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#Honda Smart Home produces more energy than it uses Wouldn it be great if your house produced more energy than it consumed?

and his team used computer software to design a modified version of yeast chromosome III which they called syniii

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#Scientists create'living materials'using E coli Imagine a world where nonliving devices and building materials had some of the same advantages as living things,

"This unique property is already being looked at as a potential mechanism for quantum information technologies, such as quantum cryptography and quantum computation.

#'Astroskin'smart shirt monitors astronauts'health in Antarctica Remember that pivotal scene in the movie"Apollo 13"in which crewmembers rip the biomedical sensors off their bodies?

Astroskin, a prototype device to monitor astronaut health, is a garment that fits over a person's upper body

As GPS watches and blood-pressure monitors become the norm, researchers are now aiming for ideas such as headsets that could assist people with vision problems.

The CSA has indicated not when Astroskin could fly in space, but says it could be used on the International space station during future missions.

10 Scariest Sea Creatures The one-of-a-kind Exosuit on display at the American Museum of Natural history (AMNH) now through March 5 measures 6. 5 feet (2 meters) tall

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#'Yarn muscles'100 times stronger than human muscles Using just coiled fishing line and sewing thread a team of scientists has developed a way to create super-strong artificial muscles.

The fiber muscles could be used to power the muscles in androids or exoskeletons the researchers said.

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#For stem cells in 30 minutes just add acid Embryonic stem cells have huge potential in treating everything from cancer to diabetes because of their ability to morph into almost any other type of cell within the human body.

As explained on her lab's web page All organisms possess instincts to survive exposures to external stresses by adapting to their environment and to some degree regenerating injured tissues or organs.

and injected them into a mouse embryo. They spread through the entire embryo causing it to fluoresce green.

and insects to monitor wind and navigate around obstacles in tight spaces lead researcher Ali Javey of Berkeley Lab's Materials sciences Division said in a news release.

and excellent performance of our e-whiskers should have a wide range of applications for advanced robotics human-machine user interfaces

thanks to a futuristic submarine that lets users"fly"underwater. The Deepflight Super Falcon, developed by California-based Hawkes Ocean Technologies,

I always take the email option. I know I giving up a little privacy when I do that

because the store now has my email and can send me offers. The stores that have offered are clothing stores and

Yesterday one of my local grocery stores Shoprite sent me an email letting me know that it will be offering digital receipts.

According to Shoprite's website this is a new program that is being tested so Il still be receiving paper receipts for now.

I not going to take the time to stop pull out my phone take a picture of the receipt

#World's fastest supercomputers could take science to the next level With computing technology continually getting smaller,

you may look at modern day room-sized supercomputers and balk. But if you're impressed with all the things your tablet can do,

imagine the power of a computer so big that it needs its own room. The announcement that the U s. Department of energy is planning to spend $425 million to build two supercomputers that are 5 to 7 times faster than any supercomputer in history is big news

and it could lead the way to major advancements in science research, reports Reuters. Most of that cash,

$325 million of it, will be designated for the construction a supercomputer to be named"Summit,"for Oak ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee,

and another to be named"Sierra"at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. The remaining $100 million will go toward research into future supercomputing advances to eventually build computers that are even faster.

Summit and Sierra will operate at 150 petaflops and 100 petaflops respectively, which is the unit of measurement for supercomputer performance.

Basically that means that the machines can perform as many as 150 million billion floating-point operations (or FLOP) per second.

By comparison, the world's highest performing computer at present, the Tianhe-2 in China, performs at"just"55 petaflops. The first-ever supercomputer to reach 1 petaflop was built as recently as 2008.

So Summit and Sierra are significant upgrades. Plans are for Sierra to be the exclusive domain of The National Nuclear Security Administration,

which will use its new super-toy for ensuring"the safety, security and effectiveness of the nation nuclear deterrent without testing,"

"according to a press release by Nvidia, one of the manufacturers of the new computers'components. Summit, however, will be made available to researchers worldwide who can apply for time with the powerful technology.

The faster the computer, the more detailed models that can be created. Natural systems, such as Earth's climate, are extremely difficult to model because of their immense complexity."

and even how long his mouse hovered over an object Amazon could predict what hel buy

There really only one that comes to mind printer ink. It never fails that when one of my sons needs to print out something for a big school project the ink runs out.

and he said he going to start hovering his mouse over a computer that he wants and an Xbox One.

