According to the Foundation Fighting Blindness Canada millions of people in North america live with varying degrees of irreversible vision loss
In some ways these rocks are like armies waiting in the wings to be needed called upon when to absorb methane.
If we understand how insect immune response fights off fungal infections that might lead to better ways to use microbial control on the insects.
This work was supported by the Lord Foundation of North carolina and the Air force Office of Scientific research (Contract No.
#Scientists create mimic of good cholesterol to fight heart disease, stroke Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have created a synthetic molecule that mimics oodcholesterol
Bad Cholesterol To combat atherosclerosis, researchers are looking for new ways to target and remove low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol (commonly known as adcholesterol) from the body.
and a treatment for anthrax developed for use in case of a bioterrorist attack. One reason pharmaceutical companies are said withdrawing Kinch is that our patent law squeezes them for time.
One of the university's assets is School of medicine research with the human microbiome the trillions of organisms that live in our guts many performing beneficial tasks such as digesting food and fighting off infections.
"for detecting and characterizing even trace amounts of chemicals and biologically important molecules-from explosives, chemical warfare agents and environmental pollutants to disease markers.
revealing the identity of a trace amount of a compound such as a chemical warfare agent. In addition clinically important proteins can be captured by modified plasmonic paper
The later turned her life into a battle for breath eliminating almost all activities and even making sleep a struggle.
and potential bioterror exposures is an urgent global health need. There are no approved anti-Ebola agents,
The Lockheed martin Aerospace Co. through the LANCER IV Program, the Office of Naval Research's Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative and the Air force Office of Scientific research supported the research h
the money goes to programs to fight exotic pests. Measures like this can be successful Kerfoot notes.
Such vaccines, created by reprogramming a patient own immune cells to fight invaders, hold great promise for treating cancer and other diseases.
It like soldiers marching in formation: If one person falls dramatically out of time, it won be long before the whole group falls apart.
In 2014, Cowan identified two drugs with the potential to convert stem cells that make white fat into those that would make brown. his latest study gives us new tools and targets to use in the battle against obesity
The research was funded by MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies. Publication: Jie Bao & Moungi G. Bawendi, colloidal quantum dot spectrometer, Nature 523,670 (02 july 2015;
and mutates too rapidly for T cells to fight against the virus. The researchers inserted a gene for a CAR into blood-forming stem cells in the lab. The CAR,
Or a double-digit decline in crime rates without a double-digit increase in the size of your police force?
This helps make police proactive, rather than reactive. Instead of chasing criminals, officers are increasingly able to stop them before they commit crimes.
Police departments can use it to analyze trends and other data so that they know where crimes are most likely to occur
Built by police officers While the analytics were built by Microsoft, New york city police officers guided the development. Police officers described their biggest pain points
and brainstormed ways that data analysis could help address them. It was built to solve real-life problems.
For example if a suspicious package is left, police can immediately review camera footage to determine who left it.
If theye looking for a suspect and they know what car he drives, they can see where the car has been in recent days and months.
possibly the first time that has happened ever in the 50 years the Los angeles Police department has been responsible for that area.
Adding more police officers is expensive and can be given almost impossible the budget struggles most cities face today.
a relatively small investment can make an existing police force more effective, making communities safer s
When the 29-year-old turned to the police for help they said only missing cases that are deemed suspicious
(thus criminal) by police are allocated search resources. O'Keeffe decided to take matters into her own hands,
According to the Australian Federal Police, over 35,000 Australians are reported missing annually. The MPAN guide has proven so effective that the police are now directing the public to the site.
While O'Keeffe is in search of sponsorship and government funding, the maintenance of the guide is covered by publicly raised funds.
Luckily, experimental products that combat cute radiation syndrome (ARS) have already been tested in people and could be on the cusp of market approval, Nature Medicine reports.
The task force turned to crowdsourcing to develop a design for the memorial to the passengers and crew of Flight 93.
Google Prepares for Fiber Warfare Wall street journal Photo: Flickr/atmtx Related on Smartplanet: Silicon Prairie: Google broadband spurs Kansas city startup village Silicon Prairie now prime startup territory Can Kansas city transform into#Silicon Prairie?
