which said a Tulsa woman died on Saturday after her automobile hydroplaned on a highway.
Roadways were impassable, stranding travelers by the thousands. As the waters rose many people had to abandon their vehicles and escape on foot.
and the best way to accomplish that is to own a firearm and know how to use it.
"Part of the problem is that infant formula companies actively distribute samples to hospitals as a way to boost sales
"It changes entirely the way we perceive the neuro-immune interaction. We always perceived it before as something esoteric that can't be studied.
It Must Be Real Highway, where"positive thinking"overpowers negative obstacles to such an amazing degree that you don't need even to wear seatbelts
You can either grab a parachute and bail out, or you can plug in your headphones and keep watching the in-flight Hollywood entertainment,
pretending nothing bad is happening outside your immediate focus. I know this isn't the good news you wanted to hear.
in the real world, the taps are running dry, employers are fleeing the state's high taxes,
Athens has less than two weeks to find a way to end the disagreement; looming is a 1. 6 billion repayment that is due the International monetary fund.
intelligent Americans who seek to protect their children from deadly side effects131 Ways for an Infant to Die:
While the drone flies, the user is able to view the flight from FPV (first-person view) via a front-facing camera. his project serves as the beginning of brain-machine control as a human-centric application says Marvin Andujar
The next step for this research is to incorporate a two way system that monitors user levels of engagement, cognitive workload
a range of new road safety technology research projects that are being developed to reduce the number of accidents caused by stressed and distracted drivers.
or be less aware of other road users so we are looking at how we could identify this
or communicate with the driver in a different way, to ensure the driver is made aware of a potential hazard. he most common method for monitoring brainwaves is close to the source using sensors attached to a headband,
In user trials this increases the speed of successful button selection by 22 per cent and therefore reduces the amount of time the driver is looking at the screen with their eyes off the road.
Caltech researchers have developed a way to produce more natural and fluid motions. Designed to test the safety and effectiveness of this new approach
and edesignthe way patients do tasks with the function they have left, worked with Sorto
but also speaks to the ability of the brain to learn to function in new ways.
t changes entirely the way we perceive the neuro-immune interaction. We always perceived it before as something esoteric that can be studied.
and theye done many studies since then to bolster the finding that it will fundamentally change the way people look at the central nervous system relationship with the immune system.
this work could lead to new ways of predicting an individual risk of developing schizophrenia
which ultimately pave the way for the transcriptional program that supports learning and memory, and many other behaviors.
Though not the first attempt at implanting electronics into the brain deep brain stimulation has been used to treat a variety of disorders for decades the nanofabricated scaffolds operate on a completely different scale. xisting techniques are crude relative to the way the brain is wired,
The finding paves the way to a whole new approach for finding a drug that can cure
The challenge was to find a way of saving them from certain death. e had the idea of modifying another gene tir-1 known for its role in the immune system,
while displaying the face of the remote pilot via Skype. The person at the controls,
the pilot can also take a break from giving indications. If it doesn receive more indications,
In this way, control over the robot is shared between the human and the computer, allowing the pilot to rest
while navigating. No difference between healthy and disabled subjects In the end, the tests revealed no difference in piloting ability between healthy and disabled subjects.
In the second part of the tests, the disabled people with residual mobility were asked to pilot the robot with the movements they were still capable of doing
#Artificial Neurons Can Communicate in the Same Way as Human Neurons Scientists at Karolinska Institutet have managed to build a fully functional neuron by using organic bioelectronics.
and communicate in the same way as our own neurons do. Neurons are isolated from each other
how we develop the next generation of medications for chronic painhich is by far the most prevalent human health conditionnd the way we execute basic biomedical research using mice. esearch has demonstrated that men
Interfering with the function of microglia in a variety of different ways effectively blocked pain in male mice,
and reacts to changes in the environment can help us to find new ways to treat neurodegenerative diseases and mental illness. ource:
But unlike the majority of human SLC25 family members (there are 53) that transport molecules across the inner mitochondrial membrane
and believe the method could pave the way for a new generation of cancer treatments.
the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), to map large patches of the sky in a new way.
