100 #GlobalSelfie Photos from Around the World
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NASA captures #39;prominence eruptions #39; on the sun
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Image Caption: Scanning Electron Microscope image of a large (approximately 1.5 micrometer diameter) aggregate of nanograins produced in the Cosmic Simulation Chamber at NASA's Ames Research Center, using a 95 percent Ar 5% C2H2 gas mixture. The nanograins and aggregates are deposited onto ultra-high vacuum aluminum foil. Credit: NASA/Ames/Farid Salama
WASHINGTON, May 7, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ A team of scientists at NASAs Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., has successfully reproduced, right here on Earth, the processes that occur in the atmosphere of a red giant star and lead to the formation of planet-forming interstellar dust.
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Using a specialized facility, called the Cosmic Simulation Chamber (COSmIC) designed and built at Ames, scientists now are able to recreate and study in the laboratory dust grains similar to the grains that form in the outer layers of dying stars. Scientists plan to use the dust to gather clues to better understand the composition and the evolution of the universe.
Dust grains that form around dying stars and are ejected into the interstellar medium lead, after a life cycle spanning millions of years, to the formation of planets and are a key component of the universes evolution. Scientists have found the materials that make up the building blocks of the universe are much more complicated than originally anticipated.
The harsh conditions of space are extremely difficult to reproduce in the laboratory, and have long hindered efforts to interpret and analyze observations from space, said Farid Salama, project leader and a space science researcher at Ames. Using the COSmIC simulator we can now discover clues to questions about the composition and the evolution of the universe, both major objectives of NASAs space research program.
In the past, the inability to simulate space conditions in the gaseous state prevented scientists from identifying unknown matter. Because conditions in space are vastly different from conditions on Earth, it is challenging to identify extraterrestrial materials. Thanks to COSmIC, researchers can successfully simulate gas-phase environments similar to interstellar clouds, stellar envelopes or planetary atmospheres environments by expanding gases using a cold jet spray of argon gas seeded with hydrocarbons that cools down the molecules to temperatures representative of these environments.
COSmIC integrates a variety of state-of-the-art instruments to allow scientists to recreate space conditions in the laboratory to form, process and monitor simulated planetary and interstellar materials. The chamber is the heart of the system. It recreates the extreme conditions that reign in space where interstellar molecules and ions float in a vacuum at densities that are billionths of Earths atmosphere, average temperatures can be less than -270 degrees Fahrenheit (about 100 degrees Kelvin), and the environment is bathed in ultraviolet and visible radiation emanating from nearby stars.
By using COSmIC and building up on the work we recently published in the Astrophysical Journal August 29, 2013, we now can for the first time truly recreate and visualize in the laboratory the formation of carbon grains in the envelope of stars and learn about the formation, structure and size distribution of stellar dust grains, said Cesar Contreras of the Bay Area Environmental Research (BAER) Institute and a research fellow at Ames. This type of new research truly pushes the frontiers of science toward new horizons, and illustrates NASAs important contribution to science.
The team started with small hydrocarbon molecules that it expanded in the cold jet spray in COSmIC and exposed to high energy in an electric discharge. They detected and characterized the large molecules that are formed in the gas phase from these precursor molecules with highly sensitive detectors, then collected the individual solid grains formed from these complex molecules and imaged them using Ames Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM).
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Image Caption: This artist's concept shows an astronaut preparing to use a special tool to take samples from the captured asteroid after it has been relocated to a stable orbit in the Earth-moon system. NASA's Exploration Surface Systems Office may help develop such tools. Credit: NASA
By Bob Granath, NASA
Engineering is about making dreams a reality. At NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the team in the Engineering and Technology Directorate not only puts those visions on paper, but sees the designs all the way through from development to reality.
This key organization recently aligned its structure around four new lines of business. This fresh approach is designed to bring its functions in line with the spaceports efforts to transition from a historically government-only launch facility to an affordable, sustainable, multi-user spaceport for both government and commercial customers. Its also about meeting the complex challenges facing an increasingly technological world.
Its all about being proactive in our current environment, said Jack Fox, technical assistant for Engineering and Technologys Lines of Business. We have many areas of expertise here at Kennedy. We want to engage the emerging multi-users and apply our capabilities to help them accomplish their missions.
The four new lines of business focus are Exploration Surface Systems, Spaceport and Space Systems Development, Technical Mission Success, and Small Payload Integrated Testing Services, or SPLITS.
