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Public Release: 19-Nov-2009
 Science{DISSERTATION} Reference genome of maize, most important US crop, is published by team co-led by CSHL scientists A four-year, multi-institutional effort co-led by three Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory scientists culminated today in publication of a landmark series of papers in the journal Science revealing in unprecedented detail the DNA sequence of maize. Maize, or corn, as it is commonly called by North American consumers, is one of the world's most important plants and the most valuable agricultural crop grown in the United States, representing $47 billion in annual value. 
National Science Foundation, US Department of Agriculture, US Department of Defense
Contact: Peter Tarr
Public Release: 19-Nov-2009
Information Processing and Management{DISSERTATION} Search engines are source of learning Search engine use is not just part of our daily routines; it is also becoming part of our learning process, according to Penn State researchers.
National Science Foundation, US Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Contact: A'ndrea Elyse Messer
Public Release: 19-Nov-2009
Science{DISSERTATION} Scientists at UA, collaborating institutions decode maize genome Scientists from the University of Arizona led by Arizona Genomics Institute director Rod A. Wing and from collaborating institutions have deciphered the complete genetic code of the maize plant for the first time.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Lori Stiles
Public Release: 19-Nov-2009
Science{DISSERTATION} Like humans, ants use bacteria to make their gardens grow Leaf-cutter ants, which cultivate fungus for food, have many remarkable qualities.
US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation
Contact: Cameron Currie
Public Release: 19-Nov-2009
Science{DISSERTATION} After mastodons and mammoths, a transformed landscape Roughly 15,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, North America's vast assemblage of large animals -- including such iconic creatures as mammoths, mastodons, camels, horses, ground sloths and giant beavers -- began their precipitous slide to extinction.
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, National Science Foundation
Contact: John Williams
Public Release: 19-Nov-2009
Science{DISSERTATION} Amaizing: Corn genome decoded In recent years, scientists have decoded the DNA of humans and a menagerie of creatures but none with genes as complex as a stalk of corn, the latest genome to be unraveled. A team of scientists led by the Genome Center at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis published the completed corn genome in the Nov. 20 journal Science, an accomplishment that will speed efforts to develop better crop varieties to meet the world's growing demands for food, livestock feed and fuel.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Agriculture, US Department of Energy
Contact: Caroline Arbanas
Public Release: 19-Nov-2009
Science{DISSERTATION} ISU's Plant Sciences Institute researchers provide understanding to maize genome sequence Iowa State University Plant Sciences Institute researchers contributed to the raw data assembly and much of the ongoing functional analysis work for this multi-institutional, $32 million, National Science Foundation-funded effort to sequence the maize genome.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Meg Gordon
Public Release: 18-Nov-2009
Molecular & Cellular Proteomics{DISSERTATION} Beyond genomics, biologists and engineers decode the next frontier A team of biologists and engineers has dramatically improved the speed and accuracy of measuring histones, an enigmatic set of proteins that influences almost every aspect of how cells and tissues function. The new method offers a long-sought tool for studying stem cells, cancer and other problems of fundamental importance to biology and medicine.
National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, American Society for Mass Spectrometry, US Environmental Protection Agency
Contact: Steven Schultz
Public Release: 18-Nov-2009
Physical Review Letters{DISSERTATION} Proton's party pals may alter its internal structure A recent experiment at the US Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has found that a proton's nearest neighbors in the nucleus of the atom may modify the proton's internal structure.
US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, South African National Research Foundation
Contact: Kandice Carter
Public Release: 18-Nov-2009
{DISSERTATION} Girls 'disengage' from high school science High school girls are bored, disengaged and stressed in science classes when compared to boys, Northern Illinois University researchers say. And teachers might not be doing enough to change the situation. Funded by a three-year, $476,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, Jennifer Schmidt and M. Cecil Smith expect their research eventually will help high school science teachers design and deliver lesson plans that best engage and electrify girls as well as boys.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Mark McGowan
Public Release: 18-Nov-2009
Proceedings of the Royal Society B{DISSERTATION} Scientists unravel evolution of highly toxic box jellyfish With thousands of stinging cells that can emit deadly venom from tentacles that can reach ten feet in length, the 50 or so species of box jellyfish have long been of interest to scientists and to the public. Yet little has been known about the evolution of this early branch in the animal tree of life. In a paper published today, researchers have unraveled the evolutionary relationships among the various species of box jellyfish, thereby providing insight into the evolution of their toxicity.
National Science Foundation, PADI Foundation
Contact: Shelley Dawicki
Public Release: 18-Nov-2009
{DISSERTATION} NSF supports Case Western Reserve University's IDEAL A program at Case Western Reserve University to encourage career advancement of women and underrepresented minority men in sciences and engineering is expanding to five public institutions of higher education through a three-year, nearly $1 million National Science Foundation grant.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Marv Kropko
Public Release: 18-Nov-2009
Nature{DISSERTATION} Oceans' uptake of manmade carbon may be slowing The oceans play a key role in regulating climate, absorbing more than a quarter of the carbon dioxide that humans put into the air. Now, the first year-by-year accounting of this mechanism during the industrial era suggests the oceans are struggling to keep up with rising emissions -- a finding with potentially wide implications for future climate. The study appears in this week's issue of the journal Nature.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Kim Martineau
Public Release: 17-Nov-2009
Nature{DISSERTATION} Small optical force can budge nanoscale objects With a bit of leverage, Cornell researchers have used a very tiny beam of light with as little as 1 milliwatt of power to move a silicon structure up to 12 nanometers. That's enough to completely switch the optical properties of the structure from opaque to transparent.
