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Public Release: 13-Oct-2009
{DISSERTATION} Researchers to model the life cycles of successful virtual teams Each year, hundreds of scientists from all over the world come to the Florida State University campus to conduct research at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory. Starting in January, the researchers themselves will become the subject of study as a team from the College of Communication and Information explores patterns of collaboration in a diverse, interdisciplinary and increasingly virtual world. 
National Science Foundation
Contact: Audrey Post
Public Release: 13-Oct-2009
 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} Like humans, monkeys fall into the 'uncanny valley' Princeton University researchers have come up with a new twist on the mysterious visual phenomenon experienced by humans known as the "uncanny valley." The scientists have found that monkeys sense it too.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Emily Aronson
Public Release: 13-Oct-2009
Topics in Cognitive Science{DISSERTATION} Recent 'momentum' influences choices of baby names, NYU, Indiana psychology professors find New research by psychologists at New York University and Indiana University, Bloomington, suggests that the change in popularity of babies' names over time increasingly influences naming decisions in the United States. Like momentum traders in the stock market, parents today appear to favor names that have recently risen in popularity relative to names that are on the decline.
NIH/National Institute of Mental Health, National Science Foundation
Contact: James Devitt
Public Release: 12-Oct-2009
Nature Medicine{DISSERTATION} Magnetic nanotags spot cancer in mice earlier than methods now in clinical use Searching for biomarkers that can warn of diseases such as cancer while they are still in their earliest stage is likely to become far easier thanks to an innovative biosensor chip developed by Stanford University researchers. The sensor is up to 1,000 times more sensitive than technology now in clinical use, accurate regardless of which bodily fluid is being analyzed and can detect biomarker proteins over a concentration range three times broader than existing methods.
NIH/National Cancer Institute, National Science Foundation, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, US Department of Veterans Affairs, Canary Foundation, National Semiconductor Corporation.
Contact: Louis Bergeron
Public Release: 12-Oct-2009
{DISSERTATION} MSU-led study to examine effect of climate change on global industries A team of international researchers led by a Michigan State University climatologist will conduct a first-of-its-kind study to measure the effects of climate change on global industries.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Julie Winkler
Public Release: 12-Oct-2009
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} The first neotropical rainforest was home of the Titanoboa Plant fossils from the same site in northern Colombia where the Titanoboa was found reveal a rainforest very similar to modern neotropical rainforests, but several degrees warmer.
Carbones del Cerrejon, Explorers Club, Corp. Geologica Ares, Colombian Petroleum Inst., Fondo para la Investigacion de la Ciencia y Tec. del Banco de la Rep. de Colombia, National Science Foundation, Ryan Family Foundation, Smithsonian Institution
Contact: Beth King
Public Release: 11-Oct-2009
Nature Materials{DISSERTATION} New nanotech sensor developed with medical, chemistry applications Researchers at Oregon State University and other institutions have developed a new "plasmonic nanorod metamaterial" using extraordinarily tiny rods of gold that will have important applications in medical, biological and chemical sensors.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Viktor Podolskiy
Public Release: 11-Oct-2009
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing{DISSERTATION} Radio waves 'see' through walls University of Utah engineers showed that a wireless network of radio transmitters can track people moving behind solid walls. The system could help police, firefighters and others nab intruders, and rescue hostages, fire victims and elderly people who fall in their homes. It also might help retail marketing and border control.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Lee Siegel
Public Release: 11-Oct-2009
Nature Geoscience{DISSERTATION} Banded rocks reveal early Earth conditions, changes The strikingly banded rocks scattered across the upper Midwest and elsewhere throughout the world are actually ambassadors from the past, offering clues to the environment of the early Earth more than two billion years ago.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy
Contact: Huifang Xu
Public Release: 9-Oct-2009
{DISSERTATION} Scientists obtain rocks moving into seismogenic zone An international group of scientists aboard the Deep-Sea Drilling Vessel CHIKYU, operated by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology for the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, return from a 40-day scientific expedition off the shore of the Kii Peninsula, Japan on Oct. 10, 2009.
National Science Foundation, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Contact: IODP-MI
Public Release: 9-Oct-2009
Journal of Biological Chemistry{DISSERTATION} Developing enzymes to clean up pollution by explosives Researchers at the University of York have uncovered the structure of an enzyme that can be used to reverse the contamination of land by RDX explosive.
Center of Excellence for Biocatalysis, Biotransformations and Biocatalytic Manufacture, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, US Department of Defense
Contact: James Reed
Public Release: 8-Oct-2009
{DISSERTATION} Kraken becomes first academic machine to achieve petaflop The University of Tennessee's Kraken supercomputer was just upgraded to a peak performance exceeding one petaflop, making it the fastest system in the country managed by an academic institution and placing it among the five fastest systems in the world.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Gregory Scott Jones
Public Release: 8-Oct-2009
{DISSERTATION} Inside the first bird, surprising signs of a dinosaur The raptor-like Archaeopteryx has long been viewed as the archetypal first bird, but new research reveals that it was actually a lot less "bird-like" than scientists had believed.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Greg Erickson
Public Release: 8-Oct-2009
International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing{DISSERTATION} Household robots do not protect users' security and privacy, researchers say Robots equipped with wireless and sensing capabilities are available for use in the home. But the safety and privacy risks of these devices are not yet adequately addressed, according to a University of Washington study.
