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for the Week of November 14 to November 21, 2010
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Posted 2010-11-20:
- Hubble captures new star birth in an ancient galaxy
- Orangutans count on stats for survival
- Physicists demonstrate a four-fold quantum memory
- Mathematical problems recast as physics questions, provide new tools for old quandaries
Posted 2010-11-20:
- First successful salivary stone removal with robotics
- Physicists study behavior of enzyme linked to Alzheimer's, cancer
- Most powerful supercomputers rated for capabilities using tough new system
- Enigma of missing stars in local group of galaxies may be solved
- Chemicals' study pinpoints threat to workers' lungs
- Controlling cursors with thoughts: Faster, simpler, and more accurately; advance helps people regulate their own brain response, with therapeutic implications
- Surprise link between weird quantum phenomena: Heisenberg uncertainty principle sets limits on Einstein's 'spooky action at a distance'
- Spacecraft flew through 'snowstorm' on encounter with comet Hartley 2
- US falls behind other nations in reducing traffic fatalities and injuries
- Well-known molecule may be behind alcohol's benefits to heart health
- Pushing black-hole mergers to the extreme: Scientists achieve 100:1 mass ratio in simulation
- Where's George? Researchers follow the money to define communities in US
Posted 2010-11-19:
- New breed of space vehicle: Researchers developing conceptual design for a Mars 'hopper'
- What if we used poetry to teach computers to speak better?
- One-touch make-up -- for our cells
- Planet from another galaxy discovered: Galactic cannibalism brings an exoplanet of extragalactic origin within astronomers' reach
- Social networking extends mobile battery life
- Nanoscale probe reveals interactions between surfaces and single molecules
- Rare earth elements in US not so rare, report finds
- Machine learning technique designed to improve consumer medical searches
- How video games stretch the limits of our visual attention
- Laser system shows promise for cataract surgery
- New method for studying molecules discovered
- Sonar inspired by dolphins: New kind of underwater device can detect objects through bubble clouds
- Magnetic trapping will help unlock the secrets of anti-matter
Posted 2010-11-18:
- A new twist for nanopillar light collectors
- Deepwater Horizon: Not managing danger, not learning from 'near misses'
- Antimatter atoms stored for the first time
- Smoke from fireworks is harmful to health, study suggests
- Baking soda dramatically boosts oil production in algae
- Imaging tool may aid nanoelectronics by screening tiny tubes
- Artificial black holes made with metamaterials: Design for human-made light trapping device could help harvest light for solar cells
- 'Chaogates' hold promise for the semiconductor industry
- Bioengineers provide adult stem cells with simultaneous chemical, electrical and mechanical cues
- New device detects insects in stored wheat
Posted 2010-11-17:
- How do folded structures form?
- Major fusion advance: Breakthrough could help reduce heating of plasma container walls
- Risk factors that lead to bicycling injuries in city traffic
- New safety switch prevents explosions due to electrical sparks
- Astronomers discover merging star systems that might explode
- Artificial retina more capable of restoring normal vision; animal study shows including retina’s neural 'code' improved prosthetic
- New bandages change color if infections arise
- Engineers test effects of fire on steel structures
- 'Space-time cloak' to conceal events
- Robo-op marks new world first for heart procedure
- Robotic-assisted surgery appears safe for complicated pancreatic procedures
- Light technology to combat hospital infections
- Adapted MRI scan improves picture of changes to the brain
- Small assist device used in emergency case as twin, heart booster pumps for first time in US
- Tests show bright future for gadonanotubes in stem cell tracking
- Video game-based therapy helps stroke patients recover study
Posted 2010-11-16:
- 'Racetrack' magnetic memory could make computer memory 100,000 times faster
- Microsensors offer first look at whether cell mass affects growth rate
- New tech to help protect bridges, other infrastructure from scour
- Performing blood counts automatically
- NASA's Chandra finds youngest nearby black hole
- New standard proposed for supercomputing
- Google queries and stock market volumes: Financial markets and Internet's 'swarm intelligence' linked, researchers find
- Quantum memory for communication networks of the future
- Nanoscale light sensor compatible with 'Etch-a-Sketch' nanoelectronic platform
- Updated software uses combination testing to catch bugs fast and easy
- Researchers develop light technology to combat hospital infections
- Proteins in motion: World’s largest video database of proteins for the pharmaceutical industry published
- Synchrotron reveals human children outpaced Neanderthals by slowing down
Posted 2010-11-15:
- Coronal mass ejections: Scientists unlock the secrets of exploding plasma clouds on the Sun
- Mathematical equation calculates cost of walking for first time
- Mathematical model of the life cycle of red blood cells may predict risk of anemia
- Nanostructured materials repel water droplets before they have a chance to freeze
- X-ray imaging advances efforts to harness nuclear fusion: More accurate simulations could lead to 'break-even' fusion
Posted 2010-11-14:
- Discovery could reveal secrets of ancient Martian and terrestrial atmospheres
- Better student performance with peer learning
- Quantum computers easier to build: Can tolerate faulty or missing components, researchers say
