which permitted its transport inside an airplane. This incidentally shows how little we have begun really to explore the possibilities of 3d printing,
The findings from this work were used to design an ultraportable, plug-and-play, solar-powered 3d printing system suitable for transport to,
This means that what she proposes can be achieved today in a very real way (without even paying for extra luggage on low-cost airlines.
while a specific inverter is included in the kit in case the standard Mars analogue mission battery pack cannot be transported on the plane due to varying airline regulations
but the road ahead is clear. Perhaps one of the most curious aspects is that bioprinting CNTS created no additional difficulties,
but all the signs are there that bioprinting is one of the ways if not the best way to go forward in many if not all regenerative medicine applications m
Described in the most basic way possible, the AMIE project is a 3d printed car and a 3d printed house.
and transportation consuming another 28%or so, how are we going to get from here to there,
wee been constructing our habitats the same way our ancestors have for thousands of years,
the UFL team were trying to find a way to deal with the problems of low surface tension
In this way, it behaves just like the gel material in hand sanitizers. It acts as a solid while inside the container and becomes liquid once pressure from the pump is applied to it,
but Ozkan and her team still needed a fashionable way to house the pongethat they had developed.
This way, the 3d printed lasto plasticholds the material in place, while the material itself is able to absorb up to 25 times its own weight in pollutants
while the environmental implications behind the material technology stands to help in many ways beyond a water cleaning bathing suit.
Dr Ni said the technology eventually could be used for military applications like making large objects like vehicles or aircraft or even individual soldiers"invisible".
and paved the way for the development of'tractor beams'that could pull objects toward the sound source."
#Progress cargo spacecraft failure delays ISS crew's return to Earth An unmanned cargo spaceship that failed to complete its ISS resupply mission
"In accordance with space and aviation regimen, we can't immediately make a manned launch."
The spacecraft lost contact with the flight controllers shortly after it reached orbit and the capsule was found tumbling.
#AFRL providing cost-effective inspection solutions for turbine engine aircraft Aircraft engine inspections are an essential part of maintaining a healthy and reliable fleet.
Researchers embarked upon this effort to answer a need from aircraft maintainers for a reliable,
Most notably, the increased level of reliability of SIR inspections over FPI means aircraft maintainers can often return engine airfoils to service
with the atoms arranged in a non-regular way. here are many types of metallic glass, with the most popular ones based on zirconium, palladium, magnesium, titanium or copper.
Such findings pave the way towards the future possibility of slowing down the aging process,
Scientists are currently investigating ways of using nucleic acids to reprogram cells to carry out different functions.
it will give us a way to regenerate lost function. Perhaps in the future it may be possible for doctors to apply flexible bandages to severely burnt skin to reprogram the cells to heal that injury with functional tissue instead of forming a scar.
We are a long way off, but our initial trials seem very promising.""Source: http://www. imperial. ac. uk k
"For the past decade, Dr. Zheng's research focus has been on finding novel ways to use heat,
"Of course, that sort of potential use in living organisms is still a long way off, "Zabow said."
and tap their way from app to app, navigating their mini mobile computing world with ease.
#Breakthrough in DNA Science Opens the Way for Practical Nanomachines with Moving Parts The latest DNA nanodevices created at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM)- including a robot with movable arms,
This not only opens the way for practical nanomachines with moving parts but also offers a toolkit that makes it easier to program their self-assembly.
the way proteins use shape complementarity to simplify docking with other molecules, and their tendency to form relatively weak bonds that can be broken readily when no longer needed.
and action of devices made in this way.""What this has given us is tiered a hierarchy of interaction strengths,
"Temperature cycling is a way to put energy into the system, "Dietz adds, "so if the reversible conformational transition could be coupled to some continously evolving process,
we basically now have a way not just to build nanomachines, but also to power them.""
in much the same way the advent of higher-level computer programming languages spurred advances in software engineering.
low-cost method to build DNA NANOTUBES block by block a breakthrough that could help pave the way for scaffolds made from DNA strands to be used in applications such as optical and electronic devices or smart drug-delivery systems.
curved surfaces in a cost-effective way: in this case, the light-emitting layer and all other components are produced by means of wet-chemical, printable methods.
