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The smallest spacecraft in orbit As I type this, there a satellite sitting on the desk in front of me.
(in case you are wondering, it not the one on my desk that a copy). Happily, we are teaming up with a group based in the East of England the East Anglian Amateur Radio Observatory to track their sprite.
says that using food for energy like sugar cane for biofuels must avoid depleting food stocks
"You turn on the high beams to try to make it even brighter, and you get even more light back in your eyes.
ramps instead of stairs, larger type on signage, benches on more corners. In Thailand, the Chaing Mai province is investing in retirement communities,
which ranks third in a 2012 United nations league table of countries most vulnerable to natural disasters.
which ranks third in a 2012 United nations league table of countries most vulnerable to natural disasters.
On tables inside these, sit some of the 18 individual hexagonal mirrors that make up the massive 21ft (6. 5m) diameter primary mirror of this new space telescope."
"On that table is a mirror segment, #explains Allison Barto, JWST Program Manager at Ball, as we peer through a window into one of the super-clean clean rooms."
The cafes, kiosks and benches teem with young entrepreneurs who seem to survive on a diet of caffeine and wi-fi. Of Israel's 5, 000 tech companies,
and predictable technology,#says Professor Roch Guerin, Chair of Computer science and Engineering at Washington University, St louis."Bluetooth targets lower transmission ranges and data rates than wi-fi,
#and hence life, says Avi Loeb, Chair of the Astronomy department at Harvard university. Spotting water and oxygen would be just the start,
and Jonathan Karn, director of the Center for Aids Research and professor and chair of the Department of Molecular biology and Microbiology at Case Western Reserve's medical school.
So we're also watching some stocks to watch here. So we are keeping an eye on Ford right here at home Ford obviously an automaker
We've got some more business headlines Nicole. Obviously some great stocks to watch from you
That will still be lower than the growth of two percent that we saw in the first quarter for the country.
Tom Maniatis, Phd, the Isidore S. Edelman Professor of Biochemistry and chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at Columbia University Medical center and director of Columbia university-wide
Free gourmet lunches, ping pong tables, and in-office yoga classes have become commonplace. Companies are getting creative with ideas that go beyond the standard year-end bonus to keep employees feeling engaged and appreciated.
That could cover the cost of a really nice ergonomic chair. Real estate startup 42floors gives new employees pre-cations,
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#Big data Knows When You're Going to Quit Your Job Before You Do good bosses have an uncanny ability to sense
and a rugged IP65 design, said Steve Carpenter, CEO, entegra technologies. daptive performance is at the core of Crossfirepro.
The 2015 Bi-fuel Chevrolet Impala not a tricked-out Delorean really can run on leftovers table scraps and oh yeah grains from brewing beer.
Also on the drawing board is oliagethat can be installed on rooftops and balconies and along roadsides to power variable-message signs.
photonic crystal fibre (PCF) lasers offer better and more accurate beam quality, are highly efficient, use less power,
The results were overwhelmingly positive with consistent improvements in production recorded following the introduction of adaptive manufacturing. he system also has environmental benefitssays project coordinator Dr Dra en Veselovac Chair of Manufacturing Technology
#New technology to help protect wood The project was prompted by new European union (EU) rules aimed at replacing solvent-borne coating systems with waterborne coatings for outdoor wood preservation purposes.
and sawmills-employs some 3. 5 million people and generates an annual turnover in the region of#400 billion.
Bugnicourt says between 50 and 100 million tonnes of wood could use Durawood pre-treatment system every year. urawood could help the timber industry by improving the quality of products
or new stock is added that needs chilling. The vending machines and open refrigerated cabinets in supermarkets are also working overtime trying to keep their contents at recommended temperatures to preserve the quality.
