ranging from cell phones to laptop computers and electric cars. But there may soon be a new type of battery based on materials that are far more abundant and less costly.
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,
but also in transportation industry power backup, micro grid storage, and for the wider use of renewable energy. OSU officials say they are seeking support for further research
One day when Tripathi was at the Lifespan/Tufts/Brown Center for AIDS Research Retrovirology Core Laboratory to discuss his work,
#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 first time that graphene has been used for printing on a large-scale commercial printing press at high speed.
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
which is in line with commercial production rates for graphics printing, and far faster than earlier prototypes.
it could also initiate entirely new business opportunities for commercial graphics printers, who could diversify into the electronics sector. he UK,
and the Cambridge area in particular, has always been strong in the printing sector, but mostly for graphics printing and packaging, said Hasan,
a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow and a University Lecturer in the Engineering Department. e hope to use this strong local expertise to expand our functional ink platform.
energy harvesters and RFID tags s
#Transplanting from Pig to Human Never before have scientists been able to make scores of simultaneous genetic edits to an organism genome.
Church is the Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical school and a Wyss core faculty member.
Now University of Pennsylvania researchers have shown at the molecular level how experiencing stress changes a male mouse sperm in such a way that it affects his offspring response to stress.
me that seemingly mild stress to a male mouse would trigger this massive change in microrna response
To find out, the team microinjected the nine mirs into mouse zygotes, which were implanted then into normal female mice who carried them as surrogates.
Then, using a computer-controlled light projector, the team was able to control the speed of the cardiac waves,
In the short term, the ability to provide fine control means that researchers are able to carry out experiments at a level of detail previously only available using computer models.
what one can do in a computer model, except here it was done in real heart cells, in real time. recise control of the direction,
A supercomputer for the ong tailof science The San diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San diego this week formally launched omet,
a new petascale supercomputer designed to transform scientific research by expanding computational access among a larger number of researchers
said Jim Kurose, assistant director of the National Science Foundation for Computer and Information science and Engineering (CISE),
during remarks Oct 14 at the SDSC event. hrough this launch and the extraordinary computing capabilities of SDSC,
The result of an NSF award valued at roughly $24 million, including hardware and operating funds,
Comet joins SDSC Gordon supercomputer as another key resource within the NSF XSEDE (extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment) computer resource-sharing system
In his remarks, Kurose noted that cyberinfrastructureefined as a dynamic ecosystem consisting of advanced computing systems, data, software and, most importantly, people,
SDSC used the formal launch of Comet to also celebrate 30 years as a national resource for advanced computation.
as one of NSF original supercomputer centers, Kurose said. t has been a leader of the data science revolution as well.
and Society Comet is configured to help transform advanced computing by expanding access and capacity not only among research domains that typically rely on HPCUCH as chemistry
and biophysicsut among domains which are relatively new to supercomputers, such as genomics, finance and the social sciences.
Supercomputers can greatly accelerate timescales for researching the origins of the universe. Neurosciences, Brain Research:
and the properties of social networks. Molecular Science: Studying the properties of lipids, proteins, nucleic acids, and small molecules can advance our understanding of biophysical processes at the atomic scale,
Supercomputers can create highly detailed simulations to track ocean currents or improve industry methods related to the discharge of pollutants
Supercomputer-generated simulations are used to inform decision-making strategies. The Tree of Life: Biologists construct phylogenetic trees to capture the evolutionary relationship between species,
2 petaflops of overall peak performancene million billion operations or calculations per second. Dell compute nodes using next-generation Intel Xeon processors,
27 racks of compute nodes totaling 1, 944 nodes or 46,656 cores. 128 gigabytes of dynamic RAM and 320 GB of flash memory per standard compute node. 72 nodes per rack with full bisection Infiniband
FDR interconnect in each rack, and a 4: 1 bisection cross-rack interconnect. Additional GPU and large-memory (1. 5 Terabytes) nodes for applications such as visualization, molecular dynamics simulations,
or de novo genome assembly. 7 petabytes of Lustre-based high-performance storage from Aeon, and 6 petabytes of durable storage for data reliability.
