Researchers created the map using healthy prenatal brains from a brain bank a collection of donated human brains.
Other films were studded with quantum dots, or tiny crystals that exhibit quantum mechanical properties. The cells were further able to communicate with each other
#Poop-powered airport shuttle bus hits the road in the U k. A supermarket powered by its own expired comestibles.
This means the suit is getting tested during skiing, walking and climbing Antarctica's jagged peaks and glaciers.
"Indeed, the technology is used already for sports monitoring On earth. A commercial version called Hexoskin is marketed to athletes as a way of checking out your heartbeat and pace during workouts.
Scientists have called this mass migration known as diel vertical migration or DVM the largest migration On earth.
Similarly clothing designers might use the coiled muscles to create fashions that adapt to keep the wearer warm
Our electronic whiskers consist of high-aspect-ratio elastic fibers coated with conductive composite films of nanotubes and nanoparticles.
what the paper describes as highly tunable composite films of carbon nanotubes and silver nanoparticles that are patterned on high-aspect-ratio elastic fibers.
The Super Falcon currently retails for $1. 7 million, and includes on-site pilot and operations training.
After five years of using my computer monitor for entertainment, even I broke down and bought 42 inches of fun.
which retails on its own for $154. 99 at my local computer store. The device connects via Bluetooth to your keyboard and mouse.
It called BIM or Building Information Modelling. This lets them make changes and see the results on the fly;
Preliminary modelling suggests carbonate production will go down, says Wilson, but not by as much as you might expect.
The resulting films conduct electricity better than any other sample of graphene produced in the past. Until recently
The results in Hong's case were relatively large, high-quality films of graphene just a few atoms thick and several centimetres wide.
which produces bigger pieces of film, "will tremendously influence the speed of development in this area".
Nature News In the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, a couple have their memories of each other wiped when their relationship ends badly.
Diamond nanocrystals immersed in a cell's cytoplasm could essentially produce real-time films of the activity of single molecules,
it did so in neat droplets rather than the films that would form on non-hydrophobic materials such as silicon.
A hydrophobic coating made of tough ceramic would prevent films of water forming on the blades,
where films of water on the blades can, if they freeze in cold weather, lead to catastrophic failures.
as we have learned all from countless heist films, is itself hard enough to cut glass. Or maybe it s a devious scheme predicated on boring a hole into the depths of the planet with the world s hardest drill bit.
The film is layered between the LCD s stack of light filters, diffusers and polarizers, and similarly converts raw blue light into white light made up of pure colours.
#Genomes link Aboriginal australians to Indians Some Aboriginal australians can trace as much as 11%of their genomes to migrants who reached the island around 4, 000 years ago from India,
Along with their genes, the migrants brought different toolmaking techniques and the ancestors of the dingo, researchers say1.
"Australia is thought to represent one of the earliest migrations for humans after they left Africa,
Irina Pugach, a postdoctoral researcher in Stoneking s laboratory, discovered signs of the Indian migration by comparing genetic variation across the entire genomes of 344 individuals, including Aboriginal australians from the Northern territory, highlanders
suggesting that they all descended from an early southward migration out of Africa. But Pugach also found evidence of more recent genetic mixing,
This gene flow could not have occurred during the initial wave of migration into Australia because it is absent from New Guinean and Mamanwa genomes,
All of these changes may be related to the same migration, the researchers say.""There have been very few genetic studies of Australians,
She believes that the Aboriginals'vast genetic diversity suggests that multiple waves of migration could have occurred,
but it is not the essential master regulator of memory that the current literature suggests it to be,
All three planets keep closer to the star Kepler 37 than any planet orbits the sun."It just shows that Kepler has just an extraordinary ability to see a wide diversity of planetary architectures,
we need to move towards frameworks that allow you to program cells in a more scalable fashion,
"We wanted to show you can assemble a bunch of simple parts in a very easy fashion to give you many types of logical functions.
the initiative will build and curate a collection of 500,000#molecules for screening, 300,000 of which will come from the seven large pharmaceutical partners.
