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for the Week of July 24 to July 31, 2011
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Posted 2011-07-30:
- Warmed-up organic memory transistor has larger memory capacity
- Motorcycle helmets hard on hearing
- Averting bridge disasters: New technology could save hundreds of lives
- Powerful fluorescence tool lights the way to new insights into RNA of living cells
- Study of golf swings pinpoints biomechanical differences between pros and amateurs
Posted 2011-07-30:
- 'Brain cap' technology turns thought into motion; Mind-machine interface could lead to new life-changing technologies for millions of people
- Scary driving? Put the brakes on using your brain power
- Chandra X-ray Observatory images gas flowing toward black hole
- SOHO watches a comet fading away
- Emulating nature for better engineering
- Common Korean surname tells tale of nationhood
Posted 2011-07-29:
- Unexpected clue to thermopower efficiency: Uneven temperature can lead to electronic whirlpools and sideways magnetic fields
- Fundamental matter-antimatter symmetry confirmed
- Protecting networks is just a game
- New invisibility cloak hides objects from human view
- Research reveals why hedge funds are an unlikely large source of systemic risk
- Artificial cilia open new nanotech possibilties; One step closer to learning how cilia movement is coordinated
- NASA's WISE finds Earth's first 'trojan' asteroid
- Pigment discovery expanding into new colors
- Social media poised to drive disaster preparedness and response
- Wave power can drive sun's intense heat
- Children and adolescent cell phone users at no greater risk of brain cancer than non-users, study suggests
- Graphene nanocomposite a bridge to better batteries
- New X-ray camera will reveal big secrets about how chemistry works
- Speed cameras in urban areas save millions in cash, analysis finds
- Computer-aided detection does not improve mammogram accuracy, study suggests
- Closer look at cells: Fluorescence microscopy lets scientists observe exchanges across cell membranes
- CERN experiment weighs antimatter with unprecedented accuracy
Posted 2011-07-28:
- VST looks at the Leo Triplet -- and beyond
- CT shows changes in lungs associated with COPD flare-ups
- NASA tests future deep space vehicle for water landings
- More powerful 'lab-on-a-chip' made for genetic analysis
- New material lets electrons 'dance' and form new state
- Researchers graft olfactory receptors onto nanotubes
- Researchers mimic nature to create a 'bio-inspired brain' for robots
- Nano sensor detects minute traces of plastic explosives: Scientists enable inexpensive, reliable checks for explosives
- Self-healing, self-cooling, metamaterials: Vascular composites enable dynamic structural materials
- Got flow cytometry? All you need is five bucks and a cell phone
- Biological interface using piezotronics: Nanowires allow electrical signals to be produced from mechanical actions
- Hubble constant: A new way to measure the expansion of the universe
- Scientists complete final scan of space shuttle heat shield
- NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory spots extra energy in the sun's corona
- NASA's Jupiter-bound Juno spacecraft mated to its rocket
- Electronic publishing 'goes live': News from the International Botanical Congress in Melbourne
- NASA and international partners discuss new uses for space station
Posted 2011-07-27:
- Heavy metal hardens battle: Body armor hindered Medieval warriors
- Minority rules: Scientists discover tipping point for the spread of ideas
- Newly developed fluorescent protein makes internal organs visible
- Scientists design nano-sized drug transporter to fight disease
- Modeling plant metabolism to optimize oil production
- Enceladus rains water onto Saturn
- Unique volcanic complex discovered on Moon's far side
- Cancer-causing mineral found in U.S. road gravel: Erionite in roads may increase risk of mesothelioma
- Biofuels: Novel gene increases yeast's appetite for plant sugars
- Making biological images sharper, deeper and faster
- Saving fuel while plowing
- New software protects water utilities from terrorist attacks and contaminants
Posted 2011-07-26:
- Eat, prey, rain: New model of dynamics of clouds and rain is based on a predator-prey population model
- Rare coupling of magnetic and electric properties in a single material: New multiferroic mechanism could lead to next-generation memory and sensing devices
- How to tell real whiskey from fake, faster
- Nanoplasmonic 'whispering gallery' breaks emission time record in semiconductors
- Nanomechanics: New test measures key properties of polymer thin films and membranes
- Major step toward creating faster electronics using graphene
- Pocket chemistry: DNA helps glucose meters measure more than sugar
- Arrays of long nanotubes may help measure terahertz laser power
