NASA Astronauts Conduct Spacewalk on ISS
Clad in U.S. spacesuits, Expedition 41 Flight Engineers Reid Wiseman of NASA and Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency conducted a spacewalk outside the International Space Station Oct.
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NASA breaks ground on multibillion-dollar KSC expansion
NASA officials have broken ground on a new headquarters building at Kennedy Space Center, which is part of multibillion-dollar expansion for Florida #39;s Space Coast. Subscribe to WESH on YouTube...
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A camera-equipped lightweight drone could soon be helping federal officials spot forest fires in the nearly 112,000-acre Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge along the Virginia-North Carolina border. NASAs Langley Research Center and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have signed a one-year agreement to test small unmanned drones for the detection of brush and forest fires. NASA Langley got the drones for free from the U.S. Army and equipped them with infrared and visual cameras.
According to Mike Logan, the research lead at NASA Langley, an unmanned aerial vehicle costs much less to operate than a human piloted aircraft and can be used much more frequently and sooner to try to spot fires, like right after a thunderstorm passes. Actual flights over the swamp should begin before the end of the year. That will give operators enough experience to be proficient by the start of next fire season in the spring. It's not the first time drones have been used to help fight forest fires. For example, a Predator drone was used to provide aerial views of the massive Rim fire around Yosemite National Park in the summer of 2013.
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NASA has selected four partners to develop game changing technologies with the potential to increase the oxygen recovery rate aboard human spacecraft to at least 75 percent while achieving high reliability. These oxygen recovery and recycling technologies will drive exploration and enable our human journey to Mars and beyond.
"Improving oxygen recovery while achieving high reliability is critical for any long-duration human spaceflight missions where oxygen resupply from Earth isn't available," said NASA Associate Administrator for Space Technology Michael Gazarik. "NASA recognizes that sustained technology investments must be made to mature the capabilities required to reach the challenging destinations that await exploration; such as cis-lunar space, an asteroid, and Mars. These ambitious projects will enable the critical life support systems needed for us to venture further into space and explore the high frontier and are another example of how technology drives exploration."
Phase I awards are up to $750,000, providing awardees with the funding for 15 months to complete the engineering development unit hardware phase. Technologies selected to continue to Phase II will develop prototype hardware with NASA support that provides up to $2 million per award for up to 24 months.
The organizations selected to work on the development of advanced life-support technologies are:
Future maturation of these technologies may use the International Space Station National Laboratory as a proving ground to retire risk and gain experience with capabilities needed for deep-space exploration.
The advanced technologies found in these proposals are called for in the agency's space technology roadmaps and space technology strategic investment plans. The National Research Council's "NASA Space Technology Roadmaps and Priorities" identified long-duration environmental control and life support systems as one of the top five areas capable of having the greatest impact on deep space exploration.
Proposals for this solicitation were received from NASA centers, universities, research groups and industry. These awards are managed by the Game Changing Development Program within NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate. NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, manages the Game Changing Development Program.
During the next 18 months, NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate will release several more solicitations, investing in high priority technology areas where advances are needed to achieve more capable, reliable and affordable science, exploration and commercial space capabilities.
NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate remains committed to developing the critical, broadly applicable technologies required to enable future exploration missions beyond low-Earth orbit. The directorate continues to solicit the help of the best and brightest minds in academia, industry, and government to drive innovation and enable solutions in a myriad of important technology thrust areas. These planned investments are addressing high priority challenges for achieving safe and affordable deep-space exploration.
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In August 2011, lightning struck the Great Dismal Swamp and ignited a mammoth blaze that burned for 108 days, scorched 6,500 acres and blew choking smoke into surrounding states.
It was the biggest wildfire on record in Virginia history. And it sparked a eureka moment in nearby resident Mike Logan, who happens to lead the Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Lab at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton.
"I made a phone call to the local fire captain after inhaling days of peat bog smoke," Logan said in a release Tuesday. "I learned most fires are caused by lightning strikes, and the only way they can spot them is by hiring an aircraft to do an aerial survey of the huge swamp. So I figured why not use a UAV or drone as a fire detector?"
Now the NASA center has joined with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service of the Department of the Interior on a year-long project to test Logan's idea.
Proponents of UAVs have long promoted the idea of using unmanned aircraft as fire-spotters. Chris Lowie, manager of the Great Dismal Swamp refuge, said Fish and Wildlife is evaluating whether drones can offer a "safe and more cost-effective alternative for surveillance" of vulnerable areas, particularly after a thunderstorm.
The refuge has experienced lightning-induced fires throughout its history. Before the 2011 blaze, another had struck in 2008. Each cost $10 million to extinguish.
