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such as ejector pins for iphones, watch springs for expensive hand-wound watches, trial medical implants,

Last year, scientists used metallic glass to create an iphone case that was 50 times harder than plastic.

we'll see a whole range of these types of innovations hitting the market in the years to come-imagine the back of your iphone being made out of metallic glass instead of just a case.

and solid state, this magnet material displays physical phase transitions when gradually cooled right down to almost freezing."

because it displays properties that have yet to be found in nature, the complex nanomagnet structure has the potential to provide new methods of information transfer and memory storage,

The hope is that a material like this could have future applications in both data transfer and data storage.

thanks to a new kind of brain-computer interface that can reroute his thoughts to his legs, bypassing his spinal cord entirely.

These are processed then by a computer algorithm and transmitted to electrodes attached to the subject knees,

Software processed his thoughts and isolated the brain waves associated with leg movement. This progressed to the man using his thoughts to control the walking of a virtual reality avatar,

before physical training commenced in earnest. The man first practised walking while suspended in the air, before finally standing on his own two feet again,

enabling the user to feel his legs. r

#A 16-year-old has devised a faster and cheaper way to detect Ebola Oliva Hallisey,

a 16-year-old from the US, won the 2015 Google Science Fair with her project to develop a fast, cheap,

The winners of the fifth annual Google Science Fair were announced live from Google Headquarters in Mountain view

She takes home US$50, 000 in scholarship funding from Google. The science fair is meant to challenge the next generation of young scientists, inventors,

the American Midwest was devastated by heavy and repeated flash flooding as a result of Hurricane Dean and Tropical Storm Erin dumping massive amounts of rain on several states.

then these sites would be prime candidates for landing spots on the first manned mission to the planet."

Feldt says staff are asked to stay off social media and other distractions while at work and meetings are kept to a minimum."

A study published in The Lancet last month analysed data from 25 studies that monitored health of over 600

researchers have been trying to build a computer that harnesses the enormous potential of quantum mechanics. Now engineers from the University of New south wales (UNSW) in Australia have overcome the final hurdle,

by creating a quantum logic gate in silicon-the same material that today's computer chips are made from.

which means they now have the ability to build the world's first quantum processor chip and, eventually, the first silicon-based quantum computer.

Right now, regular computer chips store information as binary bits, which are either in a 0 or 1 state.

but it means that there's a finite amount of data that can be processed. Qubits, on the other hand, can be in the state of 0, 1,

which isn't compatible with today's silicon-based computer infrastructure. A silicon quantum logic gate was the last physical building block remaining to be built

"Because we use essentially the same device technology as existing computer chips, we believe it will be much easier to manufacture a full-scale processor chip than for any of the leading designs,

which rely on more exotic technologies, "project leader Andrew Dzurak said in a press release.""This makes the building of a quantum computer much more feasible,

since it is based on the same manufacturing technology as today computer industry.""The challenge in building quantum logic gates is the fact that,

About 1 billion of these transistors has been packed onto each silicon chip in your smartphone or computer.

We then store the binary code of 0 or 1 on the'spin'of the electron,

because while f0 (1710) produced better results when applied to computer models, its decay process produced heavy quarks-also known as'strange quarks'.

The researchers are hoping the new data from experiments at the Large hadron collider at CERN (TOTEM

and uneven ground surfaces pose a huge problem for wheelchair users, and while ramps can improve accessibility,

and when the user approaches a staircase, the wheelchair turns around and ascends the steps backwards via the caterpillar track. he great thing is that everything on this wheelchair is automated,

the track mechanism can also significantly raise the height of the user to give the person operating the chair a more elevated view of things when on flat surfaces.

and painless way to screen for the disease. We've seen the idea of a breathalyser being used to detect different types of cancer before,

but what makes this new technology stand out is the amount of data that can be captured,

be safe to use in consumer gadgets, and be commercially viable enough to be affordable for manufacturers.

not just for smartphones but for electric cars and solar power, where batteries are essential for storing energy to use

The idea of a lithium-air or lithium-oxygen battery isn't new scientists have known for a while that these types of batteries can hold up to 10 times the charge of today's lithium-ion packs (imagine not having to charge your phone for a whole week.

and smartphones, was reached by using a'fluffy'carbon electrode made from graphene. What's more, by changing the chemical mix from earlier versions of lithium-air batteries,

when they try to seek out relevant medical information on the Internet. Unfortunately, as many of us are aware,

the web is not necessarily a great place to do this kind of research, and now a broad study of anti-vaccination websites helps to explain why.

