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for the Week of October 10 to October 17, 2010
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Posted 2010-10-16:
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
- 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
Posted 2010-09-30:
- New key to tissue regeneration: Drug treatment triggers sodium ions to regrow nerves and muscle
- Purifying proteins: Researchers use NMR to improve drug development
- Model aims to reduce disaster toll on city's social, economic fabric
- New oil detection technique
- Newly discovered planet may be first truly habitable exoplanet
- Carbon nanoobjects to facilitate the construction of futuristic power sources
- Better surgery with new surgical robot with force feedback
- Twitter used to predict flu outbreaks
- Making music on a microscopic scale
- Mining the 'wisdom of crowds' to attack disease
- Tiny generators turn waste heat into power
- NASA's Webb Telescope unique structural 'heart' passes extreme tests
- Single electron reader opens path for quantum computing
- The precious commodity of water
- Scientists obtain 'Unobtainium' for NASA's next space observatory
- Sustainable material for wine bottle stoppers being developed
- 'Vision Science Facility' aims for lighting revolution
Posted 2010-09-29:
- Sneaking spies into a cell's nucleus
- Structural Genomics Consortium releases 1,000th protein structure
- Solar cells thinner than wavelengths of light hold huge power potential
- Researchers use CT to predict heart disease
- 'Truthy' web site to search, identify smear tactics, Twitter-bombs through election runup
- Software downloaded during office visits could cut risk of ICD shocks
- Right or left? Brain stimulation can change which hand you favor
- 'Gold' fish thrive, cancers die
- Semiconductor could turn heat into computing power
- First potentially hazardous asteroid discovered by Pan-STARRS telescope
- Nanocatalyst is a gas
- A shot to the heart: Nanoneedle delivers quantum dots to cell nucleus
- Rain or shine, researchers find new ways to forecast large photovoltaic power plant output
- Electric cars hold greater promise for reducing emissions and lowering US oil imports, study finds
- Complexity not so costly after all: Moderately complex plants and animals can be better equipped to adapt
- Diving deeper into the gene pool: Innovative software analyzes diseased cells
Posted 2010-09-28:
- Quarks 'swing' to the tones of random numbers
- Let your fingers do the driving: If you don't hear directions, you can feel them
- Gigantic mirror for X-radiation in outer space
- Rewiring a damaged brain
- Physics breakthrough: Fast-moving neutral atom isolated and captured
- Light workout: Scientists use optogenetics to effectively stimulate muscle movement in mice
- Egyptian desert expedition confirms spectacular meteorite impact
- How safe is your swipe? Thinking like hackers, programmers find security loopholes in 'secure' microchips
- Pinpointing where volcanic eruptions could strike
- Lead-free piezoelectric materials of the future
- Mystery of disappearing Martian carbon dioxide ice solved?
- Genetic switch underlies noisy cell division: 'Bimodal' signal determines a cell's get-up and go
- Privacy key obstacle to adopting electronic health records, study finds
- How molecules escape from cell's nucleus: Key advance in using microscopy to reveal secrets of living cells
- Mechanical transmission without contact between parts
Posted 2010-09-27:
- Magnetic anomalies: New type of solar wind interaction with airless bodies in our solar system
- Structure that allows bacteria to resist drugs identified
- Tool to improve Wikipedia accuracy developed
- Robots could improve everyday life at home or work
- UK's shipping emissions six times higher than expected, says new report
- In cyber bullying, depression hits victims hardest
- Dust models paint alien's view of the solar system
Posted 2010-09-26:
- Newly created material resembles cilia
- New 'light switch' chloride binder developed
- Cassini makes first dive inside Saturn’s radio aurora
- Sensor important to understanding root, seedling development
Posted 2010-09-25:
- A biological solution to animal pandemics
- Mimicking nature, water-based 'artificial leaf' produces electricity
- Biometric ID technologies 'inherently fallible,' new report finds
- 'Coreshine' sheds light on the birth of stars: Astronomers discover a new phenomenon in molecular clouds
- How heating our homes could help reduce climate change
- Video gaming prepares brain for bigger tasks
- Pair of aluminum atomic clocks reveal Einstein's relativity at a personal scale
- New nanomesh material created: Silicon-based film may lead to efficient thermoelectric devices
- Robotic arm's big flaw: Patients in wheelchairs say it's 'too easy'
- Less expensive low-temperature catalyst for hydrogen purification discovered
- Insight into the impacts of too much communication
- Computer simulations of real earthquakes made available to worldwide network
- Magnetic power offers energy-saving alternative
- Successful sludge-to-power research developed
- Cassini gazes at veiled Titan
Posted 2010-09-24:
- New light on nonlinearity: Peregrine’s soliton observed at last
- Secret of oysters' ability to stick together cracked open
- Ingredient in soap points toward new drugs for infection that affects two billion
- Mercury’s comet-like appearance spotted by satellites looking at the Sun
- Smartphone app for genes on Earth is tool for scientists and entertaining for all
- Earth and Venus Lightning: Similar mechanisms on the two planets
- Searching in the microbial world for efficient ways to produce biofuel
- Progress toward terabit-rate high-density recording
- New computer-tomography method visualizes nano-structure of bones
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