- Key early skills for later math learning discovered
- Hydrogen may be key to growth of high-quality graphene
- New photonic crystals have both electronic and optical properties
- Computer program could 'revolutionise the world's healthcare'
Posted 2011-07-25:
Posted 2011-07-24:
- Shining a light on the elusive 'blackbody' of energy research: Designer material has potential applications for thermophotovoltaics
- Test for classifying force used in bottle stabbings: New study aids understanding of force required for creating injury
Posted 2011-07-23:
- Inside the innards of a nuclear reactor: Tiny robots may monitor underground pipes for radioactive leaks
- Astronomers discover largest and most distant reservoir of water yet
- Smartphone making your eyes tired? Images placed in front of the screen increase visual discomfort
- Chemists create molecular flasks: Researchers design a self-assembling material that can house other molecules
- Computer simulations aid understanding of bacterial resistance against commonly used antibiotics
- Software helps synthetic biologists customize protein production
- Juvenile diarrhea virus analyzed down to the atomic level
- New discovery paves the way for using super strong nanostructured metals in cars
- Ohio Supercomputer Center lifts land speed racer toward 400-mph goal
- Farthest, largest water mass in universe discovered
- Earliest watery black hole discovered
Posted 2011-07-22:
- Link between competing phases in cuprates leads to new theory; Discovery in parent of one high-temperature superconductor may lead to predictive control
- Chance favors the concentration of wealth, study shows; New model isolates the effects of chance in an investment-based economy
- Exoplanet aurora: An out-of-this-world sight
- Nanotechnology for water filter
- Tevatron experiments close in on favored Higgs mass range
- Heavy relative of the neutron discovered
- NASA's space shuttle program ends with Atlantis landing
- Scholar helps make Major League Baseball umpire schedule a hit
- Breakthrough in quantum computing: Researchers develop system that resists 'quantum bug'
- An advance toward ultra-portable electronic devices
- Movement of black holes powers quasars, the universe's brightest lights
- Fast prediction of axon behavior: Computer modeling method may lead to more accurate and capable electrodes to stimulate nerves
- Disputes over content of Wikipedia articles reflect a country’s geopolitical instability, study finds
- Social media study: Conservatives were top tweeters in 2010 U.S. elections
- CARE positions disaster relief with promising discipline of humanitarian logistics
- Texas experts bring science and policy to hydraulic fracturing debate
- Chemists create molecular polyhedron -- and potential to enhance industrial and consumer products
- A twisted ring in the Galactic Centre
Posted 2011-07-21:
- Bold new approach to wind 'farm' design may provide efficiency gains
- Seeing the S-curve in everything
- Technology to throw new light on ancient artifacts
- NASA's Hubble discovers another moon around Pluto
- At small scales, tug-of-war between electrons can lead to magnetism
- First artificial neural network created out of DNA: Molecular soup exhibits brainlike behavior
- Fundamental constants 'change': Gravity weaker, electromagnetic force stronger, according to latest recommended values
- New graphene discovery boosts oil exploration efforts, could enable self-powered microsensors
- Environmental pollutants lurk long after they 'disappear'
- Rock-paper-scissors players are natural copycats
- New 'electronic tongue' system assesses the antioxidant power of juices and fruit
- Engineering excitable cells for studies of bioelectricity and cell therapy
- NASA's Opportunity tops 20 miles of Mars driving
- E-health records should play bigger role in patient safety initiatives, researchers advocate
- It's simple: Increasing complexity of models does not necessarily increase their accuracy
- Discovery may overcome obstacle for quantum computing: Researchers find a way to quash decoherence
- Chemical make-up of Gulf of Mexico plume determined
Posted 2011-07-20:
- New scientific milestone in optical communications: Revolutionary chip for optical routers
- Galaxy-sized twist in time pulls violating particles back into line
- Twisted tale of our galaxy's ring: Strange kink in Milky Way
- Solar panels keep buildings cool
- Fewer verbs and nouns in financial reporting could predict stock market bubble, study shows
- 'Smart' sunglasses block blinding glare
- Click chemistry with copper: A biocompatible version
- Bacteria use Batman-like grappling hooks to 'slingshot' on surfaces, study shows
- Scientists analyze, explain the chemical makeup of Gulf plume
- Cadmium selenide quantum dots degrade in soil, releasing their toxic guts, study finds
- NASA's Dawn spacecraft returns close-up image of giant asteroid Vesta
- Machines to compare notes online?
