#4d printing: A Process of Transformation in Structures The research team can now turn 3d printed objects into dynamic structures,
Sponsored by the National Science Foundation and NASA the research will be published as the cover story in Volume 54, Issue 23 of the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition.
who is also director of the NSF-NASA Center for Chemical Evolution and associate director of the Parker H. Petit Institute of Bioengineering and Bioscience,
while also having applications in nanotechnology. his research was supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the NASA Astrobiology Program under the NSF Center for Chemical Evolution (CHE-1004570).
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and aerospace engineering department. e chose the athletic logo to fill that need.?Unlike the printing process of an inkjet or laserjet printer, where mixed color pigments are used,
an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Missouri S&t and a co-author of the paper.
these plates can slide across each other bit like geological plates that form the earth crust allowing for high sensitivity
These unique thermal properties allow us to heat the suspended graphene up to half of temperature of the sun,
co-lead author and professor in the department of physics and astronomy at Seoul National University said,
In the natural world, chirality is an inherent property of many objects that range from spiral galaxies to elementary particles.
"To predators, the bioluminescence is very similar to the light coming from the moon and stars at night,
which can perform complex laboratory functions in a tiny space, the team has unveiled how fluids behave under extreme confinement by using micron-sized particles known as colloids to act as oversized atoms.
While nothing travels faster than the speed of light in a vacuum, light isn't always in a vacuum.
President of Tech Coast Angels. ee currently talking with companies about lab space and strategic partnerships, said Zaretski.
which not only changes sunlight into an electrical charge, but also splits the water, acting as a form of solar fuel cell.
The advantage of this detour is that plasmon-polaritons can be confined in a much smaller space than the light they originated from.
what the telescope did for space exploration. In the first demonstration of how the technology works, published July 30 in the journal Cell, the researchers look inside the brain of an adult mouse at a scale previously unachievable, generating images at a nanoscale resolution.
The inventors'long-term goal is to make the resource available to the scientific community in the form of a national brain observatory."
modules LKM to expose the onboard hardware to Linux user space applications via virtual file interfaces s
and enables the delivery of constant lux levels in the space by managing subtle adjustments as the amount of outside light varies.
-or space-level command and control strategies.##ams#ground-breaking sensor-integrated manager series addresses head-on the lighting industry#s desire for technically feasible integrated controls that are also cost
#Competitive offerings in the space are essentially#build your own#devices requiring discrete components including sensors processors memory and
Historically drug development activities in this space have focused on blocking mtorc1 activation in part because hyperactivation of the pathway can lead to aberrant growth seen in cancer
#Exelis-Built Crosstrack Infrared Sounder Ready for Integration onto NOAA JPSS-1 Spacecraft The Cris is advanced an sounder that provides detailed atmospheric temperature and moisture observations for weather and climate applications.
The first version of the sounder is currently operational on the NOAA/NASA Suomi-National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite, a bridge between NOAA's legacy polar satellite fleet,
NASA's Earth observing missions and NOAA JPSS constellation. ris is proven technology that is already providing high-quality environmental data to the meteorological and climate communities on Suomi NPP,
It also provides a vital tool for NOAA to continually take the planet pulse to assist in understanding major climate shifts t
#Firemotion's integrated approach will offer new and rich tools to build experiences that are vital to brands that want to stand out in the bland mobile banner ad-space.#
The OVM6211's compact form factor, together with eyesight's'slim'software-based technology, makes gesture control viable for space-constrained devices, such as smartphones, tablets, laptops and wearables.
Air and Upper atmosphere Researchers from Arizona State university School of Earth and Space exploration have combined their sensors,
soil and the upper atmosphere. The machine, which was highlighted recently in a Nature Methods article, is portable, exceptionally low-power,
Developed by a team led by experimental physicist Cody Youngbull, assistant research professor in the School of Earth and Space exploration,
Youngbull envisions use of the device in homeland security, mass transit, public spaces, hospitals, schools, food production and combat theater analytics.
lander or orbiter to seek out extant DNA in the water on Mars, the oceans of Europa,
the ice plumes of Enceladus or wherever scientist-explorers one day hope to discover and quantify nucleic acid sequences.
for example, would use some of the technology developed in QOSMOS to access TV white spaces,
which are unused spaces in the UHF band allocated to TV broadcasters. Without intelligent spectrum management, interference by econdary spectrum userscould degrade broadcast quality for viewers. voiding interference calls for more spectrum management,
Meanwhile, according to Fitch, UK regulator Ofcom is in position to commercialise TV white spaces from 2015.
