Synopsis: Domenii: Environmental challenges: Environmental challenges colaterale:


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That means 500 lines of old-school coding shrinks to five lines using reactive programming. 3. Keep up with changes In our hyper-competitive environment,


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friction-free##and lucrative##environment for all of us to live and consume products in. Which is probably why#it s relentlessly being heralded as the next big thing in consumer electronics:


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These small-scale agricultural operations require high humidity environments, and The Aquamist produced a water-replenishing environment to satisfy those needs.

A new breed of companies has begun to spring up around the world, looking to the skies to solve the world looming water issues.

It works well for collecting water in virtually any environment even in polluted areas. About 12 gallons of fresh water can be extracted from air in a single day from one 300 sq ft unit.


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what good for the farmer is good for the environment, writes Lisa Park, a spokeswoman for TNC.

Farmers and the environment profit. Yet the central technology in this effortariable rate irrigation (VRI) asn a commercial endeavor delivered directly to farmers clamoring for the technology.


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Absorption into our clothes, body, and environment.####The question of how best to power that next step,


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and protect the health of the environment. Honeybees alone contribute more than $15 billion in value to U s. agricultural crops each year.


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but in a way that is also sustainable and less harmful to the environment? There is an urgent need to develop new methods for sustainable food production.


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and then quickly hardened in a safe environment that doesn t require a tremendous amount of heat.

as well as the environment. Our mission is to make professional-quality 3d printing accessible to to everyone,


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But the important test is whether it works in a real-world environment. In the latest study, 20 adults wearing the device were put up in a hotel for five days


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we felt that those rooms didn t design the level of detail that would be appropriate for a retail environment.

They re designed really for one person to be in the environment, and there s some motion sickness involved,


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We also have a team that starting from a Linux environment and stripping out all the bits we don need.


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Meanwhile, Facebook Inc. agreed in March to spend $2 billion to buy Oculus VR Inc.,maker of the Oculus Rift headset that pulls users into a 360-degree virtual environments.


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Sanaria cultivates mosquitos in a sterile environment and infects them with#Plasmodium falciparum (the Pf in Pfspz).

Raising mosquitos in a sterile environment is a wild enough idea that#another company s efforts#to do it to combat dengue fever earned a featurearticle#in the#New yorker.


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and supportive learning environment that can help turn around students who are failing. Currently a free service, Classcraft will introduce a pay structure this fall that embraces the free-to-play model more commonly seen in mobile apps and online games like League of Legends and Runescape.


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Because of the clean environment, all plants will be germfree, which means theyl have longer shelf lives


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share ideas and enjoy themselves instead of simply complete transactions in a sterile environment. In the very traditional payments Market square is enabling plumbers,


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and maintain and enhance human health and our environment. Scientifically viable in 2013; mainstream in 2023;


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and respond to their environment. ntegrating form and function, she says, s the next big thing that needs to happen in 3-D printing.


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He said the Education Foundation is working with local teachers on classroom pilots to try out startup products in a realistic environment.


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The Zumwalt also boasts what Raytheon calls a Total Ship Computing Environment, which allows it to be controlled from any of a couple dozen consoles around the ship.


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Robotic sensing technology can only barely identify big, obvious targets in clutter-free environments. For that reason, the open ocean is the first place robots are firing on targets.

In more cluttered environments like the cities where most recent wars have been fought, the sensing becomes less accurate.


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Blau team found that the environment inside the muscle becomes less conducive for stem cells


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the report co-author. he next stage is small-scale deployment of low-speed L5 self-driving vehicles in campus-like environments


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optimized for IO-intensive environments, enables rapid, efficient deployment of Microsoft SQL SERVER 2014 Fast Track Data warehouse, said Don Clegg,


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Reaping the Benefits of Cover crops (Op-Ed) Margaret Mellon is a senior scientist for food and the environment at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS.


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and in the razor clam's natural environment in the mudflats off the coast of Gloucester, Mass.


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The total process for bringing such vast quantities of meat egg and dairy products to our plates comes at a substantial cost to the environment.


