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    Martian Movie imagines a future Mars mission.

    August 30, 2015, Categories  Technology/Electronics, Astronomy/Space

    Journey To Mars

    Journey To Mars

    Learn about our real Journey To Mars  and Asteroid as well.

    The film “The Martian” takes the work NASA and others have done exploring Mars and extends it into fiction set in the 2030s, when NASA astronauts are regularly traveling to Mars and living on the surface. NASA has collaborated on this film with 20th Century Fox Entertainment, providing guidance on production design and technical consultants

    So whats happening in real life? NASA is developing the capabilities needed to send humans to an asteroid by 2025 and Mars in the 2030s. NASA will send a robotic mission to capture and redirect an asteroid to orbit the moon. Astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft will explore the asteroid in the 2020s, returning to Earth with samples...

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    New Artificial Leaf safely creates Fuel from Sunlight and Water with record Efficiency and Stability

    August 29, 2015, Categories  Physics, Technology/Electronics

    Illustration of an efficient, robust and integrated solar-driven prototype featuring protected photoelectrochemical assembly coupled with oxygen and hydrogen evolution reaction catalysts. [View full size] Credit: Image provided courtesy of Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis; artwork by Darius Siwek. - See more at: http://www.caltech.edu/news/artificial-leaf-harnesses-sunlight-efficient-fuel-production-47635#sthash.l86JNzpe.dpuf

    Illustration of an efficient, robust and integrated solar-driven prototype featuring protected photoelectrochemical assembly coupled with oxygen and hydrogen evolution reaction catalysts. [View full size] Credit: Image provided courtesy of Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis; artwork by Darius Siwek. – See more at: http://www.caltech.edu/news/artificial-leaf-harnesses-sunlight-efficient-fuel-production-47635#sthash.l86JNzpe.dpuf

    The new Artificial Leaf JCAP system has 3 main components: 2 electrodes–one photoanode and one photocathode, and a membrane. The photoanode uses sunlight to oxidize water molecules, generating protons and electrons as well as oxygen gas. The photocathode recombines the protons and electrons to form H2...

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    DNA Nanoscale Vehicle 1st time used to deliver CRISPR-Cas9 Gene-Editing tool into cells in both cell culture, animal model

    August 28, 2015, Categories  Technology/Electronics, Biology/Biotechnology

    When the nanoclew comes into contact with a cell, the cell absorbs the nanoclew completely -- swallowing it and wrapping it in a protective sheath called an endosome. But the nanoclews are coated with a positively charged polymer that breaks down the endosome, setting the nanoclew free inside the cell. The CRISPR-Cas9 complexes can then free themselves from the nanoclew to make their way to the nucleus. Credit: North Carolina State University

    When the nanoclew comes into contact with a cell, the cell absorbs the nanoclew completely — swallowing it and wrapping it in a protective sheath called an endosome. But the nanoclews are coated with a positively charged polymer that breaks down the endosome, setting the nanoclew free inside the cell. The CRISPR-Cas9 complexes can then free themselves from the nanoclew to make their way to the nucleus. Credit: North Carolina State University

    CRISPR-Cas system, found in bacteria and archaea, protects bacteria from invaders such as viruses. CRISPR RNA has been used in gene-editing to ID a targeted portion of relevant DNA, and Cas protein cleaves it. But for Cas9 to do its work, it must first find its way into the cell...

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    Turning Breath into Words: New Device unveiled to give Paralysis Victims a Voice

    August 28, 2015, Categories  Physics, Technology/Electronics, Health/Medical

    Using pattern recognition software, the prototype analyses changes in breathing patterns and converts 'breath signals' into words. Credit: Image courtesy of Loughborough University

    Using pattern recognition software, the prototype analyses changes in breathing patterns and converts ‘breath signals’ into words. Credit: Image courtesy of Loughborough University

    Billed as a tool to help bring back the art of conversation for sufferers of severe paralysis and loss of speech, the prototype analyses changes in breathing patterns and converts ‘breath signals’ into words using pattern recognition software and an analogue-to-digital converter. A speech synthesizer then reads the words aloud.

    The Augmentative and Alternate Communication (AAC) device is designed for patients with complete or partial loss of voluntary muscle control who don’t have the ability to make purposeful movements such as sniffing or blinking – gestures which previous AAC devices have come to rely upon.

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