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Japanese Cargo Ship Launches to Space Station - 0 views

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scibyte55 iss japanese

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  • Japanese resupply ship, the HTV-3 “Kountouri” (White Stork) launched Saturday
  • at 02:06 UTC.
  • contains supplies such as food, clothing and equipment for experiments
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  • should reach the ISS on July 27,
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Japanese researchers build robot with most humanlike muscle-skeleton structure yet (w/ ... - 0 views

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scibyte75 robot

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  • Called Kenshiro, the robot has been demonstrated at the recent Humanoids 2012 conference in Osaka, Japan
  • previous effort resulted in a robot they called Kojiro
  • Kenshiro was preceded by a robot concept the team called Kenzoh
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  • the team found that simply adding artificial muscle and bones generally tended to create weight problems
  • upper body alone came to 45 kg
  • with the idea of mimicking human bone and muscle at the individual body part level, i.e. a backbone, calf, or knee joint
  • Each part was custom designed to fall within the weight parameters of actual human limbs and other parts of the body.
  • a robot sized to approximate the average 12 year old Japanese boy
  • bones made of aluminum
  • connected together
  • the way human bones are connected
  • artificial ligaments
  • and a collection of muscles that mimic very closely those in the human body
  • Kenshiro has 160 muscles that are constructed using a single actuator motor for individual muscle groups
  • appears to be a collection of parts cobbled together to form a single whole
  • The robot can walk, but just barely
  • can do deep knee bends, but the rest of the body seems out of sync
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Japanese Team Claims Discovery Of Elusive Element 113, And May Get To Name It | Popular... - 0 views

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shared by Mars Base on 30 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Japanese researchers claim they’ve seen conclusive evidence of the long-sought element 113, a super-heavy, super-unstable element near the bottom of the periodic table
  • not yet verified by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry
  • if the IUPAC grants its blessing, the researchers could be the first team from Asia to name one of nature’s fundamental atoms.
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  • Super-heavy elements do not occur in nature and have to be discovered in the lab, using particle accelerators, nuclear reactors, ion separators and other complex equipment
  • Science have been hunting for 113 for nine years, and have claimed to see it a few times already — but the evidence has never been this clear,
  • the team used a customized gas-filled recoil ion separator paired with a semiconductor detector that can pick out atomic reaction products
  • created element 113 by speeding zinc ions through a linear accelerator until they reached 10 percent of the speed of light.
  • ions then smashed into a piece of bismuth. When the zinc and bismuth atoms fused, they produced an atom with 113 protons
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Japanese Satellite to Write Morse Code in Sky | Space.com - 0 views

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scibyte56 FITSAT-1

shared by Mars Base on 25 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • robotic Japanese cargo vessel now en route to the International Space Station is loaded with food, clothes, equipment — and a set of tiny amateur radio satellites, including one that will write Morse code messages in the sky
  • slated to arrive at the station
  • July 27
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  • ultrasmall satellites it's carrying, which are known as cubesats, will likely remain on the orbiting lab until September
  • using the Kibo module's robotic arm.
  • One of the cubesats, FITSAT-1, will write messages in the night sky with Morse code, helping researchers test out optical communication techniques for satellites, researchers said.
  • One of FITSAT-1's experimental duties is to twinkle as an artificial star
  • just under 3 pounds (1.33 kilograms
  • high power light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that will produce extremely bright flashes.
  • hope, will be observable by the unaided eye or with small binoculars
  • the cubesat's high-output LEDs will blink in flash mode, generating a Morse code beacon signal.
  • contains a neodymium magnet that forces it to always point to magnetic north, like a compass.
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Cargo Ship Launches to ISS - YouTube - 0 views

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Heart repair breakthroughs replace surgeon's knife - 0 views

