#Sewer Sensors Detect Homemade Bombs As They're Being made Could the secret to finding illicit explosives labs before they harm anyone be hiding in a city's poop?
A European union-funded research project spearheaded by the Swedish Defense research agency FOI aims to sniff out the telltale signs of bomb-making through the sewer system.
while different sensors above the ground monitor for elevated amounts of gas byproducts of the bomb-making process in the area.
The gun slingers sneaking booze in? yet it is many factors of scale larger than the deaths with MJ...
while the robot ships had the ability to move on their own there is always a human in the loop before the robot boats fire their weapons.
and ONR said they were armed with a variety of weapons--from. 50 caliber machine guns to high-powered microwave weapons.
armor light enough to drop isn t very protective. Earlier attempts at flying tanks proved less effective.
While the current solicitation for the ULCV doesn't specify it a previous solicitation wanted the vehicle to to incorporate a medium caliber weapon into squad operations.
and with a big gun onboard to help them out. Lastly the Army is also looking at a light reconnaissance vehicle (LRV) also carried by Chinook helicopters both inside and underneath.
and engaging hardened enemy bunkers light armored vehicles and dismounted personnel in machine gun and sniper positions.
"this chopper is primarily an antitank weapon, and is limited to less than 300 miles of range.
and testing weapons in space s
#Solar Sponge Efficiently Makes Steam Generating steam is enormously useful. Much of the world's energy actually comes from steam-coal power plants heat up water to produce water vapor,
the nerves that trigger muscular movement in the eyes and the way that the brain processes vision.
#A new weapon in the fight against cancer Cancer happens when cells in the body start growing uncontrollably.
He stressed that unlike the US-led coalition of countries that bombs militant troops in Syria
The idea is to create limbs made up of cells from the amputee's own body to produce an armor one day leg--tailored to them
This approach could generate new weapons against bacteria for which there are no effective antibiotics, says Timothy Lu,
allowing you to interact with a game from different rooms or even trigger distinct actions based on
is already bound by strict ethical regulations that bar it from investing in"particularly inhumane"weapons makers,
so a computerized ATLAS hardware"trigger system"grabs the data, makes a fast evaluation, decides if it might hold something of interest to physicists,
"This trigger hardware system makes measurements but they are very crude, fast and primitive.""To further pare down the data,
helped develop software to monitor the performance of the trigger systems'thousands of computer processors."
construction and delivery of the ATLAS"readout"system an electronic system within the ATLAS trigger system that sends collision data from ATLAS to its data processing farm.
adamantly and publicly oppose autonomous weapons. Last May, a meeting was organised at the UN to assess the ethical and sociological questions that arise from their development and deployment,
In July, the Future of Life Institute released an open document calling for a ban on autonomous weapons.
There are, as yet, no agreements or even proposals to ban autonomous weapons, but discussions in the UN are ongoing.
but the institute has made undoubtedly a brave decision in rejecting the billions of dollars of contracts thrown at the military weapons industries.
The moral, ethical and legal arguments against weapons that can make decisions about who to kill will rubble on.
a chemical change triggers the generation of oxygen-carrying molecules known as reactive oxygen species (ROS). If a sunscreen agents penetrate the skin,
launching via a catapult, flying several quick passes around the the whole area, and landing with a couple of bounces on the thick grass.
Indicated embedded a few trigger points in the environment that show additional content such as educational videos,
The vest can withstand. 38 and. 22 calibre bullets fired from a distance of three metres, Panomkorn Khwakhong,
The armour, made from silkworm cocoons mixed with a special resin and then hydraulically compressed, is durable and lightweight,
and make a version that can withstand automatic weapons fire, such as the M16 assault rifles s
#Scientists identify protein that will help treatment of arthritis Scientists have identified a protein that regulates the severity of tissue damage caused by rheumatoid arthritis.
and instead send messages through a computer algorithm to elec rodes placed around the patient's knees to trigger controlled eg muscle movements.
and instead send messages through a computer algorithm to electrodes placed around the patient's knees to trigger controlled leg muscle movements.
and it could be malaria Scientists might have made accidentally a huge step forward in the search for a cure for cancer discovering unexpectedly that a malaria protein could be an effective weapon against the disease.
triggers premature cellular aging and slows down cell proliferation, resulting in accelerated aging. It was thought previously that progerin did so through causing the nucleus to be deformed,
Modulating the ph levels of the solutions in those environments triggers the aptamers to atchor eleasethe target biomolecule.
A'Smoking Gun'for Neurotransmitter Release In this latest research the scientists found that when the SNARES and synaptotagmin-1 join up,
"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."
