Predicting retail activity a key economic indicator could be done by counting vehicles in the car parks of supermarkets and malls.
The new vehicle has simple silvery walls seats for up to seven passengers and a set of flatscreen control panels.
But unlike the US Canada doesn't have its own vehicles capable of launching a satellite into orbit
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#NASA'flying saucer'for Mars to land in Hawaii In June while beachgoers in Hawaii sit blissfully unaware a flying saucer will descend over the island of Kauai.
The inflatable technology is intended to help slow down vehicles after they enter the thin Martian atmosphere at supersonic speeds.
Until recently NASA had used parachutes and airbags for most robotic landings on Mars starting with the Viking mission in 1976.
For the car-sized Curiosity NASA invented an ambitious system called the sky crane which combined parachutes with landing gear powered by retrorockets that could lower the rover to the surface on tethers.
and a giant parachute twice the size of Curiosity's. The decelerator would attach to the outer rim of a capsule-like entry vehicle.
To simulate Mars's thin atmosphere On earth the team in Hawaii will first lift a test vehicle fitted with the LDSD system to about 37 kilometres above the Pacific ocean using a high-altitude balloon.
The memo stated that the suspension includes NASA travel to Russia and visits by Russian government representatives to NASA facilities bilateral meetings email and teleconferences or videoconferences.
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.
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:
of which acts as the engine's throttle is applied. Lozano's team have fired the thrusters in the lab
Ardusat-1 and Ardusat-X were launched to the International space station (ISS) on 3 august aboard a Japanese resupply vehicle
lightweight satellites that can piggyback on the launches of other vehicles.""That way every rocket that goes up is kicking off Cubesats,
But they saw that in the cafeteria certain people only sat with three other people (at four-seat tables)
while others sat with 11 people (at 12-seat tables). Those who sat at larger tables were 36 percent more productive during the week.
so trucks can safely haul them on highways and under bridges. This means that in the United states, most towers for 2-or 3-megawatt turbines are limited to about 260 feet.
at developing advanced drivetrain controls and rotor designs. ut out of that study we spotted tower transport as one of the biggest bottlenecks holding back the industry,
They researched and implemented methods for controlling a large robotic arm out of that from a boom truck,
and other autonomous, route-planning vehicles. s designers, when we can compare the robot perceptions with how it acts,
The engineers mounted 18 motion-capture cameras on the ceiling to track multiple robotic vehicles simultaneously.
Agha-mohammadi says. epending on where the vehicle is, you can look at the environment from different angles,
Because the Federal aviation administration has placed restrictions on outdoor testing of quadrotors and other autonomous flying vehicles Omidshafiei points out that testing such robots in a virtual environment may be the next best thing.
and can test and prototype your vehicles as if theye fully outdoors, before you deploy them in the real world,
For example, with this technology, we could simulate clouds above an environment monitored by a high-flying vehicle
If all midsized carrier networks were to replace current radio amplifiers with Eta Devices technology he says the reduction in greenhouse gases would be equivalent to taking about 5 million cars off the road.
but they were so effective in this study that Cima says they may end up being the most promising vehicle for potential human clinical trials.
#High-speed biologics screen MIT engineers have devised a way to rapidly test hundreds of different drug-delivery vehicles in living animals making it easier to discover promising new ways to deliver a class of drugs called biologics
These fatty molecules have shown promise as delivery vehicles for RNA interference a process that allows disease-causing genes to be turned off with small strands of RNA.#
Yanik s lab is currently using this technology to find delivery vehicles that can carry biologics across the blood-brain barrier a very selective barrier that makes it difficult for drugs
It s very expensive for port security to use traditional robots for every small boat coming into the port says Sampriti Bhattacharyya a graduate student in mechanical engineering who designed the robot together with her advisor Ford Professor of Engineering
To get the CRISPR components into bacteria the researchers created two delivery vehicles engineered bacteria that carry CRISPR genes on plasmids
Multiple uses for quick changes While troops and vehicles often move from one environment to another,
either on uniforms or on vehicles, could allow the camouflage patterns to constantly change in response to the surroundings. he U s. military spends millions developing different kinds of camouflage patterns,
a small red box that is installed into all of a client drones. his is responsible for flying the vehicle in a safe, reliable manner,
customers use software to select third-party drone vehicles and components such as sensors, cameras, actuators, and communication devices configure settings,
Another UAV maker, Cyber Technology in Australia, is using the platform for drones responding to car crashes and other disasters,
#Ride sharing could cut cabs road time by 30 percent Cellphone apps that find users car rides in real time are exploding in popularity:
The car service company Uber was recently valued at $18 billion and even as it faces legal wrangles a number of companies that provide similar services with licensed taxi cabs have sprung up.
