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Public Release: 11-Apr-2013
{DISSERTATION} Small satellites becoming big deal for CU-Boulder students NASA recently selected the University of Colorado Boulder as one of 24 institutions or organizations to fly tiny satellites designed and built by students as auxiliary payloads aboard rockets planned for launch in 2014, 2015 and 2016. 
NASA, National Science Foundation
Contact: Scott Palo
Public Release: 11-Apr-2013
 Physical Review Letters{DISSERTATION} Researchers evaluate Bose-Einstein condensates for communicating among quantum computers Physicists have examined how Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) might be used to provide communication among the nodes of a distributed quantum computer. The researchers determined the amount of time needed for quantum information to propagate across their BEC.
Department of Energy, National Science Foundation
Contact: John Toon
Public Release: 11-Apr-2013
IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications{DISSERTATION} New software alleviates wireless traffic The explosive popularity of wireless devices -- from WiFi laptops to Bluetooth headsets to ZigBee sensor nodes -- is increasingly clogging the airwaves, resulting in dropped calls, wasted bandwidth and botched connections.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Nicole Casal Moore
Public Release: 11-Apr-2013
Current Biology{DISSERTATION} How some leaves got fat: It's the veins Some plants, such as succulents, have managed to grow very plump leaves. For that to happen, according to a new study in Current Biology, plants had to evolve three-dimensional arrangements of their leaf veins. That's how they could maintain adequately efficient hydraulics for photosynthesis.
National Science Foundation
Contact: David Orenstein
Public Release: 11-Apr-2013
Science{DISSERTATION} Fossilized teeth provide new insight into human ancestor A dental study of fossilized remains found in South Africa in 2008 provides new support that this species is one of the closest relatives to early humans.
National Science Foundation, National Geographic Society
Contact: Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg
Public Release: 10-Apr-2013
American Journal of Public Health{DISSERTATION} IU study: 'Backbone' of mental illness stigma common in 16 countries studied An international study found that despite widespread acceptance that mental illness is a disease that can be effectively treated, a common "backbone" of prejudice exists that unfairly paints people with conditions such as depression and schizophrenia as undesirable for close personal relationships and positions of authority.
NIH/National Institute of Mental Health, Fogarty International Center, National Science Foundation
Contact: Alex Laszlo Capshew
Public Release: 10-Apr-2013
Nature{DISSERTATION} Early warning signs of population collapse Spatial measurements of population density could reveal when threatened natural populations are in danger of crashing.
Whitaker Health Sciences Fund, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Sloan Fellowship, Pew Scholars Program, Allen Investigator Program
Contact: Sarah McDonnell
Public Release: 10-Apr-2013
Nature Neuroscience{DISSERTATION} Subconscious mental categories help brain sort through everyday experiences Princeton University researchers found that the brain breaks experiences into the "events," or related groups that help us mentally organize the day's many situations, using subconscious mental categories it creates. These categories are based on how the considers people, objects and actions are related in terms of how they tend to -- or tend not to -- pop up near one another at specific times.
National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, John Templeton Foundation, James S. McDonnell Foundation
Contact: Morgan Kelly
Public Release: 10-Apr-2013
ACS Nano{DISSERTATION} Redesigned material could lead to lighter, faster electronics Chemists at the Ohio State University have developed a method for making a material that conducts electrons 10 times faster than silicon.
National Science Foundation, US Army Research Office
Contact: Pam Frost Gorder
Public Release: 10-Apr-2013
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} Clinging to crevices, E. coli thrive The scourge of the health care industry, bacteria like E. coli are adept at clinging to the materials used in medical implants like pacemakers, prosthetics, stents, and catheters, spreading slimy biofilm and causing dangerous infections. New research from Harvard University helps to explain how these waterborne bacteria can colonize rough surfaces -- even those that have been designed to resist water.
Office of Naval Research, National Science Foundation, BASF
Contact: Caroline Perry
Public Release: 10-Apr-2013
New England Journal of Medicine{DISSERTATION} First objective measure of pain discovered in brain scan patterns by CU-Boulder study For the first time, scientists have been able to predict how much pain people are feeling by looking at images of their brains, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder.
NIH/National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIH/National Institute of Mental Health, National Science Foundation
Contact: Tor Wager
Public Release: 9-Apr-2013
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} Surf's up: Turbulence tells sea urchins to settle down Tumbling in the waves as they hit a rocky shore tells purple sea urchin larvae it's time to settle down and look for a spot to grow into an adult, researchers at UC Davis's Bodega Marine Laboratory have found.
