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for the Week of August 1 to August 8, 2010
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Posted 2010-08-07:
- Mimicking the moon's surface in the basement
- Timely technology sees tiny transitions
- Nuclear physicists study 'magic' nature of tin
Posted 2010-08-07:
- Selenium makes more efficient solar cells
- Reading zip codes of 3,500-year-old letters: Non-destructive X-ray scanning of archaeological finds
- Robot climbs walls
- 'Asynchronous telepsychiatry' found effective for assessing patients' mental health
- Artificial bee eye gives insight into insects’ visual world
- Nanofluidic 'multi-tool' separates and sizes nanoparticles
Posted 2010-08-06:
- Quantum networks advance with entanglement of photons, solid-state qubits
- Computer scientists build 'pedestrian remover'
- Unprecedented look at oxide interfaces reveals unexpected structures on atomic scale
- Physicists use offshoot of string theory to describe puzzling behavior of superconductors
- Seeing a stellar explosion in 3D
- Invisibility cloak advance: New findings promising for 'transformation optics'
- Taking the twinkle out of the night sky: Breakthrough in adaptive optics
- Fast forensic test can match suspects' DNA with crime samples in four hours
- Gaming for a cure: Computer gamers tackle protein folding
- For the first time ever, scientists watch an atom's electrons moving in real time
Posted 2010-08-05:
- Discovery of Saturn’s auroral heartbeat
- Cells use water in nano-rotors to power energy conversion
- Thought-controlled prosthetic limb system to be tested on human subjects
- Green laser pointer hazard: High infrared power levels found in some green lasers
- Physicists develop model that pushes limits of quantum theory, relativity
- Fluorescent probe for oral cancer
- Americans take more risks when they drive the nation's rural highways, new study says
- Dark matter may be lurking at heart of the sun
- New diagnostic chip able to generate single-cell molecular 'fingerprints' for brain tumors
- Nemesis for oil spills: Bacterial technology may help clean up Gulf
- Generating energy from ocean waters off Hawaii
- Latest findings in CT radiation dose reduction efforts
- New inexpensive solar cell design
- NASA's hibernating Mars rover may not call home
- Molecules delivering drugs as they walk
- 'Virtual mates' reveal role of romance in parrot calls
- High resolution stereo color imager selected for Mars mission
- New tagging technique enhances view of living cells
Posted 2010-08-04:
- Discovering life-bearing planets: Scientists take a step closer
- Pilot safety protocol could help dentists reduce errors
- Iron oxide nanoparticles becoming tools for brain tumor imaging and treatment
- Behind the secrets of silk lie high-tech opportunities
- Silicon can be made to melt in reverse
- Pathological Internet use among teens may lead to depression
- Aurora alert: The Sun is waking up
- New catalyst of platinum nanoparticles could lead to conk-out free, stable fuel cells
- Universal law for material evolution found
- Crowd control and traffic problems: Mutually entangled social, economic, and technological systems under investigation
Posted 2010-08-03:
- New solar energy conversion process could double solar efficiency of solar cells
- Instruments selected for Mars
- Nano 'pin art': Arrays are step toward mass production of nanowires
- Unique light-activated membrane acts like a traffic signal for gas
- When screen time becomes a pain
- Martian dust devil whirls into Opportunity's view
- Body of evidence: New fast, reliable method to detect gravesoil
Posted 2010-08-02:
- 'Sea urchin'-shaped nanostructures grown in the lab
- Reading terrorists minds about imminent attack: Brain waves correlate to guilty knowledge in mock terrorism scenarios
- Ultra-strong interaction between light and matter realized: One more step on the path to quantum computers
Posted 2010-08-01:
- Blowing in the wind: Cassini helps with dune whodunit on Saturn's moon Titan
- Decontaminating dangerous drywall
- Some like it hot: How to heat a 'nano bathtub'
- Breaking the language barrier: Language translation devices for US troops tested
Posted 2010-07-31:
- How not to blow up a molecule
- Rocks on Mars may provide link to evidence of living organisms roughly 4 billion years ago
- Brown dwarf found orbiting a young sun-like star
- Fluorescent biosensor to aid in drug development
- Best hope for saving Arctic sea ice is cutting soot emissions, say researchers
- Graphene exhibits bizarre new behavior well suited to electronic devices
- Polarstern expedition: Autonomous underwater vehicle dives under the Arctic ice
Posted 2010-07-30:
- Laboratory in microdrops: Credit card-size microflow system handles thousands of experiments
- Sensing wind speed with kites
- Brilliant star in a colorful neighborhood
- Quantum fractals at the border of magnetism
- Planets found in unusually intimate dance around dying star
- NASA simulates space exploration at remote Arctic crater site
- Can't place that face?
