These not only take on the tasks of a conventional tail's rudder and elevators, but also alter the center of pressure as the fuel
It wouldn't interfere with existing air corridors, would operate in all weather, and only the rocket motor requires special maintenance.
"The Veg-01 experiment sees plants grown in zero gravity in a plastic greenhouse that consists of a collapsible plastic tent with a controllable atmosphere that is lit by red, blue,
"You like to be able to just tell one robot to go to the first room and one to get the beverage without having to walk them through every move in the process,
which can be applied to sets of qubits to perform the equivalent of Boolean algebraic functions found in standard electronic logic processors also referred to as quantum gates.
"If you had these little building blocks, you could build the tissue right at the surgery time to be whatever size that you require,
like go off-road or climb stairs, they are still often too large and cumbersome for the average wheelchair user.
and the limited visibility that comes with being wrapped in a mobile fortress of ceramic and steel.
Lead researchers Menno Veldhorst and Andrew Dzurak The gate is controlled through an external voltage and microwave radiation The technique could scale up to hold thousands, even millions of qubits on a single chip
Though the machines we've been building since the 50s have been aiming to be as deterministic and reliable as possible
Together with a single controllable qubit, this is the basic building block of a quantum computer and paves the way to quantum chips that can perform just about any operation.
provides what is called a universal gate set. This means that any gate set can be constructed out of it."
"Although their quantum computers wouldn't work at room temperature, this approach lets the researchers operate their device at approximately 1 Kelvin(-272°C,
but in the fact that these basic building blocks of quantum computers were built by doing simple modifications to current-generation silicon transistors.
Though the machines we've been building since the 50s have been aiming to be as deterministic and reliable as possible
Together with a single controllable qubit, this is the basic building block of a quantum computer and paves the way to quantum chips that can perform just about any operation.
provides what is called a universal gate set. This means that any gate set can be constructed out of it."
"Although their quantum computers wouldn't work at room temperature, this approach lets the researchers operate their device at approximately 1 Kelvin(-272°C,
but in the fact that these basic building blocks of quantum computers were built by doing simple modifications to current-generation silicon transistors.
#Biodegradable implant could simplify bone replacement surgery Combining cornstarch with volcanic ash clay to create a plastic for bone grafts could make the surgical process of bone replacement much simpler in the future.
"The biodegradable polymer is reinforced with montmorillonite clay nanoparticles (we've seen nanoparticles used in other ways to heal bones) for strength,
#Connecticut Becomes 1st State To end Chronic Homelessness Among Vets Connecticut officials announced Thursday they had become the first state in the nation to provide housing for every one of its chronically homeless veterans.
Key to the state coordinated effort are the Connecticut Department of Housing and the Connecticut Coalition To end Homelessness (CCEH)
along with other nonprofits and volunteers who hit the streets to identify homeless vets. his means that all known chronically homeless veterans are housed
and any veteran who newly enters homelessness will be rapidly put on the path to permanent housing,
On the federal level, significant increases in funding for permanent housing vouchers and additional funding targeted to provide rapid rehousing to veterans,
The State department of Housing has invested also at least $3 million in rental subsidies and special services for Connecticut homeless veteransa key distinction hailed by the U s. Veterans Affairs Secretary,
His large, portable tower would clean the air while simultaneously leaving behind tiny black carbon particles that could be recycled into jewelry.
the Smog Free Tower was cranking out the bits of carbon that would be compressed into tiny cubes.
Roosegaarde wants to take the tower to some of the most polluted cities in the world,
or rooftop-type photovoltaic projects. There is, however, one other very important technology advantage: since the utility-size systems are ground-mounted,
Florio proposal calls for policies that allow rooftop solar energy storage, plug-in vehicles energy efficiency, demand response,
creatures like mussels and barnacles stay cemented on rocks in the splash zone as well as on the pillars of piers
Just like a switch in your house turns your lights on and off, light can be used to turn neurons on and off.
This caused the object to appear flat, rather than its original shape, as the light was reflected off the cloak like a mirror."
shorter working hours with lower unemployment rates), the built environment (including housing and neighbourhoods renewal, the transport system, etc), consistent culture,
including courts, prisons and even in workplaces o
#Apple car: Visit to BMW factory fuels further rumours of possible partnership During the visit executives from the technology company asked detailed questions about tooling and production,
and BMW board members signalled their readiness to license parts, according to a Reuters report that quoted sources at BMW.
