who are now developing such antibodies. hat could become part of a kit that doctors would use to distinguish a patient who has a tumor that going to metastasize,
The trio began grinding away in a garage in Somerville Mass. conducting early trials on the Ford Crown Victoria
which analyzes the molecular makeup of a sample. However these instruments are not readily available in the developing world so the researchers adapted the particles
Albumin has binding pockets that can capture fatty, hydrophobic molecules, so the researchers added a fatty tail called a lipid to their vaccine peptides.
version of Batman famed utility-belt grappling gun: At the pull of a trigger, the handheld device can hoist two people about 30 stories up a rope in 30 seconds.
by lowering out-of-pocket costs, would increase the use of medical care. Or, as Finkelstein observes,
reduces out-of-pocket expenses or unpaid medical debt; and increases self-reported good health. In a 2013 paper published in the New england Journal of Medicine,
Many of us go to great lengths to make our faces more memorable using makeup and hairstyles to give ourselves a more distinctive look.
a global cap-and-trade scheme aimed at controlling carbon, or a tax on all carbon emissions.
hat would involve capping carbon dioxide emissions, but then using these segmental policies to address particular areas of concern,
"Kadambi says. hat is because the light that bounces off the transparent object and the background smear into one pixel on the camera.
and their targets. hat happening to the polymer and the corona phase has been a bit of a mystery,
the transition temperature gradually dropped until it was no higher than that of a smooth surface. hat result was surprising,
and configuring the space and ground segments in a coordinated fashion h
#Persuading light to mix it up with matter Researchers at MIT have succeeded in producing and measuring a coupling of photons
the Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical engineering at MIT. hat pretty much a description of what the ankle is.
The robot is mounted to a knee brace and connected to a custom-designed shoe. As a person moves his ankle,
Hogan says. hat wee trying to do with machines in therapy is equivalent to helping the patients,
Hogan adds that characterizing ankle stiffness may also be useful in designing safer footwear a field he is curious to explore. or example,
Its chemical makeup also mimics that of cells important to homeostasis, potentially reducing the body natural rejection of implanted devices. asically,
so it just a matter of figuring out how to achieve a desired result. hat a field wee just opening up,
hat can be done. Two years later, Rus showed her colleague Hod Lipson, a robotics researcher at Cornell University, a video of prototype robots, based on Romanishin design,
in action. hat can be done, Lipson said. In November, Romanishin now a research scientist in MIT Computer science and Artificial intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) Rus,
Cornell Lipson says. t a low-tech solution to a problem that people have been trying to solve with extraordinarily high-tech approaches. hat they did that was very interesting is showed they several modes of locomotion,
is the fabrication of polymer fibers hat are soft and flexible and look more like natural nerves.
but did not prevent mice that were hungry from eating regular chow. hat was exciting
Suddenly, its product started moving and fast. hat when we realized wee not facing a technology problem in the field;
000 D-Lab Scale ups fellowship. hat came at a very useful time, because I couldn even pay for my work permit to stay in Tanzania,
In 2012, Avila and two MIT students also fixed issues with the threads on the sheller drive shaft:
coming to a sudden halt and putting stress on the threads, causing them to fail.
the sheller stopped at a more gradual pace, reducing thread stress. All shellers could then be modified,
Vuletic says. hat is new in our system is, for the first time on the atomic scale, we can see this transition from friction to superlubricity. uletic,
and so on. hat we can do is adjust at will the distance between the atoms to either be matched to the optical lattice for maximum friction,
Cima says. hat really captures people imaginations. hat study, combined with ongoing efforts in contraceptive-delivery microchips,
he says. hat the next major challenge. e
#Tiny wires could provide a big energy boost Wearable electronic devices for health and fitness monitoring are a rapidly growing area of consumer electronics;
The new approach uses yarns, made from nanowires of the element niobium, as the electrodes in tiny supercapacitors (which are essentially pairs of electrically conducting fibers with an insulator between).
but the niobium yarns are stronger and 100 times more conductive. Overall, niobium-based supercapacitors can store up to five times as much power in a given volume as carbon nanotube versions.
