for example, resulted in a temporary grounding of all of Boeing 787 Dreamliner jets, Ceder explains. Others have attempted to find a solid replacement for the liquid electrolyte,
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,
which will guide how scientists and engineers build aircraft components, for example. The research, led by Jianwei (John) Miao,
#Daimler unveils first self-driving truck approved for U s. highway testing The future of self-driving commercial vehicles is unclear,
but the lure of fewer accidents, reduced fuel costs not to mention less human error have generated excitement in the trucking industry as well as the transportation safety sector.
The Daimler Inspiration Truck will be tested rigorously on Nevada roads as the company gathers data about the truck performance
But those vehicles aren't designed to operate alongside other cars and trucks on the highway.
The Inspiration Truck has been licensed by the state of Nevada to do just that share the roads.
There is a human driver on board ready to make lane changes or deal with unexpected situations. Unanswered questionsthere are issues to be worked out too:
Itron adaptive technology automatically routes data over the best communications system--radio frequency or power line carrier--at the time for the data and the requirements of the application.
which could be useful in situations from hostage-takings to traffic control, won the Engineering Impact Award in the RF and Communications category at this National Instrument NI Week 2015 meeting
That scene, straight out of the connected car playbook, would seem to require a few more years of public investment in smart roads,
not only for drivers but for the folks in charge of sanding the roads, safety patrols and law enforcement. he most important data come from a handful of car functions:
the temperature of the road itself (taken by infrared sensors), barometric pressure, and of course the stage of those windshield wipers. e are pioneering the connected car,
Banfield says. oday we are alerting a human driver, but it will be of incredible value to automated driving
whether linear or circular, features electric fields oriented in a single plane. With circularly polarized light,
the plane is continually rotating through 360 degrees.)One of the distinguishing capabilities of circularly polarized light (CPL) is that it can discern the difference between right-handed and left-handed versions of molecules property known as chirality.
At MIT, theye been working on a prototype for a time of flight microwave camera which can be used to image objects through walls,
MIT microwave camera can do 3-D imaging using time of flight in the same way that Microsoft latest Xbox Kinect sensor works.
The time of flight camera sends out bursts of microwaves and then keeps careful track of how long it takes for the microwaves to bounce off of something
it has to be scanned mechanically along the entire focal plane, a process that takes something like an hour.
including whether it been placed in airplane mode, or set solely to vibration. Using a combination of various bits of information,
The separation of the control plane from the power plane makes a foundation for fully configurable ecosystem.
and dangerous jobs much better than humans or helicopters. The problem is that drones can be difficult to program and pilot.
Commercial businesses can now license Airware Flight Core autopilot technology, Ground Control Station for dispatching drones,
the Flight Core autopilot system, which provides the brains to each drone that Airware powers,
and ensure theye complying with flight regulations. Rather than having to pre-program a drone,
The goal is to reduce the drone piloting expertise needed to get complicated missions flown.
and dig sites using flight plans generated Airware Ground Control Station. Users simply draw out a geofence for the drone to stay within
It was easily the most exciting flight of the day, launching via a catapult, flying several quick passes around the the whole area,
which will provide a full-on Linux computer for developers to work with in addition to the standard Flight Core autopilot and Ground Control Station integration.
Planes and helicopters can be terribly expensive for collecting this overhead video and measurement data, though.
Downey grew up the son of pilots, then built his own drones at MIT. Now his company Airware is going to teach them to do our bidding,
I was immersed in an environment that was filled with highways of neurons sprawled out in every direction.
The VR experience incorporates a natural gaze-based navigation method (which lets a user fly toward a particular area simply by looking where they want to go).
When Malaysia Airlines flight 370 went missing, Tomnod directed its users to help search for the missing aircraft.
In fact the site couldn keep up with the traffic due to an influx of users looking to help. hrough games,
though building better computer vision AI and thus automating big neurodata analysis our collective, collaborative,
French Internet service providers and hosting companies will have to install a new system in their infrastructure to filter all traffic.
#LOT Polish airlines Now Accepting Bitcoin I not a big fan of the accepts bitcointype of post
LOT Polish airlines, the official Polish air carrier, is now accepting bitcoin. What does that mean?
which is why we are one of the first airlines in the world to give its passengers the possibility of paying with Bitcoins as early as today. airbaltic
Real-time environment maps provided by depth sensors are being used to test self-driving taxis and autonomous delivery drones.
