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'said Andrew Blain of University of Leicester.''It's like winning a hot-dog-eating contest lasting hundreds of millions of years.'

and this is expected to build on work by an MIT professor who is currently developing'liquid armour'.

'Professor Gareth Mckinley has been working on his technology for 12 years, which is focused on the flow of unusual materials.

A suit invented by engineers at the University of Illinois gives wearers 360-degree awareness of the environment around their body.

Researchers from the University of California, San diego and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EDFL) in Switzerland fitted a traditional contact lens with a magnifying ring which,

PROFESSOR XAVIER-MIND CONTROLAND just like Professor X in X men, it is already possible to control objects with the mind.

Researchers from Carnegie mellon University in the US demonstrated they were able to use their iris recognition technology to identify drivers from an image of their eye captured from their vehicle's side mirror.

The Carnegie mellon University Highly Intelligent Mobile Platform, or CHIMP, is designed to primarily move like a tank using tracks to cover tough terrain.

'CHIMP needs to master many skills for the DRC Finals,'its creators said.''During the past several months, it spent long hours crossing block piles and climbing stairs.'

a CMU research professor of robotics and leader of the Tartan Rescue Team.''We are making steady progress,

which is developed jointly by Tsinghua University and Hangzhou-based Tzekwan Technology, is able to scan the users'faces to ensure they are the genuine holders of the bank account.

Dr Daniel Weiss, an organ regeneration expert at the University of Vermont College of Medicine in Burlington, said:'

Dr Oskar Aszmann, of the Medical University of Vienna, said:''Although this is a worthy endeavour,

Dr Susannah Maidment, a junior research fellow at Imperial College London who was one of the authors of the research,

'Dr Sergio Bertazzo, another author who worked on the study at Imperial College London, said:'

The research, carried out at the University of Bristol, is said to have tarted on the back of an envelopeas the team looked at ways to prevent tiny cracks from forming in places such as aircraft wings.

a professor of catalysis, explained: e took inspiration from the human body. e've not evolved to withstand any damage

Professor wass added: e're definitely getting to the stage where in the next five or 10 years we're going to see things like mobile phone screens that can heal themselves

when researchers at the University of Illinois in the US created a plastic that could repair itself

The University of Illinois team created a polymer in 2014 that they showed can fix holes of up to three centimetres.

researchers from Delft University mixed the bio material into the concrete along with calcium lactate. When cracks in the concrete appear,

for learning or even for 3d phone calls so you could talk to a digital 3d version of a loved one on your coffee table-just like the holographic message from Princess Leia created by R2-D2.

James Hone, professor of mechanical engineering at Columbia University said:''We've created what is essentially the world's thinnest light bulb.'

Yun Daniel Park, of Seoul National University said that carbon was one of the earliest filaments used

The discovery of graphene in 2004 by Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, two Russian-born scientists at the University of Manchester, earned the pair the Nobel prize for Physics and knighthoods.

Researchers at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, used time lapse photography to film a white blood cell as it died.

Dr Ivan Poon, a molecular biologist at La Trobe University who led the work, said they may have uncovered a key part of the immune systems defence mechanism.

Urthecast says it will make the cameras commercially available in July to anyone who wants to use them, from governments and nonprofit organizations, to businesses and universities.

Professor Jill Banfield, an environmental scientist at the University of California in Berkeley who led the work

Professor Banfield and her colleagues sequenced the genomes of organisms found in ground water at a site beside the Colorado river in Rifle Colorado.

Professor Banfield and her colleagues found the new bacteria they discovered appear to use a simple process of fermentation to make the energy they need.

Christopher Brown, a microbiologist who was part of the team who took part in the study at the University of California Berkeley,

and one was called Berkelbacteria-after University of California Berkeley. Mr Brown added:''I think what this is telling us is that a large part of bacteria

Dr Penny Whiting, from the University of Bristol, and her team evaluated the evidence for benefits and adverse events, related to medicinal cannabis use.

'said Professor Debashis Chanda of the University of Central Florida, who developed the technique for creating the world's first full-color,

The researchers, led by Milivoj Simeonovski from Saarland University in Germany, have tested Oblivion on existing articles

'said Ian Graham, a professor at the University of York, who worked on the latest gene discovery.