Combined, commercial refrigerator/freezers like these are estimated to consume 85 TWH (terawatt hours) of electricity every year.
if not all, open-cabinet-style drinks fridges used around the world. With V-Tex, notes the team, you get a cold drink every time with considerable reductions in energy use,
each bringing complimentary skills to the table, from ultrasonic modelling and simulations to mechanical systems design
what it calls"five axes of activities"."The five include services to incubators and technoparks;
socks, mattress protections, bandages, upholstery and carpets. Project details Project acronym: Nanobond Participants: Belgium (Coordinator), Hungary, Germany, United kingdom, Slovenia, France, The netherlands Project FP7 228490 Total costs:#
Five years later, Udalov was working as a researcher at the University of Twente in the field of high-power pulsed electron beams
Among the project's breakthroughs, the X-ray backscatter equipment produces high-intensity beams and is much safer than existing devices,
Udalov spent time at the UK company Ex-Beams Ltd. to learn about IMS technology
The british team members founded Ex-Beams, which is involved in the detection of landmines and explosives.
For instance, you may put soft drink bottles in at one end of the process and produce plastic chairs and tables at the other end.
#SMARTFIRE#Reducing energy consumption in steel mills SMARTFIRE Reducing energy consumption in steel mills The reheating process in steel mills prepares metal stock, such as steel plates for hot rolling by heating them to a target temperature.
The project also saw the build up of residue on the reheated metal stock being reduced significantly."
All that may soon change thanks to a new construction technology known by its acronym Preco-Beam (which stands for Prefabricated Enduring Composite beams based on innovative shear transmission.
By combining steel and concrete in prefabricated composite structures with reinforced concrete slabs, the European union (EU)- funded Preco-Beam project found a way to shave months off construction times
"Project Officer Jonas Hedberg said of Preco-Beam, which ran from 2006 to 2009 and received#838,000 in EU funding.
Already now eight new railway bridges using Preco-Beam have been built in Germany, Austria and Poland."
The Preco-Beam consortium invented a new shape for this composite dowel, which connects steel and concrete:
namely an I-section which can be divided into two steel T-beams by one simple cut."
was rebuilt using Preco-Beam technology, transport only had to be interrupted for a weekend. Composite structures-in which different building materials are combined-gained prominence in Europe because of their high resource efficiency and low maintenance requirement.
the Preco-Beam consortium brought together seven partners from France, Poland, Germany, Sweden, Belgium and Luxembourg."
showed that using Preco-Beam in its bridges could have cut expenses by approximately 40 percent.
To that end, the Preco-Beam consortium is already disseminating technical guidelines and design rules via the Internet,
and there are plans to use Preco-Beam for buildings. Meanwhile, European citizens may be more likely to enjoy the benefits of their infrastructure,
and promote in particular the use of lignin a by-product of wood pulp production. BIOCOUP will also help to make a significant contribution to the reduction of CO2 EMISSIONS in the transportation sector through the efficient utilisation of biomass material.
The process begins with the procurement of bio-feedstocks such as wood pulp paper and food from existing industries and the processing of upgraded biomass-derived liquids in existing mineral oil refineries.
In a letter coordinated by the nonprofit sustainability advocacy organization, Ceres, 223 companies including industry giants such as Ikea,
Ikea, for example, has set a goal to use 100 percent renewable energy for its global facilities by 2020
Earlier this week 57 global companies funds and associations including Unilever Ikea Royal dutch shell and Coca-cola Enterprises signed a letter to support a#robust#2030 energy
##The ramifications of the work presented in the PNAS paper are tremendous with respect to tissue grafts used in surgery as well as new tissues fabricated using the principles of tissue engineering##says Kyriacos A. Athanasiou a professor of biomedical engineering and orthopedic surgery and chair
In a piezoelectric material pressure compresses its molecular structure much like a child jumping on a bed compresses the mattress.
When the pressure abates the piezoelectric material's molecular structure like the mattress springs back into shape.
Finally the"smart chip"contains a radio antenna to beam back sensor readings or signal the completion of its therapeutic task.
whether other human genes may substitute for PTEN like a player coming off the bench
They also found a close relative of ptena in the amoeba which they called lpten that performs the same functions of ptena but to a lesser degreeâ a possible bench player in the amoeba s genome.
Once a patient is diagnosed with cancer caused by a PTEN mutation the patient could take the drug over-express the PTEN bench player gene
For a new study published in the journal CHEST researchers analyzed 206 international publications evaluating pneumonia prevention methods in ICUÂ##s from the last 30 years.
