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and a bit of know-how, will be able to follow all the spacecraft from the ground. hat wee been able to do with Kicksat is tap into the developments in consumer electronics,
Instead of reaching for any of the shiny silver tools on his cart the mechanic picks up a pair of what looks like sunglasses with connected buds for his ears.
The glasses the mechanic is wearing contain small screens to provide an overlay of computer-generated images on the real world augmented reality (AR.
hat the goal, says Jehlik, o take it from the raceway to the driveway. If 2014 turns out to be the year
The man in the suit, Zhai Zhigang, joined Russia's Alexey Leonov and America's Ed white in the history books as his nation's first space walker.
Powell says their presence was identified unknown until recently using this high-energy X-ray imaging technique. hat was something interesting we discovered just a few months ago,
as they can respond to students and tailor lessons. There are several initiatives trying to connect the entire world to the internet,
Thrun told Technology Review. hat surprised me. Why was a black-and-white lesson better than colour?
But those students who preferred to be taught verbally were much better off with the instructor face permanently in one corner of the screen. hat this result suggests is need a for adaptive systems,
Bikinis. Democracy. But there are a few things that aren in short supply in this country of 28 million:
Transport planners are now#redesigning cities for elderly walkers#using a special suit developed by researchers at MIT called#AGNES#(Age Gain Now Empathy System)
Using the suit, everything from crossing signals to kerb heights can be adjusted. Redesigning for accessibility,
A lot of talented people coming out of school decided not to tuck their shirts in after they graduated,
Madison avenue agencies, fashion houses, and media conglomerates. You can't get that same diversity of industry
They range from the high fashion commerce of Gilt Groupe to the quirky marketplace of Brooklyn-based Etsy.
Appnexus, Outbrain and Gilt Groupe are built around the city's iconic advertising, real estate and fashion industries.#
000 employees, has been built on talent from the fashion industry, but has spawned also its own mafia of founders, many of
Former Gilt Groupe staff have ended also up at non-fashion start-ups such as Movable Ink, Vine,
#I am dressed in a white smock, hairnet, gloves and overshoes; my audio recorder swabbed down with wipes
A white-hat hacker (one that works for non-malicious motives), since the age of 12,
also known as cot death, using an accelerometer attached to baby clothing. Growing signalbluetooth can improve health prospects beyond humans too.
most of the population potentially faces devastating out-of-pocket expenses if they fall seriously ill.
"Most of my patients pay out of pocket. They prefer to tackle health care when someone is sick.
It is simply a hardware solution. hat Jonathan is doing with Neverware is necessary, but not necessarily sufficient, worries Steven Hodas. very school will be where it was 5 years ago
Using two flywheels spinning in opposite directions means the team of engineers at Lit Motors can cancel out
These new fabrics are quintessentially fluid, and can respond to changing urban demands. For example, Paris Habitat, the capitalslargest owner of social housing is using body heat from the Paris Metro to heat buildings.
By rethinking the nature of the fabrics that a city is made up of, they may be better able to respond to our ever-changing needs,
Somatic brain mutations, affecting just pockets of cells can be harmful, and have been suggested as a possible cause of neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism,
What's the next shoe to drop? Maybe it was just a pause button on the crisis. Is that a fair way looking at it or no?
and source talent have worn always many hats: shrink, detective, wizard, ship captain, cheerleader and flag-waver.
#A Bio Sensing Helmet Would Take control When the Pilot Can Elbit Systems is developing new applications for smart helmets for pilots that will be able to sense life-threatening developments during flight.
The helmet is fitted with unique biosensors that measure physiological life signs. Monitoring the pilot heartbeat, blood flow and oxygen level in the blood stream.
The system can identify developing conditions that could lead to hypoxia or G-induced loss of consciousness (GLOC.
Kranz added. e embedded the sensor in our new-generation helmets that have integral processing capability on the helmet.
