They also believe the unique water-repelling nature of the material could be used in paint applied to airplanes and satellites or as part of electromagnetic shields for such things as unmanned aerial vehicles.
The protein acts a bit like a tap to increase or reduce the production of natural compounds depending on how much of the protein is present.
#3-D printed fetal head helps manage care for baby with life-threatening airway mass Megan Thompson was about 30 weeks pregnant
whether the mass would block Conan's airway after birth. The 3-D printed model of the fetus allowed us to actually see in person what it looked like
"This is the first case we are aware of that 3-D printing has helped show how severe an airway risk in a fetus was
so that a surgeon can establish an airway to allow the baby to breathe. Instead, Conan was born via a scheduled C-section."
At one end of that plane there is a so-called quantum dot: a tiny trap for electrons, only a hundred nanometers wide, in which owing to quantum mechanics the electrons exist in well-defined energy states similar to those of an atom.
whether for an airplane, car, bridge, mobile device, or biological implant, engineers strive to make the material strong
#Solar-powered plane lands in Ahmedabad on second leg of world trip A Swiss-made solar powered aircraft landed in Ahmedabad on Tuesday night,
The Solar impulse 2 touched down at Ahmedabad airport in Gujarat about 16 hours after it took off from Muscat, Oman, for the 1,
The world's first aircraft powered by solar energy was to remain in Ahmedabad for two days before flying to the holy city of Varanasi on Saturday.
The swiss pilots Bertrand Piccard and Andre Boschberg, are taking turns at the controls of the aircraft during their 35,000-kilometer (21,700-mile) journey.
The aircraft's wings are covered by more than 17,000 solar cells that recharge the plane's batteries.
It flies ideally at around 25 knots, or 45 kph (28 mph). On Monday, Borschberg, who co-founded the Solar impulse company that built the plane,
flew the Si2 from Abu dhabi, the capital of United arab emirates, to nearby Oman in the first leg of the epic journey.
Both pilots have been training hard for this journey, which will span 25 flight days over five months.
Borschberg has been practicing yoga and Piccard self-hypnosis. Neither pilot will be able to stand in the cockpit while flying
but the seat reclines for stretching and its cushion can be removed for access to a toilet.
if the plane isn't flying level. The SI2 aircraft has a wingspan of 72 meters (236 feet),
spanning larger than a Boeing 747 jumbo jet. At about 2, 300 kilograms (5, 070 pounds), the Si2 weighs about as much as a minivan or mid-sized truck.
which have relied typically on networks of thousands of sales points in airports, post offices and shops.
This is why United airlines and Delta air lines banned bulk lithium battery shipments on passenger planes. When Stanford drilled through its aluminum battery pouch
and territories were decided upon by the TEEP selection committee comprised of some of Africa distinguished industry captains
such as having a pilot on hand to fly the drone at all times. That important, because Amazon wants its Prime Air drones to be autonomous.)
and even drone pilots, too. So. Let say drone delivery actually happens, with Amazon taking the lead.
two of the first ten drone flights were scrapped because of bad weather. Would-be drone delivery services in the United states face complications, too.
or sticker along with a text message and the money, enter in an amount that is currently less than $250 and tap the aybutton.
while future uses may include larger endeavors like hiding ships, aircraft, and convoy vehicles from enemy radar r
Material testing procedures that regularly check for fissures in rail tracks or aircraft support structures also rely on ultrasound.
For example, an unpiloted air vehicle might change shape from one designed for a cruise mission to one designed for a dive.
A new assistive device for blind people taps into this sensory network. It translates images into sounds,
this is accomplished by synchronizing the projector so that as the laser scans a particular plane, the camera accepts light only from that plane.
Alternatively, if other camera hardware is used, the mathematical framework developed by the team can compute energy-efficient codes that optimize the amount of energy that reaches the camera. e have a way of choosing the light rays we want to capture
no faster than 100 mph (161 km h) and remain within the pilot's line of sight, among a raft of other conditions relating to safety and maintenance.
where general aviation begins. It plans to shoot autonomous drones along 10 mi (16 km) long skyways at 50 mph (80.5 km h) with packages weighing up to 55 lb (25 kg) in tow.
