and track bullets throughout hospitals'pneumatic transport tubes with RFID. RFID vs. barcode Despite the progress RFID has made in the hospital setting, the debate over
"Our research found the Pediatric Rothman Index to be a favorable electronic trigger for alerting clinicians to the need for rapid response teams,
and weapons stockpile management. As an LLNL system, Sierra falls under the domain of the NNSA and therefore does not appear in the Office of Science budget.
enables what Project Soli design lead Carste Schwesig calls a undamentally different approachto motion tracking. typical model of the way you think about radar is like a police radar
Under Armour chief revenue officer of digital Jason Larose said in the blog post. oogle technology solutions help us innovate. interest last month dove into e-commerce with insthat let iphone
Voxel8's printer is designed to do more than just print tiny drones. The company will also be releasing new printing materials in order to try its hand at printing resistors, sensors and, for future models of its printer, even lithium-ion batteries.
The first ones were designed for soldiers, who routinely suffer from chronic back, hip and knee complaints from shouldering 135-pound (61 kg) packs on their backs all day,
Frustrated with a lack of international action to address climate change and shrink nuclear arsenals, they decided today (Jan 22) to push the minute hand of their iconic"Doomsday Clock"to 11:57 p m. It's the first time the clock hands have moved in three years;
and slow efforts to get rid of nuclear weapons.""We are not saying it is too late to take action
Sharon Squassoni, another board member and director of the Proliferation Prevention Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said nuclear disarmament efforts have"ground to a halt"and many nations are expanding, not scaling
India plans to expand its nuclear submarine fleet, and Pakistan has started reportedly operating a third plutonium reactor,
"The risk from nuclear weapons is not that someone is going to press the button, but the existence of these weapons costs a lot of time, effort and money to keep them secure,
"Squassoni said, adding that there have been troubling safety discrepancies reported in recent years at power plants.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists was founded in 1945 by scientists who created the atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan project
. after both the United states and the Soviet union conducted their first tests of the hydrogen bomb. The clock's hands were pushed all the way back to 11:43 p m.,17 minutes to midnight, in December 1991,
which at the time, seemed like a promising move toward nuclear disarmament t
#Greased Lightning! NASA Drone Advances Unmanned Craft A huge, 10-engine drone dubbed"Greased Lightning"successfully completed a series of flight tests recently,
paving the way for new types of unmanned vehicles that could one day carry people. Earlier this spring, NASA ENGINEERS flew the so-called GL-10 (the"GL"stands for"Greased Lightning")prototype drone at a military base located about two hours away from the agency's Langley Research center In virginia.
GL-10 has a 10-foot-long (3 meters) wingspan and 10 engines: eight on the wings and two on the tail.
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."
"Over the course of five flight tests, the drone was able to take off and hover like a helicopter,
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.
NASA describes the drone as quieter than a neighbor using a gas-powered-motor lawn mower in the yard next door.
NASA ENGINEERS will continue to tweak the design of the GL-10 drone, according to agency officials,
when they expect the drone could be ready for use in the field f
#Bionic Arm Taps New Part of Brain for Natural Moves Mind-controlled prosthetic limbs have been a reality for a few years,
particularly for new therapies to combat motor neuron disease. Here we show direct optogenetic stimulation of skeletal muscle from transgenic mice expressing the light-sensitive channel Channelrhodopsin-2 (Chr2.
known best for nuclear weapons research, has developed a surface sampling probe that may replace professional pathologists in identifying cancerous tissue during surgeries.
preventing most therapeutic compounds from crossing its barricades. To get around this challenge and to be able to treat a variety of neurological conditions,
data center servers and the specialized computers that direct autonomous cars and drones with collision detection. Eventually, the technology could reach home computers
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,
This wave range also has great application for the soldiers in the military who rely on infrared thermal imaging technology and for flexible night vision glasses.
In XAS, a beam of x-rays bombards the catalyst sample and deposits energy as it passes through the micro-reactor.