Helmets with integrated sensors were tested in a centrifuge under high G loads with pilots wearing G-suits.
said Mccarroll. hat we see in the near future is printing the electronics and printing the structures,
The systems will enable Carnival Corporation to meet new regulations that place a cap on sulfur content of fuel oil at 0. 1 percent
The International maritime organization (IMO) MARPOL Annex VI places a cap on sulfur within Emission Control Areas (ECAS) at 1. 0 percent,
while reducing greenhouse gas emissions everybody winssaid Mel Kurtz president of quasar energy group. uasar Columbus facility can produce 1. 3 million gasoline gallon equivalents of CNG each year. hat
Lieutenant Gov. Gavin Newsom has called for a similar green bank initiative and suggested that proceeds from California cap
but this week Britain rail infrastructure company Network Rail officially unveiled them in a fashion only The british could come up with:
and higher belt tension significantly reduce tyre deformation and therefore conserve energy that is otherwise lost through internal friction
and they undertook genetic studies to explore the molecular makeup behind the different mutations that cause the disease.
ALPINE project coordinator. hat is more, adds Professor Selleri, he commercial potential of this technology is enormous.
Picture of robot and human arm Mopic-Fotolia The Smarthand project succeeded in developing a system that essentially tricks the brain into thinking that a real hand is attached to a person arm. hat for decades has been one of medicine greatest challenges
As a result, many amputees chose not to use them. hat we have developed could truly help people overcome these difficulties,
MUPROD solutions could help to cut the 0. 5%of losses currently reported due to late detection of errors during electrical powertrain assembly. hat could lead to cost savings of EUR 2 million per year,
a computer shaped like a head or even a handbag, the team suggests. Project details-Project acronym:
The main breakthrough of the project has been applying nanotechnology to coat key parts of the hydraulic system,
and different areas of expertise-creating strong ties and promoting the exchange of expertise that benefits their overall research capabilities.
These infectious diseases have developed antibiotic resistance and spread despite the best efforts of staff, mainly through textiles like bed linen.
by using a revolutionary nanotechnology to treat bed linen and other textiles. The European Nanobond consortium consisted of six companies and two scientific partners.
It developed durable antimicrobial textiles with a polymeric coating in the nano range thickness in other words
The textiles have been tested clinically to withstand industrial-strength laundry cycles, and the treatment lasts for the entire lifetime of the product.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) now warns that textiles act as a microbial harbour for superbugs.
these antimicrobial textiles will resist, and not spread the infections, says Nanobond project coordinator Patrice Vandendaele, from Belgium-based Devan Chemicals,
Vandendaele said Nanobond sought to develop easy-to-clean textiles that last long use few chemicals, keep patients healthy and avoid cross-contamination.
so they would glue better to the surface of the textiles, Vandendaele says. The antimicrobial surface effectively acts physically rather than chemically.
a glue system to attach to the textiles, and an antimicrobial part to pierce the membrane of any bacteria cell that it touches. t works like a spike bursting a balloon,
what lands on the textiles. t also means that articles treated with the new technology will have a longer natural lifetime through protection against damage and spoilage,
Their goods range from bed sheets to hospital gowns 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:#
universities and small and medium sized companies with specialist expertise in areas like textile and aeronautics."High-tech textiles have advanced a lot in the last few years.
Even bulletproof vests now use composite textiles, "said Zangani.""For this application of the technology, we needed blast protection, first of all,
ballistic fibres with hybrid textiles from lightweight fibres, including aramid (a kind of strong, heat-resistant synthetic fibre) and carbon.
"We used a multilayered structure of textiles that provided enough resistance to fully contain the gas expansion
In the'Reuse a Shoe'project, sports gear maker Nike has been collecting used sneakers for some time.
Discussions about using new EPMT compounds in the original portfolio, in the form of zippers,
with the required electronics and software being integrated eventually into clothes and clothing accessories. Researchers involved in the Biotex project in Dublin are searching for an appropriate method to analyse perspiration.
The prototype is a piece of fabric with a fluidic channel along which a ph sensor, conductivity sensor, sodium sensor and temperature sensors are set.
The biochemical engineers are now looking at integrating their prototype into A t-shirt together with other sensors,
But difficult problems still exist in integrating soft textiles with hard electronics and even with chemicals.
and from a computer just by wearing an electronic bracelet and belt. The PCB (printed circuit board) consists of a Bluetooth module, a small power supply unit,
The system, named STIMUGRIP, uses accelerometers in a similar fashion to the Activity Monitor. When particular arm movements from the patient are detected by the accelerometers,
the ex-Googler who is head of data analytics at Letv, a company with a $12 billion market cap.
and anyone carrying their phone in a pocket or bra could be increased at risk of radiation exposure,
said Joel M. Moskowitz, director of the Center for Family and Community Health at University of California, Berkeley School of Public health.
