#Google redesigns iconic logo for the fifth time Google Inc unveiled a redesign of its iconic logo on Tuesday,
the company said in a blog post. The revamped logo, displayed as a Google Doodle on its homepage,
spells'Google'in a sans-serif typeface, similar to the one being used by Google's newly created holding company, Alphabet.
bit. ly/1evu49a) The compact version of the logo, used to identify most of its apps,
bids farewell to the little blue"g"icon and replaces it with a uppercase"G"colored in blue, red,
The new brand identity"aims to make Google more accessible and useful to our users,
"the company said in a blog post explaining the logo. bit. ly/1jvgik1) The new logo comes three weeks after the company's surprise move to create a holding company called Alphabet to pool its many subsidiaries
and separate the core web advertising business from newer ventures like driverless cars s
#Nine of world's biggest banks join to form blockchain partnership Nine of the world's biggest banks including Goldman sachs
web-based"crytocurrency"-can be used in finance. Over the past year, interest in blockchain technology has grown rapidly.
and shared by a global network of computers and therefore is virtually tamper-proof. The Bank of england has dedicated a team to it
and whether a tumor is likely to spread to other sites. The findings also open the possibility of new therapies aimed at measuring
1 and FGFR2 binding sites survived the same length of time. The research was funded by the G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Charitable Foundation, the National institute of health (NIH), the RGK Foundation and the Gilder Foundation.
surgeons reroute healthy nerves sitting above the injury site, usually in the shoulders or elbows, to paralyzed nerves in the hand or arm.
"Once 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,
such as answering incoming calls on a smartphone, controlling playback on a music player, or even typing
and nowhere more so than in personal wearable devices such as fitness trackers, smart watches, audio headsets, earphonesyou name it.
another possibility for the technology is self-charging smartphone screens made from transparent lithium-ion batteries.
such as ejector pins for iphones, watch springs for expensive hand-wound watches, trial medical implants,
Last year, scientists used metallic glass to create an iphone case that was 50 times harder than plastic.
we'll see a whole range of these types of innovations hitting the market in the years to come-imagine the back of your iphone being made out of metallic glass instead of just a case.
a 16-year-old from the US, won the 2015 Google Science Fair with her project to develop a fast, cheap,
The winners of the fifth annual Google Science Fair were announced live from Google Headquarters in Mountain view
She takes home US$50, 000 in scholarship funding from Google. The science fair is meant to challenge the next generation of young scientists, inventors,
then these sites would be prime candidates for landing spots on the first manned mission to the planet."
Feldt says staff are asked to stay off social media and other distractions while at work and meetings are kept to a minimum."
About 1 billion of these transistors has been packed onto each silicon chip in your smartphone or computer.
not just for smartphones but for electric cars and solar power, where batteries are essential for storing energy to use
The idea of a lithium-air or lithium-oxygen battery isn't new scientists have known for a while that these types of batteries can hold up to 10 times the charge of today's lithium-ion packs (imagine not having to charge your phone for a whole week.
and smartphones, was reached by using a'fluffy'carbon electrode made from graphene. What's more, by changing the chemical mix from earlier versions of lithium-air batteries,
when they try to seek out relevant medical information on the Internet. Unfortunately, as many of us are aware,
the web is not necessarily a great place to do this kind of research, and now a broad study of anti-vaccination websites helps to explain why.
Researchers from the Johns hopkins university Bloomberg School of Public health analysed close to 500 anti-vaccination websites and found that they deliver a distorted mixture of pseudoscience and misinformation to parents seeking information about vaccines.
According to the researchers, more than two thirds of anti-vaccination websites present nonscientific information and other forms of misinformation as cientific evidenceto support the view that vaccines are dangerous to children,
and nearly one third of sites reinforce the idea through the use of anecdotes and stories.
The researchers used search engines including Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask jeeves to find the sites, using search terms like mmunisation dangersand accine dangerto see where it led them.
The study found that the resulting mix of blogs, personal websites Facebook pages and health sites perpetuate an alarming mixture of misinformation about vaccines
and use a range of persuasive techniques to get the reader on side. Almost two thirds of the sites suggested that vaccines cause autism,
and more than 40 percent claim theye responsible for rain injury The majority present information as scientific when it doesn actually qualify for that distinction.
