That is important because structural energy storage will change the way in which a wide variety of technologies are developed in the future. hen you can integrate energy into the components used to build systems it opens the door to a whole new world of technological possibilities.
The new device that Pint and Westover have developed is a supercapacitor that stores electricity by assembling electrically charged ions on the surface of a porous material instead of storing it in chemical reactions the way batteries do.
When the electrodes are pressed together the polymer oozes into the tiny pores in much the same way that melted cheese soaks into the nooks and crannies of the bread in a panini.
Neurogrid was by far the most cost-effective way to simulate neurons, in keeping with Boahen goal of creating a system affordable enough to be used widely in research.
Gravitational lensing it has long been predicted can twist E modes into B modes as photons pass by galaxies and other massive objects on their way toward earth.
Measuring B modes generated by inflation is a possible way to alleviate lingering doubt. he detection of a primordial B-mode polarization signal in the microwave background would amount to finding the first tremors of the big bangsays
but also relatively close at just 6500 light years away providing an excellent way to study what happens in these stellar explosions. ast year we used the European space agency s Herschel Space observatory to study the intricate network of gas filaments to show how exploding stars are creating huge amounts of space dust. urther measurements
#New transistors offer high output at low voltage A new type of transistor could pave the way for fast computing devices that would use very low energy including smart sensor networks and implanted medical devices.
Tunnel field effect transistors are considered to be a potential replacement for current CMOS transistors as device makers search for a way to continue shrinking the size of transistors and packing more transistors into a given area.
There are many ways to make GQDS now but most are expensive and produce very small quantities says James Tour chair in chemistry and professor of mechanical engineering and materials science and of computer science at Rice university.
Earlier research found a way last year to make GQDS from relatively cheap carbon fiber
#Search tool finds pics of you based on tag relationships University of Toronto Posted by Michael Kennedy-Toronto on December 2 2013a new algorithm could profoundly change the way we find photos among the billions on social media sites such as Facebook
#Quantum wells flash light without magnets Spontaneous bursts of light from a solid block illuminate the unusual way interacting quantum particles behave
The discovery of a way to trigger these flashes may lead to new telecommunications equipment
Many-body theory gives physicists a way to understand how large numbers of interacting particles like molecules atoms
but people##and NEIL##nevertheless know that sheep typically are white. mages are the best way to learn visual propertiessays Abhinav Gupta assistant research professor in Carnegie mellon University s Robotics Institute. mages
In this way the mailbox becomes undetectable to radar. e ve demonstrated a different way of doing itsays Eleftheriades. t s very simple:
and their frequency can be tuned over a wide range because of graphene s tremendous mechanical strength. here is a long way to go toward actual applications in this areanotes Hone ut this work is an important first step.
The electrodes worked for about 100 charge-discharge cycles without significantly losing their energy storage capacity. hat s still quite a way from the goal of about 500 cycles for cell phones
and from all our data it looks like it s working. esearchers worldwide are racing to find ways to store more energy in the negative electrodes of lithium ion batteries to achieve higher performance while reducing weight.
Researchers in Cui s lab and elsewhere have tested a number of ways to keep silicon electrodes intact
and advanced laboratory techniques gave scientists an unprecedented opportunity to study the meteor that exploded over Chelyabinsk Russia in February. f humanity does not want to go the way of the dinosaurs we need to study an event like this in detailsays Qing-zhu Yin professor
As reported in the journal Nature existing solar cells all work in the same fundamental way:
since the 1970s but we don't make solar cells this way because they have only been demonstrated with ultraviolet light
Moreover it would be a way around an inefficiency intrinsic to interfacial solar cells known as the Shockley-Queisser limit where some of the energy from photons is lost as electrons wait to make the jump from one material to the other. hink of photons coming from the sun
which is another very useful trait. nother way to get around the inefficiency imposed by the Shockley-Queisser limit in interfacial solar cells is to effectively stack several solar cells with different bandgaps on top of
In solid-state white lighting technology phosphors are applied to the LED chip in such a way that the photons from the blue gallium nitride LED pass through the phosphor
The way they continue to improve is by making huge pixel mosaics which is appropriate for many
why do animals exert force in ways that don t move them toward their destination? A robot designer would likely avoid the side-to-side sashaying of a running lizard
So why do the animals behave this way? A research team led by Johns hopkins university engineers says that the extra exertion isn t necessarily wasteful after all.
