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Synopsis: Civil engineering: Civil engineering generale: Building elements:


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ramps instead of stairs, larger type on signage, benches on more corners. In Thailand, the Chaing Mai province is investing in retirement communities,


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In the case of freighters, this means no crew#so there is an extra weight saving by getting rid of the life support systems and the windows.


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as we peer through a window into one of the super-clean clean rooms.""Each of these is made of solid beryllium


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#Being the one in his family who had to clean the many windows in their four-storey home inspired him to design a window cleaning robot called the Hobot.


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A lift door in the corner of the mezzanine leads to a municipal library on the seventh floor that had been forgotten by all but its ageing clientele.


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whose walls are one atom thick and made from pure carbon, are need highly robust very little heat input to warm them up,

which is basically the same stuff as the walls of carbon nanotubes but flattened into sheets.


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demand for PCS is going through the roof, he says. Believe it or not, the actual hardware lifespan of a PC is around fifteen years


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nutrients and other molecules seep through the walls and pass between the two. What the blood doesn't need is passed off to the urine forming in the tubes,


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and other substances on artery walls which can restrict blood flow) researchers have identified for the first time distinct gene pathways that are altered by these different stimuli.


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and commercial buildings that would financially benefit from solar on their roofs. With thousands of incoming pledges for the#Putsolaronit campaign, Mosaic built a platform that would help people achieve their commitments.


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Musk said the patents that covered a wall at Tesla Palo alto headquarters have been removed. e believe that Tesla, other companies making electric cars,


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In contrast, conventional solar power systems are limited to very small rooftop areas on skyscrapers and tall towers,

which are crowded already with service systems such as HVAC services and elevators; tenant-amenities such as rooftop gardens and pools;

and other high-footprint features. ee worked hard to achieve both large-scale and high power conversion efficiency,

NREL and New Energy have been working through a Cooperative Research and development Agreement to advance the Company Solarwindowt technology for generating electricity on glass windows.

experimental lab device to a first-of-its-kind, see-through glass window capable of generating electricity.


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colored tints preferred by commercial window manufacturers for installation on skyscrapers, worldwide.##Among the most important criteria for developing Solarwindow#applications for today#s skyscrapers is providing a set of neutral colors that remain see-through

NREL and New Energy have been working through a Cooperative Research and development Agreement to advance the Company#s Solarwindow#technology for generating electricity on glass windows.

commercial scale windows while maintaining uniform, neutral colors and scalable power.##Architecturally neutral colors and scalable power are important to achieving the Company#s near-term commercial objective,

its development of electricity-generating windows for skyscrapers. Engineers envision replacing today#s passive glass windows with New Energy#s electricity-generating Solarwindow#systems on all four sides of tall towers.

Such installations could contribute to the goal of self-powered skyscrapers. The prospect of applying Solarwindow#to all four sides of a building provides a significant advantage over conventional photovoltaic solar-power systems.

Unlike traditional building-applied photovoltaic (PV) systems, restricted to use in direct sunlight on very limited skyscraper rooftop space,

enhancing the performance of today#s insulated commercial windows;**See-through, with high level of#visible light transmission#;*

inorganic PV technologies for window applications,#explained Dr. Hammond.##The unparalleled aesthetics of our Solarwindow#prototypes are the result of numerous novel techniques and processes we#ve developed,

glass window capable of generating electricity. Today, the technology is the subject of forty-two (42) patent filings,


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It is said to require no charger installation meaning you simply just plug it directly into a wall outlet.

which plugs directly into the wall outlet. On the other end of the cord is the coupler that plugs into the car.


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With expansive windows an oval shape and a colorful blue and green design theye a distinctive addition to downtown. he city replica oonervilletrolleys have helped downtown revitalization over the years


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Also on the drawing board is oliagethat can be installed on rooftops and balconies and along roadsides to power variable-message signs.


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ceramic tiles, acrylic paints and roof membranes, Guaita explains, adding that the project managed to double the reflectance for darker colours.

where they were used on the boiling roofs and façades of one-room units equipped to simulate the thermal behaviour of larger buildings.


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So when the surge comes through it means the walls can get over-topped, and potentially could fail.


