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Public Release: 22-Nov-2009
 Nature Chemistry{DISSERTATION} New hydrogen-storage method discovered Scientists at the Carnegie Institution have found for the first time that high pressure can be used to make a unique hydrogen-storage material. The discovery paves the way for a new approach to the hydrogen-storage problem. The researchers found that the normally nonreactive, noble gas xenon combines with molecular hydrogen under pressure to form a previously unknown solid with unusual bonding chemistry. The discovery debuts a new family of materials, which could boost hydrogen technologies. 
US Department of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences, National Science Foundation
Contact: Maddury Somayazulu
Public Release: 20-Nov-2009
{DISSERTATION} Smartphone app illuminates power consumption A new application for the Android smartphone shows users and software developers how much power their applications are consuming. PowerTutor was developed by doctoral students and professors at the University of Michigan.
Google and the National Science Foundation
Contact: Nicole Casal Moore
Public Release: 20-Nov-2009
{DISSERTATION} NJIT receives NSF funding to improve Big Bear Telescope, study solar energy The National Science Foundation has recently provided support that totals nearly $4.3 million for the diverse efforts of the following investigators under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Sheryl Weinstein
Public Release: 20-Nov-2009
2009 AGU Fall Meeting{DISSERTATION} New method to measure snow, vegetation moisture with GPS may benefit farmers, meteorologists A research team led by the University of Colorado at Boulder has found a clever way to use traditional GPS satellite signals to measure snow depth as well as soil and vegetation moisture, a technique expected to benefit meteorologists, water resource managers, climate modelers and farmers.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Kristine Larson
Public Release: 20-Nov-2009
{DISSERTATION} NSF awards $7.5M grant to University of Oklahoma for plant genomics A decade ago, a group of University of Oklahoma researchers were sequencing the first human chromosome as part of the human genome project. Today, the OU Advanced Center for Genome Technology is contributing to an international effort to sequence the tomato genome with a $7.5 million grant awarded by the National Science Foundation for plant genomics.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Jana Smith
Public Release: 19-Nov-2009
Science{DISSERTATION} New maize map to aid plant breeding efforts A massive survey of genetic diversity in maize has produced a gene map that should pave the way to significant improvements in a plant that is a major source of food, fuel, animal feed and fiber around the world.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Agriculture
Contact: Pat Bailey
Public Release: 19-Nov-2009
Darwin 2009 Science{DISSERTATION} Paleontologists find extinction rates higher in open-ocean settings during mass extinctions Arnie Miller, University of Cincinnati professor of paleontology in the McMicken College of Arts & Sciences, and co-author Michael Foote of the University of Chicago publish their research in the Nov. 20 issue of Science with their paper, "Epicontinental Seas Versus Open-Ocean Settings: The Kinetics of Mass Extinction and Origination."
NASA, National Science Foundation
Contact: Wendy Beckman
Public Release: 19-Nov-2009
Science{DISSERTATION} New map of variation in maize genetics holds promise for developing new varieties A new study of maize has identified thousands of diverse genes in genetically inaccessible portions of the genome. New techniques may allow breeders and researchers to use this genetic variation to identify desirable traits and create new varieties that were not easily possible before.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Agriculture
Contact: Blaine Friedlander
Public Release: 19-Nov-2009
{DISSERTATION} Engineer designs micro-endoscope to seek out early signs of cancer Traditional endoscopes provide a peek inside patients' bodies. Now, a University of Florida engineering researcher is designing ones capable of a full inspection.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Huikai Xie
Public Release: 19-Nov-2009
{DISSERTATION} NESCent helps to build a global digital data network for biology and the earth sciences The National Evolutionary Synthesis Center is now part of a major new digital data initiative that will improve the ability of scientists, policymakers and the public to monitor the status of Earth's biota and the environment. Named DataONE, the initiative aims to provide secure and permanent access to data in biology and the earth sciences, including atmospheric, ecological, evolutionary, hydrological and oceanographic sources.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Dr. Todd Vision
Public Release: 19-Nov-2009
Science{DISSERTATION} Reference genome of maize, most important US crop, is published by team co-led by CSHL scientists A four-year, multi-institutional effort co-led by three Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory scientists culminated today in publication of a landmark series of papers in the journal Science revealing in unprecedented detail the DNA sequence of maize. Maize, or corn, as it is commonly called by North American consumers, is one of the world's most important plants and the most valuable agricultural crop grown in the United States, representing $47 billion in annual value.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Agriculture, US Department of Defense
Contact: Peter Tarr
Public Release: 19-Nov-2009
Information Processing and Management{DISSERTATION} Search engines are source of learning Search engine use is not just part of our daily routines; it is also becoming part of our learning process, according to Penn State researchers.
National Science Foundation, US Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Contact: A'ndrea Elyse Messer
Public Release: 19-Nov-2009
Science{DISSERTATION} Scientists at UA, collaborating institutions decode maize genome Scientists from the University of Arizona led by Arizona Genomics Institute director Rod A. Wing and from collaborating institutions have deciphered the complete genetic code of the maize plant for the first time.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Lori Stiles
Public Release: 19-Nov-2009
Science{DISSERTATION} Like humans, ants use bacteria to make their gardens grow Leaf-cutter ants, which cultivate fungus for food, have many remarkable qualities.
