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Bendable battery and LED make up the first functional all-flexible electronic system - 0 views

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GrabBag FlexBattery

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  • By connecting a new flexible, thin-film Li-ion battery to a flexible organic LED, a team of researchers from South Korea has demonstrated the first fully functional all-flexible electronic system
  • total integration of a flexible display and battery on a single plastic substrate without the help of bulk electronics
  • relies on a new fabrication method that enables flexible batteries to work with a variety of electrode materials, overcoming previous electrode limitations
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  • new bendable Li-ion battery
  • several other flexible Li-ion batteries have been developed already, none has achieved a sufficient performance in operation stability to be applied to commercial products
  • the electrodes for these batteries can only be made of a few materials due to fabrication difficulties, and
  • don’t have very good performance
  • one type of ideal cathode material would be a lithium transition metal oxide
  • researchers developed a fabrication technique that allows them to thermo-treat the electrode material, enabling the use of almost any material as an electrode
  • depositing the battery materials onto a brittle mica substrate
  • Then, using sticky tape, the researchers peeled the mica substrate away, layer by layer
  • After about 10 minutes of peeling, the researchers could remove the entire mica substrate without damaging the thin-film battery.
  • Next, the flexible battery is transferred onto a flexible polymer sheet and capped with another flexible polymer sheet
  • tests, the researchers demonstrated that the new flexible Li-ion battery has the highest charging voltage (4.2 V) and charging capacity (106 μAh/cm2) ever achieved for flexible Li-ion batteries
  • also demonstrated that the battery could be bent with a high curvature angle
  • after 100 charge-discharge cycles, the battery lost some of its capacity
  • Depending on the degree of bending deformation, it maintained between 88.2% and 98.4% of its original capacity.
  • In the future, the researchers plan to improve the battery performance, particularly its energy density, as well as work on mass production through a one-step laser lift-off process instead of using sticky tape
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Spanish group demos "Hiriko" fold-up urban EV (w/ Video) - 0 views

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car GrabBag

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  • an electric vehicle that when driven is about eight feet long, but when parked, can be squeezed or folded down to just five feet, which is shorter than the average bicycle
  • A person leaving work could walk to a lot where several of the Hirikos are parked, rent one to drive to the train station, leave it there in a special lot, ride the train home, rent another Hiriko to get home, keep it overnight, then drive it back to the special lot, leave it there and then take the train to work and so on
  • engineers have designed all four tires to turn independently, allowing drivers to slide sideways into spots if necessary
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  • as it can only go 31 miles per hour maximum, though it does have a range of 75 miles
  • The company has
  • made 20 of the cars which are being tested by various groups
  • are currently trying to sell to San Francisco, Berlin and Barcelona, at a price of about $16,000 each.
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Soft autonomous robot inches along like an earthworm (w/ Video) - 0 views

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robot GrabBag

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  • made almost entirely of soft materials, is remarkably resilient: Even when stepped upon or bludgeoned with a hammer, the robot is able to inch away
  • Earthworms creep along the ground by alternately squeezing and stretching muscles along the length of their bodies, inching forward with each wave of contractions
  • robot is named "Meshworm" for the flexible, meshlike tube that makes up its body
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  • created "artificial muscle" from wire made of nickel and titanium — a shape-memory alloy that stretches and contracts with heat
  • the wire around the tube
  • creating segments along its length, much like the segments of an earthworm
  • the group subjected the robot to multiple blows with a hammer, even stepping on the robot to check its durability. Despite the violent impacts, the robot survived
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Moon Lander Project to Continue Despite Crash | Space.com - 0 views

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scibyte58 Morpheus

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  • NASA engineers are forging ahead on work
  • that's part of development, especially lean development
  • also testing out automated hazard-detection technology, which would use lasers to spot dangerous boulders or craters on the surface of another world
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  • lander that crashed Thursday is apparently a lost cause. But
  • already begun work on another vehicle, which could be ready for its first tests by early 2013
  • second lander will not pick up where the first left off
  • It would have to work up to a free-flight test, going through a series of tethered flights first
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Tour Kennedy Space Center On Google Street View: Scientific American Podcast - 0 views