#Who wins in the battle of genome sequencers? Desktop sequencers promise to democratize genomics, but it s difficult for researchers who aren t experts in sequencing technology to sort through the overheated marketing claims made in this fiercely competitive industry.
The ascension of Apple, a company in the vanguard of firms that make devices you don't need until you have one
At the peak of the fight the VA even lost control of its own lab software system to Cerner
It's still early to consider this a platform war, but the industry may get to that point before long,
Google. org, introduced on Thursday a deforestation monitor that could be a useful tool to combat climate change.
and rescue--or for military combat awareness. According to reports, it is being considered for future use in Afghanistan military operations.
Spacex's Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule are scheduled now to blast off from Cape canaveral Air force station in Florida at 4: 47 a m. EST (0947 GMT) Saturday.
This technique was invented chemistry professor Paul C. Trulove research team at the U s. Naval academy and Hugh C. Delong of the Air force Office of Scientific research.
which were perfected by Drexel University doctoral student Kristy Jost and Commander David P. Durkin at the U s. Naval academy.
But Kante points out that microwave cloaks could be useful for the military, to hide objects from radar working at such wavelengths.
Another key item that was revealed by journalists reporting on the Sony leak was that of Hollywood war against Google,
lawyers from the MPAA and half a dozen major studios refer to oliathas their biggest enemy in their battle with online piracy,
and the Sony emails discuss a variety of tactics to fight oliath, including site blocking,
But while Android appears to have onthe so-called platform war, the two-horse race between the leading smartphone vendors Samsung and Apple looks like it may finally be breaking up a bit,
however, will present an interesting battle as both Amazon and Netflix are up for the Best TV Series (Musical or Comedy) Golden Globe.
says that these companies are the vanguard of a larger host of companies that will remake finance. here are equity fundraising
But its battles in Asia are won far from. It is not likely that Uber will pour $700 million of that round into China
A relatively new protocol proposed to the Internet Engineering Task force (IETF), Opflex was designed to offer a highly scalable architecture that works across a broad range of hardware devices to enable multivendor innovation.
and Las vegas. There a new vanguard creating the future of the U s. manufacturing economy. Companies like Makerbot, Techshop and Kickstarter are playing a large part in fixing the breakdown between historical industrialized employment and manufacturing models,
Adding to the frustration of the NSA in its fight to get at your data, Signal code is open source. This means anyone can go to Github
Drones are seen no longer just as a tool of the military or a toy that people use to fly around.
#Hardware Battlefield 2015 The majority of home climate control systems in the world just won work with Nest,
With the company first product launching today at Techcrunch Hardware Battlefield 2015 drones become aware of their surroundings
While demoing in Hardware Battlefield at CES 2015 the drone swiftly moved out of the way of a person walking towards the blades.
If you look at the killing of U k. soldier Lee Rigby for example the problem isn that they have no idea.
and ensure it is fit for purposeripa has been criticized for years for eroding press freedoms and sanctioning disproportionate surveillance by, for instance, enabling police and local councils to spy on journalists.
So U k. police and intelligence agencies obtain whatever CCTV footage theye after from the private operator funding a camera in their shop or carpark or driveway or, hey, even that in-home Dropcam or the lens on that life-logging wearable
But today vote remains a victory for the advocates that have been fighting for two years to limit the scope of the NSA surveillance.
but the fight isn over
#The 3d printed Peek Camera Helps Diagnose Eye disease In Developing Areas The Peek, or Portable Eye Examination Kit app, is based a smartphone system for diagnosing eye problems.
which then activates the instinctual fight-or-flight response in your brain to indirectly affect emotional response.
The system was developed by AT&T in the late 1960s to centralize access to public safety services such as fire, police,
which can greatly increase the risk of misunderstanding police instructions. Finally, the company also has a product for emergency call centers called Next Generation 911,
In theory the algorithms should be able to allocate budget to advertising networks that police their inventory to avoid phony ads.
#Police in California and Texas Test Networked Guns When a police officer draws a firearm he
or she often doesn have an opportunity to radio for backup. Yardarm, a California-based company, is building technology that will automatically alert headquarters in such situations.
