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#MASSIVIT 3d shows off GDP Gel Dispensing 3d printing technology by printing a Strati car Jun 26, 2015 By Alecgenerally speaking,

It opens the way to 3d printing much larger objects, from machine casings, to furniture and much more.

This obviously opens the way to some serious large scale 3d printing as the Israeli engineers emphasize by 3d printing the body of a car.

which will be on display at Ecomotion, a gathering of people from the Smart Transportation industry. Lior Zeno, community manager of Ecomotion, told reporters that innovations like this are exactly

The collaboration between Local Motors and Autodesk shows the huge possibilities for the smart transportation community in Israel.


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#Byxee, first smart safety device for bike is brought to life thanks to Kentstrapper Volta 3d printer Jun 29,

2015 By Simonalthough many cyclists may think that they can spot road hazards with enough time to stop before them,

Now, a new device from Pesaro, Italy is bringing some of those smart technologies into a portable solution that can be strapped to any existing bicycle-rather than some of the futuristic (and likely very expensive) concepts that we have been seeing.

anything that measures more than 3 inches/76 mm) the cyclist is alerted via an audio alert.

This process of scanning the road in front of the bicycle happens hundreds of times per second at distances of up to 80 feet (25 m)- meaning that the alerts are highly-responsive to any number of potential hazards ranging from pedestrians to cars and flying


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which is capable of producing printed solar cells that are both flexible and inexpensive to transport,

the use of additive manufacturing methods to produce the cells is surely one of the most efficient ways of doing so regardless of where they end up setting up shop.


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Among others, researchers at the University of Southampton have been exploring ways of using additive manufacturing to produce optical fibers.

This new way of producing the fibers not only has the potential to dramatically change how existing fibers are produced,

but also pave the way for more complex optical fiber structures that are able to host a variety of applications for industries ranging from telecommunications and aerospace to biotechnologies and more."

"We hope our work will open up a route to manufacture novel fibre structures in silica and other glasses for a wide range of applications, covering telecommunications, sensing, lab-in-a-fibre, metamaterial fibre,


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and a high degree of protein activity could be measured up to day 9. This suggests that bioprinting is a viable route to the production of mechanically strong constructs for bone repair under mild conditions


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In short, the 3d bioprinting revolution is definitely on its way, and Chinese scientists can be found at its forefront. i


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The new results will help pave the way for DNA NANOTECHNOLOGY in medicine over the next 10 years.


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For D Printed Exoskeleton Hand Paves the Way to Transhumanist Future While wee covered numerous stories about 3d printing used to get prostheses to those in need,


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Siyi, a Computer & Control engineering student at Nankai University, explains, his way, people with disabilities will be able to feel the relative temperature level of an object.


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This 3d printed catalyst bed and all of the additive manufactured parts that are making their way through trials will certainly impact the space industry by encouraging innovative design and material use


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#British scientists develop self-healing aircraft wing technology Researchers at the University of Bristol have developed a new technology that will allow aircraft wings

and fuselage to recover themselves during flight, in the event of any undetectable cracks. The team has been working on the technology over the past three years in partnership with aerospace engineers.

because you don't want an aeroplane wing with a big red splodge on it showing that it's been damaged."


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#Aerojet Rocketdyne trials power system for solar electric propulsion spacecraft Aerojet Rocketdyne has completed tests on a prototype Powertrain system designed to improve power capabilities of solar electric propulsion (SEP) spacecraft.

"For high-power SEP modules such as those that Nasa envisions for transporting cargo to Mars, it will be critical to efficiently process

the Powertrain SEP system is said to be compatible with the existing and future Hall propulsion systems.


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plan new activities and preview the results of their work firsthand. e believe Onsight will enhance the ways in

and engineers looking to interact with Mars in a more natural, human way. reviously, our Mars explorers have been stuck on one side of a computer screen.


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#Raytheon acquires Tucson-based Sensintel Inc. Raytheon has acquired privately-held Sensintel, Inc.,a leading provider of unmanned aircraft systems solutions to the intelligence and special operations markets.

Terms of the agreement were disclosed not. ensintel expertise in unmanned aircraft systems solutions makes it a natural fit with Raytheon Advanced Missile Systems product line,


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The Planetary Society is planning a second, full solar sailing demonstration flight for 2016. NASA selected Lightsail as part of the agency Cubesat Launch Initiative,


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a double star system in the plane of our galaxy containing a neutron star, the dense remnant of a massive star pulverized in a supernova explosion.