At the same time the developers want to alter the materials in such a way that the light sheets can be used even at a lower mains voltage.
The discovery is a rather unique way that CMI is addressing global concerns about the supply
While other scientists are trying to find ways to use less of the least abundant rare-earths,
we are trying to find ways to use more of the most abundant ones. At first that seems counter-intuitive to the research mission of CMI,
CMI seeks ways to eliminate and reduce reliance on rare-earth metals and other materials critical to the success of clean energy technologies.
and 3dna nanocarriers can deliver a variety of drug cargoes, we can easily generate targeted drugs for many of these indications."
a team of Harvard scientists has demonstrated a new way of detecting and extracting biomolecules from fluid mixtures.
A team of Harvard scientists has demonstrated a new way of detecting and extracting biomolecules from fluid mixtures.
which move the cargo between two chemically distinct environments. Modulating the ph levels of the solutions in those environments triggers the aptamers to atchor eleasethe target biomolecule.
The new technology may hold promise for many applications such as for jewelry, automotive interior trim, aviation, signage, colored keypads, wearable and electronic displays.
This capability supports"materials by design,"a concept that enables the development of unique new materials for function-specific applicability, such as lighter, stronger fiber composites for airplane wings;
"Moreover, the conductive Fe-Ni core provides a highway to accelerate the transport of electrons to the current collector,
a process that Healy likened to passengers boarding a subway train at rush hour. The system confined geometry helps align the cells in multiple layers and in a single direction.
a process that Healy likened to passengers boarding a subway train at rush hour. The system confined geometry helps align the cells in multiple layers and in a single direction.
The ORNL team believes scientists who are experimenting with different ways to tackle the dendrite problem,
This research was supported as part of the Fluid Interface Reactions, Structures and Transport (FIRST) Center, an Energy Frontier Research center funded by DOE Office of Science.
The result is a"Green"motor oil that performs in many ways better than standard petroleum motor oil."
Just as they help control the transport of materials through pores, flow-gating mechanisms have also proved very useful for many practical applications designed by humans, such as gas and liquid separations, dialysis,
"Aizenberg's system can separate a wide range of cargos and is extraordinarily precise due to the fact that the fluid-filled gate adjusts to accommodate filtration of each substance it encounters,
for example, prove especially valuable for crude oil transport, in which fuel lines frequently become clogged, leading to high costs and risk of gas accidentally escaping into the environment.
but we hope that it could potentially be used as a diagnostic tool further on down the road,
and it can go into schools, restaurants, factories, hospitals, ambulances, airports, and even battlefields. he next market Chen is targeting is the smart home,
Now a team of researchers at MIT and Tsinghua University in China has found a novel way around that problem:
The team didn originally plan it that way, says Li, the Battelle Energy Alliance Professor in Nuclear Science and Engineering,
researchers are devising new ways to overcome these limitations. In particular, an emerging technique known as fluctuation X-ray scattering (FXS) could provide orders of magnitude more detail than traditional solution scattering.
diffraction can be done in a many different ways. If particles can be organized into sufficiently large crystals,
and iterative phasing algorithms set the stage for a new way to think about reconstruction from FXS data. he Future of FXSBEAMTIME at the LCLS was awarded recently to the authors as part of a large multi-institutional collaboration to collect FXS data
Adhering nanoparticles of iron oxide to nylon fiber is done in three ways: electrospraying, which facilitates uniform nanoparticle placement in the fibers;
easy and inexpensive way to concentrate on E coli, cholera toxin or carcinogens and to improve accuracy of detection.
researchers in Brunger's laboratory at the Stanford School of medicine found a way to grow crystals of the complex.
In a new study, they have shown that this technique can also be applied to proteins as way to learn more about their structure.
Samples taken from a single individual could be analyzed this way, opening applications for disease diagnostics and research.
Detection is also often a limitation. here are no ways to amplify peptides and proteins like there are for DNA,
so this may be a way of solving that problem. Gabriel Shemer of Drndic lab and Christopher J. Lanci and Phillip S. Cheng of Saven lab also contributed to this work n
Betzig saw a way around that trade-off. Saturated depletion enhances the resolution of SIM images by taking advantage of fluorescent protein labels that can be switched on and off with light.
