which is 1. 1 °C above the twentieth-century average, according to the National Climatic Data center at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric administration (NOAA) in Silver Spring, Maryland.
The National Climatic Data center in Asheville, North carolina, said on 16  July that moderate to extreme drought was affecting 55%of the continental United states  the highest proportion since December 1956.
Last week, Nature joined experts in Puerto Ayora on the island of Santa cruz for an international workshop dedicated to the memory of Lonesome George. The meeting aimed to galvanize efforts to prevent the loss of other Galapagos tortoise
They re developing tools related to robotics informatics, nanotechnology, biotechnology and food safety, in addition to developing better ways to feed the world.
"In most places, jaguars, tapirs, woolly spider-monkeys and white-lipped peccaries weren t even in living memory,
Battery rescue A123 Systems a leading US manufacturer of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles, may have found a solution to its financial woes.
Sputnik 1. Lovell also worked on radar and cosmic rays; he was knighted in 1961 for his contributions to radio astronomy.
achievement that has happened largely under the radar of most of the virology and scientific community, says David Ulaeto,
nsidcarctic sea-ice coverage reached the lowest point of this year s summer melt on 16 Â September, the US National Snow and Ice Data center in Boulder,
under the measurement system used by the data centre. The new low is by far the smallest figure seen in 33 years of satellite measurements and possibly the lowest late-summer ice extent in more than 5, 000 Â years
noting that epigenetic effects on human behaviour might express themselves in addiction, learning and memory.
But Wahal admits that the"selective cutting of trees"would not register in the satellite imagery due to the technological limitation of the medium-resolution sensor used for the purpose of forest-cover mapping.
Battery bankruptcy A123 Systems, a leading US Â manufacturer of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles, filed for bankruptcy on 16 Â October.
with collaborative efforts and'big data'coming to the fore. www. sfn. org/am201214-19 october New results from the Curiosity rover on Mars,
the satellite sensor recorded a smooth signal. Bare branches, thinned leaves and missing trees showed more roughness.
an infrared sensor scans the horizon, silently mapping carbon dioxide levels across Los angeles. In the city below,
The sensor currently installed on Mount Wilson is a prototype of a next-generation instrument that could eventually be launched on a satellite,
the sensor measures the proportion of the heat being absorbed by CO2, and thus the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere.
They are much more complex than sponges they have nerves, muscles, tissue layers and light sensors, all of which the sponges lack."
this is going to open up a whole new window on insect sensory systems for us to study. Some experts suggest that the study has implications for insects other than bees."
by making engineered nanobots that are dependent on a proprietary raw material. In a strange twist of fate, terminator technology has begun to look more appealing to environmentalists.
The Biomass project aims to take radar measurements of global forest biomass to assess terrestrial carbon stocks and fluxes.
Coreh2o, also a radar mission, would measure snow cover and snow-melt rates in cold regions around the world.
2013), nor Japan s Advanced Land Observing Satellite-2 Â to be launched later this year have sensors that can measure forest biomass with the precision of Biomass, for example.
"Prolonged exposure to imidacloprid and another insecticide impairs learning and memory in honeybees4. 27 march 2013:
Sensors would monitor background CO2 levels and winds, and CO2 would be injected from the towers as needed,
and soils keep a memory of disturbances, says Michael Bahn, an ecologist at the University of Innsbruck in Austria who oversees a grassland experiment.
The US National Snow and Ice Data center in Boulder, Colorado, said that the data indicate"a more pronounced seasonal cycle
Using a battery of chemical techniques, including mass spectrometry and infrared spectroscopy, the researchers analysed residues inside Etruscan
Two of the system s nine radar stations were deactivated in April. Losing the rest will make it harder to track break ups of space junk,
Those results have faded gradually from memory. Keeling says that one reason for this was a nagging question about
when ice cover fell to 5. 1 Â million square kilometres, the US National Snow and Ice Data center in Boulder,
The biomass estimates are used then to calibrate imagery from NASA s Landsat spacecraft and radar data from Japan s Advanced Land Observing Satellite,
and more data sharing between them, says Sun. In any case, the problem of invasive species will not go away,
Philippe MASCLET/Masterfilms/Airbusgiant ash cloud tests sensor for aircraft Sensors to detect volcanic ash have moved closer to widespread use on commercial airlines following flight tests involving the world s
announced on 13 Â November that it would mount the AVOID sensor on a number of its commercial jets by the end of next year.
