-and-a-half football fields (about 905 feet or 375 meters) to achieve the world record title before landing gently in the sparkling water of Quebec's Lake Ouareau.
#First-Ever Face recognition ATM Comes to China Some Chinese inventors have been developing high-tech innovations for everyday objects everything from umbrellas to a robot that delivers food to restaurant patrons
which millions of devout Pakistanis abstain from food and drink from sunrise to sunset. Under Pakistani law
#Scanner Tells You What's In Food, Vitamins, Jewelry Devotees of the Star trek sci-fi franchise will be familiar with the ubiquitous tricorder,
For instance, out-of-the-box apps planned for release will allow users to scan food for nutritional value.
or how many grams of sugar in a milkshake. You can use it to determine what exactly is inside your nutritional supplement
track our diets, and record our slumber. Soon they may become a leading weapon in the global fight against disease.
the team let each of them duel in a lab dish with Staphylococcus aureus, a cause of serious skin and respiratory infections.
which the group named teixobactin, was not toxic to human cells in a dish. And it showed other qualities of a good antibiotic,
On bacteria growing in lab dishes, it outperformed vancomycin, a drug long relied upon to treat the obstinate methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), by a factor of 100,
However most of the galaxies in the universe are shaped pancake disc galaxies such as lenticular galaxies and our own spiral Milky way.
In the US and UK only about half of aluminium drinks cans are recycled so recovery of these alone could make mining viable.
NASA's Cassini spacecraft flew through the geysers and detected water salts and carbon-based molecules.
which would let nutrients from the surface make their way into the liquid ocean. It looks promising
which is rich in nutrients. Both findings boost hopes that the sea hosts life. The result comes hot on the heels of the discovery late last year that a second icy moon Europa
and are known to contain both salts and organic compounds. They make an attractive target for exploration as a craft could potentially fly through them to take samples much simpler than landing on a moon.
I'd say the data are equivocal at the moment says John Mustard of Brown University in Providence Rhode island.
To have India executing a successful orbiter mission would be great for space science says Mustard d
#Crack a comet to spawn the ingredients of life Some of the key ingredients for life may have been shocked into existence.
whether life or its ingredients could have travelled to Earth on the back of a comet or asteroid.
(which is also carrying fresh food supplies and a talking humanoid robot). Known as Cubesats each mini satellite packs an array of devices including cameras spectrometers and a Geiger counter into a cube just 10 centimetres to a side.
and you had been on the planet you would have been able to drink it says rover project scientist John Grotzinger.
More importantly they found calcium sulphate salts which form in non-acidic water. They also found sulphur dioxide and hydrogen sulphide two forms of sulphur that have lost respectively
and objective performance metrics Sociometric can pinpoint areas where management can build more productive offices in ways as surprising as providing larger lunch tables or moving coffee stations to increase interaction.
Longer lunch tables better outcomesover the years Sociometric has had some surprising findings. Waber points to his firm s work with a major online travel company.
But they saw that in the cafeteria certain people only sat with three other people (at four-seat tables)
Surprisingly after this finding went public some technology firms began installing larger cafeteria tables Waber says.
It s crazy that something as trivial as physical space as the size of the lunch table could affect productivity Waber says.
In addition the bacteria could potentially be designed to live in the human digestive tract to monitor someone s dietary intake such as how much sugar
in order to develop today s ETADVANCED so the secret ingredients of the technology are safe. The joke I like to tell is:
Our system is very simple Alexander-Katz says similar to the way in which bacteria locate nutrients they need.
The ions ejected by Velsquez-Garc a s prototype are produced from an ionic salt that s liquid at room temperature.
Increasing an array s ion current is a matter of regulating the flow of the ionic salt up the emitters sides.
This work goes a long way to squeezing the last drop of ethanol from sugar adds Gerald Fink an MIT professor of biology member of the Whitehead Institute and the paper s other senior author.
This discovery will have direct applications in commercial processes for alcohol production from high concentrations of sugar.
#Yanik s group tested about 100 lipidoids that had performed not well in tests of RNA delivery in cells grown in a lab dish.
and sugars produced as the byproducts of metabolic processes. What we found was that this really interesting signature fell out as predicting pancreatic cancer diagnosis which was elevation in these three branched chain amino acids:
but when the muscles contract, hey stretch that ball into a pancake, and use that to change color.