"I ve never worried about the notion that the MLP was a public collection, says Hugh Rosen,
But in the past three years scientists have made some progress mapping the transporters detailed architecture. Two different labs have revealed already the structures of two bacterial MATE proteins,
because they establish the overall architecture, he says. Nureki and his team also identified a peptide#a short string of amino acids#that inhibits the MATE protein they studied
"It is a bright star now in the literature, suggesting that it is not crazy to map every neuron in the brain of an animal.
and a detector captures the signals like a viewer watching a cinema screen. The system records activity from the full brain every 1. 3 seconds.
She thinks that traditional virus-hunting techniques failed to find TDAV because they rely on strong similarities to known viruses,
These biomimetic constructs exhibit aligned architecture, multinucleated and striated myofibers, and a Pax7+cell pool.
are organized functionally in a seesaw-like fashion: when Agrp neurons are active, POMC neurons are not, and vice versa.
By modelling what might happen if secondary nucleation is switched off and then finding a molecule that performs that function,
the protagonist remembers that swimming is the next best option). The movie never explains the mechanics of Mcfly's hoverboard.
and manipulate these fields, in a relatively blunt fashion, with implants and wires. But it like working with oven mitts on.
researchers made extremely small perforations in a structure made of two thin films of silver separated by a film of silica.
Then, the researchers poked minuscule holes into the top layer of silver film, which was a scant 25 nanometers deep.
The dance of levitating cells can also carry information about how well a drug works.
Chemical modelling suggests pressure deep inside the planets would crush it into a rain of diamond chips
Predicting retail activity a key economic indicator could be done by counting vehicles in the car parks of supermarkets and malls.
At an unveiling ceremony yesterday complete with smoke effects and coloured lights Spacex CEO Elon musk gave the world its first glimpse of the upgraded Dragon spacecraft.
For now he says making heavier antiparticles is not doable in a small lab in a cheap fashion.
#Largest structure challenges Einstein's smooth cosmos A collection of galaxies that is a whopping four billion light years long is the biggest cosmic structure ever seen.
The discovery of Huge-LQG joins a collection of observations that seem to challenge the cosmological status quo.
To do so, they sandwiched a layer of quantum dots, a few nanometers thick, between two organic thin films.
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.
Furthermore the authors of the Nature Communications paper show that incorporation of Rajca s nitroxide in Johnson s branched bottlebrush polymer architectures leads to even greater improvements in the nitroxide lifetime.
#Moneyball for business Michael Lewis 2003 book Moneyball and the 2011 film adaptation detailed how the Oakland athletics used analytics primarily derived from players on-base percentages to assemble a competitive team despite financial constraints.
or share tips about customer service would improve productivity. Sure enough when the bank instituted the changes Sociometric measured a 15 to 20 percent bump in productivity a 19 percent drop in stress levels and decreased turnover from 40 to 12 percent.
More than 20 retail sales and consulting firms have used Sociometric s system. Additionally more than 60 research organizations across the globe are using the system on management social psychology medicine computer science and physical therapy among other things.
Sociometric s MIT cofounders and co-inventors of its technology include Alexander Sandy Pentland the Toshiba Professor of Media Arts
Until recently, Spielberg worked in the MIT Media Lab with Neri Oxman, the Sony Corporation Career development Assistant professor of Media Arts and Sciences, graduate students Steven Keating and John Klein,
and can even play basketball with his friends. hat was, and is, so amazing to me that research has the potential to totally give a person their life back,
Nonetheless, he a member of a recently formed rock band with a fellow mechanical engineering major and two computer science majors, keeping music
and music that offer a form of self-expression that sometimes hard to attain in other forms of work,
The AMO technology was a new transmitter architecture where algorithms could choose from different voltages needed to transmit data in each power amplifier
#Fast modeling of cancer mutations Sequencing the genomes of tumor cells has revealed thousands of genetic mutations linked with cancer.
and cloth notoriously difficult features to animate realistically for films including he Hobbitand Disney angled. he eye is very good at picking up what physical and what not,
To control the nanotubes growth the researchers first cover the emitter array with an ultrathin catalyst film
The material is made from a collection of nanocavities and you can tune the absorption just by changing the size of the nanocavities Chou says.
