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Public Release: 3-Dec-2012
 Nature{DISSERTATION} Oil and water: An icy interaction when oil chains are short, but steamy when chains are long Water transforms into a previously unknown structure in between a liquid and a vapor when in contact with alcohol molecules containing long oily chains. However, around short oily chains water is more icelike. Water plays a huge role in biological processes, from protein folding to membrane formation, and it could be that this transformation is useful in a way not yet understood. 
National Science Foundation
Contact: Elizabeth K. Gardner
Public Release: 3-Dec-2012
Social Science and Medicine{DISSERTATION} Baby's health is tied to mother's value for family The value that an expectant mother places on family--regardless of the reality of her own family situation--predicts the birthweight of her baby and whether the child will develop asthma symptoms three years later, according to new research from USC.
National Science Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, National Institutes of Health
Contact: Robert Perkins
Public Release: 3-Dec-2012
2012 AGU Fall Meeting{DISSERTATION} Search for life suggests solar systems more habitable than ours Scattered around the Milky Way are stars that resemble our own sun--but a new study is finding that any planets orbiting those stars may very well be hotter and more dynamic than Earth.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Pam Frost Gorder
Public Release: 3-Dec-2012
Physical Review Letters{DISSERTATION} How 'transparent' is graphene? MIT researchers find that adding a coating of graphene has little effect on how a surface interacts with liquids -- except in extreme cases.
Office of Naval Research, National Science Foundation, MIT/Institute for Soldier Nanotechnology
Contact: Caroline McCall, MIT Media Relations
Public Release: 3-Dec-2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} Novel antibodies for combating Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease Antibodies developed by researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are unusually effective at preventing the formation of toxic protein particles linked to Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease, as well as Type 2 diabetes, according to a new study.
National Science Foundation, American Health Assistance Foundation, Pew Charitable Trust, National Institutes of Health
Contact: Michael Mullaney
Public Release: 3-Dec-2012
Nature Materials{DISSERTATION} Uncovering unique properties in a 2-dimensional crystal When the dry lubricant molybdenum disulfide is stripped down to a single layer of atoms, a tightly bound quasi-particle comprised of two electrons and a hole forms with unique spin and valley properties. The charged quasi-particles offer potential use in new solar cells and other electronic devices that are controlled by light or designed to control light, to study what physicists call "many-body interactions"and a new concept of electronics called valleytronics.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Kevin Mayhood
Public Release: 3-Dec-2012
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology{DISSERTATION} Male chimpanzees choose their allies carefully The ability of male chimpanzees to form coalitions with one another in order to direct aggression at other male chimpanzees has certain benefits. A new study by Ian Gilby at Duke University in North Carolina and his colleagues has further revealed that it may not just be the coalition that is important, but who the coalition is with that determines future success. Their work is published in the Springer journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.
National Science Foundation, Universtiy of Minnesota, Harris Steel Group, Jane Goodall Institute
Contact: Ann Koebler
Public Release: 3-Dec-2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} Biophysicists unravel cellular 'traffic jams' in active transport New work led by biophysicist Jennifer Ross greatly advances understanding of how active transport proceeds smoothly, particularly in long cells such as neurons where it is vital to their survival.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Janet Lathrop
Public Release: 2-Dec-2012
Nature Genetics{DISSERTATION} Cell surface transporters exploited for cancer drug delivery According to Whitehead Institute researchers, a protein known as monocarboxylate transporter 1 (MCT1), which is highly expressed in a subset of metabolically altered cancer cells, is needed for the entry of the investigational cancer drug 3-bromopyruvate (3-BrPA) into malignant cells. This work may open a new avenue for cancer therapeutic research, as other transport molecules have already been identified on the surface of certain cancer cells.
National Institutes of Health, David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Jane Coffin Childs Fund, National Science Foundation
Contact: Nicole Rura
Public Release: 1-Dec-2012
BioScience{DISSERTATION} Long-term research reveals how climate change is playing out in real ecosystems Around the world, the effects of global climate change are increasingly evident and difficult to ignore. However, evaluations of the local effects of climate change are often confounded by natural and human induced factors that overshadow the effects of changes in climate on ecosystems. Now, a group of scientists writing in the journal BioScience report a number of surprising results that may shed more light on the complex nature of climate change.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Lori Quillen
Public Release: 30-Nov-2012
Lancet{DISSERTATION} Emerging vector-borne diseases create new public health challenges West Nile virus, Lyme disease, dengue fever, and plague are examples of "vector-borne zoonotic diseases," caused by pathogens that naturally infect wildlife and are transmitted to humans by vectors such as mosquitoes or ticks. Land-use change, globalization of trade and travel, and social upheaval are driving the emergence of such diseases in many regions.
National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health
Contact: Tim Stephens
Public Release: 30-Nov-2012
Genetics{DISSERTATION} Native Americans and Northern Europeans more closely related than previously thought Using genetic analysis, scientists have discovered that Northern European populations descend from a mixture of two very different ancestral populations, and one of these populations is related to Native Americans. This discovery helps fill gaps in scientific understanding of both Native American and Northern European ancestry, while providing an explanation for some genetic similarities among what would otherwise seem to be very divergent groups.