"There's a lot of different things that can trigger blood coagulation, but when you're on heparin, most of them don't work,
when you hit your elbow on something and trigger your unny bone. The median nerve in the upper arm and shoulder is connected to the other fingers on the hand
It the nerve that is stimulated when a hit to the elbow triggers the unny bone.
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
He died in 2005 at the age of 8. The researchers explained that cellular interactions that trigger the production of myelin are especially hard to pinpoint.
The new technique for achieving this involves using the second cell (the neuron) as a trigger to attract the first cell (the glial cell.
The study investigated several triggers that can cause protein structures to assemble or break apart, but it primarily focused on heat.
more expensive devices The Minion is a handheld DNA-sequencing device developed by Oxford Nanopore,
The sequencer has been made available to thousands of laboratories around the world via the Minion Access Programme,
accuracy and reproducibility that can be expected from the Minion. The findings show that the device provided consistent results between labs
While the data from the Minion device did contain more errors than larger, more expensive devices so-called standard short-read technologies other researchers have shown that theye of high enough quality to infer full-length genomes from scratch, for the E coli bacterium, Influenza virus,
the data generated in the study actually represents a snapshot of the Minion performance in April 2015.
and Senior Analyst in Microbial Genomics at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human genetics. using the Minion in a project with secondary-school students in Oxford,
doctors have in their arsenal many powerful weapons, including various forms of chemotherapy and radiation.
"Cyber warfare doesn't require a significant number of troops or a superior set of bombs,
and inserted a digital bomb, "Michael Riley of Bloomberg Business reported in 2014. The frequency of identity theft has increased dramatically, according to a report released last year by the National security agency,
The report concluded the construction of the mine's tailings dam foundation on a sloping glacial lake deposit amounted to loading a gun and pulling the trigger.
and instead send messages through a computer algorithm to electrodes placed around the patient's knees to trigger controlled leg muscle movements.
'It could be that these trigger settings in the embryo that affect the risk of obesity or diabetes in life.'
and buoyancy modules as well as vehicle armour. h
#The material with the MIDAS touch: New supercooled liquid instantly glows gold when it's touched By Jonathan O'Callaghan for Mailonline Published:
and artificially triggers sensors in your eyes during the flight to trick the brain into adjusting to the new time zone.
which artificially triggers the light sensors in a person's eyes to make their brain believe the sun is coming up.
The ship is fitted with speed of light weapons, while the ultra-strong acrylic hull, coated in a form of carbon called graphene, could be made see-through.
There would be an electromagnetic gun at the bow, capable of firing projectiles the same distance as today long-range cruise missiles.
extendable flight deck and hangar for remotely piloted drones, many equipped with weapons, which could target the enemy without putting the crew in harm way.
Ping pong ball-style cushion can be attached to any gun to slow down shots and prevent fatal injuries Fatal shootings by police
and can be attached to the barrel of any gun. The idea is that the ball breaks off
or'bullet capture device'fitted over the barrel of a gun. Once the gun is fired
the bullet embeds itself inside the device without a chance of it escaping. The bullet's energy is transferred simultaneously to the alloy ball,
If the gun is fired again, a regular bullet will be fired. The company said the technology represents a critical'missing link'between lethal force and less-lethal force.'
'We already use robots on the battlefield today to examine IEDS (improvised explosive devices) and to detonate them.'
(and'doomsday'electromagnetic weapons) at bay It could be the ultimate armour against cyberwarfare. A Utah firm has revealed a new,
The material comes amid growing concern over the development of electromagnetic weapons that could knock out computers.
Controversial tech boss and presidential candidate John Mcafee recently warned a'doomsday'electronic weapon could wipe out 90%of Americans
-and warned that gun crime should not be the'single issue'that decided votes.''Our leaders are nearly all ill prepared for this near certain, not-too-distant event.'
'From Ocean's Eleven to Star trek, weapons that wipe out enemy electronics are a staple of science fiction films.
For years, scientists have been attempting to create such a weapon as part of Champ, or the Counter-electronics High-powered microwave Advanced Missile Project.
''But it is much easier to disprove a cause (as we did with guns above) than it is to prove a cause.''
'But if it is then surely weighing the possible deaths of 90%of our citizens due to cyber warfare against gun violence
the weapons are alsmost ready for use. Once integrated into JASSM, Champ will be a'first day of war'standoff weapon it claims.
