and at the National Renewable energy Laboratory that collectively analyze trends in PV system pricing. The latest edition of Tracking the Sun
One of his group developments, the hairless Chair is a wearable device that allows users to lock their knee joints and itanywhere,
and performance in the journal Biosensors and Bioelectronics. he ability to monitor continuously and non-invasively saliva biomarkers holds considerable promise for many biomedical and fitness applications, said Wang.
NASA SATELLITES and National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration data sets documented a 115-Degree fahrenheit surface temperature with a omfort indexof 165 degrees on July 31 in the city of Bandar-e Mahshahr.
If field tests show the biosensor can successfully measure zinc levels the researchers hope to extend the concept to other micronutrients,
The biosensor is modified based on Escherichia coli (E coli), a bacterium that is frequently used in genetic engineering. E coli has a transcriptional system that responds to the level of zinc in its environment,
and easily multiplexed biosensor could significantly improve patient health by providing new point-of-care diagnostics for a wide variety of diseases said Patricia Escoffier, Project Manager at Univalor.
with coauthors Xiang Pan and Yan Chen from Northwestern University, will be presented at the IEEE Conference on Communications and Network security,
and easily multiplexed biosensor could significantly improve patient health by providing new point-of-care diagnostics for a wide variety of diseases said Patricia Escoffier, Project Manager at Univalor.
or techniques like 3d printing. The study, which will appear on Monday 28 september in the journal Nature Chemistry,
energy harvesters that would convert waste heat to electricity and ultimately for a new way to efficiently capture solar energy.
we could apply it to energy conversion technologies and solar energy capture. The research, supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Space and Naval Warfare (SPAWAR) Systems Center and the Army Research Office (ARO
If big data is a two-part challenge, Morrison said, then storing it and moving it around is the first part.
A method to identify the tissue of origin from the somatic mutations of a tumour specimen in BMC Medical Genomics i
as a visible marker for the virus and its payload. Then they injected the virus into fertilized mouse egg cells,
computers and biosensors all have improved because of the rapidly increasing efficiency of semiconductors. Since the turn of the 21st century, organic,
The advance could eventually lead to vastly improved technology for capturing solar energy. In fact, it could literally reshape solar cells.
They produced the crystals in a solution using a substrate made of graphene, a nanomaterial consisting of graphite that is extremely thin measuring the thickness of a single atom.
vertically aligned crystals for a variety of organic semiconductors using the same graphene substrate. he key was deciphering the interactions between organic semiconductors and graphene in various solvent environments,
Kaner said the researchers also discovered another advantage of the graphene substrate. his technique enables us to pattern crystals wherever we want,
since completing his Phd in Molecular biology in 1997. uring my post-doc at the Max-Planck Institute in Germany,
and be ready to take the advantage of the existing manufacturing processes of carbon anode materials. lectrical energy storage in batteries is essential not only for consumer products such as cell phones and computers,
and for the wider use of renewable energy. OSU officials say they are seeking support for further research
#New graphene based inks for high-speed manufacturing of printed electronics A low-cost, high-speed method for printing graphene inks using a conventional roll-to-roll printing process,
the method allows graphene and other electrically conducting materials to be added to conventional water-based inks
the first time that graphene has been used for printing on a large-scale commercial printing press at high speed.
Graphene is a two-dimensional sheet of carbon atoms, just one atom thick. Its flexibility, optical transparency and electrical conductivity make it suitable for a wide range of applications,
widespread commercial use of graphene is yet to be realised. e are pleased to be the first to bring graphene inks close to real-world manufacturing.
