but also in transportation industry power backup, micro grid storage, and for the wider use of renewable energy y
#Robots navigating the unknown A robot with a navigation system that mirrors the neural scheme used by humans
and animals to find their way around has been developed by A*STAR researchers. This robot uses neural schemes similar to humans to navigate an office environment.
The human navigation function is operated by two types of brain cells-place cells and grid cells.
The way sailors used to navigate through tracking of relative movement however, is essential for finding a way through unfamiliar areas,
explains Miaolong Yuan from the A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research team. A sailor will use cues such as the stars
which provide a virtual reference frame for spatial awareness to handle this type of relative navigation.
By using both place and grid cells for navigation, humans and animals are able to accurately move through the environment.
The computer navigation system assists the robot in situations where it is lost in a new environment,
The design rule controls the way in which polymers adjoin to form the backbones that run the length of nanosheets.
the atomic-resolution structure of peptoid nanosheets. his research suggests new ways to design biomimetic structures,
#Analyzing protein structures in their native environment Proteins can fold in different ways depending on their environment.
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
#New way to store information uses ions to save data and electrons to read data Scientists from Kiel University
and the Ruhr Universität Bochum (RUB) have developed a new way to store information that uses ions to save data
The advantage is that cells that are constructed in this way are easy to produce and can be reduced to almost the size of atoms.
This way, ions can be used specifically for storing and electrons specifically for reading data. The researchers also reported that their research had another very interesting element.
and are out on our roads, "said Professor Hermann Kohlstedt and his colleague from Bochum,
providing a new way to generate ultrashort electron pulses for ultrafast imaging of attosecond phenomena."
and the U s. Department of energy's Argonne National Laboratory has confirmed a new way to control the growth paths of graphene nanoribbons on the surface of a germainum crystal (Nature Communications,"Direct oriented growth of armchair graphene nanoribbons on germanium").
and this method provides a straightforward way to make semiconducting nanoscale circuits from graphene, a form of carbon only one atom thick.
ride steel subway cars over steel rails to our offices in steel-framed building. Steel screws hold together broken bones,
researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of engineering and Applied sciences (SEAS) have demonstrated a way to make steel stronger, safer and more durable.
#Solving 80-year-old mystery, chemist discovers way to isolate single-crystal ice surfaces A Tufts University chemist has discovered a way to select specific surfaces of single-crystal ice for study,
Scientists have been pursuing a reliable way to prepare ice crystal surfaces in the laboratory since at least the 1930s, according to Shultz,
and structure and the way in which other molecules bind to the specific faces of the crystal,
"Currently, there's no easy way to do that.""One important aspect of the success of the new phototransistors is the researchers'innovative"flip-transfer"fabrication method, in
to a two-dimensional array, positioned on a plane that is far more tolerant to errors. This qubit layer is sandwiched"in a three-dimensional architecture, between two layers of wires arranged in a grid.
and arrange them in such a way that we can correct errors quantum mechanically.""""In our work, we've developed a blueprint that is unique to our system of qubits in silicon,
such as rapidly scouring vast databases, modelling financial markets, optimising huge metropolitan transport networks, and modelling complex biological molecules s
but finding better ways to suture tiny blood vessels has been an ongoing challenge for even the best.
The way tiny vessels are reconnected now includes stitches applied in microsurgery. But the tiny, thin-walled vessels are fragile and prone to damage in handling.
The peptide-based hydrogel can be tuned in precise ways with a specific amino acid, allowing the material to change form several times during a procedure-becoming rigid enough to open
His discovery generates exciting new prospects for how this process could be used to forge new energy sources in a carbon neutral way.
UK, studied the transport mechanism of the sensors. Novoselov was the 2010 Nobel laureate in physics.
