and cars in just a few years, say the researchers. lectrochemical splitting of water could provide a cheap,
his research may help computers get better at teaching themselves to do everything from driving a car to making an omelette,
Or cars made from the material. Because, let's face it, plastic is great and all but we could all use a little more durability in our lives v
"In hybrid and electric cars, such recovery systems can help improve range, but in large heavily-packed passenger trains running regularly in one of the most heavily traveled cities in the world,
which is expected to extract 1 million tonnes per day-the equivalent of taking 100 cars off the road every year.
not just for smartphones but for electric cars and solar power, where batteries are essential for storing energy to use
crucial if we're to put these batteries into millions of cars and smartphones, was reached by using a'fluffy'carbon electrode made from graphene.
it could translate into less expensive consumer devices and even less expensive electric cars. Yao's research group focuses on green and sustainable organic materials for energy generation and storage.
#Discovery may be breakthrough for hydrogen cars The team's new findings, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could help speed the widespread arrival of the hydrogen-powered vehicles in a way that is inexpensive
cheaper and more powerful and durable than lithium-ion batteries common in mobile phones and laptops and increasingly used in hybrid and electric cars.
#Researchers find protein that may signal more aggressive prostate cancers Biomarkers in the body are analogous to the warning lights in cars that signal something might need repairing.
Frank Koppens and ICREA Prof. at ICFO Niek van Hulst, in collaboration with scientists from the research group led by Pablo Jarillo-Herrero at MIT
As Prof. van Hulst states""it is amazing how graphene allows direct nonlinear detecting of ultrafast femtosecond (fs) pulses."
we could advance large-scale renewable energy storage technologies for electric cars and microgrids, "he says. Jin also believes that the novel X-ray imaging technique will facilitate the studies of other technologically important solid-state transformations
#Scientists create cheaper magnetic material for cars, wind turbines Karl A. Gschneidner and fellow scientists at the U s. Department of energy's Ames Laboratory have created a new magnetic alloy that is an alternative to traditional rare-earth permanent magnets.
enable collision avoidance technologies on cars and allow virtual reality (VR) headsets to be used outdoors. The researchers'new centimeter-accurate GPS coupled with a smartphone camera could be used to quickly build a globally referenced 3-D map of one's surroundings that would greatly expand the radius of a VR game.
"Humphreys and his team in the Radionavigation Lab have built a low-cost system that reduces location errors from the size of a large car to the size of a nickel--a more than 100 times increase in accuracy.
"If your car knows in real time the precise position and velocity of an approaching car that is blocked from view by other traffic,
your car can plan ahead to avoid a collision, "Humphreys said. Further information: http://gpsworld. com/accuracy-in-the-palm-of-your-hand d
#'Microcombing'creates stronger, more conductive carbon nanotube films"It's a simple process and can create a lightweight CNT film,
such as in maintaining spacing between self-driving cars that are platooned"-following each other at close intervals.
"said Ute Neugebauer, group leader at the Jena University Hospital and Leibniz Institute of technology. What exactly does the team's medical device detect?"
Few people would look at a car, an airplane or a farming tool and appreciate the durable layers protecting its parts.
"This includes automobiles, with parts that bear the burden of heavy loads, erosion and corrosion.
"Just like you have a car that you're running into the ground--things don't work right
or run our cars without adding any greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. By combining nanoscience and biology, researchers led by scientists at University of California,
or run our cars without adding any greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. By combining nanoscience and biology, researchers led by scientists at University of California,
FOM workgroup leader prof. dr. Bart van Wees and his Phd student Ludo Cornelissen, both from the University of Groningen and FOM workgroup leader dr. Rembert
"Cooler cars Zhu said the technology has significant potential for any outdoor device or system that demands cooling
"Say you have a car that is bright red, "Zhu said.""You really like that color,
such as running a car tyre over it, the electrical output was uniformed highly and there was no damage to the functionality of the device.
Engineers build better energy storage device Mcmaster Engineering researchers Emily Cranston and Igor Zhitomirsky are turning trees into energy storage devices capable of powering everything from a smart watch to a hybrid car.
where sensors in cars, located in devices like flow meters, position sensors and interlocks, are made currently of silicon or indium antimonide.
