and carbon dioxide into food for themselves and into oxygen for animals to breathe. It perhaps the most important biochemical process On earth and scientists don yet fully understand how it works.
And the main ingredient, graphite, is mined and sold by the ton. Penn State and Shinshu University in Japan have applied for a joint patent on the process.
The chemical stew that makes it possible is a mix of copper nitrate, phosphorous acid, hydrogen fluoride, and water.
When the electrodes are pressed together the polymer oozes into the tiny pores in much the same way that melted cheese soaks into the nooks and crannies of the bread in a panini.
NASA ESA and G. Bacon (STSCL) via U. Chicago) The researchers describe their work as an important milestone on the road to identifying potentially habitable Earthlike planets beyond our Solar system.
another process to use the leftover cellulose to make a composite materialmoon says. he cellulose crystals are more difficult to break down into sugars to make liquid fuel.
Alpha-chitin appears to have similar mechanical properties as cellulose. his material is also abundant renewable and waste of the food industryhe says.
and droughts which would impact our food crops in part by affecting the structures of their RNA molecules
#How food can build better lithium batteries Cornell University rightoriginal Studyposted by Anne Ju-Cornell on October 29 2013a component of corn starch
and GD 61 had the ingredients to deliver lots of water to their surfaces. ur results demonstrate that there was definitely potential for habitable planets in this exoplanetary system
and copper salts are used often to detect vapors because they change color in the presence of solvents.
and one of the authors of the study currently working in Professor Singh s laboratory. his means that not only should we be able to avoid the ugly bread
#Earth s wobble fixes food for ocean creatures Princeton university rightoriginal Studyposted by Catherine Zandonella-Princeton on September 16 2013the cyclic wobble of the Earth on its axis controls the production of ixednitrogen
#Clay supercapacitors built to handle extreme heat Researchers have used cheap and abundant clay as a key ingredient in a supercapacitor that can operate at very high temperatures.
At the start of that pathway is salicylic acid precursor of the active ingredient in aspirin which is used by plants as a hormone to trigger development
In the current transport and storage-based food system senescence after harvest whittles away at fruit and vegetable quality.
A key ingredient The landslide scenario explains several of the distinct features of DLES the researchers say.
and Head thinking that ice could be a key ingredient for making a DLE. Ice would reduce the coefficient of friction on the slopes of crater rims increasing the likelihood of a slide.
for food and beer. Researchers have discovered that the gene Rph20 provides resistance to leaf rust in some barley variety adult plants.
But for areas like North africa and Southwest asia it is a food staple, he says. Using field trials in Australia
which millions of people depend on for food. The researchers selected the resistance gene Sr35 for its immunity to Ug99 and related races.
Sr35 was known to be present in the wheat species Triticum monococcum a close relative of pasta and bread wheat.
It is supported by the US Department of agriculture#s National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Additional researchers from UC Davis Department of Plant sciences the USDA-ARS Cereal Disease Laboratory and Kansas State university also contributed to the study.
Some of the whales engaged in deep feeding stopped eating and either sped up or moved away from the source of the noise.
Among crop plants pollination means food.##Understanding this molecular back-and-forth at all the different levels and stages will be useful to either engineer the process
The process for creating Portland cement a key ingredient in modern concrete requires fossil fuels to burn calcium carbonate (limestone) and clays at about 1450 degrees Celsius (2642 degrees Fahrenheit.
#Secret ingredient: Volcanic ashconcrete was the Roman empire#s construction material of choice. It was used in monuments such as the Pantheon in Rome as well as in wharves breakwaters and other harbor structures.
The recipe for Roman concrete was described around 30 BC by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio an engineer for Octavian who became Emperor Augustus. The not-so-secret ingredient is volcanic ash
temperature and pressure the three main ingredients of weather forecasting of Earth atmosphere. The sensors are attached to satellites designed to only last a few years.
