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Public Release: 20-May-2013
 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} Soft matter offers new ways to study how ordered materials arrange themselves A fried breakfast food popular in Spain provided the inspiration for the development of doughnut-shaped droplets that may provide scientists with a new approach for studying fundamental issues in physics, mathematics and materials. 
National Science Foundation
Contact: John Toon
Public Release: 20-May-2013
Marine Ecology Progress Series{DISSERTATION} Abundance and distribution of Hawaiian coral species predicted by model Researchers from the University of Hawaii, Manoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology developed species distribution models of the six dominant Hawaiian coral species around the main Hawaiian Islands, including two species currently under consideration as threatened or endangered.
National Marine Sanctuary Program, Environmental Protection Agency, National Science Foundation
Contact: Marcie Grabowski
Public Release: 20-May-2013
Lab on a Chip{DISSERTATION} UC Davis engineers create on-wetting fabric drains sweat Waterproof fabrics that whisk away sweat could be the latest application of microfluidic technology developed by bioengineers at UC Davis.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Andy Fell
Public Release: 20-May-2013
Applied Physics Letters{DISSERTATION} Iron-platinum alloys could be new-generation hard drives UC Davis researchers have found a convenient way to make layered iron-platinum alloys and tailor their properties, a promising material for a potential new generation of data storage media.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Andy Fell
Public Release: 20-May-2013
{DISSERTATION} Unraveling the Napo's mystery In the United States, rivers and their floodplains are well-documented and monitored. Ecuador's largest river, however, remains largely mysterious.
National Science Foundation, NASA, World Wildlife Fund, National Geographic Society
Contact: Layne Cameron
Public Release: 20-May-2013
Nature Geoscience{DISSERTATION} Amazon River exhales virtually all carbon taken up by rain forest A study published this week in Nature Geoscience shows that woody plant matter is almost completely digested by bacteria living in the Amazon River, and that this tough stuff plays a major part in fueling the river's breath.
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, National Science Foundation, Research Council for the State of Sao Paolo
Contact: Hannah Hickey
Public Release: 20-May-2013
Nano Letters{DISSERTATION} Researchers perform fastest measurements ever made of ion channel proteins A team of researchers at Columbia Engineering has used miniaturized electronics to measure the activity of individual ion-channel proteins with temporal resolution as fine as one microsecond, producing the fastest recordings of single ion channels ever performed. They designed a custom integrated circuit to perform these measurements, in which an artificial cell membrane and ion channel are attached directly to the surface of the amplifier chip.
National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation
Contact: Holly Evarts
Public Release: 20-May-2013
Optics Letters{DISSERTATION} Coming into existence A new experiment establishes a heralding efficiency that might allow loopholes to be eliminated in the validation of spooky action-at-a-distance in quantum reality.
National Institute of Standards and Technology, National Science Foundation
Contact: Phillip F. Schewe
Public Release: 20-May-2013
Nano Letters{DISSERTATION} Penn engineers' nanoantennas improve infrared sensing A team of University of Pennsylvania engineers has used a pattern of nanoantennas to develop a new way of turning infrared light into mechanical action, opening the door to more sensitive infrared cameras and more compact chemical-analysis techniques.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Evan Lerner
Public Release: 20-May-2013
{DISSERTATION} NSF approves planning grant for Center for Advanced Research in Drying A National Science Foundation planning grant will help establish the Center for Advanced Research in Drying, a joint program of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Mass.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Phyllis Picklesimer
Public Release: 20-May-2013
ACS Nano{DISSERTATION} Penn research makes advance in nanotech gene sequencing technique The allure of personalized medicine has made new, more efficient ways of sequencing genes a top research priority. One promising technique involves reading DNA bases using changes in electrical current as they are threaded through a nanoscopic hole. Now, a team led by University of Pennsylvania physicists has used solid-state nanopores to differentiate single-stranded DNA molecules containing sequences of a single repeating base.
National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health
Contact: Evan Lerner
Public Release: 20-May-2013
Nature Geoscience{DISSERTATION} Slow earthquakes: It's all in the rock mechanics Earthquakes that last minutes rather than seconds are a relatively recent discovery, according to an international team of seismologists. Researchers have been aware of these slow earthquakes, only for the past five to 10 years because of new tools and new observations, but these tools may explain the triggering of some normal earthquakes and could help in earthquake prediction.
National Science Foundation, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Contact: A'ndrea Elyse Messer
Public Release: 20-May-2013
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} Principles of locomotion in confined spaces could help robot teams work underground Future teams of subterranean search and rescue robots may owe their success to the lowly fire ant, a much-despised insect whose painful bites and extensive networks of underground tunnels are all-too-familiar to people living in the southern United States.