The research is a combination of work from a student on fellowship at NASA from the University of Michigan and nearly a decade and a half of study on self-healing materials for both aircrafts and spacecrafts.
a trend toward moving back into cities where public transportation is often a preferable alternative to sitting on congested freeways is also a contributing factor.
, fuel, maintenance and parking expenses) are continued also a pain point for owners. Many car manufacturers are responding by concentrating efforts on improving the product itself,
multi-object tracking radar (MOTR) on a rocket flight next month while formal commissioning is expected to take three months time,
and developed by Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) will be tested next month during a PSLV (Polar Satellite Launch vehicle) rocket flight.
and also be used at airports. SRIHARIKOTA: The Indian Space Research Organization is set to test its sophisticated, indigenously-built,
multi-object tracking radar (MOTR) on a rocket flight next month while formal commissioning is expected to take three months time,
and developed by Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) will be tested next month during a PSLV (Polar Satellite Launch vehicle) rocket flight.
and also be used at airports s
#First aqueous solar flow battery designed WASHINGTON: Researchers have designed the first aqueous flow battery with solar capability that can achieve a 20 per cent energy savings over traditional batteries.
but this study is the first to demonstrate the critical role played by the pyruvate transport protein.
In addition to diabetes, the researchers also think that interfering with pyruvate transport may help patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, a condition common in people with obesity y
Transport minister Andrew Jones says advanced biofuels have the potential to save at least 60%of the greenhouse gas emissions from equivalent fossil fuel.
and generate up to £100 million of transport fuel a year.""The latest biofuels use low value waste products to produce high value fuel
and will help power modes of transport that cannot be electrified in the future such as heavy trucks or even aircraft.
"Celtic in partnership with Ghent-based Biobase Europe Pilot Plant produced the first samples of biobutanol earlier this month.
Transport minister Andrew Jones says advanced biofuels have the potential to save at least 60%of the greenhouse gas emissions from equivalent fossil fuel.
and generate up to £100 million of transport fuel a year.""The latest biofuels use low value waste products to produce high value fuel
and will help power modes of transport that cannot be electrified in the future such as heavy trucks or even aircraft.
"Celtic in partnership with Ghent-based Biobase Europe Pilot Plant produced the first samples of biobutanol earlier this month.
The cloak's surface was metaengineered to re-route reflected light waves to render the object invisible to optical detection when activated.
and Nasa worries that they might be carrying microbial hitchhikers from Earth that could contaminate Mars. Of the spacecraft Nasa has sent to Mars,
Following flight, astronauts have four times the risk of herniated discs as the general population.""Given the impact of atrophy on astronauts in space,
While wee seen compact 3d printers before, very few can actually be transported as carry on luggage in airlines by singe physicians.
If youe a naval captain using sonar, a gynaecologist conducting ultrasounds, or just a dolphin, youl know that reflected sound waves have long been used to construct images of objects.
buildings and transportation is connected fundamentally real breakthrough means solving them together rather than separately. At today EERE day, The Oak ridge National Laboratory unveiled its Additve Manufactuing Integrated Energy (AMIE) project,
and predicts that it could be used in paint applied to airplanes and satellites, however the idea to incorporate it into a wearable technology came from Pinar Guvenc, Inanc Eray and Gonzalo Carbajo, partners of Eray Carbajo,
could be useful for constructing such things as aircraft or spaceship parts. Like the development of SAMS, Dr. Liou explains that for the FGMS it is also a matter of finding the correct cooling rate.
These, which are seen probably as opportunities to capitalize on further down the road, were marked as determining factors by less than 20%of respondents.
To step in and train the surgeons that will perform this surgery is 3d Systems with its Robotix Mentor training module.
which permitted its transport inside an airplane. This incidentally shows how little we have begun really to explore the possibilities of 3d printing,
The findings from this work were used to design an ultraportable, plug-and-play, solar-powered 3d printing system suitable for transport to,
This means that what she proposes can be achieved today in a very real way (without even paying for extra luggage on low-cost airlines.
while a specific inverter is included in the kit in case the standard Mars analogue mission battery pack cannot be transported on the plane due to varying airline regulations
but the road ahead is clear. Perhaps one of the most curious aspects is that bioprinting CNTS created no additional difficulties,
and transportation consuming another 28%or so, how are we going to get from here to there,
Dr Ni said the technology eventually could be used for military applications like making large objects like vehicles or aircraft or even individual soldiers"invisible".
