#This new roof material stays colder than the air around it-even in summer Researchers from the Faculty of science, University of Technology Sydney (UTS Science) have created a material that can stay cooler than the ambient air
"We demonstrate for the first time how to make a roof colder than the air temperature around it, even under the most intense summer conditions,"one of the lead researchers,
"Roofs heat up by absorbing sunlight, so darker roofs can get very hot. Even white roofs still absorb enough sunlight to warm up by 9 degrees Celsius to 12 degrees Celsius."
"Scientists have been working for years to create increasingly more heat-repellant materials to cover our houses with,
but they've struggled to find anything that approaches 100 percent solar reflectance.""This new surface,
however, stayed 11 degrees or more colder than an existing state-of-the-art white roof nearby,"Smith added.
Infrared image of the new material (purple) on top of a regular white roof. Credit: UTS Scienceeven better, the materials used to create the demo-roof are already commercially available,
which means they could easily be integrated by the construction industry. The team has tested the roof on the top of the UTS Science building in Sydney,
which is on a busy road and has no cover from the hot summer sun. Despite the conditions,
they showed that the roof was able to stay significantly colder than the air around it,
"The added feedback benefits from cool roofs are appreciated not yet widely, but recent reports have shown they are substantial.
Examples include ventilation with cooler air and higher performance of rooftop air-conditioning installations.""We're pretty excited about a world where our homes are kept cool by their roofs,
rather than electricity-guzzling air-conditioners. Someone get the technology commercialised, ASAP. Love science? Find out more about the research happening at UTS Science
making use of Old world War II tunnels underneath the city to host an eco-friendly,
The farm makes use of WWII-era bomb shelters located 12 storeys underground that were designed originally to provide shelter for 8, 000 Londoners during air raids.
And a new development set to open in New jersey later this year is transforming an old steel factory into the world largest vertical farm.
Quarks are the building blocks that make up composite subatomic particles, and these particles are classified depending on how many quarks they're comprised of.
if they used it to build a flat surface, but they discovered a whole new way to make solar fuel."
"For the nanowires we needed 10,000 less precious Gap material than in cells with a flat surface.
Maybe someone wants to appeal specifically to the customers leaving the shop across the street
#Robots learn to use kitchen tools by watching Youtube videos Researchers at the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) partnered with a scientist at the National Information Communications technology Research Centre
This will be said the next industrial revolution Aloimonos We will have smart manufacturing environments and completely automated warehouses. It would be great to use autonomous robots for dangerous work--to defuse bombs
The eyes have served as a window into the brain with disconjugate eye movements--eyes rotating in opposite directions--considered a principal marker for head trauma as early as 3500 years ago.
In turn camp increases the rate by which cells burn fat so that the animal loses weight.
--and also sheds light on communication between different tissues in the body. The finding is the latest piece of a complex obesity-inflammation-diabetes puzzle that Saltiel lab investigators have been working to solve
-and TBK1 leading to higher camp increased sensitivity to catecholamines and increased energy expenditure by the fat cells.
The U-M study explains how increased camp in fat cells promotes the secretion of the hormone interleukin-6 which signals the liver to stop producing glucose--thus improving overall blood sugar levels in obese diabetic mice e
MVP was one of the earliest product development partnerships funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
president of the Global Development program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.""Prequalification of the Menafrivac vaccine for infants clears the way for the routine immunization of every child before his
Releasing the substrate to its original shape induces buckling processes that lift the weakly bonded regions of the 2d structure out of contact with the surface.
and that both contain important building blocks such as the stem and progenitor cells that will continue to regenerate the intestine as a living tissue replacement.
and receiving applause from the sci ence com mu nity, was pub lished Wednesday in the journal Nature.
otic Phar ma ceu ti cals in Cam bridge, Mass a chu setts, and Selcia Lim ited in the United kingdom. The research team says teixobactin's dis covery presents a promising new oppor tu nity to treat chronic infec tions caused by staphy lo coccus aureus,
and Bio med ical Sci ences at Mcmaster Uni ver sity and who was involved not in this research, exam ined the team's work in a sep a rate article for Nature pub lished
In 2013, Lewis revealed ground breaking research in a sep a rate paper pub lished By nature that pre sented a novel approach to treat and elim
and switching stations as well as in many large buildings. If an internal short-circuit occurs an electrical arc gas formation
if the industry changes to soft housings that absorb energy in the same way as modern car bodies he says.
