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for the Week of February 13 to February 20, 2011
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Posted 2011-02-19:
- Mind over matter: EECoG may finally allow enduring control of a prosthetic or a paralyzed arm by thought alone
- Biologists use GPS to 'map' bat teeth to explore evolutionary adaptations to diet
- Augmented reality system for learning chess
Posted 2011-02-19:
- Solar flare: Space weather disrupts communications, threatens other technologies
- Chemical guided missile could be the answer to wiping out cancer
- Hydrogen cartridges fuel laptops and phones for outdoor enthusiasts
- The real avatar: Swiss researchers use virtual reality and brain imaging to hunt for the science of the self
- World's first anti-laser built
- Compact high-temperature superconducting cables demonstrated
- The green machine: Algae clean wastewater, convert to biodiesel
- Catching space weather in the act
- Controlling a computer with thoughts?
- Sleeping Trojan horse to aid imaging of diseased cells
- Improving microscopy by following the astronomers' guide star
- New method for unraveling molecular structures
- Toward an optical atomic clock: Physicists develop atomic frequency standard for one of world’s most precise clocks
- 3-D video without the goggles
- Doing good with operations research
- Chemist focuses on education for real-world sustainability challenges
Posted 2011-02-18:
- Flocculent spiral has relatively low star formation rate
- Getting cars onto the road faster
- Insects hold atomic clues about the type of habitats in which they live
- Neurologists develop software application to help identify subtle epileptic lesions
- Mobile phone use not related to increased brain cancer risk, UK study suggests
- Scientists elevate warfighter readiness against invisible threats
- Physicists propose beaming laser at atmospheric sodium to measure global magnetic field
- Innovative virtual reality exposure therapy shows promise for returning troops
- Herschel measures dark matter for star-forming galaxies
- 'Periodic table of shapes' to give a new dimension to math
- Reflected glory: New image of nebula shows brilliant starlight as it ricochets off dust particles
- New probe of proton spin structure: How quarks of different flavors contribute to spin
- Storms, soccer matches hidden in seismometer noise
- Security weaknesses in file-sharing methods used in clinical trials revealed
- Europe's space freighter: ATV Johannes Kepler operating flawlessly
Posted 2011-02-17:
- Build your online networks using social annotations
- US Secret Service moves tiny town to virtual tiny town: Teaching Secret Service agents and officers how to prepare a site security plan
- Astronomers identify thick disc of older stars in nearby Andromeda galaxy
- Device enables remote explosion of improvised land mines
- New material provides 25 percent greater thermoelectric conversion efficiency
- Wireless device helps athletes get the most out of exercise
- Video games to enhance learning
- Atomic model of tropomyosin bound to actin
- Herschel finds less dark matter but more stars
Posted 2011-02-16:
- Reconfigurable supercomputing outperforms rivals in important science applications
- You are what you app: Choice of smartphone applications define your computing style
- NASA releases images of human-made crater on comet
- Sentries in the garden shed: Plants that can detect environmental contaminants, explosives
- Science alone does not establish source of anthrax used in 2001 mailings, report finds
- New wireless technology developed for faster, more efficient networks
- Many consumers believe 36 months is longer than 3 years
- Milestone in path to large-scale quantum computing reached: New level of quantum control of light
- Physicists isolate bound states in graphene-superconductor junctions
- Jewel-toned organic phosphorescent crystals: A new class of light-emitting material
- Scientists develop control system to allow spacecraft to think for themselves
- How plants near Chernobyl shrug off radiation
- Comet hunter's first images of Tempel 1
- NASA's Stardust spacecraft completes comet flyby
Posted 2011-02-15:
- X-rays show why van Gogh paintings lose their shine
- Culling can't control deadly bat disease, mathematical model shows
- Next-generation electronic devices: Conduction, surface states in topological insulator nanoribbons controlled
- Training for walking on Mars
- Delving into manganite conductivity
- Massive flux of gas, in addition to liquid oil, at BP well blowout in Gulf
- The recycled port? An alternative to dumping at sea
- Fleeting fluctuations in superconductivity disappear close to transition temperature
- U.S. security experts help Kazakhstan safely transport, store Soviet-era bomb materials
- 3-D movies on your cell phone
Posted 2011-02-14:
Posted 2011-02-13:
- Nanoparticles may enhance circulating tumor cell detection
- 3-D digital dinosaur track download: A roadmap for saving at-risk natural history resources
- Superhalogens: New class of magic atomic clusters discovered
- Scientists hope to cut years off development time of new antibiotics
Posted 2011-02-12:
- New view of family life in the North American nebula
- Making a point: Method prints nanostructures using hard, sharp 'pen' tips floating on soft polymer springs
- LED products billed as eco-friendly contain toxic metals, study finds
- Metaknowledge: Powerful new ways to electronically mine research
- Exercise helps overweight children think better, do better in math
- Study of volcanoes in the outer solar system produces unexpected bonus for nanotechnology
- How much information is there in the world?