The principle is very similar to the way super-resolution in achieved in STED or a related method called RESOLFT,
Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and Applied Physics and an associate faculty member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard, describes the research in a paper published today in Science. his is a surprisingly simple way to make amorphous nanoparticles from almost any material,
this templated polymerization approach paves the way for the design of novel one-dimensional nanomaterials. Nanosized materials such as nanowires offer unique properties that are completely distinct from those of the bulk materials.
2015, a team of researchers from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research and the University of Colorado Boulder combined two optical systems in a new way to get around the natural limits of optical microscopes.
We have found that different coatings does change the way that they interact with the tooth surface.""
#Novel Nano-Dispenser Systems Uses Less Insecticide to Kill Citrus Greening Bugs Researchers with the University of Florida and several other institutions have found a way in laboratory tests to use
Using insecticides is one of the few ways farmers currently have to treat their groves for greening, also known as Huanglongbing or HLB.
paves the way for better-and cheaper-DNA sequencing. DNA sequencing is a technique that can determine exact sequence of a DNA molecule.
they block the current in individual ways that can be used to identify them. Though powerful, the method suffers from high speed:
The work offers an innovative way that can improve one of the best DNA sequencing methods available."
producing the material in a different way to allow it to remain fatigue-free through thousands of cycles s
which will guide how scientists and engineers build aircraft components, for example. The research, led by Jianwei (John) Miao,
because different arrangements of atoms cause electrons to interact in different ways. However, scanning transmission electron microscopes only produce two-dimensional images.
In this case, touchless navigation has obvious advantages with respect to hygiene, says Szendrei, pointing to one potential application for the new device.
but we're showing a versatile method of fabrication that can lead to structures you can't make any other way."
in order to significantly improve their transport to human cells; this could find uses for example in enhanced drug delivery.
opening the way to direct applications for medical research"he said. Professor Lithgow and his team used a novel technology that enables the systematic expansion of the genetic codes of living organisms to include unnatural amino acids beyond the common twenty.
a large, complicated set of molecules embedded in the mitochondrial membrane in ways that have confounded long researchers.
and other standard techniques in structural biology to unlock its transport secrets. The Lithgow lab, working with colleagues from Nagoya, Kyoto and Tokyo, ramped up scale of the technology making literally hundreds of re-coded TOM 40 complexes, each one with a novel additional 21st amino acid.
In this way, the cytoxic drug can be delivered directly to the cells it is intended to eradicate.
"But the relative lack of efficient ways to attach chemotherapeutic drugs to antibodies currently represents a major technological bottleneck,
and that is to me an opportunity to change the world in a very big way-Prof Baratunde Cola,
Cola intends to improve the efficiency of the rectennas in a number of ways such as changing materials,
pointing the way toward storage devices with more power, greater capacity, and faster charge and discharge capabilities.
In this way, the colour can be tuned through the whole of the visible spectrum depending on the amount of water vapour taken up
creating a height profile point by point in this way. Although a PFM is not capable of imaging such fine structures as an AFM,
In this way, the three-dimensional position of the probe is measured one million times per second.""The most remarkable thing is that the quivering probe is repeatedly left alone briefly
a Scotia resident and quadriplegic, began to look for ways he could remain engaged with the world of music.
Nanoparticles with sizes the order of a wavelength interact with light in specific ways. A young investigator group at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, led by Professor Martina Schmid,
Researchers at Stanford used graphene in three different ways to create data storage technology that has the best features of both volatile and nonvolatile silicon chips.
Engineers led by Stanford have demonstrated a way to create memory that combines the stability of flash memory with the speed of RAM.
It has been used in various therapies as a way to remove excess fibrin proteins from the blood to treat thrombosis and as a topical hemostat.
and ensuring that products remain unspoiled during transportation. Using the roll-to-roll technology developed by VTT,
whether the shipment has been opened earlier during transportation. In the ROPAS project, VTT showed that roll-to-roll technology for printing electronics is suited also to the manufacturing of paper-based security tags.
such as common E coli, to produce valuable chemical commodities in an environmentally friendly way. By leveraging their natural metabolic processes,
In this way, they can be thought of as the medium for two-way communication between humans and cells.
