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Public Release: 9-May-2008
Scientists endure Arctic for last campaign prior to CryoSat-2 launch
An international group of scientists has swapped their comfortable offices for one of the most inhospitable environments on the planet to carry out a challenging field campaign that is seen as the key to ensuring the data delivered by ESA's ice mission CryoSat will be as accurate as possible.
Contact: Malcolm Davidson
malcolm.davidson@esa.int
31-715-655-957
European Space Agency
Public Release: 9-May-2008
Second BBVA Foundation study on the Internet in Spain
Although the range of uses has broadened, Internet remains primarily an information and communication resource: 88 percent use e-mail while 82 percent access the web to search for information. Entertainment use is likewise on the increase, as evidenced by the number of users who download music (53 percent) or films and videos (44 percent)
Contact: Javier Fernandez
comunicacion@fbbva.es
Fundación BBVA
Public Release: 8-May-2008
Angewandte Chemie International
Warming up for magnetic resonance imaging
A new method of magnetic resonance imaging, much faster, more selective -- able to distinguish even among different target molecular species -- and many thousands of times more sensitive, has been developed by researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley. The new technique has the capacity to choose among targets by slight adjustments in temperature.
US Department of Energy
Contact: Paul Preuss
paul_preuss@lbl.gov
510-486-6249
DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Public Release: 8-May-2008
Nano Letters
Scientists demonstrate method for integrating nanowire devices directly onto silicon
Applied scientists at Harvard University in collaboration with researchers from the German universities of Jena, Gottingen, and Bremen, have developed a new technique for fabricating nanowire photonic and electronic integrated circuits that may one day be suitable for high-volume commercial production.
National Science Foundation, German Research Foundation
Contact: Michael Patrick Rutter
mrutter@seas.harvard.edu
617-496-3815
Harvard University
Public Release: 8-May-2008
Journal of the American Ceramic Society
Modern ceramics help advance technology
Many important electronic devices used by people today would be impossible without the use of ceramics.
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
Contact: Amy Molnar
professionalnews@bos.blackwellpublishing.net
201-748-8844
Wiley-Blackwell
Public Release: 8-May-2008
Games for Health
Computer game's high score could earn the Nobel Prize in medicine
Gamers have devoted countless years of collective brainpower to idle pursuits. This week researchers at the University of Washington will try to harness those finely honed skills to make medical discoveries through a competitive protein-folding computer game.
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Microsoft Corp., Adobe Systems Inc., Nvidia Corp., Intel Corp.
Contact: Hannah Hickey
hickeyh@u.washington.edu
206-543-2580
University of Washington
Public Release: 8-May-2008
NCAR installs 76-teraflop supercomputer for critical research on climate change, severe weather
Computer analyses of global climate have consistently overstated warming in Antarctica, new research concludes. The study can help scientists improve computer models and determine if Earth's southernmost continent will warm significantly this century, a major research question because of Antarctica's potential impact on global sea-level rise.
National Science Foundation
Contact: David Hosansky
hosansky@ucar.edu
303-497-8611
National Center for Atmospheric Research/University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Public Release: 8-May-2008
Oncogene
New cancer gene found
Researchers at the OU Cancer Institute have identified a new gene that causes cancer. The ground-breaking research appears in Nature's cancer journal Oncogene.
National Institutes of Health, University of Oklahoma College of Medicine
Contact: Diane Clay
diane-clay@ouhsc.edu
405-271-2323
University of Oklahoma
Public Release: 8-May-2008
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
Optics Express
New technique measures ultrashort laser pulses at focus
Lasers that emit ultrashort pulses of light are used for numerous applications, but the quality of the results is limited by distortions caused by lenses and other optical components that are part of the experimental instrumentation. Researchers have developed a system that tells researchers what types of aberrations are present, which allows them to create the desired pulse at the focus that's free of distortions.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Abby Vogel
avogel@gatech.edu
404-385-3364
Georgia Institute of Technology Research News
Public Release: 8-May-2008
Chilean volcano captured blasting ash
Chile's Chaiten Volcano is shown spewing ash and smoke (centre left of image) into the air for hundreds of km over Argentina's Patagonia Plateau in this Envisat image acquired on May 5, 2008.
Contact: Mariangela D'Acunto
mariangela.dacunto@esa.int
39-069-418-0856
European Space Agency
Public Release: 8-May-2008
IFAT 2008
New gas sensors for monitoring carbon dioxide sinks
A novel gas sensor system makes it possible to monitor large areas cost-effectively the first time. The patented gas sensor is based on the principle of diffusion, according to which certain gases pass through a membrane faster than others. Using a tube-like sensor it is possible to measure an average gas concentration value over a certain distance without influencing or distorting conditions in the measuring environment.
Contact: Tilo Arnhold
presse@ufz.de
49-341-235-1635
Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres
Public Release: 8-May-2008
Optics Express
TU Delft demonstrates for the first time how light squeezes through small holes
How does light pass through a tiny hole? For the first time, Dr. Aurele Adam and Professor Paul Planken of Delft University of Technology have succeeded in mapping this process properly. Their research also promises a significant improvement in Terahertz microscopy in the long term, a potentially interesting new imaging technique, and Terahertz microspectroscopy, a technique for identifying tiny quantities of substances using light. Their findings are published in this week's Optics Express.
Contact: Frank Nuijens
f.w.nuijens@tudelft.nl
31-152-784-259
Delft University of Technology
Public Release: 8-May-2008
PLoS Pathogens
Tomato stands firm in face of fungus
Scientists at the University of Amsterdam have discovered how to keep one's tomatoes from wilting -- the answer lies at the molecular level. The story of how the plant beat the pathogen, and what it means for combating other plant diseases, is published May 9 in the open-access journal PLoS Pathogens.