National Science Foundation, Cornell Center for Nanocale Systems, Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility
Contact: Blaine Friedlander
Public Release: 17-Nov-2009
{DISSERTATION} Rice ties in race for atomic-scale breakthrough Everybody loves a race to the wire, even when the result is a tie. The great irony is the ultraprecise clocks that could result from this competition could probably break any tie. The Rice lab of physicist Tom Killian published a paper online this month demonstrating the long-sought creation of a Bose-Einstein condensate of strontium atoms.
National Science Foundation, Welch Foundation, Keck Foundation
Contact: David Ruth
Public Release: 17-Nov-2009
{DISSERTATION} Petascale computational tools could revolutionize understanding of genomic evolution Technological advances in DNA sequencing make determining how living things are related possible by analyzing the ways in which their genes have been rearranged on chromosomes. However, inferring these evolutionary relationships from rearrangement events requires massive computing impossible even on the most advanced computing systems available today.
National Science Foundation
Contact: A'ndrea Elyse Messer
Public Release: 17-Nov-2009
{DISSERTATION} 2 UNH faculty receive $1.4M in CAREER grants from NSF Two University of New Hampshire assistant professors have received prestigious National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development grants. Vaughn Cooper of the department of molecular, cellular and biomedical sciences received $1 million to better understand beneficial mutations in bacteria by engaging high school students in data collection. Christopher White of the mechanical engineering department received $400,000 to research flow dynamics of liquefied biomass.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Beth Potier
Public Release: 17-Nov-2009
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} NJIT engineer discovers why particles disperse on liquids Even if you are not a cook, you might have wondered why a pinch of flour (or any small particles) thrown into a bowl of water will disperse in a dramatic fashion, radiating outward as if it was exploding. Pushpendra Singh, Ph.D., a mechanical engineering professor at NJIT who has studied and written about the phenomenon, has not only thought about it, but can explain why.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Sheryl Weinstein
Public Release: 17-Nov-2009
{DISSERTATION} Petascale computing tools could provide deeper insight into genomic evolution Research recently funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 aims to develop computational tools that will utilize next-generation petascale computers to understand genomic evolution.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Abby Vogel
Public Release: 17-Nov-2009
150th Anniversary Celebration of the Riemann Hypothesis{DISSERTATION} Putting math problems in proper order The American Institute of Mathematics announces a new online tool for creating and maintaining lists of unsolved mathematics problems. This tool has the potential to change mathematics research by bringing a wider range of people and expertise in contact with research questions. The tool is being released on the same day as a worldwide celebration of the 150th anniversary of the most important problem in mathematics: the Riemann Hypothesis.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Estelle Basor
Public Release: 16-Nov-2009
{DISSERTATION} Record-breaking radio astronomy project to measure sky with extreme precision Thirty-five radio telescopes on seven continents, a new record, will work together to strengthen the basic measuring grid for celestial positions. The improved reference frame will benefit both astronomy and geophysics.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Dave Finley
Public Release: 16-Nov-2009
Journal of American Chemical Society{DISSERTATION} Accidental discovery produces durable new blue pigment for multiple applications An accidental discovery in a laboratory at Oregon State University has apparently solved a quest that over thousands of years has absorbed the energies of ancient Egyptians, the Han dynasty in China, Mayan cultures and more -- the creation of a near-perfect blue pigment.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Mas Subramanian
Public Release: 16-Nov-2009
Nature Methods{DISSERTATION} Scientists guide immune cells with light and microparticles A team led by Yale University scientists has developed a new approach to studying how immune cells chase down bacteria in our bodies. They used holographic optical tweezers to guide "artificial bacteria" -- microparticles that mimic bacteria by giving off a chemical "scent," stimulating immune cells to respond. By controlling the chemical patterns produced, they were able to study how immune cells respond to and interact with these chemical signals.
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation
Contact: Suzanne Taylor Muzzin
Public Release: 16-Nov-2009
Astrophysical Journal{DISSERTATION} Close-up movie shows hidden details in the birth of super-suns A new high-resolution time-lapse movie reveals the process of massive star formation with radio images a thousand times sharper and more detailed than any previously obtained. The movie shows that massive stars form like their smaller siblings, with disk accretion and magnetic fields playing crucial roles.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Christine Pulliam
Public Release: 16-Nov-2009
{DISSERTATION} Volatile gas could turn Rwandan lake into a freshwater time bomb A dangerous level of carbon dioxide and methane gas haunts Lake Kivu, the freshwater lake bordering Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The volatile mixture at the bottom of the lake could remain still for another 1,000 years or explode without warning. In a region prone to volcanic and seismic activity, the fragility of the lake is a serious matter. Scientists will meet in January in Gisenyi, Rwanda, to grapple with the problem.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Susan Gawlowicz
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