the cornerstone of genetic programming The transistor is the central component of modern electronic systems. It acts both as a switch and as a signal amplifier.
public transport overcrowded, pavements heaving with people. But as well as the frustration, there a sinister side to the commute to work:
and sensitive enough to detect small changes in air quality on a street-by-street basis. Their findings are now informing research projects aimed at improving air quality in major cities across Europe and North america.
and static devices were attached to lampposts and stationed at roadsides and at critical pollutant sites.
whether people living at the top of high-rise buildings experience more or less pollution than people at street level;
As in a wall, several layers of particles are placed on top of each other in an offset arrangement;
Analysis of the bioartificial limbs confirmed the presence of vascular cells along blood vessel walls and muscle cells aligned into appropriate fibers throughout the muscle matrix.
But now, in a new study, Mark Z. Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford,
and how many south-facing, non-shaded rooftops could accommodate solar panels. They developed and consulted wind maps
that is sometimes referred to as the'new cornerstone of the manufacturing industry'.'However, at present, 3d printing is limited mostly to plastics.
When ground together for up to 20 minutes with a mortar and pestle, the chemical additives reacted with each other,
ranging from the catalysts used for the generation of energy-dense fuels from sunlight and carbon dioxide, to how bridges and airplanes rust."
Wll/KIT) We have opened the door to a new room, says Professor Christof Wll, Director of KIT Institute of Functional Interfaces (IFG).
#Chemists devise technology that could transform solar energy storage (Nanowerk News) The materials in most of todays residential rooftop solar panels can store energy from the sun for only a few microseconds at a time.
conventional rooftop solar cells use silicon, a fairly expensive material. There is currently a big push to make lower-cost solar cells using plastics, rather than silicon,
The system is equipped also to treat the biological contaminants that Wright initially thought shed be treating,
Synthetic nanocomposites can mimic the characteristic brick -and-mortar-like structure of nacre, but combinations of stiffness, strength, toughness and desirable optical properties have remained difficult to achieve.
Scientists based in Aachen, Germany, report in the journal Angewandte Chemie("Hierarchical Nacre Mimetics with Synergistic Mechanical Properties by Control of Molecular Interactions in Self-Healing Polymers")that the introduction of tailored hydrogen bonds in the polymer
mortar by macromolecular engineering leads to an unprecedented combination of the relevant properties, which are perfectly tunable.
Co-authors are In-Ho Cho, an Iowa State assistant professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering; and Jungwook Paek, who recently earned his Iowa State doctorate in electrical
The air pressure and the microtube's asymmetrical wall thickness created a circular bend. They further describe how they added a small lump of PDMS to the base of the tube to amplify the bend
Gate-first CMOS-compatible Ingaas Finfets on Si with excellent performance have been demonstrated and integrated seamlessly in a CMOS manufacturing flow.
and design so it can be integrated easily into manufacturing processes at existing factories.""said Hong.
such as regenerative braking in trains and buses, elevators and cranes. They are used also in flashes in mobile phones and as a complementary technology to batteries in order to boost performance.
These versatile cells act both as factories and warehouses, making and storing insulin in tiny sacs called vesicles.
They also behave like alarm call centers, sensing increases in blood sugar levels and signaling the release of insulin into the bloodstream. e constructed artificial vesicles to perform these same functions by using two materials that could easily be found in nature,
what has changed and what hasn't. By building up a series of snapshots at different time intervals,
In the process, special pores embedded in the nucleus membrane act as transport gates. These nuclear pores are among the largest and most complex structures in the cell
"We discovered a previously unobserved structure inside the nuclear pore that forms a kind of molecular gate,
This"molecular gate"is the so-called spoke ring, which is sandwiched between two other rings and extends inside the nuclear pores.
The gate itself consists of a fine lattice, which enables small molecules to slip through unobstructed.
