in a key emotional hub in the brain involved in regulating anxiety and the flight-or-fight response.
Video)##The aircraft, called quadcopters because they have four rotors, navigate using signals from Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers,
and compute their own flight plans. They were created by a team of scientists led by Tamás Vicsek, a physicist at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest.
lightweight enough to permit flight. Hexagonal micro-truss structure about 30 millionths of a meter wide.
That information is combined with multi-spectral images of fields taken by advanced camera systems from satellites and airplanes.
proven techniques already widely used in the likes of smart phones, cars and airplanes. It has been estimated there are already 50 MEMS sensors in a modern car.
What more a single EZ-Charge card will give Leaf-ers access to stations run by Chargepoint Blink Carcharging Group NRG evgo and Aerovironment.
If an enemy boat or aircraft gets too close to a Navy ship, the laser can deter the threat with an effect known as optical"dazzling."
IBM said the materials could even potentially be used in airplanes, where their strength, light weight,
resistance to stress and self-healing abilities could allow them to be used on airplane wings.
"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
and weight generating the same power per unit weight as a jet engine researchers say. The artificial muscles could be used to power the limbs of humanoid robots to open
The polymer-muscles generate about 3 horsepower per lb. 7. 1 hp/kilogram) or the equivalent of a jet engine.
"It is like an airplane with wings upside down,"Graham Hawkes, founder and chief technical officer of Hawkes Ocean Technologies, told the Chronicle."
and drag the principles of regular flight to"soar"underwater. This means the Super Falcon is always positively buoyant
Also airplanes etched in these nanostructures could potentially avoid the dangers of water freezing on the wings.
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 Launcherone rocket while still in the design and testing phase hopes to eventually deliver payloads from 250 pounds to 500 pounds into space for less than $10 million per flight.
"Lockheed martin (US) in the end did more development and at sea testing than any other company, says Caitlyn Antrim, executive director of the Rule of law Committee for the Oceans in WASHINGTON DC,
Cameron s government sponsored Lockheed s claim to the 58,000-square-kilometre potential mining site through the company s subsidiary UK Seabed Resources in London.
Lockheed has proven technologies and the most nodule-bed data. Polymetallic nodules form over thousands of years on the sea floor, through processes that are still not fully understood;
"It s part of the art of the possible now, says Miles Libbey, a former employee of Lockheed martin US,
Lockheed has released not specific plans, but the general scheme for harvesting uses a device that moves along the sea floor,
Philip Rood, a spokesman for Lockheed martin UK, says that it hopes operations can begin in 5-6#years,
once Lockheed has completed technology tests and environ#mental studies. Data are so far sparse on the degree to
) Craig Smith, a deep-sea biologist at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, will lead an initial assessment of seafloor life for Lockheed s project, gathering baseline data for the potential harvest zone
"Duru wrote in a description of a Youtube video of the hoverboard's record-breaking flight.
Should Jets Be rerouted to Avoid Warming Contrails? 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,
With the software loaded onto a rover engineers can simply input desired waypoints for the rover to reach
With the software loaded onto a rover engineers can simply input desired waypoints for the rover to reach
and the jets are not always active exploring them remotely is challenging. The more the spacecraft can do without waiting for communication with Earth the better they can explore especially
if the Canadian space agency selects their ISS-MRI for a life science berth on a rocket flight in 2016.
whether Cronin's device will be able to compete with other existing processes says Steve Reece a water-splitting expert at Lockheed martin in Cambridge Massachusetts.
But the most radical aspect of the redesign is the landing gear which will allow astronauts to set the spacecraft down on solid ground.
Like passengers in today's commercial aeroplanes riders of the Dragon V2 won't get much leg room in the capsule's tight quarters.
or the air flows that make aeroplane flights bumpy. Now Sandra Chapman of the University of Warwick UK and her colleagues have examined the solar wind's behaviour using NASA's twin STEREO spacecraft.
This is not a trailer for an alien invasion movie NASA is gearing up to conduct the first test flight of a disc-shaped spacecraft designed to safely land heavy loads
rockets and aerodynamic drag. Until recently NASA had used parachutes and airbags for most robotic landings on Mars starting with the Viking mission in 1976.
which combined parachutes with landing gear powered by retrorockets that could lower the rover to the surface on tethers.
