and rooms of students at work, asking the students if they need a beer and then returning with a beverage
and it easy to imagine the same robots that here dispense beer instead taking orders for water bottles and crackers at an emergency shelter.
poking ahead of troops into houses or around corners. The 160-pound robot is powered battery and remotely controlled, with the operator as far as 1, 600 feet away.
or on them it seems there certainly would be room to put your social security number in the genome of some bacteria or virus. However,
building a handheld Arduino-based device for taking sensor readings; and creating Arduino-based irrigation valves,
but also everyday sights like paint strokes on the wall and drawings by kids. At the museum, can experience more fully
The current iteration isn sensitive enough to keep somebody on the sidewalk instead of a nearby street
From reading street signs to allowing blind parents to be able to answer their children questions about their surroundings,
When I walking around it would be wonderful to have access to street signs, maybe even just being able to get a perspective. ey,
#Expanding Smart Windows on a Global Level Raising $150 million USD in a recent late-stage series F investment,
electrochromic window company View has major plans for the future. Operating on small bouts of voltage that travel through a metal oxide coating within the dual pane windows,
ions effectively dance within the glass and hit the electrochromic material to achieve tint-controlled windows.
The process is claimed to reduce energy bills by up to 20 percent a year by enabling buildings to regulate temperature within rather than resorting to air conditioning
and the subsequent costs associated with it. With only 100 installations to date (and preparations being made for 100 more View had been around for five years before installing its first window.
Humbly raising funds while simultaneously conducting research and development, the windows are constantly being perfected to meet modern day technological needs.
Now equipped with a personal IP ADDRESS, very view window is controllable through the internet. The windows can now talk to the lighting and HVAC system,
and on a more global level it could connect to the future smart city and smart grid, says CEO Rao Mulpuri.
Window building is populated a relatively industry as anyone strolling through New york city can imagine. ee raising capital
because we need to grow, says Mulpuri. o get 10%market adoption worldwide, wel need to build another 500 plants like the one wee already built.
perhaps their windows might make their way to your home or office soon r
#Behind the Walls of the Largest Indoor farm in North america Farmedhere is the largest indoor vertical farm in the United states,
with 90,000 square foot space that all follow an eco city-and resource-friendly technique. Farmedhere, located in Chicago, raises its plants with a technique called aquaponics.
These rooms are controlled climate to conditions that maximize the growth and yield of crop. A major advantage of vertical farming is the sips of water it needs.
The Ksar of Ait-Ben-Haddou, a group of earthen buildings surrounded by high walls,
and more expensive than the photovoltaic panels that are now familiar on roofs the world over,
Ubiquitous hard hats, safety shoes and ear plugs give the scene an air of theatrical camp. For Hajar Lakhael, a 25-year-old environment and security manager from Meknes
which the material generated hydrogen by fine-tuning the molecular geometry of the building blocks and, hence, of the networks.
In a project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's Grand Challenges in Global Health Initiative,
The lenses were enclosed then in an all-plastic, 3-D-printed microscope housing and objective.
reflectors, and USB detectors, combined with the all-plastic housing and lenses will allow for future versions of the prototype to be mass-produced.
#Shortening Organic solar cell Production One of the building blocks of the solar panel, solar cells are responsible for converting solar energy into electricity.
the low-pressure application facilitates novel concepts such as tanks with reduced wall thicknesses along with conformable concepts
Csáthy's research team was focusing on the fractional quantum Hall state at quantum number 5/2,
but the stripes kept popping up and we would lose the fractional quantum Hall phase we were said investigating,
and body movements as subtle as the rise and fall of a person chest from the other side of a house, allowing a mother to monitor a baby breathing
the team presents a new technology called RF Capture that picks up wireless reflections off the human body to see the silhouette of a human standing behind a wall.
and even distinguish between 15 different people through a wall with nearly 90 percent accuracy.
and move in a specific room full of cameras, says Phd student Fadel Adib, who is lead author on the new paper.
even if they are behind furniture or walls. The device's motion-capturing technology makes it equally valuable for smart homes,
or to adjust your heating by monitoring where you are in the house. Future versions could be integrated into gaming interfaces,
allowing you to interact with a game from different rooms or even trigger distinct actions based on
How it works The device works by transmitting wireless signals that traverse the wall and reflect off a person body back to the device.
