#Needle Injects Healing Electronics into the Brain Researchers have built a tiny mesh-like electronic sensor,
After an injection several centimeters into the brain of a laboratory mouse the scientists were able to monitor electronic brain signals.
#'Wi-fi'Nanoparticles Send Signals from the Brain The problem with talking to our own brains,
with the idea of establishing a kind of direct wireless connection to neurons. DNEWS: Brain-To-Brain Networking Takes First Baby Stepsthe agnetoelectricnanoparticles (MENS) injected in the mice have several special properties.
First, theye small enough to sidle up to the neural network itself. Within whispering distance, you might say.
the electric field can directly couple to the electric circuitry of the neural network. he nanoparticles could be used to deliver drugs to specific parts of the brain.
Wearable device Changes Your Moodthe technique could also be used to create a new kind of brain-computer interface.
#Brain-Sensing Headband Helps Users Manage Stress Technology and relaxation don always go hand in hand. However, a brain-sensing headband that reads brain waves
and provides real-time feedback has been developed to help users better focus and manage stress. The Muse headband is lined with seven EEG sensors that detect the brain electrical activity
and sends information about the user state of mind to a smartphone app, Calm, which is available on both ios and Android.
DNEWS: Is The Internet Really Ruining Your Attention span? Users are asked then to participate in a three-minute guided exercise that aims to reduce stress, calm anxiety and increase focus and concentration.
Results are provided through a series of graphs and charts, displaying performance and spikes that represent moments of distraction.
There also an option to track progress over time. Interaxon, the company behind the Muse headband and a Mars venture client, claims that sustained use of the device will train one brain to stay more naturally calm and focused.
Stress Slows Metabolismthe product website explains the benefits of focused attention training: esearch has shown using an app
#Printing Color Images Without Ink A new technology creates colorful images by manipulating light rather than applying ink.
producing the colorful logo. nlike the printing process of an inkjet or laserjet printer, where mixed color pigments are used,
Artists Discover 3-D Printingthe Missouri S&t team believes the mechanical coloring on the silver/silica materials provide a much higher printing resolution than conventional color printing, according to Gizmag.
Pennsylvania State university geography professor Andrew M. Carleton and graduate student Jase Bernhardt studied April data from two weather stations, one in the South and the other in the Midwest,
Then they compared the daily temperature at sites with contrails above them with similar data from places where there weren any of the man-made clouds in the sky.
Otherwise, the sites were basically similar in terms of land use, cover, soil moisture and air-mass conditions. The researchers found that contrails somehow depress the difference between daytime and nighttime temperatures
#Floating, Touchable'Fairy Lights'Unveiled A team of researchers from Japan has found a way to use a high-speed laser to create a touchable plasma display in mid-air.
"has advantages over other 3-D displays. For starters, it doesn require physical matter arranged
aerial user interfaces and volumetric images. Laser Levitates Diamondsalthough the displays right now are tiny, at just eight cubic millimeters,
there hope that they will become larger as the technology progresses. Furthermore, lessons from this experiment can also be expanded to other rendering principles such as fluorescence and microbubble in solid/liquid materials, according to the researchers.
Hadrian begins by using computer-aided design (CAD) to determine the precise placement of every brick in a given structure to within one hundredth of an inch.
#LED Bulbs Offer a Low energy, Wireless Connection This lightbulb could work as your next wireless router.
At the University of Virginia, researchers have unveiled a new way to transmit wireless data in light waves from LED LIGHTS a much more reliable and faster alternative to radio wave Wi-fi. DNEWS:
Is The Internet Really Ruining Your Attention span? e developed a modulation algorithm that increases the throughput of data in visible light communications, Maite Brandt-Pearce,
an engineering professor at the University of Virginia, told Phys. org. e can transmit more data without using any additional energy.
As more light fixtures get replaced with LED LIGHTS, you can have different access points to the same network. randt-Pearce and with her former student Mohammad Noshad,
developed this new way to connect to the Internet. The technology would require no more energy than is used currently to emit light.
The light waves can carry data at 300 megabits per second from LED fixtures to wireless devices.
a desk lamp that provides an Internet connection when the light is on. Bring The nternet Of Thingsinto Your Homeesearchers have called it i-Fi?
the concept could provide a big boost to connectivity speeds with the potential to use every light in a building as an Internet transmitter. via Phys. or a
and tablets you might consume are the real deal. Back in 2014, the company was named a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum.
