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for the Week of October 17 to October 24, 2010
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Posted 2010-10-23:
- A new way to weigh planets
- Nanotube thermopower: Efforts to store energy in carbon nanotubes
- Scientists open electrical link to living cells
- Short-range scattering in quantum dots: Discovery advances novel devices
- Chemical engineers use gold to discover breakthrough for creating biorenewable chemicals
Posted 2010-10-23:
- New cometary phenomenon greets approaching spacecraft
- Value-added sulfur scrubbing: Converting acid rain chemicals into useful products
- Space telescopes reveal previously unknown brilliant X-ray explosion in Milky Way galaxy
- Researchers break speed barrier in solving important class of linear systems
- Towards better explosives detectors
- Lunar 'permafrost': Evidence for widespread water ice on the moon
- Spotting suspicious moles
- Forensic metal fingerprinting: Simple, handheld device which can measure corrosion on machine parts
- Taking a closer look at plaque
- World's smallest on-chip low-pass filter developed
- Light on silicon better than copper?
- Real-time imaging of stroke models
- Using PEAT to capture, share and analyze protein experimental data
Posted 2010-10-22:
- NASA-engineered collision spills new Moon secrets
- The coldest chemistry
- Direct laser cooling of molecules
- Energy revolution key to complex life: Depends on mitochondria, cells' tiny power stations
- New equation could advance research in solar cell materials
- Space weather mystery solved: Link found between electrons trapped in space and upper atmosphere's diffuse aurora
- The world is not flat: Exploring cells and tissues in three dimensions
- How batteries grow old: Researchers build facility to put hybrid car batteries to the test
- New search method tracks down influential ideas: Computer scientists have developed a new way of tracing the origins and spread of ideas
- Star, not so bright: Model explains evolution of unusual black hole binary system
- A forest of nanorods: Amazing nanostructures created by glancing-angle deposition
- Crash helmet with a useful smell
- Researchers analyze student grief online after campus shootings
- Entire issue of scientific journal devoted to Joint Center for Structural Genomics
Posted 2010-10-21:
- Intricate, curving 3-D nanostructures created using capillary action forces
- Measuring changes in rock: Research looks at effect of captured and stored carbon dioxide on minerals
- New sensor derived from frogs may help fight bacteria and save wildlife; Sensor uses frog peptides to test for drug and medical device contamination
- Small is beautiful in hydroelectric power plant design: Invention could enable renewable power generation at thousands of unused sites
- Biodegradable foam plastic substitute made from milk protein and clay
- Most distant galaxy ever measured: Faint glow from when the universe was only 600 million years old
- The (Long) Weekend Warrior: Nine Moons, 62 Hours
- McSleepy meets DaVinci: Doctors conduct first-ever all-robotic surgery and anesthesia
- Batteries smaller than a grain of salt
- Improved antibiotic coatings: Research aims to make medical devices safer by preventing biofilms
- Long distance, top secret messages: Critical component of quantum communication device may enable cryptography
- Video games can be highly effective training tools, study shows: Employees learn more, forget less, master more skills
- One-way Martian colonization missions: Proposal would cut costs dramatically, ensure long-term commitment
- Study of tiny magnets may advance their use in microelectronics
- Best yet test of Lorentz invariance
Posted 2010-10-20:
- Bioelectrical signals turn stem cells' progeny cancerous; Newly discovered 'instructor cells' can deliver deadly directions
- Making the Internet faster
- 'Drivel' on Facebook more valuable than we think
- Sniffing out shoe bombs: A new and simple sensor for explosive chemicals
- 'Virtual satellite dish' thanks to lots of simple processors working together
- New biological sensor detects and analyses DNA sequences
- The hair brush that reads your mind
- Astronomers find weird, warm spot on an exoplanet
- Plastic monitors itself
- Breakthrough in nanocrystals growth
- Eyetracker warns against momentary driver drowsiness
- Underwater robot to explore ice-covered ocean and Antarctic ice shelf
- Watching violent TV or video games desensitizes teenagers and may promote more aggressive behavior, new study finds
- Plastics and nanoparticles -- the perfect combination
- Professor taking next step with graphene research
- ORNL's research reactor revamps veteran neutron scattering tool
Posted 2010-10-19:
- NASA technology could aid in interpretation of mammograms, ultrasound, other medical imagery
- From handwritten CAPTCHAs to 'smart rooms,' tech solutions start with pattern recognition
