Synopsis: Domenii: Civil engineering: Civil engineering generale: Nonbuilding structure:


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While graphene has attracted wide interest as a biosensor due to its two-dimensional nature that allows excellent electrostatic control of the transistor channel by the gate

Graphene has been used among other things to design FETSEVICES that regulate the flow of electrons through a channel via a vertical electric field directed into the channel by a terminal called a gate.

In the realm of biosensing the physical gate is removed and the current in the channel is modulated by the binding between embedded receptor molecules and the charged target biomolecules to

whose surface potential (or conductivity) can be modulated by the interaction (known as conjugation) between the receptor and target molecules that results in net accumulation of charges over the gate region.


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#New graphene framework bridges gap between traditional capacitors batteries Researchers at the California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA have set the stage for a watershed in mobile energy storage by using a special graphene material

"The holey grahene EC bridges the energy density gap between traditional capacitors and batteries, yet with vastly higher power density,"Duan said."


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and forming a bridge between the electrodes at the opposite ends of the dielectric material. They demonstrated this process with several metals,

the bridge formed in different ways. The bridge, also called a conducting filament, stays put after the electrical power is turned off in the device.

So when researchers turn the power back on the bridge is there as a smooth pathway for current to travel along.

Further, the electric field can be used to change the shape and size of the filament, or break the filament altogether,


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What's the difference between the Eiffel Tower and the Washington monument? Both structures soar to impressive heights,

while the Eiffel Tower achieves similar strength using a lattice of steel beams and struts that is mostly open air, gaining its strength from the geometric arrangement of those elements.


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"We are talking about an imaging scale here that bridges the gap between conventional X-ray and electron tomography.


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Mix it w/laser tag in a pre-built arena. Paint the environment however you want it to look to match the geometry of the playing field in reality.


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#Waggling Phallic Scanner 3-D-Maps The Tower Of Pisa In 20 Minutes The Zebedee created by Australia's national space agency is a 3-D scanner

one person holding the Zebedee was able to accurately 3-D map the entire Leaning Tower of Pisa in only 20 minutes!

one person holding the Zebedee was able to accurately 3-D map the entire Leaning Tower of Pisa in only 20 minutes!..


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the airplane's speed means that you'll be switching from tower to tower faster than your phone


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The hotels I go have large clean swimming pools. I never swim in other's sewage r


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which include transmission towers (cellular and digital television broadcasting) fluorescent lighting Wi-fi Power lines and certain appliances.


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and designed and kept in the silos of universities Prakash says. He wants to bring them to the masses.


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And instead of pouring concrete foundations and erecting a multistory tower a few people with a truck can inflate the airship on site

whose towers can overturn without substantial reinforcement. It solves a lot of the headaches that offshore developers have today in putting these big turbines out there says Glass the company's CEO and CTO.


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Essentially the EES is a bridge that bypasses the spinal cord injury. The technology has given already paralyzed rats


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or The bridge has collapsed just. PS: In what way are used they? PM: On the Micromappers app volunteers classify and geolocate these calls for help.


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It can sense upcoming street signs and shine more light onto them. And it can make raindrops

whether it's cars raindrops street signs or anything else within 1 to 2. 5 milliseconds according to Carnegie mellon University.


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#The $3500 GSMK Cryptophone s firewall even blocks snoops that can impersonate cell towers.####Free on any platformpros It allows you to query Google without accepting cookies

##$40 hidecell. compros Storing your phone in a metal-lined bag will eliminate surveillance possibilities by blocking cell-tower signals along with your Wi-fi GPS and Bluetooth connections.


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Check out this new video by Mark Mueller out of Raffaello Dndrea Flying Machine Arena at ETH Zurich


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and the power of machine learning The team at the ETH Flying Machine Arena has released three new videos demonstrating quadrotors building tensile structures tossing a ball back and forth


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Drones are the gateway for consumer robotics where the robot is a tool that anyone can use.


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Another gets two of its propellers cut off yet still easily flies across the arena. Â t looks like magic!

Check out the pages of ETH Zurich Flying Machine Arena team and more Robohub articles on how quadrocopters learn acrobatic maneuvers cooperate to throw

Markus Waibel works with Raff Dndrea and the Flying Machine Arena team at ETH Zurich Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control.


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We can change the way light waves are being reflected at will and ultimately focus a large area of sunlight onto a solar power tower


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but also a gateway to the health of an individual


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#China Announces World Largest Cap and Trade Program Chinese President Xi Jinping announced Friday that China will develop a carbon trading system as a way to reduce the country greenhouse gas emissions.


