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biking and taking public transport cannot. The goal of Hamburg project is to replace roads with a ruenes netzor a green network of interconnected open areas covering 40%of the city.

According to the official website, parks, playgrounds, sports fields, allotments and cemeteries will be connected to form a network,

The Danish capital Copenhagen is building bicycle superhighways radiating out from the city centre. These developments combined may make worrying reading for driving enthusiasts.

Professor Michael Sivak, at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute has published just a series of reports looking at car use,

sian and developing market cities will not achieve the levels of car motorisation enjoyed in the West Energy problem Another way to examine the issue is to look at the number of households without a car.

which have extensive public transport networks, and where the costs of parking can far outweigh the cost of a purchase of a subway ticket.

But it not the full story. In Los angeles, only 12%of households are car-less,

Planes use 2, 691, and cars a staggering 4, 218. BTU, or British thermal unit, per person mile is a measure of energy used to move a person a mile.

Now, cramming more people onto planes makes them more efficient per person. he load in aircraft,

I would compare it with a target in the traffic safety domain that was imposed by Sweden about 20 years ago,

BMW vision for the way its engineers should be working on its cars is different. Instead of reaching for any of the shiny silver tools on his cart the mechanic picks up a pair of what looks like sunglasses with connected buds for his ears.

and promoting it as the futuristic way to provide servicing for its new concept, the XL1.

AR could help see through that plastic. ay youe driving down the road, and a light comes on you freak out

If a customer breaks down at the side of the road at night, in the rain,

are increasingly finding their way into the hands of healthy people who want to study harder,

and maybe we'd have more inventions, faster medical discoveries, safer transport and bigger economies.

While Sahakian and some of her colleagues believe chemically induced cognitive enhancement is worth exploring as a way for people to fulfil their potential,

If cognitive enhancers make the drivers and pilots to whom we entrust our lives less likely to crash,

truck drivers, pilots and doctors are known also to take cognitive enhancers. Stimulant use has long been commonplace in the military,

Students think of these as study aids in the same way as someone might drink coffee before work.

As young people who are getting used to thinking about cognitive enhancement in a non-medicalised way get older it is likely to just become a normal part of how we approach the world.

Tests carried out on 18 pilots at Stanford university found those given the Alzheimer's disease drug Aricept for 30 days were better able to retain complex aviation tasks learnt on a simulator than those given placebos.

But if you do so in heavy traffic you get traffic jams. Ilieva and others have also found that study participants falsely believed that the cognitive enhancers they were given had a big impact on their performance.

Space was a way of showcasing US power and ingenuity.""If you can do big things well,

#However, Launius believes similar Apollo-style missions may not resonate with the public in the same way as it did four decades ago.

Either way, it will bring a reward that is less tangible, but no less important: inspiration.

citing mobile phones, agricultural activities, and aviation.""If we want to use the applications, we need to know the hard part of science.#

The expertise required to rival other large space agencies may also be a long way off#at least judging by the way some existing African space organizations present themselves to the world.

While Rabinowitch and team have found a way to make potatoes produce more power than usual,

more efficient ways of burning petrol and Diesel fuel injection has been the subject of research for more than 20 years,

just like a jet of fuel sprayed from an injector. ou turn on the headlights and the light just reflects back into your eyes,

The result is a detailed moving image of a jet of fuel in the cylinder that can be presented in various ways, in black and white or in colour.

and are just using it as a way of brushing up. Such information will allow people to adapt courses for different subgroups of students.

The education technology start-up Knewton, for example, has developed an adaptive learning system that instantaneously alters the way it presents information to students based on

Yet for some entrepreneurs, e-commerce is happening in a rather unconventional way through photo-sharing app Instagram.

went to the Ministry of Commerce, chamber of commerce, customs, airport. I wanted to experience it myself,

All its freeways have been turned into public spaces, their multiple lanes of traffic replaced with extensive linear parks.

Down the centre of each of these parks run wide bus boulevards, protected cycling lanes and excellent walking paths.

or bike infrastructure#although the comprehensive rail system is usually faster. The transformation transcends the physical environment.