National Science Foundation, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Contact: Andy Fell
Public Release: 9-Apr-2013
Nature Communications{DISSERTATION} Advancing secure communications: A better single-photon emitter for quantum cryptography In a development that could make the advanced form of secure communications known as quantum cryptography more practical, University of Michigan researchers have demonstrated a simpler, more efficient single-photon emitter that can be made using traditional semiconductor processing techniques.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Nicole Casal Moore
Public Release: 9-Apr-2013
Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting{DISSERTATION} Satellite sandwich technique improves analysis of geographical data University of Cincinnati student researcher develops method to combine thermal data from separate satellite systems to create large, detailed maps of regional temperature fluctuation.
National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Contact: Tom Robinette
Public Release: 9-Apr-2013
Journal of Royal Society Interface{DISSERTATION} Bean leaves can trap bedbugs, researchers find Inspired by a traditional Balkan bedbug remedy, researchers have documented how microscopic hairs on kidney bean leaves effectively stab and trap the biting insects, according to findings published online today in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface. Scientists at UC Irvine and the University of Kentucky are now developing materials that mimic the geometry of the leaves.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Janet Wilson
Public Release: 8-Apr-2013
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} Stanford seeks sea urchin's secret to surviving ocean acidification Ocean research reveals rapid evolutionary adaptations to a changing climate. Genetic variation is the key to this ability to deal with higher acidity.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Stephen Palumbi
Public Release: 8-Apr-2013
{DISSERTATION} Without birds, will Guam's forests look like Swiss cheese? Ecologists from Rice University and the University of Guam will begin an ambitious four-year study this summer to examine how the loss of birds on Guam may be thinning the island's forests. The invasive brown tree snake has wiped out virtually all birds on Guam. The National Science Foundation will fund an examination of how the loss of fruit-eating birds is affecting the distribution of 16 tree species in Guam's forests.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Jade Boyd
Public Release: 8-Apr-2013
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} Carbon's role in planetary atmosphere formation A new study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that the way carbon moves from within a planet to the surface plays a big role in the evolution of a planet's atmosphere. If Mars released much of its carbon as methane, for example, it might have been warm enough to support liquid water.
NASA, National Science Foundation, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Deep Carbon Observatory
Contact: Kevin Stacey
Public Release: 8-Apr-2013
{DISSERTATION} Ocean explorers want to get to the bottom of Galicia Rice University will lead an NSF-funded expedition to the Atlantic Ocean offshore Galicia, Spain, this summer to study how continents break apart to form new oceans.
National Science Foundation
Contact: David Ruth
Public Release: 8-Apr-2013
Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control{DISSERTATION} Technique finds software bugs in surgical robots and helps developers fix flaws, ensure safety Surgical robots could make some types of surgery safer and more effective, but proving that the software controlling these machines works as intended is problematic. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory have demonstrated that methods for reliably detecting software bugs and ultimately verifying software safety can be applied successfully to this breed of robot.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Byron Spice
Public Release: 8-Apr-2013
American Chemical Society's 245th National Meeting & Exposition{DISSERTATION} Research demonstrates why going green is good chemistry NSF-funded research on mechanochemistry will be presented at the American Chemical Society's annual meeting in New Orleans.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Dawn Fuller
Public Release: 8-Apr-2013
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} Surface diffusion plays a key role in defining the shapes of catalytic nanoparticles Controlling the shapes of nanometer-sized catalytic and electrocatalytic particles made from noble metals such as platinum and palladium may be more complicated than previously thought.
National Science Foundation
Contact: John Toon
Public Release: 7-Apr-2013
Nature Methods{DISSERTATION} Adhesive force differences enable separation of stem cells to advance therapies A new separation process that depends on an easily-distinguished physical difference in adhesive forces among cells could help expand production of stem cells generated through cell reprogramming. The separation process could also lead to improvements in the reprogramming technique itself and expand disease modeling.
National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation
Contact: John Toon
Public Release: 5-Apr-2013
Environmental Science & Technology{DISSERTATION} New emissions standards would fuel shift from coal to natural gas Tougher EPA air-quality standards could spur an increased shift away from coal and toward natural gas for electricity generation, according to a new Duke University study. Complying with stricter regulations on sulfur dioxide, particulate matter, nitrogen oxide and mercury may make nearly two-thirds of the nation's coal-fired power plants as expensive to run as plants powered by natural gas. The regulations would make 65 percent of U.S. coal plants as expensive as natural gas, even if gas prices rise significantly.
National Science Foundation, Bank of America Foundation
Contact: Timothy Lucas
Public Release: 5-Apr-2013
Physical Review Letters{DISSERTATION} Electron conflict leads to 'bad traffic' on way to superconductivity Rice University physicists on the hunt for the origins of high-temperature superconductivity have published new findings this week about a seemingly contradictory state in which a material simultaneously exhibits the conflicting characteristics of both a metallic conductor and an insulator. In a theoretical analysis this week in Physical Review Letters, Rice physicists Qimiao Si and Rong Yu offer an explanation for observations by researchers at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in Menlo Park, Calif.
National Science Foundation, Robert A. Welch Foundation
Contact: Jade Boyd
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