Of course nobody should ever be forced to share a vehicle says Carlo Ratti professor of the practice in MIT s Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) and one of the paper s coauthors.
David Mahfouda the CEO of the car-and taxi-hailing company Bandwagon whose business model is built specifically around ride sharing says that his company hired analysts to examine the same data set that Santi
if you re willing to share vehicles s
#A new way to diagnose malaria Over the past several decades malaria diagnosis has changed very little.
co-invented by Anthony Patera, the Ford Professor of Engineering at MIT, and Knezevic and Huynh.
A system proposed by researchers at MIT recycles materials from discarded car batteries a potential source of lead pollution into new,
But by using recycled lead from old car batteries, the manufacturing process can instead be used to divert toxic material from landfills
the team analysis shows that the lead from a single car battery could produce enough solar panels to provide power for 30 households.
Battery pileup ahead One motivation for using the lead in old car batteries is that battery technology is undergoing rapid change, with new, more efficient types, such as lithium-ion batteries,
but also light much as window blinds tilt to filter the sun. Researchers say the work could lead to waterproofing and anti-glare applications such as smart windows for buildings and cars.
You could coat this on your car windshield to manipulate rain or sunlight says Yangying Zhu a graduate student in MIT s Department of Mechanical engineering.
In the car you can wear varifocals but varifocals distort the geometry of the outside world
but can be as large as trucks and operate at about 20 percent efficiency. Then came diode-pumped solid-state (DPSS) lasers including disk
It s now time to step on the gas pedal Stanley says. I am devoting my personal wealth to this goal.
This is a completely intuitive and natural way to move your robotic fingers says Harry Asada the Ford Professor of Engineering in MIT s Department of Mechanical engineering.
Now this wireless electricity (or Witricity) technology licensed through the researchers startup Witricity Corp.#is coming to mobile devices electric vehicles and potentially a host of other applications.
Back in December Toyota licensed Witricity technology for a future line of electric cars. Several more publicized
and TDK for wireless electric vehicle-charging systems. There s even talk of a helmet powered wirelessly via backpack specifically for military applications.
At present Witricity technology#charges devices#at around 6 to 12 inches with roughly 95 percent efficiency#12 watts for mobile devices and up to 6. 6 kilowatts for cars.
Courtesy of Witricity Corp. Full Screen The Witricity technology can charge an electric car with the vehicle parked about a foot above the transmitting pad.
and water Whenever there is a major spill of oil into water the two tend to mix into a suspension of tiny droplets called an emulsion that is extremely hard to separate and that can cause severe damage to ecosystems.
or perhaps even vehicles. Detailed studies of aerodynamics have shown that while a ball with a dimpled surface has half the drag of a smooth one at lower speeds,
Another application could be the exterior of automobiles, where the ability to adjust the texture of panels to minimize drag at different speeds could increase fuel efficiency,
called a bus . When two cores need to communicate, theye granted exclusive access to the bus. But that approach won work as the core count mounts:
Cores will spend all their time waiting for the bus to free up, rather than performing computations.
In a network-on-chip, each core is connected only to those immediately adjacent to it. ou can reach your neighbors really quickly,
One advantage of a bus, however, is that it makes it easier to maintain cache coherence.
If all the cores share a bus, then when one of them receives a data request,
. But it will hold it until it passed along 1. This hierarchical ordering simulates the chronological ordering of requests sent over a bus,
and test winches and cables Looking back Glass credits his undergraduate years on MIT s Solar Electrical Vehicle Team a student organization that builds and races solar
cars for competition with giving him the experience and motivation to bring the BAT from concept to reality.
RNAI delivery vehicles. They also showed that they could block up to five genes at once by delivering different RNA sequences.
all led by MIT Troy Van Voorhis, professor of chemistry, and Marc Baldo, professor of electrical engineering.