His team s findings published in the journal Nature could change the way scientists think about longstanding scientific models of how neural circuitry functions in the brain
and professor of chemistry and chemical biology. s an additive it greatly improves the cycling stability of the battery. n another approach to improving lithium-sulfur battery durability the researchers also report a new way
modeled after the way an egg is encased in a shell but has room to move around inside.
ut we ve found an easy way to do it. nstead of storing energy in chemical reactions the way batteries do upercapsstore electricity by assembling ions on the surface of a porous material.
#Drop an internet in the ocean to detect tsunamis University at Buffalo rightoriginal Studyposted by Cory Nealon-Buffalo on October 14 2013a deep-sea internet network is expected to improve the way scientists detect tsunamis monitor pollution
#rtificial nose detects dangerous vapors Researchers have developed a way to sniff out solvent gases by combining a common mineral zeolite with a metallic compound based on rhenium.
and gases can t interact with themhe says. o we started thinking of ways to create space between them. nter zeolites. hese zeolites are cages with big cavities
#Gene keeps wheat from sprouting on the stalk A new way to keep high humidity from damaging wheat crops could save farmers millions of dollars
It s a bit like the plant s brainsays Singh. lthough in the past scientists have identified it as the pathway that regulates the way a variety of genes are expressed until now no one had made the link with PHS. he researchers made the discovery by using a variety of genomic and molecular tools to identify specific
and then compared the way that these genes are expressed in PHS resistant versus PHS susceptible varieties of wheat. his discovery is important for other cereals like barley as well as for wheatsays Surinder Singh a doctoral student
This has implications for the way we view volcanic risk. eep-sea basalt pillars form
A team has developed a programming language for chemistry that it hopes will streamline efforts to design a network that can guide the behavior of chemical-reaction mixtures in the same way that embedded electronic controllers guide cars robots and other devices.
Scientists now are finding ways to design synthetic systems that behave like biological ones with the hope that synthetic molecules could support the body s natural functions.
That s roughly 10 times the acceleration provided by the current SLAC linear accelerator. ur ultimate goal for this structure is one billion electronvolts per meter and we re already one-third of the way in our first experimentsaid
Turning the accelerator on a chip into a full-fledged tabletop accelerator will require a more compact way to get the electrons up to speed before they enter the device.
and may pave the way for improvements in high-speed communication navigation and remote sensing. hen you re tuning a piano a tuning fork gives a standardized pitch or reference sound frequency;
But inherent imperfections have stood in the way of putting this promising material to practical use.
Since mass production is the eventual goal researchers had to find ways to deal with misaligned
and/or metallic CNTS without having to hunt for them like needles in a haystack. e needed a way to design circuits without having to look for imperfections
It is still a long way to gowang says. The work was conducted at the Geosoilenvirocars beamline operated by University of Chicago at the Advanced Photon Source housed at Argonne.
#Colonies of wired microbes turn sewage into electricity Stanford university rightoriginal Studyposted by Tom Abate-Stanford on September 19 2013a new way to generate electricity from sewage uses naturally occurring ired microbesas mini power plants
Over the last dozen years or so several research groups have tried various ways to use these microbes as bio-generators
but silver is too expensive for use at large scalesays Yi Cui an associate professor of materials science and engineering. hough the search is under way for a more practical material finding a substitute will take time. ource:
Although Edmund Halley who also discovered the famous comet showed the westward-drifting motion of the Earth s geomagnetic field in 1692 it is the first time that scientists have been able to link the way the inner core spins to the behavior of the outer core.
The planet behaves in this way because it is responding to the Earth s geomagnetic field.
