Packed inside are high frequency vibration motors which spur certain muscles in the hand into action to allow better control,
#Airbus patents design for Mach 4-plus supersonic jet If there's one area where the 21st century has gone backwards technologically,
it's in supersonic passenger flight. With the grounding of the Concorde fleets in 2013, flying faster than the speed of sound reverted to a military monopoly,
but that hasn't kept engineers from trying for a revival. Now Airbus'Marco Prampolini and Yohann Coraboeuf have been granted a US patent for an"ultra-rapid air vehicle"designed to fly at 20 km (12.4 mi) higher than conventional aircraft and over four times the speed of sound twice the speed of Concorde.
Even in its heyday civilian supersonic flight held on by the skin of its teeth.
Concorde may have carried the wealthy and glamorous across the Atlantic in under three hours, but only 20 were built ever after an Anglo-french development program in the 1960s that was compared to the Apollo Moon landings in cost and complexity.
A combination of sonic booms, restrictive US FAA regulations, and the Arab oil embargo of the 1970s made the Concorde economically unviable
and it ended up as a tiny fleet, only flying with British airways and Air france because of French and British government pressure.
the Soviet union's TUPOLEV TU-144"Concordski"had an extremely short career after a fatal crash at the Paris Air Show in 1973.
The Airbus patent takes the idea of the Concorde, boosts the performance and reduces the impact of the infamous sonic boom.
According to Airbus, the craft is essentially a flying tanker with most of the fuselage made up of liquid oxygen and ecofriendly liquid hydrogen.
Forward of this is a passenger cabin for 24 people, with the cockpit in the bow.
It's also a very odd looking airplane with a gothic delta wing that gives it a strangely truncated look
and oxygen are burned to keep the aircraft properly trimmed. But what really sets the Airbus dsign apart is its suite of propulsion systems used to keep it aloft.
On a typical flight it would take off like a conventional plane using ordinary turbojet engines, but once in the air, an open door in the stern of the plane reveals a rocket motor.
When this fires, it sends the aircraft into a near vertical trajectory, accelerating it to supersonic speeds.
As the airplane approaches Mach one, the turbojets shut down and retract into the fuselage. On completion of the acceleration phase the plane is now flying at anywhere from Mach 4 to Mach 4. 5 at an altitude of 30,000 to 35,000 m (100,000 to 150
000 ft). The rocket motor shuts down and is concealed again as the aft door slides shut to reduce drag.
A ramjet now kicks in and the aircraft cruises along its flight path and can cover a range of 9, 000 km (5, 600 mi) in three hours the equivalent of Tokyo to Los angeles or Paris to San francisco. Meanwhile,
the wing fuselage design dissipates the sonic shock wave over 110 to 175 km (68 to 109 mi)
and angles it at 11 to 15 degrees so it doesn't reach the ground.
Airbus says that the supersonic passenger craft can operate from conventional airports so long as they can supply the cryogenic propellants.
It's highly unlikely that the Airbus supersonic will ever be built, but if it is,
#BAE Systems'Battleview 360 is made to raise situational awareness in tank crews BAE Systems is looking to solve one of the most restrictive elements with tank warfare through its Battleview 360 digital mapping system.
"Battleview 360 builds on years of work across BAE Systems to improve situational awareness and integrate information
and they can make fast, yet effective, decisions,"states Peder Sjölund, technology manager at BAE Systems Hägglunds, Sweden."
and allow for the plotting of efficient vehicle and UAV routes. BAE states that the system will be highly versatile and adaptable to a wide range of military assets.
A demo unit has been installed on a CV90 tracked vehicle, for display at the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) exhibition in London this week
Daimler likens the system to the autopilot used in aviation, in that the driver must be prepared to take control at any time.
So when a researcher airplane made a wrong turn during a thunderstorm and flew straight into a mile-wide cloud,
Dwyer is now chasing down antimatter by releasing weather balloons and planning more head-on flights into storms h
They include two individuals he knew from his years working at General electric and aircraft engine maker Allied Signal,
who previously held similar positions at aerospace giant Northrop grumman and inverter maker Advanced Energy. Innovus is looking to maintain high fuel efficiency
After measuring both the curvature of particle tracks in the detector's magnetic field and the particles'time of flight
is being built into the bellies of jet engines and promises to save billions of gallons of fuel in the coming decades by reducing weight
It has helped GE win jet engine orders worth $100 billion so far from airlines looking to shave their huge fuel bills.
