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Public Release: 26-Jun-2013
 NatureChimps or humans-- Who's the better baseball pitcher? Little leaguers and professional baseball players alike have our extinct ancestors to thank for their success on the mound, shows a study by George Washington University researcher Neil Roach, which is featured on the cover of the June 27 edition of the journal Nature. 
National Science Foundation
Contact: Kurtis Hiatt
Public Release: 25-Jun-2013
Ecology and SocietyTelecoupling pulls pieces of sustainability puzzle together Global sustainability is like a high-stakes jigsaw puzzle -- and an international group of scientists have created a new framework to assemble the big picture without losing pieces. Scientists at Michigan State University have built an integrated way to study a world that has become more connected -- with faster and more socioeconomic and environmental interactions over distances. "Telecoupling" describes how distance is shrinking and connections are strengthening between nature and humans.
National Science Foundation, Department of Energy
Contact: Sue Nichols
Public Release: 25-Jun-2013
The buffer stops here A new technology developed by researchers at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University may make spotty streaming and data-hogging downloads a thing of the past. The patent-pending technique, called streamloading, in the simplest terms makes use of a video format that splits the video into two layers -- a base layer, which contains a coarse representation of the video, and an enhancement layer, which completes the image quality and includes the fine-grain details.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Kathleen Hamilton
Public Release: 25-Jun-2013
UT Arlington engineer to design prototype that predicts flash flooding A UT Arlington water resources engineer is developing a first-of-its-kind prototype that would allow the City of Fort Worth to more effectively dispatch emergency personnel to save lives and property when flash flooding occurs.
National Science Foundation, Fort Worth
Contact: Herb Booth
Public Release: 25-Jun-2013
Optics ExpressLaser guided codes advance single pixel terahertz imaging By using a laser beam to send a detailed set of instructions that create a coded aperture, researchers at Boston College have enabled a new method that may help tame terahertz waves in order to create new imaging technology.
Office of Naval Research, National Science Foundation
Contact: Ed Hayward
Public Release: 25-Jun-2013
Environmental Research Letters Policy issues plague hydropower as wind power backup Theoretically, hydropower can step in when wind turbines go still, but barriers to this non-polluting resource serving as a backup are largely policy- and regulation-based, according to Penn State researchers.
NSF
Contact: A'ndrea Elyse Messer
Public Release: 25-Jun-2013
International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology SocietyResearchers use video game tech to steer roaches on autopilot North Carolina State University researchers are using video game technology to remotely control cockroaches on autopilot, with a computer steering the cockroach through a controlled environment. The researchers are using the technology to track how roaches respond to the remote control, with the goal of developing ways that roaches on autopilot can be used to map dynamic environments -- such as collapsed buildings.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Matt Shipman
Public Release: 25-Jun-2013
Astronomy & AstrophysicsAstronomers find 3 'super-Earths' in nearby star's habitable zone An international team of astronomers has found that a nearby star previously thought to host two or three planets is in fact orbited by six or seven worlds, including an unprecedented three to five "super-Earths" in its habitable zone.
National Science Foundation, NASA
Contact: Vince Stricherz
Public Release: 24-Jun-2013
Journal of CommunicationChanging minds about climate change policy can be done -- sometimes Some open-minded people can be swayed to support government intervention on climate change -- but only if they are presented with both the benefits and the costs, a new study suggests.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Agriculture
Contact: Erik Nisbet
Public Release: 24-Jun-2013
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesResourceful microbes reign in world's oceans Using cutting-edge technology on a large scale for the first time, researchers led by Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences have discovered that marine microbes are adapted to narrow and specialized niches, a finding pivotal to detecting and mitigating human impacts in the ocean. High-throughput single cell genomics was used read genetic information from microbes that were previously inaccessible to scientific investigation, opening a new chapter in exploring the microbial life that dominates marine ecosystems.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Tatiana Brailovskaya
Public Release: 24-Jun-2013
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences2 mutations triggered an evolutionary leap 500 million years ago A research team led by a University of Chicago scientist has discovered two key mutations that sparked a hormonal revolution 500 million years ago. In a feat of "molecular time travel," the researchers resurrected and analyzed the functions of the ancestors of genes that play key roles in modern human reproduction, development, immunity and cancer.
National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Contact: Kevin Jiang
Public Release: 24-Jun-2013
Journal of Organic ChemistryOregon chemists moving forward with tool to detect hydrogen sulfide University of Oregon chemists have developed a selective probe that detects hydrogen sulfide (H2S) levels as low as 190 nanomolar (10 parts per billion) in biological samples. They say the technique could serve as a new tool for basic biological research and as an enhanced detection system for H2S in suspected bacterially contaminated water sources.
National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation
Contact: Jim Barlow
Public Release: 24-Jun-2013
PLOS Computational BiologyNorthwestern researchers examine mechanical bases for the emergence of undulatory swimmers How do fish swim? It is a simple question, but there is no simple answer. Northwestern University researchers gleaned insight into the mechanical properties that allow them to perform their seemingly complex movements.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Megan Fellman
Public Release: 24-Jun-2013
Journal of Environmental QualityFarming carbon: Study reveals potent carbon-storage potential of manmade wetlands The goal of restoring or creating wetlands on agricultural lands is almost always to remove nutrients and improve water quality. But new research shows that constructed marshes also excel at pulling carbon dioxide from the air and holding it long-term in soil, suggesting that farmers and landowners may also want to build wetlands to "farm" carbon.
