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potentially paving the way for new methods of disease detection as well.""Commonly used by jewelers,


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Understanding the subtle details of why that doesn't always happen could ultimately lead to ways to improve battery performance,

manufacturers might want to look at ways to prepare the electrode so that all parts of it are the same,


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During the heating process as the silicon atoms fall onto the platform researchers believed that they were arranging themselves in certain ways to create a single sheet of interlocking atoms.

and vibrate in unique ways. Raman spectroscopy allows researchers to measure these bonds and vibrations.


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we have demonstrated a new way by which wear particles and surface defects can form, "said Purdue postdoctoral research associate Anirban Mahato,


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and possibly paving the way for printed flexible photo-cameras. When light impinges on a semiconducting 2d crystal (e g.


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UC Berkeley professor of mechanical engineering, has found a way to dramatically increase the sensitivity of a light-based plasmon sensor to detect incredibly minute concentrations of explosives.

when he was a postdoctoral researcher in Zhang's lab."The other thing we see at airports is the use of swabs to check for explosive residue,

The new device builds upon earlier work in plasmon lasers by Zhang's lab that compensated for this light leakage by using reflectors to bounce the surface plasmons back and forth inside the sensor similar to the way sound waves are reflected across the room


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but not everything meaningfully transforms along the way. A bending oak branch for example doesn't enter a strange transition phase as it creeps toward its breaking point it simply snaps.


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Halas and Zhang were able to measure single molecules in a powerful new way. LANP has dubbed the new technique"surface-enhanced CARS,"or SECARS."


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tunable nanoantenna that paves the way for new kinds of plasmonic-based optomechanical systems, whereby plasmonic field enhancement can actuate mechanical motion.

Recently, there has been a lot of interest in fabricating metal-based nanotextured surfaces that are preprogrammed to alter the properties of light in a specific way after incoming light interacts with it,

"Our fabrication process shows for the first time an innovative way of fabricating plasmonic nanoantenna structures under the SEM,


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environmentally friendly way to produce high performance lithium ion battery anodes,"said Zachary Favors, a graduate student working with Cengiz and Mihri Ozkan, both engineering professors at UC Riverside.


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since way to smaller and smaller laptops, smartphones and devices that most of us carry around in our pockets.

His lab already made its way into the Guinness Book of World records for inventing the world's sharpest object microscope tip just one atom wide at its end.

and being able to record the magnitude of resistance paves the way to design superior nanoelectronic devices,

They've also found a way to create quantum dots that function at room temperature, meaning costly cryogenics is not necessary."


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A new way to make sheets of graphen p


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#Shrinky Dinks close the gap for nanowires How do you put a puzzle together when the pieces are too tiny to pick up?

Researchers have struggled to find a way to put large numbers of nanowires together so that they are aligned in the same direction and only one layer thick."

We just don't have a way to put them into a material that we can handle,

This allows them to create very dense arrays of nanowires in a simple, flexible and very controllable way.


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Whether or not the future of automotive traffic belongs to the softly purring electric car depends largely on the development of its batteries.


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"the main hurdle (of carbon-based electronics) is our current inability to produce large amounts of identical nanostructureshere is no reliable way to directly produce a single CNT type such as will be needed in a large integrated system."

"Employing tungsten-based alloy nanocrystals with unique structure as catalysts paves a way for the ultimate chirality control in SWNT growth.


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but Rice scientists have now found a chemical-free way to unzip them. The Rice lab of materials scientist Pulickel Ajayan discovered that nanotubes that hit a target end first turn into mostly ragged clumps of atoms.


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"Hongyou has discovered a way to build one structure into another structure capability we don't have now at the nanolevel.


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and transport their guest molecules through the membrane of living cells to sequentially deliver their cargo.

Although the transport of molecules inside cells with nanoparticles has been achieved previously using various methods researchers have developed nanoparticles capable of delivering

and exchange their cargo. This interaction enables the energy transfer between the internalized molecules says Raymo director of the UM laboratory for molecular photonics.

Under the right conditions the reversibility of these weak noncovalent contacts allows the supramolecular constructs to exchange their components as well as their cargo.