and body movements as subtle as the rise and fall of a person chest from the other side of a house, allowing a mother to monitor a baby breathing
the team presents a new technology called RF Capture that picks up wireless reflections off the human body to see the silhouette of a human standing behind a wall.
and even distinguish between 15 different people through a wall with nearly 90 percent accuracy.
and move in a specific room full of cameras, says Phd student Fadel Adib, who is lead author on the new paper.
even if they are behind furniture or walls. The device's motion-capturing technology makes it equally valuable for smart homes,
or to adjust your heating by monitoring where you are in the house. Future versions could be integrated into gaming interfaces,
allowing you to interact with a game from different rooms or even trigger distinct actions based on
How it works The device works by transmitting wireless signals that traverse the wall and reflect off a person body back to the device.
"Excited electrons When building a sun-capturing electrode, scientists aim to use as much of the solar spectrum as possible to excite electrons in the electrode to move from one state to another,
"Our method of direct conversion of ethanol offers a pathway to produce suitable hydrocarbon blend-stock that may be blended at a refinery to yield fuels such as gasoline, diesel and jet fuel or commodity chemicals,
Currently cars are pieced together on long assembly lines inside large factories that use massive amounts of energy.
Guy Houlsby, professor of civil engineering at Oxford university, says their design is an improvement on the vertical Darrieus wind turbine used in some turbine systems."
as the turbine turns, lift is generated by these blades, "explained Houlsby. Peter Dixon, chairman of Kepler Energy, says the patented turbine is the most efficient yet designed.
tidal lagoon system, consisting of circular retaining walls embedded with turbines which capture the tide's energy."
#Japanese engineer develops world's first'car in a bag'Pocket-sized personal transporters could soon be seen on the streets of Tokyo.
the scientists said. he building block of this type of order, namely charge, is simply a scalar quantity that is,
if the building block of the ordered phase was a pair of oppositely pointing spins described by what is known as a magnetic quadrupole.
When you shine a red laser pointer at a wall, for example, your eye detects red light.?However, for all materials, there is a tiny amount of light bouncing off at integer multiples of the incoming frequency.
So with the red laser pointer, there will also be some blue light bouncing off of the wall.
and temperature window where the pseudogap is present. iven the highly similar phenomenology of the iridates and cuprates,
The current study also sheds new light on the transmission to children of LGDS that are carried by parents who harbor them but
The pores of the plaster mould slowly absorb the liquid from the suspension, which causes the material to solidify
They then filled this mould with a suspension containing aluminium oxide platelets and glass nanoparticles as mortar.
and they often can't feel the need to go to the bathroom, "said Fox, who performs surgeries at Barnes-Jewish Hospital?."
and building blocks to support their growth. By making this metabolic switch, PEPCK allows cancer cells not just to survive,
The radio enthusiast had spent several weeks trying to make contact with the space station after learning it was due to pass over his house."
Oh, he's in the shed again
#Japanese engineers have created the world's first'car in a bag'Getting around is about to look a lot different.
"the Energy and Resources Minister Simon Bridges said in a press release. Because the majority of New zealand's energy already comes from geothermal, hydro,
Bridges.""But significant market investment in other forms of renewable energy in recent years, particularly in geothermal, means that a coal backstop is becoming less of a requirement."
"Bridges announced to the press.""New zealand share of renewable electricity generation is already the fourth largest in the world
in an interview with Ashley Hall at the ABC. o nickel is a rather ordinary catalyst in many respects expect for one thing,
Hydrogen could even be used as an inexpensive energy storage technology at the household level to store energy from rooftop solar cells.
every road and house and bridge into a structure that does photosynthesis better than plants,
he told Hall at the ABC
#Fewer Americans are smoking and theye quitting faster than ever, survey shows New figures released by the US Centres for Disease Control
Owing to the January to March window the figures may contain one red herring as far as smoking goes.
But the physicists managed to create a tunnel that allows a magnetic field to disappear at one point
A wormhole is effectively just a tunnel that connects two places in the Universe. So far scientists have simulated this process,
Last year they managed to create tunnels that directed magnetic fields from one place to another
or magnetically'invisible'while it was travelling inside the tunnel. This is something they've now finally managed to overcome,
and metasurfaces to build their tunnel. That meant that they could make the magnetic field from a source,
North or South-appeared randomly at the end of the tunnel.""This result is strange enough in itself,
And while the tunnel isn't anywhere near to the kind of wormhole that would take us across space,
Theye since been working towards a battery-integrated window that can store energy from sunlight while also changing its structure automatically to provide a tint during the day.
