Video game Therapy Proving Powerful for Stroke Patients (Op-Ed) The critical advance of this technology is the navigation tool,
Adding navigation to TMS is the key to finding the exact location and orientation of the motor area in each person that needs inhibition, via the stimulation.
NASA Drone Advances Unmanned Craft A huge, 10-engine drone dubbed"Greased Lightning"successfully completed a series of flight tests recently,
The 62-lb. 28 kilograms) drone can take off vertically like a helicopter, but in the air it flies more like an airplane.
Future versions of the drone could be used for a variety of applications, the researchers said."
what we are testing now would make also a great one-to four-person-size personal air vehicle."
"Over the course of five flight tests, the drone was able to take off and hover like a helicopter,
before demonstrating that it can also fly like a conventional airplane. Now, the researchers are examining ways to make the drone more aerodynamically efficient,
Fredericks said. The GL-10 drone is the latest in a series of prototypes used to develop the concept.
25 kg), with each successive version getting closer to a real aircraft's weight and design."
the GL-10 is a quiet flier because its engines are powered battery. NASA describes the drone as quieter than a neighbor using a gas-powered-motor lawn mower in the yard next door.
#Bionic Arm Taps New Part of Brain for Natural Moves Mind-controlled prosthetic limbs have been a reality for a few years,
the Mirai is poised now to usher in a new era of efficient hydrogen transportation, said Jim Lenz, CEO of Toyota North america.
BMW said this week it will test a Toyota-enhanced fuel-cell car on public roads in July.
It plans to have the production version of that car on American roads next year.
#Wind turbines Without Blades It no longer surprising to encounter 100-foot pinwheels spinning in the breeze as you drive down the highway.
#Charting quantum signatures of electronic transport in graphene Over the last seven years, Javier Sanchez-Yamagishi has built several hundred nanoscale stacked graphene systems to study their electronic properties."
Treating the surface of medical devices would have a greater impact on patients considered at high risk of infection such as trauma victims from road traffic collisions or combat operations,
like that produced by a Polaroid filter, vibrates in a single plane. When struck by such a light beam,
the amount of blue light the nano-spirals emit varies as the angle of the plane of polarization is rotated through 360 degrees.
which means the materials have different properties along x and y direction in the same plane.
When a duck paddles across a pond or a supersonic plane flies through the sky, it leaves a wake in its path.
Wakes occur whenever something is traveling through a medium faster than the waves it createsn the duck's case water waves, in the plane's case shock waves,
providing a route to higher efficiencies. his 550-nanometer light can be absorbed by any solar cell material,
providing a route to higher efficiencies. his 550-nanometer light can be absorbed by any solar cell material,
Membrane could lead to fast-charging batteries for transportation March 18th, 2015display technology/LEDS/SS Lighting/OLEDS Engineers create chameleon-like artificial'skin'that shifts color on demand March 12th, 2015breakthrough in OLED technology March 2nd,
Membrane could lead to fast-charging batteries for transportation March 18th, 2015drexel Univ. materials research could unlock potential of lithium-sulfur batteries March 17th,
Membrane could lead to fast-charging batteries for transportation March 18th, 2015news and information 30 years after C60:
Membrane could lead to fast-charging batteries for transportation March 18th, 2015announcements 30 years after C60:
Membrane could lead to fast-charging batteries for transportation March 18th, 2015interviews/Book reviews/Essays/Reports/Podcasts/Journals/White papers 30 years after C60:
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#NC State researchers create'nanofiber gusher':'Report method of fabricating larger amounts of nanofibers in liquid A simple process for batch
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."
2015automotive/Transportation Glass coating improves battery performance: To improve lithium-sulfur batteries, researchers added glass cage-like coating and graphene oxide March 2nd,
"Moreover, the conductive Fe-Ni core provides a highway to accelerate the transport of electrons to the current collector,
but we hope that it could potentially be used as a diagnostic tool further on down the road,
an orientation well suited to the transport of electron holes through the material. Takamiya says,
A route to developing ultimate superconducting nanodevices A research group at Tohoku University has succeeded in fabricating an atomically thin,
but also opens a route to developing an ultimate superconducting nanodevice consisting of atomic-size electronic parts.
where the displays allow pilots and drivers to receive key navigation data and information in their line of sight.
For consumers, smart glasses or nomadic projection devices with augmented reality provide directions, safety updates advertisements and other information across the viewing field.
and Technology to tap into organic chemistry and conducting polymers to fabricate a three-dimensional (3-D) polypyrrole (PPY) aerogel-based electromagnetic absorber.
