which agrees better with computer simulations, but when it decays, it produces many heavy quarks (the so-called'strange quarks').
They have applied their new technique to two super-eruption sites and a pair of very large eruptions and found that it took them no more than 500 years to move from formation to eruption.
protecting whatever is inside from static, electromagnetic pulses, radio waves, and other electromagnetic phenomenon. The material comes amid growing concern over the development of electromagnetic weapons that could knock out computers.
Controversial tech boss and presidential candidate John Mcafee recently warned a'doomsday'electronic weapon could wipe out 90%of Americans
and urged politicians to is the number one threat facing the country. Mcafee, who recently announced he is running in 2016,
wrote in a blog for International Business times:''Experts agree that an all out cyber attack, beginning with an EMP (electromagnetic pulse) attack on our electronic infrastructure,
would wipe out 90%of the human population of this country within two years of the attack.'
'Mcafee says this is a huge issue being ignored. He hit out at President Obama's focus on gun control.
'Mcafee said he was confused initially by the statement.''Frantically searching again for my benzodiazepines, and certain that rabid squirrels would imminently emerge from my wristwatch
'That's an operational system already in our tactical air force'In 2012, aircraft manufacturer Boeing successfully tested the weapon on a one-hour flight during which it knocked out the computers of an entire military compound.
Customers would use a smartphone app to key in the amount they want to draw out ahead of time.
and has confirmed that preliminary scanning tests have been carried out on 30 consumers in a laboratory at it head office in New york. The test cash machines do need not even a screen
or a touchpad as all the information is loaded by the app ahead of time. Citigroup is not the only financial institution testing out cardless cash machines-JP MORGAN CHASE
Users should also cover the keypad with their hand when they type in their pin code
can identify everything from shop doorways to the contents of a fridge giving a verbal commentary through a phone app and earpiece.
Users can even have printed text read out loud simply by pointing at the words, while those with partial sight can zoom in as they need.
facial recognition software will instantly tell the user not only the name of an approaching person but their job and date of any previous meeting.
Fans of the TV series Star trek: The next Generation might spot a resemblance to the device used by the blind character Lieutenant commander Geordi La Forge.
The software, developed by London-based Vision Technologies and sold under the Givevision brand, instantly analyses a stream of images.
000 users, is expected to cost between £50 and £75 a month and could be included in mobile phone packages from next year c
#Helmet with built-in suspension: Motorcycle headgear absorbs energy from a crash to protect your brain as well as your skull Experts have created a helmet with built-in suspension to protect your brain as well as your skull.
The device integrates bluetooth low energy technology to instinctively communicate with all connected devices, like smartphones, tablets,
and personal computers. it can be placed anywhere in the home, and can be programmed to utilize turning,
to switching off the lights. a 11 x 11 dot matrix LED face, displays settings and third party options,
The software is an open source platform that will invite a community of developers to create a more flexible integration with other nternet of things such as sonos, nest and philips hue.
and by allowing users to have better control of their energy sources, the design moves the world to a more sustainable self sufficiency. it addresses the challenge of energy consumption at a personal,
national and global level. it benefits the everyday user and community alongside working towards a worldwide future solution. jury member arnold wasserman,
in a similar way that landlines in rural parts of the world are now obsolete as mobile phones have become more prevalent. t the most promising design wee seen that will encourage people to use renewables
#Intel looks into crystal ball Intel has been looking into the near future at its Future Showcase 2015looking to get into homes,
said Intel. o if youe got a Nest thermostat and Philips Hue lightbulbs, for example, the Home Gateway will provide the link between the two. he system is based on NFC tags that track people in the home to adjust devices accordingly as they move around re-streaming a film from living room TV to kitchen tablet whilst
you make a cup of tea, for example. Realsense was another technology it is pushing. While it looks like this brand may cover more than one technology,
Sprout is a device with at touch screen and more: ou control your content and activities with waving, pinching,
grabbing and even smiling at it said Intel. Beyond this it is hoping the technology will be used not just to add gesture recognition into tablets and phones,
but to add 3d scanning to devices. s just one example, 3dme takes photography into the third dimension
said Intel, which showed a 3d photo of someone in a block of glass. At longer range, it proposes Realsense as a way to give drones a local 3d map for object avoidance.
Current products on-show included the Intel NUC Compute Stick (PC with HDMI connector), Galileo Gen 2 (Arduino-style board with X86 processor) and Edison on an Arduino-style board n
#MIT refreshes fusion reactor with modern superconductors Rare-earth barium copper oxide (REBCO) superconducting tapes could mean earlier practical fusion reactors, according to MIT.
