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A team led by Professor Keon Jae Lee from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at KAIST has developed in vivo silicon-based flexible large scale integrated circuits (LSI) for bio-medical wireless communication. <br />
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A team led by Professor Keon Jae Lee from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at KAIST has developed in vivo silicon-based flexible large scale integrated circuits (LSI) for bio-medical wireless communication. <br />
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A team led by Professor Keon Jae Lee from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at KAIST has developed in vivo silicon-based flexible large scale integrated circuits (LSI) for bio-medical wireless communication. <br />
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A team led by Professor Keon Jae Lee from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at KAIST has developed in vivo silicon-based flexible large scale integrated circuits (LSI) for bio-medical wireless communication. <br />
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A team led by Professor Keon Jae Lee from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at KAIST has developed in vivo silicon-based flexible large scale integrated circuits (LSI) for bio-medical wireless communication.</blockquote>
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<span class="news">Professor Keon Jae Lee's team fabricated radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) interconnected with thousand nano-transistors on silicon wafer by state-of-the-art CMOS process, and then they removed the entire bottom substrate except top 100 nm active circuit layer by wet chemical etching. The flexible RF switches for wireless communication were monolithically encapsulated with biocompatible liquid crystal polymers (LCPs) for in vivo bio-medical applications. Finally, they implanted the LCP encapsulated RFICs into live rats to demonstrate the stable operation of flexible devices under in vivo circumstances.<br /></span><br />
<span class="news">Professor Lee said, "This work could provide an approach to flexible LSI for an ideal artificial retina system and other bio-medical devices. Moreover, the result represents an exciting technology with the strong potential to realize fully flexible consumer electronics such as application processor (AP) for mobile operating system, high-capacity memory, and wireless communication in the near future."</span></blockquote>
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<a href="http://fand.kaist.ac.kr/Attach/Invivo%20Flexible%20LSI.pdf">Invivo Flexible LSI.pdf</a>
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A lightning-quick experimental aircraft made history when it sped more than 3,000 mph above the Pacific Ocean in a test flight, reigniting decades-long efforts to develop a vehicle that could travel faster than a speeding bullet.</div>
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The <b>Boeing X-51</b> (also known as <b>X-51 WaveRider</b>) is an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmanned_aerial_vehicle" title="Unmanned aerial vehicle">unmanned</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scramjet" title="Scramjet">scramjet</a> demonstration aircraft for <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypersonic" title="Hypersonic">hypersonic</a> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_number" title="Mach number">Mach</a> 6, approximately 4,000 miles per hour (6,400 km/h) at altitude) <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_testing" title="Flight testing">flight testing</a>. It successfully completed its first powered flight on 26 May 2010 and also achieved the longest duration flight at speeds over Mach 5.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Av_Week_First_flight_success_1-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-51#cite_note-Av_Week_First_flight_success-1">[1]</a></sup><br />
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The X-51 is named "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WaveRider" title="WaveRider">WaveRider</a>" because it uses its <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shockwaves" title="Shockwaves">shockwaves</a> to add lift. The program is run as a cooperative effort of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Air_Force" title="United States Air Force">United States Air Force</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA" title="DARPA">DARPA</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing" title="Boeing">Boeing</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratt_%26_Whitney_Rocketdyne" title="Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne">Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne</a>. The program is managed by the Aerospace Systems Directorate within the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Force_Research_Laboratory" title="Air Force Research Laboratory">Air Force Research Laboratory</a> (AFRL).<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-X-51_Closer_to_Flight_3-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-51#cite_note-X-51_Closer_to_Flight-3">[3]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-New_AFRL_Directorate_4-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-51#cite_note-New_AFRL_Directorate-4">[4]</a></sup> The X-51 had its first captive flight attached to a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_B-52_Stratofortress" title="Boeing B-52 Stratofortress">B-52</a> in December 2009.</blockquote>
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A U.S. Air Force B-52H Stratofortress from Edwards Air Force Base
released the X-51A from 50,000 feet above the Point Mugu Naval Air
Warfare Center Sea Range at 10:55 a.m. Pacific time. After the B-52
released the X-51A, a solid rocket booster accelerated the vehicle to
about Mach 4.8 before the booster and a connecting interstage were
jettisoned. The vehicle reached Mach 5.1 powered by its supersonic
combustion scramjet engine, which burned all its JP-7 jet fuel. The
X-51A made a controlled dive into the Pacific Ocean at the conclusion of
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The flight was the fourth X-51A test flight completed for the U.S.