US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation
Contact: Cameron Currie
Public Release: 19-Nov-2009
Science{DISSERTATION} After mastodons and mammoths, a transformed landscape Roughly 15,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, North America's vast assemblage of large animals -- including such iconic creatures as mammoths, mastodons, camels, horses, ground sloths and giant beavers -- began their precipitous slide to extinction.
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, National Science Foundation
Contact: John Williams
Public Release: 19-Nov-2009
Science{DISSERTATION} Amaizing: Corn genome decoded In recent years, scientists have decoded the DNA of humans and a menagerie of creatures but none with genes as complex as a stalk of corn, the latest genome to be unraveled. A team of scientists led by the Genome Center at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis published the completed corn genome in the Nov. 20 journal Science, an accomplishment that will speed efforts to develop better crop varieties to meet the world's growing demands for food, livestock feed and fuel.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Agriculture, US Department of Energy
Contact: Caroline Arbanas
Public Release: 19-Nov-2009
Science{DISSERTATION} ISU's Plant Sciences Institute researchers provide understanding to maize genome sequence Iowa State University Plant Sciences Institute researchers contributed to the raw data assembly and much of the ongoing functional analysis work for this multi-institutional, $32 million, National Science Foundation-funded effort to sequence the maize genome.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Meg Gordon
Public Release: 18-Nov-2009
Molecular & Cellular Proteomics{DISSERTATION} Beyond genomics, biologists and engineers decode the next frontier A team of biologists and engineers has dramatically improved the speed and accuracy of measuring histones, an enigmatic set of proteins that influences almost every aspect of how cells and tissues function. The new method offers a long-sought tool for studying stem cells, cancer and other problems of fundamental importance to biology and medicine.
National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, American Society for Mass Spectrometry, US Environmental Protection Agency
Contact: Steven Schultz
Public Release: 18-Nov-2009
Physical Review Letters{DISSERTATION} Proton's party pals may alter its internal structure A recent experiment at the US Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has found that a proton's nearest neighbors in the nucleus of the atom may modify the proton's internal structure.
US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, South African National Research Foundation
Contact: Kandice Carter
Public Release: 18-Nov-2009
{DISSERTATION} Girls 'disengage' from high school science High school girls are bored, disengaged and stressed in science classes when compared to boys, Northern Illinois University researchers say. And teachers might not be doing enough to change the situation. Funded by a three-year, $476,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, Jennifer Schmidt and M. Cecil Smith expect their research eventually will help high school science teachers design and deliver lesson plans that best engage and electrify girls as well as boys.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Mark McGowan
Public Release: 18-Nov-2009
Proceedings of the Royal Society B{DISSERTATION} Scientists unravel evolution of highly toxic box jellyfish With thousands of stinging cells that can emit deadly venom from tentacles that can reach ten feet in length, the 50 or so species of box jellyfish have long been of interest to scientists and to the public. Yet little has been known about the evolution of this early branch in the animal tree of life. In a paper published today, researchers have unraveled the evolutionary relationships among the various species of box jellyfish, thereby providing insight into the evolution of their toxicity.
National Science Foundation, PADI Foundation
Contact: Shelley Dawicki
Public Release: 18-Nov-2009
{DISSERTATION} NSF supports Case Western Reserve University's IDEAL A program at Case Western Reserve University to encourage career advancement of women and underrepresented minority men in sciences and engineering is expanding to five public institutions of higher education through a three-year, nearly $1 million National Science Foundation grant.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Marv Kropko
Public Release: 18-Nov-2009
Nature{DISSERTATION} Oceans' uptake of manmade carbon may be slowing The oceans play a key role in regulating climate, absorbing more than a quarter of the carbon dioxide that humans put into the air. Now, the first year-by-year accounting of this mechanism during the industrial era suggests the oceans are struggling to keep up with rising emissions -- a finding with potentially wide implications for future climate. The study appears in this week's issue of the journal Nature.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Kim Martineau
Public Release: 17-Nov-2009
Nature{DISSERTATION} Small optical force can budge nanoscale objects With a bit of leverage, Cornell researchers have used a very tiny beam of light with as little as 1 milliwatt of power to move a silicon structure up to 12 nanometers. That's enough to completely switch the optical properties of the structure from opaque to transparent.
National Science Foundation, Cornell Center for Nanocale Systems, Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility
Contact: Blaine Friedlander
Public Release: 17-Nov-2009
{DISSERTATION} Rice ties in race for atomic-scale breakthrough Everybody loves a race to the wire, even when the result is a tie. The great irony is the ultraprecise clocks that could result from this competition could probably break any tie. The Rice lab of physicist Tom Killian published a paper online this month demonstrating the long-sought creation of a Bose-Einstein condensate of strontium atoms.
National Science Foundation, Welch Foundation, Keck Foundation
Contact: David Ruth
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