But former House speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.)tweeted: hat is the global internet community that Obama wants to turn the internet over to?
the sound waves behave like there is nothing more than a flat surface in their path. To achieve this trick,
what they would look like had had reflected they off a flat surface. Because the sound is not reaching the surface beneath,
Cummer and his team then compared the videos to those created with both an unobstructed flat surface
all regenerative projects have run up against the same wall when trying to build thicker and more complex tissues:
the company said that by 2020 the battery cell output of the factory would be 35 gigawatt hours per year,
Given Tesla production goals outline above, the planned factory would more than double the current entire world lithium ion battery production.
Tesla factory could be the largest factory of any kind, anywhere in the world in terms of inputs in and outputs out, said Jaffe,
and Chinese lithium battery manufacturer Thunder Sky Group had been looking to build a battery factory in Russia working with Russian state run agency RUSNANO this would have been the largest lithium ion battery factory in the world (I not sure of the current
status of this factory). The second largest producer of batteries in the world in 2012 was Japan, with about 7 gigawatt hours.
Tesla factory will also be a competitive threat to Chinese battery production dominance and will help lower the overall price of lithium ion batteries globally. ust the threat of (Tesla CEO) Elon musk building this huge factory will lower prices,
says Wartena, as the companies will be willing to lower their margins to compete. Like Tesla has done with many of its strategies
It should be noted that Tesla hasn confirmed that Panasonic is the battery supplier partner for the planned factory.
which means batteries used for buildings, the grid and even homes. As wee reported before,
If Tesla is able to reduce the cost of lithium ion batteries by a third with its new factory,
Vicsek says that those attempts involved cutting some corners the copters were restricted to indoor arenas or controlled by a central computer.
If Vicsek tells them that they face a wall with a gap in it, they can queue up to squeeze through.
the devices that we work with nowadays do not allow for building up skill on a motor control level.
but 2014 may leave skeptics even further behind developers and entrepreneurs are already hard at work building features on top of the Bitcoin protocol that will allow for the decentralized execution of financial services, from currency hedging to loans to stock
Microsoft SQL SERVER 2014 Fast Track is a program to develop reference architectures to give medium to large data warehouses a step-by-step guide to building out a data warehouse using well-tuned hardware.
whether it s a Meatless Monday or any other day we'd spare more than one billion animals from the horrors of factory farms
So do ocean dwelling distant relatives like shrimp. It's why they make such a loud crunching sound
which required constant access to the store housing valuable equipment and it had been determined that having a full time staffing of the room was impractical.
The solution provided was an installation of a kiosk with a fully automated inventory system with
The kiosk has an inventory scanner and a touch screen monitor to allow miners to interact with the system;
and the equivalent of around 20 Olympic swimming pools of rainwater-quality water was discharged safely. Sludge is a semisolid by-product of wastewater treatment
the S2 RANGER X-ray spectrometer achieves superb light element performance and analytical precision for applications in cement, minerals and mining, petrochemistry, and research.
TORC provided tele-operated systems that enable remediation of high wall failures to begin much sooner than it would with manned equipment.
The TORC solution converted existing equipment (a CAT 793d haul truck and a Hitachi EX5600 hydraulic excavator) to operate via a tele-operated control system.
Once the operator is in the remote control room the vehicle is driven remotely into the hazardous zone.
Atlas copco says that risks of working close to unstable and hazardous benches close to the wall are well known
and is jolting over rough pavement. Organic Transit's ELF on its way to Boston. Photo:
the Silk Leaf could also be used as building material to produce clean air for buildings. Melchiorri has developed even some simple home uses for the material,
Deforested land could potentially be offset with buildings and other structures that are lined with Silk Leaf material.
and can be mounted on the wall. Photo: BMW) BMW fast charger uses the Society of Automotive Engineersomboplug
#Transparent solar windows generate energy without obstructing the view Imagine being able to generate solar energy on the surface of every window
"It can be used on tall buildings with lots of windows or any kind of mobile device that demands high aesthetic quality like a phone or e reader.
These ultra-cold gemstones effectively acted as prisons trapping the electrons and allowing the scientists to accurately establish their spin or value.
