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I covered in this column and here at BBC Future we have been following it for the past two years. he idea is to make space super-cheap

A few moments later a flag is waved, red with gold stars on it. This is China's first spacewalk#on 27 september 2008,

Senior Curator in the Division of Space History at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum,"help to answer some important questions about the origins of the Moon and geologic processes there.#

before placing a flag on its surface. But the flag didn't have the familiar stars-and-stripes pattern.

It was red with gold stars on it. If you would like to comment on this article

Cinemas. Women drivers. Bikinis. Democracy. But there are a few things that aren in short supply in this country of 28 million:

But can a large endowment alone kick-start a culture of innovation? Few have tried seriously. Norway, the world eighth-largest oil exporter, established a sovereign wealth fund (Government Pension fund Global) in 1990 to diversify oil investments

a new government-funded business incubator that is one of many promoting entrepreneurship as a means to new economic growth. f we focus on creating a culture based on entrepreneurs,

you can expect results overnight. s a culture, wee a start-up, he says. e are starting somewhere with no history of entrepreneurship, no start-ups.

changing the culture, the economy, the mindset. While Stanford and Harvard universities took decades to become recognised institutions

is not part of Saudi culture. he only industry we have is the government, explains Tuba Ozlem Terekli, cofounder of Qotuf Al Riyadah Development Company,

and build a culture of entrepreneurship in the Kingdom. he society wants innovation from Gen Y to corporate employees,

Now many like him, western-educated and exposed to entrepreneurial cultures like Silicon valley, are returning and ringing tons of innovation creating culturally relevant startups solving local problems It may not be the local problems the government

A culture of risk-taking investors and VCS has yet to emerge among Saudi wealthy.

says it will be hard to end the culture of dependency subsidies, benefits and handouts from the government that have marked Saudi economy. t not simply a matter of buying innovation says Wehry. here still no incentive for private entrepreneurshipand the ambition exceeds the capacity and the reality. t all dreams.

our cultures become more sedentary and rates of obesity and heart disease increase. Cars not only make our cities unhealthy,

#which serve the needs of Asian cultures#accounting for street markets and vendors, auto rickshaws and motorcycles#rather than one-size-fits-all Western street design.

adding, in other words, a million miles away from start-up culture. Amid all these legacy industries, New york start-ups are underdogs

not just as religion or passion, says Jen Berrent, a partner at New york law firm Wilmerhale who's worked with start-ups since late 1990s.

But with a tradition of making things to order for foreign companies and a hierarchical corporate culture, a new generation of start-up innovators is facing an uphill battle."

Some say a much bigger problem is that Taiwan lacks a culture of catering to consumers,

The culture of most companies, and many would say society as a whole, seem to work against innovation.

"The management culture has been the same since the 1980s,#says Chiang.""It has depended largely on the mentality of the person at the top.

Boot camp for start-up success Rothschild Boulevard has always been one of the grandest streets in Tel aviv, with its broad tree-lined central promenade and elegant Bauhaus architecture.

Yet while a culture of saving among the poor is lacking because of low wages, fluid employment,

There was soft acoustic music and falafel, and a lot of beautiful people exuding a studied coolness.""You're going to see a lot of amazing stuff coming out of Berlin,

"This sort of culture that you see here, the hippy music, we had exactly the same thing in San francisco a few years ago.

The vibrant alternative culture remains in place, and some see it as providing fertile ground for the creation of disruptive technologies

because he felt it offered a richer mix of people involved in music, and because of the ample and cheap office space.

and his co-workers, have drawn on the large literature about mapping social networks. This body of work which has grown rapidly over the past decade,

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Modern architecture is designed also to just house people not other life forms, and therefore does not inherently promote biodiversity.

We therefore need to think about architecture very differently. We must search for new models for constructing buildings,

I founded the Avatar (Advanced Virtual and Technological Architectural Research) group in 2004 to explore how the rapidly changing technologies would affect architecture.

and might encourage diversity in the kinds of architectures we produce. We explore realms as varied as synthetic biology, surreal digital theory, film and animation, interaction design,

and says architecture and the role of architects must be rethought. Interactions between these dynamic elements provide a"new"way to think about design,

Everyday architecture is being imagined re around the world. For instance, there the Paik Nam June Media Bridge

a mall, meeting spaces and a museum. Solar panels on the structure top will generate power.

