Our team the GFZ Hazard and Risk Team HART works in close collaboration with the University of Cape verde the Volcano Observatory of the Canary islands and the German Aerospace Centre says GFZ-volcanologist Dr
. Thomas Walter. On one hand we are analysing data from the newest remote sensing satellites to develop models of the magma ascent path.
The satellite data which is acquired by the European space agency's Sentinel-1 satellite enables the measurement of ground movements associated with the volcano eruption.
The Sentinel-1 satellite acquires new imagery about once per week which allows for regular updates on the ground movement and the magma ascent path beneath.
and to help space out the births of their children. One of the most convenient and effective options--a tiny implant that can delay conception for three to five years--is inserted into a woman's arm
which is the active layer converting sunlight to energy, "said Min-Cherl Jung, a staff scientist at OIST and first author of this work."
Before, the cells would lose the ability to efficiently convert sunlight into electricity after a couple of days.
who leads the Nanoscale Optics Laboratory in the university's mechanical and aerospace engineering department.""We chose the athletic logo to fill that need.""
an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Missouri S&t and a co-author of the paper.
you will see flashes of light every time the wheel is at the perfect spot for sunlight to hit it.
'Bacteria are littered with genes that are unknown--it's like genetic dark matter, 'Selle said.''Now we can learn more about what these elements provide
While the demand for technical systems converting sunlight into electricity is increasing, organic materials represent a highly interesting alternative to silicon that has to be processed at high costs before it can be used for the photoactive layer of a solar cell l
and Moon Kim, all at UT-Dallas, Ming-Yang Li at Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Taiwan,
Support is acknowledged also from the Alexander Von humboldt Foundation, the NASA Office of the Chief Technologist's Space technology Research Fellowship, the AFOSR Quantum memories Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative,
and in less space. Luckily, physicists discover effects that help engineers to develop better electronic components with surprising regularity, for instance a phenomenon known as giant magnetoresistance.
and phosphorus. This material contains superfast charge carriers, known as relativistic electrons that move at around one thousandth the speed of light,
just as the expulsion of propellant drives a rocket forward. Stoltzfus-Dueck and his team influenced intrinsic rotation by moving the so-called X-point--the dividing point between magnetically confined plasma
These'designer'materials could be used in the robotics, automotive, aerospace and security industries. Researchers from the University of Cambridge have developed a simple'recipe'for combining multiple materials with single functions into a single material with multiple functions:
ellipses and two squares separated by a very small space (known as coupled nanosquare dimers. Each pixel arrangement had its own pros
and results are short-lived as bacteria immediately re-populate the space. The ability of Indigo-Clean#to continuously treat the air as well as hard and soft surfaces,
but Earth was very different 2. 5 billion years ago. With little oxygen in the atmosphere, many organisms derived energy by metabolizing iron instead of oxygen.
Biologists say this process"is really deep in the tree of life, but we've had little evidence from the rock record until now,
"The research also clarifies the evolution of our planet--and of life itself--during the"iron-rich"era 2. 5 billion years ago."
"NASA has made the search for life in space a major focus and sponsors the UW-Madison Astrobiology Institute,
Recognizing unfamiliar forms of life is a priority for the space agency. The study reinforces the importance of microbes in geology."
what conditions on the surface of the Earth is absolutely wrong.""Research results like these affect how classes are taught,
an associate professor of physics and astronomy who led the research effort at MSU.""This combination allows many unusual properties,
"Philip Duxbury, a team member and chairperson of the department of physics and astronomy, said ultrafast photo-doping"has potential applications that could lead to the development of next-generation electronic materials
Researchers at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) of A*STAR have developed a drug-delivering hydrogel to treat chronic diseases such as hepatitis C a liver disease that kills around 500,000 people worldwide every year."
and conducted in collaboration with the Institute of Molecular and Cell biology of A*STAR. Up to 150 million people globally suffer from chronic hepatitis C infections according to the World health organization."
The above post is reprinted from materials provided by The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR.
David A. Horsley, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of California, Davis. He is a director of the Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center,
The phenomenon exceeds the speed of light. In the new study, researchers sent hyperentangled photons in a shape known as a biphoton frequency comb, essentially breaking up entangled photons into smaller parts.