The LDSD design solves this quandary using a balloon-like decelerator and a giant parachute twice the size of Curiosity's. The decelerator would attach to the outer rim of a capsule-like entry vehicle.
To simulate Mars's thin atmosphere On earth the team in Hawaii will first lift a test vehicle fitted with the LDSD system to about 37 kilometres above the Pacific ocean using a high-altitude balloon.
NASA has three more test flights in Hawaii planned for the LDSD and mission managers will review the results before deciding on next steps.
After the shuttle's last flight in 2011 though the US became dependent on Russia for transport to the ISS using Soyuz at a cost of nearly $71 million for each seat it requires.
One of the alternative models was just little pockets of water driving the jets and in that model you wouldn't have much in the way of life
The fist-sized robot, a product of Virtual Incision in Lincoln, Nebraska, will have its first zero-gravity test in an aircraft flying in parabolic arcs in the next few months.
The first flights were initially set for 2008 but have since been delayed repeatedly. Founder Richard Branson announced a 2014 date last month.
which will see celebrities compete for a flight to space aboard an XCOR AEROSPACE Lynx craft.
the Lynx is yet to perform a single test flight. For those looking beyond low Earth orbit Mars One is also continuing with its plans to send humans on a televised one-way mission to the Red planet by 2023.
Advances in pre-flight automation mean that the rocket dubbed Epsilon can be ready to lift off in about a week with fewer people in mission control helping to slash costs to about $38 million per launch much cheaper than its heavier labour-intensive predecessors.
Engineers led by Tyler Hickman in the Game Changing Technology Program at NASA's Glenn Research center in Cleveland Ohio worked together with rocket motor maker Aerojet Rocketdyne of Sacramento California.
Fed liquid oxygen and gaseous hydrogen the injector performed perfectly in a series of tests says Aerojet's programme manager Jeff Haynes. Better still it took only four months to make the injector using 3d printing
Instead the smaller cheaper machine might help labs around the world study deep-space objects such as powerful radiation jets squirted out by black holes.
so that it crashes into metal atoms releasing a jet of electrons and positrons. These particles are separated into two beams with magnets (Physical Review Letters doi. org/m2n.
whereas our jet is a hundred times narrower and remains pencil-like as it propagates he adds.
After a few delays due to weather and a technical glitch the Antares launch vehicle lifted off on its maiden flight on 21 april.
For the test flight the rocket climbed high into a clear blue sky carrying a mock cargo ship with the same mass
a professor of aeronautics and astronautics, will present details of the visualization system at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronauticsscitech conference in January.
Because the Federal aviation administration has placed restrictions on outdoor testing of quadrotors and other autonomous flying vehicles Omidshafiei points out that testing such robots in a virtual environment may be the next best thing.
The research was funded by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute the Ludwig Center for Molecular Oncology at MIT and the National Cancer Institute u
If I turn on the two jets at one end it won t go straight. It will just turn.
The control algorithm constantly adjusts the velocity of the water pumped through each of the six jets to keep the robot on course.
Dava Newman a professor of aeronautics and astronautics and engineering systems at MIT and her colleagues have engineered active compression garments that incorporate small springlike coils that contract in response to heat.
With conventional spacesuits you re essentially in a balloon of gas that s providing you with the necessary one-third of an atmosphere of pressure to keep you alive in the vacuum of space says Newman who has worked for the past decade to design a formfitting flexible spacesuit of the future.
and customize unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVS) for multiple applications. Today, hundreds of companies worldwide are making drones for infrastructure inspection, crop-and livestock-monitoring,
Now Airware, founded by MIT alumnus Jonathan Downey 6, has developed a platform hardware, software, and cloud services that lets manufacturers pick
The key component is the startup Linux-based autopilot device, a small red box that is installed into all of a client drones. his is responsible for flying the vehicle in a safe, reliable manner,
and display that info to a user, says Downey, Airware CEO, who researched and built drones throughout his time at MIT.
Airware then pushes all data to the cloud, where it aggregated and analyzed, and available to designated users.
or underwatered. hey don have to know the flight algorithms, or underlying hardware, they just need to connect their software or piece of hardware to the platform,
Clients have trialed Airware platform over the past year including researchers at MIT, who are demonstrating delivery of vaccines in Africa.