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<i><span style="width: 304px;">The nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans is one of the most widely studied creatures on Earth</span></i></blockquote>
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Soon you could have an artificial creature living in your web browser.</div>
Programmers and scientists have joined together to try to create a comprehensive computer model of the <i>Caenorhabditis elegans</i> nematode worm.</blockquote>
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<i><span class="img-title">Elegant Elegans </span> <span class="img-summary"> The OpenWorm 3D Browser iPhone app lets you peek into C. elegans at the cellular level. </span> <span class="pic-credit"><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/openworm-browser/id595581306?mt=8">MetaCell, LLC</a></span></i></blockquote>
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Predictive models are essential in engineering fields, but less common in biology, though accurate simulations of living organisms could help us understand disease, drug efficacy and neuroscience. <br />
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<a data-ls-existing-link-tracked="1" data-ls-seen="1" href="http://www.openworm.org/">OpenWorm</a>, a new open-source project devoted to creating a complete virtual model of a worm, aims to bring simulation into the living world by creating a digital organism--<i><a href="http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-02/two-very-different-worms-share-same-neurons">C. elegans</a></i>, a nematode commonly used as a model organism in biology research.</blockquote>
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<b>Cambridge, Mass. - May 2, 2013 - </b>In the very early hours of the morning, in a Harvard robotics laboratory last summer, an insect took flight. Half the size of a paperclip, weighing less than a tenth of a gram, it leapt a few inches, hovered for a moment on fragile, flapping wings, and then sped along a preset route through the air.<br />
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Like a proud parent watching a child take its first steps, graduate student Pakpong Chirarattananon immediately captured a video of the fledgling and emailed it to his adviser and colleagues at 3 a.m.—subject line, "Flight of the RoboBee."<br />
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<i>The RoboBees project "provides a common motivation for scientists and engineers across the university to build smaller batteries, to design more efficient control systems, and to create stronger, more lightweight materials," says Harvard engineering professor Robert J. Wood. "You might not expect all of these people to work together: vision experts, biologists, materials scientists, electrical engineers. What do they have in common? Well, they all enjoy solving really hard problems." (Credit: Kevin Ma and Pakpong Chirarattananon, Harvard University.)</i></blockquote>
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The demonstration of the first controlled flight of an insect-sized robot is the culmination of more than a decade's work, led by researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard.<br />
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"This is what I have been trying to do for literally the last 12 years," says Robert J. Wood, Charles River Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences at SEAS, Wyss Core Faculty Member, and principal investigator of the National Science Foundation-supported RoboBee project. "It's really only because of this lab's recent breakthroughs in manufacturing, materials, and design that we have even been able to try this. And it just worked, spectacularly well."</blockquote>
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<span class="slug-vol"> Vol. 340 </span><span class="slug-issue"> no. 6132 </span><span class="slug-pages"> pp. 603-607 </span> <br />
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[...] MIT announced a new project, “An Expedition in Computing Printable Programmable Machines,” that aims to give everyone a chance to have his or her own robot.</blockquote>
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It currently takes years to produce, program and design a functioning robot, and is an extremely expensive process, involving hardware and software design, machine learning and vision, and advanced programming techniques. The new project would automate the process of producing functional 3-D devices and allow individuals to design and build functional robots from materials as easily accessible as a sheet of paper. <br />
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“Our vision is to develop an end-to-end process; specifically, a compiler for building physical machines that starts with a high level of specification of function, and delivers a programmable machine for that function using simple printing processes,” said Rus.</div>
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"This research revolutionizes the design and manufacturing of robots, with a profound potential impact on society," says Ralph Wachter, a program director in the NSF Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering. "It would remove barriers to manufacturing robots, making it possible for average citizens to customize and manufacture their own robots to meet their needs. This opens the door to great possibilities."</blockquote>
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Harnessing the wind's energy is the objective of a new project, which aims to provide an important breakthrough in offshore wind industrial solutions. <br />