Near-Earth satellites, which are equipped with such a sensor and which orbit the Earth at a speed of 26,000 kilometers per hour, could take color photographs of the earth surface with a resolution of 3 centimeters.
The market launch of the new sensor which is at the heart of the AIT test camera is scheduled for the end of 2015.
#Planetiq Commences Testing of"Pyxis"Satellite Weather Sensor Technology"Weather has an immense human and societal impact and affects businesses on a daily if not hourly basis,
"Pyxis will track GPS signals traveling through Earth's atmosphere and convert them into dense, precise measurements of global temperature,
Pyxis is the only GPS-RO sensor in such a small package that is powerful enough to routinely probe down into the lowest layers of the atmosphere where severe weather occurs.
Planetiq's microsatellite constellation, with an initial set of 12 satellites launching in 2016 and 2017, will deliver over 8 million observations per day of temperature, pressure and water vapor,
or more than 10 times the amount of data available from GPS-RO sensors currently on orbit.
who was instrumental in designing the sensors on the U s.-Taiwan Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere,
and Climate (COSMIC), the world's first and only satellite constellation of proven GPS-RO sensors."
"The Earth's atmosphere is sampled radically under at present especially over the oceans which cover 70%of the Earth's surface.
the switches in the inductor path are flipped. n this technology space, there usually a trend to lower efficiency as the power gets lower,
These functionalities can lead to a variety of unique applications for radio astronomy and stealth technology.
which can create an atmosphere conducive to terrorism and can popularise views which terrorists exploit,
Is jet travel becoming the dirtiest way to cross the planet? The search for aviation biofuels broke on to the public stage in the late 2000s
and you get rid of that vegetation by burning it then you are putting a big pulse of CO2 into the atmosphere."
#Airbus to build giant satellite network European aerospace giant, Airbus, is going to build the world's largest satellite constellation.
The company will produce 900 spacecraft for Oneweb, a British Channel Islands-registered concern that aims to broaden internet access to the underserved.
More than 600 satellites will initially be launched, with the rest held as spares. The deal was announced at the Paris Airshow.
The multi-billion-dollar Oneweb constellation will dwarf any previous commercial network in the sky by a factor of 10.
Airbus will be the"industrial partner"on the project. And the role represents an immense challenge
Each satellite is expected to be about 150kg is size, and Oneweb was reportedly looking for a price per unit of less than half a million dollars.
Airbus says it will make the first 10 spacecraft at its Toulouse manufacturing facility before shifting work to a dedicated plant in the United states. Many rockets will be required to get the constellation in orbit
As well as sitting on Oneweb's board, Sir Richard is also developing a satellite launch system based on his tourist spaceplane concept.
but issued a statement from its head of space systems. his partnership is a fantastic new chapter in our space story,
said François Auque. eaming with Oneweb with a requirement to produce several small satellites each day has inspired us to develop innovative designs
and processes that will dramatically lower the cost in large volumes for high performance space applications. ithout doubt,
This is a 12-spacecraft constellation providing ackhaultelecommunications services, also in broadband-underserved countries. But Mr Wyler Oneweb venture is a step-change in thinking.
The plan envisages 20 planes of low-orbiting satellites connecting to small user terminals on the ground.
Satellite constellations, it has to be said, have chequered a rather history. Even some of today big players, like satphone service providers Iridium and Globalstar, got themselves into enormous financial trouble when building their first-generation networks.
"That's perfect for aerospace...but the problem is if they are damaged, they are difficult to protect and repair,
who is working with aerospace engineer colleagues on the research project.""We are talking about aeroplane wings here-the most demanding application because of the safety aspect,
And United Launch Alliance-a joint venture between Lockheed martin and Boeing-has the parts on the rockets it sends into space.
And it has the potential to transform the aerospace industry's global supply chain and cost structure,
where the aerospace giant makes aircraft wings.""These components contribute a huge amount to the manufacturing process.
US-based managing director of aerospace and defence at consultancy Accenture, says printing is reducing lead times from months to weeks.
Part of a cooling system used by rocket maker ULA now uses 16 parts, where before it was 140.
"3d is also ideal for industries with short production runs-like aerospace-as it maximises the cost advantages of smaller production runs."
The thermoplastic material that Stratasys supplied for ULA's rockets can operate in extreme heat and cold
but that if tests on Stratasys'plastic, called Ultem, go to plan then 3d parts could be used on the exterior of unmanned rockets with a couple of years s
and animal/plant biologists from different research groups work in the same lab space.""We hope we can make further use of synthetic chemistry to make bioactive molecules that can control the circadian rhythm of animals and gain further insight into the circadian clock mechanism,
which make them uite powerfulin terms of labeling results as a function of space and time and see the spreading of certain conditions
we have a lot of bacteria in a very small space, so our effective starting concentration is much higher.