But the dawn of wearable technology has led to the creation of devices capable of building up workerspersonalised biological profiles,
which houses control electronics and the video camera holder o
#Diablo Rolls Out All-Flash DDR4 Memory Today Diablo Technologies announced the launch of Memory1, the first all-flash server system memory technology.
which uses as a power the conventional room or outdoor plants. The device allows you to use the residual energy that is produced during photosynthesis
Development is the next step to the windows of the future, acting as solar panels. They will not only automatically obscure the sunlight,
the goal of this working prototype to significantly reduce energy consumption in buildings by cooling the individuals, rather than the entire building l
Android and Windows. Through the company application, the user can see the status of your spine at the moment,
and rent spare rooms on Airbnb. Are these the new, empowered participants in the haring economy,
which walls can automatically sense inhabitantsmovements. This could potentially aid in monitoring elderly people living alone.
GE is one of the few big companies that continue to operate large industrial labs that house thousands of scientists who work on basic research
The fabrics were three times as sensitive to nitrogen dioxide in air compared to another reduced graphene oxide sensor previously prepared on a flat material.
a demonstration plant would be needed to prove the concept at operational scale. don think there are any huge barriersto building such a demonstration,
After a fall out of a second-story window caused Pollock's catastrophic spinal cord injury in 2010,
which contain clothing, kitchen sets, personal hygiene items and more, available in Nepal. And the World health organization has distributed medical supplies that can meet the needs of 40,000 people for three months,
such as special tents, Tidey said. Another big challenge for the humanitarian relief effort will be getting access to remote areas in Nepal,
#Nepal Earthquake Destroys Historic Temples The massive earthquake that killed more than 5, 000 people in Nepal over the weekend also left dozens of historic buildings in ruins.
"Bigger Earthquake Coming on Nepal's Terrifying Faults Several buildings in the seven UNESCO monument zones in Kathmandu Valley the cultural heart of Nepal were destroyed when the 7. 8-magnitude
nine-story Dharahara Tower, built in 1832. The watchtower had reopened recently to the public, according to The New york times,
and it was filled with tourists climbing the spiral staircase at the time of the earthquake.
The Dharahara Tower had been rebuilt once before after it was damaged during the magnitude-8. 0 earthquake that struck on Jan 15, 1934,
"Instead of lying flat on their backs for weeks on end, these children are learning to sit and stand and run.""
#Major 7. 3-Magnitude Earthquake Aftershock Hits Nepal A 7. 3-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal this morning (May 12), toppling buildings and killing at least a dozen people.
Your own backyard You don't need any special equipment to see the Perseids. For the best viewing experience, face northeast under dark skies
While in Kerala, Clarke examined historical text collections in local churches and monasteries. The libraries had palm-leaf documents,
but Boeing's goal is to develop a compact laser that can also shoot down incoming explosives, such as mortars,
These water-dwelling critters, which look like tiny blimps with pudgy bodies and eight stubby legs, are capable of shedding almost all of the water in their cells
which finds that the fundamental building blocks of the universe can essentially exist in two or more places at once.
target and deter commercial drones could be used to keep the flying robots away from areas where they're not wanted, like government properties, airports or your own backyard.
Commercial drones have also been used in attempts to smuggle contraband goods, like cellphones and weapons, into prisons.
Building blocks of life After molecular biologists James Watson and Francis Crick first published a paper on the structure of DNA in 1953, the double helix became the iconic symbol of the code of life.
which are the building blocks of DNA that form the rungs of the helical ladder, "Harris said.
and its partner guanine bind together, forming a bridge across the helix. But the new simulation revealed that these base-pair bridges peel apart both
when the helix is unraveled, and when it is very tightly wound. The team speculates that base-pair separation in supercoiled DNA allows it to hinge sharply,
The system doesn require its own room or complicated infrastructure, instead being lightweight, self-contained, and fully mobile,
so it can be taken from room to room as necessity requires. Here a quick company video showing off the capabilities of the new Virtual Incision robot:
rather than piping all that scorching-hot water through a radiator to dissipate the heat
as well as bridge manufacturers could be next in line. Corrosion resistance isn't the only super-trait of these metals.