The solution might be the Biolite stove-it's a collapsible wood-burning cook stove that uses almost any forest-found fuel
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and clips to the exterior when removed to create a cook stove that is 7. 5 inches tall, 4. 75 inches in diameter,
and dung stoves by distributing these cook stoves and monitoring the drop in air pollution and respiratory irritation in the next two years.
the researchers came up with a magnetic sensor the size of a sugar cube that is also cheaper to manufacture
To mimic the wavelike peristaltic motions that move food along the digestive tract, the membrane is attached to the side walls of the chamber that stretch
they're not just for eating, anymore. Chitin, one of the main components of their exoskeletons, has recently found use in things such as self-healing car paint, biologically-compatible transistors, flu virus filters,
and finding enough food for it shouldn't be a problem...chitin is the second-most common biopolymer on earth,
and get a bit of food when it feels like it. Levy even claims that the cows learn how to use the system faster than the farmers do.
the trough can automatically dispense food, minerals, supplements, and liquids to suit each cow. As the trough swings clear at the end of milking,
which is one reason why the continent tends to produce less food despite its natural resources.
But in June 2014 the Food and Drug Administration approved the aptly named Freedom Driver.
He works with therapists to sustain his mobility with the Freedom Driver onboard is on a number of blood-thinning medications and eats low sodium meals.
Imagine a future version of Facebook where instead of posting photos of your lunch on your wall you have a Second life-like avatar
#DNATRAX tracks tainted food with molecular bar code According to the US Center for disease control (CDC) 129000 Americans are sent to hospital and 3000 die each year from food poisoning.
and detective work but Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers in partnership with DNATREK have developed DNATRAX a DNA-based additive for directly tracking food from producer to consumer.
and then subjected to DNA analysis. The application of food tracking was unexpected an bonus. DNATRAX is surprisingly simple.
It's an odorless tasteless substance that's classified as a harmless food additive by the US Food and Drug Administration.
It's made of strands of nonliving and nonviable DNA encased in sugars similar to common icing sugar.
Applying DNATRAX is simply a matter of spraying it on fruits vegetables and meats or mixing it in with bulk commodities like honey olive oil flour or rice.
Aside from tracking down contaminated food LLNL says that DNATRAX can also help combat food piracy.
but piracy is actually a major problem for almost all commerce including food. Called wastage grocery shelves are invaded constantly by everything from fake corn flakes to counterfeit honey selling under false labels to adulterated wines
and olive oils mixing the premium with the cheap stuff. Since such label swapping and adulteration does not occur where the food is produced
but somewhere down the line DNATRAX can identify fraudulent foods as well as how many adulterants have been added how much
and where they came from. Another application that LLNL is looking at is protective clothing.
With the current Ebola outbreak tracking contamination in anti-contamination suits is vital so the researchers see DNATRAX as a safe way of assessing how well current suits are performing.
We are prepared not to deal with an outbreak of pathogens such as E coli and salmonella in tainted foods.
However DNATRAX is a quick and efficient way to stop these foods from sickening more people
#Gelatin Nanoparticles could Deliver Drugs to your Brain Stroke victims could have more time to seek treatment that could reduce harmful effects on the brain thanks to tiny blobs of gelatin that could deliver the medication to the brain non-invasively.
University of Illinois researchers and colleagues in South korea led by U. of I. electrical and computer engineering senior research scientist Hyungsoo Choi and professor Kyekyoon#Kevin#Kim published details about the gelatin
The researchers found that gelatin nanoparticles could be laced with medications for delivery to the brain
Gelatin is biocompatible biodegradable and classified as#Generally Recognized as Safe#by the Food and Drug Administration.
Once administered the gelatin nanoparticles target damaged brain tissue thanks to an abundance of gelatin-munching enzymes produced in injured regions.
Illinois professor Kyekyoon#Kevin#Kim graduate student Elizabeth Joachim and researchscientist Hyungsoo Choi developed tiny gelatin nanoparticles that can carry medicationto the brain which could lead to longer
The tiny gelatin particles have a huge benefit: They can be administered nasally a noninvasive and direct route to the brain.
#To test gelatin nanoparticles as a drug-delivery system the researchers used the drug osteopontin (OPN)
By lacing gelatin nanoparticles with OPN the researchers found that they could extend the treatment window in rats so much
The researchers hope the gelatin nanoparticles administered through the nasal cavity can help deliver other drugs to more effectively treat a variety of brain injuries and neurological diseases.#
#Gelatin nanoparticles are a delivery vehicle that could be used to deliver many therapeutics to the brain#Choi said.#
tailors and so on) become places to consume food, beer and goods produced in factories far away. To take one indicative example:
If patients say, good at making soy soup, but forget ingredients, guide them step by step, she advised.
