Also airplanes etched in these nanostructures could potentially avoid the dangers of water freezing on the wings.
The Launcherone rocket while still in the design and testing phase hopes to eventually deliver payloads from 250 pounds to 500 pounds into space for less than $10 million per flight.
How the smartphone is changing the way we live and work. I made a number of predictions,
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.
If your senator wants to cancel a high-speed rail line and expand a highway instead there are hard data on how much it will cost to treat the asthma cases that are caused by the extra pollution.
If you put in a bike lane instead of a car lane there are data that show how it increases the health of the population.
You can put a dollar value on happiness and people have been doing it for years.
As Stewart noted in her Economist articlethey are following up with modules for transit roads highways and buildings.
So when those politicians want to ram another highway down our throats or rip out another bike lane there are real data that people can show on the true costs both economic and social.
This a difficult concept to write about for a nonprofessional readership. However as an architect who was an early adopter of Computer aided design (CAD) over 30 years agowhen all it did was draw
They made their way through the machine, getting boiled and treated. A few minutes later I took a long taste of the end result:
But Moon and his colleagues saw a way to go smaller by using a quantum analogy to the conventional hologram.
But he says that the technique is a long way from having any practical use.
the transport of tree species to colder climes further north and more controlled burns to prepare the forests for more frequent wild fires.
On 5 december, Russian president Dmitry Medvedev signed a deal in New delhi that paves the way for four more 1-gigawatt reactors over the next decade,
train researchers, refurbish labs and set up mechanisms to make sure research results are used in policymaking. In Kenya
The new way is more expensive than making funding decisions in London, says Whitworth, but the outcomes should be better."
the new technology may offer an easier way to get to the high-field machines manufacturers
MRI machines use a magnetic field to get hydrogen atoms in the body spinning in a particular way,
"This introduces a whole new way for thinking to this field, "he says, pointing to possibilities such as screening large numbers of biological samples or laboratory animals all at once."
This should go some way to easing concerns that using propranolol to quell fearful memories will wipe out memories indiscriminately,
This should go some way to easing concerns that using propranolol to quell fearful memories will wipe out memories indiscriminately,
Basically HIV can find its way around the drug and still use CCR5 says Riley,
because soot and different kinds of aerosols can affect cloud formation in very different ways.
This means that it warms the troposphere in much the same way as carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
which way the nitrogen s electrons are spinning. Reinhard s team placed different kinds of samples onto their diamond
or the only way to eradicate the disease in practice is to eradicate all of the coffee,
But longer, microwave wavelengths#for applications such as airport scanners#require a different approach, because there are no materials that can serve as micromirrors in that part of the spectrum.
For the latest study, the researchers turned to metamaterials#artificial structures patterned to interact with light in exotic ways.
Today s millimetre-wave airport scanners physically move an array of multiple sensors around a person.
and swerved off to the side of the road, says Cirtain. We knew immediately that we had discovered something fantastic.
marks another step towards using nucleic acids as a practical way of storing information#one that is more compact and durable than current media such as hard disks or magnetic tape.#"
in such a way that any errors on one string can be checked cross against three other strings.
while researching the way leprosy spreads around the body. The mechanism of the hijacking is unclear,
a material that in many ways resembles diamond. Boron nitride can be compressed into a superhard, transparent form#but unlike diamond and many other materials known for their extreme hardness,
partly because this offered a way to skirt the thorny ethical issues raised by extracting cells from human embryos.
while the lawsuit was working its way through the US court system. With the litigation over, she says she need not"hesitate
Janila Shulu s team are out in the dirt roads and alleyways of Ungwan Rimi, a poor neighbourhood in a predominantly Muslim section of Kaduna city in northern Nigeria.
in essence, found a way to count those Compton cycles. In practice, there is no direct way to measure the Compton frequency
#which is where atom interferometry comes in. The researchers used a cloud of around 1 million caesium atoms divided in two.
First noticed in the 1960s, the phenomenon, called cathodoluminescence, gave geologists an easy way to identify quartz and other minerals in rock samples.
