#Now You Can 3d-Print Objects Made Of Wood Fibers From prosthetic hands to an entire bridge,
but it could also be used in the development of smart camouflage gear, color-changing fashion items and wall-sized screens l
#Superfast Lasers Create A Hologram You Can Touch The halls of science fiction are decorated well with dreams of hologramsules Verne introduced holography to literature in 1893 with The Castle of the Carpathians,
With eight months of building and testing, Marion tells PSFK he regularly takes the drone out for a spin
The adoption of the suit will rely on the future evolution of a new industry that bridges technology and textiles,
It is employing a new AI machine-learning system that the online retailer built in-house to boost the prominence and weight of verified customer purchase reviews, those marked as helpful by other users and newer, more up-to-date critiques
Customer reviews have become the cornerstone of trust in the online shopping world. Where users cannot see in person what the products are like before they buy them,
Pavegen CEO and Founder Laurence Kemball-Cook shares, ut we need several hundred thousand footsteps to allow the vehicle to drive 20 minutes within London busiest streets. avegen electricity
The kiosk will charge the owner account and dispense the requested amount of water. Current water dispensers are charging one Kenyan shilling (about half a cent U s.)for 20 liters of fresh water,
these kiosks have been tested only in rural parts of Kenya. This is Grundfosfirst foray into a more urban environment.
announcements made by some of their local partners suggest they will be expanding the kiosks into Nairobi in the near future.
The BBC is covering the kiosks with interest, and it the most likely source of breaking news for those interested in following the project e
and are connected by a salt bridge to form a reaction, balancing each other. What the lamp will do is take the same process and change the electrolytes into a nontoxic, saline solution.
and to the wall with the light weight mobility and continuous monitoring.""said Oz. The consumer version of the product, known as Ritmo Beats, is to be launched for users by the end of 2015
the ranking Democrat on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, said in a statement.
I couldn't believe that I drew that card from the deck. I had no risk factors going in,
Harper and colleagues in the Department of Urology and Applied Physics laboratory at the University of Washington have invented a new way to facilitate kidney stone passage
This means that one expert must always test the beer before it leaves the factory.""But your experts don't work at 3 a m
because their functionality can be adjusted by varying the components. e have opened the door to a new room,
#Glaxosmithkline Gene Discovery In Poppies Paves Way For Better Painkillers A long sought after gene that is a critical gateway step in the synthesis of the morphinan class of alkaloids,
even though the real world is not flat, it has hills and valleys, people and objects. Being able to manipulate a display
Designers and artists using physical proxies such as clay can mold and remold objects and store them in the computer as they work.
when we placed a small sample of the insulating material on a cantilever in a magnetic field,
Can't wait to never leave the house again a
#Solar cells that work on cloudy days just hit a record-breaking 22.1%efficiency There's been plenty of good news about solar power lately-not only are governments around the world using it more and more,
precise and scalable route for building high-surface-area 3d thin-film devices, "the authors write.
like interlocking Lego bricks getting stuck together and then ripped apart, Chu explains. But when the team changed the spacing of the ion crystal
and indiscriminately collect plenty other bugs besides mosquitoes-there's huge room for improvement in terms of the technology and its efficiency,
#Autonomous robot arms are going to 3d-print a bridge in Amsterdam From low-cost housing to lifesaving implants,
and the latest innovation to be announced is sized a full 3d printed bridge. Industry experts MX3D are planning to create a steel bridge in Amsterdam in The netherlands using independent robot arms.
These arms will start on one side of the river and cross over to the other bank building the structure as they go.
with a visitor centre in the pipeline that will provide running updates on the bridge's process."
Printing a functional, life-size bridge is of course the ideal way to showcase the endless possibilities of this technique."
producing a bridge a few feet across that could take the weight of a human being. The style of the bridge has been sketched out by Dutch designer and artist Joris Laarman."
"I strongly believe in the future of digital production and local production, in'the new craft,
"This bridge will show how 3d printing finally enters the world of large-scale, functional objects and sustainable materials while allowing unprecedented freedom of form.
