CO2 and sunlight, like how they're producing their new'e-diesel'fuel.""We're thinking we're bringing greenness to a field that desperately needs greenness,"Rick Bockrath,
"The mosquito is the most dangerous animal on the planet, because it carries so many pathogens,"Microsoft researcher Ethan Jackson,
where he skewers the popularly held conception that God granting ominionover Earth is an excuse for pillaging its resources.
The earth was here before us and it has been given to us. This allows us to respond to the charge that Judaeo-Christian thinking,
on the basis of the Genesis account which grants man'dominion'over the earth (cf.
and given dominion over the earth justifies absolute domination over other creatures.""With this encyclical, Francis is starting to build a bridge between science and religion on the traditional wedge issue of climate change.
and only absorbs an incredible 3 percent of sunlight. Impressively, it also radiates heat out at specific infrared wavelengths that aren't absorbed by the atmosphere-allowing it to beam the heat directly into space."
"Roofs heat up by absorbing sunlight, so darker roofs can get very hot. Even white roofs still absorb enough sunlight to warm up by 9 degrees Celsius to 12 degrees Celsius."
"Scientists have been working for years to create increasingly more heat-repellant materials to cover our houses with,
and has no cover from the hot summer sun. Despite the conditions, they showed that the roof was able to stay significantly colder than the air around it,
even in direct summer sunlight and when it became covered with traffic-produced dirt and grime.
The dream is one day wel be using nothing but the boundless energy of the Sun to not only power our homes, but our cars
The most promising option is using some kind of semiconductor material that can convert sunlight into an electrical charge while splitting water into useable components,
and when used in big, flat sheets, it not capable of absorbing sunlight as efficiently as needed for a viable solar cell system.
Therefore it can be used outdoors even in bright sunlight. This is not only interesting for 3d-presentations
To focus light the engineers use a virtual internal guide star at the targeted location.
By detecting the wavefront of light emitted from the guide star they can determine an optimum phase pattern that allows scattered light moving along different paths to focus at the targeted location.
and most homes have beaten floors of earth. So copying a design which works best in the West is not necessarily the best solution.
in converting light to power in a range of atmospheric conditions rather than just under direct sunlight.
#NASA Microsoft collaboration will allow scientists to'work on Mars'NASA and Microsoft have teamed up to develop software called Onsight,
a new technology that will enable scientists to work virtually on Mars using wearable technology called Microsoft Hololens.
along with the Mars Curiosity rover, conduct science operations on the Red planet.""Onsight gives our rover scientists the ability to walk around
and explore Mars right from their offices, "said Dave Lavery, program executive for the Mars science laboratory mission at NASA Headquarters in Washington."
"It fundamentally changes our perception of Mars, and how we understand the Mars environment surrounding the rover."
"Onsight will use real rover data and extend the Curiosity mission's existing planning tools by creating a 3-D simulation of the Martian environment where scientists around the world can meet.
which we explore Mars and share that journey of exploration with the world,"said Jeff Norris, JPL's Onsight project manager.
Until now, rover operations required scientists to examine Mars imagery on a computer screen, and make inferences about
and engineers looking to interact with Mars in a more natural, human way.""Previously, our Mars explorers have been stuck on one side of a computer screen.
This tool gives them the ability to explore the rover's surroundings much as an Earth geologist would do field work here on our planet,
"said Norris. The Onsight tool also will be useful for planning rover operations. For example, scientists can program activities for many of the rover's science instruments by looking at a target
Future applications may include Mars 2020 rover mission operations, and other applications in support of NASA's journey to Mars s
#New machine-perfusion organ preservation system keeps livers healthier for transplant A new preservation system that pumps cooled,
#Self-assembled nanotextures create antireflective surface on silicon solar cells Reducing the amount of sunlight that bounces off the surface of solar cells helps maximize the conversion of the sun's rays to electricity,
#Technique reveals age of planetary materials The key to understanding the geologic history of the Solar system is knowing the ages of planetary rocks.
As detailed in Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, they validated the instrument--a laser ablation resonance ionization mass spectrometer--by dating a rock from Mars:
the meteorite Zagami, which formed about 180 million years ago, and fell to Earth in 1962."
"The beauty of the technique is that it requires little sample preparation, and the instrument is small and fast,
or sun he adds. To date Eolgreen has signed agreements with the port of Huelva and the municipal authorities of Sant Boi de Llobregat Girona and several towns in Andalusia.
which is the active layer converting sunlight to energy, "said Min-Cherl Jung, a staff scientist at OIST and first author of this work."
Before, the cells would lose the ability to efficiently convert sunlight into electricity after a couple of days.
you will see flashes of light every time the wheel is at the perfect spot for sunlight to hit it.
