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for the Week of September 18 to September 25, 2011
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Posted 2011-09-24:
- Nature shows the way: Self-healing membranes
- NASA's UARS satellite re-enters Earth's atmosphere
- Nature offers key lessons on harvesting solar power, say chemists
- NASA to demonstrate communications via laser beam
Posted 2011-09-24:
- Researchers pinpoint the cause of MRI vertigo: Machine's magnetic field pushes fluid in the inner ear's balance organ
- New source of super-chilled neutrons provides tools for understanding fundamental physics concepts
- Cloaking magnetic fields: First antimagnet developed
- Producing flexible CIGS solar cells with record efficiency
- Solar activity can affect re-entry of UARS satellite
- Particles appear to travel faster than light: OPERA experiment reports anomaly in flight time of neutrinos
- New targets for the control of HIV predicted using a novel computational analysis
- New metal hydride clusters provide insights into hydrogen storage
- Spiral constriction: How dynamin mediates cellular nutrient uptake
- Lessons to be learned from nature in photosynthesis
- Scientists lay out plans for efficient harvesting of solar energy
- Faster than light? Neutrino finding puzzles scientists
Posted 2011-09-23:
- Nanoscale nonlinear light source optical device can be controlled electronically
- Scientists observe how superconducting nanowires lose resistance-free state
- Carnivorous plant inspires coating that resists just about any liquids
- Radiation boost for artificial joints
- Saturn's moon Enceladus spreads its influence
- Bionic bacteria may help make new drugs, biofuels: Artificially enhanced bacteria capable of producing new kinds of synthetic chemicals
- Could the Higgs boson explain the size of the universe?
- Information technologies foster freedom or reinforce repression
- Scientists play ping-pong with single electrons
- From protein to planes and pigskin: Discovery in insects' skin points to improved pest control, new bioplastics technology
- Researchers use liquid crystal to replace space motors
- Super-sized heart valve provides clues to blood flow
- Electrical stimulation of brain boosts birth of new cells: Animal study suggests deep brain stimulation improves memory
- Toward an improved test for adulterated heparin
- YouTube videos can inaccurately depict Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders, study finds
- Development of a new chip for characterizing ultrafast optical pulses
- The key to lower dose CT fluoroscopy for spine injections is reducing the dose of the planning CT
Posted 2011-09-22:
- Catching molecular motion at just the right time: Theorists overcome loss of entropy and friction in computational simulations
- New theory explains collapse of World Trade Center's Twin Towers
- New 'smart window' system with unprecedented performance
- An angry bird in the sky: Lambda Centauri Nebula
- Crystal structure shows how motor protein works
- Proton-based transistor could let machines communicate with living things
- Potential of new nanoparticle design for cancer therapy demonstrated
- Microwave ovens a key to energy production from wasted heat
- Cassini presents Saturn moon quintet
- Nanoparticles cause brain injury in fish
- NASA's WISE mission captures black hole's wildly flaring jet
- Vacuum-like device makes cellular exploration easier
- NASA's Dawn collects a bounty of beauty from asteroid Vesta
- Social media for dementia patients
- Sifting out genetic defects from mounds of data
- Observations of fallout from the Fukushima reactor accident in San Francisco Bay area rainwater
- New hybrid carbon material discovered
Posted 2011-09-21:
- Autonomous car navigates the streets of Berlin
- Lasers light the path to neuron regeneration
- Shaping up: Controlling a stem cell's form can determine its fate
- Researchers create first human heart cells that can be paced with light
- Researchers make visible the structure of the smallest crystals
- Big step towards redefining the kelvin: Scientists find new way to determine Boltzmann constant
- NASA's WISE raises doubt about asteroid family believed responsible for dinosaur extinction
- New imaging technique visualizes cancer during surgery
- Engineers use short ultrasound pulses to reach neurons through blood-brain barrier
- Monitoring patients using intelligent T-shirts
- Saving electricity while playing online game
- Researchers reinforce gas hydrate strategy: New study goes deeper in proving simple technique to pinpoint valuable energy source
- Fast switching and printable transistor invented
- No safe level of radiation exposure? Researcher points to suppression of evidence on radiation effects by Nobel Laureate
- NRL TacSat-4 spacecraft encapsulated
Posted 2011-09-20:
- Scientists solve long-standing plant biochemistry mystery
- Unzipping DNA mysteries: Physicists discover how a vital enzyme works
- Black hole, star collisions may illuminate universe's dark side
