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#Miniscule mirrored cavities connect quantum memories The enhanced interactions between light and atoms and the extended spin-coherence times are essential steps toward realizing real-world quantum memories and, hence, quantum computing systems,

which could solve some problems faster than conventional systems. Additionally, these advances could significantly impact the development of high-security, long-distance, cryptographic fiber optic communication networks.

Nanoscale mirrored cavities that trap light around atoms in diamond crystals increase the quantum mechanical interactions between light and electrons in atoms.

This improvement in the coherence time is more than two orders of magnitude better than previously reported times for cavity-coupled single quantum memories in solid state systems.

Support is acknowledged also from the Alexander Von humboldt Foundation, the NASA Office of the Chief Technologist's Space technology Research Fellowship, the AFOSR Quantum memories Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative,

Researchers developed a genetically modified mouse in which the Hif-1alpha protein is fused to another protein,

and store a steadily increasing amount of data, faster and faster, and in less space.

Until now, the computer industry has used various materials stacked on top of each other in a filigree structure to achieve this effect.

This material class therefore has enormous potential for future applications in information technology

#Expanding the DNA alphabet:''Extra'DNA base found to be stable in mammals Array'This modification to DNA is found in very specific positions in the genome--the places which regulate genes,

the researchers examined levels of 5fc in living adult and embryonic mouse tissues, as well as in mouse embryonic stem cells--the body's master cells which can become almost any cell type in the body.

They found that 5fc is present in all tissues but is very rare, making it difficult to detect.

'Our group has pioneered the idea of using lithium-ion batteries to search for catalysts, 'Cui said.'

'Our hope is that this technique will lead to the discovery of new catalysts for other reactions beyond water splitting.'

'In conventional water splitters, the hydrogen and oxygen catalysts often require different electrolytes with different phone acidic,

is actually more stable than some commercial catalysts made of precious metals.''We built a conventional water splitter with two benchmark catalysts, one platinum and one iridium,

'Wang said.''At first the device only needed 1. 56 volts of electricity to split water,

interconnected grain boundaries that become active sites for the water-splitting catalytic reaction, 'Cui said.'

'We believe that electrochemical tuning can be used to find new catalysts for other chemical fuels beyond hydrogen.

Jean-Christophe Larsimont and colleagues used state of the art genetic mouse models to dissect the functional role

much like changing the settings on itunes or a stereo lets one explore the behavior of music.

and x-ray scattering at the National Synchrotron Light source--both DOE Office of Science User Facilities.

and provide backup for renewable energy sources that produce intermittent output, such as wind and solar power. But Chiang says the technology is suited also well to applications where weight

This computer turns the image to electronic signals that are sent wirelessly to an electronic device implanted on the retina

The researchers conducted visual function tests using both a computer screen and real-world conditions, including finding

A particular protein from within the sperm stays intact at the site of fusion. This protein--discovered by Herr's lab 15 years ago--remains in place

"Quantum dots, which have use in diverse applications such as medical imaging, lighting, display technologies, solar cells, photocatalysts, renewable energy and optoelectronics, are typically expensive and complicated to manufacture.

supplied by Lehigh's Faculty Innovation Grant (FIG) and Collaborative Research Opportunity Grant (CORE) programs.

by adding the concept of wireless communication, the biosensor could be placed in one part of the body,

The counterpart is curved a strongly mirror on the end facet of an optical fibre. Laser light is coupled into the resonator through this fibre.

#Nanostructure design enables pixels to produce two different colors depending on polarization of incident light Through precise structural control,

A*STAR researchers have encoded a single pixel with two distinct colors and have used this capability to generate a three-dimensional stereoscopic image.

including ultrahigh-definition three-dimensional color displays and state-of-the-art anti-counterfeiting measures. So they set about designing a nanostructure architecture that could provide more'bang for the buck'.

Goh and Yang trialed two aluminum nanostructures as pixel arrays: ellipses and two squares separated by a very small space (known as coupled nanosquare dimers.

Each pixel arrangement had its own pros and cons. While the ellipses offered a broader color range

Furthermore, the researchers used these pixel arrays to generate a three-dimensional stereoscopic image. They achieved this by using ellipses as pixel elements,

carefully offsetting the images and choosing background colors that minimized cross-talk.""Being able to print two images onto the same area and,

"and wearing your computer on your sleeve, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of engineering have designed a responsive hybrid material that is fueled by an oscillatory chemical reaction

and can perform computations based on changes in the environment or movement, and potentially even respond to human vital signs.

and Steven P. Levitan, Ph d.,John A. Jurenko professor of electrical and computer engineering, integrated models for self-oscillating polymer gels and piezoelectric micro-electric-mechanical systems to devise a new

reactive material system capable of performing computations without external energy inputs, amplification or computer mediation. Their research,"Achieving synchronization with active hybrid materials:

"allowing the material to be used for computation. Levitan adds, however, the computations would not be general purpose,

but rather specific to pattern-matching and recognition, or other non-Boolean operations.""Imagine a group of organ pipes,

and respond accordingly, thereby performing the actual computing.""Developing so-called"materials that compute"addresses limitations inherent to the systems currently used by researchers to perform either chemical computing or oscillator-based computing.