Last year they used metagenomics to obtain an outbreak strain genome from stool samples from an E coli outbreak
##Endotome cells act like a comfy sofa for pre HSCS to snuggle into helping them progress to become fully fledged stem cells.
Collaborators at the Genome Institute at Washington University School of medicine used DNA sequencing to tally the bacterial populations in 922 stool samples from 58 premature infants.
when stools were sampled and their dietsâ##influenced the pace but not the order of the progression.
when they detect a heart murmur and conduct further diagnostic tests such as chest X-rays, an echocardiogram,
Ubiquitous, microscopic dust mites that burrow in mattresses, sofas, and other homey spots are found in 84 percent of households in the United states,
the researchers developed a flexible beam and integrated the piezoelectric materials. The use of piezoelectric materials allowed them to simultaneously measure the flexing and the rotation of the beam,
which in turn allowed them to replicate the fly hearing. Hall credits the pioneering work of Ronald Miles at Binghamton University and Ronald Hoy at Cornell University,
with participants showing increased systolic and diastolic blood pressure in later visits as a function of earlier sleep problems. e saw changes in resting blood pressure were associated with sleep problems three months earlier.
Pierce-Shimomura speculated that their research could even be used to develop a ames Bonddrug someday that would enable a spy to drink his opponent under the table without getting drunk himself.
says study leader Silvia Koton, a visiting faculty member at the Bloomberg School and incoming nursing chair at Tel aviv University.
for several years, says Bruce Hammock, professor at University of California, Davis, and senior author of a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. e were surprised to find that the dual inhibitor was more active than higher doses of each compound,
Hammock says, who notes that there were minimal side effects, including no cardiovascular or gastrointestinal effects. his is particularly important
Hammock says. f we move beyond cancer, this drug combination could block a number of pathologies,
Atkinson says. he results that Dr. Haller saw in his first study are profound. Another new aspect of the study is worked that it with patients who had been diagnosed long with the disease.
But that study took place in a controlled hospital inpatient environment where participants essentially stayed in bed for the whole period
so it was remarkable that we saw both of these results at once. Both groups had quite good levels in the usual care armsverages of 159 for both adults
The Maternal and Child Health Bureau of Health Resources and Services Administration and the William Randolph Hearst Foundation supported the work F
or use an electric toothbrush that recharges wirelessly in a special cradle next to the bathroom sink.
of radio is that it uses wider, more robust beams. Wider beams are better able to cope with obstacles between the transmitter and the receiver
and radio is affected not as by atmospheric turbulence as optics, Willner says. To achieve the high transmission rates,
Using electron-beam evaporation which is a common technique in CMOS processing Zheng deposited a thin layer of aluminum onto a silicon photodetector topped with an ultrathin oxide coating.
but with a bit of chaos. ulses of Srf shoot out from a cryogenic chamber to form a beam of molecules
and do it a lot of times. he slowed molecules enter a specially shaped magnetic field where opposing laser beams pass through the center of the field along three perpendicular axes.
Down syndrome one of the most commonly occurring developmental disorders in modern humans. hen we first saw these bones several of us immediately spotted a developmental disturbancesays Eckhardt ut we did not assign a specific diagnosis
and director of the University of Hawaii Insect Museum. his study adds to a growing body of knowledge by bringing new techniques to the table
and chair of the school of plant sciences with a joint appointment in the department of ecology and evolutionary biology. ice will play a key role in helping to solve what we call the 9 billion-people question. he 9 billion people question refers to predictions
000 prototype board on the desk of his office. e want to create a neurocompiler so that you would not need to know anything about synapses
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.
The largest single piece weighing about 650 kilograms was recovered from the bed of Lake Chebarkul in October by a team from Ural Federal University led by Professor Viktor Grokhovsky.
and disease-resistant stocks of honey beesnino says. The Department of agriculture and the United states-Israel Binational Science Foundation supported this research
but with elements from the second material in key locations enabling it to absorb visible light. he design challengesays Peter K. Davies chair of the department of materials science and engineering as to identify materials that could retain their polar properties while simultaneously absorbing visible light.
It is the material itself a layered strontium titanium oxide not found in nature created through molecular beam epitaxy
and thus better harvest bioenergy. ong and Daniel Cosgrove professor and chair in biology at Penn State are the lead authors.
