#Scientists achieve quantum teleportation of data with 100 percent accuracy Dutch scientists working with the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at the Delft University of Technology have made a stunning breakthrough in quantum technology
by successfully teleporting data across a distance of about 10 feet with perfect accuracy reports the New york times. The advance ought to have Albert Einstein who famously dismissed the idea of quantum teleportation as spooky action at a distance rolling in his grave.
and a quantum internet are just around the corner. here is a big race going on between five
IBM accidentally creates the first new polymer in 30 years When you leave a key ingredient out of a recipe,
That's what happened at an IBM laboratory recently when research chemist Jeannette M. Garcia missed a step while mixing and heating a batch of chemicals.
IBM said the materials could even potentially be used in airplanes, where their strength, light weight,
Beyond the initial accident, the new polymers were developed through a combination of chemistry and high-performance computing,
IBM Research's James Hedrick, who co-authored the new paper, said in a news release that"new materials innovation is critical to addressing major global challenges, developing new products and emerging disruptive technologies.
and build new polymer structures with significant guidance from computation that facilitates accelerated materials discovery.
This is unique to IBM and allows us to address the complex needs of advanced materials for applications in transportation, microelectronic or advanced manufacturing."
"In addition to the hard material that IBM says could be used for airplane wings, they also developed an elastic gel that is mostly liquid
IBM says the dissolving qualities of the gel could also allow it to be used as a mechanism to delivery pharmaceuticals to the body h
The DEKA Arm System, developed by the company DEKA Integrated Solutions in Manchester, New hampshire, uses wireless signals from sensors in the user's feet and other inputs to control the arm's multiple joints.
The user can select among six different grips. The arm's development would not have been possible without a host of technological advances
including the miniaturization of motor parts, computer controls and sensors and manufacturing that uses lightweight but strong materials.
"Those applications could include better solar cells,"smart"coatings, new kinds of computers and all kinds of other devices or components.
Mapping the Brain The institute has developed previously maps of the developing and adult mouse brain the developing monkey brain and the adult human brain.
The team compared these gene activity results with data from other species in particular the mouse brain.
Researchers found some genes that were turned on in the developing human brain but not in the mouse's brain or vice versa.
For example the developing human brain contains genes that are more active in the frontal cortex than in the corresponding part of the mouse brain.
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#Honda Smart Home produces more energy than it uses Wouldn it be great if your house produced more energy than it consumed?
Panasonic Eco Ideas House, with solar, a fuel cell, battery backup and a plug-in Toyota prius, has stood long next to a company headquarters in Tokyo,
and his team used computer software to design a modified version of yeast chromosome III which they called syniii
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#Scientists create'living materials'using E coli Imagine a world where nonliving devices and building materials had some of the same advantages as living things,
"This unique property is already being looked at as a potential mechanism for quantum information technologies, such as quantum cryptography and quantum computation.
#'Astroskin'smart shirt monitors astronauts'health in Antarctica Remember that pivotal scene in the movie"Apollo 13"in which crewmembers rip the biomedical sensors off their bodies?
Astroskin, a prototype device to monitor astronaut health, is a garment that fits over a person's upper body
and will share the data with the CSA for possible use on future space missions and other applications.
As GPS watches and blood-pressure monitors become the norm, researchers are now aiming for ideas such as headsets that could assist people with vision problems.
The CSA has indicated not when Astroskin could fly in space, but says it could be used on the International space station during future missions.
10 Scariest Sea Creatures The one-of-a-kind Exosuit on display at the American Museum of Natural history (AMNH) now through March 5 measures 6. 5 feet (2 meters) tall
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#'Yarn muscles'100 times stronger than human muscles Using just coiled fishing line and sewing thread a team of scientists has developed a way to create super-strong artificial muscles.
The fiber muscles could be used to power the muscles in androids or exoskeletons the researchers said.
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#For stem cells in 30 minutes just add acid Embryonic stem cells have huge potential in treating everything from cancer to diabetes because of their ability to morph into almost any other type of cell within the human body.