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.
whose genome contains man-made DNA building blocks opens the door for tailor-made organisms that could be used to produce new drugs and other products.
But proteins are limited to only 20 building blocks, known as amino acids.""Compare this to a medicinal chemist,
I couldn pull my twins in our double trailerhe hill to our house was too steep.
but you have to watch this local cyclists band together to move an entire apartment. And it looks like theye having loads of fun doing it t
A low-end kitchen blender can make a high-end batch of this valuable material Blenders can be a great way to make smoothies or margaritas,
Researchers have figured out how to use ordinary kitchen blenders to create thin sheets of graphene, a marvelous high-tech material that is just one atom thick but 100 times stronger than steel.
but they also replicated it in a fairly low-end kitchen blender. The process still worked in the cheaper, less precise device."
This doesn't mean that your average person could start mixing up graphene in their kitchen the liquid and detergent need to be removed
if your house produced more energy than it consumed? Does that mean negative utility bills?
Japanese companies are fascinated with net-zero energy buildings, usually incorporating transportation as part of the mix.
Panasonic Eco Ideas House, with solar, a fuel cell, battery backup and a plug-in Toyota prius, has stood long next to a company headquarters in Tokyo,
The house (incorporating elements of Honda's Smart Home System, below) is furnished fully, and a UC-Davis employee is going to live in it for at least three years.
The company broke ground on the house last year, declaring it to be a"showplace for environmental innovation."
"Honda Smart Home The house design is pleasant enough, but you won see its green features just by looking at it.
The solar will generate more than enough energy to heat the house, supply the appliances, and power a Honda Fit electric car.
The Home energy management System (HEMS) optimizes the house microgrid, so that the Fit can charge during the low-demand nighttime,
For instance, amber hallway lights are bright enough for occupants to navigate the corridor, but not disruptive of the human eye production of rhodopsin (which helps us see in darkness,
and return to sleep quickly after a bathroom break). Blue light during the day helps maintain alertness.
and cooling (the south-facing windows) and natural light and ventilation (the north-facing windows). The property is also five times more water-efficient than the normal house, with low-flow fixtures and short-run hot-water pipes.
Graywater was used for irrigation, natural ash replaced half the foundation cement (production of which produces five percent of global CO2 EMISSIONS),
and certified lumber was used throughout. Over a year, the house is expected to generate a 2. 6-megawatt-hour surplus (compared to the average home consumption of 13.3 megawatts.
California official plan calls for all new homes to be net zero by 2020, so Honda house is tomorrow dwelling today.
Here's a video overview of the Honda Smart House, and if you want to learn more,
explore this infographic which goes into more detail about how the house works e
#Synthetic yeast chromosome paves the way for designer genomes A chunk of the genetic blueprint for yeast has been created
The researchers could make millions and millions of different decks of genetic cards which could give yeast totally new properties.
He predicts that designer mini-chromosomes will be developed first building on gene therapy which seeks to treat diseases by replacing defective genes with functional ones.
and building materials had some of the same advantages as living things, such as the ability to self-heal.
Street lamps kept aglow by sewage sludge. An entire town filled with chicken manure-heated homes. The latest initiative in England that's transforming landfill-bound organic waste and excreta into bio-based fuel?
Come for the nightlife street art and that charming West country drawl. Stay for the human excrement-powered airport shuttle.
or close windows in a building to maintain the temperature or even to make clothing with fibers that expand
High-school students in their family room can make their own muscles and deploy them Baughman added.
and close heavy windows in a building in response to the air temperature without motors or electricity which the researchers demonstrated.
if every purchase I made at a brick and mortar store gave me a digital receipt it would be wonderful.
If I received a digital receipt every time I bought office supplies or picked up a prescription or paid for a restaurant meal
imagine the power of a computer so big that it needs its own room. The announcement that the U s. Department of energy is planning to spend $425 million to build two supercomputers that are 5 to 7 times faster than any supercomputer in history is big news
so that a nearby delivery person could have it to my house within minutes or a few hours of ordering.