While the prospect of smart windows is what's got Sato and his team excited,
when a US ARMY vet used the battery-powered prosthetic to scale a rock-climbing wall, using nothing but his brain power.
This new'thirsty'concrete absorbs 4, 000 litres of water in 60 seconds During the first few weeks of August 2007,
more than two-thirds was caused by water running off pavements or overflowing from drainage systems. So what's the solution?
a new type of porous concrete that can absorb up to 4, 000 litres of water in the first 60 seconds,
all the water you can see pouring out in the video isn't being wasted-it's being fed straight back into the system for irrigation, drinking water, swimming pools,
While permeable concrete has been around for the past 50 years, it's mostly been used under pavements to help with drainage,
so the researchers at Tarmac figured out how to make a surface layer version of it that's capable of withstanding the weight of heavy traffic.
Not only can the super-absorbent concrete be used in conjuction with existing concrete-cities can install it so the runoff from regular concrete is fed into the Topmix Permeable
-but it will also be significantly cooler than regular concrete during the hottest months of the year."
so the concrete can only be used in places where temperatures are never likely to dip that low w
the summer months on Mars see a shallow subsurface flow of briny water coming down from the planet's canyons and crater walls.
and a retirement home embarking on a yearlong experiment to compare the costs and benefits of a shorter working day."
Back in February, a Svartedalens retirement home in Gothenburg implemented a 6-hour work day for their nurses with no changes to wage,
A silicon quantum logic gate was the last physical building block remaining to be built in order to create a silicon-based quantum computer."
"This makes the building of a quantum computer much more feasible, since it is based on the same manufacturing technology as today computer industry."
Instead of tackling the CO2 that pours out of factory smokestacks -because there are existing machines that do this pretty well-the Carbon Engineering'direct air capture plant'will deal with everyday carbon emissions from buildings, transportation, and agriculture."
"Emissions from sources you just can't otherwise capture, "Corless says.""It's still a pilot-scale plant,
and descend stairs automatically Stairs and uneven ground surfaces pose a huge problem for wheelchair users,
theye costly to implement and not always easy to retrofit to existing building structures. Fortunately, students in Switzerland have answered this very problem with the calevo an electric wheelchair that has the ability to ascend steps directly by lowering a tank-style tread that can roll the wheelchair up a flight of stairs.
and when the user approaches a staircase, the wheelchair turns around and ascends the steps backwards via the caterpillar track. he great thing is that everything on this wheelchair is automated,
I want to climb the stairs I can just drive up to them, turn around, press one button and all
The Scalevo travels at up to 10 km h on flat surfaces and can ascend stairs including spiral staircases at a maximum speed of one step per second
(which is four times faster than the speed you see demonstrated in the video above). It been entered into this year Cybathlon Championship a competitive event sponsored by ETH Zurich in
and they are also very smooth so it doesn feel like youe driving up stairs, so it just feels like youe driving up a ramp
because theye so flat and they adapt to the stair profile, said Voellmy. o it doesn matter
if the stair is wooden or metal or glass, the tracks grip and there no danger of slipping.
In addition to letting the wheelchair climb stairs, the track mechanism can also significantly raise the height of the user to give the person operating the chair a more elevated view of things when on flat surfaces.
Microorganisms can synthesise mixtures of complex organic molecules, such as antibiotics, from simple organic building blocks by fermentation.
000 novel peptides can be made from only 23 building blocks. What's more, they have demonstrated the practicality of this approach by identifying a novel molecule that blocks a key enzyme used by the hepatitis C virus."Our dream is to provide a do-it-yourself method--one that can be applied by anyone,
The modest reaction conditions also indicate the feasibility of low-capital requirements for building distributed hydrogen generating
or foam, with pores ranging from 2 to 50 nanometers in diameter, providing enormous surface area and room for the battery electrolyte to diffuse.