A simpler way to treat cance n


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#Smart gating nanochannels for confined water developed Confined water exists widely and plays important roles in natural environments, particularly inside biological nanochannels.

The author thought the inner surface property was the base for confined transportation. Their work


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Since use of the battery that is a powerful electric source for portable electric devices has expanded to a variety of new areas such as transportation


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#Nanoparticles could provide easier route for cell therapy UT Arlington physics researchers may have developed a way to use laser technology to deliver drug and gene therapy at the cellular level without damaging surrounding tissue.


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which is used commonly in the semiconductor industry to help route electricity. They observed the metal atoms becoming charged ions, clustering with up to thousands of others into metal nanoparticles,

the bridge formed in different ways. The bridge, also called a conducting filament, stays put after the electrical power is turned off in the device.


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By demonstrating for the first time that nanotubes can be unzipped quickly through mechanical means the new study offers a clean-cut a clean chemical-free way to produce high-quality graphene nanoribbons.


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Now engineers at MIT and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have devised a way to translate that airy,

and direct the loadshe way the arrangement of vertical, horizontal, and diagonal beams do in a structure like the Eiffel Towerhe lighter structure can maintain its strength.


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In this way absorption of a single photon from the high-energy end of the solar spectrum produces not just one

Applied together these strategies might provide a practical route to nanostructures exhibiting carrier multiplication performance approaching the limits imposed by energy conservation n


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or to analyse larger sample volumes in such a way that the information obtained is influenced less by locally induced variances.

This kind of imaging involves screening the object from different directions with X-ray light in such a way that a fluoroscopic image a so-called radiograph is generated each time

not only on its way through the sample studied, but also partially scattered. By measuring exactly in which directions how much and also how little light is scattered,


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#DNA-linked nanoparticles form switchable'thin films'on a liquid surface Scientists seeking ways to engineer the assembly of tiny particles measuring just billionths of a meter have achieved a new firsthe formation of a single

when the bases that make up the rungs of the twisted-ladder shaped molecule match up in a particular way.

"Using DNA linker molecules gives us a way to control the interactions between the nanoparticles."

or to control the transport of molecular or nanoscale objects through liquid interfaces. For example, said Gang,


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In this new effort the researchers have come up with a way to allow for the creation of invisible bar codes that are nearly impossible to replicate after the fact.


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However, nanotechnology scientist and professor Jayan Thomas and his Ph d. student Zenan Yu have developed a way to both transmit and store electricity in a single lightweight copper wire.

So they had to figure out a way to create a second electrode. They did it-this by adding a very thin plastic sheet around the whiskers


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The finding paves the way for the use of these materials in solar fuel generators. For the better part of a half century these materials have been considered off the table for this kind of use says Nate Lewis the George L. Argyros Professor and professor of chemistry at Caltech and the principal investigator on the paper.


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#There is still a long way to go before quantum dot solar cells are commercially viable but this latest development is a nice step toward this ultimate goal.


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Optical radiation can serve to excite the sample in a different way from the microwave signal

and we developed a lot of important metrology techniques along the way. But we really weren't able to test nanowires as probe tips until a few months ago


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they can measure a red beacon signal that the dye gives offbut in this case, unlike a traffic signal,


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Recently biomedical researchers have found ways to increase the effectiveness of certain contrast agents by associating them with nanoparticles.


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"That is important because structural energy storage will change the way in which a wide variety of technologies are developed in the future."

instead of storing it in chemical reactions the way batteries do. As a result supercaps can charge

the polymer oozes into the tiny pores in much the same way that melted cheese soaks into the nooks and crannies of artisan bread in a Panini.


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and are programed chemically with an antibody receptor in such a way that they are capable of specifically attracting the protein markers circulating in blood.


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A direct relationship between the way in which light is twisted by nanoscale structures and the nonlinear way in

The way in which the light is twisted by the molecules results in chiroptical effects, which are typically very weak.


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Riverside Bourns College of Engineering have developed a new way to make lithium-ion batteries that will last three times longer between charges compared to the current industry standard.