#New storage cell for solar energy storage, nighttime conversion The innovation is an advancement over the most common solar energy systems that rely on using sunlight immediately as a power source.
It also can effectively harness the inexhaustible energy from the sun."The work is a product of the 2013 National Science Foundation $400,
and use one of the larger sources of energy available to us--the sun, "Behbehani said.
#Omnidirectional free space wireless charging of multiple wireless devices Scientists have made great strides in wireless-power transfer development.
This means that the device can receive power all around the transmitter in three-dimensional space.
and safely, including in public spaces, the WPT technology should provide mobile users with six degrees of freedom at a distance.
For example, the Galaxy S6 could only be charged wirelessly in a fixed position having one degree of freedom.
The degree of freedom represents mobile devices'freedom of movement in three-dimensional space. In addition, the DCRS works at a low magnetic field environment.
highly symmetrical planes of oxygen atoms (somewhat like a densely packed box of marbles) where different metallic elements are lodged in the spaces between them.
"Due to the popularity of cable, satellite and Internet TV, the UHF spectrum is one of the most underutilized portions of the wireless spectrum in the United states,
The rules governing this secondary access are referred often to as"TV white space"rules in reference to the industry term for used or blank portions of the TV spectrum."
"Our tests showed that WATCH could provide at least six times more wireless data compared with situations where we were limited only to the traditionally available white-space spectrum,
and these new techniques developed at Caltech have made it possible to visualize such behavior in both space and time,
various proteins are secreted into the extracellular space, where they form the so-called extracellular matrix (ECM).
The finding means metal foams hold promise for use in nuclear safety, space exploration and medical technology applications."
"This work means there's an opportunity to use composite metal foam to develop safer systems for transporting nuclear waste, more efficient designs for spacecraft and nuclear structures,
and new shielding for use in CT SCANNERS,"says Afsaneh Rabiei, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at NC State and corresponding author of a paper on the work.
or space exploration applications--could it provide structural support, protect against high impacts and provide shielding against various forms of radiation?
"And with the recent announcement of Aurora, the ALCF's next-generation supercomputer, Sankaranarayanan is excited about where this line of research could go in the future."
"Given the advent of computing resources like Aurora and the wide gamut of the available two-dimensional materials and nanoparticle types,
sources of X-rays on the planet. The LCLS X-rays are a billion times brighter than those from synchrotrons
They crowd control molecules within a given space under different conditions. Adding a new constituent, stirring the pot
Clearcutting most often clears space for agriculture, suggesting agriculture indirect climate impacts surpass the impacts of deforestation for timber and other commodities.
Free space makes up 95%of the mesh allowing cells to arrange themselves around it. In 2012, the team showed that living cells grown in a dish can be coaxed to grow around these flexible scaffolds and meld with them,
said Steven Sun, a Hong kong analyst for HSBC. lso, there have been controlling shareholders, significant shareholders and corporate management trying to cash out.
#US Air force Launches X-37b Space Plane on 4th Mystery Mission The U s. Air force's X-37b space plane blasted into Earth orbit today,
kicking off the robotic vehicle's clandestine fourth mission as well as the first flight of a tiny solar-sailing spacecraft.
The robotic X-37b space plane launched atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas v rocket today (May 20) at 11:05 a m. EDT (1505 GMT) from Florida's Cape canaveral Air force station.
You can see a video of the X-37b space plane's launch here. Most details about the space plane's orbital activities are classified
so it's unclear what exactly the X-37b will be doing as it zooms around Earth,
or how long it will remain aloft. But Air force officials have said that mission number four known as Orbital Test vehicle-4 (OTV-4) will concentrate less on the X-37b itself
and more on the gear the spacecraft is carrying to orbit. X-37b Space Plane's 4th Mystery Mission in Photos"We are excited about our fourth X-37b mission,"Randy Walden,
director of the Air force Rapid Capabilities Office, said in a statement late last month.""With the demonstrated success of the first three missions, we're able to shift our focus from initial checkouts of the vehicle to testing of experimental payloads."
"Also on board the Atlas v were 10 miniscule"cubesats, "including the Lightsail solar sail that was developed by the nonprofit Planetary Society.
Lightsail aims to prove out key solar-sailing technology ahead of a more ambitious orbital trial next year.
