#Duke Researchers Create Artificial Human Muscles As a representative of M. U s c. L. E, . I find artificial muscles a bit unseemly.
However, researchers at Duke university have been able to grow their own twitching tissue, a first that could allow researchers to test drugs on working muscle without damaging a live host.
From the release:##In a laboratory first, Duke researchers have grown human skeletal muscle that contracts and responds just like native tissue to external stimuli such as electrical pulses,
#Hardware Battlefield 2015 The majority of home climate control systems in the world just won work with Nest,
#With Skyspecs#Guardians The Drones Have Become Self-Aware Skyspecs has solved the biggest problem with drones:
With the company first product launching today at Techcrunch Hardware Battlefield 2015 drones become aware of their surroundings
If a person walks towards the spinning blades of death the drone will casually back out of the way.
If there is a tree in the way the drone will avoid it. Best of all this system works with existing drone platforms.
Skyspecsteam has been building drones for six years and and individuals in the company come from teams that won the 2012 international aerial competition
and the prestigious DARPA sponsored AGICCOMPETITION. These guys know drones. Guardian is the company initial product
and they tell me it the first product to offer this sort of capability. It works as advertised
While demoing in Hardware Battlefield at CES 2015 the drone swiftly moved out of the way of a person walking towards the blades.
Guardian drones will be able to avoid say spinning blades on windmills or utility lines. Cofounder Thomas Brady tells me that the founders of the company were previously part of both volunteer and doctoral research in ground sea and air robotics.
me that they are jumping the gun somewhat on it. uppert is not alone in his concerns either.
But today vote remains a victory for the advocates that have been fighting for two years to limit the scope of the NSA surveillance.
but the fight isn over
#The 3d-Printed Peek Camera Helps Diagnose Eye disease In Developing Areas The Peek, or Portable Eye Examination Kit app, is based a smartphone system for diagnosing eye problems.
which then activates the instinctual fight-or-flight response in your brain to indirectly affect emotional response.
AOPTIX originally developed its laser technology for the Pentagon, designing systems that actively steer laser beams to keep data moving between ground stations, drones, and fighter jets.
#Police in California and Texas Test Networked Guns When a police officer draws a firearm he
or she often doesn have an opportunity to radio for backup. Yardarm, a California-based company, is building technology that will automatically alert headquarters in such situations.
The company makes a chip that goes into the handle of a regular firearm and transmits data over a cellphone network connection.
The data transmitted includes the location of a gun and whether it has been discharged unholstered or.
which a gun is pointing. The data can be fed to a police dispatch system or viewed on a smartphone.
Yardarm started out making a consumer product for monitoring a firearm location. But since many American gun owners object to technology or policies aimed at regulating firearms,
it did not find many customers. ou have a social demand for smart gun technology,
but not necessarily a market demand, says Jim Schaff, Yardarm vice president of marketing. s a consumer product,
Gun owners didn flock to Yardarm, but law enforcement remained interested. Technology that tracks officersaction is slowly gaining acceptance as police chiefs
The gun industry is gradually taking notice of these trends. The gunmaker Beretta already offers the
a sensor that goes on the front of the gun and captures data on the weapon use.
which makes a gun that delivers a nonlethal electric shock, also sells head-worn cameras to help police
which a gun was fired, but Schaff says this aspect of the technology needs to be improved.
This book about the Roman empire during the first years of Augustus Caesar s reign at the end of the Roman Republic describes the events following the bloody Battle of Actium in 31 BC
And though others have worked on carbon composites that can respond to a specific stimulus such as heat Cros says in the new approach the carbon composites can be paired with a variety of shape-shifting materials that respond to different environmental triggers.
This makes it possible to choose a specific trigger that won t be accidentally set off in the wrong conditions such as a hot day he says.
Some engineers for instance have used the idea of grid cells as inspiration for new algorithms to control robots or autonomous submarines.
hydrogen will always require bigger tanks. So finding ways to store more of it is a huge challenge.
Early versions of the instrument called the Minion have been reaching scientific labs over the past few months after long delays (see 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2012:
The Minion is the result of some very high-stakes R&d by Oxford a 200-person company that s long has had its eye on the expanding market for high-speed DNA sequencers.
It took another 25 years before the Minion was developed. That's because the technical problems were so daunting.
And how could you pull the string of DNA letters through the pore suspended in a layer one-100000th as thick as a hair much less at a rate of 30 letters a second as the Minion does?