No one had looked at the data in this way before, she said. lot of the people were convinced pretty is was some problem with the imaging,
Ms Loi said the drifting plasma tubes could distort astronomical data, especially satellite-based navigation systems.
#The revolution of military aircraft For anyone with a fascination for flying it is a surreal experience to stand in a hangar with five Bell 407 helicopters and not a single pilot in sight.
Welcome to the future of naval aviation fleets of unmanned helicopters flying on and off warships conducting missions as diverse as missile strikes
surveillance and ash and trashresupply flights. Aerospace giant Northrop grumman is at the cutting edge of this technology with its Fire Scout system
Program director for the US NAVY Captain Jeff Dodge likened the upgrade from the MQ-8b based on a smaller airframe to the model aircraft to a brain transplant. e are taking the computer
and putting it on a bigger, stronger helicopter, he said in a hangar at Webster Field near Pax River Naval Air station on Chesapeake bay.
At the other extreme of the unmanned aircraft spectrum is the $80 million Northrop grumman built US NAVY Triton maritime surveillance aircraft.
Australia is set to buy up to seven of the jet aircraft to be based at Edinburgh RAAF base near Adelaide.
After that the aircraft will operate at five locations in so called orbits of four aircraft providing the US with constant global coverage of the oceans.
and Predators or the smaller unarmed Heron aircraft flown by the RAAF on surveillance missions from Kandahar airfield.
and Fire Scout and the most incredible of them all the X47-B unmanned combat jet that has landed already
and taken off from an aircraft carrier. Pilots such as Lieutenant commander David Selew, who have thousands of hours of flying experience,
marvel at the capacity of the latest unmanned flying systems. Lieutenant commander Selew is the Government Flight test Director for the Fire Scout MQ-8c at Point Mugu.
He is a PC-3 Orion pilot by trade and while he is prepared not to write the obituary for airborne pilots just yet he understands that unmanned systems are booming,
attractive and here to stay. He said chopper pilots were amazed by the performance of the unmanned machines. hey are more stable
and the feedback we get from the system is faster than from a pilot, Lt Commander Selew said.
Sensors on the ground at Point Mugu mimic a ship landing system so the chopper simply picks up a radio beam
and is guided to the deck. f there is a communications problem it will just fly right back to where it started
or is shot down there is no terrible news to pass to the families of the aircrew just a pile of crumpled metal.
With a wingspan as wide as a Boeing 737 passenger jet the Triton can fly up to 20,000 metres high
and pilots will be used to fly Tritons that will be deployed forward at US fleet bases around the world The same approach will apply to the RAAF fleet of Orions as they retire during the next decade to be replaced by either Triton or the Boeing P-8 Poseidon manned
aircraft. They won be based forward but they will operate away from Adelaide at places such as Tindal,
He said the aircraft sensors were very powerful and the turret under the nose was the same as the Reaper
and Australia is the first overseas customer for the aircraft that will cost about $80-million each.
At the Pax River base the Tritons are controlled by air vehicle operators, mission payload operators and a tactical commander who are located in a control room with three large TV screens on the wall
and the system is ly by mousewith the operator using the computer mouse to control the aircraft
and as sure as night follows day it will involve fewer airborne pilots and increasing numbers of unmanned aircraft systems.
have seen we the last of piloted aircraft? Probably not, but it will become increasingly difficult in the years ahead to find a military pilot who actually takes to the air i
further consideration must be given to how we go about achieving this in more cost-effective and efficient ways. ustralia Fastbrick Robotics is at the forefront of construction automation
By examining satellite imagery and historic aerial photography, the team looks for and records sites, monitoring the extensive landscape changes of the past 70 years.
paving the way for incorporating the newcomers into living cells. Synthetic biologists are racing to come up with artificial versions of the building blocks of life."
But their artificial base pairs were linked together into longer strands of DNA in a different way."