and could be woven into fabrics, enabling wearable forms; individual niobium nanowires are just 140 nanometers in diameter 140 billionths of a meter across,
the researchers say. he work is very significant in the development of smart fabrics and future wearable technologies, says Geoff Spinks, a professor of engineering at the University of Wollongong, in Australia,
The study also suggests the broader potential for adapting nanoscale drug-delivery techniques developed for use in environmental remediation. hat we can apply some of the highly sophisticated,
via Gizmag) Wearables for Your Dog Wearables for you Dog The Voyce collar (Photo credit: Voyce) Earlier this year, the news of researchers at Georgia Institute of technology working on a vest that would allow better communicate between dogs
But the collar isn about tracking weight loss or exercise goals, but providing longitudinal data on the dog health.
#The latest fashion: Graphene edges can be tailor-made Theoretical physicists at Rice university are living on the edge as they study the astounding properties of graphene.
and an outer fabric of porphyrin-phospholipids (Pop) that wraps around the core. Credit: Jonathan Lovell Differences like these mean doctors can get a much clearer picture of
and an outer fabric of porphyrin-phospholipids (Pop) that wraps around the core. Each part has unique characteristics that make it ideal for certain types of imaging.
and electronics that can stretch and bend, allowing you to integrate electronics into new places like clothing,
The geometry of a nanoparticle is often as influential as its chemical makeup in determining how it behaves from its catalytic properties to its potential as a semiconductor component.
because the threads we formed have a structure that has never been seen before Badding said.
Because this thread is diamond at heart we expect that it will prove to be extraordinarily stiff extraordinarily strong and extraordinarily useful.
He describes the thread's width as phenomenally small only a few atoms across hundreds of thousands of times smaller than an optical fiber enormously thinner that an average human hair.
That the atoms of the benzene molecules link themselves together at room temperature to make a thread is shocking to chemists and physicists.
But this molecular deposition method that coats the particles completely changed the protective layer. In addition the particles with the oxide shells tend to merge together during charging increasing their size
There are plenty of examples showing how traditional materials can be detrimental to works of art for instance wall paintings treated with acrylic
The second is the dispersion of alkaline nanoparticles in either short chain alcohols or water for the ph control of movable works of art such as paper parchment and leather.
Finally we developed containers such as chemical gels for the delivery and controlled release of the cleaning fluids on water-sensitive surfaces such as paper parchment and leather.
and materials for modern and contemporary works of art such as acrylic paintings plastic sculptures and composite works that include metal textiles polymers etc.
and then subsequently transferred onto any kind of receiver substrate such as plastic paper and even fabric.
and protein profiles could be used to design treatments specific to their individual makeup. Such game-changing technology is needed to make genome sequencing a reality.
Such stereoscopic images do not require the viewer to don special glasses but instead the depth perception and 3d effect is created simply by viewing the print through an optical microscope coupled with polarizers.
Nanosilver is used also in biomedical applications toys sunscreen cosmetics clothing and other items. We were surprised to see significant upset of the human gut community at the lowest concentration of nanosilver in this study says Dr. Das.
Coe-Sullivan enrolled in 15.390 (New Ventures) to further develop a business model. hat led to the more rigorous formation of a sales and marketing plans,
this allows us to move into the automotive construction aerospace textile and electronics sectors which are demanding
the remaining catalyst (the"carpet")acts as a cap and keeps the nanotubes from tangling.
and physical makeup to create conductive materials with a variety of other useful properties. One of the most successful ways they've developed to help MXENES express their array of abilities is called a process intercalation
and stored or even"painted"on clothing such as a jacket, he adds. Zang and his team found a way to break up bundles of the carbon nanotubes with a polymer
and used as a stuffing inside a winter coat but not so good when used in electronics that generally need to convey heat away from a source.
spinning out nanofibers for use in water filters body armor and smart textiles; or propulsion systems for fist-sized nanosatellites.
Engineers of LUT have constructed the world's first electrical motor applying a textile material; carbon nanotube yarn.
The presently most electrically conductive carbon nanotube yarn replaces usual copper wires in the windings. The motor prototype is built by the LUT Electrical engineering group as a start towards lightweight efficient electric drives.