As explained on her lab's web page All organisms possess instincts to survive exposures to external stresses by adapting to their environment and to some degree regenerating injured tissues or organs.
and injected them into a mouse embryo. They spread through the entire embryo causing it to fluoresce green.
and insects to monitor wind and navigate around obstacles in tight spaces lead researcher Ali Javey of Berkeley Lab's Materials sciences Division said in a news release.
and conductivity allowing them to transmit data on the environmental factors they experience. Javey said the team's e-whiskers could lead to technologies for real-time monitoring of environmental factors.
and excellent performance of our e-whiskers should have a wide range of applications for advanced robotics human-machine user interfaces
thanks to a futuristic submarine that lets users"fly"underwater. The Deepflight Super Falcon, developed by California-based Hawkes Ocean Technologies,
I always take the email option. I know I giving up a little privacy when I do that
because the store now has my email and can send me offers. The stores that have offered are clothing stores and
Yesterday one of my local grocery stores Shoprite sent me an email letting me know that it will be offering digital receipts.
According to Shoprite's website this is a new program that is being tested so Il still be receiving paper receipts for now.
I not going to take the time to stop pull out my phone take a picture of the receipt
#World's fastest supercomputers could take science to the next level With computing technology continually getting smaller,
you may look at modern day room-sized supercomputers and balk. But if you're impressed with all the things your tablet can do,
imagine the power of a computer so big that it needs its own room. The announcement that the U s. Department of energy is planning to spend $425 million to build two supercomputers that are 5 to 7 times faster than any supercomputer in history is big news
and it could lead the way to major advancements in science research, reports Reuters. Most of that cash,
$325 million of it, will be designated for the construction a supercomputer to be named"Summit,"for Oak ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee,
and another to be named"Sierra"at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. The remaining $100 million will go toward research into future supercomputing advances to eventually build computers that are even faster.
Summit and Sierra will operate at 150 petaflops and 100 petaflops respectively, which is the unit of measurement for supercomputer performance.
Basically that means that the machines can perform as many as 150 million billion floating-point operations (or FLOP) per second.
By comparison, the world's highest performing computer at present, the Tianhe-2 in China, performs at"just"55 petaflops. The first-ever supercomputer to reach 1 petaflop was built as recently as 2008.
So Summit and Sierra are significant upgrades. Plans are for Sierra to be the exclusive domain of The National Nuclear Security Administration,
which will use its new super-toy for ensuring"the safety, security and effectiveness of the nation nuclear deterrent without testing,"
"according to a press release by Nvidia, one of the manufacturers of the new computers'components. Summit, however, will be made available to researchers worldwide who can apply for time with the powerful technology.
The faster the computer, the more detailed models that can be created. Natural systems, such as Earth's climate, are extremely difficult to model because of their immense complexity."
and even how long his mouse hovered over an object Amazon could predict what hel buy
There really only one that comes to mind printer ink. It never fails that when one of my sons needs to print out something for a big school project the ink runs out.
and he said he going to start hovering his mouse over a computer that he wants and an Xbox One.
Just hit'print'From working guns to bionic ears 3-D printers are creating a variety of objects
But 3-D printers aren't just laying down plastics resins and nanoparticles they're also printing with dough vegetables and even meats.
Both engineers and gourmet chefs are experimenting with creating foods from 3-D printing. The technique allows them to produce foods in unique shapes
and textures and to streamline repetitive tasks like filling ravioli. 3-D food printers don't look like traditional printers.
Users load the syringes with raw food ink dough chocolate or anything with a liquid consistency and the machine prints the food by depositing layers of liquids to build the desired object.
Just like a regular printer the machine takes its instructions from a computer. Using software a 3-D representation of the food is created
and divided into printable layers. Designers of commercial 3-D printers believe that in the near future we'll be able to download such recipes and print them in our home kitchens.