There are lots of companies that have produced graphene inks, but none of them has done it on a scale close to this,
said Dr Tawfique Hasan of the Cambridge Graphene Centre (CGC), who developed the method. eing able to produce conductive inks that could effortlessly be used for printing at a commercial scale at a very high speed will open up all kinds of different applications for graphene
and other similar materials. his method will allow us to put electronic systems into entirely unexpected shapes,
Hasan method, developed at the University Nanoscience Centre, works by suspending tiny particles of graphene in a arriersolvent mixture,
The same method works for materials other than graphene including metallic, semiconducting and insulating nanoparticles. Currently, printed conductive patterns use a combination of poorly conducting carbon with other materials, most commonly silver,
whereas this new graphene ink formulation would be 25 times cheaper. Additionally, silver is not recyclable,
while graphene and other carbon materials can easily be recycled. The new method uses cheap, nontoxic and environmentally friendly solvents that can be dried quickly at room temperature,
The graphene-based inks have been printed at a rate of more than 100 metres per minute which is in line with commercial production rates for graphics printing,
Two years ago, Hasan and his colleagues produced a prototype of a transparent and flexible piano using graphene-based inks,
which required no modifications in order to print with the graphene ink. In addition to the new applications the method will open up for graphene,
it could also initiate entirely new business opportunities for commercial graphics printers, who could diversify into the electronics sector. he UK,
In the short to medium term, the researchers hope to use their method to make printed, disposable biosensors,
such as genomics, finance and the social sciences. Some of the domains already being served by Comet include:
Sociologists and political scientists are analyzing newly accessible data sets to study censorship of the press, factors that affect participation in the political process,
First XSEDE production system to support high-performance virtualization n
#Biomarker finder adjusts on the fly A Rice university laboratory has developed a continuously tunable method to find and quantify DNA and RNA biomarkers.
Zhang said. n an age of advancing science and big data, we want to look at hundreds or thousands or millions of different DNA biomarker signatures. esearchers have to decide in advance
is published online in the journal Nature Structural and Molecular biology. Ribosomes are the molecular machinery in cells that produce proteins by ranslatingthe instructions contained in DNA via an intermediary messenger molecule.
The technique has been refined in the MRC Laboratory of Molecular biology by the development of new irect electron detectorsto better sense the electrons
it provides a blueprint for researchers to assess these effects. y integrating genomics and genome engineering,
said Robert Mckenna, Ph d.,a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology in the UF College of Medicine,
yet large enough to carry the chemical payload needed to do the job. n our cancer work,
the antibody-drug burrows inside them to release a toxic payload. ou add an antibody with a drug on it
and release the drug payload, triggering changes that result in cell death within a few days.
He is the senior author of the study, published November 2 in Nature Structural and Molecular biology. owever,
and which cannot lift a payload larger than a few grams. The sensor could be useful for other things besides flying robots.
For all the self-driving cars, AI breakthroughs, and Internet balloons, ads on Web pages and inside apps provide over 90 percent of their company revenue.
the research lab Google X, where oonshotprojects include self-driving cars and delivering Wireless internet via stratospheric balloons;
and is trying to reinvent the face-worn computer Google glass. Larry page (as of today Alphabet CEO;
But the message seems to be that ideas like self-driving cars and defeating aging could become as successful and influential as Google online services are today.
such as the self-driving car, are about as distinct and mature as other Alphabet subsidiaries named today, for example.
Since last year, some of the genetic engineering has been carried out in collaboration with Synthetic Genomics, a California company started by DNA sequencing entrepreneur J. Craig Venter.
who runs the mammalian synthetic biology program for Synthetic Genomics. o one is so naïve as to think, h,
nuclear fusion has gone from a promising source of effectively limitless power to something more like a punch line.
Increasing the amplitude of the surrounding magnetic field raises the amount of fusion power produced in the plasma to the fourth power dramatic increase that could lead to a commercial prototype in a matter of years,
#Google powers up highly scalable cloud-based Nosql database Google has introduced a new cloud-based Nosql database powered by Bigtable that is automatically scalable and designed specifically for large-scale implementations with an eye on the Internet of things.
The latter configuration means that it can be used with almost all existing applications in the Hadoop system whilst at the same time supporting Google's own Cloud Dataflow.
and enterprises where extensive data processing is required, and where workloads are more complex. For example, if an organization needs to stream data into
#This is the first FDA-approved 3d printed drug The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first-ever 3d printed drug,
and it likely won't be the last. Spritam is an epilepsy medication used to treat seizures in children and adults.
It's porous thanks to the 3d printing process, allowing it to quickly disintegrate with a sip of liquid,
Combining"formulation science"with 3d printing technology first developed at MIT, the company can make porous medications that disintegrate rapidly with very little liquid.
Aprecia plans to make more 3d printed medications for the central nervous system, manufacturing them on its own proprietary equipment.
Hackers sorry, security experts at mobile cybersecurity firm Lookout have compromised successfully a Tesla Model S. This is the third connected car hack in the last two weeks,
while tests using Google glass helped the team calibrate what type of notifications were important to push through even
#Artificial skin Communicates with Neurons Researchers have developed a new type of artificial skin that could pave the way for responsive prosthetics.