#Overview of a Smart Optical Time-of-Flight Sensor Technology With billions of sensors already being deployed in all types of devices and applications,
Combined with the use of visible or infrared LEDS to perform time-of-flight measurements,
Time-of-Flight Principle Leddar sensors use LEDS to generate very short light pulses, typically 100,000 pulses per second.
The time-of-flight (Tof) principle essentially consists in measuring the time taken by a light pulse to travel from the sensor to a remote object
it's in supersonic passenger flight. With the grounding of the Concorde fleets in 2013, flying faster than the speed of sound reverted to a military monopoly,
Now Airbus'Marco Prampolini and Yohann Coraboeuf have been granted a US patent for an"ultra-rapid air vehicle"designed to fly at 20 km (12.4 mi) higher than conventional aircraft and over four times the speed of sound twice the speed of Concorde.
civilian supersonic flight held on by the skin of its teeth. Concorde may have carried the wealthy and glamorous across the Atlantic in under three hours,
and it ended up as a tiny fleet, only flying with British airways and Air france because of French and British government pressure.
According to Airbus, the craft is essentially a flying tanker with most of the fuselage made up of liquid oxygen and ecofriendly liquid hydrogen.
Forward of this is a passenger cabin for 24 people, with the cockpit in the bow.
It's also a very odd looking airplane with a gothic delta wing that gives it a strangely truncated look
and oxygen are burned to keep the aircraft properly trimmed. But what really sets the Airbus dsign apart is its suite of propulsion systems used to keep it aloft.
On a typical flight it would take off like a conventional plane using ordinary turbojet engines, but once in the air, an open door in the stern of the plane reveals a rocket motor.
When this fires, it sends the aircraft into a near vertical trajectory, accelerating it to supersonic speeds.
As the airplane approaches Mach one, the turbojets shut down and retract into the fuselage. On completion of the acceleration phase the plane is now flying at anywhere from Mach 4 to Mach 4. 5 at an altitude of 30,000 to 35,000 m (100,000 to 150
000 ft). The rocket motor shuts down and is concealed again as the aft door slides shut to reduce drag.
A ramjet now kicks in and the aircraft cruises along its flight path and can cover a range of 9, 000 km (5, 600 mi) in three hours the equivalent of Tokyo to Los angeles or Paris to San francisco. Meanwhile,
the wing fuselage design dissipates the sonic shock wave over 110 to 175 km (68 to 109 mi)
and angles it at 11 to 15 degrees so it doesn't reach the ground.
At the end of the journey split flaps reduce speed and the turbojets take over for approach and landing.
Airbus says that the supersonic passenger craft can operate from conventional airports so long as they can supply the cryogenic propellants.
It wouldn't interfere with existing air corridors, would operate in all weather, and only the rocket motor requires special maintenance.
Metal-oxide nanosheets were arranged on a single plane using a magnetic field. The nanosheets were fixed then in place using a process called light-triggered in-situ vinyl polymerization
By fitting its Highway Pilot self-driving system to a Mercedes-benz Actros truck and steering it down a stretch of Autobahn 8 near Stuttgart,
Daimler's Highway Pilot system first debuted on the open road last year aboard the Mercedes-benz Future Truck 2025 a concept vehicle intended to demonstrate what a future of autonomous trucking might look like.
The latest autonomous expedition saw the Highway Pilot system installed and tested in something other than a concept vehicle for the first time.
and Stuttgart with the Highway Pilot system helping guide the way. The system uses a short-range radar that assess the vehicle's surroundings up to 230 ft (70 m) away in a forward-facing 130-degree arc,
Highway Pilot isn't about letting those behind the wheel plonk their feet on the dashboard and snooze their way to their destination.
Daimler likens the system to the autopilot used in aviation, in that the driver must be prepared to take control at any time.
So when a researcher airplane made a wrong turn during a thunderstorm and flew straight into a mile-wide cloud,
Dwyer is now chasing down antimatter by releasing weather balloons and planning more head-on flights into storms h
After measuring both the curvature of particle tracks in the detector's magnetic field and the particles'time of flight
when touching objects including light taps on the mechanical finger and could be a huge breakthrough for prosthetics, according to its makers.