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an airplane flyover that falls far short of capturing the detailed images needed to identify a potential problem."


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A project of CERN, the European organization for nuclear research, the 17-mile LHC tunnel big enough to ride a bicycle through straddles the border between France and Switzerland.

"SMU is active on the LHC's ATLAS detector experimentwithin the big LHC tunnel, gigantic particle detectors at four interaction points along the ring record the proton collisions that are generated


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within a few days of the poor July export data and other official figures showing factory-gate prices continued their three-year slide in July, touching a six-year


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"said Nitesh Shahra, president of the refinery division of Ruchi Soya, the country's biggest edible oil refiner."


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researchers have woven together a bridge strong enough to walk across. Made at the ETH Zurich Flying Machine Arena in Switzerland,

the bridge joins two scaffolds, and is the first full-scale load-bearing structure autonomously built by flying machines.

The feat represents one more step in the field of robotic aerial construction 1, 2 Except for the metal scaffolding at either end of the structure,

the bridge itself consists exclusively of Dyneema rope, a tensile material with a low weight-to-strength ratio that makes it ideal for aerial construction.

links and braids 3 and has a total rope length of about 120 m. How it works The project was developed at the Flying Machine Arena 4, a research and demonstration platform for aerial robotics.

The arena is equipped with a motion capture system that provides vehicle position and attitude measurements for the small custom quadrocopters.

all the connections and links of the bridge primary and bracing sections are without human intervention autonomously woven

in order to ensure that the quadrocopters behave as desired 5. The researchers then walk across the bridge to demonstrate its load-bearing ability.

Once the bridge itself is constructed, stabilizers are added to make it easier for a person to cross.

the locations of the narrow openings of the bridge must be measured and input to the system,


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This research was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the National institutes of health, and the Alexander Von humboldt Foundation e


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tomorrow thugs may also have to worry about the soft radio glow of wireless routers and mobile communications towers.


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#Tunnel Transistor May Meet Power Needs of Future Chips A new kind of transistor consumes 90 percent less power than conventional transistors,

One way that scientists have sought to overcome this limit is with tunnel FETS (TFETS. These devices take advantage of the ability of electrons to penetrate barriers,


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or a wakefield (using high energy unchesof electrons to blast a tunnel through plasma; when the tunnel collapses back on itself,

following particles accelerate by riding the charged wake of the collapsing front). RF accelerators can reach energies of a few tens of mega electron volts before the RF energy itself begins to destabilize the mechanism in what called plasma breakdown.


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and they can do it right from their phones that a tectonic shift in that arena. The suite of tools Square is building out like Register


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survey farm land, inspect cell towers, patrol property, or do search & rescue, Now wel see just how many businesses will pay a monthly subscription for Airware to power their drones for industrial inspections, agriculture management, anti-poaching, and more.


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and it looks like a beautiful swimming pool, "Mckay said.""But the water has got nothing.""Earthly life adapts to many hostile environments,


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They can also be placed into cellular towers to produce power during disaster periods or to increase power on busy days.


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#Sponge Suit 3d printed bikini with cleantech material cleans water as you swim From the ocean to our local lakes and even neighbourhood swimming pools,


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Supercapacitors are a bridge between conventional capacitors and batteries, combining the advantageous properties of high power, high energy density and low internal resistance,


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and is extraordinarily precise due to the fact that the fluid-filled gate adjusts to accommodate filtration of each substance it encounters,

"The fluid used in the gate is repellent and prevents any material from sticking to it

operators of the system simply need to adjust the pressure to influence what substances will be allowed to flow through the fluid-filled gates."


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EPGL has several patents pending now in the smart contact lens arena including energy harvesting technology, mass manufacturing of integrated electronics, autofocus and smart lens case technologies.


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including"the structure and timing of half-bridge elongation, the composition of the satellite and the formation of the membrane pore."


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#Researchers Visualize Nano-Sized Gateways That Control Activity of Mitochondrial Battery Mitochondria are referred often to as the powerhouses of our cells,

nano-sized gateways control the activity of the mitochondrial battery, by carefully allowing certain proteins

and precisely how it operates as the gateway for entry into mitochondria. Having shown the technology works-Professor Lithgow believes other labs working on diverse processes in human cell biology will mimic these experiments to determine how their chosen nanomachines operate.


