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for the Week of August 29 to September 5, 2010
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Posted 2010-09-04:
- Magnetism's subatomic roots: Study of high-tech materials helps explain everyday phenomenon
- Novel nanotechnology collaboration leads to breakthrough in cancer research
- Helping corn-based plastics take more heat
- Next step in evolution? A technical life form that passes on knowledge and experience
- Many urban streams harmful to aquatic life following winter pavement deicing
Posted 2010-09-04:
- Chemists, engineers achieve world record with high-speed graphene transistors
- Computer technique could help partially sighted 'see' better
- Miniature auto differential helps tiny aerial robots stay aloft
- Experiment records ultrafast chemical reaction with vibrational echoes
- Laser-based missile defense for helicopters being developed
- Chemists develop simple technique to visualize atomic-scale structures
- Scientists listen to faint sounds inside insects using atomic force microscopy
- Researchers discover proton diode: Water is an active element in proteins
- Molecules involved in 'touch' identified: Could lead to new treatments for pain, deafness and cardiac function
- The perfect nanocube: Precise control of size, shape and composition
- Model for implantable artificial kidney to replace dialysis unveiled
- Edible nanostructures: Compounds made from renewable materials could be used for gas storage, food technologies
Posted 2010-09-03:
- Strain-gating piezotronics: New class of piezoelectric logic devices created using zinc oxide nanowires
- Microsoft Excel-based algorithm predicts cancer prognosis
- New app shows 2-D structure of thousands of RNA molecules
- Hubble observations of supernova reveal composition of 'star guts' pouring out
- Computer scientists leverage dark silicon to improve smartphone battery life
- Recipe for water: Just add starlight
- New infrared light may open new frontier in fighting cancer, Tay Sachs
- 'Smart materials' process promises to revolutionize manufacturing of medical devices, other products
- Researchers create 'quantum cats' made of light
- Probing for principles underlying animal flock patterns: A model system for group behavior of nanomachines
- Researchers discover how to conduct first test of 'untestable' string theory
- Metal-mining bacteria are green chemists
- New solar prediction system gives time to prepare for the storms ahead
- Economic theory suggests symbiosis is driven by simple self-interest, not rewards or punishment
- Less waste with shelf-life indicator for food
- Adding value to data: BioMed Central calls for greater researcher sharing
Posted 2010-09-02:
- Navigation satellites contend with stormy Sun
- New material may reveal inner workings of hi-temp superconductors
- Airline passengers in developing countries face 13 times crash risk as US
- Ultraviolet source helps NASA spacecraft measure the origins of space weather
- Astronomers find potassium in giant planet's atmosphere
- High-speed filter uses electrified nanostructures to purify water at low cost
- Nanobiotechnology advances point to medical applications
- Researchers develop simulation to better understand the effects of sound on marine life
- Off-the-shelf dyes improve solar cells
- Location determines social network influence, study finds; Number of connections less important than proximity to core
- IceCube neutrino observatory nears completion
- Silicon oxide circuits break barrier: Nanocrystal conductors could lead to massive, robust 3-D storage
- A decade of studying the Earth's magnetic shield, in 3-D
- Fuel-efficiency formula needs cars wired with better brainpower, less vroom
- Snail mail beats phones to help feds sustain ample fish stocks in US coastal waters
Posted 2010-09-01:
- Tracing the big picture of Mars' atmosphere
- Networks -- not size -- give cities competitive advantage
- Scientists succeed in filming organs and joints in real time using magnetic resonance imaging
- Microfluidic device allows collection, analysis of hard-to-handle immune cells
- Vulnerability in commercial quantum cryptography
- New Norwegian earplug solution to a deafening problem
Posted 2010-08-31:
- Mars's mysterious elongated crater
- Stretched polymer snaps back smaller than it started
- Batteries for battery powered cars are more environmentally friendly than expected