Because of the way they are joined together Romesberg's bases can't form such long runs. Now Georgiadis and Benner have shown that their Z
but not without controversy (see"Rocky road to replacement organs")."In the first, decel step short for decellularisation organs from dead donors are treated with detergents that strip off the soft tissue,
A forearm is much more difficult to create in this way than a windpipe, say, as a number of different cell types need to be grown.
and developed a way to test a blood sample for every single family of human virus in one go.
You could imagine routinely screening people in this way, he says. To develop Virscan, Elledge and his colleagues used an international database to look up all viruses known to infect humans around 1000 strains from 206 viral species. Using this information,
Virscan could also offer a way to investigate whether viruses are involved in disorders that aren't well understood.
#Finally, a way to catch symptomless pancreatic cancer in time It's the sneakiest of cancers and as many as 80 per cent of cases are identified too late.
But we now have a way to test for pancreatic cancer before it spreads. The disease has one of the worst cancer survival rates,
when a person has the disease, giving us a way to test for it. The protein, glypican-1, sticks out from the surface of exosomes little globules that are thought to bud off from pancreatic cancer cells.
this technique could be a valuable way to spot and analyse genetic mistakes found in tumours,
"This could, in turn, one day offer a way to spot diseases like pancreatic cancer at a much earlier stage,
and a way to monitor the effectiveness of treatments. Former Apple CEO Steve jobs and actor Patrick Swayze both had pancreatic cancer,
Artificial blood might also be an effective way of helping people with rarer blood types, for whom compatible donors are particularly thin on the ground a
a team at Stanford university has devised a way to make living cells hover. The technique, which measures the density of individual cells,
and has developed also a nonmagnetic way to test cell density. The fluid will have to be calibrated closely,
"Other research groups are investigating this phenomenon as a way to speed up the healing of skin wounds
Gagsteiger has investigated previously other ways of giving sperm more oomph, such as using caffeine which does make them swim faster
putting them to use in this way is trickier than it sounds. ccurate health assessments in natural settings are quite challenging due to many factors such as illumination changes,
Humar and his colleagues developed three ways to get cells to emit visible light. The first involved injecting each one with a tiny oil droplet,
The final way involved exploiting the fatty droplets that exist naturally within living cells. e all have these fat cells inside our tissue.
and relatively easy way for researchers to label cells by getting them to emit light, but this produces a relatively broad range of wavelengths,
which focuses exclusively on the macrophage route to converting cells into lasers, goes further in laying out its potential applications.
The road to zero cases The only places where the disease still circulates regularly are Afghanistan and Pakistan,
Mice simply don't react the way we do to these germs, so they aren't very helpful for studying diseases of the gut.
what it hopes will be a much better way to study these diseases: the gut-on-a-chip.
the way the intestine stretches as it moves food along, "Fouke-Abel explains. Cells plucked from a human intestine will be put into a tiny chamber around that membrane,
whether cells in the ersatz organ react the same way to diseases as do cells in the human gut."
I'm walking to the subway each morning but with Wi-fi they're hotspots Knutson said.
#In Sweden Remote-control Airport Is A Reality As our plane touches down in Sundsvall Sweden the horizon is all snow and ice.
But this airport actually has two air traffic control centers. The second one is just a short walk from the airport runway.
Inside a ground-floor windowless room there's a display that looks exactly like what you'd see out of an air traffic control tower.
You can see the snowy runway you can see the trees you can even see a car pulling into the airport parking lot.
And the airport you're looking at isn't the one in Sundsvall. It's the one in Ornskoldsvik Sweden#about 105 miles away.
Ornskoldsvik is the first airport in the world to land passenger planes remotely. This summer an airport in Leesburg Va. will become the first American airport to use the new technology.
Erik Backman runs the remote airplane landing center in the town of Sundsvall. He explains that the town of Ornskoldsvik has a tiny airport
and it's expensive to keep air traffic controllers there who spend hours with no planes to land.
So they decided to have one team in Sundsvall that could handle both cities. The day you have one air traffic controller who can control two airports then you have some good benefits according to costs Backman says.
In Ornskoldsvik a set of cameras and microphones delivers a real-time image to Sundsvall. Of course new technology is notoriously glitchy.