The problem was that electron microscopes work by shooting electrons at the speed of light through a biological sample suspended in a vacuum;
water or other spaces that are causes for health concerns. And it could aid in the detection of chemical weapons.
Gan shares the grant with Josep M. Jornet and Zhi Sun both assistant professors of electrical engineering at UB.
and August) when Denmark sunlight levels are similar to New york in the July and October period.
said lead author Jill Banfield, a professor of earth and planetary science and of environmental science, policy and management. hese new groups of bacteria and Archaea are changing our understanding of the number and arrangement of branches on the tree of life.
to characterize their lifestyles. eople have seen these bacteria in surveys of many different environments all over the planet,
PTMS found within the family can be related to one another in three-dimensional space to produce a set of observed PTM frequencies,
Furthermore, they determined that increased FOCI size was associated with enhanced disruption of the barrier between the lungs and bloodstream and ultimately the spreading of the bacteria in to the blood. his injection of Exos results in breakdown of a barrier between the pulmonary space and the vascular space,
which allows it to perform powerful movements in restricted spaces s
#"Pill On A String"Could Help Spot Early Signs Of Cancer Of The Gullet, University of Cambridge Study A ill on a stringdeveloped by researchers at the University of Cambridge could help doctors detect oesophageal cancer cancer of the gullet at an early stage,
The UCLA team included researchers from electrical engineering, physics and astronomy, bioengineering, pathology and laboratory medicine,
Capillary action draws water and other liquids into confined spaces such as tubes, straws, wicks and paper towels,
#Biotechnology Helps Meet Consumer Demand for Earth-Friendly Products Industrial biotechnology has its roots in cleaning up environmental hazards.
REUTERS/China Dailyif the stock is a dog it will eventually come back down to earth.
The less common and more unstable mesons, particles found in cosmic rays, have four. A five-quark version,
since it started smashing protons together at close to the speed of light in 2010. Analysis of the collisions has already proved the existence of the Higgs boson
and scientists are now looking for a"dark universe"that they believe exists beyond the visible one.
understanding what happens to stars at the end of their life.""He said it was still a mystery why it had taken 50 years to find pentaquarks."
and satellite will drop by about half a million to 11.3 million subscribers by 2019. The marketing research company also estimates revenue from those same services will decline by 7. 8 per cent over the next five years to $8. 3 billion.
#Invest In Solar Farms With New Investor Program From Innovative Solar systems Would you be part of the solar boom for as little as $250, 000 per project?
Innovative Solar systems, LLC, is spearheading a plan for diverse investors (all types) to take part in partial ownership of large-scale solar farm projects.
Innovative Solar systems (ISS) is swift to expand (with this new plan) throughout the nation. The press release notes that the company new partnership program promotes sharing of profits as a basis for investors to take part
Both the solar panels and the food-bearing plants receive enough sunlight to be productive. It would be nice
but the intimate new working atmosphere may find ways to soften or bypass them t
The company Joule updated us on new patents for its cyanobacteria-to-biofuel process powered by sunlight and carbon dioxide, researchers at Tohoku University hit upon a new method for converting algae to biofuel precursors,
Google street view Maps Urban Air pollution Like Never Before Aclima equipped three Google street view vehicles for the Denver pilot program for a month-long system test during the DISCOVER-AQ study conducted by NASA and EPA.
and makes the planet warmer. According to the U s. Environmental protection agency coal-and natural gas-fired plants were responsible for one-third of U s. greenhouse gas emissions in 2012.
and associate professor of Earth and environmental engineering at Columbia University who was involved not in the research.
It become clear that there are many alternative ways to generate energy without destroying the planet d
The device projects the wearer's gaze into 3d space enabling them to quickly and accurately communicate with
#Top secret X-37b space plane blasts off on fourth mission-but we STILL don't know what it will do in orbit
or when it will be back It is one of the most mysterious craft ever to go into orbit.
The X-37b space plane, a secretive, experimental program run by the Air force, is capable of remaining in space for almost two years.
It will blast off for a fourth time tomorrow -but we still don't know what's on board.
The mini military space plane is poised for liftoff Wednesday on another long orbital test flight. The three previous missions also began with rocket launches from Cape canaveral Air force station.
The mystery test vehicle essentially a technology test bed is designed to orbit the Earth and then land like one of NASA's old shuttles.
It is operated robotically, without anyone on board, and is reusable. It is 29 feet long about one-fourth the size of a NASA shuttle.
The longest X-37b flight lasted about 675 days; touchdown was last October. There's no official word on how long this one will stay up.