When the parasites infect red blood cells they feed on the nutrient-rich hemoglobin carried by the cells.
There is a magic sauce in the mechanical design that forms the leg system that can be actuated with one motor Rus says.
while its food ads elicited the least helping predict short-term sales of these products. In that study some 1500 participants from the United states and Europe viewed more than 200 ads to track their emotional responses
She then scavenged the lab for common objects such as a box of cookies a soda bottle and a football.
A room is packed with 100 wine glasses each filled with a different level of wine to ensure a different resonant frequency.
if you have a complex action like making tea or making coffee that has some subactions we can basically stitch together these subactions
and look at each one as something like verb adjective and adverb. On that analogy the rules defining relationships between subactions are like rules of grammar.
When you make tea for instance it doesn t matter whether you first put the teabag in the cup or put the kettle on the stove.
because they resemble the fatty droplets that circulate in the blood after a high-fat meal is consumed. he liver is a natural destination for nanoparticles,
has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat pancreatic cancer and some types of lung cancer.
and won they had shifted focus to the food and beverage industry. Cambrian successfully piloted its first system in 2010 and then, over 14 months, from 2011 to 2012
But for applications where heat is desired the output whether for heating buildings, cooking, or powering heat-based industrial processes this could provide an opportunity for the expansion of solar power into new realms. t could change the game,
For example, in large parts of the world the primary cooking fuel is wood or dung
Solar cooking could alleviate that and since people often cook while the sun isn out,
and food can pose safety risks and cost governments and private companies hundreds of billions of dollars annually.
and express an adhesion molecule called JAM-B that helps them connect with the other cells they need to communicate with.
They provide food and fuel, release the oxygen that we breathe, and add beauty to our surroundings.
and uses it to power the second stage of photosynthesis building sugars. Chloroplasts can still perform these reactions
It quenches the ability of microbes to chase food Stocker says and it helps microbes find surfaces.
The new findings could also be important for studies of microbial marine ecosystems by affecting how bacteria move in search of nutrients
Free ride Vaccines made of protein or sugar fragments, also known as subunit vaccines, have been successful against a few diseases, such as hepatitis and diphtheria.
To receive approval from the Food and Drug Administration, a company typically has to enroll 800 patients to demonstrate that a drug is effective during a Phase III clinical trial;
According to the theoretical limit, the minimum time a bouncing droplet can stay in contact with a surface first spreading out into a pancake-like shape,
if this would hold true in tumors in living animals as well as cells grown in a lab dish.
A nonobvious combination The potential combination of cisplatin and MK2 inhibitors is unlike other chemotherapy combinations that have been approved by the Food
just as they would in a hot cooking pan. Now, MIT researchers have come up with a way to cool hot surfaces more effectively by keeping droplets from bouncing.
which the Food and Drug Administration has approved for human use coated with peptides (short proteins) that are specialized to interact with thrombin.
and recently earned clearance from the Food and Drug Administration as a medical device deemed safe and effective for commercial distribution in the United states. It also recently received designation as a product meeting European union standards of health, safety,
#Decoding sugar addiction Together, obesity and Type 2 diabetes rank among our nation greatest health problem,
and they largely result from what many call an ddictionto sugar. But solving this problem is complicated more than solving drug addiction,
because it requires reducing the drive to eat unhealthy foods without affecting the desire to eat healthy foods when hungry.
and shown that inhibiting a previously unknown brain circuit that regulates compulsive sugar consumption does not interfere with healthy eating. or the first time,
we have identified how the brain encodes compulsive sugar seeking and wee also shown that it appears to be distinct from normal,
adaptive eating, says senior author Kay Tye, a principle investigator at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory who previously developed novel techniques for studying brain circuitry in addiction
noninvasive approaches to avert maladaptive eating behaviors, first in mice and eventually in people. Drug addiction is defined as compulsive drug-seeking despite adverse consequences at school
But food is a natural reward and, unlike a drug, is necessary for survival, so it has been unclear
that compulsive sugar consumption is mediated by a different neural circuit than physiological, healthy eating. For the study, Tye and her graduate student Edward Nieh focused on the connections between the VTA and the lateral hypothalamus (LH),
Mice naturally love sucrose similar to humans loving sugar-rich sodas so Nieh trained mice to seek out sucrose at a delivery port upon hearing
Activating the projections led to compulsive sucrose-eating and increased overeating in mice that were full.
but did not prevent mice that were hungry from eating regular chow. hat was exciting
because we have the recording data to show how this compulsive sugar-seeking happens, Nieh says,
and pantomiming the motions of bringing a food nugget to the mouth and chewing it.