#Underwater robot for port security Last week at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems MIT researchers unveiled an oval-shaped submersible robot a little smaller than a football with a flattened
This work represents a very interesting genetic method for killing antibiotic-resistant bacteria in a directed fashion
you might think of the popular science-fiction films inority Report (2002) or ron Man (2008). In those films, the protagonists use their hands
or wireless gloves to seamlessly scroll through and manipulate visual data on a wall-sized, panoramic screen.
But the brain behind those Hollywood interfaces, MIT alumnus John Underkoffler 8, SM 1, Phd 9 who served as scientific advisor for both films has been bringing a more practical version of that technology to conference rooms
but the world of movies came calling first. he world largest focus groupunderkoffler was recruited as scientific advisor for Steven Spielberg inority Reportafter meeting the film crew,
In such spectacular science-fiction films, technology competes for viewer attention and, yet, it needs to be simplified so viewers can understand it clearly. hen you take technology from a lab like at MIT,
and you need to show it in a film, the process of refining and simplifying those ideas
because the perovskite photovoltaic material takes the form of a thin film just half a micrometer thick,
it may still be good enough to identify the gender of a speaker in a room; the number of speakers;
To perform this study the team deposited graphene on top of an insulating layer with a thin metallic film beneath it;
Joining him on the paper are Ramesh Raskar the NEC Career development Professor of Media Arts and Sciences and director of the Media Lab s Camera Culture group and Berkeley s Fu-Chung
Still in their early stages some of the apps are designed for entertainment such as people submitting selfies to analyze their moods and sharing them across social media.
and assembled the world s largest collection of DNA samples in psychiatric research currently more than 175000 samples including schizophrenia bipolar disorder autism attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and healthy control samples.
and genetics and along with Scolnick and Lander supported the collection of DNA samples from patients with the hope that the samples could someday be analyzed to find disease genes.
They also plan to expand their sample collection efforts dramatically especially among understudied populations such as those in African nations to reveal the many as-yet-undiscovered mutations relevant to disease.
She then scavenged the lab for common objects such as a box of cookies a soda bottle and a football.
If an opera singer belts out a note inside that room the glass with the corresponding frequency accumulates enough energy to shatter
Sharing code not data The example I like to use is personalized music says Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye a graduate student in media arts and sciences and first author on the new paper.
De Montjoye is joined on the paper by his thesis advisor Alex Sandy Pentland the Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences;
this casting plate is immersed then in a nonsolvent bath to induce precipitation to form a film.
Since the solutions form a single sheet of film there is no need for bonding layers together
such as in golf and soccer, constant dimpling is adequate, Reis says. But in other uses, the ability to alter a surface could prove useful:
With HTTPA each item of private data would be assigned its own uniform resource identifier (URI) a key component of the Semantic web a new set of technologies championed by W3c that would convert the Web from essentially a collection of searchable
and MIT professors of architecture Les Norford and Leon Glicksman and about a dozen companies now operate in the field.
while Samouhos and Gayeski worked on mechanical design and energy-modeling. After the competition, the cofounders started a company with a broad goal of making buildings better through energy savings.
A similar combination of computational modeling based on quantum mechanics molecular dynamics, and direct observation using electron microscopy an probably be applied to many systems,
Ramesh Raskar, an associate professor of media arts and sciences at MIT and an author of this paper, has worked extensively on developing this type of 3-D imaging.
This means it might have applications in areas like collaborative design and medical imaging, as well as entertainment.
and Ramesh Raskar, the NEC Career development Associate professor of Media Arts and Sciences and head of the Camera Culture group built a prototype of their system using off-the-shelf components.
is still higher than the 24 frames per second standard in film. With the technology that has historically been used to produce glasses-free 3-D images known as a parallax barrier simultaneously projecting eight different viewing angles would mean allotting each angle one-eighth of the light emitted by the projector
but by tailoring their algorithm to the architecture of the graphics processing units designed for video games,
The BAT could also provide power to places blacked out by natural disasters as well as at amusement parks festivals and sports venues.
and bowling with training videos culled from Youtube. They found that according to metrics standard in the field of computer vision their algorithm identified new instances of the same activities more accurately than its predecessors.
considers the new findings very important contribution to the singlet fission literature. Via a synergistic combination of modeling, crystal engineering,
and experiment, the authors have provided the first systematic study of parameters influencing fission rates, he says.