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scibyte59 GrabBag

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  • More than 6,000 new images of Kennedy Space Center have recently been added to Google Street View
  • a huge portion of the NASA Kennedy Space Center facility
  • In honor of the center’s 50th anniversary, Street View is adding more than 6,000 images of the Space Center
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  • you can go into the facility, you can go into some of the large areas there, like the Vehicle Assembly Building. You can go down to the launch pad and actually go up several floors of the launch pad and see where the astronauts would walk and where they would go as they were boarding the shuttle
  • actually got to take a snapshot of these structures and these systems in place before all those transitions happened
  • Many of those facilities are going to be decommissioned or converted to different uses
  • So the opportunity to kind of capture that moment in Street View and preserve it, and make it accessible to people around the world, is I think really valuable and important
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Danish Rocketeers Launch Private Space Capsule Test | Space.com - 0 views

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scibyte59 GrabBag

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  • A Danish non-profit organization launched its homemade space capsule
  • Aug. 12
  • Copenhagen Suborbitals
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  • capsule
  • blasted off from a floating platform in the Baltic Sea
  • The flight was designed to see how well the LES
  • Launch Escape System (LES
  • various parachutes would work in the event of a serious launch mishap
  • results were a bit mixed,
  • LES spinning out of control and cutting Beautiful Betty loose at an altitude too low for the capsule's parachutes to deploy properly. Betty slammed hard into the ocean
  • Still, the
  • was pleased.
  • The ultimate goal
  • , is to launch people into suborbital space on the cheap
  • The group relies on private donations and money from sponsors to fund its activities.
  • working fulltime to develop a series of suborbital space vehicles — designed to pave the way for manned spaceflight on a micro size spacecraft
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How Can You See a Satellite View of Your House? - 0 views

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scibyte59 GrabBag

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  • there are more than 8,000 satellites currently orbiting the Earth
  • The vast majority
  • are relaying data to and from the Earth
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  • If you want to
  • see a satellite image of the entire planet, there are
  • weather satellites
  • NOAA’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) release images of an entire hemisphere of planet Earth every 3 hours
  • you can see major weather patterns affecting parts of the Earth. But you really can’t see any specific spot on Earth with any detail
  • these satellite views is that they’re live.
  • The weather systems
  • are happening on the planet right now
  • If you don’t want a live view
  • check out
  • images produced by NASA. Here’s a composite photograph that shows the Earth’s Western Hemisphere, and here’s a view of the Earth’s Eastern Hemisphere.
  • There were also some amazing new satellite images of the Earth released from the European Space Agency’s 3rd generation Meteosat spacecraft
  • zoom in, and see some pictures of houses from space
  • Google Maps and the other internet mapping services are really just customers for the satellite services that actually take these photographs from space
  • There are a few major services on the market, including GeoEye
  • DigitalGlobe and Spot Image.
  • Each company has a fleet of Earth observation satellites, with a capability of resolving features on the surface of the Earth as small as about 45 cm (18 inches). In other words, an object 45 centimeters across would appear as a single pixel in their photographs
  • GeoEye – 5 satellites: IKONOS, OrbView-2, OrbView-3, GeoEye-1, GeoEye-2 (in 2013).
  • DigitalGlobe – 4 satellites: Early Bird 1, Quickbird, WorldView-1, Worldview-2
  • Spot Image – 2 satellites: Spot 4, Spot 5
  • Each of these services allow customers to purchase satellite imagery directly
  • the prices are
  • hundreds or even thousands of dollars for satellite imagery
  • typically can’t buy directly from the satellite company itself
  • All of the free satellite images you’re accessing were captured by various spacecraft over the last couple of years
  • . A live satellite view of your house, is still a few years off.
  • you can access a live broadcast from NASA’s International Space Station. About 40% of the time, if you follow this link you can see a live view of Earth from the space station.
  • Another service called Urthecast will be attaching a high definition camera to the International Space Station in 2013 to broadcast a live view of Earth from space.
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Pioneering heart disease treatment - 0 views

