so I think this hydrated signature of the salts is definitely a'smoking gun, '"he said.
#Signal-Scrambling Tech'Freezes'Drones in Midair A new device that can detect, target and deter commercial drones could be used to keep the flying robots away from areas where they're not wanted, like government properties, airports or your own backyard.
The new Anti-UAV Defense system (AUDS) was developed by three tech companies in the United kingdom. It has a radar detection component,
advanced tracking capabilities and a sneaky little onboard device that keeps drones at bay. Rather than melting drones in midair like Boeing's new Compact Laser weapons System, AUDS shoots the flying vehicles with something that doesn't destroy them radio waves.
Drone operators typically communicate with and direct, the aerial bots using radio signals. Enter AUDS, which uses a drone's communication system against it.
Using directional antennas pointed at the drone, AUDS sends the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) radio signals that interfere with the radio signals coming from the remote operator.
When the drone picks up AUDS'signals, it"freezes, "unsure of where to fly. Whoever is controlling the anti-drone system can keep the UAV hovering at a distance until the machine runs out of battery life and crashes to the ground, according to a report by the BBC.
AUDS can spot a drone from about 5 miles (8 kilometers) away. After zeroing in on its target
it uses video and thermal imaging software to keep the flying vehicle in its sight. Once the drone gets close enough to the anti-drone system,
it's"game over"for the drone. Drone disturbance Even though drones can be incredibly usefulthey can help conservationists keep tabs on protected areas
and help farmers survey their crops more quickly these flying robots have stirred up quite a few problems in recent months.
Just today (Oct 9), two people operating a small drone near the Washington monument in Washington, D c,
. accidentally crashed their UAV on the back lawn of the White house. A similar incident occurred at the presidential residence in January.
Drones are prohibited from flying in the U s. capital but laws and heavy fines don't seem to keep all drones out.
Commercial drones have also been used in attempts to smuggle contraband goods, like cellphones and weapons, into prisons.
And camera-toting drones hovering over private homes have been derided as both a security and privacy concern for residents.
The U s. Federal aviation administration (FAA), which sets guidelines for how and where commercial drones can be flown,
has ruled that small UAVS cannot be flown within 5 miles of airports and that they must remain below 400 feet (122 meters),
where they are unlikely to interfere with piloted aircraft. But a recent deluge of complaints from pilots
has led the FAA to take further action against rule-breaking drone operators. The FAA signed an agreement this week that will allow it to test technologies that can detect the position of operators who are flying their drones in restricted areas,
such as near airports, according to a report by Phys. org. Though the AUDS system doesn't promise to help locate errant drone operators,
it could be used to keep drones away from restricted areas altogether. The radio-jamming technology aboard AUDS doesn't scramble signals from commercial or military aircraft
which use encrypted signals, so it might be safe to use near airports. The new anti-drone system has been tested in the United kingdom, the United states and France, according to the BBC.
But there's no word yet on when or where this drone-freezing technology could be used in these countries u
#Beyond the Helix:''Supercoiled'DNA Twists into Crazy Shapes DNA doesn't just coil in the iconic double helix immortalized in every high school biology textbook.
It also loops into a menagerie of fantastical shapes, new research finds. By revealing the hidden shape of DNA,
For example, sophisticated technologies (such as environmental sensors or communications tools) are used often on battlefields and then are left behind, where they can be scooped up by people who aren't authorized to use them,
Just don't expect these vanishing vehicles to replace your local mail delivery person or even high-tech delivery drones.
#Nicotine-eating bacteria joins stop-smoking fight Why do people smoke? There's no denying that smoking is horrible for you,
For example, the Defense department has approached the company with interest in the development of new armor that is both bulletproof and light enough to wear.