#Environmentally friendly lignin nanoparticle'greens'silver nanobullet to battle bacteria Researchers have developed an effective and environmentally benign method to combat bacteria by engineering nanoscale particles that add the antimicrobial potency of silver to a core of lignin,
#Environmentally friendly lignin nanoparticle'greens'silver nanobullet to battle bacteria Researchers have developed an effective and environmentally benign method to combat bacteria by engineering nanoscale particles that add the antimicrobial potency of silver to a core of lignin,
The Air force Office of Scientific research and the Robert A. Welch Foundation supported the research.#####About Rice Universitylocated on a 300-acre forested campus in Houston, Rice university is ranked consistently among the nation's top 20 universities by U s. News & World Report.
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"These international collaborations are vital to achieving this calibre of work, and the possibility of combining cutting-edge photoelectron spectroscopies with state-of-the-art ultrafast techniques will be an exciting new avenue in UBC's research portfolio as our capacities grow."#
Silicon photonics could significantly increase the power and speed of machines such as supercomputers, data center servers and the specialized computers that direct autonomous cars and drones with collision detection.
Conventional materials used today to shield from incoming electromagnetic waves tend to be sheets of metal or composites,
2015new sensing tech could help detect diseases, fraudulent art, chemical weapons June 1st, 2015thin coating on condensers could make power plants more efficient:
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Hydrogels block harmful oxygen June 15th, 2015automotive/Transportation A protective shield for sensitive catalysts: Hydrogels block harmful oxygen June 15th, 2015slip sliding away:
2015researchers synthesize magnetic nanoparticles that could offer alternative to Rare earth magnets June 1st, 2015fuel Cells A protective shield for sensitive catalysts:
The cost to industry and the military of corrosion is enormous, and we need to understand everything that is taking place to produce materials
and the Air force Office of Scientific research (AFOSR) Multidisciplinary Research Program of the University Research Initiative (MURI) program (FA9550-14-1-0389.
The U s. Deparment of Energy, Air force Office of Scientific research and the Moore Foundation funded the work.
In XAS, a beam of x-rays bombards the catalyst sample and deposits energy as it passes through the micro-reactor.
New technique combines electron microscopy and synchrotron X-rays to track chemical reactions under real operating conditions June 29th, 2015buckle up for fast ionic conduction June 16th, 2015a protective shield for sensitive catalysts:
#Environmentally friendly lignin nanoparticle'greens'silver nanobullet to battle bacteria Abstract: Silver nanoparticles have antibacterial properties,
#Nanospheres shield chemo drugs, safely release high doses in response to tumor secretions Scientists have designed nanoparticles that release drugs in the presence of a class of proteins that enable cancers to metastasize.
and rapidly multiplying immune system white blood cells known as T cells because of their potential as an effective weapon against cancer,
awaiting instructions about which specific invader to target and battle. The aapcs bind to specialized receptors on the T cells'surfaces
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Researchers from Polytechnique Montral and Imperial College London demonstrate the wavelike quantum behavior of a polariton condensate on a macroscopic scale and at room temperature July 14th, 2015nanospheres shield chemo drugs,
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"The research, supported by the Office of Naval Research and the Air force Office of Scientific research, was reported July 14 in the journal Advanced Energy Materials.
data center servers and the specialized computers that direct autonomous cars and drones with collision detection. Eventually, the technology could reach home computers
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,
A Universal Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Substrate for All Excitation Wavelengths"),the photonics advancement aims to improve our ability to detect trace amounts of molecules in diseases, chemical warfare agents, fraudulent
And it could aid in the detection of chemical weapons s
#Exciton, exciton on the wall Researchers have observed, in metals for the first time, transient excitons the primary response of free electrons to light.