Chemical computing systems are limited by both the lack of an internal power system and the rate of diffusion as the chemical waves spread throughout the system,

Further, oscillator-based computing has not been translated into a potentially wearable material. The hybrid BZ-PZ model,

air quality and sound pressure devices, including for use in consumer electronics devices such as mobile phones. Interested in whether graphene could enable new applications and improved sensor performance,

including computers s

#Eco-friendly oil spill solution developed An eco-friendly biodegradable green'herding'agent that can be used to clean up light crude oil spills on water has been developed by researchers.

a universal strategy to screen gutter oils is not available at present. Polyu researchers have developed a simplified method for direct analysis of edible oils using matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry (MALDI-MS). In the new MALDI-MS

automatic data acquisition and simple data processing are involved. High quality and highly reproducible MALDI-MS spectra results can be obtained using this method

and a preliminary spectral database of labeled edible oils available in the market has been set up.

the authenticity of an edible oil sample can then be determined within five minutes by comparing its MALDI-MS spectrum with those of its labeled oil in the established database.

And in mouse models lacking AIM2, the researchers found that they had smaller tumors and precancerous colon polyps when blocked Akt.

Wilson said the researchers believe their findings mean that drugs used to inhibit Akt could be used as a personalized therapy for people who don have AIM2. ur research paves the way for future clinical trials that screen for AIM2 expression in colon cancer

#Ultrasonic fingerprint sensor may take smartphone security to new level A new ultrasonic fingerprint sensor measures 3-D image of your finger's surface

and the tissue beneath it--enhancing biometrics and information security for smartphones and other devices. Fingerprint sensor technology currently used in smartphones like the iphone 6 produces a two-dimensional image of a finger's surface,

which can be spoofed fairly easily with a printed image of the fingerprint. A newly developed ultrasonic sensor eliminates that risk by imaging the ridges and valleys of the fingerprint's surface,

"Using passwords for smartphones was a big security problem, so we anticipated that a biometric solution was said ahead

"After Apple announced a fingerprint sensor in their new iphone in 2013, it was inevitable that more would follow,

which smartphones rely on for such functions as microphones and directional orientation. They used a modified version of the manufacturing process used to make the MEMS accelerometer

and gyroscope found in the iphone and many other consumer electronics devices.""Our chip is fabricated from two wafers--a MEMS wafer that contains the ultrasound transducers

"said Zhenqiang Ma, the team leader and a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the UW-Madison."

but cellulose nanofibrillated fiber films have the potential to replace silicon wafers as electronic substrates in environmental friendly, low-cost, portable gadgets or devices of the future.

#New method of quantum entanglement packs vastly more data in a photon A team of researchers led by UCLA electrical engineers has demonstrated a new way to harness light particles,

called hyperentanglement, allows each photon pair to carry much more data than was possible with previous methods.

Quantum entanglement could allow users to send data through a network and know immediately whether that data had made it to its destination without being intercepted or altered.

With hyperentanglement, users could send much denser packets of information using the same networks. The research, published today in Nature Photonics,

was led by Zhenda Xie, a research scientist in the lab of Chee Wei Wong, a UCLA associate professor of electrical engineering who was the research project's principal investigator.

In secure data transfer, photons sent over fiber optic networks can be encrypted through entanglement. With each dimension of entanglement

so a photon pair entangled by five dimensions can carry 32 times as much data as a pair entangled by only one.

the method for carrying many videos over a single optical fiber.""We show that an optical frequency comb can be generated at single photon level,

"Potential applications for the research include secure communication and information processing, in particular for high-capacity data transfer with minimal error.