#How to save soldiers'lives with fizz One of the biggest challenges for medics on the battlefield is treating blood loss,
which is among the leading causes of death for wounded soldiers. Bandages infused with chemicals designed to assist blood clotting helps,
a biomedical engineer at the University of British columbia. t similar to when a grenade goes off
not just for soldiers, but also for victims of all varieties of disasters. Paramedics equipped with these fizzy bandages could prolong the lives of patients during transit to the hospital, for instance
and the military. The research, published in the highly respected scientific journal, Nature Communications on September 1st, describes how the composition of gases in different environments can be detected by measuring small colour changes of the innovative bio-inspired sensor.
and Air force Research Laboratory, produced these new kind of colorimetric sensors that favourably compete with conventional gas sensor arrays in simplicity, stability,
whose work was supported by the U s. Air force.""It shows the capabilities of high-sensitivity photodetection and stable performance under bending conditions,
whose work was supported by the U s. Air force.""It shows the capabilities of high-sensitivity photodetection and stable performance under bending conditions,
Other potential applications include goggles, periscopes, optical instruments, photodetectors and sensors. In addition, the superhydrophobic property can be effective at preventing ice
FHE are expected to impact a range of Air force applications including: wearable electronics and sensors for monitoring airman health/performance;
and vibration environments typical of Air force missions. Related to these goals, we are developing approaches to inject and print gallium-based liquid metal alloys into varied materials for stretchable and reconfigurable electronics.
Over the last few years, one team of chemists and materials scientists has begun exploring military applications in harsh environments for aircraft, explosive devices and even combatants themselves.
who is at the Air force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air force base.""In some cases, we incorporate'inks,
Another military application the Air force is pursuing is use of a flexible hybrid system in"bunker buster"bombs,
and could detonate the weapon after surviving the initial impact of ground contact after being dropped from aircraft.
"Overall, the military has the advantage of being able to move ahead with potentially higher risk research,
The military can pursue possibly transformational applications at earlier stages if we see a promising approach to realize
"Our flexible MOFS can be used to boost the usable capacity of natural gas in a tank,
reduce the heating effects associated with filling an ANG tank, and reduce the cooling effects upon discharging the gas from the ANG tank,
"says Jeffrey Long, a chemist with Berkeley Lab's Materials sciences Division and the University of California (UC) Berkeley who is leading this research."
upon discharging the methane down to the minimum delivery pressure, much of it remains in the tank,
"In addition, Long says, the step in the adsorption isotherm is associated with a structural phase change in the MOF crystal that reduces the amount of heat released upon filling the tank,
efficiently remove carbon from the ambient air of a submarine as readily as from the polluted emissions of a coal fired power plant.
or, in the case of a submarine, expelled into the sea.""Carbon dioxide is 15 percent of the gas coming off a power plant,
can be tuned to remove carbon dioxide from the room-temperature air of a submarine, for example, or the 100-Degree fahrenheit) flue gases from a power plant."
"From flue gas to submarines Power plants that capture CO2 today use an old technology whereby flue gases are bubbled through organic amines in water, where the carbon dioxide binds to amines.
"We're also hoping to develop something that might be tested in a submarine, "Long said.
The module has a plastic tank that stores a nontoxic nonvolatile, liquid-salt propellant. Above the reservoir are the chips,
Because the module doesn have pressurized tanks, bulky valves, or neutralizing cathodes, it has a higher thrust-to-mass ratio than low-power,
Chemical systems are made with explosive pressurized tanks, which are allowed not to piggyback on the larger rockets that carry small satellites into space. o theye easy to produce,
and Sergei Gryaznov of Aurasense Therapeutics is the first to show spherical nucleic acids (SNAS) can be used as potent drugs to effectively train the immune system to fight disease,
The initial treatment triggers a cell-specific immune response all over the body. By increasing the body's immune response toward a specific cell type,
#A nanomaterial to heal broken bones A new material that triggers stem cells to begin forming bone could enable a more effective treatment for hard-to-heal bone breaks
forming a material that helps trigger bone formation within the body. We are trying to overcome these problems by avoiding the use of growth factors as we recapitulate the natural bone-healing process,
As part of future research, Gaharwar plans further investigation into the process by which the nanoplatelets trigger cell differentiation.
scientists have designed"invisibility stickers"that could one day help soldiers disguise themselves, even when sought by enemies with tough-to-fool infrared cameras.
"Soldiers wear uniforms with the familiar green and brown camouflage patterns to blend into foliage during the day,
flexible layer of camo with the potential to take on a pattern that will better match the soldiers'infrared reflectance to their background and hide them from active infrared visualization."
the film needed some kind of trigger. An initial search revealed that acetic acid vapors could cause the film to swell
But these conditions won't work for soldiers in the field.""What we were doing was the equivalent of bathing the film in acetic acid vapors--essentially exposing it to concentrated vinegar,
a mechanical trigger that might more realistically be used in military operations. Although the technology isn't ready for field use just yet,
he envisions soldiers or security personnel could one day carry in their packs a roll of invisibility stickers that they could cover their uniforms with as needed."