Just hit'print'From working guns to bionic ears 3-D printers are creating a variety of objects

But 3-D printers aren't just laying down plastics resins and nanoparticles they're also printing with dough vegetables and even meats.

Both engineers and gourmet chefs are experimenting with creating foods from 3-D printing. The technique allows them to produce foods in unique shapes

and textures and to streamline repetitive tasks like filling ravioli. 3-D food printers don't look like traditional printers.

Users load the syringes with raw food ink dough chocolate or anything with a liquid consistency and the machine prints the food by depositing layers of liquids to build the desired object.

Just like a regular printer the machine takes its instructions from a computer. Using software a 3-D representation of the food is created

and divided into printable layers. Designers of commercial 3-D printers believe that in the near future we'll be able to download such recipes and print them in our home kitchens.

Barcelona-based company Natural Machines says it hopes its Foodini machine (pictured right) will promote more home cooking by managing the difficult

Take a look at the variety of food that can be made with 3-D printers. The Foodini made these chickpea nuggets as a healthier alternative to meat options.

TNO has experimented with printing pureed vegetables back into their original shape. Cornell University's Fab@Home can print ramen noodles in a variety of artistic shapes.

in order to create superfast computers that can communicate and transfer data instantaneously, but learning to control the quantum data has proven difficult.

reports PC Mag. It's particularly significant because silicon is the same material used to build conventional computers,

meaning that the technology could potentially be mass-produced using the same sort of equipment currently used for chip manufacturing.

an extraordinary upgrade.""We have demonstrated that with silicon qubit we can have needed the accuracy to build a real quantum computer.

"The capability of building a quantum computer from materials already widely used for building conventional computers might be this study's most significant accomplishment, however.

#Robots learn to cook with a little help from Youtube When it comes to learning how to cook,

We both turn to Youtube for online tutorials on how to chop garlic or how to whisk mashed potatoes.

Researchers at the University of Maryland, funded by the DARPA's Mathematics of Sensing, Exploitation and Execution (MSEE), are teaching robots how to process visual data

And, this exercise requires no additional programming from humans. The robots learned how to complete tasks, such as picking up a pitcher,

"Instead of the long and expensive process of programming code to teach robots to do tasks, this research opens the potential for robots to learn much faster, at much lower cost and,

And, according to Yiannis Aloimonos, University of Maryland professor of computer science and director of the Computer Vision Lab, cooking was the perfect skill to test the robots'progress."

and touchscreens could be made that resist finger grease and other similar causes of smudges. Also airplanes etched in these nanostructures could potentially avoid the dangers of water freezing on the wings.

Though perhaps it's simply enough to be dazzled by displays of water bouncing around like balls. he material is so strongly water-repellent the water actually gets bounced offsaid Chunlei Guo a professor of optics

#How the world's largest satellite network will deliver global Internet access With a majority of the world still without access to the Internet (roughly 60 percent as of 2014) private companies are announcing ambitious plans to close the gap.

Google is exploring the use of high-altitude balloons Facebook is eyeing autonomous drones and now Richard Branson and Virgin galactic are pursuing microsatellite clusters.

The project would deploy a fleet of 648 microsatellites capable of providing low-latency high-speed Internet access directly to small user-based terminals all around the world.

In addition to providing access via current standards (Wifi LTE 3g or 2g connections) the Oneweb network would also give much-needed global emergency and first responder access for natural disasters refugee camps and other humanitarian needs.

As a comparison the average global broadband speed currently is only 21.9 Mbps. Oneweb is expected to cost between $1. 5 billion to $2 billion a relative bargain compared to

#This stick could be the end of the personal computer as we know it Fifteen years ago,

I would see people move into apartments and fill their living rooms with a big desktop computer, a big TV and a stereo system with giant CD racks.

and worked with Toronto's Julia West Home to design beautiful furniture that turned your computer into an entertainment center, much like those console Hi-fi systems from the'50s.

Flat-screen monitors were not available yet (that SGI 17-inch monitor in the photo was the first one sold

500) and the ipod and the laptop got rid of the big desktop and the stereo system.

Then the smartphone came along, and I became convinced that it was going to become our default computer, writing in Treehugger:

Your office is in your pants: How the smartphone is changing the way we live and work.

I made a number of predictions, including that the big-screen television was going to follow the piano to the dump.

I was wrong again. Flat-screen LED TVS got so cheap and so big that people are now wallpapering their walls with them;

everybody has a home theater that would have cost tens of thousands of dollars just a few years ago.