For instance, when there is a change in temperature due to the car's air-conditioner or heat from the sun,
properties of the conventional sensors in the car change as well. To counter this, a temperature correction mechanism is required, incurring additional production cost.
Fraunhofer ICT It self-evident that cars must become lighter in order to reduce fuel consumption. For most car designers this principally means body parts
but the powertrain system, which includes the engine, also accounts for a large proportion of the vehicle weight.
Until now, carmakers have relied on aluminum to reduce the weight of engine components such as the cylinder block.
whether the carmaker wishes to optimize the engine in terms of costs or in terms of weight. The researchers produce these components from granulated thermoset plastics using an injection molding process.
cigarette smoke and car fumes and airways twitchiness in allergic asthma. ur paper shows how these triggers release chemicals that activate Casr in airway tissue
have been refining cell-surface sensors known as chimeric antigen receptors, or CARS. Once inserted into T cells,
CARS prompt these cells to home in on particular proteins found primarily in tumors, where they launch a series of cancer-killing immune responses.
Dangers of CAR T cell Therapy CAR-equipped T cells have proven to be remarkably successful in the treatment of various forms of chemotherapy-resistant leukemia
But CAR T cell therapy can cause side effects so serious that they may require monitoring in an Intensive care unit several patients have died after receiving CAR T cells
while theye in the body. ome scientists have grappled with these problems by developing uicide switchesthat kill off CAR T cells
creating a new type of CAR T cell that is ffby default. Like CONVENTIONAL CAR T cells, these newly developed T cells will navigate toward
and interact with cancer cells, but will not launch any immune assault unless a specially designed drug has been administered.
This controller drug forms a chemical bridge between components inside the CAR T cells flipping the cells into an active, nstatus.
and selectively eliminated by the Lim group new CAR T cells, but only after the controller drug had been administered.
and colleagues does more than merely switch CAR T cells between nand ffstates. It can also act like a rheostat:
These combined control capabilities could be employed to manage the various side effects of CAR T therapy.
For CAR T cell treatments, T cells are removed from a patient blood, genetically engineered to carry CARS that target the patient tumor,
then reinserted into the bloodstream to exert their effects. Once inside the body, in addition to attacking tumors directly, CAR T cells, like all T cells, release signaling molecules called cytokines, some
of which recruit additional T cells to fight the tumor. Sometimes normal cells express small amounts of a cancer-associated protein targeted by a CAR T cell.
Because CAR T cells placed in the bloodstream pass immediately through the heart and lungs, these tissues can be damaged before the CAR T cells reach their intended target elsewhere in the body.
The control offered by the Lim laboratory new cells would allow physicians to leave CAR T cells inactivated until the heart
and lungs are less vulnerable to these irst passside effects. Even when CAR T cells attack only their correct target cancer cells,
side effects can still occur. In tumor lysis syndrome, the body is overwhelmed by toxic substances released when many tumor cells die in rapid succession.
Another side effect, known as a ytokine storm is a life-threatening vicious cycle in which released cytokines summon numerous T cells to the tumor,
but he believes that the research provides the foundation for practical remote control of CAR T cells on the near horizon.
In addition to drug control of CAR T nswitches, members of his laboratory are exploring other techniques to accomplish this goal,
such as controlling CAR T cell activation with light. While successful against blood cancers such as leukemia, CAR T cells have shown so far less efficacy against solid tumors that effect the colon, breast, prostrate, brain and other tissues.
The remote control strategy developed by Lim group may permit researchers to develop more powerful versions of CAR T cells that could attack these solid tumors,
while still keeping side effects in check. Members of the Lim laboratory are also working to reduce side effects by introducing multiple CARS into T cells
so that the cells will respond to multiple characteristics that are distinctive to an individual patient tumor,
and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. hat we can engineer CAR T cells to have slightly different,
ranging from cell phones to laptop computers and electric cars. But there may soon be a new type of battery based on materials that are far more abundant and less costly.