This could be useful for medical servers, government data communications, financial markets and military communication channels, as well as quantum cloud communications and distributed quantum computing."

and encrypt data. a

#Producing biodegradable plastic just got cheaper, greener Biodegradable drinking cups or vegetable wrapping foil: the bioplastic known as polylactic acid (PLA) is already a part of our everyday lives.

allowing users--family physicians, for example--to run the test. The Biointerfaces Institute has developed a series of paper-based screening technologies

which enable users to generate clear, simple answers that appear on test paper indicating the presence of infection or contamination in people, food or the environment t

"Our next goal is to test the p53 inhibitors currently available in the same mouse models

communications devices like cellphones will utilize not only electromagnetic waves--radio--but also acoustic or ultrasonic sound, which can be highly directional and long-range."

which is the natural site of the immune response against pathogens as well as cancer, "says Dr. Kim who is also Professor of Surgery at Case Western Reserve University School of medicine and the Charles Hubay Chair at UH Case Medical center."

#Omnidirectional free space wireless charging of multiple wireless devices Scientists have made great strides in wireless-power transfer development.

A new WPT system is capable of charging multiple mobile devices concurrently and with unprecedented freedom in any direction,

A group of researchers at KAIST has developed a wireless-power transfer (WPT) technology that allows mobile devices to be charged at any location and in any direction,

just as Wi-fi works for Internet connections. With this technology, so long as mobile users stay in a designated area where the charging is available, e g.,

, the Wi-Power zone, the device, without being tethered to a charger, will pick up power automatically, as needed.

Either 30 smartphones with a power capacity of one watt each or 5 laptops with 2. 4 watts each can be simultaneously

The maximum power transfer efficiency for the laptops was 34%.%The researchers said that to fabricate plane Tx

The ferrite cores are designed optimally to reduce the core volume by half, and their ability to transfer power is unaffected nearly by human bodies or surrounding metal objects,

This has made it possible for mobile devices to receive power from any direction. Although wireless-power technology has been applied to smartphones

it could not offer any substantial advantages over traditional wired charging because the devices still require close contact with the transmitter,

the WPT technology should provide mobile users with six degrees of freedom at a distance.

Until now, all wireless-charging technologies have had difficulties with the problem of short charging distance, mostly less than 10 cm,

The degree of freedom represents mobile devices'freedom of movement in three-dimensional space. In addition, the DCRS works at a low magnetic field environment.

what are referred to as tetragonal sites of the crystal structure. Due to their different configurations of electrons, these tetrahedra become elongated along the crystallographic c-axis for nickel,

Peninsula of orthorhombic state At a mixture ratio of 85%nickel and 15%copper, the spinel system displays a kind of narrow peninsula of orthorhombic state in the phase diagram where the observed Anm

and colleagues identified a subset of developmentally relevant genes that are activated prior to the first cell division using computer-assisted mathematical modeling that can be used to predict

"said Jianlin Cheng, an associate professor of computer science in the MU College of Engineering.""RNA sequencing is the means by

Often, scientists must sift through incredibly large amounts of data to get to usable results. RNAMINER has cut that time drastically."

the MU Informatics Institute and the Bond Life sciences Center to analyze vast genomic data sets and to formulate the design of RNAMINER.

The website was created to be user friendly and allows users to upload data, analyze it through as many as five steps against the complete genomes of five species:

human, mouse, Drosophila melanogaster (a type of fly), TAIR10 arabidopsis (a small flowering plant) and Clostridium perfringens (a type of bacterium.

Genomic data for any species is welcome for upload to grow the database. On average, two gigabytes of data takes approximately 10 hours for the servers to process

and analyze. Most researchers get results within a couple of hours, Cheng said.""To use our pipeline,

you don't have to know about computing tools, "Cheng said.""You just need to upload files

In the first days of reprogramming mouse cells, the researchers observed that their production of netrin-1 was reduced strongly.

This time, the quantity of ips cells produced from mouse cells was much more greater.

The other type of mouse, called Beethoven, has a specific TMC1 mutation--a change in a single amino acid

but with gene therapy, they jump as high as a normal mouse, "says Holt. The force of their jump was measured by a plate on the floor underneath them;

or spread from their first location to sites throughout the body. For the first time, researchers at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia report a single molecule that appears to be the central regulator driving metastasis in prostate cancer.

which allows many cancer cell types to become mobile, as well as a number of other gene networks involved in other steps in the metastatic cascade, such as cell migration and invasion.

And in mice with aggressive human tumors, an inhibitor of DNA-PKCS reduced overall tumor burden in metastatic sites.