But potentially bioactive molecules described in research journals are still rising, according to a data-mining study of molecular structures in more than 140,000 journal articles and patents (C.  Southan et  al.
The spatial ecologists have done remarkable work on monitoring the movement of a whole range of insects using horizontal and vertical radar to follow migration paths.
Google thinks deep Google has purchased the London-based artificial-intelligence company Deepmind, which uses human neuroscience to inspire computer algorithms.
in the past few years it has hired several big names in artificial intelligence, including futurist Ray Kurzweil and computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton (see Nature 505,146-148;
) The company may use artificial intelligence to improve picture tagging, voice recognition and search engines. Source: NOAATHE average global temperature in 2013 was 0. 62 °C above the twentieth-century average,
Cloud computing IBM has invested US$1 Â billion in the IBM Watson Group, a business unit to commercialize artificial-intelligence applications that can be accessed by customers remotely.
Located in New york city, the group is based around Watson, the computer that famously won against human competitors in a quiz show in 2011 (see go. nature. com/u783dz).
and US initiatives to increase data sharing and transparency in clinical trials. See page 131 and go. nature. com/9lgbd6 for more.
Satellites are therefore no match for high-altitude drones, which can circle and provide continuous video footage of the same location.
But using drones to monitor events across the globe requires operators to gain permission to access countries airspace
And drones may not be located near a site of interest when, for example, a natural disaster hits.
and sensors from high-end digital cameras. Using the latest technologies from these fast-paced industries also allows the rapid
and to facilitate crowdsourcing to help patent examiners to determine whether a claimed invention is new.
Satnav success Europe s fledgling satellite navigation system, Galileo, is working well, the European space agency announced on 10 Â February.
The Kicksat mission was funded by the crowdsourcing website Kickstarter. go. nature. com/gzd6ni
Study revives bird origin for 1918 flu pandemicthe virus that caused the 1918 influenza pandemic probably sprang from North american domestic and wild birds, not from the mixing of human and swine viruses.
which included encouraging data sharing and providing advice on alternatives to animal testing. But he stopped short of setting a numerical limit on animal experiments.
Insider trading On 6 february, a US court found former hedge-fund manager Mathew Martoma guilty of leading a massive insider-trading scheme using confidential information about an Alzheimer s disease clinical trial.
and there is growing interest in alternatives such as battery-powered cars. Cellulosic ethanol may now be arriving,
Data sharing The Public library of Science (PLOS an open-access publisher based in San francisco, California, has strengthened its policy requiring authors to make data publicly available.
and must do so on the Internet, for example in public data repositories. Some exceptions are allowed, for instance in cases in
and GPS collars responsible for all of the research extolling the benefits of wolves got on those animals?
which judging from your computer skills memory and agression you are not. Pick a state like Montana
#An Open-source Hive To Save The Bees You may have heard by now: bees are dropping like flies continuing to die at unprecedented rates
The Open source Beehives project is a collaborative response to the threat faced by bee populations in industrialised nations around the world.
Each hive contains an open source sensory kit The Smart Citizen Kit (SCK) which can transmit to an open data platform:
Smartcitizen. methese sensor enhanced hive designs are open and freely available online the data collected from each hive is published together with geolocations allowing for a further comparison and analysis of the hives.
If you're a professional beekeeper or hobbyist and handy with electronics you get a double-whammy:
and more known for covering space robots green energy and futuristic gadgets you might mistake for props in a science fiction movie.
and outfitted with motion sensors. Dancing around the tree device trigger unique beats and melodies that would emanate from a speaker nested in a birdhouse.