Researchers from the Johns hopkins university Bloomberg School of Public health analysed close to 500 anti-vaccination websites and found that they deliver a distorted mixture of pseudoscience and misinformation to parents seeking information about vaccines.

According to the researchers, more than two thirds of anti-vaccination websites present nonscientific information and other forms of misinformation as cientific evidenceto support the view that vaccines are dangerous to children,

and nearly one third of sites reinforce the idea through the use of anecdotes and stories.

The researchers used search engines including Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask jeeves to find the sites, using search terms like mmunisation dangersand accine dangerto see where it led them.

The study found that the resulting mix of blogs, personal websites Facebook pages and health sites perpetuate an alarming mixture of misinformation about vaccines

and use a range of persuasive techniques to get the reader on side. Almost two thirds of the sites suggested that vaccines cause autism,

and more than 40 percent claim theye responsible for rain injury The majority present information as scientific when it doesn actually qualify for that distinction.

In addition to condemning vaccines, the sites also promote some positive behaviours, such as healthy eating (recommended by 18.5 percent of anti-vaccination sites),

and the benefits of breastfeeding (5. 5 percent) and eating organic food (5. 2 percent). The study, presented this week at the American Public health Association annual meeting in Chicago,

may help actual scientists such as doctors and health care workers better understand how to reach and communicate with parents who are concerned genuinely about any perceived risks of vaccination

(and who may be exposing themselves to potentially dangerous misinformation on these kinds of sites). he biggest global takeaway is need that we to communicate to the vaccine-hesitant parent in a way that resonates with them

and is sensitive to their concerns, said Meghan Moran, an associate professor in the Bloomberg School department of health, behaviour and society. n our review,

the researchers tested for the first time to pre-treat undifferentiated mouse embryonic stem cells with mitomycin C a drug already prescribed to treat cancer.

#One dollar blood test using gold nanoparticles outperforms PSA screen for prostate cancer, study suggests The simple test developed by University of Central Florida scientist Qun"Treen"Huo holds the promise of earlier detection of one of the deadliest cancers among men.

This web of biomolecules that supports and controls gene activity is known as the epigenome. The researchers say having the ability to steer the epigenome will help them explore the roles that particular promoters

so that we can alter the DNA's packaging at that specific site, "said Reddy. Gersbach and Reddy put their artificial epigenetic agent to the test by targeting a few well-studied gene promoters and enhancers.

assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the UH Cullen College of Engineering and lead author of the paper.

Rollin used a genetic algorithm along with a series of complex mathematical expressions to analyze each step of the enzymatic process that breaks down corn stover into hydrogen and carbon dioxide.

Distribution of the hydrogen to users of fuel cell vehicles is another key challenge. Rollin's model increased reaction rates by threefold, decreasing the required facility size to about the size of a gas station,

cheaper and more powerful and durable than lithium-ion batteries common in mobile phones and laptops and increasingly used in hybrid and electric cars.

and metal-free catalysts can reduce cost while improving performance,"said Liming Dai, professor of macromolecular science and engineering at Case Western Reserve University and senior author of the study."

"These batteries could be used in computers, data stations, for lighting--anyplace batteries are used now.""Dai worked with Case Western Reserve postdoctor Jintao Zhang,

or surpassed that of expensive platinum/metal oxide-based catalysts. And, it had better long-term stability.

or outperformed most previously reported metal-free catalysts, even recently developed carbon-based catalysts with metals.

Moving forward, Dai's team has begun to further optimize the process while also investigating other graphitic carbon materials co-doped with different elements for possible use in other energy and environmental technologies.

Dai's lab previously developed carbon-based catalysts that perform comparably or better than more expensive metal-based catalysts used in alkaline and acidic fuel cells and in dye-sensitized solar cells."