Another UAV maker, Cyber Technology in Australia, is using the platform for drones responding to car crashes and other disasters,
Airware plans to launch the platform for general adoption later this year, viewing companies that monitor crops
A company from scratch Airware roots date to 2005, when Downey, who studied electrical engineering and computer science, organized an MIT student team including Airware chief technology officer, Buddy Michini 7, SM 9,
Phd 3 to build drones for an intercollegiate competition. At the time, drones were used primarily for military surveillance,
But their advisor, Jonathan How, a professor of aeronautics and astronautics who directs of the Aerospace Controls Laboratory,
A five-year stretch at Boeing as an engineer for the U s. military A160 Hummingbird UAV and as a commercial pilot put Downey in contact with drone manufacturers, who,
were still using black boxes or open-source designs. hey were basically facing the same challenges we faced as undergrads at MIT,
Thus Airware was born in 2010 first run only by Downey, then with Michini and a team of Boeing engineers to make a military-grade lack boxsystem,
but whose capabilities could be tweaked and extended. Early prototypes were trialed by How group at MIT,
before Airware entered two California incubators, Lemnos Labs and Y-Combinator, in 2013. Since then, theye raised $40 million from investors and expanded their team from five to more than 50 employees. he last 18 months has been a rapid rise,
Not much of the early MIT drone designs made it into the final Airware platform. ut building that early drone at MIT
what Airware is today, Downey says. he DOS for dronestoday, Downey says, the development of a standard operating system for drones is analogous to Intel processors
Additionally, it could help the Federal aviation administration (FAA) better assess the reliability of drones; Congress recently tasked the agency with compiling UAV rules and regulations by 2015.
This could also help promote commercial drone use in the United states, which lags behind other countries around the world, primarily in Europe,
"Oblong clients include Boeing, Saudi Aramco, SAP, General electric, and IBM, as well as government agencies and academic institutions, such as Harvard university Graduate school of Design.
and build early g-speak prototypes glove-based systems that eventually ended up with the company first customer, Boeing.
#The paper s lead authors are Roger Redondo a Howard Hughes Medical Institute postdoc at MIT and Joshua Kim a graduate student in MIT s Department of biology.
The research was funded by the RIKEN Brain science Institute Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the JPB Foundation i
Detailed studies of aerodynamics have shown that while a ball with a dimpled surface has half the drag of a smooth one at lower speeds,
The Dart runs on novel very high-frequency frequency (VHF) power-conversion technology, co-invented by Sagneri,
Green says the company aims to bring VHF technology to wide range of applications. This could shrink the AC-DC power converters for products such as LED LIGHTS
wee creating the commercially enabled technology to allow VHF power converters to become a significant portion of the market,
Under the tutelage of David Perreault, an MIT professor of electrical engineering, Sagneri helped develop a novel circuit that executes power conversion at very high frequency 30 to 300 megahertz
Sagneri VHF power-conversion technology wasn chosen. But Green saw potential. was interested in working on something that had real technology behind it,
Surrounded by a circular 35-foot-long inflatable shell made of the same heavy-duty fabric used in blimps
Aerostat innovationmuch of the BAT s innovation lies in its complete autonomy Glass says. Such aerostats usually require full-time ground crews to deploy land
and adjust. But the BAT automatically adjusts to optimal wind speeds and self-docks in case of emergencies eliminating the need for manual labor.
Because the BAT is advanced an aerostat platform Glass says customers can use it to lift additional payloads such as weather monitoring and surveillance equipment.
Prototype to productglass first conceived of the BAT while working at MIT toward his master s degree in aeronautics and astronautics.
and built a composite nacelle to hold our custom electronics and control systems Rein says. In 2012 Altaeros after just two years of refining proved the BAT s efficiency at 300 feet above ground at a former Air force base in Maine where the company still assembles
These illicit products which include electronics, automotive and aircraft parts, pharmaceuticals, and food can pose safety risks and cost governments and private companies hundreds of billions of dollars annually.