Microchips Biotech will continue work on its flagship product, a birth-control microchip, backed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,
After that, the Gates Foundation took interest. It wasnt just a pie-in-the-sky idea anymore were really treating patients
The nanogenerator relies on the triboelectric effect to harness energy from the changing electric potential between the pavement and a vehicle's wheels.
the chimneys of the Duisburg Stahlwerke alone unleash several million tons of carbon dioxide. Fraunhofer has developed a process by
Kristian Kowollik from the environmental engineering department at ICT obtains specialty chemicals from the interim product connected with this,
well above the 80°C typical upper temperature window for exiting LIBS. In the tests, the batteries were cycled at temperatures between 298 K
These findings will help in the creation of future flat and flexible electronic devices. In recent decades, physicists have been actively studying so-called two-dimensional materials.
then the tip of the microscope would be as large as the Empire state Building. Illustration of the measuring principle:
which works by cloaking an object sitting on top of a flat surface. The cloak makes the whole system--object
and surface--appear flat by mimicking the reflection of light off the flat surface. Any object reflects light differently from a flat surface,
We can change the way light waves are being reflected at will and ultimately focus a large area of sunlight onto a solar power tower, like
and designing the building blocks for groundbreaking discoveries in biomedical applications. This experience invigorates my interest in this type of research,
University of Oxford) Graphene promises to be a'wonder material'for building new technologies because of its combination of strength, flexibility, electrical properties,
PCC 7002, a type of cyanobacteriaorganisms that make building blocks for new cells out of air, water, and sunlight.
ocean-dwelling bacterium and an organism useful for creating products used by people every day. The engineered bacterium not only accumulated this fatty acid
but we think there is a lot of room for discovery, both of fundamental properties of these structures as well as applications.
Nanoflares have been very useful for researchers that operate in the arena of quantifying gene expression. Aurasense, Inc.,a biotechnology company that licensed the Nanoflare technology from Northwestern University,
who was involved not in the research. f you take the normal conventional civil engineering or chemical engineering approach to treating it, it just won touch it.
#New material forges the way for'stem cell factories 'If you experience a major heart attack the damage could cost you around five billion heart cells.
factories'-the mass production of human embryonic (pluripotent) stem cells. The £2. 3m research project
foldable and lightweight energy storage device that provides the building blocks for next-generation batteries needed to power wearable electronics and implantable medical devices (ACS Central Science,"Self-Assembled Multifunctional Hybrids:
the liquid begins to flow into the tube, pulled by a combination of surface tension in the liquid and adhesion between the liquid and the walls of the tube.
#Making polymer nanostructures from a greenhouse gas (Nanowerk News) A future where power plants feed their carbon dioxide directly into an adjacent production facility instead of spewing it up a chimney
Because it is very difficult to find building blocks to make hydrophilic polycarbonates, the researchers used a trick:
In the same vessel, they then change to a different building block, allyl glycidyl ether (AGE), an epoxide with a double bond in its side chain,
allowing for safe passage through the remainder of the gastrointestinal (GI TRACT. The material is also elastic,
the polymer gel dissolved, allowing for the safe passage of the small PCL pieces without obstruction.
Jewett. ur new protein-making factory holds promise to expand the genetic code in a unique and transformative way, providing exciting opportunities for synthetic biology and biomolecular engineering,
In electronics, silicon-based transistors are critical building blocks that switch power and amplify signals. An optical transistor could perform a similar role for light instead of electricity,
because the team headed by Ralph Ernstorfer and Simon Wall, scientist at the ICFO-Institut de Cincies Fotniques,
making room for the boron and nitrogen to fill the gaps. It was as if the oxygen was controlling the geometric structure,
promises to capture all those stray radio waves emitted back and forth between wireless phones and the towers through
when that would have demonstrated this on a large scale--the Tesla Tower, also known as Wardenclyffe, which reports at the time highlighted was being designed to draw millions of volts of electricity through the air from Niagara falls and feed it into cities, factories and private houses from the tops of towers, all without wires.
The project was completed never, at Tesla's own volition, with some suspecting that he put it to rest after recognizing its potential for misuse and destruction.
One family's house in Austin was swept off its foundation, killing a mother and her two children while the husband and the family dog survived.
and crumbled under the weight of"a relentless wall of water"as the Governor of Texas described it.
and navigate on foot were able to seek shelter more easily. In the aftermath of these natural disasters, there's always a wave of looting.
The entire nation is just one"currency event"away from the kind of financial collapse that sends people into the streets with a sense of extreme anger.
Castle, James W. Mandell, Kevin S. Lee, Tajie H. Harris, Jonathan Kipnis. Structural and functional features of central nervous system lymphatic vessels.
the Mountain House community of 15,000 residents will run out of water in just a matter of days."