Designers of commercial 3-D printers believe that in the near future we'll be able to download such recipes and print them in our home kitchens.
and manipulate the correct kitchen tools and use them to complete specific tasks with great accuracy,
reports Princeton News. The minuscule device is powered by individual electrons that tunnel through artificial atoms known as"quantum dots,
or 2g connections) the Oneweb network would also give much-needed global emergency and first responder access for natural disasters refugee camps and other humanitarian needs.
I would see people move into apartments and fill their living rooms with a big desktop computer, a big TV and a stereo system with giant CD racks.
There was almost no room left for furniture. I thought there was an opportunity to clean up this mess,
Flat-screen LED TVS got so cheap and so big that people are now wallpapering their walls with them;
everybody has a home theater that would have cost tens of thousands of dollars just a few years ago.
but it's also only $149 including Windows, which retails on its own for $154. 99 at my local computer store.
and the huge infrastructure investments in them are made on a whim for political reasons for pork a highway here and a bridge to nowhere there.
It called BIM or Building Information Modelling. This lets them make changes and see the results on the fly;
and concrete might be needed and its impact on cost. Autocase from Impact Infrastructure adds triple bottom line analysis into the mix.
It plugs right in to the Autocad that many civil engineers use. Right now the system is capable of dealing with stormwater which at first glance
As Stewart noted in her Economist articlethey are following up with modules for transit roads highways and buildings.
just a few moments before, looked nothing like the clear liquid you expect to come out of your kitchen faucet."
and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as part of the foundation ongoing mission to bring clean drinking water and safe means of sanitation to developing parts of the world.
the Gates Foundation launched the Reinventing the Toilet Challenge, a competition that yielded, among other things,
Gates himself describes the waste-to-water process on his Gates Notes blog: I watched the piles of feces go up the conveyer belt and drop into a large bin.
As Gates explains, that machine will be able to handle the waste of 100, 000 people and, from that, produce 86,000 liters of clean water on a daily basis while also generating a net 250 kilowatts of electricity.
the Gates Foundation will promote the building of self-powered Omniprocessor facilities in other parts of the world (Gates specifically mentions India) where clean drinking water
As Gates notes, poor sanitation claims the lives of upwards of 700,000 children in developing areas every year,
Gates envisions that each Omniprocessor will be built and operated using a micro-entrepreneurial model where local residents would benefit economically from the facilities. he processor wouldn just keep human waste out of the drinking water;
"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,
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Rotary international and the governments of the UK and Germany this week pledged $630 million over five years for a massive final push to eradicate the crippling disease.
The Gates Foundation will give Rotary $255 million, with Rotary pledging to raise $100 million,
"Gates adds, "but I'm optimistic we will be successful. u
#FDA ready to regulate transgenic animals: Nature News The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has adopted a policy that will govern approval of the use of genetically engineered animals.
"You can't persuade shareholders that they should invest money indefinitely in the absence of any light at the end of the tunnel,
Nature News A simple change to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines will provide more uniform coverage at higher powers as well as more room for portly patients.
and if particulate filters in cars and factories become more common o
#Obama appoints first federal IT chief: Nature News The Blackberry-toting Barack Obama last week took a step towards modernizing the US government's information system by appointing Vivek Kundra to the newly created post of chief information officer.
There will be new projects to support studies in life sciences and civil engineering.#
#Overharvesting leaves Himalayan Viagra fungus feeling short Yarsagumba, the world s most expensive medicinal fungus, is in serious decline in Nepal because of over-harvesting,
Texas."The data-points that matter will be different in a picture of the Eiffel Tower and a picture of your mother,
The budget includes#3. 8#billion for a new building at Sasai s centre, with planned projects being largely collaborative ventures with Japanese businesses.
like a series of tiny walls within a larger structure. The essence of the researchers strategy for this latest effort, says lead study author Yongjun Tian of Yanshan University in China,
#Court lifts cloud over embryonic stem cells The US Supreme court s decision last week to throw out a lawsuit that would have blocked federal funding of all research on human embryonic stem cells
#Quantum dots go on display Live from your living room, in super#saturated colour: it s the quantum dot TV!
Three female health workers, accompanied by a community leader, dart from house to house, squeezing a few drops of polio vaccine into the mouths of all the young children they can find,
even those who pass by on the street. By 1#p m.,after giving hundreds of doses, they stop for the day###the first of a national five-day effort.