In order to make CNTS easy to manipulate they are spun to form multifiber yarn. If we keep the electrical machine design parameters unchanged and only replace copper with future carbon nanotube wires it is possible to reduce the Joule losses in the windings to half of the present-day machine losses.
The prototype motor uses carbon nanotube yarns spun and converted into an isolated tape by a Japanese-Dutch company Teijin Aramid
which has developed the spinning technology in collaboration with Rice university the USA. The industrial applications of the new material are still in their infancy;
scaling up the production capacity together with improving the yarn performance will facilitate major steps in the future believes Business Development Manager Dr. Marcin Otto from Teijin Aramid agreeing with Professor Pyrhnen.
We expect that in the future the conductivity of carbon nanotube yarns could be even three times the practical conductivity of copper in electrical machines.
It is in the chemical makeup of these interfaces where we can improve features such as tolerance against radiation damage and fast ion conduction.
Researchers'acid-free approach leads to strong conductive carbon threads More information: Biocompatible Carbon nanotube#Chitosan Cardiac Scaffold Matching the Electrical conductivity of the Heart.
The scale is small, a little smaller than the diameter of spider silk. Scaling this research up in the future may mean that you could replace the gas in your cars and generators with hydrogen greener option,
The light in these terahertz wavelengths can pass through materials that we normally think of as opaque such as skin plastics clothing and cardboard.
and chemists itching with excitement mesmerised by the possibilities starting to take shape from flexible electronics embedded into clothing to biomedicine (imagine synthetic nerve cells) vastly superior forms of energy storage (tiny
The University of Washington researchers have demonstrated that two of these single-layer semiconductor materials can be connected in an atomically seamless fashion known as a heterojunction.
and joint movement and could be used to create lightweight sensor suits for vulnerable patients such as premature babies making it possible to remotely monitor their subtle movements and alert a doctor to any worrying behaviours.
Super-stretchable yarn is made of graphene More information: Hunt Adrian Ernst Z. Kurmaev and Alex Moewes.
For example it might eventually be embed possible to these printed flexible optoelectronic devices into clothes packaging wall papers posters touch screens or even buildings.
If these could be made flexible they could be integrated in clothes rolled up or printed over any irregular surface substantially increasing the quality of printed and flexible electronics.
the researchers took advantage of the chemical makeup of many explosives, particularly nitro-compounds such as DNT and its more well-known relative, TNT.
It is the explosive found in Richard Reid's shoe bomb in 2001 and Umar Farouk Abdulmtallab's underwear bomb in 2009.
since way to smaller and smaller laptops, smartphones and devices that most of us carry around in our pockets.
are vessels that confine electrons, much like pockets on a pool table. The dots can be spaced
so that electrons can be in two pockets at the same time, allowing them to interact and share electrons level of control that makes them ideally suited for computer-like circuitry."
and devised a method of monitoring how many electrons fit in the pocket and measuring the dot's charge.
The study examined the confined water on the outer surfaces of one dimensional nano-structured materials including spider silk and cactus thorn,
Research results of bio-inspired spider silk and cactus thorn showed the confined water collection on these one dimensional nanostructures was helpful in solving the shortage of freshwater resources.
#Super-stretchable yarn is made of graphene A simple, scalable method of making strong, stretchable graphene oxide fibers that are scrolled easily into yarns
and have strengths approaching that of Kevlar is possible, according to Penn State and Shinshu University, Japan, researchers."
"We believe that pockets of air inside the fiber keep it from being brittle.""This method opens up multiple possibilities for useful products, according to Terrones and colleagues.
a lipid, has a strong positive charge it attracts the negatively charged DNA strands that coat the nanoparticles.
The coatings are particularly suitable for the application on large and solid surfaces, on doorhandles and for textiles.
New nanotech may provide power storage in electric cables clothes Imagine being able to carry all the juice you needed to power your MP3 PLAYER, smartphone and electric car in the fabric of your jacket?
That could lead to specially treated clothing fibers being able to hold enough power for big tasks.
if flexible solar cells and these fibers were used in tandem to make a jacket, it could be used independently to power electronic gadgets and other devices."
Once all the chemical parts have found their place in the pocket the energetics that control the reaction become favorable,
For us, we set the challenge to coat 2 meters long stainless steel tubes, "explains the researcher.