Circinus X-1 is also the source of a surprisingly powerful jet of high-energy particles. t really hard to get accurate distance measurements in astronomy

The researchers also determined that the speed of the jet of high-energy particles produced by the system is at least 99.9%of the speed of light.

This extreme velocity is associated usually with jets produced by a black hole. ircinus X-1 acts in some ways like a neutron star

The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, controls Chandra science and flight operations a


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#4d printing: A Process of Transformation in Structures The research team can now turn 3d printed objects into dynamic structures,

what if a terrorist hijack a plane using this 4d printing since objects can be changed into any shape.


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a new kind of mobile gaming system will bring about a change in the way mobile games are played.


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what might be possible in tomorrow world. ur molecular pump is radical chemistry--an ingenious way of transferring energy from molecule to molecule,

the way nature does said Sir Fraser Stoddart, the senior author of the study. Stoddart is the Board of trustees Professor of Chemistry in Northwestern Weinberg College of Arts

said Paul R. Mcgonigal, an author of the study. onducting non-equilibrium chemistry in this way,

Stoddart said. n a way, one must learn to see things from the moleculespoint of view,


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Interesting things started to happen when such a droplet'train, 'flowing in oil of one type, was injected into a channel filled with another oil immiscible with the other two fluids,

A promising area of use seems to be the transport of drugs to specific areas of the body.


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there has been no easy way to impose such a specific spatial binding scheme on nanoparticles.

and the double helix, twisted-ladder shape to combine in an accurate way. Initially, bundles of six double-helix molecules were produced,

just like the way fibrous strands are integrated together to form a rigid rope. These rope-like girders were utilized then to create the frame of 3d octahedrons

the researchers designed each of the six-helix bundles in such a way that a single helix had an additional piece of single stranded-dna DNA sticking out from either ends.


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which limits their ability to transport electricity.""With activated carbon, there's no way to control pore connectivity,

"Bao said.""Also, lots of impurities from the coconut shells and other raw starting materials get carried into the carbon.

Bao and her colleagues developed a new way to synthesize high-quality carbon using inexpensive-and uncontaminated-chemicals and polymers.

"Supercapacitors are used energy storage devices widely in transportation and electronics because of their ultra-fast charging and discharging capability,


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This is why the technology has attracted wide attention since the development announcement with anticipation of a cost-effective way of manufacturing high-resolution organic semiconductor devices.


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and Technology to tap into organic chemistry and conducting polymers to fabricate a three-dimensional (3-D) polypyrrole (PPY) aerogel-based electromagnetic absorber.

In terms of applications, based on the combination of low adjunction and a ideeffective bandwidth, the researchers expect to see their 3-D PPY aerogel used in surface coatings for aircraft.


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#Unique Gold Nano Spirals Could Help Prevent Identity Theft By Will Soutterthe spirals react in a unique way to polarized infrared light,

but easy to detect-makes the nano-spirals an ideal way of securing credit cards, currency, ID cards,


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#Holographic Microscope Could Enable Rapid Identification of Deadly Bacteria A new way of rapidly identifying bacteria,

may change the way doctors approach treatment for patients who develop potentially deadly infections and may also help the food industry screen against contamination with harmful pathogens, according to researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in Daejeon, South korea.

it could lead to a powerful new way of routinely and almost immediately identifying dangerous bacteria at the bedside much faster than the days it normally takes to grow or"culture"the microbes in the laboratory from a patient's blood,

but the lost hours or days spent identifying the exact pathogen can make the road to recovery that much steeper.


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"Existing techniques are crude relative to the way the brain is wired, "Lieber explained.""Whether it's a silicon probe or flexible polymers...


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in ways not seen in nature. Experimenting with the interplay of white light on sandwich-like structures,


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which has paved the way for flexible mobile phones. Lead author, Phd researcher Philipp Gutruf, says the unbreakable,


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Smartphones, DVRS, airplanes, the Internet without a clock, none of these could operate without frequent and serious complications.

A new way to manipulate matterthe 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.


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which will pave the way for a new-generation of diagnostics. The device, described in an article published in the journal Scientific Reports,


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this is the way to prevent the body from destroying the beta cells and to allow it to recuperate immunological tolerance.