The idea of using automotive industry technology in transformer housings has led to a pilot project in which SINTEF's materials and electricity experts are collaborating.
while at the same time ensuring that the housing is stiff enough to withstand transport stresses and the vacuum treatment.
The previously unknown durability to extreme conditions position Graphexeter as a viable and attractive replacement to indium tin oxide (ITO) the main conductive material currently used in electronics such as'smart'mirrors or windows or even solar panels.
The research also suggests that Graphexeter could extend the lifetime of displays such as TV screens located in highly humid environments including kitchens.
Yi Cui and colleagues note that nearly half of global energy consumption goes toward heating buildings and homes.
the incidence of plagiocephaly--commonly known as flat head--have risen dramatically. Ellen Mack, RNC, MN, neonatal clinical nurse specialist, said the babies are evaluated constantly to determine
which are responsible for cooling the plastic through contact with special walls and form the plastic beads the founder of the company explained.
This gives us a window into the future to see what bacteria will do to evade drugs that we design before a drug is deployed said co-author Bruce Donald a professor of computer science and biochemistry at Duke.
More importantly these fat cells produced high levels of an antimicrobial peptide (AMP) called cathelicidin antimicrobial peptide or CAMP.
Too little CAMP and people experience frequent infections. The best example is atopic eczema (a type of recurring itchy skin disorder.
But too much CAMP is also bad. Evidence suggests excess CAMP can drive autoimmune and other inflammatory diseases like lupus psoriasis and rosacea.
The scientists confirmed their findings by analyzing S. aureus infections in mice unable to either effectively produce adipocytes or
Interestingly obese subjects were observed to have more CAMP in their blood than subjects of normal weight.
Biomolecular interaction analysis a cornerstone of biomedical research is accomplished traditionally using equipment that can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars said Wyss Associate Faculty member Wesley P. Wong Ph d. senior author
Most of this 28-day window of time is used for testing the tissues to ensure they are safe for use.
and Eliza Hall Institute with colleagues from the RIKEN Institute Japan found they could'reverse'type 2 diabetes in laboratory models by dampening the inflammatory response in fat tissue.
and equipping it with functions on the basis of rationally designed protein building blocks. This is a fundamentally new approach for biology, biotechnology,
The eye is a window to the brain. Dr. Bazan and his research team discovered Neuroprotectin D1 (NPD1)
In the poorest parts of the world paved roads and pavements are a rarity and most homes have beaten floors of earth.
if a complete treatment can be achieved said John March professor of biological and environmental engineering at Cornell University and the paper's senior author.
when the wall of the vessel weakens, and if an aneurysm in the aorta bursts, it can lead to death in a matter of minutes."
By demonstrating a new way to change the amount of electrons that reside in a given region within a piece of graphene they have a proof-of-principle in making the fundamental building blocks of semiconductor devices using the 2-D material.
The junctions between p-and n-type semiconductors are the building blocks of electronic devices. Put together in sequence these p-n junctions form transistors which can in turn be combined into integrated circuits microchips and processors.
Their experiments also involved adding a single gate to the device which allowed for its overall carrier density to be tuned further by the application of different voltages.
a versatile new approach to building the next generation of biosensors. This allows for a wide scope of applications notes Campbell.
Also named on the patents are Dr. Judy Wall Curators'Professor of Biochemistry and Joint Curators'Professor of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology at the University of Missouri-Columbia and her former lab members Matthew Begemann and Dwayne Elias. A pending patent application submitted along with Elias;
Crucially the team conducted studies with perovskite in Alta Floresta (Brazil) Frenchman Flat (USA) Granada (Spain) Beijing (China) Edinburgh (UK) and Solar Village (Saudi arabia) and confirmed its efficiency
they were carbonized in the Mount vesuvius volcanic eruption of A d. 79 and later discovered as charred clumps in the Villa of the Papyri in the ancient Italian city of Herculaneum beginning in 1752.
Without unrolling the scrolls Seales'software will run extremely high-resolution images from the tangled surfaces making sense of the jumbled letters into words and words into passages.
I dream of seeing renewed excavation at the Villa of the Papyri. Many believe that a treasure trove of undiscovered scrolls are waiting there to be unearthed.