The key is stronger magnetic fields, which shrink the size of tokamak chamber required, and subsequently simplify all that follows.
Users of Soundhawk Scoop earpiece can customize settings for various situationsutdoors, dining, drivingsing a free ios or Android app.
The Smart Listening Systemncluding device, wireless microphone and charging caseetails for $299 through soundhawk. com and Amazon
Mike Kisch, president and CEO of Cupertino, Calif.-based Soundhawk, says the company works with advanced wireless
or difficulty listening to the radio or TV at a socially acceptable volume. To address those needs,
and Foxconn Technology Group. r. Perkins saw the opportunity to create an entirely new market around hearing augmentation via an elegantly designed wearable device that powered by the user and financially accessible,
users need only dip it into a cup filled with plain, old water before brushing.
We found the toothbrush for as low as $35 on ebay and for only $14 on Amazon.
Meredith Perry, who began tinkering with wireless charging as a paleobiology undergrad at the University of Pennsylvania,
Areas where ubeam could reshape business include powering tablets at retail, wireless headsets at warehouses,
a transmitter that will automatically recharge smartphones, scheduled for release in 2016. But Perry is looking beyond handhelds to the world of connected appliances, cars and other everyday tools. or us
. which beams a 5. 8 GHZ radio frequency that wireless devices convert into DC power, and may debut in early 2016 in devices developed by SK Telesys (a Korean rival of Samsung)
and manufactured by Taiwanese tech giant Foxconn. While Wattup may win the race to market,
as recharging gadgets becomes as simple as walking into a store, office or home f
#This iphone Screen Protector Can Reverse Scratches in a Second The folks who came up with the self-healing iphone case is now back with something a lot more impressive.
and when damaged, the liquid will fill the void so quickly that you probably won't even realize you've just scratched your case or screen protector.
Innerexile's first products to use its new coating is the"Self-repair screen protectors"for the iphone 6s and iphone 6s Plus.
Innerexile's iphone 6s screen protector is available on Amazon for $23. 99 per piece,
and the iphone 6s Plus version costs an extra $2. Both are backward compatible with their iphone 6 counterparts.
If you'd prefer using a case with the same self-healing property, stay tuned for another announcement in Mid-november,
as Innerexile decided to make a new tooling to ensure a perfect fit for the teeny-bit-larger iphone 6s series.
Other brands may claim their iphone 6 cases fit the 6s just fine but a forced squeeze--the caliper never lies--may eventually ruin the phone's anodized coating,
so watch out t
#New Building material Twice as Strong as Concrete, Low Carbon footprint Watershed Materials, a California-based building materials technology startup, has developed technology to produce high-strength masonry with a low carbon footprint
Researchers at Switzerland Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne are also testing a low-carbon cement that could reduce the carbon footprint of construction sites by 40 percent, Forbes reported last year s
and designed to meet stringent groundwater standards at contaminated sites. Regenesis says the substrate reduces harmful chemicals and toxins,
This includes reducing chlorinated solvents at industrial dry cleaning sites as well as petroleum cleanup projects. Plumestop is composed of very fine particles of activated carbon (1-2 m) suspended in water through the use of unique organic polymer dispersion chemistry.
#Using optical fiber to generate a two-micron laser In recent years, two-micron lasers (0. 002 millimetre) have been of growing interest among researchers.
and not yet as mature as their telecom counterparts (1. 55-micron). Moreover sources currently used in labs are typically bulky and expensive.
Optical fibre-based 2 micron lasers are an elegant solution to these issues. This is where researchers at Photonics Systems Laboratory (PHOSL) come in.
by changing the way optical fibres are connected to each other. Thanks to the new configuration, they were able
Then, using a computer-controlled light projector, the team was able to control the speed of the cardiac waves,
In the short term, the ability to provide fine control means that researchers are able to carry out experiments at a level of detail previously only available using computer models.
what one can do in a computer model, except here it was done in real heart cells, in real time.'
With the gadget's unique design as inspiration, researchers now report in ACS Central Science the development of bottlebrush nanotags that can contain thousands of fluorophores,
and they would benefit greatly by taking insulin in a tablet instead. Not only is it easier to take a tablet than inject;
when insulin is absorbed from the small intestine it is released into the body in a more natural way than
One and a half hours app. equals the time that a tablet must be able to withstand the hostile environment of the stomach before natural peristaltics pushes it forward to the intestines.
using a hand-held sequencer no bigger than a cell phone. If DNA is the blueprint of life,
"Plus the fact that the Minion is a hand-held sequencer that you plug into a laptop is simply unbelievably cool
#Massive screen of drug combinations may find treatment for resistant, BRAF-mutant melanoma A team of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators has discovered a new combination of drugs that may be effective against one of the deadliest cancers, malignant melanoma.