I saw all this Coming in a May 7th article entitled Why the California water crisis will lead to a housing collapse, municipal bankruptcies and a mass exodus of climate refugees,
Who wants to live in a $30 million mansion and pay seven figures of property tax each year to the same California government that cuts off your water supply?
and many of the street names there envision concepts that are total fiction: Waterfall Lane, Great Spring Drive, Surging Rivers Rd. and so on.
if California renamed its own streets and thoroughfares to match its own fantasies? Everything Is Free Hwy
Hence the coming wave of recently-bankrupt California climate refugees who will flood into neighboring states seeking water, low-cost housing and free entitlements.
and it is difficult for a bacterium to alter such fundamental building blocks of the cell.
and the details of the movementuch as lift the arm, extend the arm, grasp the cup,
Andersen says. hat we have here is a unique window into the workings of a complex high-level brain area,
and memory. ells physiologically break their DNA to allow certain important genes to be expressed, Tsai says. n the case of neurons,
and 5500 metres up and can lift more than 3000kg of payload and fuel. That gives tactical planners incredible flexibility
and is guided to the deck. f there is a communications problem it will just fly right back to where it started
mission payload operators and a tactical commander who are located in a control room with three large TV screens on the wall
#Aussie bricklaying robot can build house in two days WORLD, meet your new bricklayer. A robotic, fully-automated machine is being developed in Perth,
Local inventor Mark Pivac, an aeronautic and mechanical engineer, said his interest in the idea of developing the robot was sparked during Perth bricklaying crisis of 2005. eople have been laying bricks for about 6000 years and ever since the industrial revolution
and that what wee done. adrianthe robot named after the famous Roman defensive wall of antiquity will be commercialised first in WA, then nationally and then globally.
Laying 1000 bricks per hour, it can work day and night, with the potential to erect 150 homes a year.
It works by creating a 3d computer-aided design (CAD) laying program of a house or structure
then calculates the location of every brick and creates a program that is used to cut
and lay the bricks in sequence from a single, fixed location. A 28m articulated telescopic boom goes to work
and mortar or adhesive is delivered under pressure to the robotic laying head and applied to the brick
which is laid then in the correct sequence as per the program. The robot de-hacks, measures, scans for quality and cuts to length the bricks and routs for electrical and other services.
Mr Pivac father was a mining surveyor so he grew up around measuring instruments from a young age.
Nearly two billion bricks are manufactured a year in Australia, which added fuel to the fire of the inventor imagination.
Fastbrick Robotics said it had received significant support from both Federal government grants and major industry parties such as Brickworks Ltd, a group of Australian-owned companies centred on clay and concrete products.
and its innovative robotic bricklaying technology has the potential to service the overwhelming demand for housing,
race is on to log global heritage Ancient buildings are sitting ducks in war. But efforts are growing to preserve them digitally
Dedicated Syrians are focused on rescuing collections and buildings if possible. But too often the beautiful buildings and ruins cannot be saved from those determined to damage them,
as happened at the ancient city of Nimrud in Iraq in March. var ord=window. ord Math. floor (Math. random()*10e12);
document. write(''''Palmyra now stands as a mute demonstration of the dilemma afflicting heritage specialists today.
Synthetic biologists are racing to come up with artificial versions of the building blocks of life.""We have been basically reinventing the genetic alphabet from the bottom up,
it must at this stage remain in the academic arena, not as a clinical scenario."
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battery-powered device the size of a shoebox would house everything associated with the small probe, with no other reagents, facilities or specialist personnel required.
The revelation has come from work led by Andrei Sommer of the University of Ulm in Germany. var ord=window. ord Math. floor (Math. random()*10e12;
#Smart mirror monitors your face for telltale signs of disease Mirror mirror on the wall, am I at risk of heart disease?
The move would ask the Federal Communications Commission to address state laws that prevent cities from building their own municipal Internet services.
Nineteen states have laws that prevent their cities'from building their own broadband networks. Supporters of those laws say they protect taxpayers.
So you can't walk down the street or drive in a car while doing the Wi-fi only plan
"I started to notice this utility van that was parked at the end of my street at, like, Sunday at 4 a m,
Inside a ground-floor windowless room there's a display that looks exactly like what you'd see out of an air traffic control tower.