And a problem landing an airplane is far more consequential than a laptop freezing up. Backman says when he saw the first mockup of this technology in 2004 he was dubious.
But a decade later they've been landing planes remotely for months without any major problems.
For the air traffic controller this is like airline pilots going from propeller to jet Henriksson says. It's a paradigm shift.
airplane numbers runway incursion warnings. You can zoom in or switch to an infrared view to see through thick fog or darkness.
And that might make this technology useful even for big crowded airports. Anders Carp is head of traffic management at Saab the Swedish defense
Airports in dangerous places could have a camera house instead of a control tower he says. The air traffic controllers could be a few
Back in the Sundsvall control center a plane descends toward the Ornskoldsvik runway. We watch it move across the screen.
The passengers#and even the pilot#have no idea whether they've been brought in for a landing from the tower they can see out their window or from this hidden remote center more than a 100 miles away
#'3-Parent Baby'Law Moves Forward In Britain Britain is on track to become the first country in the world to legalize a controversial procedure that uses DNA from three people to produce an embryo as a way
or the way we have to deal with the uncertainty anyway. You may reduce the chance of spread,
That's way too small of a number to say how well the vaccine works,
and planes avoid potentially fatal outcomes. Earlier this week, Dassault released its highly realistic digital model of the human heart,
Unlike simulations involving manmade objects such as cars and planes, it's very difficult to predict how the human heart will respond to stress in the real world.
"The technology doesn't offer the same level of evidence as medical research on animals or small pilot human trials,
In this way, streaming music suggests the passing of two eras: the digital download, but also the concept that fans might possess music itself.
"It represents a way to aggregate quarks, namely the fundamental constituents of ordinary protons and neutrons,
#US Air force contracts 3d Systems to make next-gen components 3d Systems is taking part in a $1. 3 million contract to develop cutting-edge aircraft heat exchanger to be manufactured using 3d printing.
functionality and repeatability specifications demanded for flight-worthy aerospace parts. The first contract is led by 3ds, in partnership with the University of Delaware Center for Composite Manufacturing,
a user has no way of knowing if the edge of their pupil is occluding the image of the retina."
Another way to describe it is that we have a large optical eye box, and a small perceptual eye box."
allowing clinicians to better observe changes after treatment or perhaps enabling new ways to monitor diabetes."
The information is distorted initially pre in a predictable and reversible way when it is sent through the optical fiber.
where mock weapons and explosives were smuggled through airports, undetected in 95%of cases. The terahertz technology 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.
here 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.
assembling a toy plane, etc. What was really impressive about the technique was did the robot not require preprogrammed details about surroundings.
and the best thing is it keeps trying figuring out the way to accomplish the task until it finally done.
The new computer provides a way to develop new high-speed, complex, electronic computers. This way, there are chances that the fluidic computer may find its uses in areas like biology, chemistry,
and other physical sciences. Prakash made it clear that their aim is not to compete with the electronic computers.
Confocal and two-photon microscopes can image a single plane within a living sample, but cannot generate 3-D images quickly enough to capture events like neurons firing.
and will pave the way towards the realization of atomically thin, flexible and transparent displays,
In this way the device can determine blood glucose levels in about 30 seconds.""As well as being a replacement for finger-prick testing,
"The results of a pilot clinical study, carried out at the Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine under the supervision of professor Peter Grant,
or less moneyhan solid-state and traditional flow batteries. e have something that could change the way we deal with electricity,
is the way it redistributes your weight. When climbing stairs or hills, or even standing up from a chair, he typically favored his ound leg.
and at worst, it a sign of a structural defect that could lead to big problems--and huge repair bills--down the road.
but researchers hope that they can expand the property to other materials in the future. he knowledge gained from this study will be crucial in finding ways to reduce friction in everything from engines or turbines to computer hard disks and microelectromechanical systems,"nanoscientist Ani Sumant,
Now researchers from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have found a way to 3d print objects from cellulose,
The researchers figured out a way to freeze the object, then slowly remove some of the water
the Brainport may be paving the way for an explosion of sensory substitution devices to hit the market in the next few years,
#Self-Healing Material Could Instantly Fix Airplane Wings Mid-Flight Tiny scratches on a wind turbine
or an airplane wing can go unnoticed, but they can cause serious problems if they are left untreated.