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#Miniature Plastic Digital Fluorescence Microscope for use in Rural areas For a project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grand Challenges in Global Health Initiative,


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It may also generate renewed interest in glucokinase from the pharmaceutical arena. According to the American Diabetes Association, 29.1 million Americans have diabetes


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In a project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's Grand Challenges in Global Health Initiative,


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"said Pier Paolo Pandolfi, MD, Phd, Director of the BIDMC Cancer Center.""Patients diagnosed with locally advanced


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friendly looking prototype-his young son thinks it looks like a koala because of the nose-like black laser on the front-is a good bridge between the company's current test fleet of 20 specially outfitted Lexus SUVS


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Space elevator in a tower 12 miles high could one day give astronauts a leg-up into the cosmos

The company has been granted a US patent to build a freestanding tower reaching 12 miles (20 km) above the planet's surface.

The space tower would be more than 20 times the height of Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world.

'From the top of the tower, space planes will launch in a single stage to orbit,

returning to the top of the tower for refuelling and reflight.''While other designs for space elevators have involved complex designs using graphene or carbon nanotubes,


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Motorcycle headgear absorbs energy from a crash to protect your brain as well as your skull Experts have created a helmet with built-in suspension to protect your brain as well as your skull.


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and with an eye on start-ups, is was showing a home gateway based around the firm Galileo development board. t allows makers to come up with their own home automation system by providing a cross-platform central hub that can talk to any of the smart

the Home Gateway will provide the link between the two. he system is based on NFC tags that track people in the home to adjust devices accordingly as they move around re-streaming a film from living room TV to kitchen tablet whilst


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or blast furnace slag, a byproduct of iron and steel production. These industrial waste products are available only adjacent to coal fired power plants and steel production facilities,


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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the National institutes of health have supported Siddiqui's research.""We worked to get the patent to deter others from making money off this vaccine,


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The late Robin williams had this form of dementia as did legendary NHL coach Alger Joseph"Radar"Arbour,


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#Cancer cells use secret tunnels to communicate and smuggle cancer signals their neighbors A new discovery published in the Nov. 2015 issue of The FASEB Journal shows that cancer cells use previously unknown channels to communicate with one another and with adjacent non-cancerous cells.

"Mexican drug lords are not the only ones who use secret tunnels to move material across seemingly impenetrable borders,

Now that we know these tunnels exist we can shut them down or use them to deliver lifesaving therapies


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In a project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's Grand Challenges in Global Health Initiative,


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whether for an airplane, car, bridge, mobile device, or biological implant, engineers strive to make the material strong


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#Controllable protein gates deliver on-demand permeability in artificial nanovesicles Researchers at the University of Basel have succeeded in building protein gates for artificial nano-vesicles that become transparent only under specific conditions.

The gate responds to certain ph values, triggering a reaction and releasing active agents at the desired location.

Reacting to changes in ph The gate is made up of the chemically modified membrane protein Ompf,


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but other options such as using grey water rather than potable water in cooling towers can also deliver savings,


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This means that these massively disruptive arenas are opening their doors for entrepreneurial development, no Phd required.


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Cops don need a search warrant to get access to cell tower location records when investigating criminal cases

The ruling also argued that the public knows that cell towers are used to onnect calls

which is far more than Metropcs cell tower location records show. The two dissenting judges in the case critiqued the broad application of the hird-party doctrinein the case


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Their current detection sensitivity is more in line with the needs of beaches, swimming pools, and other recreational water facilities.


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which can be applied to sets of qubits to perform the equivalent of Boolean algebraic functions found in standard electronic logic processors also referred to as quantum gates.


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and the limited visibility that comes with being wrapped in a mobile fortress of ceramic and steel.


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Lead researchers Menno Veldhorst and Andrew Dzurak The gate is controlled through an external voltage and microwave radiation The technique could scale up to hold thousands, even millions of qubits on a single chip

provides what is called a universal gate set. This means that any gate set can be constructed out of it."

"Although their quantum computers wouldn't work at room temperature, this approach lets the researchers operate their device at approximately 1 Kelvin(-272°C,


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provides what is called a universal gate set. This means that any gate set can be constructed out of it."

"Although their quantum computers wouldn't work at room temperature, this approach lets the researchers operate their device at approximately 1 Kelvin(-272°C,


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His large, portable tower would clean the air while simultaneously leaving behind tiny black carbon particles that could be recycled into jewelry.

the Smog Free Tower was cranking out the bits of carbon that would be compressed into tiny cubes.