#New ultra-strong, lightweight aluminum-steel alloy invented that rivals titanium Old-fashioned steel has been one of the most reliable and ubiquitous building materials for centuries,
and it could make aluminum-steel alloy the building material of the future.""Because of its lightness, our steel may find many applications in automotive
The group hopes the improved transparent batteries could one day be used to make smarter windows for buildings
#Nano-policing pollution Pollutants emitted by factories and car exhausts affect humans who breathe in these harmful gases
#Nano-policing pollution Pollutants emitted by factories and car exhausts affect humans who breathe in these harmful gases
so we solved the conundrum. ext they dyed the sample with 14 different dyes in a narrow emission window and excited and photoswitched the molecules with one laser.
and thus readily identifiable. hat useful because it means we had a way to do multicolor imaging within a very narrow emission window,
Working with brick-like blocks of gold nanoantennas, the Berkeley researchers fashioned a kin cloakbarely 80 nanometers in thickness,
viscous liquid that slows the passage of DNA two to three orders of magnitude. As a result, sequencing accuracy improves down to single nucleotides.
Scientia Professor and Director of the Australian National Fabrication Facility at UNSW. ee demonstrated a two-qubit logic gate the central building block of a quantum computer and,
which rely on more exotic technologies. his makes the building of a quantum computer much more feasible,
The result means that all of the physical building blocks for a silicon-based quantum computer have now been constructed successfully
Experiments revealed that lithium ion intercalation in maghemite reduces its magnetization at room temperature. By the specific control of the lithium ions,
graphene's flat sheet conducts electricity quickly, and the atomic structure in the nanotubes halts electric currents.
but then they come to a staircase and are forced to stop.""Yap and his research team have shown also that
The fabrication of multifunctional materials with tunable structure and properties requires programmed binding of their building blocks.
These filaments can be regenerated magnetically on mechanical damage, owing to the fluidity of the capillary bridges between nanoparticles and their reversible binding on contact.
and creates capillary bridges between them so that the particles stick together on contact, "said Orlin Velev, INVISTA Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular engineering at NC State and the corresponding author of the paper."
and makes the bridges fragile, leading to breaking and fragmentation of the nanoparticle chains. Yet the broken nanoparticles chains will reform
"the team has been able to dramatically reduce the effects of the oxidation through the use of ionic species confined to the walls of microvascular channels within the flexible substrates."
Leever foresees use of flexible systems to monitor the conditions of bridges and other types of infrastructure in real time.
"Next they dyed the sample with 14 different dyes in a narrow emission window and excited and photoswitched the molecules with one laser.
"That's useful because it means we had a way to do multicolor imaging within a very narrow emission window,
and Naveen Rawat G'15--opens a window to view how increasing"long-range order"in the organic semiconductor films is a key mechanism that allows excitons to migrate farther."
This research demonstrates for the first time that it is possible to transmit electric signals in an insulating material.
tested on a Stanford rooftop, addresses a problem that has bedeviled long the solar industry: The hotter solar cells get,
viscous liquid that slows the passage of DNA two to three orders of magnitude. As a result, sequencing accuracy improves down to single nucleotides.
Gundlach believes this tool may open a new window for understanding how cellular proteins process DNA,
including medicine, building, textile and military after being mass-produced. Among textile products, woolen fabrics are used in various industries due to their unique properties such as insulation and flexibility.
The synthesis of these fabrics will open new windows to the production of composites with conventional and innovative applications.
and Zhitomirsky, a materials science and engineering professor, demonstrates an improved three-dimensional energy storage device constructed by trapping functional nanoparticles within the walls of a nanocellulose foam.
and their room lights happened to emit at just the right wavelength. The electric field from the polarized strontium titanate was leaking into the topological insulator layer,
Using Zno and Al2o3 as the building materials, refractive indices from 1. 3 down to 1. 025 were achieved.
"The tunnel effect enables us to move electrons through the ultra-thin layer with very little energy,
The system that the Chalmers researchers succeeded in building is suited particularly well for measuring the vacuum fluctuations
Physicists are now able to realize the basic building blocks, the quantum bits (qubits) in a laboratory, control them
The building block of this type of order, namely charge, is simply a scalar quantity--that is,
if the building block of the ordered phase was a pair of oppositely pointing spins--one pointing north
When you shine a red laser pointer at a wall, for example, your eye detects red light. However, for all materials, there is a tiny amount of light bouncing off at integer multiples of the incoming frequency.