The Air force owns two X-37b spacecraft, both of which were built by Boeing's Phantom Works division.
Each space plane is just 29 feet long by 9. 5 feet tall (8. 8 by 2. 9 meters),
both X-37bs could fit inside the payload bay of NASA's now-retired space shuttle orbiter.
as the space shuttle did. The secrecy surrounding X-37b missions has led to speculation in some quarters that the craft is some sort of space weapon that it's designed to inspect and/or cripple hostile nations'satellites, for example.
But Air force officials have refuted long that notion, saying the X-37b is simply testing out technologies for reusable vehicles and future spacecraft.
Top 10 Space Weapons"OTV missions allow us to examine a payload system or technology in the environment in which it will perform its mission,"
"Capt. Chris Hoyler, an Air force spokesman, told Space. com via email.""The unique aspects of the OTV allow us to mature these new technologies
and inspect them following the deorbit sequence.""Air force officials have not said how long they expect OTV-4 to last,
but the mission will be extended an one if the previous X-37b flights are any guide.
and stayed in orbit for 469 days. OTV-3 lifted off in December 2012, sending the vehicle that flew OTV-1 to space for 675 days record for a reusable space vehicle.
It's unclear if OTV-4 will employ the X-37b that flew OTV-1 and OTV-3,
or the space plane that flew OTV-2."The program selects the orbital test vehicle for each activity based upon the experiment objectives,
The payloads flying to orbit aboard the X-37b on this mission are not a total mystery:
and a NASA materials investigation are among OTV-4's scientific gear. A Hall thruster is a type of ion engine;
it generates thrust by accelerating ions (electrically charged atoms or molecules) out the back of a spacecraft.
The engine getting an in-space test on OTV-4 is advanced an version of the Hall thruster that powered the first three Advanced Extremely high frequency military communications satellites,
"A more efficient on-orbit thruster capability is huge,"Maj. Gen. Tom Masiello, commander of the Air force Research Laboratory in Ohio, said in a statement last month."
plus it enhances spacecraft operational flexibility, survivability and longevity.""The NASA payload, called the Materials Exposure
and Technology Innovation in Space experiment, will study how exposure to the space environment affects nearly 100 different types of materials.
The goal is to gather data that could aid in the design of future spacecraft,
NASA officials have said. While the X-37b will likely stay in orbit for many months,
the Planetary Society's Lightsail spacecraft will come back down to Earth in just a few weeks.
Four weeks from now, Lightsail, which is the size of a loaf of bread, will unfurl its 344-square-foot (32 square m) solar sail.
But the craft is not going high enough to actually use the sail for propulsion;
its maiden flight will test out the cubesat's attitude-control and sail-deployment systems,
helping pave the way for a bona fide orbital-sailing test next year.""It's smaller than a shoebox, everybody!
the sunlight will hit it and we'll get a push.""Atmospheric drag will start pulling Lightsail back down to Earth as soon as the craft's sail is unfurled,
and the cubesat will likely burn up two to 10 days thereafter, Planetary Society representatives have said.
But the shiny sail should make the bantam spacecraft visible to the naked eye during its brief orbital trial.
The Planetary Society will provide viewing maps and tips on its website (www. planetary. org) during the mission.
+Originally published on Space. com y
#New Spaceship Antenna Prevents Radio Silence During Fiery Re-Entry When future spacecraft re-enter the atmosphere,
a new kind of antenna might help them keep in contact with ground control, despite the fiery sheaths of superhot plasma around them, researchers say.
The technology might also help keep communication lines open to other hypersonic vehicles, such as military planes and ballistic missiles.
US Military Tests Hypersonic Craft As NASA's Apollo 13 crisis revealed in 1970, this radio silence can be fraught with extraordinary tension.
As the crippled spacecraft plummeted back toward Earth, the communications blackout lasted more than a minute longer than expected,
whether the three astronauts aboard had survived.""When a re-entry vehicle is unable to be connected,
"Gao told Space. com. The researchers explained that, when the electromagnetic fluctuations of radio antennas are in sync with those of their surroundings,
'Blue moon'Beer Celebrates Lunar Sight for 20th Anniversary In a coincidence of cosmic proportions, the second full moon of July rises tonight,
making it a so-called"Blue moon "and Blue moon Brewing Co. will celebrate its 20th anniversary by painting the town red.