- Unexpected magnetic order among titanium atoms discovered
- The many infrared 'personalities' of the Sculptor galaxy
- SpamBot wants to be your friend
- Lastest graphene research could lead to improvements in bluetooth headsets and other devices
- Moving monopoles caught on camera: Researchers make visible movement of monopoles in assembly of nanomagnets
- From biomass to ethanol and methane: New enzyme may lead to cheaper biofuel
- For future chips, smaller must also be better
- MRI zooms in on microscopic flow
- Model unfolds proteins gently
- Building a smaller, lighter future: Understanding polymer behaviors below one nanometer
- Higher education curricula not keeping pace with societal, tech changes
Posted 2010-10-18:
- Physicists pave the way for graphene-based spin computer; First to achieve 'tunneling spin injection'
- Measurement scientists set a new standard in 3-D ears
- Mini-sensor traces faint magnetic signature of human heartbeat
- Complex quantum dot-dopamine interactions unraveled
- Planet hunters no longer blinded by the light: New way to see faint planets previously hidden in their star's glare
- New class of highly electronegative chemical species discovered
Posted 2010-10-17:
Posted 2010-10-16:
- New look at multitalented protein sheds light on mysteries of HIV
- Cancer screening made simple, thanks to micro-fluidic technology
- Eat safer: Novel approach detects unknown food pathogens
- Changing the color of single photons emitted by quantum dots
- Computers to read your body language?
- Mysterious pulsar with hidden powers discovered
- Improved 'molecular fingerprinting' for trace gas detection unveiled
- New materials could replace costly gold in electrical applications
- Safeguarding data in future quantum computing: Physicists detect and control quantum states in diamond with light
- New system for locating and capturing satellites in space
- 'Incoherent excitations' govern key phase of superconductor behavior
- Charcoal biofilter cleans up fertilizer waste gases
- Improving engineering education: National study identifies range of opportunities
Posted 2010-10-15:
- Astronomer leverages supercomputers to study black holes, galaxies
- New malware could steal users social media behavior and info, researchers warn
- Early success with laser that destroys tumors with heat
- Scientists perfect making molecular nanowires
- I want to see what you see: Babies treat 'social robots' as sentient beings
- Cyberwars: Already underway with no Geneva Conventions to guide them
- Ghosts of the future: First giant structures of the universe hold 800 trillion suns
- Electrified nano filter promises to cut costs for clean drinking water
- Breaking ball too good to be true: Illusion behind batters' perceptions of 'breaking' curveballs and 'rising' fastballs
- Quantum physics: Flavors of entanglement
- Galaxy growth spurts explained: Young galaxies can grow by sucking in cool gas
- Hemoglobin test printed on paper
- Reservoirs: A neglected source of methane emissions
Posted 2010-10-14:
- Can Hungary's red sludge be made less toxic with carbon?
- Potential of lead-free piezoelectric ceramics
- Consumers’ ‘herding instinct’ turns on and off, Facebook study shows
- Silicon strategy shows promise for batteries: Lithium-ion technique for electric cars, large-capacity storage
- Computer 'trained' to classify pictures and videos basing on elements they contain
- Bizarre X-shaped intruder linked to an unseen asteroid collision
- Microchip technology rapidly identifies compounds for regrowing nerves in live animals
- Student-built dust counter breaks distance record on New Horizons mission to Pluto
- Striding towards a new dawn for electronics
- Planar power: Flat sodium-nickel chloride battery could improve performance, cost of energy storage
- Human tissue, organs help scientists learn from plutonium and uranium workers
- Wild 'teenage' galaxies booming with star births
- Second-generation device more effective in capturing circulating tumor cells
- Better way to study proteins in the body: Could streamline development of drugs
- Struggling for breath: Videogame technology documents abnormal breathing patterns in patients with sunken chest
Posted 2010-10-13:
- Nanoscopic particles resist full encapsulation, simulations show
- Pediatric hospitalizations for ATV-related injuries more than double
- Giant star goes supernova and is smothered by its own dust
- Large Hadron Collider used to recreate miniature version of beginning of Universe
- NASA mission to asteroid gets help from Hubble Space Telescope
- Why it's hard to crash the electric grid
- Bacteria grow electrical hair: Specialized bacterial filaments shown to conduct electricity
- Universe likes to form galaxies similar to the Milky Way
- Future of electric cars? Running fuel cells on biodiesel
- Ultra-precise optical systems for space
- Car manufacturers can get vehicles to market more quickly using new simulation model
