A newly engineered antibody holds promise in leading the fight against cancerous tumors. Researchers from the University of Southampton have developed a new antibody that could unlock cancer’s defense against the body’s immune system by targeting 4-1BB, an immune receptor that can activate the killer T-cells to find and destroy cancer cells. The researchers found that 4-1BB is present mainly on a population of T cells within regulatory T cells,…
Read MoreNew 3D Crime Scene Mapping Tool Turns Incident Scenes into Virtual 3D Models
When officers arrive at a crime or crash scene, they have to spend a lot of time looking for evidence, processing it, taking photos of it, and documenting. To help make this process more efficient, the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has teamed up with the Israeli Police to invest in a new tool. The tool, called 3D-Hawk, can turn a crash or crime scene into an…
Read MoreRedesigning the Fire Extinguisher to Suck Fire in Space
The Department of Mechanical Engineering at Toyohashi University of Technology has developed an unusual fire extinguisher that sucks flames and burning materials into a vacuum chamber. Once safely captured inside the chamber, the flames and materials are suffocated or extinguished. Dubbed Vacuum Extinguish Method (VEM), the reverse concept extinguisher is geared toward special environments that are highly enclosed, such as space vehicles and different types of space transportation, and submarines.…
Read MoreUniversity of Miami Partners to Build Spacecraft Structures for Air Force Research Laboratory
The U.S. Air Force Laboratory’s (USAF) composites branch has partnered with the University of Miami, Louisiana Tech University, University of Arkansas and the University of Texas to highlight the application of 3D printed carbon fiber and epoxy components on air and spacecraft structures. The partnership comes after Emrah Celik, an assistant professor in the College of Engineering’s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, spent his summer as a Fellow for the…
Read MoreBacteria Hidden in Soil Could Yield New Antibiotics
Natural products made by organisms such as soil-dwelling bacteria may be the key to breakthroughs in drug design. Researchers from the Scripps Research Institute have found that bacteria-derived molecules called thiocarboxylic acids could be useful as ingredients for the next generation of antibiotics. “We use natural products as an inspiration for chemistry, biology and drug discovery,” Ben Shen, PhD, professor and co-chair of the Department of Chemistry at Scripps Research,…
Read MoreHOW THE GROWTH AND EVOLUTION OF THE OVER-THE-AIR TV HOME FITS INTO TODAY’S VIEWING LANDSCAPE
Over-the-air (OTA) TV—the programming that we all have access to even if we don’t have a cable or satellite programming subscription—is becoming a big thing again. In fact, it’s one of the best things to happen to cord cutters and cord shavers, as it offers them free TV through a digital antenna. Even better, with the shift to digital broadcasting a decade ago, they’re getting even more channels for free—and…
Read MoreTesla’s Latest Competitor Is a $15,500 Electric Three-Wheeler
It’s all-electric like a Tesla. It’s priced like a Ford Fiesta. It’s one of the oddest-looking vehicles you’ve ever seen — and it may just redefine the commuter car. As General Motors Co. prepares to shut the plant near Toronto that got car-making started in Canada more than a century ago, a new model is taking shape in a tiny production facility in Vancouver’s outskirts. Meet the Solo — a…
Read MoreCold Weather Wreaks Havoc with Batteries in Electric Vehicles, Says AAA
The recent brutal cold snap in many parts of the U.S. undoubtedly put a lot of strain on vehicle batteries, which lose a lot of their cold cranking capacity under such conditions. But what happens when the s battery charging system is the focal point of virtually all vehicles functions —as is the case with electric vehicles? According to recent tests conducted by the AAA, the results were not good.…
Read MoreElevator to the Stars
It sounds like something out of a science fiction novel or big budget movie: an elevator system that could bring goods and people into space. Instead of using rockets, a space elevator could move items up and down a strong cable line, with one end anchored to Earth and the other attached by a counterweight in space. The only hiccup in this plan is the material needed to create the…
Read MoreDeeper Dive—How Sling TV is using hybrid cloud to build a better vMVPD
It’s relatively early days in the virtual MVPD market, but Sling TV has established itself as frontrunner in the space. In terms of subscribers, it’s the biggest and it hopes to continue growing. Brad Linder, director of cloud native engineering at Sling TV, is tasked with ensuring the platform can stand up to increasing demand. His responsibility at Sling TV is to build a next-generation web-scale platform. He’s been working…
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