In addition to condemning vaccines, the sites also promote some positive behaviours, such as healthy eating (recommended by 18.5 percent of anti-vaccination sites),
and the benefits of breastfeeding (5. 5 percent) and eating organic food (5. 2 percent). The study, presented this week at the American Public health Association annual meeting in Chicago,
may help actual scientists such as doctors and health care workers better understand how to reach and communicate with parents who are concerned genuinely about any perceived risks of vaccination
(and who may be exposing themselves to potentially dangerous misinformation on these kinds of sites). he biggest global takeaway is need that we to communicate to the vaccine-hesitant parent in a way that resonates with them
and is sensitive to their concerns, said Meghan Moran, an associate professor in the Bloomberg School department of health, behaviour and society. n our review,
This web of biomolecules that supports and controls gene activity is known as the epigenome. The researchers say having the ability to steer the epigenome will help them explore the roles that particular promoters
so that we can alter the DNA's packaging at that specific site, "said Reddy. Gersbach and Reddy put their artificial epigenetic agent to the test by targeting a few well-studied gene promoters and enhancers.
cheaper and more powerful and durable than lithium-ion batteries common in mobile phones and laptops and increasingly used in hybrid and electric cars.
whether in a communications tower or a mobile phone, is to launch energy into free space in the form of electromagnetic or radio waves,
dielectric resonators are used already as antennas in mobile phones, for example.""In dielectric aerials, the medium has high permittivity,
ubiquitous computing where almost everything in our homes and offices, from toasters to thermostats, is connected to the internet.
"The scientist said the Hur-RNA binding site is like a long, narrow groove, not a well-defined pocket seen in other druggable proteins targeted by many current cancer therapies."
'--or the RNA--at a site called'ARE'on the rope. We aimed to find a small-molecule compound that makes the hand release the rope by competing with ARE of the RNA."
Additional information about the launch is available at https://blogs. nasa. gov/spacex/2015/03/31/spacex-targeting-april-13-for-station-resupply-launch/.
Gordeliys team changed the structure by swapping specific amino acids at the site in question through targeted mutations.
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.
#Researchers test smartphones for earthquake warning The study, led by scientists at the U s. Geological Survey
and published April 10 in the inaugural volume of the new AAAS journal Science Advances, found that the sensors in smartphones
the GPS (Global positioning system) receivers in a smartphone can detect the permanent ground movement (displacement) caused by fault motion in a large earthquake.
Using crowd-sourced observations from participating users'smartphones, earthquakes could be detected and analyzed, and customized earthquake warnings could be transmitted back to users."
The results show that crowd-sourced EEW could be achieved with only a tiny percentage of people in a given area contributing information from their smartphones.
For example, if phones from fewer than 5000 people in a large metropolitan area responded the earthquake could be detected
The authors found that the sensors in smartphones and similar devices could be used to issue earthquake warnings for earthquakes of approximately magnitude 7 or larger,
to test a pilot hybrid earthquake warning system comprising stand-alone smartphone sensors and scientific-grade sensors along the Chilean coast."
"The use of mobile phone fleets as a distributed sensor network--and the statistical insight that many imprecise instruments can contribute to the creation of more precise measurements--has broad applicability including great potential to benefit communities where there isn't an existing
and are enabling new technologies like flexible displays in mobile phone, wearable electronics, and the Internet of things (Iots).
#Smartphone-based device could provide rapid, low-cost molecular tumor diagnosis A device developed by Massachusetts General Hospital investigators may bring rapid,
the researchers describe a smartphone-based device that uses the kind of technology used to make holograms to collect detailed microscopic images for digital analysis of the molecular composition of cells and tissues."
"The device the team has developed--called the D3 (digital diffraction diagnosis) system--features an imaging module with a battery-powered LED light clipped onto a standard smartphone that records high-resolution imaging data with its camera.
"By taking advantage of the increased penetration of mobile phone technology worldwide, the system should allow the prompt triaging of suspicious
and 3) conduct clinical studies in settings such as care-delivery sites in developing countries or rural settings and for home testing with seamless sharing of information with providers and/or clinical investigators."
