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for the Week of January 23 to January 30, 2011
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Posted 2011-01-29:
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
- New math theories reveal the nature of numbers
- Light touch transforms material into a superconductor
- Thwarting attacks on cell phone mesh networks
- Real-world graphene devices may have a bumpy ride
- NASA's first solar sail NanoSail-D deploys in low-Earth orbit
- NASA's salt-seeking instrument gets a silvery blanket
Posted 2011-01-24:
- Light controls a worm's behavior: Scientists commandeer organism's nervous system without wires or electrodes
- Unlikely there will ever be a pure 'cyber war,' study suggests
- How to tame hammering water droplets
Posted 2011-01-23:
- New device may revolutionize computer memory
- With cloud computing, the mathematics of evolution may get easier to learn
Posted 2011-01-22:
- Single photon management for quantum computers
- Swift survey finds 'missing' active galaxies
- Go figure: Math model may help researchers with stem cell, cancer therapies
- Learning science : Actively recalling information from memory beats elaborate study methods
- For robust robots, let them be babies first
- Simple, ingenious way to create lab-on-a-chip devices could become a model for teaching and research
- Unexpected properties unveiled in superconducting material
- Highly ordered artificial spin ice created using nanotechnology
- Stretching the truth: Biophysicists help unravel DNA stretching mystery
- NASA prepares to launch next Earth-observing satellite mission
- Video games with imaginary steering wheel as the controller
- Orion Nebula: Still full of surprises
- Data matrix codes used to catalogue archaeological heritage
Posted 2011-01-21:
- No direct link between black holes and dark matter, scientists find
- Better than the human eye: Tiny camera with adjustable zoom could aid endoscopic imaging, robotics, night vision
- Surgeons, CCTV & TV football gain from new video technology that banishes shadows and flare
- Sleep researchers apply fatigue model to fatal commuter air crash
- NASA Mars rover will check for ingredients of life
- Beating the competition: Scientists discover how the size of networks can skyrocket
- Little evidence to support most eHealth technologies, such as electronic patient records, study shows
- Fundamental property of how water and other liquids move at different temperatures
- Wave-generated 'white hole' boosts hawking radiation theory, physicists find
- Challenging the limits of learning: Linguist measures the human mind against the yardstick of a machine
- Nanoscale rope: Complex nanomaterials that assemble themselves
- Scientists create injector for generating megawatt-class laser beams for US Navy's next-generation weapon system
- Scientists view genome as it turns on and off inside cells
- Secrets of mysterious metal hotspots uncovered by new single molecule imaging technique
- Converting 2-D photo into 3-D face for security applications and forensics
- Mars sliding behind sun after rover anniversary
Posted 2011-01-20:
- Astronomers release the largest color image of the sky ever made
- Mathematical model for moving bottlenecks in road traffic
- Gardening in space with HydroTropi
- Robotic ghost knifefish is 'born'
- Partner galaxies wildly different in new WISE image
- Killer paper for next-generation food packaging
- More asteroids could have made life's ingredients
- Advance could speed use of genetic material RNA in nanotechnology
- Risks, consequences of video game addiction identified in new study
- New reactor paves the way for efficiently producing fuel from sunlight
- Researcher warns of health risks with carbon nanotubes
- Close-knit pairs of supermassive black holes discovered in merging galaxies
- When video games get problematic so do smoking, drug use and aggression
- Nanotech medicine to rebuild damaged parts of human body
- Cellular traffic: Factors beyond crowding affect how molecules interact within cells, modeling shows
- Oxidation mechanisms at gold nanoclusters unraveled
Posted 2011-01-19:
- In distant galaxies, new clues to century-old molecule mystery
- Keeping your digital secrets safe: Researchers develop security application to keep private data private
- Breakthrough in converting heat waste to electricity: Automotive, chemical, brick and glass industries could benefit from discovery
- New synthetic compound created with HIV-fighting promise
- Scientists develop 3-D model of the ionosphere F-region