"We wondered if there were a way to implant a 3-D printed construct where we could connect host arteries directly to the construct
Conventional lenses use refraction--the way light changes direction while passing through different substances (typically stiff, translucent ones, like glass)--to focus it on a single point.
graduate student Jayer Fernandes and recent graduate Aditi Kanhere--are exploring ways to integrate the lenses into existing optical detectors and directly incorporate silicon electronic components into the lenses themselves s
Conventional lenses use refraction--the way light changes direction while passing through different substances (typically stiff, translucent ones, like glass)--to focus it on a single point.
graduate student Jayer Fernandes and recent graduate Aditi Kanhere--are exploring ways to integrate the lenses into existing optical detectors and directly incorporate silicon electronic components into the lenses themselves s
and electroceuticals. e are still a long way from printing a brain but the ability to arrange cells
Professor Wallace said. his paves the way for the use of more sophisticated printers to create structures with much finer resolution. 3d printing of layered brain-like structures using peptide modified gellan gum substrates
where cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) filters through the brain and exchanges with interstitial fluid (ISF) to clear waste, similar to the way the body lymphatic system clears waste from organs.
In the paper, he Effect of Body Posture on Brain Glymphatic Transport, Dr. Benveniste and colleagues used a dynamic contrast MRI method
when standardizing future diagnostic imaging procedures to assess CSF-ISF transport in humans and therefore the assessment of the clearance of damaging brain proteins that may contribute to or cause brain diseases. r. Benveniste and first-author Dr. Hedok Lee,
suggests people modify language in this way because it makes things simpler for our minds as speakers, listeners,
Yogita Chudasama, of Mcgill Psychology department and the lead researcher on the paper. n some ways this relationship makes sense;
#Brain Friendly Interface Could Change the Way People with Spinal cord Injuries Lead Their Lives Recent research published in the journal Microsystems
& Nanoengineering could eventually change the way people living with prosthetics and spinal cord injury lead their lives.
uses jets of liquid nitrogen to nap-freezebrain tissue down to-90oc, within milliseconds. The brain tissue here was mouse cerebral cortex.
and his colleagues have discovered a way to predict human emotions based on brain activity. The study is unusual because of its accuracy more than 90 percent
his device could transform the way people with severe muscular weakness or other speech disorders communicate.
Thus, researchers have administered oxytocin to patients through the nose as this route offers a direct pathway to the brain that bypasses this barrier.
and on how they affect the way in which social signals are perceived. Low doses work best Sixteen healthy men received two different doses of oxytocin, along with placebo.
Since less medicine is lost along the way, patients can take smaller doses and accordingly experience fewer side effects.
called Scales, is a real and practical way to see through brain and body tissue. In recent years, generating see-through tissue process called optical clearingas become a goal for many researchers in life sciences because of its potential to reveal complex structural details of our bodies, organs,
scientists may be able to develop ways to better control NKTS to attack tumors. The new study also suggests there may be a way to intervene in the pathway to block inflammation.
When the researchers deleted the gene for RIPK3 or inhibited other parts of the pathway,
possibly paving the way for new therapies that can either hone the pathway cancer-killing role or reduce its role in inflammation
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.
*Implicit relationships*Ambiguous references*The relationships between diagrams and natural-language text nlike the Turing Test, standardized tests such as the SAT provide us today with a way to measure a machine ability to reason
and put them to work in new ways. ature borrowed not just the vitamin, but really the whole enzyme unit,
Song and Berger found a way to accurately mimic how a memory is translated from short-term memory into long-term memory,
That despite the fact that there is currently no way of eadinga memory just by looking at its electrical signal. t like being able to translate from Spanish to French without being able to understand either language,
as the trigger for the disease-causing process. hese findings offer a completely new way of thinking about how the immune system attacks the braint puts the blood in the driver seat of the onset
seizure disorders and many other conditions affecting the brain and nervous system down the road. Using nasal mucosal grafting,
they use adjacent nasal lining to rebuild the hole in a permanent and safe way.
