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for the Week of December 5 to December 12, 2010
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Posted 2010-12-11:
- Wind and water have shaped Schiaparelli impact basin on Mars
- Computer-based program may help relieve some ADHD symptoms in children
- Neutron stars and string theory in a lab: Chilled atoms give clues to deep space and particle physics
- Simulations aim to unlock nature's process of biomineralization
Posted 2010-12-11:
- WISE sees an explosion of infrared light
- Odyssey orbiter nears Martian longevity record
- Winter treat for skywatchers as Geminid meteors sparkle in December sky
- World's smallest battery: Real-time observation of nanowire anode to help improve lithium batteries
- Bioengineers develop bacterial strain to increase ethanol biofuel production
- Seeing the invisible: New 'CSI tool' visualizes bloodstains and other substances
- New insights into formation of Earth, the Moon, and Mars
- Perfectly needled nonwoven
Posted 2010-12-10:
- Elusive spintronics success could lead to single chip for processing and memory
- Online photos may reveal your friendships
- Physicists discover ultrasensitive microwave detector
- Astronomers discover, image new planet in planetary system very similar to our own
- Redrawing the map of Great Britain based on human interaction
- Bacteria to test water lines: Contained bacteria change color when they contact toxins
- Black holes and warped space revealed by powerful new array of radio telescopes
Posted 2010-12-09:
- Astronomers open new window into early universe: Epoch of Reionization
- Extending the life of oil reserves: Greener, cheaper more efficient oil extraction made possible
- 'Logic gates' made to program bacteria as computers
- Computer model for projecting severity of flu season
- So you think you can solve a cosmology puzzle? Scientists challenge other scientists with a series of galaxy puzzles
- Theoretical breakthrough: Generating matter and antimatter from nothing
- Pure nanotube-type growth edges toward the possible
- Astronomers detect first carbon-rich exoplanet
- Duelling dipoles: In search of a new theory of photosynthetic energy transfer
- New observations of exploding stars reveal pauses, flickers and flares not reliably seen before
- Chemical coarsening: How the big get bigger
- Tiny laser light show illuminates quantum computing
- Nanoparticle gives antimicrobial ability to fight Listeria longer
- Providing incentives to cooperate can turn swords into ploughshares
- Creating 'Living' Buildings
- Using chaos to model geophysical phenomena
- Scientists forecast new atom smashers to keep Europe leading in nuclear physics
- Scientists map what factors influence the news agenda
- Ultra-thin solar blind extreme ultraviolet imager developed
Posted 2010-12-08:
- Doctor Who's trusty invention is anything but sci-fi: Sonic screwdriver to solve future DIY woes
- Double vision: New instrument casts its eyes to the sky
- Using new materials to make more reliable nanoelectromechanical systems
- Self-healing autonomous material comes to life
- Power grid of the future saves energy
- K-12 computer science education declining
- Nanosatellite successfully ejected from free-flying microsatellite in space
- Lower power consumption for electronics: Thin film packaged MEMS resonator with industry record Q factor and low bias voltage
Posted 2010-12-07:
- LouseBuster: Head lice shrivel with chemical-free warm-air device
- Carbon dioxide-free energy can meet the world’s energy needs in 2050, Danish report finds
- Your Web surfing history is accessible (without your permission) via JavaScript
- Chemists design molecule that responds to stimuli
- Energy use in the media cloud: 1,175 gigawatts by 2030, experts predict
- Stripes are back in season on Jupiter
- Light touch brightens nanotubes: Scientists find a little ozone goes a long way for fluorescence
- Fitting a biological nanopore into an artificial one, new ways to analyze DNA
- Satellite tracking campaign tests European abilities
Posted 2010-12-06:
- Heat helped hasten life's beginnings on Earth, research suggests
- Smashing fluids: The physics of flow
- Gold and silver nano baubles
Posted 2010-12-05:
- Color-changing 'blast badge' detects exposure to explosive shock waves
- Novel metal catalysts may be able to turn greenhouse gases into liquid fuels
- Electrocution of birds and collision with power lines: Solutions to a global problem
- More efficient polymer solar cells fabricated
Posted 2010-12-04:
- High performance infrared camera based on type-II InAs/GaSb superlattices created
- New high-performance fiber created
- Dark matter could transfer energy in the Sun
- Farmers slowed down by hunter-gatherers: Our ancestors' fight for space
- Blacker than black: NASA engineers developing material to help gather hard-to-obtain scientific measurements
- 'USB' interface for medical diagnosis?