"His experiments have forced a lot of people to think very clearly about profound aspects in this arena of atomic physics and relativity i
Although Leigh s rotaxane mimics the ribosome in its sequential building of peptides, the sulphur-assisted amino acid transfer is found elsewhere in biology:
-),started building in 2006, when Todd Sacktor at the SUNY Downstate Medical center in New york city wiped out established spatial memories in rats.
and the House in pre-dawn votes on 1 and 2 january keeps researchers on tenterhooks for at least another two months by delaying mandatory spending cuts that could threaten science funding.
Peter Hall, who studies energy storage at the University of Sheffield, UK, says that people who hope to use methanol,
says Hall, is in communities that are isolated from the electricity grid but rely on harvesting renewable energy and storing it as hydrogen,
"Just to throw that out the window doesn t seem like the ideal scenario. Whatever the decision, the pharmaceutical industry will be watching closely,
Planets smaller than Earth block relatively small amounts of starlight which limits astronomers ability to detect them with Kepler.
To that end, researchers at the Massachusetts institute of technology (MIT) in Cambridge have devised a set of simple genetic modules that respond to inputs much like the Boolean logic gates used in computers."
Called the European Lead Factory, the consortium consists of 30 academic and corporate partners, and aims to fill company pipelines with promising drug candidates.
Lead-factory scientists will run these assays free of charge and confirm any promising results, working mainly in laboratory space closed by Merck in 2011 at Oss in The netherlands.
Factory partners will get first right of refusal in licensing deals. Such restrictions are essential
and the Gates Foundation to apply the techniques to the eradication of polio. But if we could use this to move away from inactivated polio viruses in the vaccines,
a voltage at the transistor s gate terminal allows current to flow through a semiconductor inside the device.
but most require very low temperatures#otherwise, the electrons gather enough energy to tunnel through the semiconductor,
where he can run analyses without having to set up the infrastructure in-house. The cost is about $100 per person.
Seven Bridges Genomics, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, aims to be accessible to people with no expertise in bioinformatics,
which the operations would threaten deep-sea life such as sediment-dwelling sea cucumbers, worms and small crustaceans,
but have taken also to living under bridges and highway overpasses. As the two researchers checked the roadside colonies, Brown, an amateur taxidermist,
or take off from the pavement, Brown explains. And that in turn would enable them to survive
Taxidermist Johannes Erritzoe at the House of Birdresearch in Christiansfeld Denmark, has noticed also a decline in the number vehicle-killed birds around Denmark,
Clenbuterol showed a narrow beneficial window for increased contraction. Both of these effects have been documented in humans.
Just like a set of building blocks, the neural network in the spinal cord is able to combine these basic patterns flexibly to suit the motor requirement,
The new knowledge the project has generated can shed more light on diseases that affect the myelin
#Our findings open a new window into the normal and diseased brain by providing the first evidence that DNA variation in individual neurons could be related to brain function
"In addition to tighter lab security and tougher laws, the trio called for yeast strains to be engineered to produce drugs with limited street value,
Tests confirmed the presence of vascular cells along blood vessel walls and muscle cells growing in fibrous structures.
Lieber said the stiffness of flexible electronic sensor is four to six orders magnitude bigger than current electronics. ells can penetrate through this,
#Robotic Bricklayer Can Build A House in Two Days Yes, robots are taking over a worrisome number of jobs,
An Australian engineer has developed an industrial-sized bricklaying robot that can put down hundreds of bricks per hour, 24 hours a day, with superhuman precision.
after the Roman empire who assembled a massive defensive wall in northern England to keep out formidable Scottish highlanders.
Hadrian then cuts its own individual bricks and shuttles them along the articulated arm of a 28-meter-long telescopic boom.
An automated mechanism at the end of the crane arm then places the bricks individually, sealing each with mortar.
By automating the loading, cutting routing and placing and working around-the-clock Picav says Hadrian can complete a standard house structure within two days.
The Hadrian robot is all-electric, too, and designed to minimize greenhouse gas emissions. Pivac new company, Fastbrick Robotics, recently posted an animated video of Hadrian in action n
the Wi-fi trash cans provide a strong signal that not blocked by buildings or other structures.
and Wi-fi hot spots. More than 10,000 refurbished pay phone kiosks are set to go live by the end of the year.
