We know the GPS location to go but as for how to go there we use Google earth
and poplars some of the most culturally and economically important tree species in the United states. Â In addition to building a more robust and detailed map of the Green Wave knowledge gathered on the ground helps us improve forecast models and early warning systems for use in forest management
Artificial neural networks machine-learning models inspired by the brain were used to determine just how much the circadian rhythms affected the opening of stomata and the trees'water use.
and scrap companies turn the forest into a fleeting memory. In their plan scuba divers and fishermen could explore the site
#UV Light Makes Mushrooms Rich in Vitamin d The dog days of summer are a distant memory and so are the long bright sunny days.
Finally with access to all the satellite data came the need for major computing power to process it.
With Google's cloud computing it took mere days. The fine scale of the map allows researchers to zoom in close enough to see logging roads river meanders
so he set up three virtual reality spaces: a nature island with waterfalls rivers different kinds of trees flowers plants grass rocks a beach and dirt paths;
Valtchanov concluded that virtual nature was responsible rather than the state of virtual reality. I called this phenomenon oetechnobiophilia the innate attraction to life
Now using sensors deployed across the 31-mile-long (50-km-long) glacier the researchers have gauged the rate of glacial melt beneath the solid ice.
and his colleagues installed sensors inside holes drilled 1640 feet (500 m) through the solid ice at various points across the glacier.
and C and several essential minerals) the pawpaw has managed to stay out of most grocery stores and off the radar of big agriculture.
Images from a Rhino Bust Andrew Lemieux a scientist at The netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law enforcement has outfitted rangers in Uganda's Queen Elizabeth National park with GPS-enabled cameras that allow them to cheaply document signs of crimes
's Brain Formative experience The infant months may not be preserved in memory but studies have increasingly found that early life experiences matter.
These backpacks typically carry cameras GPS or other sensors and can tell scientists a great deal about the animals'movements feeding habits
and interactions with others while also offering a creature's-eye view of the world.
A group of researchers at Swansea University in the United kingdom fitted sheep with backpacks containing GPS devices to develop a model for how a single sheepdog can shepherd a flock of more than 100 sheep BBC News reported.
The model could be used to make shepherd robots for crowd control or oil spill cleanup the researchers said.
Sweet foot Thanks to its impressive navigational skills the honeybee (Apis mellifera) is a model organism used by researchers to understand the mechanisms of learning and memory.
because bees are such an important species to the understanding of the neural basis of memory and learning.
and researchers have turned their attention to how pesticides might affect the honeybee navigation system memory and brain function.
The announcement aligns with that company's promise to work with suppliers globally to reduce the use of battery cages tiny cages used to confine egg-laying chickens.
This memory boost makes them more likely to remember flowers that contain this habit-forming substance and return there for nectar.
#Build a Better Drone, for Wildlife Conservation (Op-Ed) David Wilkie is director of conservation support
Commonly called drones UAVS were once the domain of the military; now these devices show great promise in strengthening wildlife law enforcement.
Increased battery life and flight duration greater payloads cheaper infrared sensors and affordable real-time transmission of imagery would all make a major difference.
They might consider a fisheries agent based on a coastal atoll who uses a tethered balloon carrying a radar sensor to detect all vessels that enter the community's no-take fishing sanctuary.
Or instead drone technicians might envision Congo forest eco-guards getting a closer and safer look at what appears be a group of well-armed ivory poachers near a salt lick.
A guard deploys an almost silent battery-powered hexacopter that maneuvers below the canopy searching for signs of poachers.
UAV developers might even conceive of a squadron of drones with heat-sensing cameras flying across the vast plains of Central asia's Ustyurt Plateau searching for signs of saiga-antelope poachers.
We challenge the conservation community to establish a competition for the development of practical and effective conservation drones.
and memory Hebets said. Based solely on neuroanatomy amblypygids are hypothesized to be quite intelligent!(Photo credit:
In the tropics in June the sun is low casting long shadows when the MODIS or Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer sensors that fly aboard NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites snap images
if sensors detect a relatively small amount of red light (red light is absorbed by plants for photosynthesis)
Without tree shadow the forest looks brighter and greener to the MODIS sensors. Around the equinox the MODIS sensor takes the'perfect picture'with no shadows Morton said.
