ScienceDaily Technology Headlines
for the Week of June 20 to June 27, 2010
Welcome to another edition of ScienceDaily's newsletter.Posted 2010-06-26:
- New clues suggest wet era on early Mars was global
- Chemists find an easier way to synthesize new drug candidates; New method could have a big impact on pharmaceutical business
- Scientists create 3-D models of whole mouse organs
- Galaxy encounter fires up quasar
- New 'fix' for cosmic clocks could help uncover ripples in space-time
- Consumer-grade camera detects cancer cells in real time
- Researchers develop living, breathing human lung-on-a-chip
- Earth-like planets may be ready for their close-up
- Behavior breakthrough: Like animals, plants demonstrate complex ability to integrate information
- Seventh graders find a cave on Mars
- Life of plastic solar cell jumps from hours to 8 months
- Researcher develops green, bio-based process for producing fuel additive
- Crack in the case for supersolids: Reports of supersolid helium may have been premature
- Was Venus once a habitable planet?
- Widespread glacial meltwater valleys found on Mars
- Left or right? Early clues to soccer penalty kicks revealed
- Blast resistance standards keep the boom from the room
- Analyzing food and beverages with magnetic levitation
- Drug mitigates toxic effects of radiation in mice
- Liquid crystals light way to better data storage
- 'Ghost particle' sized up by cosmologists
- New method of peptide synthesis makes it easier to create drugs based on natural compounds
- 'BC5' material shows superhard, superconducting potential
- Asymetric nanostructures for early and more accurate prediction of cancer
- Early results from the world's brightest X-ray source
- 'Quantum computer' a stage closer with silicon breakthrough
- Underwater gliders may change how scientists track fish
- Computer program detects depression in bloggers' texts
- First superstorm on exoplanet detected
- Separation between Neanderthal and Homo sapiens might have occurred 500,000 years earlier, DNA from teeth suggests
- Supercomputer provides new insights into the vibrations of water
- Chemical element 114: One of heaviest elements created
- Researchers create self-assembling nanodevices that move and change shape on demand
- Hubble captures bubbles and baby stars
- No link between early childhood cancers and living near mobile phone base station during pregnancy, says study
- Quantum gas in free fall: Bose-Einstein condensate at zero gravity
- Insight into cells could lead to new approach to medicines
- New design for motorcycle engines powered by compressed air
- Scientists discover heavenly solar music
- Jumbo jellyfish or massive star?
- Bioengineers create simulator to test blood platelets in virtual heart attacks
- Studying cells in 3-D could reveal new cancer targets
- Bone replacement from laser melting
- New method for producing graphene paves way for mass production of nanomaterial
- Six new planets discovered
- Gender-bending fish problem in Colorado creek mitigated by treatment plant upgrade
- Ocean stirring and plankton patchiness revealed by computer simulation
- Electronic health records could give rise to more liability risk, experts argue
- New air conditioning system has potential to slash energy usage by up to 90 percent
- Toyota recall aftermath: Panel to study sudden car acceleration
- Using carbon nanotubes in lithium batteries can dramatically improve energy capacity
- Wearable sensors with diagnostic capabilities
- Extreme gravity effects revealed by oxygen for the first time in neutron star that 'eats' white dwarf
- Super-complex organic molecules found in interstellar space
- Flame retardant linked to altered thyroid hormone levels during pregnancy
- Gold nanoparticles create visible-light catalysis in nanowires
- Stroke recovery goes 3-D: Canadian video game takes rehab to the next level
- Secret life of water at very low temperatures
- VISTA views the Sculptor Galaxy
- Physical model describes structures of viral capsids
- Ultra-simple method for creating nanoscale gold coatings developed
