and symbolic representations but rather with the way fluidics are routed combined mixed and analyzed; there's no need to stick with continuing to integrate more and more complex devices.
Trying to control how things mix has always been a major issue in this field just due to the way that fluids flow at very small dimensions explained Malmstadt.
People have come up with all sorts of ways to twist and turn the channels to try to improve the mixing.
Now a group of scientists in Chile has developed a way to create these delicate ultra-thin constructs through a dry process by evaporating two commercial off-the-shelf chemicals onto silicon surfaces.
or proteins and all known organisms On earth from the bittiest bacteria to the biggest blue whales use membranes in a multitude of ways.
and Rice postdoctoral researcher Gunuk Wang showed that using a porous version of silicon oxide could dramatically improve Rice's RRAM in several ways.
The Cedars-Sinai surgeons highlight the advantages of a spinal navigation technique that uses high-speed computerized tomography (CT) imaging to navigate in and around the spinal column from different angles.
Computer-guided surgical navigation technology delivers on quality and safety said J. Patrick Johnson MD a neurosurgery spine specialist and director of Spine Education and the Neurosurgery Spine Fellowship program in the Department of Neurosurgery.
The computerized navigation system uses a mobile CT SCANNER to take cross-sectional images of the spine while a patient is in surgery.
This approach represents a major leap forward for instrumented spine surgery said Terrence T. Kim MD an orthopedic spine surgeon in the Cedars-Sinai Spine Center and expert in the computer-guided navigation field.
Another study found that the computerized navigation system and the mobile CT SCANNER allowed for more accurate surgical placement even within the narrowest parts of the thoracic spine particularly challenging regions in women
and the potential future use of robotic spine surgery with computer navigation. The special issue of the journal can be accessed at:
According to the Gates Foundation the awards recognize researchers who are developing ways to manage human waste that will help improve the health and lives of people around the world.
We are continuously looking for ways to improve efficiency and lower costs he said. The great thing about the Gates Foundation is that they provide all of the teams with the resources they need Linden said.
which is why the spiny water flea aka Bythotrephes (pronounced BITH-oh-TREH-feez) is devouring its way through the Great lakes and into the surrounding inland waters.
Right now there's no way to get Bythotrephes out of infested lakes. But boaters and anglers can stop it from spreading.
The techniques are straightforward and familiar similar to the ones used against other aquatic hitchhikers like the VHS virus which threatened trout populations:
Some states such as Minnesota have launched Stop Hitchhikers campaigns to raise awareness and have installed spray units at public boat launches where boaters can clean their vessels and bait buckets.
Once people get behind an effort to stop hitchhikers it's really effective Kerfoot said. People do care.
Unfortunately that doesn't stop the odd Typhoid Mary. In some places along Highway 41 in Upper Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula every lake we tested with a boat ramp had Bythotrephes.
The primary highway for invasive aquatic species the ballast tanks of oceangoing vessels entering the Great lakes is still open.
since the St lawrence Seaway opened in 1959 many freighters still release contaminated ballast water into the system.
--or indeed comparing them in any way--requires putting benefits and costs on a common time footing.
and started thinking about new ways to apply his hobby. I never really thought you could do music with robots he said.
At the Wake Forest Medical center doctors use replica bodies to help train surgeons to use the Da vinci system Lee said.
and less expensive method for developing cell-based therapies for patients. own the road, you could potentially get enough cells from just a normal syringe-based blood draw,
Courtesy of the researchersthe researchers also tested the viability of their algorithm by using it to guide a crew of three robots in the assembly of a chair. ee really excited about the idea of using robots in more extensive ways in manufacturing,
But what makes planning really time-consuming is determining the optimal way for each robot to grasp each object it manipulating,
That way, it can be interrupted at any time, and it will still have a workable assembly plan.
efficient nanofiber production. e have demonstrated a systematic way to produce nanofibers through electrospinning that surpasses the state of the art,
who led the new work. ut the way that it done opens a very interesting possibility.
The work is n elegant and creative way of demonstrating the strong capability of traditional MEMS microelectromechanical systems fabrication processes toward parallel nanomanufacturing
Smartphones, DVRS, airplanes, the Internet without a clock, none of these could operate without frequent and serious complications.