It has helped GE win jet engine orders worth $100 billion so far from airlines looking to shave their huge fuel bills.
NASA wanted to use them in supersonic aircraft. The U s. military hoped they could be used in a new fighter jet.
but they helped advance the research far enough for GE Aviation division to fund more research and development,
Already, today engines employ elaborate cooling mechanisms that divert air for cooling that otherwise would be used to power the plane.
It is winning about 75 percent of the market for planes that size, and CFM has taken orders for 8, 000 of them worth $100 billion.
The first test flight is expected to take off in the next several weeks. t allowing us to do things we never have been able to do,
who manages the LEAP program for GE Aviation division, of the composite. GE says that by 2020,
and even dropped by helicopter in hard-to-reach disaster zones. It has a solar panel to charge the battery,
The protein acts a bit like a tap to increase or reduce the production of natural compounds depending on how much of the protein is present.
The protein acts a bit like a tap to increase or reduce the production of natural compounds depending on how much of the protein is present.
The 3d printed airway splint, shown here in diagrams of how the device was placed into the patients'lungs.
Pin It The airway splint was designed digitally to fit each of the patients. The three infant boys who were implanted with the new device all had the same life-threatening condition a severe form of a disease called tracheobronchomalacia,
Sixteen-month-old Garrett Peterson's airways"were floppy, with the consistency of a wet noodle,
or holding him could cause Garrett's airways to collapse. This happened repeatedly for months."
"The researchers used CT SCANS of the infants to develop 3d printed airway splints whose length, diameter,
to help keep the infants'weakened airways open. An image made from a CT SCAN of one of the patients.
Pin It Images from a patient CT SCAN were used to generate a 3d model of the patient airway."
the devices kept surrounding tissue from pushing in and sealing the airways shut. The devicessplints are made of a material called, polycaprolactone,
The airway splints were hollow and porous, designed to spread open as the children grew.
The researchers followed the growth of the airways over time with CT and MRI scans.
and expanded to allow the airways to grow in all three patients. All the devices are dissolving as expected
their airways usually grow strong enough to overcome the disorder, and their windpipes eventually will have no signs of the disease that nearly killed them as newborns.
The researchers say the airway splints will dissolve slowly enough to help the infants reach this point.
"He's so happy there's no hint of an issue with his airway splint. He's starting to learn to sit up on his own."
target and deter commercial drones could be used to keep the flying robots away from areas where they're not wanted, like government properties, airports or your own backyard.
has ruled that small UAVS cannot be flown within 5 miles of airports and that they must remain below 400 feet (122 meters),
where they are unlikely to interfere with piloted aircraft. But a recent deluge of complaints from pilots
as well as U s. Forest Service employees who have spotted the flying bots near wildfires, has led the FAA to take further action against rule-breaking drone operators.
such as near airports, according to a report by Phys. org. Though the AUDS system doesn't promise to help locate errant drone operators,
so it might be safe to use near airports. The new anti-drone system has been tested in the United kingdom, the United states and France, according to the BBC.
The option to just drop something out of a plane and then totally forget about it hasn't existed, according to DARPA.
and aircraft manufacturing,"said Kim m
#How to save soldiers'lives with fizz One of the biggest challenges for medics on the battlefield is treating blood loss,
the development of new, lighter and stronger materials spanning consumer electronics to aircraft; and faster information searching through large databases e
the team arranged metal-oxide nanosheets into a single plane within a material by using a magnetic field
The nanosheets ended up stuck within the polymer, aligned in a single plane. Due to electrostatic forces, the sheets create electrostatic resistance in one direction but not in the other.
bendable electronics could have many uses, such as monitoring patients'health and keeping tabs on airplanes.
wearable electronics and sensors for monitoring airman health/performance; conformal electronics and antennas for maximizing space efficiency and reducing aerodynamic drag;
Over the last few years, one team of chemists and materials scientists has begun exploring military applications in harsh environments for aircraft, explosive devices and even combatants themselves.
such as an airplane's wing, or even a person's skin. In aircraft applications, Leever explains,
the hybrid flexible system can be used to monitor stresses and strains and report this information through miniature embedded antennas to ground crews or a pilot.