#Ink-jet printing creates soft nanostructures A new way to make nanostructures combines advanced ink-jet printing technology with block copolymers that spontaneously form ultra-fine structures.
but there are significant challenges in achieving true nanoscale dimension. ur work demonstrates that processes of polymer self-assembly can provide a way around this limitationsays John Rogers professor of materials science and engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
and hoped for ways to reconstruct deeper historical trends in this important nitrogen-cycle processcapone says. he new study by the Sigman
because it is the only way this fungal pathogen can produce spores to infect its host.
and his colleagues former fellow Min Ni and current graduate student Marianna Feretzaki grew the microbe in two different ways,
Scientists with no way to directly see it had struggled to understand it: it behaves like a solid
##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
and implantable biomedical devicesgreer says the work could fundamentally shift the way people think about the creation of materials. ith this approach we can really start thinking about designing materials backwardshe says. can start with a property
and then process it in such a way that it s made out of almost any material class we d likeâ##for example metals ceramics
The new powerful and very versatile way of controlling the speed and direction of motion of microscopic structures in water relies on
at the University of Warwick. t may even provide some insight into how rod shapes were selected for self-propelled microscopic shapes in the natural world. he team has now found a way to do it by simply adding a chemical in a specific spot
while enhancing yieldsshe says. e re on our way there. ource: Iowa State Universityyou are free to share this article under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noderivs 3. 0 Unported license
rate paving the way for a more lightweight material for cars and electronics. Weighing in at two thirds less than aluminum magnesium is the lightest structural metal.
Research efforts to develop lighter metals have explored way to create a stainless or corrosion-resistant form of magnesium.
#Silicon system produces squeezed light California Institute of technology rightoriginal Studyposted by Kimm Fesenmaier-Caltech on August 9 2013caltech (US)# A new system constructed on a silicon microchip offers a more useful way to produce the ultraquiet
or punching holes into it making these mechanical structures that respond to light in a very novel way.#
#One way to do that#says Safavi-Naeini#is to use light that has less noise.#
In this way the liquid electrolyte played a dual role: maintaining the minute space between the graphene sheets and conducting electricity.
These findings may pave the way for new methodologies for understanding anxiety and other emotions as well as substances that alter them.
#Convert microscope into billion-pixel imager for $200 CALTECH (US) Engineers have devised a way to convert a conventional microscope into a billion-pixel imaging system for about $200. n my view,
because it changes the way we tackle high-performance microscopy, says Changhuei Yang, professor of electrical engineering, bioengineering and medical engineering at the California Institute of technology (Caltech).
but only in a small area or they have gotten a coarser view of a much larger area. e found a way to actually have the best of both worlds,
The relatively small subset of gene mutations that were found to enhance survival Botstein says suggests that there are only a limited number of ways in
With Drawafriend, wee found a way to use crowdsourcing to create this critical resource for a data-impoverished phenomenon.
offers two ways that solar steam can be used for sterilizationne setup to clean medical instruments and another to sanitize human waste. anitation
The new insight may be helpful in finding ways to minimize the potential toxicity of graphene says Agnes Kane chair of the pathology and laboratory medicine department at Brown and one of the study s authors.
Not all of the whales responded to the noise and not all in the same way. Blue whales are the largest animals that have lived ever.
and less expensive to access content this way.##Panwar along with a team of students who have been working on the prototype technology designed streamloading to be compatible with current digital rights management (DRM) protocols.
and permitted to remain that way by being dispersed on GNR surfaces, the volume changes in the nanoparticles are not dramatic.
Sparking emotions One challenge for the research team was find a way to repeatedly and reliably evoke different emotional states from the participants.
different people tend to neurally encode emotions in remarkably similar ways, notes Amanda Markey, a graduate student in the department of social and decision sciences.
But the researchers are now finding ways to apply their discoveries about Roman concrete to the development of more earth-friendly and durable modern concrete.