After five years of using my computer monitor for entertainment, even I broke down and bought 42 inches of fun.

Now Intel has introduced the Compute Stick, a complete computer that runs Windows 8. 1 (or Linux) that you can plug into the HDMI port of your big TV.

It not exactly a gamer rig, with an Atom processor and 2gb of ram and a 32 GB solid state drive,

but it's also only $149 including Windows, which retails on its own for $154. 99 at my local computer store.

The device connects via Bluetooth to your keyboard and mouse. No doubt the souped-up gamer version will follow shortly.

Intel calls it solution with plenty of storage and performance needed for light productivity, social networking, web browsing,

and streaming media, such as Netflix, Hulu, or games. I think it's a lot more than that.

I look at this with a mix of bemusement and astonishment. Just over a decade ago,

I was building powerful computers into pretty boxes to act as entertainment centers; today I can just plug a computer that costs less than a retail box of software into my TV if

I need a computer at all, which except for work I don't. Now I can spend all day on the sofa in front of the TV

and nobody can complain, because the computer has ceased to be a thing. It now just an accessory.

In 1977, the late Ken Olsen, CEO of minicomputer manufacturer DEC, famously said here is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.

He was quoted out of context but he still had to live that down for the rest of his life.

It is a shame he died in 2011, because he would have had the last laugh;

Autocase software tool has got its number It a running theme in our discussion of the smart home:

In the Economist Autodesk head of sustainability Emma Stewart writes about how the smart thing to do is to figure it out before you build.

Wikipedia) But there are other costs involved with anything we do the social and environmental costs the effect on people and the planet as well as the profit.

they use software like Autocad to build the structure in the computer piece by piece.

However as an architect who was an early adopter of Computer aided design (CAD) over 30 years agowhen all it did was draw

condom-reinventing Microsoft cofounder didn actually drink human excrement Sedro-Woolley-produced sewage sludge at its finest.

Gates himself describes the waste-to-water process on his Gates Notes blog: I watched the piles of feces go up the conveyer belt and drop into a large bin.

and operated using a micro-entrepreneurial model where local residents would benefit economically from the facilities. he processor wouldn just keep human waste out of the drinking water;

or hard drives reliant on electrons'intrinsic spin are getting packed into smaller and smaller spaces. The limit was thought to be set:

when researchers at IBM manipulated individual xenon atoms on a nickel plate to spell out the letters'IBM'across a space just a dozen nanometres wide2.

they used two independent computer models to calculate the total mass of fish in the world's oceans.

Nature News A transparent, flexible electrode made from graphene could see a one-atom thick honeycomb of carbon first made just five years ago replace other high-tech materials used in displays.

and Hong says that makes the material ideal for use in applications such as portable displays.

These data will be combined with samples taken over the next four years at 60 randomly chosen sites across Sub-saharan africa,

The project is also looking into sending information to mobile phones, which are very common in Africa.

The NPCIL has readied four sites one for each vendor each capable of accepting eight to ten imported reactors.

but having a panel of in-country experts to deal with grant applications is a new approach.

or China's use of mercury catalysts in the manufacture of plastics. In addition, coal fired power plants, which emit mercury because of its natural presence in coal,

then knock them off-balance with a radio wave. The small radio-frequency signals given off by the recovering nuclei provide the imaging data.

Every day, they spent around half an hour in total on five computer-based tests designed to stretch their working memories.

reporting results by clicking on relevant numbers in a grid on the screen. Using brain imaging techniques, the scientists measured levels and locations of dopamine receptors in brain areas of interest in each participant before and after training.

The council's panel of experts chaired by physicist Pekka Sinervo from the University of Toronto in Ontario,

Nature News The Blackberry-toting Barack Obama last week took a step towards modernizing the US government's information system by appointing Vivek Kundra to the newly created post of chief information officer.

"says Andrew Rasiej, founder of Personal Democracy Forum, an annual conference and website on politics and technology.

Kundra also embraced'cloud computing'by moving all 38,000 employees for WASHINGTON DC onto the Google Apps office suite

which stores data and applications online rather than on individual computers. And he recently implemented an internal management tool in

and author of the blog CTOVISION. com."And Vivek has racked them up.""""There are three pillars to my agenda,

"We want to launch a data. gov site to make a vast array of government data public."

The second team2 was led by Daniel Rugar, manager of nanoscale studies at IBM s Almaden Research center in San jose, California.