They also could have uses outside the military--for example in clothing that can selectively trap
#Medical nanoparticles for the local treatment of lung cancer Nanoparticles can function as carriers for medicines to combat lung cancer:
Additionally, the scientists also focus on developing other triggers for switching the adhesion like light, magnetic field, electric field or changes in temperature.
Currently, no autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) can achieve this ultra-fast performance except torpedoes which require a lot of fuel.
All aircraft, from drones to the Ariane launcher, are equipped currently with an inertial measurement unit,
#Molecular tinkering doubles cancer drug's efficacy The drug paclitaxel has been used for decades to fight breast, ovarian, lung and other cancers.
"The study investigated several triggers that can cause protein structures to assemble or break apart, but it primarily focused on heat.
When the active ingredients of sunscreen absorb UV LIGHT a chemical change triggers the generation of oxygen-carrying molecules known as reactive oxygen species (ROS.
whose work was supported by the U s. Air force.""It shows the capabilities of high-sensitivity photodetection and stable performance under bending conditions,
#How Chronic Inflammation Can Lead to Cancer Researchers discover how the immune system can create cancerous DNA mutations when fighting off infection.
the researchers unveil how one of a battery of chemical warfare agents used by the immune system to fight off infection can itself create DNA mutations that lead to cancer.
#Single Drop of Blood in Brain Can Trigger Immune response Akin to Multiple sclerosis Disruption of the blood-brain barrier triggers a cascade of events that results in autoimmunity and brain damage characteristic of multiple sclerosis.
as the trigger for the disease-causing process. hese findings offer a completely new way of thinking about how the immune system attacks the braint puts the blood in the driver seat of the onset
Page parent company will also include the drone delivery project Wing and investment arms of the California technology giant. undamentally
The projects include self-driving cars, Google glass, internet balloons, drones, health care, GOOGLE TV, mobile payments, home automation and its Google+social network, among others.
"It could be that these trigger settings in the embryo that affect the risk of obesity or diabetes in life,
which have extremely low levels of the proteins that trigger immune reactions, says Tigenix head Eduardo Bravo.
The tank was completely dry. This is the most exciting test we have run so far.
trigger inflammation. These receptors are thought also to be involved in the birth of neurons. A drug called montelukast (Singulair), regularly prescribed for asthma and allergic rhinitis, blocks these receptors,
Or, perhaps, it's a secret weapon for X-men superhero Wolverine. But look again. Doctors in Spain say this is the world's first 3-D-printed rib cage,
#New uper-Tomatocan Fight Cancer, Heart disease, Diabetes and Alzheimer Scientists said that they have invented a uper-tomatowhich can fight cancer, heart disease, diabetes and Alzheimer.
#Augmented reality Glasses Are Coming To The Battlefield Using a pair of augmented reality glasses, a Marine signals intelligence (SIGINT) specialist monitors web traffic while he lies on the ground,
his assault rifle trained on a nearby building. Amid the cacophony of cyber-noise in the city--the thousands of simultaneous, harmless Skype sessions, movie streams,
A convoy of enemy pickups is headed directly towards the platoon. The Marine pushes out an alert to the rest of the platoon and then switches from dual-display mode to left-only as he raises his weapon to his eye.
This is what the Office of Naval Research (ONR) is working on with its ongoing AR Glasses project;
the Marine will be able to keep his gaze on the battlefield, increasing what the military calls"situational awareness."
"And they can also facilitate commands and information between ordinary soldiers. The glasses have already been demonstrated at cyber-intelligence exercises in November, January, and March.
the ONR glasses allow SIGINT soldiers to monitor a variety of enemy waveforms, indicating Internet traffic, 2g/SMS, VHF/push-to-talk radio systems,
found he couldn't monitor his Android device and hold a weapon at the same time.""He was patrolling with an infantry unit,
Still, Fitzpatrick says the 1. 5-GHZ dual-core glasses are still several years from readiness for the field, mainly due to the physical rigors of battle.
Pete Jameson, chief operating officer at ODG, points out that the company R-6 glasses, commercially available for just under $5, 000, have an ambient light sensor and swappable photochromic shields for handling glare."