- Research reveals likely housing winners and losers
Posted 2010-10-12:
- Super lasers: Raman amplification compressed laser pulses 1000 times shorter, 300 times more intense
- Study details structure of potential target for HIV and cancer drugs
- Using buildings for flood protection
- New method to identify people by their ears
- Efficient, inexpensive plastic solar cells coming soon
- Oral delivery system to treat inflammatory bowel diseases developed
- Neptune could not have knocked planetoids in Cold Classical Kuiper Belt to edge of solar system
- Better synchronization helps fish deal with predator threat
- The secret of the 'Unicorn' revealed
- Artificial white light becomes eye-friendly
- Breakthrough e-display means electronics with high speed, high readability and low power usage
- Monitoring your health with your mobile phone
- Brightest galaxies tend to cluster in busiest parts of universe, study finds
Posted 2010-10-11:
- Saturn's icy moon Enceladus may keep oceans liquid with wobble
- Researchers design, fabricate innovative energy harvesting device
- Technique allows researchers to examine how materials bond at the atomic level
- Using a complex systems approach to study educational policy
Posted 2010-10-10:
- Early lung cancer detection: Optical technology shows potential for prescreening patients at high risk
- Microfluidic devices advance 3-D tissue engineering
- Blind inventors develop free software to enable the blind to use computers
- Cassini catches Saturn moons in paintball fight
- Voice phishing: System to trace telephone call paths across multiple networks developed
- Effects of hydrogen on growing carbon nanotubes
Posted 2010-10-09:
- Haze on Saturn's moon Titan may hold ingredients for life
- Measurements of CO<sub>2</sub> and CO in China's air indicate sharply improved combustion efficiency
- Half-time gamblers give stock market insight
- NASA's WMAP project completes satellite operations: Mission observed universe's oldest light
- Bacteria can stand-up and 'walk'
- Tracking device fits on the head of a pin: Mini-gyroscopes to guide smartphones and medical equipment
- Chemists simplify biodiesel conversion
- 'Living dinosaurs' in space: Galaxies in today's Universe thought to have existed only in distant past
- Can you analyze me now? Cell phones bring spectroscopy to the classroom
- Elusive intermediary: Newly discovered protein may help improve crop yields, solar cells
- New tool in the fight against tuberculosis: Algorithm enables cell-scale simulations
- Structure of plastic solar cells impedes their efficiency
- Consistent evidence: Speed cameras do reduce injuries and deaths, Australian study finds
- NASA's Mobile Mars Laboratory almost ready for flight
- Webb Telescope sunshield passes launch depressurization tests to verify flight design
Posted 2010-10-08:
- Hubble astronomers uncover an overheated early universe
- New computer switches handle heat that renders transistors useless; Work takes a page from Victorian inventor
- Surprise: Two wheels safer than four in off-road riding and racing, study finds
- Norwegian researchers at forefront of oil spill modelling after Deepwater Horizon accident
- Water discovered on second asteroid, may be even more common
- New drug blocks morphine's effects on breathing -- but not on pain
- Quantum computing research edges toward practicality
- BLADE software eliminates 'drive-by downloads' from malicious websites
- New computer modelling system predicts responses to HIV and AIDS treatments
- Best drug development results from computer/test tube combination
- Fuel cells in operation: A closer look
- Georgia Tech Information Security Center releases cyber threats forecast for 2011
Posted 2010-10-07:
- From eye to brain: Researchers map functional connections between retinal neurons at single-cell resolution
- Doppler radars help increase monsoon rainfall prediction accuracy
- Phillies, Rangers, Yanks, Giants to win, says math guru
- Nano drugs: Insoluble medicines can be made orally available if in nano crystal form
- Designing instruments for a robotic space probe to the Sun
- New type of liquid crystal promises to improve performance of digital displays
- Possible green replacement for asphalt derived from petroleum to be tested on Iowa bike trail
- Anti-tumor drugs tested by microfluidic device
- New graphene fabrication method uses silicon carbide templates to create desired growth
- 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Creating complex carbon-based molecules using palladium
- Geothermal mapping project reveals large, green energy source in West Virginia
- Gem of an idea: A flexible diamond-studded electrode implanted for life
- Bricks made with wool
- NASA mission 'E-Minus' one month to comet flyby
- Nano design, just like in nature
- NASA's WISE mission warms up but keeps chugging along
- Web-based creativity: Can working in virtual communities be more effective than face-to-face cooperation?