It's certainly not the Los angeles of today, the land of 20-lane interchanges and parking lots the size of football stadiums and mind-bending, soul-crushing,

and lives on the highway, then both problems would seem to share a single solution,

most cost-efficient way to improve a city's economic and environmental viability, and it creates healthier, happier residents.

and public transport, and tells you how"walkable#your location is. Walk Score has been gaining serious traction in the US real estate market by promoting walkability as a factor in choosing where to live.

The site recently started featuring apartment rentals with Walk Scores prominently displayed#a different way to place value on

to house 80,000 people in a completely car-free centre with regional mass transit connections.

bike, drive or take public transport in a certain amount of time.##Google maps'addition of walking, biking and transport options to its directions has been the greatest game-changer for increasing walking.

Reroute. it allows you to compare your journey for several modes of transportation at once across many different factors:

or bike transit with points that can be exchanged for discounts from a wide range of partners.

With Google glass and other augmented reality devices, the route information we receive on our smartphones will be displayed in the urban environment, in real time.

This month, transit directions have been added to Glass, to complement the existing walking directions. Such information could be tacked onto our Nike Fuelbands and Fitbits,

According to#Walkability Asia's 2011 study, improving pedestrian infrastructure is the lowest priority for transportation in Asian cities;

auto rickshaws and motorcycles#rather than one-size-fits-all Western street design. Perhaps the biggest deterrent for walkers is the perception that it's unsafe

In emerging megacities Mumbai in India, narrow roads and paths designed for walking have now become overrun by vehicles.

and an astounding 57%of all people killed in traffic accidents are pedestrians.##In Chennai, a local newspaper launched a movement called Right to Walk

These smart cars would act more like a fleet of shared, self-driving taxis. But another safety concern is our quickly aging population,

Transport planners are now#redesigning cities for elderly walkers#using a special suit developed by researchers at MIT called#AGNES#(Age Gain Now Empathy System)

Cities have seen the value of turning tarmac over to walkers and bikers, if only for a few hours.

the city began to install permanent bike lanes and parklets along the routes where the festival happens.

Walkers have gained now literally ground in the city#as they have around the world#with the addition of plazas and other car-free zones.

The information promises to provide insights about how people drive that were impossible to gain on such a large scale before#from charging habits to the ways people adapt to life with an electric car.

Cars with GPS navigation systems can also collect detailed information about routes. And advanced systems can record details like how much the air conditioning is used

or even by the side of the roads. They can usually charge a car twice as rapidly as a standard wall socket at home-often much faster#and in the case of Tesla,

As more and more computer-equipped, connected cars fill the roads, we will learn a great deal about how we actually drive,

Kickstarter's crowdfunding platform has funded 49,316 projects to the tune of $807m, revolutionising the way filmmakers, musicians and hardware companies raise money.

is changing the way 2. 5 million people get access to doctors. Nosql database vendor Mongodb was called recently the King of New york start-ups after it raised an eye-popping $150m in funding at a valuation of $1. 2 bn.

and his investors are onboard on that basis. Etsy CEO Chad Dickerson has hinted the company will take a nontraditional route to paying back its venture capitalists, possibly through recapitalisation and debt financing.

The company claims its prototype fits onto most taps, can purify about 25,000 litres of water

was Tudlo, a smart phone app that crowdsources information in real-time on road accidents, storms, floods and other natural disasters,

For over 20 years Catan had been dreaming of a way to make knee and joint replacements more affordable for Filipinos.

#Ideas such as low-cost ways to purify water or reduced cost artificial knee joints are good examples of potential solutions that can reduce inequalities,

Smart hope to turn the pilot into a commercial service for the country's Alternative Learning System programme,

The company claims its prototype fits onto most taps, can purify about 25,000 litres of water

was Tudlo, a smart phone app that crowdsources information in real-time on road accidents, storms, floods and other natural disasters,

For over 20 years Catan had been dreaming of a way to make knee and joint replacements more affordable for Filipinos.