NASA has a materials experiment aboard, while the Planetary Society is tagging along with a solar sail demo.
Although largely mum about this X-37b flight, the Air force has acknowledged a thruster experiment involving electric propulsion.
Air force researchers want to check design modifications to ion thrusters already flying on some advanced military communication satellites.
Wednesday's liftoff of the Atlas v rocket is scheduled for 11:05 a m. However in an unprecedented disclosure, earlier this month the Department of defense did reveal some details about the X-37b latest mission,
an Air force spokesman, told Space. com.'The Air force Rapid Capabilities Office will also host a number of advance materials onboard the X-37b for Nasa to study the durability of various materials in the space environment,'Hoyler added.
'It is intended to improve performance of the units onboard Advanced Extremely high frequency (AEHF) military communications spacecraft,
AEHF satellites'Hall thrusters are 4. 5-kilowatt units that use electricity and xenon to produce thrust for moving satellites in space.
The benefit of using electric propulsion is that its xenon fuel weighs much less than traditional hydrazine.
This technology could help in the development of technologies to control satellites with better accuracy.
'As powerful as our intelligence satellites may be, they also have their limitations-most notably the limitations imposed by their orbital parameters.'
'The X-37b space drone, otherwise known as the Orbital Test vehicle, is blasted into orbit by a rocket.
However, it lands using a runway like a normal aircraft. The X-37b is too small to carry people onboard,
which is just large enough to carry a small satellite. The X-program has bounced between several federal agencies, Nasa among them, since 1999.
The plane has been in space for a total of 674 days, far more than its two previous flights
which lasted 225 and 469 days. The program's first mission launched in April 2010 and landed in December that year.
The second space plane took off on March 2011 and came back to Earth in June 2012.
According to X-37b manufacturer Boeing, the space plane operates in low-earth orbit, between 110 (177km) and 500 miles (800km) above earth.
By comparison, the International space station orbits at about 220 miles (350km) 0
#L'oreal wants to start 3d printing SKIN: Cosmetics firm has teamed with bioengineering experts to develop tissue By Sarah Griffiths for Mailonline Published:
13:07 GMT, 20 may 2015 Updated: 13:07 GMT, 20 may 2015 Cosmetics giant Lreal is joining forces with a bioengineering firm to print human skin.
#Lightsail launches to test revolutionary solar technology in Earth orbit A small spacecraft designed to test solar sail technology in Earth orbit has taken flight in a successful launch.
and it will later unfurl its giant sail in orbit and test how effective the sun is at pushing it.
If it works, the technology could signal a breakthrough in space propulsion and will allow vehicles to explore distant destinations,
such as the moon and Mars, at very low cost. Lightsail was designed by a Californian non-government organisation called The Planetary Society.
The launch took place on United Launch Alliance's 206ft (63 metres) Atlas v rocket at 4:
05pm BST (11: 05am ET) from Launch Complex 41 at Cape canaveral in Florida. At its core is a tiny raftmade up of three ubesats
which are essentially tiny spacecraft that can be launched relatively cheaply. In total, the core of the vehicle weighs 22lbs (10kg)
At the bottom of the four spacecraft on each of its four sides, though, a huge solar sail has been olded upthis sail,
measuring 345 square ft (32 square metres) in total in size, is made of an extremely reflective material called Mylar.
photons from the sun will strike the sail and push it forwards, similar to how a sail On earth catches the wind.
This is because the force from the sun is constant, and there is no air resistance or friction holding the spacecraft back,
so it will always accelerate. f youe out in space where there nothing to stop you,
and a low enough mass spacecraft, it gets pushed, chief executive of The Planetary Society Bill Nye said in a webcast after the launch.
though, Lightsail will be in too low an orbit to escape the clutches of Earth. It will ultimately fall back
and burn up in the atmosphere. But this flight will be a key test to not only prove that the physics of solar sailing works as theorised
but also that it can successfully unfurl the sail in space. Cameras on board should capture the moment this happens.
Previous attempts to test solar sail technology, such as Nasa Nanosail-D2 in 2010, were less successful in this latter part-the sail didn't unfurl properly,
a second Lightsail spacecraft will then be sent into space on the first launch of Spacex powerful Falcon Heavy rocket next year.
This spacecraft will be placed into a much higher orbit 447 miles (720km) up far enough away from Earth that it should be able to escape the gravitational pull of our planet.
Another spacecraft called Prox-1 will take images. This will allow this second spacecraft to use the push from the sun to travel into the solar system.
