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for the Week of March 6 to March 13, 2011
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Posted 2011-03-12:
- Low cost solar cells: New European record in efficiency
- Engineer studies damage caused by New Zealand earthquake
- Nanoscale whiskers from sea creatures could grow human muscle tissue
- Perfect buns: Imaging system controls baking process on production line to improve sandwich bun quality
Posted 2011-03-12:
- Radiation expert discusses Japan nuclear power plant concerns
- Near-real-time map of Japan quake aftershocks
- Speed demon star creates a shock
- The most distant mature galaxy cluster: Young, but surprisingly grown-up
- Snails' complex muscle movements, rather than mucus, key to locomotion
- New method for studying molecule reactions a breakthrough in organic chemistry
- New technology would dramatically extend battery life for mobile devices
- New robot system to test 10,000 chemicals for toxicity
- Half-time for Mars500: Simulated mission to the Red Planet
Posted 2011-03-11:
- How do people respond to being touched by a robotic nurse?
- Defective plastics repair themselves
- Work climate the main reason women leave engineering, survey suggests
- New switching device could help build an ultrafast 'quantum Internet'
- Web-crawling the brain: 3-D nanoscale model of neural circuit created
- How long does a tuning fork ring?
- Voyager seeks the answer blowin' in the wind
- Electromechanical circuit sets record beating microscopic 'drum'
- Toward real time observation of electron dynamics in atoms and molecules
- High-volume portable music players may impair ability to clearly discriminate sounds
- Intelligent microscopy: Software runs experiments on its own
- Open-source software is actually more secure for health care IT, study suggests
Posted 2011-03-10:
- Synthetic biology: Novel kind of fluorescent protein developed
- NASA's Jupiter-bound spacecraft taking shape in Denver
- New molecular robot can be programmed to follow instructions
- Medical microcamera the size of a grain of salt gives razor-sharp images, very inexpensively
- Report identifies priority missions for planetary science in the next decade
- Ultrafast laser 'scribing' technique to cut cost, hike efficiency of solar cells
- Real March Madness is relying on seedings to determine Final Four
- Cassini finds Saturn's moon Enceladus is a powerhouse
- New instrument for analyzing viruses: Sensitive 'PING' device
- Ultra fast photodetectors out of carbon nanotubes
- Engineers demonstrate use of proteins as raw material for biofuels, biorefining
- Receiving work-related communication at home takes greater toll on women, study finds
- Some of Mars' missing carbon dioxide may be buried
- Enzymes from garden compost could favour bioethanol production
- NASA develops light microscope for International Space Station
- Intelligence analysts need not fear 'Watson,' study shows
- Extremely fast magnetic random access memory (MRAM) computer data storage within reach
- Graphene oxide’s solubility disappears in the wash
Posted 2011-03-09:
- How can robots get our attention?
- Identifying 'anonymous' email authors
- Rare observation of cosmic explosion
- Student innovation transmits data and power wirelessly through submarine hulls
- Teaching robots to move like humans
- Researchers hunt for green catalysts
- Microbial forensics used to solve the case of the 2001 anthrax attacks
- New mathematical model of information processing in the brain accurately predicts some of the peculiarities of human vision
- New interpretation of Antarctic ice cores: Prevailing theory on climate history expanded
- Drug delivery with nanoparticles
- Preparing for the unexpected
Posted 2011-03-08:
- NASA studies the body's ability to fight infection
- Relaxation leads to lower elasticity: Model system delivers vital clues on the aging processes of elastic polymers
- Is March Madness always the same?