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scibyte59 GrabBag MedicalTreatment

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  • Researchers at King's College London have developed the first artificial functioning blood vessel outside of the body, made from reprogrammed stem cells from human skin
  • could have real potential to treat patients with heart disease
  • by either injecting the reprogrammed cells into the leg or heart to restore blood flow or grafting an artificially developed vessel into the body to replace blocked or damaged vessels
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  • could also benefit diabetic patients with poor circulation, preventing leg amputation
  • Stem cell therapy to treat heart disease is already being carried out in the clinic using bone marrow cells
  • the long-term effectiveness at the moment is minimal and some types of stem cells have the potential to become a tumour
  • a new type of partial stem cell developed from fibroblasts (skin cells) can be reprogrammed into vascular cells before going into the body, which have no risk turning into tumours.
  • The process of developing vascular cells from skin cells took two weeks
  • the next step is to test this approach in cells from patients with vascular disease
  • This is an early study and more research needs to be done into how this approach works in patients, but the aim is to be able to inject reprogrammed cells into areas of restricted blood flow, or even graft an entirely new blood vessel into a patient to treat serious cardiovascular diseases
  • This team showed they can derive so-called ‘partial pluripotent’ cells from human skin cells in just four days, and convert them directly into a type of cell that lines our blood vessels
  • Traditional methods take longer and come with an increased chance of tumours forming from the new cells
  • discovery could help lead towards future therapies to repair hearts after they are damaged by a heart attack
  • possible future regenerative treatment, these cells might also be used in drug screening to find new treatments to tackle inherited diseases
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Scientists can now block heroin, morphine addiction; clinical trials possible within 18... - 0 views

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GrabBag DrugTech

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  • Scientists can now block heroin, morphine addiction; clinical trials possible within 18 months
  • an international team of scientists has proven that addiction to morphine and heroin can be blocked, while at the same time increasing pain relief.
  • University of Adelaide and University of Colorado has discovered the key mechanism in the body's immune system that amplifies addiction to opioid drugs
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  • the drug (+)-naloxone (pronounced: PLUS nal-OX-own) will selectively block the immune-addiction response
    • Mars Base
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      finish this article
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Biggest Burmese Python Found in Florida-17.7 Feet, 87 Eggs - 0 views

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scibyte59 Animal

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  • Captured in Everglades National Park, the "monstrous" constrictor will eventually be displayed at the Florida Museum of Natural History,
  • Florida
  • a 17.7-foot-long (5.4-meter-long) Burmese python, the biggest snake of that species ever found in the southeastern U.S. state,
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  • a necropsy on the euthanized python revealed she was carrying 87 eggs—also a state record for the species
  • The Everglades is home to a growing population of the invasive Asian pythons, many of which originate from snakes that either escaped into or were dumped into the wild in the 1990s
  • To biologist
  • those 87 eggs are "just more evidence that they are pretty much established—they're breeding in the Everglades
  • Python Patrol, focuses not on eradicating invasive pythons but on stopping the spread of the snake to sensitive areas, such as bird breeding spots
  • don't think we can necessarily get rid of every last one. We just want to keep them from moving elsewhere
  • pythons are going to be part of the native fauna in the next few decades
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Why Do We Sneeze? - 0 views