National Science Foundation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Contact: Hannah Hickey
Public Release: 8-Oct-2009
PLoS ONE{DISSERTATION} Archaeopteryx was not very bird-like Although Archaeopteryx has long been considered the iconic first bird, new microscopic imaging published this week shows that this fossil grew much slower than living birds and more like non-avian dinosaurs.
National Science Foundation, others
Contact: Kristin Elise Phillips
Public Release: 8-Oct-2009
{DISSERTATION} CSI in a virtual world: New grant furthers NC State's work in forensic science Imagine using the same process that goes into building video games to help investigators solve real-world crimes. Through a new grant, that's what researchers at North Carolina State University plan to do. Their work will lay the framework for multi-agency collaboration in crime scene investigations by creating an unprecedented cyber infrastructure -- a virtual environment that provides data resources, simulation tools, expert access and unique collaboration capabilities.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Caroline M. Barnhill
Public Release: 8-Oct-2009
{DISSERTATION} 4 NSF grants awarded to Stevens' Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering For their research efforts in cognitive radio, wireless communications and network security, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology has been awarded four recent National Science Foundation grants in excess of $1 million, with a focus toward an increased contribution in CR advancement.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Patrick A. Berzinski
Public Release: 8-Oct-2009
Science{DISSERTATION} Chinese and American paleontologists discover a new Mesozoic mammal An international team of paleontologists has discovered a new species of mammal that lived in China's Liaoning Province 123 million years ago. This remarkably well preserved fossil, as reported in the Oct. 9 issue of Science, offers important insight into how the mammalian middle ear evolved. Such exquisite dinosaur-age mammals provide evidence of how developmental mechanisms have impacted the evolution of the earliest mammals.
National Science Foundation, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Ministry of Science and Technology of China, National Geographic Society
Contact: Leigh Kish
Public Release: 8-Oct-2009
Science{DISSERTATION} Toward better solar cells: Chemists gain control of light-harvesting paths University of Florida chemists have pioneered a method to tease out promising molecular structures for capturing energy, a step that could speed the development of more efficient, cheaper solar cells.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Valeria Kleiman
Public Release: 8-Oct-2009
Science{DISSERTATION} Scientists decipher the 3-D structure of the human genome Scientists have deciphered the three-dimensional structure of the human genome, paving the way for new insights into genomic function and expanding our understanding of how cellular DNA folds at scales that dwarf the double helix. In a paper in the journal Science, they describe a new technology called Hi-C and apply it to answer the thorny question of how each of our cells stows some three billion base pairs of DNA while maintaining access to functionally crucial segments.
Fannie and John Hertz Foundation, US Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, National Space Biomedical Research Institute, NIH/National Human Genome Research Institute, American Society of Hematology, Keck Foundation
Contact: Steve Bradt
Public Release: 7-Oct-2009
{DISSERTATION} UCLA center gets $4.5M in NSF funds for role in national earthquake simulation network The NSF has awarded $105 million to Purdue University to spearhead a center that will serve as headquarters for the operations of the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES). UCLA will receive $4.5 million of this award to continue as one of NEES' large-scale, earthquake experimental resource sites. NEES@UCLA is among a network of fourteen large-scale, experimental sites across the country that specializes in field testing and monitoring of geotechnical and structural performance.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Wileen Wong Kromhout
Public Release: 7-Oct-2009
Nature{DISSERTATION} A road of no return Light readily bounces off obstacles in its path. Some of these reflections are captured by our eyes, thus participating in the visual perception of the objects around us. In contrast to this usual behavior of light, MIT researchers have implemented for the first time a one-way structure in which microwave light flows losslessly around obstacles or defects. This concept, when used in lightwave circuits, might one day reduce their internal connections to simple one-way conduits with much improved capacity and efficiency.
US Army Research Office, National Science Foundation
Contact: Dr. Zheng Wang
Public Release: 7-Oct-2009
Nature{DISSERTATION} UA scientists discover quantum fingerprints of chaos Poul Jessen and his team in the University of Arizona's College of Optical Sciences are the first to produce experimental evidence that classical chaos occurs in the quantum world.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Lori Stiles
Public Release: 7-Oct-2009
{DISSERTATION} Fill 'er up -- with algae Imagine filling up your car with fuel that comes from inexpensive algae that grow quickly, don't use up freshwater supplies and can be cultivated in areas where they won't compete with traditional food crops, such as corn or soybeans. Researchers at North Carolina State University are working to make that a reality, with a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Matt Shipman
Public Release: 6-Oct-2009
American Journal of Botany{DISSERTATION} A tree's response to environmental changes: What can we expect over the next 100 years? The many environmental issues facing our society are prevalent in the media lately. Our ecosystem is composed of a very delicate network of interactions among all species and the non-living environment. Predicting how each component of this complex system will respond to the many environmental changes sweeping the globe is a challenging problem today's scientists face. This study explores how increasing concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide may be affecting trees and, ultimately, affecting water and carbon cycles.
National Science Foundation, Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, Boston University
Contact: Richard Hund
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