Barcelona-based company Natural Machines says it hopes its Foodini machine (pictured right) will promote more home cooking by managing the difficult
Take a look at the variety of food that can be made with 3-D printers. The Foodini made these chickpea nuggets as a healthier alternative to meat options.
TNO has experimented with printing pureed vegetables back into their original shape. Cornell University's Fab@Home can print ramen noodles in a variety of artistic shapes.
#Quantum computer technology now capable of holding data with 99 percent accuracy Perhaps the zaniest property of quantum mechanics is that of entanglement,
in order to create superfast computers that can communicate and transfer data instantaneously, but learning to control the quantum data has proven difficult.
The latest breakthrough in quantum computing, however, brings the technology much closer to reality. Australian scientists have developed the first silicon quantum technology capable of holding data with over 99 percent accuracy
reports PC Mag. It's particularly significant because silicon is the same material used to build conventional computers,
meaning that the technology could potentially be mass-produced using the same sort of equipment currently used for chip manufacturing.
Development of the new technology came in two steps. First, the scientists refined a technique used to turn phosphorous atoms into qubits, the units of measurement for quantum information.
Second, they manufactured an"artificial atom"using a silicon resistor. Taken together, the two methods improved the reliability of data retention from just 50 percent to over 99 percent
an extraordinary upgrade.""We have demonstrated that with silicon qubit we can have needed the accuracy to build a real quantum computer.
That's the first time this has been done in silicon, "explained Andrew Dzurak of the University of New south wales, one of the study's authors.
"The capability of building a quantum computer from materials already widely used for building conventional computers might be this study's most significant accomplishment, however.
#Robots learn to cook with a little help from Youtube When it comes to learning how to cook,
We both turn to Youtube for online tutorials on how to chop garlic or how to whisk mashed potatoes.
Researchers at the University of Maryland, funded by the DARPA's Mathematics of Sensing, Exploitation and Execution (MSEE), are teaching robots how to process visual data
And, this exercise requires no additional programming from humans. The robots learned how to complete tasks, such as picking up a pitcher,
"Instead of the long and expensive process of programming code to teach robots to do tasks, this research opens the potential for robots to learn much faster, at much lower cost and,
And, according to Yiannis Aloimonos, University of Maryland professor of computer science and director of the Computer Vision Lab, cooking was the perfect skill to test the robots'progress."
and touchscreens could be made that resist finger grease and other similar causes of smudges. Also airplanes etched in these nanostructures could potentially avoid the dangers of water freezing on the wings.
Though perhaps it's simply enough to be dazzled by displays of water bouncing around like balls. he material is so strongly water-repellent the water actually gets bounced offsaid Chunlei Guo a professor of optics
#How the world's largest satellite network will deliver global Internet access With a majority of the world still without access to the Internet (roughly 60 percent as of 2014) private companies are announcing ambitious plans to close the gap.
Google is exploring the use of high-altitude balloons Facebook is eyeing autonomous drones and now Richard Branson and Virgin galactic are pursuing microsatellite clusters.
The project would deploy a fleet of 648 microsatellites capable of providing low-latency high-speed Internet access directly to small user-based terminals all around the world.
In addition to providing access via current standards (Wifi LTE 3g or 2g connections) the Oneweb network would also give much-needed global emergency and first responder access for natural disasters refugee camps and other humanitarian needs.
and capable of delivering 50 megabits per second Internet access. As a comparison the average global broadband speed currently is only 21.9 Mbps. Oneweb is expected to cost between $1. 5 billion to $2 billion a relative bargain compared to
what it hopes to achieve. The opportunity to improve access to education health care financial systems and employment will take a revolution one that we are tremendously proud to be said part of Branson.
#This stick could be the end of the personal computer as we know it Fifteen years ago,
I would see people move into apartments and fill their living rooms with a big desktop computer, a big TV and a stereo system with giant CD racks.
and worked with Toronto's Julia West Home to design beautiful furniture that turned your computer into an entertainment center, much like those console Hi-fi systems from the'50s.