We see this as the first step towards using plastic materials for artificial skin on prosthetic limbs.
the sensors could serve as the basis of wearable technology. hey are very thin and flexible,
#Graphene's thermoelectric properties to help cars recover lost thermal energy Charging bateries or running air conditioning could be assisted by energy from fuel normally wasted as heat emissions One of the less well-known properties of graphene could enable the carbonaceous wonder-material to help combustion engine vehicles to make better use of the energy from their fuel by converting waste heat into electricity
to charge the batteries or power onboard systems, according to the University of Manchester. Graphene-doped strontium titanium oxide has the ability to generate electricity from relatively small amounts of heat
according to a team working with a Leicester-based thermal management specialist called European Thermodynamics. Thermoelectric graphene composite, with graphene fragments ringed in the 2 m-scale image Internal combustion engines lose about 70 per cent of the energy from their fuel as heat,
so recovering some of that energy would obviously be beneficial. But materials that exhibit thermoelectric properties the ability to convert heat to electric current tend to work only at higher temperatures than those seen in engines.
Our findings show that by introducing a small amount of graphene to the base material can reduce the thermal operating window to room temperature
Other graphene-related automotive research at Manchester includes using the material in composites for lightweight bodywork
#Epilepsy drug is approved first FDA 3d printed pill The first 3d printed pill has been approved for use by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA.
which uses 3d printing to produce a porous, high-dose formulation that rapidly disintegrates with the intake of a small amount of liquid.
000mg that disintegrate in the patient in less than 10 seconds. y combining 3d printing technology with a highly-prescribed epilepsy treatment,
#ew memory materials could boost storage density It comprises a layered structure of tantalum, nanoporous tantalum oxide and multilayer graphene between two platinum electrodes.
including power generation in wind turbines, memory storage, and medical imaging. However, only three metals iron cobalt and nickel-are naturally ferromagnetic,
such as quantum computers, will require a new breed of magnets with additional properties to increase storage and processing capabilities.
using 3d printing, and an experimental propulsion system, and tested it inside a pig stomach. The tadpole endoscope, swimming in a stomach-shaped test tank The capsule itself is a simple structure, 13mm in diameter,
as well as nozzle heads for 3d printing. The material could also have larger scale applications on marine vessels
This meant that more solar energy could be used by the electrode. ow we understand what going on at the microscopic level,
And the new design could be used to store renewable energy of the electrical grid, the researchers suggested.
#Can the internet of things save us from traffic jams? Traffic is getting worse. It doesn just feel that way,
So when internet of things technology is disrupting every part of our lives, when will traffic lights be rebuilt rethought and?
It is all part of the promise of connected and self-driving cars, which allow data about individual journeys,
Rather than stop at red lights, self-driving cars would schedule a slot through an intersection in real-time,
For the idea to work, it would require roads to be mostly full of autonomous cars, says project leader Professor Peter Stone
Andy Stanford-Clark, distinguished engineer in IBM global internet of things team, pointed out that we can now pull in all sorts of data:
As we shift to more autonomous cars, that may have to change. One way self-driving vehicles may be introduced is latooning with a lead car in control of a train or group of followers, handy for giving lorry drivers a break.
what the goal of Iot-connected traffic lights? don think the main reason is going to be racing people through intersections,
how Figure 1 is crowdsourcing diagnoses Where do doctors turn when even they don know what wrong with you?
Musk also unveiled a larger owerpack a 100kwh battery block to help utilities smooth out their supply of wind and solar energy
Sitting somewhere between the traditional art of weaving and the recent home availability of 3d printers,
and a technology which is emerging 3d printing. There is an intersection between these two technologies to achieve something
Now with 3d printing you can scan your foot and you can scan an insole or even a whole sole or the whole shoe at some point. he designer and the chiropodist can say that you need to remove some material here
And just to visualise that, it like one small nuclear reactor worth of electricity being generated from the tides in the Bristol Channel. he new Transverse Horizontal Axis Water turbine (THAWT)
There is more good news for proponents of renewable energy after the UK government #which is no longer encouraging onshore wind
and solar energy#gave the go-ahead for a large offshore wind farm that could provide power for up to two million homes.