In terms of applications, based on the combination of low adjunction and a"wide"effective bandwidth, the researchers expect to see their 3-D PPY aerogel used in surface coatings for aircraft.
like that produced by a Polaroid filter, vibrates in a single plane. When struck by such a light beam,
the amount of blue light the nano-spirals emit varies as the angle of the plane of polarization is rotated through 360 degrees.
We are pleased very that our recently introduced flame transport synthesis method on the basis of zinc oxide now enables the simple synthesis of interconnected 3d networks from tin oxide
Development of such 3d network materials from tin oxide, with geometry determining defects made by flame transport synthesis at Kiel University is a very interesting step forward into the future of nanostructure growth and applications."#
These new phenomena rely on the transport of thermal energy, in contrast to the conventional application of magnetic fields, providing a new,
A route to developing ultimate superconducting nanodevices June 2nd, 2015self Assembly Researchers simulate behavior of'active matter'June 3rd, 2015engineering Phase changes in Nanoparticle Arrays:
and fault isolation solution that reduces analysis time from days to just hours June 4th, 2015centre for Process Innovation pilots Beneqs breakthrough roll-to-roll ALD system for moisture
2015automotive/Transportation Researchers analyze the structure of bird feathers to create hues without dye June 8th, 2015environmental Issues to Hamper Growth of Global Nanocomposites Market June 4th,
Hydrogels block harmful oxygen June 15th, 2015automotive/Transportation A protective shield for sensitive catalysts: Hydrogels block harmful oxygen June 15th, 2015slip sliding away:
ranging from the catalysts used for the generation of energy-dense fuels from sunlight and carbon dioxide, to how bridges and airplanes rust."
Bhargava's laboratory used vibrational spectroscopic techniques to identify the molecular structure of the nanoparticles and their cargo."
Inside each chip are millions of tiny wires to transport data; wrapping them in a protective layer of graphene could boost speeds by up to 30 percent June 18th, 2015a new way to image surfaces on the nanoscale:
Inside each chip are millions of tiny wires to transport data; wrapping them in a protective layer of graphene could boost speeds by up to 30 percent June 18th, 2015a new way to image surfaces on the nanoscale:
Inside each chip are millions of tiny wires to transport data; wrapping them in a protective layer of graphene could boost speeds by up to 30 percent June 18th, 2015$8. 5m Grant For Developing Nano Printing Technology:
Inside each chip are millions of tiny wires to transport data; wrapping them in a protective layer of graphene could boost speeds by up to 30 percent June 18th, 2015a new way to image surfaces on the nanoscale:
Inside each chip are millions of tiny wires to transport data; wrapping them in a protective layer of graphene could boost speeds by up to 30 percent June 18th, 2015$8. 5m Grant For Developing Nano Printing Technology:
"We have demonstrated now an entirely new class of electromagnetic metamaterials that are fabricated from separate atomic planes of Van der waals materials,
and cadmium sulfide to provide a route to low-cost, scalable and green synthesis of Cds nanocrystals with extrinsic crystallite size control in the quantum confinement range.
such as transportation. With these unique features, PEMFC will revolutionize the future energy economy. Modern applications for PEMFCPEMFC will indirectly make water our future fuel.
highly symmetrical planes of oxygen atoms (somewhat like a densely packed box of marbles) where different metallic elements are lodged in the spaces between them.
and has eight Areas of Advance Built environment, Energy, Information and Communication Technology, Life science, Materials science, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Production, and Transportation.
They also want to evaluate how this characteristic may affect other properties, such as electrical conductivity and thermal transport.
Among other applications of this sensor, mention can be made of desulfurization of petroleum products, production of jet fuel and launching of aircrafts and other aerospace applications.
or minute flaws within airplane wings in industrial testing, that may otherwise be unobservable due to an instrument's diffractive limit.
and could be important for future device technologies as well as for fundamental studies of electron transport in molecular nanostructures.
Single-electron transport in molecular transistors has been studied previously using top-down approaches, such as lithography and break junctions.
Piet Brouwer, a physicist at FUB and expert in quantum transport theory, said that his intriguing behavior goes beyond the established picture of charge transport through a gated quantum dot.
carrying electrons with almost no resistance even at room temperature, a property known as ballistic transport. Graphene's unique optical, mechanical and electrical properties have lead to the one-atom-thick form of carbon being heralded as the next generation material for faster, smaller, cheaper and less power-hungry electronics."
This research provides a route to increasing the efficiency of plasmonic hot-carrier devices and shows that they can be useful for converting sunlight into usable electricity."
morphing aircraft; giant-range strain sensors; failure-free pacemaker leads; and super-stretchy charger cords for electronic devices.
providing a route to higher efficiencies.""This 550--nanometer light can be absorbed by any solar cell material,
The asymmetry of a p-n junction presents the electrons with an"on/off"transport environment.