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The EU-funded project, called SUPRAPOWER, is working on a more powerful, reliable and lightweight superconducting offshore wind turbine. The four-year project has the expertise of nine European partners from industry and science under the coordination of Tecnalia in Spain. </blockquote>
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SUPRAPOWER (SUPerconducting, Reliable, lightweight, And more POWERful offshore wind turbine) is an EU FP7 founded research project focused on a major innovation in offshore wind turbine technology by developing a new compact superconductor-based generator.<br />
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The project aims to provide an important breakthrough in offshore wind industrial solutions by designing an innovative, lightweight, robust and reliable 10 MW class offshore wind turbine based on a superconducting (SC) generator, taking into account all the essential aspects of electric conversion, integration and manufacturability.</blockquote>
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At heart, a wind turbine is simple - a series of wire coils attached to the rotor blade spin in the presence of strong magnetic fields, provided by stationary magnets. This generates a current, but the resistance in copper wire limits the amount of current that can flow through the coils. Making the coils from a resistance-free superconductor would cut down on weight and boost power generation.<br /></div>
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Using superconductors will not be easy, though, partly due to the ultra-low temperatures they require. Developing a coil that can be cooled while simultaneously rotating with the turbine blades is a big challenge. A research project dubbed Suprapower, funded by the European Union, kicked off in December to address this problem.</div>
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The project aims to provide an important breakthrough in offshore wind
industrial solutions by designing an innovative, lightweight, robust and
reliable 10 MW class offshore wind turbine based on a superconducting
(SC) generator, taking into account all the essential aspects of
electric conversion, integration and manufacturability.</blockquote>
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<li>To increase the reliability and efficiency of high power wind
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Source: <a href="http://www.tecnalia.com/en/energy-and-environment/news/tecnalia-revolutionize-offshore-wind-turbines-smaller.htm">TECNALIA will shake up offshore wind market with smaller wind turbines - Tecnalia. Inspiring Business</a></div>
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It would bypass the Stad peninsula in Selje, which is a very exposed area of the coast.<br />
The Norwegian government said that the tunnel will reduce accident risk and improve conditions for sailors along the coast. "This is a spectacular project that we are looking forward to taking on," said coastal director Kirsti Slotsvik.</blockquote>
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The Norwegian government has backed an ambitious plan to create the world's first ship tunnel. But why has nobody tackled this engineering feat before?</blockquote>
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The answer</h3>
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<li> The Stad peninsula is a mountainous finger of land where fierce weather conditions disrupt and endanger ships</li>
<li> Shipping is Norway's second most important industry after oil and gas</li>
<li> They are also world-leaders in tunnelling technology, having completed the world's longest road tunnel</li>
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The government has agreed to provide NOK1.6bn ($274m) for the Stad
Ship Tunnel, which will be built to a height of 45m, width of 36m and
will span a length of 1.7km.<br />
The proposed tunnel, which is being
planned by Nordfjord Vekst, would bypass the Stadlandet (Stad) peninsula
in Selje, Norway linking two fjords near the towns of Teigen and
Berstad.<br />
Peaking at 645m, the Stad peninsula is a mountainous
divide between the Norwegian Sea to the north and the North Sea to the
south.</blockquote>
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The researchers ran three different simulations of this mathematical butterfly, and found that the insect used the forces from teensy whirlpools in the air created during each flap of its wings to create lift. They noticed that the butterfly's flight was bumpy as it moved through the air, with lots of ups and downs as it pushed itself forward. </div>
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There were some surprises in the tiny flows of air surrounding the butterflies. "The flow around the butterfly is much more turbulent than expected," says Yokoyama. <br /><br />The researchers surmised that the minute bumpiness of the air causes
butterflies' signature flit, and also may help protect them against
predators – the more they duck and weave, the harder it is to catch
them. The research was <a href="http://pof.aip.org/resource/1/phfle6/v25/i2?&section=articles&page=1" target="_blank">published earlier this year in the journal Physics of Fluids</a>. </div>
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High speed video recorded at 3000 fps.<br />
See www.jhuinsectflight.com for more information on Tiras Lin's research project at Johns Hopkins University.</blockquote>