Persephone aims to build a synthetic biological interior for the spaceship, working with teams from the fields of science, technology, architecture

we limit architecture and its ability to respond to the trials and tribulations of a challenging future.

Our 21st Century architecture is developing the theory, toolsets and infrastructure that will enable the next generation of architects to deal with the unknown.

function, and motion in intact tissues, 3d cell cultures, and engineered tissue constructs, as well as imaging 3d dynamics in microfluidics,

New populations, new tools, new culture, new outlooks, new roles for recruiters. Those who acquire

and it has fallen long to the recruiter to be able to convey the culture (and appeal) of an employee brand to candidates.

but the integrated and multiplatform culture of work means that nothing dwells outside the purview of perception

Apple's lawyers are trying to portray a culture of fast following at Samsung and to highlight Apple innovations.

"By training Marist students"on the latest in networking and architectures, we will help provide a strong career path,

New Energy review of prevailing published literature and scientific reports confirmed that Solarwindowt modules outperform publicized devices of comparable architecture, size,

and exceed our device design, architecture, uniformity, color, and transparency development goals,#continued Mr. Conklin.#

All-electric Zerobus Fleet Launches Mayor Greg Fischer joined TARC and other local officials today at the Louisville Slugger Museum to kick off the start of Zerobus service in downtown Louisville.

and stop along the way for some of the best Louisville has to offer in restaurants museums

but they could easily pass as a piece of outdoor sculpture. he biomorphically inspired Arbre à Vent,

From music, from friends. Maybe soon I can engage in some kind of voluntary work, maybe when time goes

Traditional architecture in these areas has come up with a number of ways of coping with the heat,

The Hi-Wi acronym comes in fact from the project target of developing an electric architecture with both a higher efficiency and a wider application range

The motor architectures and the innovative materials studied in Hi-Wi project have the potential to reach way beyond the electronic vehicle market.

and cell culture techniques to analyse and understand these cells. Initial tests on very small clinical groups have indicated already that the new device is able to capture the cells with a greater degree of efficiency

chambers of commerce and others to develop an innovation culture in business, "says Medlbtikar's Project Coordinator, Dr. Raimund Bröchler at INTRASOFT International."

and projects and developed an innovation culture for many businesses in the MEDA region. It also helped set up innovation organisations that have supported

As the pulse travels from one temple to the other, it interferes (in a good way) with the areas causing the seizure,

We know from scientific literature that these online videogames are highly addictive to certain vulnerable users.

to listen to music for the first time in 20 years. This is achieved by sending electrical impulses to stimulate the cochlea, the part of the inner ear responsible for hearing.

According to literature on the D-Shape website, the material produced by the printer is"similar to marble"in its constitution.

Kushner believes it could lead to all manner of possibilities in architecture and construction. Not only could it be faster and safer than existing construction methods,

and architecture and puts it into everyone's hands, just like the camera phone made everyone a photographer.

it being sold with three-month subscriptions to music and Bollywood movie-streaming services, according to the WSJ

#Why This Collaborative Platform for Musicians Is Drumming Up Big Bucks Steve Martocci goal for Splice is nothing less than to change the course of music creation. e think we can lead an entire new movement in music,

a tech and startup veteran who previously co-founded the messaging platform Groupme. hey just get to focus on making their music.

They were united in their belief that the digital creation process for music was stuck in the 0s. att was an audio engineer for half his life.

I a huge music fan, Martocci says. f you sit at this apex of music and code,

Collectively will be updated daily by an editorial team with stories and information from the worlds of fashion food design architecture technology and more.

