which causes the Earth auroral displays the planet magnetic field interacting with the solar wind. hat we see on this object appears to be the same phenomenon wee seen on Jupiter, for example,
The variation in this return signal over time is interpreted by a computer to which the reader is wired,
#Animal-eye view of the world revealed with new visual software New camera technology that reveals the world through the eyes of animals has been developed by University of Exeter researchers.
The software, which converts digital photos to animal vision, can be used to analyse colours and patterns and is particularly useful for the study of animal
The software has already been used by the Sensory Ecology group in a wide range of studies,
iewing the world through the eyes of another animal has now become much easier thanks to our new software. igital cameras are powerful tools for measuring colours
Our software allows us to calibrate images and convert them to animal vision, so that we can measure how the scene might look to humans
and nonhumans alike. e hope that other scientists will use this open access software to help with their digital image analysis. ntil now,
there has been no user friendly software programme that enables researchers to calibrate their images, incorporate multiple layers visible and UV channels-,convert to animal colour spaces,
This freely available open source software now offers a user friendly solution. Colour vision varies substantially across the animal kingdom,
one photograph taken through a visible-pass filter can be combined by the software with a second taken through an ultraviolet-pass filter.
The software can then generate functions to show the image through an animal eyes. The researchers have provided specific data on camera settings for commonly studied animals, such as humans, blue tits, peafowl, honey bees, ferrets and some fish.
reptiles and insects in their colourful sexual displays to attract mates. Source: University of Exete i
and using these to repair their damaged peripheral nerves but this approach has several disadvantages
Their collaborative research aims to break new ground in what computer scientist Jerry Zhu calls achine teachinga twist on the more familiar concept of machine learning. y hope is that machine teaching has an impact on the educational world.
which experts develop mathematical tools to help computers learn from data and detect patterns. The machine learner (the computer) is like a student The goal of machine learning is to develop models that will prove useful in the future
when dealing with large, often unwieldly data sets. Practical tasks like speech recognition are aided by machine learning. Machine teaching turns this concept on its ear.
The finding, in both mouse and human cells, suggests that manipulating a natural process could someday be an alternative way to not just reduce the severity of the flu,
In a series of experiments in mouse and human lung cells, Yount and colleagues showed that inhibiting NEDD4 from doing this job led to an accumulation of IFITM3 in the cells
rather than just relying on traditional chemical screens, says Hubbard, an assistant professor of pharmacology in the University of Alberta Faculty of medicine & Dentistry. ee moving towards a very logical type of treatment for genetic diseases,
Much like how a computer programmer edits computer code, scientists could one day replace a person broken
While most of the work described in the study was done in mouse models, the researchers also found similar cells in human livers.
Karin team examined three different mouse models of liver cancer. They found no signs of hybrid hepatocytes in any of the tumors,
The authors show that human irisin is similar to the mouse hormone and that it circulates in the range previously reported.
without relying on computer simulation or human intervention. Researchers led by the University of Cambridge have built a mother robot that can independently build its own children and test
Without any human intervention or computer simulation beyond the initial command to build a robot capable of movement,
Most work in this field is done using computer simulation. Although computer simulations allow researchers to test thousands or even millions of possible solutions,
this often results in a eality gapa mismatch between simulated and real-world behaviour. While using a computer simulation to study artificial evolution generates thousands,
or even millions, of possibilities in a short amount of time, the researchers found that having the robot generate its own possibilities,
without any computer simulation, resulted in more successful children. The disadvantage is that it takes time:
According to Iida, in future they might use a computer simulation to pre-select the most promising candidates,
Data from the scans were used to program a 3-D printer that laid down synthetic resins layer by layer.
and extrapolating from images on the computer to the patient, turning over a 3-D model in your hand is said transformative,
-D printing has become a regular part of our process, says Smith. t also a tool that allows us to educate our junior colleagues and trainees in a way that safe,
and tapping on our keyboards release energy that largely dissipates, unused. Several years ago, scientists figured out how to capture some of that energy
and expensive mouse avatars that are created by injecting human tumor cells into mice. his is really the first time that it been demonstrated that you can use a rapid methodology like this to spatially define cancer cells and macrophages,
What sets the team model apart from mouse avatars and hard plastic plates is that it can replicate much more accurately the sizes and shapes of the microenvironment within the patient problem area.