Otherwise, hey may make it into salt soup, and everyone will say, h, this is terrible, you stop doing it.
Even the youngest are enlisted. Mr. Kwak, the local government official, arranges for nursery school classes to play games with nursing home patients,
bringing tofu. his is very soft, like the brain, he said, letting it crash down.
he said, with exercise, ot drinking too much sugar, and saying, addy, don drink so much because it not good for dementia.
But when y mother asked him to get ingredients for curry rice he came back with mayonnaise,
she said. And one day, Mr. Cha, 74, a retired subway official, could not find his way home. was like,
and snatched lunchtime sandwiches, but when Orange head of mobile payments, Jason Rees, calls it he beginning of a new order he not wrong.
#FTC Proposes Stricter Guidelines on Food Ads for Children The Federal trade commission has proposed sweeping new guidelines that could push the food industry to overhaul how it advertises cereal, soda pop, snacks, restaurant meals and other foods to children.
regulators are taking aim at a range of tactics used to market foods high in sugar,
Regulators are asking food makers and restaurant companies to make a choice: make your products healthier
or stop advertising them to youngsters. oucan Sam can sell healthy food or junk food, said Dale Kunkel,
a communications professor at the University of Arizona who studies the marketing of children food. his forces Toucan Sam to be associated with healthier products.
The guidelines, released by the Federal trade commission, encompass a broad range of marketing efforts, including television and print ads, Web sites,
online games that act as camouflaged advertisements, social media, product placements in movies, the use of movie characters in cross-promotions and fast-food children meals.
Ronald Mcdonald and the movie and television characters used to promote food. It also raises the question of
a lawyer with the trade commission. he goal is to encourage children to eat more healthy foods
Scott Faber, a vice president of the Grocery Manufacturers Association, a group that represents food makers,
said that ads for packaged foods on television shows aimed at children 2 to 11 had dropped significantly since 2004,
and that the ads more often showed healthier types of foods. He said companies had changed also many recipes to reduce salt,
sugar and fat and add healthful ingredients like whole grains. he rate of reformulation is going to increase,
not as a result of the principles that were announced today but because consumers are demanding changes in the marketplace,
Many food companies participate in an industry-led effort, the Children Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative,
The guidelines were created at the request of Congress and written by the commission, the Food and Drug Administration, the Agriculture department and the Centers for Disease Control.
The guidelines call for foods that are advertised to children to meet two basic requirements. They would have to include certain healthful ingredients, like whole grains, fresh fruits and vegetables
or low-fat milk. And they could not contain unhealthful amounts of sugar, saturated fat, trans fat and salt.
The sugar requirement would limit cereals to eight grams of added sugar a serving, far less than many popular cereals have today.
Froot Loops and Cap Crunch, for example, contain 12 grams of sugar a serving. The salt restrictions are particularly stringent,
and many packaged foods on the shelves today would have a hard time meeting them. In an initial phase in period,
the guidelines call for many foods to have no more than 210 milligrams of sodium a serving,
while main dishes and meals, including both restaurant food and packaged food, could have no more than 450 milligrams.
Today, a 15-ounce can of Chef Boyardee beef ravioli has two servings, with 750 milligrams of sodium per serving.
The sodium restrictions would get tougher over time. The federal agencies acknowledged that a arge percentage of food products currently in the marketplace would not meet the principles.
The guidelines would apply to both young children and teenagers. The industry has said it should have greater leeway for teenagers,
vast amounts of new data are being generated about the complicated path that food takes from field to supermarket shelf.
whom they received a food product and to whom they sent it. Theyl have to maintain that information in digital form,
one step backtraceability requirement for processed food and produce is designed to make it easier for the Food and Drug Administration to identify the source of an outbreak of foodborne illness,
The new requirement represents a major adjustment for some parts of the nation food system as the government imposes standards
Many in the food business already are using traceability technology, mostly relying on bar codes that can be affixed after harvesting to a piece of fruit or a crate.