In December, GCS started selling cooking stoves with insulation that retains more heat than traditional cookers used in the region.
These stoves, Wu says, cook twice as fast, with half the charcoal. Moreover, Wu says,
and entrepreneurs are getting money to put food on the table. Wee doing good through business.
or a bike-powered butter churner that couldn find a market. But GCS is now furthering development on a motorized multicrop thresher eveloped by a team of students that the Bill
and the machine would jam, coming to a sudden halt and putting stress on the threads,
After that, the Gates Foundation took interest. t wasn just a pie-in-the-sky idea anymore ee really treating patients
when refined, yields a higher fraction of lower-value products such as asphalt along with solid chunks of waste called coke.
o there a lot of interest in finding alternative processes for converting low-quality crude oil into valuable fuels with less residual coke and for removing the sulfur efficiently
and forming less waste coke. But no one has understood exactly how it happens or how to optimize the process.
in the SCW experiments, less of the carbon goes into heavy compounds that are likely to lead to coke formation.
clear liquid consistent with coke suppression by the SCW. To further clarify the chemical reactions and how they are affected by temperature, pressure,
and eventually become coke. But in the presence of water, it reacts with the water,
Green says. nd our empirical data show that the new SCW method does make less coke than the conventional process,
and approved by the Food and Drug Administration as a food additive, and polylactic acid, a biodegradable plastic used in compostable cups and glassware.
In that case, both the plastic and the oil-based sauce are hydrophobic and interact together.
to replace the widespread use of organic solvents for everything from decaffeinating coffee to making paint thinners.
Just as the invention of nonstick pans was a boon for chefs, a new type of nanoscale surface that bacteria can't stick to holds promise for applications in the food processing, medical and even shipping industries.
Coffee, apple juice, and Vitamin c: things that people ingest every day are experimental material for chemist Eva-Maria Felix.
"She preferred not to use cyanide, formaldehyde, arsenic and heavy metal salts. She was inspired by a journal article by researchers who achieved silver precipitation using coffee.
Felix also used coffee in her first experiments. She then tested apple juice, followed by Vitamin c.
This seemed to be suited the best to her because"you never know what's in coffee and apple juice."
"On the other hand, Vitamin c-or ascorbic acid-is available in pure form from chemical stores-a requirement for reproducible studies.
But what does the vitamin have to do with the precipitation of gold? In the human body, Vitamin c makes free radicals harmless by transferring electrons to them."
them last many hours longer before they run out of juice. The problem? Silicon electrodes aren't very durable#after a few dozen recharges they can no longer hold electricity.
which allows small molecules and salts to flow through without any trouble. Larger molecules, like MESSENGER RNA, can only pass
Making the solid-state device is just like making a sandwich just with ultra high-tech semiconductor tools used to slice
and stack the atomic-sized layers of meats and cheeses like the butcher shop's block.
First they made a sandwich composed of two metal electrodes separated by a two-nanometer thick insulating layer (a single nanometer is 10000 times smaller than a human hair) made by using a semiconductor technology called atomic layer deposition.
Then a hole is cut through the sandwich: DNA bases inside the hole are read as they pass the gap between the metal layers.
However the U s. Food and Drug Administration has approved now the use of iron-oxide nanoparticles in humans.
It turns out that previous tests indicating that some nanoparticles can damage our DNA may have been skewed by inadvertent light exposure in the lab. Nanoparticles made of titanium dioxide are a common ingredient in paint
and even within it (in foodstuffs such as salad dressings to make them appear whiter). It is well known that in the presence of light and water,
The potentially lifesaving treatment comes in the form of a biodegradable gelatin substance that has been embedded with nano-sized silicate discs that aid in coagulation.
much like ketchup being squeezed from a bottle. This change allows the hydrogel to be injected and regain its shape once inside the body,
and release a cocktail of drugs to destroy them from within. The approach is more precise than conventional methods
and tightly targeted than traditional drug cocktails. So far in vivo testing in mice has shown that this approach produces significant accumulation of drugs in tumor sites instead of healthy organs.