For all the self-driving cars, AI breakthroughs, and Internet balloons, ads on Web pages and inside apps provide over 90 percent of their company revenue.
the research lab Google X, where oonshotprojects include self-driving cars and delivering Wireless internet via stratospheric balloons;
But the message seems to be that ideas like self-driving cars and defeating aging could become as successful and influential as Google online services are today.
such as the self-driving car, are about as distinct and mature as other Alphabet subsidiaries named today, for example.
The first successful heart transplant, in 1967, was carried out in South africa from a 25-year-old car accident victim
Donors at the Papworth hospital have included victims of car accidents and failed suicide attempts by hanging.
Devices with Kumu technology mounted on top of cars played the role of cell phones linking to the network.
or blocked by buildings, cars, or people from making a direct line-of-site connection with the tower.
when a car went by. Kumu first product will be aimed at wireless carriers and is a version of the small mobile base stations, known as small cells,
Hackers sorry, security experts at mobile cybersecurity firm Lookout have compromised successfully a Tesla Model S. This is the third connected car hack in the last two weeks,
Mahaffey was quick to point out that this hack required"initial physical access to the car."
While the researcher commends Tesla for how well it separated its massive infotainment system from the rest of the car's controls at a top level,
Mahaffey and his partner in crime (for good) were able to perform any action possible from the car's touchscreen or Tesla's accompanying smartphone app.
On one occasion, the security guru successfully turned the car off while it was driving."
"At low speeds, the car applies the parking brake and it immediately comes to a stop,
"At speeds above about 5 miles per hour, the Model S gracefully shuts off its engineust like shifting a gasoline car into neutralhile still providing the driver full control over steering
and brakes so they can safely bring the car to a stop.""Good to know!
especially when cars are only to become more connected? For starters, Mahaffey tells auto makers to start putting their cars'critical systems into closed networks that are isolated from the infotainment systems or information clusters.
This is the third reported hack on connected cars in the last two weeks alone. First, security experts assumed direct, remote control of a new Jeep cherokee,
causing parent company Fiat Chrysler to recall 1. 4 million vehicles. And it's only worse press for the firm from there.
Short after, another white hat hacker revealed a flaw in Onstar's connected system that left any General motors car equipped with the service wide open to remote door unlocks and ignition starts.
In short, for who knows how long, any Onstar-equipped GM car could be jacked hands Free of course,
if this past month hasn't opened everyone's eyes to the folly surrounding security in connected cars right now,
#Graphene's thermoelectric properties to help cars recover lost thermal energy Charging bateries or running air conditioning could be assisted by energy from fuel normally wasted as heat emissions One of the less well-known properties of graphene could enable the carbonaceous wonder-material to help combustion engine vehicles to make better use of the energy from their fuel by converting waste heat into electricity
It is all part of the promise of connected and self-driving cars, which allow data about individual journeys,
Autonomous intersection management Once computers are in full control of our cars, do need we even traffic lights at intersections?
Rather than stop at red lights, self-driving cars would schedule a slot through an intersection in real-time,
speeding up or slowing down to ensure theye in the right place at the right time and not smashing into another car.
people will also get used to the idea of cars going through the intersections. That said, he stressed that driving is now
and our system will allow the cars to make a much more constant speed, he says,
even with all the cars going through without stopping, it going to be a lot safer than it is today. re we there yet?
Computers aren driving our cars yet and won be for some time, but there are some connected car projects that already claim to be easing the flow of traffic.
Tomtom collects swaths of traffic data from its satnav devices but also used anonymised data from third party navigation apps, including smartphone maps. e have agreements with a number of smartphone manufacturers,
aggregated and distributed from connected cars in weeks or months past. Before ubiquitous connectivity Cohn said the travel times seen by Tomtom were very different than that given by road authorities such as the AA.
As cars become more connected whether it through satnav or simply the smartphones in our pockets better data in means we get better data out on the road.
not only GPS from cars and timings from traffic lights, but also air quality sensor data and images from cameras. n its own, each is of low value,
or send a text message to a car, or alert satnavs in the car to quietly change the routing
so theye now going somewhere else. It may seem like a small change, but consider the shift that happened in digital signs.
One way self-driving vehicles may be introduced is latooning with a lead car in control of a train or group of followers, handy for giving lorry drivers a break.