Now, a group of researchers in the United kingdom have invented a substance that can be incorporated into airplane wings that allows them to heal themselves,
Tiny spheres of liquid are embedded in the airplane wing. If the wing gets damaged, the spheres in that location break,
Duncan wass told Forbes. t the consumer end of the market that could be sports equipment, bike frames,
Now, researchers at the Digital Nature Group (DNG) have found a way to use lasers,
NPR with Oregon Public Broadcasting reports that a wildlife forensic lab has managed to start identifying illegal wood samples using a DART-TOF (Direct Analysis In real time Time of Flight) mass spectrometer,
so the only way to cut down on incidences of the disease is to decrease the number of mosquitoes that carry it.
One startling effective way to do that: genetically modifying mosquitos so their offspring won't survive. A yearlong trial with genetically modified mosquitoes in northeast Brazil has been the most successful yet,
Researchers have been looking into ways to override those electrical signals by tweaking the nerves directly.
the Chimaera can help the surgeon damage as little as possible on its way to the desired nerve,
a prosthetics company in the UK, got around this by modeling their prosthetics after the way deer antlers are attached.
if they find their way inside. But there a natural compound that blocks both types of UV rays, called mycosporines.
Over the past few years, researchers have been looking for ways to stimulate muscle movement in paralyzed patients.
Marion tells PSFK, ith the line flier pod, (the drone) makes it easy. The Line Flier pod
which flies baits to specific areas was the original inspiration but two more pods has been developed:
With a $150, 000 goal on Kickstarter, Aguadrone will sell its flagship fliers at $399 with the Fish Scout and Line Flier pod.
which has helped paved the way for flexible mobile phones. Recently published in leading micro/nanoscience journal Small
For small film production crews, the Instamic records clear, crisp audio with minimal setup. It also perfect for interviews:
The crowdfunding platform bypasses traditional investing routes and allows individuals get a stake in highly desirable companies.
#Paralyzed Stroke Victims Speak Again Through App I. am. here is a mobile app that analyzes brain activity of stroke victims to give paralyzed people a way to communicate with their loved ones.
creative director Adwatch Isobar, the I. am. here app is just a start. e believe that the product wee developed is just the first step along the great road of discovery,
there is no effective way to predict an earthquake hours earlier. Japan, the only country in the world with a nationwide advanced early warning system
early warning systems halted trains and is believed to have minimized significantly damage to both infrastructure and the number of casualties.
The second prototype featured an aluminum frame and a one way glass, with greatly improved visibility and responsiveness.
The company aims to find clever ways to use mobile phones for today and for the future
#The HIV Self Tests the World Needs Are Here The HIV Self Testing kit from U k. startup Biosure can change the way people think about getting tested.
#Drip Panache with Umbrella Inspired by the Milan Subway An innovative umbrella has been developed with urban travelers in mind,
It was inspired by experiences in the Milan subway, observing how difficult it is for people to move around with a wet umbrella.
and the signals move their way into the prosthetics, and then the prosthetics react as your brain wants,
Ingvarsson said Ossur was on the way to creating prosthetics that are integrated more with their user."
One of the most important aspects of the Anthromod design is the way in which it's controlled by the software,
They say the device taps in to the body's natural rhythm and gives the wearer control over how alert
Similar to the way that upbeat music can motivate the body, while downbeat music relaxes;
And it works in a very similar way as to when you listen to upbeat or downbeat music.
So, in the same way that upbeat music can excite you or bring you up,
Their research into psychophysiology-the way a person's mind and body affect one another-inspired them to design a new technology that could harness the body's innate response to rhythm.
This is all the information needed for the device to tap into the body's natural response to external rhythms."
not else has developed this type of technology--it's a new breed of wearable that actually allows you to change the way you feel in a natural and simple way.
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