which covers food other than meat, poultry and egg products. They are competing to develop the tracking technology
former assistant commissioner for food protection at the FDA. omebody is probably going to make a bundle of money out of this.
and adopting it to the food business. He said traceability helps not only with safety but also allows companies to hold their partners along the chain accountable for moving food quickly
and avoiding spoilage. t about allowing people to make more intelligent decisions by providing accurate,
But according to a 2009 investigation by the Department of health and human services inspector general, most food facilities surveyed did not meet those requirements
who are interested increasingly in the way food is produced. Harvestmark, based in California, has developed a two-dimensional bar code sticker that can be placed on individual fruits and vegetables or packaging.
and enter the number from the sticker to learn the path the food has taken and other information the farmer chooses to share,
said Elliott Grant, the chief marketing officer for Harvestmark. ith very high-profile food recalls, cellphones and iphones,
Not only does the technology provide information about the food, but it also allows the consumer to send a comment to the farmer,
It about using technology to put people back in touch with the people who grow their food.
After some funny tests, like asking the suspected bot what the main ingredient in tomato soup was concluded,
and required that we all attend##Wiener Wagon Fridays##at a local hot dog stand. The Wiener Wagon special was piled a chili dog with Fritos.
#At lunch, eating teriyaki chicken out of a styrofoam container from the deli by the bus station felt like heaven compared with the slog of the day.
for that to happen, people would have to ignore how their telemarketing sausage was made.####I think this is the way it all should be done,
##We need to get the entire universe here to accept how the sausage is made. But once you do that, the entire experience for inbound or outbound, it s better.##
a browser feature that s supposed to dissuade websites from tracking internet use with cookies.
Of course, we now know those same cookies can be hijacked by the NSA. And all over the world,
Kayser cut open a soup can, sliced and bent its sides into fan blades, attached the creation to a spinning DC motor,
#Scientists create electrode that lets you taste virtual food on your tongue The same research team is also working on a digital lollipop.
but also with food. What if such an experience was a reality? What if you could
not only interact with food in a virtual environment, but also actually#taste#it? Scientists at the National University of Singapore have developed a new electrode that could be the first step in making that happen.
In addition to gaming applications, such a device could also allow you to taste dishes on a cooking show.
and being able to test her pasta primavera before preparing it yourself. The electrode could even be used to simulate sugary treats for people with diabetes.
a non-stop sugar rush, without the sugar. Just call it the ultimate diet cheat. Of course, the team still needs to take into account that taste isn t just something that happens with the taste buds.
Both smell and texture play a part in how we perceive what we re eating.
You have convenient metro systems, plenty of#gourmet dining choices#and endless shopping destinations. But with all that activity comes a whole lot of noise pollution.
now many implementations including Flapjax, Bacon JS, and Elm are gaining popularity for front-end development.
#instant beef!##For now, it is focusing on synthetic meat made with 3d printers.####Artificial food seems to have a particular attraction for young tech barons,
If you think that##nutrient fluid-grown##synthetic beef is a revolting concept that will never take off, you re partly right:
But think of frozen meals and TV DINNERS. You probably had one yesterday, but what would your#grandparents#have had to say about them?##
#And what about the##pink slime##that was recently found to be a key ingredient in#Mcdonald s#burgers?
and grew beef muscle cells from which that##Googleburger##was made.##The Economist#did a story on that event of a kind.
at the ethical implications of synthetic beef is presented in this report in#The Mirror. The rating from this front is a big thumbs up.
##Meat will become a luxury food and will become very expensive, ##Professor Post said. That#Economist#story also mentions that the##world s appetite for meat is forecast to rise by 70%by 2050.
##How will anticipated the food shortfall be made up?#####One possible (and grossly revolting) solution was tabled in the Sci-fi classic#Soylent Green.
Suddenly, 3d printed beef doesn t sound too bad!##Indeed, synthetic meat was foreseen decades back by visionaries like Aldous Huxley in#Brave New world#and Robert Heinlein instranger in a Strange Land.