Flat-screen monitors were not available yet (that SGI 17-inch monitor in the photo was the first one sold
500) and the ipod and the laptop got rid of the big desktop and the stereo system.
Then the smartphone came along, and I became convinced that it was going to become our default computer, writing in Treehugger:
Your office is in your pants: How the smartphone is changing the way we live and work.
I made a number of predictions, including that the big-screen television was going to follow the piano to the dump.
I was wrong again. Flat-screen LED TVS got so cheap and so big that people are now wallpapering their walls with them;
everybody has a home theater that would have cost tens of thousands of dollars just a few years ago.
After five years of using my computer monitor for entertainment, even I broke down and bought 42 inches of fun.
Now Intel has introduced the Compute Stick, a complete computer that runs Windows 8. 1 (or Linux) that you can plug into the HDMI port of your big TV.
It not exactly a gamer rig, with an Atom processor and 2gb of ram and a 32 GB solid state drive,
but it's also only $149 including Windows, which retails on its own for $154. 99 at my local computer store.
The device connects via Bluetooth to your keyboard and mouse. No doubt the souped-up gamer version will follow shortly.
Intel calls it solution with plenty of storage and performance needed for light productivity, social networking, web browsing,
and streaming media, such as Netflix, Hulu, or games. I think it's a lot more than that.
I look at this with a mix of bemusement and astonishment. Just over a decade ago,
I was building powerful computers into pretty boxes to act as entertainment centers; today I can just plug a computer that costs less than a retail box of software into my TV if
I need a computer at all, which except for work I don't. Now I can spend all day on the sofa in front of the TV
and nobody can complain, because the computer has ceased to be a thing. It now just an accessory.
In 1977, the late Ken Olsen, CEO of minicomputer manufacturer DEC, famously said here is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
He was quoted out of context but he still had to live that down for the rest of his life.
Autocase software tool has got its number It a running theme in our discussion of the smart home:
In the Economist Autodesk head of sustainability Emma Stewart writes about how the smart thing to do is to figure it out before you build.
If there are data to back up these decisions it's based on an engineer traffic counts or an estimator dollar estimates.
Wikipedia) But there are other costs involved with anything we do the social and environmental costs the effect on people and the planet as well as the profit.
instead there are hard data on how much it will cost to treat the asthma cases that are caused by the extra pollution.
If you put in a bike lane instead of a car lane there are data that show how it increases the health of the population.
they use software like Autocad to build the structure in the computer piece by piece.
or rip out another bike lane there are real data that people can show on the true costs both economic and social.
However as an architect who was an early adopter of Computer aided design (CAD) over 30 years agowhen all it did was draw
and concrete costs but that now can also produce real data on social value pollution health and yes even happiness a
condom-reinventing Microsoft cofounder didn actually drink human excrement Sedro-Woolley-produced sewage sludge at its finest.
Gates himself describes the waste-to-water process on his Gates Notes blog: I watched the piles of feces go up the conveyer belt and drop into a large bin.
and operated using a micro-entrepreneurial model where local residents would benefit economically from the facilities. he processor wouldn just keep human waste out of the drinking water;
or hard drives reliant on electrons'intrinsic spin are getting packed into smaller and smaller spaces. The limit was thought to be set:
when researchers at IBM manipulated individual xenon atoms on a nickel plate to spell out the letters'IBM'across a space just a dozen nanometres wide2.
what action is called for in the face of the data presented by the study.""If you attempted to go out
they used two independent computer models to calculate the total mass of fish in the world's oceans.
Nature News A transparent, flexible electrode made from graphene could see a one-atom thick honeycomb of carbon first made just five years ago replace other high-tech materials used in displays.
and Hong says that makes the material ideal for use in applications such as portable displays.
These data will be combined with samples taken over the next four years at 60 randomly chosen sites across Sub-saharan africa,
The project is also looking into sending information to mobile phones, which are very common in Africa.
