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In 2004, researchers noticed an infant marmoset travelling with a group of capuchin monkeys at the Green Wing Valley wildlife reserve in Brazil.

It travelled and fed with the group, responded to alarm vocalisations given by members of the group,

Capuchins travel by leaping from tree to tree. Given its size, the marmoset often struggled to keep up.

Astronaut food: Can you cook fries in space? If humans ever voyage to a planet far bigger than Earth,

but the gastronomic preferences of future astronauts are the genuine motivation for experiments conducted by chemists John Lioumbas and Thodoris Karapantsios of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece.

That's why their work is supported by the European space agency. Preparing food in space presents unique challenges.

And if you wanted to cook with a naked flame oe perhaps unlikely inside a space station oe the shape of the flame would be compact and round,

Still, astronauts sometimes lament the drabness of their pre-prepared space meals, and have expressed even cravings for fries.

(or want to brave the free-falling Vomit Comet aircraft used by space agencies, which is enough to put anyone off their fries),

Imagine travelling among the cities of the mid-21st Century and finding a unique set of urban landscapes that capture local beauty

 Even the green cities of the future will contain extensive areas of buildings, roads, railways,

and formerly impervious surfaces like car parks. But built environments will still be ever-present in dense megacities.

That's where their wing sacs come in. The sacs, found on the inside of the wing, are 8-10mm in length,

which is given large the animal's size. Despite the presence of what researchers call odiferous content oe smelly stuff, basically oe within the wing sac,

there isn't a scent gland inside. Instead of excreting directly into the sac males transfer fluids from other parts of their body into them.

Thus wing sacs could also be called holding sacs or perfume containers, says Christian Voigt, of the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Berlin.

and then transferring it by licking the interior of their wing-sacs. They then bend forward as before,

before transferring the mixture to their wing sacs. This continues until both sacs have a sufficient amount of bat perfume.

and flaps his wings horizontally to blow the air scented with his perfume over her.

and refilling his wing sacs strongly suggests that perfume oe and smells, more generally oe plays a fundamental role in the social communication of this species. It also means that bat noses,

British designer Phil Pauley has developed a concept for a sea habitat comprising interconnected spherical modules that could submerge during storms

It feeds agriculture and energy production, drives industrial processes and transportation systems, and nourishes the ecosystems that we depend upon.

Nasa recently admitted that as part of a programme"to turn science fiction into fact  they are funding work to develop a 3d food printer.

So if we do ever send astronauts to Mars they might be tucking into freshly printed pizza.

Why wet dogs are a Mars rover's best frienda Golden Labrador shaking itself dry may sound like a mundane topic for a film.

but may also help design future Mars rovers. The idea for the film came about

He hopes that it could become the basis of self-cleaning robot oe a potentially useful design for Mars rovers

So, perhaps in the not too distant future, Mars rovers will shake their circuits in a similar way to a dog emerging from a pond.

Unhappy truckers and other algorithmic problems Tom Vanderbilt Nautilus 19 july 2013 On the"travelling salesman  problem.

How about transport companies, who are doing it for real? What's their solution? It's mostly trial and error.

And keeping drivers happy. Faith and works at Apple Edward Mendelson New york Review Of Books 17 july 2013 Deeply strange.

A couple of damp tourists pick at the goods, waiting for the rain to stop. It doesn't look like

I'd assumed the flights would be fairly straightforward, with a well-established air miles system in place for most major airlines.

Airlines have coalesced into groups, each offering their own loyalty system. I have my heart set on flying to Bangkok with KLM

because Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport offers the best stopover experience, with free wi-fi, plentiful soft furnishings and a library.

But the Dutch airline is partnered to the Flying Blue group. So instead of KLM, I'd have to stump up nearly double the price for a direct flight with British airways,

or travel with one of the other members of Oneworld Alliance, such as Cathay pacific, which flies via Hong kong at three times the price of a KLM ticket.

My cash card jeers at me from my pocket. Three-nil to sterling. I also need to renew my passport.

It's a surprise to discover that Her Majesty's Passport Office is only too happy to comply with my unusual restrictions.

HMPO accepts postal orders a curious little throwback to the 18th century that has experienced lately a resurgence in popularity.