such as its driverless cars, and 3g-beaming balloons, while Google (now a subsidiary of Alphabet) will"slim down
#Virtual reality comes into the store VENICE BEACH, Calif. elcome to this reality-a store where you can buy shoes, eyewear and coffee,
Shoppers at Toms flagship store here can don Samsung's Gear VR virtual reality goggles, which are tapped into a Samsung phone in
Virtual reality is a huge buzzword in the Hollywood and gaming communities, as folks look to eye-popping photography directly to your eyes to as the next big thing,
#Virtual reality comes to shopping Welcome to this reality: a store where you can buy shoes, eyewear and coffee,
Shoppers at the Toms flagship store here can don Samsung's Gear VR virtual reality goggles,
Virtual reality is a huge buzzword in the Hollywood and gaming communities, as folks look to eye-popping, immersive photography as the next big thing,
head of the data security and privacy practice at the law firm of Fox Rothschild. Under so-called Safe harbor rules, U s. firms are allowed to transfer personal data of European citizens back to the U s..They only have to follow one set of rules on how data they store
and build European data centers to process data previously transferred to the U s.,said Fox Rothschild's Vernick.
including driverless cars and drones.""What is Alphabet?""Page wrote.""Alphabet is mostly a collection of companies.
That capacity will be used to accommodate new technologies like driverless cars, smart appliances and a host of other emerging products we haven't even invented yet.
solar power inverters, industrial motor controllers, and other electronics will produce $900 billion in energy savings annually by 2025.
That widget manufacturer down the street likely has a data center and has developed and maintains a portfolio of its own custom software that keep evolving.
analyse, and compare huge information data sets. This means the types of detailed investigations that might have seemed impossible a decade ago can now be performed on a grand scale.
making it natively integrated with much of the existing big data and Hadoop ecosystem, the company said.
Cloud Bigtable integrates with other Google big data products, such as messaging tool Pub/Sub, pipeline-builder Dataflow and analytics software Bigquery."
"A lot of people in the Hadoop ecosystem say HBASE is hard, even if they're experts at it.
"The second area where Google expects Cloud Bigtable to find a role is in new projects in areas such as the internet of things, advertising, energy, financial services and telecoms.
The app runs real-time data processing via the SAP HANA Cloud platform, and was built on the SAP Mobile Platform to provide Heidelberg University Hospital an intuitive interface to connect doctors with patients and vice versa.
Yahoo chief information security officer Alex Stamos confirmed that end-to-end encryption will be introduced to Yahoo Mail by the end of 2015.
In 2011, researchers at the University of Exeter made headlines with a 3d printer that created designs in chocolate,
a 3d printer working that uses prepared capsules of food to print dishes such as ravioli at the press of a button.
As well as working on projects related to 3d printing, the team also those experiments with the use Big data in the kitchen-for example
"3d printing offers new opportunities for personalized cuisine, a concept that will revitalize both the food industry and the restaurant business,
"In field of gastronomy, the possibilities of 3d printing are not yet apparent, "Castells said.""Printing flat designs can be done,
has been selling 3d printers since 1998, according to Felip Fonollosa, its director general. It has incorporated recently a paste extruder system into its printers,
like a public cloud, you'll only pay for the resources you use. In an interview, Mauri added,"You can still buy
This material--just a single layer of atoms--could be made as a wearable device perhaps integrated into clothing to convert energy from your body movement to electricity
Hone and his research group demonstrated in 2008 that graphene a 2d form of carbon is the strongest material.
He and Lei Wang a postdoctoral fellow in Hone's group have been actively exploring the novel properties of 2d materials like graphene
Unique capabilities of 3-D printing revealed Researchers at the Department of energy's Oak ridge National Laboratory have demonstrated an additive manufacturing method to control the structure
Ryan Dehoff staff scientist and metal additive manufacturing lead at the Department of energy's Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at ORNL presented the research this week in an invited presentation at the Materials science & Technology 2014 conference in Pittsburgh.
It will help us make parts that are stronger lighter and function better for more energy-efficient transportation and energy production applications such as cars and wind turbines.
The research was supported by the Advanced Manufacturing Office in DOE's Office of Energy efficiency and Renewable energy.
Additive manufacturing helped researchers explore complex geometries increase power densities and reduce weight and waste while building ORNL's 30-kilowatt prototype inverter.
With additive manufacturing complexity is basically free so any shape or grouping of shapes can be imagined
Using additive manufacturing researchers optimized the inverter's heat sink allowing for better heat transfer throughout the unit.
and setting the stage for building an inverter using entirely additive manufacturing techniques. Building on the success of this prototype researchers are working on an inverter with an even greater percentage of 3-D printed parts that's half the size of inverters in commercially available vehicles.