Nine hours of heating gives a tunnel of 800 nanometers in length for example and a diameter of 25 nanometer:
Leaving the tunnel closed at one end leaves open the possibility of creating molds for nano structures.
which the building blocks of DNA the nucleotides can be analysed subsequently. Furthermore De Vreede expects the'gold method'to be applicable to other ceramic materials as well.
which in turn led cells to shed surface proteins called TNF receptor reducing TNF signaling in the cells and preventing liver damage.
A brick wall at the nanoscale Natural materials have extraordinary mechanical properties, which are sophisticated based on arrangements and combinations of multiple building blocks.
One key aspect of today materials research therefore is to develop bio-inspired materials reaching to the properties of natural materials or even exceeding those in certain functionalities.
The structure of nacre resembles a brick wall at the microscopic scale: Calcium carbonate platelets('bricks')alternate with soft biopolymer layers('mortar'.
'While the solid platelets serve as the load bearing and reinforcing part, energy can be dissipated into the soft polymer segments.
First, the researchers coat the clays with a layer of polyvinylalcohol('mortar on the brick')and subsequently,
"The nacre-mimetics based on small clays are very tough. However, if we use large clays with an aspect ratio of 3500,
the resulting nacre-mimetics are both extremely stiff and strong. Their mechanical properties actually reach close to those of fiber composites,
The approach may find additional applications in reducing glare from windows, providing radar camouflage for military equipment,
"On a flat surface, this layer is so thin that its effect is explained minimal Matt Eisaman of Brookhaven's Sustainable energy Technologies Department and a professor at Stony Brook University."
including glass and plastic, for antiglare windows and coatings for solar panels. This research was supported by the DOE Office of Science e
Unlike Guo's laser-treated metals the Teflon kitchen tools are not super-hydrophobic. The difference is that to make water to roll off a Teflon coated material you need to tilt the surface to nearly a 70-degree angle before the water begins to slide off.
It is this potential that has piqued the interest of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Funding was provided by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the United states Air force Office of Scientific research h
In the course of 2015 the company plans to produce 700 of these street lights s
This porous polymer has micropores that are smaller than 2 nanometers on the walls of mesopores
The snail insulin consists of 43 amino acid building blocks fewer than any known insulin. Its stripped down size and odd chemical modifications may have evolved as a way to make it better at causing hypoglycemia in prey y
which trigger a reduction in the production of CYCLIC AMP or camp, a key messenger molecule for signaling inside cells.
In mouse models, deletion of the gene that codes for a protein that promotes the production of camp resulted in spontaneous bronchial asthma,
Conversely, increasing camp levels inhibited the cells'inflammatory response that results in asthma's characteristic symptoms."
sheds light on how organisms evolve new morphological structures and functions.""For the first time, we have a good understanding of how something completely novel evolves in nature,
All samples were sent immediately to Stanford's Human Immune Monitoring Core which houses the latest immune-sleuthing technology under a single roof.
From this building block comes the multilayer Laue lens or MLL, made by coating a substrate with thin layers of the chosen substances."
Specifically diode lasers bars in the wavelength range 930 to 970 nm are the fundamental building blocks for pump sources for Ytterbium-doped crystals in large laser facilities,
Building on advances in epitaxial design and packaging technology, FBH bars around 940 nm at temperatures of-70°C (203 K) delivered a worldwide best result of 2 kw peak power per bar at a current of 2 ka, a pulse width of 200 s
They say their invention aligns with voluntary contraception programs supported by philanthropic global health organizations such the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
the cornerstone of genetic programming The transistor is the central component of modern electronic systems. It acts both as a switch and as a signal amplifier.
and demonstrates building blocks for synchronous logic gates, feedback and cascadability--hallmarks of scalable computation. A simple-state machine including 1-bit memory storage (known as"flip-flop")is demonstrated also using the above basic building blocks.
Arraythe current chips are about half the size of a postage stamp, and the droplets are smaller than poppy seeds,
to enable everyone to design new circuits based on building blocks we describe in this paper or discover new blocks.
"You could compare it to the construction of a house, "doctoral researcher Wouter Peelaerts explains."
"With the same building blocks--in this case the alpha-synuclein protein--you can create many different structures.