- 'Nano-Velcro' technology used to improve capture of circulating cancer cells
- Removing arsenic from drinking water
- Web use doesn't encourage belief in political rumors, but e-mail does
- Stretchable balloon electronics get to the heart of cardiac medicine
- Japanese scientists use alcoholic drinks to induce superconductivity
- New camera makes seeing the 'invisible' possible
- Food science challenges for NASA missions to Mars
- 'Elephant trunks' in space: WISE captures image of star-forming cloud of dust and gas
- NASA light technology successfully reduces cancer patients painful side effects from radiation and chemotherapy
- Spitzer captures infrared rays from 'Sunflower' galaxy
- Probing atomic chicken wire: Mounting graphene on boron nitride dramatically improves electronic properties
- A misunderstanding leads to method for making nanowells
- The scars of impacts on Mars
- Speedy generic approval may not benefit consumers as much as expected, mathematical model shows
Posted 2011-03-07:
- Human cues used to improve computer user-friendliness
- Cadmium in children’s jewelry: 100 times recommended maximum exposure if mouthed or swallowed
- Fast laser could revolutionize data communications
- New microscope produces dazzling 3-D movies of live cells
- NASA makes use of historic test site for new robotic lander prototype tests
Posted 2011-03-06:
Posted 2011-03-05:
- New non-surgical autopsy technique set to revolutionize post-mortem practice
- Nanotechnology: New 'frozen smoke' may improve robotic surgery, energy storage
- The dusty disc of NGC 247
- Scientists create cell assembly line: New technology synthesizes cellular structures from simple starting materials
- NASA's Glory satellite fails to reach orbit
- Risks of chemical exposure: Scientists call for 'swifter and sounder' testing of chemicals
- Method developed to match police sketch, mug shot: Algorithms and software will match sketches with mugshots in police databases
- Two languages in peaceful coexistence in one society
- New kinds of superconductivity? Physicists demonstrate coveted 'spin-orbit coupling' in atomic gases
- Nanofabrication tools may make silicon optical chips more accessible
- Taking the heat: Silver-diamond composite offers unique capabilities for cooling powerful defense microelectronics
- Ultrasound and algorithms could lead to better breast cancer screening
Posted 2011-03-04:
- Oldest objects in solar system indicate a turbulent beginning
- Easy, accurate way to predict food allergies developed, study suggests
- Scalable method for making graphene
- New developments in quantum computing
- Using artificial, cell-like 'honey pots' to entrap deadly viruses
- Who's the best tennis player of all time? Ranking of top male tennis players produces some surprises
- New observations of the giant planet orbiting beta Pictoris
- Turning bacteria into butanol biofuel factories: Transplanted enzyme pathway makes E. coli churn out n-butanol
- Solving the riddle of nature’s perfect spring
- Black holes: A model for superconductors?
- 'A little off the top' helps map cells with submicrometer resolution
- Clouds amplify ecological light pollution
- New software 'lowers the stress' on materials problems
- New brain training app for research into aging minds
Posted 2011-03-03:
- New kind of optical fiber developed: Made with a core of zinc selenide
- Combined molecular study techniques reveal more about DNA proteins
- Effectiveness of wastewater treatment may be damaged during a severe flu pandemic
- Solar mystery of missing sunspots explained
- Hair dyeing poised for first major transformation in 150 years
- Facing the Facebook mirror can boost self-esteem
- New 'thermometer' helps scientists accurately measure rock formation
- Cements that self-repair cracks and store latent heat energy?
- Just like me: Online training helpers more effective when they resemble students
- World's most powerful optical microscope: Microscope could 'solve the cause of viruses'
- Fluorescent peptides help nerves glow in surgery
- Nanotechnology used to prolong machine and engine life
- Scientists unravel the mysterious mechanics of spider silk
- Plug-and-play multi-core voltage regulator could lead to 'smarter' smartphones, slimmer laptops and energy-friendly data centers
- New conditions for life on other planets: Tidal effects change 'habitable zone' concept
- Scientists synthesize long-sought-after anticancer agent
- Algae converted to butanol; Fuel can be used in automobiles
- Findings on pollution damage to human airways could yield new therapies
- New technique for improving robot navigation systems
Posted 2011-03-02:
- Surgeons predict the future of nanomedicine in practice
- New generation of optical integrated devices for future quantum computers
- Surgical instruments with electronic serial numbers
- NASA readies for world's largest can crusher test
- Boiling bubbles are cool in space
- One terabit per second data rate on a single integrated photonic chip
- More than 4,000 components of blood chemistry listed
- Key to safer remote detection of dangerous materials
- 'Stupid strategies' could be best for the genes
- Smartphones: Overcoming loss of connectivity
- March Madness: Statisticians quantify entry biases
Posted 2011-03-01:
- Physicists develop potent packing process
- Stronger than steel, novel metals are as moldable as plastic
- Minimally invasive surgeries: Laser suturing
- Stretched rubber offers simpler method for assembling nanowires
- This microbe's for you: Brewery waste becomes scientific fodder for producing liquid biofuels
- Nanomedicine: Gene fuelled transporter causes breast cancer cells to self-destruct
- Mystery about recognition of unfolded proteins solved: The lock shapes the key
- Ultrasound fusion imaging provides comparable accuracy for bone, soft tissue tumors
- Running on a faster track: Researchers develop scheduling tool to save time on public transport
- Turning forests into fuel: Promise and limits of biomass energy in Northeastern U.S.
