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Public Release: 22-Oct-2012
 European Physical Journal E{DISSERTATION} The hidden threat posed by inconspicuous stripes Patterns fascinate. Particularly stripes. Found in nature in zebras, they are also found in the most unlikely places, such as powdered drugs' mixing vessel walls. In an article about to be published in EPJ E, Nirmal Thyagu and his colleagues from Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, propose a traffic model to predict the formation of different patterns, ranging from stripes to spots. 
National Science Foundation
Contact: Ann Koebler
Public Release: 21-Oct-2012
Nature Climate Change{DISSERTATION} Rice agriculture accelerates global warming, new research finds More carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, coupled with rising temperatures, is making rice agriculture a larger source of the potent greenhouse gas methane, according to a study published today in Nature Climate Change by a research team that includes a University of California, Davis, plant scientist.
US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, Irish Research Council, Marie Curie Actions
Contact: Chris van Kessel
Public Release: 21-Oct-2012
Nature Geoscience{DISSERTATION} A Mississippi River diversion helped build Louisiana wetlands, Penn geologists find A team of University of Pennsylvania geologists and others used the occasion of the Mississippi River flood of the spring of 2011 to observe how flood waters deposited sediment in the Mississippi Delta. Their findings offer insight into how new diversions in the Mississippi River's levees may help restore Louisiana's wetlands.
National Science Foundation, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Penn, Luquillo Critical Zone Laboratory, European Commission
Contact: Katherine Unger Baillie
Public Release: 19-Oct-2012
Nature{DISSERTATION} Breakthrough offers new route to large-scale quantum computing In a key step toward creating a working quantum computer, Princeton researchers have developed a method that may allow the quick and reliable transfer of quantum information throughout a computing device.
National Science Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Packard Foundation, Army Research Office, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Contact: John Sullivan
Public Release: 17-Oct-2012
{DISSERTATION} Living Voters Guide adds fact-checking by Seattle librarians for 2012 election The Living Voters Guide is a platform that lets voters collaborate online to draw up pros and cons for ballot measures. The guide has launched in Washington and California, and the Washington guide now includes fact-checking by Seattle librarians.
National Science Foundation, Google Research Award
Contact: Hannah Hickey
Public Release: 17-Oct-2012
Nature{DISSERTATION} Why are our salt marshes falling apart? Salt marshes have been disintegrating and dying over the past two decades along the US Eastern seaboard and other highly developed coastlines, without anyone fully understanding why. This week in the journal Nature, MBL Ecosystems Center scientist Linda Deegan and colleagues report that nutrients--such as nitrogen and phosphorus from septic and sewer systems and lawn fertilizers--can cause salt-marsh loss.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Diana Kenney
Public Release: 17-Oct-2012
Proceedings of the Royal Society B{DISSERTATION} Searching for a silver bullet: Measuring biodiversity to inform species conservation Ecologists in the University of Georgia Odum School of Ecology have found that evolutionary diversity can be an effective method for identifying hotspots of mammal biodiversity. In a paper published Oct. 17 in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, they report that evolutionary diversity can be an effective proxy for both the sheer number of species as well as their characteristics and ecological roles. Their findings could help conservation organizations better protect threatened species across the globe.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Shan Huang
Public Release: 17-Oct-2012
Annual Meeting of the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society Icarus{DISSERTATION} Giant impact scenario may explain the unusual moons of Saturn Among the oddities of the outer solar system are the middle-sized moons of Saturn, a half-dozen icy bodies dwarfed by Saturn's massive moon Titan. According to a new model for the origin of the Saturn system, these middle-sized moons were spawned during giant impacts in which several major satellites merged to form Titan.
National Air and Space Administration, University of California, and the Swiss National Science Foundation
Contact: Tim Stephens
Public Release: 17-Oct-2012
Nature{DISSERTATION} Bus service for qubits Superconducting circuit technology meets semiconductor qubit technology to afford a means of moving quantum information from one place to another in future quantum computers.
Sloan, Packard, Army, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency QuEST, National Science Foundation, Army Research Office Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative
Contact: Phillip F. Schewe
Public Release: 16-Oct-2012
{DISSERTATION} Effort to mass-produce flexible nanoscale electronics Case Western Reserve University researchers have won a $1.2 million grant to develop technology for mass-producing flexible electronic devices at a whole new level of small. As they're devising new tools and techniques to make nanowires and devices, they're creating ways to build them in flexible materials and package the electronics in waterproofing layers of durable plastics. The technology may be used to make implants that cause less damage to foldable electronics as thin as a sheet of plastic wrap.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Kevin Mayhood
Public Release: 16-Oct-2012
Journal of Heredity{DISSERTATION} Great apes, small numbers Sumatran orangutans have undergone a substantial recent population decline, according to a new genetic study, but the same research revealed the existence of critical corridors for dispersal migrations that, if protected, can help maintain genetic diversity and aid in the species' conservation.
Swiss National Science Foundation, Messerli Foundation, A.H.-Schultz Foundation, Claraz Schenkung
Contact: Nancy Steinberg
Public Release: 15-Oct-2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} Language is shaped by brain's desire for clarity and ease Cognitive scientists have good news for linguistic purists terrified about the corruption of their mother tongue. Using an artificial language in a carefully controlled laboratory experiment, a team from the University of Rochester and Georgetown University has found that many changes to language are simply the brain's way of ensuring that communication is, in fact, as precise and concise as possible.