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  • Many problems that once required sawing through the breastbone and opening up the chest for open heart surgery now can be treated
  • through a tube
  • These minimal procedures used to be done just to unclog arteries and correct less common heart rhythm problems
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  • Now some patients are getting such repairs for valves, irregular heartbeats, holes in the heart and other defects—without major surgery
  • Doctors even are testing ways to treat high blood pressure with some of these new approaches
  • Instead of opening the chest, we're able to put catheters in through the leg, sometimes through the arm
  • Many patients after having this kind of procedure in a day or two can go home
  • It may lead to cheaper treatment, although the initial cost of the novel devices often offsets the savings from shorter hospital stays
  • Not everyone can have catheter treatment, and some promising devices have hit snags in testing
  • Others on the market now are so new that it will take several years to see if their results last as long as the benefits from surgery do.
  • these procedures have allowed many people too old or frail for an operation to get help for problems that otherwise would likely kill them
  • You can do these on 90-year-old patients
  • also offer an option for people who cannot tolerate long-term use of blood thinners or other drugs to manage their conditions
  • Heart valves
  • Millions of people have leaky heart valves. Each year, more than 100,000 people in the United States alone have surgery for them
  • Without a valve replacement operation, half of these patients die within two years, yet many are too weak to have one.
  • just over a year ago,
  • Edwards Lifesciences Corp. won approval to sell an artificial aortic valve flexible and small enough to fit into a catheter and be wedged inside the bad one
  • At first it was just for inoperable patients. Last fall, use was expanded to include people able to have surgery but at high risk of complications.
  • Catheter-based treatments for other valves also are in testing. One for the mitral valve
  • mixed review by federal Food and Drug Administration advisers this week; whether it will win FDA approval is unclear. It is already sold in Europe
  • Heart rhythm problems
  • Catheters can contain tools to vaporize or "ablate" bits of heart tissue that cause abnormal signals that control the heartbeat
  • Now catheter ablation is being used for the most common rhythm problem—atrial fibrillation, which plagues about 3 million Americans and 15 million people worldwide.
  • Ablation addresses the underlying rhythm problem. To address the stroke risk from pooled blood, several novel devices aim to plug or seal off the pouch
  • The upper chambers of the heart quiver or beat too fast or too slow. That lets blood pool in a small pouch off one of these chambers
  • Clots can form in the pouch and travel to the brain, causing a stroke
  • a tiny lasso to cinch the pouch shut. It uses two catheters that act like chopsticks. One goes through a blood vessel and into the pouch to help guide placement of the device, which is contained in a second catheter poked under the ribs to the outside of the heart. A loop is released to circle the top of the pouch where it meets the heart, sealing off the pouch.
  • A different kind of device
  • sold in Europe and parts of Asia, but is pending before the FDA in the U.S
  • like a tiny umbrella pushed through a vein and then opened inside the heart to plug the troublesome pouch.
  • Early results from a pivotal study released by the company suggested it would miss a key goal, making its future in the U.S. uncertain.
  • Heart defects
  • St. Jude Medical Inc.'s Amplatzer is a fabric-mesh patch threaded through catheters to plug the hole
  • In two new studies, the device did not meet the main goal of lowering the risk of repeat strokes in people who had already suffered one, but some doctors were encouraged by other results
  • Сlogged arteries
  • The original catheter-based treatment—balloon angioplasty—is still used hundreds of thousands of times each year in the U.S. alone
  • A Japanese company, Terumo Corp., is one of the leaders of a new way to do it that is easier on patients—through a catheter in the arm rather than the groin
  • Newer stents that prop arteries open and then dissolve over time, aimed at reducing the risk of blood clots, also are in late-stage testing
  • High blood pressure
  • About
  • 1 billion people worldwide have high blood pressure, a major risk factor for heart attacks
  • Researchers are testing a possible long-term fix for dangerously high pressure that can't be controlled with multiple medications.
  • uses a catheter and radio waves to zap nerves, located near the kidneys, which fuel high blood pressure
  • At least one device is approved in Europe and several companies are testing devices in the United States
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Moon's Mysterious 'Ocean of Storms' Explained | Moon Impact Hypothesis | Space.com - 0 views

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  • The largest dark spot on the moon, known as the Ocean of Storms, may be a scar from a giant cosmic impact that created a magma sea more than a thousand miles wide and several hundred miles deep
  • could help explain why the moon's near and far sides are so very different from one another,
  • Scientists analyzed Oceanus Procellarum, or the Ocean of Storms, a dark spot on the near side of the moon more than 1,800 miles (3,000 kilometers) wide.
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  • near side of the moon,
  • , is quite different from the far side,
  • the moon's dark side (this side does in fact get sunlight — it simply never faces Earth
  • , widespread plains of volcanic rock called "maria" (Latin for seas) cover nearly a third of the near side, but only a few maria are seen on the far one.
  • hers have posed a number of explanations for the vast disparity between the moon's near and far sides. Some have suggested that a tiny second moon may once have orbited Earth before catastrophically slamming into the other moon, spreading its remains mostly on the moon's far side
  • Others have proposed that Earth's pull on the moon caused distortions that were later frozen in place on the moon's near side.
  • Mars' northern and southern halves are also stark contrasts from one another, and researchers had suggested that a monstrous impact may have been the cause
  • scientists in Japan say that a giant collision may also explain the moon's two-faced nature, one that gave rise to the Ocean of Storms
  • researchers analyzed the composition of the moon's surface using data from the Japanese lunar orbiter Kaguya/Selene
  • data revealed that a low-calcium variety of the mineral pyroxene is concentrated around Oceanus Procellarum and large impact craters such as the South Pole-Aitkenand Imbriumbasins.
  • type of pyroxene is linked with the melting and excavation of material from the lunar mantle, and suggests the Ocean of Storms is a leftover from a cataclysmic impact.
  • This collision would have generated "a 3,000-kilometer (1,800-mile) wide magma sea several hundred kilometers in depth
  • that collisions large enough to create Oceanus Procellarum and the moon's other giant impact basins would have completely stripped the original crust on the near side of the moon
  • crust that later formed there from the molten rock left after these impacts would differ dramatically from that on the far side
  • Some researchers had speculated that the Procellarum basin was the relic of a gigantic impact
  • this idea was hotly debated because there were no definite topographic signs it was an impact basin
  • neighboring Earth likely experienced similar-sized impacts around the same period
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Japan firm launches real-time telephone translation - 0 views