Lowie said they hope to see not only a "significant decrease" in the time it takes to scout for fires but in the cost to battle them.
The Federal Aviation Administration must approve the project, NASA says. Once it does, engineers will install cameras and transmitters on a lightweight former U.S. Army target drone and send it on scouting missions over the refuge.
According to NASA, the drone weighs 50 pounds and has a nearly 6-foot wingspan. It has an 8-mile range and can fly for about an hour under battery power. It can be pre-programmed to fly autonomously, but a pilot will still monitor operations during the test period.
According to NASA Langley spokeswoman Katherine Barnstorff, actual flights should begin by year's end so crews can get proficient in the technology before the start of the spring fire season. A refuge fire management team will monitor the flight video, and NASA engineers will monitor and program the drone.
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Nanotechnology creates new anti microbial nano silver concentrate Microbisil HD
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Newswise LOS ANGELES (Oct. 8, 2014) Cedars-Sinai Health System announced today that it has finalized an agreement with two of the nations most prominent orthopedic and sports medicine physician groups -- Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic and Santa Monica Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Group -- to become formally affiliated with Cedars-Sinai.
The agreement is the final step in a process that was announced in late 2013 when the entities entered into a letter of intent to jointly pursue strategies for leadership in orthopedics and sports medicine regionally, nationally and internationally.
The collaboration between the two prominent orthopedic groups, which have an unequaled role in the care of professional sports teams and individual elite athletes, and the nationally renowned orthopedic physicians and staff at Cedars-Sinai, creates the framework for a new model of patient-centered, high-quality care, integrating the latest research and treatment options.
The affiliation also expands the geographic footprint of each of the partners, enhancing the communitys access to high-quality orthopedics and sports medicine. Kerlan-Jobe and Santa Monica Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Group facilities include medical offices and other clinical services in Santa Monica, Pasadena, Anaheim and West Los Angeles.
The affiliation with Cedars-Sinai will enhance patient care by facilitating a wide variety of collaborations among the three entities, including expanded clinical trials and research, access for patients to Cedars-Sinai when needed, and collaborative consultations on complex cases.
Although now affiliated with Cedars-Sinai under the Institute for Sports Sciences, Kerlan-Jobe and Santa Monica Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Group will each continue to see patients under each of their respective brands.
Kerlan-Jobe, Santa Monica Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine, and Cedars-Sinai Orthopaedic Center also plan to collaborate on a wide variety of research and clinical trials, including the advanced use of orthobiologics (including stem cells and other molecular and cellular-based experimental treatments for sports injuries) and new approaches to orthopedic treatments that minimize surgery whenever possible. Other areas of focus include pediatric sports medicine, sports neurology and concussion, a movement performance center and a return-to-work program coordinated with employers.
While each of the three groups offers sought-after advanced training programs for physicians, they will also be looking for opportunities to collaborate and expand their education and training programs.
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Technology is getting better every day. Computers use to be huge machines that filled a room, now that same computing power is ten times better and faster in the palm of your hand with smartphones. That blows my mind! Now we are headed to a digital cloud and cloud based computing. Soon, the computers that we use today will only be access points that house nothing as all of our pictures, info, documents, and memories will all be sitting in a white fluffy cloud. Even as I write this article I've used a computer, my smartphone, and my tablet to put it together. By using one program that saves the document to the cloud I've given myself the opportunity to work from almost anywhere, from any device. In my line of work I've done almost anything you can think of with a computer and media. From typing up this article, making a presentation, preparing a spreadsheet, to touching up a photo, I have yet to miss a beat even away from my desk. The only thing I do that has eluded quickness and cloud access has been video editing. That is where the monster size files and computer crunching power of over clocked CPUs battle on a daily basis. Fortunately, that is changing as well.
As my most loyal readers know, I've adopted a purely Apple Computer-based life style. I've done this, not out of misguided fanboy love of Apple, but out of necessity. I like to see my family once in a blue moon and having the same equipment I have at work makes sense. This way I have the ability to work from home if given the chance. But, like I said before, video editing is not as portable as everything else and, for some reason, that is what most of you are asking me about. The question of the week is, "Can you edit purely off the web (cloud)?" I have to say that after doing a little research, I can say, "Surprising, yes you can!"
One of my favorite sites that boast about video editing is WeVideo. For a monthly subscription you can have access to 20GBs of cloud storage, a small music library, and the freedom to upload and edit from anywhere. For someone getting their feet wet in video editing this is the most advanced, cloud based, beginners program. In fact, I'm thinking about getting my own account and seeing what I can do with it as well.