This photoinduced solidification process forms one layer of solid structure at a time but in a continuous fashion.
They envision the fiber supercapacitor could be woven into clothing to power medical devices for people at home or communications devices for soldiers in the field.
and structurally consistent over their length the fibers can also be woven into a crossing pattern into clothing for wearable devices in smart textiles.
Such clothing could power biomedical monitoring devices a patient wears at home providing information to a doctor at a hospital Dai said.
#Language-Translating Glasses For The Confused Tourist#For all the promise of mobile technology there's still not a whole lot an intrepid adventurer can do to break the language barrier besides well learning the language.
A team from Japanese#mobile carrier#NTT Docomo created augmented reality glasses that scan for text in Japanese translate the text through an online database
so it's not clear how advanced the glasses might be by the time of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics a tourism wave the company's looking to cash in on.
#Let This Amazing Hydrophobic Shirt Keep You Dry, You Slob#Human beings! Clothes-wearers! Folks who maybe drank some milk right out of the jug one time
and spilled it all over themselves but okay it was Saturday night and no one was around
On Kickstarter now is called a shirt Silic which repels liquids. If the videos are to be believed it looks rad.
Spill a bunch of soda on your shirt and it bounces right off. The shirts are woven with a hydrophobic silica also known as silicon dioxide.
Self Cleaning Clothing With Hydrophobic Nanotechnology as the Kickstarter says might be a vague enough claim to cause some concern
but we've definitely seen similarly cool stuff with aerosol sprays so it's not too much of a stretch to think this could work with clothing.
How the shirt actually feels along with how long it retains its properties (the team says 80 washes) might require a closer look.
But it's designed by a former designer for the Vera Wang Collection and definitely looks better than a shirt with an orange juice accent stain.
Kickstarter via Huffington Post
#Google Has added Quantum Physics To'Minecraft'Video#Minecraft the Lego-style build-your-own-game game has been the canvas for some awesome projects.
#Hook Me Up to This Impractical Virtual reality Suit Right Now The Oculus Rift is one of the most immersive gadgets we've ever seen--just strap the glasses onto your face
and drop your cloths off at the oporatorless drycleaning machine built into a 20ft shipping container.
#Gunk-Proof Everything Anyone who's worn waterproof boots knows that although they shed moisture they're magnets for grime.
Instead of a single layer Ever Dry is two coats. Engineers first spray a surface with a solution that consists mainly of xylene and butyl acetate.
Once that coat dries (about 20 minutes) they apply an acetone solution with small amounts of silica and other proprietary additives.
As it dries the top coat reacts with the base coat to form a layer of microscopic peaks and valleys.
The common thread between them is brilliance of course but also impact. If the Brilliant Ten are the faces of things to come the world will be a safer smarter and brighter place.
The common thread between them is brilliance of course but also impact. If the Brilliant Ten are the faces of things to come the world will be a safer smarter and brighter place.
The common thread between them is brilliance of course but also impact. If the Brilliant Ten are the faces of things to come the world will be a safer smarter and brighter place.
The common thread between them is brilliance of course but also impact. If the Brilliant Ten are the faces of things to come the world will be a safer smarter and brighter place.
The common thread between them is brilliance of course but also impact. If the Brilliant Ten are the faces of things to come the world will be a safer smarter and brighter place.
The common thread between them is brilliance of course but also impact. If the Brilliant Ten are the faces of things to come the world will be a safer smarter and brighter place.
The common thread between them is brilliance of course but also impact. If the Brilliant Ten are the faces of things to come the world will be a safer smarter and brighter place.
and divers from getting chomped on with a line of shark-deterring wet suits. After two years of research and development the suits went on sale this week.
One version Elude camouflages the wearer in the water based on the recent discovery that sharks seem to be color blind The other Diverter aims to repel sharks with high-contrast black and white bands a natural signal the company says tells sharks
The suits'designs were tested with tiger sharks off the coast of Western australia but not with humans inside them.
(or shark-prone) can order a suit now. When you're talking life or limb $495 isn't that pricey.
what he believes is a seal shadowing the sun. Of course biting the diver will be a little a big wad of gume with the camouflage rubber wet suit.