This seasonal change in MODIS greenness has nothing to do with how forests are changing. After correcting for the shadowing effect the increase in greening during the dry season disappears.
Scientists have synthesized successfully meat using a 3d printer to align stem cells from animals in laboratory Petri dishes creating both hamburger
Perhaps in the future the list of 3d printed proteins would also include fish. NASA has experimented also with using 3d printers for making chocolate and even pizza.
The grasshoppers would make a better dessert if dipped in the 3d printed chocolate. Perhaps in the future the list of 3d printed proteins will include fish.
While the exact forms that agriculture would take on Mars are still very much an unknown at least one thing is clear:
Before many years have passed Mars settlers certainly will have developed their own unique cuisine. Turnbull's most recent Op-Ed was Why Robots May be the Future of Interplanetary Research.
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#Banned Drone May have damaged Yellowstone Spring The U s. National park service has an important message for visitors: Leave your drones at home!
Unmanned aircraft were banned officially from U s. national parks in June 2014. But just last week on Aug 2 an unidentified tourist crashed a drone straight into the famous rainbow-colored Grand Prismatic Spring at Yellowstone national park in Wyoming.
Park officials have yet to recover the drone and have not determined if the crash caused any damage to the site
but an investigation into the matter is ongoing Amy Bartlett a park spokesperson told Live Science.
while park officials aren't yet certain the tourist was likely flying the drone over the hot spring to capture an image or video.
Park officials haven't yet recovered the downed drone from Grand Prismatic partly because they have not determined where the vehicles landed in the spring Bartlett said.
Park officials have not identified the person responsible for the downed drone but Bartlett said that other park visitors did witness a tourist on a nearby boardwalk controlling a drone that later fell into Grand Prismatic.
The drone pilot did report the incident to officials at the park's visitor center
but it wasn't clear to Yellowstone employees at the time that the drone was still in the hot spring Bartlett said.
As such the pilot was apprehended not nor identified by park officials. Bartlett said an investigation into the matter is ongoing.
Earlier this summer park officials recovered a drone that had crashed near a marina in Yellowstone Lake Bartlett said.
Other national parks have reported also recent disturbances caused by drones. In April visitors to Grand canyon national park in Arizona complained to park officials that a noisy drone flying overhead ruined their evening sunset.
Earlier in April drone handlers in Zion national park in Utah were caught harassing a herd of bighorn sheep with a robotic flyer.
These and other events prompted the National park service to issue a formal ban on drones in June.
The order which went into affect on June 20 cites noise harassment of wildlife and visitor safety as a few of the reasons for prohibiting these flying robots over federally administered lands and waters.
Unfortunately Bartlett said that drones aren't the only items that find their way into the hot springs at Yellowstone.
Visitors often confuse these environmental landmarks with wishing wells or even garbage cans throwing coins and trash into the springs she said.
The severe spatial restriction also leads to disuse osteoporosis. The study determined that battery cages#the industry's standard confinement system are in fact the only method of housing birds that does't have the potential to provide satisfactory welfare for laying hens.
A 1995 study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that modest increases in glucose could help enhance learning and memory.
The team next plans to attach GPS units to the penguins to track their behavior
Some call this activity bionics others call it biomimetics. Whatever you call it it is big business:
In addition to its sapphire display Apple Watch's sensors will feature lenses made of sapphire the company announced this week.
These sensors are located on the backside of the watch and will reportedly use infrared and visible-light LEDS to detect the wearer's heart rate.
The group uses GPS collars to track elephants in Africa providing the organization with live detailed information about the animals'location and movements.
I will likely never see again an amazing memory that I am proud to share.
Depression poor memory and trouble thinking can all be symptoms of a Vitamin b12 deficiency. Other symptoms of a Vitamin b12 deficiency include a numb
However studies have not conclusively shown that Vitamin b12 supplements will improve memory or thinking skills in the elderly in Alzheimer's patients in dementia patients or among stroke survivors.