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Accurate measurements allow us to observe the variations in these key ways, which may then help us to determine the mechanisms by which living cells promote


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thanks to the work of researchers Brigham Young University, there's a way to avoid cell death


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The researchers have developed a way to continuously produce the flexible fiber enabling them to scale up production for a variety of uses.

The arrangement provides huge amounts of accessible surface area96 square meters per gram of hybrid fiberor the transport and storage of charges.


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Instead it's just a way of teaching the basics and Google admits as much:##Of course qcraft isn t a perfect scientific simulation

but it s a fun way for players to experience a few parts of quantum mechanics outside of thought experiments or dense textbook examples.#


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useless printer scraps become a way to print scraps of other things! Resourceful 33-year-old inventor Kodjo Afate Gnikou of the West african country Togo has created a cheap DIY 3-D printer out of electronic waste scavenged from junk yards.


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but we didn't have much to look at in the way of a prototype. Now#lo and behold the printer has shown up at SXSW Eco


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The project proposes to design hives that can support bee colonies in a sustainable way to monitor


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and the cost for compatible games would be way less than the cost for the space.

and machine applications like dancing martial arts flying a plane helicopter or even space ships of the future!!!


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We're looking at a revolution in transportation he says. For Bond the engine represents the beginning of the world's first fully reusable spaceship a new kind of craft that promises to do

and take off like a conventional airliner accelerate to Mach 5. 2 and blast out of the atmosphere like a rocket.

That price would even undercut the $50 million sum that private spaceflight company Spacex plans to charge to launch cargo on its two-stage Falcon 9 rocket.

because we felt it was better to focus our efforts on other less costly ways to get payloads to orbit says Dan Dumbacher NASA's deputy associate administrator for exploration systems development who spent two years working on the X-33.

They can haul more cargo and more fuel than single-stage craft. Rockets also offer reliability on average only one out of 20 launches fail in part

Spacex CEO Elon musk told an audience at the National Press Club in 2011 that private spaceflights would need to follow a model closer to that of airlines.

supersonic aviation. It could enable an aircraft to fly anywhere in the world in under four hours says Bond.

Truthfully Skylon or SSTO is the only way to make space common. Imagine a fleet of these vehicles whisking payloads to LEO on a daily basis

This way the fuselage generates lift. Since the engine inlet is extremely sensitive to the direction of airflow at high mach numbers it is angled down 7 degrees

or a taxi service to the ISS. The Space program should be about exploration beyond Earth.

what you are requesting just a few years down the road. A cheap launch system is needed desperately for support of deep space missions and other needs.

But there might be a way though it will take considerable engineering. This is a talk on the topic. http//youtu. be/qciw99yrbo8


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#Women's Breasts Age Way Faster Than The Rest Of Their Bodies A new technique for identifying the precise biological age of human tissue reveals that not all tissues grow old at the same rate.

Horvath developed a way to determine the biological age of different tissues in the body by looking at DNA methylation a chemical alteration of genes that#has been suggested by#previous studies to be a potential biomarker for a cell's age.


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So the first photon has to move out of the way. That's an interaction between photons sort of but with atoms as a mediator.


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Its energy harvesting capabilities come courtesy of a metamaterial a synthetic material engineered with characteristics not found in nature like the ability to bend light the wrong way


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#FAA Panel Recommends Lifting Ban On Gadget Use During Flights After receiving countless complaints abuse towards flight attendants who are only doing their jobs

while taking off if the panel has its way. Not that you probably could; the airplane's speed means that you'll be switching from tower to tower faster than your phone


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however cameraphone technology needs to support it in ways it currently doesn t. Cameraphones have improved dramatically in the last few years the Nokia Pureview sensor has 41 megapixels


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Even better since antibiotics sometimes cause damage on their way to infected areas you can turn these modified antibiotics on at will so they don't attack healthy bacteria in the body.#


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because supplies including scientific equipment take a long involved route from a port in Long beach California south to the port in Punta arenas where they re loaded onto the Gould.


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Scientists have looked previously into sewer sensors as a way to examine drug usage on a citywide level.


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But the drug is a long way from becoming a human cure. The Hedgehog pathway plays an important role


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Train derailments hurricanes and other unfortunate happenings all get simulated at the Texas A&m site.