When it first announced the Minion in 2012 expectations soared off the charts (see Why a Portable DNA Device Could Yield Better Data.
While both he and Deamer have extensive financial ties to Oxford they say it s obvious to everyone that the Minion is just the start.
fight diseases like FAP by using RNAI to eliminate bad proteins (see The Prize of RNAI and Prescription RNA.
Never mind that no one knew how to make a drug that could trigger RNAI. In fact that challenge would bedevil the researchers for the better part of a decade.
and new airborne drones are providing farmers with high-resolution sensing ability (see gricultural Drones, although drone services can yet be offered commercially in the United states. Mike Schmitt, a professor in the Department of Soil, Water,
and Climate at the University of Minnesota, who has no ties to the startup, says the robot is great additional tool to put in the nutrient management technology toolkit.
Because of its scratch-proof properties, it has long been used for making LEDS, sensors on missiles,
Also, the technology could be used to create weapons that destroy agricultural crops or create super pests.
Google aims to change that by creating search results that take you somewhere specific within an app or trigger a function like playing music by a specific artist.
because there is enough ammunition in there for future lawsuits. In a dissent, Justice Antonin Scalia said the opinion was uilt on the shakiest of foundations,
and technology that could see wireless broadband delivered by drones or satellite (see acebook Drones Will Battle Google Balloons to Spread Internet Accessand ow Google Could Disrupt Global Internet access by Satellite.
Parikh said that slashing app data use fits into an equally important arm of the project focused on people that can access Internet infrastructure
and experts to explore using drones for that purpose e
#Microsoft s 3-D Audio Gives Virtual Objects a Voice Just as a new generation of virtual reality goggles for video games are about to hit the market,
Others, like China, also bleed companies of intellectual secrets about jet fighters and wind turbines. So pervasive and successful has digital espionage become that in 2012, Keith Alexander,
randomised trial of a so-called oncolytic virus to show success. Cancer scientists predict it will be the first of many in the coming years-adding a new weapon to our arsenal of cancer treatments.
randomised trial of a so-called oncolytic virus to show success. Cancer scientists predict it will be the first of many in the coming years-adding a new weapon to our arsenal of cancer treatments.
PTI That means Virscan not only identifies viral infections that the immune system is actively fighting, but also provides a history of an individual's past infections.
and fighting phantom pain will be unveiled by researchers in Vienna on Monday. The innovation is the result of a twofold process,
and fighting phantom pain will be unveiled by researchers in Vienna on Monday. The innovation is the result of a twofold process,
#Microsoft's drones to catch mosquitoes and help stop epidemics WASHINGTON: Microsoft researchers are developing autonomous drones that collect mosquitoes to look for early signs that potentially harmful viruses are spreading,
with the goal of preventing disease outbreaks in humans. Project Premonition, launched by American tech company Microsoft,
calls'nature's drones'-mosquitoes-to look for early signs that a particular illness could be on the move.
The team will use drones that can fly the mosquito traps into and out of remote areas in a semi-autonomous way
Microsoft researchers are beginning to develop ways to make the drones even more autonomous, and they are also working with US Federal aviation administration officials on regulatory requirements, according to a post on the company's blog.
Microsoft researchers are developing autonomous drones that collect mosquitoes to look for early signs that potentially harmful viruses are spreading,
calls'nature's drones'-mosquitoes-to look for early signs that a particular illness could be on the move.
The team will use drones that can fly the mosquito traps into and out of remote areas in a semi-autonomous way
Microsoft researchers are beginning to develop ways to make the drones even more autonomous, and they are also working with US Federal aviation administration officials on regulatory requirements, according to a post on the company's blog.
which has led the fight against Ebola in West Africa, is now calling for VSV-ZEBOV to be rolled out to the other centres of the outbreak, Liberia and Sierra leone,
whose 8-year old boy was need in of a low-cost solution Titan Roboticsatlas 3d printer was named after the famous Greek god who was known for fighting alongside the Titans
says Jones. Although gathering the funding is an uphill battle for any startup or nonprofit,
we covered an interesting take on the DIY drone market, a 3d printed drone for scouting hiking trails from above.
After successfully completing their 3d printed prototype thharebot Voyager DLP 3d printer Officially For sale As they head to the reatest Show
with approximately 50 employees, Sensintel will become part of Raytheon Company Missile Systems business. The transaction is expected not to materially impact Raytheon sales or earnings in the first quarter or full year 2015.