But instead of windows these are actually screens. And the airport you're looking at isn't the one in Sundsvall.
He says in all his time looking out tower windows there were only three big innovations:
Many Uses Including Potentially For The Militarybecause once the windows are replaced with screens you can overlay all kinds of information on the display:
whether the remote tower is across town or on the other side of the earth.
whether they've been brought in for a landing from the tower they can see out their window or from this hidden remote center more than a 100 miles away
The enzymes and other proteins in our bodies are built all from building blocks called amino acids. There are usually just 20 amino acids in nature.
"If you get your factory contaminated, it can be hard to clean out for a year,
and if you need writing on the wall, turn to the relentless coverage of Apple's acquisition of Beats Music,
But quarks are even smaller particles--the building blocks of protons, neutrons and other subatomic particles known as baryons.
factories or laboratories. A team led by Pieter Abbeel, an associate professor in the campus electrical engineering and computer sciences department, developed the new algorithm.
the computer then uses electromagnetic field to pump the droplets around gates to perform logical operations. The researchers said the droplets in the system can be used to complete any process that a normal electronic computer can.
The preclinical and intravital molecular imaging system houses a window for tissue observation in addition to a larger imaging chamber.
By 2017, they hope to release a commercial version big enough to hold a day worth of energy from a typical three-kilowatt home rooftop solar array.
When climbing stairs or hills, or even standing up from a chair, he typically favored his ound leg.
#This Futuristic Concrete Heals Itself With Built-in Bacteria Concrete has been a go-to building material since Roman times.
Regardless, cracked concrete is never something you want to see in a building, bridge, or street. At best, it something you want to avoid stepping on (for your mother sake),
a microbiologist at Delft University of Technology, is working on a concrete with built-in bacteria that can fill in cracks as they form.
The powdery substances are mixed then into wet concrete before it gets poured into place. When a crack forms and water seeps in,
or plaster (not built into the concrete) has been around for a few years. But Jonkers and his team have brought actually the concrete out of the lab
and into the real world, using the concrete to build a self-healing lifeguard station. The building has already proved its resilience
cracking and quickly sealing its wounds. Jonkers hopes that eventually more buildings will be built with the biological concrete,
creating structures that will fix themselves instead of degrading into fixer-uppers s
#Computer Chips Can Now Be made From Wood Not quite what we had in mindthe woods are lovely, dark, deep,
and filled with potential computer components. In a paper published in Nature Communications this week,
the researchers hope that Virscan can be used to quickly detect the bacteria and fungi to shed more light on the microbiome
Friction between your feet and the floor lets you walk down the street without your feet slipping out from under you.
#Now You Can 3d-Print Objects Made Of Wood Fibers From prosthetic hands to an entire bridge,
but it could also be used in the development of smart camouflage gear, color-changing fashion items and wall-sized screens l
#Superfast Lasers Create A Hologram You Can Touch The halls of science fiction are decorated well with dreams of hologramsules Verne introduced holography to literature in 1893 with The Castle of the Carpathians,
With eight months of building and testing, Marion tells PSFK he regularly takes the drone out for a spin
The adoption of the suit will rely on the future evolution of a new industry that bridges technology and textiles,
It is employing a new AI machine-learning system that the online retailer built in-house to boost the prominence and weight of verified customer purchase reviews, those marked as helpful by other users and newer, more up-to-date critiques
Customer reviews have become the cornerstone of trust in the online shopping world. Where users cannot see in person what the products are like before they buy them,
Pavegen CEO and Founder Laurence Kemball-Cook shares, ut we need several hundred thousand footsteps to allow the vehicle to drive 20 minutes within London busiest streets. avegen electricity
The kiosk will charge the owner account and dispense the requested amount of water. Current water dispensers are charging one Kenyan shilling (about half a cent U s.)for 20 liters of fresh water,
these kiosks have been tested only in rural parts of Kenya. This is Grundfosfirst foray into a more urban environment.
announcements made by some of their local partners suggest they will be expanding the kiosks into Nairobi in the near future.