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"The Nozzleinspect robot can identify any cracks, porous walls or other defaults inside the material to a greater degree (30%more precise than any other technology),


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This has been repurposed for mosquito control using the netting coated with insecticide at one end of tubes that are placed in the walls of the households.

The tubes are to be inserted into the walls under a building roof, its eaves, so they are called'eave tubes'.

'Hungry malaria mosquitoes looking to feed on blood tend to enter such openings, naturally following the scent of humans

and land on a wall covered with insecticide, leaving them time to infect a person. ith these tubes,

'where the plastic with the insecticide-coated netting replaces a brick removed from a wall.


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and pushing their way through the wall of an artificial vessel lined with human endothelial cells the kind that line human blood vessels.

The inventors have captured already detailed images of a cancer cell finding a weak spot in a vessel wall exerting pressure


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This scarring can harden the walls of the heart and lessen its ability to pump blood throughout the body.


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of the intestinal wall. The syndrome occurs in up to 10 percent of premature infants and is fatal 25 to 35 percent of the time.


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perhaps we have a window of opportunity to treat it more effectively and potentially change the trajectory of the illness


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A reliable tool to determine which patients can safely be treated beyond that window would allow more patients to be helped. f we are able to replicate our findings in more patients,

Most stroke patients, Leigh notes, don get to a hospital within the window for optimal tpa use


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The findings are the first roof of principlethat 3d MRI technology accurately measures tumor viability and death.


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(i e. aluminum oxide) producing hollow-tube alumina structures with walls ranging in thickness from 5 to 60 nanometers and tubes from 450 to 1380 nanometers in diameter.

They found that the alumina structures with a wall thickness of 50 nanometers and a tube diameter of about 1 micron shattered when compressed.

However compressing lattices with a lower ratio of wall thickness to tube diameter#where the wall thickness was only 10 nanometers#produced a very different result. ou deform it

when you reduce these structures down to the point where individual walls are only 10 nanometers thick both the number of flaws


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The research could lead to a generation of light detectors that could see below the surface of walls


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and radio waves can t always penetrate such as inside walls or bridges and below ground where there might be at least small temperature fluctuations.

or inside a wall and sensors would be tuned to check for water leaks. Similarly when used inside a bridge the sensors could detect any cracks forming or structural deficiencies.


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#Clear material on windows harvests solar energy Michigan State university rightoriginal Studyposted by Tom Oswald-Michigan State on August 20 2014a new type of ransparent solar concentrator

can be used on windows or mobile devices to harvest solar energy without obscuring the view. Past efforts to create similar materials have been disappointing with inefficient energy production

The technology is featured in the journal Advanced Optical Materials. t opens a lot of area to deploy solar energy in a nonintrusive waylunt says. t can be used on tall buildings with lots of windows or any kind of mobile device that demands high aesthetic quality like a phone or e reader.


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and validation in multiple labs outside our Own right now we re at maybe an 18-month window for this device to be out serving patients. he Bill


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and virtual walls for low-surface tension liquids also have immense potential for many lab-on-a-chip devices

which are crucial to current and future research techniques. n the future oil-repellent virtual walls may be used to control the transport of oil without spillage Kwon says w


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Shockwaves from the airburst broke windows rattled buildings and even knocked people from their feet.


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The lattice is constructed of hollow struts with walls no thicker than 75 nanometers. e are now able to design exactly the structure that we want to replicate

because it has very thin walls she says e can effectively trick this law by reducing the thickness


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a science fiction idea of a space elevator that could connect an orbiting satellite to Earth by a long cord that might consist of sheets of CVD graphene,


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APS is interested also in owning solar roofs in its territory, but has acted rather controversially in the past


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Bastian likened Ember system to removing a suction cup from a window by sliding it across the surface instead of pulling directly up.


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the membrane is attached to the side walls of the chamber that stretch and recoil using an attached vacuum controller.


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Imagine a future version of Facebook where instead of posting photos of your lunch on your wall you have a Second life-like avatar


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The scientists from the Technion Rappaport Faculty of medicine Rambam Medical center and the Center of Excellence in Exposure Science and Environmental Health (TCEEH) worked with cultured laboratory mouse cells that resemble the cells of arterial walls


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#Self-tinting breathing window doubles as a transparent battery Scientists at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore have developed a smart window that is able to tint itself blue,

wee seen a number of"smart windows"pop up that act as high-tech shutters to shield incoming light during those hot sunny days.

