The new 3d design has slashed the transit time between transistor and memory, and the resulting architecture can produce lightning-fast computing speeds up to 1,
target and deter commercial drones could be used to keep the flying robots away from areas where they're not wanted, like government properties, airports or your own backyard.
has ruled that small UAVS cannot be flown within 5 miles of airports and that they must remain below 400 feet (122 meters),
where they are unlikely to interfere with piloted aircraft. But a recent deluge of complaints from pilots
as well as U s. Forest Service employees who have spotted the flying bots near wildfires, has led the FAA to take further action against rule-breaking drone operators.
such as near airports, according to a report by Phys. org. Though the AUDS system doesn't promise to help locate errant drone operators,
so it might be safe to use near airports. The new anti-drone system has been tested in the United kingdom, the United states and France, according to the BBC.
The option to just drop something out of a plane and then totally forget about it hasn't existed, according to DARPA.
and that can also provide navigation information when going on your own for a stroll. The main idea of the device,
and aircraft manufacturing,"said Kim m
#How to save soldiers'lives with fizz One of the biggest challenges for medics on the battlefield is treating blood loss,
The resultant bubbles then act as transport for the clotting agents propelling them deep into a wound as they pop.
Taro Nakajima and colleagues from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science realized that multiferroic symmetry could also be controlled through a more primitive route.
Raman spectroscopy and transport measurements on the graphene/boron nitride heterostructures reveals high electron mobilities comparable with those observed in similar assemblies based on exfoliated graphene.
the development of new, lighter and stronger materials spanning consumer electronics to aircraft; and faster information searching through large databases e
which cannot result in a net transport of suspended particles. However, the Purdue researchers have overcome this limitation,
increasing the velocity of particle transport by 100 times by applying an alternating current electric field in conjunction with heating the plasmonic nanoantenna using a laser to induce a force far stronger than otherwise possible."
First, the fast transport using alternating current, and then you turn off the electric field and it goes into the plasmonic tweezing mode,
Potential applications already exist for this emerging technology, such as medical imaging, the improvement of navigation systems or even for searches based on images rather than on text.
the team arranged metal-oxide nanosheets into a single plane within a material by using a magnetic field
The nanosheets ended up stuck within the polymer, aligned in a single plane. Due to electrostatic forces, the sheets create electrostatic resistance in one direction but not in the other.
This provides a literal road map for surgeons to follow, showing which tissue is cancerous and
bendable electronics could have many uses, such as monitoring patients'health and keeping tabs on airplanes.
wearable electronics and sensors for monitoring airman health/performance; conformal electronics and antennas for maximizing space efficiency and reducing aerodynamic drag;
Over the last few years, one team of chemists and materials scientists has begun exploring military applications in harsh environments for aircraft, explosive devices and even combatants themselves.
such as an airplane's wing, or even a person's skin. In aircraft applications, Leever explains,
the hybrid flexible system can be used to monitor stresses and strains and report this information through miniature embedded antennas to ground crews or a pilot.
The researchers also are developing the same approach to monitor pilots'health. This involves a biosensor system that can measure heartbeat,
hydration levels, sweat, temperature and other vital signs through miniature circuitry. The system would be embedded on a flexible
wearable patch and would include an antenna to transmit these biometric signals to the pilot or a ground team.
and could detonate the weapon after surviving the initial impact of ground contact after being dropped from aircraft.
the UVM team was able to observe nanoscale defects and boundaries in the crystal grains in the thin films of phthalocyanine--roadblocks in the electron highway."
"Think of these as easy-on ramps onto a highway--instead of an awkward stop sign at the top of a hill--that allow excitons to move far and fast.
This allows organic thin films to carry energy along this molecular highway with relative ease,
a nanoscale integrated optical memory that could open up the route towards ultra-fast data processing and storage.
The results of this new research show, that superconductors may be useful in the process of spin transportation, and ferromagnetics may be used to control spins.
but also in transportation industry power backup, micro grid storage, and for the wider use of renewable energy. OSU officials say they are seeking support for further research
on a multilayered film where the magnetic moments are aligned normal to the plane. They used ion beam irradiation to modify the interface between the dots
and are out on our roads, "said Professor Hermann Kohlstedt and his colleague from Bochum,
Berkeley Lab researchers find a better way to store natural gas as a transportation fuel Researchers with the U s. Department of energy (DOE)' s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a variety
the widespread use of natural gas as a transportation fuel has been hampered by cumbersome and expensive onboard gas storage tanks and the cost of dispensing compressed natural gas to vehicles.
and sensors that can detect otherwise imperceptible defects in buildings, bridges, and aircraft.""This is the first time anybody has made a flexible chameleon-like skin that can change color simply by flexing it,
or the wings of airplanes.""This is the first time anyone has achieved such a broad range of color on a one-layer, thin and flexible surface,"concluded Change-Hasnain."