Shaffer s coding background made him the best person to convert sensor data into music
For the next two days he taped motion sensors to a wall and wrote software to turn sensor output into sound often dancing around the room to test his work.
Meanwhile his teammates built a birdhouse to contain a speaker microprocessor power supply and music interface.
and hooked up the sensors finishing the Treequencer with only minutes to spare. The competition was stiff.
One team built a scanner to convert graffiti into sound another a robotic drum kit
âÂ# 1. Proximitythree ultrasonic sensors at the top of the trunk emit inaudible high-frequency sounds
Each sensor triggers a different sound. One elicits piano notes for example and tunes them according to distance. 2. Motionan X-band sensor similar to those in home alarm systems) measures speed.
Shaffer coded the sensor to alter a digital drumbeat based on a dancer s pace. 3. Computinginside the birdhouse an Arduino microprocessor gathers data from all four sensors
and converts it into commands for a MIDI interface which stores a large library of digital sounds. 4. Powera 120v power strip feeds electricity to the sensors
and a 100-watt speaker harvested from a PA SYSTEM. Red LEDS that illuminate the birdhouse meanwhile get energy from a 250-watt computer power supply.
It consisted of a robotic drum kit and two discs outfitted with object-detecting cameras.
Photo sensors scanned the artwork and converted it into data as it moved. Depending on the paint s color contrast
they can take hours to run on a supercomputer. So when storms pop up or change quickly researchers have to rely on quicker statistical models that can crunch the numbers fast.
And that's why sometimes a storm predicted to be a doozy barely seems like a blip in the radar or vice versa.
and sensors to collect data on aspects like wind direction pressure water vapor can help us learn more about how storms work.
But if you send a robot to mine the surface and send the minerals back you would own the area in
and it's a robot. Levandowski backs out of his suburban driveway in the usual manner.
By the time he points his car down the street it has used its GPS and other sensors to determine its location in the world.
On the dashboard right in front of the windshield is a low-profile heads-up display. manual it reads in sober sans serif font white on black.
The graphics are reminiscent of Pong. But the game play? Pure Frogger. There are two buttons on Levandowski's steering wheel off and on and after merging into an auto-drive lane he hits on with his thumb.
Google has a small fleet of driverless cars now plying public roads. They are test vehicles
It ends with robots harvesting our bodies for energy. Google is still not saying much to reporters (including this one) about its plans
The acronym stands for light detection and ranging and it works on the same principle that radar and sonar do
Who has control of a driverless car? For the autonomous vehicle that now drives Levandowski to work the answer (according to Smith) is logical:
Peter Stone an artificial-intelligence expert at the University of Texas at Austin thinks that intersecting streams of automated traffic will essentially flow through one another controlled by a new piece of road infrastructure the computerized intersection manager.
Both use a combination of radar and computer vision to center the vehicle in the lane
The problem is that even the best radar -and vision-based pedestrian-avoidance systems fail to see the proverbial child running into the road 1 or 2 percent of the time.
Google is betting that established car manufacturers working with low-cost radar and camera components will never adequately bridge that gap.
Watching the video it reminded me of the old Test Driving video game on the PC a long time ago. lol---In space no one can hear a tree fall in the forest.
if it was the driverless car. The first wave of the attack of the machines will be these autonomous cars running people down(:
Driverless cars should be aggressively rolled out as soon as they marginally surpass statistical human safety levels which they may have done already.
48 better battery life than the last iphone says apple. That's good that matters. 1: 51 I cheated
Bigger sensor image stabilization burst mode. That's fine! The camera is unheralded as maybe THE main thing that puts the iphone above android phones in quality--apple's image processing is amazing way better than even flashy HTC
and Nokia cameras. 1: 54 just saw a guy do a kick flip in slow motion.
Stop it I'm trying to do journalism 1: 59 so there's a capacitive fongerprit sensor over the home button like we thought.