Now a Dutch group has found a way to collect and focus a particularly faint and localized type of cathodoluminescence that had been ignored previously,
or reflected electrons are not typically sensitive to the way light behaves in the sample.
"This has opened the door to understanding how light couples to matter in a more fundamental way,
"This has opened the door to understanding how light couples to matter in a more fundamental way.
there ought to be a way for them to reestablish themselves. Wright says it is too early to say
and eventually find their way to Earth. It s also the only known Martian sample On earth that hails from a critical period, about 2 billion years ago,
Lord Kelvin defined the absolute temperature scale in the mid-1800s in such a way that nothing could be colder than absolute zero.
"This may be a way to create new forms of matter in the laboratory, Ketterle adds.
If built, such systems would behave in strange ways, says Achim Rosch, a theoretical physicist at the University of Cologne in Germany,
He and his collaborators took a different route, by deleting two genes##one for PKM?
or a train of them representing the other. These pulses were delivered to the motor cortex of a second rat in the same lab#the decoder
"but monkeys can collaborate in a much more complex way. Two rats exchange signals through a brain-to-brain interface.
so the world should work on ways to produce it#perhaps by capturing carbon dioxide. Peter Hall, who studies energy storage at the University of Sheffield,
batteries will be key to energy transport and to small-scale storage of electricity from solar panels. Long-term, large-scale storage of wind energy could best be achieved by simply storing compressed hydrogen underground.
since it could be transported easily by road, he says r
#Circular RNAS throw genetics for a loop Behold the latest curio in the cabinet of RNA oddities:
The UK funding agencies plan to finance this gold open-access route by diverting some 1%of the national research budget
"We maintain our belief that the gold route is the best means of promoting openness
babies born up to three months before full term can already distinguish between spoken syllables in much the same way that adults do,
"It is possible that the experience of birth triggers a set of processes that prime the brain of a premature infant to respond to language in ways that a same-aged fetus will not
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia have now found a way to stop macrophages from destroying drug-bearing nanoparticles.
and its cargo, into the cell the macrophage is guarding. The work of Discher and his team is published today in Science1.
"It s a new way of trying to get the immune system to prevent phagocytosis of drugs or particles.
Christopher Voigt, a synthetic biologist also at MIT, calls the artificial modules"a very digital and permanent way to store information in DNA.
But the near-global coverage of the Internet and burgeoning social media platforms such as Twitter have raised hopes that these technologies could open the way to easier
and it uses rules that handle possible sound changes in flexible, probabilistic ways. The program requires researchers to input a list of words in each language, together with their meanings,
because it is one of only a few ways to directly determine the shape of large molecules.
#Synthetic vaccine could prevent future outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease Virologists have devised a way to create an entirely synthetic vaccine for foot-and-mouth disease.
The synthetic protein shells simply fall apart during transport and dissemination, rendering the product useless. The team got around the problem by engineering the vaccine to have disulphide bonds cross-linking the protein triangles together.
one of a class known as multidrug and toxic compound extrusion transporters (MATES) that are found in cell membranes.
Previous efforts to identify compounds that block MATE transporters have been unsuccessful partly because researchers had a poor understanding of how these proteins work.
But in the past three years scientists have made some progress mapping the transporters detailed architecture. Two different labs have revealed already the structures of two bacterial MATE proteins,
But he is working to identify blocking peptides for MATE transporters found in human cells and in V. cholerae."
The sudden ballooning also amplified quantum fluctuations into clumps of matter that went on to seed the first stars,
and metabolites, producing signalling cascades that are ultimately responsible for many aspects of the way we feel,
This way the display beams different images in different directions, so that a person's left and right eyes see slightly different images#a requirement for the brain to process an image as 3d.
Jalas and the way he works represent a new and mostly untapped market for a new crop of genetics interpretation and analysis firms,
Personalis, down the road in Menlo Park, offers sequencing services and interpretation for clinicians and pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.