Professor Sun Xiaowei and colleagues at NTU have developed a self-powered smart window that is bi-functional.

The window consists of two glass panes connected by electrical cables with an oxygen-carrying liquid electrolyte in between them.

and spontaneously turns blue, blocking up to 50 percent of light passing through the window. Conversely, when the circuit is closed the process is reversed

"The window charges up and turns blue when there is oxygen present in the electrolyten other words,

showing that their window can find use as a transparent, self-rechargeable electrochemical battery for low-power electronics.


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for example, be placed on windows and walls and on machines, devices and advertisement billboards. Until now, it has only been possible to pattern OPV panels into a form of stripes.


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and that they could extend the treatment window for when a drug could be effective.

treatment windows for stroke patients. The tiny gelatin particles have a huge benefit: They can be administered nasally a noninvasive and direct route to the brain.

By lacing gelatin nanoparticles with OPN the researchers found that they could extend the treatment window in rats so much


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These charging locations use Tesla Wall Connectors for charging. Tesla confirmed with The Motley Fool that there are about 350 locations in North america and more than 800 worldwide.

Most of these locations have two Wall Connectors, says Tesla spokeswoman Alexis Georgeson. Wall Connectors are popping up at hotels, casinos, ski resorts, restaurants, shopping centers, airports,

and even mobile phone stores. In the U s.,Wall Connectors are showing up at well-known names like Costco, Hyatt, Four Seasons, Ritz-Carlton, Best western, and Westin.

Tesla Destination Charging program has exploded out of nowhere with initial efforts in rolling out the program beginning early in second quarter 2014.

Wall Connectors give Tesla owners a charge rate of up to 58 miles per hour when paired with Dual Chargers,

Tesla owners without a second onboard charger can charge with a Wall Connector, too, but they shouldn expect to charge at a rate higher than 29 miles per hour.

or more long enough to get a meaningful charge from a Wall Connector. Like Tesla Supercharger network, these Wall Connectors are free for Tesla owners.

Compelling economics The economics for all parties involved are compelling. The cost of the Wall Connector is minimal;

the company sells the contraption on its website for $650. And the installation of a 240-volt circuit isn expensive probably no more than $3, 000 and as little as $500.

offering free Wall Connector charging is a low-cost way to provide greater customer convenience while also potentially serving as a marketing tool.

when not having Wall Connectors could become a slight disadvantage for hotels and restaurants. While Tesla investors shouldn count on such an optimistic scenario,

offering free Wall Connector charging is a low-cost way to provide greater customer convenience while also potentially serving as a marketing tool.

when not having Wall Connectors could become a slight disadvantage for hotels and restaurants. While Tesla investors shouldn count on such an optimistic scenario,

there will need to be more than two Wall Connectors at Destination Charging locations. Obviously, the more Tesla cars there are on the road


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and struggled up stairs that seemed to swim before them. h, it hurts, said Noh Hyun-ho,

These include rooftop garden loral therapy, art classes making realistic representations of everyday objects, music therapy with bongos sounding ike a heartbeat.


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About 15 seconds in, behind singing employees, a sign is taped on the wall. It reads,##English Only Policy!##


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#Hawaii s solar boom is so successful it s been blocked from further expansion Rooftop solar on a house in Hawaii.

they plunked down $35, 000 for a rooftop photovoltaic system. The couple looked forward to joining neighbors who had added panels,

And starting immediately, contractors and residents would need permission to connect most small rooftop systems to the grid.


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Windshield wipers were invented in by the American property developer Mary Anderson who received a patent for her window cleaning device in 1903.

and Mrs Anderson noticed that drivers had to open the windows of their cars in order to see out of them.


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They ve started#appearing in a small number of California homes to store electricity generated by rooftop solar panels,

#A big box retailer like Walmart could charge up a Tesla battery pack with cheap energy produced by its Solarcity rooftop photovoltaic array

which means only businesses with low-rise buildings and flat roof##retailers, corporate campuses##can take advantage of going solar.


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decorated with Star wars and Pac-Man murals and lines of code running off wall-mounted screens that show the hacking taking place live.


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Meanwhile, in Arizona yesterday, the state s utility regulator turned back a request by Arizona Public service (APS) to#impose steep new fees on homeowners who install solar panels#on their roofs.