Aside from journeys deep into the cosmos, another uses for solar sail technology involves not actually moving at all
but staying stationary. A spacecraft using a solar sail could be placed in an orbit between Earth and the sun,
where it could remain in place without falling into the sun thanks to the push it receives,
known as tation keepingsuch a spacecraft could be used to either observe the sun in detail, or to look at Earth and track asteroids near the planet.
The idea for a spacecraft to be equipped with a solar sail to use the solar wind for propulsion was described by the late astrophysicist Carl Sagan four decades ago. ecause it has a constant acceleration,
it can get you around the inner part of the solar system a lot faster...than the usual sorts of rocket propulsion, he said in a 1976 broadcast of the Tonight show with Jonny Carson.
It was theorised that solar sails could accelerate spacecraft far beyond the speeds of traditional fuels, to make interplanetary-and interstellar travel more feasible.
As the technology is still relatively new, it not clear what speeds will be achieved. The Planetary Society has said also not what the second spacecraft destination will be,
but in future the technology could be used for missions to the moon and other planets in the solar system. ith solar sailing,
in principle you can go vast distances, and do it in relatively small amounts of time, said Neil degrasse Tyson, a board member for The Planetary Society.
Doug Stetson, Lightsail Programme Manager, added: olar sailing can take us to the moon, to other planets,
and even to interstellar space. e
#The HEADPHONES that detect brain damage: Pioneering device tracks changes in pressure caused by injury and infection Doctors have developed a brain pressure test using a special set of headphones that can detect life-threatening head injuries and infections.
The technique involves a patient wearing the headphones with an ear plug linked to a computer.
This enables doctors to measure fluid pressure in the skull-known as intracranial pressure (ICP)- without the need for surgery or painful spinal procedures.
The device is currently being used by Southampton General Hospital. In particular, the pressure tests measure fluid via a channel that links the inner ear with the brain.
As fluids in the ear and brain are connected a change in pressure in the brain is reflected by a corresponding change in the ear
it is also being adapted by Nasa to analyse brain pressure levels in astronauts to help tackle space-related visual problems and sickness.
'Although the researchers are already working closely with Nasa and developing relations with the UK military,
#Nasa spots most luminous galaxy in the universe-shining with the light of more than 300 TRILLION suns A dazzling galaxy that shines with the light of more than 300 trillion suns has been discovered by astronomers.
The galaxy is the most luminous found to date and belongs to a new class of mysterious objects known as'extremely luminous infrared galaxies',or Elrigs.
Named Wise J224607. 57-052635.0, scientists believe the galaxy may have a behemoth black hole at its heart
but how this black hole came to be so big remains a mystery.''We are looking at a very intense phase of galaxy evolution,
'said Chao-Wei Tsai of Nasa's Jet propulsion laboratory in Pasadena, California, 'This dazzling light may be from the main growth spurt of the galaxy's black hole.'
'Supermassive black holes draw gas and matter into a disk around them, heating the disk to roaring temperatures of millions of degrees and blasting out high-energy, visible, ultraviolet,
and X-ray light. The light is blocked by surrounding cocoons of dust. As the dust heats up, it radiates infrared light.
Immense black holes are common at the cores of galaxies, but finding one this big so'far back'in the cosmos is rare.
Because light from the galaxy hosting the black hole has travelled 12.5 billion years to reach us,
astronomers are seeing the object as it was in the distant past. The black hole was already billions of times the mass of our sun
when our universe was only a tenth of its present age of 13.8 billion years.
The discovery was made by Nasa as it was combing through data from its Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (Wise),
an infrared space telescope launched in 2009. The new study suggests black holes in the Elrigs could have grown so massive
because embryonic black holes, might be thought bigger than possible. The other two explanations involve either breaking or bending the theoretical limit of black hole feeding,
called the Eddington limit. When a black hole feeds, gas falls in and heats up, blasting out light.
The pressure of the light actually pushes the gas away creating a limit to how fast the black hole can continuously scarf down matter.
If a black hole broke this limit, it could theoretically balloon in size at a breakneck pace.
Black holes have previously been observed breaking this limit; however, the black hole in the study would have had to repeatedly break the limit to grow this large.
Alternatively, the black holes might just be bending this limit. If a black hole spins slowly enough, it won't repel its meal as much.
In the end, a slow-spinning black hole can eat up more matter than a fast spinner.''The massive black holes in Elrigs could be gorging themselves on more matter for a longer period of time,
'said Andrew Blain of University of Leicester.''It's like winning a hot-dog-eating contest lasting hundreds of millions of years.'
'More research is needed to solve this puzzle of these dazzlingly luminous galaxies. The team has plans to better determine the masses of the central black holes.
Knowing these objects'true hefts will help reveal their history, as well as that of other galaxies, in this very crucial and frenzied chapter of our cosmos m
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