"Maybe it's time to push for metal-free catalysts in commercial devices, "Dai said d

#Just hit'print':'Office inkjet printer could produce simple tool to identify infectious disease, food contaminants Consumers are one step closer to benefiting from packaging that could give simple text warnings

when food is contaminated with deadly pathogens like E coli and Salmonella, and patients could soon receive real-time diagnoses of infections such as C. difficile right in their doctors'offices,

which now enable users to generate a clear, simple answer in the form of letters and symbols that appear on the test paper to indicate the presence of infection or contamination in people, food or the environment."

"researchers can now use conventional office ink jet-printers printers to print human-made DNA molecules with very high molecular weight on paper, much like printing a letter in an office.

The paper sensor emerges from the printer ready to use, like ph paper. The implications are significant,

a single chip can provide enough data for a statistical analysis of how the cells respond in an experiment.

These ultra-small antennas--the so-called'last frontier'of semiconductor design--would be a massive leap forward for wireless communications.

In addition to the implications for wireless communications the discovery could help identify the points where theories of classical electromagnetism and quantum mechanics overlap.

whether in a communications tower or a mobile phone, is to launch energy into free space in the form of electromagnetic or radio waves,

However, this theory becomes problematic when dealing with radio wave emission from a dielectric solid, a material

dielectric resonators are used already as antennas in mobile phones, for example.""In dielectric aerials, the medium has high permittivity,

meaning that the velocity of the radio wave decreases as it enters the medium, "said Dr Dhiraj Sinha, the paper's lead author."

ubiquitous computing where almost everything in our homes and offices, from toasters to thermostats, is connected to the internet.

"The scientist said the Hur-RNA binding site is like a long, narrow groove, not a well-defined pocket seen in other druggable proteins targeted by many current cancer therapies."

'--or the RNA--at a site called'ARE'on the rope. We aimed to find a small-molecule compound that makes the hand release the rope by competing with ARE of the RNA."

and involved the collaboration of chemists, cancer biologists, computer modeling experts, biochemists and biophysicists at KU--notably the labs of Xu, Jeffrey Aub in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Jon Tunge in the Department of chemistry.

Additional information about the launch is available at https://blogs. nasa. gov/spacex/2015/03/31/spacex-targeting-april-13-for-station-resupply-launch/.

Gordeliys team changed the structure by swapping specific amino acids at the site in question through targeted mutations.

UNSW Associate professor Andrea Morello from the School of Electrical engineering and Telecommunications, said his team had realised successfully a new control method for future quantum computers.

Unlike conventional computers that store data on transistors and hard drives, quantum computers encode data in the quantum states of microscopic objects called qubits.

which is affiliated with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation & Communication Technology, was first in the world to demonstrate single-atom spin qubits in silicon,

It's a bit like selecting which radio station we tune to, by turning a simple knob.

Moreover, this specific type of quantum bit can be manufactured using a similar technology to that employed for the production of everyday computers,

#Researchers test smartphones for earthquake warning The study, led by scientists at the U s. Geological Survey

and published April 10 in the inaugural volume of the new AAAS journal Science Advances, found that the sensors in smartphones

the GPS (Global positioning system) receivers in a smartphone can detect the permanent ground movement (displacement) caused by fault motion in a large earthquake.

Using crowd-sourced observations from participating users'smartphones, earthquakes could be detected and analyzed, and customized earthquake warnings could be transmitted back to users."

"Crowd-sourced alerting means that the community will benefit by data generated from the community,

"said Sarah Minson, USGS geophysicist and lead author of the study. Minson was a postdoctoral researcher at Caltech

and with real data from the 2011 magnitude 9 Tohoku-oki, Japan earthquake. The results show that crowd-sourced EEW could be achieved with only a tiny percentage of people in a given area contributing information from their smartphones.

For example, if phones from fewer than 5000 people in a large metropolitan area responded the earthquake could be detected

and analyzed fast enough to issue a warning to areas farther away before the onset of strong shaking."

The authors found that the sensors in smartphones and similar devices could be used to issue earthquake warnings for earthquakes of approximately magnitude 7 or larger,

to test a pilot hybrid earthquake warning system comprising stand-alone smartphone sensors and scientific-grade sensors along the Chilean coast."

"The use of mobile phone fleets as a distributed sensor network--and the statistical insight that many imprecise instruments can contribute to the creation of more precise measurements--has broad applicability including great potential to benefit communities where there isn't an existing

"Crowd-sourced data are less precise, but for larger earthquakes that cause large shifts in the ground surface, they contain enough information to detect that an earthquake has occurred,

and are enabling new technologies like flexible displays in mobile phone, wearable electronics, and the Internet of things (Iots).

