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for the Week of September 26 to October 3, 2010
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Posted 2010-10-02:
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Fungus among us could become non-food source for biodiesel production
- Hot water in cold comets: Water around comets produced with unusual properties
- Strictly high heels: Researchers look at impact of high-heeled Latin dancing
- Surprisingly complicated molecule found in outer space
- Optical chip enables new approach to quantum computing
Posted 2010-09-17:
- Shape-shifting robot plane offers safer alternative for maritime rescue
- 3-D computer simulations help envision supernovae explosions
- How bacteria acquire immunity: First theoretical description of bacterial system to silence viral genes
- Home's electrical wiring acts as antenna to receive low-power sensor data
- Discovery of the secrets that enable plants near Chernobyl to shrug off radiation
- NASA's lunar spacecraft completes exploration mission phase
- Planck's first glimpse at galaxy clusters uncovers a new supercluster
- New supercomputer 'sees' well enough to drive a car someday
- Facial recognition technology aimed at spotting terrorists
- Low carbon hemp house put to the test
- Carbon nanotubes twice as strong as once thought
- New wave: Spin soliton could be a hit in cell phone communication
- Electron switch between molecules points way to new high-powered organic batteries
Posted 2010-09-16:
- Neutrons helping researchers unlock secrets to cheaper ethanol
- Tiny MAVs may someday explore and detect environmental hazards
- Simpler mathematical model for reproducing bacterial growth patterns developed
- Hydroelectric power reservoirs cleaner than previously feared, new research shows
- Scientists reveal battery behavior at the nanoscale
- Implant blood test: Shape memory alloys are biocompatible, new research shows
- Computer in wrapping-paper form give solar cells a makeover
- New microfluidic chip for discriminating bacteria
- Bone-anchored leg prostheses improve quality of life, Swedish study finds
- ARTEMIS: First Earth-Moon libration orbiter
- How do your crystals grow?
- Smart grid cyber security: Initial set of guidelines finalized
- New Global Standards Information website experience puts product standards on the map
- Enabling the technical-basis for evacuation planning of high-rise buildings
Posted 2010-09-15:
- Many roads lead to superconductivity
- Playing snooker with atoms
- Chandra finds evidence for stellar cannibalism
- Research will help ID bodies left behind by Chilean earthquake, Pinochet regime
- CRISPR critters: Scientists identify key enzyme in microbial immune system
- Supernova shrapnel found in meteorite
- Would a molecular horse trot, pace or glide across a surface? Chemists study quadrupedal molecular machines
- New artificial skin could make prosthetic limbs and robots more sensitive
- The pocket projector is a reality
- Informatics = essential MD competency
Posted 2010-09-14:
- Dwarf galaxy evolution: Reionization alone is not able to stop star formation, research shows
- Hubble harvests distant solar system objects
- How football playing robots have the future of artificial intelligence at their feet
- Video games lead to faster decisions that are no less accurate
- Funneling solar energy: Antenna made of carbon nanotubes could make photovoltaic cells more efficient
- Emerging technologies may fuel revolutionary launcher
- Tiny rulers to measure nanoscale structures
- Engineers make artificial skin out of nanowires
- Glasperlenspiel: Scientists propose new test for gravity
- Deadly tides mean early exit for hot Jupiters
- Superwind Galaxy NGC 4666
Posted 2010-09-13:
- Child's 'mental number line' affects memory for numbers
- Mapping new paths for a stressed-out Internet: Collaboration aims to create first accurate geometric map of the Internet
- Astronomer unveils the mysteries of 'Green Pea' galaxies
- Public looks at synthetic biology -- cautiously
- Carbon mapping breakthrough
- Land-use expert brings satellite data down to Earth
- New model provides more effective basis for biodiversity conservation
Posted 2010-09-12:
- E. coli engineered to produce biodiesel
- Yikes! Sensor measures yoctonewton forces fast
- Computer models suggest treatments for fractures that won't heal
- Micro rheometer is latest 'lab on a chip' device
- New CCTV technology to help prevent terror attacks
- A Nearby Galactic Exemplar
- New model may simplify high-dose radiosurgery planning
Posted 2010-09-11:
- Caught in the act: Fireballs light up Jupiter
- Neurons: Faster than thought and able to multiply
- Graphene may hold key to speeding up DNA sequencing
- World's first transcontinental anesthesia: Researchers pioneer anesthetics via videoconferencing
- Tally-ho! Deep Impact spacecraft eyes comet target
- First detailed image of disc around young star
- Researchers give robots the capability for deceptive behavior
- 'Tractor beam' one step closer to reality: Laser moves small particles
- New method helps computer vision systems decipher outdoor scenes
- Bionic speech recognition
- Quantum dice: Simple device measures quantum noise of vacuum fluctuations and generates true random numbers
- Opportunity Rover reaches halfway point of long trek to Mars crater
- Amateur astronomers open potential lab in outer space for planetary scientists, researcher says
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