The BBC is covering the kiosks with interest, and it the most likely source of breaking news for those interested in following the project e
and are connected by a salt bridge to form a reaction, balancing each other. What the lamp will do is take the same process and change the electrolytes into a nontoxic, saline solution.
and to the wall with the light weight mobility and continuous monitoring.""said Oz. The consumer version of the product, known as Ritmo Beats, is to be launched for users by the end of 2015
the ranking Democrat on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, said in a statement.
I couldn't believe that I drew that card from the deck. I had no risk factors going in,
Harper and colleagues in the Department of Urology and Applied Physics laboratory at the University of Washington have invented a new way to facilitate kidney stone passage
This means that one expert must always test the beer before it leaves the factory.""But your experts don't work at 3 a m
because their functionality can be adjusted by varying the components. e have opened the door to a new room,
#Glaxosmithkline Gene Discovery In Poppies Paves Way For Better Painkillers A long sought after gene that is a critical gateway step in the synthesis of the morphinan class of alkaloids,
even though the real world is not flat, it has hills and valleys, people and objects. Being able to manipulate a display
Designers and artists using physical proxies such as clay can mold and remold objects and store them in the computer as they work.
when we placed a small sample of the insulating material on a cantilever in a magnetic field,
Can't wait to never leave the house again a
#Solar cells that work on cloudy days just hit a record-breaking 22.1%efficiency There's been plenty of good news about solar power lately-not only are governments around the world using it more and more,
precise and scalable route for building high-surface-area 3d thin-film devices, "the authors write.
like interlocking Lego bricks getting stuck together and then ripped apart, Chu explains. But when the team changed the spacing of the ion crystal
and indiscriminately collect plenty other bugs besides mosquitoes-there's huge room for improvement in terms of the technology and its efficiency,
#Autonomous robot arms are going to 3d-print a bridge in Amsterdam From low-cost housing to lifesaving implants,
and the latest innovation to be announced is sized a full 3d-printed bridge. Industry experts MX3D are planning to create a steel bridge in Amsterdam in The netherlands using independent robot arms.
These arms will start on one side of the river and cross over to the other bank building the structure as they go.
with a visitor centre in the pipeline that will provide running updates on the bridge's process."
Printing a functional, life-size bridge is of course the ideal way to showcase the endless possibilities of this technique."
producing a bridge a few feet across that could take the weight of a human being. The style of the bridge has been sketched out by Dutch designer and artist Joris Laarman."
"I strongly believe in the future of digital production and local production, in'the new craft,
"This bridge will show how 3d printing finally enters the world of large-scale, functional objects and sustainable materials while allowing unprecedented freedom of form.
The symbolism of the bridge is a beautiful metaphor to connect the technology of the future with the old city,
a self-contained bridge-printing robot could prove invaluable in connecting communities together again. In the meantime, keep your eyes on MX3D's new bridge in Amsterdam,
because you'll be seeing a lot more of this technology in the years to come e
"With this encyclical, Francis is starting to build a bridge between science and religion on the traditional wedge issue of climate change.
this technology isn going to be making its way to your living room anytime soon, Saihan describing it as"an internal prototype designed to give our program makers,
#BMW wants to turn street lights into electric car charging stations A new technology that allows electric car drivers to charge their vehicles directly from street lights has been showcased by the BMW Mini team at the annual Low Carbon Oxford Week event in the UK.
Called'Light and Charge',these prototype street lights combine energy-efficient Light Emitting Diodes (LED) and BMW Chargenow recharging stations,
drivers can connect a standard charging cable to the street light, and use a control panel on the light to swipe their charge card and register their use.
and are reportedly in talks with US competitors Tesla motors about their new street light charging stations. n
the material could be a prime candidate for building faster and more efficient electronics.""The effect that we've discovered in niobium phosphide could certainly be improved by means of skilled material design,
But the real beauty of the new procedure is how simple it is-you can even give it a try in your own kitchen."
#The Gates-backed'toilet of the future'is now being trialled in India and China The winner of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's'Reinvent the Toilet'challenge back in 2012, this solar-powered,
DIY-friendly system is being rolled out in three locations around the world. Developed by researchers from the US-based Caltech Group,
but the team says that meets the Gates Foundation recommendation that it put the cost of sanitation at five cents per person per day,
"No innovation in 200 years has saved more lives than the toilet,"the Gates Foundation states."
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