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GrabBag medical

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  • When we breathe in foreign particles, sensors in our noses and sinuses detect the objects. The sensors signal the cilia—tiny, hairlike paddles that line our nostrils and sinuses—to move to expel the irritants
  • burst of air produced by a sneeze not only clears nasal passages but also triggers the cilia sensors to kick the paddles into high gear for an extended period
  • sneeze works by "resetting the system—like Control-Alt-Delete" on a PC
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  • Cilia—which resemble a "constantly moving shag carpet" under the microscope—propel potentially harmful material out of our lungs and either up to our nostrils to be expelled or down to our gullets, where stomach acid zaps any harmful organisms
  • People with sinusitis and genetic disorders such as cystic fibrosis have trouble clearing out mucus, even though they sneeze a lot.
  • For cilia to work, they need mucus
  • contradiction
  • wonder whether sneezing has a role in getting cilia to clear out mucus—and whether that process was somehow impaired in sinusitis patients
  • puffed air on the lining—a sort of "in vitro sneeze
  • If you puff air on these cells, [their cilia] beat faster
  • from sinusitis patients
  • , the cilia did not beat faster
  • patients aren't getting the same cellular response as patients who don't have the syndrome
  • chronic inflammation or toxins in sinusitis-related bacteria may be preventing the cilia from working properly
  • Can we actually take this information and translate it into a novel therapy
  • scientists could theoretically develop nasal sprays or other topical treatments to get the cilia revved up in people with impaired mucus clearance
  • no "satisfactory treatment option" for chronic sinusitis, which affects an estimated 14 to 16 million Americans
  • usually treated with medicine and surgery to relieve the symptoms, which can include congestion, reduced smell and taste, and pain or swelling in the face
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Common Lab Dye Found to Interrupt Formation of Huntington's Disease Proteins: Scientifi... - 0 views

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scibyte59 GrabBag MedicalTreatment

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  • methylene blue, gets a mention in medical literature as early as 1897 and was used to treat, at one time or another, ailments ranging from malaria to cyanide poisoning
  • never formally approved it as a therapy for any illnesses.
  • Because of existing knowledge of methylene blue and the fact that it’s not harmful to humans, I would hope that progress toward clinical trials could go relatively quickly," says 
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  • a neurobiologist at University of California–Irvine
  • Huntington’s disease occurs when the C-A-G sequence of DNA base pairs repeat too often on the HTT gene, resulting in an abnormally long version of the huntingtin protein, that therefore folds incorrectly and forms clumps in the brain
  • usually begins to affect people in their 30s and 40s, causing movement problems and early death
  • No drug is currently available to stop the disease from progressing
  • For their experiment, researchers fed methylene blue mixed with food for a week to Drosophila flies
  • brains showed that protein clumps had been reduced by 87 percent compared with a control group
  • given methylene blue
  • underwent several tests to assess mobility
  • At two months of age, the treated mice showed abnormal clasping of their hind claws only 20 percent of the time
  • untreated counterparts clasped at a 60 percent rate
  • the number of mice used was not sufficient to provide statistically significant results and the difference in the test quickly dropped off at nine weeks of age
  • the data as hopeful, because even a delay in Huntington’s symptoms would be very helpful
  • more research is needed
  • Methylene blue would absolutely require further testing in mouse models and would need safety and efficacy trial before it could be used for humans."
  • This study shows promise pre-clinically and follow-up studies are needed in a more representative mouse model that expresses the full-length Huntingtin protein
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X-51 Waverider 'Scramjet' Test Flight Fails - 0 views

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scibyte59 ScramJet

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  • flight of the X-51A Waverider scramjet ended abruptly after the experimental aircraft suffered a control failure and broke apart during an attempt to fly at six times the speed of sound
  • test flight took place off the coast of California and the X-51A was dropped from a B-52 bomber
  • faulty control fin prevented it from starting its unique “airbreathing” scramjet engine
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  • The X-51 Waverider program is a cooperative effort of the Air Force, DARPA, NASA, Boeing and Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne
  • technology would be successful enough to eventually be used for more efficient transport of payloads into orbit
  • Pentagon has touted its ability to deliver strikes around the globe within minutes.
  • craft was carried to about 15,240 meters (50,000 ft.) by a B-52 from Edwards Air Force Base in California
  • dropped over the Pacific Ocean
  • Designers were hoping the Waverider would reach Mach 6 or more
  • scramjet (short for “supersonic combustion ramjet”) is an air-breathing engine, where intake air blows through its combustion chamber at supersonic speeds
  • engine has no moving parts
  • oxygen needed by the engine to combust is taken from the atmosphere passing through the vehicle, instead of from a tank onboard
  • Some designers have predicted it could reach speeds of anywhere from Mach 12 to Mach 24. Mach 24 is more than 29,000 km/hour (18,000 miles per hour.) This could cut an 18-hour trip to Tokyo from New York City to less than 2 hours.
  • May 2010, the first test of the vehicle had sort of a “successful” flight of 200 seconds of autonomous flight
  • another test in 2011 failed
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Brain's Drain: Neuroscientists Discover Cranial Cleansing System: Scientific American - 0 views