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and will pave the way towards the realization of atomically thin, flexible, and transparent displays,


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Researchers are trying to learn how the placenta manages all this traffic, transporting some substances and blocking others.

For those reasons, previous studies on placental transport have relied largely on animal models and on laboratory-grown human cells.


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This"binding"is compared often to the way a key fits into only one Lock in this manner,


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scientists at Johns Hopkins report they have found a way to halt and reverse the progression of atherosclerosis in rodents by loading microscopic nanoparticles with a chemical that restores the animals'ability to properly handle cholesterol.

when encapsulated that way, D-PDMP's potency rose tenfold in animals fed with it.


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such as regenerative braking in trains and buses, elevators and cranes. They are used also in flashes in mobile phones and as a complementary technology to batteries in order to boost performance.

such as when overtaking another car, with the battery providing the steady power for highway driving. upercapacitors perform a similar function to batteries

This way we can tailor the properties of both components to maximise the amount of energy that is stored.


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A study published on June 25th in PLOS Pathogens reports a new way to circumvent drug resistance

Three of these drugs get into the interior of the parasite cells via the trypanosome's transport proteins that normally supply the parasite with nutrients,

and drug resistance is caused by mutations that cripple these transporters. Jose Garcia-Salcedo, from the Instituto de Investigacion Biosanitaria in Granada, Spain,

and colleagues reasoned that using an alternative way to get the drugs into parasite cells would circumvent resistance.

most importantly, circumvents drug resistance in a cell line that is resistant as a result of mutations in the transporter that mediates drug uptake.

and circumventing resistance mechanisms caused by mutations in surface transporters.""The implication of this proof-of-concept study of a novel technology for reversing transporter-related drug resistance,

they say, "is limited not to a single nanobody used to demonstrate the technology, nor to a single drug, nor indeed to trypanosomiasis.""


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#Nanotechnology Drug in Droplets for Painless Treatment of Secondary Blindness The Mexican company"Medical and Surgical Center for Retina"created a way to transport drugs,


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ouldn this be a great way to make a drug-delivery system??Langer says. He brought this idea to Cima,

The company has also found ways to integrate electronics into the microchips to shrink down the device.


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including droplets and jets. This ability to control fluid structures at such small scales can be used potentially to devise new ways that improve the delivery and the effectiveness of drugs,

and to assist the assembly of more complex structures such as micro robots that can travel, for example,

to tailor the formation of drops, jets and streams of a few nanometres in size. Prof Ignacio Pagonabarraga, from the University of Barcelona, said:

sing knowledge from one system to understand another is not particular to the way we have used colloidal mixtures to understand liquids,


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in this way, the production time will considerably decrease and the process will have the capacity for mass production."


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"Through phonon oscillations--vibrations of water-carrying nanotubes--water transport can be enhanced, and sanitation and desalination improved.

however, we witnessed three times the efficiency of water transport, and, of course, a great deal of energy saved."


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#Researchers Advance Ability to Control and Harness Power of Light on the Nanoscale When a duck paddles across a pond or a supersonic plane flies through the sky, it leaves a wake in its path.

Wakes occur whenever something is traveling through a medium faster than the waves it creates--in the duck's case water waves, in the plane's case shock waves,

but found multiple ways to control and steer them.""The observation itself was challenging, as"surface plasmons are not visible to the eye


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In doing so, they developed a more accurate and efficient way of diagnosing prostate cancer than the current tests


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Hinestroza always looks for new ways to employ cotton as a canvas for creating infinite modern uses. e want to transform traditional natural fibers into true engineering materials that are multifunctional


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Mitotic spindles are the cell way of making sure that when they divide each new cell has a complete genome.

r Royle and Professor Ian Prior at the University of Liverpool have made significant inroads into our understanding of the way in


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This opens the way for the manipulation of the atomic-scale transport channels of hydrogen,

and one of the great challenges of our day is to find an efficient way to store


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San diego graduate student has found a way to use mass-produced graphene, an allotrope of carbon that is one atom-thick.

and it 200 times stronger than steel because of the way the atoms bond to form a hexagonal pattern (think of chicken wire) with a cloud of free electrons hovering above and below it,

Some vertical markets of interest include Retail, Healthcare, Transportation, Insurance, Financial services and Telecommunications. Some technology areas of interest include:


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One way is to use electricity that is produced to split the liquid water. This process is called electrolysis.