The research was funded by the Harvard Neurodiscovery Center, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Gatsby Charitable Foundation,
and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator Sangeeta Bhatia relies on nanoparticles that interact with tumor proteins called proteases each
the Burroughs Wellcome Fund the National Cancer Institute and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute u
In a conventional Time of Flight camera, a light signal is fired at a scene where it bounces off an object
For example, in trying to prevent the buildup of ice on an airplane wing, the contact time of raindrops is critical:
These replays occur in association with very high frequency brainwave oscillations known as ripple events. In mice lacking calcineurin the researchers found that brain activity was normal as the mice ran the course
Other authors are Heydar Davoudi and Matthew Wilson the Sherman Fairchild Professor of Neuroscience at MIT and a member of the Picower Institute.
including materials used in aircraft, oil wells, and other critical industrial applications. Metal fatigue, for example which can result from an accumulation of nanoscale cracks over time s probably the most common failure modefor structural metals in general
a professor of aeronautics and mechanical engineering at Caltech who was involved not in this study. The researchers have filed a patent on the device to further its development for diagnostic use,
This research was supported in part by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the National institute of mental health, the Simons Foundation, the Simons Center for the Social Brain at MIT,
The training set costs approximately $7, 000 and may be shipped as ordinary luggage on commercial flights.
Are formed by Electrohydrodynamic Jet Printing for Light-emitting diodes. Their paper was published in Nano Letters an ACS journal.
E-jet printing refers to a technique called electrohydrodynamic jet described as a micro/nanomanufacturing process that uses an electric field to induce fluid jet printing through micro/nanoscale nozzles.
High-resolution Patterns of Quantum dots Formed by Electrohydrodynamic Jet Printing for Light-emitting diodes Nano Lett. Article ASAP.
They can power a defibrillator open the emergency slides on an aircraft and greatly improve the efficiency of hybrid electric automobiles.
but recognizes that they need to engage with sectors such as aeronautics among other areas. Jimenez Licea indicates that
#Bending but not breaking in search of new materials Making a paper airplane in school used to mean trouble.
The nanovesicles look like minuscule indented balloons. It had already been possible to'load'them with a drug
Materials scientists are creating materials by design Imagine a balloon that could float without using any lighter-than-air gas.
Such a vacuum balloon, which could help ease the world's current shortage of helium,
Other potential military applications include electronics for remote sensors, unmanned aerial vehicles and high-capacity computing in remote operations.
#An inkjet-printed field-effect transistor for label-free biosensing Thin-film transistors (TFTS) are powerful devices in semiconductor manufacturing
Formation of organic thin-film transistors through room-temperature printing More information: Mariana Medina-Sánchez Carme Martínez-Domingo Eloi Ramon Arben Merkoçi.
Formation of organic thin-film transistors through room-temperature printin n
#Cost-effective solvothermal synthesis of heteroatom (S or N)- doped graphene developed A research team led by group leader Yung-Eun Sung has announced that they have developed cost-effective technology to synthesize sulfur-doped and nitrogen-doped graphenes
just as good as current commercial thin-film transistors,"said Argonne postdoctoral scientist and first author Saptarshi Das,
and releasing electrical charge while subject to stresses or pressures up to 44 psi and vibrational accelerations over 80 g (significantly greater than those acting on turbine blades in a jet engine).
Hybrid Engines Make Runway-To-Orbit Missions A Reality A disembodied jet engine attached to a hulking air vent sits in an outdoor test facility at the Culham Science Center in Oxfordshire England.
The vehicle would have a fuselage reminiscent of the Concorde and take off like a conventional airliner accelerate to Mach 5. 2
Bond's Synergistic Air-Breathing Rocket engine (Sabre) part chemical rocket part jet engine will make Skylon possible.
which they say could be ready for flight tests in the next four years. Building the craft itself would require a much heftier investment:
when he was a young engineer working with Rolls-royce as part of a team tasked with developing a reusable spacecraft for British aerospace.
NASA and Lockheed martin meanwhile had their own plans for a fully reusable spacecraft the Venturestar intended as an affordable replacement for the partially reusable space shuttle.
Hempsell says Skylon could potentially make 100 flights annually which if true could in its first year recoup the money spent in R&d
It could enable an aircraft to fly anywhere in the world in under four hours says Bond.
If and when the engine passes flight tests one of Reaction engines'plans is to license the technology to a potential partner in the aerospace industry.
It all starts with regular SSTO flights. Very awesome breakthrough on heat exchange. This single breakthrough will ripple through a host of applications.
This saves on the weight of oxygen that would otherwise be needed for the flight through the atmosphere.
and the air intake pointed directly into the air flow. Most aircraft are designed to fly with a nose up angle of attack.
This way the fuselage generates lift. Since the engine inlet is extremely sensitive to the direction of airflow at high mach numbers it is angled down 7 degrees
so that air flows directly into the engine. The nozzle is angled 7 degrees down as well which is purely coincidence.