including how much each feature needs to be adjusted to produce a different sensation. his is where the rubber meets the road in building touch-senstive neuroprosthetics,
During these experiments, Bensmaia and his team manipulated various features of the electrical pulse train,
consistent way than through natural stimulation. t shows that there is something fundamentally different about the way the brain responds to electrical stimulation than it does to natural stimulation,
if you applied force in a particular way, such as sitting on it. SMARTPHONE UPGRADE: What to expect in the new Apple iphone 6sapple later admitted the problem
very cold place where all matter will be a very long way from other matter. It rather bleak
in the longest US isolation experiment yet aimed at helping NASA prepare for a pioneering journey to Mars. The crew includes a French astrobiologist, a German physicist and four Americans a pilot, an architect, a doctor/journalist and a soil
So what kind of person wants to spend a year of their life this way? Crew member Sheyna Gifford described the team as ix people who want to change the world by making it possible for people to leave it at will,
and different kinds of inputs such as tap, type and talk. he unveiling of the new logo came just weeks after a surprise reorganisation of Google under a newly formed parent company called Alphabet.
a company has found a way to apply monetary value to arguably society most worthless trend the selfie.
#Human cruise control app steers people on their way For a few days last summer, a handful of students walked through a park behind the University of Hannover in Germany.
but followed the same route as the others: made the same turns, walked the same distance.
Navigation apps, for instance, could steer people along their route automatically, meaning they never have to look at their phone
"We want to remove this step out of the navigation process so you just say want to go there,
or being evacuated from the stadium in the most efficient way in the case of an emergency,
"We build a navigation system, but then we have to stare at it.""""Their goal is letting you use your attention on
For the first time, researchers have worked out in detail how nutrients make their way from these glands into the developing embryo."
The team also tracked the transport of substances called glycoproteins. These are vital for growth
A Velcro-inspired way to bind strips of cells together could be used to make living bandages for the heart.
or to sculpt scar tissue over wounds in a more seamless way. Designer tissue ach case that a surgeon would be presented with is going to be unique,
although he adds that clinical applications are some way off. he real test is how it works in vivo,
such as cardiac tissue, then it paving the way, says Montgomery w
#Cancer trap grabs wandering tumour cells to warn of early spread The trouble with cancer is it spreads sometimes even before someone knows they are ill.
involves measuring the way light is scattered off large molecules and structures inside cells. Cancer cells can be detected
Gerhardt Attard of the Institute of Cancer Research in London says there is growing interest in personalising cancer treatments by testing cancer cells in the blood. his could be a very powerful way of risk stratifying patients for treatment
Simple stem cell therapies are finally making their way towards the clinic, and a treatment for wounds caused by Crohn disease could be the first off-the-shelf therapy to get European union approval.
Now, van der Wiel and his colleagues have enabled a clump of gold grains to handle bits of information in the same way that conventional microprocessors do.
which can add two bits of information. his shows that you can get to calculating ability by a completely different route,
which can add two bits of information. his shows that you can get to calculating ability by a completely different route,
#Gel scaffold paves way for 3d printing of biological organs To improve 3d printing, simply add gel.
and organs is still a long way off, but Angelini is optimistic. ur method, I think,
The elasticity of different parts of the body is a useful way to tell if something is wrong.
and others around the world, have been working on a way to use modified MRI SCANNERS to measure brain elasticity.
The ruling against the 15-year-old law, known as Safe Harbour, threatens the business models of more than 3000 companies that use it to ship data to the US,
is unable to use Safe Harbour as a reason not to investigate Facebook data protection practices in the US.
How long until the satellites are ready for flight? The team has given three of their propulsion systems to the NASA Glenn Research center in Ohio,
A new way of creating waves that don echo promises to improve everything from your Wi-fi signal to medical imaging.
and quickly find their way to the platform, while the untreated older animals struggled at the task.
and information. ur vision is of a scientist apprentice giving researchers a very powerful way to analyse what going on in their field,
physics and the remaining hard sciences, learning from how users interact with software as it goes. e have very specific goals along the way for semantic intensity how deep into a paper our system can get to see what it about,
"Unfortunately, one of the implications, in my judgment, is that addicts would have easier access to something that threatens health in very serious ways,
"That they'll find a way to increase production, increase their profits all on the backs of people who are addicted to opiates."