I hated their lack of removable battery lack of micro SD aluminum unibody. Hence why I now own a Samsung.
iphone 5s fingerprint sensor: The end of passwords? Apple's addition of a fingerprint reader in its latest smartphone the iphone 5s is part of its strategy to double down on device security. by Zack Whittaker September 10 2013 12:27 PM PDT Apple has unveiled its smartphone
's latest weapon: a fingerprint reader it's calling Touch ID. With its move Apple could end up making the technology commonplace as rivals might feel compelled to follow suit.
It could be only a matter of time before passwords and passcodes are relegated to yesteryear...
They mate in mid-air at about 20 feet above the ground with seven to 15 drones.
Researchers at Harvard are working on a partial solution--tiny drones the size of bees (not to be confused with drone bees the mostly useless males of a bee colony.
The drones are designed flying robots to be small enough to pollinate a flower (they weigh just 80 milligrams.
Because they're so tiny they can't fit a battery pack for power. The bees will need also some sort of computer
robot bees! Robot bees! That's pretty great. Totally crazy to think that technology can be as efficient as the natural bee in pollination.
Sure use inefficient technological bees in pollinating GMO crops with temporary pesticide herbicide and insect resistance and add a boatload of money to the cost of growing them.
Next they'll hybridize with African robot bees and we'll have ROBOT KILLER BEES everywhere.
This idea is similar to the Pet Rock. Utter nonsense! until I saw the check of $7004 I did not believe that my friends brother could actualie making money in their spare time online..
The Kindle on the other hand requires a lot more nasty stuff to get made--mostly mining for materials for the battery
E-papers run on low voltage battery that can be integrated on the sheet and charged with a built-in solar strip.
but take genetic material from foreign sources such as alien humanoids. LOL...life imitating art? The point in sex is that it fills good of course.
The architects used seven Series 1 3d printers to print out 585 plastic pieces then hauled them to the Redwood Forest
As anybody who's owned a desktop 3d printer can attest there's no way you could expect most to keep running for 1/10th the amount of time this thing took (this coming from a Reprap fanboy.
And yet according to the NOAA National Climatic Data center http://www. ncdc. noaa. gov/oa/climate/globalwarming. html âÂ#Âoeour understanding of the indirect effects of changes
Alarming NOAA data Rapid Pole Shift Posted Jan 11 2012january 15 2011 at 1: 53 pm (PT)- The NOAA National Geophysical Data center maintains a data set
because when large numbers of the larvae die in and around the brain they can block capillaries and cause encephalopathy a condition that can cause cognitive losses memory problems personality changes and more.
#The Robotic Search For Lost WORLD WAR II Airmen Click here to see the galleryon a bright morning in Mid-march Pat Scannon stands on the deck of a 40-foot catamaran looking for an airplane hidden in the waters of Palau
Historically on unmanned underwater platforms you might spend the better part of your experimental time just ensuring the sensors were functioning tracking the vehicle navigation
and charging batteries he says. The systems now have matured to where we can run them hard like outboard motors.
The oceanographic community is engineering new sensors for them and having them do smarter things during their searches.
Guided by GPS coordinates from the AUV Pat Colin director of the Coral reef Research Foundation pilots the vessel across the lagoon to the approximate location of the mystery plane.
With data from the robotic vehicles Palau can add downed aircraft to an inventory of the country's rich underwater sites something previously unattainable for an office that can barely afford to buy gas for a boat.
I fully expect the next visualization to be The Holocaust Visualizedafrican American Slavery Visualizedrwandan Genocide Visualized.
Its robotic arm moves briskly: It hovers lowers and then repositions a pair of syringes over six petri dishes.
more sophisticated printers advances in regenerative medicine and refined CAD software. To print the liver tissue at Organovo Vivian Gorgen a 25-year-old systems engineer simply had to click run program with a mouse.
The New world of 3d printing prototyped another kind of tissue: cartilage. The spatial control over the placement of cells has never been possible to this degree he says.