The researchers also are developing the same approach to monitor pilots'health. This involves a biosensor system that can measure heartbeat,
hydration levels, sweat, temperature and other vital signs through miniature circuitry. The system would be embedded on a flexible
wearable patch and would include an antenna to transmit these biometric signals to the pilot or a ground team.
and could detonate the weapon after surviving the initial impact of ground contact after being dropped from aircraft.
on a multilayered film where the magnetic moments are aligned normal to the plane. They used ion beam irradiation to modify the interface between the dots
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,
or the wings of airplanes.""This is the first time anyone has achieved such a broad range of color on a one-layer, thin and flexible surface,"concluded Change-Hasnain."
#Cyborg beetle research allows free-flight study of insects (w/video) Hardwiring beetles for radio-controlled flight turns out to be a fitting way to learn more about their biology.
if tethering interfered with the insect's natural flight motions.""In particular, the researchers said, it had been difficult to elucidate the role that smaller muscles play in fine steering.
"Our wireless system allows us to record neuromuscular movements in natural, free flight, so we see
Six electrodes are connected to the beetle's optic lobes and flight muscles. The entire device is powered by a 3. 9-volt micro lithium battery
"During test flights, signals were transmitted to the beetle backpack every millisecond, directing the beetles to take off, turn left or right,
or even hover in mid-flight. The beetles were untethered but in a closed room equipped with eight 3-D motion-capture cameras."
"In our earlier work using beetles in remote-controlled flight, we showed excellent control of flight initiation and cessation,
but relatively crude control of steering during free flight,"said Maharbiz.""Our findings about the flight muscle allowed us to demonstrate for the first time a higher level of control of free-flying beetles.
It's a great partnership between engineering and science
#Spherical nucleic acids set stage for new paradigm in nanomedicine drug development A research team led by Northwestern University nanomedicine expert Chad A. Mirkin
and Sergei Gryaznov of Aurasense Therapeutics is the first to show spherical nucleic acids (SNAS) can be used as potent drugs to effectively train the immune system to fight disease,
but also in other major industries such as automotive and aviation. Joseph M. Desimone, professor of chemistry at UNC-Chapel hill and of chemical engineering at N c. State, is currently CEO of Carbon3d where he co-invented the method with colleagues Alex Ermoshkin, chief technology officer
The new technology may hold promise for many applications such as for jewelry, automotive interior trim, aviation, signage, colored keypads, electronics and wearable displays s
Photons are wave packets that vibrate in a specific plane the direction of polarization. The state of the qdots determines the direction of polarization of the photon."
Planes are modelled on birds and many drugs have their origins in plants. Researchers at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering have taken it a step further:
and expanded in a plane when a voltage is applied between electrodes. In contrast to actuators based on rigid materials such as silicon, dielectric elastomers can reach a very large extent of stretch, often exceeding 100 percent elongation while not breaking,
Their soft nanoparticles stick to the plane where oil and water meet, but do not stick to one another.
and single-crystal structures of the ac (middle) and ab planes (bottom). Right: Output characteristics of FETS fabricated using the polycrystalline thin films as-coated (top)
#Bio-inspired eye stabilizes robot's flight without need for an accelerometer Biorobotics researchers at the Institut des Sciences du Mouvement-Etienne-Jules Marey (CNRS/Aix-Marseille
All aircraft, from drones to the Ariane launcher, are equipped currently with an inertial measurement unit,
This allows these aircraft to stabilize their roll and pitch with respect to the horizon or rather with respect to its perpendicular:
An accelerometer measures all the accelerations of the aircraft including gravity, which is directed always toward the center of the Earth.