The technique uses a computer to acquire and process the neuronal response to the optical stimulus in real-time
Applications of these devices include advanced microscopes, displays, sensors, and cameras that can be mass-produced using the same techniques used to manufacture computer microchips. hese flat lenses will help us to make more compact and robust imaging assemblies,
said Mahmood Bagheri, a microdevices engineer at JPL and co-author of a new Nature Nanotechnology study describing the devices. urrently,
Manipulating the polarization of light is essential for the operation of advanced microscopes, cameras and displays;
#DNA-Guided 3-D Printing of Human Tissue Is unveiled A UCSF-led team has developed a technique to build tiny models of human tissues, called organoids,
#Mouth Guard Monitors Health Markers, Transmits Information Wirelessly to Smart Phone Engineers at the University of California,
San diego, have developed a mouth guard that can monitor health markers, such as lactate, cortisol and uric acid,
in saliva and transmit the information wirelessly to a smart phone, laptop or tablet. The technology,
researchers showed that the mouth guard sensor could offer an easy and reliable way to monitor uric acid levels.
In the past, the patient would have needed blood draws to monitor levels and relied instead on symptoms to start
Fabrication and design Wang team created a screen-printed sensor using silver, Prussian blue ink and uricase,
and then wirelessly transmits data to a smart phone, tablet or laptop. The entire electronic board occupies an area slightly larger than a U s. penny.
including temporary tattoos that monitor glucose, ultra-miniaturized energy-processing chips and pens filled with high-tech inks for Do it yourself chemical sensors.
Revealed by a brand new lectron camera, one of the world speediest, this unprecedented level of detail could guide researchers in the development of efficient solar cells, fast and flexible electronics and high-performance chemical catalysts.
Understanding these dynamic ripples could provide crucial clues for the development of next-generation solar cells, electronics and catalysts.
Thin films of Mos2 are also under study as possible catalysts that facilitate chemical reactions. In addition
Computers are used often as a metaphor for the brain with logic boards and microprocessors representing neural circuits and neurons, respectively.
and in a way not achieved by computers. Researchers from the MRC CDN, led by Professor Oscar Marín,
from a genetic mouse model of Alzheimer disease. Then scientists put new technology to its practical application.
The computational elements in Safepay consist of a mobile device and a server which distributes disposable credit card numbers.
The physical entity is the magnetic credit card chip controlled by a mobile application inside a customer mobile device.
The paper outlines the overall architecture and server-side deployment model the design of Safepay, prototype implementation and security analysis. Here how it works:
which communicates with the bank server. During transactions, the mobile application acquires disposable credit card numbers from the bank server,
generates a wave file, plays the file to generate electrical current, and then drives the magnetic card chip via an audio jack or Bluetooth.
and visualization software and used it on a laptop computer to leverage an emerging DNA-sequencing technology known as nanopore sequencing. his point-of-care genomic technology will be particularly attractive in the developing world,
and computational server capacity, are limited often severely, said Chiu. Nanopore technology, currently under development by many private enterprises, distinguishes individual nucleic acids by the distinctive perturbations they create in electric currents as they pass through microscopic pores.
The USB-powered sequencer used by Chiu research team, dubbed Minion, was made by Oxford Nanopore technologies
#Raising Computers to Be Good Scientists Making sense of the new scientific data published every year including well over a million cancer-related journal articles is a tall order for the contemporary scientist.