"The Berkeley Lab-Columbia University team believes their new approach to a single-molecule diode provides a general route for tuning nonlinear nanoscale-device phenomena that could be applied to systems beyond single-molecule junctions
and designing new routes to charge and energy flow at the nanoscale. What is exciting to me about this field is its multidisciplinary nature-the need for both physics and chemistry-and the strong beneficial coupling between experiment and theory."
"We were surprised to see transport rates approaching the'holy grail'number of a billion water molecules per channel per second,
The nanobatteries were fabricated by atomic layer deposition to make oxide nanotubes (for ion storage) inside metal nanotubes for electron transport, all inside each end of the nanopores.
and out and close contact between the thin nested tubes to ensure fast transport for both ions and electrons.
and gaining a previously unattainable understanding of processes such as electron, water or ion transport or chemical reactions.
Down the road, you could potentially get enough cells from just a normal syringe-based blood draw,
Treating the surface of medical devices would have a greater impact on patients considered at high risk of infection such as trauma victims from road traffic collisions or combat operations,
Roads congested with traffic, public transport overcrowded, pavements heaving with people. But as well as the frustration, there a sinister side to the commute to work:
every breath you take could be adding to your risk of dying prematurely. Air pollution is the world largest single environmental health risk,
Personal devices were strapped to bicycles carried in cars and on buses, and static devices were attached to lampposts
and stationed at roadsides and at critical pollutant sites. Fifty static devices were deployed also around London Heathrow Airport to record 22 months in the life of one of the busiest airports in the world. his was the first time technology like this had been tested in real-world situations as a high-density network,
says Jones, whose research at Heathrow was funded by the Natural environment Research Council. e could see huge variability in the exposure to pollution that people encounter as they move around the urban environment,
we could see the airport turning on and off during the day, individual aircraft taxing and taking off,
and the effects of wind direction and the perimeter and M25 motorway road traffic. They also discovered that sensor performance can create new opportunities.
Jones and colleagues had to develop new smart software methods capable of separating local pollution events from background signals (pollution transported from long range)
whether pollution along bus routes is improved by upgrading the exhaust processing on a bus fleet; whether people living at the top of high-rise buildings experience more or less pollution than people at street level;
and to what extent changing a route to work, even from one side of the road to another, can affect an individual exposure.
Last year, the first commercial product (AQMESH) was released by UK manufacturer Geotech, which specialises in environmental monitoring equipment.
including for example salt solutions such as salt spray on roads and seawater, or aqueous acids such as acid rain.
like that produced by a Polaroid filter, vibrates in a single plane. When struck by such a light beam,
the amount of blue light the nano-spirals emit varies as the angle of the plane of polarization is rotated through 360 degrees.
Down the road, the team is interested in developing the glove beyond an assistive device to a rehabilitation tool for various hand pathologies,
amplifiers--to transport optical signals.""A major trend in optics,"the researchers write, "has been a drive toward...
The fact that our research is helping to make motorcycling more environmentally friendly eases my conscience every time
residential, commercial, industrial and transportation. For each sector, they then analyzed the current amount and source of the fuel consumed-coal oil, gas, nuclear,
ranging from the catalysts used for the generation of energy-dense fuels from sunlight and carbon dioxide, to how bridges and airplanes rust."
A second stage of the grant will help bring a pilot to India this summer.
-burning hydrogen fuel for transportation and industry. Stanford scientists have invented a device that produces clean-burning hydrogen from water 24 hours a day
such as regenerative braking in trains and buses, elevators and cranes. They are used also in flashes in mobile phones and as a complementary technology to batteries in order to boost performance.
such as when overtaking another car, with the battery providing the steady power for highway driving. upercapacitors perform a similar function to batteries
and glucose-sensing enzymes that rapidly release their cargo when blood sugar levels get too high.
and cadmium sulfide to provide a route to low-cost, scalable and green synthesis of Cds nanocrystals with extrinsic crystallite size control in the quantum confinement range.
which is used already for scanning by plane, satellite or tractor, has become a precise, noninvasive and more affordable tool to check how crops are doing.