- Comet 103P/Hartley 2 probed in preparation for DIXI/EPOXI flyby
Posted 2010-10-06:
- WISE captures key images of comet mission's destination
- MAVEN mission to investigate how Sun steals Martian atmosphere
- Geoengineering solutions could prevent irreversible climate crisis, study finds
- Top reasons for Facebook unfriending
- The world is full of darkness, reflected in the physiology of the human retina
- Nobel Prize in Physics 2010 for graphene -- 'two-dimensional' material
- Cluster helps disentangle turbulence in the solar wind
- Interactive video games can cause a broad range of injuries
- Europa's hidden ice chemistry: Jupiter's moon may have more than possible ocean
- Audio zooming to enhance TV viewing
- A step toward lead-free electronics
- Quantum error correcting code discovered
- San Diego Supercomputer Center participates in first 'Census of Marine Life'
Posted 2010-10-05:
- NASA's Webb telescope MIRI instrument takes one step closer to space
- DNA art imitates life: Construction of a nanoscale Mobius strip
- Lakes on Saturn's moon Titan filled with liquid hydrocarbons like ethane and methane, not water
- Powerful supercomputer peers into the origin of life
- Physicists control chemical reactions mechanically
- Surprising silk: Proteins become more concentrated when diluted
- Painless way to achieve huge energy savings: Stop wasting food
- Designer’s door could prove a real lifesaver in earthquake emergency
- Fungal spores travel farther by surfing their own wind
- An elegant galaxy in an unusual light
- Launch of Germ Genie to kill keyboard germs
- Interactive media improved patients’ understanding of cancer surgery by more than a third
Posted 2010-10-04:
- Milky Way sidelined in galactic tug-of-war, computer simulation shows
- Individual mutations are very slow to promote tumor growth, mathematical modeling shows
- Turning waste heat into power
- Citizen scientist: Helping scientists help themselves
Posted 2010-10-03:
- Physicists break color barrier for sending, receiving photons
- Lightweight construction materials: Suitable for car wheels?
- Catalyst sandwich: Synthetic PCR mimic could lead to highly sensitive medical, environmental diagnostics
Posted 2010-10-02:
- Underwater robot swims free thanks to wireless controller
- Three solid-state qubits entangled: Big step toward quantum error correction
- New way to view atomic motion of proteins invented
- Knot in the ribbon at the edge of the solar system 'unties'
- Simple approach could clean up oil remaining from Exxon Valdez spill
- Spring on Titan brings sunshine and patchy clouds
- Finding a buckyball in a photovoltaic cell
- 'e-SMART' technologies may help young adults self-manage mental illness
- Researchers find phone apps sending data without notification; TaintDroid tool IDs untrustworthy apps
- Species accumulate on Earth at slower rates than in the past, computational biologists say
- Mars Rover Opportunity approaching possible meteorite
- Innovative Web-based tool helps doctors improve care
- Computer-aided detection is increasingly being used in screening and diagnostic mammography
- Growth of biofuel industry hurt by GMO regulations, say experts
Posted 2010-10-01:
- IBEX finds surprising changes at solar boundary
- New 'standard cigarette' available for fire-resistance testing
- Bedouin tribe reveals secrets to 'GA-JOE' high-tech genome analyzer
- Hydrogen fuel for thought: Metallacarboranes may meet DOE storage goals
- Growing nanowires horizontally yields new benefit: 'nano-LEDs'
- Research lays foundation for building on the Moon -- or anywhere else
- New views of Saturn's aurora, captured by Cassini
- Nanotechnology brings personalized therapy one step closer to reality
- Atmosphere checked, one Mars year before a landing
- One-dimensional window on superconductivity, magnetism: Atoms are proxies for electrons in ultracold optical emulator
- Laser tool for studying Mars rocks
- Hello, Saturn summer solstice: Cassini's new chapter
- Wide-Field Imager selected for Solar Probe Plus mission
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