The symbolism of the bridge is a beautiful metaphor to connect the technology of the future with the old city,
a self-contained bridge-printing robot could prove invaluable in connecting communities together again. In the meantime, keep your eyes on MX3D's new bridge in Amsterdam,
because you'll be seeing a lot more of this technology in the years to come e
"With this encyclical, Francis is starting to build a bridge between science and religion on the traditional wedge issue of climate change.
this technology isn going to be making its way to your living room anytime soon, Saihan describing it as"an internal prototype designed to give our program makers,
#BMW wants to turn street lights into electric car charging stations A new technology that allows electric car drivers to charge their vehicles directly from street lights has been showcased by the BMW Mini team at the annual Low Carbon Oxford Week event in the UK.
Called'Light and Charge',these prototype street lights combine energy-efficient Light Emitting Diodes (LED) and BMW Chargenow recharging stations,
drivers can connect a standard charging cable to the street light, and use a control panel on the light to swipe their charge card and register their use.
and are reportedly in talks with US competitors Tesla motors about their new street light charging stations. n
the material could be a prime candidate for building faster and more efficient electronics.""The effect that we've discovered in niobium phosphide could certainly be improved by means of skilled material design,
But the real beauty of the new procedure is how simple it is-you can even give it a try in your own kitchen."
#The Gates-backed'toilet of the future'is now being trialled in India and China The winner of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's'Reinvent the Toilet'challenge back in 2012, this solar-powered,
DIY-friendly system is being rolled out in three locations around the world. Developed by researchers from the US-based Caltech Group,
but the team says that meets the Gates Foundation recommendation that it put the cost of sanitation at five cents per person per day,
"No innovation in 200 years has saved more lives than the toilet,"the Gates Foundation states."
#This new roof material stays colder than the air around it-even in summer Researchers from the Faculty of science, University of Technology Sydney (UTS Science) have created a material that can stay cooler than the ambient air
"We demonstrate for the first time how to make a roof colder than the air temperature around it, even under the most intense summer conditions,"one of the lead researchers,
"Roofs heat up by absorbing sunlight, so darker roofs can get very hot. Even white roofs still absorb enough sunlight to warm up by 9 degrees Celsius to 12 degrees Celsius."
"Scientists have been working for years to create increasingly more heat-repellant materials to cover our houses with,
but they've struggled to find anything that approaches 100 percent solar reflectance.""This new surface,
however, stayed 11 degrees or more colder than an existing state-of-the-art white roof nearby,"Smith added.
Infrared image of the new material (purple) on top of a regular white roof. Credit: UTS Scienceeven better, the materials used to create the demo-roof are already commercially available,
which means they could easily be integrated by the construction industry. The team has tested the roof on the top of the UTS Science building in Sydney,
which is on a busy road and has no cover from the hot summer sun. Despite the conditions,
they showed that the roof was able to stay significantly colder than the air around it,
"The added feedback benefits from cool roofs are appreciated not yet widely, but recent reports have shown they are substantial.
Examples include ventilation with cooler air and higher performance of rooftop air-conditioning installations.""We're pretty excited about a world where our homes are kept cool by their roofs,
rather than electricity-guzzling air-conditioners. Someone get the technology commercialised, ASAP. Love science? Find out more about the research happening at UTS Science
making use of Old world War II tunnels underneath the city to host an eco-friendly,
The farm makes use of WWII-era bomb shelters located 12 storeys underground that were designed originally to provide shelter for 8, 000 Londoners during air raids.
And a new development set to open in New jersey later this year is transforming an old steel factory into the world largest vertical farm.
Quarks are the building blocks that make up composite subatomic particles, and these particles are classified depending on how many quarks they're comprised of.
if they used it to build a flat surface, but they discovered a whole new way to make solar fuel."
"For the nanowires we needed 10,000 less precious Gap material than in cells with a flat surface.
Maybe someone wants to appeal specifically to the customers leaving the shop across the street
#Robots learn to use kitchen tools by watching Youtube videos Researchers at the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) partnered with a scientist at the National Information Communications technology Research Centre
This will be said the next industrial revolution Aloimonos We will have smart manufacturing environments and completely automated warehouses. It would be great to use autonomous robots for dangerous work--to defuse bombs
The eyes have served as a window into the brain with disconjugate eye movements--eyes rotating in opposite directions--considered a principal marker for head trauma as early as 3500 years ago.
In turn camp increases the rate by which cells burn fat so that the animal loses weight.