No one wants the aircraft engine that is holding them 35,000 feet above the earth to shatter like a vase.
NASA wanted to use them in supersonic aircraft. The U s. military hoped they could be used in a new fighter jet.
The metal uper-alloysthat now line the hottest parts of jet engines are heavy, about 70 percent as dense as lead.
GE designed the material into an engine called the LEAP to be used on the coming Airbus 320neo and Boeing 737 MAX.
Pratt & Whitney, CFM main competition, is trying to achieve similar fuel savings with a new type of jet engine that uses a gear system never tried before.
The first test flight is expected to take off in the next several weeks. t allowing us to do things we never have been able to do,
Those with mutations in polycystic kidney disease genes formed balloon-like, fluid-filled sacks, called cysts, from kidney tubules.
a system developed by Boeing to be mounted on top of U s army vehicles. Both weapons forgo conventional bullets for"directed energy"a focused beam of energy that heats up
but from many hundreds of meters away,"Isaac Neal, a Boeing engineer, said in a video about the new weapons system that was posted on the defense contractor's website.
but Boeing's goal is to develop a compact laser that can also shoot down incoming explosives, such as mortars,
The only cost associated with operating them is the cost of electricity to power the lasers, according to Boeing,
which look like tiny blimps with pudgy bodies and eight stubby legs, are capable of shedding almost all of the water in their cells
The new Anti-UAV Defense system (AUDS) was developed by three tech companies in the United kingdom. It has a radar detection component,
Rather than melting drones in midair like Boeing's new Compact Laser weapons System, AUDS shoots the flying vehicles with something that doesn't destroy them radio waves.
AUDS sends the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) radio signals that interfere with the radio signals coming from the remote operator.
Whoever is controlling the anti-drone system can keep the UAV hovering at a distance until the machine runs out of battery life and crashes to the ground, according to a report by the BBC.
accidentally crashed their UAV on the back lawn of the White house. A similar incident occurred at the presidential residence in January.
The U s. Federal aviation administration (FAA), which sets guidelines for how and where commercial drones can be flown,
has ruled that small UAVS cannot be flown within 5 miles of airports and that they must remain below 400 feet (122 meters),
where they are unlikely to interfere with piloted aircraft. But a recent deluge of complaints from pilots
Car companies, the aviation industry as well as bridge manufacturers could be next in line. Corrosion resistance isn't the only super-trait of these metals.
and aircraft manufacturing,"said Kim m
#How to save soldiers'lives with fizz One of the biggest challenges for medics on the battlefield is treating blood loss,
the development of new, lighter and stronger materials spanning consumer electronics to aircraft; and faster information searching through large databases e
bendable electronics could have many uses, such as monitoring patients'health and keeping tabs on airplanes.
conformal electronics and antennas for maximizing space efficiency and reducing aerodynamic drag; and inherently more durable circuits that will withstand the extreme strain, shock,
Over the last few years, one team of chemists and materials scientists has begun exploring military applications in harsh environments for aircraft, explosive devices and even combatants themselves.
such as an airplane's wing, or even a person's skin. In aircraft applications, Leever explains,
the hybrid flexible system can be used to monitor stresses and strains and report this information through miniature embedded antennas to ground crews or a pilot.
and could detonate the weapon after surviving the initial impact of ground contact after being dropped from aircraft.
The work was done by researchers in the laboratories of Lewis and Harry Atwater, director of JCAP and Howard Hughes Professor of Applied Physics and Materials science."
Results of the research have been published in Talanta, vol. 144,2015, pp. 778-787 7
#Upgrading the quantum computer: New quantum computer architecture Abstract: Within the last several years, considerable progress has been made in developing a quantum computer,
says MIT aeronautics and astronautics alumna Natalya Brikner Phd 5, cofounder and CEO of Accion Systems. ou can make a satellite the size of a softball with a surprising amount of capabilities,
an associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics who invented the underlying technology. Ultimately, he adds, the technology could give small startups and even countries without well-funded space programs the opportunity to use low-cost satellites for space exploration. t
and sensors that can detect otherwise imperceptible defects in buildings, bridges, and aircraft.""This is the first time anybody has made a flexible chameleon-like skin that can change color simply by flexing it,
or the wings of airplanes.""This is the first time anyone has achieved such a broad range of color on a one-layer, thin and flexible surface,"concluded Change-Hasnain."