- Distribution of gravitational wave sources predicted
- Virtual biopsy may allow earlier diagnosis of brain disorder in athletes
- Researchers find mathematical patterns to forecast earthquakes
- Three-dimensional chemistry demonstrated by grinding powder
- Breakthrough chip technology lights path to exascale computing: Optical signals connect chips together faster and with lower power
Posted 2010-12-03:
- New microscopy tracks molecules in live tissue at video rate; scientists push SRS microscopy to new levels of spatial, temporal precision
- Online game drives genetic research
- Physicists create supernova in a jar
- Cancer risk from medical radiation may have been overestimated
- Governments worldwide censor web content: New study analyzes where, why and how access to the web is controlled
- Cassini returns images of bright jets at Saturn's moon Enceladus
- 'Perfumery radar' brings order to odors
- Life built with toxic chemical: First known microbe on Earth able to thrive and reproduce using arsenic
- Declining energy quality could be root cause of current recession, expert suggests
- Hurricanes and other swirling natural phenomena explained
- Can engineered bugs help generate biofuels?
- GPS not working? A shoe radar may help you find your way
- New psychology theory enables computers to mimic human creativity
- Project pioneers use of silicon-germanium for space electronics applications
- Manufacturing 'made to measure' atomic-scale electrodes
- Pits, flows, other scenes in new set of Mars images
- Researchers demystify glasses by studying crystals
Posted 2010-12-02:
- CT best at uncovering drug mule payload, study finds
- Electron 'pairing': Triplet superconductivity proven experientially for first time
- Super-Earth has an atmosphere, but is it steamy or gassy?
- Engineers discover graphene's weakness
- Cassini finds warm cracks on Saturn's moon Enceladus
- Rotating light provides indirect look into the nucleus
- Discovery triples number of stars in universe
- World's fastest camera takes a new look at biosensing
- Nano-diamond qubits and photonic crystals: Milestone reached on the path to integrated quantum technology
- Astronomers use moon in effort to corral elusive cosmic particles
- Measuring the temperature of nanoparticles
- Motorcycle simulator gives new clues to road safety
- Could 135,000 laptops help solve the energy challenge?
- Europe’s leading scientists urge creation of a CERN for Mathematics
- Searching the heavens for newborn stars: NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy ready to take flight
Posted 2010-12-01:
- Venus holds warning for Earth
- Biofuels production has unintended consequences on water quality and quantity in Mississippi
- Cinnamon can replace harmful chemicals used to create nanoparticles
- Genomic fault zones come and go: Fragile regions in mammalian genomes go through 'birth and death' process
- Thin air: Oxygen atmosphere found on Saturn's moon Rhea
- Fire forecast technology could help rescue teams save lives
- Astronomers probe 'sandbar' between islands of galaxies
Posted 2010-11-30:
- Methane-powered laptops? Materials scientists unveil tiny, low-temperature methane fuel cells
- Tuning an 'ear' to the music of gravitational waves
- Shrouded burst of stars: Spitzer reveals a buried explosion sparked by a galactic train wreck
- To be or not to be a pair: Giant molecules in a quantum superposition
- Earth and space science missions have fewer risks if conducted by a single government agency, report finds
Posted 2010-11-29:
- Quartz crystal microbalances enable new microscale analytic technique
- Cassini back to normal, ready for Enceladus
- NASA's savory sea salt sensor to get cooked, chilled
Posted 2010-11-28:
- Whale sharks use geometry to avoid sinking
- Large Hadron Collider experiments bring new insight into primordial universe
- A new electromagnetism can be simulated through a quantum simulator
Posted 2010-11-27:
- A high-yield biomass alternative to petroleum for industrial chemicals
- First evidence for magnetic field in protostar jet: Magnetism common to all cosmic jets?