A new way to manipulate matter The current chips are about half the size of a postage stamp,
is that it opens up a new way of thinking of computation in the physical world.
the physical aspects of bits of information has never been exploited as a new way to manipulate matter at the mesoscale (10 microns to 1 millimeter).
#Researchers Increase Energy-Burning Brown Fat cells A team of researchers has discovered a way to increase energy-burning human brown fat cells
Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) scientists have found a way to both make more energy-burning human brown fat cells
and those genes control UCP1 production in different ways. Some, Tseng said, act like on/off switches:
A second stage of the grant will help bring a pilot to India this summer.
e realized that a better way to make use of this flowable electrode technology was to reinvent the lithium ion manufacturing process. nstead of the standard method of applying liquid coatings to a roll of backing material,
This can lead the way to tiny, solar-powered sensors. The latest buzz in the information technology industry regards he Internet of thingsthe idea that vehicles, appliances, civil-engineering structures, manufacturing equipment,
The chirality of these biomolecules also strongly affects the way in which they interact with other molecules,
The information is distorted initially pre in a predictable and reversible way when it is sent through the optical fiber.
and Bao showed a beautiful way to exploit the controlled optical absorption of semiconductor quantum dots for miniature spectrometers.
because they would have to be matched individually to patients in the same way organs are matched to transplant recipients.
the hopping motion could be an effective way to move quickly and easily around obstacles. he wonderful thing about soft robots is that they lend themselves nicely to abuse,
and 3-D printing is adding to the repertoire of things we can do in a really practical way,
said LHCB spokesperson Guy Wilkinson. t represents a way to aggregate quarks, namely the fundamental constituents of ordinary protons and neutrons,
#New Technology Could Transform Solar energy Storage Chemists at UCLA have developed a new technology that is capable of storing solar energy for up to several weeks an advance that could change the way scientists think about designing solar cells.
A new technology developed by chemists at UCLA is capable of storing solar energy for up to several weeks an advance that could change the way scientists think about designing solar cells.
and they assemble into the appropriate structure because of the way the materials are designed, Schwartz said. o there no additional work.
that far down the road, but this paper offers a really exciting opportunity to crack a problem that is persistently present,
an international team of astronomers has discovered jets of material ejected by still-forming young brown dwarfs,
and found that four of them have the type of jets emitted by more-massive stars during their formation.
The jets were detected by radio observations with the VLA. The scientists also observed the brown dwarfs with the Spitzer
and Herschel space telescopes to confirm their status as very young objects. his is the first time that such jets have been found coming from brown dwarfs at such an early stage of their formation,
of the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the Academia Sinica in Taiwan. hese are the lowest-mass objects that seem to form the same way as stars,
In the early stages of star formation, jets of material are propelled outward from the poles of the disk.
No such jets mark planet formation, however. Previous evidence strongly suggested that brown dwarfs shared the same formation mechanism as their larger siblings
but detecting the telltale jets is an important confirmation. Based on this discovery, e conclude that the formation of brown dwarfs is scaled a-down version of the process that forms larger stars,
No problem for transit riders in Athens The primary goal of a transit system has been to get a rider from point A to point B. Collecting fares has typically been an afterthought,
which is why that process is usually set up for the transit system convenience not the rider.
when using transit. Masabi is known for its comprehensive mobile ticketing platform already in use by 22 transit agencies worldwide.
The partnership with Mastercard will make it even easier for transit customers to pay. Not only are the days of fumbling around for cash over
A transit overhaul in Athens The first city to benefit from the partnership is Athens, Greece,
which has a busy transit system used by 1 million people each day, but does not have a user friendly reputation.
The Mastercard/Masabi partnership allows riders to buy their tickets with a quick tap on their smartphone.
With rare exception, the contactless cards are tied to one particular transit system. Creating a regional card can be challenging
The rechargeable contactless cards used by many transit systems also create two lines: one to get on the bus,
subway or train and another at a kiosk to pay for their pass or put more funds on the card.
and the transit systems in Boston and San diego, among others m
#IBM Smarter Cities Challenge is back: Could your city use some pro bono problem solvers?
transportation, public safety or economic development. Team members meet in person with dozens of members of the local government, citizen, business,
and brainstormed ways that data analysis could help address them. It was built to solve real-life problems.