- Pulsating star that hosts a giant planet discovered
- Magnetically controlled pill could boost body's absorption of drugs
- Radiometer finds sources of fire
- New molecular imaging technologies for detecting cellular processes
- Off-the-shelf electronics turn up gain on spectroscopy
- ESA’s Mercury mapper feels the heat
Posted 2011-01-18:
- Physicists observe exotic state in an unconventional superconductor
- Silicon microdevices show promise for detecting metastatic breast cancer cells
- Chandra images torrent of star formation
- CT helps identify bullet trajectories
- New technique to see neurons of the deep brain for months at a time
- The 'Spaser' heats up laser technology
- Improved measurements of sun to advance understanding of climate change
- Interactive window shopping: Just wave your hands
Posted 2011-01-17:
- Researchers can predict your video game aptitude by imaging your brain
- Quantum quirk contained: Discovery moves quantum networks closer to reality
Posted 2011-01-16:
- Self-assembling structures open door to new class of materials
- Improving plants: New software quantifies leaf venation networks, enables plant biology advances
Posted 2011-01-15:
- Living cells used to create 'biotic' video games
- Best way to measure dark energy just got better
- New technique could pinpoint 'Galaxy X': Satellite galaxies located based on the ripples they create in the hydrogen gas
- Fastest movie in the world recorded: Method to film nanostructures developed
- Trapped sunlight cleans water
- Driving simulators help older adults improve their road skills
- Fruit fly nervous system provides new solution to fundamental computer network problem
- New telescope is exploring solar system 'outback'
- Rotational motion in living cells: New tool for cell research may help unravel secrets of disease
- Taking the pulse of a black hole system
- When metals reach end of life: Researcher develops new method
Posted 2011-01-14:
- NASA satellites find high-energy surprises in 'constant' Crab Nebula
- Chemists develop fully biodegradable and recyclable synthetic resin
- Bisphenol A may have role in ovarian dysfunction
- Hydrocarbon breakthrough made using gold catalyst
- Light can control electrical properties of graphene
- Cosmology standard candle not so standard after all
- Gravitational lensing: Cosmic magnifying lenses distort view of distant galaxies
- New microscope records firing of thousands of individual neurons in 3-D
- Biomedical breakthrough: Blood vessels for lab-grown tissues
- New responsive click-track software lets drummers set their own pace
- Natural dissolved organic matter plays dual role in cycling of mercury
- New approach to modeling power system aims for better monitoring and control of blackouts
- Robotic surgery of 'tremendous benefit' to patients
- Mobile telephony without base stations
- What is life? New answers to an age-old question in Astrobiology
Posted 2011-01-13:
- Delivering a potent cancer drug with nanoparticles can lessen side effects
- New laboratory aims to revolutionize surgery with real-time metabolic profiling
- Lab-on-a-chip developed for fast, inexpensive blood tests: Smartphone app next
- NASA radar reveals features on asteroid
- Virus killer gets supercharged: Discovery greatly improves common disinfectant
- Most distant galaxy cluster identified
- Polymer membranes with molecular-sized channels that assemble themselves
- Water on moon originated from comets
- Coiled nanowires may hold key to stretchable electronics
- NASA tests new propulsion system for robotic lander prototype
- No left turn: 'Superstreet' traffic design improves travel time, safety
- Planck's new view of the cosmic theater
- Wake up and smell the willow: 'Pre-roasted' plant matter could be burned in coal-fired power stations
- DNA introduced directly into cell nucleus using protein nanodisks
- New insights into sun's photosphere
- Study estimates land available for biofuel crops
- International Space Station begins new era of utilization
- Planck mission peels back layers of the Universe
Posted 2011-01-12:
- NASA's Fermi catches thunderstorms hurling antimatter into space
- New glass stronger and tougher than steel
- 'Liquid pistons' could drive new advances in camera lenses and drug delivery
- Bottle rockets can cause serious eye injuries in children
- Wave power could contain fusion plasma
- NASA's Kepler mission discovers its first rocky planet
- Graphene grains make atom-thick patchwork 'quilts'
- How do you make lithium melt in the cold?