The University of York team worked on the project with scientists from Glaxosmithkline. The drugmaker has long been a major supplier of opiates

lead researcher and Ph d. student in Computer science at Georgia Tech. Key to the process is watching the players in action to see where they actually spend most of their time in the game.

After recording on-screen locations of sprites, Georgia Tech's algorithms determine what are high-interaction areas those spots where players spend more time to collect bonus items or master a challenge.

'says Mark Riedl, associate professor of Interactive Computing.''One could say that the system'studies'the design of Mario levels until it is able to create new playable areas.'

Scroll down for video Researchers from the University of Tokyo used femtosecond lasers to create 3d holograms that are safe to touch

which can be touched (pictured) The breakthrough was made by Japanese researchers from the University of Tokyo, University of Tsukuba, Utsunomiya University Nagoya Institute of technology.

The collaboration between the University of Leicester and Medical center revealed how a neuron in the brain instantly fired differently

'said Matias Ison, Lecturer in Bioengineering, University of Leicester.''But the astonishing fact was that these changes were dramatic,

and that it occurred at the exact moment of learning.''Specifically, the study looked at neurons in an area known as the medial temporal lobe associated with something known as'episodic memory'.

'said Rodrigo Quian Quiroga, head of the Centre for Systems neuroscience at the University of Leicester.'

an assistant professor of computer science at North carolina State university whose dog Diesel is one of their primary lab partners.

and rescue dogs and training pets. The technology can also be customized for different purposes. One prototype features three electrocardiography electrodes

'says Dr. Barbara Sherman, a clinical professor of behavioural medicine. Much of the technology comes off the shelf

Dr. Alpert Bozkurt, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, says that the technology offers everyday people an opportunity to bond with their dogs

an NC State Ph d. student and co-author of the paper.''We're reliant on the physiological and behavioral sensors to give us a picture of the dog's mental and emotional state.'

'In addition to disaster response research, the research team has done already work that uses the platform to assist in dog training.

a clinical professor of animal behavior at the NC State College of Veterinary medicine and co-author of the paper. t

'said Tobias Moser of the University Medical center Gottingen, Germany, who was involved not in the new research.'

+LHCB physicist Tomasz Skwarnicki of Syracuse University in New york, said:''We have examined all possibilities for these signals

we're thinking of the recycling sector, universities and other knowledge institutions.'

#The tiny beating heart grown from STEM CELLS -and scientists say other organs could be on the way Researchers have used stem cells to create a tiny,

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, in collaboration with scientists at the Gladstone Institutes, say their template for growing beating cardiac tissue from stem cells

'said Kevin Healy, a UC Berkeley professor of bioengineering, who is co-senior author of the study with Dr. Bruce Conklin, a senior investigator at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular disease and a professor of medical genetics and cellular and molecular pharmacology at UC San francisco.'

'This technology could help us quickly screen for drugs likely to generate cardiac birth defects, and guide decisions about

University launches autonomous driving test track The village where only ROBOTS drive: Inside the autonomous...

Professor Paulo Stanga, consultant ophthalmologist at the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, said: r Flynn progress is truly remarkable.

Professor Stanga said he hopes the system, developed by US firm Second sight Medical Products, might be used for patients with other vision problems.

Martin Tajmar, professor and chair for Space Systems at the Dresden University of Technology, presented his work at the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics'Propulsion and Energy Forum in Orlando yesterday.

Professor Axel van de Walle, an engineer at Brown University, Rhode island, who led the research,

They worked out its melting point would be 474°C higher than Hf-Ta-C. Professor van de Walle and Dr Qijun Hong,

They are working with researchers at the University of California, Davis, to synthesise the compound.

Professor van de Walle added: Melting point isn't the only property that's important in material applications.'

The researchers used a set of 1, 586 images from the University of Notre dame which included pictures of 82 people with different facial expressions and in different lighting.

