Living Tomorrow. Researchers develop method for growing single species of single-walled carbon nanotubes. (Phys.org) —A team of researchers with members from Switzerland and Germany has developed a method for producing a specific single-walled carbon nanotube type with a predefined structure.
They describe the procedure in their paper published in the journal Nature. James Tour offers a News & Views piece in the same journal discussing the groundbreaking work done by the team. Researchers make nanostructured carbon using the waste product sawdust. Chemists at the University of Birmingham have found a new way to make nanostructured carbon using the waste product sawdust, according to research published in the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Green Chemistry today.
By cooking sawdust with a thin coating of iron at 700 degrees centigrade, the researchers have discovered that they can create carbon with a structure made up of many tiny tubes. These tubes are one thousand times smaller than an average human hair. Microscope work wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry. 8 October 2014Last updated at 05:57 ET The technique has extended the resolution of light microscopes The 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to a trio of researchers for improving the resolution of microscopes.
Eric Betzig, Stefan Hell and William Moerner used fluorescence to extend the limits of the light microscope. The winners will share prize money of eight million kronor (£0.7m). NASA hopes to put greenhouse on Mars. Cheryl Santa Maria Digital Reporter Wednesday, May 7, 2014, 3:50 PM - We may be one step closer to putting life on Mars.
By 2021, NASA hopes to be growing plants on the red planet. NASA's next Mars rover is expected to land on the planet in 2020, and it may be bringing a few plants along with it. Researchers hope to conduct a plant-growth experiment which could pave the way to a human colonization on Mars. Shed Light on Corporate Political Spending - Union of Concerned Scientists. Union of Concerned Scientists Skip to main content Shine a Light on Corporate Political Spending Recent UCS research found that many companies obstruct climate action through their trade and business associations with no disclosure and accountability to policy makers, the public, or even their own shareholders.
Given the enormous influence trade groups can have over policy decisions, this lack of disclosure is dangerous. It allows corporations to delay or block policies to address climate change—and even allows them to publicly misrepresent climate science—with little to no scrutiny. The public deserves to know who is influencing policies that affect our health and safety.
The SEC rule would require publicly traded companies to disclose more about their political spending, including their support for trade and business associations. DIVIDE AND CONQUER: The Latest Strategy at Codex - Page 2. September 2013. Students in Ghana launch mini-satellite. Wireless patches could provide "acupuncture" on demand. Snow Peak Lapel Torch headlamp alternative. A small, magnetic clip on the back of the lamp lets you attach the Lapel Torch to your shirt.
Image Gallery (4 images) Look quickly at the Snow Peak Lapel Torch and you could easily mistake it for an iPod Shuffle with an earbud hanging off. The "Shuffle" is actually a battery pack and the earbud is an LED light. Google. Google समाचार. Oldest Bird Was Actually a Dinosaur.
- For 150 years, Archaeopteryx held the "world's oldest known bird" record, but scientists now believe this animal was a dinosaur. - A new, small dinosaur from China shares traits with Archaeopteryxand likely evolved from it. - Many dinosaurs experimented with flight and feathers, but only some evolved into birds and survived extinction.
Archaeopteryx, widely regarded as being the world's oldest known bird, has just been knocked off its scientific perch, since new research concludes this feathered animal was, in fact, a dinosaur. The study, published in the latest issue of the journal Nature, falls on the 150th anniversary of Archaeopteryx's discovery. Phoenix Labs. America's looming helium crisis (no, really) - Ezra Klein. Phylotaxis / for Seed by Jonathan Harris. The START Natural Language Question Answering System.
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The new robot called “Justin” is described as a two-arm-system for investigation of two handed manipulation. The development of humanoid robots has made significant progress in recent years. Although several systems have impressive walking abilities, when it comes to their abilities to manipulate objects or interact with their surrounding they are quite limited. Encyclopedia of Life. Academy of Achievement: The Hall of Science. Foundation: Safeguarding Humanity. Mitowheel. Tales of Future Past. It wasn't that long ago that we had a future.
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At the Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, Dr. Imagining the Internet. Latest Project: The 2014 Hall of Fame interviews, recorded in Hong Kong Hall of Famers share wisdom Imagining the Internet sent a team to the Internet Society's 2014 Internet Hall of Fame induction in Hong Kong to gather interviews with 28 top global Internet leaders. View four hours of interviews plus the Induction Ceremony and a panel discussion and a forum on the open Internet. Ask Nature - the Biomimicry Design Portal: biomimetics, architecture, biology, innovation inspired by nature, industrial design - Ask Nature - the Biomimicry Design Portal: biomimetics, architecture, biology, innovation inspired by nature, industrial desi. Patently Silly - The Humor of Invention - presented by Daniel Wright. Science Channel: Space, Technology, Engineering, Earth Science. Absolute Zero. Semiconductor. FRIDA Robot will Make your Gadget.
Meet FRIDA – a two handed concept robot for industrial assembly applications. This striking creation might be able to bridge the gap between fully manual assembly and fully automated manufacturing lines. The Frida project was started back in 2007 with a core team of Swiss researchers from ABB team that was then complemented by other teams from Sweden, Norway, Germany, the United States and China. Turning Your Hand into a Robot. German researchers developed a simple way to control a robot using hand movement. Thanks to a new device future industrial robots as well as prostheses could be manipulated with ease. The new technology will be presented at the German Sensor+Test trade fair from June 7 – 9 taking place in the city of Nuremberg.
Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute developed a hand-held input device which can easily control a six joint robotic arm. Visitors to the Sensor+Test exhibition will be presented with a unique opportunity to control the industrial robotic arm themselves next month. When the users move the hand holding the device, the robot emulates their movement. New Cell therapy Will Transplanted Organ Rejection.
Researchers from the University of Oxford developed a cell therapy that could prevent transplanted organs from being rejected by the body and remove the need for patient’s long term drug treatment. The innovative approach will work by re-injecting patients with their own immune cells after the cells have been isolated from a blood sample. Justin - Humanoid Robot Catches with Two Hands. MIT Study Finds What Makes an Image Memorable. A study conducted by MIT researchers showed that the most memorable photos are those that contain people, followed by static indoor scenes and human-scale objects.
Israel Developing Flying Elephants. According to a soon to be published article in the defensenews magazine, Israel has started working on a project known as “Flying Elephants”. First Feathered Flight for SpaceShipTwo. New Quasiparticles Found. Breakthrough in Thin-Film Solar Cells. Scientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) in Germany have recently reported a breakthrough in their search for more efficient thin-film solar cells. Such cells could help create better solar receptors, improving both capacity and utilization of current devices – resulting in more realistically efficient sources for alternative energy.
The new study shows that the new potential efficiency is 30%, a significant increase in comparison to contemporary cells that have only about 20% efficiency. Martian Rivers and Lakes. Black Holes in Star Clusters Stir Time and Space. Mempile - Terabyte on a CD. IRFU Today. Darpa Looks to Tap Nature’s Quantum Effects. Mars Global Surveyor. Technology. Das Boot? Das Running Shoe, More Like. Mozilla Firefox. IsolaXiaoTorralbaOliva-PredictingImageMemory-CVPR2011.pdf (application/pdf Object) PlanetQuest: Exoplanet Exploration. LIGO - Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory. Solar System Visualizer. Discover the world's most endangered species. Planetarium - Interactive star map and virtual sky. About : Welcome to Explorations in Science with Dr. Michio Kaku.
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