#Cyborg beetle research allows free-flight study of insects (w/video) Hardwiring beetles for radio-controlled flight turns out to be a fitting way to learn more about their biology.
if tethering interfered with the insect's natural flight motions.""In particular, the researchers said, it had been difficult to elucidate the role that smaller muscles play in fine steering.
"Our wireless system allows us to record neuromuscular movements in natural, free flight, so we see
Six electrodes are connected to the beetle's optic lobes and flight muscles. The entire device is powered by a 3. 9-volt micro lithium battery
"During test flights, signals were transmitted to the beetle backpack every millisecond, directing the beetles to take off, turn left or right,
or even hover in mid-flight. The beetles were untethered but in a closed room equipped with eight 3-D motion-capture cameras."
"In our earlier work using beetles in remote-controlled flight, we showed excellent control of flight initiation and cessation,
but relatively crude control of steering during free flight,"said Maharbiz.""Our findings about the flight muscle allowed us to demonstrate for the first time a higher level of control of free-flying beetles.
It's a great partnership between engineering and science
#Spherical nucleic acids set stage for new paradigm in nanomedicine drug development A research team led by Northwestern University nanomedicine expert Chad A. Mirkin
and Sergei Gryaznov of Aurasense Therapeutics is the first to show spherical nucleic acids (SNAS) can be used as potent drugs to effectively train the immune system to fight disease,
but also in other major industries such as automotive and aviation. Joseph M. Desimone, professor of chemistry at UNC-Chapel hill and of chemical engineering at N c. State, is currently CEO of Carbon3d where he co-invented the method with colleagues Alex Ermoshkin, chief technology officer
On route to self-powered smart suits s
#Breakthrough in nonlinear optics research A method to selectively enhance or inhibit optical nonlinearities in a chip-scale device has been developed by scientists,
The new technology may hold promise for many applications such as for jewelry, automotive interior trim, aviation, signage, colored keypads, electronics and wearable displays s
Each pick-up and release with conventional gripping systems involves the risk of either contamination of the surfaces with residues from transportation adhesives,
Removing salt and other minerals from our biggest available source of water--seawater--may help satisfy a growing global population thirsty for fresh water for drinking, farming, transportation, heating, cooling and industry.
who co-led the study with Ivan Vlassiouk in ORNL's Energy and Transportation Science Division."
The membrane allowed rapid transport of water through the membrane and rejected nearly 100 percent of the salt ions, e g.,
which the scientists used to correlate the porosity of the graphene membrane with transport properties.
The nanoparticles with their sirna cargoes were tested then by topically applying them to mice with either skin excisions or burns.
Photons are wave packets that vibrate in a specific plane the direction of polarization. The state of the qdots determines the direction of polarization of the photon."
This success is an important step on the still long and rocky road to a quantum computer.
In an experiment, recently published in Science("Probing Johnson noise and ballistic transport in normal metals with a single-spin qubit),
Planes are modelled on birds and many drugs have their origins in plants. Researchers at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering have taken it a step further:
and expanded in a plane when a voltage is applied between electrodes. In contrast to actuators based on rigid materials such as silicon, dielectric elastomers can reach a very large extent of stretch, often exceeding 100 percent elongation while not breaking,
but this time it comfortably held a tringof water molecules. he continuous one-dimensional ater chaintrapped by the molecules is indispensable for mediating water transport across a lipid membrane,
whether a proton gradient could induce water transport. We were surprised very to find that it could.
Their soft nanoparticles stick to the plane where oil and water meet, but do not stick to one another.
distribution and utilization in a wide range of applications ranging from heating to transport fuel.
and single-crystal structures of the ac (middle) and ab planes (bottom). Right: Output characteristics of FETS fabricated using the polycrystalline thin films as-coated (top)
#Bio-inspired eye stabilizes robot's flight without need for an accelerometer Biorobotics researchers at the Institut des Sciences du Mouvement-Etienne-Jules Marey (CNRS/Aix-Marseille
All aircraft, from drones to the Ariane launcher, are equipped currently with an inertial measurement unit,
This allows these aircraft to stabilize their roll and pitch with respect to the horizon or rather with respect to its perpendicular:
An accelerometer measures all the accelerations of the aircraft including gravity, which is directed always toward the center of the Earth.
