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for the Week of October 3 to October 10, 2010
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Posted 2010-10-09:
- 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
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?
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
- A new approach to high-performance catalysts
Posted 2010-09-23:
- New drug could help stop the spread of disease from coughs, researchers believe
- Ultrashort laser ablation enables novel metal films
- Breaking waves in the Lagoon Nebula
- New luggage inspection methods identify liquid explosives
- Working from home and online shopping can increase carbon emissions, UK report claims
- Human-powered ornithopter becomes first ever of its kind to achieve sustained flight
- Titanium foams replace injured bones
- Universal, primordial magnetic fields discovered in deep space
- Putting a spin on light and atoms
- Neanderthals more advanced than previously thought: They innovated, adapted like modern humans, research shows
- Martian methane lasts less than a year
- New fluorescence technique opens window to protein complexes in living cells
- Watching electrons move in real time
- Dancing robot swan triggers emotions
- First observation of the folding of a nucleic acid
- Quantum computing closer than ever: Scientists using lasers to cool and control molecules
- First in-human study of robotically assisted percutaneous coronary intervention system demonstrates safety, feasibility
- Certain doped-oxide ceramics resist Ohm's Law
- Experience, privacy guide how people choose online news
- New method of chemical analysis: Step towards personalized medicine
- Book flights in advance and purchase theater tickets at the last minute to save money
Posted 2010-09-22:
- Parting the waters: Computer modeling applies physics to Red Sea escape route
- Earth to have closest encounter with Jupiter until 2022
- Silent electric vehicles made safer
- Martian moon Phobos may have formed by catastrophic blast
- Nanoparticle shaped like Star of David created
- Swallowing disc batteries can cause severe injury in children
- Too much TV, video and computer can make teens fatter
- Nano antenna concentrates light
- Ability to detect malware in cloud-computing systems improved
- Geckos inspire new method to print electronics on complex surfaces
- Vigilant camera eye: System analyzes data in real time, flags unusual scenes
- Hot atmosphere of Venus might cool interior of Earth’s sister planet
- Image sensors for extreme temperatures
- First microwave image of the complete Moon
- Lightweight true random number generators a step closer
- Herschel Mars observations: First results
- Commercial-scale test of new technology to recover coal from sludge successful
- Future of football: GPS and miniature accelerometers to better assess player's training load and fitness levels
Posted 2010-09-21:
- Biofuel from inedible plant material easier to produce following enzyme discovery
- Possible 'persistence' switch for tuberculosis found: Computer model finds probable genetic mechanism for TB dormancy
- Magnetic attraction for fish, crabs? Study examines whether magnetic fields from aquatic power sources affect animals
- Violent video games increase aggression long after the game is turned off, study finds
- End of microplates? Novel electronic biosensing technology could facilitate new era of personalized medicine
- Favorable expectations make people like using a new mobile phone, study finds
- Data clippers to set sail to enhance future planetary missions
- Technology that can withstand extremes of temperature and radiation created
- Human unconscious is transferred to virtual characters
- Database to help accelerate drug discovery developed
- Key component identified that helps plants go green
- Magical BEANs: New nano-sized particles could provide mega-sized data storage
- Self-organizing traffic lights
- 50-million-year-old snake gets a CT scan
- At the crossroads of chromosomes: Study reveals structure of cell division’s key molecule
- Chemists discover method to create high-value chemicals from biomass
- Environmental impact of organic solar cells assessed
- Emotional robot pets
- Team restoring Mars Orbiter after reboot
- New Tennessee homes are laboratories for energy efficiency
- Rotating high-pressure sodium lamps provide flowering plants for spring markets
- Swedish biofuels do have major benefits for the climate
Posted 2010-09-20:
- Cosmic ice sculptures: Dust pillars in the Carina Nebula
- 'Nanosprings' offer improved performance in biomedicine, electronics
Posted 2010-09-19:
- Quantum tornado in the electron beam: Manipulating materials with rotating quantum particles
- Synthetic fuels research aims to reduce oil dependence
- Fish schools and krill swarms take on common shape
- Radiometric dating still reliable (again), research shows
Posted 2010-09-18:
- Physicists cross hurdle in quantum manipulation of matter
- Pickle spoilage bacteria may help environment
- Less is more in the fight against terrorism
- New insights into the moon's rich geologic complexity
- Moon's craters give new clues to early solar system bombardment
- Cardiac imaging breakthrough developed
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