But a big barrier to building useful electronics with carbon nanotubes has always been the fact that
whether in a communications tower or a mobile phone, is to launch energy into free space in the form of electromagnetic or radio waves,
along with funding from the state of Kansas, the Hall Family Foundation and Bold Aspiration funding from KU's Office of the Provost, supported the work.
literally bouncing off the walls of the cell in random fashion, "Trotman says.""Using super-resolution microscopy,
A sixth patient, under the care of Dr. Judith Hall at the University of British columbia, also underwent genetic sequencing at TGEN."
Previous work by the research team from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne,
Instead of an oven, you just plug the pizza into the wall and it cooks itself."
The researchers used a rod to roll the"forest"flat, creating a dense film of aligned carbon nanotubes.
the most common building block today for biosynthesis."We believe our system is a revolutionary leap forward in the field of artificial photosynthesis,
and autoimmune cells to make room for new corrected cells. After reinjection, these cells were differentiated then into the various cell lines that make up the blood (red and white cells, platelets.
"Marina Cavazzana:""The results obtained in this multicenter clinical trial constitute an important therapeutic advance (overhang)
The building blocks of metamaterials, known as split-ring resonators, can be designed to exhibit strong electric and magnetic response to electromagnetic fields over a wide frequency range, from terahertz to infrared.
dubbed'gate sensors, 'will be used in quantum computers of the future to read information stored in the charge or spin of a single electron."
"We have called it a gate sensor because, as well as detecting the movement of individual electrons, the device is able to control its flow
as if it were an electronic gate which opens and closes, "explains Gonzlez Zalba. The researchers have demonstrated the possibility of detecting the charge of an electron with their device in approximately one nanosecond,
This has been achieved by coupling a gate sensor to a silicon nanotransistor where the electrons flow individually.
a field in which the new gate sensor can offer its advantages s
#Researchers add a new wrinkle to cell culture Using a technique that introduces tiny wrinkles into sheets of graphene,
"We are just beginning to realize all of the innovative ways one can use this atomically thin and flexible building block to make new materials and devices."
Other key collaborators on this study were Emanuela Ricciotti, Garret A. Fitzgerald and Tilo Grosser of the pharmacology department and the Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics at the Perelman School of medicine, University of Pennsylvania;
"By selecting very specific molecular building blocks we have succeeded in synthesizing a polymer with the desired properties."
"The wall of these artificial blood vessels is very similar to that of natural ones, "says Heinz Schima of the Medical University of Vienna.
and this enriches the wall with growth factors. This encourages the migration of endogenous cells.
"In comparison to traditional vision testing methodologies, this software-based tool provides the advantage of running on any windows-based PC in a pediatrician's examination room--avoiding testing in distracting office hallways."
and Windows smart application running on the same smart phone. The scanned information is sent then to a remote server in Ozcan's laboratory,
Despite established knowledge on how to measure and model photosynthesis on the leaf scale, measuring photosynthesis on the canopy scale has been challenging,
thus automating detection of photosynthesis from the canopy y
#Noroviruses spread several meters by air: Viruses responsible for 50 percent of gastroenteritis Noroviruses, a group of viruses responsible for over 50%of global gastroenteritis cases, can spread by air up to several meters from an infected person
Researchers gathered air samples at a distance of 1 meter from patients, at the doors to their rooms,
The viruses were detected in 54%of the rooms housing patients with gastroenteritis, 38%of the hallways leading to their rooms,
and 50%of nursing stations. Virus concentrations ranged from 13 to 2350 particles per cubic meter of air.
and the bridge to actual devices. The researchers pulled off the feat by tuning the growth conditions of their films using a technique called metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD.
tweaking conditions and temperatures not unlike experimenting in the kitchen. They found that their crystals grew perfectly stitched together,
you are in your backyard actually running around with other players, "said Todd Humphreys, assistant professor in the Department of Aerospace engineering and Engineering Mechanics and lead researcher."
The building block, called the Passenger-associated Transport Repeat (PATR), has been found in virulence factors of many major harmful bacteria including Salmonella, Shigella,
If we can inhibit this building block, we are really onto something.""The discovery will also be useful in the biotechnology field for the development of a variety of marketable products
"We initially could not believe that this building block has been overlooked, "says Associate professor Morona.""We've discovered something that's been hidden in plain sight.
the erythrocyte becomes stiffer. camp is degraded by the enzyme phosphodiesterase, whose action thus promotes erythrocyte deformability.