3) An inertial reference system is used an instrument in navigation that is able to process the measurements of a device's motion (acceleration and angular velocity) in order to estimate its orientation (angles of roll, pitch and heading.
Potential applications already exist for this emerging technology, such as medical imaging, the improvement of navigation systems or even for searches based on images rather than on text.
A person taps the tablet to control where the beam of light appears on a floor. The swarm robots then roll toward the illumination,
A person taps the tablet to control where the beam of light appears on a floor. The swarm robots then roll toward the illumination,
and a plane. The team measured the forces the robot exerted to maneuver the rod into the desired orientations,
and industrial R&d in a wide spectrum of applications, from transport to medicine. The Laser Applications Centre of AIMEN is devoted to applied research in the field of laser materials processing,
What makes 51 Eridani particularly interesting is that it also harbours dust and ice in the planetary system,"explains Professor Metchev.
By 2020, the EU aims to have 10 per cent of the transport fuel of every EU country come from renewable sources such as biofuels.
and Xin decided to use existing data to train computer algorithms to make predictions of new materials,
heat transport and strength. The Rice team is laying a theoretical foundation for such structures by analyzing how the blocksjunctions influence the properties of the desired materials.
Layered sheets of graphene keep their properties in-plane, but exhibit little stiffness or thermal conductance from sheet to sheet,
and deliver their cargo, they could break down into additional therapeutic agents. We can now design two things into one."
which will guide how scientists and engineers build aircraft components, for example. The research, led by Jianwei (John) Miao,
a nanoscale integrated optical memory that could open up the route towards ultra-fast data processing and storage.
or PEG, that releases its cargo only in targeted immune cells. The nanocarrier degrades when it encounters the acidic part of these cells,
the development of new, lighter and stronger materials spanning consumer electronics to aircraft; and faster information searching through large databases s
preferring to transport certain ions over others through the graphene layer. hat we see is that there is a lot of diversity in the transport properties of these pores,
and Sean Oern from MIT and Juan-carlos Idrobo from Oak ridge National Laboratory, publish their results today in the journal Nature Nanotechnology("Heterogeneous sub-continuum ionic transport in statistically isolated graphene nanopores").
and in understanding transport through these really small pores in ultrathin materials, Karnik says. Meni Wanunu, an assistant professor of physics at Northeastern University, says the group work with graphene membranes may significantly improve on commercial membranes used for water purification,
but also in transportation industry power backup, micro grid storage, and for the wider use of renewable energy y
#Robots navigating the unknown A robot with a navigation system that mirrors the neural scheme used by humans
The human navigation function is operated by two types of brain cells-place cells and grid cells.
which provide a virtual reference frame for spatial awareness to handle this type of relative navigation.
By using both place and grid cells for navigation, humans and animals are able to accurately move through the environment.
The computer navigation system assists the robot in situations where it is lost in a new environment,
and are out on our roads, "said Professor Hermann Kohlstedt and his colleague from Bochum,
ride steel subway cars over steel rails to our offices in steel-framed building. Steel screws hold together broken bones,
to a two-dimensional array, positioned on a plane that is far more tolerant to errors. This qubit layer is sandwiched"in a three-dimensional architecture, between two layers of wires arranged in a grid.
such as rapidly scouring vast databases, modelling financial markets, optimising huge metropolitan transport networks, and modelling complex biological molecules s
UK, studied the transport mechanism of the sensors. Novoselov was the 2010 Nobel laureate in physics.
In the paper, he Effect of Body Posture on Brain Glymphatic Transport, Dr. Benveniste and colleagues used a dynamic contrast MRI method
when standardizing future diagnostic imaging procedures to assess CSF-ISF transport in humans and therefore the assessment of the clearance of damaging brain proteins that may contribute to or cause brain diseases. r. Benveniste and first-author Dr. Hedok Lee,
uses jets of liquid nitrogen to nap-freezebrain tissue down to-90oc, within milliseconds. The brain tissue here was mouse cerebral cortex.