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#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, lead authors Lucia Wu and J. Sherry Wang and their colleagues have written software to help researchers design their own probes.
The Web-based program allows researchers to cut and paste gene sequences and highlight areas of interest to generate probe designs.
These data demonstrate that B-cell targeting can significantly modify the disease, which in effect means a more positive outlook for patients.
The important next step is for regulators to enable the use of ocrelizumab across the spectrum of PPMS and RMS,
#A New Type of Memristors for Less Rigid Computing Two IT giants, Intel and HP, have entered a race to produce a commercial version of memristors (the fourth basic component of electronic circuits alongside resistors,
used in USB drives, SD cards and SSD hard drives. asically, memristors require less energy since they work at lower voltages,
This means they can store more megabytes of information per square millimetre. Now, a group of researchers funded by The swiss National Science Foundation have developed a new memristor prototype, based on a slice of perovskite just 5 nanometres thick.
which seeks to incorporate a certain level of uncertainty into the processing of digital information. Rupp calls this ess rigid computing Another possible application could be neuromorphic computing,
which, as the name suggests, aims to use electronics in a way that mimics the way neurons process information in organic brains.
Using computer-generated light patterns, researchers were able to control the direction of spiralling electrical waves in heart cells.
using a computer-controlled light projector, the team was able to control the speed of the cardiac waves,
In the short term, the ability to provide fine control means that researchers are able to carry out experiments at a level of detail previously only available using computer models.
what one can do in a computer model, except here it was done in real heart cells, in real time. recise control of the direction,
and quickly turns into a gel that conforms to the site of a wound, keeping it closed,
and injected at the site of a wound, where they reassemble themselves into a gel.
this indicates that the mouse is developing chronic epileptic seizures, says the molecular biologist Prof. Dr. Susanne Schoch from the department of Neuropathology at the University of Bonn.
mouse models were used in this research. Team of scientists took mouse hematopoetic progenitor cellsells that give rise to white blood cells.
The current findings ultimately required an international team of 20 investigators using data from the Human genome Project
and an elaborate computer analysis to identify the actual mutations in INTERGENIC DNA near the PDRM13 gene. ndividuals with this disease have normal eyes except that they fail to form maculas,
#New company to produce water-disinfecting tablets invented at UVA A new University of Virginia-inspired public benefit company with a global health mission,
The Madidrop tablet which will cost between $5 and $10, can provide clean water for up to six months.
The technology transfer company will produce ceramic water disinfection tablets called adidropsfor people in developing countries who have poor access to clean drinking water.
The Madidrop tablet, which uses silver to disinfect water, was developed and extensively tested by UVA scientists and students.
a research scientist in Smith lab, demonstrate use of the Madidrop tablet. UVA maintains ownership of intellectual property rights for Madidrop
000 to 200,000 Madidrop tablets in its first year, for sale primarily to nongovernmental aid organizations such as the U s. Agency for International Development, the International Rescue Committee, Catholic Relief Services
Those entities then would distribute the tablets to developing countries as needed, particularly during times of crises such as after a natural disaster.
The tablets also would be available in the United states. Madidrop PBC expects to eventually build capacity to produce 1 million to 2 million Madidrops per year.
Smith expects Madidrop tablets to cost less than $10 each, and possibly as low as $5 each.
With an effective use life of about six months per tablet, this is significantly cheaper than single-use chemical water purifying tablets,
Madidrop tablets are inexpensive to produce, are durable, reusable and easy to package, transport and ship.
Unlike small chemical tablets that dissolve in water and leave a chlorine aftertaste, Madidrop is made of a continuously reusable ceramic that is simply placed in a water vessel,
Silver ions are released gradually from the tablet, killing pathogens by penetrating cell membranes and disrupting cell division.
Extensive testing at UVA labs show that the tablet causes better than a 99.99 percent reduction in such infectious waterborne bacteria as Vibrio cholera
said Shu-Bing Qian, associate professor of nutritional sciences, and the paper senior author, along with Dr. Samie Jaffrey, professor of pharmacology at Weill Cornell Medicine.