In the heat of battle, insurgents may switch between a variety of modes of communications. hat
#Navy Makes Armor Clear As Clay It a transparent armor so good it might turn the phrase lass cannonon its head.
While the military already has ways of protecting its cameras and windows spinel does it in a much lighter way.
and lanterns are loaded onto a Royal air force plane headed for Nepal. The death toll of the earthquake that shook Nepal over the weekend just topped 5, 000.
#Autonomous Robots To Help Remove Car bomb Threats Hopefully, you don't have to fret about risks like car bombs in your everyday life,
but the vehicle can't be accessed safely by other bomb disposal tools. AVERT consists of a single deployment unit and four autonomous robot bogies
#Squid-Inspired Tape Could Help Camouflage Soldiers No matter the color or texture of their surroundings,
notes that it might be even better for soldiers operating at night who are still visible by cameras that pick up the near-infrared.
#Small Beerotor Drone Learns To fly By Sight Alone Secretly, a lot of drones are cell phone parts disguised as flying machines.
Advances in cellular technology, like miniaturized powerful batteries, cheaper smaller cameras, and sensors like accelerometers have all found their way from our pockets to the skies.
Now, a new drone eye wants to shed cell parts like a vestigial tail, and instead make drones fly on sight alone.
Accelerometers are neat tools, and in drones they detect the force of gravity, letting the craft know which way is down.
But theye hardly the only way for flying vehicles to stay level. The Beerotor drone made by roboticists Fabien Expert and Franck Ruffier at Aix Marseille University in Marseille,
France, manages to fly without one. Instead, the three-ounce rotorcraft uses electronic, almost panoramic eyes that look out at the ground below,
protective force fields may one day make their way onto the battlefields of the future. The device as patented only protects against the shockwave of an explosion,
Next, the signal from the sensor triggers a laser (or a blast of electricity or microwave energy) that heats up a section of air or water
creating a plasma shield in between the explosion and the vehicle. The plasma's temperature and density help deflect
but the design is written broadly enough that it can potentially protect everything from ships to submarines, offshore platforms, ground vehicles, buildings,
while heavier-armored tanks and MRAPS could save their plasma blasts for only larger threats.
The system will have a database of bomb explosion signatures so it knows just which strategy to use.
but wel have to wait until it tested before we can tell if it the future of war or just a bunch of hot air.
The ability of liquid metal with its own embedded power source could even one day be the basis to build self repairing armor on tanks and changing aircraft fuselages for fuel efficiency and speed.
But military engineers would also probably like to take a crack at turning liquid metal into shape shifting drones and robots, familiar to Terminator 2 fans as Skynet's T-1000.
This makes the project both exciting for the future of science and war, as well as a sign that John Connor probably should stay away from China in the future e
so that might be a future job for drones. If systems like GENESI become widespread, they could drastically improve city infrastructures,
#Tiny Drones Can See The World Like Insects Do Drones with better fly-sighttiny insect drones could be useful for disaster-area surveillance
Now researchers from The swiss Federal Institute of technology have created an artificial eye and navigation system for these drones based on insectsvision,
This isn the first attempt to put streamlined insect-inspired sensors into drones but it the first time it been done for such tiny drones (others have tried to hook them up with bulky digital cameras.
Insect-style vision works well for drones because it doesn have very high resolution, but it is highly sensitive to objectsmovement
or changes in how light is reflectederfect for maneuvering drones through small spaces with lots of obstacles.
The artificial eye The swiss researchers designed weighs only two milligrams. It made of three photodetectors with a lens on top.
the researchers plan to configure several artificial eyes on one drone to create a more sophisticated visual system,
And that figure, from a 2011 Institute of Medicine report, doesn even count kids in pain, veterans with devastating war injuries,
while other pursuits like Calico (Google war on aging) and Life sciences (developing the glucose-sensing contact lens) are split into separate entities.
Alphabet will also include Google Wing drone delivery attempt and its X lab, as well as its Venture and Capital investment companies.
and verify products to combat fakes. The annual global value of counterfeit goods has been projected to be more than $1. 5 trillion by the International Chamber of commerce.
I believe we are going to gain a critical capacity to help our wounded warriors and others who today suffer from intractable neurological problems,
#Marines Are Testing A Robot Dog For War Robots can die--at least, not in the tragic,
--so having a robot accompany soldiers gives them at the bare minimum an expendable scout.
preparing for a future where robots fight alongside American troops at war. Spot isn the first of Bigdog siblings to train with the Marines.