#Swallows may be evolving to dodge traffic Roadside-nesting cliff swallows have evolved shorter, more manoeuvrable wings, which may have helped them to make hasty retreats from oncoming vehicles,
They suggest that the two findings provide evidence of roadway-related adaptation.""I m not saying that it s all because of wing length,
Together with Mary Bomberger Brown, a ornithologist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Brown tracked roadside populations of cliff swallows (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota) in western Nebraska for 30 years, mostly to study the birds social
but have taken also to living under bridges and highway overpasses. As the two researchers checked the roadside colonies, Brown, an amateur taxidermist,
collected dead swallows for skinning and stuffing#gathering 104 vehicle-killed adults and 134 adults killed accidentally in nets used for the study.
That would help the birds to dodge traffic as they exit or enter their nesting sites,
It is hard to definitely prove that animals are adapting to living around roads, says behavioural ecologist Colleen St clair at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada.
trucks and buses to a realm that doesn t include gas stations. During a visit to Argonne National Laboratory, he will call for $2-billion energy security trust fund dedicated to research to boost automobile efficiency,
which would probably be dispersed in the way that the ARPA-E program does it, would come from an increase in expected revenue generated by a more efficient permit approval process and other reforms.
Weaning the nation off fossil fuels entirely for its transportation needs may not be practical or realistic.
The ship usually carries a crew of geologists, but this time,"we had five microbiologists on board,
Lever is convinced that the microbes are not hitchhikers from the surface, but genuine residents of the crust."
Tom Milliken, who works for the wildlife trade monitoring group TRAFFIC, which is headquartered in Cambridge, UK and has been involved heavily in the debates about elephant poaching,
causing scarring along the way. Biocompatible: This sort of goes without saying, but anything implanted with the body has to be entirely non-reactive, especially in the brain.
This opens the way to new therapeutic options for helping paraplegics to at least partially regain lost rhythmic movements.
and research scientist Arnold Heynen, in collaboration with scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and Roche pharmaceuticals.
Some of the 27 affected genes play a role in protein synthesis regulation, leading Bear and colleagues to wonder if 16p11.2 microdeletion syndrome and fragile X syndrome affect synapses in the same way.
created by Alea Mills at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Using electrophysiological biochemical, and behavioral analyses, the MIT team compared this 16p11.2 mouse with
can play the role of an nhibitorpart-way through the molecular process that is thought to cause Alzheimer,
A summary of their work in human tumor cells and mice will be published on Feb 9 in the journal Nature Communications. y laboratory research on cargo transport inside the cells of patients with autism has led to a new strategy
and making them race to remove cargo from the cell membrane, destroying proteins prematurely. To better understand NHE9,
This slows down the hipping rateof cancer-promoting cargo and leaves them on the cell surface for too long.
Research from other laboratories suggested that one such cargo protein is EGFR, which maintains cancer-promoting signals at the cell surface
Protein complexes, molecules that transport payloads in and out of cells, and other cellular activities are organized all at the nanoscale.
MIT researchers led by Ed Boyden have invented a new way to visualize the nanoscale structure of the brain and other tissues.
the trio said the way was now open for engineering a yeast strain that would do the whole drug-making trick.
In this way, it can anticipate when momentum is building and alert the authorities. Anyone caught participating in such unlawful activity as free speech will be fined up to about $600 (30,000 rubles)
"Duru wrote in a description of a Youtube video of the hoverboard's record-breaking flight.
f one is thinking of trying to change the way one does long term brain implants,
New findings published in the journal Future Medicine suggest that we may have another way forward.
and released in this way. Wearable device Changes Your Moodthe technique could also be used to create a new kind of brain-computer interface.
Do I See Colors The Same Way You Do? Conventional color printing applies various semitransparent inks on top of each other to produce different hues,
Should Jets Be rerouted to Avoid Warming Contrails? Pennsylvania State university geography professor Andrew M. Carleton and graduate student Jase Bernhardt studied April data from two weather stations, one in the South and the other in the Midwest,
when commercial jets were grounded, suggested that the absence of contrails had an effect upon weather. But it took the longer recent study to show that the effect could be observed over a longer period as well.