- Hubble zooms in on a space oddity
- Shellfish safer to eat, thanks to biosensor technology
- Cassini to probe icy moon Rhea for clues to Saturn rings
- Energy limits global economic growth, study finds
- Couch potatoes beware: Too much time spent watching TV is harmful to heart health
- IPv6 guide provides path to secure deployment of next-generation Internet protocol
- Planck satellite team uncovers secrets of the universe
- Toronto astronomers among those announcing first scientific results of Planck satellite mission
- 14 billion years of cosmic history in one: Planck mission presents first results
Posted 2011-01-11:
- VISTA stares deeply into the blue lagoon
- With proper planning, selective rather than mass vaccination can reduce spread of flu, say physicists
- Researchers developing bio-based polymers that heal cracks
- Spinning the unspinnable: Superconducting, energy storing and catalytic yarns based on ancient types of spirals
- Surprising flares in crab nebula
- From dusty punch cards, new insights into link between cholesterol and heart disease
- Dwarf galaxy harbors supermassive black hole
- Extracting cellular 'engines' may aid in understanding mitochondrial diseases
- Biofuel grasslands better for birds than ethanol staple corn, researchers find
- The 'mad' Egyptian scholar who proved Aristotle wrong
Posted 2011-01-10:
- Origin of life on Earth: 'Natural' asymmetry of biological molecules may have come from space
- Packaging that knows when food is going bad
- Scientists construct synthetic proteins that sustain life
- Andromeda’s once and future stars
- Health chip gives instant diagnoses
- Regional dialects are alive and well on Twitter: Slang terms like y'all, yinz, koo, coo and suttin predict location of tweet authors
- Sulfur proves important in the formation of gold mines
- Longstanding mystery of Sun's hot outer atmosphere solved
- Solar research instrument 'fills the gap,' views sun's innermost corona
- Digital reminiscence systems: Life-logging assists dementia sufferers, research finds
Posted 2011-01-07:
- Carbon swap bank to beat climate change, Australian researchers propose
- Is your convertible damaging your hearing?
- Major advance in MRI allows much faster brain scans
- Telescope calibration may help explain mystery of universe's expansion
- Functionally graded shape memory polymers developed
- Newly developed cloak hides underwater objects from sonar
- How to soften a diamond
- How studded winter tires may damage public health, as well as pavement
- Is the hornet our key to renewable energy? Physicist discovers that hornet's outer shell can harvest solar power
- New method for making large quantities of deuterium-depleted drinking water
- Identity parade clears cosmic collisions of the suspicion of promoting black hole growth
- Helicopter transport increases survival for seriously injured patients, study finds
- Films for façades: New building material offers new design options
- Web-based curriculum improves surgical residents' knowledge of health care business
- Drinking recycled water? Study establishes methods to assess recycled aquifer water
Posted 2011-01-06:
- Diamond detectors provide a glimpse into artificial suns
- Recycled Haitian concrete can be safe, strong and less expensive, researchers say
- 'Nanoscoops' could spark new generation of electric automobile batteries
- New glaucoma test allows earlier, more accurate detection
- Oceanic 'garbage patch' not nearly as big as portrayed in media
- Detecting esophageal cancer with light
- US does not have infrastructure to consume more ethanol, study finds
Posted 2011-01-05:
- Impregnating plastics with carbon dioxide
- Kids frequently exposed to medical imaging procedures that use radiation, study finds
- New system for analyzing information on WikiLeaks, social media
- Researchers helping electric-wheelchair users move more easily
- NASA checking on rover Spirit during Martian spring
Posted 2011-01-04:
- Not so bird-brained: 3D X-rays piece together the evolution of flight from fossils
- Firefly protein lights pathway to improved detection of blood clots
- Global network of new-generation telescopes will track astrophysical events as they happen
Posted 2011-01-03:
- Calculating tidal energy turbines' effects on sediments and fish
- Type 1 diabetes computer model's predictive success validated through lab testing
- Enzyme cocktail could eliminate a step in biofuel process
Posted 2011-01-02:
Posted 2011-01-01:
- New cognitive robotics lab tests theories of human thought
- Demise of large satellite may have led to the formation of Saturn’s rings and inner moons
- New technology to speed cleanup of nuclear contaminated sites
- System for detecting noise pollution in the sea and its impact on cetaceans
- Study classifies and uses artificial proteins to analyze protein-protein interfaces
- Your genome in minutes: New technology could slash sequencing time
Posted 2010-12-31:
- Light dawns on dark gamma-ray bursts
- Catching video pirates: Invisible DNA-like fingerprint on video assist law enforcement
- Vertical search across the educational horizon: New search tools could facilitate access to online educational resources
- GOES satellites watch 2011 approach, look back at 2010
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