- Gender gap in physics exams reduced by simple writing exercises, study finds
- Pulsating star mystery solved in rare alignment of Cepheid variable and another star
- When Belgium sneezes, the world catches a cold
- New guidance issued for first responders collecting suspected biothreat agents
Posted 2010-11-26:
- Imaging with neutrons: Magnetic domains shown for the first time in 3-D
- Massive galaxies formed when universe was young, new findings suggest
- Short, on-chip light pulses will enable ultrafast data transfer within computers
- The physics of coffee rings
- New imaging technique accurately finds cancer cells, fast
- Optimizing large wind farms
- Scientists crack materials mystery in vanadium dioxide
- City of Vancouver sets transportation records during 2010 Winter Games
- Google -- an engine of knowledge creation?
Posted 2010-11-25:
- Self-assembly of nano-rotors
- Physicists create new source of light: Bose-Einstein condensate 'super-photons'
- Software allows interactive tabletop displays on web
- 'Russian doll' galaxy reveals black holes' true power
- Jellyfish-inspired pumps: Researchers investigate next-generation medical and robotic devices
- Heating nanoparticles to kill tumor cells
- Age estimation from blood has immediate forensic application
- Making stars: How cosmic dust and gas shape galaxy evolution
- World first to provide building blocks for new nano devices
- Novel fuel cell catalyst lowers need for precious metal
Posted 2010-11-24:
- Saving our data from digital decay
- Early universe was a liquid, nuclei collisions at the Large Hadron Collider show
- Hybrid tugboat cuts emissions
- Flying snakes, caught on camera
- Ultrathin alternative to silicon for future electronics
- Heart health: Implanted devices as effective in 'real world' as in clinical trial settings
- Fighting antibiotic-resistant bacteria by treating municipal wastewater at higher temperatures
- Astronomers find 'Rosetta Stone' for T-dwarf stars
- Gene find could lead to healthier food, better biofuel production
- Flexible wings driven by simple oscillation may be viable for efficient micro air vehicles
- 'M8' earthquake simulation breaks computational records, promises better quake models
Posted 2010-11-23:
- Students fly in zero gravity to protect satellites from tiny meteoroids
- NASA's Stardust spacecraft burns for another comet flyby
- Electrowetting breakthrough may lead to disposable e-Readers fast enough for video
- New spinal implant to help people with paraplegia exercise paralyzed limbs
- Jump rope aerodynamics
- Nanoparticles’ effects on plants examined
- Military experts provide civilian surgeons with guidance on handling bomb blast injuries
- Should airplanes look like birds?
- Disaster spawning new concepts in bridge research, testing and safety
- New microscope reveals ultrastructure of cells
- How hummingbirds fight the wind: Robotic wing may reveal answer
- Jet engine too hot? Schedule an MRI
- Enhancing the efficiency of wind turbines
- Getting bubbles out of fuel pumps
- Improving ammonia synthesis could have major implications for agriculture and energy
Posted 2010-11-22:
- Painless needles? Self-adminstered skin patches for vaccines under development
- Online undergrads learn well without strong class bond, study finds
- WISE image reveals strange specimen in starry sea: Dying star surrounded by fluorescing gas, unusual rings
- Cement-like creation could help the environment
- Conductor paths for marvelous light
Posted 2010-11-21:
- 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
- Accelerator supercomputers dominate newest Green500 List’s Top 10
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
- Disease tracking: Is there an app for that?
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
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