#Engineers develop state-by-state plan to convert US to 100 percent renewable energy (Nanowerk News) One potential way to combat ongoing climate change,
The cost to industry and the military of corrosion is enormous, and we need to understand everything that is taking place to produce materials
#Sensors and drones: hi-tech sentinels for crops (Nanowerk News) Sensors and drones can be among the farmers'best friends,
helping them to use less fertilizers and water, and to control the general condition of their crops.
and specialized in the use of drones for agriculture: They contribute to the early detection of diseases that affect grapevines,
This is made possible by drones which carry small cameras able to take near infrared images of crops.
because drones normally swing while flying. A software program builds a mosaic made up of hundreds of images,
#The world's first full-color, flexible skin-like display Imagine a soldier who can change the color and pattern of his camouflage uniform from woodland green to desert tan at will.
which was featured as the cover article of the June 17 issue of Physical Review Letters("Optical Polarization of Nuclear spins in Silicon Carbine").
pulling or pushing of the structure--triggers changes in many different electronic properties. This ripple effect complicates scientists'ability to study
The method uses a low energy ion gun to add small numbers of helium ions into the material after it has been produced.
This wave range also has great application for the soldiers in the military who rely on infrared thermal imaging technology and for flexible night vision glasses.
#Environmentally friendly lignin nanoparticle'greens'silver nanobullet to battle bacteria North carolina State university researchers have developed an effective
"The findings resulted from research sponsored by the Air force Office of Scientific research (AFOSR) through the BIONIC center at Georgia Tech,
or the induction of mechanical stress-all of which can change the properties of a particular hydrogel designed to be responsive to those triggers."
Primarily funded by the Army Research Laboratory and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, the researchers were charged with imbuing the decade-old material with thermal sensitivity for use in infrared imaging devices such as night-vision goggles for the military.
What they unearthed published Friday in the journal Science Advances("Atomically thin layers of BNCO with tunable composition"),was so much more:
"Tesla's visions of wireless energy threatened the military-industrial complex; were sabotaged his ideas? The official Kickstarter campaign for the case is expected to be launched in June,
as it also had the potential to put an end to war and threaten other industries related to the control of energy and power r
police said. Two other people killed in the storm were described as an unidentified man found dead from the flooding in San marcos, Texas,
and the best way to accomplish that is to own a firearm and know how to use it.
We know that the U s. military is training on domestic soil for martial law operations, and we know that DHS has purchased billions of rounds of ammunition to use domestically (DHS does not operate overseas).
There is no question that the federal government believes widespread social chaos is coming, and it simultaneously believes that large cities will explode with uncontrollable violence, looting and mayhem.
"reports CBS. And so the water wars begin: there's not enough water to go around, and the courtroom serves as the new battleground over a resource that the state of California has squandered for far too long.
as guinea pigsvicious vaccine culture war now being waged against informed, intelligent Americans who seek to protect their children from deadly side effects131 Ways for an Infant to Die:
it may prove to be needed a much triumph in the war against antibiotic-resistance. The device used to discover teixobactin is generating excitement also
Marvin Andujar and Chris Crawford, have built a mind-machine method to control a drone through a wearable electroencephalographic (EEG) Brain-Computer Interface device.
The drone operates based on user cognitive commands. When the user thinks forward, the drone moves forward towards the direction it is facing.
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
who is also a member of our Neurogadget editorial team. The idea is to use the BCI, drones and other machines such as a humanoid as a third arm for humans.
We want to provide humans efficient control of their machines while performing real world tasks. This could be helpful
and emotional state while the drone is controlled cognitively. They believe that to make the technology usable
Paralyzed from the neck down after suffering a gunshot wound when he was 21, Erik G. Sorto now can move a robotic arm just by thinking about it
in order to know what triggers could be applied to such a system to cause regeneration of particular components,
and trigger the disease, said Alex Parker, CRCHUM researcher and associate professor in the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Montreal.
that system triggers a misguided attack against the worm own neurons. he worm thinks it has a viral or bacterial infection and launches an immune response.