- Race matters when recruiting, retaining undergraduate women engineers
- Reinventing the toilet for safe and affordable sanitation
Posted 2011-07-19:
- Monitoring cellular interactions at nano-scale in more detail than ever before
- Study of soil effects from March 11 Japan earthquake could improve building design
- New technology allows lenses to change color rapidly
- Nanotechnology: injections or sampling? New 'molecular syringes' under testing
- Writing nanostructures: Heated AFM tip allows direct fabrication of ferroelectric nanostructures on plastic
- Graphene gives up more of its secrets
- When minor planets Ceres and Vesta rock Earth into chaos
- Comet Hartley 2 leaves a bumpy trail
- NASA's Dawn spacecraft enters orbit around asteroid Vesta
- New material could offer hope to those with no voice
- New ways to measure magnetism around the sun
- A manganite changes its stripes: Advanced Light Source uncovers colossal conductivity changes in a special material
- Deep below the Deepwater Horizon oil spill: New molecular model better explains diffusion of spill under water
Posted 2011-07-18:
- Early talking doll recording discovered
- Improved hybrid solar collector has higher efficiency, longer lifespan
Posted 2011-07-17:
Posted 2011-07-16:
- Your brain on androids
- Virtual natural environments and benefits to health
- Most elliptical galaxies are 'like spirals'
- Childhood cancer no higher in vicinity of nuclear power plants, Swiss study suggests
- Swarms of locusts use social networking to communicate
- 'Amplified' nanotubes may power the future
- How to grow wires and tiny plates: Liquid processing method can control shapes of nanowires and produce complete electronic devices
- Editing the genome: Scientists unveil new tools for rewriting the code of life
- New opportunity for AM radio
- A LEAP in controlling cardiac fibrillation: Researchers develop a new low-energy defibrillation method
- Conducting energy on a nano scale: Are 'doped' nanocrystals the future of technology?
Posted 2011-07-15:
- What activates a supermassive black hole? Galaxy collisions not the culprits, even in the jam-packed early universe
- Red light from carbon nanotubes
- Chemistry: Separation a thousand-fold faster may lead to new composite materials
- NASA spacecraft to enter asteroid's orbit on July 15
- Soft memory device opens door to new biocompatible electronics
- New planets feature young star and twin Neptunes
- Print your own teeth: Rapid prototyping comes to dentistry
- New way to store sun's heat: Modified carbon nanotubes can store solar energy indefinitely, then be recharged by exposure to the sun
- Pixel perfect: Lens-free, pinhead-size camera developed
- New method for making human-based gelatin
- Narrowest bridges of gold are also the strongest, study finds
- Faster 3-D nanoimaging a possibility with full color synchrotron light
- Expert help from a distance
- Supercomputer: SDSC's Trestles provides rapid turnaround for diverse researchers
Posted 2011-07-14:
- Twin ARTEMIS probes to study moon in 3-D
- Atomic structure discovered for a sodium channel that generates electrical signals in living cells
- Evolved stars locked in fatalistic dance
- Computerized system to prevent SIDS: 'BabyBeat' also has applications in telemedicine and remote monitoring
- 25 Tesla, world-record 'split magnet' makes its debut
- New electric concept car has excellent driving dynamics
- Supramolecules get time to shine: Technique reveals interactions between nanotubes, photoluminescent materials
- Cat litter to become an edible product?
- Ancient algae: Genetically engineering a path to new energy sources?