#Floating, Touchable'Fairy Lights'Unveiled A team of researchers from Japan has found a way to use a high-speed laser to create a touchable plasma display in mid-air.
At the University of Virginia, researchers have unveiled a new way to transmit wireless data in light waves from LED LIGHTS a much more reliable and faster alternative to radio wave Wi-fi. DNEWS:
developed this new way to connect to the Internet. The technology would require no more energy than is used currently to emit light.
We think of this technology as a tremendous way to sort of improve the system. he company ags,
Wuh claimed. think emocratizationis the perfect way to describe what we are trying to achieve,
Researcher James Anstie at the University of Adelaide and his team are developing an instrument theye dubbed an optical dog nose that uses a specialized laser known as an optical frequency comb to provide a quick and noninvasive way to analyze a person
This fascinating milestone can help researchers learn more about the way the heart develops in vitro to help prevent defects
whether that through GPS navigation or Carplay. How more connected can we get? What about a vehicle that's connected to your heart?
Different types of molecules vibrate in unique ways and those vibrations interact with the light to create an optical signature.
It also opened the door to the possibility that self-aware robots could make their way into the future e
The authors suggest that bacteria are unlikely to evolve ways to resist teixobactin because it acts on two different targets that are conserved highly across many bacterial species
when tubes were placed in patients'airways for mechanical ventilation, a procedure that can cause the virus to become aerosolized.
But he and his colleagues were looking for new ways to manipulate and assemble tiny pieces of tissue using magnets much harder feat,
and pave the way to an alternate therapy Now, it looks like a team led by University of California (UC), San diego,
but positively charged hydrogen ions, the opposite way, toward the cathode. But theye never matched the power output of the oxygen conducting SOFCS.
and his colleagues have found a way to boost the power from BZY fuel cells. The researchers suspected one problem with the BZY membranes was in the way they were made.
Mixing the different ceramic components typically requires heating them to temperatures as high as 1700°C But at that extreme temperature,
Their RNASCOPE and DNASCOPE were able to distinguish cells that harbor the provirus, VIRAL RNA, or even viruses outside of cells much more clearly than any previous in situ technique. ee convinced that we can see individual virions
A system that lets rovers handle more of their own navigation could spell more speed for interplanetary explorers.
and the system figures out the route using stored satellite images of the terrain. Along the way the rover's onboard cameras scan for rocks that are too small for the satellites to catch.
If any are spotted Seeker automatically adjusts the route to skirt around them. The system also uses the cameras and satellite images to monitor progress.
In 2012 Seeker was tested for the first time in the Atacama desert in Chile a landscape similar to that of Mars. There it guided the Robovolc rover built to traverse the edge of volcanoes over several kilometres in a single day.
which is planned for launch in 2018 find its way across vast stretches of Martian soil.
This article appeared in print under the headline Rover navigation system feels the need for Martian spee e
A system that lets rovers handle more of their own navigation could spell more speed for interplanetary explorers.
and the system figures out the route using stored satellite images of the terrain. Along the way the rover's onboard cameras scan for rocks that are too small for the satellites to catch.
If any are spotted Seeker automatically adjusts the route to skirt around them. The system also uses the cameras and satellite images to monitor progress.
In 2012 Seeker was tested for the first time in the Atacama desert in Chile a landscape similar to that of Mars. There it guided the Robovolc rover built to traverse the edge of volcanoes over several kilometres in a single day.
which is planned for launch in 2018 find its way across vast stretches of Martian soil.
This article appeared in print under the headline Rover navigation system feels the need for Martian spee e
and return to Earth using a parachute to slow its decent through the atmosphere about 8 days later.
and the jets are not always active exploring them remotely is challenging. The more the spacecraft can do without waiting for communication with Earth the better they can explore especially
The pulses make protons in the body spin in a precise way that sends signals that can be interpreted as the location and density of fluid in the bones and muscle.
if the Canadian space agency selects their ISS-MRI for a life science berth on a rocket flight in 2016.