The team used CT scans to create a CAD file of a sheep's meniscus
In the film set in the 23rd century an automated pod with two robotic arms uses cells from a severed human hand to print
With an inanimate object like a coffee mug a 3-D scanner can create a CAD file in minutes
Sensing an opportunity Autodesk has teamed with Organovo to develop CAD programs that could be applied to bioprinting.
As a first step Autodesk plans to create a modern cloud-based CAD shell to help streamline the design process.
In April Olguin's team released Project Cyborg a Web-based platform geared toward nanoscale molecular modeling and simulations for cellular biology.
Perhaps scientists say bioprinters could even enable bionic organs body parts that don't just restore but extend human ability.
In a similar manner bioengineers might one day incorporate sensors into other tissues for example creating a bionic meniscus that can monitor strain.
Recently I took my NASA SEMAA students at York College to physically eyewitness 3d printing Operation given by Dan Phelps
It chills. 3d printing technology more mature than just come out the average consumer to understand its function more and more deeply to see a 3d print reports that have been put in the military field responsible for the production of large originals. 3d printer compared to traditional manufacturing machinery greatly shorten product development
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The high price of China 3d printer LXMAKER launched new products. In medical arena 3d printing has always been very helpful Many hospitals institutions
and health services always have 3d printed materials as their reference. Without this perhaps we still have manual stuff and procedure today.
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and if need a battery a transparent one. And pray tell why would I want to measure the angles of a hand-drawn triangle as indicated as one possible use for this contraption?
when your battery-dependent generation cannot even solve your own problems in the present p. s. Let's not be petty with the Great wall of china.
If those are the ten coolest things you can make with a 3d printer I won't be getting one anytime soon. quasi44:
you seem to have a serious beef with 3d printing technology...As someone who does a lot of one-off production
By using a 3d printer I don't have to do injection molding or machining of any plastic parts.
Using a 3d printer and planning your parts correctly so that you don't have to use supporting material means using significantly less material than
I've seen a working pneumatic turbine made completely of 3d printed parts that propelled a 20 pound train up to almost 20 mph.
and you're not the type that can motivate yourself to learn how to use a modeling program you're likely not going to get any use out of a 3d printer.
52272i think one of the best parts of 3d printers/Thingiverse is the ability to use the customizer
The deep-sea vehicle Ropos (remotely operated platform for ocean sciences) delivers the pigs and their instrument platform to a node and plugs in a webcam and sensors with dexterous arms.
A set of sensors measures the water's temperature salinity and oxygen concentration all of which could impact how the pigs decompose.
And to be honest all this hacking the immune system with vaccines and such is most likely just making the immune system weaker over generations.
GPS would immediately stop working and at least 12 of those satellites would come crashing to Earth.
Strictly speaking this is valid for'low'earth orbits only such as the GPS satellites'.'Very high orbits (in the range of 100.000 of km) actually will become more'round'as the nonlinear effects of the sun's gravity field fall away.
GPS precision would be affected but no satellite would have a significant change on his orbit
The beets conduct body capacitance or the electrical energy stored inside humans to a sensor plugged into a Raspberry Pi minicomputer (Pi for short.
To house a Pi a capacitive sensor a power supply and cables make an 8-inch-square wooden box.
Configure a Pi to use I2c communication (this will allow it to communicate with the capacitive sensor.
Solder six wires to individual electrode ports on an MPR121 capacitive touch sensor breakout board.
Taste receptors are little more than chemical sensors used by the brain for a purpose. No doubt these receptors are used to assess the condition of the internal organs such as ph fluid content etc. so it's not a stretch to think that taste receptors could be utilized to ensure the proper conditions for sperm production.
There are several search engines about reaching a tenth to perhaps half the speed of light using Saturn s magnetic field.
It might also make for a better motion-controlled gaming system like a next-generation Microsoft Kinect that doesn't require players to be within the line of sight of a detector.
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