Spot may not be the final form of the robot dog the Marines take to war, but by training with a robot now,
the human devil dogs may march into battle alongside mechanical brethren. Watch a short video about the tests below s
#The Long-Fought Battle Between TV and Phone for Outlet Space is No more Samsung has released a monitor with a charging station at the base where users can wirelessly charge their phones.
an anticoagulant drug. rom a clinical perspective, that far and away the most important issue here, Hartgerink said. here a lot of different things that can trigger blood coagulation,
. most of them trucks and buses. But until manufacturers can find a way to pack more methane into a tank at lower pressures and temperatures,
whereas compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicles compress natural gas into an empty tank under 250 atmospheres (3, 600 psi).
but require significant insulation in the tank system to maintain the natural gas at minus-162 degrees Celsius (minus-260 degrees Fahrenheit)
so there is less cooling of the fuel required. f you fill a tank that has adsorbent, such as activated charcoal,
You don have to have as much cooling technology associated with filling your tank. The flexible MOF material could perhaps even be placed inside a balloon-like bag that stretches to accommodate the expanding MOF as methane is pumped in
Michigan, Ford recognized that ANG has the potential to lower the cost of onboard tanks,
the low-pressure application facilitates novel concepts such as tanks with reduced wall thicknesses along with conformable concepts
allowing you to interact with a game from different rooms or even trigger distinct actions based on
allowing you to interact with a game from different rooms or even trigger distinct actions based on
1 prevails, it triggers the Akt pathway. In this way, an imbalance in the amount of the two proteins can lead to cell proliferation and cancer formation.
and whether or not the person has recently been in contact with guns and explosives.
and fighting an important cause of progression in Alzheimer's disease,"said one of the team, Andrew Saykin from the Indiana University School of medicine.
which triggers the production of pro-inflammatory proteins in response to infection, tissue damage, or stress.
and fighting an important cause of progression in Alzheimer's disease,"said Saykin n
#China now spends more on science than the EU, will soon overtake the US On Monday,
Fortunately, students in Switzerland have answered this very problem with the calevo an electric wheelchair that has the ability to ascend steps directly by lowering a tank-style tread that can roll the wheelchair up a flight of stairs.
Knowing this, they hope to understand what triggers mutations in the PRC2 gene, which has been linked to the development of lymphoma, leukaemia,
and so new techniques to battle it would have a significant impact n
#Researchers create lithium-air battery that could be 10x more powerful than lithium-ion A new lithium-air battery created by researchers at the University of Cambridge points the way to the ultimate battery packs of the future,
and stored in a tank flowing to the evaporator.""Overnight the cooling process is achieved, adsorption and evaporation period is performed."
Blocking this enzyme in glioblastoma cells could offer a new way to combat such tumors,
"said David Mills, Peter J. Shields Endowed Chair in Dairy Food science at UC Davis and senior study author."
After the U s. dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, doctors noticed that radiation patients weren't able to generate new white blood cells to fend off infections.
"This research was funded in part by Airbus Group, Boeing, Embraer, Lockheed martin, Saab AB, Tohotenax, ANSYS Inc.,the Air force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air force base,
We observed that the residual water in the container was pumped to reactor tank, where it received a dosing of the dissociating elements in predetermined amounts.
Subsequently, the water is conducted to a clarifier tank, to sediment the excess charge of dissolved elements;
but could not explain what triggers this rapid learning or how the brain decides which mode to use at any one time.
as we can easily install this system into a drone, airplane, or satellite to detect plant photosynthesis on a large scale to assess ecosystem health,
"The work was supported by the Air force Office of Scientific research, the National Research Foundation of Korea and the Cornell Center for Materials Research funded by the National Science Foundation,
"An important aspect of PSM function is stimulating the body's own immune system to fight cancer,
which act as weapons to cause disease, such as toxins or degrading enzymes). The building block, called the Passenger-associated Transport Repeat (PATR),
and can reach 11 percent or even higher in bone repairs for gunshot wounds or reconstruction after tumor removal.
3-D printed'tissue'to help combat disease A bench-top brain that accurately reflects actual brain tissue would be significant for researching not only the effect of drugs,
But the battle wasn't over. Packing a sufficient number of nanomagnets onto a chip meant aligning them perpendicularly,
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