In 25 trials at contaminated drinking sites in Ghana and Bangladesh, the paper was effective at removing 99 percent of bacteria."
"There was one site where there was literally raw sewage being dumped into the stream, which had very high levels of bacteria,
Modumetal's website showcases a number of videos that demonstrate the company's innovative method in visual detail s
one day your smartphone display might even serve as an additional battery, harvesting sunlight to charge the device whenever youe outside t
Google shows off plans to build contact lenses that are powered by and communicate through light pulses. The patent, numbered 9158133,
Google contact lenses will be light-powered. Using embedded cells that turn light into an electronic current,
the ability to measure body heat and blood alcohol content are mentioned as possible new features for the Google lenses.
However, it clear that Google believes that future hardware shouldn be confined to wraps around the wrist or the body.
but Google has tried it before (remember Glass?)and maybe, the second time the charm c
Professor Hagemeyer said. nce located at the site of the blood clot, thrombin (a molecule at the centre of the clotting process) breaks open the outer layer of the nanocapsule,
Image courtesy of The Molecular Foundry) Used in everything from cell phones to supercomputers, modern microelectronic circuits contain billions of nanometer scale transistors,
This research outcome potentially allows for great flexibility in the design and optimization of electronic and optoelectronic devices like solar panels and telecommunication lasers.
and turned them into qubits. he silicon chip in your smartphone or tablet already has around one billion transistors on it,
so that the signal of the nanoswitch may be read using a mobile phone. This will make our approach really available to anyone!
and consumption of energy. housands of charge-discharge cycles of lithium-ion batteries used in mobile phones, for instance,
which is the basis for controlling electrons in computers, phones, medical equipment and other electronics.
while a first pulse excites the sample under study, a second pulse monitors the change in the sample.
allowing them to use one machine to surf the web, check emails and keep track of finances.
Now, researchers from the University of Bristol in the UK and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) in Japan, have pulled off the same feat for light in the quantum world by developing an optical chip that can process photons in an infinite number
of ways. It's a major step forward in creating a quantum computer to solve problems such as designing new drugs
because the world's leading quantum photonics group teamed up with Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT), the world's leading telecommunications company.
and engineering expertise in the telecommunications industry. It's a model that we need to encourage
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such as ejector pins for iphones, watch springs for expensive hand-wound watches, trial medical implants,
and release their drug payloads specifically to these sites in the body. Enclosed within the platelet membranes are made nanoparticle cores of a biodegradable polymer that can be metabolized safely by the body.
Researchers observed that the docetaxel-containing nanoparticles selectively collected onto the damaged sites of arteries
which are preferred also sites for large solar arrays. They believe they can scale things up so commercial and industrial applications are feasible
While optical fibre cables-and with them, data transfer by means of light-have long since become part of our everyday life,
and charge to some part of another molecule--such as the binding site of a human protein involved in some physiological process that goes awry in a given disease.
#Graphene teams up with two-dimensional crystals for faster data communications Ultra-fast detection of light lies at the heart of optical communication systems nowadays.
such as high-speed integrated communication systems s
#Superconductivity trained to promote magnetization: Russian scientist and her colleagues discovered the superconductivity effect, which will help to create future supercomputers Superconductivity,
ranging from cell phones to laptop computers and electric cars. But there may soon be a new type of battery based on materials that are far more abundant and less costly.
"Electrical energy storage in batteries is essential not only for consumer products such as cell phones and computers,
In the early 2000s, Maria's group had pioneered the single-atom approach for metals anchored on oxide supports as the exclusive active sites for the water-gas shift reaction to upgrade hydrogen streams for fuel cell use.
or blood serum along with an array of electronics to transmit the results in real time to a tablet via Bluetooth,
an important phosphor that is widely used in fiber-optic telecommunication networks. He combined that with a material called vanadium dioxide (VO2.
or blood serum along with an array of electronics to transmit the results in real time to a tablet via Bluetooth,
Long says that it should be possible to design MOF adsorbents of methane with even stronger gas binding sites and higher energy phase transitions for next generation ANG vehicles.