In Arizona, for instance, there were 900 solar arrays installed on Arizona residential rooftops in January 2009. By June of this year, that number had grown to 18,000 with 500 more photovoltaic systems being installed each month.

residential customers with rooftop solar do not pay for most of the electric service they use,

or don t want rooftop solar. The shifting of costs is unfair. It is also growing with every solar installation,


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The window-mounted device uses a high-frequency laser microphone to pick up bothersome sounds then sends out sounds of its own at 180 degrees,

so sound is cancelled out before it even reaches your window. Its included suction cup mount has an##energy antenna##embedded inside to gather electromagnetic activity (such as from#Wi-fi signals) to translate for use as power,


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It has already been put to work by British infantrymen in Afghanistan, scouting possible routes for enemy ambushes or secretively flying over enemy compound walls for a look inside.


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Pedestrians wanting a lift to the shopping center, the train station or even their downtown office will be able to hail a pod by way of a simple smartphone app.


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The size of the 3d printer is large enough to construct walls by depositing concrete based material layer upon layer to build a Wall in this video,


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Place your cellphone on a pad that s plugged into the wall, and it will recharge.

Plug a resonator into a wall outlet, and a device installed on a cellphone or an electric car receives the power


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To me, the handwriting is on the wall. Today steel pipes will soon be replaced with tomorrow air pipes,


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-and Windows-enhanced cars will not start tapping into the next generation of Siri s, Google Now s and Cortana s intelligence.


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Such urban plots can be at ground level or on rooftops. They can use greenhouses in order to take advantage of the sun s energy,


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They are all seeking interconnection under the initiative scluster 7 window, which closed on April 30, 2014.


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the window of opportunity might be closed, says IBM s Hannon. If nanotubes don t make it, there s little else that shows much potential to take over from silicon transistors in that time frame.


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but in more residential areas, residents might be opposed to the cars roving past their windows and disrupting their privacy.


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a new brick in the Great Wall, and guns, guns, guns, to name a few examples. Video) There has been a lot of hype lately about 3d printing,


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But you may still have trouble envisioning how the wall color tiles and taps will look together.

which consists of walls with grids on them that the phone uses to track with technology similar to#Google s Tango.


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And The Machine will not use Windows. In fact Fink announced on Thursday that the company is working on a brand new free

You might argue that it would be difficult for HP to build an operating system based on Windows

Windows is not free and open source as Linux and Android is. You would be right.


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There will be an optional attery headbandavailable for purchase that will extend battery life to about 16 hours It is anticipated to be compatible with Mac, Windows, ios,


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you can just close the window and do something else. Youl receive an email with interesting stats and potential claims a few hours later.


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all regenerative projects have run up against the same wall when trying to build thicker and more complex tissues:


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If Vicsek tells them that they face a wall with a gap in it, they can queue up to squeeze through.


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TORC provided tele-operated systems that enable remediation of high wall failures to begin much sooner than it would with manned equipment.


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Atlas copco says that risks of working close to unstable and hazardous benches close to the wall are well known


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and can be mounted on the wall. Photo: BMW) BMW fast charger uses the Society of Automotive Engineersomboplug


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#Transparent solar windows generate energy without obstructing the view Imagine being able to generate solar energy on the surface of every window

"It can be used on tall buildings with lots of windows or any kind of mobile device that demands high aesthetic quality like a phone or e reader.


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and cooling (the south-facing windows) and natural light and ventilation (the north-facing windows).


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or close windows in a building to maintain the temperature or even to make clothing with fibers that expand

and close heavy windows in a building in response to the air temperature without motors or electricity which the researchers demonstrated.


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Flat-screen LED TVS got so cheap and so big that people are now wallpapering their walls with them;

but it's also only $149 including Windows, which retails on its own for $154. 99 at my local computer store.


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like a series of tiny walls within a larger structure. The essence of the researchers strategy for this latest effort, says lead study author Yongjun Tian of Yanshan University in China,


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#Court lifts cloud over embryonic stem cells The US Supreme court s decision last week to throw out a lawsuit that would have blocked federal funding of all research on human embryonic stem cells


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"Just to throw that out the window doesn t seem like the ideal scenario. Whatever the decision, the pharmaceutical industry will be watching closely,


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Clenbuterol showed a narrow beneficial window for increased contraction. Both of these effects have been documented in humans.


