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I covered in this column and here at BBC Future we have been following it for the past two years. he idea is to make space super-cheap

A few moments later a flag is waved, red with gold stars on it. This is China's first spacewalk#on 27 september 2008,

Senior Curator in the Division of Space History at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum,"help to answer some important questions about the origins of the Moon and geologic processes there.#

before placing a flag on its surface. But the flag didn't have the familiar stars-and-stripes pattern.

It was red with gold stars on it. If you would like to comment on this article

But can a large endowment alone kick-start a culture of innovation? Few have tried seriously. Norway, the world eighth-largest oil exporter, established a sovereign wealth fund (Government Pension fund Global) in 1990 to diversify oil investments

a new government-funded business incubator that is one of many promoting entrepreneurship as a means to new economic growth. f we focus on creating a culture based on entrepreneurs,

you can expect results overnight. s a culture, wee a start-up, he says. e are starting somewhere with no history of entrepreneurship, no start-ups.

changing the culture, the economy, the mindset. While Stanford and Harvard universities took decades to become recognised institutions

is not part of Saudi culture. he only industry we have is the government, explains Tuba Ozlem Terekli, cofounder of Qotuf Al Riyadah Development Company,

and build a culture of entrepreneurship in the Kingdom. he society wants innovation from Gen Y to corporate employees,

Now many like him, western-educated and exposed to entrepreneurial cultures like Silicon valley, are returning and ringing tons of innovation creating culturally relevant startups solving local problems It may not be the local problems the government

A culture of risk-taking investors and VCS has yet to emerge among Saudi wealthy.

says it will be hard to end the culture of dependency subsidies, benefits and handouts from the government that have marked Saudi economy. t not simply a matter of buying innovation says Wehry. here still no incentive for private entrepreneurshipand the ambition exceeds the capacity and the reality. t all dreams.

our cultures become more sedentary and rates of obesity and heart disease increase. Cars not only make our cities unhealthy,

#which serve the needs of Asian cultures#accounting for street markets and vendors, auto rickshaws and motorcycles#rather than one-size-fits-all Western street design.

adding, in other words, a million miles away from start-up culture. Amid all these legacy industries, New york start-ups are underdogs

not just as religion or passion, says Jen Berrent, a partner at New york law firm Wilmerhale who's worked with start-ups since late 1990s.

But with a tradition of making things to order for foreign companies and a hierarchical corporate culture, a new generation of start-up innovators is facing an uphill battle."

Some say a much bigger problem is that Taiwan lacks a culture of catering to consumers,

The culture of most companies, and many would say society as a whole, seem to work against innovation.

"The management culture has been the same since the 1980s,#says Chiang.""It has depended largely on the mentality of the person at the top.

Yet while a culture of saving among the poor is lacking because of low wages, fluid employment,

"This sort of culture that you see here, the hippy music, we had exactly the same thing in San francisco a few years ago.

The vibrant alternative culture remains in place, and some see it as providing fertile ground for the creation of disruptive technologies

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a mall, meeting spaces and a museum. Solar panels on the structure top will generate power.

function, and motion in intact tissues, 3d cell cultures, and engineered tissue constructs, as well as imaging 3d dynamics in microfluidics,

New populations, new tools, new culture, new outlooks, new roles for recruiters. Those who acquire

and it has fallen long to the recruiter to be able to convey the culture (and appeal) of an employee brand to candidates.

but the integrated and multiplatform culture of work means that nothing dwells outside the purview of perception

Apple's lawyers are trying to portray a culture of fast following at Samsung and to highlight Apple innovations.