A PSA test is currently the most common, noninvasive means to screen for prostate cancer in the U s. PSA testing measures for elevated levels of prostate specific-antigen antigen,

"Our study got enough interest to put together a series of sites for investigation to lead to potential FDA approval of this particular kit,

as well as from Kenya, India, Rwanda, Uganda and Zimbabwe, to screen for resistant coffee plants and to analyse varieties of the pathogen."

and then use data-compression algorithms such as JPEG to store the image in a smaller file."

an electrical and computer engineer at Rice university in Houston, Texas."The data-points that matter will be different in a picture of the Eiffel Tower and a picture of your mother,

An algorithm compiles data from each wavelength to generate a complete image every 0. 1 seconds.

marks another step towards using nucleic acids as a practical way of storing information#one that is more compact and durable than current media such as hard disks or magnetic tape.#"

Japan s flagship K#supercomputer project narrowly escaped being shut down after auditors questioned whether Japan needed to host the world s fastest computer.

Fast-forward to 2013, and Shinzo Abe, head of the newly elected Liberal Democratic party-led government,

he told reporters after a tour of the supercomputer facility on 11 january. Science is a big winner in the government s massive#10.3-trillion economic stimulus package, approved by the cabinet on 15 january.

and significant boosts for many big scientific facilities (see Big winners)# including#8. 4#billion for data links between the K supercomputer and Japan s universities.

a satellite that will monitor natural disasters and measure atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. The extra cash will keep it on schedule for launch before April next year.

Computer simulations have indicated that a rare crystalline form of boron nitride would resist indentation even better than diamond

Researchers flocked to the field soon after a recipe for deriving the cells from adult mouse cells was announced in 2006

it s the quantum dot TV! Researchers working with nanoscale fluorescent particles called quantum dots have predicted long groundbreaking achievements,

Massachusetts, would supply Sony Corporation of Tokyo with quantum dots for flat-screen televisions that will transmit more richly coloured images than other TVS on the market.

Demand for quantum dot displays, say industry watchers, could benefit quantum dot companies, bring down the price of these nanomaterials

"Displays are a potential market that could help quantum dot companies find traction, says Jonathan Melnick, an analyst at Lux Research in Boston, Massachusetts.

Near the backlight of a liquid-crystal display (LCD), for example, temperatures can be around 100#C. At this temperature,

"Television technology is more stable. His optimism will be tested this spring with the company s quantum dot debut in Sony LCD televisions,

to be sold under the Tri#luminos brand name. The contrast with today s flat screens begins with the light source.

Conventional LCDS use a high-intensity blue LED backlight whose glow is converted by a phosphor coating to create a broadband,

white light used to make the moving TV images. The new Triluminos tele#visions instead pair an uncoated blue LED with a thin glass tube filled with quantum dots.

optoelectronics, including display components, will make up $310#million of a total $666 million in quantum dot revenues.

Its axle would have selective binding sites. Once the amino acids have been stripped off the axle, the axle would'reload,

'with new amino acids binding to those sites in the right order. Leigh s machine will probably never compete with automated methods of making peptides.

and energy of the light (see Metamaterial TV). The device is sensitive enough to pick up a signal even from materials that are barely luminescent, such as metals.

Wright puts much of this down to software that has made it easier for watchdogs to detect possible plagiarism or image manipulation in publications."

Researchers stumbled on the grisly cataloguing technique while studying a form of anthrax that kills chimpanzees in C# te d'Ivoire.

#By baiting nets and traps with meat, the team collected carrion flies from Ta#National park in C# te d'Ivoire and Kirindy Reserve in Madagascar,

The researchers sequenced this material to identify 16 mammals in C# te d'Ivoire, including six of the nine local primate species,

is the first step towards constructing an organic computer that uses networks of linked animal brains to solve tasks.

from creating organic computers to uniting different parts of the same brain that have been cut off by damage or disease.

And if it is to build a computer, "the proposition is speculative and the evidence underwhelming.

which paired individuals control virtual avatars and combine their brain activity to play a game together."

or run cars or mobile devices. Hydrogen has a high energy density and is completely clean, burning to leave behind only water vapour as waste.

a well-known reaction combines hydrogen and carbon monoxide gases using commercial catalysts. Methanol also traps a lot of hydrogen (12.5%by weight.

potentially delivering hydrogen for fuel cells in mobile phones, computers or even cars. Edman Tsang, a chemist at the University of Oxford, UK, who also works on storing hydrogen in liquids including methanol2,

or methanol-hydrogen systems, in cars or mobile phones are"seriously underestimating the engineering complexity of first developing a practical system

They found that it contains about 70 binding sites for a microrna called mir-7. Micrornas are short fragments of RNA that can block gene expression by binding to

Some have possible binding sites for viral micrornas, which can subvert immune responses. Rajewsky hypothesizes that circular RNA could even interact with RNA BINDING-PROTEINS proteins.

called ATP IV, has been drawn up by an expert panel of 15#cardiologists appointed by the institute.

