach known as a lateral flow assay the same technology used in pregnancy tests.
or had a family member with the disease. Eventually she would like to see it used for early detection throughout developing nations.
This program he says is not only Buddhism not only science not only leadership but the three things together.
while gaining exposure to the culture and mentality of the young Tibetans and monks who see things a different way.
and is used now by at least 70 percent of households in the country In a new paper published in the American Economic Review,
William Jack of Georgetown University, show that income shocks force households without access to M-PESA to reduce their consumption by 7 percent more than households in the M-PESA network.
an associate professor of applied economics at the MIT Sloan School of management. heye more likely to get money from their friends and family,
In all, about 50 percent of households in the study reported serious negative income shocks in the six months preceding the survey. hey face very high-risk environments
Suri says. hey also don have government programs like unemployment insurance or health insurance, and they don have private insurance either.
So use of M-PESA has flourished, up from 43 percent of households two years ago.
000 households in areas representing 92 percent of Kenya population. And they uncovered additional geographic patterns about the electronic money transfers:
of mobile technologies. t's intriguing to observe that this cost reduction allows families and friends to virtually fully insure themselves against negative events from crop failure to health shocks
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