That is precisely what University of Washington mathematics professor Gunther Uhlmann was expecting when he and three colleagues proposed a means to develop an electromagnetic wormhole in a 2007 paper in Physical Review Letters.
such as in devices that use optical data transmission. Another real-world use for magnetic field cloaking would be medicine.
because it explores the world of atter computers, where computations (including walking) are carried out by physical objects, rather than by electronic or magnetic shuttles.
DNA walkers may eventually allow protective cells to walk the surface of organs, constantly computing whether a cancer is present. ore immediate practical applications may include deploying the DNA walker in the body
especially the mouse model, will be used by academics to isolate healthy cells modified by tumors, and by the pharmaceutical industry in the quest for novel anticancer drugs that block tumor-organ communication,
#Google Project Loon Set to Enmesh the Globe with Internet Balloons by 2016 Project Loon is yet another highly ambitious project of the tech-giant Google,
which aims to deliver Internet connectivity to areas of the world that don already enjoy good access to the web.
and direction using wind data from the National oceanic and atmospheric administration (NOAA). The signal travels through the network balloon to balloon then to a ground-based station connected to an Internet service provider (ISP),
and finally onto the global Internet. The service will become available by attaching a special antenna to the roof of a user building.
Despite the project sounding like a pie-in-the-sky dream straight from a science fiction movie,
with Google itself calling it nprecedentedand even razy provided that all tests go as planned,
connectivity at the ground was provided akin to that by 3g cellular networks, whereas now the balloons can deliver speeds up to 10 megabits per second,
or the equivalent to 4g mobile speeds in many parts of the world. Cassidy said that
if the flagship 300 balloon ring is a success, the project will then begin rolling out to the first beta commercial customers,
and then determined the structure employing synchrotron protein crystallography at the Advanced Photon Source, a DOE Office of Science User Facility (both at Argonne).
Using data from the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy (CARMA) telescopes near Owens Valley in California,
rice and other crops, said Bing Yang from Iowa State university, whose team performed all the rice studies.
Algorithms for processing the signals have already been developed and they can be programmed into small chips to compute things like distance to objects or the time until a potential collision.
One focus of the group current work is integrating this system into ery small aerial platformslike the foldable quadrotor the lab recently developed.
#Google Bids to Make its Sideshows into Main Attractions Google founders Larry page and Sergey Brin seem determined to prove they gave the world more than a great advertising business.
and Internet balloons, ads on Web pages and inside apps provide over 90 percent of their company revenue.
Googleomprising the search engine, ad business, Youtube, and Android mobile softwares now just one of many subsidiaries of a conglomerate called Alphabet.
The CEO of the new Google is Sundar Pichai an executive who was most recently in charge of Google main products
and previously led work on the Chrome browser and operating system and Android. Alphabet other subsidiariest not clear just how many will bere a grab bag of attempts to shake up the world using new technologies.
They include the antiaging company Calico; a life sciences division, working on electronic contact lenses; the research lab Google X, where oonshotprojects include self-driving cars
and delivering Wireless internet via stratospheric balloons; and Nest, which sells connected home devices and is trying to reinvent the face-worn computer Google glass.
Larry page (as of today Alphabet CEO; Brin is described president Alphabet as ostly a collection of companiesin a blog post announcing the reorganization today.
Right nownd probably for a whilene of those ompanieswill be pulling the weight of all the rest.
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.
How long that will take is anybody guess. Calico looks to be the mooniest of moonshots.
Nest generates revenue today, but its thermostat and smoke detector likely don sell in huge volumes.
And although Google X Loon balloon project for Internet access is at the point of testing with wireless carriers
Many projects inside the Google X lab, such as the self-driving car, are about as distinct and mature as other Alphabet subsidiaries named today, for example.
a way for another drug to attach to the protein at a specific site. The technology might also pave the way to new biotech drugs.
the investment fund of Microsoft cofounder Paul Allenas solved the long-enough problem. Making the plasma hot enough is the next key challenge.
whose own program recently completed a $94 million upgrade of its experimental machine, has followed closely developments with the Tri Alpha
#Trick That Doubles Wireless Data Capacity Stands Up in Cell Network Tests Major wireless carriers have begun testing a technology that can double the capacity of any wireless data connection.