A celestial Blue moon comes around roughly every 2. 7 years. Tonight (July 31), a Blue moon will rise on the same night as Blue moon Brewing Co. celebrates its 20th anniversary with parties and events at more than 750 locations across the country.
In Denver, where the company is based there will be a concert under the stars and the full Blue moon capped by a"specialty beer release."
"The phrase"Blue moon"commonly refers to the second full moon in a single month, although this hasn't always been the meaning of the term.
Tonight's Blue moon will be the same color as any other full moon, although volcanic eruptions and forest fires have been known to cause the moon to appear blue.
This effect is caused by particulates like dust and smoke, which can act as a natural blue filter in the sky.
In celebration of its 20th anniversary, Blue moon Brewing Co. which is owned by the Molson coors brewing Co.)will release a new beer that is part Belgian-style white and part Belgian-style Tripel.
It's not space beer, but we'll still try it).""The smooth-bodied ale has a warming finish and hints of coriander, orange peel, fruity esters, spicy esters and a touch of sweetness,
"brewery representatives said in a statement. The company's founder said the beer brings back fond memories of the time he spent earning his Ph d. in brewing studies in Brussels."As a brewery,
we've come a long way in 20 years, and we're excited to celebrate this with the people who got us here our fans
and the things they love most: food, music and great beer,"Keith Villa, founder and head brewmaster of Blue moon, said in the same statement.
The big concert of the night will be at Coors Field, featuring Big data with special guest Robert Delong,
The party starts in Lower Downtown (where Blue moon was created), where there will be four rooftop concerts. Blue moon plans to open another brewery
and tasting room in Denver's River North neighborhood e
#Smart oven knows what is inside and how to cook it For those who just can get their heads around the intricacies of home cooking,
Sony entered the budding space with the announcement of its Project Morpheus headset in March last year.
It hard to intuitively aim when you have a 2d cursor in a 3d space.
he explains. e give disabled people a private space that they are in total control of
"The higher the density of transistors, the more cores you can put in a given space,"noted Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group."
#Canadian Space Robotics Technology to Help Sick Children Not much rivals the dexterity of a good surgeon hands.
That is why Toronto Sickkids Centre for Image-Guided Innovation & Therapeutic Intervention (CIGITI) turned to the Canadian space technology behind Canadarm,
the MDA team adopted the virtual decomposition control (VDC) approach developed by Canadian space agency (CSA) engineer Wen-Hong Zhu.
The VDC is a Canadian game-changing technology for precision control of future medical manipulators and space manipulators.
iodide and methylammonium could convert sunlight into electricity with an efficiency of 3. 8 percent.
Sunlight to electricity Solar cells work by converting photons of sunlight into an electric current that moves between two electrodes.
Therefore it can be used outdoors even in bright sunlight. This is not only interesting for 3d-presentations
If you combined bio-based textile and carbon fibers you can obtain extremely light yet very sturdy components. ightweightis an important buzzword in automotive engineering and just as important in the aerospace sector too.
Thanks to this window space, the solar cell obtains adequate light, even in the darkness of winter.
#High efficiency concentrating solar cells move to the rooftop Ultra-high efficiency solar cells similar to those used in space may now be possible on your rooftop thanks to a new microscale solar concentration technology developed by an international team
of researchers. solar cells oncentrating photovoltaic (CPV) systems leverage the cost of high efficiency multi-junction solar cells by using inexpensive optics to concentrate sunlight onto them,
and have to be pointed very accurately to track the sun throughout the day. But you can put a system like this on your roof,
To focus sunlight on the array of cells, the researchers embedded them between a pair of 3d printed plastic lenslet arrays.
sunlight is intensified more than 200 times. Because the focal point moves with the sun over the course of a day
the middle solar cell sheet tracks by sliding laterally in between the lenslet array. Previous attempts at such translation-based tracking have worked only for about two hours a day
which allows small motors using a minimal amount of force for the mechanical tracking. he vision is that such a microtracking CPV panel could be placed on a roof in the same space as a traditional solar panel
PV only makes sense in areas with lots of direct sunlight, like the American Southwest, he said. n cloudy regions like the Pacific Northwest,
#Computing at the speed of light University of Utah engineers have taken a step forward in creating the next generation of computers
and receive light over a very confined space, Fang says, and could lead to nique optical material that has great potential for optical interconnects.
a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania who was involved not in this work. think that the concentric tube approach is very creative.
said company CEO Taras Wankewycz. ee now able to use that space to instead of filling it with air,
CS patients are hypersensitive to sunlight and burn easily. For decades it was believed that the premature aging process associated with this disease was caused essentially by DNA repair deficiency.