- Catching a breath -- wirelessly: Noninvasive method to watch for SIDS, help surgery patients
- Self-steering automated tractor offers more precision in the field
- Brightest gamma ray on Earth -- for a safer, healthier world
- Volcanic ash and aircraft safety
- 'Inexhaustible' source of hydrogen may be unlocked by salt water, engineers say
- Why carbon nanotubes spell trouble for cells
- Sequencing 'dark matter' of life: Elusive genomes of thousands of bacteria species can now be decoded
- Colloidal quantum dots: Performance boost next-generation solar cell technology
- Put down that game controller: Researcher suggests video games may not boost cognition
- Gamers succeed where scientists fail: Molecular structure of retrovirus enzyme solved, doors open to new AIDS drug design
- First fluorescence-guided ovarian cancer surgery
- Quantum behavior with a flash: Laser pulses can reveal quantum features of large objects
- Ground glass solution for cleaner water
- Fukushima: Reflections six months on
- Tests under way on the sunshield for NASA's Webb Telescope
- NASA's Webb Telescope completes mirror-coating milestone
- Robots are coming to aircraft assembly
Posted 2011-09-19:
- New light on detection of bacterial infection: Polymers fluoresce in the presence of bacteria
- Safer skies: New algorithm could help prevent midair collisions
- Lasers could be used to detect roadside bombs
- 3-D face models that give animators intuitive control of expressions
Posted 2011-09-18:
- Opportunity on verge of new discovery: Mars rover poised on rock that may yield yet more evidence of a wet Red Planet
- Gamma-ray bursts shed light on the nature of dark energy
Posted 2011-09-17:
- How single stars lost their companions
- Biochemical cell signals quantified: Data capacity much lower than expected, scientists find
- Shake, rattle and … power up? New device generates energy from small vibrations
- Smartphone battery life could dramatically improve with new invention
- Electronic bucket brigade could boost solar cell voltages
- Carbon nanoparticles break barriers -- and that may not be good
- New method for detecting lung cancer unveiled
- Researchers create new Urban Network Analysis toolbox
- Small distant galaxies host supermassive black holes, astronomers find
- Archivist in the sound library: New model for speech and sound recognition
- New study quantifies use of social media in Arab Spring
- Balloon-based experiment to measure gamma rays 6,500 light years distant
Posted 2011-09-16:
- NASA Mars research helps find buried water on Earth
- Meteor likely cause of Southwest U.S. light show
- Mobile phone electromagnetic field affects local glucose metabolism in the human brain, Finnish study finds
- Cancer information on Wikipedia is accurate, but not very readable, study finds
- New material synthesized: Graphene nanoribbons inside of carbon nanotubes
- NASA's Kepler discovery confirms first planet orbiting two stars
- Scientists take first step towards creating 'inorganic life'
- Milky Way's spiral arms are the product of an intergalactic collision course; Models show dark matter packs a punch
- Preschoolers' grasp of numbers predicts math performance in school years; Early number sense linked to elementary math scores
- New technology for recovering valuable minerals from waste rock
- Chemists help astronauts make sure their drinking water is clean
- 3-D television without glasses
- Cancer-killing cells are caught on film in more 3-D detail than ever before
- Pioneering device reduces the cost and power consumption of telecommunications systems
- Astronomer: 'Beware the wildlife, even in apparently quiet galaxies'
- From Star Wars to science fact: Tatooine-like planet discovered
- Tatooine-like planet discovered
- New report on creating clinical public use microdata files
- How the Milky Way got its spiral: Supercomputer simulation uncovers how collision with dwarf galaxy triggered formation of spiral arms
Posted 2011-09-15:
- Air pollution caused by ships plummets when vessels shift to cleaner, low-sulfur fuels, study finds
- 'Synthetic biology' could replace oil for chemical industry
- Novel software used in first global camera trap mammal study
- NASA announces design for new deep space exploration system: New heavy-lift rocket will take humans far beyond Earth
- Messy better than neat: Tangled coat of nanowires increases solar cell efficiency by absorbing more light
- Crashes common among helicopters used in oil and gas operations, study finds
- Double jeopardy: Building codes may underestimate risks due to multiple hazards
- Polonium poisoning case sheds light on infection control practices
- Superconductivity: New piece in the puzzle
- Vigorous star birth without galactic collisions: Herschel paints new story of galaxy evolution
- New hybrid imaging device shows promise in spotting hard-to-detect ovarian cancer
- Identifying dangerous intersections with help of new computer simulation
- In immune cells, super-resolution imaging reveals natural killers' M.O.