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medical

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  • researchers christened the network the "glymphatic" system,
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Scientists discover previously unknown cleaning system in brain - 0 views

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medical

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  • A previously unrecognized system that drains waste from the brain at a rapid clip has been discovered by neuroscientists at the University of Rochester Medical Center
  • highly organized system acts like a series of pipes that piggyback on the brain's blood vessels, sort of a shadow plumbing system that seems to serve much the same function in the brain as the lymph system does in the rest of the body – to drain away waste products
  • hopeful that these findings have implications for many conditions that involve the brain, such as traumatic brain injury, Alzheimer's disease, stroke, and Parkinson's disease
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  • made the findings in mice, whose brains are remarkably similar to the human brain
  • Scientists have known that cerebrospinal fluid or CSF plays an important role cleansing brain tissue, carrying away waste products and carrying nutrients to brain tissue through a process known as diffusion
  • The newly discovered system circulates CSF to every corner of the brain much more efficiently, through what scientists call bulk flow or convection
  • It's as if the brain has two garbage haulers – a slow one that we've known about, and a fast one that we've just met
  • How has this system eluded the notice of scientists up to now
  • the system operates only when it's intact and operating in the living brain, making it very difficult to study
  • study the living, whole brain, the team used a technology known as two-photon microscopy, which allows scientists to look at the flow of blood, CSF and other substances in the brain of a living animal
  • If the glymphatic system fails to cleanse the brain as it is meant to, either as a consequence of normal aging, or in response to brain injury, waste may begin to accumulate in the brain. This may be what is happening with amyloid deposits in Alzheimer's disease
  • Perhaps increasing the activity of the glymphatic system might help prevent amyloid deposition from building up or could offer a new way to clean out buildups of the material in established Alzheimer's disease
  • took an in-depth look at amyloid beta
  • found that more than half the amyloid removed from the brain of a mouse under normal conditions is removed via the glymphatic system
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'The Pill' for Men Is Closer to Reality - ScienceNOW - 0 views

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  • A compound called JQ1, which was originally developed as a cancer therapy, can also cause reversible infertility in male mice without apparent side effects for the rodents or their offspring
  • male contraceptive that would be more effective than condoms and more easily reversible than a vasectomy
  • compound isn’t ready for testing in healthy men
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  • offers a promising lead
  • originally developed as an anticancer agent
  • designed to inhibit a protein called BRD4, which helps regulate cell division and is known to be involved in a type of aggressive skin cancer
  • after 6 weeks of daily injections of JQ1 the animals' sperm counts were reduced by nearly 90%. Only 5% of the remaining sperm were able to swim properly, compared with 85% of sperm in control mice. After 3 months of treatment, none of the mice were able to sire offspring
  • had no apparent effect on the production of testosterone or other hormones made by the testes
  • A month or two after treatment stopped, all of the mice were again able to father as many pups as control mice
  • no obvious side effects in the mice, and the offspring of the treated animals showed no abnormalities.
  • compound seems to target developing sperm both before and after meiosis
  • If you're taking healthy people in their twenties and giving them a drug, you want to be very sure it doesn’t affect anything else
  • the lifespans of mice aren’t sufficient to test the possible long-term effects of drugs that people might want to be able to take for decades
  • Primate experiments, meanwhile, are prohibitively expensive, and funding is scarce
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Mars Rover to Test Rock-Zapping Laser, 1st Drive Set | Space.com - 0 views