600 degrees, contain illions of combinations of spectral data, Wuh said. Within each of the tiny particles is an elaborate nanopore structure think of it as a series of microscopic holes within a thin membrane,
continuous process. uh asserted that it is best to liken these tiny structures as specific ingerprintsor ignaturesof data. here are hundreds of millions of signatures
and each signature is tied to a database that provides you with a tremendous amount of information,
You want to make sure they have the right medication. n an interconnected world where smartphones and Apple Watches are becoming ubiquitous,
Wuh said the idea of tiny microscopic particles containing data about a drug is farfetched no more than someone 20 years ago saying that a person would have a upercomputer the size of his palm. ut,
with the interconnected age and concerns over personal data, are there any concerns from potential consumers over the idea of ingesting technology that contains so much information?
Wuh suggested that those queasy about the idea of literally consuming this kind of data can rest assured. here no privacy issues at all.
There is really an impenetrable firewall between your body and the information that you are getting from the product. uh said that there has been avid interest in the technology,
#NYC Is Turning Trash cans Into Wi-fi Hotspots Consider the humble trash can. Stalwart and immobile, it populates our cities by the thousands,
Late last year, hi-tech waste management company Bigbelly upgraded two of its waste recycling stations in downtown Manhattan with Wireless internet hubs.
The Wireless internet option essentially turns the trash cans into free public Wi-fi hotspots, providing throughput of 50 to 75 MB per second.
the Wi-fi trash cans provide a strong signal that not blocked by buildings or other structures.
Wi-fi Sprinkler Saves Waterbigbelly is now working with the city to add Wi-fi to hundreds more waste stations throughout the city five boroughs, with a particular concentration in underserved neighborhoods.
The bins will pay for themselves, eventually, with display advertising. The smart trash cans will join another citywide initiative to turn all those old abandoned public pay phones into charging stations
and Wi-fi hot spots. More than 10,000 refurbished pay phone kiosks are set to go live by the end of the year.
The panels of the car connect to body sensors on the driver body. As the driver pulse quickens
Google recently built a robot car that can drive by itself, which has a similar objective.
"We think the data might show a different view of who's really driving.""Get more from Toms Guidethis article originally appeared on Toms Guide.
and linked with your smartphone. Other portable spectometers have been deployed by scientists in the field, but SCIO is the first to market itself as a consumer device.
The makers of SCIO hope that, by working with developers and pairing the device with software apps,
For instance, out-of-the-box apps planned for release will allow users to scan food for nutritional value.
the SCIO sends information to an online database. Algorithms interpret the data in the light spectrum,
and identification information is delivered back to your phone within seconds. As more people use the SCIO system,
SCIO atabase of matterwill get faster and more accurate over time. You can pre-order the SCIO pocket sensor now for $249
in fact when a programmer pushed a button on the top of their heads. One robot had a placebo button
and display a level of self-awareness to distinguish itself from the other two robots. It also opened the door to the possibility that self-aware robots could make their way into the future e
#Lab on a chip turns smart phones into mobile disease clinics Smart phones can pay our bills,
easy-to-use smart phone attachment (shown above) that can test patients for multiple deadly infectious diseases in 15 minutes.
It only takes a tiny bit of power from the smart phone to detect and display the results:
Based on the team screens of soil, the compound seems to be relatively rare, so Lewis doubts that many bacteria have evolved to produce an enzyme that could destroy it.
Theye also developing a version that attaches to cellphone cameras as a quick and portable diagnostic test. s
LHCB collected the data back in 2011 and 2012, but Wilkinson's team held back from announcing their discovery to avoid the fate of those who had made the earlier claims of pentaquark sightings.
the LHCB collaboration made use of data showing not only the energy of the particles produced in the CERN collisions but also their directions.
Running these data through a computer model, they found that they could get the experimental results
The research has been uploaded to the arxiv server and submitted to the journal Physical Review Letters.
Now, the fresh data that will flow into LHCB should enable scientists to study the pentaquarks'structure,
The new data might also lead to the discovery of other pentaquarks with different masses."
That makes them attractive as backup power sources for hospitals and manufacturing plants as well as for producing distributed power systems not connected to the grid.