So with the red laser pointer, there will also be some blue light bouncing off of the wall.
and temperature window where the pseudogap is present. The researchers are still investigating whether the two overlap exactly,
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,
The semiconductor material also allowed the team to create a skin that was incredibly thin, perfectly flat,
More day-to-day applications could include sensors that would change color to indicate that structural fatigue was stressing critical components on bridges, buildings,
used a single automated process to synthesize 14 distinct classes of small molecules from a common set of building blocks.
pick the building blocks they want, instruct their assembly through the web, and the small molecules would get synthesized and shipped,
Burke says. here are a small number of building blocks that are coupled together over and over again, using the same kind of chemistry in an iterative fashion.
patterns emerged. here are building blocks that appear over and over again, and we've been able to dissect out the building blocks that are most common,
he says. The small-molecule synthesizer that Burke's team built takes these building blocks each with two chemical connectors that can be linked readily to the corresponding part on another building block
--and snaps them together like pop beads using a standard chemical reaction. The team used the approach to synthesize 14 different small molecules,
Burke's team has developed hundreds of these chemical building blocks and made them commercially available. ut it's not really about the numbers,
he says. e are showing that with a very reasonable number of building blocks we can make many different types of natural products.
#Researchers probe nanoscale properties and mechanisms of lubricant films The pistons in your car engine rub up against their cylinder walls thousands of times a minute;
which come in preassembled building blocks. The prepackaged transceivers are large and expensive, limiting their large-scale use,
and are attached directly to the processor package without preassembling them into standard transceiver housings. This improves the performance
such as the small nooks and crevices in a collapsed building.""During test flights, signals were transmitted to the beetle backpack every millisecond,
but in a closed room equipped with eight 3-D motion-capture cameras.""In our earlier work using beetles in remote-controlled flight,
It works by projecting beams of light through an oxygen-permeable window into a liquid resin.
and Innovation Stand in Hall 2, Stand B 46, are looking for development partners. Filomena Simone, an engineer in the research team led by Professor Stefan Seelecke,
The researchers from the INM will be presenting their results from 13 to 17 april 2015 in Hall 2 at the stand B46 of the Hannover Messe in the context of the leading trade fair for R & D and Technology Transfer.
or passage of a fluid through a semipermeable membrane into a solution in which the solvent is concentrated more."
and water dwelling purple bacteria Rhodopseudomonas palustris with magnetite and controlled the amount of light the cultures were exposed to.
indicating a larger lift force in the special resonance. This new phenomenon and the principle, Zhao noted, may open doors for many novel soft devices,
such as soft and lightweight robots for circumstances with restricted space and weight requirements or flapping wings of soft robotic birds that can generate a large lift force.
which are responsible for carrying heat in insulating materials. Phonons typically move in straight lines in nanowires threads barely a few atoms wide.
unfortunately, this tube was not particularly good at holding water in its central tunnel. Undeterred, Zeng team set out to modify that molecule.
This study was published in the online version of the UK scientific journal Nature Communications("Misfit accommodation mechanism at the heterointerface between diamond and cubic boron nitride
The paper("Probing the Molecular Architecture of Arabidopsis thaliana Secondary cell Walls Using Two-and Three-dimensional 13c Solid State Nuclear Magnetic resonance Spectroscopy")describing this work was Editors Choice for the American
and ultra-efficient building lighting which could substantially lower electricity consumption. Yajun Gao and Professor Paul H. M. van Loosdrecht from the University of Cologne have made now substantial progress in this field in collaboration with researchers from Jilin University (China) and the University of Nottingham (UK).
but not most windows or smartphone surfaces.""Our goal is to reach a transparency in the 90-percent range,
It can fly along a tunnel with uneven, moving walls without measuring either speed or altitude.
all by itself, avoid vertical obstacles in a tunnel with moving walls. To achieve this, the researchers mimicked the ability of insects to use the passing landscape as they fly.