Loopster is another good product that does cloud based editing. Just like WeVideo you can do a monthly subscription only this one is five bucks cheaper. This product is not as polished, in my opinion, as WeVideo as they don't do 1080p and limit you to 2GBs per upload. That might be a deal breaker for some of you file hogs. Other then those downfalls Loopster seems to be a close second in editing video online.
The last online editor that I want to talk about is magisto. This takes a different approach to editing. All you have to do is choose your videos, select a theme, pick a song, and the program does the rest. Magisto will pick and choose video for you and it will spit out a finished (edited) "masterpiece." To me this program will either be your best editing partner or your worst nightmare.
These online editors are pioneers headed for a brave new world in editing. They are ahead of their time and I hope to see them grow and develop. That said I have two things to add. One. Even though these programs are great in their own right, they have a long road ahead before taking on industry leads like Final Cut Pro X or Avid. Two. As long as you apply yourself in shooting the video correctly off the camera, the better off you are going to be in the editing. No amount of editing can fix badly shot video. That does it for this edition of Tech Talk and as always, we would love your feedback/suggestions for this or our next edition, so feel free to send your comments to our resident Tech Guy Lonnie Valencia.
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The Best of Medicine: Family Planning | Zoe Williams
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Medicine for the People "Dedication to Clean Water/Vultures of Culture" - Resonance Music Festival
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Source Energy Medicine: Founder Stephen Pollitt takes Dr. Emoto #39;s ideas one step further
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Nahko and Medicine for the People - Vultures of Culture - The Blue Note 2014
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Trio Win Novel Prize Medicine For Discovering an Inner GPS in the brain
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Health Alert: Hyperbaric Medicine
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Laughing Medicine Club
You will feel better if you laugh. It is a choice you can make everyday. You can also get together with a group of your friends and laugh with each other.
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Theres a line in a Tim Minchin song which I like to quote from time to time. In it, hes addressing a hippyish alternative-medicine type called Storm, whos banging on about the healing power of herbs. Before we came to tea, I took a natural remedy, he tells her, derived from the bark of a willow tree, a painkiller thats virtually side-effect free. Of course, he means aspirin.
Yesterday, we reported that another natural remedy may actually work as well. Chinese researchers have found that an extract of honeysuckle could fight flu; specifically, a bit of RNA (DNAs simpler cousin) called MIR 2911 seems to interfere with the workings of the influenza virus. The researchers bought their honeysuckle from a Chinese herbal medicine shop, and made it into a sort of tea, in impeccable folk-remedy style.
If the results are confirmed, its quite exciting news: viruses generally, and the fast-mutating flu virus in particular, are tricky things to treat, and flu causes plenty of misery (killing about 100 people a year in Britain, and hundreds of thousands worldwide). The if its confirmed is a big if, because the trials have only been carried out on mice. The researchers themselves are optimistic to the point of overexcitability, pushing it as the first virological penicillin, although an expert I spoke to was very wary about it, saying that there are plenty of hurdles before it could be a real, practical medicine.
The reason people are getting excited about this is because Chinese herbal medicine types have been using honeysuckle tea to treat colds and flu for 1,000 years. The hippyish alternative-medicine types will be crowing. You can almost hear it: Not so cocky now, eh, Mr Scientist Man?
But thats missing the point. Lots of real, actual medicines come from natural sources; the original, bacteriological penicillin was derived from a mould. Aspirin, as Minchin notes, is a willow-bark product. St Johns wort works to relieve low moods and anxiety (and, I should warn you, interacts dangerously with some other medicines). Digitalin is extracted from foxglove and is used to control heart rate. Quinine, the first antimalarial, comes from the cinchona tree.
There are well over 100 medicinal compounds derived from plants. One major reason that the destruction of the rainforest is such a loss is because there are thousands of unknown species of plant in there, any one of which may be the source of a powerful, useful drug that could save your life. Theres nothing wrong with a natural remedy, if it works.
That, though, is the issue: if it works. And the way you find out whether it works is simple: give one group of people the medicine, one group of people a fake medicine, dont tell anyone which is which, and see if one group gets better faster. Thats what science does; thats what the honeysuckle researchers did, albeit with mice rather than people.
Science isnt about ignoring mother nature; its about seeing what works. Sometimes what works is natural, whatever that means. Sometimes its not: in the case of homeopathy, for instance, there have been lots and lots of these sorts of trials, and it has been found not to work. The same is true of reflexology, and of acupuncture.
The reason we know which natural remedies work and which dont is not because we listened to the witch doctors or traditional Chinese herbalists, but because some scientists tested them.
The thing is, there isnt really a divide between medicine and alternative, natural medicine. Theres medicine that works, and everything else. Its science that tells us the difference.
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