#Nestle JLL Levi's Among 223 Companies Supporting the Clean Power Plan More than 200 companies, including Nestlé, JLL,
Novelis and Levi strauss & Co, have announced their support for the EPA Clean Power Plan. The comment period on the proposed carbon standard for electric power plants closed Monday.
#Levi s M&s Other Brands Pledge Zero-Deforestation Fashion LLEVI Strauss & Co.,Marks & spencer, Portico Brands and ASOS have joined Canopy Fashion Loved by Forests initiative,
Most rayon, viscose, modal, lyocell and other trademarked cellulosic fabrics start their journey as trees.
Canopy research has found that ancient and endangered forests are increasingly making their way into clothing.
One Year of Fashion Loved by Forest, which highlights key endangered forest otspotsthat it says should be protected from the impacts of the dissolving pulp and viscose sectors.
As part of the Fashion Loved by Forest initiative, more than 25 brands, retailers and designers, representing more than $75 billion in annual sales,
including Zara/Inditex, H&m, Eileen Fisher, Patagonia and Stella Mccartney, have committed to eliminate their use of fabrics that contain endangered forest fiber;
engage their suppliers to shift away from any endangered forest sourcing, advance long-term conservation solutions and alternative fabric options that are more sustainable such as recycled fabrics
or non-wood fibers like straw i
#Google Facebook Others Launch Sustainability Platform Unilever Coca-cola Google Facebook Nike Pepsico and dozens of other major companies and nonprofits have launched a digital sustainability platform
intended to drive conversation and action on sustainability. The companies say the nonprofit editorial platform called Collectively aims to#make sustainable living the new normal.#
Collectively will be updated daily by an editorial team with stories and information from the worlds of fashion food design architecture technology and more.
##You can literally carry this in your pocket and run an experiment in the field without any additional equipment.##
##The technology can be embedded in any porous material such as cloth potentially opening the door for wider applications says Collins. He envisions smart scrubs for health care workers that can sense exposure to a virus;
or smart clothing that tells a runner she s getting dehydrated.####This opens a lot of possibilities##says Collins.##It could give people a lot of valuable information very quickly.##
Cartilage for example is a hard material that caps the ends of bones and allows joints to work smoothly.
Telomeres are caps on the ends of chromosomes. Every time a cell divides the telomeres get a little shorter.
the genetic makeup of the mother mitochondria will be passed to her children, Makova explains. owever, if it is tinyf there is a severe decrease in mitochondrial molecules during the egg-cell developmenthen the genetic makeup of the child might differ dramatically from that of the mother.
What we discovered is that this bottleneck is indeed very small. This finding is especially important for mothers who have a mitochondrial disease.
##This variability helps to explain platelet behavior in the 3d context of a clot in the body which can be quite heterogenous in makeup##Lam says.
The device's cap a small vial is touched then to the droplet drawing in a precise amount of blood using capillary action.
The cap containing the blood sample is placed then onto the body of the clear plastic test kit
After the cap is closed the device is shaken briefly to mix the blood and reagent. When the capillary is filled we have a very precise volume of blood about five microliters
One involves the"purse-string"mechanism where a ring of proteins forms at the edge of a wound
and tightens like the strings of a purse. The second is"cell crawling"where cells move across the gap using armlike projections to close the gap.
Adding pets changed the makeup as well Gilbert saysâ they found more plant and soil bacteria in houses with indoor-outdoor dogs or cats.
However in infants born prematurely researchers at Washington University School of medicine in St louis have found that the population of bacteria in babies gastrointestinal tracts may depend more on their biological makeup and gestational age at birth than on environmental factors.
and they anticipate that the arrays will also transfer easily to glass and leather. This work is reported in Advanced Materials.