For the past four years, Van Voorhis and Baldo have been pooling their theoretical and experimental expertise to investigate this problem.
Van Voorhis says. To support his theoretical study of electron behavior within PVS, Van Voorhis used experimental data gathered in samples specially synthesized by Baldo and Timothy Swager, MIT John D. Macarthur Professor of Chemistry.
The samples were made of four types of exciton fission molecules decorated with various sorts of pinachbulky side groups of atoms that change the molecular spacing without altering the physics or chemistry.
Van Voorhisnew first-principles formula successfully predicts the fission rate in materials with vastly different structures.
Van Voorhis says. he controversial, or xotic, mechanisms proposed more recently aren required to explain what being observed here.
Van Voorhis says. hat the reason that 50 years ago they couldn compute these things
which is already familiar from airport security checkpoints has a number of other promising applications from explosives detection to collision avoidance in cars.
but you re processing signals on a vehicle or something where you did not have significant computational power.
It could also eliminate 10 trucks of wastewater shipping per day for Lagunitas. All in the design Increasingly, the beverage industry has employed anaerobic and aerobic wastewater treatment processes
and fuel consumption electric and hybrid cars and trucks struggled for years to find a solid customer base.
and charging them requires plug-in infrastructure that s still sparse in the United states. Now MIT spinout XL Hybrids is upfitting (and retrofitting) gas and diesel commercial vans and trucks with fuel-saving add-on electric powertrains
According to tests conducted by the startup the $8000 system which has been incorporated into hundreds of vans in the commercial fleets of Coca-cola
and other connecting components that attach to the powertrains of traditional General motors and Ford cargo delivery and shuttle vans as well as cutaway trucks.
When the vehicles brake a process known as regenerative braking captures the kinetic energy (usually dissipated as heat through friction) and converts it into electricity that charges the battery
The startup also collects operational data from the vehicles to inform fleet managers of the best vehicles for the technology usually ones traveling in the stop
Last month Fast Company ranked the startup No. 35 on its list of the world s 50 most innovative companies and third in energy-specific companies trailing only Tesla motors and General electric.
and other companies have started retrofitting vehicles with electric powertrains. But XL Hybrids innovation comes from targeting commercial fleet vehicles with a good value proposition all around Hynes says offering low-cost equipment quick installation savings on gas and oil and easy integration.
At the end of the day it s about making the economics work to compete against the price of fuel Hynes says adding We re able to do a lot with a little.
Electric or hybrid fleet vehicles traditionally run on large batteries sometimes more than 100 kilowatt-hours (kwh) in capacity that cost upward of $40000.
which involves running a vehicle on treadmill-like rollers to estimate fuel mileage in urban driving.
They first ran a 5-ton vehicle through the test without XL Hybrids system and then with the system observing a 21 percent savings.
While the system can be added as a retrofit it s generally installed as part of the modifications that most commercial fleet vehicles go through.
The vehicles literally roll of the line and go to facilities where they ll be modified anyway he says.
The trio began grinding away in a garage in Somerville Mass. conducting early trials on the Ford Crown Victoria
and incorporate it onto other vehicle makes and models and rapidly scale across the industry Hynes says.
and could hoist 250 pounds 50 feet vertically in five seconds a remarkably high power-to-weight ratio exceeding that of a Dodge Viper, the team calculated.
rescuers can store the APA in a seat compartment, as it won compromise the chopper weight capacity.
says Amy Finkelstein, the Ford Professor of Economics at MIT and a principal investigator of the study,
could be used in medical imaging and collision-avoidance detectors for cars, and to improve the accuracy of motion tracking
as if pressing on a gas pedal. The joint is weaker when tilting from side to side,
with a wooden seat and a hand-cranked sheller at its side. Cobs are fed into the sheller opening
#Drive-by heat mapping In 2007, Google unleashed a fleet of cars with roof-mounted cameras to provide street-level images of roads around the world.
The startup deploys cars with thermal-imaging rooftop rigs that create heat maps of thousands of homes and buildings per hour, detecting fixable leaks in uilding envelopeswindows, doors, walls,
In one night, the cars can generate more than 3 terabytes of data, which is downloaded to an onboard system and processed at the startup Boston headquarters.
the idea for thermal-imaging cars came to Sarma in 2009, when a company sent an employee to his home with a handheld thermal-imaging device
ouldn it be easier to just throw it on a car and drive by the house??