Roosegaarde wants to take the tower to some of the most polluted cities in the world,


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creatures like mussels and barnacles stay cemented on rocks in the splash zone as well as on the pillars of piers


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nine-story Dharahara Tower, built in 1832. The watchtower had reopened recently to the public, according to The New york times,

The Dharahara Tower had been rebuilt once before after it was damaged during the magnitude-8. 0 earthquake that struck on Jan 15, 1934,


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and its partner guanine bind together, forming a bridge across the helix. But the new simulation revealed that these base-pair bridges peel apart both

when the helix is unraveled, and when it is very tightly wound. The team speculates that base-pair separation in supercoiled DNA allows it to hinge sharply,


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as well as bridge manufacturers could be next in line. Corrosion resistance isn't the only super-trait of these metals.


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These filaments can be regenerated magnetically on mechanical damage, owing to the fluidity of the capillary bridges between nanoparticles and their reversible binding on contact.

and creates capillary bridges between them so that the particles stick together on contact, "said Orlin Velev, INVISTA Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular engineering at NC State and the corresponding author of the paper."

and makes the bridges fragile, leading to breaking and fragmentation of the nanoparticle chains. Yet the broken nanoparticles chains will reform


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Leever foresees use of flexible systems to monitor the conditions of bridges and other types of infrastructure in real time.


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"The tunnel effect enables us to move electrons through the ultra-thin layer with very little energy,


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and sensors that can detect otherwise imperceptible defects in buildings, bridges, and aircraft.""This is the first time anybody has made a flexible chameleon-like skin that can change color simply by flexing it,

More day-to-day applications could include sensors that would change color to indicate that structural fatigue was stressing critical components on bridges, buildings,


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unfortunately, this tube was not particularly good at holding water in its central tunnel. Undeterred, Zeng team set out to modify that molecule.


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It can fly along a tunnel with uneven, moving walls without measuring either speed or altitude.

all by itself, avoid vertical obstacles in a tunnel with moving walls. To achieve this, the researchers mimicked the ability of insects to use the passing landscape as they fly.

in order to adapt it to the size of the tunnel through which it flies. The third loop stabilizes the eye in relation to the local slope,


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a process that stops the greenhouse gas before it escapes from chimneys and power plants into the atmosphere and instead turns it into a useful product.


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one and the same network can be configured into 16 different logical gates. The evolutionary approach works around-or can even take advantage of-possible material defects that can be fatal in conventional electronics.


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or by the resistance change in a tunnel contact with a magnetic probe. Employing a scanning tunneling microscope researchers of the University of Hamburg were now able to demonstrate that the resistance changes also


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"The tunnel effect enables us to move electrons through the ultra-thin layer with very little energy,


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"Silicon nanowire towers make up dark regions of the flexible Fresnel zone lenses. Each individual lens resembles a bull-eye of alternating light and dark.


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roughly the amount of water contained in 1. 2 Olympic swimming pools. One cubic millimeter of this water would be enough to carry out the test.


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so it can fly through an experimental tunnel over a simulated rolling landscape without crashing,


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#Putting Sensors In Bridges And Tunnels Could Make Their Walls Talk Trying to get a building to tell you how it feeling is,

well, like talking to a brick wall. But it doesn have to be that way. Researchers with the GENESI project want to make it so walls can talk back,

by creating various sensors to fit inside buildings, tunnels, and bridges. With the feedback collected from these sensors,

One of GENESI two pilot projects is a testbed in the tunnels of Rome underground rail system,

Renewable energy is tricky in tunnels, since the sun's rays don't reach that far. But each GENESI node and sensor includes a miniature wind turbine that harvests energy from passing trains.

whether tucked away in tunnel walls or nestled in dark unlit crevices under bridges, replacing batteries isn always the easiest task for humans,

so that might be a future job for drones. If systems like GENESI become widespread, they could drastically improve city infrastructures,


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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,


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In a project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's Grand Challenges in Global Health Initiative,


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"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,


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tidal lagoon system, consisting of circular retaining walls embedded with turbines which capture the tide's energy."


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"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


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every road and house and bridge into a structure that does photosynthesis better than plants,


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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,


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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,


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whether in a communications tower or a mobile phone, is to launch energy into free space in the form of electromagnetic or radio waves,


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"Marina Cavazzana:""The results obtained in this multicenter clinical trial constitute an important therapeutic advance (overhang)


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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


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#Researchers add a new wrinkle to cell culture Using a technique that introduces tiny wrinkles into sheets of graphene,


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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


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#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


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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.


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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


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