US guidelines set by the Adult Treatment Panel (ATP) have lowered gradually acceptable levels for LDL bad cholesterol,

But Dylla suggests that the full text of papers could reside on publishers websites, with agencies just providing links.

which they see as deflecting attention from their own web pages. The embargo time before papers are free could vary by discipline and journal

Full-term babies#those born after 37 weeks'gestation#display remarkable linguistic sophistication soon after they are born:

In addition, they relied on data from elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) tagged with instruments that monitor ocean conditions."

Using computer simulations to make sure that the CD47 fragment was folded correctly and was stable, the group designed

After half an hour, the mouse blood had four times as many beads with the peptide fragment than the other bead,

The researchers used NASA s Kepler space telescope to identify the three planets orbiting Kepler 37, a star some 200 light-years away that is somewhat smaller than the sun. The spacecraft monitors more than 150,000 stars in the Milky way

Barclay and his colleagues used computer modeling to identify potential false positives and then rule them out with additional observations from the ground.

The FDA s Ophthalmic Devices Advisory Panel in September 2012 voted unanimously to recommend approval.

watch TV and drive. The chip helps generate at least partial vision by stimulating intact nerve cells in the retina.

having deciphered the neural codes that mouse and monkey retinas use to turn light patterns into patterns of electrical pulses that their brains translate into meaningful images.

#How to turn living cells into computers Synthetic biologists have developed DNA modules that perform logic operations in living cells.

To that end, researchers at the Massachusetts institute of technology (MIT) in Cambridge have devised a set of simple genetic modules that respond to inputs much like the Boolean logic gates used in computers."

He and his colleagues devised 16 plasmids#one for#each of the binary logic functions allowable in computation.

for example#the latest work takes the idea a step further by making the DNA part of the computation itself."

#When Google got flu wrong When influenza hit early and hard in the United states this year,

A comparison with traditional surveillance data showed that Google Flu Trends, which estimates prevalence from flu-related Internet searches,

had overestimated drastically peak flu levels. The glitch is no more than a temporary setback for a promising strategy,

and Google is sure to refine its algorithms. But as flu-tracking techniques based on mining of web data

and on social media proliferate, the episode is a reminder that they will complement, but not substitute for, traditional epidemiological surveillance networks."

"It is hard to think today that one can provide disease surveillance without existing systems, says Alain-Jacques Valleron, an epidemiologist at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris,

But the near-global coverage of the Internet and burgeoning social media platforms such as Twitter have raised hopes that these technologies could open the way to easier

The mother of these new systems is launched Google s in 2008. Based on research by Google and the CDC, it relies on data mining records of flu-related search terms entered in Google s search engine,

combined with computer modelling. Its estimates have matched almost exactly the CDC s own surveillance data over time

###and it delivers them several days faster than the CDC can. The system has since been rolled out to 29 countries worldwide,

Google Flu Trends (www. google. org/flutrends; CDC; Flu Near Yougoogle Flu Trends has continued to perform remarkably well,

But the latest US flu season seems to have confounded its algorithms. Its estimate for the Christmas national peak of flu is almost double the CDC s (see Fever peaks),

It is not the first time that a flu season has tripped Google up. In 2009, Flu Trends had to tweak its algorithms after its models badly underestimated ILI in the United states at the start of the H1n1 (swine flu) pandemic###a glitch attributed to changes in people s search behaviour as a result of the exceptional nature of the pandemic (S. Cook et al.

PLOS ONE 6, e23610; 2011). ) Google would not comment on thisyear s difficulties. But several researchers suggest that the problems may be due to widespread media coverage of this year s severe US flu season,

including the declaration of a public-health emergency by New york state last month. The press reports may have triggered many flu-related searches by people who were not ill.

Few doubt that Google Flu will bounce back after its models are refined, however.""You need to be constantly adapting these models,

Brownstein is one of many researchers trying to harness the power of the web to establish sentinel networks made up not of physicians,

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