- Team finds stable RNA nano-scaffold within virus core
- Intense magnetic fields probably formed shortly after Big Bang, researchers say
- Cyber security report identifies key research priorities
- Discovering the hidden universe: TheSkyNet Launched
Posted 2011-09-14:
- In the early life of an embryo, a monster lurks: Newly fertilized cells only narrowly avoid degenerating into fatal chaos
- Terahertz radiation's impact on cellular function and gene expression
- Pressure for positive results puts science under threat, study shows
- Civil engineering professor develops 'superlaminate' industrial pipe repair system
- Star blasts planet with X-rays
- Graphene may open the gate to future terahertz technologies
- Astronomers find extreme weather on an alien world: Cosmic oddball may harbor a gigantic storm
- First proof in patients of an improved 'magic bullet' for cancer detection and radio-therapy
- Nuclear detector: New materials hold promise for better detection of nuclear weapons
- Is smartphone technology the future of US elections?
- Ferroelectrics could pave way for ultra-low power computing
- Parabolic mirrors concentrate sunlight to power lasers
- Taming light: Mastering the fine structuring of ultrashort light fields
- Fast, cheap, and accurate: Detecting CO<sub>2</sub> with a fluorescent twist
- Four new reports update Security Content Automation Protocol
- Two new publications provide a cloud computing standards roadmap and reference architecture
- Blood vessels from your printer?
- Memorial image taken on Mars on Sept. 11, 2011
- Methodology applied to historical walls may explain why moss gathers and how paint blackens
Posted 2011-09-13:
- Sustainability scientists suggest how countries can cooperate on climate
- Health fears over CO<sub>2</sub> storage are unfounded, study shows
- Nanopatterning technique throws new light on photovoltaics
- 'Trojan Horse' particle sneaks chemotherapy in to kill ovarian cancer cells
- New clues to molecular understanding of autism
- Physicist detects movement of macromolecules engineered into our food
- Astronomers find 50 new exoplanets: Richest haul of planets so far includes 16 new super-Earths
- Airplanes: New tool analyzes black-box data for flight anomalies
- Breath and sweat used to detect trapped humans
- Hubble to target 'Hot Jupiters'
- Physicists report progress in understanding high-temperature superconductors
- Mitosis: New techniques expose surprises in cell division
- Acoustic tests verify Orion’s sound engineering
- Young stars take a turn in the spotlight
- A guiding light for new directions in energy production: Optofluidics could help solve the energy challenge
- Researchers find way to measure effect of Wi-Fi attacks
Posted 2011-09-12:
- Squeezed laser will bring gravitational waves to the light of day
- Reducing costs of electric vehicle batteries
- Research on US nuclear levels after Fukushima could aid in future nuclear detection
- Researcher sees spring-like protein as key to muscle behavior
Posted 2011-09-11:
- NASA Launches Mission to Study Moon From Crust to Core
- Nanoscale spin waves can replace microwaves
- Fermi's latest gamma-ray census highlights cosmic mysteries
Posted 2011-09-10:
- Milestones for two radiation machines used to test U.S. defenses against atomic weapons
- What's in a name? Names, not social networks, bind us to global cultural and ethnic communities
- Designing high-rise buildings: World still learning lessons of 9/11
- Where does all Earth's gold come from? Precious metals the result of meteorite bombardment, rock analysis finds
- New cooling system raises efficiency of oil and gas processing
- Powered by seaweed: Polymer from algae may improve battery performance
- New method to grow synthetic collagen unveiled: New material may find use in reconstructive surgery, cosmetics, tissue engineering
- Managing intellectual property a challenge for firms, innovators
- Cotton's potential for padding nonwovens
Posted 2011-09-09:
- New record for measurement of atomic lifetime
- Researchers power line-voltage light bulb with nanotube wire
- New translator app makes sense of foreign-language food menus
- 'Invisible' world discovered: Planet alternately runs late and early in its orbit, tugged by second hidden world
- Switching from coal to natural gas would do little for global climate, study indicates
- New material possible boon for lithium ion batteries
- Neutron scattering confirms DNA is as stretchy as nylon
- Space instrument observes new characteristics of solar flares; Findings may lead to improved space weather forecasting
- Computer-aided design used for breast tissue reconstruction