With the software loaded onto a rover engineers can simply input desired waypoints for the rover to reach
The system also uses the cameras and satellite images to monitor progress. In 2012 Seeker was tested for the first time in the Atacama desert in Chile a landscape similar to that of Mars. There it guided the Robovolc rover built to traverse the edge of volcanoes over several kilometres in a single day.
With the software loaded onto a rover engineers can simply input desired waypoints for the rover to reach
The system also uses the cameras and satellite images to monitor progress. In 2012 Seeker was tested for the first time in the Atacama desert in Chile a landscape similar to that of Mars. There it guided the Robovolc rover built to traverse the edge of volcanoes over several kilometres in a single day.
and broadcast a ham radio signal for amateurs to tune in to o
#Spacecraft seek geysers without human help When the Rosetta spacecraft sends its lander to the surface of a comet on 12 november the lander will follow prearranged orders from Earth to touch down safely
and send data home for analysis . But future spacecraft may be able to do it all on their own.
Kiri Wagstaff and her colleagues at the Jet propulsion laboratory in Pasadena California have developed software that can identify a plume of water
The researchers tested the software on unprocessed images of comet Hartley 2 and Saturn's moon Enceladus.
But the software will be of even more benefit on future missions to the outer solar system and eventually planetary systems outside our solar system.
and after data we have today. Hospital MRI machines can weigh more than a tonne thanks to their strong superconducting magnets making them impractical for the ISS.
So Sarty and his colleagues at MRI manufacturer MRI-Tech Canada of Calgary Alberta and space flight hardware maker Com Dev International of Cambridge Ontario have developed a technique called Transmit Array Spatial Encoding
Additional radio signals cause the protons in your body's liquids to resonate with the magnetic field
To shrink down TRASE uses a novel radio wave timing technique that requires much smaller magnets.
All this significantly reduces the hardware complexity of an MRI which saves us considerable weight making it suitable for space flight Sarty told New Scientist.
The mathematics and the results are too similar to just be a coincidence. Journal reference:
The pair intend to use their combined experience of space-based photographic databases and Earth observation privacy law to ensure that people can wield authentic imagery that stands up in court.
It might seem a simple matter for someone to use Google earth say or Microsoft's Bing images to obtain evidence to support their case.
Why would they need space detectives? But it is not so simple. Finding the right pictures means trawling through huge databases of historical satellite data
and lawsuits involving such approaches frequently fail. Trials have been collapsing because courts cannot be convinced of the authenticity of image data says Purdy.
For instance people cannot be given sure a satellite was working on the day in question or that the area of land imaged is actually the land at issue.
The space detectives will use their expertise in commissioning space images to order and their familiarity with the databases of space image suppliers like Digital Globe of Longmont Colorado.
Because it is always possible to modify a digital image you need strong archiving procedures plus information on
Ueda and her team made the observations using data from the ALMA radio telescope. Computer simulations suggested that
when galaxies merge they usually form a single blob-shaped galaxy classed as elliptical. However most of the galaxies in the universe are shaped pancake disc galaxies such as lenticular galaxies and our own spiral Milky way.
#Water-splitter could make hydrogen fuel on Mars Making fuel on site for a return trip to Mars may be a step closer.
and double as portable power-packs for computers or other kit used in the field. But existing methods for creating usable hydrogen gas from water require a lot of electricity.
In a single degenerate system the shock wave from the white dwarf explosion should smash into the surrounding gas from the companion star generating radio waves.
Pérez-Torres and colleagues saw no radio waves so concluded SN 2014j probably began as two white dwarfs.
Our experiment provides the first actual data of diamonds under such high pressure says Ray Smith at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
The team's data can now be used to improve models of gas giants and the suspected diamond in their depths.
These findings contribute to an ongoing effort to put together an understanding of the cores of giant planets says Stevenson.
because we can now use direct experimental data to model the deep interiors of carbon-rich planets says Madhusudhan.
It's just that the mathematics of focusing is disrupted by the planet's gravity he says.
On 10 june Google acquired Skybox Imaging a 5-year-old Silicon valley firm for $500 million.
The appeal for Google and other firms is the potential to mine profitable data from satellite images.
Google has said it will use the images to improve Google earth and its Maps app though that is likely to be just the beginning of its plans.