While the demand for technical systems converting sunlight into electricity is increasing, organic materials represent a highly interesting alternative to silicon that has to be processed at high costs before it can be used for the photoactive layer of a solar cell l
and Moon Kim, all at UT-Dallas, Ming-Yang Li at Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Taiwan,
but Earth was very different 2. 5 billion years ago. With little oxygen in the atmosphere, many organisms derived energy by metabolizing iron instead of oxygen.
"The research also clarifies the evolution of our planet--and of life itself--during the"iron-rich"era 2. 5 billion years ago."
what conditions on the surface of the Earth is absolutely wrong.""Research results like these affect how classes are taught,
Researchers at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) of A*STAR have developed a drug-delivering hydrogel to treat chronic diseases such as hepatitis C a liver disease that kills around 500,000 people worldwide every year."
and conducted in collaboration with the Institute of Molecular and Cell biology of A*STAR. Up to 150 million people globally suffer from chronic hepatitis C infections according to the World health organization."
The above post is reprinted from materials provided by The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR.
#New storage cell for solar energy storage, nighttime conversion The innovation is an advancement over the most common solar energy systems that rely on using sunlight immediately as a power source.
It also can effectively harness the inexhaustible energy from the sun."The work is a product of the 2013 National Science Foundation $400,
and use one of the larger sources of energy available to us--the sun, "Behbehani said.
sources of X-rays on the planet. The LCLS X-rays are a billion times brighter than those from synchrotrons
said Steven Sun, a Hong kong analyst for HSBC. lso, there have been controlling shareholders, significant shareholders and corporate management trying to cash out.
#US Air force Launches X-37b Space Plane on 4th Mystery Mission The U s. Air force's X-37b space plane blasted into Earth orbit today,
what exactly the X-37b will be doing as it zooms around Earth, or how long it will remain aloft.
the Planetary Society's Lightsail spacecraft will come back down to Earth in just a few weeks.
the sunlight will hit it and we'll get a push.""Atmospheric drag will start pulling Lightsail back down to Earth as soon as the craft's sail is unfurled,
and the cubesat will likely burn up two to 10 days thereafter, Planetary Society representatives have said.
As the crippled spacecraft plummeted back toward Earth, the communications blackout lasted more than a minute longer than expected,
'Blue moon'Beer Celebrates Lunar Sight for 20th Anniversary In a coincidence of cosmic proportions, the second full moon of July rises tonight,
making it a so-called"Blue moon "and Blue moon Brewing Co. will celebrate its 20th anniversary by painting the town red.
A celestial Blue moon comes around roughly every 2. 7 years. Tonight (July 31), a Blue moon will rise on the same night as Blue moon Brewing Co. celebrates its 20th anniversary with parties and events at more than 750 locations across the country.
In Denver, where the company is based there will be a concert under the stars and the full Blue moon capped by a"specialty beer release."
"The phrase"Blue moon"commonly refers to the second full moon in a single month, although this hasn't always been the meaning of the term.
Tonight's Blue moon will be the same color as any other full moon, although volcanic eruptions and forest fires have been known to cause the moon to appear blue.
This effect is caused by particulates like dust and smoke, which can act as a natural blue filter in the sky.
In celebration of its 20th anniversary, Blue moon Brewing Co. which is owned by the Molson coors brewing Co.)will release a new beer that is part Belgian-style white and part Belgian-style Tripel.
It's not space beer, but we'll still try it).""The smooth-bodied ale has a warming finish and hints of coriander, orange peel, fruity esters, spicy esters and a touch of sweetness,
"brewery representatives said in a statement. The company's founder said the beer brings back fond memories of the time he spent earning his Ph d. in brewing studies in Brussels."As a brewery,
we've come a long way in 20 years, and we're excited to celebrate this with the people who got us here our fans
and the things they love most: food, music and great beer,"Keith Villa, founder and head brewmaster of Blue moon, said in the same statement.
The big concert of the night will be at Coors Field, featuring Big data with special guest Robert Delong,
The party starts in Lower Downtown (where Blue moon was created), where there will be four rooftop concerts. Blue moon plans to open another brewery
and tasting room in Denver's River North neighborhood e
#Smart oven knows what is inside and how to cook it For those who just can get their heads around the intricacies of home cooking,
iodide and methylammonium could convert sunlight into electricity with an efficiency of 3. 8 percent.
Sunlight to electricity Solar cells work by converting photons of sunlight into an electric current that moves between two electrodes.