It an architecture influenced by Silver graduate years in MIT Engineering Systems Division, which stresses reliability, scalability,
while providing customers with the option to expand at low cost via a modular architecture. Moreover, though, Ecovolt is automated,
#Bionic ankle'emulates nature'These days Hugh Herr an associate professor of media arts and sciences at MIT gets about 100 emails daily from people across the world interested in his bionic limbs.
and mathematically modeling how the ankle joint operates while walking. Among other things the ankle stiffens
While these experiments were carried out using a material called tetracene a well-studied archetype of a molecular crystal the researchers say that the method should be applicable to almost any crystalline or thin-film material.
so that energy losses during exciton migration are limited. The work was supported by the U s. Department of energy and by the National Science Foundation and used facilities of the Eni-MIT Solar Frontiers Center r
While previous modeling showed that the packing of azobenzenes on the same CNT would provide only a 30 percent increase in energy storage,
This approach is an important contribution to efforts to create a arts listfor the retina,
and films studded with quantum dots or tiny crystals that exhibit quantum mechanical properties. They also engineered the cells
If both are present the film will contain a mix of tagged and untagged fibers.
But the comparatively simple maneuver of swimming back and forth across a tank drains the canister quickly.
The study which combined experimental observations with mathematical modeling showed that the flow of liquid can have two significant effects on microbes:
The effect of flowing water on bacterial swimming was a complete surprise Stocker says. My own earlier predictions of what would happen
There s really nothing special about bacteria compared to many other swimming cells in this respect he says.
and Technology Leadership Program was launched a year ago to help members of the Tibetan diaspora find solutions to the challenges they face in some of India s poorest regions.
and indeed whether it can help them escape poverty. Identifying such an impact will be challenging,
soliciting the APA to help maintain the scoreboard above the pool in the Zesiger Sports and Fitness Center.
when their annual income falls below the federal poverty level established by the U s. Department of health and human services,
and social issues in the U s. It is the newest branch of MIT Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab,
so that actors in the background of a television program or film do not distract viewers attention from the main actors for example.
but without changing the identity of the person or altering their facial attributes such as their age gender or overall attractiveness.
says Ramesh Raskar, an associate professor of media arts and sciences and leader of the Camera Culture group within the Media Lab,
and configuring the space and ground segments in a coordinated fashion h
#Persuading light to mix it up with matter Researchers at MIT have succeeded in producing and measuring a coupling of photons
and motion has not been characterized well. magine you have a collection of pebbles, and you wrap a whole bunch of elastic bands around them,
This grain boundary migration is the key to healing the crack, Demkowicz says. The very idea that crystal grain boundaries could migrate within a solid metal has been studied extensively within the last decade,
in conjunction with stress-driven grain boundary migration, could actually heal cracks. This is indeed provocative
as a growing percentage of international retail transactions are being conducted online. Having witnessed this struggle firsthand on a trip through the Atlas Mountains, MIT Supply Chain Management graduate student Zyad El Jebbari,
Morocco still maintains a high illiteracy rate of more than 35 percent, primarily among the socioeconomic demographic that comprises many local craftsmen.
and cultural dynamism and ultimately puts in place a sustainable economic model that will help reduce poverty in the country.
diverse collection of multifunctional fibers, tailored for insertion into the brain where they can stimulate
and a little bit more comprehensive than some of the other designs that might be reported in the literature.
thicker electrodes, the system reduces the conventional battery architecture number of distinct layers, as well as the amount of nonfunctional material in the structure, by 80 percent.
and SCW concentration, the researchers combined their experimental work with theoretical modeling and analysis. Based on those studies,
Such modeling involves equations that describe the flow, mixing, and energy transfer between streams of fluids.
and mix in SCW an effect first discovered in their modeling analyses. They are taking a closer look at inexpensive catalysts that can help encourage the breakdown of large hydrocarbons
#The latest fashion: Graphene edges can be tailor-made Theoretical physicists at Rice university are living on the edge as they study the astounding properties of graphene.
the Rice team used sophisticated computer modeling to show it's possible to rip nanoribbons
In step four called charge collection the free electron makes its way through the active layer to a point where it can be harvested.
or charge collection#because there was no clear method for distinguishing between the two. Was a material inefficient at dissociating excitons into free electrons?
