The armor provides multi-channel communications and advanced active protection for vehicles, ships and buildings.
and ships, making them less visible and identifiable in hostile situations. The armor-incased antennas also have jamming capability to block radio signals
Other researchers from the University of Hull, EPA, University college London and Wageningen University also took part in the research.
Reflection seismology involves ships towing arrays of"air guns"that explode every 10 to 15 seconds to produce loud sound pulses.
A loop of microtubules encircles the inner plasma membrane of the terminal and anchors mitochondria. Researchers have discovered a thick band of microtubules in certain neurons in the retina that they believe acts as a transport road for mitochondria that help provide energy required for visual processing.
Boats from the nonprofit collective Clean Seas also were providing help but were having trouble
Boats from the nonprofit collective Clean Seas also were providing help but were having trouble
More choice without borders Taylor with IDC says the growing selection of streaming content is another reason viewers are jumping ship from traditional TV.
Norsepower Oy Ltd. shared the successful trial of its Rotor Sail Solution, a wind propulsion technology for maritime ships.
Verified by ship design and operation software modeling firm NAPA and supported by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland,
The Norsepower Rotor Sail Solution is modernized a version of the Flettner rotor spinning vertical cylinder that harnesses wind power to propel a ship.
or retrofitted on existing ships without requiring the vessel potentially multi-million-dollar asseto be out of service,
including charterers (those that rent ships), banks, port authorities, and ship registries. With this growing prioritization, these parties are starting to shift money towards
and reward more-efficient vessels. For example, today charterers representing 20 percent of global shipped tonnage have policies in place to avoid using the most-inefficient ships based on the GHG Emissions Rating,
developed by maritime risk management specialist Rightship and Carbon War Room. That a 450-percent increase in the past 2. 5 years,
As a result, banks are recognizing the impact that ship efficiency has on assets on their books
and demonstrate to shipowners that efficient ships are more profitable, this financial lever in the industry will act as a powerful incentive for shipowners to retrofit for greater efficiency.
Bore is already looking ahead to the opportunity of two rotors on one ship. e are proud to be the first shipowner to install the Norsepower Rotor Sail,
and scaled quickly. odern wind systems are demonstrating measurable and meaningful fuel savings for ships.
buy an oil tanker or develop a coalmine. They can play on the edges, like shale gas, oil trading or mineral exploration,
Current carbon capture technology uses caustic amine-based solvents to separate CO2 from the flue gas escaping a facility's smokestacks.
This provides a boost to the mast movement, even when wind speeds are low, according to the company.
The movements is transformed into electricity using an alternator that increases the frequency of the mast movement.
Expedition 38 Commander Oleg Kotov and Flight engineer Sergey Ryazanskiy of the Russian federal space agency installed the cameras on the hull of the station's Zvezda Service Module.
14:51 GMT, 24 june 2015 There is very little evidence to suggest cannabis can help ease the symptoms of a raft of illnesses,
Micro drones on a MAST Mission Is it a wasp? Is it a spider? Is it a fly?
The Micro Autonomous Systems and Technology (MAST) program is the Army Research Laboratory collaboration with a number of teams.
The MAST-inspired micro robots could provide U s. ground forces, small units and individual soldiers with the capability to conduct surveillance within complex urban environments
MAST hopes to produce lots of different microbots that will give Soldiers additional eyes and ears for different environments.
#Futuristic cargo vessel looks to revolutionize shipping Norwegian ship designer Lade AS has unveiled a futuristic new design for cargo vessels
Inspired by sailboats and aerospace the indskipwith its hull shaped like a symmetrical air foil is designed to use the wind for propulsion.
Lade AS says that the ship hull will generate aerodynamic lift giving a pull in the ship direction.
The hybrid merchant vessel will also use a Liquid Natural gas electric propulsion system which takes the ship to the necessary speed to generate aerodynamic lift on its hull.
Additionally the Vindskip will employ a specialized computer program to analyze meteorological data and calculate the best sailing route based on available wind energy.
Lade AS plans to eventually license the Vindskip concept to shipping companies ship consultants and shipyards.
The Alesund-based company has already been awarded two patents for the hull ability to generate aerodynamic lift
%and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 80%compared to a traditional ship. The designer says that the design is suited particularly well to a number of passenger and container vessels.
and the inventory of traditional ships that are scheduled already to be built as factors that companies will need to consider before licensing a revolutionary design such as the Vindskip.
The Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future and Hatch funds supported the work c
#Crop attack discovery lets team bounce back When disease-causing bacteria invade disease-resistant rice, a small protein produced by the bacteria betrays the invader.
motorcycles, diesel trains, generators, container ships and aircraft, among others. It is hoping to have the same impact as the catalytic converter,
which can vary from a 100cc scooter to a Super Panamax ship p
#Herpes virus genetically engineered to destroy skin cancer cells A new study has pointed to a chink in the armor of skin cancer cells,
The proteins that mussels use to latch onto rocks, ships and jetties in the face of crashing ocean waves has been the focus of much research in this area.
#Shaping Implantable Medical devices to Avoid Immune system Tiny medical implants that can ferry drugs, cells, or other therapies safely to sites of disease are already seeing the light of day.
The Vortex shape was developed computationally to ensure the spinning wind (vortices) occurs synchronously along the entirety of the mast. he swirls have to work together to achieve good performance,
which allows the mast to vibrate as much as possible (an increase in mass reduces natural frequency). At the base of the cone are two rings of repelling magnets,
like a slight nudge to boost the mast movement regardless of wind speed. This kinetic energy is converted then into electricity via an alternator that multiplies the frequency of the mast oscillation to improve the energy-gathering efficiency.
Its makers boast the fact that there are no gears, bolts, or mechanically moving parts, which they say makes the Vortex cheaper to manufacture
Capasso's team designed a faster-than-light running wave of charge along a one-dimensional metamaterialike a powerboat speeding across a lake.
The nanostructure also acts like the boat's rudder, allowing the wakes to be steered by controlling the speed of the running wave.
and using polarized light can even reverse the direction of the wake relative to the running waveike a wake traveling in the opposite direction of a boat."
#Imaging lipid rafts reveals some surprises In a previous collaboration, a team of researchers led by Mikiko Sodeoka at the RIKEN Synthetic Organic chemistry Laboratory
if we could eethe distribution of sphingomyelin in the raft structure, Sodeoka says. But this required overcoming two major challenges.
Because lipid rafts are constantly moving in the cell membrane it is very difficult to pin them down long enough to obtain an image.
Furthermore, the low number of lipid rafts in membranes makes it hard to extract their signals from the background noise.
Murata group made long imaging times possible by preparing artificial membranes with a raft-like composition and immobilizing them on a surface,
while Sodeoka and Fujita groups obtained strong signals from lipid rafts by employing a small, strongly Raman-active conjugated diyne tag and their highly sensitive Raman microscope.
the researchers observed a gradually varying distribution of sphingomyelin in ordered rafts. any people assumed that ordered and disordered domains in lipid rafts were separated clearly,
The technique developed by the team opens the way for in depth functional studies of lipid rafts. efore our work,
Researchers from the EPA, University of Hull, Wageningen University and University college London participated in the study y
#Researchers develop the first flexible phase-change random access memory (Nanowerk News) Phase change random access memory (PRAM) is one of the strongest candidates for next-generation nonvolatile memory for flexible and wearable electronics.
The effective solution is to decrease cell size in sub-micron region as in commercialized conventional PRAM.
thus practical flexible PRAM has not been realized yet. Recently a team led by Professors Keon Jae Lee
and Yeon Sik Jung of the Department of Materials science and engineering at KAIST has developed the first flexible PRAM enabled by self-assembled block copolymer (BCP) silica nanostructures with an ultralow current operation (below one quarter
of conventional PRAM without BCP) on plastic substrates. BCP is the mixture of two different polymer materials,
"Low-power nonvolatile PRAM for flexible and wearable memories enabled by (a) self-assembled BCP silica nanostructures and (b) self-structured conductive filament nanoheater.
KAIST) Another way to achieve ultralow-powered PRAM is to utilize self-structured conductive filaments (CF) instead of the resistor-type conventional heater.
"In addition, due to self-structured low-power technology compatible to plastics, the research team has succeeded recently in fabricating a flexible PRAM on wearable substrates.
"The demonstration of low power PRAM on plastics is one of the most important issues for next-generation wearable and flexible nonvolatile memory.