- Canyon carved in just three days in Texas flood: Insight into ancient flood events on Earth and Mars
- Hubble scrutinizes site of mysterious flash and missing cloud belt on Jupiter
- Understanding robustness in organisms -- a potential weapon against infectious diseases
- LCD television waste could help prevent bacterial infections
- Physicists help biologists to understand protein folding
- Children with home computers likely to have lower test scores, study finds
- Intelligent 3-D simulation robots to compete in the Robocup 2010
- Converting Brownian motion into work: Classical thought experiment brought to life in granular gas
- Afghanistan's rich mineral deposits: Aerogeophysical survey provides promising prospects of economic development
- Heavy metal glass helps light go the distance
- Shining light around corners: Scientists explore new method for curving 'Airy' light beams
- Fuzzy logic predicts cell aging
- Astronomers witness a star being born
- New process is promising for hydrogen fuel cell cars
- Highly efficient solar cells could result from quantum dot research
- Astronomers study Kuiper Belt object during stellar occultation
- Maintaining privacy in a cloud: More secure environment for cloud computing
- 110-foot concrete bridge withstands 8.0 earthquake simulation
- Storing carbon dioxide deep underground in rock form
- As the Sun awakens, NASA keeps a wary eye on space weather
- Research will help submariners breathe more easily
- Astronomers focus on revealing hidden mysteries of the universe
- Using science to identify true soccer stars: Researchers find a new approach to ranking and rating soccer players
- Towards nanowire solar cells with a 65-percent efficiency
- Questioning the effectiveness of oil dispersants in Gulf oil spill
- Physicists build inexpensive land mine detection system using off-the-shelf components
- Computer intelligence predicts human visual attention for first time
- Relying too much on e-mail bad for business, study says
- Nanoparticles: Peering into the never-before-seen
- Scientists create nano-patterned superconducting thin films
- New system using bacterial communities to solve complex problems
- Putting teeth into forensic science
- Gene discovery potential key to cost-competitive cellulosic ethanol
- NASA Releases Kepler Data On Potential Extrasolar Planets
- Rosetta's blind date with asteroid Lutetia
- Software system to predict the evolution of the ash cloud from the Icelandic volcano
- Biomolecular modeling: Scientists discover 'breakwater' to help control electron transfer
- GPS not just for driving: Tool for crowd management and medical follow-up
- Jell-O lab-on-a-chip devices to spark interest in science careers
- New properties of graphene, world's thinnest material, discovered
- GOES-15 solar X-Ray Imager makes a miraculous first light
- Super-yeast generates ethanol from energy crops and agricultural residues
- Origin of life: Adding UV light helps form 'Missing G' of RNA building blocks
- Neutrinos and antineutrinos differ in key property, experiment suggests
- Leaded gasoline predominant source of lead exposure in latter 20th century
- Hayabusa asteroid mission comes home
- Day 57: Updated figures show oil from spill could have powered 68,000 cars for year
- Talking on your cell phone while driving may be hazardous to your close relationships
- Functional, transplantable rat liver grafts: Discarded livers have potential to be reengineered into usable replacement organs
- New look into Whirlpool Galaxy
- Brilliant counterfeit protection
- Training eye movement may reduce driver distraction
- Opportunities at light source and neutron facilities
- Moon's interior has much higher water content than previously believed
- NASA demonstrates tsunami prediction system
- Online ads can get too close for comfort, says new study
- Brand preference may be in the drink, not in the head, vodka study shows
- Ancient ocean may have covered third of Mars
- Pumping up the heat for a climate-friendly future
- Astronomers' doubts about the dark side: Errors in Big Bang data larger than thought?