#Ideas such as low-cost ways to purify water or reduced cost artificial knee joints are good examples of potential solutions that can reduce inequalities,

Smart hope to turn the pilot into a commercial service for the country's Alternative Learning System programme,

Researchers in The netherlands are exploring a novel way forward. What if antibiotics could be deactivated after use

A team at the University of Groningen has demonstrated a way to switch off antibiotic agents after just a few hours using warmth or sunlight.

And the way a drug binds to its target usually depends on it having a shape that fits rather precisely into a"slot#on the target enzyme.

#Edge-of-space planes to free-up congested skies Making predictions about the future of aviation is dangerous;

Few in aviation's golden age could have foreseen how cheap flying would become; in 1939 a Transatlantic airline ticket cost up to $90,

000 in today's money and nobody predicted the transatlantic passenger liner would ever be replaced.

Airships were supposed to be the way of the future, not aircraft. Experts believed the aviation industry would die because of environmental concerns and falling passenger numbers.

But despite these concerns it has collapsed not. In some sectors, business and leisure travel are booming.

Airports are getting busier, even in a Europe grappling with downturn and austerity. All the major regions are improving

and we are seeing real growth in Africa for the first time, with new African carriers appearing. New generations of aircraft like the Boeing 787 and the Airbus a380 are far more efficient than older aircraft#70%more fuel efficient than aircraft of 40 years ago, according to the International air transport association (IATA.

Transport's impact on the environment is lessening, and nowhere will the impact be greater than in aviation.

By the year 2050, the world's population may have risen to 10 billion, with 75%of them living in cities.

These cities will be connected evermore by air, dependant on the movement of people and goods between them.

New materials and new engine technology will continue to make aviation more efficient. Plane designs will make more use of carbon composites and, in the future, carbon nanofibres.

Air traffic control and airport management will also be revolutionised as digital technology makes aircraft easier to manage.

Lighter aircraft can be bigger and carry more freight and passengers. New fuelsin years to come they can be flown remotely, too.

In the case of freighters, this means no crew#so there is an extra weight saving by getting rid of the life support systems and the windows.

Passenger aircraft might not be flown remotely#we will still feel safer with a human in the cockpit

#but automated air traffic could double the capacity of the flight paths around the world and only airport capacity would constrain us.

The stuff of science fiction? Not exactly. British aerospace flew an aircraft remotely to Inverness in Scotland this summer in a Civil aviation Authority-supported experiment.

Allowing UAVS to monitor and spray crops is regulated already and sanctioned in both North and South america.

The best bio fuel for aviation is probably butanol, an alcohol which behaves very like the kerosene that the jet engines of today use.

and if an economically efficient method can be found to industrialise that process then your flight of the future could literally be fuelled by alcohol.

The number of aircraft flying on our skies, however, also depends on the infrastructure to safely manage it.

as a result of Congress failing to back reforms proposed by the Federal Aviation Authority#after a very famous air traffic controllers strike more than 25 years ago.#

and mobile signals bounced off aircraft will replace the 1940s-era radar system still in use by#air traffic control,

and allow planes to land more efficiently, using less fuel in the process. Although no air traffic system is using such signals at the moment,

the Technology Strategy Board of the UK government is now funding an experiment to look at the practicalities of using the BBC's Freeview#a free-to-air DIGITAL TV signal#for just such a purpose.

a phantom signal that even modern radars find hard to differentiate from a real moving aircraft.

which could make space travel a long-haul passenger's reality. In the UK, a company called Skylon has attracted just#60m ($110m) of government funding to develop a futuristic type of engine known as a"reaction engine#.#

However, these flights are likely to run from dedicated spaceports and it will be some time before mixed-mode airports that can operate both spacecraft

and aircraft become possible. The early space systems will probably involve gliding back to Earth

#which may mean our airports will have to be redesigned to make them useable by these different designs.

The futuristic visions of the 1950s and 60s imagined neighbourhood airports and helicopters in our back gardens-but space travel is more likely.