#Fabric dissolves to deliver HIV drug faster Bioengineers have developed a new way to protect women from HIV medicated,
disappearing fabric that could be used minutes before having sex. The new method spins the drug into silklike fibers that quickly dissolve when in contact with moisture, releasing higher doses of the drug than possible with other topical materials such as gels or creams
previously found that electrically spun cloth could be dissolved to release drugs. These new results build upon that research,
SPINNING THE FABRIC The team created the soft fibers using a process called electrospinning. They first dissolved a polymer
A palm-sized swatch of the fabric takes about five minutes to make. Anti-HIV drugs such as maraviroc can take a while to dissolve,
despite repeated exposure. hat is new about this is we have developed a vaccine against dust-mite allergens that hasn been used before,
Beck notes that researchers at the Burnet Institute neutralized the parasite in a similar fashion by disabling another protein thought to be involved in the passage of proteins through this pore. hat suggests there are multiple components of the process that we may be able to target with drugs
the more likely those problems were to have an adverse effect on blood pressure. hat we found was
The study appears in the Journals of Gerontology. hat wee finding here is it important to be vigilant to find depression among people older than 50 because of a host of reasons,
They then grew a pure culture of this single organism in the lab. An early guess is that this particular microbe may be linked to obesity and fatty liver disease
Deisseroth says. hat buys you a couple orders of magnitude of time, and also efficiently delivers light only to where the imaging is happening.
My guess is that the pathways in worms that are arresting these cells and waking them up again are going to be the same pathways that are in human cancer metastases.
especially those that may be damaged, Longo says. hat we started noticing in both our human work
These emerging threads have Kuo hopeful researchers will eventually be able to find the way to ngage certain circuits of the brain to lead to a hardware upgrade.
a postdoctoral research fellow. hat means DOT can be used as a stronger surrogate in situations where fmri cannot be used.
During DOT scans, the subject wears a cap composed of many light sources and sensors connected to cables.
Wright is first author of the paper that is published in the journal Neuron. hat told us that a 50 percent reduction in the levels of PIP5K1C was sufficient to reduce PIP2 levels in the tissue we were interested inhere pain-sensing neurons are located,
Zylka says. hat what we wanted to dolock signaling at this first relay in the pain pathway.
an associate professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at Duke university Pratt School of engineering. hat like taking the eye color of everyone in a room
hat we have discovereds a way to find not where you were borns you have that information on your passportut where your DNA was formed up to 1,
000 years ago by modeling these admixture processes. hat is remarkable is that, we can do this so accurately that we can locate the village where your ancestors lived hundreds
Rogers says. hen you measure motion on a wristwatch type device, your body is not very accurately
and his colleagues designedicroscopic posts of the Silly Putty component polydimethylsiloxane serve as the threads.
virus replication 30-fold. hat told us that DDX21 is a host restriction factor, that it inhibits replication,
says Krug. hat was the key to understanding what was happening. It was an exciting moment.
professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Johns hopkins university School of medicine. hat we could intervene in adolescence
but they replaced the magnetic bias with a traveling wave spinning around the device. Another unique feature is that the new circulator can be tuned in real time over a broad range of frequencies a major advantage over conventional circulators. ith this technology we can incorporate tunable nonreciprocal components in mobile platformssays
For example if we want to understand the genetics of how silk is produced we must first understand how silk worms evolved over time
But our material is highly porous. hat we see in the images are short 5-to 6-nanometer planes
#and ultimately wearable. his material#just a single layer of atoms#could be made as a wearable device perhaps integrated into clothing to convert energy from your body movement to electricity
The presence of piezotronic effect in odd layer Mos2 was observed also for the first time. hat s really interesting is we ve now found that a material like Mos2 which is not piezoelectric in bulk form can become piezoelectric
and grow uncontrollably that's exactly what we want to understandsays Benning. hat is the first step of tumor growth. he study appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences h
The app s minimal processing footprint means it could also run on smart watches or in augmented-reality glasses like the Apple Watch or Google glass.
because the threads we formed have a structure that has never been seen beforeays study leader John V. Badding a professor of chemistry at Penn State.