Therefore it can be used outdoors even in bright sunlight. This is not only interesting for 3d-presentations
of researchers. solar cells oncentrating photovoltaic (CPV) systems leverage the cost of high efficiency multi-junction solar cells by using inexpensive optics to concentrate sunlight onto them,
and have to be pointed very accurately to track the sun throughout the day. But you can put a system like this on your roof,
To focus sunlight on the array of cells, the researchers embedded them between a pair of 3d printed plastic lenslet arrays.
sunlight is intensified more than 200 times. Because the focal point moves with the sun over the course of a day
the middle solar cell sheet tracks by sliding laterally in between the lenslet array. Previous attempts at such translation-based tracking have worked only for about two hours a day
PV only makes sense in areas with lots of direct sunlight, like the American Southwest, he said. n cloudy regions like the Pacific Northwest,
CS patients are hypersensitive to sunlight and burn easily. For decades it was believed that the premature aging process associated with this disease was caused essentially by DNA repair deficiency.
when the sun is shining. ith the option of taking part in demand management schemes, the system can also reward households for using less electricity during peak energy periods.
The first observations focused on stars of different types (bright giants and faint dwarfs) in order to explore the behaviour of RAPID.
The concentrations of carbon and other greenhouse gases in Earth atmosphere are now at their highest levels in the past three million years, primarily as a result of the burning of petroleum and other fossil fuels.
#Research Simplifies Recycling of Rare-earth Magnets Despite their ubiquity in consumer electronics, rare-earth metals are,
as their name suggests, hard to come by. Mining and purifying them is an expensive, labor-intensive and ecologically devastating process.
including the rare-earth metal dysprosium, in different ratios. Because those ratios differ based on the application the magnet is being used for,
The process is repeated thousands of times to get useful purities of the rare-earth metals,
#UCLA chemists devise technology that could transform solar energy storage The materials in most of today residential rooftop solar panels can store energy from the sun for only a few microseconds at a time.
In photosynthesis, plants that are exposed to sunlight use carefully organized nanoscale structures within their cells to rapidly separate charges pulling electrons away from the positively charged molecule that is left behind,
The polymer donor absorbs sunlight and passes electrons to the fullerene acceptor; the process generates electrical energy.
while another relies only on natural sunlight. The community that had access to electricity slept about an hour less than their counterparts with no electricity.
They will also study the effects the moon cycle may have on sleep patterns as well. These are very interesting researches,
and we have a star in the world of mobile payment. As seen, wireless payment has its foundations in security and speed.
Published July 20 in the journal Nature Communications, the study showed that constructing a type of organic solar cell on a on-wettingplastic surface made it 1. 5 times more efficient at converting sunlight to electricity.
which ideally produce electric current by migrating in opposite directions following their separation by photon-carrying sunlight.
a finding that dispels previous concerns that the genetic material would quickly degrade in rain and sunlight.
which is found in the sun rays and breaks down many materials. They discovered that under such direct exposure,
And as the Earth warms, so will rice paddies, resulting in even more methane emissions. It an issue that must be addressed. uring photosynthesis,
while operating within the Earth atmosphere. Whether, as Musk has suggested, Spacex service could also be a viable alternative for customers in the developed world is less certain.
but the sun is down. lot of people are not at home during the day, they are at work,
Warren says. he solar system is generating energy which is exported all. We thought, ouldn it be great
what's referred to as the"black hole"of the genome regions full of duplicate information that are extremely hard to sequence.
and animals that have been buried deep within the Earth. Burning these fuels is great for combustion
Since graduation he's been working off and on for Mars, Inc, . of M&m's and Snickers fame, helping the company on a project in Indonesia to help the cocoa communities Mars buys from."
"Most of the folks are very poor and smallholders on an average 2. 5 hectares of land,
but also to deploy technology developed by Mars on soil management and water quality.""When Donowitz learned of Finette
The mission includes a constellation of at least 12 satellites which provide an unprecedented view of global precipitation across the globe in near real time.
and eddies of little rain and snowstorms crossing the planet on an everyday basis. Large storms racing across the Southern ocean without any land impeding them can be identified.
In the year 2014, NASA had launched 4 Earth-monitoring missions and earlier this month it added one more to them.
When the mirror is warmed up by the sunlight, it releases heat at a specific wavelength of infrared light that passes easily through the atmosphere and out into space.
an integrated system, in which sunlight can be used to split water into hydrogen and oxygen.
The catalyst, powered by sunlight, splits the water into hydrogen and oxygen. Following this, the bacterium Ralstonia eutropha combines hydrogen with carbon dioxide to form isopropanol p
#MIT researcher develops solar-powered desalination technology A student at Massachusetts institute of technology (MIT) has designed a village-scale desalination technology that is powered by the sun
The ultraviolet light from the sun rays are used to kill biological contaminants in the water. While similar desalination technologies have already been discovered,
Boeing and Spacex to continue supporting low-Earth orbit unmanned and human space activities. June 28 2015-In his latest email blast Peter Diamandis talks about four revolutions in transportation that he expects will take place within this decade.
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