In a home where telephones, tablets, computers gaming systems, and televisions may all be connected to the internet,
increased bandwidth would eliminate problems like video streaming that stalls and buffers. The receivers are small photodiodes that cost less than a dollar each
or incorporated into the next generation of laptops, tablets, and smartphones. A provisional patent has been secured on the technology,
Then we annealed the layer with an excimer laser a conventional tool used for manufacturing smartphone displays.
Further, these new metamaterials could allow integration of terahertz optoelectronics with high-speed telecommunications. DOE Office of Science, Basic energy Sciences (experiments.
In general, the electrical current which powers our telephones fridges and other electrical equipment is made up of electrons:
The project was awarded recently PRIZE prototype funding from Austria Wirtschaftsservice (AWS. A few more preclinical trials are necessary before the artificial blood vessels can be used in humans.
could allow biomedical engineers to identify appropriate binding sites for drugs used to treat cancer and other diseases.
#A smartphone with ultimate macro feature: DNA-scanning fluorescent microscope If you thought scanning one of those strange,
square QR codes with your phone was advanced somewhat, hold on to your seat. Researchers at the University of California, Los angeles (UCLA) have developed recently a device that can turn any smartphone into a DNA-scanning fluorescent microscope."
"A single DNA molecule, once stretched, is about two nanometers in width, "said Aydogan Ozcan, HHMI Chancellor Professor, UCLA."For perspective,
"Enter Ozcan's smartphone attachment--an external lens, thin-film interference filter, miniature dovetail stage mount for making fine alignments,
Although other smartphone-turned-microscopes can image larger scale objects such as cells, Ozcan's group's latest mobile-phone optical attachment is the first to image and size the slim strand of a single DNA molecule.
and Windows smart application running on the same smart phone. The scanned information is sent then to a remote server in Ozcan's laboratory,
The smartphone microscope demonstrated a significant drop in accuracy for 5, 000 base-pair or shorter segments,
the authors found that NONO localizes at the sites of DNA damage where it favours the loading of other proteins which are key to this process."
user manual and related data can be downloaded from http://www. stjuderesearch. org/site/lab/zhang.
and related tools that can be accessed through Amazon web services. Instead of downloading CONSERTING, scientists can upload data for analysis. Work on CONSERTING began in 2010 shortly after the St jude Children's Research Hospital--Washington University Pediatric Cancer Genome Project was launched.
and allow virtual reality (VR) headsets to be used outdoors. The researchers'new centimeter-accurate GPS coupled with a smartphone camera could be used to quickly build a globally referenced 3-D map of one's surroundings that would greatly expand the radius of a VR game.
Currently, VR does not use GPS, which limits its use to indoors and usually a two-to three-foot radius."Imagine games where,
GRID currently operates outside the phone, but it will eventually run on the phone's internal processor.
To further develop this technology, Humphreys and his students recently co-founded a startup, called Radiosense.
Humphreys and his team are working with Samsung to develop a snap-on accessory that will tell smartphones, tablets and virtual reality headsets their precise position and orientation.
In vivo and in vitro studies confirmed the microparticles stimulated a strong, sustained innate immune response at local sites of tumor activity and growth--with or without any antigen loaded."
"But these vaccines have mostly not been very potent because of inefficient vaccine delivery, a poor immune response at the site of the tumor,
The sensor signal is wirelessly readable, for instance, by a mobile phone. VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd is searching for a partner so as to commercialize the sensor.
and the sensor data can be read wirelessly using an RFID reader in for example, a smartphone.
A similar optical readout based on the colour change of the ethanol sensor was developed also for a smartphone.
#Mobile phone video microscope automates detection of parasites in blood"We previously showed that mobile phones can be used for microscopy,
Next generation Cellscope uses video, automationfor this latest generation of the mobile phone microscope, named Cellscope Loa, the researchers paired a smartphone with a 3d printed plastic base where the sample of blood
With a single touch of the screen by the healthcare worker, the phone communicates wirelessly via Bluetooth to controllers in the base to process
and an algorithm automatically analyzes the telltale"wriggling"motion of the worms in video captured by the phone.
The short processing time allows health workers to quickly determine on site whether it is safe to administer IVM."
