The ship is fitted with speed of light weapons, while the ultra-strong acrylic hull, coated in a form of carbon called graphene, could be made see-through.
but we were surprised to find that we could identify most of the occupants just by sampling their microbial cloud. ur data make clear that an occupied space is microbially distinct from an unoccupied one,
and reveal for the first time that individuals occupying a space can emit their own distinct personal microbial cloud.
including communications between Earth and spacecraft. Quantum teleportation depends on a phenomenon called quantum entanglement. This allows connections to be made between atoms,
and it's only a matter of time before we will be'beaming'across the universe.
and with engineers at Nasa to improve techniques for collecting a person's vital signs,
which look remarkably similar to the star of 1986 film Short circuit, could be used to carry casualties to safety while under fire.
With caterpillar-style tracks and a head on top of a flexible neck, they look remarkably like Johnny Five-the malfunctioning mechanical star of the Short circuit films.
Both Google and Nasa have been developing a quantum computer as part of their artificial intelligence work. However their D-Wave quantum computer needs to be kept at temperatures of around-273°C(-459°F). The latest research by Professor Dzurak and his colleagues,
and exploring the fundamental nature of the universe
#HIV breakthrough could lead to a CURE as markers on immune cells identified The way a patient's immune system responds to HIV infection could offer clues as to
their study could be key to confirming the standard model explanation of the universe. This argues that four forces make up the interactions of particles:
and safeguard entire species. Researchers claim to have worked out how to accurately predict the eruption of'supervolcanoes'that blanket the earth in giant ash clouds triggering a'nuclear winter'.
Repeatedly throughout Earth's history, when they become a super-eruption, the resulting gigantic volcanic outbursts that throw 100 times more superheated gas,
'said Guilherme Gualda, associate professor of earth and environmental sciences at Vanderbilt University, who directed the project.'
The movement and structure of these waves could then be used to map the earth beneath.
Liquid-oxygen or kerosene rockets would be fired to enable the plane to rapidly climb higher in the sky
Nasa explains. It's predicted scramjets could reach 15 times the speed of sound. Bombardier Skreemr's sleek design, with four wings and two large rockets on the rear, is intended to be used as a commercial aircraft to carry 75 passengers in luxury.
While Bombardier came up with the idea Mattison, from Design Eye-Q in Minnesota, created the renderings of the concept.
which describes a craft that climbs vertically into the air before breaking the sound barrier as it travels horizontally across the sky.
A rocket motor would take it to an altitude of 100,000 feet (30,000 metres. The wing-mounted ramjets would then take control to push the jet to its final speed.
#MIT refreshes fusion reactor with modern superconductors Rare-earth barium copper oxide (REBCO) superconducting tapes could mean earlier practical fusion reactors, according to MIT.
The technology, funded by the National Science Foundation, allows for natural clays found readily all over the planet to be turned into reliable masonry products and offers a sustainable alternative to traditional concrete masonry,
They also believe the unique water-repelling nature of the material could be used in paint applied to airplanes and satellites or as part of electromagnetic shields for such things as unmanned aerial vehicles.
Tao likens the process to techniques used to discover exoplanets--new planets beyond our solar system.
evidence of their presence can be inferred from fluctuations in starlight due to gravitational effects caused by the unseen exoplanets.
"Xylochemistry could represent an important alternative to the climate-damaging use of the earth's finite resources of natural oil and gas in the production of chemicals."
"explains Sara Munk Jensen, Ph d. student at both the Nordic Center for Earth Evolution (Nordcee), Department of biology and the Department of physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Southern Denmark (SDU).
and highly portable so that it requires almost no lab space.""This type of cutting-edge work puts UCONN at the forefront of technology development
the contractor that renovated the lab space for more information about the lights.""I've never had a client
it doesn't. Nothing in the universe travels faster than light carrying information--Einstein is still right about that.
This speed of light increases or decreases depending on the material it's moving through. When light passes through water, for example, its phase velocity is reduced as its wavelengths get squished together.
meaning light no longer behaves as a moving wave, traveling through space in a series of crests and troughs.
not space. This uniform phase allows the light to be stretched or squished, twisted or turned, without losing energy.
the contractor that renovated the lab space for more information about the lights.""I've never had a client
night-vision goggles and smoke detectors to surveillance systems and satellites--that rely on electronic light sensors. Integrated into a digital camera lens, for example, it could reduce bulkiness and boost both the acquisition speed and quality of video or still photos.