Reading and Assembling Contextual and Holistic Mechanisms From Textwill create a computer system that reads papers, extracts information on biochemical pathways,
REACH researchers are laying the foundation for interactive software that would allow drug developers, or maybe even doctors, to provide lots of information,
In turn, it could model how a specific treatment would interact with the patient. heyl be the Microsofts and Googles of biomedicine,
trained a computer system to read papers using hundreds of algorithms. One, for example, allows it to understand that ouse,
think that collaborative computers are going to be like children, and wel have to raise them, in a way.
by teaching it to differentiate between species (a yeast cell is different from a mouse).
much as a scientist or a doctor might. would like to see this usher in computers understanding complex things at a level that we just can,
#Ground-breaking computer program diagnoses cancer in two days In the vast majority of cancer cases, the doctor can quickly identify the source of the disease, for example cancer of the liver, lungs, etc.
and created a new diagnostic technology based on advanced self learning computer algorithms whichn the basis of a biopsy from a metastasisan with 85 per cent certainty identify the source of the disease
The pattern of mutations is analysed in a computer program which has been trained to find possible primary tumour localizations.
#Scientists test new gene therapy for vision loss from a mitochondrial disease NIH-funded study shows success in targeting MITOCHONDRIAL DNA in mice Researchers funded by the National institutes of health have developed a novel mouse model for the vision disorder
Their success in creating a mouse model of LHON and using it to test an investigational gene therapy is described today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
This modified virus has been the key to creating a mouse that replicates LHON and to an investigational gene therapy for LHON that is currently in clinical trials.
To create a mouse model for LHON, the researchers loaded the virus with a defective copy of the ND4 gene carrying the same mutation that causes about 70 percent of LHON cases.
Then they injected the virus into fertilized mouse egg cells, and grew the cells to maturity.
the researchers had their mouse model. The presence of the virally encoded ND4 mutation in the eye was confirmed by essentially doing an eye exam to look for the red fluorescent marker.
Prior to development of the new mouse model Dr. Guy lab had shown that they could produce temporary signs of LHON in mice.
The mouse research is helping inform an ongoing NEI-supported clinical trial, which is led by Dr. Guy
#Scientists grow organic semiconductor crystals vertically for first time Our smartphones, tablets, computers and biosensors all have improved because of the rapidly increasing efficiency of semiconductors.
Since the turn of the 21st century, organic, or carbon-based, semiconductors have emerged as a major area of interest for scientists
flat panels that can only absorb light from one surface. The study, led by Richard Kaner,
the fully optical bright-field (real) view and the computer-processed projection of NIR fluorescence.
Real-time overlay of bright-field and near-infrared fluorescence imagesdescribes their prototype of an augmented stereomicroscope that presents a simultaneous view of real objects in the surgical field and computer-processed images
what they see is a report of the signals depicted in false color on a monitor.
and represent it on a computer screen. In this article, Inserm researchers, using MRI, have succeeded in detecting natural shear waves in the brain using computational techniques borrowed from seismologists
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.
and be ready to take the advantage of the existing manufacturing processes of carbon anode materials. lectrical energy storage in batteries is essential not only for consumer products such as cell phones and computers,
#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.
who developed the method. eing 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
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. he UK,
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. e hope to use this strong local expertise to expand our functional ink platform.
Now University of Pennsylvania researchers have shown at the molecular level how experiencing stress changes a male mouse sperm in such a way that it affects his offspring response to stress.
me that seemingly mild stress to a male mouse would trigger this massive change in microrna response
To find out, the team microinjected the nine mirs into mouse zygotes, which were implanted then into normal female mice who carried them as surrogates.
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. recise control of the direction,
A supercomputer for the ong tailof science The San diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San diego this week formally launched omet,
a new petascale supercomputer designed to transform scientific research by expanding computational access among a larger number of researchers
said Jim Kurose, assistant director of the National Science Foundation for Computer and Information science and Engineering (CISE),
The result of an NSF award valued at roughly $24 million, including hardware and operating funds,
Comet joins SDSC Gordon supercomputer as another key resource within the NSF XSEDE (extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment) computer resource-sharing system
In his remarks, Kurose noted that cyberinfrastructureefined as a dynamic ecosystem consisting of advanced computing systems, data, software and, most importantly, people,
as one of NSF original supercomputer centers, Kurose said. t has been a leader of the data science revolution as well.
and biophysicsut among domains which are relatively new to supercomputers, such as genomics, finance and the social sciences.