Because the charge collection would be the same for both regions (since they were on the same active layer) the technique allowed the researchers to measure the degree to
The researchers demonstrated the effectiveness of their extended palette using a Monet painting. They reproduced the image using both a limited and extended palette with a much better color reproduction from the extended palette.
when they are assembled in a film. However, the UW-Madison researchers pioneered a new technique,
Our carbon nanotube transistors are an order of magnitude better in conductance than the best thin film transistor technologies currently being used commercially
film-like devices designed to detect pressure, read brain activity, monitor heart rate or perform other functions.
and polymers without the involvement of conventional microfabrication techniques yet the thickness and uniformity of the printed films are two of the critical parameters that determine the performance
Most conventional lithography uses a variety of techniques to focus light on a photosensitive film to create 2-D patterns.
The NC State researchers took a different approach placing nanoscale polystyrene spheres on the surface of the photosensitive film.
And ultimately we want to look at ways of controlling the placement of particles on the photosensitive film in patterns other than uniform arrays.
These spaces are very important for this architecture said Purdue postdoctoral research associate Vinodkumar Etacheri.
She precipitates the precious metal from an aqueous solution onto a pretreated film with many tiny channels.
the film is dissolved then. The technique itself is not new, but Felix has modified it:""The chemicals that are used usually for this were just too toxic for me."
The film with the nanochannels is placed merely in the precipitation bath.""It's really unbelievable that aqueous solutions
The only thing that is not green in the procedure is the film that is used as the template, notes Ensinger.
the films still consist of polycarbonate also made or of polyethylene terephthalate (PET). In order to create the miniature plastic channels that define the shape,
a round film is bombarded vertically with an ion beam. Each ion leaves a straight track in the film
which then becomes a small hole, or, when seen through the microscope: a channel that is then etched.
After the film is dissolved, the result is-depending on the experimental conditions-a collection of individual nanotubes or an array of hundreds of thousands of interconnected tubes.
The crux of the technique: an ion accelerator is needed to generate an ion beam. The TU scientists found the ideal partner for their research in the GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy ion Research at the outskirts of Darmstadt;
For example, a company in the USA produces similarly perforated films with smaller accelerators.""The films are defined not as well as ours are,
but they are also suitable, "says Münch. Furthermore, they are inexpensive: a film roughly the size of a sheet of paper costs only a few euros.
Ensinger says that the price of gold is not a factor because the amounts that are required are small:"
and Engineering in Singapore is helping to circumvent this limitation using a technique known as'directed self-assembly of nanoparticles'(DSA-n). This approach takes spherical nanoparticles that spontaneously organize into ordered two-dimensional films
The templates impose geometric constraints that force the films to organize into specific nanoscale patterns.
The researchers combined semiconductor nanorods and carbon nanotubes to create a wireless light-sensitive flexible film that could potentially replace a damaged retina.
and semiconductor nanorod film will serve as a compact replacement for damaged retinas. We are still far away from actually replacing the damaged retina said Dr. Bareket.
To give an example let us consider a wall painting or an easel painting: from a physicochemical point of view the painting is layered typically a structure the surface layers usually being painted the part.
Moreover the materials are usually porous or exhibit a complex composition they can be classified as composite materials
and vinyl polymers that seriously damage the painting and in many cases have led to the loss of painted surfaces.
gels and microemulsions for the cleaning of wall and easel paintings have been branded as Nanorestore Gel and Nanorestore Cleaning.
and materials for modern and contemporary works of art such as acrylic paintings plastic sculptures and composite works that include metal textiles polymers etc.
and if the films were covered with catalytic nanoparticles such as platinum. The discovery makes monolayers of graphene
David Mast associate professor of physics in UC's Mcmicken College of Arts and Sciences; and Giovanni Pauletti associate professor in the James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy.
To do so, they sandwiched a layer of quantum dots, a few nanometers thick, between two organic thin films.
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