Posted 2010-11-13:
- New forms of highly efficient, flexible nanogenerator technology
- Formation of bulge on far side of moon explained
- All-optical transistor: Controling the flow of light with a novel optical transistor
- Scientists ping key material in sonar, closes gap on structural mystery
- 'Toxic toy crisis' requires fresh solutions, experts say
- Brass devices in plumbing systems can create serious lead-in-water problems
- New ultra-clean nanowires have great potential in solar cell technology and electronics
- New highly stable fuel-cell catalyst gets strength from its nano core
- Detailed dark matter map yields clues to galaxy cluster growth
- Mind is a frequent, but not happy, wanderer: People spend nearly half their waking hours thinking about what isn’t going on around them
- Softening crystals without heat: Using terahertz pulses to manipulate molecular networks
Posted 2010-11-12:
- Graphene's strength lies in its defects
- Step by step towards tomorrow’s nanomaterial: Swiss researchers fabricate graphene-like materials using surface chemical route
- Supercomputer warfare: New research provides effective battle planning
- Sugar and slice make graphene real nice: Table sugar, metallic sheets produce pristine graphene in one step
- Oil spill vacuum cleaner uses bark for spills
- Leaking underground CO<sub>2</sub> storage could contaminate drinking water, study finds
- Primordial dry ice fuels comet jets
- Out-sniffing bomb-sniffing dogs
- Tetris effect: Classic computer game may have special ability to reduce flashbacks after viewing traumatic images
- Novel type of magnetic wave discovered: Findings could improve wiring in national electrical grid systems
- Atoms-for-Peace: A galactic collision in action
- Saturn is on a cosmic dimmer switch, Cassini reveals
- Novel metamaterial vastly improves quality of ultrasound imaging
Posted 2010-11-11:
- Cancer news articles may contribute to confusion about cancer
- Computer-automated monitoring system may help identify medical devices with potential safety risks
- Nanopore array allows simultaneous tests in search for new drugs
- Astronomers find 'snooker' star system
- Couple's numeracy skills linked to greater family wealth, study finds
- Oil will run dry 90 years before substitutes roll out, study predicts
- How the dragon got its 'snap': Computer modeling and experimental genetics combined to work out complex shapes of organs
- Portable microwave sensors for measuring vital signs
- Researchers aim to harvest solar energy from pavement to melt ice, power streetlights
- Global warming reduces available wind energy, new research finds
- New method for simple fabrication of microperforated membranes
- Taking movies beyond Avatar -- for under £100
- Foucault revisited: Argentinean scientists show how to build a pendulum for any classroom
- Why New York City is 'average': Researchers want to improve how we determine urban exceptionality
Posted 2010-11-10:
- Sensor on Mars rover to measure radiation environment
- Getting to know the Sun advances fusion research: Coaxial helicity injection could make fusion reactors cheaper
- Offshore wind farms: Low loss solutions for transferring current
- NASA's Fermi telescope finds giant structure in our galaxy
- New way of detecting concealed radioactive material: Sniffing out dirty bombs via electromagnetic breakdown of air
- Hyper-texting and hyper-networking linked to health risks for teens
- Engineered plants make potential precursor to raw material for plastics
- CERN completes transition to lead-ion running at the Large Hadron Collider
- Parents should talk about math early and often with their children -- even before preschool, report finds
- Energy harvesting: Nanogenerators grow strong enough to power small conventional electronic devices
- Plasma as a fast optical switch
- Bars kill spiral galaxies, astronomers and volunteers discover
- Children find their own way to solve arithmetic problems
- Vacuum arcs spark new interest
- The many faces of the shear Alfvén wave: 3-D movies are no longer just for Hollywood blockbusters
- Easy fabrication of non-reflecting and self-cleaning silicon and plastic surfaces
- Graphene gets a Teflon makeover
- Large Hadron Collider throws lead
Posted 2010-11-09:
- Close-up of hidden galaxies with new cosmic zoom lenses
- Nanoparticles' journey from lungs into body chronicled: Insights into pulmonary drug delivery, air pollution control
- Greater food insecurity from recession poses increased risk to low income individuals with diabetes
- Taming thermonuclear plasma with a snowflake
- Simulating black hole radiation with lasers: Lasers produce the first Hawking radiation ever detected
- Solar-powered device affordable, reliable tool to measure blood pressure
- Computer program recognizes human emotions from conversation analysis
- How physical environment influences stem cell development
- How oscillators -- common electronic components -- get in sync or fall out of sync
- 'Super-hero' material stretched into a possible electronics revolution
- Rice hulls a sustainable drainage option for greenhouse growers
- 'e-Learning' report shows online professional development aids teachers and students
- Mathematical model may result in better environment measures for the Baltic
- Elastic electronics: Rules for fabrication of ordered monolayers of semiconducting polymers have been established
- NASA's EPOXI flyby reveals new insights into comet features
Posted 2010-11-08:
- New propulsion method developed for metallic micro- and nano-objects
- Scientists develop device to enable improved global data transmission
- Water purification: Is colloidal silver necessary for bacteria removal?