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  • application for NTT DoCoMo subscribers will give two-way voice and text readouts of conversations between Japanese speakers and those talking in English, Chinese or Korean with a several-second delay
  • a free application that can be used on smartphones and tablet computers with the Android operating system
  • Customers will also be able to call landlines using the service, it said, adding that voice-to-text readouts will soon be available in French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Thai
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  • d the service does not offer perfect translations and has trouble deciphering some dialects
  • launched a separate service that lets users translate menus and signage using the smartphone camera
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Soybeans soaked in warm water naturally release key cancer-fighting substance - 0 views

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scibyte46 medical Cancer MedicalTreatment

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  • Soybeans soaked in warm water naturally release key cancer-fighting substance
  • Protease Inhibitor (BBI), has shown promise for preventing certain forms of cancer in clinical trials.
  • BBI derived from the large amounts of soybeans in traditional Japanese diets might underpin low cancer mortality rates in Japan
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  • the current method of extracting BBI from soybeans is time-consuming and involves harsh chemicals
  • soybean seeds incubated in water at 122 degrees Fahrenheit naturally release large amounts of BBI that can easily be harvested from the water
  • protein appeared to be active
  • tests showing that it stopped breast cancer cells from dividing in a laboratory dish
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Astronaut Builds LEGO Space Station While Inside Real Space Station | LEGO in Space & L... - 0 views

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scibyte38 lego SpaceStation

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  • took more than 200 astronauts from 12 countries more than a dozen years to build the International Space Station (ISS).
  • , an astronaut from Japan, matched that feat in just about two hours
  • his space station was made out of LEGO.
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  • approximately two-foot (0.6-meter) long model, which replicated the nearly 360-foot (110-meter) space station was more than just a toy
  • other building brick sets that were launched last year, the LEGO space station was part of an educational collaboration between the Danish toy company and NASA.
  • used it as a demonstration for a series of recorded videos aimed at engaging and educating children about living and working in space
  • LEGO's version of the International Space Station built by astronauts living aboard the real orbiting complex
  • Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa poses with the LEGO model of the International Space Station that he built on board the real space station.
  • Although building the LEGO space station was an activity aimed at students, it was not all child's play.
  • LEGOs are an example of something that is a lot of fun on the ground but it can be very frustrating when you have a lot of loose floating pieces
  • To keep the bricks contained and to protect against some potentially serious dangers
  • pieced together the model inside a glovebox — a sealed container with gloves built into its sides to allow the contents to be manipulated
  • crew members use a more complex glovebox to conduct science experiments with hazardous materials
  • don't have all of these little pieces getting loose and becoming either lost or potentially getting jammed in equipment or even becoming a flammability hazard."
  • Fire is usually not one of the warnings that people find on the side of LEGO boxes.
  • there are flammability concerns about the LEGOs
  • challenging part was using the thick rubber gloves in the containment system because it made me clumsy in building the LEGO space station
  • real space station was declared "assembly complete" on May 29, 2011
  • the model was launched in partially-preassembled "chunks" to help make up for the difficulties working with very small pieces in microgravity
  • The space station could not be launched fully-assembled, because like the real orbiting outpost, it could only be built in space
  • It's a solid model but I believe it can't bear its own weight under gravity
  • LEGO station's time fully assembled was short lived however
  • Due to the flammability hazards, the toy bricks could only be exposed to the open cabin air for two hours.
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Spandex manufacturer makes elastic electrical cable (w/ video) - 0 views

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  • Japanese company Asahi Kasei Fibers
  • has applied its knowledge of stretchable materials to make stretchable elastic power and USB cables
  • originally designed the elastic cable material, called Roboden, for wiring the soft, flexible skin of humanoid robots
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  • human skin can stretch by a factor of 1.5
  • the wiring can stretch with the robots’ movements, such as twisting and turning, without losing its ability to transfer power and data.
  • the elastic cables could prove useful for minimizing cord clutter in homes and offices
  • made of an outer elastic shell with spiraled internal wiring that unspirals when pulled
  • Another application of the elastic cables could be wearable electronics - possibly for health-monitoring materials, wearable solar panels, and futuristic electronic clothing fashions
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Delay for space station's 1st private cargo run (Update) - 0 views