In the scans stone walls showed up as thin linear ridges forming enclosures that were likely once fields lining old thoroughfares and clustering around the foundations at the heart of old farmsteads.
but overheard someone saying the exoskeletons took an unsettling amount of time to chew.)Bezos was accepting a Citation of Merit for the seafaring expedition he funded last year to recover fragments of the F-1 engines that launched giant Saturn V rockets to the moon during the Apollo era.
#Open-source Seeds Make a Comeback (Op-Ed) This article was published originally at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Live Science's Expert Voices:
Over the past 20 years the growth of the free and open source software movement whose poster child is the operating system Linux has provided an alternative to proprietary software from megacorps such as Microsoft Apple
Taking inspiration from this we have created a similar organisation the Open source Seed Initiative (OSSI) whose aim is to free the seed that is to make sure that the genes in at least some plant seeds can never be locked away from use by intellectual property rights.
OSSI s Open source Seed Pledge commits anyone who receives and uses OSSI seed to keep that seed
This pledge is OSSI s equivalent of the idea that underpins the open source software movement in the form of the General Public Licence or GPL.
and open source seeds not patented and indentured seeds. OSSI is seed itself a that we have planted
Irwin Goldman is on the board of the Open source Seed Initiative which is in the process of obtaining not-for-profit status in the US.
Climate Change Sweeps Iowa Farms (Op-Ed) Daniel Glick is the cofounder of thestorygroup. org a Colorado-based multimedia journalism company.
if nobody could meet me like Here's a map or Here's some GPS coordinates;
The pair constructed a vertical cylinder covered in a textured tape (necessary for friction) and placed several pressure sensor strips on the cylinder.
However the year before Varner had cached temperature sensors in the talus boulders. These sensors provided the first signs of hope.
I expected them to be little piles of melted plastic but they were still functional Varner said.
but broccoli is one of those greens that can usually fly under the radar. One serving contains about 70 milligrams of calcium
The aerial shots of Pompeii in the movie were real helicopter shots with computer graphics projected over them Anderson told Live Science.
and accumulating memory and data and good experiences that should be laying out the foundation for the future Baler said.
and are now even hacking off elephants'toenails for new traditional medicine cures. Raising awareness about the plight of elephants is without doubt necessary.
The Wilkie's most recent Op-Ed was Build a Better Drone for Wildlife Conservation.
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Google glass with visual recognition. A bracelet that lets friends send each other smiles. These are just a few of the devices forging the future of wearable tech.
Fitness trackers GPS watches and blood-pressure monitors are just a few of the devices that allow individuals to record
Systems such as Google glass have been experimenting with projecting a screen in front of the eye which eliminates the need for a screen.
Communications technology will shift more toward wearable devices Shaddock predicts. Reminiscent of the VISOR worn by the character Geordi La Forge in Star trek:
With more and more devices measuring personal data and uploading it to computer networks security is definitely a concern experts say.
Encrypting devices takes computing power but as the cost of computing goes down it gets easier to add more encryption.
As part of a current CSIRO project we are fitting tiny micro-sensors to 5000 bees in Tasmania as part of a world-first research program to monitor their movements and their environment.
The sensors are tiny radio frequency identification sensors that work in a similar way to a vehicle s e-tag recording
The sensors are 2. 5mm x 2. 5mm in size and weigh about 5 milligrams each.
less is more as smaller sensors will interfere less with the flies'behaviour. Honeybees are perfect as a starting point for our research as they are social insects that return to the same point
Our sensor technology will be used in combination with our sterile insect technology (SIT) research where we are working with government
The next generation of sensors will generate power from insect movement store the energy in batteries being developed at CSIRO
Vanessa Hull a doctoral student at MSU's Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability (CSIS) has been living off and on for seven years in the Wolong Nature Reserve most recently tracking pandas that she has outfitted with GPS collars.
and her colleagues put the same type of GPS collars they were using to track pandas on one horse in each of four herds they studied.
and a scientist with the National Climatic Data center said in an email. Vegetation is gone in many places leaving bare soil
The project uses rail-mounted sensors that crawl across the skin to read a tattoo that resembles a chunky barcode.