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<a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130325125644.htm">Mathematical butterflies provide insight into how insects fly</a></h2>
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Using data from observations of butterfly flight in wind tunnels, the
researchers conducted three different types of simulations with their
model that were defined by the position and attitude of the thorax:
tethered (where the thorax is fixed), prescribed (where the thorax is
programmed to move in an expected manner) and free-flight (where the
thorax movement is unrestricted). They found that their mathematical
butterfly did -- as predicted -- make use of the tiny, swirling vortices
that form in the direction of travel during a downward flap, pushing
air down and providing lift. However, they also observed that the flow
around the butterfly is much more turbulent than expected. This
turbulent flow triggers the complex trajectories characteristic to the
flights of butterflies that may be one of the strategies by which the
insects avoid predators.</blockquote>
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Aerodynamic forces and vortical structures in flapping butterfly's forward flight
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<span class="looklikelink authorname aqslistener">Naoto Yokoyama</span>,
<span class="looklikelink authorname aqslistener">Kei Senda</span>,
<span class="looklikelink authorname aqslistener">Makoto Iima</span>,
and
<span class="looklikelink authorname aqslistener">Norio Hirai</span>
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Phys. Fluids <strong>25</strong>, 021902 (2013); <a href="http://link.aip.org/link/doi/10.1063/1.4790882">http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4790882</a> (<em>24 pages</em>)
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Online Publication Date:
21 February 2013
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Curly hair tends to be much drier than straight <a href="http://www.livescience.com/health/041223_gray_hair.html">hair</a> because it is easier for the oils secreted from the scalp to travel down the shaft of a straight hair than a curly one (this is why curly hair often turns into frizzy hair).<br />
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And as anyone with curly hair knows, humidity can make your hair even curlier (or frizzier). The reason: Hair fiber absorbs the water and forces the shaft to revert to its original (less straight) structure. </blockquote>
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kiFGCjOVeYE/UWrriY30XYI/AAAAAAAAKhU/aLnpOWKnasY/s1600/cross-section.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kiFGCjOVeYE/UWrriY30XYI/AAAAAAAAKhU/aLnpOWKnasY/s320/cross-section.jpg" width="217" /></a>Hair’s chemical structure, it turns out, makes it unusually susceptible to changes in the amount of hydrogen present in the air, which is directly linked to humidity. Most of a hair’s bulk is made up of bundles of long keratin proteins, represented as the middle layer of black dots<b> </b>tightly<b> </b>packed together in the cross-section at right.<br /><br />[...]<br /><br />This type of bond is permanent—it’s responsible for the hair’s strength—and isn’t affected by the level of humidity in the air.
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But the other type of connection that can form between adjacent keratin proteins, a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_bond" target="_blank">hydrogen bond</a>,
is much weaker and temporary, with hydrogen bonds breaking and new ones
forming each time your hair gets wet and dries again. (This is the
reason why, if your hair dries in one shape, it tends to remain in
roughly that same shape over time.)</blockquote>
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<a href="http://toolboxes.flexiblelearning.net.au/demosites/series4/407/staff_room/magazines/hs_temporary_changes/hs1.htm#"><span class="glossary" style="color: #ff9966;">Hydrogen</span></a> bonds are weak physical cross bonds in the hair. When hair is wet, the hydrogen bonds are broken, allowing hair to be formed into a new shape. <br />
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When the hair is dried and cooled, they rejoin, allowing the hair to take on the new shape. </blockquote>
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Signals from a specific region of the brain can help scientists predict what music people are tempted to buy and how much money they're willing to spend on it, a new study suggests.<br />
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Research slated for publication Friday in the journal Science identified the particular area that becomes active when people hear a song for the very first time. Measuring activity in that area — known as the nucleus accumbens — allows scientists to accurately assess the degree to which people are enjoying the sounds they're hearin</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><strong>Neural harmony.</strong> Several brain regions work together to produce good vibrations when listening to favorite music.
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When jazz legend John Coltrane first heard Charlie Parker play the
saxophone, the music hit him "right between the eyes," he once said.
According to
neuroscientists, Coltrane was exactly right. When we hear music that
we like, even for the first time, a part of the brain's reward system
is activated, a
new study has shown. The region, called the nucleus accumbens,
determines how much we value the song—even predicting how much a person
is willing to pay
for the new track.