Dutch solar bike path performs better than expected We told you last fall about a bike path near Amsterdam referred to as Solaroad.
pave roads with solar panels that could eventually provide power for street lights and traffic controls, and maybe even homes and electric vehicles.
Sustainable Business reports the short stretch of bike path has produced already more power than anticipated. The 230-foot stretch has produced 3, 000 kilowatt-hours of power,
The project developers believe about 20%of the country roads would be suitable for solar panel installations.
A somewhat different approach in the U s. Idaho-based Solar Roadways has been working on a similar goal paving roads and other surfaces with solar panels.
Solar Roadways secured an $850, 000 Federal Highway Administration grant for a pilot project and it managed to raise $2. 2 million in a crowdfunding effort last year.
Solar Roadways developed its first road panel in 2009 and with the help of additional grants, finished up an experimental solar-paneled parking lot last year.
and a uniquely detailed way to visualize the network's operations. On the technology side, smart water networks include the integration of supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA),
they would just waste the opportunity in one way or another. A University of Pennsylvania study,
almost every city of scale is deploying smart technologies in transport, resources management and services, from Busan to Shanghai, Tokyo to Manila,
You just have to lay out the route one time and the robot follows it. It's very low cost
or change the route whenever you like. And there no danger of electrocution or electric shock because only a very low voltage passes through it,
Co-creation is all part of the citizen-centric way of thinking.""All three studios are examples of designers that have placed public good at the heart of their practice."
greener way of getting natural gas out of the ground through hydraulic fracturing.##The investment falls under GE's Ecoimagination program, a cross-company business initiative that has used already $12 billion
The task force turned to crowdsourcing to develop a design for the memorial to the passengers and crew of Flight 93.
#Where the bio-rubber meets the road My posts about biotechnology as it relates to agriculture tend to draw impassioned naysayers,
but it's encouraging to hear from the NSF's Dr. Farnam Jahanian about what high-speed communities that will participate in U s. Ignite are already doing in the way of creating new and valuable applications.
and obstacles and the ways the U s. can overcome them. But a lot of the information is locked away in bureaucratic and legal language.#
Tap tech: Use information technology to infuse intelligence and visibility into the power grid. This will enable utilities to better monitor
and better ways to control and self-regulate it in order to save money and energy. Smart meters are key.
It's like trying to repair an airplane while it's in the middle of a cross-continental flight.
Too many cooks in the kitchen: Lots of different states, municipalities, and companies have control and regulation over the way the electrical grid works across the U s,
. and so there are a lot of different stakeholders who have a say in how things are done. As a result, any sweeping national changes are almost impossible to push.
Who will pay to maintain the Internet as traffic continues to surge? What about razor-thin margins in Europe?
Fundamentally, the Internet is the world's first global infrastructure problem, no different than a city's public transit system or a nation's network of highways:
This is a perfect way to avoid the risk of creating entirely new markets which often go through a painful not yet-serving-hundreds-of-millions period and
with companies like Flipboard leading the way. Social sites like Linkedin and Facebook are building news products.
With Google out of the way, RSS might finally develop to its full potential. Via Businessweek Image:
such as The Home depot, are viewing mobile technology as a new way to inspire customer loyalty
The idea is to help urban shoppers avoid having to lug heavy purchases on subways.
Other technology companies are explicitly positioning their technologies as a way to help retailers embrace
But young people aren't simply swapping cars for buses or bikes; they are choosing to own
while travelling by bus, train or as a passenger in a car, only 10 per cent of them said they did so
Now think about where mass transit works best--where young people, retirees and even families are able to simply abolish their use of cars.
As young people turn away from cars--a phenomenon so powerful that it has had the marketing departments of car companies running scared for years--they are left with no other option than mass transit,
Commuting an hour each way so you can be underwater on your mortgage, have a two-car garage
it seems Apple may be looking at new ways to add clean energy to its manufacturing processes.