National Science Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, National Institutes of Health
Contact: Susan Hagen
Public Release: 15-Oct-2012
{DISSERTATION} Penn State receives $4.2 million for nanotechnology career development Penn State will receive $4.2 million over the next three years from the National Science Foundation to continue the work of the National Nanotechnology Applications and Career Knowledge Network, founded at the university with a four-year grant from the NSF in 2008.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Michael Bezilla
Public Release: 15-Oct-2012
{DISSERTATION} NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center opens: First science begins The NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center, which houses one of the world's most powerful supercomputers dedicated to the geosciences, officially opens today. Scientists at NCAR and universities across the country are launching a series of initial scientific projects on the center's flagship, a 1.5-petaflop IBM supercomputer known as Yellowstone.
University of Wyoming, National Science Foundation, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, State of Wyoming, Cheyenne LEADS
Contact: David Hosansky
Public Release: 15-Oct-2012
Advanced Functional Materials{DISSERTATION} Penn researchers find new way to mimic the color and texture of butterfly wings The colors of a butterfly's wings are unusually bright and beautiful and are the result of an unusual trait; the way they reflect light is fundamentally different from how color works most of the time.
Office of Naval Research, National Science Foundation.
Contact: Evan Lerner
Public Release: 15-Oct-2012
Nano Letters{DISSERTATION} Penn researchers find new way to prevent cracking in nanoparticle films Making uniform coatings is a common engineering challenge, and, when working at the nanoscale, even the tiniest cracks or defects can be a big problem. New research from University of Pennsylvania engineers has shown a new way of avoiding such cracks when depositing thin films of nanoparticles.
National Science Foundation, Penn Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
Contact: Evan Lerner
Public Release: 15-Oct-2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} Ebola antibody treatment, produced in plants, protects monkeys from lethal disease A new Ebola virus study resulting from a widespread scientific collaboration has shown promising preliminary results, preventing disease in infected nonhuman primates using monoclonal antibodies. When treatment was administered one hour after infection, all animals survived. Two-thirds of the animals were protected even when the treatment, known as MB-003, was administered 48 hours after infection.
National Institutes of Health, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Transformational Medical Technologies Initiative, Defense Threat Reduction Agency
Contact: Caree Vander Linden
Public Release: 15-Oct-2012
{DISSERTATION} Evolving microbes help Iowa State engineers turn bio-oil into advanced biofuels A research team led by Iowa State University's Laura Jarboe is working to develop hungry, robust microbes that can ferment biofuels from the bio-oil produced by rapidly heating biomass such as corn stalks and sawdust. It's all part of Iowa State's efforts to combine two conversion paths -- thermochemical and biochemical -- to produce the next generation of biofuels.
National Science Foundation, Iowa Energy Center
Contact: Laura Jarboe
Public Release: 15-Oct-2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} Neuroscientists find the molecular 'when' and 'where' of memory formation Neuroscientists from NYU and the University of California, Irvine have isolated the "when" and "where" of molecular activity that occurs in the formation of short-, intermediate-, and long-term memories. Their findings offer new insights into the molecular architecture of memory formation and, with it, a better road map for developing therapeutic interventions for related afflictions.
NIH/National Institute of Mental Health, National Science Foundation
Contact: James Devitt
Public Release: 15-Oct-2012
Journal of Clinical Investigation{DISSERTATION} Scratching the surface of psoriasis In a study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, researchers led by Manfred Kopf at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, Switzerland found that mice lacking interleukin-36 were protected from immune-mediated skin inflammation.
Swiss National Science Foundation
Contact: Jillian Hurst
Public Release: 14-Oct-2012
Nature Climate Change{DISSERTATION} Too much of a good thing can be bad for corals New study by Univ. of Miami Researchers Ross Cunning and Andrew Bake in Nature Climate Change reveals that having too many algal symbionts makes corals bleach more severely in response to warming.
Pew Fellows, National Science Foundation, University of Miami Fellowship, National Science Foundation Grad Research Fellowship
Contact: Barbra Gonzalez, UM Rosenstiel School
Public Release: 14-Oct-2012
Nature Materials{DISSERTATION} Applied physics as art Harvard researchers have demonstrated a new way to customize the color of metal surfaces by exploiting a completely overlooked optical phenomenon. For centuries it was thought that thin-film interference effects, such as those that cause oily pavements to reflect a rainbow of swirling colors, could not occur in opaque materials. However, even very "lossy" thin films, if atomically thin, can be tailored to reflect a particular range of dramatic and vivid colors.
AFOSR, National Science Foundation
Contact: Caroline Perry
Public Release: 14-Oct-2012
Nature Chemistry{DISSERTATION} Early-Earth cells modeled to show how first life forms might have packaged RNA A chemical model that mimics a possible step in the formation of cellular life on Earth four-billion years ago has been developed at Penn State University. The chemists created primitive cell-like structures that they infused with RNA -- the genetic coding material that is thought to precede the appearance of DNA on Earth -- and demonstrated how the molecules would react chemically under conditions that might have been present on the early Earth.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Barbara K. Kennedy
Public Release: 12-Oct-2012
Scientific Reports{DISSERTATION} Scientists uncover diversion of Gulf Stream path in late 2011 The Gulf Stream made an unusual move well north of its normal path in late October and early November 2011, causing warmer-than-usual ocean temperatures along the New England continental shelf, according to physical oceanographers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
National Science Foundation, CINAR, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Contact: WHOI Media Relations
Public Release: 12-Oct-2012
{DISSERTATION} $4 million awarded to Case Western Reserve to develop cutting-edge structural biology instrument Led by a grant from the National Science Foundation, Mark Chance, Ph.D., director of the Center for Proteomics and Bioinformatics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, has been awarded four million dollars for work with the National Synchrotron Light Source II at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York.
National Science Foundation, State of Ohio Board of Regents
Contact: Jessica Studeny
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