#Progress cargo spacecraft failure delays ISS crew's return to Earth An unmanned cargo spaceship that failed to complete its ISS resupply mission
"In accordance with space and aviation regimen, we can't immediately make a manned launch."
The spacecraft lost contact with the flight controllers shortly after it reached orbit and the capsule was found tumbling.
#AFRL providing cost-effective inspection solutions for turbine engine aircraft Aircraft engine inspections are an essential part of maintaining a healthy and reliable fleet.
Researchers embarked upon this effort to answer a need from aircraft maintainers for a reliable,
Most notably, the increased level of reliability of SIR inspections over FPI means aircraft maintainers can often return engine airfoils to service
and 3dna nanocarriers can deliver a variety of drug cargoes, we can easily generate targeted drugs for many of these indications."
which move the cargo between two chemically distinct environments. Modulating the ph levels of the solutions in those environments triggers the aptamers to atchor eleasethe target biomolecule.
The new technology may hold promise for many applications such as for jewelry, automotive interior trim, aviation, signage, colored keypads, wearable and electronic displays.
This capability supports"materials by design,"a concept that enables the development of unique new materials for function-specific applicability, such as lighter, stronger fiber composites for airplane wings;
"Moreover, the conductive Fe-Ni core provides a highway to accelerate the transport of electrons to the current collector,
a process that Healy likened to passengers boarding a subway train at rush hour. The system confined geometry helps align the cells in multiple layers and in a single direction.
a process that Healy likened to passengers boarding a subway train at rush hour. The system confined geometry helps align the cells in multiple layers and in a single direction.
This research was supported as part of the Fluid Interface Reactions, Structures and Transport (FIRST) Center, an Energy Frontier Research center funded by DOE Office of Science.
Just as they help control the transport of materials through pores, flow-gating mechanisms have also proved very useful for many practical applications designed by humans, such as gas and liquid separations, dialysis,
"Aizenberg's system can separate a wide range of cargos and is extraordinarily precise due to the fact that the fluid-filled gate adjusts to accommodate filtration of each substance it encounters,
for example, prove especially valuable for crude oil transport, in which fuel lines frequently become clogged, leading to high costs and risk of gas accidentally escaping into the environment.
but we hope that it could potentially be used as a diagnostic tool further on down the road,
and it can go into schools, restaurants, factories, hospitals, ambulances, airports, and even battlefields. he next market Chen is targeting is the smart home,
which will guide how scientists and engineers build aircraft components, for example. The research, led by Jianwei (John) Miao,
In this case, touchless navigation has obvious advantages with respect to hygiene, says Szendrei, pointing to one potential application for the new device.
in order to significantly improve their transport to human cells; this could find uses for example in enhanced drug delivery.
and other standard techniques in structural biology to unlock its transport secrets. The Lithgow lab, working with colleagues from Nagoya, Kyoto and Tokyo, ramped up scale of the technology making literally hundreds of re-coded TOM 40 complexes, each one with a novel additional 21st amino acid.
and ensuring that products remain unspoiled during transportation. Using the roll-to-roll technology developed by VTT,
whether the shipment has been opened earlier during transportation. In the ROPAS project, VTT showed that roll-to-roll technology for printing electronics is suited also to the manufacturing of paper-based security tags.
Both these effects change the time of flight of an ultrasound wave through a bearing.
There also a role for security, for example in drug searches at airports. More fundamentally though, the researcher say it could help them build something that never existed before:
The team looked at an analysis approach using time-of-flight (TOF) information, which utilises the faster detectors present in modern PET systems to more accurately locate the source of each pair of rays.
#How to build a hypersonic airliner t is a magic aircraftthe pleasure of flying in it is almost a carnal one.