'Nanodaisies'deliver drug cocktail to cancer cell o
#A billion holes can make a battery Researchers at the University of Maryland have invented a single tiny structure that includes all the components of a battery that they say could bring about the ultimate miniaturization of energy storage components.
and at the same time transforms the iron nanoparticles into innocuous salt.""We believe we are offering a totally innovative approach to the improvement of biogas production and organic waste treatment,
The most widely used thermal fluids are water, ethylene glycol, thermal oils and molten salts. One characteristic that is common to all of them, according to Juliá, is"their low thermal conductivity,
#Researchers develop green tea-based'missiles'to kill cancer cells more effectively Green tea has long been known for its antioxidant, anticancer, antiaging and antimicrobial properties.
A group of researchers from the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) of A*STAR has taken the health benefits of green tea to the next level by using one of its ingredients to develop a drug delivery system
A key ingredient in green tea, epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), is an antioxidant which is known to have therapeutic applications in the treatment of many disorders including cancer.
The numerous health benefits of green tea have inspired us to utilize it in drug delivery systems.
This is the first time that green tea has been used as a material to encapsulate and deliver drugs to cancer cells.
Our green tea nanocarrier not only delivered protein drugs more effectively to the cancer cells, the combination of carrier and drug also dramatically reduced tumor growth compared with the drug alone.
The research team conducted animal studies to evaluate the performance of IBN's green tea-based protein delivery system.
The study revealed that IBN's green tea nanocomplex loaded with Herceptin reduced tumor growth much more effectively
We have developed a green tea-based carrier in which the carrier itself displayed anticancer effect and can boost cancer treatment when used together with the protein drug.
Unlike conventional therapy our green tea carrier can eradicate more cancer cells and accumulate significantly less drugs in vital organs where they could cause adverse side effects.
IBN has filed a patent on their green tea nanocarrier and is developing this technology for clinical applications.
The green tea-based micellar complexes are also being examined for the delivery of active ingredients in personal care and nutritional products s
The ions ejected by Velsquez-Garca's prototype are produced from an ionic salt that's liquid at room temperature.
Increasing an array's ion current is a matter of regulating the flow of the ionic salt up the emitters'sides.
Using PLD a sandwich of different materials can be made. The properties of each layer are secured.
A nanosheet is like pizza dough Kim said. Whatever you like to put on it#one topping two toppings anything#you can.
#Nanoparticles accumulate quickly in wetland sediment (Phys. org) A Duke university team has found that nanoparticles called single-walled carbon nanotubes accumulate quickly in the bottom sediments of an experimental wetland setting an action they say could indirectly damage the aquatic food chain.
But the researchers warn that based on their previous research the tendency for the nanotubes to accumulate in sediment could indirectly damage the aquatic food chain in the long term
The nanoparticle-pollutant package could then be eaten by sediment-dwelling organisms in a sort of'Trojan horse'effect allowing the adsorbed contaminants to accumulate up the food chain.
However, due to residual remnants of antigens such as sugar or other molecules, the human patients'immune cells are likely to attack the animal matrix.
#Scientists improve microscopic batteries with homebuilt imaging analysis (Phys. org) In a rare case of having their cake
and eating it too scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and other institutions have developed a toolset that allows them to explore the complex interior of tiny multilayered batteries they devised.
Instead of a cake however each finished battery looks more like a tiny tree. The analogy becomes obvious
But it's the cake-like layers that enable the batteries to store and discharge electricity
and for nutrients and waste to pass through. As a side benefit nanotubes also make the patches stronger and lower their tendency to swell
#Aligned carbon nanotube/graphene sandwiches By in situ nitrogen doping and structural hybridization of carbon nanotubes (CNTS) and graphene via a two-step chemical vapor deposition (CVD) scientists have fabricated nitrogen-doped aligned carbon nanotube/graphene (N-ACNT/G) sandwiches
with three-dimensional (3d) electron transfer pathways interconnected ion diffusion channels and enhanced interfacial affinity and activity.