"The research offering a phone based app is ingenious, practical and highly needed.""Resh, who is involved not in the Cellscope project,
Using a cell phone to detect and quantify bacteriae. coli and S. aureus are the most common bacterial pathogens that cause food poisoning,
"Electrically stimulating the retina excites all of these cells at the same time, which is very different from how these cells respond to real visual input."
and photonic crystal technology, could lead to brighter and more efficient mobile phone, tablet, and computer displays, as well as enhanced LED lighting.
"Since screens consume large amounts of energy in devices like laptops, phones, and tablets, our approach could have a huge impact on energy consumption and battery life,
"If you put the photonic crystal-enhanced quantum dot into a device like a phone or computer,
"One prototype based on this model synchronizes a laser projector with a common rolling-shutter camera-the type of camera used in most smartphones
It also could be incorporated readily into smartphones. The researchers will present their findings today at SIGGRAPH 2015, the International Conference on Computer graphics and Interactive Techniques,
"They can just email me,"said Wilson, "and we'll send them the assay, and then they can do it in their own lab
"This is a remarkable evolutionary solution for'social networking'in large colonies, "Ray explained.""A more volatile body odor cue would be confusing to associate with an individual
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
This mechanism may act as a firewall, shutting down the immune response before it gets out of hand. However, from a clinical standpoint, this discovery could lead to more effective cancer immunotherapies,
Loyola is the only site in Illinois participating in a clinical trial in which the device is being implanted in lower-risk patients.
SURTAVI is being conducted in 76 sites in eight countries for patients who do not qualify for the transcatheter valves commercially.
We have demonstrated for the first time experimentally that liquid droplets can be highly mobile when in the Wenzel state."
Our idea is to solve these problems by enabling Wenzel state droplets to be said mobile
In order to make Wenzel state droplets mobile, the researchers etched micrometer scale pillars into a silicon surface using photolithography and deep reactive-ion etching,
Starting with a pool of around 10 billion unique monobodies, they used directed evolution techniques to identify a group of monobodies that bound near the active site of beta-galactosidase.
The monobody partially blocks the active site of the enzyme and prevents it from accepting large sugars as a substrate--thereby forcing it to produce only short sugar chains."
shift work, jet lag and even the blue-tinged light emitted by cell phones and tablets. Typically, sleep researchers have a hard time studying sleep deprivation and the circadian cycle separately,
#New technology transforms cell phone into high-powered microscope New technology that transforms a cell phone into a powerful,
and feel to a protective phone case, makes use of a smart phone's camera features to produce high-resolution images of objects 10 times smaller than the thickness of a human hair,
says Gerard Coté, professor of biomedical engineering and director of the Texas A&m Engineering Experiment Station's Center for Remote Health Technologies and Systems.
Coté's development of the instrument, known as a mobile-optical-polarization imaging device (MOPID), is detailed in the online scientific journal Scientific Reports,
when observed through the phone's camera lens--enabling an instant, accurate diagnosis. While polarized light has been preferred the option for malaria detection due to its increased sensitivity,
"What we've achieved with MOPID is the design of a polarized microscope platform using a cell phone,
Coté's solution takes advantage of existing mobile phone technology and networks--something to which a whopping 75 percent of the world has access.
This ever-increasing access to mobile networks and the fact that most mobile phones are equipped with advanced camera features make mobile phones the ideal platform for advanced imaging applications such as MOPID,
web-based program automatically processes sequence data, maps the sequences to a reference genome, and creates CNV profiles for every cell that can then be viewed with a user friendly graphical interface.
and deploy it on site.""The researchers use a particular origami technique called Miura-ori folding.
or for a fiber optic line to carry thousands of phone calls at the same time.""Any terahertz communications application is going to need some form of multiplexing
and function correctly at the site of injury to be useful for clinical regenerative therapies.
Sun powered cell phone chargers woven into the fabric of backpacks. A new generation of organic semiconductors may allow these kinds of flexible electronics to be manufactured at low cost,
To read more about the study entitled"3d printed Anatomical Nerve Regeneration Pathways,"visit the Advanced Functional Materials website e
First, the user downloads and executes the mobile banking application which communicates with the bank server.