- New method for reporting solar data
- Two-timing spacecraft has date with another comet
Posted 2011-02-11:
- Robot therapy can improve arm, shoulder mobility after stroke
- Revolutionary microchip technology?
- Engineers study hybrid systems to design robust unmanned vehicles
- Race against time to find Apollo 14's lost voyagers: 'Moon trees'
- Paperweight for platinum: Bracing catalyst in material makes fuel cell component work better and last longer
- Nanonets give rust a boost as agent in water splitting's hydrogen harvest
- New method takes snapshots of proteins as they fold
- New solar cell self-repairs like natural plant systems
- New technology in human trials to spot cardiac disease, cancer, drug abuse: Diagnostic chip may help hearts, cut costs
- The 'new' kilogram is approaching
Posted 2011-02-10:
- Stardust-NExT: Heading into the bonus round -- in space
- Microsponges from seaweed may save lives
- Girls' interest in computing science piqued by making video games
- Hydrogels used to make precise new sensor
- Greener process for key ingredient for everything from paint to diapers
- World's first programmable nanoprocessor: Nanowire tiles can perform arithmetic and logical functions
- Ultrafast quantum computer closer: Ten billion bits of entanglement achieved in silicon
- Neutron analysis reveals 'two doors down' superconductivity link
- Successful operation of carbon nanotube-based integrated circuits manufactured on plastic substrates
- Jatropha: Green biodiesel from African tree
- Stardust NExT set to meet its second comet
- Challenges for biofuels: New life cycle assessment report
- Innovative iPhone app developed to carry out psychological and social research
- Stardust celebrates 12 years with rocket burn
Posted 2011-02-09:
- Generic drug may improve the effectiveness of cancer nanotherapies
- Tool makes search for Martian life easier: Red Planet a good fit for laser-ion funnel mass spectrometry
- Fingerprint makes computer chips counterfeit-proof
- Helping drivers cut fuel use
- Conceptualizing cancer cells as ancient 'toolkit'
- Researchers predict future of electronic devices, see top ten list of expected breakthroughs
- Bound neutrons pave way to free ones: Scientists extract information about internal structure of free neutrons
- New technique controls sizes of nanoparticle clusters for environmental, health and safety studies
- Atom-thick sheets unlock future technologies
- Digital signal processing helps researchers get a grip on nervous system's receptors
- Math may help calculate way to find new drugs for HIV and other diseases
- Laser welding in the right light
Posted 2011-02-08:
- Aluminum to replace copper as a conductor in on-board power systems
- Language may play important role in learning the meanings of numbers
- Engineers grow nanolasers on silicon, pave way for on-chip photonics
- Low-cost, nanometer-sized drug holds promise for treatment of chronic diabetes and burn wounds
- DNA engine observed in real-time traveling along base pair track
- Clay-armored bubbles may have formed first protocells: Minerals could have played a key role in the origins of life
- Roaches inspire robotics: Researchers use common cockroach to fine-tune robots of the future
- Normal air could halve fuel consumption
- First ever STEREO images of the entire sun
- Better turbine spacing for large wind farms
- Seeing the light: Scientists bring plasmonic nanofields into focus
- ‘Cornell dots’ that light up cancer cells go into clinical trials
- Engineers predict how fire spreads in warehouses
- NASA spacecraft prepares for Valentine's Day comet rendezvous
Posted 2011-02-07:
Posted 2011-02-06:
- A loose grip provides better chemotherapy
- Nanoscale micorscopy and AFM positioning: Shining light on a needle in a haystack
- New twist on the electron beam
- Gas stations pollute their immediate surroundings, Spanish study finds
Posted 2011-02-05:
- New images show cloud exploding from Sun ripples like clouds on Earth
- New wave: Efficient source of terahertz radiation developed
- Quantum quirk: Scientists pack atoms together to prevent collisions in atomic clock
- Scientists use quantum mechanics to show that glass should melt near absolute zero