With his new technology, Burke aims to change that. he vision is that anybody could go to a website,
instruct their assembly through the web, and the small molecules would get synthesized and shipped,
#Nanotechnology may double radio frequency data capacity A team of Columbia Engineering researchers has invented a technology--full-duplex radio integrated circuits (ICS)--that can be implemented in nanoscale CMOS to enable simultaneous transmission and reception
networks can effectively double the frequency spectrum resources available for devices like smartphones and tablets."
Today's standards, such as 4G LTE, already support 40 different frequency bands, and there is no space left at radio frequencies for future expansion.
At the same time, the grand challenge of the next-generation 5g network is to increase the data capacity by 1, 000 times.
and bring this functionality to handheld devices such as cellular handsets, mobile devices such as tablets for Wifi,
and in cellular and Wifi base stations to support full duplex communications.""The biggest challenge the team faced with full duplex was canceling the transmitter's echo.
and telecommunications industries have ambitious plans for the future: Systems that will store information in the cloud,
By strapping tiny computers and wireless radios onto the backs of giant flower beetles and recording neuromuscular data as the bugs flew untethered,
The beetle backpack is made up of a tiny, off-the-shelf microcontroller and a built-in wireless receiver and transmitter.
For example, the hydrogel can be designed to remain at the injury site for specific durations by controlling the interactions between the nanosilicates and gelatin,
In addition to its ability to be injected at the site of an injury, the material achieves three-to-four times higher stiffness once inside the body,
vascularized scaffolds that employ the material and could be inserted surgically at the site of more serious injuries where injection is not an option.
would allow the injury site to receive blood flow as part of the enhanced healing process initiated by the nanoparticles.
and signal processing applications and is well known to limit the capacity of optical fiber communications networks. While we want to avoid this disruption this effect has also some unique properties
Currently, colors on computer and iphone screens come from dye materials pre-placed on the pixels.
scientists from the Helmholtz Zentrum Mnchen (HMGU) and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitt (LMU) in Munich have developed nanocarriers that site-selectively release medicines/drugs at the tumor site in human and mouse lungs.
For example, nanoparticles can be engineered to be able to transport medicines specifically to the disease site while not interfering with healthy body parts.
The fiberoptic networks used in telecommunications operate very similarly. To make the transfer of information as efficient as possible,
The high-frequency phonons were more mobile than we imagined, says Ong. The researchers used their model to study the thermal resistance of a nanowire containing an equal mix of silicon and germanium atoms.
and also how to release the agent into the targeted sites. To deliver the agentknown as farnesolto the targeted sites,
the researchers created a spherical mass of particles, referred to as a nanoparticle carrier. They constructed the outer layer out of cationicor positively chargedsegments of the polymers.
Benoit and colleagues used them to carry an antibacterial agent to the targeted sites. The researchers then needed to figure out how to effectively release the agent into the plaque.
zero-play flexure joints provide very fast response with 4g acceleration, operating frequencies up to 100 Hz (small signal),
Lead researcher, UNSW Associate professor Andrea Morello from the School of Electrical engineering and Telecommunications, said his team had realised successfully a new control method for future quantum computers.
It's a bit like selecting which radio station we tune to, by turning a simple knob.
Today the most commercially successful organic electronic devices are OLEDS (organic light emitting diodes) found in smart phone displays.
Yet, attaching a functional handle specifically at the para position of benzene has been challenging due to multiple reactive sites on the ring.
Nonetheless, introducing a boryl group at a specific position on the 6-membered benzene ring has been rather challenging due to the presence of several reactive sites.
"Other key applications include"wireless power transfer--directly adaptable to power remote devices such as RFID devices and tags or even remote devices in general,"Ramahi noted.
but not most windows or smartphone surfaces.""Our goal is to reach a transparency in the 90-percent range,
and could be incorporated into a wireless platform Swager's lab recently developed that allows a regular smartphone to read output from carbon nanotube sensors such as this one.
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#Quick, easy and early diagnosis with rare earth ions Lack of oxygen in cells is an indicator of diseases as serious as cerebral haemorrhages, stroke and cancer.