The combination-pairing a drug targeted against mutations in the BRAF gene with a second drug that targets another important signaling pathway-was discovered through one of the largest screens of cancer drug combinations conducted to date.
"By conducting such a screen, we found one specific combination of agents that are already being used clinically that potentially could be used for a specific group of patients-those with BRAF-mutant cancers."
Previous efforts to screen potential drug combinations only analyzed use of a few drugs against a limited number of cell lines
"The study was performed using human and mouse tumour cell lines, preclinical mouse models, as well as plasma from cancer patients.
especially the mouse model, will be used by academics to isolate healthy cells modified by tumors, and by the pharmaceutical industry in the quest for novel anticancer drugs that block tumor-organ communication,
The tool they used to help make that difficult decision--3-D printing. Using a specialized MRI of the fetus in the womb
doctors were able to use a 3-D printer to print models of the fetus face,
"This is the first case we are aware of that 3-D printing has helped show how severe an airway risk in a fetus was
The computer designs for the models were created in the lab of Scott Hollister, Ph d, . professor of biomedical engineering and mechanical engineering and associate professor of surgery at U-M. The models were printed by Ann arbor-based Thingsmiths.
of the U-M division of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. 3-D printing has had many medical applications.
to identify the sites in the alpha-B-crystallin that attach to the beta-amyloid. It is the first direct structure analysis of a complete heat shock protein during interaction with a bonding partner,
Until now the quantum dots in such a computer needed to be very close to each other in order to achieve the necessary coupling for performing calculations.
In testing with mouse models of aggressive brain tumors, the technology took out far more cancer cells, inhibited tumor growth better and extended life longer than traditional chemotherapy delivery.
In testing with mouse models of the cancer, models injected with an inducible nitric acid synthase inhibitor had fewer and smaller tumors compared to control models.
and effectiveness in mouse models and evaluate the efficacy on human glioblastoma grafts in the models s
#New graphene based inks for high-speed manufacturing of printed electronics A low-cost, high-speed method for printing graphene inks using a conventional roll-to-roll printing process,
the first time that graphene has been used for printing on a large-scale commercial printing press at high speed.
"Being able to produce conductive inks that could effortlessly be used for printing at a commercial scale at a very high speed will open up all kinds of different applications for graphene and other similar materials.""
which is in line with commercial production rates for graphics printing, and far faster than earlier prototypes.
it could also initiate entirely new business opportunities for commercial graphics printers, who could diversify into the electronics sector."
and the Cambridge area in particular, has always been strong in the printing sector, but mostly for graphics printing and packaging,"said Hasan, a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow and a University Lecturer in the Engineering Department."
"We hope to use this strong local expertise to expand our functional ink platform. In addition to cheaper printable electronics, this technology opens up potential application areas such as smart packaging and disposable sensors,
energy harvesters and RFID tags g
#To infinity and beyond: Light goes infinitely fast with new on-chip material Electrons are so 20th century.
But there's a step needed before optical connections can be integrated into telecommunications systems and computers:
This on/off transition, inherent to vanadium dioxide, is also the basis of computer logic and memory.
"We are starting to realize that the class of materials exhibiting these on/off responses can be beneficial in various ways in information technology,
Future work for Tkaczyk and his colleagues includes developing an automated algorithm for white blood cell identification,
reflectors, and USB detectors, combined with the all-plastic housing and lenses will allow for future versions of the prototype to be mass-produced d
"said senior author Erez Lieberman Aiden, a geneticist and computer scientist with joint appointments at Baylor and Rice."
"Aiden, assistant professor of genetics at Baylor and of computer science and computational and applied mathematics at Rice, said Sanborn
and study co-first author Suhas Rao showed that they could combine the tri-glide model with mathematics
and high-performance computation to predict how a genome will fold. The team confirmed their predictions by making tiny modifications in a cell's genome
whether for an airplane, car, bridge, mobile device, or biological implant, engineers strive to make the material strong
which binds to an amino acid sequence of the prion protein, known as'fifth copper binding site,
opening the way for the development of new drugs targeting this copper binding site, and thus for new potential treatments".
especially in printing highly viscous and sticky biological and polymeric materials where friction and contamination are major obstacles.
which cells are transplanted into the injury site, "says research supervisor Dr James St john, from Griffith's Eskitis Institute for Drug Discovery.
and better integrate into the injury site. In turn, this will help the spinal cord to regenerate more effectively."