Because it can be launched by both bombers and fighters, Lockheed's Joint Air-to-surface Standoff Missile,
'That's an operational system already in our tactical air force'In 2012, aircraft manufacturer Boeing successfully tested the weapon on a one-hour flight during which it knocked out the computers of an entire military compound.
experts believe the missile is equipped with an electromagnetic pulse cannon. This uses a super-powerful microwave oven to generate a concentrated beam of energy
Boeing's CHAMP takes out enemy electronics with pulse The missile is equipped with an electromagnetic pulse cannon.
with countries scrambling to build their own electromagnetic pulse weapons. Professor Trevor Taylor, Professorial Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, has said previously the Western world would be more vulnerable attack because of its increased reliance on electronics.'
Designers Charles Bombardier and Ray Mattison envisage the craft could be launched using a magnetic railgun system to catapult it into the sky at high speed.
#A drug used to rid people of worms is a new weapon against malaria IVERMECTIN,
and graduate student Gopinath Rajadinakaran teamed up with UK-based Oxford Nanopore technologies to show that the company's Minion nanopore sequencer can sequence genes faster,
called a Minion, works by feeding a single strand of DNA through a tiny pore.
No one had used yet a Minion to sequence copies of RNA, and though it was likely it could be done,
and then ran them through the Minion's nanopores. In this one experiment, they not only found 7,
"A lot of people said'The Minion will never work, '"Graveley says, "but we showed it works using the most complicated gene known."
since the Minion is both relatively inexpensive and highly portable so that it requires almost no lab space."
"Graveley will speak about the research at the Oxford Nanopore Minion Community Meeting at the New york Genome Center on Dec 3.
"Plus the fact that the Minion is a hand-held sequencer that you plug into a laptop is simply unbelievably cool
stealth bombs that slip past the brain's defenses to attack an incurable form of cancer.
The nanochains will tote bombs of chemotherapy medicine and glioblastoma stem cell inhibitors identified by Jeremy Rich,
However defective and amplified androgen signaling can trigger prostate cancer and its spread. For this reason, many available prostate cancer treatments are aimed at blocking androgen signaling.
and weapons to support separatists in eastern Ukraine despite the Minsk ceasefire deal, a charge the Kremlin has denied.
Most robots have highly configurable safety modes that will instantly respond to a wide range of triggers.
that because the three main factors that trigger motion sickness specifically, a conflict between vestibular (balance) and visual inputs, an inability to anticipate the direction of motion
within the next five years, they will not only become incorporated into clothing (Athos, Under Armour Under Armour, etc.
who was convicted of robbery, possession of a firearm, and conspiracy in 2012 after investigators obtained 67 days of Daviscell phone records from Metropcs1,
The system won protect people, vehicles or buildings from direct hits by bombs, guns or shrapnel,
the light can switch on an exhaust fan or trigger an alarm system. Advanced sensors provide safety and security information and alerts all through the LED LIGHTS.
Lyfelens monitors trigger eventsxcessive speed, abrupt movements such as hard braking or collisions location, movement and vandalismnd notifies users with alerts,
The cellular interactions that trigger the production of myelin are especially hard to pinpoint since the point of contact is buried essentially between the intertwined myelin layers and neuronal plasma membrane."
The new technique described in the current study involves using the neuron as a trigger to attract glial cells.
the craft could also have military applications as a fast strike craft invulnerable to conventional antiaircraft weapons and interceptors,
yet capable of operating over long distances to employ EMP weapons against high-value targets r
if theye been missing still other hidden cancer ime bombs. og-nose-cancer-Photo-credit-Itsgreg-CC-750px The study was funded by grants from 10 foundations
with researchers believing that a single gene in mice triggers the two conditions that have related differing,
"There's a lot of different things that can trigger blood coagulation, but when you're on heparin, most of them don't work,
#Laser weapon Melts Test Drone in Midair A new laser weapon that can burn up targets in just a few seconds recently melted
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),
Both weapons forgo conventional bullets for"directed energy"a focused beam of energy that heats up
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
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.
Commercial drones have also been used in attempts to smuggle contraband goods, like cellphones and weapons, into prisons.
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.
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.
"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
"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.
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,
#Navy Makes Armor Clear As Clay It a transparent armor so good it might turn the phrase lass cannonon its head.
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
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.
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,
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.
Knowing this, they hope to understand what triggers mutations in the PRC2 gene, which has been linked to the development of lymphoma, leukaemia,
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.
but could not explain what triggers this rapid learning or how the brain decides which mode to use at any one time.
which act as weapons to cause disease, such as toxins or degrading enzymes). The building block, called the Passenger-associated Transport Repeat (PATR),
"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.
doctors have in their arsenal many powerful weapons, including various forms of chemotherapy and radiation.
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.
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,
Still, the act of combining two different weapons antibodies and antibiotics to fight off infections is an intriguing idea.
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