#Flexible sensors turn skin into a touch-sensitive interaction space for mobile devices (w/video) If a mobile phone rings during a meeting,
The research team will be presenting the Skinproject from March 16th to March 20th at the Cebit computer expo in Hanover (Stand E13, Hall 9). If a mobile phone rings during a meeting,
which is the basis for controlling electrons in computers, phones, medical equipment and other electronics.
which converts digital electrical signals into optical signals at a rate of up to 108 gigabit per second,
In the experiment, the MZM works reliably over the entire spectral range of the broadband optical fiber networks of 1500 1600 nanometers at an electric bandwidth of 70 gigahertz with data flows of up to 108 gigabit per second.
At the present time, some 10 percent of the electricity in Germany is consumed by information and communication technologies, such as computers and smart phones of users,
Professor Hagemeyer said. nce located at the site of the blood clot, thrombin (a molecule at the centre of the clotting process) breaks open the outer layer of the nanocapsule,
and photonic crystal technology, could lead to brighter and more efficient mobile phone, tablet, and computer displays, as well as enhanced LED lighting.
and more efficient displays. ince screens consume large amounts of energy in devices like laptops, phones,
See explained. f you put the photonic crystal-enhanced quantum dot into a device like a phone or computer,
The structure of the copper tetramer is such that most of its binding sites are open
A number of its binding sites are occupied merely in holding the compound together, which limits how many atoms can catch
"To compensate for a catalyst with fewer binding sites, the current method of reduction creates high-pressure conditions to facilitate stronger bonds with carbon dioxide molecules.
The scientists experimented with silicon structures used in computer chips that power computers, tablets and mobile phones,
Ultimately, Ramos and his colleagues envision deploying HERMES to a disaster site, where the robot would explore the area, guided by a human operator from a remote location.
This can be used to apply drugs directly to sites on the skin, such as applying anticancer medications to melanomas
The ability to fine-tune cytoskeletal architecture, adhesion site dynamics and the distribution of intracellular forces through simple on the fly-fly pattern modifications provides an unprecedented level of control over cytoskeletal mechanics,
and optimization of electronic and optoelectronic devices like solar panels and telecommunication lasers. black phosphorus To truly understand the significance of the team's findings,
allowing them to use one machine to surf the web, check emails and keep track of finances.
Now, researchers from the University of Bristol in the UK and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) in Japan, have pulled off the same feat for light in the quantum world by developing an optical chip that can process photons in an infinite number
of ways. It's a major step forward in creating a quantum computer to solve problems such as designing new drugs
because the world's leading quantum photonics group teamed up with Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT), the world's leading telecommunications company.
and engineering expertise in the telecommunications industry. It's a model that we need to encourage
as well as superstrong composites--like the ones used in phone cases and body armor. Each new combination of atom-thick layers presents new properties
such as ejector pins for iphones, watch springs for expensive hand-wound watches, trial medical implants,
and recently moved to the University of Münster. he memory is compatible not only with conventional optical fiber data transmission,
While optical fibre cables and with them data transfer by means of light have long since become part of our everyday life,
improving the image quality of TV-SETS, tablets, and mobile phones. Exciting quantum dot applications are also emerging in the fields of green energy, optical sensing,
when the intensity of light and radio waves completely disappears. These findings are of fundamental importance for the development of quantum physics
representing the quantum ground state of light and radio waves. However, until now direct experimental proof of this basic phenomenon has been considered impossible.
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"The silicon chip in your smartphone or tablet already has around one billion transistors on it, with each transistor less than 100 billionths of a metre in size,"said Dr Menno Veldhorst,
ranging from cell phones to laptop computers and electric cars. But there may soon be a new type of battery based on materials that are far more abundant and less costly.
"Electrical energy storage in batteries is essential not only for consumer products such as cell phones and computers,
so that the signal of the nanoswitch may be read using a mobile phone. This will make our approach really available to anyone!
they require wireless interfaces to external communication devices such as smartphones. This requires far-field communication systems that,
like the sensor systems, perform even under extreme deformations and during extended periods of normal daily activities."
"While the transistors used in radio frequency (RF) circuits can be made flexible and stretchable using several techniques already demonstrated, the main component of the communication circuit,
stretching, flexing and twisting hence the antenna can continuously communicate information in the Wifi frequency band
"The researchers, from the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute and Konkuk University in the Republic of korea, coated cotton and polyester yarn with a nanoglue called bovine serum albumin (BSA.