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I"(for University of Illinois). Systems like this one could lead to adaptive camouflage technology that can be tuned to its environment,


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and disappear back into Earth s environment. But bug parts break down in only a year or two.

but work on Shrilk continues in the lab exploring ways to use the material in moist environments (it becomes flexible


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which is subject to interference from electrical oisefrom nearby devices and the environment. The only alternative technology,

It is therefore able to be deployed in harsh environments such as down a drill hole or inside the cylinder shaft of a car engine,


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The technology is also more sustainable for the environment by using an existing waste product with little or no market value.


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and either released to the environment or recycled back into the plant, so it has huge benefits for mining operators in arid regions such as Australia


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they may eventually understand their environments better, he said. For example, instead of moving a camera image onto a computer to process it,


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or hazardous environment exploration,"Wood said. But before these tiny bots travel into space or other harsh environments, the researchers will need to experiment with stiffer and more-durable materials.

The engineers also said they're looking into the use of materials that can also unfold themselves, something shape-memory polymers,


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"It makes for a very colorful environment, like working in a disco. We take an approach where we actually make the luminescent active layer itself transparent."


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This new billboard is arguably even better for the environment. It can purify 100000 cubic meters of urban air per day


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"Devices constructed from these materials could adjust to their environments in ways that traditional nonliving materials cannot."


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As explained on her lab's web page All organisms possess instincts to survive exposures to external stresses by adapting to their environment and to some degree regenerating injured tissues or organs.


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and other whiskered animals to develop a new technology that could make devices capable of interfacing with the environment.


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adapted to their environment and evolved to fight disease. Despite previous reports that the German group's Neanderthal samples may have been contaminated with DNA from modern humans1,


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The government agencies Environment Canada and Health Canada will use the data to make risk assessments for the materials

The UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural affairs (DEFRA) ran a two-year voluntary reporting programme from September 2006,


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"This is clearly a harsh environment.""One of the next challenges is to figure out the role of these organisms,


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But they quickly wear away in harsh environments, such as the insides of power-station turbines, where condensation reduces efficiency.


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if the cells had encountered two environments and in what order. Voigt says that there is another advantage to this system."


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the shortening does support the idea that the birds are adapting to disturbed environments, as other organisms presumably are.


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so harder implants that don bend with their surrounding biological environment can easily shift and move to a different area than they were implanted,


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On this platform, the researchers reconstructed a large-scale simulation of human brain activity in a 3d virtual reality environment.


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It part of a strategy to access an untapped source of new antibioticshe estimated 99%of microbes in the environment that refuse to grow in laboratories.


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if any of these cells would remain viable in that type of environment. Asteroid and comet impacts are ubiquitous in the solar system


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We have found a habitable environment that is so benign and supportive of life that probably


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#Rover finds first life-friendly environment on Mars Microbes could have lived on Mars . Though we don't know yet

This is probably the only definitively habitable environment that we've described and recorded said David Blake principal investigator for the rover's Chemistry

a non-acidic environment; enough water for microbes to thrive in; and minerals that could act like batteries allowing electrons to flow

We have found a habitable environment that is so benign and supportive of life that probably

. But now that they've found a habitable environment the team will keep the rover in place a


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andhow to achieve regional and even global agreements on both privacy and security norms in online environments.

The Foundation concentrates its resources on activities in education the environment global development and population performing arts and philanthropy as well as grants to support disadvantaged communities in the San francisco bay Area.


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Such particles could help scientists to track specific molecules produced in the body monitor a tumor s environment

We think we may be able to reveal information about the tumor environment with these kinds of probes


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and a company can use that to help set up an environment where everybody s going to succeed.


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Spielberg even sees the technology as a potential tool in military environments. t totally a convenience thing,


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the researchers can also project landscapes to simulate an outdoor environment. In test scenarios, the group has flown physical quadrotors over projections of forests,

Toward this end, the researchers will simulate urban environments by creating street view projections of cities,

you can look at the environment from different angles, and what it sees will be quite similar to

Omidshafiei points out that testing such robots in a virtual environment may be the next best thing.