Terms of the agreement were disclosed not. ensintel expertise in unmanned aircraft systems solutions makes it a natural fit with Raytheon Advanced Missile Systems product line,
Raytheon Missile Systems president. he acquisition of Sensintel enhances the growth prospects of our UAS business
the Air force Space and Missile Systems Center and the National Reconnaissance Office to work together on Cubesat integration and launch opportunities.
so that it can then be printed 3d in the shape of a gun, staff, wand, bow,
As the trigger is pulled, the Lyter releases a beam to the Lytepuck, which carries the commands to activate the responses as required.
The Catalan researchers are the first group in the world to use liposomes that imitate naturally dying cells to fight against Diabetes.
Gold-Plated Cancer Fighters? Then Alex Pronschinske, Ph d.,first author on the paper and a postdoctoral researcher in Sykeslab, suggested that they measure the electrons emitted by the sample without prodding from X-rays in the photoelectron spectrometer.
Yurii Gun'ko, professor at Trinity college and co-director of International Research and Education Centre for Physics of Nanostructures at ITMO University comments on potential applications of the method developed by the group:
Blocking the proteasome prevents this regulated recycling of amino acids and triggers controlled cell death, particularly in fast-dividing cells typical of cancer.
#Applied Nanotech Tests Ballistic, Blast-Resistant Armor Panels with Printed Electronic Antennas Applied Nanotech, Inc. ANI), a PEN Inc. company (PEN), announces successful completion
and test of fiberglass ballistic and blast-resistant armor panels that incorporate printed electronic antennas capable of sending
The armor provides multi-channel communications and advanced active protection for vehicles, ships and buildings.
The multi-function armor eliminates the need for multiple high-profile communications antenna structures on military vehicles
The armor-incased antennas also have jamming capability to block radio signals such as those used to remotely trigger explosives,
including improvised explosive devices (IEDS). Two wideband low-profile antennas have been developed, each capable of carrying signals at multiple frequencies.
Together they provide electronic warfare, jamming and communication capabilities. ANI partners in the program are Armortex, maker of bullet-,blast-and forced entry-resistant products, The University of Tennessee at Knoxville and Villanova University.
The research, supported by a federal Small Business Technology Transfers program (STTR) sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR),
and bullet-resistant fiberglass panel products manufactured by Armortex.""Applied Nanotech and the university partners have made impressive technology strides to create new applications for our existing product line,
but also may help defeat improvised explosive devices and other threats,"says Dr. Aly Fathy, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer engineering at UT Knoxville."
Additionally the DT7837 is equipped fully to do many vibration tasks by including a 24-bit stimulus output tachometer general-purpose Digital I/O external trigger functions and counter/timers.
Youngbull envisions use of the device in homeland security, mass transit, public spaces, hospitals, schools, food production and combat theater analytics.
while a sharper image would show that the object is a shovel rather than a rifle hugely important
where mock weapons and explosives were smuggled through airports, undetected in 95%of cases. It may also prove useful in discovering concealed goods in the retail industry or for non-destructive monitoring, for example quality control in drugs or food.
"Basically, ethoxzolamide stops TB from deploying its weapons...shutting down its ability to grow inside certain white blood cells in the immune system,
In June 2014, one of Tan hometown newspapers, the Independent, dubbed him ingapore intrepid haze fighter But PM Haze,
and research groups that fight air pollution elsewhere in Asia. For the moment, Tan said, PM Haze is simply trying to learn about the problem, in all its complexity,
"And the technique might also shed light onto why new treatments-immunotherapies-that are being deployed in the fight against cancers work in some individuals and not in others.
a mobile phone has become a key weapon. In the hands of campaigners and victims of abuse, it can provide valuable video evidence of crimes.
what they seem-witness the video of a heroic Syrian boy apparently saving his sister in the middle of a fire fight.
It is designed specifically for war zones and places where human rights abuses are common, but I wondered
"Composite materials are used increasingly in modern airlines, military aircraft and wind turbines. They are very stiff and strong but very light."
Meanwhile, Raytheon has 3d parts on its missiles, while makers of drones are increasingly using them.
And United Launch Alliance-a joint venture between Lockheed martin and Boeing-has the parts on the rockets it sends into space.