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This gives us a way of finding things before they become a big problem. Click here to see more from our annual celebration of young researchers whose innovations will change the world.


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Scott Collis discovered a way to add accuracy to forecasts of future climate by tapping new sources of cloud data.


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#How Justin Cappos Created A New Way To Cloud Compute Each year Popular Science seeks out the brightest young scientists and engineers and names them the Brilliant Ten.

--The Editorspolytechnic Institute of New york Universitycreating a new way to cloud computejustin Cappos can access the Internet from anywhere in the world a desktop computer in Ethiopia an Android phone in France even a tablet on an island off the coast of Antarctica

As a computer scientist at the Polytechnic institute of New york University Cappos has developed a completely different way to cloud compute.

and CPU in an isolated safe way he says. Because Seattle allows users to access the Net with foreign IP ADDRESSES it enables developers to view their sites


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Nicolas Fontaine an optical engineer at Bell labs Alcatel-lucent has devised a clever way to avoid a data bottleneck.

The old fiber would be only a single-lane highway says Fontaine. Now we can add multiple lanes.

he has shown already that his multiplexer can send six light streams down 497 miles of fiber without losing data along the way.


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But others, particularly those in developing countries, might contain an ineffective amount of medicine or release the right amount in the wrong way;


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In the future stem cells made in this way will compete with another method of creating personalized stem cells.

Researchers previously showed they are able to transform adult skin cells directly into stem cells with no stop for a transfer into an egg along the way.

Anyhow there are other ways to immortality then what you described. I'd rather just use nanotech to keep the body

but it will lead you down a road you don't want to be on. A fertilized egg or an embryo or even a fetus have the POTENTIAL to develop into a person given the right circumstances


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because apparently one's google Ph d means a lot more than a University Ph. dreally we could probably find a way to artificially pollinate plants.

or corruption if you prefer no matter which way you slice it. You might think cherry pie is better than blueberry

There are many ways to pollinate. http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Pollination But what is killing the bees


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Plus they could use it as practice/tests for going to mars. It's about time the space faring governments of the world start building an infrastructure on the lunar surface that will support long term duration stays ship yards fuel generation and processing navigation stations for terrestrial navigation


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Although tetrachromats have more receptors in their eyes their brains are wired the same way as a person with normal vision.

when the way they perceive the world can vary so widely. If you have an extra cone class in the retina that greatly complicates how that signal might be taking shape as it leaves the retina.

But Antico may have stumbled upon a different way to help those who are color deficient. She is a professional artist who has been teaching painting for over 20 years

Maybe I can lead the way for that


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#The Brilliant Ten: Roxana Geambasu Exposes How Companies Use Your Data As a computer scientist Roxana#Geambasu of Columbia University says she picks new projects based on

#In order to understand how companies share data Geambasu devises clever ways to track the repercussions. Her latest software uses a series of shadow accounts to see how ads change

Geambasu views her work as a way to provide some of the corporate transparency she hopes to see in the future.


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Parts of the music video for Radiohead's House of cards were recorded this way. Kacyra's company built a scanner that could work outside off battery power

and lasers to provide detailed travel maps capturing the curve of the road and details down to a centimeter accuracy.

The Washington monument and New orleans are not knock on wood under threat in the same way as the Bamiyan Buddhas


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and costs keeping sailors out of harms way while still keeping boats in the water.

choosing their own routes; swarming to interdict enemy vessels; and escorting/protecting naval assets. In the demonstration the Navy boats first escorted a high value unit simulating a ring of robotic bodyguards around a vessel in a narrow part of the sea.

Then with the support of a manned helicopter overhead designating a contact of interest for the boats to intercept they swarmed around their target.

That means more lives out of harms way as well as saved costs on personnel. The boats are existing Navy craft

and commercial vessels) in favor of automation CARACAS is leading the way. First patrol boats then the high seas s


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and a combination of permafrost and snowed-in roads complicates the installation of standard wind turbines.


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The biggest implication is the new measurements confirm global warming is changing the Antarctic in fundamental ways Holthaus writes.