as if an incredible jeweler has strung together the smallest possible diamonds into a long miniature necklacebadding says. ecause this thread is diamond at heart we expect that it will prove to be extraordinarily stiff extraordinarily strong
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. heory by our coauthor Vin Crespi
The result is a structure that has carbon in the tetrahedral configuration of diamond with hydrogens hanging out to the side and each tetrahedron bonded with another to form a long thin nanothread. t really is surprising that this kind of organization happensbadding says. hat the atoms
of the benzene molecules link themselves together at room temperature to make a thread is shocking to chemists
Garrod along with lead author Arnaud Belloche and Karl Menten both of the Max Planck Institute for Radio astronomy and Holger MÃ ller of the University of Cologne sought to examine the chemical makeup of Sagittarius
and the Advanced Light source at Lawrence Berkeley. ithout that it s hard to get insight about the structureyu says. hat benefits us tremendously. his knowledge will serve as a foundation from
#How to make carbon thread without clumps Made into fibers single-walled carbon nanotubesâ line up like a fistful of raw spaghetti noodles thanks to a new process.
Left to their own devices carbon nanotubes form clumps that are perfectly wrong for turning into the kind of strong conductive fibers needed for projects ranging from nanoscale electronics to macro-scale power grids.
but they re starting with a different kind of feedstock. atteo s group used chlorosulfonic acid to protonate the surface of the nanotubesmartã says. hat would give them a positively charged surface
They then employ cage-like crown ethers to capture the potassium ions that would otherwise dampen the nanotubes ability to repel one another.
and Peter Nordlander professor of physics and astronomy. lejandro created a detailed model of the far-field plasmonic interactions between the nanorodsolson says. hat proved very important
. or years academic and commercial institutions have sought an effective technique for shaping these bulk metallic glasses (BMGS)# a new generation of strong-yet-pliable materials.
whose lab specializes in terahertz research. ut our method is contact-less. hat s possible
Researchers are developing vision-correcting displays for computer monitors that would let people see text and images clearly without their glasses or contact lenses.
When laser light contacts the molecules present within the powder it experiences a scattering effect that can be analyzed to construct a sort of molecular ingerprintthat reveals its exact chemical makeup says Vladislav Yakovlev professor in the biomedical engineering department at Texas A&m University. s
since that is where the stars arelyman says. owever a large fraction of these are exploding at huge distances from their galaxies where the number of stellar systems is miniscule. hat we address in the paper is
hat we therefore propose is these are systems that have been ejected from their galaxy. A good candidate in this scenario is a white dwarf and a neutron star in a binary system.
and metal and they anticipate that the arrays will also transfer easily to glass and leather.
Imagine a world in which your wristwatch or other wearable device communicates directly with your online profiles storing information about your daily activities where you can best access it all without requiring batteries.
and the conclusion whichever one was viewed as sort of a timeless mathematical truth a static ultimate verdict. hat we realized here is that you can use tension to dynamically go from one regime to the other
It s possible for the birds to pass it. hat we do know is behaved that one crow like the older children
In designing the device the researchers took advantage of the chemical makeup of many explosives particularly nitro-compounds such as DNT and its more well-known relative TNT.
This is the explosive that was found in Richard Reid s shoe bomb in 2001 and Umar Farouk Abdulmtallab s underwear bomb in 2009.
hat something you feel guilty about? or ell me about an event, or something that you wish you could erase from your memory. ay better than talking to a person In addition,
that revealed specific vibration motions that occurred during charge separation. hat wee found is that
professor of physics in the University of Texas at Austin and author of the study. ne ounce of a stable isotope that needs the calutron to separate it can run around $3 million. hat roughly 2, 000 times the price
In a new study, Starner and Phd student Caitlyn Seim examined how well the gloves work to teach Braille."
"Each study participant wore a pair of gloves with tiny vibrating motors stitched into the knuckles. The motors vibrated in a sequence that corresponded with the typing pattern of a predetermined phrase in Braille.
and were told to ignore the gloves. Half of the participants felt repeated vibrations and heard the cues,
participants tried to type the phrase without wearing the gloves. hose in the control group did about the same on their second attempt (as they did in their pre-study baseline test),
stretchable graphene oxide fibers that are scrolled easily into yarns and have strengths approaching that of Kevlar. This method opens up multiple possibilities for useful products.
Penn State. e believe that pockets of air inside the fiber keep it from being brittle.
Tour says the material did not degrade over many cycles nd my guess is we won t see any.
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