Postal orders enable money to be sent securely between individuals without drawing on a personal bank account, like a cheque would.

The worst video game ever madedesert Bus Simon Parkin New yorker 9 july 2013 Magicians Penn and Teller set out in 1995 to create the worst video game ever.

making a Desert Bus high score perhaps the most costly in gaming. Â But it's found a semi-ironic second life as a fund-raising instrument for charities.

Government builds free cloud-based backup for ungrateful nation Totient Medium 8 july 2013"The cloud backup program, called Prism, safely stores all American's phone

and because so many of us travel internationally oe and so much faster oe there's a greater opportunity for pathogens to spread.

 Similarly, new clothing by Amsterdam couture designer Iris Van Herpen elevates beyond the surface of the body

In Singapore, for example, the Marina Bay Sands hotel features a skypark on the 56th floor, with trees,

A disused raised railway in New york city has become a popular park, self-styled"guerilla gardeners  are planting flowers and trees in plots among the tarmac and traffic of London's highways,

Joel Weinstock, now chief of the division of gastroenterology/hepatology at Tufts Medical center in Boston, struck upon the idea during a six-hour delay on the runway at Chicago's O'hare airport."

"While on the plane, I decided to play a game and pretend that it's caused by the loss of something rather than the addition of something.

either travelling to Mexico or receiving mail-order worms from Lawrence. Smith was diagnosed with Crohn's disease in 1996,

Back in Wisconsin, Turk, who has no desire to travel to Mexico or England to attain illicit worms,

 In a nutshell, the problem is many of Africa's rural farmers can't get their produce to the markets in time, because of bad roads, lack of communication,

six lions lay dead in the dim headlights of an old land cruiser. Just hours earlier, dozens of Maasai men had descended upon them with sharpened spears in a fit of anger and frustration."

The area lies on the edge of popular tourist destination Nairobi National park, a beautiful game park just 7 kilometres (4. 6 miles) from Nairobi's City Centre,

and a motorcycle turning light indicator box. By rigging the LED bulbs to the motorcycle indicator box, powered by the battery and solar panel,

Richard was able to give the lights their distinctive flashing effect. According to Dr Charles Musyoki, a senior scientist in carnivore issues for Kenya Wildlife Service, the flickering lights is applied an ingenious design intervention that introduces a"serious risk consideration  for the lions.

and, borrowing the wires and motorcycle indicator box, finally struck success."The first time it worked,

near Amboseli, a game park in southwestern Kenya, the Kenya Wildlife Service has collared  several lions with tracking devices that send text messages to cell phones of rangers

and satellite signals, allowing rangers to track them via Google earth. In Central Kenya's Ol Pejeta Conservancy

owners plan to start test-flying a $75, 000 drone to live-stream information on the rhinos to rangers on the ground.

I was dining at the Algonquin Hotel in Midtown Manhattan. My companions were architects, engineers and designers.

and get a"21st Century Limited  oe a glamorous sleeping car express complete with cocktail bar, gourmet restaurant,

every digital convenience and a late night party guaranteed on every trip-onto the rails between Grand Central and Chicago's Lasalle Street stations.

Sure, trains had a future, but steam? Yes. Announced last year, the Minneapolis-based Coalition for Sustainable Rail CSR Project 130 is an attempt by international railway locomotive engineers

and two environmental research departments at the University of Minnesota to shape a 130mph"carbon neutral  steam locomotive.

This redesign of the steam engine will run on sustainably produced US timber, its exhaust will be very nearly as clean as that of a domestic kettle

too, might create if not a radically improved steam locomotive, then a better vacuum cleaner, mobile phone, electric plug or car.

irons, Instamatic cameras and the distinctive nose cone of the Intercity 125 High Speed Train for more than 50 years.