The as-fabricated N-ACNT/G sandwiches described in the journal Advanced Materials on Sep 17 2014 demonstrated high-rate performances in lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries.
After catalyst removal alternative aligned CNTS and graphene were connected vertically to each other in long-range periodicity thereby forming a sandwich-like structure.
The remarkable cycling capacity and rate capability can be attributed to the novel structural and chemical characteristics of the N-ACNT/G sandwiches Prof.
It is expected highly that the N-ACNT/G sandwiches hold various potential applications in the area of nanocomposite energy storage environmental protection electronic device as well as healthcare because of their robust hierarchical structure 3d electron transfer
/Graphene Sandwiches: Facile Catalytic Growth on Bifunctional Natural Catalysts and Their Applications as Scaffolds for High-Rate Lithium-Sulfur Batteries.
These heated electrons escape the graphene through electrical leads much like steam escaping a tea kettle.
or for cooks to be able to watch how the egg whites are interacting with baking powder in the cake as it bakes in the oven.
followed by a series of purification steps changing its color from brown to bright white, similar in color and texture to powdered sugar.
After that, he ground salt and magnesium, both very common elements found dissolved in sea water into the purified quartz.
Thus, a sample of the new material the size of a sugar cube presents a surface area equivalent to that of more than seven tennis courts."
and metal salts can serve as a versatile platform where equal sized metal nanoparticles can be distributed evenly on the surface of the polymer nanocapsules.
And the main ingredient, graphite, is mined and sold by the ton. h
#Nanostructured material based on repeating microscopic units has record-breaking stiffness at low density (w/Video) What's the difference between the Eiffel Tower and the Washington monument?
and with more salt, a more solid yet elastic mesh-like layer.""The mechanism of this phase transition is said not obvious
that heat up leftover food with such efficiency. Instead of warming up yesterday's pizza, however, this concept may provide a technological revolution.
It could change everything from the production of cell phones and televisions to counterfeit-proof money, improved solar energy systems or quick identification of troops in combat.
Hygienic conditions and sterile procedures are particularly important in hospitals, kitchens and sanitary facilities, air conditioning and ventilation systems, in food preparation and in the manufacture of packaging material.
As a demonstration the team used their new technique on a sample of dinitrotoluene one of the ingredients in TNT.
New nanotech may provide power storage in electric cables clothes Imagine being able to carry all the juice you needed to power your MP3 PLAYER, smartphone and electric car in the fabric of your jacket?
used in our bodies for the digestion of food into sugars and energy during human metabolism, for example."
"In the pathway, G6pdh uses the glucose sugar substrate and a cofactor called NAD to strip hydrogen atoms from glucose and transfer to the next enzyme, MDH,
the polymer oozes into the tiny pores in much the same way that melted cheese soaks into the nooks and crannies of artisan bread in a Panini.
and medical devices and even fast food and using it to create next generation battery materials, "said Zachary Favors,
which are essential for distributing nutrients and oxygen throughout the body. The biofabrication technique uses a computer projection system
But even a simple guide to the local cuisine could be a boon to a hungry foreigner.
Spill a bunch of soda on your shirt and it bounces right off. The shirts are woven with a hydrophobic silica also known as silicon dioxide.
#Watch A Machine Tell The Difference Between Soda And Liquid Explosives#The problem with liquid explosives besides being explosive is that they often look just like nonexplosive liquids.
#and an MRI to differentiate between say a soda and something more suspicious. Liquids are placed into the scanner
#Watch A 3-D Printer Make A Pizza#This summer we heard about a 3-D printer for food developed with NASA funding
The printer#served up a pie made with dough#ketchup and cream cheese(?.The printer is still in its earliest stages so the creators haven't quite perfected the process.
Instead of making a classic slice they're showing off the proper levels of pizza viscosity with similar ingredients:
ketchup for sauce cream cheese for a fine ricotta. The idea's more or less the same though:
the printer lays down a layer of dough from a stock of simple non-perishable ingredients then layers the sauce (ketchup) and cheese (cream cheese) on top.
A heated surface bakes the pizza.##You can see why NASA would be interested in the idea:
send up a printer instead of boxes of food and you save space plus you give the astronauts a home-cooked meal.
Here you can see the printer laying down the cheese layer and one of the printer technicians being directed to add more pressure.
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