--and also sheds light on communication between different tissues in the body. The finding is the latest piece of a complex obesity-inflammation-diabetes puzzle that Saltiel lab investigators have been working to solve
-and TBK1 leading to higher camp increased sensitivity to catecholamines and increased energy expenditure by the fat cells.
The U-M study explains how increased camp in fat cells promotes the secretion of the hormone interleukin-6 which signals the liver to stop producing glucose--thus improving overall blood sugar levels in obese diabetic mice e
MVP was one of the earliest product development partnerships funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
president of the Global Development program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.""Prequalification of the Menafrivac vaccine for infants clears the way for the routine immunization of every child before his
Releasing the substrate to its original shape induces buckling processes that lift the weakly bonded regions of the 2d structure out of contact with the surface.
and that both contain important building blocks such as the stem and progenitor cells that will continue to regenerate the intestine as a living tissue replacement.
and receiving applause from the sci ence com mu nity, was pub lished Wednesday in the journal Nature.
otic Phar ma ceu ti cals in Cam bridge, Mass a chu setts, and Selcia Lim ited in the United kingdom. The research team says teixobactin's dis covery presents a promising new oppor tu nity to treat chronic infec tions caused by staphy lo coccus aureus,
and Bio med ical Sci ences at Mcmaster Uni ver sity and who was involved not in this research, exam ined the team's work in a sep a rate article for Nature pub lished
In 2013, Lewis revealed ground breaking research in a sep a rate paper pub lished By nature that pre sented a novel approach to treat and elim
and switching stations as well as in many large buildings. If an internal short-circuit occurs an electrical arc gas formation
if the industry changes to soft housings that absorb energy in the same way as modern car bodies he says.
The idea of using automotive industry technology in transformer housings has led to a pilot project in which SINTEF's materials and electricity experts are collaborating.
while at the same time ensuring that the housing is stiff enough to withstand transport stresses and the vacuum treatment.
The previously unknown durability to extreme conditions position Graphexeter as a viable and attractive replacement to indium tin oxide (ITO) the main conductive material currently used in electronics such as'smart'mirrors or windows or even solar panels.
The research also suggests that Graphexeter could extend the lifetime of displays such as TV screens located in highly humid environments including kitchens.
Yi Cui and colleagues note that nearly half of global energy consumption goes toward heating buildings and homes.
the incidence of plagiocephaly--commonly known as flat head--have risen dramatically. Ellen Mack, RNC, MN, neonatal clinical nurse specialist, said the babies are evaluated constantly to determine
which are responsible for cooling the plastic through contact with special walls and form the plastic beads the founder of the company explained.
This gives us a window into the future to see what bacteria will do to evade drugs that we design before a drug is deployed said co-author Bruce Donald a professor of computer science and biochemistry at Duke.
More importantly these fat cells produced high levels of an antimicrobial peptide (AMP) called cathelicidin antimicrobial peptide or CAMP.
Too little CAMP and people experience frequent infections. The best example is atopic eczema (a type of recurring itchy skin disorder.
But too much CAMP is also bad. Evidence suggests excess CAMP can drive autoimmune and other inflammatory diseases like lupus psoriasis and rosacea.
The scientists confirmed their findings by analyzing S. aureus infections in mice unable to either effectively produce adipocytes or
Interestingly obese subjects were observed to have more CAMP in their blood than subjects of normal weight.
Biomolecular interaction analysis a cornerstone of biomedical research is accomplished traditionally using equipment that can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars said Wyss Associate Faculty member Wesley P. Wong Ph d. senior author
Most of this 28-day window of time is used for testing the tissues to ensure they are safe for use.
and Eliza Hall Institute with colleagues from the RIKEN Institute Japan found they could'reverse'type 2 diabetes in laboratory models by dampening the inflammatory response in fat tissue.
and equipping it with functions on the basis of rationally designed protein building blocks. This is a fundamentally new approach for biology, biotechnology,
The eye is a window to the brain. Dr. Bazan and his research team discovered Neuroprotectin D1 (NPD1)
In the poorest parts of the world paved roads and pavements are a rarity and most homes have beaten floors of earth.
if a complete treatment can be achieved said John March professor of biological and environmental engineering at Cornell University and the paper's senior author.
when the wall of the vessel weakens, and if an aneurysm in the aorta bursts, it can lead to death in a matter of minutes."