The harsh reality of economics in a world with a huge demand for fuel have has meant it is too expensive to fight gravity

Many experts in India feel that Silicon valley succeeded because of the kind of crossroads it provided for technical, creative minds with the right financial and marketing input.

mid-level and senior managers who are pushing the outsourcing industry in new ways. Genpact has diversified,

In a Gurgaon business park, a room of engineers train on computer-aided design, fashioning a tool to be used in an automobile.

or even the public transport. Every company is like a self-contained island. They have backups for everything#water, electricity and food.

With no reliable public transport available, Genpact provides cabs to take over 10,000 employees back home. It's a fully fledged operation,

or transport#it's just taken care of. Or even in Philippines, which is closer to India,

I don't provide transport.##About three million professionals are employed directly by companies to serve these needs.

but the government hasn't stood in the way either.""They let us succeed. The energy in Gurgaon is palpable,

for instance finding ways to make integrated circuits based on specifications created by overseas companies. They're not really inventing something new.#

#Solar-power vehicles pushing boundaries of possibility The promise of fleets of clean, green transport powered by solar energy has for decades just been that:

While Air force officials have argued the highly manoeuvrable aircraft with stealth technology would be useful in dealing with Syria's sophisticated air defence systems and surface-to-air missiles,

Another issue is that flight restrictions on the F-22 were lifted just earlier this year after concerns over pilot oxygen deprivation,

"It's an interesting way that Bluetooth can interact with the biotech industry.##Other personal health sensors that use Bluetooth include the Cardiopad,

Bluetooth is also being used to help those in agriculture in other ways. Kenyan mobile tech company Virtual city has developed Agrimanagr

#Bluetooth can also provide new ways of communicating in rural settings where internet access is unavailable or out of reach for the poor.

But as we devise more and more ways to benefit from ever greater connectivity between the people, other living organisms, objects and our environments,

or in an office or supermarket parking space during the day, and be topped up with electricity that is generated more efficiently in a centralised power station,

whether we have the infrastructure in place to cope with the swelling demand electric cars will place on our roads and cities.

but increasingly there is the ability to send back information the other way, on how much is being used, by what,

The only sign of life is a dirt road zigzagging all the way to the top. But for astronomers like Joe Liske, this is arguably the world's most interesting mountain right now,

#Sic transit gloriaas exciting as the plans for direct imaging are, most exoplanets are still found using indirect techniques#such as detecting a wobble in the position of the star that indicates it is being pulled slightly towards an orbiting planet,

"By far the most powerful combination right now is the combination of transit detections and Doppler spectroscopy,

because the odds that any single planet discovered by Doppler will also transit are very low,

and the huge numbers of transit planets discovered by Kepler are all orbiting relatively faint stars

aligned parallel to the plane of the film. These tiny tubes, whose walls are one atom thick

One of the ways in which#to improve sound output is to surround the CNT film with a gas that has a lower heat capacity than air,

Another way to improve the sound output is to make the surface area of the film bigger.

So one way or another, these forms of nanocarbon look destined to make our isles full of noises.

working their way up Kenya's health insurance industry until each ran successful brokerage businesses in the sector.

Oloo and Agutu decided there must be a better way. So in 2008 they launched Changamka Microhealth

which work the same way as the previous system except now providers bill patients via a secure website,

many women had no way to securely save for maternity care.""They would put their money under their pillow,

Changamka is doing its best to find new ways to extend coverage and facilitate payments for Kenya's uninsured,

however it is still a long way from profiting from these schemes. Their Linda Jamii microinsurance only has around 8, 000 subscribers so far,

and profitable, it will have to find a way to reach hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of uninsured Kenyans.

And although we're a long way from a replicator Nasa recently admitted that as part of a programme"to turn science fiction into fact#they are funding work to develop a 3d food printer.

As a result, less traditional species are expected to increasingly find their way into trawlers, supermarkets and restaurants.

The city itself is in many ways a start up. From 1945 it was shattered and split for almost half a century.