#Harvard Yale scientists develop technique to make GMOS safer A new milestone has been reached by scientists at Ivy League universities Yale and Harvard;

George Church, a genetics professor at Harvard Medical school oversaw one of the studies that was published Wednesday in the journal Nature,

when she was in elementary school. She was diagnosed with a genetic condition that causes macular degeneration

and brain cells has been found by researchers at Northwestern University, Illinois and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

for example, said Caltec professor Richard Andersen. o in this trial, we were able to decode these actual intents,

Caltec team shared the research with scientist from the University of Southern California. According to Caltech

#Imec Milab medical game-changer Imec and John Hopkins University of Baltimore have delivered a ame-changer in healthcarewith a chip-based technology called Milab

#University embeds RFID chips in yarn Researchers at Nottingham Trent University have come up with a way of embedding RFID chips in yarns

Professor Tilak Dias of the Advanced Textiles Research Group of the School of art & Design, claims that the embedded chips annot be seen in situ by the naked eye He has patented the technology,

Professor Dias writes: f an RFID chip is embedded into a shirt, for instance, it will provide a much greater level of anti-theft

said Professor Dias. Professor Dias also believes that in the distant future this technology could be used in conjunction with smart washing machines to warn consumers of mixed colours or inappropriate temperatures.

Research fellow Anura Rathnayake who is involved with the project, added: n the long run this technology could be of tremendous benefit to charitable organisations

say researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). TUM chemists have developed a semiconducting material in

A co-operation between the TUM, the University of Regensburg, the University of Southern California (USC) and Yale has produced a field effect transistors (fet) made of black arsenic phosphorus. The compounds were synthesised by Marianne Koepf

and characterized by a group headed by professor Zhou and Dr Liu at the Department of Electrical engineering at USC.

says professor Tom Nilges, head of the research group for SCIM. With an arsenic concentration of 83%the material exhibits an extremely small band gap of only 0. 15 electron volts

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#Graphene film can super cool LEDS Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have developed a method for efficiently cooling electronics using graphene-based film.

According to the researchers, the graphene film has a thermal conductivity capacity that is four times that of copper. Significantly the team has developed a graphene film that can be attached to silicon substrates.

Research team leader Johan Liu, professor at Chalmers University of Technology, writes: The stronger bonds result from so-called functionalisation of the graphene,

say researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). TUM chemists have developed a semiconducting material in

A co-operation between the TUM, the University of Regensburg, the University of Southern California (USC) and Yale has produced a field effect transistors (fet) made of black arsenic phosphorus. The compounds were synthesised by Marianne Koepf

and characterized by a group headed by professor Zhou and Dr Liu at the Department of Electrical engineering at USC.

says professor Tom Nilges, head of the research group for SCIM. With an arsenic concentration of 83%the material exhibits an extremely small band gap of only 0. 15 electron volts

Graduate school S

#Graphene-based film can super cool LEDS Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have developed a method for efficiently cooling electronics using graphene-based film.

According to the researchers, the graphene film has a thermal conductivity capacity that is four times that of copper. Significantly the team has developed a graphene film that can be attached to silicon substrates.

Research team leader Johan Liu, professor at Chalmers University of Technology, writes: ut the methods that have been in place so far have presented the researchers with problems

Dube came to the U s. to pursue a doctorate in theoretical computer science at New york University.

That was close to 20 years ago. y advisor, professor Dennis Shasha, who knew a lot more about this than I did looked,

IPCENTER was the product realization of adaptive learning systems that would be able to self-govern.

It not just people on the street, Christian says. t also true for a lot of the people at the very places developing these technologies. hristian cites the example of Stuart Russell, a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley,

A graduate student at MIT, he recently won $15, 000 at the Lemelson-MIT National Collegiate Student Prize in the health-care category. hen I received the phone call telling me I won,

Admiral James Winnefeld, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a cyber conference at West point military academy last month that U s. adversaries like China

the mobile assessment software that targets student performance and aims to eliminate hand grading, has announced a collaboration with Pearson through an independent software vendor (ISV) partnership agreement that hopes to help educators quickly score assessments using Quick Key mobile scanner app

and instantly upload results to the Powerschool student information system. uick Key and Powerschool are a perfect match,

said Kyle Hansen, Powerschool Administrator at American Leadership Academy in Spanish Fork, Utah. hen I found Quick Key last year,

tracking and analyzing student assessment data has become truly effortless. he integration enables educators and administrators to take action based on real-time data,

to identify which students need help and which lessons need to be taught re. Hours previously spent hand-grading assignments can now be spent focusing on how to best meet individual studentsneeds. ntegrating Quick Key with Powerschool is a testament to our belief in service,

collaboration and quality tools that truly work well in classrooms, said Walter O. Duncan, 15-year veteran teacher and cofounder of Quick Key Mobile. his collaboration puts the power of teaching back into the capable hands of teachers.