"Our team is developing several different ways to make even more custom biosensors, "said Church.""We're trying to control biological processes
and we need new ways to get our hands in at the molecular level-we're now reaching in deeper than we've previously been able to,
Both these effects change the time of flight of an ultrasound wave through a bearing.
The new method is the only way to directly measure the transmitted load through the rolling bearing components.
a 1-100 score that shows a player's overall swing performance and is a simple way to compare
and flaws in structures where safety is critical. he reason transducers are made still this way is mostly historical;
and more secure way to communicate information between wearable electronic devices, providing an improved alternative to existing wireless communication systems,
We're trying to find new ways to communicate information around the human body that use much less power,
and expanding the system to both hands. he combination of muscle activation detection with motion sensors is a new and exciting way of understanding human intent with other applications in addition to enhanced SLR systems,
Today, the most common way to determine the corrosion speed of the rebars in a reinforced concrete structure is based on destructive techniques, for
We wanted to develop a way to detect and remove this kind of contamination, so people are happy to drink water. raditionally,
such as gas chromatography or mass spectroscopy. hese are good ways to detect smell molecules, but they require a large amount of work before the sample is even ready to test,
There also a role for security, for example in drug searches at airports. More fundamentally though, the researcher say it could help them build something that never existed before:
an IMES postdoc and the paper lead author. his is used in many ways, but not so much for detection.
Learning more about such viruses could help scientists find ways to permanently eliminate them. atent HIV provirus is pretty much the final barrier to curing AIDS
and there aren any ways to eradicate it, Slomovic says. While treating diseases using this system is likely many years away,
whether two genes located far from each other on a chromosome fold in such a way that they end up next to each other,
Even for scientists, it has not been easy to find other ways of using them.
less costly way to detect these fibers and to do so at a much earlier stage of their formation than has been possible before--the stage
They exploited the way a liquid crystal responds to a disturbance on its surface. The scientists made a film of a liquid crystal molecule called 5cb,
Then they applied chemicals to the 5cb film that caused the molecules to align in such a way as to block the passage of light.
The team looked at an analysis approach using time-of-flight (TOF) information, which utilises the faster detectors present in modern PET systems to more accurately locate the source of each pair of rays.
#How to build a hypersonic airliner t is a magic aircraftthe pleasure of flying in it is almost a carnal one.
So said Joelle Cornet-Templet, a chief stewardess for Air france, about Concorde: one of the world first supersonic civilian airplanes,
which flew from 1976 to 2003 and became a watchword for travelling in style. This thoroughbred airliner could fly from London to Sydney in 17 hours, three minutes and 45 seconds;
compared to around 22 hours on a Boeing 747. Concorde was the best-known member of an exclusive club of two;
the only other civilian airliner able to break the speed of sound was the Soviet union Tupolev tu-144,
The end of the Concorde and Tupolev airliners left the supersonic market empty. But now, 12 years after the Concorde fleet last flew,
even faster airliners are taking shape in research facilities. One of those designs is by Lapcat-II,
a European-designed aeroplane capable of cruising speeds up to eight times faster than sound (8, 500 km h or 5, 280 mph) taking passengers from Brussels to Sydney in 2 hours and 55 minutes.
At the AIAA Hypersonic Space Plane conference in Glasgow in Scotland in July, a paper submitted by Lapcat-II researchers said their early airliner tests suggested such a design would be greener than current aircraft,
just as safe, and would not cost much more than today long-haul flights. Fuel factor Johan Steelant, a senior research engineer at the European space agency (Esa) and coordinator of Lapcat-II,
with his colleagues, has been testing two prototypes. One is a Mach 5 plane the Lapcat-A2 powered by a precooled air-turbo ramjet;
and a promising Esa-designed Mach 8 plane, also powered by a ramjet engine. A ramjet is an air-breathing jet, with no major moving parts.
The engine's forward motion compresses incoming air travelling at high speed, ramming it into a combustion chamber.
Ramjets can move a plane very fast. But how do you power them? Fuel choice is important,
What more, liquid hydrogen fuel is not highly combustible mid-flight. Although hydrogen can be ignited, the risks of an explosion or fire are lower compared to conventional airline kerosene fuel.