Researchers around the world can access Professor Waterhouse's open source website to study the genomes of seven family members.
ACS) Today, lithium-ion batteries are the storage technology of choice for many applications, from electric cars to smartphones.
#Facebook M Is trained and Monitored by Humans, Facebook Reveals Facebook has entered the virtual digital assistant space with a new service for its millions of Messenger users,
known as M. Facebook M is a personal assistant that will be integrated into the main messaging app, Facebook Messenger.
Using this new digital assistant, the users of this application will be able to search for information as well as complete different tasks without the need of manually doing them.
At the moment, Facebook reveals that this service is still in its trial stages and as of now
you will be lucky to be among the first persons to enjoy this new service on Facebook Messenger.
This announcement was made public by the Vice president of Facebook messaging products David Marcus via his Facebook page.
Facebook M can complete the tasks on behalf of the userfacebook M brings something new to the virtual digital assistant space
a space that is vastly dominated by Siri from Apple and Google Now from you know where.
Facebook M can do just that. For instance, the application can be used to make purchases on your behalf,
Google Now can only manage to provide you with a list of recommended gifts that you can buy for your friend.
Facebook M will actually find the list of items, place an order and get the gift delivered to the desired person.
Facebook M will be using humans to provide users with feedbackeven though Facebook M will be relying a lot on artificial intelligence,
it was noted that this intelligence is trained and supervised by humans. The humans, known as M Trainers, will be composed of non-Facebook employees
and their work will be to ensure that users get the best responses to their queries and on time.
The inclusion of humans in Facebook M is a rather confusing feat as most companies are working to eliminate
It is expected however that Facebook will hire more and more M trainers as the service expands to global users of Messenger.
It is also important to note that unlike Google Now and Cortana Facebook M will not be making use of data it has collected about you over the years.
The service will only be providing feedback based on the parameters provided by the user at that given moment.
Facebook M is free of any charge and it will come integrated within Facebook Messenger g
#Whatsapp has Over 800 Million Users, 600 Million are on Android A few months ago the company Whatsapp revealed that it has at least 800 million users.
and it involved about 50,000 active internet users, with Whatsapp segment constituting around 12,606 users from 34 countries across the globe.
while those using the iphone followed from a distance with 22%of the market share.
This means that the remaining 5%is shared among users of Windows phone, Nokia, and Blackberry devices.
Whatsapp made a record by becoming only the second non-Google app to achieve the 1 billion downloadsmark on the Google Play Store.
Whatsapp growth is a reflection of global smartphone updatewhatsapp keeps adding more and more users to its user base,
and this can be attributed to the continued number of smartphones in the world markets. The general number of Android smartphones in the handset market is more than any other company;
hence, the huge number of Whatsapp users on this platform. Android is an open source operating system and for sure,
one from Charles University in Prague, one from Google, one from the Universal Dependencies Consortium (a new group of computational linguists),
However, these molecules can also cause collateral damage to healthy tissue around the infection site:
or site of damage in the structure of DNA, called 5-chlorocytosine (5clc) in the inflamed tissues of mice infected with the pathogen Helicobacter hepaticus.
fires hypochlorous acid at the site, damaging cytosines in the DNA of the surrounding healthy tissue.
But a single optical fiber can contain several sensors; all of the sensors in each of the fingers of the CMU hand are connected with four fibers,
which detect strain by measuring shifts in the wavelength of light reflected by the optical fiber.
and it is the primary site of injury in MS. What more, the scientists were able to pinpoint a specific protein in the blood, the blood-clotting factor fibrinogen,
and it is the primary site of injury in MS. Image is for illustrative purposes only. hese findings question a long-held paradigm that myelin-specific T cells initiate inflammation in the brain through activation of microglia
#iphone 6s will be announced in a month The rumoured September 9 (September 10 in Australia) reveal date lines up well with Apple usual September event,
whether Apple 2015 device will be called the iphone 7 or iphone 6s most people have their money on the latter, following Apple usual device patterns.
The updates are usually more about what inside the device than outside, with no significant design change for the device expected.
What likely to be includedthe big advancement with the iphone 6s we are likely to see is Force Touch screen technology reports Business Insider.