The scalability of Intel architecture enables the intelligence and flexibility necessary for cities across the country to quickly deploy a range of smart city solutions for everything from air

#Scientists grow norovirus stomach bug in a dish University of Florida rightoriginal Studyposted by Morgan Sherburne-Florida on November 13 2014researchers have grown for the first time a human norovirus in a cell culture dish taking a step toward developing medications to treat the stomach

##since it was discovered in 1972â##has been that we can t culture the human viruses in a cell culture dish##says Stephanie Karst associate professor in the molecular genetics and microbiology department at University of Florida College of Medicine.##

That s in part because researchers have not been able to culture human noroviruses so they can test potential treatmentsâ##until now.

and the way they usually do things says lead author Curtis Weiss assistant professor of medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of medicine and a physician at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

The authors analyzed the social networks of critical care physicians in the medical intensive care unit (ICU) at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

The assay has been reported in medical literature as an effective marker but is not yet a part of the guidelines for care.

The current way to diagnose infection is a culture but those results take 48 to 72 hours.

To date the researchers have tested the function of their activation-ready sensor in cell culture of human kidney and cancer cells."

They found that in culture these strains exchanged the two metabolites and grew as if they were wild-type staph.

When individual CF staph small colony variants were mixed together in culture they grew like wild-type bacteria.

Likewise co-culture of CF staph small colony variants with normal microbiome bacterial species also enhanced the growth of staph in culture.

when researchers from the University of Iowa conducted a literature review they found that PTEN mutations show up in 40 percent of breast cancer cases up to 70 percent of prostate cancer cases and nearly half of all leukemia cases.

##We went to the literature and found an approved drug that does in parasitic worms what we wanted to do in liver cells.##

and characterizes the bacteria that cause TB without taking several weeks for bacterial cultures. Laboratory diagnosis of TB using conventional approaches is a long drawn-out process

Plus relying on laboratory culture means using techniques that date back to the 1880s. Metagenomics using the latest high-throughput sequencing technologies

Due to socioeconomic and gender inequities women in some countries and cultures are not always in a position to negotiate regular condom use so a drug-dispersing suppository can protect against transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections during heterosexual intercourse

The labels work because an array of tiny pillars on the top of a surface effectively hides images written on the material beneath Shyu compares the texture of the pillars to a submicroscopic toothbrush.

when the pillars trap moisture. ou can verify that you have the real product with just a breath of air,

because the pillars were made from materials that preferred adhering to the mold rather than whatever surface they were supposed to cover.

This allowed the pillars to release easily. They are also strong enough to withstand rubbing,

but leaving its three-dimensional architecture intact for study. The refined technique optimizes the CLARITY concept

When the scientists disrupted passage through that pore in cell cultures the parasite stopped growing

The researchers disabled HSP101 in cell cultures, expecting to block the discharge of some malarial proteins.

but it has proven challenging to culture in the lab. Researchers used the device, called Slipchip,

They then grew a pure culture of this single organism in the lab. An early guess is that this particular microbe may be linked to obesity and fatty liver disease

the substances from this fluid were used to recreate this environment within the tiny Slipchip compartment key to successfully growing the difficult organism in the lab. After growing a pure culture of the previously unidentified bacterium,

says Sally Temple, director of the Neural stem cell Institute of Rensselaer, New york, who was involved not in this research. t really interesting to see how innervations are coming into play now in the subventricular zone.

Temple explains. t a really hot area because it a beautiful stem cell niche to study.

and automatically report any potential red flags. Any parent teacher, or clinician would simply need to download the app

we need a better culture system that can reliably produce more target cells that function well.

and cause inflammatory responses in a cell culture model of human epithelial cells, which compose the lining of the lung airway. ut comparing these consequences of infection did not provide hints as to why RSV and PIV3 produced such differences in disease severity.