#Vanishing friction Friction is all around us, working against the motion of tires on pavement, the scrawl of a pen across paper,
#Toward tiny, solar-powered sensors The latest buzz in the information technology industry regards he Internet of thingsthe idea that vehicles, appliances, civil-engineering structures, manufacturing equipment,
In this so-called low battery, the electrodes are suspensions of tiny particles carried by a liquid
such as in electric vehicles. Another advantage of this approach, Chiang says, is that factories using the method can be scaled up by simply adding identical units.
because they interfere with pollution control systems in vehicles and contribute to acid rain and smog. Processes now used to upgrade
Now MIT spinout Cambridge Electronics Inc. CEI) has announced a line of Gan transistors and power electronic circuits that promise to cut energy usage in data centers, electric cars,
electric cars cheaper and more powerful, and laptop power adapters one-third the size or even small enough to fit inside the computer itself. his is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to change electronics
will be replacing the silicon-based power electronics in electric cars. These are in the chargers that charge the battery,
The silicon transistors used today have constrained a power capability that limits how much power the car can handle.
This is one of the main reasons why there are few large electric vehicles. Gan-based power electronics, on the other hand, could boost power output for electric cars
while making them more energy-efficient and lighter and, therefore, cheaper and capable of driving longer distances. lectric vehicles are popular,
but still a niche product. Gan power electronics will be key to make them mainstream, Palacios says.
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#'Trojan horse'proteins are step forward for nanoparticle-based anticancer and anti-dementia therapeutic approaches Scientists at Brunel University London have found a way of targeting hard-to-reach cancers
and therefore less-polluting vehicles. One of our wildest dreams for the nanomaterials we are developing is that they could be used to make the super-strong lightweight cables that would make possible the construction of a space elevator
Automakers have started introducing hydrogen fuel cell vehicles which only emit water when driven. But making hydrogen which mostly comes from natural gas requires electricity from conventional carbon dioxide-emitting power plants.
and greatly improve the efficiency of hybrid electric automobiles. Nanoporous carbon materials can also adsorb gas pollutants work as environmental filters
#New nanocomposites for aerospace and automotive industries The Center for Research in Advanced Materials (CIMAV) has developed reinforced graphite nanoplatelets seeking to improve the performance of solar cell materials.
which can contain suspensions of silver nanoparticles (but don't drink them you'll go blue). Why are they good for medical detection?
Obviously such vehicles must be small enough to be injected into the eyeball for example with a syringe.
called coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS). By focusing these laser beams onto the nanodiamond, a high-resolution CARS image is generated.
Using an in-house built microscope, the research team was able to measure the intensity of the CARS light on a series of single nanodiamonds of different sizes.
The nanodiamond size was measured accurately by means of electron microscopy and other quantitative optical contrast methods developed within the researcher's lab. In this way,
they were able to quantify the relationship between the CARS light intensity and the nanoparticle size.
Consequently, the calibrated CARS signal enabled the team to analyse the size and number of nanodiamonds that had been delivered into living cells,
#Tracking heat-driven decay in leading electric vehicle batteries Rechargeable electric vehicles are one of the greatest tools against rising pollution and carbon emissions and their widespread adoption hinges on battery performance.
and aluminum (NCA) offers high enough energy density a measure of the stored electricity in the battery that it works well in large-scale and long-range vehicles including electric cars and commercial aircraft.
Crucially the high heat of vehicle environments can intensify these telltale degradation tracks and even cause complete battery failure.
which is above the operating temperature for most vehicles Bak said. But that temperature threshold dropped for a highly charged battery suggesting that operating at full energy capacity accelerates structural degradation and vulnerability.
#Flexible paper electrodes with ultra-high loading for lithium-sulfur batteries With the rapid development of portable electronic devices, electric automobiles,
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. C. M. van Hest P. C. M. Christianen & D. A. Wilson. Polymersome magneto-valves for reversible capture and release of nanoparticles.
and has exciting potential for the car space and defense industries. Current powder metallurgy or liquid processing methods fail to achieve uniform processing says research leader Junfeng Guo who is from the A*STAR Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology.