#3d printer for small molecules opens access to customized chemistry Howard Hughes Medical Institute scientists have simplified the chemical synthesis of small molecules,
#Cyborg beetle research allows free-flight study of insects (w/video) Hardwiring beetles for radio-controlled flight turns out to be a fitting way to learn more about their biology.
if tethering interfered with the insect's natural flight motions.""In particular, the researchers said, it had been difficult to elucidate the role that smaller muscles play in fine steering.
"Our wireless system allows us to record neuromuscular movements in natural, free flight, so we see
Six electrodes are connected to the beetle's optic lobes and flight muscles. The entire device is powered by a 3. 9-volt micro lithium battery
"During test flights, signals were transmitted to the beetle backpack every millisecond, directing the beetles to take off, turn left or right,
or even hover in mid-flight. The beetles were untethered but in a closed room equipped with eight 3-D motion-capture cameras."
"In our earlier work using beetles in remote-controlled flight, we showed excellent control of flight initiation and cessation,
but relatively crude control of steering during free flight,"said Maharbiz.""Our findings about the flight muscle allowed us to demonstrate for the first time a higher level of control of free-flying beetles.
It's a great partnership between engineering and science
#Spherical nucleic acids set stage for new paradigm in nanomedicine drug development A research team led by Northwestern University nanomedicine expert Chad A. Mirkin
and Sergei Gryaznov of Aurasense Therapeutics is the first to show spherical nucleic acids (SNAS) can be used as potent drugs to effectively train the immune system to fight disease,
It works like blowing up a balloon and then releasing it to fly around the room. The 27-cm long robot is inflated with water and once released,
variability in addition to high mobility("Liquid crystals for organic thin-film transistors"."Hiroaki Iino, Takayuki Usui and Jun-ichi Hanna designed a molecule that would incorporate a number of desirable liquid crystal qualities, in particular the smectic E phase.
#Bio-inspired eye stabilizes robot's flight without need for an accelerometer Biorobotics researchers at the Institut des Sciences du Mouvement-Etienne-Jules Marey (CNRS/Aix-Marseille
All aircraft, from drones to the Ariane launcher, are equipped currently with an inertial measurement unit,
This allows these aircraft to stabilize their roll and pitch with respect to the horizon or rather with respect to its perpendicular:
An accelerometer measures all the accelerations of the aircraft including gravity, which is directed always toward the center of the Earth.
3) An inertial reference system is used an instrument in navigation that is able to process the measurements of a device's motion (acceleration and angular velocity) in order to estimate its orientation (angles of roll, pitch and heading.
and structural biology at UC Berkeley and investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, is a leading authority on the structure and dynamics of microtubules.
imec associated lab at Ghent University, have demonstrated the world first stretchable and conformable thin-film transistor (TFT) driven LED display laminated into textiles.
which will guide how scientists and engineers build aircraft components, for example. The research, led by Jianwei (John) Miao,
when the materials are components of machines like jet engines. oint defects are very important to modern science and technology,
the development of new, lighter and stronger materials spanning consumer electronics to aircraft; and faster information searching through large databases s
uses jets of liquid nitrogen to nap-freezebrain tissue down to-90oc, within milliseconds. The brain tissue here was mouse cerebral cortex.
self-driving cars, Google glass, internet balloons, health care, GOOGLE TV mobile payments, home automation and its Google+social network, among others.
The projects include self-driving cars, Google glass, internet balloons, drones, health care, GOOGLE TV, mobile payments, home automation and its Google+social network, among others.
says Juliet Hughes, mother of 8-year-old Felix, who took part in a trial to see
says Hughes e
#Clump of gold nanoparticles can evolve to carry out computing MOVE OVER, microchip. A random assembly of gold nanoparticles can perform calculations normally reserved for neatly arranged patterns of silicon.
How long until the satellites are ready for flight? The team has given three of their propulsion systems to the NASA Glenn Research center in Ohio,
Funding for the work came from the National institutes of health, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation, Sol Goldman Trust and Marshall Heritage Foundation a
the clinician opens two positioning balloons: one around the front end of the catheter, passing through the hole,
The light reflects off of the balloon's shiny interior and activates the patch's adhesive coating.