Five years down the road I expect really portable MRIS based on TRASE to be everywhere Sarty says.
The effect may be the first time that a lab-based black hole has created Hawking particles in the same way expected from real black holes.
In cases where images with greater resolution are needed the pair plan to use aerial imagery from drones provided local aviation and privacy laws permit.
A cunning way to split water into oxygen and hydrogen in two distinct steps could be a boon to both astronauts
But there are still a few different ways for the explosion to happen which could change the way astronomers interpret these supernovae in the future.
In the favoured model called the single degenerate system a white dwarf reaches its critical mass by stealing material from an ordinary companion star.
A new project proposing that galaxy-spanning alien civilisations should generate detectable heat has turned up a few dozen galaxies that hold promise as harbours for life.
Predicting retail activity a key economic indicator could be done by counting vehicles in the car parks of supermarkets and malls.
#Spacex unveils sleek reusable Dragon crew capsule First cargo now crew the uber-modern space taxi known as the Dragon V2 is ready for passengers.
NASA is already using an unpiloted version of Dragon to send cargo to the International space station and return valuable gear and scientific experiments.
The new vehicle has simple silvery walls seats for up to seven passengers and a set of flatscreen control panels.
But the most radical aspect of the redesign is the landing gear which will allow astronauts to set the spacecraft down on solid ground.
The current version of Dragon deploys a parachute as it descends and splashes down in the ocean.
You'll be able to land anywhere On earth with the accuracy of a helicopter Musk said during the event at Spacex headquarters in Hawthorne California.
and crew capsules to simply be reloaded with propellant and flown again much like commercial airplanes.
As long as we continue to throw away rockets and spacecraft we will never have true access to space says Musk.
Like passengers in today's commercial aeroplanes riders of the Dragon V2 won't get much leg room in the capsule's tight quarters.
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.
However a colony of mice and rats will make the journey on the next Spacex cargo launch becoming the private company's first mammalian passengers.
or the air flows that make aeroplane flights bumpy. Now Sandra Chapman of the University of Warwick UK and her colleagues have examined the solar wind's behaviour using NASA's twin STEREO spacecraft.
These create energy in the same way as the sun by fusing a superheated plasma of hydrogen nuclei to form helium.
but having a gravitational lens offers a way to improve the measurements particularly if scientists can find more examples at different distances.
This is not a trailer for an alien invasion movie NASA is gearing up to conduct the first test flight of a disc-shaped spacecraft designed to safely land heavy loads
Until recently NASA had used parachutes and airbags for most robotic landings on Mars starting with the Viking mission in 1976.
which combined parachutes with landing gear powered by retrorockets that could lower the rover to the surface on tethers.
Such weight can't be slowed adequately by parachutes in the Martian air which is just 1 per cent as dense as Earth's. Unfortunately rocket-powered landings are out of the question too as the atmosphere is still just thick enough to buffet incoming spacecraft with more turbulence than thrusters can accommodate.
and a giant parachute twice the size of Curiosity's. The decelerator would attach to the outer rim of a capsule-like entry vehicle.
and moments later the parachute will fire. The saucer should gently splash down in open water.
NASA has three more test flights in Hawaii planned for the LDSD and mission managers will review the results before deciding on next steps.
Some of us are already conjuring up ways to get back there and do just that.
which would let nutrients from the surface make their way into the liquid ocean. It looks promising
Then after spending decades building the ISS the US cancelled the space shuttle the vehicle originally intended for transport to the ISS as part of its post-Apollo programme.
After the shuttle's last flight in 2011 though the US became dependent on Russia for transport to the ISS using Soyuz at a cost of nearly $71 million for each seat it requires.
Whether that for-the-camera useless blame game can translate into much needed political will to accelerate backup plans for ISS transport remains to be seen
NASA's suspension of working with the Russians will likely be received in Russia much the same way other sanctions over its actions in Ukraine have been:
or more specifically the keys to the rocket capable of getting crew to the ISS.
accelerating the diversification of ISS transport options and rethinking the propensity of using space as a foreign policy surrogate.
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