It wants to hire satellites already in orbit to prospect landfill sites for potentially valuable materials.
what might be in them means drilling about a hundred 25-metre-deep holes into each one to extract core samples.
Each core costs around £1200. Still the incentive to mine landfills is large. In the US and UK only about half of aluminium drinks cans are recycled
If the satellite gives us 1000 potential sites from the 25000 in the UK we would then use drone reconnaissance to get a richer picture of say the wood cover
And with an open software interface anyone will be able to develop apps that use the imagery.
or by activity from the host star and they say a massive rocky world is the best explanation for the data.
But the craft does include touchscreen interfaces to control the spacecraft as well as manual buttons for critical functions that would be needed in case of emergency.
#Baby model cosmos grows up to look like the real thing A supercomputer simulation has tracked the evolution of the universe from a mere 12 million years after the big bang until the present day.
and supermassive black holes pulling in material that gets too Close to run the simulation the team used several supercomputers in Europe and the US each
of which contained many central processing units or CPUS. By contrast an ordinary computer might have just one.
The entire simulation took 16 million CPU hours which means that running it on a single normal computer would take nearly 2000 years.
The resulting cosmos was almost indistinguishable from the real one we see today. As a demonstration the team compared a simulated version of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field observation to the real thing
which was made when the Hubble space telescope stared at one spot in the sky for nearly 12 days.
and was due to be shipped to the launch site in Baikonur Kazakhstan. Recognising the current events in Ukraine we had been engaged in discussions with the government of Canada with respect to a potential delay of the launch of M3m
There were good data taken before during and after the supernova and none of these showed obvious signs of a foreground object says Quimby.
Europa meanwhile appears to be covered entirely by an ocean sandwiched between a rocky core and a thin ice crust.
Data from NASA's Galileo probe which orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003 show clay-like minerals on Europa's surface probably debris from meteor impacts
The memo stated that the suspension includes NASA travel to Russia and visits by Russian government representatives to NASA facilities bilateral meetings email and teleconferences or videoconferences.
Whether that for-the-camera useless blame game can translate into much needed political will to accelerate backup plans for ISS transport remains to be seen
-and that this liquid water is in direct contact with the moon's core which is rich in nutrients.
They found that Enceladus has a rocky core and an icy crust. Before we knew almost nothing about the core beyond its likely existence.
Now we know roughly how big it is and also that it has a surprisingly low density says team member Francis Nimmo at the University of California Santa cruz. That might be due to open fractures
The subsurface-sea idea is just the simplest possible interpretation of the gravity data cautions William Mckinnon at Washington University in St louis who was involved not in the work.
The feed relays to a control station, where a human surgeon operates it using joysticks.
Spacecraft currently use radio waves to beam information back home. Laser signals carry more data but the light is almost undetectable
by the time it reaches Earth. Now a nanoscale light detector could make such deep-space missives easier to read.
Data must be encoded before it can be sent. The most reliable way of doing this is to vary the time interval between light pulses with a long interval representing a 0 say
and missions further afield (see a map of planned landing sites). The crew of the final Apollo mission lifted off from the moon's Sea of Serenity on 14 december 1972.
It could reveal different episodes of volcanism at the site which is covered with solidified lava.
But data from orbiters support the idea that the rocks and shadowed craters at both poles contain millions or even billions of tonnes of water ice.
The Google Lunar X Prize is offering $20 million to the first private team that by the end of 2015 launches a lunar spacecraft that can land on the moon travel 500 metres
They could even provide us with a global Wi-fi system On earth. Paulo Lozano leads a team working on Cubesat propulsion at the Massachusetts institute of technology.
Longmier's team began their first crowdfunding campaign on the Kickstarter website in July. Although they failed to raise their $200
Creating a universal"satellite Wi-fi""like existing satellite phone coverage, would require thousands of big satellites,
which is prohibitively expensive. But you could dump a thousand Cubesats in one place then spread them out to the right points, for a fraction of the price.
Established in the 1960s India's space programme has focused so far on aiding the country's development building satellites to spot potential sources of groundwater and monitor deforestation.
I'd say the data are equivocal at the moment says John Mustard of Brown University in Providence Rhode island.
#Virgin galactic joins the reality TV space race Reality TV is set to become a little more out of this world.