The new tree of life is dated the first evolutionary tree of this magnitude says coauthor Akito Kawahara assistant curator of Lepidoptera at the Florida Museum of Natural history at University of Florida. ntil now we didn t

and affect our daily lives from pollinating our crops to vectoring diseasessays lead author Bernhard Misof with the Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig in Bonn Germany. e can only start to understand the enormous species richness

at the Cleveland Museum of Natural history. he findings not only advance our understanding of the origins of insects but add confidence to our organization of the groups.?

because there had been no reports in the literature that a collagen system could in fact create this offset. t has taken several years

To date the researchers have tested the function of their activation-ready sensor in cell culture of human kidney

arts of these first diamond nanothreads appear to be somewhat less than perfect so improving their structure is a continuing goal of Badding s research program.

and further slow the movement of water. y adding our results to the growing body of literature we show that

while keeping it on a consistent track. emperature helps keep the hands of the biological clock in the right placesays Steve A. Kay dean of the USC Dornsife College of Letters Arts

Then the researchers use another method to etch out the polymer from within the structure leaving a hollow architecture.

whether two species can evolve from a common ancestor without being isolated geographically from each othersays Ted Schultz curator of ants at the Smithsonian s National Museum of Natural history

which makes it impossible for them to sexually interact with their host species. Other researchers on the project are from the Smithsonian Institution s National Museum of Natural history Harvard university and the Center for the Study of Social Insects at Sao State university Rio

the Ministry of Education Culture Sports Science and Technology-Japan; and the Murata Science Foundation supported the research.

but also the architecture of the catalyst. ow that it s clear that architecture matters Palmore

when that architecture is tweaked. It s likely she says that pores of different depths or diameters will produce different compounds from a CO2 feedstock.

The labels work because an array of tiny pillars on the top of a surface effectively hides images written on the material beneath.

Shyu compares the texture of the pillars to a submicroscopic toothbrush. The hidden images appear

when the pillars trap moisture. ou can verify that you have the real product with just a breath of airkotov says.

because the pillars were made from materials that preferred adhering to the mold rather than whatever surface they were supposed to cover.

This allowed the pillars to release easily. They are also strong enough to withstand rubbing ensuring that the label would survive some wear such as would occur during shipping.

but leaving its three-dimensional architecture intact for study. The refined technique optimizes the CLARITY concept

and assistant curator of Lepidoptera at the Florida Museum of Natural history at University of Florida. ith a tree we can now understand how the majority of butterfly

and director of the University of Hawaii Insect Museum. his study adds to a growing body of knowledge by bringing new techniques to the table

and a postdoctoral researcher with the Florida Museum. he few Lepidoptera fossils we have are from about 15 million years ago.

But improved performance is just a start for the new quantum dot-based solar cell architecture. The powerful little dots could be mixed into inks

However Pint points out that there have not been any reports in the technical literature of tests performed on structural energy storage materials that show how they function under realistic mechanical loads.

This suggests an ancient conservation in genetic and neural architectures involved in social information processing that transcends the sensory modalities used from mouse to man.

and use statistical or probabilistic types of computations. he nature of these computations is different from the traditional computations where you need a precise answersays Srimat Chakradhar department head for Computing systems Architecture at NEC Laboratories America

Various new types of transistor architecture using materials other than the standard silicon are being studied to overcome the power consumption challenge. his transistor has previously been developed in our lab to replace MOSFET transistors for logic applications

In this recent work Mirkin an experimentalist and professor of Chemistry in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences teamed up with Monica Olvera de la Cruz a theoretician

says Olvera de la Cruz who also is a professor of chemistry in the Weinberg College of Arts

#Lava pillars in Iceland may have formed without a boom University at Buffalo rightoriginal Studyposted by Charlotte Hsu-Buffalo on October 9 2013land-based lava pillars in Iceland may have formed through an unusual reaction typically seen

That finding is more likely than the one that suggests the rocky pillars dotting Icelandâ#Skaelingar valley were tossed projectiles into the fields by warring trollsâ##a theory University at Buffalo geologist Tracy Gregg heard from a tour guide and local hiker.

The pillars hollow and made from basalt likely formed in a surprising reaction where lava met water without any explosion occurring. sually

This has implications for the way we view volcanic risk. eep-sea basalt pillars form

when columns of super-heated water rise between pillows of lava on the ocean floor cooling the molten rock into hollow pipe-like minarets.

and Geothermal Research the scientists propose that the same phenomenon sculpted the land-based lava pillars in Iceland.

Each of these distinctive characteristics is also prevalent in deep ocean pillars says Gregg. knew as soon as I saw them what they were.