- New model for how Nevada gold deposits formed may help in gold exploration
- Northern Mars landscape actively changing
- Microbiologists aim to optimize bio-ethanol production
- Same rules apply to some experimental systems regardless of scale
- Ionization by strong laser fields: Understanding the 'Ionization Surprise'
- Effective search terms yield the right information
- Proposed mission to Jupiter system achieves milestone
Posted 2011-02-04:
- Missing link between young, old galaxies? Gas jet galaxy could explain how starforming galaxies become red and dead
- Communication pathways within proteins may yield new drug targets to stop superbugs
- Energy-efficient intelligent house can monitor health, prototype shows
- Surprise hidden in Titan's smog: Cirrus-like clouds
- 'Tall order' sunlight-to-hydrogen system works, neutron analysis confirms
- Future surgeons may use robotic nurse, 'gesture recognition'
- Small snack for Milky Way: Astrophysicists find new remnants of neighboring galaxy in our own
- Internet out of space? Development of the next generation of Internet addresses needs to speed up, academic warns
- Taking unpleasant surprises out of cosmetic surgery
- Giant virus, tiny protein crystals show X-ray laser's power and potential
- Picture-perfect pure-disc galaxy
- Ice dome made using novel construction method
- Exploring an 'island of inversion,' physicists find new clues to element synthesis in supernovae
- Current use of biodiesel no more harmful than regular diesel, Norwegian study finds
- Europe's Automated Transfer Vehicle space ferry ready for launch
Posted 2011-02-03:
- Tuning graphene film so it sheds water
- Cassini sends back postcards of Saturn's moons
- Crowd workers are not online Shakespeares, but research shows they can write
- New nanoparticles make blood clots visible
- New tumor-tracking technique for radiotherapy spares healthy tissue, could improve cancer treatment
- Possible path to creating next-generation computer chips
- NASA finds Earth-size planet candidates in habitable zone, six planet system
- 'Air laser' may sniff bombs, pollutants from a distance
- NASA's NEOWISE completes scan for asteroids and comets a family portrait
- Internet addresses: An inevitable shortage, but an uneven one
- Video games are good for girls, if parents play along
- Forensic breakthrough: Recovering fingerprints on fabrics could turn clothes into silent witnesses
- First mission to Mercury
- Scientists customize a magnet's performance by strategically replacing key atoms
- Computer-assisted diagnosis tools to aid pathologists
- Exotic phases on an atom chip
- NASA's Kepler spacecraft discovers extraordinary new planetary system
- Kepler finds evidence of habitable Earth-size planets in Milky Way
- NASA's Stardust adjusts flight path for comet meetup
Posted 2011-02-02:
- Early tests find nanoshell therapy effective against brain cancer
- Giant radio telescope goes multi-national: First images from LOFAR
- Cluster encounters 'natural particle accelerator' above Earth's atmosphere: How northern and southern lights are generated
- Scientists model tiny rotors, key to future nanomachines
- Clean streets and intact road surfaces help to keep the air clean
- Metamaterials approach makes better satellite antennas
- Smart lasers could make cancer biopsies painless, help speed new drugs to market
- Tracking the origins of speedy space particles
- Hunt for dark matter closes in at Large Hadron Collider
- Nanotechnology: Detecting lethal diseases with rust and sand
- Single molecule controlled at room temperature: Tiny magnetic switch discovered
- Low-energy remediation with patented microbes: Naturally occurring microbes break down chlorinated solvents
- New hardware boosts communication speed on multi-core chips
Posted 2011-02-01:
- Plasma stability made to measure
- Physicists challenge classical world with quantum-mechanical implementation of 'shell game'
- Surf's up: New research provides precise way to monitor ocean wave behavior, shore impacts
- Mussel power: Universal solvent no match for new self-healing sticky gel
- New transistors: An alternative to silicon and better than graphene
- Asteroid deflection: What if a huge asteroid was going to slam into Earth?