Apple has been putting a lot of emphasis on the iphone as a photography device, and that looking to take a step even further with the iphone 6s.
An employee of Foxconn, the Chinese manufacturing company who builds Apple iphones is claiming that the iphone 6s
and iphone 6s Plus will have 12mp rear cameras and support 4k video recording. This comes off the back of Apple acquiring a company in April
which specialises in smartphone cameras to match DSLR quality. It also lines up with reports from known Apple expert John Gruber,
who said that the iphone 6s will have he biggest camera jump ever, bringing it to DSLR quality.
In the longshot, but still possible category, we could see a cheaper iphone 6c, which will feature a plastic body like the iphone 5c but with the internal specs of the regular iphone 6
. What we won seewith Apple S cycles they never introduce radical new changes, so don expect any new screen sizes or a new design.
At best, they might introduce a new colour, but even that seems unlikely. Despite it being a favourite feature by Android users
it not believed that the iphone 6s will feature wireless charging, due to the company desire to create its own wireless standard.
And a price cut? Forget about it. If anything, thanks to our Aussie dollar we could see a price increase for 2015 iphones
#iphone leak reveals new parts The video at Unbox Therapy shows what is claimed to be leaked parts of the Apple iphone 6s,
the smaller of the two new iphones that Apple is expected to unveil at a rumoured launch on September 9.
Shortly after the release of Apple first phablet, the iphone 6 Plus, some customers complained that the 5. 5-inch smartphone had a weakness in the frame that meant they bent
if you applied force in a particular way, such as sitting on it. SMARTPHONE UPGRADE: What to expect in the new Apple iphone 6sapple later admitted the problem
although it said it was xtremely rarethe Unbox Therapy video out today shows the backplate for the iphone 6s,
the smaller of the new iphones, compared with the backplate of the iphone 6. The new design is slightly bigger:
138. 2mm tall by 67. 16mm wide versus the current design of 138. 09mm by 66. 91mm.
Yet despite the slight increase in size, the new frame is 2g lighter, suggesting that Apple is using a higher grade aluminium
which it uses in the Apple Watch Sport. The key design change means that the Apple iphone 6 is stronger in its most vulnerable point.
The video today is a sign that Apple is keen not to have another Bendgate,
Firstly, the leaked iphone 6 backplate might not be a final version. Also Bendgate was only a problem with the bigger phone,
and the video does not show proof that the new design is across both models of iphone P
#Google restructure easy as ABC Chief executive Larry page said the new structure will make the operation of the company leaner
and more accountablegoogle shares jumped five per cent after the restructure was announced, Fortune reported. Under the restructure plan,
Alphabet will be comprised of the core Google business including internet search, mapping and Youtube along with newer businesses that will be managed separately, such as Google Fiber, Nest and the investment arm Google Ventures.
Google CEO Page will become CEO of the new entity, with his cofounder Sergey Brin serving as president.
Longtime Google executive Sundar Pichai who has taken on increasingly important roles at the company in recent years,
will be CEO of the core Google business. Under the new structure, Page said the ewer Google is slimmed a bit down,
with the companies that are pretty far afield of our main internet products contained in Alphabet insteadalphabet will be comprised of the current efforts in life sciences such as glucose-sensing contact lens and the health research firm Calico,
he said. Page parent company will also include the drone delivery project Wing and investment arms of the California technology giant. undamentally
we believe this allows us more management scale, as we can run things independently that aren related very,
Creepy things Google knows about youlphabet is about businesses prospering through strong leaders and independence.
me in service to them as needed. lphabet Inc will replace Google Inc as the publicly traded entity,
and all shares of Google will automatically convert to shares of Alphabet, with all of the same rights,
Google will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Alphabet. The reorganisation comes amid concerns that Google dominance of the tech sector may have peaked as the landscape evolves.
Google has for years been the leader in internet search and has turned advertising linked to those searches into a highly lucrative business.
But its shares have struggled since hitting an all-time high in early 2014 and it has little to show for ventures in other areas:
self-driving cars, Google glass, internet balloons, health care, GOOGLE TV mobile payments, home automation and its Google+social network, among others.
The news has been met with much discussion on social media i
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