Supercomputers can greatly accelerate timescales for researching the origins of the universe. Neurosciences, Brain Research:
Supercomputers can create highly detailed simulations to track ocean currents or improve industry methods related to the discharge of pollutants
Supercomputer-generated simulations are used to inform decision-making strategies. The Tree of Life: Biologists construct phylogenetic trees to capture the evolutionary relationship between species,
2 petaflops of overall peak performancene million billion operations or calculations per second. Dell compute nodes using next-generation Intel Xeon processors,
27 racks of compute nodes totaling 1, 944 nodes or 46,656 cores. 128 gigabytes of dynamic RAM and 320 GB of flash memory per standard compute node. 72 nodes per rack with full bisection Infiniband
FDR interconnect in each rack, and a 4: 1 bisection cross-rack interconnect. Additional GPU and large-memory (1. 5 Terabytes) nodes for applications such as visualization, molecular dynamics simulations,
or de novo genome assembly. 7 petabytes of Lustre-based high-performance storage from Aeon, and 6 petabytes of durable storage for data reliability.
Zhang, lead authors Lucia Wu and J. Sherry Wang and their colleagues have written software to help researchers design their own probes.
which in effect means a more positive outlook for patients. The important next step is for regulators to enable the use of ocrelizumab across the spectrum of PPMS and RMS,
#A New Type of Memristors for Less Rigid Computing Two IT giants, Intel and HP, have entered a race to produce a commercial version of memristors (the fourth basic component of electronic circuits alongside resistors,
used in USB drives, SD cards and SSD hard drives. asically, memristors require less energy since they work at lower voltages,
Using computer-generated light patterns, researchers were able to control the direction of spiralling electrical waves in heart cells.
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. recise control of the direction,
this indicates that the mouse is developing chronic epileptic seizures, says the molecular biologist Prof. Dr. Susanne Schoch from the department of Neuropathology at the University of Bonn.
mouse models were used in this research. Team of scientists took mouse hematopoetic progenitor cellsells that give rise to white blood cells.
and an elaborate computer analysis to identify the actual mutations in INTERGENIC DNA near the PDRM13 gene. ndividuals with this disease have normal eyes except that they fail to form maculas,
#New company to produce water-disinfecting tablets invented at UVA A new University of Virginia-inspired public benefit company with a global health mission,
The Madidrop tablet which will cost between $5 and $10, can provide clean water for up to six months.
The technology transfer company will produce ceramic water disinfection tablets called adidropsfor people in developing countries who have poor access to clean drinking water.
The Madidrop tablet, which uses silver to disinfect water, was developed and extensively tested by UVA scientists and students.
a research scientist in Smith lab, demonstrate use of the Madidrop tablet. UVA maintains ownership of intellectual property rights for Madidrop
000 to 200,000 Madidrop tablets in its first year, for sale primarily to nongovernmental aid organizations such as the U s. Agency for International Development, the International Rescue Committee, Catholic Relief Services
Those entities then would distribute the tablets to developing countries as needed, particularly during times of crises such as after a natural disaster.
The tablets also would be available in the United states. Madidrop PBC expects to eventually build capacity to produce 1 million to 2 million Madidrops per year.
Smith expects Madidrop tablets to cost less than $10 each, and possibly as low as $5 each.
With an effective use life of about six months per tablet, this is significantly cheaper than single-use chemical water purifying tablets,
Madidrop tablets are inexpensive to produce, are durable, reusable and easy to package, transport and ship.
Unlike small chemical tablets that dissolve in water and leave a chlorine aftertaste, Madidrop is made of a continuously reusable ceramic that is simply placed in a water vessel,
Silver ions are released gradually from the tablet, killing pathogens by penetrating cell membranes and disrupting cell division.