They contain a transportation channel, through which small molecules can pass unobstructed, while large molecules have to meet certain criteria to be transported.
for the first time, an University of Zurich research team headed by Professor Ohad Medalia has succeeded in displaying the spatial structure of the transport channel in the nuclear pores in high resolution (Nature Communications,
It also helps improve our understanding of the development of some diseases that involve a defective transportation to the nuclear pores-such as intestinal ovarian and thyroid cancer r
Minjun Kim, Phd, a professor in the College of Engineering and director of the Biological Actuation, Sensing & Transport Laboratory (BASTLAB) at Drexel
which means the materials have different properties along x and y direction in the same plane.
as its atomselectrical charges balance each other out across the plane. But curvature in graphene compresses the electron clouds of the bonds on the concave side and stretches them on the convex side,
Business model instead of problem From our viewpoint, the quantities of carbon alone which rise as smoke from the Duisburg steelworks as carbon dioxide would suffice to cover the entire need for kerosene of a major airline.
and, like fats and oils, can be converted through hydrogenation into diesel fuel for cars or kerosene for planes.
a multipurpose sensor Glass fibres can do more than transport data. A special type of glass fibre can also be used as a high-precision multipurpose sensor,
"We now know enough about redirecting traffic inside the cell that we can engineer cells to make more of the products that have high value.
but that isn't enough to understand the complexities of RNA transport and localization within a cell.
-actin mrna in Hela cells (the oldest and most commonly used human cell line) as well as to follow the real-time transport of?
carrying electrons with almost no resistance even at room temperature, a property known as ballistic transport. Graphene's unique optical, mechanical and electrical properties have lead to the one-atom-thick form of carbon being heralded as the next generation material for faster, smaller, cheaper and less power-hungry electronics."
that far down the road, but this paper offers a really exciting opportunity to crack a problem that is persistently present,
""We were surprised to see transport rates approaching the'holy grail'number of a billion water molecules per channel per second,
Now, an international group of researchers has shown how nature uses a variety of pathways to grow crystals that go beyond the classical, one-atom-at-a-time route.
which said a Tulsa woman died on Saturday after her automobile hydroplaned on a highway.
Roadways were impassable, stranding travelers by the thousands. As the waters rose many people had to abandon their vehicles and escape on foot.
It Must Be Real Highway, where"positive thinking"overpowers negative obstacles to such an amazing degree that you don't need even to wear seatbelts
You can either grab a parachute and bail out, or you can plug in your headphones and keep watching the in-flight Hollywood entertainment,
pretending nothing bad is happening outside your immediate focus. I know this isn't the good news you wanted to hear.
in the real world, the taps are running dry, employers are fleeing the state's high taxes,
While the drone flies, the user is able to view the flight from FPV (first-person view) via a front-facing camera. his project serves as the beginning of brain-machine control as a human-centric application says Marvin Andujar
a range of new road safety technology research projects that are being developed to reduce the number of accidents caused by stressed and distracted drivers.
or be less aware of other road users so we are looking at how we could identify this
In user trials this increases the speed of successful button selection by 22 per cent and therefore reduces the amount of time the driver is looking at the screen with their eyes off the road.
while displaying the face of the remote pilot via Skype. The person at the controls,
the pilot can also take a break from giving indications. If it doesn receive more indications,
and the computer, allowing the pilot to rest while navigating. No difference between healthy and disabled subjects In the end, the tests revealed no difference in piloting ability between healthy and disabled subjects.
In the second part of the tests, the disabled people with residual mobility were asked to pilot the robot with the movements they were still capable of doing
But unlike the majority of human SLC25 family members (there are 53) that transport molecules across the inner mitochondrial membrane
Ms Loi said the drifting plasma tubes could distort astronomical data, especially satellite-based navigation systems.
#The revolution of military aircraft For anyone with a fascination for flying it is a surreal experience to stand in a hangar with five Bell 407 helicopters and not a single pilot in sight.
Welcome to the future of naval aviation fleets of unmanned helicopters flying on and off warships conducting missions as diverse as missile strikes
surveillance and ash and trashresupply flights. Aerospace giant Northrop grumman is at the cutting edge of this technology with its Fire Scout system
Program director for the US NAVY Captain Jeff Dodge likened the upgrade from the MQ-8b based on a smaller airframe to the model aircraft to a brain transplant. e are taking the computer
and putting it on a bigger, stronger helicopter, he said in a hangar at Webster Field near Pax River Naval Air station on Chesapeake bay.
At the other extreme of the unmanned aircraft spectrum is the $80 million Northrop grumman built US NAVY Triton maritime surveillance aircraft.
Australia is set to buy up to seven of the jet aircraft to be based at Edinburgh RAAF base near Adelaide.