Thus, researchers have administered oxytocin to patients through the nose as this route offers a direct pathway to the brain that bypasses this barrier.
seizure disorders and many other conditions affecting the brain and nervous system down the road. Using nasal mucosal grafting,
including how much each feature needs to be adjusted to produce a different sensation. his is where the rubber meets the road in building touch-senstive neuroprosthetics,
During these experiments, Bensmaia and his team manipulated various features of the electrical pulse train,
in the longest US isolation experiment yet aimed at helping NASA prepare for a pioneering journey to Mars. The crew includes a French astrobiologist, a German physicist and four Americans a pilot, an architect, a doctor/journalist and a soil
Crew member Sheyna Gifford described the team as ix people who want to change the world by making it possible for people to leave it at will,
but the crew was able to work through their problems. think one of the lessons is that you really can prevent interpersonal conflicts.
Jocelyn Dunn, a crew member from the previous eight-month mission, said she came to love the inside jokes among the crew
and different kinds of inputs such as tap, type and talk. he unveiling of the new logo came just weeks after a surprise reorganisation of Google under a newly formed parent company called Alphabet.
but followed the same route as the others: made the same turns, walked the same distance.
Navigation apps, for instance, could steer people along their route automatically, meaning they never have to look at their phone
"We want to remove this step out of the navigation process so you just say want to go there,
"We build a navigation system, but then we have to stare at it.""""Their goal is letting you use your attention on
The team also tracked the transport of substances called glycoproteins. These are vital for growth
which can add two bits of information. his shows that you can get to calculating ability by a completely different route,
which can add two bits of information. his shows that you can get to calculating ability by a completely different route,
The ruling against the 15-year-old law, known as Safe Harbour, threatens the business models of more than 3000 companies that use it to ship data to the US,
is unable to use Safe Harbour as a reason not to investigate Facebook data protection practices in the US.
How long until the satellites are ready for flight? The team has given three of their propulsion systems to the NASA Glenn Research center in Ohio,
the metallic device almost looks like a high-tech bike pedal. Or maybe the latest cooking gadget for zesting lemons.
The paper states,-rays radiated by relativistic electrons driven by well-controlled high-power lasers offer a promising route to a proliferation of this powerful imaging technology.
And because the extremely thin buffer layer allows light to be emitted in the plane of the wafer
predicts the team. his also forms a route towards electrical injection for the device. Cutting data center power consumption They suggest that a wide range of applications stand to benefit from the kind of low-cost,
when they introduced the proteins to the tomatoes they acted like opening a tap to boost levels of a group of antioxidants called phenylpropanoids
a Marine signals intelligence (SIGINT) specialist monitors web traffic while he lies on the ground, his assault rifle trained on a nearby building.
Jumping on a plane to Kathmandu is a bad idea. Giving money to reputable aid organizations is much better,
An organization called the Humanitarian Openstreetmap Team (HOT) is looking for volunteers from all over the world to look through satellite imagery of Nepal and label and map roads, buildings,
in order to map obstacles and extraction routes. It can even detect the angle of the wheels on the vehicle in question to help figure out the best way to remove it.
and perhaps even automatic parking in environments where space is limited. The good news is that
an IED on the side of the road--then estimates the time and location of the explosion.
The ability of liquid metal with its own embedded power source could even one day be the basis to build self repairing armor on tanks and changing aircraft fuselages for fuel efficiency and speed.
But each GENESI node and sensor includes a miniature wind turbine that harvests energy from passing trains.
Now researchers from The swiss Federal Institute of technology have created an artificial eye and navigation system for these drones based on insectsvision,
or even to spot explosives in airports r
#Embedded 3d Barcodes To Ensure Pills Are Real A new kind of barcode could be built structurally into a pill or other product,
#DARPA Taps Into the Brain To Give Patients Robo-Touch and Better Memory ST LOUIS By hardwiring into the brains of people with traumatic injuries,
Spot isn the first of Bigdog siblings to train with the Marines. LS3, a heavier, sturdy robot designed as a mechanical mule that can carry up to 400 pounds of gear for a squad on the move
It could represent the best route to store valuable personal information. But Dr. Narayan points out it may not be entirely useful. ven
Instead, it relies on existing and mature navigation systems and haptic feedback for the directions, and simple 3d printing techniques for production.
such as watching a movie on an airplane, the glasses look to enrich content in a way no other streaming service currently does.