It's all jet and no lag, #he says.""In an average month, I spend about a week-and-a-half in Berlin, about a week in San francisco and the rest of the time split between Los angeles, New york and London.#

because they don't understand the way companies are structured and corporate regulations.""We don't understand what could happen

and commerce is now beginning to combine in tech in such a way that it might finally shed its poor tag.

or adding life onto an expensive piece of equipment like that is by far the most environmental way to recycle keeping both the function

but believes that down the road, they could offer a low-power version that runs off solar for regions like Africa.

A smattering of papers over the following few years reported sweet taste receptors in the bladder and the gut, bitter taste receptors in the sinuses, airways, pancreas and brain,

preventing allergies and assisting the immune system in a number of other ways. The evidence that the balance of different microbes we have inside us is important to our health has been growing rapidly in recent years.

Yehuda Ben-Shahar, now a professor at Washington University in St louis, found cells in the human airway equipped with bitter receptors.

whether those in the airway might be protecting us in a similar way. He and his collaborators found that

as the blood is the highway by which substances move around the body. This could explain why the receptors show up in so many places,

"I'm willing to bet that these bitter receptors were on the airway before they migrated to the tongue,

which tends to happen through the formation of orner crews small groups that congregate on a particular street corner to sell drugs.

has shown that the way a network operates how information and influence spread through it, for example depends crucially on what mathematicians call its topology:

where there are many alternative routes between two points), a tree (where points are connected by the repeated splitting of branches),

16-year-old scientist and researcher Jack Andraka vowed to find a quick and cheap way to test for signs of the disease.

you could fit twice as many cars onto the streets, and into parking spaces.""We want to put less car on the road,

and the thrill, of a bike,#says Kim.""That still preserves the elements of freedom and independence that commuters today demand.#

and use the torque generated in useful ways, such as keeping the vehicle upright, or leaning it in and out of corners.

and it was marketed on its ease of parking. Since its introduction 15 years ago it has become a common sight in European cities,

which include new designs specifically for countries where the bike or scooter is already a dominant form of urban transport.

I will be looking at that prototype in my next column article. If you would like to comment on this article

especially in the way that resources are used. These new fabrics are quintessentially fluid, and can respond to changing urban demands.

For example, Paris Habitat, the capitalslargest owner of social housing is using body heat from the Paris Metro to heat buildings.

and we are likely to see a change in our experience of cities thanks to augmented realities a new way of seeing via our smart phones and Google glasses.

Interactions between these dynamic elements provide a"new"way to think about design, where the purpose of a particular space can be decided by the person using it.

Such concepts allow us to see bridges in new ways not just as a method of crossing natural barriers,

In a nutshell, the problem is many of Africa rural farmers can get their produce to the markets in time, because of bad roads, lack of communication,

but as these tools and information are not yet available to all farmers it still has some way to go.

and 2013 NARSAD Young Investigator grantee Sarah Ahrens, Ph d.,all of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New york. The team confirmed a long-held theory that a part of the brain called the TRN

The research also demonstrates the ability of the CHHF to pioneer new ways of chemists working together:

Our findings suggest therapeutic strategies need to go the other way and target ways to restore PKC activity,

not inhibit it. This is contrary to the current dogma.""How could this misconception of PKC promoting tumors have arisen?

and provides a new way to study both the normal brain and brain disorders such as epilepsy and autism.

the findings provide a proof-of-principle for a systematic way of studying how brain cells disperse

said Tsigelny. he discovery of Zone 2 as the distinguishing feature of the membrane-penetrating configurations of asyn paves the road to possible prevention of such a binding.

just as there are many ways the body can break down with aging, Sedivy said, there may be many ways to forestall that."

"There is more than one way to become long-lived, "Sedivy said. Help for humans? In the long term, Sedivy said he is optimistic that the findings about Myc could prove to matter to human health.

Finding the right target for a drug in one of Myc's key metabolic or immune system pathways may

if it can reduce osteoporosis in people the way it does in mice. In particular, Sedivy said,

but we are still exploring ways of improving the manufacturing process to reduce the overall cost

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