There are reasons to give some cars priority, and that being trialled by Newcastle. There, traffic lights are alkingto motorists,
sending messages to a device in car about obstacles or delays ahead, as well as helping them adjust their speeds to hit lights
roads aren used only by cars. What about the bicycles, scooters and pedestrians hoping to cross the street?
but by sending messages to drivers in cars, giving them useful information to react to
#Tesla announces low-cost solar batteries The electric car company Tesla has announced its entry into the energy market, unveiling a suite of low-cost solar batteries for homes, businesses and utilities,
The batteries will initially be manufactured at the electric car company factory in California, but will move production to its planned igafactoryin Nevada
The engineered cells contain an antibody-like protein known as a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) which is designed to bind to a protein called CD19 found on the surface of B cells including the cancerous B cells that characterize several types of leukemia.
A signaling domain built into the CAR promotes rapid multiplication of the hunter cells building an army of tumor-killing cells that tests reveal can grow to more than 10000 new cells for each single engineered cell patients receive.
Compartments within a cell are much like different parts of a car explains Vasanth Ramamurthy Phd first author of the study.
in order to power the car's engine proteins need to be in a specific compartment to properly exercise their functions.
It will help us make parts that are stronger lighter and function better for more energy-efficient transportation and energy production applications such as cars and wind turbines.
Seniors living in highly automobile dependent suburbs who lose their licenses can suffer a decreased quality of life as a result.
Figuratively speaking these are genes that are like motor racing cars with a running engine waiting at the start of a race.
The new technology is designed for conventional lithium-ion batteries now used in billions of cellphones laptops and other electronic devices as well as a growing number of cars and airplanes.
Some electric cars today are equipped with thousands of lithium-ion battery cells. If one battery explodes the whole pack can potentially explode.
With our nanotechnology electric cars would be able to increase their range dramatically with just five minutes of charging
which is on par with the time needed to pump petrol for current cars added Prof Chen.
and car factories where they help engineers to determine the characteristics of steel materials analyze their chemical composition
#Miniature camera may lead to fewer accidents Measuring only a few cubic millimeters a new type of camera module might soon be integrated into future driver assistance systems to help car drivers facing
when facing a potential car accident: A brief moment of distraction, overtiredness or inattention--there are several reasons why the number of accidents in Germany is high, on the autobahns most of all.
Krystyn Van Vliet, Lead Investigator, SMART Biosystems and Micromechanics (Biosym) Interdisciplinary Research Group (IRG. The research entitled'Multivariate biophysical markers predictive of mesenchymal stromal cell multipotency'will be published in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this week.
and why stem-cell treatments now in clinical trials are not as effective as they could be says Krystyn Van Vliet an MIT associate professor of materials science and engineering
but many of the cells that you're putting in are not Van Vliet says.
but you also can't use fewer than these three Van Vliet says. We now have a triplet of characteristics that identifies populations of cells that are going to be multipotent
what is known already about stem cells Van Vliet says. Compared with cells that have committed already to their final fate immature cells have genetic material that moves around inside the nucleus producing more fluctuations of the nuclear cell membrane.
Creating more pure populations of such cells should lead to more effective stem-cell treatments for tissue injuries Van Vliet says.
Van Vliet and Poon also hope to begin a clinical trial of the osteogenic cells isolated in this study
"One can now think of using these films in automobile glass as an invisible deicer, and even in skyscrapers,"Tour said."
"Tittel said smaller QEPAS device will be added this year to the mobile monitoring van currently carrying out a Rice university of Houston survey of pollutants in the city.
Every time the field flips, the polarity of the bars reverses, drawing the magnetized droplets in a new, predetermined direction, like slot cars on a track.
#Deriving Power Directly from Evaporation Eva, the first evaporation-powered car, rolls along, thanks to a moisture mill a turbine engine driven by water evaporating from wet paper strips lining its walls.
and a rotary engine that drives a miniature car. When evaporation energy is scaled up the researchers predict,
The researchers next built a small toy car, powering it with the Moisture Mill and were successful in getting the car to roll on its own,
powered only by evaporation. In the future, Sahin said, it may be possible to design engines that use the mechanical energy stored in spores to propel a full-sized vehicle.
or CAR, in blood-forming stem cells. Blood-forming stem cells are capable of turning into any type of blood cell,
and mutates too rapidly for T cells to fight against the virus. The researchers inserted a gene for a CAR into blood-forming stem cells in the lab. The CAR,
The CAR-modified blood stem cells were transplanted then into HIV-infected mice that had been engineered genetically with human immune systems.