Tom Aranyos, Technical Integration manager in NASAs Fluids and Propulsion Division and leader of the Spaceport and Space System Development line of business, explains that NASA Engineering and Technology is looking for ways to assist other NASA centers, as well as commercial industries.
We need to listen to what is keeping them up at night and offer assistance and advice on how we can help make them successful, he said. Our strategy is to respond to others needs by raising our hands and offering to help.
Fox says that being a multi-user spaceport means Kennedy is transitioning from supporting two or three large programs for long periods of time to supporting multiple customers with numerous, short-term efforts.
In the past, the bulk of our work focused on supporting programs such as the space shuttle and International Space Station, he said. We now are approaching other Kennedy directorates, other NASA centers, industry and academia to establish partnerships for proposing and winning engineering and technology development work.
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The minds behind the satirical publication The Onion, take aim at NASA in a new, hilarious video poking fun at the space agency's relationship with the planet Earth.
The video takes the form of a newscast about a fictional NASA press event in which (fake) officials with the space agency explain that everything they need and want is actually on Earth, not in space. "After decades of searching the cosmos, today NASA announced that what it was really looking for was right here on planet Earth all along," the Onion newscaster said.
In The Onion's bizarre-o world, NASA scientists are planning to re-focus their efforts on more Earth-based endeavors like studying "the little things that truly give life meaning," said the newscaster. You can watch the full video in the window below:
NASA Discovers This Planet, Planet Earth, Just Might Be What Its Been Searching For All Along
"For years we foolishly chased after comets, moons and stars," Cole Wilson, a fake NASA researcher said in the video. "Outer space may be beautiful, but it's not as beautiful as the smile of a child, nor as sublime as a good bottle of wine shared among friends. Our search ends where it began, here on this big blue marble." [See photos of Earth taken from space by NASA]
The real NASA even responded to The Onion's video via Twitter yesterday (May 6): "Haha- but Earth is our favorite planet! 17 satellites study #EarthRightNow + we study the universe," real officials with NASA (@NASA) wrote.
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Nanotechnology involves the understanding, manipulation, and control of matter at dimensions of roughly 1 to 100 nanometers. Nanotechnology encompasses science, engineering and technology and involves imaging, measuring, modeling, and manipulating matter at the nanoscale. The development of unique nanoscale structures has the potential to revolutionize industry, including electronics, medicine, and consumer products.
Examples of materials developed with nanotechnology include the following engineered nanomaterials:
Although the development and application of nanotechnology is primarily still in the research phase, some engineered nanomaterials are produced and used in commercial applications today. Examples of products that are produced currently using nanotechnologies include:
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National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Department of Commerce (DOC). NIST, a non-regulatory agency created to promote U.S. industrial innovation and competitiveness, enables science and industry by developing measurement methods, instrumentation, standards, and data to support all phases of nanotechnology development. NIST's Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology operates the Nanofab, a shared-use facility providing economical access to state-of-the-art nanotechnology-measurement tools and nanofabrication, and a research program. The NIST nanotechnology webpage contains information on nanotechnology activities, news, developments and accomplishments, including the work of the Center.
A Nanotechnology Consumer Products Inventory. Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars maintains an inventory of nanotechnology-based consumer products currently on the market.
National Cancer Institute (NCI), Exploring Nanotechnology in Cancer. This webpage includes information on the use of nanotechnology in the fight against cancer, including the use of nanotechnology in developing unique approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.
The Institute for Nanoelectronics and Computing. The Institute, created by NASA, is an engineering, technology and research center developing new devices for computation and sensing as well as new assembly and systems for NASA missions. The Institute's webpage provides information on workshops and programs, presentations, and the latest news on nanoelectronics.
Communication from the Commission - Towards a European Strategy for Nanotechnology. Commission of the European Communities (2004, December 5), 94 KB PDF, 25 pages. The communication describes a strategy for responsible development of nanotechnology, including potential uses of nanomaterials, worldwide research and development activities, investment in nanotechnology, and the need to integrate public and environmental risk assessment into research and development activities.
Opportunities and risks of Nanotechnologies. 2.61 MB PDF, 46 pages. The Allianz Center for Technology and Allianz Global Risks, in cooperation with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) International Futures Programme, has reviewed the likely economic impact, investment possibilities, and potential risks of nanotechnologies from their perspective. The report includes a discussion on present and future areas of nanotechnology application as well as nanotechnology market prospects and opportunities in areas such as medicine, food and agriculture and energy.