"If you sit on a Ferris wheel holding a mirror, you will see flashes of light every time the wheel is at the perfect spot for sunlight to hit it.
The speed of the Ferris wheel determines the frequency of the flashes you see, "he said."
Van der waals forces are strong enough for the gecko to stick to a wall. Changing the angle of their feet is
what allows them to detach from the wall to take each step.""Other researchers have mimicked these structures to achieve tunable adhesion,
"Our view is that this composite post structure presented in this work is a fundamental building block to realize larger adhesive surfaces with tunable properties,
proved that exercise over a prolonged period of time causes the gut wall to change, allowing the naturally present bacteria, known as endotoxins, in the gut to leak into the bloodstream.
or weeks--is too slow for this window. A new study in the American Journal of Physiology--Heart and Circulatory Physiology reports a more practical approach called microsphere therapy that can be kept on hand
DHFR is a small enzyme that plays an essential role in the building of genetic material and proteins,
we would have a universal building block to generate multiple functional printed formats that could lead to a wide variety of applications in which inks remain active over time,
'Research shows there is a clear need for long-acting antimicrobial products used in fillings and cements for crowns, bridges and orthodontic braces
#First solar cell made of highly ordered molecular frameworks"We have opened the door to a new room,
The paper is titled"Atomically Thin Resonant Tunnel Diodes Built from Synthetic Van der waals Heterostructures.""Achieving NDR in a resonant tunneling diode at room temperature requires nearly perfect interfaces,
"Resonant tunnel diodes are important circuit components, "says Datta, a coauthor on the paper and Penn State professor of electrical engineering."
Datta cautions that the new resonant tunnel diode is just one element in a circuit
is that factories using the method can be scaled up by simply adding identical units. With traditional lithium-ion production
"The research also sheds light on the formation of sperm, and Herr's findings again speak to the importance of the ESP1 protein.
what has changed and what hasn't. By building up a series of snapshots at different time intervals,
"Clostridium is very much like a factory during fermentation which converts carbon sources into renewable, advanced biofuels that can be used directly to fuel your cars,"added Lu,
More broadly, by using the ABE fermentation as an example, the work further sheds light on systems biology toward an integrated and quantitative understanding of complex microbial physiology
Bosch's magnetic sensors are based on the Hall effect, in which a magnetic field induces a Lorentz force on moving electric charge carriers, leading to deflection and a measurable Hall voltage.
Sensor performance is defined by two parameters:(1) sensitivity, which depends on the number of charge carriers,
In the best case scenario, the result is a huge improvement over silicon, with much lower source current and power requirements for a given Hall sensitivity.
the result shown by Roelver centred on a direct comparison between the sensitivity of a silicon-based Hall sensor with that of the Bosch-MPI graphene device.
#Building a better semiconductor Arraythe electrical properties of semiconductors depend on the nature of trace impurities, known as dopants,
Although only flat mesh connected into a tube has been made so far, it isn't a stretch to imagine creating more intricate designs like the shape of a hand with detailed fingers f
The pre-plastic--a low-quality plastic--is broken then down into building blocks for PLA. In other words, you are first producing an inferior plastic before you end up with a high-quality plastic.
we were able to convert lactic acid directly into the building blocks for PLA without making the larger by-products that do not fit into the zeolite pores.
and cause a stroke if it lodges in a blood vessel in the brain. As such, understanding what controls the stability of plaques is extremely important."
The dogma has been that the more smooth muscle cells in that wall--particularly in the innermost layer referred to as the"fibrous cap"--the more stable the plaque is and the less danger it poses.
The work sheds new light onto at least one biological process that mediates neuropathic pain, Inceoglu said.
which was embedded in the Tx's flat platform. This has made it possible for mobile devices to receive power from any direction.
While"inter-microtubule bridges"in the mitotic spindle had been seen before, the researchers were the first to view the mesh.
and this gave the impression that'bridges'linked microtubules together. This had been known since the 1970s.
All of a sudden, tilting the fibre in 3d showed us that the bridges were not single struts at all
UHF signals carry for miles and are blocked not by walls or trees. Because of these advantages, wireless data hotspots that use UHF are referred often to as"super Wi-fi."
"For common magnets, that temperature is generally hundreds of degrees Fahrenheit, way hotter than any kitchen.