Douglas Capone a professor and chair of biological sciences at the University of Southern California says that the research is notable both for understanding the nitrogen cycle
but can actually create it from scratchsays Joseph Heitman the study s senior author and professor and chair of molecular genetics and microbiology at the Duke university School of medicine.
and luggage could improve security at airport checkpoints researchers say. ince this method uses a single beam
but has the beam output of a simple presentation pointer. hile working on biomedical imaging I began exploring additional applicationsdantus says. e soon learned how effective it was for detecting traces of hazardous substances from distances up to 10 meters away. s described in the journal Applied Physics Letters the bomb-detecting
laser works as a single beam but uses two pulses. The first resonates with certain chemical frequencies found in explosives.
either as a concentrated beam at a specific target or as a dispersed wave. Changing the liquid also affects how a light beam will refract.
#Cancel each other outin this new system a waveguide feeds laser light into a cavity created by two tiny silicon beams.
which effectively turn the beams into mirrors. When photons-particles of light-strike the beams they cause the beams to vibrate.
And the particulate nature of the light introduces quantum fluctuations that affect those vibrations. Typically such fluctuations mean that
so that the light and beams interact strongly with each other#so strongly in fact that the beams impart the quantum fluctuations they experience back on the light.
And as is the case with the noise-canceling technology used for example in some headphones the fluctuations that shake the beams interfere with the fluctuations of the light.
Secondary craters are the result of big chunks of ejecta blasted out of the main crater leaving gouges in the surrounding surface
#One in a trillionthe T2k experiment based in Tokai Japan expects to collect 10 times more data in the near future including data with an antineutrino beam.
The neutrino beam is monitored by a detector complex in Tokai and aimed at the gigantic Super-Kamiokande underground detector in Kamioka near the west coast of Japan 295 kilometers (185 miles) away from Tokai.
But they also found evidence for an abrupt increase in slope of the sedimentary beds near the downstream end of the channels.
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.
Experts have taken stock to address this concern and to figure out why pests became resistant quickly in some cases but not others.
If cow milking recalls a bucolic image of a farmer strolling out to the barn with a bucket and stool,
and an optics system that divides the three beams into 14 tracks on the ground.
Zheng's color photodetector consists of an ultra-thin oxide coating atop a thin layer of aluminum that was deposited onto a silicon photodetector using a common technique called electron-beam evaporation.
while sitting on the couch in New york#while feeling and looking like we're really there.
#TAO Chair lets you work out while relaxing in your living room Want the exercise, but can't conjure up the energy to go to the gym?
"The TAO Chair, which we took a look at at CES last week, is designed to provide a dynamic workout for your primary target zones from the comfort of your living room.
TAO-Wellness is developing the TAO Chair as a follow-up to its debut prototype, the TAO Wellshell,
This year's TAO Chair one of the funkiest chairs we've seen in a
The prototype TAO had at CES was hacked just a IKEA chair the production model will look much different
TAO's creative chief officer Viktor Kalvachev, points out that the TAO Chair isn't meant to replace a gym or to jack your muscles up.
The TAO Chair coaches you through exercises with the accompanying mobile app, while a built-in, battery-powered digital display shows the calories burned during your current workout
TAO plans to finalize the TAO Chair this year, and Kalvachev tells us that his team is hoping to keep the price below US$1, 000.
The TAO Chair isn't the only piece of exercise furniture out there, and in fact, it has a rather long line of predecessors that includes the Gymygym exercise chair, the GEWOS armchair and the Active Desk.
Unlike many designs out there, however, the TAO Chair takes the seated workout out of the office and puts it in a more relaxing space.
It also promises to be less conspicuous than other exercise chair designs with their mounted rowers and elastics.
The prototype looks like it could just be an artistic piece of furniture. TAO also launched the production version of the Wellshell at CES 2015,
and the company Trilite Technologies have developed a new kind of display just for this purpose that sends beams of light directly to the viewerseyes via a laser and a sophisticated mirror system.
and Wi-fi connectivity and a kinematically coupled bed that uses magnets to ensure high-precision printing even after the various components are inserted manually.
from chopsticks that are easier to pick up to automated harnesses that hoist people from bed,
and deposit them onto toilets or living room couches. College students visit the hall and don blue 3-D glasses for ementia Experiencevideo journeys following people disoriented on streets or seeking bathrooms.
he sat at his desk taking notes on Prof. Mark Rush explanation of the term erfect competition.