The researchers found that the CAR-carrying blood stem cells successfully turned into functional T cells that could kill HIV-infected cells in the mice.
The findings strongly suggest that stem cell-based gene therapy with a CAR may be a feasible and effective treatment for chronic HIV infection in humans.
immunology and molecular genetics in the UCLA David Geffen School of medicine and a co-author of the study. ith the CAR approach,
Kitchen said the CAR approach is more flexible and potentially more effective because it could theoretically be employed in anyone.
and they know what car he drives, they can see where the car has been in recent days and months.
Investigators can map crime history both by location and time to reveal trends. And if a radiation alarm goes off,
Car thefts are down 17%.%Robberies are down 16%.%The Foothill area of Los angeles actually went an entire day without serious crime last year,
They are such powerful connectors of people that they are literally replacing their need and desire for cars.
As Steve Pendleton pointed out in a New Statesman piece about Britain reaching peak cars: But young people aren't simply swapping cars for buses or bikes;
they are choosing to own and use other technology instead, such as smartphones and tablet computers. It's not merely that the two trade off economically;
while travelling by bus, train or as a passenger in a car, only 10 per cent of them said they did so
while driving a car. Now think about where mass transit works best--where young people, retirees and even families are able to simply abolish their use of cars.
Especially in the U s. nowhere else but cities is this even possible. As young people turn away from cars--a phenomenon so powerful that it has had the marketing departments of car companies running scared for years--they are left with no other option than mass transit,
and that means increased density, urbanism, walkability and everything else required to bring our way of life in line with planetary boundaries.
Millennials aren't just fleeing the automobile; they're also explicitly fleeing Mcmansions and the suburbs.
literally represents a wealth transfer from the old economy--cars, oil, long commutes--to a new one built on a desire to capitalize on virtual connectivity by recapitulating it in the real world.
who are making decisions every day to buy an ipad instead of a new car, or to move closer to work
have a two-car garage and enslave yourself to lawn care? Who's aspiring to that t
especially big items like automobiles that are used only roughly 8 percent of the time. While it took Zipcar about six years to build up to 1, 000 cars in its network,
it the U k.-based Whipcar about six months to build up to the same number, she said.
That, in turn, causes people to think at least twice before a big-ticket purchase like a car that sits idle for 92 percent of the time.
they aren't just for big houses and cars anymore. Increasingly, Sarah Goodyear reports for The Atlantic cities, suburbs throughout the United states are investing in bicycle infrastructure.
and could be embedded in surfaces ranging from car dashboards to household floors to kitchen countertops.
and the inside surfaces of some new car models. Toyota announced in December that the 2013 Toyota Avalon Limited will be the first car to offer wireless charging with a Qi-powered console included under the dashboard.
Bas Fransen, chief marketing officer and head of business development for Convenientpower, a wireless power technology company,
car ownership costs rising (high gas prices, insurance, etc.;states making it difficult to get a driver's license;
and technology lessening the need for a car. So is this a trend we can expect to continue?
but in the future you may see it on your TV or in your car. I called Bayer Monday at his office in Green Island, NY.
Chief scientist and cofounder Gavin Mcintyre just won a half a million dollar proposal to adopt this same platform for automobile interior trim parts and cushions.
Towards that goal, we've driven our Street view cars throughout the Tohoku region again over the past months.
and are greater than those of all cars, trucks, planes, ships, and trains worldwide.""The program is in testing right now,
Some say that it new Wi-fi enabled busses that is luring people to leave cars behind
Finally, at the end of the rainbow, the Google self-driving car. The first step toward a robotic pancreas came in 1964,
Although several options to store hydrogen as a fuel for cars have been investigated, a practical and affordable way to store
and distribute hydrogen is still the biggest hurdle to the wide deployment of green, CO2 EMISSION-free cars.
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