In fact, the sky the limit as far as the types of virtual environments that the new system may project. ith this system,

you can design any environment you want, and can test and prototype your vehicles as if theye fully outdoors,

and validation in the real environment, says Alberto Speranzon, staff research scientist at United technologies Research center,

he says testing autonomous systems in virtual environments could ready such designs for outdoor testing.

and testing in closer-to-reality environments, says Speranzon, who was involved not in the research. t will also enable the testing of decision-making algorithms in very harsh environments that are not readily available to scientists.

For example, with this technology, we could simulate clouds above an environment monitored by a high-flying vehicle

and have the video processing system dealing with semitransparent obstructions


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#Beating battery drain Stream video on your smartphone or use its GPS for an hour or two and you ll probably see the battery drain significantly.

And ultimately it could impact the environment: If all midsized carrier networks were to replace current radio amplifiers with Eta Devices technology he says the reduction in greenhouse gases would be equivalent to taking about 5 million cars off the road.


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the team now aims to conduct studies in complex 3-D settings to make sure the process works effectively in situations that more closely resemble a real cellular environment.


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#Nanoparticles get a magnetic handle A long-sought goal of creating particles that can emit a colorful fluorescent glow in a biological environment


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which is broken into particles by chemical reactions with both the substrate and the environment. Then they expose the array to a plasma rich in carbon.


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By augmenting the yeast s environment with potassium chloride and increasing the ph with potassium hydroxide the researchers were able to dramatically boost ethanol production.


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Multiple uses for quick changes While troops and vehicles often move from one environment to another,

they are limited presently to fixed camouflage patterns that might be effective in one environment but stick out like a sore thumb in another.

Zhao says. odern warfare requires troops to deploy in many different environments during single missions.

This system could potentially allow dynamic camouflage in different environments. Another important potential application Zhao says,


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limiting the risk of lead contamination of the environment. When the panels are retired eventually, the lead can simply be recycled into new solar panels. he process to encapsulate them will be the same as for polymer cells today,


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In the desert environment dust is present on a daily basis says co-author Numan Abu-Dheir of the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) in Saudi arabia.


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Because the process relies on condensation it requires a humid environment as well as a source of temperatures colder than the surrounding air such as a cave or river.


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and weak interaction with the rest of the environment including nonmetallic materials and humans. In fact they demonstrated that they could light the bulb at roughly 45 percent efficiency with all six researchers standing in between the two coils.


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and more importantly not discharging the produced water into the environment. Tiny droplets of water colored blue are suspended in oil on top of a membrane developed by the MIT team.


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and react to their environment. Most of the natural opsins now used for optogenetics respond best to blue or green light.


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Gayeski says. nd that data can be liberated from its local environment to the cloud, Grace adds.


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and liminate the tension between the environment and economics, says CEO Matt Silver SM 5, Phd 0, who co-founded Cambrian with Justin Buck Phd 2,


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Tumors in low-oxygen environments tend to be more resistant to therapy and spread more aggressively to other parts of the body.

The researchers are now working on sensors that could be used to monitor other biological properties such as ph. We hope this is the first of many types of solid-state contrast agents where the material responds to its chemical environment in such a way that we can detect it by MRI Cima says.


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They could also be equipped with sensors that can ecordtheir environments noting for example, if a refrigerated vaccine has ever been exposed to temperatures too high or low.


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which respond to their environment produce complex biological molecules and span multiple length scales with the benefits of nonliving materials

This puts control of curli fiber production in the hands of the researchers who can adjust the amount of AHL in the cells environment.

The two types of engineered cells can be grown together in a colony allowing researchers to control the material composition of the biofilm by varying the amounts of AHL and atc in the environment.

If gold nanoparticles are added to the environment the histidine tags will grab onto them creating rows of gold nanowires and a network that conducts electricity.


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they survive in harsh environments, and they provide their own power source and water distribution.


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In most robotic motion-planning systems avoiding collisions with the environment is the highest priority.