Contact: Mary Kohut
mkohut@plos.org
415-568-3457
Public Library of Science
Public Release: 7-May-2008
Journal of Telemedicine and e-Health
Patients with chronic illness benefit from telehealth intervention
Telehealth, using telecommunication technology to deliver health care, is increasingly being used to improve the delivery and availability of health care services to patients. A University of Missouri researcher found that patients who received a telehealth intervention from care providers had significantly delayed hospital readmission rates when compared to patients who received traditional care.
US Department of Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development Service
Contact: Emily Smith
SmithEA@missouri.edu
573-882-3346
University of Missouri-Columbia
Public Release: 7-May-2008
Undergrad has sweet success with invention of artificial Golgi
Graduating senior Jeffery Martin has put his basic knowledge of sugars to exceptional use by creating a lab-on-a-chip device that builds complex, highly specialized sugar molecules, mimicking one of the most important cellular structures in the human body -- the Golgi Apparatus.
Contact: Gabrielle DeMarco
demarg@rpi.edu
518-276-6542
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Public Release: 7-May-2008
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
European Physics Journal D
Record-setting laser may aid searches for Earthlike planets
Scientists at the University of Konstanz in Germany and the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated an ultrafast laser that offers a record combination of high speed, short pulses and high average power and that could boost the sensitivity of astronomical tools searching for other Earthlike planets as much as 100 fold.
Contact: Laura Ost
laura.ost@nist.gov
303-497-4880
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Public Release: 7-May-2008
GIOVE-B transmitting its first signals
Following a successful launch on April 27, GIOVE-B began transmitting navigation signals today. This is a truly historic step for satellite navigation since GIOVE-B is now, for the first time, transmitting the GPS-Galileo common signal using a specific optimised waveform, MBOC (multiplexed binary offset carrier), in accordance with the agreement drawn up in July 2007 by the EU and the US for their respective systems, Galileo and the future GPS III.
Contact: ESA Media Relations Office
media@esa.int
33-153-697-299
European Space Agency
Public Release: 7-May-2008
Cyclone Nargis and Myanmar floods seen from space
Envisat captured Cyclone Nargis making its way across the Bay of Bengal just south of Myanmar on May 1, 2008. The cyclone hit the coastal region and ripped through the heart of Myanmar on Saturday, devastating the country.
Contact: Mariangela D'Acunto
mariangela.dacunto@esa.int
39-069-418-0856
European Space Agency
Public Release: 7-May-2008
Angewandte Chemie International
Power from formic acid
Matthias Beller and his team at the Leibniz Institute of Catalysis in Rostock have succeeded in the controlled extraction of hydrogen from formic acid without the need for a high-temperature reforming process. This room-temperature hydrogen source can be directly introduced into fuel cells.
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Federal Government of Germany, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, FCI
Contact: Matthias Beller
Matthias.Beller@catalysis.de
49-381-128-1113
Wiley-Blackwell
Public Release: 7-May-2008
Nature
Rainfall and river networks prove accurate predictors of fish biodiversity
Princeton researchers have invented a method for turning simple data about rainfall and river networks into accurate assessments of fish biodiversity, allowing better prediction of the effects of climate change and the ecological impact of man-made structures like dams.
James S. McDonnell Foundation
Contact: Teresa Riordan
triordan@princeton.edu
609-258-9754
Princeton University, Engineering School
Public Release: 7-May-2008
X-rays power discoveries at Chicago's Field Museum
Digital medical imaging and information technology is helping The Field Museum discover and analyze secrets hidden within its world-class collections. A computed radiography system enables the museum—for the first time—to capture, archive and share digital x-ray images from more than one million priceless artifacts in its Anthropology collection. The museum is also using a picture archiving and communications system (PACS) to manage, view and store the growing collection of digital images.
Contact: Greg Borzo
gborzo@fieldmuseum.org
312-665-7106
Field Museum
Public Release: 6-May-2008
Contact through silver particles in ink
Conductor paths in sensor systems have to be correctly "wired." Now, instead of using obtrusive connecting wires, researchers print the conductor paths. The connections thus produced are thinner, and the sensor delivers more accurate measurements. Fraunhofer researchers will be presenting the novel technology platform INKtelligent printing at the Sensor and Test fair in Nuremberg from May 6 to 8.
Contact: Christian Werner
christian.werner@ifam.fraunhofer.de
49-421-224-6142
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Public Release: 6-May-2008
Location! Location! Location technologies are improving NHS care
Location technologies are improving NHS care, but compatibility problems could limit their impact.
Contact: Jim Sutton
jim@proofcommunication.com
084-568-01867
National Physical Laboratory
Public Release: 6-May-2008
Geography Journal
Expert predicts 'Monsoon Britain'
Prepare for more floods -- in ways we are not used to -- that's the message from experts at Durham University who have studied rainfall and river flow patterns over 250 years. Last summer was the second wettest on record and experts say we must prepare for worse to come.
Willis Research Network: Rural Economy and Land Use Program
Contact: Alex Thomas
media.relations@durham.ac.uk
01-913-346-075
Durham University
Public Release: 6-May-2008
International Journal of Environment and Waste Management
Sounding out Congo Red
Brightly colored dyes such as the shimmering Congo Red commonly used in silk clothing manufacture are notoriously difficult to dispose of in an environmentally benign way.
Contact: Srinivas Sistla
sistlasrinivas@gmail.com
Inderscience Publishers
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