Researchers also discovered that the anisotropy of WTE2 varies and displays the magnetoresistance behavior of the Fermi liquid state
Catalysts can split water into its constituent hydrogen and oxygen atoms, a process required for fuel cells.
detailed in Nature Communications, is a significant step toward lower-cost catalysts for energy production, according to the researchers."
We're getting away with very little cobalt to make a catalyst that nearly matches the best platinum catalysts."
Tour said single-atom catalysts have been realized in liquids, but rarely on a surface.""This way we can build electrodes out of it,
He noted platinum-carbon catalysts still boast the lowest onset voltage.""No question, they're the best.
#Single atom alloy platinum-copper catalysts cut costs, boost green technology A new generation of platinum-copper catalysts that require very low concentrations of platinum in the form of individual atoms to cleanly
They synthesized small quantities of realistic catalysts, such as platinum-copper single atom alloy nanoparticles supported on an alumina substrate,
"To our delight, these catalysts worked very well and their performance was steady for many days,
and value-added chemicals from bio-renewable feedstocks, the new, less expensive platinum-copper catalysts could facilitate broader adoption of such environmentally friendly devices and processes,
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.
Together we embarked on a new direction involving single atom alloys as catalysts for selective hydrogenation reactions.
"Sykes and Flytzani-Stephanopoulos have used this approach to design a variety of single atom alloy catalysts that have,
Armed with this knowledge, we are now ready to compare the stability of these single atom alloy catalysts to single atom catalysts supported on various oxide or carbon surfaces.
whose studies have focused on disease mechanisms in mouse neuro-genetic disorders, including disorders of the retina,
Patients received 2 mg/m2 to 2. 5 mg/m2 per day of sirolimus in either liquid or tablet form for six months.
After six months, those who benefited from the drug were allowed to continue treatment with continued follow-up appointments to monitor toxicities.
Several 2013 studies from Hyman's group and others showed the movement of a mutant form of tau between brain structures and resultant neurodegeneration in a mouse model.
when brain sample from that mouse model were applied to cultured neurons, only 1 percent of the tau in those samples was taken up by the neurons.
the first two containing mouse neurons, connected by microgrooves through which axons-the fibers that carry signals from one neuron to another-can extend.
The team found that applying this rare form of tau from the brains of the mouse model to neurons in the first chamber resulted in the protein's being taken up by those neurons and
#Chance effect of lab's fluorescent lights leads to discovery An accidental discovery of a"quantum Etch-a-Sketch"that may lead to the next generation of advanced computers
as they do in computer chips. As a semimetal, graphene naturally has no bandgaps, making it a challenge for widespread industry adoption.
a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Argonne.""We have some very unique capabilities here at the Center for Nanoscale Materials,
Developed by UW-Madison collaborators Zhenqiang"Jack"Ma, professor of electrical and computer engineering and research scientist Jung-Hun Seo, the high-performance phototransistor far and away exceeds all previous flexible phototransistor parameters,
because it explores the world of'matter computers, 'where computations (including walking) are carried out by physical objects, rather than by electronic or magnetic shuttles.
DNA walkers may eventually allow protective cells to walk the surface of organs, constantly computing whether a cancer is present."
Led by Hongrui Jiang, professor of electrical and computer engineering at UW-Madison, the researchers designed lenses no larger than the head of a pin and embedded them within flexible plastic.
Led by Hongrui Jiang, professor of electrical and computer engineering at UW-Madison, the researchers designed lenses no larger than the head of a pin and embedded them within flexible plastic.
#Researchers develop deep-learning method to predict daily activities Researchers from the School of Interactive Computing
and the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines developed a new method that teaches computers to"see
Researchers taught the computer to categorize images across 19 activity classes. The test subject wearing the camera could review
"said Steven Hickson, a Ph d. candidate in Computer science and a lead researcher on the project."
co-author and graduate research assistant in the School of Interactive Computing.""Activity tracking devices like the Fitbit can tell how many steps you take per day,
At a technical level, we are showing that it's becoming possible for computer vision techniques alone to be used for this."
Student Daniel Casto, a Ph d. candidate in Computer science and a lead researcher on the project, helped present the method earlier this month at UBICOMP 2015 in Osaka, Japan.
and Ear/Harvard Medical school and Boston University have prevented successfully the development of Parkinson's disease in a mouse using new techniques to deliver drugs across the naturally impenetrable blood-brain barrier.
an associate professor of the Institute of Laser Engineering at Osaka University, in cooperation with Screen Holdings Co.,Ltd.