#'Magic'plant discovery could lead to growing food in space QUT scientists have discovered the gene that will open the door for space-based food production.
--and space was an intriguing option.""So the recent film The Martian, which involved an astronaut stranded on Mars growing potatoes
while living in an artificial habitat, had a bit more science fact than fiction than people might think,
and innovate in this space. And we are also contributing back by releasing our 3-D printer designs under an open-source license
What important is that there is some space between the yolk and the shell (where the metaphorical hitewould go),
but rather the shrinking of that core to a olkwith the all-important internal space. Though the team had meant not to create that unintentional chemical product,
#Self-healing material could patch up damaged spacecraft in under a second Space is big and mostly empty,
but it the small part that isn empty that ends up being an issue for space exploration.
Even a tiny piece of debris from a derelict satellite or ancient bit of space rock can cause damage to a spacecraft,
and that damage can expose your fragile atmosphere-loving body to the harsh vacuum of space in a real hurry.
Researchers from the University of Michigan working with NASA have developed a material that might add an extra layer of protection from space debris
The International space station is the most heavily shielded craft ever built, a necessary distinction as it designed to operate for years in orbit.
The current design relies on a series of impact shields known as Whipple bumpers or Whipple shields.
the air inside a spacecraft will be sucked out quickly. The air on the inside of the ship reacts with the resin as it leaks out,
While space is the main application the researchers also say it could be useful in automotive and building technology
#Particle collider creates rimordial gooof the early universe A quark-gluon plasma is the original state of the universe.
After the Big bang, for a length of time extending for perhaps a few milliseconds, matter was so unimaginably super-heated that it was in its most disordered possible state.
is one of the most important questions for early universe cosmology today. That why it so surprising that an American particle collider called the Relativistic Heavy ion Collider (RHIC) was able to create it with very little actual mass.
But the Big bang is thought to have put all the matter in the universe into this state, all that once.
and out of existence can offer a window into the very earliest events in the history of the universe.
#The first satellite powered entirely by ion engines is online Getting a satellite into orbit is only the first step in making it a useful piece of equipment.
It also needs to arrive in the correct orbit and stay there, known as station-keeping.
but more modern satellites have relied upon a mix of chemical and electric propulsion. Now Boeing has announced the first all-electric ion propulsion satellite is fully operational.
The satellite in question doesn have a snappy name it a communications satellite called ABS-3a 702sp.
It was launched last March aboard a Spacex Falcon 9 rocket. It has just recently been handed over to its owner
Bermuda-based telecommunications company ABS. Because ABS-3a is a communications satellite, it needs to remain in a geosynchronous orbit.
Thus, station-keeping is essential. When it can no longer maintain its orbit, it will cease being useful.
Ion thrusters make a lot of sense in this scenario. Ion engines operate on the same basic principles of physics that chemical thrusters do expel mass from a nozzle to push a craft in the opposite direction.
Instead of the combustion of volatile chemicals, ion engines operate with chemically inert xenon gas. Using an electrostatic field,
This is the same type of thruster technology used on NASA Dawn spacecraft, which is currently studying the dwarf planet Ceres. Ion thrusters are considerably more efficient than conventional rocket motors.
In this case, Boeing claims the Xenon Ion Propulsion system (XIPS) designs used for ABS-3a is ten times more efficient than liquid fueled rockets.
ABS-3a needs only 11 pounds (5kg) of xenon gas per year to maintain station-keeping,
meaning it can remain operational much longer than a similar satellite with conventional thrusters. ABS expects the satellite to remain active for about 15 years.
Ion thrusters are also considerably lighter than chemical engines making launches cheaper. The drawback is the very low thrust of an ion engine.
That why past satellites have carried conventional thrusters as well. Upon delivery to orbit, ABS-3a used its ion thrusters to reach a geosynchronous orbit at 3 degrees west longitude.