The trust vector must go through the center of gravity otherwise the air/spacecraft will pitch.
but then they wouldn't have a convenient place for the rear landing gear and having the engines close to the ground makes them easier to service.
because it's a UAV unmanned and ground controlled. No one will fly astronauts/cosmonauts up to the ISS on an unmanned vehicle.
4. If LOX is an oxidiser for at least part of the flight where is the tank?
5. If LOX is used for part of the flight its weight needs to be factored in. Not just the weight of liquid hydrogen.
I can not understand. wcartythe air intakes close after the air breathing stage and presumably remains closed through reentry.
and British flag together with the Reaction engines logo on the side of the fuselage in the picture at the beginning of the article.
I can see a Reaction engines/Rolls royce partnership (I think RR was involved originally in Skylonâ#predecessor project HOTOL) providing the engines a Boeing/Lockheed martin/Any other building the airframe EADS providing the avionics or any other subsystem.
#FAA Panel Recommends Lifting Ban On Gadget Use During Flights After receiving countless complaints abuse towards flight attendants who are only doing their jobs
whether electronic gadgets actually are dangerous during a flight's takeoff and landing. A 28-person advisory panel just concluded its study
the airplane's speed means that you'll be switching from tower to tower faster than your phone
Instead devices in airplane mode meaning devices with all their radios (Wi-fi Bluetooth and cellular) turned off would be just fine to use.
and flipped your gadget to airplane mode watch away. Gadget manufacturers have been campaigning for years for a change in the FAA's policy
Amazon especially is annoyed as its Kindle ebook reader suffers a distinct weakness compared with physical books given that you aren't currently allowed to use a Kindle during part of your flight.
Amazon has tested previously interference on its own by testing an airplane packed full of Kindles as an Amazon representative told the AP.#The advisory panel's decision is likely to be implemented by the FAA;
Lockheed martin which won the contract for supporting the U s. Antarctic program in 2011 could decide it s not financially feasible to reopen the station given the large investment already made in opening it once.#
Fraunhofer is building a giant scanner that it says can be used for cars as well as to detect damage to airplane wings
and Android#that can be used for the detection of radioactivity in everyday life such as exposure on airplanes from medical patients or from contaminated products.
Schmale developed his unmanned aerial vehicles with a colleague at Virginia Tech as an alternative to costly manned research flights.
#The Quest To Harness Wind energy At 2, 000 Feet To be more precise it's a stabilizing fin part of a tube-shaped robotic airship designed to tap the power of high-altitude winds.
The company worked with airship and spacesuit pioneer ILC Dover to develop its proprietary UV-and weather-resistant fabric.
C Three double-braided polymer tethers prevent the airship from drifting away. One contains copper conductors that transmit power collected as high as 2000 feet down to a battery or the grid.
The fin had been pulled from storage where it had been sitting deflated since test flights several months before.
And instead of pouring concrete foundations and erecting a multistory tower a few people with a truck can inflate the airship on site
The Powerplane glides on autopilot in a figure-8 pattern. As the plane climbs it pulls on its tether
Harnessing never-before-used satellite altimeter data from the European space agency s (ESA) Cryosat-2 and NASA s Jason-1 the scientists have created stunning maps of Earth s entire seafloor bringing to light mountains
#Facebook Says Wi-fi Drones Will be sized Jumbo jet If a new Facebook plan is successful the easiest way to access the cloud may be...
and at#a summit in New york earlier this week the company revealed those drones will be the size of jumbo jets.
While bringing Internet connectivity to unconnected parts of the world should be a good enough move for public relations Facebook also joined the ongoing war against calling unmanned aircraft drones:
The unusual shape was a compromise between aerodynamics and comfort for at least two people as required by the cruiser class specifications.
Spacex And Boeing Will Take You Ladies and gentlemen we have a winner-well two actually.
And the spoils go to Boeing and Spacex. The companies will sign contracts with NASA to further develop their spacecraft to deliver astronauts to and from the ISS.
Boeing will receive $4. 2 billion to build its CST-100 spacecraft a vehicle it has been working on for the past four years
To get to the ISS Boeing's CST-100 will be launched on the United Launch Alliance's Atlas v rocket
Spacex and Boeing beat out a number of other private companies for the NASA gig including another big contender the Sierra nevada Corp. All three companies had been involved in an earlier phase of the program in
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