After that the aircraft will operate at five locations in so called orbits of four aircraft providing the US with constant global coverage of the oceans.
and Predators or the smaller unarmed Heron aircraft flown by the RAAF on surveillance missions from Kandahar airfield.
and Fire Scout and the most incredible of them all the X47-B unmanned combat jet that has landed already
and taken off from an aircraft carrier. Pilots such as Lieutenant commander David Selew, who have thousands of hours of flying experience,
marvel at the capacity of the latest unmanned flying systems. Lieutenant commander Selew is the Government Flight test Director for the Fire Scout MQ-8c at Point Mugu.
He is a PC-3 Orion pilot by trade and while he is prepared not to write the obituary for airborne pilots just yet he understands that unmanned systems are booming,
attractive and here to stay. He said chopper pilots were amazed by the performance of the unmanned machines. hey are more stable
and the feedback we get from the system is faster than from a pilot, Lt Commander Selew said.
Sensors on the ground at Point Mugu mimic a ship landing system so the chopper simply picks up a radio beam
and is guided to the deck. f there is a communications problem it will just fly right back to where it started
or is shot down there is no terrible news to pass to the families of the aircrew just a pile of crumpled metal.
With a wingspan as wide as a Boeing 737 passenger jet the Triton can fly up to 20,000 metres high
and pilots will be used to fly Tritons that will be deployed forward at US fleet bases around the world The same approach will apply to the RAAF fleet of Orions as they retire during the next decade to be replaced by either Triton or the Boeing P-8 Poseidon manned
aircraft. They won be based forward but they will operate away from Adelaide at places such as Tindal,
He said the aircraft sensors were very powerful and the turret under the nose was the same as the Reaper
and Australia is the first overseas customer for the aircraft that will cost about $80-million each.
At the Pax River base the Tritons are controlled by air vehicle operators, mission payload operators and a tactical commander who are located in a control room with three large TV screens on the wall
and the system is ly by mousewith the operator using the computer mouse to control the aircraft
and as sure as night follows day it will involve fewer airborne pilots and increasing numbers of unmanned aircraft systems.
have seen we the last of piloted aircraft? Probably not, but it will become increasingly difficult in the years ahead to find a military pilot who actually takes to the air i
By examining satellite imagery and historic aerial photography, the team looks for and records sites, monitoring the extensive landscape changes of the past 70 years.
but not without controversy (see"Rocky road to replacement organs")."In the first, decel step short for decellularisation organs from dead donors are treated with detergents that strip off the soft tissue,
which focuses exclusively on the macrophage route to converting cells into lasers, goes further in laying out its potential applications.
The road to zero cases The only places where the disease still circulates regularly are Afghanistan and Pakistan,
I'm walking to the subway each morning but with Wi-fi they're hotspots Knutson said.
#In Sweden Remote-control Airport Is A Reality As our plane touches down in Sundsvall Sweden the horizon is all snow and ice.
But this airport actually has two air traffic control centers. The second one is just a short walk from the airport runway.
Inside a ground-floor windowless room there's a display that looks exactly like what you'd see out of an air traffic control tower.
You can see the snowy runway you can see the trees you can even see a car pulling into the airport parking lot.
And the airport you're looking at isn't the one in Sundsvall. It's the one in Ornskoldsvik Sweden#about 105 miles away.
Ornskoldsvik is the first airport in the world to land passenger planes remotely. This summer an airport in Leesburg Va. will become the first American airport to use the new technology.
Erik Backman runs the remote airplane landing center in the town of Sundsvall. He explains that the town of Ornskoldsvik has a tiny airport
and it's expensive to keep air traffic controllers there who spend hours with no planes to land.
So they decided to have one team in Sundsvall that could handle both cities. The day you have one air traffic controller who can control two airports then you have some good benefits according to costs Backman says.
In Ornskoldsvik a set of cameras and microphones delivers a real-time image to Sundsvall. Of course new technology is notoriously glitchy.
And a problem landing an airplane is far more consequential than a laptop freezing up. Backman says when he saw the first mockup of this technology in 2004 he was dubious.
But a decade later they've been landing planes remotely for months without any major problems.
For the air traffic controller this is like airline pilots going from propeller to jet Henriksson says. It's a paradigm shift.
airplane numbers runway incursion warnings. You can zoom in or switch to an infrared view to see through thick fog or darkness.
And that might make this technology useful even for big crowded airports. Anders Carp is head of traffic management at Saab the Swedish defense
Airports in dangerous places could have a camera house instead of a control tower he says. The air traffic controllers could be a few
Back in the Sundsvall control center a plane descends toward the Ornskoldsvik runway. We watch it move across the screen.
The passengers#and even the pilot#have no idea whether they've been brought in for a landing from the tower they can see out their window or from this hidden remote center more than a 100 miles away
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