She sat at a desk in her home office; a live video feed she switched on at one point showed her in black librarian glasses and a tank top.
her laptop open on the dining room table. As Dr. Joos lectured, a chat box scrolled with studentscomments and questions.
and out of your chest,##says heart surgeon Billy Cohn#in a#CNN#report. The artificial heart features sensors to monitor
though, starts with a man sitting on a couch. His phone rings. It s a telemarketer for a home security service.##
##The man on the couch tries to claim he s busy, but the telemarketer parries,##I know you re busy,
While the man on the couch might was just sitting there talking, the Avatar agent would have been sitting in the Filipino city of#Jaro Iloilo, staring at an interface.
A couple weeks ago,#Time s Washington bureau chief got a call from#a telemarketer named##Samantha West###that he suspected was not human.
Callassistant s Bills pointed out#that a nationwide debt-settlement company is being sued by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau#for deceptive telemarketing calls made by an old-school telemarketing company.##
000 desks##occupied by agents using these technologies. Munns says he s heard that dozens of companies are trying to pull off something like what these cyborg market leaders have.
For example,#every time we take a smartphone with us in a car, it beams information on our location and speed to Google.
the printer uses the concentrated beam of sunlight to slowly trace an object into the sandbox layer by layer.
##Aircraft can safely traverse the beam and tests have demonstrated that even the sensitive honeybee is unaffected,
and foam, Morph is described better as a bench. A single piece of fabric is stretched across to form the seats,
#Top 7 reasons you need to learn reactive programming The U s. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects a 22 percent growth in programming jobs in by 2020.
The U s. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects a 22 percent growth in programming jobs in by 2020.
##says Meghann Curtis, deputy assistant secretary for academic programs at the U s. Department of state s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs,
The idea is that long wait lines at the desks will become a thing of the past
like a Chicago father who Downey said purchased a Makerbot to print custom furniture for his daughter s dollhouse.
and a meter is a meter anywhere on the planet because of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures.
and overall digital data are from the Interactive Advertising Bureau. While newspaper publishers are continuing to gain audience at their web and mobile sites,
For example, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is suing ITT Educational Services, a chain with 135 campuses and 55,000 students in 40 states.
#Solar powered smart benches are popping up in Boston parks Solar-powered benches, called Soofas.
Benches can now be added to the list of things like watches, cars, phones, and everything else that comes in a smart variety.
Solar-powered benches, called Soofas, will pop up in Boston parks over the next week, the Boston globe reports.
the benches will feature plugs to charge your smartphone, and will also wirelessly connect to the internet to provide location-based information, like air quality data.
Why should our benches just be seats? The Soofa was built and designed by three female engineers working with the MIT Media Lab spinoff startup Changing environments, according to Yahoo Tech.
a dozen smart benches are set to pop up throughout the city, covered by Cisco systems at no cost to the city,
In Lending Club s case, it took time to set the table to register with the SEC,
however, one mattress would be sufficient for the princess to sleep well. What does this mean in real life?
which reported that BAAM is capable of printing objects as large as tables and chairs by extruding plastic in layers 0. 3 inches wide.
Chairs recently on display at the RAPID conference each took about 2 hours and 30 minutes to print.
On a normal printer, a chair would take days to print and need to be printed in pieces.
Over a Skype demo, Lee let me choose from maybe 60 different beverages he had on the table.
but as soon as you sit at your desk, your are freezing. Or it s winter and the heater keeps you too hot.
As the startup has met with local tech companies that are obsessed with keeping workers happy at their desks,
and see people huddled over their desk in fingerless gloves, wearing a blanket, Baker says.
and your desk starts to cool down for you, your light adjusts to the level that you want it.
hp stock could be a nice retirement plan. Since snubbing Microsoft seems to be the sport of tech royalty this year,
shorting MS stock might be fun money too t
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