Powerschool the most widely used web-based student information system, supports more than 13 million students globally.

Powerschool enables today educators to make timely decisions that impact student performance while creating a collaborative environment for parents,

teachers and students to work together in preparing 21st century learners for the future. e are pleased to welcome Quick Key to the Powerschool ISV Partner program,

said Oliver Wreford, vice president of product and marketing at Pearson School systems. uick Key integration with Powerschool provides a solution that puts formative assessment results into the hands of educators in near real-time,

enabling them to immediately analyze student performance and make informed decisions about ongoing student instruction.

Powerschool users will be able to access their Quick Key Dashboard from within the Powerschool dashboard, and vice versa.

Data, including class rosters and student assessment scores, can be transferred easily from one platform to the other.

Districts can implement Quick Key without upgrades and the mobile app can be used without Wi-fi. Quick Key Team Management

and school administrators to deliver standards-aligned assessments to all teachers within their district while ensuring the security of answer keys i

Professor Martin Cowie is a Cardiologist ith some patients it very tricky to get the balance right.

#Solar-powered schoolbag life-changer for South african pupils Nine-year-old Kamogelo is one of many school children living in impoverished communities in South africa affected by power cuts.

Once the pupil gets home, he removes the solar panel and screws it onto a solar jar that can last up to 12 hours,

allow him to do his homework even during power cuts. t helps me a lot when there is no electricity because

in order to read and do my homework, he explains. The Repurpose Schoolbags as they are called are the brainchild of a pair of young entrepreneurs from Rustenburg on the outskirts of Johannesburg.

and saying y child is able to do workand teachers are coming in saying omework is now being done.

but with its new Zvr display, HP is bringing to market a practical and useful VR tool for educators,

I could imagine how powerful it could be as a learning tool for fields that require a detailed understanding of complex physical objects, such as anatomy or mechanical engineering.

I sure it will find a home at quite a few high schools and colleges but its ultimate success is likely to be tied to

whether the VR it brings to the classroom and the lab is worth the price w

however, and a research team from the University of Manchester has published a report detailing how flexible 2d graphene arrays could be used in the next-generation of LED screens.

The new LEDS built by the University of Manchester in this experiment were engineered apparently at an atomic level from multiple layers of crystal lattice as shown below.

the University of Manchester team certified that the graphene-based LEDS have remained robust and continued to emit light for weeks.

A new device developed at the National University of Singapore aims to fulfill both of those requirements.

creating a secondary aluminum-air battery adjacent to the primary buffered the accumulation of byproducts that normally prevent the battery from working properly over the long term.

Now, researchers at the University of Rochester have used lasers to create a surface so hydrophobic that a single droplet of water can bounce up and down on it multiple times like a ball.

While it not glass, the University of Rochester researchers have discovered a simple technique to make metal surfaces inherently superhydrophobic:

Chunlei Guo and Anatoliy Vorobyev of the University Institute of Optics discovered a laser-patterning technique that etch nanoscopic structures onto a surface.

Researchers at Finland Aalto University have achieved a record-breaking 22.1%efficiency for a nanostructured silicon, or black, solar cell.

said professor Hele Savin from Aalto University, who coordinated the study, in a statement. e have demonstrated that in winter Helsinki,

The Aalto University team results were published in Nature Nanotechnology s

#Quantum signatures of electronic transport in graphene discovered The key to making useful nanoelectronic devices from graphene is to first understand,

the country is nonetheless leading the way in developing robots that can assist nurses with the enormous workloads they handle on a daily basis. The latest example is from researchers at Toyohashi University of Technology,

Toyohashi University professor Ryosuke Tasaki says, n ongoing daily effort to incorporate high-tech robotics into our activities will be the best way to realize life in our future society. arlier this year,

#Low-cost, tunable smart windows developed with lectrokinetic pixelsresearchers at the University of Cincinnati with industry partners,

The challenge for the the team from the university, and the two companies (Merck and HP), was how to apply common e-paper technology to larger structures such as windows, but inexpensively.

University of Hiroshima (Japan) researchers created the new light-emitting diode using silicon quantum dot solution and a polymer solution on top of an indium-tin-oxide (ITO) glass ply that was used as the anode for the LED.

but Cockrell School of engineering (University of Texas-Austin) researchers, led by mechanical engineering professor Dr. Carolyn Conner Seepersad

The idea is credited to Germany Karlsruhe Institute of technology professor Dr. Martin Wegener who first dabbled into cloaking before he stumbled upon negative stiffness honeycombs last year.