- System uses electrical trickery on the brain to induce realistic spaceflight effects
- New view of tectonic plates: Computer modeling of Earth's mantle flow, plate motions, and fault zones
- Atmospheric pressure plasma jet from a grounded electrode
- Hyperspectral imaging speeds detection of Campylobacter
- Lifting the veil of secrecy surrounding development of new medicines
Posted 2010-08-30:
- Tiny logo demonstrates advanced display technology using nano-thin metal sheets
- Secrets of the gecko foot help robot climb
- Medicine reaches the target with the help of magnets
- Surgical robot could be used for long-distance regional anesthesia
Posted 2010-08-28:
- Distant star's sound waves reveal cycle similar to the sun's
- New model to help organize, keep private 'vast ocean' of social network data
- Shrinking atmospheric layer linked to low levels of solar radiation
- NASA's Kepler mission discovers two planets transiting same star
- Prediction of intrinsic magnetism at silicon surfaces could lead to single-spin magnetoelectronics
- NASA's SOFIA will likely help solve mysteries about our galaxy
- Scientists concerned about environmental impact of recycling of e-waste
- First 3-D atomic view of key genetic processes
- 'Greening' your flat screen TV: Engineers develop an organic LED light source for home electronics, medicine and clean energy
- Ten years flying in formation: The legendary Cluster quartet
Posted 2010-08-27:
- Some asteroids live in own little worlds
- Tofu ingredient yields formaldehyde-free glue for plywood and other wood products
- 'Dry water' could make a big splash commercially, help fight global warming
- Cement, the glue that holds oyster families together
- WISE space telescope captures the Unicorn's Rose
- Why do consumers disclose sensitive information to shady-looking websites?
- Electricity collected from the air could become the newest alternative energy source
- When galaxies collide: How the first super-massive black holes were born
- Trouble with sputter? Blame giant nanoparticles
- Supercomputers help track species affected by Gulf oil spill
- Fixing Wiki: Wikipedia revision project teaches teamwork, communication, chemistry
Posted 2010-08-26:
- Solar System may be 2 million years older than we thought, meteorite analysis suggests
- Strange case of solar flares and radioactive elements
- New test allows individualized profiles of cigarette smoking
- Seeing the world with new eyes: Biosynthetic corneas restore vision in humans
- Microneedle, quantum dot study opens door to new clinical cancer tools
- Juicing up laptops and cell phones with soda pop or vegetable oil?
- Glorious gadolinium gives flash memory a future
- Nanobiotechnology-manipulated light particles used to accelerate algae growth
- Half-a-loaf method can improve magnetic memories
- Researchers zero in on protein that destroys HIV
- Secrets of scents: Designing the smells that sell household products
Posted 2010-08-25:
- 'Spintronics' breakthrough holds promise for next-generation computers
- New cardiac imaging device pioneered
- LEDs promise brighter future, not necessarily greener
- A surfboard gets an onboard computer
- New generation of power: Hi-tech rechargeable batteries developed for military
- Solar system similar to ours? Richest planetary system discovered
- Understanding rider bahavior key to keeping amusement park rides safe and enjoyable
- New nuclear breast imaging technologies associated with higher cancer risks, study finds
- Americans using less energy, more renewables
- Pulverized planet dust may lie around double stars
- Health diagnosis made simpler: Bioengineers design device to help detect diseases quickly
- Math from the heart: Simulating stent design and coating
- Historic buildings may be better protected from climate change with new forecast method
- Scientists help explain graphene mystery
Posted 2010-08-24:
- Fermi detects gamma-rays from exploding nova
- Drugging the undruggable: Advances toward next generation of disease fighters
- New atom-scale products on horizon: Breakthrough discovery enables nanoscale manipulation of piezoelectric effect
- 200-fold boost in fuel cell efficiency advances 'personalized energy systems'
- Cluster bomb for cancer care: Nano-vehicle delivers chemotherapy treatments on target
- New technology may prolong the life of implanted devices, from pacemakers to chemotherapy ports
- Powerful new way to control magnetism: Colossal magnetoelectricity points the way to ultra-dense data storage