Research for this project was conducted at ORNL's National Transportation Research center and Manufacturing Demonstration Facility DOE user facilities with funding from DOE's Office of Energy efficiency and Renewable energy.
#Discovery of cellular snooze button advances cancer, biofuel research The discovery of a cellular snooze button has allowed a team of Michigan State university scientists to potentially improve biofuel production and offer insight on the early stages
Christoph Benning MSU professor of biochemistry and molecular biology and his colleagues unearthed the protein's potential
while seeking ways to improve algae's capacity as a biofuel. Its application in cancer research
But to convert them into truly viable biofuel producers we need them to grow and produce oil simultaneously.
and is always active For biofuels this would remove a major hurdle and gives scientists a way to potentially produce high amounts of oil and biomass.
#Charged graphene gives DNA a stage to perform molecular gymnastics When Illinois researchers set out to investigate a method to control how DNA moves through a tiny sequencing device they did not know they were about to witness a display of molecular gymnastics.
Threading a DNA molecule through a tiny hole called a nanopore in a sheet of graphene allows researchers to read the DNA sequence;
and graduate student Manish Shankla applied an electric charge to the graphene sheet hoping that the DNA would react to the charge in a way that would let them control its movement down to each individual link or nucleotide in the DNA chain.
We show that to some degree we can control the process by charging the graphene.
The researchers found that a positive charge in the graphene speeds up DNA movement through the nanopore
However as they watched the DNA seemed to dance across the graphene surface pirouetting into shapes they had seen never specific to the sequence of the DNA nucleotides.
We were surprised very by the variety of DNA conformations that we can observe at the surface of graphene
By switching the charge in the graphene the researchers can control not only the DNA's motion through the pore
and energy storage said Prof Yazami. There is still room for improvement and one such key area is the power density--how much power can be stored in a certain amount of space
#Balancing renewable energy costs and optimizing energy mix Increasing reliance on renewable energies is the way to achieve greater CO2 EMISSION sustainability and energy independence.
In the region of Pucanganom we installed a system that processes toilet sewage of 15 families and the dung of their animals in three biogas facilities.
There the organic wastes are converted into biogas and fertilizer within a period of one month. Via a pipeline system the gas is passed directly on to the gas stoves of the neighboring houses.
and child care centers to report illnesses to local public health departments could improve the detection of disease outbreaks
if certain child care centers are reporting the beginning of stomach flu (vomiting and diarrhea), other centers can start taking steps to thoroughly clean to kill any viruses before symptoms occur
In addition, if child care providers see that larger centers in their community are reporting flu-like illness,
"However, child care or preschool absences are typically more likely to be associated with illness and most young children continue to need child care for most of the year,
"says Hashikawa, a member of the U-M Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation. Most public health departments do not electronically track influenza
or stomach illnesses in preschools and child care centers settings.""Most illness reporting methods used by many public health departments are based slow,
"Preliminary data suggest that using the online biosurveillance in child care centers and preschools gives us an earlier detection
#Balancing birds and biofuels: Grasslands support more species than cornfields In Wisconsin bioenergy is for the birds.
and biofuels too by providing information for land managers farmers conservationists and policy makers as the bioenergy industry ramps up particularly in Wisconsin and the central U s as bioenergy production demand increases we should pay attention to the ecological consequences says Turner.
According to Blank and Turner the study is one of the first to examine grassland fields already producing biomass for biofuels
While previous studies suggest corn is a more profitable biofuel crop than grasses and other types of vegetation the new findings indicate grassland fields may represent an acceptable tradeoff between creating biomass for bioenergy and providing habitat for grassland birds.
and the biofuels industry can win. Incentives for a conservation-minded approach could be used to help offset potential differences in profit the researchers suggest.
But experts aren't keeping pace with the growing amounts and complexities of big data. Cornell computing researchers have come up with a new principle they call"data smashing"for estimating the similarities between streams of arbitrary data without human intervention,
Along with gravity the electromagnetic interaction and weak nuclear force strong-interactions are one of four fundamental forces. Lead scientist Professor Tim Gershon from The University of Warwick's Department of physics explains:
#Mining big data yields Alzheimers discovery Scientists at The University of Manchester have used a new way of working to identify a new gene linked to neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's.
The study has just been published in the journal BMC Genomics. David, who works in Dr Reinmar Hager's lab at the Faculty of life sciences, says:"
"We are living in a big data world thanks to the likes of the Human genome Project and post-genome technologies.
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