The NPCIL has readied four sites one for each vendor each capable of accepting eight to ten imported reactors.
Fast breeder reactors, of the type under construction in Kalpakkam, would breed uranium-233 in thorium blankets surrounding a plutonium core.
but having a panel of in-country experts to deal with grant applications is a new approach.
or China's use of mercury catalysts in the manufacture of plastics. In addition, coal fired power plants, which emit mercury because of its natural presence in coal,
then knock them off-balance with a radio wave. The small radio-frequency signals given off by the recovering nuclei provide the imaging data.
In their new version of the technology Klaas Pruessmann at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, his student David Brunner and their colleagues removed the radio-frequency coil used to tumble the nuclei from an MRI machine built by Philips Healthcare
The data may also reveal the viral characteristics that are associated with longer more symptomatic infections."
Every day, they spent around half an hour in total on five computer-based tests designed to stretch their working memories.
reporting results by clicking on relevant numbers in a grid on the screen. Using brain imaging techniques, the scientists measured levels and locations of dopamine receptors in brain areas of interest in each participant before and after training.
The government agencies Environment Canada and Health Canada will use the data to make risk assessments for the materials
The council's panel of experts chaired by physicist Pekka Sinervo from the University of Toronto in Ontario,
Voluntary data-reporting schemes have been trialled in other countries with limited success. The ongoing voluntary programme of the US Environmental protection agency (EPA) has received so far submissions from 29 companies on more than 120 nanoscale materials;
and is pleased that companies are expected to provide their data within four months of beginning to use
Nature News The Blackberry-toting Barack Obama last week took a step towards modernizing the US government's information system by appointing Vivek Kundra to the newly created post of chief information officer.
"says Andrew Rasiej, founder of Personal Democracy Forum, an annual conference and website on politics and technology.
which include getting city agencies to provide public data in standard formats such as XML and RSS feeds.
Kundra also embraced'cloud computing'by moving all 38,000 employees for WASHINGTON DC onto the Google Apps office suite
which stores data and applications online rather than on individual computers. And he recently implemented an internal management tool in
and author of the blog CTOVISION. com."And Vivek has racked them up.""""There are three pillars to my agenda,
"We want to launch a data. gov site to make a vast array of government data public."
Likewise, any data streams coming out of data. gov will have to comply with legislation that protects citizens'privacy y
The second team2 was led by Daniel Rugar, manager of nanoscale studies at IBM s Almaden Research center in San jose, California.
A PSA test is currently the most common, noninvasive means to screen for prostate cancer in the U s. PSA testing measures for elevated levels of prostate specific-antigen antigen,
"Our study got enough interest to put together a series of sites for investigation to lead to potential FDA approval of this particular kit,
as well as from Kenya, India, Rwanda, Uganda and Zimbabwe, to screen for resistant coffee plants and to analyse varieties of the pathogen."
but 17 types of bacteria formed a core microbiome across all samples. Fierer says that understanding more about the bacterial ecology of the sky represents an exciting new frontier for natural history."
#Camera shoots and compresses image in one go Today s cameras take images as'raw'arrays of pixels,
which can take up many megabytes of storage, and then use data-compression algorithms such as JPEG to store the image in a smaller file."
"Why collect that data in the first place? asks John Hunt, an engineer at Duke university in Durham, North carolina,
and a co-author of the study. To design the new device, Hunt and his colleagues used an approach called compressive sensing.
The trick is figuring out what data to acquire, says Richard Baraniuk, an electrical and computer engineer at Rice university in Houston,
Texas."The data-points that matter will be different in a picture of the Eiffel Tower and a picture of your mother,
But it is not possible for a device to know what is important before the data are recorded.
Compressive sensing works by sampling at random##eliminating the need to sift through data ##and it still produces enough information to generate a good image.
In 2006 Baraniuk and his colleagues made the first optical camera that produced multi-pixel images with a single-pixel sensor.
An algorithm compiles data from each wavelength to generate a complete image every 0. 1 seconds.
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