In humans, researchers used a technique called 14c/12c bomb pulse dating to measure turnover.
when open-air nuclear bomb testing occurred following the Second world war. Researchers can take samples from cells in this case
#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
which is the machine of choice for the Royal Australian Navy for its future frigate and other platforms,
News coverage from Afghanistan means that most people are familiar with modern-day fixed-wing military UAVS such as missile armed Reapers
and Fire Scout and the most incredible of them all the X47-B unmanned combat jet that has landed already
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 touch down smoothly, Lt Commander Selew said. Another major advantage of an unmanned machine is that
Deputy Triton Program director for the US NAVY at Pax River Commander Jason Rider is an enthusiastic advocate for the pilotless system that he says has achieved already an 88 per cent.
and investigate, Commander Rider said. He said the aircraft sensors were very powerful and the turret under the nose was the same as the Reaper
but the top brass will recommend an ordinary (low risk) Foreign Military Sales (FMS) buy that will also exclude Australian industry from the system global supply chain.
mission payload operators and a tactical commander who are located in a control room with three large TV screens on the wall
but it will become increasingly difficult in the years ahead to find a military pilot who actually takes to the air i
Working for the Air force the engineer says he was xposed to some pretty nice high technology, really modern manufacturing methods,
and have that trigger the television to switch on? Touchy feely For now though, the next step is to give people like Sorto back their sense of touch.
race is on to log global heritage Ancient buildings are sitting ducks in war. But efforts are growing to preserve them digitally
Now it's controlled by ISIS fighters, who have threatened to destroy it as part of their campaign against religious idolatry.
Before its retreat, the Syrian army evacuated as much of Palmyra's population as possible, together with the museum collections,
More than 85 per cent of Polish capital Warsaw was razed deliberately in the second world war: afterwards it was rebuilt meticulously,
"This is roughly equivalent to getting rid of a bullet lodged between your lungs by squeezing it out through your forehead,
#Laser'tricorder'can diagnose malaria through the skin It's a weapon that fights malaria a laser scan can give an accurate diagnosis in seconds,
and switched the avatar from the Centcom logo to a photo of a masked fighter.
'A Case Of Cybervandalism'Saying that its operational military networks were compromised not Centcom has released a statement saying it is viewing this purely as a case of cybervandalism.
Anthem offers Blue Cross Blue Shield plans in California, New york and other states and is headquartered in Indianapolis.
such as exploring triggers that cause heart attacks. Dassault hopes that medical device makers will also use the Living Heart Project's technology for research and development.
#US Air force contracts 3d Systems to make next-gen components 3d Systems is taking part in a $1. 3 million contract to develop cutting-edge aircraft heat exchanger to be manufactured using 3d printing.
and funded by the Air force Research Laboratory (AFRL), the contract underscores 3ds'technological leadership and proven defense/aerospace manufacturing track record.
As a result, both the Air force and the defense industry are poised to benefit greatly from this directed project.
"This contract selection will allow our team to deliver to the Air force innovative, high-performing heat exchangers,
and Direct Metal 3d printing capabilities to meet the high standards of production demanded by the US Air force.
where mock weapons and explosives were smuggled through airports, undetected in 95%of cases. The terahertz technology may also prove useful in discovering concealed goods in the retail industry or for non-destructive monitoring, for example quality control in drugs or food.
U s. funding came from the National Science Foundation, Air force Office of Scientific research, Office of Naval Research, Army Research Office and Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship.
Virscan could help researchers better understand how the body combats viruses and viruslasting effects. The researchers published an article outlining their method today in Science.
#Sonar-Powered Drone Wants to Be Your Fishing Buddy The Aguadrone is a quadcopter that uses sonar to tell you where the catch is.
So far, theye developed three main functions for their drone. hen fishing from the beach,
(the drone) makes it easy. The Line Flier pod which flies baits to specific areas was the original inspiration
All of them screw on and off the bottom of the drone for easy swapping. The Fish Scout pod is a self-contained sonar device that finds fish underwater.
It is used similar technology in fishing vessels but as a drone, it offers a lot more flexibility and usability.
The drone can easily land in water and fly back up. For communication the Fish Scout pod creates its own Wi-fi connection with an impressive 320-foot range.