National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health
Contact: Phyllis Edelman
Public Release: 30-Nov-2012
{DISSERTATION} Wayne State part of international effort to understand chemical movement, processes in oceans From the middle of the country, a Wayne State University researcher is working to advance understanding of the movement of chemical compounds through the world's oceans.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Julie O'Connor
Public Release: 30-Nov-2012
Ecological Indicators{DISSERTATION} Making sustainability policies sustainable Sweeping environmental policies come with hidden challenges -- not only striving to achieve sustainability and benefit the environment -- but over time ensuring the program itself can endure. Scientists at Michigan State University and their colleagues in China are examining China's massive Grain to Green Program -- an effort to persuade farmers to return cropland to forest through financial incentives. Their results were reported in this week's journal Ecological Indicators.
National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Contact: Sue Nichols
Public Release: 29-Nov-2012
Science{DISSERTATION} More evidence for an ancient Grand Canyon For over 150 years, geologists have debated how and when one of the most dramatic features on our planet -- the Grand Canyon -- was formed. New data unearthed by researchers at the California Institute of Technology builds support for the idea that conventional models, which say the enormous ravine is five to six million years old, are way off.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Brian Bell
Public Release: 29-Nov-2012
{DISSERTATION} Notre Dame researchers to lead new science data preservation effort A new project led by University of Notre Dame researchers will explore solutions to the problems of preserving data, analysis software and computational workflows, and how these relate to results obtained from the analysis of large datasets.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Mike Hildreth
Public Release: 29-Nov-2012
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces{DISSERTATION} Adapting fish defenses to block human infections Living in an environment teaming with bacteria and fungi, fish have evolved powerful defenses, including antimicrobial peptides located in their gills. Undergraduate researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute are studying the biology and mechanics of one of those peptides with the aim of creating engineered surfaces that can kill bacteria responsible for foodborne illnesses and hospital-acquired infections. The team reports its latest findings online in the journal ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Michael Cohen
Public Release: 29-Nov-2012
Advanced Materials{DISSERTATION} Precisely engineering 3-D brain tissues Borrowing from microfabrication techniques used in the semiconductor industry, MIT and Harvard Medical School engineers have developed a simple and inexpensive way to create three-dimensional brain tissues in a lab dish.
National Science Foundation, Paul Allen Family Foundation, NY Stem Cell Foundation, National Institutes of Health, IET A F Harvey Prize, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Lab
Contact: Sarah McDonnell
Public Release: 29-Nov-2012
Physical Review Letters{DISSERTATION} The beginning of everything: A new paradigm shift for the infant universe A new paradigm for understanding the earliest eras in the history of the universe has been developed by scientists at Penn State University. The new paradigm shows, for the first time, that the large-scale structures we now see in the universe evolved from fundamental fluctuations in the essential quantum nature of "space-time," which existed even at the very beginning of the universe.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Barbara K. Kennedy
Public Release: 29-Nov-2012
Science{DISSERTATION} International study provides more solid measure of melting in polar ice sheets Climatologists have reconciled their measurements of ice loss in Antarctica and Greenland over the past two decades. A second article looks at how to monitor and understand accelerating losses from the planet's two largest continental ice sheets.
National Science Foundation, NASA
Contact: Hannah Hickey
Public Release: 29-Nov-2012
PLOS Pathogens{DISSERTATION} New insights into mosquitoes' role as involuntary bioterrorists Vanderbilt biologists have discovered mosquitoes possess a previously unknown mechanism for destroying pathogens that takes advantage of the peculiarities of the insect's circulatory system to increase its effectiveness.
National Science Foundation
Contact: David Salisbury
Public Release: 29-Nov-2012
Science{DISSERTATION} Grand Canyon as old as the dinosaurs, suggests new study led by CU-Boulder An analysis of mineral grains from the bottom of the western Grand Canyon indicates it was largely carved out by about 70 million years ago -- a time when dinosaurs were around and may have even peeked over the rim, says a study led by the University of Colorado Boulder.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Rebecca Flowers
Public Release: 29-Nov-2012
Science{DISSERTATION} Harvard's Wyss Institute team creates versatile 3d nanostructures using DNA 'bricks' Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have created more than 100 three-dimensional nanostructures using DNA building blocks that function like Lego bricks -- a major advance from the two-dimensional structures the same team built a few months ago.
Office of Naval Research, Army Research Office, National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Harvard/Wyss Institute
Contact: Kristen Kusek
Public Release: 28-Nov-2012
Journal of Neurophysiology{DISSERTATION} Moral evaluations of harm are instant and emotional, brain study shows People are able to detect, within a split second, if a hurtful action they are witnessing is intentional or accidental, new research on the brain at the University of Chicago shows. The study is the first to explain how the brain is hard-wired to recognize when another person is being intentionally harmed. It also provides new insights into how such recognition is connected with emotion and morality.
National Science Foundation, Swiss National Science Foundations, Department of Education
Contact: William Harms
Public Release: 28-Nov-2012
{DISSERTATION} Grant creates science demilitarized zone at SDSU The National Science Foundation has awarded funding of nearly $500,000 for the construction of a network designed to support data-intensive research in engineering and sciences at San Diego State University. With the funding, faculty and staff will design and build a science demilitarized zone separate from the campus network with an independent connection to the Internet for maximum speed of data exchange.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Greg Block
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