During the experiments, they used a bank application, cell phone application, and magnetic credit card chip.
which are preferred also sites for large solar arrays. They believe they can scale things up so commercial and industrial applications are feasible
Arraythe lead author, Hiroki Takesue, was a NIST guest researcher from NTT Corp. in Japan.
The new NTT/NIST teleportation technique could be used to make devices called quantum repeaters that could resend data periodically
perhaps enough to eventually build a"quantum internet.""Previously, researchers thought quantum repeaters might need to rely on atoms or other matter, instead of light,
the NTT/NIST experiment used quantum states that indicate when in a sequence of time slots a single photon arrives.
The experiments were performed at wavelengths commonly used in telecommunications. Because the experiment filtered out and focused on a limited combination of quantum states
-and-answer experiment Researchers used a brain-to-brain interface they developed to allow pairs of participants to play a'20 question'style game by transmitting signals from one brain to another over the Internet.
A"no"or"yes"answer both send a signal to the inquirer via the Internet
In the 2013 experiment, the UW team used noninvasive technology to send a person's brain signals over the Internet to control the hand motions of another person.
"Many technological advancements over the past century, from the telegraph to the Internet, were created to facilitate communication between people.
Cpf1 cuts far away from the recognition site, meaning that even if the targeted gene becomes mutated at the cut site,
it can likely still be re-cut, allowing multiple opportunities for correct editing to occur.
the Cpf1 system provides new flexibility in choosing target sites. Like Cas9, the Cpf1 complex must first attach to a short sequence known as a PAM,
As with earlier Cas9 tools, these groups will make this technology freely available for academic research via the Zhang lab's page on the plasmid-sharing-website Addgene
The Zhang lab also offers free online tools and resources for researchers through its website, http://www. genome-engineering. org.
"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,
Tumor tracer A diagnostic method for determining the primary site of the cancer. The method combines genetics and computer science,
But there's a step needed before optical connections can be integrated into telecommunications systems and computers:
The Web-based program allows researchers to cut and paste gene sequences and highlight areas of interest to generate probe designs.
IBS Director of the Center for Genome Engineering Jin-Soo Kim explains that"the targeted sites contained germline-transmissible small insertions
resulting in site-specific DNA double-strand breaks (DSBS). When the cell repairs the DSB,
current uses of these sensors allows access to mobile phones, computers and even gym facilities,"said Egidijus Auksorius, postdoctoral researcher, The Langevin Institute.
has already been used successfully by Dr Reis in a separate study that detected prostate cancer with the help of a smartphone camera.
#Detecting diabetes in a saliva sample with a smart phone With the participation of Mexican and international experts,
it is a cartridge adaptable to the mobile phone that will record whether a compound is present in saliva,
and it had to emit fluorescent light so a cell phone camera could records it, "explains Rite Palomares.
also, they developed a micro device that can be integrated into a cell phone and where one can place a saliva sample showing the results through a software.
The director of FEMSA Biotechnology Center mentions that he considered using the camera phone to detect the marker in saliva,
and would take 100 hours to transfer with a good Internet connection, "said Heemskerk.""That makes it challenging to extract the information we want from the data."
Banfield wrote in an email. Of course, no sooner do we think wee seen everything than we come up with a new way to see.
such as a free mobile app where users help find data patterns in cancer research by playing games.
#Sharp batshit crazy new smartphone isa robot PHOTOS If you ever thought the good olphablet was a bit cumbersome
Earlier today, Japanese electronics maker Sharp revealed a humanoid robot-shaped smartphone that I promise won fit in your skinny jeans. It hard to say if it more phone or robot,
but Robohon (yes, an amalgamation of robot and phone) attracted a whole lot of attention at this afternoon press-only preview event at the annual CEATEC convention just outside Tokyo.
The 19.5-centimeter (7. 7-inch 390 gram (0. 9-pound) Robohon sports a 2-inch touchscreen, a quad-core CPU,
and can connect to 3g, LTE, and wifi networks but who cares! It a freakinrobot that makes phone calls, shoots pictures and videos,
and sends emails! A Sharp spokesperson tells Tech in Asia that the robot has an original operating system that not based on Android (the company consumer smartphones have traditionally been powered by Google OS.
Robohon can sit, stand, walk, dance it can even beam a movie or slideshow on your wall with its built-in projector.
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