"We want to open up this therapeutic window.""Additional authors include Matthew Thompson in Gianneschi's chemistry research group and Christopher Barback, David Hall and Robert Mattrey in UC San diego's Moores Cancer Center.
All animal procedures were approved by UC San diego's institution animal care and use committee. Callmann holds a fellowship through the Cancer Researchers in Nanotechnology Program at UC San diego. The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging
The safe room is designed in accordance with FEMA standards to withstand 250 mile-per-hour winds,
even if the house were destroyed during a strong storm, keeping its occupants from harm. The UAB panels were approved by the National Storm Shelter Association to hold up against an EF5 tornado."
"To see panels pass our most extreme test the first time is said very impressive Larry Tanner, P. E.,manager of the NSSA/Texas Tech Debris Impact Test Facility."
and looks to have a bright future in the storm-shelter industry. If it saves even one life,
"The composition of thermoplastic and fiberglass resins and fibers used in the panels are stronger per-unit density than the steel used in many current shelters
The team working on the safe room developed a steel frame that holds the panels, and the frame can be broken down
or bathroom door and then reassembled. This prototype is the first of its kind, and it can be replicated for installation in other homes."
Vaidya and his team of UAB engineers focused their attention on the development of a material that could transform any room into a safe haven."
and it can actually penetrate inside a house. People die from the debris that comes through the walls or other things,
so we built panels that would resist the debris completely.""The panels, secured to each other
and the floor of an interior room, protect against flying debris and are designed to keep people from being crushed
"The panels leave the assembly line looking like typical interior walls; they do not require paint and will never corrode."
"Sugar structures are like a tree made from building blocks --and you could say that we have found a faster
Proposed new laws allowing the treatments to be carried out Britain still have to be approved by the upper house,
Hundreds of schools have locked their gates as the outbreak rekindled fears of a similar coronavirus that caused Severe acute respiratory syndrome in 2002
sneezing and coughing in the hall, "said Kim Woo-joo, an infectious disease specialist advising the government.
or cars being assembled in a factory daunting task if the thousands of images on one hard drive haven been labeled.)
#Inflammation Factories: Before and after One of the most surprising discoveries in the field of immunology is the finding that cells build structuresalled inflammasomeso launch the process of inflammation.
"Imagine assembling a factory in a few minutes when a product is needed and then breaking it down once the need has passed,
Mehal explains in the article"Inside the Inflammation Factory.""The temporary presence of inflammasomes can be seen in these photographs from Mehal's lab. In the photograph on top,
and not bring pressure to close down Al qaeda training camps. Saudi businesses, meanwhile, would ensure that money also flowed directly to Bin laden. The full cable can be read here.
The group will receive £1, 000 and a trip to Buckingham Palace. Former Tomorrow World presenter Maggie Philbin, founder and chief executive of Teentech, said:
The Air force has revealed that an advanced Hall thruster propulsion system and a NASA materials investigation are among OTV-4's scientific gear.
A Hall thruster is a type of ion engine; it generates thrust by accelerating ions (electrically charged atoms or molecules) out the back of a spacecraft.
The engine getting an in-space test on OTV-4 is advanced an version of the Hall thruster that powered the first three Advanced Extremely high frequency military communications satellites,
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The researchers suggested adding a carefully designed layer of electrically insulating material onto communications antennas that would essentially store electrical energy.
food, music and great beer,"Keith Villa, founder and head brewmaster of Blue moon, said in the same statement.
where there will be four rooftop concerts. Blue moon plans to open another brewery and tasting room in Denver's River North neighborhood e
a silent competitor to both was setting up its office at Tokyo University Intellectual Backyard startup incubator.
But DM wants us to focus on another number. 3d Print says the Blade has/50 the factory capital costs of other manufactured cars.
EUV lithography"will require a top-to-bottom change in the fab--basically a brand new factory with machines that don't exist even in prototypes yet,
#Biometric information sensor that directly adheres to the body like a plaster Professor Takao Someya postdoctoral researcher Sung Won Lee
Unlike Guo laser-treated metals, the Teflon kitchen tools are not super-hydrophobic. The difference is that to make water to roll off a Teflon coated material
It is this potential that has piqued the interest of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,
Funding was provided by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the United states Air force Office of Scientific research O
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