- New material shows promise for trapping pollutants
- Forecasting human behavior by supercomputing global news
- Neutron analysis reveals unique atom-scale behavior of 'cobalt blue'
- New video gaming technology used to detect illness, prevent falls in older adults
- Researchers expand capabilities of miniature analyzer for complex samples
- Smartphones as helpers during disasters: Software for autonomous smartphone network developed
- Mathematics will increase aluminium recycling
Posted 2011-09-08:
- The geophysicist's guide to striking it rich
- Nanosensors made from DNA may light path to new cancer tests and drugs
- Innovative superconductor fibers carry 40 times more electricity
- New type of solar cell retains high efficiency for long periods
- Reuse, reliability will launch future, expert says
- Parents' behavior linked to kids' videogame playing
- Growing meat in the lab: Scientists initiate action plan to advance cultured meat
- Innovative nanoparticle purification system uses magnetic fields
- Virtual reality may help adults recover from stroke
- Innovation is step toward digital graphene transistors
- Ultrasound improves stem cell transplants, Swedish researchers discover
- Novel magnetic, superconducting material opens new possibilities in electronics
- 'Proton flux hypothesis' offers new explanation for effects of ocean acidification on coral reefs
- Breakthrough could double wireless capacity with no new towers
- Pretreatment, proper harvest time boost ethanol from switchgrass
- Something new on the sun: SDO spots a late phase in solar flares
- 'TF beacons' may light path to new cancer tests and drugs
Posted 2011-09-07:
- Neutrinos: Ghostly particles with unstable egos
- Researchers pioneer novel technique to make plasmonic nanogap arrays
- Microbes generate electricity while cleaning up nuclear waste
- People communicate in bursts: Rhythms of communication revealed in study of 9 billion phone calls
- Milky Way galaxy might hold thousands of ticking 'time bombs'
- Foam that lasts and lasts and lasts, and disappears when you want
- Sharper views of Apollo 12, 14, 17 sites in new images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
- Record-low error rate for quantum information processing with one qubit
- A step toward a saliva test for cancer
- Research gives crystal clear temperature readings from toughest environments
- Tiny wires change behavior at nanoscale
- Flexible electronics hold promise for consumer applications
- Innovative organic solar cell architecture sets new performance level, Belgian researchers demonstrate
- Manufacturing method paves way for commercially viable quantum dot-based LEDs
- World’s largest fusion experiment back in operation
- Robotic loader system achieves composite material testing milestone
Posted 2011-09-06:
- Photovoltaics among fastest growing industries in the world
- A whole new light on graphene metamaterials: Tunable graphene device is first tool in a kit for putting terahertz light to work
- World's smallest electric motor made from a single molecule
- Revolutionary three-dimensional model shows how breast tissue grows
- Mars Science Laboratory launch preparations
Posted 2011-09-05:
- Rock rafts could be 'cradle of life'
- Rush hour in a coffee stain: Transition from order to disorder
- Adding hydrogen triples transistor performance in graphene
- Robots learn to handle objects, understand new places
- Advertising in violent video games results in poor recall, negative brand perception
Posted 2011-09-04:
- Rare Martian lake delta spotted by Mars Express
- Understanding next-generation electronic devices: Smallest atomic displacements ever
- Newspapers versus Internet news: Is a review of subsidies for the media in the UK warranted?
Posted 2011-09-03:
- Engineers test effects of fire on steel structures, nuclear plant design
- Hiding objects with a terahertz invisibility cloak
- NASA's Mars rover Opportunity begins study of Martian crater
- Physicists capture microscopic origins of thinning and thickening fluids
- New microscope might see beneath skin in 4-D
- Biological 'computer' destroys cancer cells: Diagnostic network incorporated into human cells
- Digital quantum simulator developed
- To clear digital waste in computers, 'think green,' researchers say
- Hubble movies reveal solar-system-sized traffic jams: Giant jets spewing from newborn stars revealed in telescope's images
- Hydrogen powered prototype vessel for inland waterways: Canal boat runs on fuel cell drive
- Physicists demonstrate quantum integrated circuit that implements quantum von Neumann architecture
- New salts for chemical 'soups'
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