The research could be used to develop an extremely sensitive micromechanical way to measure acceleration of a car
Scaling this research up in the future may mean that you could replace the gas in your cars and generators with hydrogen greener option,
One can now think of using these films in automobile glass as an invisible deicer and even in skyscrapers Tour said.
In a newly published article in the journal ACS Advanced Materials & Interfaces, researchers Ravi Saraf and Chieu Van Nguyen describe a thin-film sensor that can detect tumors too small and deep
"said Professor Andrea Ferrari, Director of the Cambridge Graphene Centre.""This is a significant step forward to enable fully wearable and flexible devices.
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#Atomically thin material opens door for integrated nanophotonic circuits A new combination of materials can efficiently guide electricity
Supercapacitors have an expanding range of applications as their capabilities increase from powering computer memory backup to powering electric vehicles.
"It creates exciting opportunities for mobile power supplies for many applications from cell phones to electric vehicles. v
#Used-cigarette butts offer energy storage solution A group of scientists from South korea have converted used-cigarette butts into a high-performing material that could be integrated into computers handheld devices electrical vehicles and wind turbines to store energy.
Nano-supercapacitors for electric cars More information: Preparation of energy storage material derived from a used cigarette filter for a supercapacitor electrode Nanotechnology iopscience. iop. org/0957-4484/25/34/345601 5
#Nanoscale details of electrochemical reactions in electric vehicle battery materials Using a new method to track the electrochemical reactions in a common electric vehicle battery material under operating conditions,
or positive electrode, of electrical vehicle batteries-as the battery charged.""We wanted to catch
enabling electric vehicles to travel farther before needing to be recharged. Many previous methods used to analyze such battery materials have produced data that average out effects over the entire electrode.
and individual particles) under two different charging scenarios-rapid (like you'd get at an electric vehicle recharging station),
when plugging in your vehicle at home overnight). These animated images of individual particles, taken while the electrode is charging,
In 2012 Drs Felice Torrisi Tawfique Hasan and Professor Andrea Ferrari at the Cambridge Graphene Centre invented a graphene ink
a two-coherent-laser technique called"coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy,"or CARS. By using CARS in conjunction with a light amplifier made of four tiny gold nanodiscs,
Halas and Zhang were able to measure single molecules in a powerful new way. LANP has dubbed the new technique"surface-enhanced CARS,"or SECARS."
"The two-coherent-laser setup in SECARS is important because the second laser provides further amplification,
His research is centered on building better lithium ion batteries, primarily for personal electronics and electric vehicles. He is focused on the anode
#Chemists seek state-of-the-art lithium-sulfur batteries When can we expect to drive the length of Germany in an electric car without having to top up the battery?
Whether or not the future of automotive traffic belongs to the softly purring electric car depends largely on the development of its batteries.
the lithium-sulfur battery still presents several major challenges that need to be resolved until it can be integrated into cars.
and neutral environment) makes these nanoparticles an ideal vehicle for the controlled activation of therapeutics directly inside the cells Raymo says.
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At a 90â°impact angle the nanotubes deformed along the radial direction essentially being smashed like the front of a car in a head-on collision.
Even heads-up displays on vehicle dashboards could soon be a reality. The new technology also has major medical implications.
This understanding could inform the emerging use of nanoparticles as vehicles for delivering genes across cellular membranes."
Lithium ion batteries are the rechargeable battery of choice for portable electronic devices and electric vehicles. But they present problems.
Batteries in electric vehicles are responsible for a significant portion of the vehicle mass. And the size of batteries in portable electronics limits the trend of downsizing.
New nanotech may provide power storage in electric cables clothes Imagine being able to carry all the juice you needed to power your MP3 PLAYER, smartphone and electric car in the fabric of your jacket?
and development of electrical vehicles, space-launch vehicles and portable electronic devices. By being able to store
like that needed to start a vehicle or heavy-construction equipment. Although more work needs to be done,
or an electric car powered by energy stored in its chassis, or a home where the dry wall and siding store the electricity that runs the lights and appliances.
It doesn't make sense to develop materials to build a home, car chassis, or aerospace vehicle if you have to replace them every few years
because they go dead.""Westover's wafers consist of electrodes made from silicon that have been treated chemically so they have nanoscale pores on their inner surfaces
There have also been recent press reports of several major efforts to develop multifunctional materials or structural batteries for use in electric vehicles and for military applications.
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