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but that isn't enough to understand the complexities of RNA transport and localization within a cell.

the scientists explain how they used Sticky-flares to quantify ß-actin mrna in Hela cells (the oldest and most commonly used human cell line) as well as to follow the real-time transport of ß-actin mrna in mouse embryonic


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that far down the road, but this paper offers a really exciting opportunity to crack a problem that is persistently present,


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and developed a device that mimics the way coral adsorbs heavy metals. Dr. Xianbiao Wang and colleagues have made coral-like nanoplates using aluminium oxide,

"Adsorption is an easy way to remove pollutants from water, so developing new products that can do this is a big challenge in environmental remediation,


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and more about offering a way forward as chemical engineers work to predict and synthesize new catalytic materials,


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so we need to find the most efficient way to use it. The co-authors of the paper include Professor Manos Mavrikakis and researchers Luke Roling and Jeffrey Herron from the University of Wisconsin-Madison


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which is a way of saying that I would prefer to generate a hypothesis from the data


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The-bag an application for tablet computers that makes it easy for users to show their tickets on buses and trains,

while the volunteer beside him rotates her torso as she makes her way through a warren of caves.


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but it was only recently that they understood ways to harness it.""We knew the ambient seismic energy was there,


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Wearable devices are now creating new ways for wellness healthcare and medical care sectors to connect with general public and sub-health population.


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and Two Tap two leading companies in the mobile commerce space to ensure a seamless purchasing

and Two Tap to create one of the simplest mobile engagement options available today. Firemotion ads can seamlessly connect to a universal shopping cart Passbook Google Wallet or Payments.

and Two Tap is excited very to power e-commerce interactions on the new platform#said Raz Roman cofounder Two Tap.#


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Youngbull envisions use of the device in homeland security, mass transit, public spaces, hospitals, schools, food production and combat theater analytics.


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#Researcher Integrates"Motherboard"in Textiles for Determining Sleep Cycles The specialist in infrared physics found a way for the technology to reach the majority of the population,


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An early pilot led by UK telecommunications regulator Ofcom, for example, would use some of the technology developed in QOSMOS to access TV white spaces,


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or contact wires of trains: Even at a speed of around 300 km h, the sensor could provide razor-sharp images with a resolution of up to 0. 4 mm and,


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pressure and water vapor similar to data collected by weather balloons but on a global scale using a technique called GPS Radio Occultation (GPS-RO).


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The system is superior to existing technologies in many ways; traditional solutions of seismic sensors are susceptible to environment noise,


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click New Tech Helping Heart failure Patientse are always looking for new and innovative ways to treat our patient disease process


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The most common way to diagnose it is for the patient to spend a night in a sleep clinic.


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where mock weapons and explosives were smuggled through airports, undetected in 95%of cases. It may also prove useful in discovering concealed goods in the retail industry or for non-destructive monitoring, for example quality control in drugs or food.

A longer term opportunity lies in quantum computing, set to revolutionize the way we handle and encrypt data. n


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and gas companies Using the FLIR GF320 provides a proactive way to identify sources of Volatile Organic compound (VOC) emissions

and security applications, including airborne and ground-based surveillance, condition monitoring, research and development, manufacturing process control, search and rescue, drug interdiction, navigation, transportation safety, border


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AIS's portfolio of Smart HMI solutions are deployed currently in IIOT, Smart cities, Smart Transportation, Smart Factories, Smart Buildings and Digital Oil fields.

transportation, and retail, among others. Various technology and related trends are expected to be IIOT enablers,


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"Trying to kill TB bacteria isn't the only way of stopping the disease though, Abramovitch added."


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In the summer of 2013, a plane carried Tan over the Straits of Malacca to Pekanbaru, the capital of Riau province, the largest palm-oil production region in Indonesia.

at a roadside café flanked by oil palm trees. Tarsedi told me that oil palm is the crop of choice for Bungaraya farmers

But sometimes, even helicopters are powerless to stop the burning, he added. nd during the really bad fires,


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whether such regulations are the best way to get young people to"reject engagement with groups who advocate violence".


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The system paves the way for robots to be used in a wide variety of settings,

Factory and laboratory robots have predefined a strictly way of operating. So if a component breaks

Most self learning systems that seek alternative ways of continuing with the task are too slow,

spider-like robot that found a new way of crawling across the floor after one of its legs was broken.

and learn a new way to drop a ball in a bin. In both instances

The research points the way to robots that are more robust, adaptable and cheaper to maintain than today's machines,


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#Sweet source for aviation biofuel Researchers have identified a new way to produce aviation fuel from sugarcane biomass that could deliver substantial cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.