"Think about the thermostat in your house that controls temperature. If you want to make your house hotter,
or if group A streptococcus wants to make itself'hotter,'that is, more virulent, it turns up the heat by making more of these two toxins that harm human cells,
Quantum logic gates are the basic building blocks of a quantum computer, but constructing enough of them to perform a useful computation is difficult.
In the usual approach to quantum computing, quantum gates are applied in a specific order, one gate before another.
But it was realized recently that quantum mechanics permits one to"superimpose quantum gates.""If engineered correctly, this means that a set of quantum gates can act in all possible orders at the same time.
Surprisingly, this effect can be used to reduce the total number of gates required for certain quantum computations.
All orders at once A team led by Philip Walther recently realized that superimposing the order of quantum gates, an idea
which was designed theoretically by the group of Caslav Brukner, could be implemented in the laboratory. In a superposition of quantum gate orders, it is impossible--even in principle--to know
if one operation occurred before another operation, or the other way around. This means that two quantum logic gates A and B can be applied in both orders at the same time.
The results of their experiment confirm that it is impossible to determine which gate acted first
"In fact, we were able to run a quantum algorithm to characterize the gates more efficiently than any previously known algorithm,
From a single measurement on the photon, they probed a specific property of the two quantum gates thereby confirming that the gates were applied in both orders at once.
As more gates are added to the task, the new method becomes even more efficient compared to previous techniques.
The Way Forward This is the first time that a superposition of quantum gates has been implemented in the lab. At the same time
is significant because it represents a new way of combining elemental materials to form the building blocks of energy storage technology--such as batteries, capacitors and supercapacitors,
director of the company, involves injecting ozone to the industrial silos obtained from ambient oxygen through an electric shock.
The produced ozone is distributed efficiently within the silo using a mobile system, which allows to move from one container to another
and serve a greater number of silos with the same ozonation system providing great versatility in removing pathogens from stored grain.
Dwarf cultivars, such as balcony varieties of vegetables like tomatoes and cucumbers, as well as grain varieties were selected specifically for impaired brassinosteroid metabolism,
"Next they dyed the sample with 14 different dyes in a narrow emission window and excited and photoswitched the molecules with one laser.
"That's useful because it means we had a way to do multicolor imaging within a very narrow emission window,
Scientists have shown that the passage of molecules through the nucleus of a star-shaped brain cell, called an astrocyte,
a group of proteins that regulates the passage of molecules in and out of the nucleus. Their results suggest that binding enhances the flow of certain critical molecules into the nucleus
and p75ntr appears to be the key to unlocking particular gates,""said Dr. Akassoglou.""We discovered novel roles for both players
a flat, hard plastic plate. Arraykilian said his team's synthetic microenvironment lies somewhere in the middle of two extremes in the field of modeling biology:
electrons that tunnel across the gap can excite plasmons, although inefficiently.""Yang likens the excitation of plasmons in gratings to dropping pebbles in a swimming pool with swimming lanes demarcated by floats."
"What is interesting is that depending on how far we drop the pebble from the barrier for each lane,
"If you look at a flat surface, it seems smooth and flat, but we know that
if you really zoom in to a superfine level, it probably isn't perfectly smooth at all,
and building a model of their tissue to use as a personalized drug screening platform.
In 2010, Pollock fell from a second-story window and suffered a spinal cord injury that left him paralyzed from the waist down.
origami could put a folded twist on structural engineering. Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Georgia Institute of technology and the University of Tokyo have developed a new"zippered tube"configuration that makes paper structures that are stiff enough to hold weight yet can fold flat for easy shipping
and storage. Their method could be applied to other thin materials, such as plastic or metal, to transform structures from furniture to buildings to microscopic robots.
Illinois graduate researcher Evgueni Filipov Georgia Tech professor Glaucio Paulino and University of Tokyo professor Tomohiro Tachi published their work in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Paulino sees particular potential for quick-assembling emergency shelters, bridges and other infrastructure in the wake of a natural disaster."
The structure folds up flat, yet rapidly and easily expands to the rigid tube configuration."
"said Paulino, a former Illinois professor of civil and environmental engineering.""We are putting two tubes together in a strange way.
such as a bridge, a canopy or a tower.""The ability to change functionality in real time is a real advantage in origami,
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