The data can be fed to a police dispatch system or viewed on a smartphone. Founded in 2013
Technology that tracks officersaction is slowly gaining acceptance as police chiefs and officers realize that the data can help clear them of wrongdoing
also sells head-worn cameras to help police and security workers document events in the field. ash-cams really set precedent,
Yardarm is holding tests to hone the tracking accuracy with police departments in Santa cruz California, and Carrollton, Texas. The technology has been tested at firing ranges,
but not during active police duty. t is going so well we don even know it there,
This book about the Roman empire during the first years of Augustus Caesar s reign at the end of the Roman Republic describes the events following the bloody Battle of Actium in 31 BC
starting with its influential army of iphone users. obile payment is finally hitting that pivotal moment
In July DARPA gave out $40 million in awards to try to develop brain implants that would help brain-injured soldiers recover lost memories
#Motorized Pants to Help Soldiers and Stroke Victims A soft exoskeleton being developed by researchers at Harvard could let soldiers carry heavy backpacks over long distances or help stroke victims walk more steadily.
fight diseases like FAP by using RNAI to eliminate bad proteins (see The Prize of RNAI and Prescription RNA.
and fitness tracking, helping to monitor the condition of soldiers and firefighters and changing the way we play video games. oul see games where your emotional state changes the character youe playing,
The company also recently began working on a project funded by the U s. military to make batteries for sensors that would monitor the health status of soldiers.
whose police forces are overextended already fighting eal-worldcrimes and who lack the resources and expertise to investigate online activity.
or satellite (see acebook Drones Will Battle Google Balloons to Spread Internet Accessand ow Google Could Disrupt Global Internet access by Satellite.
Stephen Farrell, a computer scientist at Trinity college in Dublin and a member of the Internet Engineering Task force, the group of engineers who maintain
which is why the military is turning to neurological devices, says Justin Sanchez, manager of the DARPA program, known as Subnets,
But Delgado, also funded by the military, left the U s. after Congressional hearings in which he was accused of developing otalitarianmind-control devices.
The trucks were fitted with technology developed by a startup called Peloton Tech (elotonis The french word for platoon.
He adds that the technology could even allow competing companies to platoon together to get these savings.
A European project, called SARTRE (Safe Road trains for the Environment), has been exploring ways for vehicles to travel in platoons since 2009.
has been testing platoons made of three semi-automated or fully automated trucks since 2007. A U s. project, called PATH (Partners for Advanced Transportation technology
Three of the five patients involved in the U s. Department of defense-funded study were injured during military service;
Wong-Foy, a senior research engineer at SRI, has built an army of magnetically steered workers to test the idea that icrorobotscould be a better way to assemble electronics components,
the Army general in charge of the NSA, described it as he greatest transfer of wealth in history.
The"extraordinary breakthrough"shows how'killer'CD8+T cells-the body's'army of hitmen'tasked with taking out new viruses-retain memories of virus strains they encounter.
PTI That means Virscan not only identifies viral infections that the immune system is actively fighting, but also provides a history of an individual's past infections.
and fighting phantom pain will be unveiled by researchers in Vienna on Monday. The innovation is the result of a twofold process,
and fighting phantom pain will be unveiled by researchers in Vienna on Monday. The innovation is the result of a twofold process,
which has led the fight against Ebola in West Africa, is now calling for VSV-ZEBOV to be rolled out to the other centres of the outbreak, Liberia and Sierra leone,
whose 8-year old boy was need in of a low-cost solution Titan Roboticsatlas 3d printer was named after the famous Greek god who was known for fighting alongside the Titans
says Jones. Although gathering the funding is an uphill battle for any startup or nonprofit,
and relationships with the Special Operations Command, Office of Naval Research and U s. Air force Research Laboratory to Raytheon and its customers.
It also provides training, technical and operational support to military, scientific and commercial sectors l
rocket from Cape canaveral Air force station, Fla. as part of the agency Cubesat Launch Initiative. The Atlas v sent the U s. Air force X-37b space plane on its fourth mission,
which also is carrying NASA Materials Exposure and Technology Innovation in Space (METIS) investigation that will expose about 100 different materials samples to the space environment for more than 200 days.
the Air force Space and Missile Systems Center and the National Reconnaissance Office to work together on Cubesat integration and launch opportunities.