With soft robots collision poses little danger to either the robot or the environment. In some cases it is actually advantageous for these robots to bump into the environment

because they can use these points of contact as means of getting to the destination faster Rus says.


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Manipulating the environment It appears that metastatic tumors as well as the supportive cells that surround them, secrete certain proteins into the extracellular matrix to make it easier for them to escape


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In all, about 50 percent of households in the study reported serious negative income shocks in the six months preceding the survey. hey face very high-risk environments


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In experiments involving visual data about particularly cluttered scenes depicting the kinds of environments in which a household robot would operate Glover s algorithm had about the same false positive-rate rate as the best existing algorithm:


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And they could swarm into environments hostile or inaccessible to humans diagnose problems, and reorganize themselves to provide solutions.


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The researchers also used their new system to monitor human embryonic kidney cells as pure water was added to their environment a shock that forces the cells to absorb water


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while a Lidar system captures 3-D images to discern building facades from the physical environment.

to better differentiate building facades from the surrounding environment. What was perhaps the most surprising and challenging aspect,


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scientists must take into account the environment in which the material will be used, instead of using a ne-size fits allapproach,

the researchers created a model that allows them to predict how it will work in different environments,


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that can extract energy from the environment to recharge. Last week, at the Symposia on VLSI Technology And circuits, MIT researchers presented a new power converter chip that can harvest more than 80 percent of the energy trickling into it


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must be sealed completely from any contaminant in the environment, Cima says. here was no precedent for that. he company has also found ways to integrate electronics into the microchips to shrink down the device.


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#New study shows how nanoparticles can clean up environmental pollutants Many human-made pollutants in the environment resist degradation through natural processes,


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Now if the oxide surface says'I wish I had more negative charge'instead of the oxide gathering ions from the environment


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and Barry Rand an assistant professor of electrical engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment.


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"The biggest challenge facing researchers trying to culture neurons for study is that it's very difficult to recreate the cozy, soft, three-dimensional environment of the brain.


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This stormy environment strongly affects our ability to capture the intrinsic behavior of nanotube resonators.


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Crucially the high heat of vehicle environments can intensify these telltale degradation tracks and even cause complete battery failure.


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This study which is reported in Science in a paper titled The structure of interfacial water on gold electrodes studied by x-ray absorption spectroscopy marks the first time that the scientific community has shown such high sensitivity in an in-situ environment under working electrode conditions s


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which is the natural environment for lipid membranes. Previously, other research teams have focused on writing with lipids in air


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which is broken into particles by chemical reactions with both the substrate and the environment. Then they expose the array to a plasma rich in carbon.


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and optically traceable smart 2-D material that responds to ph or the acidity or basicity of its surrounding environment.


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or electrical signal they can alert us to dangers in our external and internal environments.

when it senses minor changes in the environment. The narrower the band of absorbed light is the more sensitive the biosensor.


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The Duke study was done using small-scale replications of a wetland environment called mesocosms that include soil sediments microbes insects plants and fish.

While not perfect representations of a natural environment mesocosms provide a reasonable compromise between the laboratory and the real world.

The wetland mesocosms we used are a much closer approximation of the natural processes constantly churning in the environment said Lee Ferguson associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Duke.


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and Texas Children's took advantage of the surrounding collaborative research environment. This stemmed from talking with Dr. Pasquali's lab as well as interventional cardiologists in the Texas Medical center Jacot said.


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when kept in a minus-20-Degree celsius environment the researchers reported. One can now think of using these films in automobile glass as an invisible deicer


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of element sulfur and environment friendly as well. We try to enhance the cyclic and rate performances of Li-S batteries for practical application with the N-ACNT/G hybrids as cathode materials. said Prof.


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and images of materials while they're in more natural environments. Over the last decade developments allowed scientists to take images of materials in solution


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The ability to watch how individual lipid molecules interact with their environment can help researchers understand not only how these


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or 766571 metric tons are deposited into the environment worldwide every year. Co-author of the study Professor Jongheop Yi from Seoul National University said:

Numerous countries are developing strict regulations to avoid the trillions of toxic and non-biodegradable used-cigarette filters that are disposed of into the environment each yearur method is just one way of achieving this.