- Quantum phenomenon observed: Atoms form organized structure from unorganized one
- New tool for improving switchgrass
- Diabetes care: Implanted glucose sensor works for more than a year in animal studies
- Polymer passage takes time: New theory aids researchers studying DNA, protein transport
- Talking touchscreens aid patients
- Penalty points system driver's license reduces accidents on a temporary basis, Spanish study finds
- Three-year investigation of military munitions sea disposal site in Hawaii completed
- Computer game helps nurses master drug calculations
Posted 2010-07-29:
- Nanomaterials poised for big impact in construction
- Nanotechnology for water purification
- Novel algorithm cuts the risks of choosing ineffectual team members
- Clean technology in 'hot water'
- Artificially controlling water condensation leads to 'room-temperature ice'
- First step toward electronic DNA sequencing: Translocation through graphene nanopores
- Unexplained pattern of cosmic rays discovered
- Fly eye paves the way for manufacturing biomimetic surfaces
- Where do the drugs go?
- Two catalysts made to work together: May lead to pharmaceuticals with less chemical waste
- Engineers prove space pioneer's 25-year-old theory
- Getting a step ahead of pathogens
- Waste fat from frying fuels hydrogen economy
- New drug delivery technique: Nanoblasts from laser-activated nanoparticles move molecules, proteins and DNA into cells
- Latest 'green' packing material? Mushrooms; Packing foam engineered from mushrooms and agricultural waste
- Urine: Waste product or future power source?
- Researchers' 'Posseidon' adventure could save shipping industry millions
- Not as Web savvy as you think? Young people give Google, other top brand search results too much credibility, study finds
- Multifunctional nanoparticle enables new type of biological imaging
- Researchers investigate effects of lightning strikes on aircraft
- The more frequently you log on, the more weight you can keep off, study finds
Posted 2010-07-28:
- Data sorting world record falls: Computer scientists break terabyte sort barrier in 60 seconds
- Who gives a tweet? Nuanced feedback for microbloggers
- Invention enables people with disabilities communicate and steer a wheelchair by sniffing
- Promise for nuclear fusion test reactors, findings show
- Native-like spider silk produced in metabolically engineered bacteria
- More accurate than Heisenberg allows? Uncertainty in the presence of a quantum memory
- Radical new computer memory? Emergent resistance network suggests mechanism for colossal magnetoresistance
- NASA tests launch abort system at supersonic speeds
- Potentially hazardous asteroid might collide with the Earth in 2182
- For platinum catalysts, smaller may be better
- Seeing the forest and the trees reveals heart problems
- Delayed time zero in photoemission: New record in time measurement accuracy
- Keeping trains on track: Early-warning hazard system for the world's railways
- Eddies against the wall
- Cheaper substrates made of oxide materials
Posted 2010-07-27:
- Experiments narrow allowed mass range for Higgs boson
- Arctic voyage illuminating ocean optics
- What does your avatar say about you?