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,
said Aerospace engineer and team leader Professor Scott R. White. his is a way of creating sustainability in the materials that are used in modern-day electronics.
when the sun is shining. ith the option of taking part in demand management schemes, the system can also reward households for using less electricity during peak energy periods.
close to the speed of light. Propelling the electrons in silicene requires minimal energy input, which means reducing power and cooling requirements for electronic devices. f silicene could be used to build electronic devices,
The first-of-its-kind immune organoid was created in the lab of Ankur Singh, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering,
and bolt them together, says Hod Lipson, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Cornell University, who studies robotics. t a challenging angle of robotics,
which is native to Alberta. ighorn sheep are an important symbol of Alberta and Canada wild spaces.
#Revolutionary New High-speed Infrared detector Sees First Light The first prototype of a new generation of fast and very sensitive detectors has been installed successfully on the PIONIER instrument at ESO Paranal Observatory.
In astronomy, it will boost the performance of adaptive optics, a technology at the heart of the European Extremely Large telescope (E-ELT.
The first observations focused on stars of different types (bright giants and faint dwarfs) in order to explore the behaviour of RAPID.
and a true revolution in the field of infrared detectors, said ESO astronomer Antoine Merand when first using the camera.
The more greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere, the warmer the atmosphere becomes, exacerbating global climate change. Solving the problem is not so simple, especially with regards to aviation the source of two-percent of the annual greenhouse gas emissions from human activity.
While biofuels have proven to be an effective, renewable, low-carbon alternative to gasoline and diesel, jet fuels pose unique challenges.
The concentrations of carbon and other greenhouse gases in Earth atmosphere are now at their highest levels in the past three million years, primarily as a result of the burning of petroleum and other fossil fuels.
#Research Simplifies Recycling of Rare-earth Magnets Despite their ubiquity in consumer electronics, rare-earth metals are,
as their name suggests, hard to come by. Mining and purifying them is an expensive, labor-intensive and ecologically devastating process.
including the rare-earth metal dysprosium, in different ratios. Because those ratios differ based on the application the magnet is being used for,
The process is repeated thousands of times to get useful purities of the rare-earth metals,
#UCLA chemists devise technology that could transform solar energy storage The materials in most of today residential rooftop solar panels can store energy from the sun for only a few microseconds at a time.
In photosynthesis, plants that are exposed to sunlight use carefully organized nanoscale structures within their cells to rapidly separate charges pulling electrons away from the positively charged molecule that is left behind,
The polymer donor absorbs sunlight and passes electrons to the fullerene acceptor; the process generates electrical energy.
while another relies only on natural sunlight. The community that had access to electricity slept about an hour less than their counterparts with no electricity.
They will also study the effects the moon cycle may have on sleep patterns as well. These are very interesting researches,
#Omnidirectional free space wireless charging developed Mobile devices, such as smartphones and laptops, have become indispensable portable items in modern life,
This means that the device can receive power all around the transmitter in three-dimensional space.
including in public spaces, the WPT technology should provide mobile users with six degrees of freedom at a distance.
For example, the Galaxy S6 could only be charged wirelessly in a fixed position, having one degree of freedom.
The degree of freedom represents mobile devicesfreedom of movement in three-dimensional space. In addition, the DCRS works at a low magnetic field environment.
While nothing travels faster than the speed of light in a vacuum, light isn always in a vacuum.
and we have a star in the world of mobile payment. As seen, wireless payment has its foundations in security and speed.
#Glasses-free 3d screen technology Stereo-Step-Eclipse technology provides the ability to display video in stereoscopic 3d on a screen.
Features of 3d Tau Stereo-Step-Eclipse Technology: Easy to use: No special glasses, helmets or head tracking are needed
and takes up roughly the same space as a traditional screen. In addition to showing images in 3d,
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