Our innovative and simple methodology represents the strong potential for commercializing flexible PRAM.""In addition, he wrote a review paper regarding the nanotechnology-based electronic devices in the June online issue of Advanced Materials entitled"Performance Enhancement of Electronic and Energy Devices via Block copolymer Self-Assembly
These chains are small enough n the order of nanometershat they can navigate in the bloodstream like a tiny boat.
This interim product already meets the standards for ship diesel, and, like fats and oils, can be converted through hydrogenation into diesel fuel for cars or kerosene for planes.
and then with the fluorescent molecules that anchor specific proteins to the acrylate, which is infused then into tissue.
Sensors on the ground at Point Mugu mimic a ship landing system so the chopper simply picks up a radio beam
Prosthetic Legs That Anchor Directly To The Bone The FDA has approved just leg prosthetics that anchor directly to the bone,
Waterproof and wireless, it can work even for smaller boats. The pod has its own battery pack
and related impact of their novel method propels a huge variety of research fields investigating effects relevant from raft tectonics down to biological systems
And if this happens bolts hatch-covers and similar components may be slung out with great force depending on how high the internal pressure is.
This antibody is linked to a fluorescent dye as well as a chemical anchor that can attach the dye to the polyacrylate chain.
#Discovery promises new treatments to thwart colon cancer Scientists at St jude Children's Research Hospital have discovered how an immune system protein,
#Gene therapy advance thwarts brain cancer in rats Researchers funded by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging
#Wind-powered freighters To make ships more eco-efficient, engineers have been working with alternative fuels. A Norwegian engineer is currently pursuing a new approach:
With Vindskiptm, he has designed a cargo ship that is powered by wind and gas. Software developed by Fraunhofer researchers will ensure an optimum use of the available wind energy at any time.
The International maritime organization (IMO) wants to reduce the environmental impact of ocean liners. One of the measures: Starting from 2020, ships will only be allowed to use fuel containing maximum 0. 1 percent sulfur in their fuel in certain areas.
However, the higher-quality fuel with less sulfur is more expensive than the heavy fuel oil
The hull of the freighter serves as a wing sail. On the high seas, Vindskiptm will benefit from free-blowing wind making it very energy efficient.
in order to maneuver the ship on the open sea while also maintaining a constant speed, it is equipped with an environmentally friendly
Considering meteorological data the software for the new ship type uses a navigation algorithm to calculate a route with the optimum angle to the wind for maximum effect of the design. ith our weather routing module the best route can be calculated
t angles close to headwind the wind generates a force in the ship direction. The ship is pulled forward.
Since the hull is shaped like a symmetrical air foil, the oblique wind on the opposite side leeward has to travel a longer distance.
This causes a vacuum at the windward side that pulls the ship forward, explains Vindskiptm patent-holder Lade.
This makes the freighter move at speeds of up to 18 to 19 knots, hence just as fast as conventionally powered ships.
Due to its very low fuel consumption, Vindskip#can utilize liquefied natural gas (LNG) as fuel and still be capable in the worst case of 70 days of steaming between bunkering.
are ships like car and truck carriers, big ferries, container ships and LNG CARRIERS. Terje Lade forecasts that the freighter will set sail as soon as 2019.
First, the ship model has to pass numerous tests in a marine research model tank also called a towing tank by experts.
and limiting the buildup of organisms on surfaces such as ship hulls. There are many ways to produce patterning as a fixed, unvarying surface,
I was sitting on a ship balcony thinking his is just my lot in life.
#Protein Suggests a New Strategy to Thwart Infection The newfound ability of a protein of the intestines
Capasso team designed a faster-than-light running wave of charge along a one-dimensional metamaterial like a powerboat speeding across a lake.
The nanostructure also acts like the boat rudder, allowing the wakes to be steered by controlling the speed of the running wave.
and using polarized light can even reverse the direction of the wake relative to the running wave like a wake traveling in the opposite direction of a boat. eing able to control
and plans to ship out the first Ampy gadgets in the fall to crowdfunding backers and people who preorder it online.
But researchers from Portsmouth University have found their structure is so biologically strong it could be copied to make cars, boats and planes.
the hulls of boats and aircraft structures. Barber said: iology is a great source of inspiration
which has spurred protestors into attempting to block the company's drill ship from leaving its port in Seattle e
Moky costs $149 and will ship in October. Its maker is hoping to raise $30, 000 by July 9.
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