Dubbed Space Race it is one of three space-based reality TV SHOWS that could be gracing our screens in the coming years assuming producers can get their hands on a working spacecraft.
Last month Sony Pictures Television announced a partnership with Dutch firm Space Expedition Corporation (SXC) for a show called Milky way Mission
Spacecraft normally rely on radio waves to communicate. These can be detected rain or shine but their relatively long wavelengths limit the information they can transmit in a given time period.
LLCD will beam signals to Earth at 622 megabits per second six times as fast as is currently possible from the moon.
Joseph Kahn of Stanford university in California also acknowledges the need for higher bandwidth in returning ever larger amounts of data from space missions.
or impossible using only radio frequencies he says. But using shorter wavelengths for communication presents new challenges.
Laser beams do not spread out as much as radio waves while they travel which means that they must be aimed very precisely at detectors on the ground.
For this mission there is a better than 90 per cent chance of any one of those sites being open Cornwell says.
Two years'worth of data still need inspecting including information about the thousands of stars in its field of view.
Fabienne Bastien of Vanderbilt University in Tennessee and colleagues used Kepler data to watch instead for flickers in starlight due to short-lived convection cells or granules on the star's surface.
or asteroseismology signals from sun-like stars says Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard of Aarhus University in Denmark who leads a consortium of researchers who analyse Kepler's starquake data.
We've never taken a picture of it IBEX mission scientist Eric Christian said today in a teleconference.
This is actually the first real data we have that gives us the shape of the tail.
Now Guillem Anglada-Escudé of the University of Göttingen in Germany and his colleagues have reanalysed the original data
and become the cores of gas giants like Jupiter. But there is a catch. According to models of this process as the clumps get larger they feel more drag as they move through the gas and dust.
At about the distance of the Kuiper belt the region past Neptune where comets are born the would-be planet cores can't get much bigger than a millimetre.
The dummy contains instruments that will collect data about the launch to be transmitted back to mission managers before re-entry.
The next drill scoop will have to wait until the planet comes back into Range in the meantime the science team has plenty of data to fuel new discoveries and daydreams.
and European trees from the same era while Antarctic ice cores from 775 also have increases in beryllium-10 another isotope caused by cosmic rays.
Roger Clowes of the University of Central Lancashire in Preston UK and colleagues discovered the structure using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey the most comprehensive 3d map of the universe.
They identified a cluster of 73 quasars the brightly glowing cores found at the centre of some galaxies far larger than any similar structure seen before.
#Multibillion-dollar race to put internet into orbit The next-generation internet could come from above, with fleets of satellites delivering broadband to under-served areas of the world THE race is on to build a new kind of internet.
A host of companies and billions of dollars are in play, with the ultimate goal of ringing the planet with satellites that will allow anyone, anywhere,
Presently, satellite internet relies on spacecraft that are travelling in geosynchronous orbit at the same speed as Earth rotates.
as radio waves take a quarter of a second to make the round trip up to a geosynchronous satellite and back.
Added to the time for the other trips your data must take across the rest of the internet,
This plans to put 648 satellites in orbit about 1200 kilometres above Earth's surface, where the round trip time for radio waves is just a few thousands of a second, fine for any online application.
based In virginia, has provided satellite telephone services and low-bandwidth internet since the late 1990s. Its existing network of 66 satellites is set to be replaced by a new one called Iridium NEXT.
the new satellites will be capable of delivering high-speed internet on a par with what Oneweb and Spacex envisage.
Even internet giant Google has got in on the rush to space investing $1 billion in Spacex's venture.
If the internet service providers that rule the physical infrastructure of the internet start charging web services to deliver content to users,
"Will the space around Earth become crowded with all these satellites vying to route our data?"
If they're using radio waves, those beams will have areas of overlap and interference.""Beaming down Radio transmission is the most common way to communicate between satellites and Earth.
However, as anyone who has had trouble with their wireless router knows, working with radio waves is finicky.
So Cahoy and colleagues are working on using light to transfer data instead. Easier to focus
and send over long distances, laser signals could make it possible to build smaller, lower powered satellites that can still talk to the ground easily."
"Companies like O3b and Spacex are planning to launch internet satellites with masses of hundreds of kilograms,
Cutler says satellite internet will really take off if companies make their equipment small enough to fit in Cubesats small,
it's being fuelled by an internet perspective i
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