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Dresden's scientists are internationally renowned in the field of biomimetic material synthesis which uses biological principles such as molecular recognition and self-assembling for the tailor-made synthesis of new materials and structures. Therefore, the international workshop 'DNA-Based Nanotechnology: Digital Chemistry (DNATEC14)' hosted by the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems is well received within the global community. The workshop takes place from 5 to 9 Mai and will be organized with the help of the Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed) of TU Dresden and Kurt Schwabe Institute for Measure and Sensor Technology e.V. Meinsberg.
"This promising future nanotechnology uses the genetic material carrier Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) as a basic element for future electronic devices and sensors. We expect that the efficiency of the traditional silicon-based semiconductor technologies cannot be furthered in about ten years", workshop coordinator Prof. Michael Mertig, also Leader of the cfaed research Path 'Biomolecular-Assembled Circuits' (BAC), explains. "Hence, such innovative approaches are very interesting." About one hundred scientists are expected to attend the conference. The lecturers visit from the USA, France, Denmark, Netherlands, India, Italy, Japan, UK, Israel, and Germany. Amongst them are Ned Seeman of New York University, the founder of the research area of structured DNA-Nanotechnology, and Hiroshi Sugiyama of Kyoto University, who uses the so-called DNA-origami structures in a fascinating way for the analysis of DNA-protein-interdependencies.
The workshop focuses on nano-photonic structures for the future use in microelectronics, the use of artificial DNA-structures in biology, new sensor mechanisms and functional systems. For example, the internationally renowned DNA-expert Prof. Itamar Willner of The Hebrew University in Jerusalem will talk about DNA-based functional materials. The Israeli scientist is also 'Grand Professor' of cfaed and, in this role, is coaching young highly-talented scientists, e.g., cfaed research group leader Dr. Thorsten-Lars Schmidt. Dr. Schmidt will present a polyamide-based glue for double-stranded DNA and enzymatically produced oligonucleotides for structural DNA nanotechnology. Further talks will be held by cluster coordinator Prof. Gerhard Fettweis, Technische Universitt Dresden and Prof. Frank Jlicher of cfaed partner and host of the workshop Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems.
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The Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed) is the Cluster of Excellence for Microelectronics of Technische Universitt Dresden. This research platform unites eleven partner institutes with about 300 scientists who are working in the fields of electrical engineering, computer science, material science, physics, chemistry, biology, and mathematics.
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Since the use of nerve gas in World War II, these chemical weapons did not seen much action until Iraqi President Saddam Hussein used mustard gas against the Kurds in the 1980s. But then Sarin nerve gas showed up in Syria and suddenly nerve gas was back as a threat.
How Sarin Gas Works
Unlike guns or bombs, nerve gases are invisible, which makes them harder to detect. Scientists are working on a few solutions, including Angela Hight Walker of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and her colleagues. Theyve combined carbon nanotubes with a copper-based catalyst that breaks apart a key chemical bond in the class of nerve agents called organophosphatesthat includes Sarin. Although deadly if inhaled, these agents are also quite dangerous if they come into contact with the skin. Even clothing that contains the gas has to be thoroughly decontaminated before it can be worn again.
But the copper catalyst breaks molecular bonds in the gas, essentially splitting the molecules apart and reducing their potency.
Its well known that carbon nanotubes can be woven into fabrics and Walker and her colleagues think it is not too far-fetched to weave the copper-laced nanotubes into fabrics that destroy organophosphates before they ever make contact with a persons skin.
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The team still has further research to conduct before such clothing becomes a reality, among them whether it would be better to add the catalyst to the nanotubes before or after theyre woven into the fabric.
Wed also like to find ways to make the catalytic reaction go faster, which is always better, Hight Walker said in a press release. But our research group has been focusing on the fundamental science of nanoparticles for years, so we are in a good position to answer these questions.
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Image: Molecular model of Sarin nerve gas. Credit: PASIEKA/Science Photo Library/Corbis
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There's a joke about personal computers that has been around almost as long as the devices have been on the market: You buy a new computer, take it home and just as you finish unpacking it you see an advertisement for a new computer that makes yours obsolete. If you're the kind of person who demands to have the fastest, most powerful machines, it seems like you're destined for frustration and a lot of trips to the computer store.
While the joke is obviously an exaggeration, it's not that far off the mark. Even one of today's modest personal computers has more processing power and storage space than the famous Cray-1 supercomputer. In 1976, the Cray-1 was state-of-the-art: it could process 160 million floating-point operations per second (flops) and had 8 megabytes (MB) of memory.