With eight months of building and testing, Marion tells PSFK he regularly takes the drone out for a spin
#Amazon Turns to Artificiai Intelligence to Combat Fake Reviews Amazon is using artificial intelligence to combat fake product reviews
The waterproof case is equipped with a handy fill-empty tank. A polyurethane sheet divides the umbrella from its case and pushes droplets toward the tank,
which collects and safely holds the water even if it is held upside down. The tank, which has a capacity of 4cl,
can be emptied at the owner convenience by simply pulling the ring down in order to dispense the water.
that will also integrate their ballistic missile defense systems and give Tokyo a bigger security role in Asia as China's military power grows.
The Japanese military's cyber defense unit has around 90 members, compared to more than 6, 000 people at the Pentagon,
unveiled a more muscular military cyber strategy in April that stressed an ability to retaliate with cyber weapons.
Lachappelle hopes his efforts will contribute to developments in bomb defusal robots, heavy equipment and heavy industrial automation robotic arms,
They used a torque reversal catapult mechanism that generates a small initial torque and gradually increases but that never exceeds the surface tension force of water.
in order to know what triggers could be applied to such a system to cause regeneration of particular components,
#Microsoft is building a drone army to catch mosquitoes and stop epidemics One potential use for drones that you might not have thought about is preventing the spread of disease.
Microsoft has launched just an initiative called Project Premonition, with the aim of detecting viruses before they infect a significant number of people using a fleet of Unmanned aerial vehicles (or UAVS).
the impact of drone technology and number of saved lives could be huge. The key is in catching mosquitoes
by sending out portable drones that are able to cover far more distance and come back to base with bigger samples.
the drones will need to operate semi-autonomously as well as being directed by a human pilot: having the ability to navigate environments on their own ensures they can travel greater distances and cover more land.
which will be attached to the drones: What's more, thanks to the latest advancements in molecular biology
if a mind-controlled cockroach army got into the wrong hands..
#The Pope confirms that the Catholic church wants action on climate change Science and religion rarely get along.
when watching with his son they would be fighting over brain waves to choose the program they could both watch.
making use of Old world War II tunnels underneath the city to host an eco-friendly,
or a military platoon, commented Anders Sandberg of the University of Oxford, who was involved not in the research. ut there no guarantee that brain-to-brain interfaces will be a sensible thing in practice.
and paranoia, were triggered by a single pathway in the brain that was separate from the pathway that triggers the drug cancer-killing properties.
It would be great to use autonomous robots for dangerous work--to defuse bombs and clean up nuclear disasters such as the Fukushima event.
"With ongoing support from the Foundation Fighting Blindness (FFB), Canada's largest charity supporting vision research, Dr. Koenekoop has spent more than a decade searching for genes linked to blindness.
But amlexanox also triggers the release of the hormone interleukin-6 from these fat cells which then travels in the circulation to the liver.
because these countries were trying to recover from a tragic past (prolonged civil war in both Liberia
and Sierra leone and military rule in Guinea) when Ebola struck. FAO and WFP stated that the Ebola epidemic has caused a significant shock to the food
Then and only then will we win the battle against meningitis. a
#Flexible methane production from electricity and biomass The variable operation modes were the biggest challenge during development says Project Head Siegfried Bajohr of the Engler-Bunte Institute (EBI) of KIT.
Today transformers are installed in stiff steel tanks. The risk of explosions can be reduced if the industry changes to soft housings that absorb energy in the same way as modern car bodies he says.
and extremely rapid pressure build up in the transformer tank. If the tank ruptures combustible gases will leak out.
If these are ignited an explosion will follow and any combustible materials in the vicinity of the transformer can catch fire.
The fire may also be fed with oil from the tank. If so it will keep burning Two different measures are adopted usually to prevent fire and explosion incidents of this sort:#
#Additionally transformer tanks are reinforced by means of welded steel beams in order to make them withstand pressure rises
On one hand the transformer tanks are able to withstand more pressure than they could have done without the reinforcement on the other the extra stiffness means that they cannot expand
Moreover stresses occur within the material of the tank increasing the probability that it will rupture.
Our idea is to design transformer tanks in such a way that they expand when their internal pressure increases without risking that major rises in tension
With better knowledge and new mathematical models we will be able to observe the relationships between the physics of electric arcs the transformer tank and the electrical protection system.
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