In the mid-90s, he was asked to design a new London taxi. Produced from 1997 to 2002,

because"cabbies  and"fares  alike expect a London taxi to be a very particular type of vehicle:

Carbodies, the company behind traditional black cabs, had ideas in mind for a great leap forward in taxi design,

Fascinating reworkingwhile it is easy to imagine radical designers like Flaminio Bertoni-the stylist behind the sensational 1950s Citroen DS oe or Philippe Starck with his famous Juicy Salif lemon

Designed by Ralph Hooper and John Fozard of Hawker Aircraft, this highly sophisticated 50-year old aircraft has been modified

and updated throughout its life not just to give it greater power and performance, but to bring it into line with the world of computers, fly-by-wire and digital technology.

The AV-8B HARRIER flying with US MARINE CORPS today is a very different machine from the first of its kind,

Superficially, it might seem to be the same aircraft that first hovered in 1960 yet redesign has transformed it,

Like designs for a better toaster, lemon squeezer or London taxi, it seems safe to assume that a new iphone with a tweaked

It does this by sucking up the global emissions of carbon dioxide from things like cars,

planes and power stations to name just a few. Without this"carbon sink  the world's ability to lock up carbon will be reduced

Plant-powered planes show promiseto the eye, there was nothing remarkable about the aging Falcon 20 jet as it took off from Ottawa International airport in Canada at the end of October in 2012.

10-seater plane was in the process of making aviation history. After a short flight that saw it climb to 30,000 ft (9, 000m) over the capital city,

the plane touched back down at the airport to secure its world first. Today, I flew the world's first 100%biofuel flight,

said pilot Tim Leslie on landing the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) craft. It is truly inspiring to take this step towards an eco-friendly future.

Unlike conventional aircraft which burn kerosene oe a polluting fossil fuel-Leslie's plane was powered by fuel derived from rapeseed oil.

However, it could equally have been powered by one of a number of biofuels made from algae, flax, coconut husks or even from used cooking-oil.

As a result, they are viewed by many as one of the main ways the aviation industry can reduce its carbon footprint.

That's important when you realize that aviation currently accounts for around 2%of all greenhouse gas emissions according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,

 says Steven Barrett, assistant professor of astronautics and aeronautics at the Massachusetts institute of technology (MIT), and the director of the Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment."

"Estimates vary from 5 to 10%,because of the altitude at which aircraft fly. Emissions from planes have a different impact than they would on the ground.

 For example, the contrails from a jet oe those white streaks you sometimes see trailing a plane oe are known to cause high-altitude cirrus clouds,

which compound global warming. Dropping init is agreed generally, that these effects will only get worse if nothing is done

because air travel is growing Â. quickly. Â In fact, between now and 2030, the number of passengers and number of fights is likely to more than double

according to the UN International civil aviation organization. Â Airline manufacturers and carriers are all too well aware of these effects

and are working to try to mitigate them.""We feel it's our responsibility to deal with our segment in a very aggressive way, Â Dr John Tracy,

chief technology officer (CTO) at Boeing, recently told me.""Probably 75%of the research and development dollars we invest in the commercial airplane side goes towards improving our environmental footprint.

 Long term,  new aircraft shapes could help, while even further into the future are the prospects of electric, hydrogen or even solar powered aircraft.

However, these kinds of development are years oe even decades oe away. In the short term biofuels are looked on as a potential savior as most commercial passenger jets can use them with little to no modification,

and because they seem to offer significant benefits. For example, newly released figures collected by a plane trailing the Canadian Falcon 20 suggested that there was a 50%reduction in aerosol emissions compared to conventional fuel.

Previous studies with the rapeseed fuel also show that there is a 25%reduction in particles

The flight went smoothly and the data collected enables us to better understand the impact of biofuel on the environment,

The NRC test is the latest in a series of demonstration flights aimed at proving the worth of biofuels.

 In 2008, Virgin Atlantic was the first to fly a plane on a blend of biofuel and regular jet fuel.

withat least 15  airlines and several aircraft manufacturers performing flight tests with various blends  containing up to 50%biofuel.

And, in 2011, KLM became the first airline to test it in regular commercial flights between Amsterdam

and Paris. All of these tests oe including Transatlantic flights-have shown that biofuel  works well,

crucially, can be dropped in  to existing fuel infrastructure at airports. With so many apparent advantages, you might expect that every airline is beginning to draw up a plan to use these fuels.

But you would be wrong. Sound barrierbiofuels are not without problems leading the chief scientist of environmental group Greenpeace to label the first flight by Virgin as high-altitude greenwash.