#Smartphone-based device could provide rapid, low-cost molecular tumor diagnosis A device developed by Massachusetts General Hospital investigators may bring rapid,

the researchers describe a smartphone-based device that uses the kind of technology used to make holograms to collect detailed microscopic images for digital analysis of the molecular composition of cells and tissues."

"The emerging genomic and biological data for various cancers, which can be essential to choosing the most appropriate therapy,

"The device the team has developed--called the D3 (digital diffraction diagnosis) system--features an imaging module with a battery-powered LED light clipped onto a standard smartphone that records high-resolution imaging data with its camera.

With a much greater field of view than traditional microscopy, the D3 system is capable of recording data on more than 100,000 cells from a blood

The data can then be transmitted for analysis to a remote graphic-processing server via a secure,

and data transmitted to the server, the presence of specific molecules is detected by analyzing the diffraction patterns generated by the microbeads.

A numerical algorithm developed by the research team for the D3 platform is capable of distinguishing cells from beads

and of analyzing as much as 10 MB of data in less than nine hundredths of a second.

"By taking advantage of the increased penetration of mobile phone technology worldwide, the system should allow the prompt triaging of suspicious

and DNA markers of other disease catalysts, including infectious agents and allergens; 2) integrate the software with larger databases;

and 3) conduct clinical studies in settings such as care-delivery sites in developing countries or rural settings and for home testing with seamless sharing of information with providers and/or clinical investigators."

"The MGH has filed a patent application covering the D3 technology y

#Researchers find new gene involved in blood-forming stem cells The findings, scheduled for online publication in the Journal of Clinical Investigation April 13,

By searches in the public protein atlas database the researchers were able to identify ASRGL1 as a potential new biomarker.'

and our study is an excellent example of how The Human Protein Atlas database can be used by researchers across the world to find interesting leads to follow up on,

Supporting data were collected with two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy, an advanced laser technique that combines ultrafast time resolution with high sensitivity to chemical structure.

"says Chris Chang, an expert in catalysts for carbon-neutral energy conversions.""In our system, nanowires harvest solar energy and deliver electrons to bacteria,

the researchers reproduced the hyperexcitability of epileptic neurons in mouse brains in vitro. They then injected GABA,

Its implementation in the market will depend on the needs of users and the issue of new laws regarding use

"Single molecules are currently the smallest imaginable components capable of being integrated into a processor.""Scientists have succeed yet to in tailoring a molecule

A computer from a test-tube A special feature of these molecular electronics is that they take place in a fluid within a test-tube,

"Our colleagues from the HZDR theory group are computing how precisely the molecule must rotate

then computers of the future will come from test-tubes,"Dr. Erbe prophesizes. The enormous advantages of this new technology are obvious:

a multi-institutional team used a new discovery approach to identify drugs that could activate mouse

--and saw the medication prompt a similar response as seen in the mouse cells. Both medications worked well,

"We have pioneered technologies that enable us to generate both mouse and human OPCS in our laboratory,"said Fadi Najm, MBA, the first author of the study and Research Scientist in the Department of Genetics & Genome Sciences at the Case Western Reserve School of medicine."

which can be used as catalysts in biorefineries--say, in the production of biofuels--have been produced in the reactor.

Following synthesis, magnets used as catalysts can be gathered efficiently in and recycled back into the process.

"In analyzing the X-ray data on this level, we were able to track the electrochemical reactions with far more accuracy than previous methods,

#Innovation boosts Wi-fi bandwidth tenfold Researchers have invented a new technology that can increase the bandwidth of Wi-fi systems by 10 times,

It could be integrated with existing Wi-fi systems to reduce bandwidth problems in crowded locations, such as airport terminals or coffee shops,

and in homes where several people have multiple Wi-fi devices. Researchers at Oregon State university have invented a new technology that can increase the bandwidth of Wifi systems by 10 times,

using LED LIGHTS to transmit information. The technology could be integrated with existing Wifi systems to reduce bandwidth problems in crowded locations

such as airport terminals or coffee shops, and in homes where several people have multiple Wifi devices. Experts say that recent advances in LED TECHNOLOGY have made it possible to modulate the LED light more rapidly,

opening the possibility of using light for wireless transmission in a"free space optical communication system.""In addition to improving the experience for users,

the two big advantages of this system are that it uses inexpensive components, and it integrates with existing Wifi systems,

"said Thinh Nguyen, an OSU associate professor of electrical and computer engineering. Nguyen worked with Alan Wang, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering,

to build the first prototype. The prototype, called Wifo, uses LEDS that are beyond the visual spectrum for humans

and creates an invisible cone of light about one meter square in which the data can be received.