National Science Foundation, US Environmental Protection Agency
Contact: Madeline Fisher
Public Release: 23-Jun-2013
Nature MaterialsUnexpected discovery of the ways cells move could boost understanding of complex diseases A new discovery about how cells move may provide scientists with crucial information about disease mechanisms such as the spread of cancer or the constriction of airways caused by asthma. Led by researchers at Harvard School of Public Health and the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia investigators found that epithelial cells move in a group, propelled by forces both from within and from nearby cells, to fill any unfilled spaces they encounter.
Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation, Swiss National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, American Heart Association
Contact: Marge Dwyer
Public Release: 21-Jun-2013
Applied Physics LettersGraphene-based system could lead to improved information processing New system from MIT uses two-dimensional structures to guide plasmonic waves at ultrashort wavelength, offering a new platform for memory and computer chips.
National Science Foundation, Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Contact: Sarah McDonnell
Public Release: 21-Jun-2013
Ecology LettersAirborne gut action primes wild chili pepper seeds Seeds gobbled by birds and dispersed across the landscape tend to fare better than those that fall near parent plants. Now it turns out it might not just be the trip through the air that's important, but also the inches-long trip through the bird.
National Science Foundation, National Geographic Society
Contact: Sandra Hines
Public Release: 20-Jun-2013
Nano Letters2-dimensional atomically-flat transistors show promise for next generation green electronics UC Santa Barbara researchers demonstrate first n-type field effect transistors on monolayer tungsten diselenide with record performance.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Melissa Van De Werfhorst
Public Release: 20-Jun-2013
CellStudy of insect bacteria reveals genetic secrets of symbiosis University of Montana microbiologist John McCutcheon and his research partners recently delved deeper into the genes involved in the "tripartite nested mealybug symbiosis," and their work was published in the June 20 issue of Cell, a prestigious scientific journal. The researchers discovered the already complex three-way symbiosis actually depends on genes from six different organisms -- three more than the number of species that currently exist in the symbiosis.
National Science Foundation
Contact: John McCutcheon
Public Release: 20-Jun-2013
Physical Review LettersResearchers propose new method for achieving nonlinear optical effects In a step forward for quantum computing, Northwestern researchers have theorized a new method for making photons interact.
National Science Foundation, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, US Air Force
Contact: Megan Fellman
Public Release: 20-Jun-2013
Evolution 2013 ScienceThe Red Queen was right: we have to run to keep in place Biologists quote Lewis Carroll when arguing that survival is a constant struggle to adapt and evolve. Is that true, or do groups die out because they experience a run of bad luck? Charles Marshall and Tiago Quental of UC Berkeley tested these hypotheses using mammals that arose and died out (or are now dying out) in the past 66 million years, and found that it's not luck but failure to adapt to a deteriorating environment.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Robert Sanders
Public Release: 20-Jun-2013
Nature CommunicationsParticle accelerator that can fit on a tabletop opens new chapter for science research The laser plasma accelerator has accelerated about half a billion electrons to 2 gigaelectronvolts over a distance of about 1 inch. It's a downsizing of a factor of approximately 10,000, and marks a major milestone in the advance toward the day when multi-gigaelectronvolt laser plasma accelerators are standard equipment in research laboratories around the world.
Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, National Nuclear Security Administration
Contact: Michael Downer
Public Release: 20-Jun-2013
Current BiologyDoes your salad know what time it is? Biologists at Rice University and the University of California at Davis have found there may be potential health benefits to storing fresh produce under day-night cycles of light. In a new study this week in Current Biology, researchers used lighting to alter the circadian rhythms of cabbage, lettuce, spinach, zucchini, carrots, sweet potatoes and blueberries. The scientists showed how manipulation of circadian rhythms caused cabbage to produce more phytochemicals, including antioxidants.
National Science Foundation
Contact: David Ruth
Public Release: 20-Jun-2013
Current BiologyPistil leads pollen in life-and-death dance Pollination, essential to much of life on earth, requires the explosive death of the male pollen tube in the female ovule. In new research, Brown University scientists describe the genetic and regulatory factors that compel the male's role in the process. Finding a way to tweak that performance could expand crop cross-breeding possibilities.
National Science Foundation
Contact: David Orenstein
Public Release: 19-Jun-2013
Chinese Science BulletinRecent progress in gene-sensing strategies for rapid detection of foodborne pathogens Recent years, the problems of food safety caused by foodborne pathogens have attracted a great deal of attention. A paper summarizes the latest progresses of rapidly detecting foodborne pathogenic microorganisms based on the recognition of characteristic genes. This paper has published on Chin Sci Bull (Chin Ver), 2013(11)issue.
National Basic Research Program of China, Key Program of NSFCGuangdong Joint Funds of China, and others
Contact: Zhu Xiao
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