'n the future Gregg says scientists could hunt for land-based lava pillars near oceans to learn about the height of ancient seas

##and manmade products constructed from similar materials has to do with the hierarchical architecture of the biological materialsâ##the way the silica-based skeletons are built up from different structural elements some

Julia R. Greer professor of materials science and mechanics at the California Institute of technology (Caltech) says the work was inspired by earlier work to fabricate extremely lightweight microtrusses. e designed architectures with building blocks that are less than five microns

long meaning that they are not resolvable by the human eye. onstructing these architectures out of materials with nanometer dimensions has enabled us to decouple the materials strength from their density

not only the individual unit cells but also the complete architecture can be endowed with unusually high strength depending on the material

Then I can design the optimal architecture with the optimal material at the relevant size

or atomic configurations. unding from the Dow-Resnick Innovation Fund at Caltech DARPA s Materials with Controlled Microstructural Architecture program

The Cornell Center for Vertebrate Genomics Zweig Memorial Fund and Morris Animal Foundation funded the research h

Related Articles On Futurity robot eyes 525 Carnegie mellon University How to turn robots into social butterflies blurry man in art museum Michigan State university Men focus more on'brand

assistant professor of social and decision sciences and lead author of the study. t could be used to assess an individual emotional response to almost any kind of stimulus, for example, a flag, a brand name,

The findings showed for the first time how the extraordinarily stable compound#calcium-aluminum-silicate-hydrate (C-a-S-H)# binds the material used to build some of the most enduring structures in Western civilization.

#Researchers create living human gut-on-a-Chip in an effort to provide a more accurate alternative to conventional cell culture and animal models,

"This is as true for individuals with private collections as it is for libraries, museums and other public institutions.

and 8 mm films at high-definition resolutions with sound, the Kinograph makes preserving our cultural heritage much more affordable.

#NASA probe will reveal 3d architecture of forests from space NASA is developing a laser-based instrument for deployment on the International space station that will probe the depths of Earth's forests from space in a bid to reveal more about their role in the planet's carbon cycle.

GEDI's 3d maps could be combined with maps from other satellites to examine the role forest architecture plays in biodiversity and land use,

It has been created as an easily reconfigurable platform using a modular system architecture that may be programmed easily to govern robots with a varied array of configurations.

and develop an easily-programmable and extensible system architecture to control robots a wide variety of configurations."

"The architecture is built on Ethernet computer networking technology, "said Choset.""Ethernet doesn't require that the computers connected to it be of a specific type,

The interfaces used in the modular architecture allow robot designers to focus on specific capabilities without having to worry about detailed systems issues

such as those used at the cinema where only two different pictures are projected, one for each eye,

"Today 3d cinema movies can be converted into our 3d format, but we expect that new footage will be created especially for our displays perhaps with a much larger number of cameras,

and urban employment is a new culture of city life, where leisure is king and work outside of restaurants,

could also revolutionize everything from advertising to architecture. A team at the University of Bristol in Great britain worked on the project,

such as feeling the differences between materials in a CT SCAN or understanding the shapes of artifacts in a museum.

and whether they have entered ever a search term that raises a red flag. Anyone up to three degrees of separation from a##person of interest##potentially hundreds of thousands of people per target is open to surveillance.

and later several sculptures. He admits they re not perfect; he says he could have used more-complicated optics.

Once#in space, TUI s Trusselator, the first step in the Spiderfab architecture, would use 3-D printing techniques

##The semantics of the architecture and visual cues indicate that the back of the seat belongs to the passenger facing it,

and schools to teach people about recycling culture and the value of discarded plastic, spreading the Japanese concept ofmottainai,

We agreed that with great people, a strong culture and vision and a healthy disregard for the impossible,

Later the Incas were able to sustain their culture above rain line by collecting dew

Imke Hoehler, an inductrial design student at Germany Muthesius Academy of Fine arts has turned a lot of heads with her thesis project, the Dropnet fog collector.

Buick boasts they cankeep everyone happy with streamed movies, music, and games, while Audi emphasizesfaster downloads and high-definition video streaming for up to eight devices used by passengers over the in-vehicle#Wi-fi#hotspot.

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