- Liposome-hydrogel hybrids: No toil, no trouble for stronger bubbles
- Scientists strive to replace silicon with graphene on nanocircuitry
- Skiers, take note: Glide wax 'like tarring a plastic boat'
- Discovery in 'pop' science reveals the elegant, complex way bubbles burst
- New microbial genetic system dissects biomass to biofuel conversion
- Asthma control? We've got an app for that
- Zooming in on an infant solar system: For the first time, astronomers have observed solar systems in the making in great detail
- NASA helps in upcoming asteroid mission homecoming
- Detailed Martian scenes in new images from Mars Orbiter
- Plastic antibody works in first tests in living animals
- 'Instant acid' method offers new insight into nanoparticle dispersal in the environment and the body
- Helping hearts, spinal cords and tendons heal themselves
- Single-molecule devices can serve as powerful new science tools
- Microbes reprogrammed to ooze oil for renewable biofuel
- NASA's Dawn spacecraft fires past record for speed change
- Many famous comets originally formed in other solar systems
- 'Dark Pulse Laser' produces bursts of ... almost nothing
- Predicting amount of oil in contaminated soils: Scientists develop faster method for testing soils around oil spills
- Absence of organic compounds on surface of Mars explained by new theory
- Model explains rapid transition toward division of labor in biological evolution
- Children's testimony may be influenced by co-witnesses
- Exoplanet caught on the move
- Waste steel in the Gulf of Mexico
- Could string theory explain similarities between utracold gases and quark gluon plasma?
- New method manipulates particles for sensors, crime scene testing
- Oil from Gulf spill could have powered 38,000 cars (and more) for a year, researcher says
- Protecting privacy: Make the data 'fade away' like footsteps in the sand
- New software to measure emotional reactions to Web
- Sleep may help you become a 'Guitar Hero'
- Walls falling faster for solid-state memory
- TRAPPIST telescope to scout the sky and uncover exoplanets and comets
- Understanding the mechanisms of liver regeneration through computer simulation
- X-ray diffraction microscope reveals 3-D internal structure of whole cell
- Detecting tumors faster
- Artificial aurora created to help predict space weather
- First images of sub-nano pore structures captured
- Self-healing air mattresses based on plant wound healing?
- Computational model sheds light on how the brain recognizes objects
- 'Nanocoax' solves solar cell 'thick and thin' dilemma
- Working toward the next battery breakthrough: Scientist brings fresh perspective to the nation's electrical grid
- Applying tomographics to the quantum world
- European Space Agency makes first GOCE dataset available
- Cognitive baseband radio to support 4G and broadband access to multiple services
- Imec significantly reduces cost of germanium-based thermophotovoltaic cells
- Will the new World Cup soccer ball bend?
- Radioactive optical imaging and 'quantum dot' nano-imaging at the forefront of molecular medicine
- Polymer-based filter successfully cleans water, recovers oil in Gulf of Mexico test
- No place to hide: New 360-degree video surveillance system uses image stitching technology that is perfectly detailed edge to edge
- Chemists report promising advance in fuel-cell technology
- New yeast can ferment more sugar, make more cellulosic ethanol
- Gulf oil spill could widen, worsen 'dead zone'
- 'Psychedelic' maize may help increase crop and biofuel yields
- Cyclotrons could alleviate medical isotope shortage
- NASA's FASTSAT satellite readies for shipment to Alaska
- Earth and Moon formed later than previously thought, new research suggests
- New 'microbead' radiotherapy more effective with molecular imaging
- NASA rover finds clue to Mars' past and environment for life
- Life on Titan? New clues to what's consuming hydrogen, acetylene on Saturn's moon
- Untangling the mystery of knotted flex: Mass experiment to investigate one of the banes of everyday life
- New technique turns proteins into glass: Could lead to new ways to deliver medication
- Next generation CT scanner views whole organs in a heartbeat
- Sowing seeds with new agricultural carbon accounting tool
- Hold the salt: Engineers develop revolutionary new desalination membrane
- Silver nanoparticles mitigate the cell damage caused by ethanol, study suggests
- New approach to finding and removing defects in graphene
- Targeted radioisotope generator could be used for molecular imaging
- Robots big and small showcase their skills
- Scientists break barrier to creating potential therapeutic molecules
- New antenna to aid rural emergency workers developed
- Yangtze River’s ancient origins revealed
- Could life survive on Mars? Yes, expert says
- Video game research project to help blind children exercise