Nasa used the same stuff to power the Space shuttle. f there is leak, the hydrogen is
In Asia, Japan aerospace exploration agency (Jaxa) is also working on a hypersonic airliner called Hytex intended to cross the Pacific ocean in two hours at speeds of Mach 5. Both Lapcat-II
The Hytex turbojet engine has been tested successfully in a flight experiment which simulates speeds up to Mach 1. 8. Hytex uses liquid hydrogen both as a fuel
says Hideyuki Taguchi, leader of Jaxa hypersonic airplane research. Hunger for hydrogen But, deriving hydrogen efficiently is one main factor for high operating costs.
the airfare tickets of a hypersonic trip could drop to about half the price of a business-class ticket.
Even though hydrogen-fuelled airliners would not emit greenhouse-increasing gases such as carbon dioxide, sulphur oxides or soot like today subsonic airplanes,
there is another issue. Water vapour produced by hydrogen combustion stays in the stratosphere for a long time and could be a contributing factor to global warming.
And that effect could be worse than the current fleet of long-haul airliners the longer that water vapour remains."
"Lapcat-II also plans for their Mach 8 Esa-variant airliner to fly well above 33 km, hopefully minimising the environmental impact.
when stored as a liquid it needs far less space than gas. f a market for small business jets existed,
this could pave the way, says Steelant. Race for the skies Other companies are already working to make the supersonic business-aviation market a reality.
Airbus has patented just a delta-wing Mach 4. 5 hypersonic design that could be used to create business jets.
Also, they are working with US-based start-up Aerion to make available a fleet of supersonic jets for wealthy clients.
Spike Aerospace, another US company, plans to launch a similar supersonic business passenger plane with internal video screens linked to external cameras instead of windows.
And Lockheed martin has a commercial plane, the N+2, that will travel at Mach 1. 7. There one problem with flying so fast,
European hypersonic jets would fly over the North pole and cross the Bering strait, avoiding populated land.
when a supersonic airplane changes its speed, turns or manoeuvres. In a superboom the ground noise of a sonic boom is two
As the European hypersonic plane will fly higher, its ground shock waves will be spread out and produce a smaller shock wave.
and Boeing to design airplanes that break the sound barrier more quietly. From 2020 to 2025 it may be possible that airplanes could then exceed the sound barrier over populated land without causing a major disturbance.
In Europe, Steelant team tested their 300-seat design albeit a 1: 120 scale model, at speeds of Mach 8 within a wind tunnel.
While the design consumes two times more fuel per second than a Mach 4 plane, it gets to the destination in roughly half the time so the fuel consumed overall during the trip is roughly the same.
When we have a lighter airplane, we have lower fuel consumption and smaller tanks, which makes the vehicle again smaller,
The Jaxa project has studied the potential market for hypersonic airliners travelling at Mach 5 and found a 100-passenger aircraft flying two round trips per day is realistic based on market research.
These passengers would be made up mostly of enthusiastic first-class ticket holders. By 2030 the hypersonic aviation industry could employ over 500,000 people,
according to research by Airbus and the Japan Aircraft Development Corporation. he estimated ticket price for Tokyo to Los angeles is the same as that of an existing first-class seat,
This represents about 10%of the market of passengers willing to pay for these timesaving routes.
Airbus and Aerion aeroplane tests will start in 2019. The European A2 Mach 5 aeroplane may take another 20 years to complete.
The Esa Mach 8 aeroplane might become commercially sustainable sometime in the mid 21st Century.
The Concordes and Tupolevs that paved the way for supersonic air travel in the 1970s now gather dust in museums.
But their legacy may be continued, fast and high above our heads, in the years to come b
The strike price works the other way as well-EDF has to refund the difference if the price of electricity is above £92. 50/Mwh.
paving the way for other power companies to invest in new reactors in the UK, because two new reactors will not be enough
Proponents of net neutrality, who demand that web traffic be treated equally by networks, have criticised already the move.
These complications temper the technique's promise for controlling brain activity in a noninvasive way. Writing in the journal Nature Communications,
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