It's like soldiers marching in formation: If one person falls dramatically out of time, it won't be long before the whole group falls apart.
The Catalan researchers are the first group in the world to use liposomes that imitate naturally dying cells to fight against Diabetes.
Youngbull envisions use of the device in homeland security, mass transit, public spaces, hospitals, schools, food production and combat theater analytics.
and research groups that fight air pollution elsewhere in Asia. For the moment, Tan said, PM Haze is simply trying to learn about the problem, in all its complexity,
"And the technique might also shed light onto why new treatments-immunotherapies-that are being deployed in the fight against cancers work in some individuals and not in others.
where soldiers or police officers may be committing human rights abuses, a mobile phone has become a key weapon.
what they seem-witness the video of a heroic Syrian boy apparently saving his sister in the middle of a fire fight.
It is designed specifically for war zones and places where human rights abuses are common, but I wondered
In the US, a number of videos have emerged in recent months of police officers shooting suspects,
CD68 may represent a potential new drug target in the fight against malaria a
#Study finds non-genetic cancer mechanism Cancer can be caused solely by protein imbalances within cells,
chemical warfare agents, fraudulent paintings, environmental contaminants and more. he technology wee developing a universal substrate for SERS is a unique and, potentially, revolutionary feature.
#South korea Reports its First 2 Deaths From MERS Virus South korea on Tuesday confirmed the country's first two deaths from Middle east Respiratory Syndrome as it fights to contain the spread of a virus that has killed hundreds
or proteins that could be targeted by drugs, eventually leading to new medicines to fight cancer.
The Air force Office of Scientific research funded the mathematical modeling of gene circuitry in E coli, and the Virginia Tech Student Engineerscouncil has provided funding to move these models and resulting mobile robots into the classroom as teaching tools.
The findings resulted from research sponsored by the Air force Office of Scientific research (AFOSR) through the BIONIC center at Georgia Tech
of the Air force Research Laboratory (AFRL. This research was supported by the Air force Office of Scientific research BIONIC Center through awards FA9550-09-1-0162 and FA9550-14-1-0269, AFOSR award FA-9550-14-1-0015,
and by Georgia Tech Renewable Bioproducts Institute Fellowship. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors
#Re-engineered antibiotic could fight drug-resistant bacteria The US scientists have created a promising second-generation antibiotic to fight against the bacteria that commonly cause respiratory and other infections,
they commended the White house Pollinator Task force for issuing a strategy that has pronged a multi and coordinated approach to bolstering pollinator health.
More than just helping combat disease Prakash also hopes his"frugal science"movement will make science education and research accessible across the globe.
So, for now, instead of a battle of attrition, it's simply becoming a more crowded marketplace.
Doubtless, some historical controversiesike the fights over the Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta oil sands to the US Gulf coast extensive petroleum infrastructureill remain,
developed by maritime risk management specialist Rightship and Carbon War Room. That a 450-percent increase in the past 2. 5 years,
Building such confidence in emerging technologies is the integral focus of Carbon War Room and University college London Shipping Innovation Fast-Tracker (SHIFT), in
chair of the board of Rocky mountain Institute and Carbon War Room. In addition, by incorporating these successful technologies into new builds and existing vessels
All businesses, like humans, fight death. And fight they will, with all the considerable power they have.
So it will be messy and chaotic and not consistent around the world. But in the end, the fossil fuel giants have no strategy that involves fossil fuels
The X-37b space plane, a secretive, experimental program run by the Air force, is capable of remaining in space for almost two years.
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.
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.
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.
and post traumatic stress disorder in soldiers returning from combat zones.''We know that high pressure inside the skull resulting from injuries
'Although the researchers are already working closely with Nasa and developing relations with the UK military,
And the innovations could soon benefit the military, astronauts and even everyday consumers. Scroll down for videos A glimpse into this world of extraordinary gloves,
Another suit, designed by the US ARMY, features a high-pressure hydraulic system to enhance a soldier strength, agility and endurance.