#Wireless data delivery over active TV channels tested Rice university engineers have demonstrated the first system that allows wireless data transmissions over UHF channels during active TV broadcasts.

it could significantly expand the reach of so-called"super Wi-fi"networks in urban areas.""Due to the popularity of cable, satellite and Internet TV, the UHF spectrum is one of the most underutilized portions of the wireless spectrum in the United states,

"said lead researcher Edward Knightly.""That's a bitter irony because the demand for mobile data services is expected to grow tenfold in the next five years,

and the UHF band is suited perfectly for wireless data.""Knightly, professor and department chair of electrical

and computer engineering and director of the Rice Wireless Network Group, said the UHF spectrum, which ranges from 400 to 700 megahertz,

is called often the"beachfront property"of the wireless spectrum. Unlike the higher frequency signals used for existing Wi-fi hotspots,

UHF signals carry for miles and are blocked not by walls or trees. Because of these advantages, wireless data hotspots that use UHF are referred often to as"super Wi-fi."

"In the U s.,TV broadcasters have been given preferential access to the UHF spectrum for more than 50 years.

If no TV broadcaster has laid claim to a UHF channel, the Federal Communications Commission allows secondary users to transmit wireless data on that channel,

provided that the transmissions do not interfere with TV broadcasts in any part of the UHF spectrum.

The rules governing this secondary access are referred often to as"TV white space"rules in reference to the industry term for used or blank portions of the TV spectrum."

"Unfortunately, in the most densely populated areas of the country, where the need for additional wireless data services is the greatest,

the amount of available white space is limited extremely, "Knightly said.""In our most recent tests in Houston, one channel is open in parts of the city

and none are available in others. This is fairly typical of a large U s. urban area.""Though most of the UHF band is taken already in U s. cities,

it is largely underutilized. According to a 2014 report by the TV rating company Nielsen, fewer than 10 percent of U s. households rely on over-the-air broadcasts for TV programming.

To demonstrate that wireless service providers could make use of the UHF spectrum without interfering with TV broadcasters,

Knightly and Rice graduate student Xu Zhang developed a technology called"Wi-fi in Active TV Channels,

"or WATCH, and received FCC approval to test it at the Rice campus in 2014.

WATCH requires no coordination with or changes to legacy TV transmitters. Instead TV signals are broadcast as normal

and the WATCH system actively monitors whenever a nearby TV is tuned to a channel to avoid interfering with reception.

The technology to allow this comes in two parts. One aspect of WATCH monitors TV broadcasts on a channel and uses sophisticated signal-canceling techniques to insert wireless data transmissions into the same channel;

that eliminates TV broadcasts from interfering with the super Wi-fi data signals being sent to computer users,

Knightly said. The other aspect of WATCH is dedicated to making certain that data transmissions do not interfere with TV reception;

this part of the technology would require TVS to report when they are being tuned to a UHF channel,

In practice, this could be accomplished with either smart TV remotes or next-generation TV SETS. In the tests at Rice, Zhang constructed a"smart-remote"app that reported

whenever a test television in the lab was tuned to a UHF channel. When that happened, the WATCH system automatically shifted its data transmissions to another part of the UHF spectrum that wasn't being used."

"Our tests showed that WATCH could provide at least six times more wireless data compared with situations where we were limited only to the traditionally available white-space spectrum,

"Knightly said. With WATCH in use, Knightly said it took a fraction of a second longer than normal to tune in a UHF TV broadcast on the test television.

While the increment could be measured--it was less than a 5 percent increase--it was almost imperceptible to the person switching channels,

Wi-fi in Active TV Channels,"won best-paper honors last month at Association of Computing Machinery's Mobihoc 2015 conference in Hangzhou, China.

Knightly said technology like WATCH will become increasingly important as the demand for wireless data services increases and the number of broadcast TV viewers decreases.

For example, a 2014 Cisco report found that nearly a half-billion mobile devices with data connections had been added to the global supply within the previous year, bringing the global total to 7. 4 billion--a bit more than number of people On earth, according to the U s. Census bureau.

Of the 7. 4 billion data-connected devices Cisco found that more than a quarter were used smartphones,

which an estimated 22 times more data than nonsmart devices.""Allowing the UHF spectrum to be used inefficiently makes little sense today

and will make even less sense in the future, "Knightly said.""There are already more people in the United states who require mobile data services than there are people using broadcast-only TV.

By showing that these two communities can coexist, we hope to spur innovation and a public debate about how this valuable resource could be used

In a paper published July 10 in the journal Physical Review Letters, Zongfu Yu, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering,

#Better memory with faster lasers By studying the effect of femtosecond laser pulses on the types of materials used to make DVDS,

researchers made a discovery that could one day lead to better information storage in computers.

These two states represent 0s and 1s of digital data.""Today, nanosecond lasers--lasers that pulse light at one-billionth of a second--are used to record information on DVDS and Blu-ray disks,

by driving the material from one state to another, "explains Giovanni Vanacore, a postdoctoral scholar and an author on the study.