Recent tests by one of America largest wireless carriers and by Deutsche telekom, the German telecom giant that owns a majority stake in U s. carrier T-Mobile,
have shown now that doubling is feasible in real cellular networks. The results suggest that products Kumu Networks has in the works for cellular operators could help expand the capacity of mobile data networks.
In the longer term, the company hopes to deliver further capacity boosts by making its technology compact enough to fit inside mobile devices.
Kumu originated in research that refuted the long-held assumption that radios cannot transmit and receive at the same time.
For this reason, the radios in our phones and computers either use separate channels to send
Kumu founders developed hardware and software that enables a radio receiver to filter out interference from outgoing signals.
This summer, Kumu worked with major wireless carriers on the first tests of its technology in real cellular network conditions.
Earlier this month, Deutsche telekom, Germany largest telecom provider, installed a small LTE cell tower containing Kumu technology on a rooftop in Prague.
Devices with Kumu technology mounted on top of cars played the role of cell phones linking to the network.
or people from making a direct line-of-site connection with the tower. On the whole, the capacity-doubling trick worked in those varying conditions,
when one of the largest U s. carriershich Kumu declines to namearried out similar but smaller tests on its own LTE network in the area around Kumu office in Sunnyvale, California. e
For example, when the devices playing the role of phones in the trial were close together, they sometimes interfered with each other.
and is a version of the small mobile base stations, known as small cells, used to improve coverage in busy locations such as stadiums.
and make a high-powered LTE link back to the core network. Making small cells fully wireless should help carriers deploy them in a wider range of places
and improve data coverage and capacity, says Hong. He expects that carriers will test that product in the field,
serving live traffic, next year. Kumu is also working on a chip that will make it possible to shrink down the package containing the company technology from roughly the size of a hardback book to something more akin to a credit card.
He confident that the technology will eventually arrive in phones. It is already being talked about in the industry as one part of a future 5g wireless data standard. ee maybe one
or two years away from having something that can be deployed in mobile, says Krishnaswamy b
a consortium that is developing brain-computer interfaces and includes the Case Western team. ut the fact that they got a person to control their own body,
Volunteers in brain-implant studies have moved previously computer cursors and controlled robotic arms. Last year, a different Ohio man with partial arm paralysis received a brain implant
Bolu Ajiboye, the Case Western researcher who presented the team data in Chicago today, says that nine months ago surgeons implanted two bunches of silicon electrodes, called Utah arrays, into the volunteer motor cortex.
and connect to computers that interpret the signals. To complete the bridge of the man spinal cord injury,
According to Kirsch, the volunteer is able to very accurately control a computer simulation of his wired-up arm using his brain signals.
Efforts to combine brain-computer interfaces with FES systems began 20 years ago. In a 1998 experiment, also at Case Western, a volunteer named Jim Jatich used signals collected from an EEG cap he wore over his head to trigger an early FES device known as Freehand,
#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.
Cloud Bigtable runs on Google's powerful Bigtable data storage system that already powers Gmail, Google search and Google analytics plus there's the added bonus that it's compatible with the Apache HBASE API.
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.
Google boasts that the solution offers its customers single-digit millisecond latency and double the performance per dollar when set against HBASE and Cassandra, according to Tech Crunch.
Cloud Bigtable is by no means Google's first trip into the cloud-based Nosql database space.
but is rather different in that it targets read-heavy workloads for mobile and web apps.
