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for the Week of June 27 to July 4, 2010
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Posted 2010-07-03:
- How rules of physics in quantum world change when applied to classical world
- Cell phone microscope poised to begin trials in Africa
Posted 2010-07-03:
- Three-legged dogs boost robot research
- Scrubbing CO<sub>2</sub> from atmosphere could be a long-term commitment
- World of lights in the microcosmos
- Science of soccer: Ball aerodynamics focus of research
- X-ray satellite homes in on a black hole's jets
- All-natural personal care products: Chemical engineer patents enzymatic preparation to make natural ingredients in the lab
Posted 2010-07-02:
- Switching off your lights has a bigger impact than you might think, says new study
- Man in the Moon has 'graphite whiskers'
- New technique improves efficiency of biofuel production
- R Coronae Australis: A cosmic watercolor
- Genetic Code 2.0: Novel artificial proteins for industry and science
- Unpeeling atoms and molecules from the inside out
- New temperature table may help reduce heat-related deaths of children in closed cars
- Electrons are late starters: Contrary to previous assumptions, electrons are catapulted out of an atom during photoemission with a delay
- Stability and utility of floating wind turbines shown in new study
Posted 2010-07-01:
- System that controls sleep may be same for most mammals
- Voyager 2 at 12,000 days: The super-marathon continues
- Drivers mistakenly believe winter is most dangerous travel time, survey shows
- More proof that new planet and star are moving together
- Zapping Titan-like atmosphere with UV rays creates life precursors
- Diamonds and the holy grail of quantum computing
- NASA instrument will identify clues to Martian past
- 'Galactic archaeologists' find origin of Milky Way's ancient stars
- Viral protein structure study offers HIV therapy hope
Posted 2010-06-30:
- Science uncovers the hidden secrets of world-famous paintings
- Birth of the Milky Way: Astronomers glimpse at earliest phases of our home galaxy
- Earplug lets the message through
- Relying on origami techniques, researchers show programmable matter folding into a boat- or plane-shape
- Biologically inspired technology produces sugar from photosynthetic bacteria
- Introducing Robofish: Leading the crowd in studying group dynamics
- Science historian cracks the 'Plato code'
- Geometry affects drift and diffusion across entropic barriers
- Public transit systems contribute to weight loss and improved health, study finds
- New radio telescope will listen to the universe on the FM-band
- 'Hitchhiker' EPOXI: Next stop, Comet Hartley 2
Posted 2010-06-29:
- Physics of the 'bends': New study helps explain decompression sickness
- Turning off the air conditioning helps save fuel, Swiss study finds
- Bursting bubbles with sound offers new treatments for cancer
- Enterprise PCs work while they sleep – saving energy and money – with new software
- Rocky mounds and a plateau on Mars
- Depth charge: Using atomic force microscopy to study subsurface structures
- Hop, jump and stick; Robots designed with insect instincts
- Test of quantum field theory and Bose-Einstein statistics of photons: Bosons aren't fermions, not even a little bit
- Most efficient quantum memory for light developed
- Physicists explain why superconductors fail to produce super currents
- Scientists grow new lungs using 'skeletons' of old ones
- Same types of cell respond differently to stimulus, study shows
- Carbon sequestration: Boon or burden?
- Improved telescope sees through atmosphere with pinpoint sharpness
- Nanowires for future electronics: Process for manufacturing nanoelectronic 'mini-circuits' developed
Posted 2010-06-28:
- 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
Posted 2010-06-26:
- 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
Posted 2010-06-25:
- 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
Posted 2010-06-24:
- 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
Posted 2010-06-23:
- 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
Posted 2010-06-22:
- 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
- Marines to use autonomous vehicles built by engineering students using TORC products
Posted 2010-06-21:
- 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
Posted 2010-06-20:
- 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
Posted 2010-06-19:
- 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
Posted 2010-06-18:
- 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
Posted 2010-06-17:
- 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
- Nanoparticle scientist speaks on new discoveries
Posted 2010-06-16:
- 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
Posted 2010-06-15:
- 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'
Posted 2010-06-14:
- 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
Posted 2010-06-13:
- 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
Posted 2010-06-12:
- 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
Posted 2010-06-11:
- 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'
Posted 2010-06-10:
- 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
Posted 2010-06-09:
- 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
Posted 2010-06-08:
- 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
Posted 2010-06-07:
- 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
Posted 2010-06-06:
- 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
Posted 2010-06-05:
- 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
Posted 2010-06-04:
- 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
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