A person taps the tablet to control where the beam of light appears on a floor. The swarm robots then roll toward the illumination,
A person taps the tablet to control where the beam of light appears on a floor. The swarm robots then roll toward the illumination,
and a plane. The team measured the forces the robot exerted to maneuver the rod into the desired orientations,
Layered sheets of graphene keep their properties in-plane, but exhibit little stiffness or thermal conductance from sheet to sheet,
which will guide how scientists and engineers build aircraft components, for example. The research, led by Jianwei (John) Miao,
the development of new, lighter and stronger materials spanning consumer electronics to aircraft; and faster information searching through large databases s
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.
uses jets of liquid nitrogen to nap-freezebrain tissue down to-90oc, within milliseconds. The brain tissue here was mouse cerebral cortex.
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
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.
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,
And because the extremely thin buffer layer allows light to be emitted in the plane of the wafer
when they introduced the proteins to the tomatoes they acted like opening a tap to boost levels of a group of antioxidants called phenylpropanoids
Jumping on a plane to Kathmandu is a bad idea. Giving money to reputable aid organizations is much better,
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.
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,
#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,
such as watching a movie on an airplane, the glasses look to enrich content in a way no other streaming service currently does.
or pilots could be tested for recent drug use. Further down the line, Arrogen is hoping to be able to use its finely tuned procedures to create full prints out of partial ones,
the academics working on the project have to set up a pilot test that proves their theories correct on a large scale.
no change in infrastructure will be needed to power big fuel-guzzlers such as ships, planes, and long-haulage trucks.
which racers with disabilities pilot advanced assistive devices. racks are excellent for this use case
to test a pilot hybrid earthquake warning system comprising stand-alone smartphone sensors and scientific-grade sensors along the Chilean coast."
#Taking aircraft manufacturing out of the oven Aerospace engineers at MIT have developed now a carbon nanotube (CNT) film that can heat
The group tested the film on a common carbon-fiber material used in aircraft components,
"Typically, if you're going to cook a fuselage for an Airbus a350 or Boeing 787, you've got about a four-story oven that's tens of millions of dollars in infrastructure that you don't need,
mainly for deicing airplane wings. The team recognized that in addition to their negligible weight, carbon nanotubes heat efficiently
In experiments, Wardle and his team integrated the film into airplane wings via conventional, oven-based curing methods,
In initial experiments, the researchers investigated the film's potential to fuse two types of aerospace-grade composite typically used in aircraft wings and fuselages.
"The team is working with industrial partners to find ways to scale up the technology to manufacture composites large enough to make airplane fuselages and wings."
"Gregory Odegard, a professor of computational mechanics at Michigan Technological University, says the group's carbon nanotube film may go toward improving the quality and efficiency of fabrication processes for large composites, such as wings on commercial aircraft.
It could be integrated with existing Wi-fi systems to reduce bandwidth problems in crowded locations, such as airport terminals or coffee shops,
such as airport terminals or coffee shops, and in homes where several people have multiple Wifi devices. Experts say that recent advances in LED TECHNOLOGY have made it possible to modulate the LED light more rapidly,
as we can easily install this system into a drone, airplane, or satellite to detect plant photosynthesis on a large scale to assess ecosystem health,
this is accomplished by synchronizing the projector so that as the laser scans a particular plane, the camera accepts light only from that plane.
Alternatively if other camera hardware is used, the mathematical framework developed by the team can compute energy-efficient codes that optimize the amount of energy that reaches the camera.
Arraytheir medical diagnostics device is designed to harness centrifugal force--akin to the circular swing of A chair-o-Plane"carnival ride
"Our pilot study brings us a step closer toward realizing this vision, "said Neugebauer. The team will continue toward its goal of developing an easy-to-use spectroscopy-based point-of-care medical device for fast and reliable diagnostics."
an airplane or a farming tool and appreciate the durable layers protecting its parts. But depositing this covering is an essential manufacturing step that allows machines to function with repeated use."
and frosting on aircraft wings.""This represents a fundamentally new concept in engineered surfaces, "said Tak-Sing Wong, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and a faculty member in the Penn State Materials Research Institute."
which will guide how scientists and engineers build aircraft components, for example. The research, led by Jianwei (John) Miao,
the development of new, lighter and stronger materials spanning consumer electronics to aircraft; and faster information searching through large databases s
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