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  • SpaceX planned to launch its unmanned supply ship from Cape Canaveral on Feb. 7
  • company said more testing was needed with the spacecraft, named Dragon
  • confirmed the launch would not occur until late March.
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  • as much as he'd like to take part in the historic event, it's important that SpaceX fly when it's ready. Burbank will return to Earth in mid-March.
  • Just over a year ago
  • Space Ex
  • launched a test version of the capsule
  • NASA is counting on companies like SpaceX to keep the station stocked, now that the shuttles are retired.
  • Russian, European and Japanese space agencies - all government entities - are picking up the slack as best they can, sending up regular shipments to the orbiting outpost
  • It may take a little more time, but when it happens, it's going to be amazing
  • first Dragon capsule to visit the space station will carry several hundred pounds of astronaut provisions - nothing crucial, in case of a failure
  • Astronauts aboard the space station will use a huge robot arm to grab and berth the Dragon
  • it will be able to return scientific samples to Earth, Burbank noted. None of the other countries' supply ships can do that; they burn up on re-entry.
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Water Ice in Moon's Shackleton Crater Identified | Space.com - 0 views

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LunarWater

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  • sits almost directly on the moon's south
  • more than 12 miles wide (19 kilometers) and 2 miles deep (3 km) — about as deep as Earth's oceans.
  • in nearly perpetual darkness
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  • Japanese spacecraft Kaguya saw no discernible signs of
  • NASA's LCROSS probe analyzed Cabeus Crater near the moon's south pole and found it measured as much as 5 percent water by mass
  • crater's floor is more reflective than that of other nearby craters, suggesting it had ice.
  • The amount of ice in Shackleton Crater "can also be much less, conceivably as little as zero
  • Bizarrely, while the crater's floor was relatively bright, Zuber and her colleagues observed that its walls were even more reflective.
  • researchers think the reflectance of the crater's walls is due not to ice, but to quakes
  • may have caused Shackleton's walls to slough off older, darker soil, revealing newer, brighter soil underneath
  • reflectance could be indicative of something else in addition to or other than water ice
  • might be reflective because it could have had relatively little exposure to solar and cosmic radiation that would have darkened it.
  • measurements only look at a micron-thick portion of Shackleton Crater's uppermost layer
  • bigger question is how much water might be buried at depth
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January 26 - Today in Science History - Scientists born on January 26th, died, and events - 0 views

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  • Canadian earthquake   In 1700, an earthquake, the most intense Canada has ever seen, hit the sea floor off the British Columbia coast. Long before Europeans first landed on Vancouver Island, native legend tells of a great disaster. The sea rose in a heaving wave, and landslides buried a sleeping village. Myth was resolved with science in 2003 by government research. Earthquakes of that intensity cause tidal waves, and Japanese written history tells of a massive tsunami striking fishing villages the next day along the coast of Honshu, killing hundreds. Coupled with geological evidence of the level 9 quake, the connection was clear. Mythology and seismology came together to validate history.
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Scientists Identify Cause of Japan's Devastating 2011 Tsunami - 0 views

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  • In March 2011, a devastating tsunami struck Japan's Tohoku region
  • Now, researchers have uncovered the cause of this tsunami, shedding light on what displaced the seafloor off the northeastern coast of Japan
  • Learning more about the 2011 tsunami and its causes is an important step for monitoring future events.
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  • could help researchers provide earlier warnings
  • During their study
  • scientists underwent a 50-day expedition on the Japanese drilling vessel Chikyu
  • They then drilled three holes in the Japan Trench area in order to study the rupture zone of the 2011 earthquake
  • a fault in the ocean floor where two of Earth's major tectonic plates meet deep beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean.
  • The conventional view among geologists
  • has been that deep beneath the seafloor, where rocks are strong, movements of the plates can generate a lot of elastic rebound
  • Closer to the surface of the seafloor, where rocks are softer and less compressed, this rebound effect was thought to taper off
  • In fact
  • the largest displacement of plates before the 2011 tsunami occurred in 1960 off the coast of Chile
  • That's when a powerful earthquake displaced seafloor plates by an average of 20 meters
  • The Tohoku earthquake, in contrast, displaced its own plates by 30 to 50 meters.
  • So what caused this unexpectedly violent slip
  • the fault itself is very thin--less than five meters thick in the area sampled.
  • makes it the thinnest plate boundary on Earth.
  • In addition, clay deposits that fill the narrow fault are made of extremely fine sediment, which makes it extremely slippery
  • these findings don't just show researchers a bit more about the past; they also have implications for the future
  • Other subduction zones in the northwest Pacific where this type of clay is present--from Russia's Kamchatka peninsula to the Aleutian Islands--may also be capable of generating similar, huge earthquakes
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