In fact, Leiden University Phd student Bastiaan Florijn created a sponge-like object as a prop for the concept at the American Physical Society March Meeting,

University of Texas-Austin (UT-A) researchers are using Wegener work (and that of others) to apply negative stiffness to ballistics by using nylon (rather than a sponge) as their build material.

Leiden University student Florijn dreamed of alleablecar bumpers at that time. magine a car bumper that you can program for instance

Arizona State university and China Jinan University have teamed up to create what could become the first flexible batteries inside wearable electronics.

and aerospace engineering associate professor Hanqing Jiang, created cut -and-twist patterns in the creases of Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil;

University of Nebraska-Lincoln chemist Xiao Cheng Zeng found that the computer model predicted the crystals were incredibly conductive,

#New material combines photons for big solar energy gains An innovative new approach to solar energy from University of California Riverside could dramatically increase the amount of light available to contemporary solar panel designs.

Developed by doctoral student Vamsi Talla and colleagues at University of Washington in Seattle, the system is known as power-over-Wi-fi. The idea is simple in concept.

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incubated from an idea that struck Manu Prakash, an assistant professor of bioengineering at Stanford university, when he was a graduate student.

The work combines his expertise in manipulating droplet fluid dynamics with a fundamental element of computer science an operating clock. n this work,

#New computerised learning system can spot irony and sarcasm in text messages and emails A new computerised learning system spots emotional sentiments, such as sarcasm and irony,

Eden Saig, a computer science student at the Technion-Israel Institute of technology in Israel, developed the computerised learning system

Saig developed the system at the Technion Learning and Reasoning Laboratory, after taking a course in artificial intelligence supervised by Professor Shaul Markovich, of the Technion Faculty of Computer science.

According to Saig voice tone and inflections play an important role in conveying one meaning in verbally communicated message.

help eacha computerised learning system to recognise patronising sounding semantics or slang words and phrases in text. aig applied achine-Learningalgorithms to the content on these pages and used the results to automatically identify stereotypical behaviours found every day in social network communication.

through statistical analysis, gearing a learning system to recognise content structure that could be identified as condescending or slang.

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have developed a method for efficiently cooling electronics using graphene-based film.

A team led by professor Johan Liu from Chalmers University had shown earlier that graphene can have a cooling effect on silicon-based electronics

and in all directions up to half a metre away from the power source, said lead researcher professor Chun T. Rim.

what it would take the authorities 20 years to do. ducate school teachers, who will educate the students.

Then, the children will educate the family members, who will in turn educate society. niform packaging standards on the horizonindia will soon get uniform food packaging standards in a bid to increase

The EVT Training and Qualification Center offers users of all levels training opportunities. The next one is on Friday, June 26, from 10am-5pm in Karlsruhe, Germany

at a U s.-China Forum Tuesday at the University of Chicago. e have announced two targets already:

learning by trying and failing. hat wee reporting on here is a new approach to empowering a robot to learn,

said Professor Pieter Abbeel of UC Berkeley Department of Electrical engineering and Computer sciences, in a statement from the university. he key is that

when a robot is faced with something new, we won have to reprogram it. The exact same software,

used this deep learning algorithm to complete a number of tasks, including putting a clothes hanger on a rack,

director of the Berkeley Vision and Learning Centre. he challenge of putting robots into real-life settings,

Deep learning is a relatively new branch of AI research loosely based on human neural circuitry and how our brains perceive

deep learning algorithms create eural nets in which layers of artificial neurons process raw sensory data like sound waves

Simpler versions of deep learning can be found in programs we use every day, like Siri on the iphone or Google street view

But using deep learning for motor tasks is a far more challenging prospect. oving about in an unstructured 3d environment is a whole different ballgame,

said Ph d. student Chelsea Finn. here are labelled no directions, no examples of how to solve the problem in advance.

The algorithm helps to control BRETT learning by including a reward function that provides the robot with a score based on how well it doing,

learning took a bit longer at around three hours. ith more data, you can start learning more complex things,

Abbeel said. e still have a long way to go before our robots can learn to clean a house or sort laundry,

In the next five to ten years, we may see significant advances in robot learning capabilities through this line of work.

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