The first feedback loop makes it change its altitude so as to follow the floor or the roof..
in order to adapt it to the size of the tunnel through which it flies. The third loop stabilizes the eye in relation to the local slope,
The research team will be presenting the Skinproject from March 16th to March 20th at the Cebit computer expo in Hanover (Stand E13, Hall 9). If a mobile phone rings during a meeting,
Hall 9). Someone wearing a smartwatch can look at a calendar or receive e-mails without having to reach further than their wrist.
which takes place from the 16th until the 20th of March in Hannover (hall 9, booth E13) 0
which is like a circular wall of mirrors to the electron. Image: Jon Wyrick, CNST/NIST) In some structures,
such as the dome in St pauls Cathedral in London, a person standing near a curved wall can hear the faintest sound made along any other part of that wall.
occurs because sound waves will travel along a curved surface much farther than they will along a flat one.
which is like a circular wall of mirrors to the electron. An electron that hits the step head-on can tunnel straight through it,
and travel along the sides of the curved walls of the barrier until they began to interfere with one another,
"Workers on manufacturing floors could direct robots to one side of the warehouse to collect items,
so insulating that electrons are rebuffed like an overeager dog hitting the patio door. But together, these two materials make a workable digital switch
but then they come to a staircase and are forced to stop. Yap and his research team have shown also that
#Giving robots a more nimble grasp (w/video) Most robots on a factory floor are fairly ham-handed:
and push the pencil against a nearby wall, just enough to slide the robot gripper closer to the pencil midpoint. robotic gripper A simple robotic gripper can adjust its grip using the environment.
a process that stops the greenhouse gas before it escapes from chimneys and power plants into the atmosphere and instead turns it into a useful product.
#Reflexes for robots (w/video)( Nanowerk News) Deep in the basement of MITS Building 3, a two-legged robot named HERMES is wreaking controlled havoc:
As Ramos mimes punching through a wall, the robot does the same. When the robots fist hits the wall, Ramos feels a jolt at his waist.
By reflex, he leans back against the jolt, causing the robot to rock back, effectively balancing the robot against the force of its punch.
while the robot may successfully punch through a wall, it would also fall headlong into that wall.
The interface allows a human to remotely feel the robots shifting weight, and quickly adjust the robots balance by shifting his own weight.
the robot can carry out momentum-driven tasks like punching through walls, or swinging a bat
In one test, the robot unexpectedly got its arm stuck in the wall. But, because the human was in the loop,
because it represents a new way of combining elemental materials to form the building blocks of energy storage technology--such as batteries, capacitors and supercapacitors,
in a topological insulator, making it possible to turn a device off and on as a potential building block for spintronics,
This new approach using intermolecular interactions at room termperature does not require ultracold temperatures. The new technology also offers extremely fast and low-friction operation.
Logic gates are an elementary building block of digital circuits-used in computers and other electronic equipment. They are made traditionally using diodes or transistors
and theye being eyed for use as building blocks in hybrid structures with unique properties for electronics,
The wall thickness of the microtubes was kept below 10 micrometers, which helped proplatelets migrate through the walls and release platelets.
By pumping culture media, a solution filled with necessary nutrients, through the microtubes, the researchers mimicked the flow of blood.
and then build it back up, brick by brick, to give you a basic structure you need for the product you are looking forn this case a human platelet made to order,
Working with brick-like blocks of gold nanoantennas, the Berkeley researchers fashioned a"skin cloak"barely 80 nanometers in thickness,
one and the same network can be configured into 16 different logical gates. The evolutionary approach works around-or can even take advantage of-possible material defects that can be fatal in conventional electronics.
#Physicists determine the three-dimensional positions of individual atoms for the first time Atoms are the building blocks of all matter On earth,
Gundlach believes this tool may open a new window for understanding how cellular proteins process DNA,
The research team at the University of Konstanz developed these technologies in-house and also an exact description of the results based on quantum field theory.
A media room for credentialed press and analysts will be located on-site in The Fairmont Hotel, 18-22 october 2015.
"We've demonstrated a two-qubit logic gate-the central building block of a quantum computer-and, significantly, done it in silicon.
"This makes the building of a quantum computer much more feasible, since it is based on the same manufacturing technology as today's computer industry,
The result means that all of the physical building blocks for a silicon-based quantum computer have now been constructed successfully
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