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scibyte59 Curiosity

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  • Scientists plan to blast a Martian rock called N165 with Curiosity's laser
  • The 3-inch-wide (7.6 centimeters) stone sits just 9 feet (2.7 meters) from Curiosity, well within ChemCam's 25-foot (7.6 m) range
  • didn't pick it for its science value
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  • sort of a target practice
  • Curiosity won't go straight to Mount Sharp
  • it will head first for Glenelg
  • captures much of the geological diversity of Gale Crater's floor
  • Researchers will likely keep checking out Curiosity and its instruments for another few weeks
  • the trip to Glenelg could take up to two months, depending upon how much science the team wants to do
  • team will probably keep Curiosity at Glenelg for about a month
  • The rover will use its drill for the first time at the site, boring more deeply into Martian rock than any robot has before
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Researchers find evidence of photosynthesis-like process in aphids - 0 views

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scibyte60

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  • In plants, algae and some types of bacteria and fungi, sunlight is converted to chemical energy in a process we all know as photosynthesis
  • water and carbon dioxide are also converted to oxygen
  • Now it appears that a type of aphid, a small insect, is able to do something similar, minus the water and carbon dioxide conversion
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  • Researchers at the Sophia Agrobiotech Institute in France, have found that not only do aphids produce carotenoids, but the amount they produce seems to be directly influenced by the amount of sunshine they receive in their daily life
  • Carotenoids are pigments that in most animals are obtained via consumption of other organisms that create it via photosynthesis
  • Aphids
  • are able to synthesize them all by themselves, making them stand out
  • Researchers aren’t sure why they do so, but many other animals rely on carotenoids to help bolster a strong immunity system
  • carotenoids in aphids are responsible for their color
  • high levels are green, those with very low levels are white, and those in-between are orange.
  • In this new research the team found that the levels of carotenoids in the aphids appeared to correlate with levels of adenosine triphosphate (ATP),
  • the way to measure the transfer of energy in living things
  • higher the level of carotenoids were the more ATP was present
  • when the team moved orange aphids in and out of direct sunlight, levels of carotenoids and ATP rose and sunk
  • suggesting the insect was getting energy directly through such exposure
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Want To Live On Mars Time? There's An App For That - 0 views

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scibyte60 Curiosity

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  • MarsClock, available for Android devices at Google play is a free app written by Scott Maxwell, rover driver for Curiosity.
  • lets you see times for all three of NASA’s Mars Rovers, Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity
  • allows the user to set single alarms or alarms that repeat every sol
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  • Martian day
  • is about 24 hours, 39 minutes
  • Mars Clock, by SunlightAndTime, is a 99-cent app that displays Mars time and a host of other Mars time goodies
  • for your Apple device
  • Features include local mean solar time for the rover, coordinated Mars time, sunrise and sunset times for the Curiosity landing site (I think this might be the coolest feature), current season, a countdown to landing feature (which is counting up since MSL landed on Mars on August 5th), current Earth time, a distance calculator between the Earth and Mars and radio communications delay estimate.
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Chasing Atlantis: An Upcoming Film about the Shuttle's Legacy - 0 views

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  • Five Canadians made the trek to Florida to watch the final shuttle launch last year. They are wrapping up filming and interviews — which included astronauts and sci-fi stars — to discuss the legacy of the program.
  • How did you get down there?
  • drove the entire journey from Toronto to the Titusville/Cocoa Beach area
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  • stopped at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum to shoot prototype shuttle Enterprise before it was moved to New York City
  • we had written the Chasing Atlantis Twitter account and site URL on our cars
  • A NASA software engineer, Ryan Horan, saw our car with Paul shooting out the window as we passed by the sign for the Kennedy Space Center. He was interested in our project and sent us a tweet.
  • arranged
  • to join one of the first tours following the reopening of the Vehicle Assembly Building to the public.
  • The building is monstrously huge. It will generate its own weather system inside, sometimes producing micro-rain clouds.
  • The film was completely self-funded
  • posting an Indie-Go-Go or Kickstarter profile up in hopes of helping to cover the post-production costs
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