#Carnegie mellon researchers hack off-the-shelf 3-D printer towards rebuilding the heart As of this month, over 4,
"Traditional 3-D printers build hard objects typically made of plastic or metal, and they work by depositing material onto a surface layer-by-layer to create the 3-D object.
Printing each layer requires sturdy support from the layers below, so printing with soft materials like gels has been limited."
"3-D printing of various materials has been a common trend in tissue engineering in the last decade,
but until now, no one had developed a method for assembling common tissue engineering gels like collagen or fibrin,"said TJ Hinton,
however, has been able to implement their technique on a range of consumer-level 3-D printers,
000 by utilizing open-source hardware and software.""Not only is the cost low, but by using open-source software,
we have access to fine-tune the print parameters, optimize what we're doing and maximize the quality of
what we're printing, "Feinberg said.""It has enabled really us to accelerate development of new materials
And we are also contributing back by releasing our 3-D printer designs under an open-source license
this bioprinter can finish a 10-centimeter blood vessel within two minutes. he core of the printer is the Biobrick,
It sandwiched between two polymer panels to form an airtight seal. The resin remains liquid as long as that seal remains unbroken.
but as wee all learned from TV and movies, the air inside a spacecraft will be sucked out quickly.
New iphones, ipads, and Apple TVS September 9th September is upon us, and that means a major Apple event is right around the corner.
In recent years, the September and October timeframe has come to signify new iphones, ipads, and new operating systems.
But given the fact that the Apple TV has received so much attention in the rumor mill this year,
we might just see a major announcement for the living room as well. On September 9th, Apple will be hosting an event in San francisco to unveil its latest products.
By and large, the next versions of the iphone are being referred to as the sand s Plus. Given Apple previous use of the ick-tockmodel, that certainly makes sense.
This revision will probably serve as a minor update to the existing hardware without a drastic change in design. 7000 series aluminum seems to be the alloy of choice here potentially the exact same material used in the Apple Watch Sport.
we might be in for a slightly thicker and heavier chassis. After some poking around with the latest Apple software developer Hamza Sood discovered some evidence that force touch is coming to ios devices.
so it a no brainer on the iphone. Unsurprisingly, the cameras will likely be upgraded as well. 9to5mac is reporting that the rear-facing cameras on the next iphones are being upgraded to 12 megapixels,
and they will be capable of recording 4k UHD video. But considering that the low-end model might still only ship with 16gb of flash storage
Wee bound to see an Apple A9 system-on-a-chip with a faster CPU and GPU.
While an Apple patent for wireless earbuds with bone conduction popped up recently on the USPTO website
I wouldn expect those to ship with the new iphone. If Apple does ever sell wireless earbuds like this,
After all, you can already buy $200 Beats wireless headphones from the Apple Store. ipad rumors are flying fast,
if wel see an ipad refresh during the September event. Last year, Apple held a separate event for the ipad Air 2 and ipad Mini 3,
so we may see the same events playout this year. By far, the biggest rumor here has revolved around the introduction of a 12.9-inch ipad Pro.
Not only is this giant ipad slated to sport a 2048×2732 resolution but it will also have a pressure sensitive stylus to boot.
If the rumors are true, this premium device will clearly be targeting the professional market.
Estimates range anywhere from one to five million ipad Pros shipping in this calendar year. However, the Pro might not even begin shipping until the release of ios 9. 1 sometime later this fall.
The rumor mill seems positive that wel see a new Apple TV SET-top box this go around.
Specifically, some outlets seem sure that the new Apple TV will cost $200 or less
and offer a TV service similar to Sony Playstation Vue. Of course, we heard similar rumors ahead of this year WWDC,
but all we got was a price drop on the existing hardware. It been about two
and a half years since the Apple TV has been refreshed, so itl be no surprise if Apple does finally deliver new hardware.
However, it possible that theyl ride out the current model until the 4k market penetration goes up.
As for an actual Apple-branded television, don bet on it. It always a possibility but only for high-end consumers.
so the odds of seeing new hardware are slim. We may see some new bands or colors,
Earlier this year at WWDC, Apple showed off the new versions of both of its major operating systems.
Most notably, rumor has it that ios 9 will offer animated wallpapers similar to the Apple Watch motion faces.
and Privacybadger making their way to the iphone someday. As always, wel be covering this Apple event as it happens,
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