So said Joelle Cornet-Templet, a chief stewardess for Air france, about Concorde: one of the world first supersonic civilian airplanes,
which flew from 1976 to 2003 and became a watchword for travelling in style. This thoroughbred airliner could fly from London to Sydney in 17 hours, three minutes and 45 seconds;
compared to around 22 hours on a Boeing 747. Concorde was the best-known member of an exclusive club of two;
the only other civilian airliner able to break the speed of sound was the Soviet union Tupolev tu-144,
The end of the Concorde and Tupolev airliners left the supersonic market empty. But now, 12 years after the Concorde fleet last flew,
even faster airliners are taking shape in research facilities. One of those designs is by Lapcat-II,
a European-designed aeroplane capable of cruising speeds up to eight times faster than sound (8, 500 km h or 5, 280 mph) taking passengers from Brussels to Sydney in 2 hours and 55 minutes.
At the AIAA Hypersonic Space Plane conference in Glasgow in Scotland in July, a paper submitted by Lapcat-II researchers said their early airliner tests suggested such a design would be greener than current aircraft,
just as safe, and would not cost much more than today long-haul flights. Fuel factor Johan Steelant, a senior research engineer at the European space agency (Esa) and coordinator of Lapcat-II,
with his colleagues, has been testing two prototypes. One is a Mach 5 plane the Lapcat-A2 powered by a precooled air-turbo ramjet;
and a promising Esa-designed Mach 8 plane, also powered by a ramjet engine. A ramjet is an air-breathing jet, with no major moving parts.
The engine's forward motion compresses incoming air travelling at high speed, ramming it into a combustion chamber.
Ramjets can move a plane very fast. But how do you power them? Fuel choice is important,
What more, liquid hydrogen fuel is not highly combustible mid-flight. Although hydrogen can be ignited, the risks of an explosion or fire are lower compared to conventional airline kerosene fuel.
Nasa used the same stuff to power the Space shuttle. f there is leak, the hydrogen is
In Asia, Japan aerospace exploration agency (Jaxa) is also working on a hypersonic airliner called Hytex intended to cross the Pacific ocean in two hours at speeds of Mach 5. Both Lapcat-II
The Hytex turbojet engine has been tested successfully in a flight experiment which simulates speeds up to Mach 1. 8. Hytex uses liquid hydrogen both as a fuel
says Hideyuki Taguchi, leader of Jaxa hypersonic airplane research. Hunger for hydrogen But, deriving hydrogen efficiently is one main factor for high operating costs.
the airfare tickets of a hypersonic trip could drop to about half the price of a business-class ticket.
Even though hydrogen-fuelled airliners would not emit greenhouse-increasing gases such as carbon dioxide, sulphur oxides or soot like today subsonic airplanes,
there is another issue. Water vapour produced by hydrogen combustion stays in the stratosphere for a long time and could be a contributing factor to global warming.
And that effect could be worse than the current fleet of long-haul airliners the longer that water vapour remains."
"Lapcat-II also plans for their Mach 8 Esa-variant airliner to fly well above 33 km, hopefully minimising the environmental impact.
when stored as a liquid it needs far less space than gas. f a market for small business jets existed,
Race for the skies Other companies are already working to make the supersonic business-aviation market a reality.
Airbus has patented just a delta-wing Mach 4. 5 hypersonic design that could be used to create business jets.
Spike Aerospace, another US company, plans to launch a similar supersonic business passenger plane with internal video screens linked to external cameras instead of windows.
And Lockheed martin has a commercial plane, the N+2, that will travel at Mach 1. 7. There one problem with flying so fast,
European hypersonic jets would fly over the North pole and cross the Bering strait, avoiding populated land.
when a supersonic airplane changes its speed, turns or manoeuvres. In a superboom the ground noise of a sonic boom is two
As the European hypersonic plane will fly higher, its ground shock waves will be spread out and produce a smaller shock wave.
and Boeing to design airplanes that break the sound barrier more quietly. From 2020 to 2025 it may be possible that airplanes could then exceed the sound barrier over populated land without causing a major disturbance.
In Europe, Steelant team tested their 300-seat design albeit a 1: 120 scale model, at speeds of Mach 8 within a wind tunnel.
While the design consumes two times more fuel per second than a Mach 4 plane, it gets to the destination in roughly half the time so the fuel consumed overall during the trip is roughly the same.
When we have a lighter airplane, we have lower fuel consumption and smaller tanks, which makes the vehicle again smaller,
The Jaxa project has studied the potential market for hypersonic airliners travelling at Mach 5 and found a 100-passenger aircraft flying two round trips per day is realistic based on market research.