All-electric Zerobus Fleet Launches Mayor Greg Fischer joined TARC and other local officials today at the Louisville Slugger Museum to kick off the start of Zerobus service in downtown Louisville.

and stop along the way for some of the best Louisville has to offer in restaurants museums

and cell culture techniques to analyse and understand these cells. Initial tests on very small clinical groups have indicated already that the new device is able to capture the cells with a greater degree of efficiency

chambers of commerce and others to develop an innovation culture in business, "says Medlbtikar's Project Coordinator, Dr. Raimund Bröchler at INTRASOFT International."

and projects and developed an innovation culture for many businesses in the MEDA region. It also helped set up innovation organisations that have supported

As the pulse travels from one temple to the other, it interferes (in a good way) with the areas causing the seizure,

#Scientists grow norovirus stomach bug in a dish University of Florida rightoriginal Studyposted by Morgan Sherburne-Florida on November 13 2014researchers have grown for the first time a human norovirus in a cell culture dish taking a step toward developing medications to treat the stomach

##since it was discovered in 1972â##has been that we can t culture the human viruses in a cell culture dish##says Stephanie Karst associate professor in the molecular genetics and microbiology department at University of Florida College of Medicine.##

That s in part because researchers have not been able to culture human noroviruses so they can test potential treatmentsâ##until now.

and the way they usually do things says lead author Curtis Weiss assistant professor of medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of medicine and a physician at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

The authors analyzed the social networks of critical care physicians in the medical intensive care unit (ICU) at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

The current way to diagnose infection is a culture but those results take 48 to 72 hours.

To date the researchers have tested the function of their activation-ready sensor in cell culture of human kidney and cancer cells."

They found that in culture these strains exchanged the two metabolites and grew as if they were wild-type staph.

When individual CF staph small colony variants were mixed together in culture they grew like wild-type bacteria.

Likewise co-culture of CF staph small colony variants with normal microbiome bacterial species also enhanced the growth of staph in culture.

and characterizes the bacteria that cause TB without taking several weeks for bacterial cultures. Laboratory diagnosis of TB using conventional approaches is a long drawn-out process

Plus relying on laboratory culture means using techniques that date back to the 1880s. Metagenomics using the latest high-throughput sequencing technologies

Due to socioeconomic and gender inequities women in some countries and cultures are not always in a position to negotiate regular condom use so a drug-dispersing suppository can protect against transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections during heterosexual intercourse

The labels work because an array of tiny pillars on the top of a surface effectively hides images written on the material beneath Shyu compares the texture of the pillars to a submicroscopic toothbrush.

when the pillars trap moisture. ou can verify that you have the real product with just a breath of air,

because the pillars were made from materials that preferred adhering to the mold rather than whatever surface they were supposed to cover.

This allowed the pillars to release easily. They are also strong enough to withstand rubbing,

When the scientists disrupted passage through that pore in cell cultures the parasite stopped growing

The researchers disabled HSP101 in cell cultures, expecting to block the discharge of some malarial proteins.

but it has proven challenging to culture in the lab. Researchers used the device, called Slipchip,

They then grew a pure culture of this single organism in the lab. An early guess is that this particular microbe may be linked to obesity and fatty liver disease

the substances from this fluid were used to recreate this environment within the tiny Slipchip compartment key to successfully growing the difficult organism in the lab. After growing a pure culture of the previously unidentified bacterium,

says Sally Temple, director of the Neural stem cell Institute of Rensselaer, New york, who was involved not in this research. t really interesting to see how innervations are coming into play now in the subventricular zone.

Temple explains. t a really hot area because it a beautiful stem cell niche to study.

and automatically report any potential red flags. Any parent teacher, or clinician would simply need to download the app

we need a better culture system that can reliably produce more target cells that function well.

and cause inflammatory responses in a cell culture model of human epithelial cells, which compose the lining of the lung airway. ut comparing these consequences of infection did not provide hints as to why RSV and PIV3 produced such differences in disease severity.

The new tree of life is dated the first evolutionary tree of this magnitude says coauthor Akito Kawahara assistant curator of Lepidoptera at the Florida Museum of Natural history at University of Florida. ntil now we didn t

and affect our daily lives from pollinating our crops to vectoring diseasessays lead author Bernhard Misof with the Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig in Bonn Germany. e can only start to understand the enormous species richness

at the Cleveland Museum of Natural history. he findings not only advance our understanding of the origins of insects but add confidence to our organization of the groups.?