- Mixed-reality scavenger hunt with a smartphone: Just play the game or create one of your own
Posted 2011-01-31:
- Cheap, clean ways to produce hydrogen for use in fuel cells? A dash of disorder yields a very efficient photocatalyst
- GRIN plasmonics: A practical path to superfast computing, ultrapowerful optical microscopy and invisibility carpet-cloaking devices
Posted 2011-01-30:
Posted 2011-01-29:
- Global eruption rocks the Sun: Scientists re-evaluate ideas about solar storms
- Cow rumen enzymes for better biofuels
- Unlocking the secrets of DNA
- Social networking provides insights into leadership, trust and mobility
- Touchscreens made of carbon
- A mix of tiny gold and viral particles, and the DNA ties that bind them
- New transistor for plastic electronics exhibits the best of both worlds
- New training instrument allows surgeon to feel grasp force in keyhole surgery
- Nanowires exhibit giant piezoelectricity
- New computer tool for elderly and disabled
Posted 2011-01-28:
- Physics for financial markets
- First large-scale, physics-based space weather model transitions into operation
- NASA comet hunter spots its Valentine
- Graphene and 'spintronics' combo looks promising
- New lab-on-chip advance uses low-cost, disposable paper strips
- Getting more anti-cancer medicine into the blood
- Agave fuels excitement as a bioenergy crop
- World can be powered by alternative energy, using today's technology, in 20-40 years, experts say
- Key enzyme that affects radiation response identified
- Soap films help to solve mathematical problems
- How strong is the weak force? New measurement of the muon lifetime
- Hardware, software advances help protect operating systems from attack
- Chemists turn gold to purple -- on purpose: Color change confirms a new way to harvest energy from sunlight
- NASA's new robotic lander prototype skates through integration and testing
Posted 2011-01-27:
- An astronomer's field of dreams: New radio telescope array to harness power of more than 13,000 antennas
- Nanotech milling produces dramatic increase in thermoelectric performance of bulk semiconductor
- Jupiter scar likely from Titanic-sized asteroid
- Most distant galaxy candidate yet seen: Hubble sees farther back in time than ever before
- Growth-factor-containing nanoparticles accelerate healing of chronic wounds
- First study of dispersants in Gulf spill suggests a prolonged deepwater fate
- Practical full-spectrum solar cell comes closer
- Armchair nanoribbons made into spintronic device
- Mathematical model could help predict and prevent future extinctions
- New method attacks bacterial infections on contact lenses
- Van-der-Waals force up close: Physicists take new look at the atom
- Chemists document workings of key staph enzyme -- and how to block it
- Shining new light on air pollutants using entangled porous frameworks
- 'Green' chemistry extraction method developed for hot capsicum fruit
- No longer just a spectator, silicon oxide gets into the electronics action on computer chips
- Alternative energy use at forward operating bases can save dollars, lives, say US military researchers
Posted 2011-01-26:
- Human-made DNA sequences made easy: New method for rapidly producing protein-polymers
- 'Breast on a chip': Researchers create 'engineered organ' model for breast cancer research
- Dynamic systems in living cells break the rules
- Spiral galaxy: First Light for VIRUS-W spectrograph
- New materials may bring advanced optical technologies, cloaking
- New dishware sanitizers prove more effective at killing harmful bacteria
- Mathematicians use cell 'profiling' to detect abnormalities -- including cancer
- Voiding defects: New technique makes LED lighting more efficient
- Accelerated evolution used to develop enzymes that provide protection against nerve gas
- Mathematical model explains how complex societies emerge, collapse
- New microscopy method opens window on previously unseen cell features
- Nanoscale transistors used to study single-molecule interactions
- New mortgage design would minimize home foreclosures
- Sensors to detect explosives, monitor food being developed
- No direct military benefit from use of alternative fuels by armed forces, study suggests
Posted 2011-01-25:
- Runaway star plows through space
- Nanoworld in color: Tiny lens arrays can record or project sharp images
- Salty evolution: Previously unknown central metabolic pathway in microorganisms discovered
- Curved carbon for electronics of the future
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