Biofuel sweetspot"We've identified a new route of chemistry with its source from sugars in sugarcane plus some of the so-called waste material called bagasse"

The development of a reliable biofuel that can be scaled up to a level that be used by the world's commercial airlines has proved somewhat elusive.

and as space on an aircraft is at a premium, and you'd like to pack in as much energy in the form of burnable fuel as possible,

temperatures around the aircraft are around-40c(-40f) or-50c, so you do not want your fuel gelling up on you."

If air travel continues to grow at the predicted rate, it could contribute a considerably higher proportion by 2050.

Is jet travel becoming the dirtiest way to cross the planet? The search for aviation biofuels broke on to the public stage in the late 2000s

when there were a number of test flights using a blend of conventional fuel and biofuel. In February 2008, the first commercial flight partly powered by biofuel (derived from a mixture of babassu nuts

and coconuts) took off from London's Heathrow airport. After a lengthy review by aircraft makers, engine manufacturers and fuel producers, biofuels were approved for commercial use in 2011.

Prof Bell said the team were hopeful that their findings would ultimately be adopted by commercial fuel producers."

"Our sponsors, BP, have encouraged us to apply for a patent, which we have on this technology,

"Prof Bell said that the process to make the aviation biofuel outlined in his team's paper would use waste biomass to generate the energy required operate the refinery,


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The deal was announced at the Paris Airshow. The multi-billion-dollar Oneweb constellation will dwarf any previous commercial network in the sky by a factor of 10.

Airbus would not give a formal interview at the airshow but issued a statement from its head of space systems. his partnership is a fantastic new chapter in our space story,

The plan envisages 20 planes of low-orbiting satellites connecting to small user terminals on the ground.


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"Physicists studied the way a subatomic particle called Lambda b decayed -or transformed-into three other particles inside LHCB.

"There is no way that what we see could be due to something else other than the addition of a new particle that was observed not before."

"The pentaquark is not just any new particleit represents a way to aggregate quarks, namely the fundamental constituents of ordinary protons and neutrons,


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they were able to calculate the best way to fold almost any given shape out of a long, continuous strand.

"Once that route for the DNA strand has been plotted, the shape needs"staples"."Each staple is a short piece of DNA,


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Eyewitness is designed to record photos, videos and audio recordings in a simple and secure way. It looks like any photography app,


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#Plane wings could'heal themselves'Self-healing aeroplane wings could be introduced in the next five to 10 years,

The team drew inspiration from the way the human body heals from a cut with blood that hardens into a scab.

"which are interspersed in the aeroplane wing itself. The spheres burst when damaged, releasing the liquid,

"The technology could also be applied to other products made of carbon composite materials-including bicycle frames and wind turbines,

"Composite materials are used increasingly in modern airlines, military aircraft and wind turbines. They are very stiff and strong but very light."

"The"healed"aircraft wings were often as strong as they had been said originally Prof Wass, who is working with aerospace engineer colleagues on the research project."

"We are talking about aeroplane wings here-the most demanding application because of the safety aspect,


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Google announced last month that its prototype self-driving cars would take to the public roads this summer around its headquarters in Mountain view, California a


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Can you print a plane? The new Airbus a350 XWB that is flying daily displays at the Paris Air Show can claim several engineering firsts.

One of these is that it has more 3d printed components than any other aircraft, about 1,

000 on a plane that has gone only just into service. Meanwhile, Raytheon has 3d parts on its missiles,

where the aerospace giant makes aircraft wings.""These components contribute a huge amount to the manufacturing process.

Mr Risk doubts there will ever be a machine big enough to turn out a whole airframe."

In our digitally connected world, a machine could be programmed to start printing even before the aircraft lands.

While the holy grail of on-demand supply may be a little way off, John Schmidt, US-based managing director of aerospace and defence at consultancy Accenture, says printing is reducing lead times from months to weeks.

so it's only a matter of time before a tipping point is reached. 3d parts reduce weight on aircraft,

"It opens options to be innovative in ways that do not exist now; to build something the first time and at the right time,

about 40-50%of aircraft components will use printed materials. It's about 4%now.

As with 3d components used in civil aircraft, they have to go through rigorous regulatory approval.


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