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for the Week of October 24 to October 31, 2010
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Posted 2010-10-30:
- New insight into gaseous and dust discs around stars
- New software eases analysis of insect in motion
- Shuttle mice to boost disease research: Experiment on last flight of Discovery will probe spaceflight-induced immune-system impairment
- Study links fresh Mars gullies to carbon dioxide
Posted 2010-10-30:
- Three-dimensional maps of brain wiring
- Researchers use math, maps to plot malaria elimination plan
- Space radar provides a taste of Comet Hartley 2
- ‘Wireless’ humans could form backbone of new mobile networks
- Organic solvent system may improve catalyst recycling and create new nanomedicine uses
- New system for monitoring electricity use heralds greener homes and cheaper bills
- Earth-sized planets may be common throughout our galaxy, NASA survey suggests
- Better detection for diagnostics and biochemical defense
- Brain's journey from early Internet to modern-day fiber optics: Computer program shows how brain's complex fiber tracks mature
- New strategy to kill bugs -- even those in hiding
- Making better biosensors with electron density waves
- Emotion processing in brain is influenced by color of ambient light, study suggests
- North Sea oil recovery using carbon dioxide is possible, but time is running out, expert says
- Breakdown of correlated tunneling
Posted 2010-10-29:
- Precocious galaxy cluster identified by Chandra
- Everything evaporates, but how?
- Trapped Mars rover finds evidence of subsurface water
- Scientists 'cage' genetic off switches so they can be activated by UV light
- Facebook study finds race trumped by ethnic, social, geographic origins in forging friendships
- Smaller is better in the viscous zone
- Space buckyballs thrive, finds NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope
- Getting the big picture quickly: Software edits huge images in seconds instead of hours
- Magnetic test reveals hyperactive brain network responsible for involuntary flashbacks
- Water could hold answer to graphene nanoelectronics
- Scientists helping keep in-demand smoked salmon safe to eat, thanks to new mathematical model
- Making bone in the laboratory
- Structural genomics accelerates protein structure determination
- Current loss tracked down by magnetic fingerprint; Researchers solve the case of lost current in organic solar cells
Posted 2010-10-28:
- Out of THEMIS, ARTEMIS: Earth's loss is moon's gain
- Spiral galaxies stripped bare
- Tobacco and nicotine: They're good -- as a pesticide
- Controlling individual cortical nerve cells by human thought
- Small particles show big promise in beating unpleasant odors
- Astronomers discover most massive neutron star yet known; Discovery has broad implications for astrophysics, nuclear physics
- Portable breast scanner allows cancer detection in the blink of an eye
- The new SI: Proposal for a revamped system of measurement units
- Uranium in groundwater? 'Fracking' mobilizes uranium in marcellus shale
- Kepler spacecraft takes pulse of distant stars: 'Starquakes' yield new insights about the size, age and evolution of stars
- Trapping charged particles with laser light
- Emissions from consumption outstrip efficiency savings in UK
- NASA Goddard delivers magnetometers for Juno mission to Jupiter
- NIST ships first programmable AC/DC 10-volt standard
Posted 2010-10-27:
- Hubble data used to look 10,000 years into the future
- Six new isotopes of the superheavy elements discovered
- Scented consumer products shown to emit many unlisted chemicals
- NASA's Kepler Mission changing how astronomers study distant stars
- Stable way to store the sun's heat: Storing thermal energy in chemical could lead to advances in storage and portability
- Microwave oven key to self-assembly process meeting semi-conductor industry need
- Robotic gripper runs on coffee ... and balloons
- Tabletop instrument makes synchrotron X-rays: Simpler and cheaper way to produce tightly focused high-energy beams
- Mouse brain seen in sharpest detail ever
- How to avoid fraud in biometric identification
- Energy saving lamp is eco-winner: Swiss researcher evaluates environmental friendliness of light sources
- Harnessing tidal energy more efficiently than ever before
Posted 2010-10-26:
- Scientists examine energy trends of communications equipment
- 'Unplugged' experiment detaches students from the media
- New concept in microscopy: Self-reconstructing laser beams
- Plagiarism sleuths tackle full-text biomedical articles
- Tiny brained bees solve a complex mathematical problem
- Sterilizing with fluorescent lights: New surface may kill antibiotic-resistant staph bacteria with fluorescent light
- Synthetic FlexBone could help speed bone transplant recovery
- Computational model of swimming fish could inspire design of robots or medical prosthetics
- Photovoltaic medicine: Miniature solar cells might make chemotherapy less toxic
- Kryptonite superglue improving the quality of life in heart patients recovering from surgery
- Falkland Islands radar study impacts climate research: New equipment will monitor activity which creates the ‘Southern Lights’
- Changes in energy R&D needed to combat climate change, experts say
- Computer software helps new medical graduates prescribe safely
Posted 2010-10-25:
- Atomic-level manufacturing: Manufacturing with every atom in its proper place may be coming soon
- Mathematical model helps marathoners pace themselves to a strong finish
- Electron billiards in nanoscale circuits
- Largest parity violation and other adventures in table-top physics: Atomic experiments push boundary of known physical world
- New nano techniques integrate electron gas-producing oxides with silicon
Posted 2010-10-24:
- 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
- Green Carbon Center takes all-inclusive view of energy
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
- Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's LAMP ultraviolet spectrograph observes LCROSS blast, detects surprising gases in impact plume
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
- Measuring the electrical properties of nano-crystals: UK scientists help create standards for measuring electric materials on the nanoscale
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
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