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materials tend to cover elementary classroom wall

new research from Carnegie Mellon University shows that too much

may end up disrupting attention and learning in young children

Scientists have now demonstrated the feasibility of flying via brain control -- with astonishing accuracy

first breakthrough

succeeded in demonstrating that brain-controlled flight is indeed possible -- with amazing precision

Students at Brigham Young University recently launched the "Signglasses"

project in an attempt to develop a better system of sign language for narration through several types of glasses, including Google Glass.

Two of professor

Heart defect detection

In 1961, the success of a mass-screening field-test for the detection of heart defects in children was announced by the American Heart Association. A child's tape-recorded heart sounds were amplified and filtered, so distinctive murmers and abnormal sounds could be recognized. The system “permits a relatively few trained cardiologists to rapidly screen large numbers of children” and “finds heart disease with an accuracy of 91 percent,” reported the New York Times the next day. From Apr 1959 to Jul 1960, with equipment housed in a trailer and moved between Chicago schools, 33,026 children were recorded. Of these 506 were indentified for further examination, and 64 of those were followed up, some with corrective surgery. Such ailments as rheumatic disease and inborn defects are best treated in childhood.

Ultrasound article

In 1958, a seminal article that launched the widespread use of ultrasound in medical diagnosis was published in The Lancet by Ian Donald, an English physician. After a few years developing the experimental use of ultrasound, Donald had applied it to treat patients in his hospital. In the Lancet article, Investigation of Abdominal Masses by Pulsed Ultrasound, he described how he was able to make the life-saving diagnosis of a huge, easily removable, ovarian cyst in a woman who had been diagnosed by others as having inoperable stomach cancer. Donald knew about sonar from his service in WW II, and industrial use of reflected ultrasound waves for flaw detection in materials, and with help from others, he launched its use in medicine

The vehicle holds seats for 7 passengers, and includes an Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS) that provides a comfortable environment for crewmembers

Dragon V2’s robust thermal protection system is capable of lunar missions, in addition to flights to and from Earth orbit

The team successfully established contact that afternoon — notwithstanding a minor earthquake in the area — at a heart-thumping transmission rate of 512 bits per second.

approval from NASA to attempt contact, and that go-ahead came on May 29th

the previous version of the Dragon capsule was flightworthy enough to deliver supplies, its life support system wasn’t reliable for human passengers

Dragon V2, on the other hand, will be able to carry seven astronauts for seven days.

When the capsule reaches the ISS, it will dock with the station autonomously. Unlike its predecessor, it won’t need the ISS’s robotic arm to reach out and grab it

Lyme disease is a stealthy, often misdiagnosed disease that was only recognized about 40 years ago

new discoveries of ticks fossilized in amber show that the bacteria which cause it may have been lurking around for 15 million years

The findings were made

In 30 years of studying diseases revealed in the fossil record, the scientist has documented the ancient presence of such diseases as malaria, leishmania, and others.

Lyme disease

can cause problems with joints, the heart and central nervous system

technicians at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida have attached the world’s largest heat shield to a pathfinding version of NASA’s Orion crew capsule

test flight later this Fall on a crucial mission dubbed Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1)

One of the primary goals of NASA’s eagerly anticipated Orion EFT-1 uncrewed test flight is to test the efficacy of the heat shield in protecting the vehicle – and future human astronauts

the only two deaf students to ever take Professor Jones’ computer science class

signed up just as the National Science Foundation funded Jones’ signglasses research

“Having a group of students who are fluent in sign language here at the university has been huge,

spacecraft has two transponders,

transponder A and Transponder B

Transponder B is normally the engineering telemetry transponder and transponder A is the ranging transponder

It has 4 large antennas that span 91 meters and it spins

once every 3 seconds

Using GNU Radio to Talk to ISEE-3

Sunspots

In 1611, a publication on the newly discovered phenomenon of sunspots was dedicated. Narratio de maculis in sole observatis et apparente earum cum sole conversione. (“Narration on Spots Observed on the Sun and their Apparent Rotation with the Sun”). This first publication on such observations, was the work of Johannes Fabricius, a Dutch astronomer who was perhaps the first ever to observe sunspots. On 9 Mar 1611, at dawn, Johannes had used his telescope to view the rising sun and had seen several dark spots on it. He called his father to investigate this new phenomenon with him. The brightness of the Sun's center was very painful, and the two quickly switched to a projection method by means of a camera obscura

Lightning experiment

Armstrong demonstration of FM radio to FCC

In 1936, Edwin H. Armstrong demonstrated his invention of FM radio in Washington D.C. to a fact-finding investigation conducted by the Federal Communications Commission into the future of radio and television. His revolutionary method modulated the frequency of a broadcast radio wave to carry the audio signal (FM), instead of the existing use of amplitude modulation (AM). Armstrong's new system utilized a higher frequency band than was used by existing commercial radio transmitters. It eliminated all static and outside interference. Several hundred representatives of the radio industry were present. Armstrong presented the differences between the old and new methods with a series of sound-film recordings of the same program under the different conditions. FM was clear of the hissing, buzzing and crackling static noises of AM

Intense light from the enormous explosion of a star more than 12 billion years ago -- shortly after the Big Bang -- recently reached Earth and was visible in the sky.

Known as a gamma-ray burst, the intense light captured in the night sky resulted from one of the biggest and hottest explosions in the universe, occurring shortly after the Big Bang