After being tested by Boeing, the satellite was turned over to ABS on August 31st. Now that the design has proven itself viable,
Boeing is forging ahead with a second satellite for ABS using the same XIPS engines.
This one will be blasted into space sometime next year x
#uper-antennacould let Mars rover talk directly with Earth Right now, Mars rovers like Curiosity get roughly 15 minutes to talk to scientists back On earth, twice per day.
If a scientist wants to issue a complex set of orders, or download a whole bunch of new information,
it has to all fit into these 15-minute windows. For scientists on the ground, the necessity of bouncing signals through multiple orbiting satellites means that rover missions progress as a series of quick snapshots, with tense waits in between.
Now, they have a prototype for a new and improved type of rover antenna one that could turn those minutes into hours,
and those orbiters into space junk. The idea comes from a group working on advanced antenna technology at UCLA, in combination with NASA Jet propulsion laboratory.
The idea is basically to use an array of 256 antenna elements (a 16 x 16 square) all working together to make a uper-antennacapable of directly communicating with Earth.
Having fewer moving bodies to worry about keeping in alignment, this system could give a rover up to several hours of communication time with operators back On earth, every day.
The reason it works is not just that the array of mini-antennas creates a more powerful signal
This has the effect of keeping the signal coherent as it travels through the Martian atmosphere once a signal gets into the vacuum of space with good signal strength intact,
getting the rest of the way to an orbiter around the Earth isn hard at all.
Amazingly, this huge increase in signal strength will still run within the power limitations of NASA upcoming Mars 2020 rover:
For that power commitment, it will purportedly be able to maintain a signal with a satellite around Earth, 225 million kilometers away.
The 2020 mission may well be NASA major precursor to the start of a manned mission,
if it can serve as a proof of concept for direct communications between the Earth
and Mars. The additive characteristics of its compound antenna actually work in both directions; not only will it be able to create more powerful signals to transmit back to Earth,
but it will be able to pick up more powerful signals as well. This will give it a better ability to download information from the Earth,
widening the lines of communication for both scientists and their rover. The Mars 2020 rover won have the luxury of twisting around to make sure it pointing at the Earth at every moment,
and so the antenna is planned to be mounted on a gimbal arm that can lift the antenna and orient it in any direction.
There has been some promising research in this field it not to be confused with the much more preliminary work on using quantum entanglement to transfer information in such a way that it literally does not traverse the intervening space.
too much sun can be worse than too little. The fact that chlorophyll absorption spectrum makes things surprisingly green reflects the compromises inherent in being able to capture every photon possible
A device operating to multiplex/demultiplex between directional free-space beams and a single-mode waveguide is extremely appealing for real-world communication applications Furthermore, one of the advantages to the approach,
#NASA confirms liquid water flows on Mars NASA has announced that it has discovered flowing liquid salt water on Mars during the Red planet summer months, in
what is the biggest indication to date that the planet either has supported already life, or can support life in the future.
The discovery comes thanks to the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and its imaging spectrometer, which enabled researchers to find telltale signs of hydrated minerals on streaked-looking slopes.
100 meter-long streaks called recurring slope lineae flowing downhill on Mars are inferred to have been formed by contemporary flowing water.
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona) ur quest on Mars has been to ollow the water, in our search for life in the universe,
what wee long suspected, said John Grunsfeld, astronaut and associate administrator of NASA Science Mission Directorate in Washington,
albeit briny is flowing today on the surface of Mars. he flows are described as recurring slope lineae.
The darker color on Mars indicates that it probably a shallow subsurface flow, NASA said.
While scientists are yet able to determine where the water comes from, it appears to dry up in the planet fall season only to start up again the following Mars year.
Researchers began studying from the MRO High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (Hirise) in 2010, and later paired those images with mineral maps from the spacecraft Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM).
e found the hydrated salts only when the seasonal features were widest, which suggests that either the dark streaks themselves or a process that forms them is the source of the hydration,
NASA scientists noted they mined data going as far back as the Viking 1 an 2 landings in the mid-1970s,
But the primary data source was the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which launched in 2006 and contains four other primary science instruments
in addition to Hirise and CRISM. he ability of MRO to observe for multiple Mars years with a payload able to see the fine detail of these features has enabled findings such as these:
MRO project scientist at NASA Jet propulsion laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. t took multiple spacecraft over several years to solve this mystery,
and now we know there is liquid water on the surface of this cold, desert planet, said Michael Meyer,
lead scientist for NASA Mars Exploration Program at the agency headquarters in Washington. t seems that the more we study Mars,
the more we learn how life could be supported and where there are resources to support life in the future. ack in March,
NASA announced the discovery of evidence of an ancient ocean that covered 20 percent of Marssurface.
