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for the Week of July 4 to July 11, 2010
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Posted 2010-07-10:
- Saturn propellers reflect solar system origins
- Better barriers can help levees withstand wave erosion
- Novel ion trap with optical fiber could link atoms and light in quantum networks
- Researchers use robot to determine how human strangers develop trust
- New spin on drug delivery: Chemical engineers discover an enhanced delivery method of DNA payloads into cells
- Rain of giant gas clouds create active galactic nuclei: New research explains how galaxy centers light up
- Scientists use computer algorithms to develop seasonal flu vaccines
- Heavy metal rock set to take the stage
- New system helps locate car park spaces
Posted 2010-07-10:
- Mathematical formula predicts clear favorite for the FIFA World Cup
- Miniature energy harvesting technology could power wireless electronics
- Prospects for finding new Earths boosted by brand new planet-finding technique
- New parallel found between cold gases and 'hot' superconductors
- Starburst cluster shows celestial fireworks
- RFIDs: Smart little gizmos get even smarter
- New technology reduces storage needs and costs for genomic data
Posted 2010-07-09:
- Rosetta lines up for spectacular asteroid flyby
- Drug delivery system uses nanoparticles triggered by electromagnetic field
- Black hole blows big bubble
- Pinpoint precision: Delivering a biochemical payload to one cell
- New computer program accurately simulates protein folding dramatically faster than previous methods
- Newborn stars discovered in dark cosmic cloud
- Energy yield of ‘cheap’ solar panels raised from 7 to 9 percent
- Revolutionary medical dressing uses nanotechnology to fight infection
- Robots preclude neck incision for thyroid surgery
- Transformation optics make a U-turn for the better
- Road surface purifies air by removing nitrogen oxides, researchers in the Netherlands find
- One person's waste is another's resource
Posted 2010-07-08:
- Optical tweezers use holographic technology to manipulate 300 nanoparticles at a time
- Reversible watermarking for digital images
- Saturn system moves oxygen from Enceladus to Titan
- Shocking results from diamond anvil cell experiments
- Virtual food causes stress in patients affected by eating disorders
- Multicolor quantum dots aid in cancer biopsy diagnosis
- Gender gap persists at highest levels of math and science testing, 30-year study finds
- Nano-sized light mill drives micro-sized disk
- Scientists design new delivery device for gene therapy
- Next Mars rover sports a set of new wheels
- New adhesive for tape, label industry, developed
- TV viewing, video game play contribute to kids' attention problems, study finds
- New type of light-matter interaction: Advance in quantum computing and energy conversion technology
- Researchers measure single-molecule machines in action
Posted 2010-07-07:
- Bridge to the quantum world: Darwinian concept of natural selection figures into theory about core of physical reality
- Multi-layered images projected onto water droplets with new technology
- With magnetic nanoparticles, scientists remotely control neurons and animal behavior
- Infrared camera may provide a better view for night driving
- Barrier to faster integrated circuits may be mere speed bump, scientists say
- Thermal-powered, insect-like robot crawls into microrobot contenders' ring
- Watch while an asteroid eats a star
- Long-term fate of Gulf oil spill: Computer simulations show oil reaching up the Atlantic coastline and toward Europe
- Adolescent cyberbullies and their victims may have physical, mental health problems
- Benchtop biofuels: Fine-tuning growth conditions helps cyanobacteria flourish
- Optical imaging could create pathway for radiotracers, study finds
- 'Digital embryo' gains wings: Now possible to film development of fruit fly and of zebrafish's eyes and brain
- Planck unveils the Universe -- now and then
- Simulation-based matchmaking for shape memory alloys
Posted 2010-07-06:
- Nano-sized advance toward next big treatment era in dentistry
- Super-high pressures used to create super battery: 'Most condensed form of energy storage outside of nuclear energy'
- Graphene 2.0: A new approach to making a unique material
- Nanomachines in the powerhouse of the cell: Architecture of the largest protein complex of cellular respiration elucidated
- Is your flashy school website safe?
Posted 2010-07-05:
- Molecules found in blue jean and ink dyes may lead to more efficient solar cells
- Coolest stars come out of the dark: Spitzer spies frigid brown dwarfs
- Genetic inspiration could show the way to revolutionize information technology
Posted 2010-07-04:
- 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
- NASA Mars rover seeing destination in more detail
- Engineers assess reaction wheel on NASA's Dawn spacecraft
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
- Linguistics professor examines manufacturers' prescription drug websites
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
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