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The next steps for the researchers include studies to optimize these properties in different bodily environments and more tests perhaps with medications for both chronic pain and inflammation.


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mimicking the environment inside a living organism. The team is comprised of researchers from the Technion-Israel Institute of technology's Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems,


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Like tiny submarines these versatile nanocarriers can navigate in the watery environment surrounding cells and transport their guest molecules through the membrane of living cells to sequentially deliver their cargo.

and force them to interact exclusively in the intracellular environment can evolve into a valuable strategy to activate drugs inside cells Raymo says.

These nanocarriers hold the guest molecules within the confines of their water-insoluble interior and use their water-soluble exterior to travel through an aqueous environment.

otherwise be insoluble in water across a liquid environment. Once inside a living cell the particles mix

They are responsible for the ability of the supramolecules to assemble spontaneously in liquid environments. Under the right conditions the reversibility of these weak noncovalent contacts allows the supramolecular constructs to exchange their components as well as their cargo.

and neutral environment) makes these nanoparticles an ideal vehicle for the controlled activation of therapeutics directly inside the cells Raymo says.


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and plays important roles in natural environments, particularly inside biological nanochannels. Professor Lei Jiang and his group from State Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, set out to study this unified bionic frontier.


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Moreover, it was difficult to display the structures including their actual environment. For thick samples, hard X-ray tomography was limited to a resolution of around 150 nanometres.


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Understanding how synthetic DNA-coated nanoparticles interact with a lipid surface may also offer insight into how such particles coated with actual genes might interact with cell membraneshich are composed largely of lipidsnd with one another in a lipid environment."


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Silver or copper colloids which gradually release germicidal metal ions into the environment are incorporated in the coating."


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robust and reusable will allow for simple monitoring of high-risk individuals in any environment, particularly in the developing world.


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Typically researchers examine zeolite growth by removing crystals from the natural synthesis environment and analyzing changes in their physical properties said Rimer Ernest J. and Barbara M. Henley Assistant professor of Chemical and Biomolecular engineering at UH.


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a free design for a high-tech beehive that can monitor your bees'environment and#a chance to contribute to citizen science.#


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Paint the environment however you want it to look to match the geometry of the playing field in reality.


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which is good for the environment. The deadly genes should only work in flies unlike pesticides


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(and thinks)# in a normal environment instead of say an MRI chamber. Scary! Mind-reading!##Inception!


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and distributing antibiotics to kill bacteria that as the antibiotics build up in the environment the bacteria are becoming immune.

but also does not contribute to the buildup of effective antibiotics in the environment. So the scientists attached an azobenzene a very simple chemical compound that responds strongly to light to the quinolones.


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and environment They can not live on their own they are dependant in their immediate physiological functions on very specific stimuli and circumstances.

Guess what else could develop into a person given the right circumstances and environment: practically anything on the planet certainly sperm cells even skin cells (as this reseach so obviously shows.


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Since the lunar environment has none of the resources needed for agriculture (except for sunlight) just how would this take some of the strain off earth's resources?


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Each boat knows its own surrounding environment and the location of other vessels and it shares this situation awareness with the other ships in the swarm.


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Modeling all the way these structures can also interact with their environments is also very difficult he added.


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In addition these platform kits cannot leave a controlled environment a huge problem for makers who aim for full home applications.


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and this is a problem when developing robots for use in cluttered environments such as search and rescue or surveying.


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This level of interaction creates a hands on learning environment that enables kids to gain experience responding to real world scenarios.


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No GPS-like system was available for them to know their location in the environment.


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and females) to enable them to master control of an exoskeleton directly with their brain in a stressful environment like a stadium.

The hopeful volunteers have trained in a realistic virtual environment mimicking the real stadium while receiving feedback from the tactile sleeves for the past 8 months with the final decision on who would take the kick made only last week.


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Thanks to Google previous experience with self-driving cars one can expect very good performance in real environments;


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Modules also contain a latch-based connection mechanism that allows them to connect to each other or to connector ports in the environment.


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