#Laser weapon Melts Test Drone in Midair A new laser weapon that can burn up targets in just a few seconds recently melted
and destroyed a test drone flying over California. Known as the Compact Laser weapons System, the futuristic, drone-shooting weapon is a smaller, more versatile version of the High energy Laser Mobile Demonstrator (HEL MD),
a system developed by Boeing to be mounted on top of U s army vehicles. Both weapons forgo conventional bullets for"directed energy"a focused beam of energy that heats up
and damages a target. 7 Technologies That Transformed Warfare"Think of it like a welding torch being put on a target,
aim and fire at a small drone flying above a testing facility in Point Mugu, California.
The laser gun acts quickly (it took just 15 seconds for it to shoot the test drone out of the sky) and discreetly, according to Neal.
who noted that this lower weight makes the portable laser gun easier to move around than the HEL MD
In the recent test in California, the smaller laser shot down a drone, but Boeing's goal is to develop a compact laser that can also shoot down incoming explosives, such as mortars,
missiles and smaller artillery something the HEL MD has already proved it can do in tests.
The big draw for both laser systems is that they're cost-effective weapons. The only cost associated with operating them is the cost of electricity to power the lasers, according to Boeing,
which did not state exactly how much the U s. military would save by switching to laser guns.
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,
Just don't expect these vanishing vehicles to replace your local mail delivery person or even high-tech delivery drones.
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.
a biomedical engineer at the University of British columbia. t similar to when a grenade goes off
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.
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.
"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,
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.
the film needed some kind of trigger. An initial search revealed that acetic acid vapors could cause the film to swell
a mechanical trigger that might more realistically be used in military operations. Although the technology isn't ready for field use just yet,
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,
"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.
#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,
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,
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.
found he couldn't monitor his Android device and hold a weapon at the same time.""He was patrolling with an infantry unit,
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."
#Navy Makes Armor Clear As Clay It a transparent armor so good it might turn the phrase lass cannonon its head.
#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,
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.
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.
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,
Alphabet will also include Google Wing drone delivery attempt and its X lab, as well as its Venture and Capital investment companies.
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.
which triggers the production of pro-inflammatory proteins in response to infection, tissue damage, or stress.
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 stored in a tank flowing to the evaporator.""Overnight the cooling process is achieved, adsorption and evaporation period is performed."
"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.
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,
which act as weapons to cause disease, such as toxins or degrading enzymes). The building block, called the Passenger-associated Transport Repeat (PATR),
"Devils aren't a silver bullet, but we think that they could do a lot of good on the mainland,
"The neuron is not building the'gun'as it sits there on the membrane--it's already there,
and simultaneously interact with the same vesicle to efficiently trigger neurotransmitter release, an exciting area for further studies."
discovered synaptotagmin-1 and showed that it plays an important role as a calcium sensor and calcium-dependent trigger for neurotransmitter release."
A team of researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of engineering and Applied science (SEAS) has engineered a new, soft actuator that harnesses the power of instability to trigger instantaneous movement.
"These fast-moving instabilities, called snap-through instabilities, trigger large changes in internal pressure, extension, shape,
"This amoeba is a cluster bomb--a voracious killer. In the back of my mind I was thinking the parasite was going to decimate the host cells no matter
This triggers the cancer to be more aggressive, as young cells are able to replicate more than mature cells--causing cancer cells to grow faster
"The study investigated several triggers that can cause protein structures to assemble or break apart, but it primarily focused on heat.
This approach could generate new weapons against bacteria for which there are no effective antibiotics, says Timothy Lu, an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science and biological engineering."
The team gathered water samples from a research site on the Colorado river near the town of Rifle
like the one from the water samples in Rifle, scientists use substances called primers to draw out
and reconfigurable will manned free aircraft and traditional weapon systems to do more, and essentially multiply combat power at decreased risk to the warfighter.
U of T researcher finds the ain trigger A new study led by University of Toronto researcher Dr. David Lam has discovered the trigger behind the most severe forms of cancer pain.
which then triggers the pain. Lam was also able to determine a clear, correlative relationship between the two:
which can be caused by environmental triggers such as allergens, cigarette smoke and car fumes and airways twitchiness in allergic asthma. ur paper shows how these triggers release chemicals that activate Casr in airway tissue
and drive asthma symptoms like airway twitchiness, inflammation, and narrowing. Using calcilytics, nebulized directly into the lungs,
#Transparent Armor based on Spinel Could Also Ruggedize Your Smart Phone Imagine a glass window that tough like armor,
and gun blasts going offt got to be resistant to all that. And so that where spinel comes into its own,
The military in particular may want to use spinel as transparent armor for vehicles and face shields.
confuse the missile. He acknowledges, n Dod, we are the premier place for development of fiber lasers.
doctors have in their arsenal many powerful weapons, including various forms of chemotherapy and radiation.