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Researchers scanned the brains of subjects while they listened to new songs and asked how much they would spend on buying the tracks. They found that the most popular songs - those which people were prepared to pay more for - were also the ones that elicited the strongest response in the nucleus accumbens, a structure in the centre of the brain that is involved in reward processing.<br />
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"This part of the brain is the part that has stored all the templates of the music we've heard in the past and will be unique for each individuals," she said. "The way that we like music is 100% unique to who we are and what we've heard in the past and the way that our superior temporal gyrus has been shaped. The brain is working a bit like a music-recommendation system."<br />
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The latest results shed further light into <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/jan/09/why-we-love-music-research" title="">Salimpoor's 2011 study</a>, which found that the experience of pleasure when listening to music was mediated by the release of the brain's reward chemical, dopamine. She said that music seemed to tap into the circuitry in the brain that had evolved to drive human motivation. This ancient reward system, when listening to music, was being used to provide a cognitive reward.</blockquote>
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The experience of pleasure is mediated in all these situations by the release of the brain's reward chemical, dopamine, according to results of experiments carried out by a team led by Valorie Salimpoor of McGill University in Montreal, Canada,<a href="http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nn.2726.html"> which are published today in Nature Neuroscience</a>.</blockquote>
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Today, the Silicon Valley startup is announcing a new line of Wave Glider robots propelled by waves and solar power. The Wave Glider SV3 is the world’s first unmanned ocean robot to use this kind of hybrid technology, according to an <a href="http://liquidr.com/news_events/press/2013/2013-04-08-sv3-announcement.html" target="_blank">official statement</a> from the company.</blockquote>
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Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Liquid Robotics gained a spot in history when
it announced in December that Papa Mau, one of its data-collecting
second-generation Wave Gliders, had <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2012/12/05/liquid-robotics-robot-vehicle-journeys-9000-miles-across-the-pacific-ocean/">floated more than 9,000 miles</a> across the Pacific Ocean.<br /><br />
Wave Gliders can collect data on weather in remote locations. They
can be used to monitor hurricanes, predict tsunamis, and monitor rare
marine life. Wave Gliders collect data on temperature, winds, humidity,
wind gusts, water temperature, water color, and water composition. They
can also take pictures. These robots are gathering a lot of
observational data about climate change, ocean acidification, fisheries
management, hurricane and tsunami warnings, and exploration — but in a
green way.</blockquote>
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<a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/04/wave-glider/">Sea Waves and Sunlight Power This Upgraded Naval Robot | Danger Room | Wired.com</a></h2>
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The Wave Glider SV3 is at the intersection of two others: robotics and
renewable energy. Senior Navy officials are hot to create an undersea
robot that can last great distances, performing missions that range from
<a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/03/robot-jellyfish/">aquatic surveillance</a> to <a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/01/robot-mine-sweeper/">mine destruction</a> to <a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/04/darpa-subs/">submarine hunting</a>.
Problem is, no engineer has figured out how to give the robots a
sufficiently long-lasting fuel source to power cross-oceanic transit — a
necessity, since the robot isn’t going to swim into port to refuel.
Which ties into another Navy necessity: immunizing its budget from the
fluctuations in fuel costs, especially as its efforts at using biofuels
ran into <a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/07/green-fleet/">major congressional obstruction</a>.</blockquote>
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Source: <a href="http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/04/wave-glider/">Sea Waves and Sunlight Power This Upgraded Naval Robot | Danger Room | Wired.com</a></div>
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First introduced in 2009, Wave Gliders have since traveled more than 300,000 nautical miles, set a world record for longest distance traveled by an autonomous vehicle, and been deployed on more than 100 customer missions ranging from the <a href="http://liquidr.com/news_events/testimonials/monitoring-arctic-sea-ice.html">Arctic</a> and <a href="http://liquidr.com/pacx/pacific-crossing.html">Australia</a>, to the <a href="http://liquidr.com/news_events/testimonials/undersea-volcano-study-el-hierro.html">Canary Islands</a> and <a href="http://www.pambuoy.co.uk/index.php/news/pambuoy-first-deployment-on-liquid-robotics-waveglider/" target="_blank">Loch Ness</a>.<br />
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The SV Series represents the next generation of Wave Glider technology and includes the Wave Glider <a href="http://liquidr.com/technology/sv2.html">SV2</a> with a compatible growth path to the high-end Wave Glider SV3. Customers can choose the Wave Glider that best fits their mission and budgetary requirements, or mix and match for complex operations.<br /><br />Download the <a href="https://liquidrb.box.com/shared/static/cuc6jhsb91por8dz5cfl.pdf" target="_blank">Wave Glider SV Series data sheet</a> (pdf)</blockquote>