- Titanium coating with protein 'flower bouquet' nanoclusters strengthens implant attachment
- Making vehicles safer
- Young people identify with an online community almost as strongly as with their own family
- Self-cleaning technology from Mars can keep terrestrial solar panels dust free
- Better way to grow stem cells developed
- Researchers advance understanding of enzyme that regulates DNA
- DNA puts chemists on scent of better artificial nose
- The future of the Web is a matter of semantics
- Ancient galaxy cluster still producing stars
- Road signs and traffic signals on DNA: Physical model describes the distribution of nucleosome
Posted 2010-08-23:
- Researchers take a look inside molecules
- Nanotech yields major advance in heat transfer, cooling technologies
Posted 2010-08-22:
- Nanoscale DNA sequencing could spur revolution in personal health care
- Hydrogen causes metal to break
Posted 2010-08-21:
- Nanoscale inhomogeneities in superconductors explained
- Galactic 'super-volcano' in action
- Widespread floating plastic debris found in the western North Atlantic Ocean
- Input-output trade-offs found in human information processing
- NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter reveals 'incredible shrinking moon'
- Scientist IDs genes that promise to make biofuel production more efficient, economical
Posted 2010-08-20:
- Astronomers use galactic magnifying lens to probe elusive dark energy
- How much mass makes a black hole? Astronomers challenge current theories
- Brightness on fluorescent probes used to monitor biological activities of individual proteins increased
- Internet access at home increases the likelihood that adults will be in relationships, study finds
- Extreme darkness: Carbon nanotube forest covers ultra-dark detector
- New computer model advances climate change research
- HVAC ducts can be used for wireless monitoring technology
- Why implant coatings detach: Nanocorrosion causes implants to fail
- Smart materials: Fully reversible functionalization of inorganic nanotubes
Posted 2010-08-19:
- Cosmic accelerators discovered in our galaxy
- Roller coaster superconductivity discovered
- Scientists closer to finding what causes the birth of a fat cell
- Paving 'slabs' that clean the air
- Future air travel: Quieter, cleaner and more environmentally friendly?
- Eclipsing pulsar promises clues to crushed matter
- High definition diagnostic ultrasonics on the nanoscale
- Clothing to power personal computers
- Astronaut muscles waste in space: Safety for future Mars missions questioned
- Elementary particles star in new 'dance movie'
- How to reduce UK transport carbon emissions by 76 per cent by 2050
Posted 2010-08-18:
- Raising mountains on Saturn's moon Titan
- Data storage: World record data density for ferroelectric recording
- New system developed to test and evaluate high-energy laser weapons
- Major hurdle cleared for organic solar cells
- Many Americans are still clueless on how to save energy
- Preschoolers use statistics to understand others
- Tantalizing clues as to why matter prevails in the universe: Surprisingly large matter/antimatter asymmetry discovered
- MRSA-killing paint created
- IBEX spacecraft reveals surprising details of solar system
- Cassini bags Enceladus 'Tigers'
- Probabilistic modeling of verbal autopsy data is best for public health decision making, study finds
- New method for estimating cost of small hydropower projects
Posted 2010-08-17:
- New microneedle antimicrobial techniques may foster medical tech innovation
- 15,000 beams of light: Pens that write with light offer low-cost, rapid nanofabrication capabilities
- Probing the nanoparticle: Predicting how nanoparticles will react in the human body
- Solution to beading-saliva mystery has practical purposes
- Making sense of space dust: Researchers explore solar system's origins
- Drugs encased in nanoparticles travel to tumors on the surface of immune-system cells
- Pushing the limits of 3D TV technology
- Evidence of new solar activity from observations of aurora in New Zealand
- Car lighting makeover impacts feel of safety and style
- Branding in a new light
Posted 2010-08-16:
Posted 2010-08-15:
Posted 2010-08-14:
- Implantable silk metamaterials could advance biomedicine, biosensing
- New nanoscale transistors allow sensitive probing inside cells
- Extended solar minimum linked to changes in sun's conveyor belt
- Magnetic molecular machines deliver drugs to unhealthy cells