Extensive testing at UVA labs show that the tablet causes better than a 99.99 percent reduction in such infectious waterborne bacteria as Vibrio cholera
because it explores the world of atter computers, where computations (including walking) are carried out by physical objects, rather than by electronic or magnetic shuttles.
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,
Googleomprising the search engine, ad business, Youtube, and Android mobile softwares now just one of many subsidiaries of a conglomerate called Alphabet.
The CEO of the new Google is Sundar Pichai an executive who was most recently in charge of Google main products
and previously led work on the Chrome browser and operating system and Android. Alphabet other subsidiariest not clear just how many will bere a grab bag of attempts to shake up the world using new technologies.
and is trying to reinvent the face-worn computer Google glass. Larry page (as of today Alphabet CEO;
. the investment fund of Microsoft cofounder Paul Allenas solved the long-enough problem. Making the plasma hot enough is the next key challenge.
In the longer term, the company hopes to deliver further capacity boosts by making its technology compact enough to fit inside mobile devices.
For this reason, the radios in our phones and computers either use separate channels to send
Kumu founders developed hardware and software that enables a radio receiver to filter out interference from outgoing signals.
a consortium that is developing brain-computer interfaces and includes the Case Western team. ut the fact that they got a person to control their own body,
Volunteers in brain-implant studies have moved previously computer cursors and controlled robotic arms. Last year, a different Ohio man with partial arm paralysis received a brain implant
and connect to computers that interpret the signals. To complete the bridge of the man spinal cord injury,
According to Kirsch, the volunteer is able to very accurately control a computer simulation of his wired-up arm using his brain signals.
Efforts to combine brain-computer interfaces with FES systems began 20 years ago. In a 1998 experiment, also at Case Western, a volunteer named Jim Jatich used signals collected from an EEG cap he wore over his head to trigger an early FES device known as Freehand,
Mahaffey and his partner in crime (for good) were able to perform any action possible from the car's touchscreen or Tesla's accompanying smartphone app.
and this interference pattern is used for writing/printing holograms. The technique requires far fewer optical components,
#This software sees if your brain is busy before interrupting There's a modern-day malady that everyone suffers from-getting distracted by phone notifications in the middle of something important and struggling to regain focus again.
But now computer scientists have developed software that automatically screens out low-priority emails or texts. It's called Phylter,
but until recently, computers lacked the same ability. That's changing, thanks to engineers at Duke university, who are developing a microphone with the same ability to zone out background noise.
and game consoles while also reducing the complexity of the system
#The iphone 6s release date has leaked, but no points for guessing it Apple is set to launch two new phones at the start of September in the form of the iphone 6s and iphone 6s Plus,
At the moment rumours of the iphone 6s suggest the design will stay the same with big changes coming in the form of the A9 processor
and Force Touch being adapted for the new phone's display y
#Algae inspiration could boost your phone's battery Materials engineers trying to work out a way of boosting the performance of lithium-ion batteries have hit upon an unlikely inspiration-algae from a local pond.
Adobe crunched the numbers and reported that on Black Friday in the US last year consumers spent a record-breaking $2. 4 billion-up an extraordinary 24%on the previous year.
while GAME's website was selling PS4 and Xbox One consoles to British gamers at a rate of 3, 600 per hour.
According to IBM, Black Friday sales were 63.5%higher than Thanksgiving day sales -but last year they were 70%.
and consoles had a negative effect on its bottom line. In the US, IBM reported that while overall sales were up,
the average order value was down across both Black Friday and Thanksgiving. That might explain why John Lewis boss Andy Street has poured cold water on the idea of Black Friday,
One of the hottest products on Black Friday last year was the ipad mini and that will likely be the case again in 2015.
In the UK the ipad mini was going for under £150 practically everywhere. It's worth retailers offering us these headline products with big discounts
If you fancy buying your kids a console this Christmas, wait until November 27. We saw many amazing deals on TVS last year
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