By demonstrating a new way to change the amount of electrons that reside in a given region within a piece of graphene they have a proof-of-principle in making the fundamental building blocks of semiconductor devices using the 2-D material.
The junctions between p-and n-type semiconductors are the building blocks of electronic devices. Put together in sequence these p-n junctions form transistors which can in turn be combined into integrated circuits microchips and processors.
Their experiments also involved adding a single gate to the device which allowed for its overall carrier density to be tuned further by the application of different voltages.
a versatile new approach to building the next generation of biosensors. This allows for a wide scope of applications notes Campbell.
Also named on the patents are Dr. Judy Wall Curators'Professor of Biochemistry and Joint Curators'Professor of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology at the University of Missouri-Columbia and her former lab members Matthew Begemann and Dwayne Elias. A pending patent application submitted along with Elias;
Crucially the team conducted studies with perovskite in Alta Floresta (Brazil) Frenchman Flat (USA) Granada (Spain) Beijing (China) Edinburgh (UK) and Solar Village (Saudi arabia) and confirmed its efficiency
they were carbonized in the Mount vesuvius volcanic eruption of A d. 79 and later discovered as charred clumps in the Villa of the Papyri in the ancient Italian city of Herculaneum beginning in 1752.
Without unrolling the scrolls Seales'software will run extremely high-resolution images from the tangled surfaces making sense of the jumbled letters into words and words into passages.
I dream of seeing renewed excavation at the Villa of the Papyri. Many believe that a treasure trove of undiscovered scrolls are waiting there to be unearthed.
Nine hours of heating gives a tunnel of 800 nanometers in length for example and a diameter of 25 nanometer:
Leaving the tunnel closed at one end leaves open the possibility of creating molds for nano structures.
which the building blocks of DNA the nucleotides can be analysed subsequently. Furthermore De Vreede expects the'gold method'to be applicable to other ceramic materials as well.
which in turn led cells to shed surface proteins called TNF receptor reducing TNF signaling in the cells and preventing liver damage.
A brick wall at the nanoscale Natural materials have extraordinary mechanical properties, which are sophisticated based on arrangements and combinations of multiple building blocks.
One key aspect of today materials research therefore is to develop bio-inspired materials reaching to the properties of natural materials or even exceeding those in certain functionalities.
The structure of nacre resembles a brick wall at the microscopic scale: Calcium carbonate platelets('bricks')alternate with soft biopolymer layers('mortar'.
'While the solid platelets serve as the load bearing and reinforcing part, energy can be dissipated into the soft polymer segments.
First, the researchers coat the clays with a layer of polyvinylalcohol('mortar on the brick')and subsequently,
"The nacre-mimetics based on small clays are very tough. However, if we use large clays with an aspect ratio of 3500,
the resulting nacre-mimetics are both extremely stiff and strong. Their mechanical properties actually reach close to those of fiber composites,
The approach may find additional applications in reducing glare from windows, providing radar camouflage for military equipment,
"On a flat surface, this layer is so thin that its effect is explained minimal Matt Eisaman of Brookhaven's Sustainable energy Technologies Department and a professor at Stony Brook University."
including glass and plastic, for antiglare windows and coatings for solar panels. This research was supported by the DOE Office of Science e
Unlike Guo's laser-treated metals the Teflon kitchen tools are not super-hydrophobic. The difference is that to make water to roll off a Teflon coated material you need to tilt the surface to nearly a 70-degree angle before the water begins to slide off.
It is this potential that has piqued the interest of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Funding was provided by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the United states Air force Office of Scientific research h
In the course of 2015 the company plans to produce 700 of these street lights s
This porous polymer has micropores that are smaller than 2 nanometers on the walls of mesopores
The snail insulin consists of 43 amino acid building blocks fewer than any known insulin. Its stripped down size and odd chemical modifications may have evolved as a way to make it better at causing hypoglycemia in prey y
which trigger a reduction in the production of CYCLIC AMP or camp, a key messenger molecule for signaling inside cells.