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NIZO food research and biotech pioneer Medimetrics are bringing this a step nearer, using the latest micro-electronics. They have joined forces to create a means of sampling and mapping content from the <a href="http://www.news-medical.net/health/What-Does-the-Small-Intestine-Do.aspx">small intestine</a> to identify its microbiological composition, in a non-invasive way. </blockquote>
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Using the IntelliCap<sup> </sup>system, an intelligent capsule developed by Medimetrics (a company pioneered by Philips and now based in The Netherlands, Germany and the USA), it will be possible to take samples <i>in vivo,</i> at targeted locations, in a non-invasive way and, importantly, away from a clinical setting. IntelliCap is already being successfully used by the pharmaceutical industry for the targeted and controlled delivery of drugs in the human gastrointestinal tract. </blockquote>
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Medimetrics is the pioneer and global leader in electronic oral drug delivery. The company has created the IntelliCap system – the world’s first intelligent oral drug delivery and monitoring system. This flagship product is used to provice services and technology access to companies exploring controlled delivery and measurement of body conditions within the gastro-intestinal tract.</blockquote>
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Personalizable oral drug delivery has the potential to improve the therapeutic effects of existing drugs and to reduce side effects. It could even enable new types of drugs that can be delivered exactly to the required place in the body. <br /></div>
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Researchers at the University of Leeds may have solved a key puzzle about how objects from space could have kindled life on Earth. <br />
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“The mystery of how living organisms sprung out of lifeless rock has long puzzled scientists, but we think that the unusual phosphorus chemicals we found could be a precursor to the batteries that now power all life on Earth. But the fact that it developed simply, in conditions similar to the early Earth, suggests this could be the missing link between geology and biology,” said Dr Terry Kee, from the University’s School of Chemistry, who led the research.</blockquote>
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Experiments suggest that unusual phosphorus chemicals from meteorites could have given power to Earth’s “primordial soup.”</blockquote>
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To see whether pyrophosphite could have formed when meteorites landed on early Earth, Kee's team studied a Siberian meteorite that contained a lot of phosphorus. They incubated fragments of the meteorite in acidic water collected from volcanic ponds in Iceland, thought to be chemically similar to the water on primordial Earth. After four days in the water, the meteorite samples had released large quantities of phosphite. When this was dried out, it transformed into pyrophosphite (<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2012.12.043"><i>Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta</i>, doi.org/kzc</a>). "We have shown that it's very easy to form," Kee says.<br /></div>
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<i>Smithsonian</i> <a href="http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/04/this-giant-new-tarantula-has-an-eight-inch-leg-span/">reports</a> that <i>Poecilotheria rajaei</i>, a new species of Tiger Spider, has been found in Sri Lanka. The large spider has a leg span of eight inches. It is also poisonous and very fast. The discovery was reported in the <i>British Tarantula Society journal</i>. You can read the article <a href="http://www.academia.edu/3153255/A_new_species_of_Tiger_Spider_Genus_Poecilotheria_from_Northern_Sri_Lanka">here</a>. </blockquote>
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"It can be quite attractive, unless spiders freak you out," British Tarantula Society journal editor Peter Kirk said.<br />
Nanayakkara, a co-author of the study, named the new spider "Poecilotheria rajaei" in honor of a police officer who helped the research team wade through war-torn northern Sri Lanka.<br />
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"The first specimen of this new species, which was brought to the attention of the authors, was a dead specimen of a male which had been killed by local villagers," the study reads. "Upon close inspection it was noticed that it did not conform to the descriptions of any of the species of Poecilotheria so far described from the island."<br />
The Pokies are only found in India and Sri Lanka. They are colorful spiders, but not the largest — some tarantulas can be 12 inches in diameter.</blockquote>
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Scientists first encountered the new tarantula in 2009, when villagers in northern Sri Lanka gave them the corpse of one that they had killed. From there, the scientists went on a quest to find more, routing around in tree holes and bark peel with a foot-wide hand net. (Some scientists are tough as nails.) We’re not advocating for any harm to come to these little (gigantic) spiders, but we can certainly all admit that some creatures are just a little more nightmare-inducing than others.<br />
<a href="http://www.academia.edu/3153255/A_new_species_of_Tiger_Spider_Genus_Poecilotheria_from_Northern_Sri_Lanka" target="_blank">The new spider was just described in the British Tarantula Society Journal</a>. <i><a href="http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-04/3/giant-tarantula" target="_blank">Wired</a></i>:<br />
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Covered in beautiful, ornate markings, the spiders belong to the genus <i>Poecilotheria</i>, known as “Pokies” for short. These are the tiger spiders, an arboreal group indigenous to India and Sri Lanka that are known for being colourful, fast, and venomous.</blockquote>