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#Our findings open a new window into the normal and diseased brain by providing the first evidence that DNA variation in individual neurons could be related to brain function


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Tests confirmed the presence of vascular cells along blood vessel walls and muscle cells growing in fibrous structures.


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and then precisely timed laser pulses to strike the cylinder's interior walls. This caused the gold to emit an avalanche of X-rays that bombarded the stone triggering powerful compression waves inside it.


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The new vehicle has simple silvery walls seats for up to seven passengers and a set of flatscreen control panels.


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If you look out of a plane window you see mountain ranges and then long rolling plains.


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To simulate Mars's thin atmosphere On earth the team in Hawaii will first lift a test vehicle fitted with the LDSD system to about 37 kilometres above the Pacific ocean using a high-altitude balloon.


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and carefully shaped magnetic field that stops xenon ions from hitting the engine walls and going to waste.


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These tools have opened a window into the balance of human cells and the bacteria viruses and fungi that colonize


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Theye built using very thick steel walls at the base (requiring more than 100 tons of excess steel),


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printing objects as large as walls, layer by layer. It analogous to how an office printer cartridge runs back and forth,

An aim of the group's research was not only to print walls, but to do so with considerable mobility, enabling immediate transport to a construction site, streamlining delivery and increasing construction efficiency.

The printed object, in this case, is actually a mold made of insulation that becomes a full-on wall once filled with concrete.

however, the molds have their own functionality beyond providing the external shape for a wall:

From walls to nanoscale chips This fall Spielberg jumped to the other end of the 3-D printing spectrum, moving from walls to nanoscale fluidic chips.

He is now working in the lab of A. John Hart, the Mitsui Career development Associate professor of Mechanical engineering,


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we can terminate the code before it hits the wall, or breaks. The system was developed by Shayegan Omidshafiei, a graduate student,


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laughing. remember Heejin came into my office thinking his thesis was about to go out the window.


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It s a very specific window that you want to absorb in he says. We built this structure


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It really opens a window of possibility for labs to try to determine the mechanism of this metabolic breakdown.


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or wireless gloves to seamlessly scroll through and manipulate visual data on a wall-sized, panoramic screen.

and a collaborative-conferencing system called Mezzanine that allows multiple users to simultaneously share and control digital content across multiple screens,

Mezzanine surrounds a conference room with multiple screens, as well as the rainsof the system (a small server) that controls and syncs everything.

a type of operating system or a so-called patial operating environmentused by developers to create their own programs that run like Mezzanine.

and multiple-user capabilities into Mezzanine. t was the first killer application we could write on top of g-speak,

But how far away are we from a consumer model of Mezzanine? It could take years,


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Making the entire data set available on a queryable basis does seem like a significantly larger lift.


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but also light much as window blinds tilt to filter the sun. Researchers say the work could lead to waterproofing and anti-glare applications such as smart windows for buildings and cars.

when the researchers stood the array against a wall: Through a combination of surface tension and tilting pillars water climbed up the array following the direction of the pillars.


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Ten years ago finding the biological causes of psychiatric disorders was like trying to climb a wall with no footholds says Hyman who Is distinguished also the Service Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard.

If this is a wall we ve put toeholds into it. Now we have to start climbing.


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In traditional adapters, an array of switches flip to one state and take in AC voltage from a wall outlet,


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and can just be inflated out and self-lift into the air for installation. Target sites include areas where large diesel generators provide power such as military bases and industrial sites as well as island and rural communities in Hawaii northern Canada India Brazil and parts of Australia.


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offering a new window on brain function, says Jasanoff, who is also an associate member of MIT Mcgovern Institute for Brain Research.


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Solar panels on residential rooftops that are shaded partially by clouds or trees sacrifice as much as 30 percent of their energy potential over a year.


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One prominent location is near the walls of tubes where the result is a strong enhancement of the bacteria s tendency to adhere to those walls and form biofilms.


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It a window into processes happening at the millisecond and millimeter scale, says Aude Oliva, a principal research scientist in MIT Computer science and Artificial intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL.


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But Daher says the code is written in a way that should make it potentially expandable to other products such as Mac and Windows operating systems.


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