Currently, there are about 13,000 open APIS businesses can tap into, and millions more being created internally within enterprises.
This is the way open source is supposed to work. The software is free, but you need help,
and spend way too much money before they get their web product online. As a rule of thumb, don t spend more than 3-6 months building your web product before you put some version of it online,
The cost of new oil supply Saudi arabia taps China for nuclea a
#Why share and share alike makes a great business model SAN FRANCISCO-The quintessential example of how sharing an asset can be at the center of a business is probably the Zipcar car sharing organization,
I think that the reason Zipcar is winning is that they are in the business of information, not transport,
but the most compelling is parent recognition that it will help their children down the road.
which the same combination of consonants and vowels can be pronounced totally different ways --and it s much easier to learn that in earlier years.
Every human brain has the capacity to learn a language the same way we learn our native tongue.
Increasingly, Sarah Goodyear reports for The Atlantic cities, suburbs throughout the United states are investing in bicycle infrastructure.
The latest clue comes from the annual designation of Bicycle Friendly Communities by the League of American Bicyclists, a four-tier rating system that ranks communities from bronze to platinum based on everything from bike infrastructure
to laws protecting cyclists. This year many of the 32 communities to make the list for the first time are suburbs, from Montclair
S uburban leaders are seeking out a bicycle friendly designation because they think it makes their communities more attractive to new businesses and residents.
Amenities like good bike infrastructure can help set a suburb or small city apart from its sprawling counterparts.
WPC leads the way, and its open platform theoretically offers the easiest path for companies planning new product development that supports wireless charging options.
Clearly, driving continues to trend downward--travel on all roads and streets was-1. 4 percent in February 2013 compared to one year earlier.
states making it difficult to get a driver's license; young people living near transit, in denser communities;
and technology lessening the need for a car. So is this a trend we can expect to continue?
and that s in a highly disposable way. You have this polymer that s made from carcinogenic compounds like benzene
But if this material gets put in your garden or on the side of the road, it starts breaking down like a seed husk within three months to a year.
The question is what s the best way to do it. There s a lot of places where we can just replace Styrofoam.
According to the Stern report, keeping forests intact is one of the most cost-effective ways to cut carbon emissions."
and are greater than those of all cars, trucks, planes, ships, and trains worldwide.""The program is in testing right now,
1. The intercity bus was the sole major long-distance passenger transportation mode that grew appreciably in 2011.
a 32.1%increase. 3. Passenger traffic on curbside operators grew by approximately 30%.%In absolute terms, we believe this represents the largest expansion of passenger traffic on curbside operators
since the sector emerged as a significant transportation mode in 2006.4. Evidence suggests that the two largest Megabus. com hubs,
Chicago and New york, are now profitable, indicating that the core business model is financially sustainable. This is a significant rise.
and more intercity routes people are taking more trips, period. The interesting thing we need to note as Felix Salmon in Reuters notes here,
Bolt Bus and Limoliner have jumped into the market offering cheap routes, Wi-fi, higher safety standards,
More traffic in existing hubs in New york, Chicago and Philadelphia is also bolstering growth, said Bryony Chamberlain,
and brings the long-distance, intercity buses to a new market, Chamberlain said in a telephone interview. t much nicer to be sitting there being driven somewhere than sitting in traffic.
As Salmon notes in his piece the travel industry has to improve current Wi-fi access in hotels, planes,
that the mobile web is actually changing the way we travel from city to city. via Reuters t
#Smart Highway: Solar power Bike path Opens In Netherlands This Week On November 12, 2014, The netherlands will proudly open up the world first public solar powered road.
The smart highway connects the Amsterdam suburbs of Krommenie and Wormerveer. According to the Guardian, nearly 2000 cyclists ride the bike path every day.
Now, in addition to providing an easy path for commuters, the bike path will also provide energy to the town.
Collective-Evolution notes that the solar panels embedded in the concrete bike path are not as efficient as panels installed on homes
because they cannot be adjusted to the position of the sun. Of course, the solar panels on the smart highway cover about 75 yards of roadway which is slightly more than you can fit on a roof.