#There are a lot of hurdles in the way but we aim to bring novel devices built on sound physical understanding for cost-effectiveness and efficient power consumption.#
PENN (US)# Engineers have used a pattern of nanoantennas to develop a new way of turning infrared light into mechanical action
#The only way they can expand is in the third dimension. In this case that means bending toward the gold side
#While only a proof-of-concept at this stage future research will demonstrate the device s capabilities as a low-cost way of analyzing individual proteins and gas molecules.
It does this without requiring fancy changes in manufacturing or a new way of writing software
#Clean power is on its way for data centers as a service too Using clean energy to power data centers is becoming increasingly commonplace,
and work much in the way that a home pregnancy test does they are not nearly as sensitive
The Ember printer handles that last step in an unusual way. The tank is shaped like a cashew;
musicality. t a revolutionary way of preventing these diseases, and wee ready after extensive animal testing.
and that performing the technique on actual volunteer women is the only way to know
if the procedure is effective and safe in humans. t a revolutionary way of preventing these diseases,
Spire is the first to name weather as a major part of its business plan. e are just unwilling to accept that the way people think about the weather is just the way it is said,
greener ways to get around. The vehicle converts the rowing motion of the driver and any passengers into rotational thrust to charge a battery and power the vehicle in conjunction with an electric motor.
The device is perfect for anyone wanting a way to get fit and help the environment
It uses a ottom upapproach that raises the teat cups on the milker in such a way that they can drop off from the udder
it has helped pioneer new ways of using technology. We've seen the versatile, board-based Raspberry Pi enabling everything from robotic bartenders to doggie treat dispensers.
In the same way that the animals steer themselves by moving the funnel that the water comes out of the Fraunhofer system can also be steered using a motor to selectively point the balls in the desired direction (s). The whole apparatus can be fabricated in one step using a 3d printer.
which is information we really can get with sufficient accuracy any other way.""It's not just useful for studying the carbon cycle, either.
#Nature inspires color-sensitive CMOS-compatible photodetector Researchers at Rice university's Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP) have developed a new image sensor that mimics the way we see color by integrating light amplifiers and color
and more closely mimics the way living organisms'see'colors. The Rice team's paper on the research was published recently in the journal Advanced Materials s
but rather let the robot automatically conform to the environment the way animals do.""Using the hardware knowledge gleaned from their many years of snake robot construction,
but that they all communicate with each other in the same way. The interfaces used in the modular architecture allow robot designers to focus on specific capabilities without having to worry about detailed systems issues
But CNN's official approval from the FAA could pave the way for more widespread use
and give professionals the tools to do their jobs in cheaper, more efficient ways. Much like the exemptions granted to Hollywood production companies last year,
#8 ways the Oculus Rift could (eventually) transcend gaming Gamers have been buzzing about the Oculus Rift for a couple of years already
The best way to describe the experience is made that it today's movies seem stale and one-dimensional by comparison.
Similarly VR could transform the way we watch sports. Imagine the 2016 NBA Finals with 360-degree cameras placed at various points courtside (or even hanging above the court or on the backboards.
That's where DNATRAX comes inoriginally designed for biodefense work DNATRAX was created as a way to simulate germ warfare attacks on indoor and outdoor targets.
The conventional way of determining the weak spots in targets ranging from underground rail systems to the Pentagon is to spray harmless bacteria into the air later collect samples from various places then incubate them to see how the bacteria has spread.
so the researchers see DNATRAX as a safe way of assessing how well current suits are performing.
However DNATRAX is a quick and efficient way to stop these foods from sickening more people
#Prototype system paves way for huge glasses-free 3d displays Using red/blue filters (anaglyph),
polarized (passive) or LED shutter (active) glasses are relatively simple ways of creating a 3d effect.
just like the way real objects and scenes are observed. This is achieved via a new video format that has been developed by the researchers."
Panasonic has found a way to bind the Tio2 to another particle zeolite (a commercial adsorbent and catalyst)
and it could have a substantial impact in the way devices large and small are powered in the future.