For example, if an organization needs to stream data into run analytics on and serve data out of a single database at scale Cloud Bigtable is the right system,"Cory O'Conner,
Google Cloud platform product manager told Tech Crunch, adding that many customers start on Cloud Datastore
and move up to Cloud Bigtable. Google is offering Cloud Bigtable in beta right now and until it is released fully there is no service level agreement or technical support available l
#This is the first FDA-approved 3d printed drug The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first-ever 3d printed drug,
Researcher Kevin Mahaffey published his findings on the Lookout blog conveniently on opening day of the 23rd annual Def Con hacking conference in Las vegas
or white hats Mahaffey and partner Marc Rogers of web performance and security firm Cloudflare have worked already with Tesla to issue an over-the-air security update the week of Def Con before publishing their findings.
Mahaffey goes into exhaustive detail in his blog entry regarding the specifics of the hack.
Mahaffey and his partner in crime (for good) were able to perform any action possible from the car's touchscreen or Tesla's accompanying smartphone app.
and this interference pattern is used for writing/printing holograms. The technique requires far fewer optical components,
"It's hoped this new hologram-creation method could be miniaturized into a smartphone, or even used to create 3d artwork and"smart windows".
"It also has applications in holographic data storage.""We and our collaborators are currently pursuing all these research paths
#This software sees if your brain is busy before interrupting There's a modern-day malady that everyone suffers from-getting distracted by phone notifications in the middle of something important and struggling to regain focus again.
But now computer scientists have developed software that automatically screens out low-priority emails or texts. It's called Phylter,
and uses a headband to detect when you're concentrating on something. Changes in blood flow in the prefrontal cortex can signal brain activity,
A machine-learning algorithm calibrates the system to different brains while tests using Google glass helped the team calibrate
A prototype of the system was shown off at the Human computer interaction International Conference in LA. As well as offering a barrier to concentration loss,
-and perhaps even monitor other data besides brain activity. Now, what was I doing before I started writing this again n
If you've been anxiously wondering what the future holds for Project Ara after Google became one part of Alphabet,
Over the course of seven rather cryptic tweets on@Projectara, the modular smartphone team confirmed that they're still"busy making stuff
The phone was scheduled to debut in Puerto rico sometime later this year. It looks like those plans might have changed,
"so it obviously still features in Google's plans in some way. The bottom line is we'll have to wait for the promised updates next week.
"so don't give up your dreams of a modular mobile just yet t
#How Siri will learn to recognise your voice at a crowded party AI assistants like Siri,
but until recently, computers lacked the same ability. That's changing, thanks to engineers at Duke university, who are developing a microphone with the same ability to zone out background noise.
but the engineers believe it could be scaled down into a smartphone or similar device.""We've invented a sensing system that can efficiently,
"We think this could improve the performance of voice-activated devices like smartphones and game consoles while also reducing the complexity of the system
#The iphone 6s release date has leaked, but no points for guessing it Apple is set to launch two new phones at the start of September in the form of the iphone 6s and iphone 6s Plus,
with an announcement heavily rumoured for September 9. Two out of the three major carriers in Germany have told German publication Macerkopf that both phones will be ready to pick up in store on September 18.
It makes sense as it'll be the second Friday after the announcement-that's the date Apple has been letting its phones loose on the wider public in recent years.
Germany is a first-tier launch country for the iphone so it's likely many other countries will get the phone on the same day.
These countries include Australia, Canada, France, Hong kong, Japan, Singapore, the UK and the US. At the moment rumours of the iphone 6s suggest the design will stay the same with big changes coming in the form of the A9 processor
and Force Touch being adapted for the new phone's display y
#Algae inspiration could boost your phone's battery Materials engineers trying to work out a way of boosting the performance of lithium-ion batteries have hit upon an unlikely inspiration-algae from a local pond.
In nature, single cells of algae can grow to huge sizes. Now, a team at Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research has developed a new type of battery component out of carbon that mimics the way that single-celled algae forms,
and early testing shows a solid improvement on traditional batteries.""In nature, a great number of microorganisms, like diatoms, can assemble biominerals into intricate hierarchical three-dimensional architectures with great structural control,
"said Xi Li, who heads up the research group that made the discovery. Li and his team examined how the algae forms,
then used a similar process to develop tiny carbon spheres that act as a battery's anode.
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