The netherlands TNO research institute also gave the road a nonadhesive finish and built it at a slight tilt
in order to keep it clean and give the road maximum exposure. The road will be expanded to a little over 100 yards by 2016
and will be able to produce enough energy to power three homes. The smart highway, officially called Solaroad by TNO, is just the beginning of Netherland solar transition.
The institute said that about 20%of Netherland roads could be converted to smart highways. The Solaroad may be the first solar-powered bike path
but it will soon have company. In 2009, two US engineers, Julie and Scott Brusaw, received a contract from the Federal Highway Administration to build a prototype in the United states
. If you happen to speak Dutch, you can check out a video about the Solaroad here.
If not, you can learn more about Solar Freakinroadways below l
#New'Twin peaks'Episodes To Air On Showtime In 2016 Yep, it true. David lynch is bringing Twin peaks back to television.
The award winning director caused Twitter mayhem last week when he sent out a cryptic tweet about some amn good coffee.
It been a little while since Twin peaks has been on the air so don feel bad
if you don get the joke. Lynch was referencing special agent Dale Cooper who loved himself a amn fine cup of coffee.
This new U s.-Cuba relationship is being called a way to ormalize diplomatic relations with Cuba.
#Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 Shot Down Over Ukraine Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 crashed today over the Ukraine.
The Boeing 777 was carrying 280 passengers and 15 crew members when it left Amsterdam on its way to Kuala lumpur International airport.
According to the Russian news agency Interfax Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down over Eastern Ukraine after it failed to enter Russian airspace.#
Interfax agency says Malaysian passenger airliner was shot down at altitude of 10 km above Eastern Ukrainereuters Top News(@Reuters) July 17 2014malaysia Airlines has confirmed not the cause of the crash.
The airline did say in a Facebook post that it lost contact with flight MH17 over Ukraine airspace.//
and an official with the Russian Emergency Ministry told Gawker that bodies from flight#MH17 were scattered over a 10 mile radius.#BREAKING:
Flight#MH-17#Torez#Donetsk#Ukraine by Nadezhda Chernetskaya pic. twitter. com/z4bydeovcp legionar(@Matevznovak) July 17 2014flight#MH-17#Torez#Donetsk#Ukraine.
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#Spacex Postpones Cargo Launch Daring Rocket Test to Saturday Spacex has delayed its next robotic cargo launch toward the International space station
2, 270 kilograms) of food, scientific experiments and spare parts on its way to the orbiting lab
Spacex holds a $1. 6 billion contract with NASA to complete 12 cargo runs to the space station.
Orbital's first two flights went well, but the third was lost in late October when Antares exploded shortly after liftoff y
such as on ships and planes,"says Adams
#Monitor Diabetes From Your Smart Watch My son, Evan, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in August 2012.
Dexcom own Windows software was pulling data in this way, and fortunately, Dexcom supplied an API (application programming interface) library as part of its software installation.
and captured the USB traffic as it flowed between my computer and the receiver. With this data,
Why not tap into the GPS sensors in people phones and navigation systems, he says. GPS-equipped cellphones are ubiquitous in developing countries,
but they often sounded worse because of the way they compressed speech to squeeze more calls into the limited mobile spectrum.
because speech and music are compressed in different ways. Voice compression typically relies on algorithms called code-excited linear prediction (CELP),
#Knitted Supercapacitors to Power Smart Shirts Researchers from Drexel University in collaboration with the U s. Naval academy, have invented a way to embed activated carbon particles into different types of yarn to form a knitted textile that can store
the robot is going to have to just find some way of continuing to operate as best as it can without any direct human assistance.
The development of the technology has proceeded by measured steps, much like the progress toward the driverless carirst antilock brakes, next GPS navigation, then adaptive cruise control and self-parking.
The only way to match it is by growing or implanting new insulin-secreting cells in the patient body.
Efforts in that direction have achieved scattered successes since the development, in the 1970s, of ways of controlling tissue rejection.
even though it will never duplicate the human body. e know an airplane isn better than a bird,
One way to speed the insulin effects is to implant a pump right inside the abdominal cavity,
A machine that senses which way your blood sugar is going and keeps it on the right trackow hard could it be?
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