In addition, the Langley team is also working on ways that the robot can be employed in building metal components.
#Voxel8 paves the way for 3d-printed electronics The 3d printers of today can produce objects that may be quite intricate in shape
However, when millions of them join up they can work in a completely coordinated way,
therefore now attempting to take advantage of this new way of storing light energy, and reuse it in a controlled manner e
The tracking packages are widely available on the internet with many marketed as ways for employers to monitor the movements of their workers
the National institutes of health (NIH) and other academic institutions have discovered a way to block a pain pathway in animal models of chronic neuropathic pain including pain caused by chemotherapeutic agents
Researchers have found a way to generate invisible 3-D shapes in the air that can be felt by human hands.
offering free Wall Connector charging is a low-cost way to provide greater customer convenience while also potentially serving as a marketing tool.
offering free Wall Connector charging is a low-cost way to provide greater customer convenience while also potentially serving as a marketing tool.
you pave a way to move the whole mountain. South korea is even trying to turn a crisis into a business opportunity.
And one day, Mr. Cha, 74, a retired subway official, could not find his way home. was like,
Ways to improve and execute exercise routine. How to make sure wee all on time. hey don comprehend my words,
But the same technologies of istance learningare now finding their way onto brick-and-mortar campuses,
That not because technology built into mobile phones is the way that everything, from cameras to translators, seems to be going.
and change the way it advertises to children. Kellogg, the company that makes Froot Loops
who are interested increasingly in the way food is produced. Harvestmark, based in California, has developed a two-dimensional bar code sticker that can be placed on individual fruits and vegetables or packaging.
The idea came about as the NYPD looked for ways to connect intelligence gathered in the field with the department s new system that compiles raw data, video feeds and other information,
One way to do that the report said, is to create an online public database for accessing accident reports.
Currently, the only way to change the batteries in these implants is through surgery. The edible battery might reduce the amount of surgeries required as its use is less invasive.
and be on your way with your latest invention or personal services. Smartphone apps can be built for less than $10k,
and actually changing the way we think and behave in business, in our community, and our society.
but then went their separate ways. While each place has engineered obviously its own solution, the basics of the companies systems are similar.
All three said that their systems would not work in the way recorded by#Time.#
##We gotta come up with a way that every agent can be as good as our best ones.
It doesn t beat people up in the same way.####The machine absorbs some of the##emotional wear and tear##that comes with the job.#
because the##shift fatigue##that hits other outbound telemarketing firms doesn t set in in quite the same way.**
***Though no one quite puts it this way, the number-one selling point for the soundboard technology is obvious to Filipino telemarketers:
##I think this is the way it all should be done, ##he responded.####We need to get the entire universe here to accept how the sausage is made.
We, the searchable In Mid-january,#Facebook introduced Graph Search, a way for the average user to tap into the social network s web of interconnected human intelligence.
On this front, Google has led always the way, and the January 2013 edition of its semiannual Transparency Report showed the numbers of such requests had increased 70 percent between 2009 and 2012.
and Microsoft initially#hummed its way through calls for a Skype transparency report before#giving in#to pressure from privacy groups.
or giving them a meaningful way to say no. A lot of people were unhappy about Google search
But this element of the story in many ways diverted public attention from what it was Snowden was revealing:
and conceptions of the truth have evolved along the way, but here s a rough approximation of how we now understand things:#
#However, even if it turns out they were entirely ignorant of the NSA s fiber-tapping ways,
perhaps we are just in time but either way, 2013 has helped at least us understand the choices we all face.
A team that has identified a new way in which cells age has reversed also the process in old mice
whose bodies appear younger in several ways. The discovery has implications for understanding age-related diseases including cancers, neurodegenerative disorders and diabetes.#
#One way all mammalian cells produce energy is via aerobic respiration, in which large molecules are broken down into smaller ones, releasing energy in the process.
The obvious way of doing it is to have an ultrasonic transducer in the corner of the windshield that would excite waves at around 30khz to bounce across the windshield.
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