Morocco is eyeing grander international ambitions. e are involved already in high tension transportation lines to cover the full south of Morocco and Mauritania as a first step,
It has yet to be adopted widely in the transportation sector, however, because of the expensive and large onboard compressed fuel tanks.
along with serving to increase natural gas-powered vehicle driving range within the limited cargo space. atural gas storage in porous materials provides the key advantage of being able to store significant amounts of natural gas at low pressures
but our results do show routes forward towards a practical device, "said Prof. Clare Grey of Cambridge's Dept. of Chemistry, the paper's senior author.
The result was a notable increase in both photon absorption and electron transport. What was not clear was exactly how the nitrogen was facilitating the observed changes.
"Galli's team found that these defects enhance the transport of electrons. But more interestingly, they found that the nitrogen that had been incorporated into the compound increased the transport of electrons independent of the defects.
Finally, that nitrogen lowered the energy needed to kick electrons into the state in which they were available to split water.
and has the potential to be a more cost-effective approach compared to conventional routes such as precipitation,'Bhave states.
or to remember a few hours later where you parked your car in a multi-storey car park. Schizophrenia is a long-term mental health condition that causes a range of psychological symptoms,
#Japanese engineer develops world's first'car in a bag'Pocket-sized personal transporters could soon be seen on the streets of Tokyo.
A Japanese engineer has developed a portable transporter small enough to be carried in a backpack that he says is the world's first'car in a bag'.
'Twenty-six-year-old Kuniako Sato and his team at Cocoa Motors recently unveiled the lithium battery-powered"Walkcar"transporter,
Sato expects to see many other uses for his transporter, as he says it has enough power to help people push wheelchairs with ease.
Best of all, there is no need to find a parking space, because it fits into a small bag when not in use.
"what if we could just carry our transportation in our bags, wouldn't that mean we'd always have our transportation with us to ride on?"
"and my friend asked me to make one, since I was doing my masters in engineering specifically on electric car motor control systems,
of our increasingly fragmented forests Can a forest that exists only in the spaces between roads
has his eyes on roads, which break up habitats while introducing poachers, miners, loggers and other destructive human forces. he trouble is that, for humans, if not for plants and animals,
roads are useful, the New yorker points out the obvious. And current trends suggest wee on track to pave more of these destructive edges:
and possibly many more, harbor C. difficile in their gut, said study co-author Justin Sonnenburg, Phd, professor of microbiology and immunology,
Like railroad switchmen, the focus is on rerouting passageways; however, instead of trains on a track, the surgeons redirect peripheral nerves in a quadriplegic's arms and hands by connecting healthy nerves to the injured nerves.
Essentially, the new nerve network reintroduces conversation between the brain and the muscles that allows patients, once again,
and the bottom layer acts as the circuit to transport electrical signals and translate them into biochemical stimuli compatible with nerve cells.
#The UK is trialling a new road surface that charges your electric car as you drive One of the problems with being on the cutting edge of electric car technology is you're not as sure of being able to find a filling station as all the petrol-burning drivers around you.
If a new road surface being trialled in the UK finds wider use, that sort of'range anxiety'could be gone for good-the roads actually charge your car as you drive.
Highways England, the government organisation responsible for road infrastructure maintenance, is beginning tests later this year.
A select number of cars will be fitted with the requisite wireless charging technology and a test road will be built to show how smaller substations, AC/AC converters,
and power transfer loops can provide inductive charging built into the road itself. The exact details of the technology and how it works won't be confirmed until a contractor is appointed to set up the test route,
but the aim will be to simulate motorway conditions as closely as possible. It's not yet clear how much of a charge the tarmac is going to provide,
but it would certainly increase the amount of time cars could last between full charges at home or a designated charging station."
and wee committed to supporting the growth of ultra-low emissions vehicles on England motorways and major A roads,"Highways England chief highways engineer,
"The off-road trials of wireless power technology will help to create a more sustainable road network for England
and open up new opportunities for businesses that transport goods across the country.""It might take some time before drivers in England can take advantage of the new technology-the trials are expected to last 18 months,
however, and Highways England has said it's committed to installing plug-in facilities every 48 km along the motorway network.
encouraging electric cars onto the road would make a lot of financial sense for the UK government. A similar idea is already in use in South korea,
where specially modified electric buses use Shaped Magnetic field In Resonance technology built into the road surface to receive a charge as they move along o
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