- Noninvasive MR imaging of blood vessel growth in tumors using nanosized contrast agents
- Position-based quantum cryptography: New method for securing location-sensitive data
- An alchemist’s dream: Lead-free electronics
- Largest particle accelerator 'rediscovers' fundamental subatomic particles
- Storm elves and sprites recorded on video
- New antibacterial material for bandages, food packaging, shoes
- A plane that lands like a bird
- Organic nanoelectronics a step closer
- Simpler method for building varieties of nanocrystal superlattices
- Stop or speed through a yellow light? That is the question
- NASA moves forward on commercial partnership for rocket engine testing
Posted 2010-07-26:
- Toward a new generation of superplastics
- 3-D gesture-based interaction system unveiled
- Researchers calculate the cost of CO<sub>2</sub> emissions, call for carbon tax
- Graphene oxide gets green: Environmentally friendly ways to make it in bulk, break it down
- Predicting nanoparticle structures: Standard chemical reactions show the way
- Nanowick at heart of new system to cool 'power electronics'
- Nanoparticles in English ivy may hold the key to making sunscreen safer and more effective
Posted 2010-07-25:
- Graphene organic photovoltaics: Flexible material only a few atoms thick may offer cheap solar power
- Virtual reality gives insight on protein structures
- NASA spacecraft camera yields most accurate Mars map
- Charging up electric car batteries in environmentally-friendly way
Posted 2010-07-24:
- Out of the gait: Robot ranger sets untethered 'walking' record at 14.3 miles
- Cancer-metabolism link runs deep in humans, novel network algorithm suggests
- Supercomputer reproduces a cyclone's birth, may boost forecasting
- How do cells die? Biophotonic tools reveal real-time dynamics in living color
- Nanoparticles as destructive beacons to zap tumors
- New technique for studying dark energy
- New quantum state of matter discovered in Heusler compounds: Applications in spintronics, quantum computing and new physical effects
- Transparency through open notes: Risks and rewards of inviting patients to review their medical records
- Can chaos theory help predict heart attacks?
- European Space Agency develops radar to watch for space hazards
- NASA telescope finds elusive buckyballs in space for first time
- Math model of colon inflammation singles out dangerous immune cells
- Pounding particles to create Neptune's water in the lab
- Quantum mechanics not in jeopardy: Physicists confirm a decades-old key principle experimentally
- Highest X-ray energy used to probe materials
- Bio-based compound provides substitute for important raw material in plastic products
- Oilseed rape and sunflower oils investigated as new way to produce fuel and feed for herds
- Bioenergy production can expand across Africa without displacing food, report finds
Posted 2010-07-23:
- Key compound of ozone destruction detected; Scientists disprove doubts in ozone hole chemistry
- Data mining made faster: New method eases analysis of 'multidimensional' information
- Hyperfast star was booted from Milky Way
- Caterpillars crawl like none other: Unique means of animal locomotion has implications for robotics, human biomechanics
- Now you see it, now you don't: An infrared invisibility cloak made of glass
- Gulf oil dispersants unlikely to be endocrine disruptors and have relatively low cell toxicity, tests find
- Engineering researchers simplify process to make world's tiniest wires
- Evidence of water in lunar rocks: Water on moon may be widespread, similar to Earth's
- Nanotech coatings produce 20 times more electricity from sewage
- Black hole jerked around twice
- Quantum entanglement in photosynthesis and evolution
- Students design early labor detector aimed to prevent premature births
- Video game processors help lower CT scan radiation
- Nanoribbons for graphene transistors: Materials for tomorrow's nanoelectronics
- Military greenhouse gas emissions: EPA should recognize environmental impact of protecting foreign oil, researchers urge
- Study describes health effects of occupational exposures in Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant workers
Posted 2010-07-22:
- Cometary impact on Neptune: Herschel data point to collision about two centuries ago
- Finding frugal aliens: 'Benford beacons' concept could refocus search for signs of intelligent extraterrestrial life
- Do cleaning products cause breast cancer?
- Poplar tree protein can be used to shrink memory elements and increase computer memory density
- Stars just got bigger: A 300-solar-mass star uncovered
- Nanoparticles plus adult stem cells demolish plaque, study finds
- Flower organ's cells make random decisions that determine size
- Cassini sees moon building giant snowballs in Saturn ring
- By 'putting a ring on it,' microparticles can be captured
- Nanotechnology: Scientists construct molecular 'knots'
- Drilling down to the nanometer depths of leaves for biofuels
- Video camera will show Mars rover's touchdown
- Computer program predicts MRSA bacteria's next move
Posted 2010-07-21:
- Prolonged mobile phone use may be linked to tinnitus
- Engineers work on rocket demonstrator for Mars missions
- Data presentation and consumer confidence
- Next generation surgical robots: Where's the doctor?