- Wireless power could cut cord for patients with implanted heart pumps
- Intelligent street lighting saves up to 80% on energy
- Scientists model physics of a key dark-energy probe: Simulations improve characterization of cosmology’s 'standard ruler’
- A novel enzymatic catalyst for biodiesel production
- Innovative system for producing carpets
- New approaches for aircraft operations aboard carriers examined
Posted 2011-07-13:
- Computer learns language by playing games
- Deeper insight in the activity of cortical cells
- Hubble's Neptune anniversary pictures
- Greener disaster alerts: Low-energy wireless sensor networks warn of hurricanes, earthquakes
- Cracking the code of the mind
- 'Automotive Internet': New app reduces motorway pile-ups by 40 percent
- LiquidText software supports active reading through fingertip manipulation of text
- 3-D integrated DRAM-on-logic for low-power mobile applications demonstrated
- Implant-free quantum-well SiGe pFETs for future high-performance CMOS architectures
- Breakthroughs in enabling future DRAM and RRAM
Posted 2011-07-12:
- First student hydrogen racing car revealed
- Physicists discover new way to produce antimatter-containing atom
- Just add water and treat brain cancer: Freeze-dried gene therapy system avoids virus, potential complications
- 'BPA-free' bottles live up to manufacturers' claims, new study suggests
- Just like teens, parents get personal on Facebook
- Researchers build an antenna for light
- The perfect connection between guitar and computer
- A flash of insight: Chemist uses lasers to see proteins at work
- Light propagation controlled in photonic chips: Major breakthrough in telecommunications field
- Researchers characterize biomechanics of ovarian cells according to phenotype at stages of cancer
- Drug designer: New tool reveals mutations that cause HIV drug resistance
- Extremely rapid water: Scientists decipher a protein-bound water chain
Posted 2011-07-11:
- Nanocrystal transformers: Researchers observe structural transformations in single nanocrystals
- Geothermal industry to get boost from new research
Posted 2011-07-10:
Posted 2011-07-09:
- World War II bombing raids offer new insight into the effects of aviation on climate
- Recycling: A new source of indispensible 'rare earth' materials mined mainly in China
- NASA's final space shuttle mission begins with Atlantis' launch
- Robotics: Safety without protective barriers
- Power from the air: Device captures ambient electromagnetic energy to drive small electronic devices
- Chips hold the key to understanding the human brain
- ‘Cling-film’ solar cells could lead to advance in renewable energy
- Nano detector for deadly anthrax
- Using vital signs to predict severity of illness in children
- Big step forward for SKA radio telescope
- Graphene: What can go wrong? New studies point to wrinkles, process contaminants
- New research and technology experiments headed to International Space Station
- A mobile guide for buses and trains
Posted 2011-07-08:
- Coating boosts nanowire efficiency and sensitivity: Promise for photodetectors and solar cells
- Global investments in green energy up nearly a third to 1 billion
- Stardust in our backyard provides new clues to galaxy evolution
- Promising fire retardant results when clay nanofiller has space
- Eye of Gaia: billion-pixel camera to map Milky Way
- Microalgae could be Texas' next big cash crop
- Cosmic 'axis of evil': Masses of universe's largest objects appear to depend on which method is used to weigh them
- Baseball cheaters can't hide from the laws of physics
- Mechanical micro-drum cooled to quantum ground state
- Branch offices: New family of gold-based nanoparticles could serve as biomedical 'testbed'
- Juno mission: Gas giant spacecraft all gassed up
- Herschel helps solve mystery of cosmic dust origins
- Organizational climate at universities drives commercialization of scientific and engineering discoveries
- Dawn team members check out spacecraft
Posted 2011-07-07:
- NMR/MRI applied to microfluidic chromatography
- Cassini captures images and sounds of Saturn storm
- A look back: Scientists raced to estimate oil flow from Deepwater Horizon Macondo well
- Mercury vapor released from broken compact fluorescent light bulbs can exceed safe exposure levels for humans, study finds
- You are what you tweet: Tracking public health trends with Twitter
- Hydrogen peroxide found in space
- Unique gel capsule structure enables co-delivery of different types of drugs
- Termites' digestive system could act as biofuel refinery
- New technology makes textiles permanently germ-free
- Sounding rockets study how winds in space drive currents in the upper atmosphere
- Gold nanoparticles bring scientists closer to a treatment for cancer
- Bone loss prevention experiment on the last space shuttle flight
- New method used to detect 20 drugs in cow, goat and human milk
- Final countdown: Atlantis to carry next-generation vaccine candidate on last space voyage
- Experiment aboard shuttle Atlantis will test novel therapy to build bone during space travel
- Food-process engineering: Environmentally friendly process to improve storage stability of probiotics
- Sun's 'DNA' revealed
Posted 2011-07-06:
- New laser technology could kill viruses and improve DVDs
- NASA's Hubble makes one millionth science observation
- Hot springs microbe yields record-breaking, heat-tolerant enzyme
- Laser, electric fields combined for new 'lab-on-chip' technologies
- Nature uses screws and nuts: Previously unknown musculoskeletal system discovered in weevils
- Key ingredient: Change in material boosts prospects of ultrafast single-photon detector
- Ultimate energy efficiency: Magnetic microprocessors could use million times less energy than today's silicon chips
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