"Professor Tarlinton said the discovery would mean researchers could now search for the trigger of Myb production
The Interferon then triggers a large array of defence mechanisms in nearby cells, creating an antiviral state that prevents the dissemination and, ultimately,
while also allowing pdcs to trigger effective antiviral responses. We believe that such interventions during primary infection have the potential to limit the establishment and complexity of viral reservoirs,
CD68 may represent a potential new drug target in the fight against malaria a
#Study finds non-genetic cancer mechanism Cancer can be caused solely by protein imbalances within cells,
1 prevails, it triggers the Akt pathway. In this way, an imbalance in the amount of the two proteins can lead to cell proliferation and cancer formation.
Chemical weapons From airport security detecting explosives to art historians authenticating paintings, society thirst for powerful sensors is growing.
chemical warfare agents, fraudulent paintings, environmental contaminants and more. he technology wee developing a universal substrate for SERS is a unique and, potentially, revolutionary feature.
And it could aid in the detection of chemical weapons. The National Science Foundation supported the research in a grant to develop a real-time in vivo biosensing system.
#South korea Reports its First 2 Deaths From MERS Virus South korea on Tuesday confirmed the country's first two deaths from Middle east Respiratory Syndrome as it fights to contain the spread of a virus that has killed hundreds
The receptor triggers the cells to send signaling molecules called interferons to initiate a powerful defensive response.
and they decided to collect samples from groundwater at a remediation site in Rifle, Colorado..
Colleagues at the Department of energy Joint Genome Institute shotgun-sequenced the DNA of all the microbes in the filtered sample,
or proteins that could be targeted by drugs, eventually leading to new medicines to fight cancer.
or the induction of mechanical stress all of which can change the properties of a particular hydrogel designed to be responsive to those triggers. hese experimental and theoretical results provide a new conceptual framework for liquid motion confined by soft,
#Re-engineered antibiotic could fight drug-resistant bacteria The US scientists have created a promising second-generation antibiotic to fight against the bacteria that commonly cause respiratory and other infections,
Such investments led to the creation of water sensors and drones which help farmers, like Keith Larrabee, make effective decisions.
'Israel unleashed one of the world's most sophisticated cyber weapons on the Iran talks The computers in three luxury hotels that hosted high-stakes negotiations on Iran's nuclear program were infected with an improved version
including MIT, Under Armour, and Hyatt
#Scientists made a major breakthrough in 3d-printed electronics that will keep you from ever drinking spoiled milk again Researchers have used 3d printing to develop a sensor that can be placed inside a carton of milk to detect
More than just helping combat disease Prakash also hopes his"frugal science"movement will make science education and research accessible across the globe.
So, for now, instead of a battle of attrition, it's simply becoming a more crowded marketplace.
Doubtless, some historical controversiesike the fights over the Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta oil sands to the US Gulf coast extensive petroleum infrastructureill remain,
developed by maritime risk management specialist Rightship and Carbon War Room. That a 450-percent increase in the past 2. 5 years,
Building such confidence in emerging technologies is the integral focus of Carbon War Room and University college London Shipping Innovation Fast-Tracker (SHIFT), in
chair of the board of Rocky mountain Institute and Carbon War Room. In addition, by incorporating these successful technologies into new builds and existing vessels
All businesses, like humans, fight death. And fight they will, with all the considerable power they have.
So it will be messy and chaotic and not consistent around the world. But in the end, the fossil fuel giants have no strategy that involves fossil fuels
It would be great to use autonomous robots for dangerous work--to defuse bombs and clean up nuclear disasters such as the Fukushima event.
The unique tracking technology will let a player use their eyes to control guns and tools, stare to pull up dashboard or information panels,
One leading secrecy expert previously told Dailymail. com that the drone is'very likely'be used to test technologies that will increase spying capabilities of the US.'
'The X-37b space drone, otherwise known as the Orbital Test vehicle, is blasted into orbit by a rocket.
and post traumatic stress disorder in soldiers returning from combat zones.''We know that high pressure inside the skull resulting from injuries
such as superhuman strength and a way of deflecting bullets, but it is a work in progress. Two years ago, the US Special Operations Command (Ussocom) called on scientists to develop a suit reminiscent of the version seen in the Iron man films that uses nanotechnology
and bullets using Kevlar and nanotechnology. The suit would also give people Superman-like powers,
and this is expected to build on work by an MIT professor who is currently developing'liquid armour'.