Today, many personal computers can perform more than 10 times that number of floating-point operations in a second and have 100 times the amount of memory. Meanwhile on the supercomputer front, the Cray XT5 Jaguar at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory performed a sustained 1.4 petaflops in 2008 [source: Cray]. The prefix peta means 10 to the 15th power -- in other words, one quadrillion. That means the Cray XT5 can process 8.75 million times more flops than the Cray-1. It only took a little over three decades to reach that milestone.
If you were to chart the evolution of the computer in terms of processing power, you would see that progress has been exponential. The man who first made this famous observation is Gordon Moore, a co-founder of the microprocessor company Intel. Computer scientists, electrical engineers, manufacturers and journalists extrapolated Moore's Law from his original observation. In general, most people interpret Moore's Law to mean the number of transistors on a 1-inch (2.5 centimeter) diameter of silicon doubles every x number of months.
The number of months shifts as conditions in the microprocessor market change. Some people say it takes 18 months and others say 24. Some interpret the law to be about the doubling of processing power, not the number of transistors. And the law sometimes seems to be more of a self-fulfilling prophecy than an actual law, principle or observation. To understand why, it's best to go back to the beginning.
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Updated: 05/06/2014 10:26 PM | Created: 05/06/2014 10:23 PM By: Ryan Luby, KOB Eyewitness News 4
The man exposed by KOB Eyewitness News 4 for performing dental services in his mobile home, without a license, could face a felony charge or charges, according to state inspectors.
The inspectors with New Mexicos Regulation and Licensing Department are building a case against Curtis Abeyta who agreed to make a partial denture for an undercover KOB producer, which is in violation of state law.
Mike Unthank, the superintendent of the department, said the case is a top priority.
Absolutely, because you're dealing with public health here, he said.
Unthank explained that state law makes an unlicensed act of dentistry a fourth degree felony and/or require the violator to pay a fine up to $5,000.
He said he takes Abeytas case as seriously as the one involving Eliver Kestler, who was arrested by Santa Fe police last year. Parts of the community referred to Keslter as El Dentista. He performed dental services in the back of his car using tools he stored in a tackle box.
The courts, I'm sure, are not very sensitive to people practicing any form of health care and not being properly licensed, Unthank said.
Abeytas dental practices have been addressed in a courtroom during a child custody case. Willie Apodaca is fighting Abeytas girlfriend for custody of two boys, one of whom needs braces. In February, Apodaca expressed fear that Abeyta would attempt to treat the boys. Abeytas girlfriend told a judge what kind of work Abeyta does.
He sometimes fixes partials and that's it, because that's what his dad taught him, the girlfriend said in a recorded hearing.
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Newswise DALLAS May 7, 2014 UT Southwestern Medical Center today announced the formation of the Hamon Center for Regenerative Science and Medicine led by Dr. Eric Olson, Chairman of the Department of Molecular Biology.
This new Center was made possible by a $10 million endowment gift from the Hamon Charitable Foundation. It is being established to promote discoveries that will provide new approaches to healing and regeneration, including advances in stem cell biology, tissue engineering, and organ fabrication.
We look forward to the emergence of the Hamon Center as a leading source of transformative insights into regenerative science and medicine, said Dr. Daniel K. Podolsky, President of UT Southwestern. We are delighted to be able to announce this very generous gift from the Hamon Foundation, the establishment of the Hamon Center for Regenerative Science and Medicine, and this important new role for Dr. Olson.
Dr. Olsons work has produced new insights into heart development and regeneration. His work has illuminated a detailed genetic model for heart development that provides a framework for how these genes function in normal and abnormal heart development. These advances provide a basis for the development of new approaches to the treatment and prevention of cardiac defects in infants and cardiac repair in adults, including several therapeutics already in development.
We all know what degeneration is. Thats what happens with age. Regeneration is the opposite. It centers on how to rejuvenate aged and diseased tissues, said Dr. Olson. The goal of this Center is to understand the basic mechanisms for tissue and organ formation, and then to use that knowledge to regenerate, repair, and replace tissues damaged by aging and injury.
Under Dr. Olsons leadership, the Hamon Center will both foster collaborative interactions among existing faculty and, with its appointing authority, recruit junior and senior new faculty. In addition, the Center will support new core facilities, expanded biobank activities, and the development of new training and educational activities related to regenerative science and medicine.