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<a href="http://mashable.com/2013/03/28/activision-uncanny/">Mashable asks the pertinent, philosophical question</a>: Does this next-generation animation cross the so-called "uncanny valley?"<br />
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The term was coined in 1970 by the Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori. He said humans can relate to robots — think R2-D2 — but once they get too humanlike, but not close enough — think the animated Angelina Jolie in <i>Beowulf</i> — they feel disgust. That disgust — that "uncanny valley" — subsides at the other side: when the robot is indistinguishable from reality.<br />
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We believe this technology brings current generation characters, into next generation life. At 180 fps in a Geforce GTX 680.<br />
The team behind this technology consists on Javier Von Der Pahlen (Director of R&D), Etienne Danvoye (Technical Director), Bernardo Antoniazzi (Techical Art Director), Zbyněk Kysela (Modeler and Texture Artist), Mike Eheler (Programming & Support) and me (Real-Time Graphics R&D).<br />
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Astronomers have discovered a new kind of supernova, a star explosion so weak that scientists dubbed it a miniature stellar blast.<br />
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This artist's conception shows the suspected progenitor of a new kind of mini supernova called Type Iax. Material from a hot, blue helium star at right is funneling toward a carbon/oxygen white dwarf star at left, which is embedded in an accretion disk. In many cases the white dwarf survives the subsequent explosion. Image released March 26, 2013. CREDIT: Christine Pulliam (CfA) </i></blockquote>
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Heart care is in the midst of a transformation. Many problems that once required sawing through the breastbone and opening up the chest for <span class="yshortcuts cs4-visible" id="lw_1364198044182_2">open heart surgery</span> now can be treated with a nip, twist or patch through a tube.</div>
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All rely on catheters — hollow tubes that let doctors burn away and reshape heart tissue or correct defects through small holes in blood vessels.<br />
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"This is the replacement for the surgeon's knife. Instead of opening the chest, we're able to put catheters in through the leg, sometimes through the arm," said Dr. Spencer King of St. Joseph's Heart and Vascular Institute in Atlanta. He is former president of the <span class="yshortcuts cs4-ndcor" id="lw_1364198044182_3">American College of Cardiology</span>. Its conference earlier this month featured research on these novel devices.</div>
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The problem had been cracked by Dr. Taylor. She said that when human stem cells were put into a heart scaffold in 2010, they seemed to know just where to go. "They organized themselves in a way I didn't believe," said Dr. Taylor, who now works at the Texas Heart Institute but makes regular visits to Madrid to help with the experiments. "It's amazing that the [scaffold] can be as instructional as it is. Maybe we don't need to micromanage every aspect of this." </blockquote>
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A person's heart grows in the womb where its cells receive the right mixtures of oxygen and nutrients and chemicals to grow into a working organ. To duplicate that process in a laboratory, scientists uses a device called a bioreactor, which has various tubes ferrying materials to the heart and whisking away waste products. The lab's bioreactor—a cylindrical device nearly a foot in diameter—is being designed by <a class="companyRollover link11unvisited" data-ls-seen="1" href="http://online.wsj.com/public/quotes/main.html?type=djn&symbol=HBIO">Harvard Bioscience</a> Inc., <span data-change="0.2" data-changepercent="3.6101083032490973" data-company-name="Harvard Bioscience Inc." data-country="US" data-datetime="Mar. 22, 2013 4:00 PM" data-exchange-iso="XNAS" data-iso="$" data-offset="-4" data-pc="5.540" data-price="5.74" data-ticker-name="HBIO" data-ticker="HBIO" data-volume="114313.00" data-widget="dj.ticker" id="0.6143776637358872"><a class="tkrQuote tkrPositive" data-ls-seen="1" href="http://online.wsj.com/public/quotes/main.html?type=djn&symbol=HBIO?mod=inlineTicker" target=""><span class="tkrName">HBIO</span> <span class="tkrChange">+3.61%</span></a></span> a maker of medical devices in Holliston, Mass. The machine will be ready for experiments in April, according to Dr. Aviles. </blockquote>
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Dr. Aviles said he hopes to have a working, lab-made version ready in five or six years, but the regulatory and safety hurdles for putting such an organ in a patient will be high. The most realistic scenario, he said, is that "in about 10 years" his lab will be transplanting heart parts. <br />
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IBM scientists <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2013/03/21/ibm-creates-liquid-based-transistors-that-can-process-data-like-the-human-brain/">described a new kind of circuit</a> in a paper published in <i>Science</i> on Thursday. There is no chip involve, per se. It's being described accurately as a "post-silicon transistor" and potentially paves the way for the most powerful and efficient computers the world has ever seen. This is possible largely because it mimics the behavior of another hyper-efficient computational marvel: the human brain.</blockquote>
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The new technology is based on materials called “correlated electron
oxides,” which can be combined with an ionic liquid, or a mixture where
half of the molecules carry a positive charge and half are negative.