Second, it will be sent to areas of food crises and famines engendering the PR-written headlines,##Synthetic Meat Saves Thousands of Starving Children!##
teachers and parents how to convert the packaging and drinking straws leftover from lunch. If we were to use only the world s plastic waste rather than oil from oil fields,
Cook said, or too many of our friends and family, life has been cut short or the quality of their life is too often lacking.
to juice, to vegetables, to beer, to soup, and much more. Transporting water is expensive,
For the nonprofit, conserving America rivers meant growing America barley, one of the primary ingredients in one of our favorite cold beverages, with less water.
Honeybees pollinate nearlyone-third of the food we eat but they have been dying at unprecedented rates because of a mysterious phenomenon known as colony collapse disorder (CCD).
#New LED light technology sheds light on the future of food LED growing lights, delivering sunlight whatever the weather.
This century, the challenges of growing enough food to feed the world have grown more severe.
There is potential for these multifunctional techno-greenhouses built around LED grow lights to increase the quality of the food we eat
one of our most fundamental emotions and the by-product of evolution's early need to prevent an organism from eating foods that could harm that organism.
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Now, the100-lb. lap dog tags along on cottage getaways, hangs out at backyard barbeques, and listened to him explain the rules of soccer during the FIFA World cup.
Eventually, printing clothes is going to be as easy as ordering a burger and fries from your smart watch.
That chunk of plastic, produced from unexpectedly simple ingredients, proved to be tremendously hard and stable.
as it and other technologies are integrated into our dishes and glassware to help us keep tabs on our diets.
Just don t let my insurance company see my proclivities for booze and deep dish pizza. I'll need solid coverage for my impending heart attack.
controlling what food is eaten and when, modifying physical activity, and the use of pumps or injections to deliver insulin
and regulating sugar levels in the blood. Every 5 minutes, a signal is sent wirelessly from a glucose monitor under the user s skin to an iphone app,
Before eating, people can input data about the type and size of their meal. The artificial pancreas performed well in#hospital-based clinical trials in 2010.
Both the highs and lows of sugar levels were controlled better than what the participants were able to do managing their own diabetes prior to the trial,
and ate a banana for breakfast without fear of not enough time having passed between insulin injection
and next year will lay the path for the device to be approved by the US Food and Drug Administration With any luck,
Nearly all the students in his middle school are eligible for free or reduced school lunches. Higuera s been trialling Classcraft for the past 4 months
and helps regulate the body response to sugars process that goes awry in type 2 diabetes.
The HCPVT system uses a large parabolic dish, made from a multitude of mirror facets, which is attached to a tracking system that determines the best angle based on the position of the sun. Such system can be applied profitably in sunny regions where sustainable energy,
And this is Airhelp secret sauce every time the company goes through the compensation process it takes a 25 percent cut.
Sensors, Food, Automation and Engineering. Sensors help agriculture by enabling real-time traceability and diagnosis of crop, livestock and farm machine states.
Food may benefit directly from genetic tailoring and potentially from producing meat directly in a lab. Automation will help agriculture via large-scale robotic
Food Genetically designed food: The creation of entirely new strains of food animals and plants in order to better address biological and physiological needs.
A departure from genetically modified food, genetically designed food would be engineered from the ground up. Scientifically viable in 2016;
food and water in order to support life-forms inhabiting the system. Such systems already exist in small scales,
produce energy, provide food, and maintain and enhance human health and our environment. Scientifically viable in 2013;
#$150 smartphone spectrometer can tell the number of calories in your food If you wanted to look up the calorie content of a specific food you are eating you could take it to a lab and run it through a spectrometer.
But accurate spectrometers are huge, expensive machines that are owned often only by institutions and require training to use.
Consumer Physics has developed three different applications for identifying food, medicines, and plants. During a short demo,
I saw the module return the percentage of fat and number of calories per 100 grams of cheese.
or deliver food and medical supplies to disaster areas. As the science advances, it becoming increasingly possible to dispatch robots into war zones alongside or instead of human soldiers.
A gelatin-based ink acts as extracellular matrixhe structural mix of proteins and other biological molecules that surrounds cells in the body.
Two other inks contained the gelatin material and either mouse or human skin cells. All these inks are viscous enough to maintain their structure after being laid down by the printer.
when driving a car, cycling, eating with Chinese sticks or playing sports or instruments, he explains. n contrast,
Reaping the Benefits of Cover crops (Op-Ed) Margaret Mellon is a senior scientist for food and the environment at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS.
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