Dr. Olsons work has been widely recognized by numerous awards and honors, including his election to the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. More recently, he received the Passano Award in 2012, the Research Achievement Award from the International Society for Heart Research in 2013, and also in 2013, the March of Dimes Prize in Developmental Biology.
Dr. Olson has been a member of the UTSouthwestern community since he was recruited in 1995 to be the founding Chair of the Department of Molecular Biology. He holds the Annie and Willie Nelson Professorship in Stem Cell Research, the Pogue Distinguished Chair in Research on Cardiac Birth Defects, and the Robert A. Welch Distinguished Chair in Science.
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08.05.2014 - (idw) Max-Delbrck-Centrum fr Molekulare Medizin (MDC) Berlin-Buch
The new biannual research report for the years 2012 and 2013 of the Max Delbrck Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch has now been published. In the 326-page report, which is predominantly in English, the 62 research groups of the MDC, the central units (technology platforms) and the clinical groups in the Experimental and Clinical Research Center (ECRC) of the MDC and the Charit Universittsmedizin Berlin give an overview of their work in the research areas of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, cancer, diseases of the nervous system and systems biology. In his introduction to the research report, Professor Walter Rosenthal, MDC board chairman and scientific director, noted that the MDC had received the best possible mark of outstanding in its evaluation by international reviewers in 2012. At the same time the course was set for the further development of the MDC and its deeper integration into research activities on the state and federal level.
In his introductory remarks, Professor Rosenthal highlighted the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), which was founded in 2013. The MDC and the Charit have cooperated since 1992 in translational research the transfer of findings of basic research to applications in the clinic. With the new Berlin Institute of Health which has a thematic focus on systems medicine, the MDC and the Charit will substantially expand this cooperation. Furthermore, in 2012 the German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), in which the MDC participates, was opened. It is one of a total of six German Centers for Health Research (DZG) which the Federal Ministry of Education and Research has established.
The MDC was founded on Campus Berlin-Buch in 1992. It is a member of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres and receives its basic operational funding of approximately 68 million euros a year in a fixed ratio of 90 percent from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and 10 percent from the state of Berlin. In addition, extramural grants acquired by the researchers are in the two-digit million-euro range each year. At present (as of April 2014), 1615 people from 58 countries work at the MDC, among them 461 scientists and 371 doctoral students.
To receive this research report, please request a copy from the MDC Press Department.
Contact: Barbara Bachtler Press Department Max Delbrck Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch in the Helmholtz Association Robert-Rssle-Strae 10 13125 Berlin Germany Phone: +49 (0) 30 94 06 - 38 96 Fax: +49 (0) 30 94 06 - 38 33 e-mail: presse@mdc-berlin.de http://www.mdc-berlin.de/ Weitere Informationen:http://www.mdc-berlin.de/43173227/en/research/research_report/Image/MDC_research...
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Big-budget blockbusters tend to be written off as mindless fun, so its interesting to see a major studio release that turns reverses that trend. Transcendence has plenty of big ideas that its trying to convey, but the dull execution fails to do justice to the themes presented.
The film centers on computer engineers Will and Evelyn Caster (Johnny Depp and Rebecca Hall) in their attempts to build a sentient computer. After being shot with a radioactive bullet by technophobic terrorists, Will is left with only a month to live. Desperate to save her husband, Evelyn and mutual friend Max (Paul Bettany) upload Wills mind to an advanced supercomputer. The process works and soon Will is connected to the internet, giving him unparalleled knowledge and access. Despite Wills good intentions, it soon becomes clear that he must be stopped.
Why must he be stopped? Its here where the movie becomes hazy. Director Wally Pfister and writer Jack Paglan raise questions the benefits and dangers of advanced technology, but they dont flesh out the discussion with insight or debate. Instead, there are fight scenes and computer viruses.
Rebecca Halls sorrowful performance helps anchor the film emotionally, but the contrived conflict between Will and his foes (the FBI and the terrorists, bizarrely working together) fails to engage, partly because neither side has been developed very much.
Other than a standout Hall, none of the players, Depp especially, impress. All of the actors are burdened with technobabble, exposition and preaching, though, so they dont have much to work with.
Pfister, the longtime cinematographer for Christopher Nolan, conjures up some beautiful imagery over the course of the film, but this visual splendor cant disguise the confused mess of ideas and half-developed characters that is Transcendence.
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Professor Terry Poulton, Associate Dean for e-Learning at St George #39;s, University of London, provides an overview of the key developments in e-learning in medical education over the last decade,...
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