To date the researchers have tested the function of their activation-ready sensor in cell culture of human kidney

whether two species can evolve from a common ancestor without being isolated geographically from each othersays Ted Schultz curator of ants at the Smithsonian s National Museum of Natural history

which makes it impossible for them to sexually interact with their host species. Other researchers on the project are from the Smithsonian Institution s National Museum of Natural history Harvard university and the Center for the Study of Social Insects at Sao State university Rio

the Ministry of Education Culture Sports Science and Technology-Japan; and the Murata Science Foundation supported the research.

The labels work because an array of tiny pillars on the top of a surface effectively hides images written on the material beneath.

Shyu compares the texture of the pillars to a submicroscopic toothbrush. The hidden images appear

when the pillars trap moisture. ou can verify that you have the real product with just a breath of airkotov says.

because the pillars were made from materials that preferred adhering to the mold rather than whatever surface they were supposed to cover.

This allowed the pillars to release easily. They are also strong enough to withstand rubbing ensuring that the label would survive some wear such as would occur during shipping.

and assistant curator of Lepidoptera at the Florida Museum of Natural history at University of Florida. ith a tree we can now understand how the majority of butterfly

and director of the University of Hawaii Insect Museum. his study adds to a growing body of knowledge by bringing new techniques to the table

and a postdoctoral researcher with the Florida Museum. he few Lepidoptera fossils we have are from about 15 million years ago.

#Lava pillars in Iceland may have formed without a boom University at Buffalo rightoriginal Studyposted by Charlotte Hsu-Buffalo on October 9 2013land-based lava pillars in Iceland may have formed through an unusual reaction typically seen

That finding is more likely than the one that suggests the rocky pillars dotting Icelandâ#Skaelingar valley were tossed projectiles into the fields by warring trollsâ##a theory University at Buffalo geologist Tracy Gregg heard from a tour guide and local hiker.

The pillars hollow and made from basalt likely formed in a surprising reaction where lava met water without any explosion occurring. sually

This has implications for the way we view volcanic risk. eep-sea basalt pillars form

when columns of super-heated water rise between pillows of lava on the ocean floor cooling the molten rock into hollow pipe-like minarets.

and Geothermal Research the scientists propose that the same phenomenon sculpted the land-based lava pillars in Iceland.

Each of these distinctive characteristics is also prevalent in deep ocean pillars says Gregg. knew as soon as I saw them what they were.

'n the future Gregg says scientists could hunt for land-based lava pillars near oceans to learn about the height of ancient seas

The Cornell Center for Vertebrate Genomics Zweig Memorial Fund and Morris Animal Foundation funded the research h

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assistant professor of social and decision sciences and lead author of the study. t could be used to assess an individual emotional response to almost any kind of stimulus, for example, a flag, a brand name,

The findings showed for the first time how the extraordinarily stable compound#calcium-aluminum-silicate-hydrate (C-a-S-H)# binds the material used to build some of the most enduring structures in Western civilization.

#Researchers create living human gut-on-a-Chip in an effort to provide a more accurate alternative to conventional cell culture and animal models,

"This is as true for individuals with private collections as it is for libraries, museums and other public institutions.

and 8 mm films at high-definition resolutions with sound, the Kinograph makes preserving our cultural heritage much more affordable.

and urban employment is a new culture of city life, where leisure is king and work outside of restaurants,

such as feeling the differences between materials in a CT SCAN or understanding the shapes of artifacts in a museum.

and whether they have entered ever a search term that raises a red flag. Anyone up to three degrees of separation from a##person of interest##potentially hundreds of thousands of people per target is open to surveillance.

and schools to teach people about recycling culture and the value of discarded plastic, spreading the Japanese concept ofmottainai,

We agreed that with great people, a strong culture and vision and a healthy disregard for the impossible,

Later the Incas were able to sustain their culture above rain line by collecting dew

Mr. Petrone is in his fourth year of a Doctor of Chiropractic program at Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College in Toronto.

because the epidermal cells grown in a lab culture don produce the same barrier that human skin uses to keep moisture in and toxins out.

while gradually reducing the humidity in the cell culture, and ended up with a stratified epidermis with skin barrier properties similar to those of normal skin.