Researchers have discovered a way to trigger a preventive response to a flu infection without any help from the usual players the virus itself or interferon, a powerful infection fighter.
This enzyme, also a protein, proved to be the silver bullet in Yount work on flu prevention.
In the future, a special shield room for detecting the bio-magnetic field would be unnecessary because this device has a large field range.
dubbed Minion, was made by Oxford Nanopore technologies and is no larger than a modern cell phone.
The findings, published Oct 19 in Nature Immunology, reveal previously unknown weapons in the body antiviral immune arsenal
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,
and whether they can be used alongside next-generation drugs that mimic the effects of cold to trigger brown fat to burn energy in humans.
The monoclonal antibodies to SAS1B can be thought of as a homing mechanism to guide a miniscule warhead selectively to the surface of cancer cells.
When that warhead enters the bloodstream, it seeks out all the cells that are marked on their surfaces with SAS1B targets
#Tiny Drones That Navigate with Insect Eyes A tiny artificial eye inspired by the vision systems of insects could help small flying drones navigate their surroundings well enough to avoid collisions while buzzing around in confined,
An emerging class of very small flying drones has taken off in public and private research labs in recent years (see obotic Insect Takes Off.
These mini drones could be valuable in spying and surveillance; they might also be useful for things like monitoring disaster areas
will be to combine multiple artificial eyes into configurations that allow the drone to ee all aroundand avoid collisions,
He says the elementary eyes are suited particularly for drones that weigh 50 grams or less,
. where handguns and some other firearms are prohibited, unlike in the U s. There are more than twice as many heart donors per capita in the U s as in the U k. Large believes taking hearts from circulatory-death donors could expand the supply in the U k. by almost a third,
The tadpole endoscope, swimming in a stomach-shaped test tank The capsule itself is a simple structure, 13mm in diameter,
for making bulletproof vests and in constructing buildings. Sosanya is in the early states of developing the new weaving method, an idea
By scaling up the method, Sosanya believes it could be used in building construction and on a smaller level in bulletproof vests both areas in
Still, the act of combining two different weapons antibodies and antibiotics to fight off infections is an intriguing idea.
As CEO and President of Alphabet, Page and Brin will oversee Google as well as affiliated companies like the life extension project Calico and a drone delivery venture called Wing.
including driverless cars and drones.""What is Alphabet?""Page wrote.""Alphabet is mostly a collection of companies.
which focuses on moon-shot projects such as Google's drone delivery service, also will be part of Alphabet,
the two-day delivery service that in future Amazon wants to be powered by drones. The new Dash buttons appear to be an extension of a Dash system it launched last year aimed at its Amazon Fresh subscribers
As for those aspirations, Page dropped a few hints, highlighting some recent works from the secretive Google X lab, such as drone delivery dream Project Wing,
Microsoft pulled the trigger on Build 10512, which it made available to Windows Insiders on the Fast Ring."
and functions is crucial for their further development of as cancer-fighters. To develop next generation nanomedicines with superior anticancer attributes we must understand the correlation between their physicochemical properties--specifically particle size
and trigger an inflammatory response that damages the liver tissue and also destabilizes the metabolic activity of the liver cells.
Triggers for stress so called stress factors include not only emotional strain but also physical factors such as heat cold too much sun infections injuries and toxic substances--for example in cigarette smoke.
and trigger shorting as Sony discovered in 2006. Shorting can also occur if the battery is charged too fast
It is our vision for the future that such plants in the urban area are served by tank vehicles
or imitate a pair of pliers or the firing of a pistol. These gestures are intended not however for communicating with deaf people;
By mimicking the firing of a pistol for example a user can switch to another browser tab change the map's view from satellite to standard
and Eliza Hall Institute scientists have discovered a small molecule that blocks a form of cell death that triggers inflammation opening the door for potential new treatments for inflammatory disease such as rheumatoid arthritis Crohn's disease
'when activated allowing it to attach to the cell membrane and trigger cell death. It's like flicking a molecular switch she said.
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