As the glue cures, pressure from the balloons secures the patch it in place. Finally, both balloons are deflated
and the catheter is withdrawn. Over time, tissue grows over the patch and it dissolves.""This really is a completely new platform for closing wounds
Developed at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Research Campus, the microscope also captures images quickly enough to watch the movement of developing embyronic cells or the flashes of neuronal circuits.
the ONR glasses allow SIGINT soldiers to monitor a variety of enemy waveforms, indicating Internet traffic, 2g/SMS, VHF/push-to-talk radio systems,
#Boeing Just Patented A Force field Made Of Lasers So, Boeing just patented a force field. Technically, the patent is for a ethod and system for shockwave attenuation via electromagnetic arc,
but that just a long way of writing out something unbelievably futuristic: protective force fields may one day make their way onto the battlefields of the future.
The ability of liquid metal with its own embedded power source could even one day be the basis to build self repairing armor on tanks and changing aircraft fuselages for fuel efficiency and speed.
such as watching a movie on an airplane, the glasses look to enrich content in a way no other streaming service currently does.
the researchers created very high frequency sound waves? surface acoustic waves? that run along the surface of Linbo3, akin to earthquake tremors on land.
The flexible MOF material could perhaps even be placed inside a balloon-like bag that stretches to accommodate the expanding MOF as methane is pumped in
#Taking aircraft manufacturing out of the oven Aerospace engineers at MIT have developed now a carbon nanotube (CNT) film that can heat
The group tested the film on a common carbon-fiber material used in aircraft components,
energy saving method for manufacturing virtually any industrial composite, says Brian L. Wardle, an associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT."
"Typically, if you're going to cook a fuselage for an Airbus a350 or Boeing 787, you've got about a four-story oven that's tens of millions of dollars in infrastructure that you don't need,
mainly for deicing airplane wings. The team recognized that in addition to their negligible weight, carbon nanotubes heat efficiently
In experiments, Wardle and his team integrated the film into airplane wings via conventional, oven-based curing methods,
In initial experiments, the researchers investigated the film's potential to fuse two types of aerospace-grade composite typically used in aircraft wings and fuselages.
"The team is working with industrial partners to find ways to scale up the technology to manufacture composites large enough to make airplane fuselages and wings."
"This research was funded in part by Airbus Group, Boeing, Embraer, Lockheed martin, Saab AB, Tohotenax, ANSYS Inc.,the Air force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air force base,
In addition, Chris Chang is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator. The more carbon dioxide that is released into the atmosphere the warmer the atmosphere becomes.
Ishihara and his colleagues found that thin-film transistors using the laser-printed layer exhibited mobilities as high as those of conventional poly-silicon conductors.
which involves improving the production process of the thin-film transistors to include additional non-silicon layers,
as we can easily install this system into a drone, airplane, or satellite to detect plant photosynthesis on a large scale to assess ecosystem health,
and mobile devices The researchers'new system could allow unmanned aerial vehicles to deliver packages to a specific spot on a consumer's back porch,
"Humphreys and his team in the Radionavigation Lab have built a low-cost system that reduces location errors from the size of a large car to the size of a nickel--a more than 100 times increase in accuracy.
#Source of liver stem cells identified Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) scientists have identified stem cells in the liver that give rise to functional liver cells.
an airplane or a farming tool and appreciate the durable layers protecting its parts. But depositing this covering is an essential manufacturing step that allows machines to function with repeated use."
#Sensor mimics bats to detect dangerous structural cracks An ultrasound sensor for detecting dangerous cracks in structures such as aircraft engines,
He is a professor at Stanford School of medicine and SLAC and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator."
Thomas C. Südhof, a professor at the Stanford School of medicine and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator who shared that 2013 Nobel prize with Rothman,
which two balloons are inflated to different sizes and connected via a tube and valve. When the valve is opened,
air flows between the balloons. Instead of equalizing in size, as one might expect, the larger balloon inflates more
while the smaller balloon deflates. This unexpected behavior comes from the balloons'nonlinear relationship between pressure and volume
meaning the an increase in volume doesn't necessarily increase the pressure.""When inflating a balloon,
the first few blows are the hardest but after reaching a critical pressure it becomes easier,
"said Johannes Overvelde, Phd student AT SEAS and first author on the paper.""Similar to the balloons, in our research we connect fluidic segments in such a way that an interplay between their nonlinear response results in unexpected behavior.
Certain combinations of these interconnected segments can result in fast moving instabilities with negligible change in volume."
The work was done by researchers in the laboratories of Lewis and Harry Atwater, director of JCAP and Howard Hughes Professor of Applied Physics and Materials science."
and frosting on aircraft wings.""This represents a fundamentally new concept in engineered surfaces, "said Tak-Sing Wong, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and a faculty member in the Penn State Materials Research Institute."