The speed with which data can be recorded is determined both by the speed of the laser--that is,

--and to how fast data can be recorded, regardless of the laser speeds used.""Even if there is a laser faster than a femtosecond laser,

"Despite revealing such limits, the research could one day aid the development of better data storage for computers,

Right now, computers generally store information in several ways, among them the well-known random-access memory (RAM) and read-only memory (ROM.

RAM, which is used to run the programs on your computer, can record and rewrite information very quickly via an electrical current.

whenever the computer is powered down. ROM storage, including CDS and DVDS, uses phase-change materials and lasers to store information.

Although ROM records and reads data more slowly, the information can be stored for decades. Finding ways to speed up the recording process of phase-change materials

and understanding the limits to this speed could lead to a new type of memory that harnesses the best of both worlds.

and then rewrite a DVD. Although these applications could mean exciting changes for future computer technologies,

which could, in the absence of this data, lead to a selection of therapy which may not be the most appropriate for these patients.

"This is the first large clinical trial to compare liquid versus conventional tissue biopsy data, and the results show the former (BEAMING technology) obtain more data on tumor mutation throughout the course of the disease,

enabling us to better target therapy to the specificities of patient's tumor; this could have a considerable impact on clinical practice,

However, recent data from the research group led by Markus Hengstschläger of the Institute for Medical Genetics of the Medical University of Vienna now suggest that another protein complex,

#Noninvasive device could end daily finger pricking for people with diabetes A new laser sensor that monitors blood glucose levels without penetrating the skin could transform the lives of millions of people living with diabetes.

or invasive continuous monitors, which use implanted sensors that need regular replacement. Professor Jose said:"

which sends alerts to smart phones or readings directly to doctors, allowing them to profile how a person is managing their diabetes over time."

When the glass is in contact with the users'skin, the extent of fluorescence signal varies in relation to the concentration of glucose in their blood.

acting in a similar way as that used in smartphones. Because of this, our device is more affordable, with lower running costs than the existing self-monitoring systems."

One will be a finger-touch device similar to a computer mouse. The other will be a wearable version for continuous monitoring."

suggest that the new monitor has the potential to perform as well as conventional technologies. More clinical trials and product optimization are required for regulatory approvals

But in this case, researchers analyzed data from more than 30,000 people who were 45 or older, bringing together genetic and cognitive functioning data from participants in several studies in 12 different countries.

In addition they examined genetic variations across 2. 5 million sites along each individual's DNA, looking for associations between genetic variants and performance on several different tests of cognitive function.

Of the different cognitive skills examined, the strongest genetic association was related to performance on a test of information processing speed.

"We now have the technology to measure across the entire genome in a much more fine-grained manner compared to a few years ago, in this case 2. 5 million sites,

The collaboration of leading scientists from around the world, who have agreed to pool their data

"The core CHARGE cohorts include five population-based studies, including the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study, AGES-Reykjavik Study, Framingham Heart Study, Cardiovascular Health Study,

#First-of-its-kind tornado panels installed in Montgomery Home in June, UAB's tornado panels designed to protect against flying debris were installed as an integral component of a safe room in a new construction home in the Montgomery, Alabama area.

Uday Vaidya, Ph d.,professor and chair of UAB's Department of Materials science and engineering, worked with Storm Resistant Systems

and Cooper Structural Engineers to scale the panels for use in this home. The safe room is designed in accordance with FEMA standards to withstand 250 mile-per-hour winds,

The UAB panels were approved by the National Storm Shelter Association to hold up against an EF5 tornado."

"To see panels pass our most extreme test the first time is said very impressive Larry Tanner, P. E.,manager of the NSSA/Texas Tech Debris Impact Test Facility."

"The composition of thermoplastic and fiberglass resins and fibers used in the panels are stronger per-unit density than the steel used in many current shelters

The team working on the safe room developed a steel frame that holds the panels, and the frame can be broken down

"The UAB panels are unique in comparison to the other products I've seen used in that they are lightweight, similar to plywood,

what makes these panels a step above other products on the market.""This installation comes after four years of research, testing, approvals and manufacturing, following the 2011 Alabama tornado outbreak.

so we built panels that would resist the debris completely.""The panels, secured to each other

and the floor of an interior room, protect against flying debris and are designed to keep people from being crushed

and I think with these panels, we've done just that.""The panels leave the assembly line looking like typical interior walls;

they do not require paint and will never corrode.""The surface could be made to look really any way you want,

the panels also embrace green engineering techniques. Recycled materials used in the experimental phase kept thousands of pounds of waste from landfills.

and engineers seeking to integrate the panels into new construction as well as make them available to individuals who would like to purchase the panels to be retrofitted into existing homes s

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