The app costs $49. 95 a month per household and is compliant with federal health privacy regulations. ur culture of learning, innovation,

Cryptocurrency is following the same path as precious metals in ancient civilization. Where gold was valued for its color, easy malleability, purity and its anti-corrosive properties,

Gold was discovered by practically every world civilization and became a good of such universal value it slowly became the de facto means of exchange (along with silver) across much of the planet,

For the vast majority of civilization, money was gold or silver, and both originated not as centrally issued currency that,

In other more preliminary examples, scientists have shown that specific culture conditions can push stem cells to grow into self-organized structures resembling a developing brain, a bit of a liver,

A rocket s skin, for example, needs to contain a column of super-pressurized fuel and at the same time weigh as little as possible.

#Aristotl learning system aims to rejuvenate STEM learning with platform heavy on visualization FORT COLLINS A Fort Collins man is aiming to revitalize the American education system with a new STEM-focused visual

and owner of a popular downtown Fort Collins bar says a teaching position at Colorado Technical University he accepted in 2005 opened his eyes to how technology could be used to create a more engaging and visual learning experience. began thinking there must be a better

while spending 45 days in a previously unexplored region of the continent, are beaming their medical information back to civilization while wearing Astroskin graphicastroskin.

#High-tech Exosuit gives divers access to unexplored ocean canyons Michael Lombardi the dive safety officer for the American Museum of Natural history trains in the Exosuit.

10 Scariest Sea Creatures The one-of-a-kind Exosuit on display at the American Museum of Natural history (AMNH) now through March 5 measures 6. 5 feet (2 meters) tall

and flashing patterns of bioluminescent organisms or to effectively collect fishes and invertebrates from deep reefs John Sparks a curator in the American Museum of Natural history's Department of Ichthyology said in a statement.

or increase the column spacing and they'll know immediately how much more or less steel and concrete might be needed and its impact on cost.

""There are three pillars to my agenda, "Kundra told Nature in an interview last December.""Engaging citizens, driving transparency and greatly decreasing the cost of government operations."

I wanted to found a prize to reflect the new challenges faced by humanity#such as climate change, energy shortages, emerging diseases, clashes of cultures and ideas,

promote Chinese culture and make the world a better place. It targets areas that have become increasingly important in modern society

when the fusion of different cultures#Western and Eastern#and the exchange of ideas gave rise to enormous prosperity and self-confidence,

These are the ideals not only of Chinese civilization, but also of humanity at large. That is what the Tang Prize seeks to promote.

says George Church a molecular geneticist at Harvard Medical school in Boston, Massachusetts, who encoded a draft of his latest book in DNA last year2."

roughly the same amount as Church s team did. But Church s team used a simple code, where the DNA bases adenine or cytosine represented zeroes,

and guanine or thymine represented ones. This sometimes led to long stretches of the same letter,

And Church says that these estimates may be too pessimistic, as"the cost of reading and writing DNA has changed by a million-fold in the past nine years,

The stimulus flags up the new leadership s determination that research should pull its weight in dragging Japan s economy out of recession.

and some flouted orthodoxy by blocking other RNA strands from being translated into protein. But almost all were linear.

manufacturers could grow cell cultures in which key genes are turned off until activated by a signal compound, permanently turning on production of a drug, for example,

Depositing human embryonic stem cells in cultures using a 3-D printer offers some advantages.

says Michel Sadelain, a researcher at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New york and an author of the study.

"I don t think there are red flags but I do think there are yellow flags. Her main concern is one of scale."

or on the ability to culture the mystery culprit. By contrast, her team sequenced everything in their samples#an approach"that meant we didn t have to know what we were looking for,

and gel density and optimizing the culture matrix and media to make this work with human muscle cells,

During culture, myobundles maintain functional acetylcholine receptors and structurally and functionally mature, evidenced by increased myofiber diameter and improved calcium handling and contractile strength.