#Smog Harvested from Tower Made into Jewelry A Smog Free Tower that stands 23 feet tall is being built to scrub pollution out of the air in parks and other public outdoor spaces in Rotterdam, The netherlands.
One tower alone is capable of cleaning 123 million cubic feet of clean air per day.
Daan Roosegaarde, The netherlands-based innovator leading the tower project, says he woke up one day obsessed with the idea of pollution.
After its Netherlands debut, the company hopes to set up towers in other cities as well, including India, Mexico city and Beijing i
and grow new bacterial coloniesany scooped out of soil in the backyard of microbiologist Losee Ling,
Have not heard anything concrete yet, "Peiris e-mailed today.)So far, Korea has quarantined close to 700 people to stop the spread of the virus
Their markers light up if an additional oligomer that bridges the two halves binds to both,
Want to find out who is dumping waste near your house? You need to call the space detectives.
And it won't cost much more than having your house surveyed Harris says. It might seem a simple matter for someone to use Google earth say
Wheeler has sought satellite imagery as evidence in three cases a murder assessing the progress of a bridge build
Her team had similar problems on the bridge case but Wheeler says someone with more specialised knowledge might have done better.
They can also heat buildings and double as portable power-packs for computers or other kit used in the field.
one of the cornerstones of the Nobel prizewinning discovery that the expansion of the universe is accelerating had never been tested directly.
and then precisely timed laser pulses to strike the cylinder's interior walls. This caused the gold to emit an avalanche of X-rays that bombarded the stone triggering powerful compression waves inside it.
The new vehicle has simple silvery walls seats for up to seven passengers and a set of flatscreen control panels.
Passengers on the Dragon V2 won't get much leg room (Image: Spacex) NASA ASTRONAUTS are not set to ride in the Dragon V2 until 2017.
If you look out of a plane window you see mountain ranges and then long rolling plains.
To simulate Mars's thin atmosphere On earth the team in Hawaii will first lift a test vehicle fitted with the LDSD system to about 37 kilometres above the Pacific ocean using a high-altitude balloon.
Think about it like a bridge for humans to Mars. This is the next step in a sequence of technologies that would need to be developed d
Data from NASA's Galileo probe which orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003 show clay-like minerals on Europa's surface probably debris from meteor impacts
or low-density hydrated minerals like clays. Either answer suggests that the rock has been in substantial contact with water for instance allowing minerals to dissolve
Once inside the abdominal cavity which has been filled with inert gas to make room for it to work the robot can remove an ailing appendix, cut pieces from a diseased colon or repair a perforated gastric ulcer.
and carefully shaped magnetic field that stops xenon ions from hitting the engine walls and going to waste.
which are the building blocks of proteins. What's more one comet Wild 2 was shown recently to contain the simplest amino acid glycine.
A tabletop device just 10 square metres in size can spit out energetic bursts of positrons as dense as those kicked out by the giant particle-factories at CERN.
The astronauts will rendezvous with the Tiangong 1 (Heavenly Palace 1) space module which has been orbiting Earth since September 2011.
so it might be more of a comet factory says van der Marel. We really hope that in the next coming years we're going to find similar dust traps around other stars where they are close enough to the star that they can form a planet she says.
According to Curiosity's onboard chemistry lab the sample is between 20 and 30 per cent smectite a clay mineral that forms in the presence of water.
The instruments showed that between 20 and 30 per cent of the dust is called a clay mineral smectite
A network of such orbiters should be able to provide coverage that is similar to the signals terrestrial cellular towers already pump out."
and replacing cadmium and zinc building blocks with less hazardous materials. This eliminates 40 000 gallons of toxic solvents and 100 kilograms of toxic cadmium waste in U s. production each year.
they soon found themselves up all night in a lab in Building 13, fleshing out a business strategy.
so they can be assembled from building blocks made of polymer chains carrying either an organic MRI contrast agent called a nitroxide
or a fluorescent molecule called Cy5. 5. When mixed together in a desired ratio these building blocks join to form a specific nanosized structure the authors call a branched bottlebrush polymer.
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