"One could describe it as a flight simulator of quantum physics, "says Mathias Tomandl who designed
which will guide how scientists and engineers build aircraft components, for example. The research, led by Jianwei (John) Miao,
when the materials are components of machines like jet engines.""Point defects are very important to modern science and technology,
"It's a big black box in the cancer field--mostly because it's very difficult to study,
the development of new, lighter and stronger materials spanning consumer electronics to aircraft; and faster information searching through large databases s
Its system, bearing the catchy name Jamsdefender, combines active noise cancellation, digital volume normalization, and a dual speaker on each headphone to ensure protection and performance.
The headphones also employ active noise cancellation tech to block out ambient noise. Traditionally, sounds from the environment seeping into our headphones make us crank the volume up to potentially unhealthy levels without even realizing.
Nanoscale Speed bump Could Regulate Plasmons for High-speed data Flow The name sounds like something Marvin the Martian might have built,
a peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal published by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Max Planck Society and the Wellcome Trust.
Autonomous, swarming UAVS fly into the future A new era in autonomy and unmanned systems for naval operations is on the horizon,
as officials at the Office of Naval Research (ONR) announced today recent technology demonstrations of swarming unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVS) part of the Low-cost UAV Swarming Technology (LOCUST) program.
LOCUST can launch swarming UAVS to autonomously overwhelm an adversary. The deployment of UAV swarms will provide Sailors
and Marines a decisive tactical advantage. he recent demonstrations are an important step on the way to the 2016 ship-based demonstration of 30 rapidly launched autonomous,
swarming UAVS, said ONR program manager Lee Mastroianni. The LOCUST program includes a tube-based launcher that can send UAVS into the air in rapid succession.
The breakthrough technology then utilizes information-sharing between the UAVS, enabling autonomous collaborative behavior in either defensive or offensive missions.
Since the launcher and the UAVS themselves have a small footprint, the technology enables swarms of compact UAVS to take off from ships, tactical vehicles, aircraft or other unmanned platforms.
The ONR demonstrations, which took place over the last month in multiple locations, included the launch of Coyote UAVS capable of carrying varying payloads for different missions.
Another technology demonstration of nine UAVS accomplished completely autonomous UAV synchronization and formation flight. ONR officials note that
while the LOCUST autonomy is compared cutting edge to remote-controlled UAVS, there will always be a human monitoring the mission,
able to step in and take control as desired. his level of autonomous swarming flight has never been done before,
said Mastroianni. AVS that are expendable and reconfigurable will manned free aircraft and traditional weapon systems to do more,
and essentially multiply combat power at decreased risk to the warfighter. UAVS reduce hazards and free personnel to perform more complex tasks,
as well as requiring fewer people to do multiple missions. Lowering costs is a major benefit of UAVS as well.
Even hundreds of small autonomous UAVS cost less than a single tactical aircraft and officials note, having this capability will force adversaries to focus on UAV swarm response.
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert Sailing Directions to the fleet note that over the next 10 to 15 years,
the Navy will evolve and remain the preeminent maritime force. It directs: nmanned systems in the air and water will employ greater autonomy
and be integrated fully with their manned counterparts. a
#Angiogenesis Inhibitors Undermined by Immune Cells, Says Study Angiogenesis inhibitors widely used class of cancer drugs designed to shrink tumors by preventing them from forming new blood vesselsften work in the short term,
In addition, Chris Chang is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator. See below for a full list of the paper authors.
which stands for cytometry by time-of-flight, and it gives researchers greater insight into the intricacies of immune cells than ever before.
a thinner layer of spinel can give better performance than glass. or weight-sensitive platforms-UAVS unmanned autonomous vehicles, head-mounted face shieldst a game-changing technology.
onformal with the surface of an airplane or UAV wing, depending on the shape of the press.
Both lasers have now been delivered to Airbus Defence and Space in Toulouse, France, ready to be integrated into the rest of Aladin.
the team spirit and motivation has remained always high. ow that the lasers are both safely in the hands of Airbus in France we wish them well with integrating them into the Aladin instrument
The Aladin team at Airbus have had the first laser since last year and have carried already out some important tests on its optics.
he delivery of the second flight laser is a major achievement by Selex-ES, who have overcome major technology issues along the way. he contributions of Airbus Defence and Space,
who have remained closely involved with Selex-ES throughout, as well as the valuable support the Aeolus project has had from the engineers in ESA
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