One of his main criticisms is that in some cases biofuels can lead to deforestation and a large increase in greenhouse gas emissions.

and also just the sheer size of the land area that would be needed to cultivate enough biomass to feed the growing aviation industry.

However, there is still a long way to go before these crops are grown on anything like the scale needed to support aviation.

But people like Boeing's Dr Tracey believe it will happen.""We are convinced that sustainable biofuels can provide a way to reduce the CO2 by between 60 and 80%on an airplane,

 he told me. Â"We really do believe that by 2030,30%of all airplane fuel could be provided by sustainable biofuels.

 And if you're still concerned about flying in a plane powered by plants,

his message is: don't be. Although they are produced from a variety of sources, any fuel that finds its way into a plane is controlled tightly and regulated."

"There are 12 different parameters that you have to measure with exact precision to get certified to be a jet fuel,

"We've flown on commercial flights, we've flown F18s over the speed of sound, C17s, Apache helicopters,

you name it, it's been flown. So this is not a technology question on whether these fuels will work

many of the speeches at the five star Movenpick hotel were marked by the techno-enthusiasm that have made TED famous:

while also drawing tourists. The idea drew a standing ovation, though the prospects for success might seem remote-Mareb has been the site of continuing violence between military forces

In the United states, according to the Centers for Disease Control, one third of teenage deaths are associated with car crashes.

The assumption is that at some point these vehicles will drive better and more safely than we can,

For instance, if your self-driving car faces a sudden choice between hitting an errant schoolbus carrying 40 children

There have been many times during my travels when I've needed something repaired, from rips in my backpack, to holes in my clothes,

I've seen a bicycle in Nairobi made from bits of car a colander and a leather belt;

My camera shutter, battered by the dust and grime of travel, no longer works. I'm told I should throw away my camera,

including the mass movement of large populations to cities, the development of mass production, globalisation, improved transport, international trade and public broadcast media.

the desert ant is able to"path integrate Â. This means, according to ant navigation researchers Martin Muller and Rudiger Wehner,

the female buffalo were actually casting their votes to indicate the direction they wished to travel.

Also like the monkeys, any female may propose a travel route. One thing animals don't appear to do,

Since the late 1990s, the bed bug has become an increasingly common urban nuisance in homes and hotels worldwide.

checking hotel room beds before unpacking, being mindful of belongings like a coat draped carelessly on an unknown couch,

and vacuuming suitcases after travelling, and avoiding discarded furniture on the street. Some experts also recommend sealing mattresses

says Boase, particularly among high-end hotels and the rich. Both can afford to throw money at the problem.

and give guidance on how to maximize yields. They also collect information from the farmers-such as which crops are expected growing

000 (then falling as production takes over), just below the price of the average family car in the United states,

pointing out that 70 million cars are produced each year. And each would fit on a truck to be positioned at sites around the world.

The great thing about the atmosphere is it's a good mixer, so carbon dioxide produced in an American city can be removed in Oman,

His idea is to use the carbon dioxide to make liquid fuels for transport vehicles. Carbon dioxide can react with water to produce carbon monoxide

They travelled slower, remaining in the same general area far longer than was typical. Both of these observations suggested that they were responding specifically to the death of the calf.

you need to travel just over 10 miles from Chinatown's markets to a large, square, greyish building in Newark, New jersey.

Enriching the world's soilone of the biggest drivers of the Anthropocene-the age of man-is muck.

and the cost of transportation is very high on the continent because of high fuel prices and terrible roads.

Now, archaeologists around the world are beginning to embrace the same technique, flying aircraft over everything from Stonehenge to patches of scrub

from gauging distances between cars in adaptive cruise control to mapping forest canopies and detecting the amount of aerosols in the atmosphere.

   At a spot in an ancient road that previous surveys had marked down as little more than a widening of the carriageway,

It seemed that the wide spot in the road was in reality a surprisingly large pre-Hispanic capital.

The more buildings, roads, wells, agricultural terraces and residential complexes are found, the higher the number of people that lived there.

Both the Chases and Fisher teams admit that cruising over the tree-tops in a plane does not totally supplant the need to get up close and personal with a site.