These passengers would be made up mostly of enthusiastic first-class ticket holders. By 2030 the hypersonic aviation industry could employ over 500,000 people,
according to research by Airbus and the Japan Aircraft Development Corporation. he estimated ticket price for Tokyo to Los angeles is the same as that of an existing first-class seat,
This represents about 10%of the market of passengers willing to pay for these timesaving routes.
Airbus and Aerion aeroplane tests will start in 2019. The European A2 Mach 5 aeroplane may take another 20 years to complete.
The Esa Mach 8 aeroplane might become commercially sustainable sometime in the mid 21st Century.
The Concordes and Tupolevs that paved the way for supersonic air travel in the 1970s now gather dust in museums.
But their legacy may be continued, fast and high above our heads, in the years to come b
Proponents of net neutrality, who demand that web traffic be treated equally by networks, have criticised already the move.
#Highways and'i-ways':'How Modi wooed Silicon valley It's remarkable, given the strength of the Indian expat community in California,
said the country needs both highways and"i-ways, "by which he meant fibre internet,
People produce two different kinds of haemoglobin-the vital molecule that picks up oxygen in the lungs and transports it around the body."
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.
Similar research into how the related Plasmodium pathogen performs this trick had identified a so-called rotein export complexthat transports encoded proteins from the parasite into its host red blood cell,
and so we went back to look at this longstanding phenomenon of nutrient transport, Gold said. When they added dyes to the host cell,
suggesting that this small-molecule transport function had been restored. ll of this came together to strongly suggest that this protein that is involved in protein export in Plasmodium may also have an additional function in small-molecule transport,
or slow down the transport through the system. Maiken Nedergaard, Ph d.,at the University of Rochester, a co-author on the study,
when standardizing future diagnostic imaging procedures to assess CSF-ISF transport in humans and therefor the assessment of the clearance of damaging brain proteins that may contribute to
that covers conducting airways of lung-tissue. The mucus barrierhich serves as a protector from foreign materials
because they possessed a positive charge that caused them to be tickyand adhere to the negatively charged mucus covering the airways.
this is the first biodegradable gene delivery system that efficiently penetrates the human airway mucus barrier of lung tissue,
and deliver their cargo, they could break down into additional therapeutic agents. We can now design two things into one.
Cells connect and communicate within a realistic geometry, rather than merely across a flat plane as in a 2-D culture.
for example, be"milk-taxi"."Familiarity is of no use here when participants try to remember this word pair,
The protein acts a bit like a tap to increase or reduce the production of natural compounds depending on how much of the protein is present.
"Attacks by Iranian hackers have targeted the military, oil and gas, energy and utilities, transportation, airlines, airports, hospitals and aerospace industries, among others,
and, perhaps most worryingly, airplanes and trains. Boisvert told Infiltrate he was concerned initially that a deadly July 2013 train crash in Spain was caused by a hacker (it turned out to be human error.
Nevertheless, his point remains: As transport systems become more hi-tech, they will also become more vulnerable to attack.
When the UK announced early last month that a new hi-tech rail traffic system would soon control all of Britain's trains,
experts worried aloud whether the system could potentially be hacked to cause a serious crash.""We know that the risk of a cyberattack will increase as we continue to roll out digital technology across the network,
And some cybersecurity experts fear that hackers aboard an aircraft could bring down the plane using the onboard Wi-fi many commercial jets now offer to passengers."
"Modern aircraft are connected increasingly to the internet. This interconnectedness can potentially provide unauthorized remote access to aircraft avionics systems,
"the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in a statement. Michael B. Kelley contributed to this report
You can drink water free out of the tap, and it's good water.""Journalists and amused fans took to Twitter to mock Jay z's ignorance of the fact that people pay taxes
and fees to have a company make water come out of your tap. An executive from a water company even wrote an open letter to Jay z,
The U s. coding site Github said on Sunday it was deflecting most of the traffic from the cyberattack that had caused intermittent outages.
"Eighty-seven hours in, our mitigation is deflecting most attack traffic, "the Github Status account said in a tweet."
according to the Wall street journal. They pushed massive amounts of traffic to Github by redirecting overseas users of the popular Chinese search engine Baidu Inc,
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