- Space Shuttle Discovery's payloads for the STS-133 mission
Posted 2011-02-28:
- Asymmetric supernovae: Not all stellar explosions expand spherically
- Using math to navigate the Beatles 'Strawberry Fields Forever'
- Floating solar panels: Solar installations on water
Posted 2011-02-27:
- Etched quantum dots shape up as single photon emitters
- Atomic antennas transmit quantum information across a microchip
- Nanotechnology may lead to new treatment of liver cancer
- New way to design metal nanoparticle catalysts
Posted 2011-02-26:
- New form of sulfur discovered in geological fluids
- Simpler way of making proteins could lead to new nanomedicine agents
- Redesign of US donor-liver network could boost transplants by several hundred per year
- Solar experts detect waves in giant magnetic holes the size of the UK
- Gas rich galaxies confirm prediction of modified gravity theory
- Producing clean water in an emergency
- Migrating cells flow like glass: Research advances understanding of wound healing, cancer metastasis, and embryonic development
- Catalogue of sustainable design resources developed
- Designing a city for safe protests
- Making the web more accessible to people with disabilities and special needs
Posted 2011-02-25:
- Metallic molecules to nanotubes: Ruthenium complexes dissolve nanotubes, add functionality
- Planet formation in action? Astronomers may have found first object clearing its path in natal disc surrounding a young star
- How nature's patterns form
- Green chemistry offers route towards zero-waste production
- New stretchable solar cells will power artificial electronic 'super skin'
- Bedside ultrasound becomes a reality
- Quantum simulator becomes accessible to the world
- New transmission concept for wind turbines: Higher energy yield with torque vectoring gears
- Quantum hot potato: Researchers entice two atoms to swap smallest energy units
- New high-performance lithium-ion battery 'top candidate' for electric cars
- A semantic sommelier: Wine application highlights the power of Web 3.0
- Secret society connecting through the Internet feeds eating disorders, researchers say
- UV-transparent coating for image sensors
- What should be the US role in cybersecurity and cyber-spying?
- Versatile Ultra-low Power Biomedical Signal Processor
- Innovative SAW-less reconfigurable transceiver developed
Posted 2011-02-24:
- Lasers ID deadly skin cancer better than doctors
- Paper archives reveal pollution's history
- Bizarre friction-free 'superfluid' found in neutron star's core
- 3-D nanoparticle in atomic resolution
- 'Fingerprints' match molecular simulations with reality
- Cell phone use may have effect on brain activity, but health consequences unknown
- Toward computers that fit on a pen tip: New technologies usher in the millimeter-scale computing era
- MIT engineers design new nanoparticle that could lead to vaccines for HIV, malaria, other diseases
- Using EEGs to diagnose autism spectrum disorders in infants: Machine-learning system finds differences in brain connectivity
- Liquid metal key to simpler creation of electrodes for microfluidic devices
- Roots of the solar system: Astronomers observe planets in the making
- Proteins find their way with address label and guide
- Americans and Canadians get different drug information online
Posted 2011-02-23:
- Satellite to examine how sun's brightness impacts climate change
- Drinking water: Nanomembranes could filter bacteria
- Nanoparticles increase survival after blood loss, study suggests
- World's smallest magnetic field sensor: Researchers explore using organic molecules as electronic components
- Waiter, there's metal in my moon water
- Dry copper kills bacteria on contact
- Antifungal compound found on tropical seaweed has promising antimalarial properties
- Practice more important than child's age in learning to use computer mouse
- Engineering atomic interfaces for new electronics
- Climate and aerosols: NASA's Glory satellite promises new view of perplexing particles
- E-health must be a priority, Canadian researchers say; System would bolster chronic disease management and improve access to care
Posted 2011-02-22:
- Brain-machine interfaces make gains by learning about their users, letting them rest, and allowing for multitasking
- Better way to diagnose pneumonia
- Scientists steer car with the power of thought
- Advanced NASA instrument gets close-up on Mars rocks
- Can WISE find the hypothetical 'Tyche' planet at edge of our solar system?
- Plants that can move inspire new adaptive structures
- New technology for cheaper, more efficient solar cells
- Manipulating molecules for a new breed of electronics
- Spent nuclear fuel is anything but waste
Posted 2011-02-21:
- Physicists build bigger 'bottles' of antimatter to unlock nature's secrets
- Mimicking photosynthesis path to solar-derived hydrogen fuel
- Continent-wide telescope extends cosmic 'yardstick' three times farther into universe
- Cassini to sample magnetic environment around Saturn's moon Titan
- Storm-chasing weather radar used to track bat populations
- New high-resolution method for imaging below the skin using a liquid lens
- Higher-temperature superconductivity
- Water, water, everywhere ... but is it safe to drink?
Posted 2011-02-20:
- 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
- Researchers tapping the potential of radar technologies to advance aeroecology
- See, hear, move: Interactive and multimedia patient data
- First certified reference material for nanoparticle size analysis
- Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope: Africa to shed light on the 'dark ages' of the universe
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
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