When you apply a tiny ionic voltage to the liquid, the charged particles
move to opposite sides of the surface of the oxide material. The charge
leaves the oxide and goes into the liquid, changing its conductive
state from an insulator to a metal, or from something that does not
conduct electricity to something that does.<br /><br />
And it maintains its electrical state until another charge is
applied. That part of the research is new and is particularly
encouraging. IBM believes it can create non-volatile memory, or chips
that save data whether electricity is on or off. It can also make logic
chips that would use less power than today’s silicon-based semiconductor
chips, which are the brains of everything electronic.</blockquote>
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The I.B.M. researchers hope that their approach could be used to build more brain-like computers.<br /><br />
The advantage of the new method is that it is both nonvolatile — it
requires only a small amount of electricity to change the materials from
one state to another, and they then remain in that state — and is
potentially reversible, meaning that it could be used to build a device
like a transistor.<br /><br />
The researchers noted that while the switching speed of the new
materials might never match the raw speed of today’s transistors, their
biological-like qualities might make them appropriate for building a new
generation of sensors or memories.</blockquote>
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The 100-megawatt plant, called Shams 1, is a first step in a plan to make seven percent of Abu Dhabi's energy resources renewable, Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, head of the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company, said during a news conference. Abu Dhabi is part of the United Arab Emirates, which are famed for their oil wealth. The emirates rank <a data-ls-seen="1" href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ae.html">13th in the world</a> for per capita GDP, a standing driven mostly by their oil exports.<br />
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The new plant includes a huge field of parabolic mirrors located in the desert about 74 miles (120 kilometers) south of Abu Dhabi. Shams 1 will serve 20,000 homes and cost an estimated $600 million to build, the <a data-ls-existing-link-tracked="1" data-ls-seen="1" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21830846">BBC reported</a>. Similar Shams 2 and Shams 3 plants are in the works, <a data-ls-existing-link-tracked="1" data-ls-seen="1" href="http://cleantechnica.com/2012/11/25/largest-solar-power-plant-in-world-nears-completion-in-abu-dhabi/">Clean Technica reported</a>.</blockquote>
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The Shams 1 plant is just one of several ambitious solar projects in the Middle East: Noor-1, a 100-megawatt solar photovoltaic facility planned for the UAE, is expected to begin development later this year, the <a href="http://www.thenational.ae/thenationalconversation/industry-insights/energy/masdar-sets-sights-on-saudi-solar-market">National</a> reports. <br />
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And Saudi Arabia plans to generate 100 percent of its energy needs from renewable sources by 2032, according to <a href="http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/24526">SustainableBusiness.com</a>, while Qatar's renewable energy target is 1.8 gigawatts by 2014.</blockquote>
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Water in faults vaporizes during an earthquake, depositing gold, according to a model published in the March 17 issue of the journal Nature Geoscience. The model provides a quantitative mechanism for the link between gold and quartz seen in many of the world's gold deposits, said Dion Weatherley, a geophysicist at the University of Queensland in Australia and lead author of the study.</blockquote>
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When an earthquake strikes, it moves along a rupture in the ground — a fracture called a fault. Big faults can have many small fractures along their length, connected by jogs that appear as rectangular voids. <a href="http://www.ouramazingplanet.com/2093-saltwater-factors-san-andreas-shaking.html">Water often lubricates faults</a>, filling in fractures and jogs. <br />
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About 6 miles (10 kilometers) below the surface, under incredible temperatures and pressures, the water carries high concentrations of carbon dioxide, silica and economically attractive elements like <a href="http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/288-what-is-a-gold-karat.html">gold</a>.</blockquote>
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<a href="http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-03/15/robot-swarms">Study: brainless robots swarm just like animals (Wired UK)</a></h2>
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Swarming patterns and herding behaviours have been observed throughout the animal kingdom. Scientists and mathematicians have pondered the cause of complex relationships and group dynamics at work that allow schools of fish, such as herring, and flocks of birds, such as starlings, to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoaling_and_schooling">move together in apparent unity</a> -- and now, in an interesting twist to the discussion, a team of engineers from Harvard University has observed apparent collective behaviour in brainless robots.</blockquote>
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Source: <a href="http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-03/15/robot-swarms">Study: brainless robots swarm just like animals (Wired UK)</a></div>
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