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He has also become a popular figure in historical fiction movies and video games. The year of his birth is unknown;
In Japan and the West he has also become a popular figure in a series of video games produced by the company Koei.
These video games emphasize his abilities as a general and martial artist.##Owen Jaru h
#As Milkweed Disappears, Monarchs are Fading away (Op-Ed) Peter Lehner is executive director of the Natural resources Defense Council (NRDC).
</p><p>In fact the 400-million-year-old visual system of the mantis shrimp works more like a satellite sensor than any other animal eye said study researcher Justin Marshall a neurobiologist at the University of Queensland
To show that the these monkeys speak to each other with their stylish fur Allen relied on facial recognition software.
For many feeding birds at ponds and parks is cherished a childhood memory; one they lovingly recreate for their children and grandchildren.
Capable of unlimited growth and regeneration he grabs an out of reach-reach battery by simply growing taller.
From satellite observations such as Landsat images and radar interferometry Mouginot and his co-authors tracked the speed of West Antarctica's six largest glaciers.
At Pembrokeshire in Wales a previously-known ancient forest is exposed more than ever in living memory.
and fitted one horse in each with a GPS collar. They found that the horses'range overlaps with the pandas
and his colleagues first analyzed the topography and hydrology of the ridge using GPS surveys high-resolution imagery and digital elevation models.
and anticipation that came from picking up the memory card from the camera slotting it into the laptop
My memory is already fuzzy about the sequence of events but somewhere in there#etween slipping into the ditch the failed rescue attempts
#Facial recognition Tech Can Read Your Emotions If someone is described as smiling but not with their eyes that person is likely faking the smile.
Facet's applications are incredibly far-reaching from treating children with autism to play-testing video games.
As a research professor at the University of California San diego's Machine Perception Lab Bartlett has been studying the use of facial recognition software to help people with autism for several years. 5 Controversial Mental health Treatments
Building that facial muscle memory also helps players recognize their own emotions and creates a sort of emotional memory Bartlett added.
If you move your face into a happy configuration you tend to feel happier Bartlett said.
and you get autonomous nerve system memory. It helps with empathy: You see it you do it
By using remote sensors on the ground to measure the carbon emissions from two of the Southwest s largest coal-fired power plants the study published in May in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences demonstrated the strategy
One way to do this is) to collect remote sensing observations from sensors deployed on space-based platforms.
#Today sensors on the ground are more accurate at measuring greenhouse gases than satellites but the OCO-2 is expected to take the next technological leap in satellite-based greenhouse gas measurement technology he said.
It is only a matter of time before nano solar cells produced from 3d printing will deliver wearable clothing
and technology that will allow us to travel in our driverless cars on solar roadways in our smart cities with no negative impacts on the environment.
and statistical tools to solve problems of big data or answer questions about complex systems such as will species be able to move northward as the climate warms?
it s a child who is learning via a new multimedia project from PBS KIDS.#
Kids and Science Good for More than Just a Grade According to the narrative Plum is a video game designer on the desolate Planet Blorb.
But existing lasers and sensors cannot measure CO2 accurately enough to provide meaningful results, according to Fran §ois-Marie Brã on,
A more even split in spending between ground and space would allow him to boost his network of sensors by an order of magnitude
pigs have been below the radar, says Ilaria Capua, an animal-flu expert at the Experimental Animal health Care Institute of Venice in Legnaro, Italy.
and overlaid radar and spectral data from US and Japanese satellites. They then extrapolated to build a biomass map of the Amazon basin circa 2000;
the Public service Company of New mexico and California's Pacific gas and electric. Business watch A university spin-off company has got battery investors buzzing.
A123systems, which makes rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, raised US$380 million at $13. 50 a share at its initial public offering,
Awardees included small businesses, educational institutions and large corporations that focus on everything from liquid-metal batteries
Belgium process them into intermediate products for antistatic coatings, for example, sensors for gas detection and electrode material for batteries and,
and to Willard Boyle and George Smith for their invention of the charge-coupled device (CCD) sensor.