'and protect soldiers from shrapnel and bullets using Kevlar and nanotechnology. The suit would also give people Superman-like powers,
It would also be able to monitor a soldier's heart rate, hydration levels and core temperature.
#Air force bosses reveal plans for hypersonic planes that could fly from New york to London in an HOUR by 2023 By Mark Prigg For Dailymail. com Published:
20:46 GMT, 2 june 2015 Air force bosses have revealed they hope to have a hypersonic plane capable of crossing countries in minutes by 2023.
Air force Chief Scientist Mica Endsley told Military. com that the Air force and DARPA, the Pentagon's research entity, plan to have a new and improved hypersonic air vehicle by 2023.
'Our goal is to make sure the Air force has the knowledge in 2020 or over the next five years to be able to make acquisition decisions using this technology,'Kenneth Davidson,
manager of the hypersonic materials development at the Air force Research Laboratory had told Military. com Carrying a small, conventional warhead,
so the military could strike targets at a safe distance without putting pilots and aircraft at risk.'
Experimental unmanned aircraft developed for the U s. Air force have gone already hypersonic during tests off the Southern California coast,
The Air force said Friday the X-51a Waverider flew for more than three minutes under power from its exotic scramjet engine and hit a speed of Mach 5. 1 last year.
The test marked the fourth and final flight of an X-51a by the Air force
'We are the Air force. What do we want to do with this technology? We want to weaponize it,'Ryan Helbach,
an official with the Air force Research Laboratory, said last week during an exhibition at the Pentagon to showcase various military research projects.'
the Air force's chief scientist, said in a recent interview with Military. com'They (China) are showing a lot of capability in this area.
'program manager Charlie Brink of the Air force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air force base said in a statement.
While the Air force did not have immediate plans for a successor to the X-51a,
accident or warfare have a choice of prosthetic replacements, or in some cases, transplants. But, while prosthetic technology is advancing,
Informally named the icrowave gun it will be unveiled as part of the Russian Defense Ministry Army-2015 international event in Moscow in the coming days.
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.
20:01 GMT, 24 june 2015 It could allow soldiers to change the color and pattern of their camouflage instantly,
However, there is still a long way to go before police could use the system to catch criminals, for example,
the Air force Office of Scientific research (AFOSR), the Center of Excellence for Nanotechnologies (CEGN) of King Abdul-Aziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), the German Research Council (DFG) and the TUM
the Air force Office of Scientific research (AFOSR), the Center of Excellence for Nanotechnologies (CEGN) of King Abdul-Aziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), the German Research Council (DFG) and the TUM
NXP believes car makers will find themselves fighting on two major battlefronts. Their core activity will be designing new forms of autonomous connected vehicles,
#Beauty Is Only (3-D Printed) Skin Deep Global cosmetics giant L'oréal has waged a battle against gravity for more than a century, with countless creams, peels and potions as its weapons.
Now the global beauty brand is pulling out the latest, greatest, high-tech guns in the age-old war on wrinkles:
"It's a different form of Cold war at this point, "said Rob Eggebrecht, cofounder and chief executive of Denver-based Intelisecure, a private cybersecurity firm.
and other ISPS In the ongoing battle between net neutrality advocates and the ISPS, one of the hot-button issues that emerged is
Al-air batteries have actually been used in specialized military applications for years, which is important it means there some preexisting expertise
Bending light with a microchip The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has demonstrated solid-state optical phased array technology in a microchip bringing the ability to bend light to the battlefront.
which could lead to greatly enhanced capabilities for numerous military and commercial applications ncluding autonomous vehicles, robotics, sensors and high-data-rate communications.
See the featured image on top as an example of implementation on the battlefront. Thanks to the secrecy behind DARPA exact achievements, there is a lack of technical details coming out of the defense agency.
but for more specific battlefront demands. If so, it means that phased array optical technology has reached finally silicon-processing-level integration a significant landmark in its development e
when H. G. Well epic 1938 thriller The War of the Worlds was broadcast to an unsuspecting American public.
(and that of others) to apply negative stiffness to ballistics by using nylon (rather than a sponge) as their build material.
enhancing the potential of this technology for both military and consumer applications. hether youe serving our country in uniform, playing in a big game,
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