- An extra driver behind the wheel
- Biomechanics of information: Going more miles per gallon with your brain
- Outcrop of long-sought rare rock on Mars found
- Electric fields make ceramic production quicker, cheaper, better
- Early Earth haze likely provided ultraviolet shield for planet
- Soccer-playing robots get creative with physics-based planning
- Students develop device to help blind maneuver
- Online games new marketing tool for unhealthy foods
- First paper 'dipstick' test for determining blood type
- On a roll: Designing the next rover to explore Mars
- Astronaut's eye view: Mars Express orbiting the Red Planet
- Nanosponge drug delivery system more effective than direct injection
- Going underground to monitor carbon dioxide
- Scientists create artificial mini 'black hole'
- A quick fix for queues
- Structure of immune molecule that counteracts HIV strains determined
- Nanoparticle PSA test predicts if prostate cancer will return: Ultrasensitive test gives first accurate answer after prostate cancer surgery
- Physicists reveal how to cope with 'frustration': Quantum simulation can be scaled to large systems
- Using nature's design principles to create specialized nanofabrics
- First images of heavy electrons in action: Characteristics of 'hidden order' in unusual uranium compound
- Hubble catches stars on the move: Surprising signs of unrest in massive star cluster
- Enzyme detector: New technique reliably detects and quantifies enzyme implicated in cancer, atherosclerosis and other diseases
- Visual system interprets sign languages
- Cosmic Zoo in the Large Magellanic Cloud
- Copper nanowires enable bendable displays and solar cells; Pin-like copper structures self-assemble in solution
- New automated tool 'debugs' nuclear weapon simulations
- Single-molecule manipulation for the masses: New technique offers dramatic improvements in throughput and cost
- Details in structure of a distant quasar: First high-resolution image from LOFAR radio telescope array
- New graphene-based electronics could take a page out of the silicon electronics book
- Unique eclipsing binary star system discovered
- 520 days on a simulated flight to Mars
- Unique computer model used to predict active 2010 hurricane season
- PET scanning probes reveal different cell function within the immune system
- PET and SPECT biomedical imaging techniques combined, increasing resolution
- Software developers tackle child grooming on the net
- Cancer information on Wikipedia is accurate, but not very readable, study finds
- Financial literacy bailout for the younger generation
- NASA spacecraft burns for home, then comet
- Small near-Earth object probably a rocket part
- Fossil-fuel use and feeding world cause greatest environmental impacts: UNEP panel
- Microbe power as a green means to hydrogen production
- New 'doubly magic' research reveals role of nuclear shell
- Researchers offer solutions to poisonous well-water crisis in southern Asia
- Backwards black holes might make bigger jets
- Liquid method: pure graphene production
- Scientists gain new 'core' understanding of nanoparticles
- Particle chameleon caught in the act of changing
- Revealing the ancient Chinese secret of sticky rice mortar
- Student uses pedal power to create novel machine
- Faster computers with nanotechnology
- Breakthrough in nano-optics: Researchers develop plasmonic amplifier
- Scientists decipher structure of nature's 'light switch'
- Better animal-free test for chemicals that can cause contact dermatitis
- Classic grammar model can be used for computerized parsing
- NASA completes critical design review of Landsat data continuity mission
- Air traffic poised to become a major factor in global warming, scientists predict
- NASA's airborne infrared observatory sees 'first light'
- From butterflies' wings to bank notes: How nature's colors could cut bank fraud
- New technology will make election voting more efficient
- Scientists design a more efficient democratic voting system
- Computational model being developed for estimating populations of large carnivores
Posted 2010-05-30:
- Improved carbon sponges to strip carbon dioxide from power plant exhausts
- Researcher decodes Rembrandt's 'magic'
- Clue to origin of Milky Way gas clouds discovered
- Zeroing in on quantum effects: New materials yield clues about high-temperature superconductors
- 'Law-like' mathematical patterns in human preference behavior discovered
- Toward a useful quantum computer: Researchers design and test microfabricated planar ion traps
- Novel 'cuckoo search algorithm' beats particle swarm optimization in engineering design
- Planetary scientists solve 40-year-old mysteries of Mars' northern ice cap
- Electric supercar team aims for UK first in lead-up to world record attempt across the Americas
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