Three weeks after the theft of e-mails from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK, unsuccessful hacking was reported at the Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis
Andrew Weaver, a climate researcher at the university, claimed that there had been sustained a hacking attempt in recent weeks.
It's encouraging to see that agricultural pollution is now on the government's radar,
Thomas Karl, who is currently the director of NOAA's National Climatic Data center, will head the programme,
to store and analyse data using Microsoft's cloud-computing service. Two related products developed by Google and IBM,
Patterson's team used a robotic sampling device to shave thin slices from each layer of the shells'growth bands.
says Eugene Wahl, a palaeoclimatologist at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric administration's National Climatic Data center in Boulder,
The website (www. biotorrents. net) uses Bittorrent's peer-to-peer file sharing technology, which can distribute large data sets to multiple users by splitting the data into small chunks.
Although data piracy could be a concern, the authors argue in their paper (PLOS ONE 5, e10071;
2010) that Biotorrents could speed data sharing between large international collaborations. See go. nature. com/ubozh8 for more.
because spinning turbine blades can confuse air-defence radar (see Nature 451,746; 2008). ) But under an agreement announced on 31 march,
wind developers will pay part of the roughly $15 million cost for a replacement radar at Trimingham, Norfolk,
Robot submarines are now being deployed to cap the well. See page 532 for more. Eye in the sky The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy has made its first airborne observations
These uncertainties are exposing the limits of space-based sensors that were designed 20 years ago
The uncertainties in understanding drought in the Amazon won't be reduced without better sensors in space, says Asner.
and that the government should improve data sharing, cut water waste and help farming become more efficient.
ambel's memory still shines bright after 94 years. She was a fencer for Turkey in the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin
Business Battery start-up: A123 Systems, a rechargeable-battery company spun out of the Massachusetts institute of technology (MIT)
and based in Watertown, Massachusetts, has spawned an energy-storage company, 24m Technologies. The venture will develop rechargeable power units that combine elements from fuel cells
and liquid-based batteries. 24m has US$10 million in venture-capital funding, and shares a $6-million grant from the US Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy with Rutgers University in New brunswick, New jersey,
A123, meanwhile, says that it has ended a deal with Chrysler to provide batteries for the firm's electric cars
Fastest computer China now possesses the world's speediest supercomputer. As expected, its Tianhe-1a computer (pictured), housed in the National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin,
has eclipsed the US Department of energy's Jaguar system at the Oak ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. In the latest update to the list of the world's top 500 supercomputers (www. top500. org), released on 11 november,
Tianhe-1a was shown to have achieved 2. 57 petaflops (2. 57 ae'1015 floating point operations per second),
with Jaguar managing 1. 75 petaflops. The United states still boasts five of the world's top ten fastest computers.
research leader of the Stoneville, Mississippi-based Genomics and Bioinformatics Research Unit at the US Department of agriculture's Agricultural research service,
analysis from NOAA's National Climatic Data center in Asheville, North carolina. Spill science scarce The presidential commission investigating last year's huge oil spill in the Gulf of mexico has called for more science in federal decisions on oil production and spill response.
Satellite sacking The chief executive of a leading German space company has been suspended as from 17 january for allegedly criticizing the European satellite navigation system Galileo,
Orbiting sensors can identify pockets of vegetation hidden at the base of sand dunes and along ephemeral streams, says Pietro Ceccato, a remote-sensing scientist at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society who works with the FAO's locust team at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty
who developed the current method for detecting vegetation using NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer sensor
an aircraft that will combine a state-of-the-art optical sensor with a laser capable of mapping forests in unprecedented three-dimensional detail.
Asteroid fly-by Marshalling everything from major radar facilities to backyard telescopes, astronomers geared up this week for a fantastic view of an asteroid called 2005 YU55.
After working on radar and the atomic bomb in the Second world war, Ramsey (pictured) moved to Harvard university in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
which two years ago yielded the title of host to the world s top supercomputer  bested first by China
and then by Japan  has roared back into the lead in this month s list of the world s top 500 supercomputers, with the Sequoia machine at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
It also claimed third place with a supercomputer at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. Italy made its top-ten debut with a system at the CINECA computing centre near Bologna.
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