"Unfortunately, one of the implications, in my judgment, is that addicts would have easier access to something that threatens health in very serious ways,
"That they'll find a way to increase production, increase their profits all on the backs of people who are addicted to opiates."
the metallic device almost looks like a high-tech bike pedal. Or maybe the latest cooking gadget for zesting lemons.
The technology is a new way to manipulate light, with applications from studying alien worlds to making cellphones more energy efficient."
The paper states,-rays radiated by relativistic electrons driven by well-controlled high-power lasers offer a promising route to a proliferation of this powerful imaging technology.
By way of comparison: an atomic power plant generates 1, 500mw. First, the laser pulse ploughs through a plasma consisting of positively charged atomic cores
By way of comparison, the system can detect that one cube of sugar was dissolved in three million liters water,
It a remarkable new way to manipulate light. Although this infinitely high velocity seems to break a fundamental rule of relativity
The longstanding challenge has been to find a way to deposit the semiconductor material combination needed for lasing at the 1300 nm
Thin buffer layer crucial The usual way to overcome the lattice mismatch between silicon and compound semiconductors is to grow a so-called buffer layer on top of the silicon.
And because the extremely thin buffer layer allows light to be emitted in the plane of the wafer
predicts the team. his also forms a route towards electrical injection for the device. Cutting data center power consumption They suggest that a wide range of applications stand to benefit from the kind of low-cost,
together with the WDM technology, may finally pave the way to terascale computing. Photonic integrated circuits (PICS) based on the technology could dramatically change the architecture of fiber-optic transceivers used in data center optical interconnects, by pushing down the cost of chip-level data transfer between logic and memory devices.
when they introduced the proteins to the tomatoes they acted like opening a tap to boost levels of a group of antioxidants called phenylpropanoids
#Chip Simplifies Quantum Optics Experiments A silicon chip that can process photons in an infinite number of ways could speed up development of quantum computing.
In this way the material could be used to detect chemical or biological compounds as well as mechanical and thermal conditions."
The findings could help identify ways to repair damaged neural connections in patients with spinal cord injuries or neurodegenerative diseases like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou gehrig's disease.
#UV Catheter Plugs Holes in Hearts With help from UV LIGHT, a new catheter device could provide a way to repair defects in hearts and other organs without surgery.
"The device is a minimally invasive way to deliver a patch and then activate it using UV LIGHT,
all within a matter of five minutes and in an atraumatic way that doesn't require a separate incision."
but the way this hardware was built you can probably imagine putting it in a mobile phone,
Some researchers have been looking into this type of communication interruption as a possible new way to treat antibiotic-resistant bacteria. e were astonished genuinely at the results of our experiments in the lab,
Without it, blind people can have a tough time learning their way around a new space.
Sighted rats could determine which way was east using markers in the room surrounding the maze.
By comparison, the bionic rats managed to find their way around nearly as well as the sighted rats.
the bionic rats managed to find their way around, indicating they had used the compass to form a sort of mental map of the maze.
Rocket Lab is reshaping both the way rocket engines are manufactured and the way they function. Today at the Space Symposium in Colorado, the company unveiled its brand-new engine, named Rutherford--the first-ever battery-powered rocket engine.
The design, made almost entirely of 3d printed parts, will be used on Rocket Labs Electron orbital launch vehicle,
a Marine signals intelligence (SIGINT) specialist monitors web traffic while he lies on the ground, his assault rifle trained on a nearby building.
says Fitzpatrick. ut that not the way at D. O d. (Department of defense), where we like to be extremely comfortable with our gear.
While the military already has ways of protecting its cameras and windows spinel does it in a much lighter way.