- Wax, soap clean up obstacles to better batteries
- Teaching robot helps children to use wheelchair
- Fermi detects 'shocking' surprise from supernova's little cousin
- Industrial production of biodiesel feasible within 15 years, researchers predict
- Wireless tire pressure monitoring systems in cars may compromise privacy, pose security threat
- Federal nuclear waste panel overlooks public mistrust, experts say
- Asteroid found in gravitational 'dead zone' near Neptune
- Hexagonal boron nitride sheets may help graphene supplant silicon
Posted 2010-08-13:
- Scientists outline a 20-year master plan for the global renaissance of nuclear energy
- Video quality less important when you're enjoying what you're watching
- Ambitious survey spots stellar nurseries
- Popping cells surprise living circuits creators
- Arctic rocks offer new glimpse of primitive Earth
- Giant ultraviolet rings found in resurrected galaxies
- Faster DNA analysis at room temperature
- Texas petrochemical emissions down, but still underestimated, says study
- Breakthrough in blinking molecules phenomenon
- Micromachines for a safer world
Posted 2010-08-12:
- Dark-matter search plunges physicists to new depths
- Perseid meteor shower set to dazzle
- Electrons in motion
- Scientists achieve highest-resolution MRI of the inside of a magnet
- Best way to pour champagne? 'Down the side' wins first scientific test
- Energy storage system deals with sudden draws on the grid
- Advance toward earlier detection of melanoma
- Innovation could bring super-accurate sensors, crime forensics
- Send in the clouds: NASA's CloudSat sees clouds' effect on climate by studying them from space
- Scientists show there's nothing boring about watching paint dry
- Bacteria from hot springs reveal clues to evolution of early life and to unlock biofuels' potential
- Students' understanding of the equal sign not equal, professor says
- Better displays ahead
- Electron transport: Study of electron orbits in multilayer graphene finds unexpected energy gaps
- Optical imaging technique for angioplasty
- Motion-tracking technology reduces injuries for older adults
- New sensor technology to make it easier and safer for spacecraft to rendezvous and dock to International Space Station
- WISE spacecraft warming up
Posted 2010-08-11:
- Buried silver nanoparticles improve organic transistors
- Neurochip technology developed: Advances to further brain research of diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's
- World's tiniest mirror
- College undergrads study ineffectively on computers, study finds: Students transfer bad study habits from paper to screen
- Plastic computer memory device that utilizes electron spin to read and write data: Alternative to traditional semiconductors
- New strategy to fix a broken heart: Scaffold supports stem cell-derived cardiac muscle cells
- Cold atoms image microwave fields
- Brain's wiring: More like the Internet than a pyramid?
- EEG predicts response to medication for schizophrenia
- Help from the dark side: Using 'dark channel' fluorescence, scientists can explain how biochemical substances carry out their function
Posted 2010-08-10:
- Turning down the noise in graphene
- Fresh insight into the origins of Planet Earth
- New methods, new math speed detection of drug-resistant malaria
- Compact microscope a marvel: Matches performance of expensive lab gear in diagnosing TB
- Prosthesis with information at its fingertips: Hand prosthesis that eases phantom pain
- Engineers use rocket science to make wastewater treatment sustainable
- Robots created that develop emotions in interaction with humans
- Kinked nanopores slow DNA passage for easier sequencing
- Highly directional terahertz laser rays created: Semiconductor laser suitable for security screening, chemical sensing and astronomy
- Spin ice used to examine exotic properties of magnetic systems
- Scientists post lower speed limit for cell-signaling protein assembly
- Telemedicine for maintaining health of oil rig workers
- Africa cell phone boom beneficial -- but schools, roads, power, water remain critical needs
- Cricket Legend Bradman Stands Test of Time
Posted 2010-08-09:
- Rushing too fast to online learning? Outcomes of Internet versus face-to-face instruction
- NASA's great observatories witness a galactic spectacle
Posted 2010-08-08:
- 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
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