Once fully developed, the armour could transform from a liquid to a solid in a fraction of a second when under the influence of a magnetic field, or electric current.
#Flawed science triggers U-turn on cholesterol fears For decades they have been blacklisted as foods to avoid, the cause of deadly thickening of the arteries, heart disease and strokes.
climb walls and even transform into a TANK Researchers have unveiled the nearest thing yet to a real-life transformer-a human sized robot that can walk,
climb walls and even turn into a tank to move across tough terrain. The Carnegie mellon University Highly Intelligent Mobile Platform,
or CHIMP, is designed to primarily move like a tank using tracks to cover tough terrain.
CHIMP's normal mode of locomotion will be much like that of a tank, with the tracks of all four limbs on the ground,
Previously bosses had said only they hoped that missile systems would be available for testing in 2020.'
manager of the hypersonic materials development at the Air force Research Laboratory had told Military. com Carrying a small, conventional warhead,
a hypersonic weapon could be used as a stand-off missile, so the military could strike targets at a safe distance without putting pilots and aircraft at risk.'
The Advanced Hypersonic Weapon is part of a program to create a missile that will destroy targets anywhere On earth within hours-travelling at speeds in excess of 3,
including the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept and the Tactical Boost Glide, both of which have scheduled test flights for 2018 or 2019.
'The follow-on program to this is the High speed strike weapon effort. It's taking a lot of the lessons learned and the technology and moving to a weapons acquisition.'
'The technology is also the subject of an arms race between the US, Russia and China.'
'Certainly, the U s. is not the only country involved in developing hypersonic weapons,'Mica Endsley,
With a hypersonic weapon, you could do that same thing in about 30 minutes. You can go great distances at great speeds.'
The sleek, missile-shaped Waverider was released from A b-52 bomber 50,000 feet above the Pacific
accident or warfare have a choice of prosthetic replacements, or in some cases, transplants. But, while prosthetic technology is advancing,
which triggers a rapid chemical reaction that causes the agent to harden. Tests revealed the material was
and much like fighter jet pilots are ejected from their downed aeroplane, we have discovered certain molecules are pushed free from the dying cell,
#Russia is developing a'MICROWAVE GUN':'Weapon can shoot a drone out of the sky from six miles away, claims military official By Jonathan O'Callaghan for Mailonline Published:
13:55 GMT, 16 june 2015 Updated: 18:14 GMT, 16 june 2015 A Russian military official has claimed that they have developed a icrowave gunthe high-frequency weapon can supposedly disable an unmanned drone and even a missile from up to six miles (10km) away.
The weapon apparently deactivates the radios of UAVS and warheads, causing them to lose control. Designed for the surface-to-air BUK missile system, the gun was developed by Russia United Instrument Manufacturing Corporation (UIMC.
Informally named the icrowave gun it will be unveiled as part of the Russian Defense Ministry Army-2015 international event in Moscow in the coming days.
Aside from the six-mile (10km) range, the gun can also apparently operate in a efense perimeterof 360 degrees.
It would be used on missile systems on the ground, to target unmanned planes in the air. By directing high-frequency microwaves towards a target, it is theoretically possibly to destroy unprotected electronics.
The gun would use a'reflector antenna'to focus the microwaves created by a generator.
An unknown'transmission system'would fire the beams towards their target. No other technical specifications have been given
so it unclear exactly how the weapon would work. he new system is equipped with a high-power relativistic generator and reflector antenna, management and control system,
and a transmission system which is fixed on the chassis of BUK surface-to-air missile systems, a UIMC spokesperson told Sputnik News. hen mounted on a special platform,
the icrowave gunis capable of ensuring perimeter defense at 360 degrees. his type of weapon is directed known as a-energy weapon (DEW),
and several have been developed before. The weapons focus on emitting highly focused energy to a target in order to damage it.
Aside from microwaves this can also include radio waves, lasers and even sound waves. The microwave gun is evidence of plans by Russia to modernise its armed forces,
though, according to Business Insider. Hundreds of drones are planned by the Kremlin to enter service by 2025,
while they are also developing a new advanced tank called Armata T-14 that has ceramic armour. 1
#Airbus takes on Spacex: Firm set to build world's largest satellite constellation to beam the internet around the world By Sarah Griffiths for Mailonline Published:
by using satellites, balloons and even drones. a
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