For example, the Chases calculate the cost of Lidar per square kilometer is vanishingly small in comparison with the cost of travel

'He now has a pilot up and running in Western Uganda and continues to tweak the chiller's size and design.

Trees, cars and people looked more alive and more vivid than ever. And, remarkably, he's seen the world in 3d ever since that day."

"Riding to work on my bike, I look into a forest beside the road and see a riot of depth,

every tree standing out from all the others, Â he says. Something had happened. Some part of his brain had awakened.

The farther this signal travels into the brain, the more complex it becomes. Neuroscientists have found cells in the visual cortex, the part of the brain that processes vision,

if you ever drive down a wide-open road. Looking out the car window, you might see trees right near the road speeding by, jagged rocks a bit further in the distance moving more slowly,

and big mountains way out toward the horizon standing still like set pieces bolted to the ground.

You don't need a car to make it work; moving your head side-to-side achieves the same effect.

The Great Acceleration can be seen in the rise in everything from carbon dioxide release, to water use, to number of cars, to ozone depletion, to deforestation, to GDP, to consumption.

and creature comforts like cars, air conditioning, refrigerators, washing machines  the list is endless. Tightening beltshowever, as global citizens sharing this planet,

I spent over two years travelling around the developing world and living on the contents of a backpack.

In several destinations, I washed, like the local people, with a bucket of cold water and a pouring scoop oe usually river water,

and that Americans are copying their European counterparts in adopting more fuel-efficient cars. Some of this is down to people having smaller disposable incomes in the recession,

Barely a decade ago, streams of bicyclists pedaled down alleys in Beijing. Now Chinese buy more Lamborghinis and Rolls-royces than anybody else in the world.

Shanghai's per capita energy use is already higher than London's, and the city has become a shoppers paradise for China's nouveaux rich.

humans are the main driver of planetary change. We're pushing global temperatures, land and water use beyond anything our species has experienced before.

ranging from cataloguing stars in the distant corners of the universe with Galaxy Zoo to predicting the complex three dimensional structures of protein structures with Foldit.

because they attract wildlife/eco tourists to deprived areas in the developing world. So, if we are going to keep wild tigers,

One option might be to improve tigers'commercial value in the wild through tourism. A plan being mooted to save the orangutan

an endangered ape that shares territory with tigers, is to charge tourists a hefty"conservation fee  to see them.

Ultimately, the reason for conserving tigers may be less to do with their ecosystem or tourist economy benefits,

food was sucked out of silver pouches by astronauts strapped into experimental capsules that had escaped the confines of Earth.

Whenever a new road or building is constructed, soil is sealed effectively underneath it. Because most cities and towns around the world have grown from small settlements where hundreds of years ago people discovered the most fertile land,

Deforestation is a major driver of soil loss. Once shrubs and grasses have been cleared from the land

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they achieved a 20%increase in tobacco plants after adding a single cyanobacteria gene called inorganic carbon transporter B (Ictb.

Others are immediately obvious to anyone who has looked down at our continents from the window of a aircraft

They provided destination pages for people wondering what Project Chanology was all about, for instance. The more mainstream-friendly Know Your Meme joined in,

in order to harass the users of Habbo Hotel, a cartoonish social network. As early as 2006, Anonymous would oeraid Habbo,

The plants were chosen for their ability to tolerate foot traffic, so that the space can accommodate different uses.

as if a tsunamis coming, said Lee Sung-hee, the South korean Alzheimers Association president, who trains nursing home staff members,

bus drivers, tellers, hairstylists, postal workers. oesometimes I think I want to run away, she said. oebut even the highest mountain,

It has exercise machines out front and a van with pictures of smiling elderly people. Even people without symptoms come,

And one day, Mr. Cha, 74, a retired subway official, could not find his way home. oei was like,

oeoh, theres a word for that. oeairplane and train? oei feel embarrassed I dont know. oeyou have a lot of loss of memory,

17, was shaken to realize that dementia could explain why her grandfather recently grabbed a taxi

and effort The competition was started in 1999 by bosses and regulars of the New Inn in Wedmore, Somerset.

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