Perhaps they should incorperate an awful taste/scent to the suit. then when the shark approches it's tiny little pea brain will say eeew i'm not eatin'that Expletive Deleted thing!
This suit didn't do crap. also $500?!For a striped pattern? Sonar devices that repel sharks are far more dependable.
(but still use the fruits of those discoveries when it suits you) and keep being smirked at more and more.
Faced with these constraints Prakash developed a pocket-size paper#microscope that is powerful enough to#detect a malaria parasite in a drop of blood yet costs just 50 cents.#
and spacesuit pioneer ILC Dover to develop its proprietary UV-and weather-resistant fabric. B The first commercial BAT will house a 30-kilowatt turbine
which they secure to the ground with the same anchor ties used for telephone poles. Logistical ease is critical to Altaeros's initial customers:
"Imagine if you slapped on those Oculus glasses you could view what changes to make as if you were in the room
#The Helmet That Could Change Football For decades football players have worn rigid unyielding helmets that protected the skull
To address this shortcoming Riddell built a smarter helmet. Available to NFL and college teams
At the crown of the helmet a flexible panel that has a polycarbonate shell attaches with a living hinge.
#Most face masks attach to the helmet at a player s brow but Speedflex s attaches at the sides.
The configuration diffuses any force around the helmet away from one central area. The stainless-steel mask is designed also to flex.
If a high school player loses his helmet rules require him to sit out a play. Riddell s ratchet-lock will make such incidents almost impossible.
Sensors in the helmet collect data on impact force linear or rotational acceleration and location.
The cap communicates wirelessly with a laptop that shows on its screen a white circle on a black background.
#Vest And Scarf Made From Spider Silk This silk scarf and vest have a nice drape
because they're made of super-strong transgenic spider silk. Functional and good-looking! Our favorite.
The clothes were woven from silk produced by silkworms with a spider gene engineered into them.
The resulting hybrid material is made up of less than 1 percent spider proteins yet it's 53 percent tougher than regular silk according to the research team five scientists from Japan's National Institute of Agrobiological
Scientists have known long spider-silk proteins are exceptionally strong. Dragline silk the stuff spiders use to make the spokes of their webs
and to dangle creepily from ceilings is five times stronger than an equal-sized thread of steel would be.
Researchers have thought about using spider silk for everything from surgical thread to bulletproof vests. There's no reason to make a cute scarf from spider silk of course
but the Japanese team members wanted to demonstrate they could harvest their product and feed it into the same machines silk factories use.
Why not get the silk directly from spiders instead of it putting it through a silkworm first?
Spiders don't make a lot of silk at once and they're cannibalistic so it's hard to maintain a spider farm.
Silkworms on the other hand have been domesticated over thousands of years. They produce voluminous silk cocoons and they're easy to raise indoors.
A silkworm that makes spider proteins could be a gentle little biological silk factory spinning out a super-strong product.
In recent years a number of labs have created genetically engineered silkworms that spin part-spider silk.
However this is the first time we've seen anybody produce and harvest enough of the material to weave it into something wearable.
In this research scientists made copies of the genetic code for one dragline protein from Araneus ventricosus spiders The researchers inserted the copies into the DNA of Japanese silkworms.
and they performed strength tests on the raw silk. Eventually they made enough engineered silkworms that they were ready to kill the worms in their cocoons harvest the silk dye the silk threads
and knit the threads into cloth just like silk factories do. The researchers are now planning to try to raise their genetically engineered silkworms at commercial farms the Japan Times reports.
They published their scientific work last week in the journal PLOS One e
#Pentagon Wants Artificial intelligence In Future Fighters The Department of defense wants future generations of fighter aircraft to come with copilots already installed.
when the glasses don't have a data connection which is nice. It could also keep the images the glasses record for the app more secure the images are supposed to stay on the device
and never enter the cloud. A video demo of the software shows a prototype of the app on a laptop.
In addition the fact that all the control systems of the robots fit into caps at the ends of each rod means we can build robots of a variety of scales#we can make the robots twice as big
#The Rise Of The Crypto Phone Between revelations of NSA spying and a sense that marketers and hackers are picking our digital pockets we re all getting a little edgy about cellular security.
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