- Specialization builds trust among Web users
- On the way to CO<sub>2</sub>-free power plants
Posted 2010-11-07:
- Cosmic curiosity reveals ghostly glow of dead quasar
- 'Nano-drug' hits brain-tumor target: Unique triggering device delivers antitumor drugs
- X-rays offer first detailed look at hotspots for calcium-related disease
Posted 2010-11-06:
- New statistical model moves human evolution back three million years
- Nanoshells provide golden 'touch' in killing breast tumors
- Nuclear materials detector shows exact location of radiation sources
- Colonic navigation: Nanotechnology helps deliver drugs to intestinal target
- New Way to Peer at Distant Galaxies
- The Large Hadron Collider enters a new phase
- Neutron stars may be too weak to power some gamma-ray bursts; Black holes may be power source
Posted 2010-11-05:
- Deep impact spacecraft successfully flies by comet Hartley 2
- Built-in timer for improving accuracy of cost saving paper-strip medical tests
- Corn starch solution can help shape solid materials
- How some plants spread their seeds: Ready, set, catapult
- Transparent conductive material could lead to power-generating windows
- Electrons get confused: Researchers may have observed the fastest melting of all time
- What will Webb see? Supercomputer models yield sneak previews
Posted 2010-11-04:
- 'Bouncy' cell membranes behave like cornstarch and water, researchers find
- Broadband coming wirelessly to Australia's bush
- Moving holograms: From science fiction to reality
- New retinal implant enables blind people to see shapes and objects
- Plants and animals under stress may provide the key to better stock market predications
- New approaches needed to gauge safety of nanotech-based pesticides, researchers urge
- Quantum simulator and supercomputer at the crossroads
- Fourth flavor of neutrino? Physics experiment suggests existence of new elementary particle
- Unique duality: 'Exotic' superconductor with metallic surface discovered
- Cancer drug linked to quantum dots increases drug uptake, reduces inflammation
- Phenomenal fabric: How can a cloth clean up toxic waste?
Posted 2010-11-03:
- New long-range undersea robot goes the distance
- Braided anyons could lead to more robust quantum computing
- Astronomers find evidence of 'cosmic climate change'
- Radically simple technique developed to grow conducting polymer thin films
- Astrophysicists discover new galaxy clusters revealed by cosmic 'shadows'
- UV light nearly doubles vacuum's effectiveness in reducing carpet microbes
- Voting-machine-allocation method could reduce voters' wait time by 36 percent
- Pivoting hooks of graphene’s chemical cousin could revolutionize work of electron microscopes
- Computer scientist, student design software to combat hacking using keystroke anti-spoofing technique
Posted 2010-11-02:
- Cassini sees Saturn rings oscillate like mini-galaxy
- Microfluidics-imaging platform detects cancer growth signaling in minute biopsy samples
- Microreactor speeds nanotech particle production by 500 times
- Triple-mode transistors show potential: Researchers introduce graphene-based amplifiers
- New portable radiation detector can assess safety of potentially contaminated areas
- Conserving resources: Producing circuit boards with plasma
- Faster CARS, less damage: Chemical microscopy shows potential for cell diagnostics
- New test equipment enhances police traffic surveillance
- Scarcity of new energy minerals may trigger trade wars, expert suggests
- New automated method for extracting and archiving patient radiation dose info
Posted 2010-11-01:
- Mars volcanic deposit tells of warm and wet environment
- Isotope near 'doubly magic' tin-100 flouts conventional wisdom
- A technique that shows colorful connections in the brain
- Advance could change modern electronics
- 'Goldilocks' of DNA self-assembly discovered
- Avoiding CO<sub>2</sub> capture health risks is possible, Norwegian experts say
Posted 2010-10-31:
- 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:
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