The data from that study, using the ESO Very Large telescope in Chilie, seemed to indicate that water persisted on the surface of the Red planet for at least a billion years.
Now it seems that despite the frigid temperatures during the winter and at night, some water still indeed flows on the surface even today t
as long as humans have been tooling around on planet earth, cancer has been nipping at our heelsnd brains, stomachs, kidneys, and so on.
and delivering on brand authenticity",states R"Ray"Wang, Principal Analyst and Chairman, Constellation Research, Inc i
The last few days have seen new transfers of Russian tanks, armoured vehicles, heavy artillery and rocket equipment over the border to the separatists,
added Jarolimkova. emoving water and storing the produce as powder will allow for maximum utilization of space during transport and storage as well as significantly prolonged shelf life.
Furthermore, we envision the powder to be used in culinary areas as a fruit and vegetable replacement in humanitarian aids, food for space missions, molecular gastronomy,
generating a diverse set of solutions is essential to efficiently explore the design space. This can be challenging,
That project takes 173,000 mirrors and focuses the sunlight to the plant solar receiver steam generator,
but that will put a ding in the universe, said Cook, looking down occasionally at an ipad on his lap.
They both came from the computer space. Now they have 1 000 licenses in 19 states.
NIC targets the government as its client in the cannabis space. It specializes in helping the government agencies tasked with creating a marijuana department.
when established companies gain comfort with the space, the current companies will either get bought out for their databases
The only space that Bierman is impressed with is the payment kiosk space and in particular Integrated Compliance Solutions.
It becoming a crowded space with other kiosk companies like Medbox and C4eversystems. Some of the kiosks actually dispense medical marijuana,
#Boeing Patents Futuristic Force field Aerospace and defence firm Boeing BA-1. 59%has just been granted a patent for
The ethod and system for shockwave attenuation via electromagnetic arcisn quite the all-purpose energy shield you see around spaceships in movies like Star wars,
For example many movie inspired console games use third-person character action where the player can directly control the star of the film
Technology available in buildings today will pale in comparison to the capabilities we are building in the emerging cloud lighting space.
The debit card networks will see a huge growth of aggregate transactions allowing the networks to continue to be relevant and vital in this new space.
And Facebook will of course see lower costs than most companies in this space. I see this pattern perhaps playing out through the world and thus
Star K1 syringes are manufactured under licence by 13 companies around the world, giving them a substantial lead. here no other product in this space that
and Star have brought in more than $20m over the last years. Indeed, getting to this point has taken so long that the entrepreneur now has only two years left on his 20-year patent for K1 and Star.
Star has responded by offering to supply the syringes free of charge to manufacturers who also licence its needle-stick device,
which ensures that syringe needles are covered always when not in use another requirement of the new WHO edict. urs is the cheapest one for covered needles,
. If you are near the Youtube Space L a. studio on Bluff Creek Drive in Los angeles, the Creator Tech team is letting people try out the 360-degree cameras
in turn bringing down planet-warming emissions. But for the first time in nearly half a century, that synchrony between economic growth and energy-related emissions seems to have been broken
and upticks in renewable electricity generation there using solar wind and hydropower could have contributed to the reversal.
an ipad blocked my visibility like a solar eclipse. Turning for a better view revealed a conglomeration of glowing devices not only grabbing pics and vids,
There are redemptive qualities to inviting phones into concert spaces. Having a little recorded segment despite grainy quality and muffled sound is treasured a
#Facebook's first satellite will beam Internet to rural Africa starting in 2016 With the exception of a select few locations,
As part of this program, Facebook is partnering with French satellite communications provider Eutelsat to beam an Internet connection to remote parts of Africa."
"I'm excited to announce our first project to deliver Internet from space, "wrote Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in a Facebook posting.