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So if it's successful the plan's impact on carbon dioxide emissions could equate to taking every single car On earth off the road.


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If that were the case it would suggest that water might only be common around certain stars that form in certain ways.#


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If a new Facebook plan is successful the easiest way to access the cloud may be...


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Now scientists from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale in Lausanne Switzerland have found a way to vary the EES signal

because it mimics the diverse ways that neurons fire naturally. The new turning algorithm also helped the rats to overcome more complicated obstacles in the form of rodent-sized staircases

because it mimics the diverse ways that neurons fire naturally. Additionally the new controller continuously tracks the motion of the legs automatically adjusting the trajectory of each step based on that feedback.

In a nutshell the new algorithms make it easier to control the body's movements to a finer degree in an adaptable way--and in real time.


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So what s the best way to make them destructible again? Perhaps we need to change the genes.

Once these genome-editing techniques were mastered the researchers then had to figure out ways to deliver the modified CRISPRS to the bacteria.

And depending on how the CRISPR system is designed it can work in one of two ways:

As antibiotic resistance becomes an even greater concern Lu hopes their technique will provide a suitable alternative as well as a way of outsmarting bacteria in the future.

Bacteria will always find some way of beating us but when a new gene comes out that s bad we can go


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#U s army Wants A Parachuting Tank After years of service in wars--from Iraq to Afghanistan to Iraq again--the Humvee is on its way out.

Creatively titled Mobile Protected Firepower (MPF) it s an armored vehicle that can be dropped from cargo planes.

It has to fit inside a CH-47 Chinook cargo helicopter so that the crew can drive right in

The Army also wants it to drive cross-country primary road secondary road and urban rubble during both day and night missions.

In essence the ULCV should get a squad into the fight right off the helicopter over unpaved ground

Lastly the Army is also looking at a light reconnaissance vehicle (LRV) also carried by Chinook helicopters both inside and underneath.


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A tall van blocked the view of a traffic light but the V2i system onboard Stella alerted the driver to the red light before anyone in the car could see it.

As of July Stella has a permanent license plate and permission to drive on public roads s


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In what way are used they? PM: On the Micromappers app volunteers classify and geolocate these calls for help.


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while Spacex will receive $2. 6 billion to create an upgraded rendition of its Dragon spacecraft aptly named Dragon Version 2. The original Dragon is currently being used to ferry cargo from Earth to the ISS.

which was established in 2010 to foster the development of a U s. commercial crew space transportation capability.


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As state officials have monitored the robot car's mileage on public roads Google has lobbied for the car to get different tests

what situations it will ask for help from its human driver. For the Guardian Harris wrote about how Google has asked regulators to allow the results of computerized driving simulations#to stand in for tests on driving tracks

or closed-off roads. For Quartz Harris reported on Google's lobbying not to have to report#how often its cars turn over the controls to their human drivers

as long as the handover occurs as expected. The car is designed to routinely cede control when it encounters situations it can't handle.


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It's also able to project arrows or lane markers onto the road. It can sense upcoming street signs

The individual beams are created the same way pixels on a projector are. There's a semiconductor chip that has an array of a million tiny mirrors on it.

This way the system can turn off some beams sometimes without the driver noticing too much. To make raindrops disappear the system tracks falling rain predicts where the drops are going

Although they seem to be illegal in the U s.)Those adaptive high-beams work in much the same way aiming many beams of light at the world


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#Pentagon Wants Artificial intelligence In Future Fighters The Department of defense wants future generations of fighter aircraft to come with copilots already installed.

Adding AI could free the pilot's mind to focus more on fewer tasks giving them a cognitive advantage in battle.

It s based on aircraft carriers which are notoriously challenging to land on. The Navy s own X-47b experimental drone has landed on an aircraft carrier successfully

and autonomously so adding a computer copilot to a naval craft could help there too.

Bringing the artificial intelligence inside the cockpit is one major way robots will fly alongside humans in fighters of the future--but it s not the only one.

Last month the Navy s X-47b flew in formation with the F/A-18 Super hornet with robots

By the 2030s humans with robot copilots could fly alongside robots remotely controlled by humans u


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