National Science Foundation, Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Contact: John Toon
Public Release: 19-May-2013
Nature Materials{DISSERTATION} Kinks and curves at the nanoscale Since 2004, materials scientists and nanotechnology experts have been excited about a special of arrangement of atoms called a "coherent twin boundary" that can add enormous strength to metals like gold and copper. The CTBs are described as "perfect," appearing like a one-atom-thick plane in models and images. New research shows that these boundaries are not perfect. Even more surprising, the newly discovered kinks and defects appear to be the cause of the CTB's strength.
US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, NASA
Contact: Joshua Brown
Public Release: 19-May-2013
Nature Geoscience{DISSERTATION} Sea level influenced tropical climate during the last ice age The Indo-Pacific warm pool was much dryer during the last ice age than today, because lower sea level exposed the Sunda Shelf. The large landmass, in place of the warm ocean, altered the atmospheric circulation, shifting convection further west into the Indian Ocean. These findings by scientists at the International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, and Woods Hole Institute of Oceanography, appear in the May 19, online edition of Nature Geoscience.
National Science Foundation, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Contact: Gisela Speidel
Public Release: 19-May-2013
Nature Biotechnology{DISSERTATION} Computational tool translates complex data into simplified 2-dimensional images Researchers at Columbia University and Stanford University have developed a computational method that enables scientists to visualize and interpret "high-dimensional" data produced by single-cell measurement technologies such as mass cytometry. The method, published today in the online edition of Nature Biotechnology, has particular relevance to cancer research and therapeutics.
National Science Foundation, Natoinal Institutes of Health, National Centers for Biomedical Computing
Contact: Karin Eskenazi
Public Release: 17-May-2013
The Carboniferous-Permian Transition Conference{DISSERTATION} Cracking the ice code UWM geologist John Isbell reads rock, looking for the natural rules that govern the Earth's climate in the absence of human activity. His work is challenging many assumptions about the ways drastic climate change unfolds -- and what to expect next.
National Science Foundation
Contact: John Isbell
Public Release: 16-May-2013
Physics Letters B{DISSERTATION} World's smallest droplets Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, may have created the smallest drops of liquid made in the lab.
Department of Energy, National Science Foundation
Contact: David Salisbury
Public Release: 16-May-2013
Science{DISSERTATION} Stacking 2-D materials produces surprising results New experiments reveal previously unseen effects, could lead to new kinds of electronics and optical devices.
US Department of Energy, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, National Science Foundation
Contact: Sarah McDonnell
Public Release: 16-May-2013
{DISSERTATION} Clemson receives $5M for alliance to increase African-Americans in computer sciences The National Science Foundation has awarded Clemson University a $5 million grant to launch the Institute for African-American Mentoring in Computing Sciences.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Brian M. Mullen
Public Release: 16-May-2013
{DISSERTATION} Mathematicians analyze social divisions using cell phone data Human society fractures along lines defined by politics, religion, ethnicity, and perhaps most fundamentally, language. Although these differences contribute to the great variety of human lives, the partitions they create can lead to conflict and strife, impeding efforts toward social justice and economic development. David Meyer, a mathematician at UC San Diego, has developed a new way of understanding how characteristics like ethnicity and religion coincide to define communities and ultimately influence our actions.
Office of Naval Research, US Department of Defense, Army Research Office, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, National Science Foundation
Contact: Susan Brown
Public Release: 16-May-2013
Science{DISSERTATION} Beautiful 'flowers' self-assemble in a beaker By simply manipulating chemical gradients in a beaker of fluid, materials scientists at Harvard have found that they can control the growth behavior of crystals to create precisely tailored structures -- such as delicate, micron-scale flowers.
National Science Foundation, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Contact: Caroline Perry
Public Release: 16-May-2013
Nature{DISSERTATION} Scientists capture first direct proof of Hofstadter butterfly effect A team of researchers from several universities – including UCF –has observed a rare quantum physics effect that produces a repeating butterfly-shaped energy spectrum in a magnetic field, confirming the longstanding prediction of the quantum fractal energy structure called Hofstadter's butterfly. This discovery by the team paves the way for engineering new types of extraordinary nanoscale materials that can be used to develop smaller, lighter and faster electronics, including sensors, cell phones, tablets and laptops.
National Science Foundation, Faculty Early Career Development Program
Contact: Zenaida Gonzalez Kotala
Public Release: 16-May-2013
Nature Communications{DISSERTATION} New insights into how materials transfer heat could lead to improved electronics University of Toronto Engineering researchers, working with colleagues from Carnegie Mellon University, have published new insights into how materials transfer heat, which could lead eventually to smaller, more powerful electronic devices.
National Science Foundation, Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Contact: Terry Lavender
Public Release: 16-May-2013
Nanotechnology {DISSERTATION} Moth-inspired nanostructures take the color out of thin films Inspired by the structure of moth eyes, researchers at North Carolina State University have developed nanostructures that limit reflection at the interfaces where two thin films meet, suppressing the "thin-film interference" phenomenon commonly observed in nature. This can potentially improve the efficiency of thin-film solar cells and other optoelectronic devices.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation
Contact: Matt Shipman
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