In mouse models, deletion of the gene that codes for a protein that promotes the production of camp resulted in spontaneous bronchial asthma,
Conversely, increasing camp levels inhibited the cells'inflammatory response that results in asthma's characteristic symptoms."
sheds light on how organisms evolve new morphological structures and functions.""For the first time, we have a good understanding of how something completely novel evolves in nature,
All samples were sent immediately to Stanford's Human Immune Monitoring Core which houses the latest immune-sleuthing technology under a single roof.
From this building block comes the multilayer Laue lens or MLL, made by coating a substrate with thin layers of the chosen substances."
Specifically diode lasers bars in the wavelength range 930 to 970 nm are the fundamental building blocks for pump sources for Ytterbium-doped crystals in large laser facilities,
Building on advances in epitaxial design and packaging technology, FBH bars around 940 nm at temperatures of-70°C (203 K) delivered a worldwide best result of 2 kw peak power per bar at a current of 2 ka, a pulse width of 200 s
They say their invention aligns with voluntary contraception programs supported by philanthropic global health organizations such the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
the cornerstone of genetic programming The transistor is the central component of modern electronic systems. It acts both as a switch and as a signal amplifier.
and demonstrates building blocks for synchronous logic gates, feedback and cascadability--hallmarks of scalable computation. A simple-state machine including 1-bit memory storage (known as"flip-flop")is demonstrated also using the above basic building blocks.
Arraythe current chips are about half the size of a postage stamp, and the droplets are smaller than poppy seeds,
to enable everyone to design new circuits based on building blocks we describe in this paper or discover new blocks.
"You could compare it to the construction of a house, "doctoral researcher Wouter Peelaerts explains."
"With the same building blocks--in this case the alpha-synuclein protein--you can create many different structures.
"If you sit on a Ferris wheel holding a mirror, you will see flashes of light every time the wheel is at the perfect spot for sunlight to hit it.
The speed of the Ferris wheel determines the frequency of the flashes you see, "he said."
Van der waals forces are strong enough for the gecko to stick to a wall. Changing the angle of their feet is
what allows them to detach from the wall to take each step.""Other researchers have mimicked these structures to achieve tunable adhesion,
"Our view is that this composite post structure presented in this work is a fundamental building block to realize larger adhesive surfaces with tunable properties,
proved that exercise over a prolonged period of time causes the gut wall to change, allowing the naturally present bacteria, known as endotoxins, in the gut to leak into the bloodstream.
or weeks--is too slow for this window. A new study in the American Journal of Physiology--Heart and Circulatory Physiology reports a more practical approach called microsphere therapy that can be kept on hand
DHFR is a small enzyme that plays an essential role in the building of genetic material and proteins,
we would have a universal building block to generate multiple functional printed formats that could lead to a wide variety of applications in which inks remain active over time,
'Research shows there is a clear need for long-acting antimicrobial products used in fillings and cements for crowns, bridges and orthodontic braces
#First solar cell made of highly ordered molecular frameworks"We have opened the door to a new room,
The paper is titled"Atomically Thin Resonant Tunnel Diodes Built from Synthetic Van der waals Heterostructures.""Achieving NDR in a resonant tunneling diode at room temperature requires nearly perfect interfaces,
"Resonant tunnel diodes are important circuit components, "says Datta, a coauthor on the paper and Penn State professor of electrical engineering."
Datta cautions that the new resonant tunnel diode is just one element in a circuit
is that factories using the method can be scaled up by simply adding identical units. With traditional lithium-ion production
"The research also sheds light on the formation of sperm, and Herr's findings again speak to the importance of the ESP1 protein.
what has changed and what hasn't. By building up a series of snapshots at different time intervals,
"Clostridium is very much like a factory during fermentation which converts carbon sources into renewable, advanced biofuels that can be used directly to fuel your cars,"added Lu,
More broadly, by using the ABE fermentation as an example, the work further sheds light on systems biology toward an integrated and quantitative understanding of complex microbial physiology
Bosch's magnetic sensors are based on the Hall effect, in which a magnetic field induces a Lorentz force on moving electric charge carriers, leading to deflection and a measurable Hall voltage.
Sensor performance is defined by two parameters:(1) sensitivity, which depends on the number of charge carriers,
In the best case scenario, the result is a huge improvement over silicon, with much lower source current and power requirements for a given Hall sensitivity.
the result shown by Roelver centred on a direct comparison between the sensitivity of a silicon-based Hall sensor with that of the Bosch-MPI graphene device.
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