From an NRL press release about the material: A"bulletproof"window today, for example, has layers of plastic and glass perhaps five inches thick."
but increasingly people are investigating a way to make those experiences tactile as well. A team of student engineers at Rice university has developed a clever pair of VR gloves that make it feel like you're actually interacting with virtual objects.
but what's the best way to do that? Jumping on a plane to Kathmandu is a bad idea.
Giving money to reputable aid organizations is much better, but if you want to do something more tangible in addition to a financial donation,
An organization called the Humanitarian Openstreetmap Team (HOT) is looking for volunteers from all over the world to look through satellite imagery of Nepal and label and map roads, buildings,
in order to map obstacles and extraction routes. It can even detect the angle of the wheels on the vehicle in question to help figure out the best way to remove it.
The bogies then maneuver themselves in concert beneath the wheels of the target vehicle, and use their onboard intelligence to slowly move the vehicle to a safe location.
and perhaps even automatic parking in environments where space is limited. The good news is that
Now researchers from the University of British columbia have figured out a way to change the type of blood donated by volunteers,
There is no possible way that the gene which causes Tay-sachs disease--a disease in which children develop normally for six months
and sensors like accelerometers have all found their way from our pockets to the skies.
letting the craft know which way is down. But theye hardly the only way for flying vehicles to stay level.
The Beerotor drone made by roboticists Fabien Expert and Franck Ruffier at Aix Marseille University in Marseille,
That way they can better predict how bad the tornado might be before it touches down n
but that just a long way of writing out something unbelievably futuristic: protective force fields may one day make their way onto the battlefields of the future.
The device as patented only protects against the shockwave of an explosion, but most of the vehicles it be mounted on are armored already enough to protect people inside from the shrapnel that comes with a bomb blast.
an IED on the side of the road--then estimates the time and location of the explosion.
until they discover a way for the liquid metal to react with the atmosphere). The liquid metal could be used to build self contained pumps that don't require outside power or batteries, saving on weight and complexity for items like night vision and laser cooling pumps.
The ability of liquid metal with its own embedded power source could even one day be the basis to build self repairing armor on tanks and changing aircraft fuselages for fuel efficiency and speed.
But it doesn have to be that way. Researchers with the GENESI project want to make it so walls can talk back,
But each GENESI node and sensor includes a miniature wind turbine that harvests energy from passing trains.
Now researchers from The swiss Federal Institute of technology have created an artificial eye and navigation system for these drones based on insectsvision,
One big reason for the lack of resources is that there no objective way to confirm that pain exists.
and offers a significantly better way to diagnose chronic pain. In trials patientsscans lit up in brain areas corresponding to where in the body they ached. 44:
who led the MGH team. ut this is the first time we have proof that it works the same way in humans,
the researchers only made it two-thirds of the way to a full opioid. But this study was different.
The researchers note that this study was merely a proof of concepthe amount of opioid that the yeast can synthesize is way too small to make it commercially viable.
having a stable way to store this information will become increasingly importantarlier this year, Internet pioneer Vint Cerf warned that,
or even to spot explosives in airports r
#Embedded 3d Barcodes To Ensure Pills Are Real A new kind of barcode could be built structurally into a pill or other product,
which the connection worked the other way and the patient was able to regain some sense of touch. ee completed the circuit,
#DARPA Taps Into the Brain To Give Patients Robo-Touch and Better Memory ST LOUIS By hardwiring into the brains of people with traumatic injuries,
Spot isn the first of Bigdog siblings to train with the Marines. LS3, a heavier, sturdy robot designed as a mechanical mule that can carry up to 400 pounds of gear for a squad on the move
and, after scanning a room, it can crouch down to get out of the way of troops storming in.
"Cap-and-trade programs have been praised by some policymakers as an efficient way to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions,
Dr. Narayan believes we are well on our way to achieving the goal of large-scale DNA storage.
he believes we are already par way there thanks to DNA barcodes to tag and read genetic data.
It could represent the best route to store valuable personal information. But Dr. Narayan points out it may not be entirely useful. ven
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