To address the issue of a small area of usability the researchers created a hybrid system that can switch between several LED transmitters installed on a ceiling,

and the existing Wifi system.""I believe the Wifo system could be transformed easily into a marketable product,

The system can potentially send data at up to 100 megabits per second. Although some current Wifi systems have similar bandwidth,

it has to be divided by the number of devices, so each user might be receiving just 5 to 10 megabits per second,

whereas the hybrid system could deliver 50-100 megabits to each user. In a home where telephones, tablets, computers

gaming systems, and televisions may all be connected to the internet, increased bandwidth would eliminate problems like video streaming that stalls and buffers.

The receivers are small photodiodes that cost less than a dollar each and could be connected through a USB port for current systems,

or incorporated into the next generation of laptops, tablets, and smartphones. A provisional patent has been secured on the technology,

and a paper was published in the 17th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems.

The research has been supported by the National Science Foundation n

#New gene therapy success in a rare disease of the immune system Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome is a rare congenital immune and platelet deficiency

which is linked X and has estimated an prevalence of 1/250,000. It is caused by mutations in the gene encoding the was expressed protein (WASP in hematopoietic cells.

The capacity for printing silicon ink onto substrates has existed for some time, but necessitated a 350 C thermal annealing step--far too hot for many of the flexible surfaces that made production appealing in the first place.

Then we annealed the layer with an excimer laser a conventional tool used for manufacturing smartphone displays.

The most immediate application of this printing capacity is in wearable electronics as it allows for the production of fast, low-power and flexible transistors at a remarkably low cost.

Utilizing the invasive breast cancer data set of 962 cases in The Cancer Genome Atlas all breast cancers with alterations in the CDH1 gene (that gives instructions to make a protein that causes cancer cells to stick to one another

Data from the additional 16 cases from the Cancer Institute validate the findings observed on breast cancers from The Cancer Genome Atlas."

and isolating tooth stem cells by working on the pulp from the mouse molar. The researchers were

"By studying mouse models, we first showed this gene is essential for the survival of neurons

and data storage technologies. Despite their widely recognized importance, however, there are few terahertz sources presently available due to the limitations of natural materials.

Further, these new metamaterials could allow integration of terahertz optoelectronics with high-speed telecommunications. DOE Office of Science, Basic energy Sciences (experiments.

In general, the electrical current which powers our telephones fridges and other electrical equipment is made up of electrons:

and mouse fibroblast cells (cells involved in wound healing) on flat graphene sheets and on wrinkled ones.

#Mass and shape of single molecules revealed The work was led by Professor John Sader at the University of Melbourne's School of Mathematics and Statistics and Professor Michael Roukes of the California Institute of technology.

"This technology is built on a new mathematical algorithm that we developed, called inertial imaging. It can be used as a diagnostic tool

#Researchers train computers to identify gene interactions in human tissues A multi-year study led by researchers from the Simons Center for Data analysis (SCDA)

also demonstrates how computer science and statistical methods may combine to aggregate and analyze very large--and stunningly diverse--genomic'big data'collections.

the team collected and integrated data from about 38,000 genome-wide experiments (from an estimated 14,000 publications.

And because the technique is driven completely data Netwas avoids bias toward better-studied genes and pathways, permitting discovery of novel associations.

The team created an interactive server, the Genome-scale Integrated Analysis of Networks in Tissues, or GIANT.

GIANT allows users to explore the networks, compare how genetic circuits vary across tissues, and analyze data from genetic studies to find genes that cause disease.

Aaron K. Wong, a data scientist at SCDA and formerly a graduate student in the computer science department at Princeton, led the way in creating GIANT."

"Our goal was to develop a resource that was accessible to biomedical researchers, "he says."

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