, the Åke Wiberg Foundation and the Clas Groschinsky Memorial Fund s

#Molecular Inhibitor Breaks Cycle That Leads to Alzheimer's A molecular chaperone has been found to inhibit a key stage in the development of Alzheimer disease and break the toxic chain reaction that leads to the death of brain cells, a new study shows.

000 times slower per pixel, says George Church, a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical school who was not part of the research team.

According to the press release, uscle progenitors were injected directly into the matrix sheaths that define the position of each muscle. he leg was left to culture in a bioreactor for five days.

that we can culture the entire construct over prolonged periods of time, and that we can repopulate the vascular system

Researchers could identify which individual cellsrom a tumor or a strain of bacteriaurvive a drug treatment and study them further, something that's not possible with current culture-and-stain tests,

China has partnered also with a Luxembourg-based firm called Luxspace to send a tiny spacecraft called the Manfred Memorial Moon Mission around the moon.

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.

what alien civilisations may be like. This approach is very different says Franck Marchis at the SETI Institute in California who was involved not in the project.

because it doesn't put any constraints on the origin of the civilisation or their willingness to communicate.

Could that mean we have already found alien civilisations that have spread across galaxies? If by'found them'you mean that WISE detected the waste heat from them then yes that's right

if these sorts of energy-hungry civilisations exist WISE should have detected them Wright says. But identifying them is another story.

and galaxies that raised the infrared flag in the WISE survey and figure out if there are more ordinary processes at work.

As an alternative says Sarri the beams can be used to mimic the way particle fountains from black holes

when it reached a 5-kilometre-high mound of layered sediments in the middle of the crater.

when it reached a 5-kilometre-high mound of layered sediments in the middle of the crater.

Curiosity will keep heading for the layered sediments in the crater's central mound officially named Aeolis Mons

Interdisciplinary approachthe Institute-wide CPI will bring together scholars from three key disciplinary pillars: engineering social science and management.

and academic component to MIT and adds an important pillar to the formal strategic partnership announced by MIT and MGH last month.

Melanie Gonick/MIT Instead she and Zhu chose to manufacture an array of microscopic pillars that uniformly tilt in response to a magnetic field.

and bonded the nickel pillars to a soft transparent layer of silicone. The researchers exposed the material to an external magnetic field placing it between two large magnets

and found they were able to control the angle and direction of the pillars which tilted toward the angle of the magnetic field.

and the pillars will follow the field in real time Zhu says. Tilting toward a fieldin experiments the team piped a water solution through a syringe and onto the microhair array.

which the pillars tilted while being pinned highly or fixed in all other directions#an effect that was seen even

Through a combination of surface tension and tilting pillars water climbed up the array following the direction of the pillars.

while tilting the pillars at various angles and found she could control how much light passed through based on the angle at which the pillars bent.

In principle she says more complex magnetic fields could be designed to create intricate tilting patterns throughout an array.

Or depending on how you design the magnetic field you could get the pillars to close in like a flower.

Joining him on the paper are Ramesh Raskar the NEC Career development Professor of Media Arts and Sciences and director of the Media Lab s Camera Culture group and Berkeley s Fu-Chung

The display is a variation on a glasses-free 3-D technology also developed by the Camera Culture group.

They could also reproduce another Camera Culture project which diagnoses vision defects. So the same device could in effect determine the user s prescription

and is resolved not by end that s a red flag el Kaliouby says. Affectiva has been working with advertisers to optimize their marketing content for a couple of years.

#Glasses-free 3-D projector Over the past three years, researchers in the Camera Culture group at the MIT Media Lab have refined steadily a design for a glasses-free, multiperspective, 3-D video screen,

and Ramesh Raskar, the NEC Career development Associate professor of Media Arts and Sciences and head of the Camera Culture group built a prototype of their system using off-the-shelf components.

or consumers. conomists tend to think what drives international price differences are things like transportation costs, information costs, tariffs, cultural differences, and other factors,

Other methods such as immunoassays, cultures, or polymerase chain reactions (PCR, which copies DNA) may be efficient in one area,

This program he says is not only Buddhism not only science not only leadership but the three things together.

while gaining exposure to the culture and mentality of the young Tibetans and monks who see things a different way.

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