- New method developed for synchronizing clocks
- Widely used chemicals linked to ADHD in children
- Image-processing algorithm reduces CT radiation dose by as much as 95 percent
- ‘The friend of my enemy is my enemy’: Virtual universe study proves 80-year-old theory on how humans interact
- Fourth property of electrons? Electric dipole moment would explain creation of universe
- Beach umbrellas do not block out all solar radiation, study shows
- Artificial cells communicate and cooperate like biological cells, ants
- Microbial world's use of metals mostly unmapped
- Advance made toward communication, computing at 'terahertz' speeds
- Breakthrough in thin-film solar cells: New insights into the indium/gallium puzzle
- Cerebral bioelectricity analysis detects epilepsy
- Mermaid opens prospect of cleaner seas with pollution early warning system
- Orbiter puts itself into standby safe mode
Posted 2010-07-20:
- Cultured brain cells taught to keep time
- How technology may improve treatment for children with brain cancer
- Getting mosquitoes under control: Gene-silencing nanoparticles may put end to pesky summer pest
- High-speed study of zebrafish larvae: New technique can analyze larvae in seconds
- Vaccine-delivery patch with dissolving microneedles eliminates 'sharps,' boosts protection
- Unusual electrons go with the flow
- Refining a cosmic clock: Particle accelerator research helps narrow down the age of our galaxy
- NASA's WISE mission completes extensive sky survey
- See beautiful Ontario Lacus: Cassini's guided tour
Posted 2010-07-19:
- Novel microfluidic HIV test is quick and cheap
- Making virtopsies a reality: New research project to develop reliable and cost-effective virtual autopsies
- Cell signaling classification system gives researchers new tool
- New method revolutionizes study of metal-containing proteins
Posted 2010-07-18:
- Chemists grow crystals with a twist -- and untwist
- Quantum simulations uncover hydrogen's phase transitions
- Sound creates light: Researchers transfer ultra-stable frequency across 480-km optical fiber link
Posted 2010-07-17:
- Astronomers discover an unusual cosmic lens
- Small wires make big connections for microelectronics
- Record-breaking carbon dioxide storage capacity enhances ability to capture CO<sub>2</sub>
- New radiation mechanism may ward off cancer, oil spills and terrorism
- Reinventing the wheel -- naturally
- Researchers cut years from drug development with nanoscopic bead technology
- Nanotubes pass acid test
- New revelations about Mercury's volcanism, magnetic substorms and exosphere from MESSENGER
- Herschel: The first science highlights
Posted 2010-07-16:
- How human immune response to virus is triggered at the atomic level
- Database for personalised cancer treatment: Largest study of genomes and cancer treatments releases first results
- Giant antenna propped up, ready for joint replacement
- Submarines could use new nanotube technology for sonar and stealth
- Team develops non-toxic oil recovery agent
- Super-hot planet with unique comet-like tail discovered
- New light on Leonardo Da Vinci’s faces
- Physicists find clues to the origin and evolution of wrinkles in thin sheets
- Supercharged proteins enter biology's forbidden zone
- Toward room-temperature superconductors: Key advance in understanding 'pseudogap' phase in high-T<sub>c</sub> superconductors
- Noninvasive probing of geological core samples
- Carbon sequestration: Steam process could remove carbon dioxide to regenerate amine capture materials
- Bringing molecules into view: Record-breaking high-resolution optical technique resolves objects as small as 0.5 nanometers
- A simple quantum dynamics problem?
- Reports detail global investment and other trends in green energy
Posted 2010-07-15:
- Unravelling the mystery of massive star birth: All stars are born the same way
- Rainbow trapping in light pulses
- Consumers under-predict learning curve following initial experience with product
- Record-breaking X-ray blast briefly blinds space observatory
- New generation of biological scaffolds
- Lie detection: You can't hide your lyin' eyes
- Juno spacecraft armored up to go to Jupiter
- NASA and Microsoft provide Mars 3-D close encounter
- Astronomers discover star-studded galaxy tail
- Fascinating images from a new world: Close-ups of the asteroid Lutetia
Posted 2010-07-14:
- Viscosity at the nanoscale: Intriguing 50-year-old puzzle solved
- Report on controlling NASA mission costs
- Hubble snaps sharp image of cosmic concoction
- Stellar explosions provide the key to understanding the fate of the universe
- Magnets trump metallics: Magnetic fields can turn highly conductive nanotubes into semiconductors
- Avatars as lifelike representations and effective marketing tools
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