Facebook is working with Eutelsat to provide Internet access to sub-Saharan portions of Africa via Eutelsat's new AMOS-6 geostationary satellite,
Amazingly, the satellite will deliver affordable broadband Internet using off-the-shelf consumer equipment for connectivity --so it'll be easy and cheap to build more of these satellites in the future.
Eutelsat is setting up a new company in London to oversee its African broadband business
The satellite-based service is expected to go online in mid-2016. The African satellite project is part of Facebook's broader Internet. org initiative
which debuted in 2013. Through Internet. org, Facebook wants to connect the world by providing internet access to developing countries worldwide.
The photoanode uses sunlight to oxidize water molecules, generating protons and electrons as well as oxygen gas.
converts 10 percent of the energy in sunlight into stored energy in the chemical fuel,
and can operate for more than 40 hours continuously. ur work shows that it is indeed possible to produce fuels from sunlight safely and efficiently in an integrated system with inexpensive components,
such as those obtained by LIGO, the Laser interferometry Gravitational-wave Observatory, a Caltech-and-MIT-led project searching for signs of gravitational waves,
ripples in the fabric of space-time. ee been thinking a lot about using these methods to detect gravitational waves from pulsarsncredibly dense stars that are the mass of our sun compressed into a 10 km radius and spin at 10 to 100 times a second,
Kip Thorne a professor of theoretical physics at Caltech and others wrote papers saying that these pulsars should be emitting gravity waves that are nearly perfectly periodic,
or monochromatic, light oscillates at all points in space with the same frequency but varying relative delays, or phases.
Polarization refers to the trajectory of the oscillations of the electromagnetic field at each point in space.
theye not as flexible as their natural cousins. yanobacteria have adapted to live in ponds that are drenched by sun,
or light in a way that is precisely timed to create space structures, deployable medical devices, robots, toys, and range of other structures.
a professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical engineering at Georgia Tech. his earlier approach essentially requires controlling the heat applied throughout the component in both space
and Design Centre. e are now extending this concept of digital SMPS to enable printing of SMPS with dynamic mechanical properties that vary continuously in 3d space.
Mappings include the intuitive matching of high pitch to elevated locations in space or the matching of noisy sounds with bright lights.
the inability to work in bright light, especially sunlight. The key is to gather only the bits of light the camera actually needs.
and sensing for robots used to explore the moon and planets. It also could be incorporated readily into most smartphones.
wee sending a lot more energy to that spot than the energy sent by the sun, he explains.
In polar regions of the moon, where the sun is always at a low angle, a vision system that is able to eliminate the glare is essential. ow-power sensing is very important,
because they are always on. very watt matters in a space mission. arasimhan says depth cameras that can operate outdoors could be useful in automotive applications,
Specifically, a chondroitin sulfate found to accumulate within small spaces of the placenta. Surprisingly, this same residue has been seen to cluster on the surface of various cancers.
Among other things, the sunlight that pours through them can raise the temperature in the office,
when exposed to strong sunlight and it's powered by that sunlight, too. The facade was developed via a collaboration between Fraunhofer and the Weissensee School of art in Berlin.
Based on a concept by design student Bára Finnsdottir, it's composed of an array of circular flower-like components.
that heat comes from direct sunlight. When that light heats the wires, they respond by reverting to a shape that draws the fabric discs closed,
Once the sun goes down or clouds roll in, however, the wires return to their previous shape
Ultimately, Amazon hopes to operate in a slice of airspace above 200 ft (61 m) and beneath 500 ft (152 m),
where c is the speed of light in vacuum and n denotes the refractive index of the medium in which the light pulse propagates.
a crescent moon is about 0. 3 lux. Infrared illumination has made it possible to capture such dim environments previously,
but only 20 were built ever after an Anglo-french development program in the 1960s that was compared to the Apollo Moon landings in cost and complexity.
but once in the air, an open door in the stern of the plane reveals a rocket motor. When this fires, it sends the aircraft into a near vertical trajectory,
000 ft). The rocket motor shuts down and is concealed again as the aft door slides shut to reduce drag.
and only the rocket motor requires special maintenance. According to its specifications, it could carry two or three tons of cargo,
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