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Public Release: 26-Sep-2012
{DISSERTATION} Artificially intelligent game bots pass the Turing test on Turing's centenary An artificially intelligent virtual gamer has won the BotPrize by convincing a panel of judges that it was more human-like than half the humans it competed against. The victory comes 100 years after the birth of mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing, whose "Turing test" stands as one of the foundational definitions of what constitutes true machine intelligence. 
National Science Foundation
Contact: Daniel Oppenheimer
Public Release: 26-Sep-2012
{DISSERTATION} Grant to help citizen scientists assess impact of environmental change in the National Park System A $250,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will pair citizen scientists with researchers from the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, National Park Service and the SERC Institute in effort to genetically identify plant and animal species in Acadia National Park and Frenchman's Bay.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Jerilyn Bowers
Public Release: 26-Sep-2012
 Journal of Neuroscience{DISSERTATION} Making the healthy choice When making healthy choices, we often have to engage in an internal struggle. Now, scientists at the California Institute of Technology have identified the neural processes at work during such self-regulation -- and what determines whether you choose chocolate cake or something healthier.
National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Contact: Deborah Williams-Hedges
Public Release: 26-Sep-2012
{DISSERTATION} U of M receives $4.3 million NSF grant to study interactions between water and land-use systems The University of Minnesota announced today that it has received a $4.3 million Water Sustainability and Climate grant over five years from the National Science Foundation to lead a study on the interactions between climate, water and land-use systems. The grant will specifically examine impacts of land use and climate change on water quality and ecosystem health using the Minnesota River Basin as a prototype.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Rhonda Zurn
Public Release: 26-Sep-2012
Journal of the Royal Society Interface{DISSERTATION} How is a Kindle like a cuttlefish Research out today from a multidisciplinary team headed by the University of Cincinnati examines parallels between e-Paper technology (the technology behind sunlight-readable devices like the Kindle) and biological organisms that change color.
Air Force Research Laboratory, National Science Foundation, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, ARL, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Office of Naval Research
Contact: M.B. Reilly
Public Release: 26-Sep-2012
Nature{DISSERTATION} Study reveals complex rupture process in surprising 2012 Sumatra quake The massive earthquake that struck under the Indian Ocean southwest of Sumatra on April 11, 2012, came as a surprise to seismologists and left them scrambling to figure out exactly what had happened. Analysis of the seismic waves generated during the event has now revealed a complicated faulting process unlike anything seen before.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Tim Stephens
Public Release: 26-Sep-2012
Nature{DISSERTATION} Big quake was part of crustal plate breakup Seismologists have known for years that the Indo-Australian plate of Earth's crust is slowly breaking apart, but they saw it in action last April when at least four faults broke in a magnitude-8.7 earthquake that may be the largest of its type ever recorded.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Lee J. Siegel
Public Release: 25-Sep-2012
{DISSERTATION} Physicist receives two prestigious grants to support research, purchase world-class laser system A Kansas State University assistant professor has been honored with two prestigious national awards for his research that will develop a deeper understanding of the basic laws of nature at the quantum level.
National Science Foundation, Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Contact: Carlos Trallero
Public Release: 25-Sep-2012
{DISSERTATION} $10 million NSF grant to help computer scientists understand the world of cybercrime Computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego, the International Computer Science Institute at Berkeley and George Mason University have received a $10 million, five-year grant from the National Science Foundation to map out the illicit activities taking place in the cybersecurity underworld and to understand how the mind of a cybercriminal works.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Ioana Patringenaru
Public Release: 25-Sep-2012
{DISSERTATION} New tools will make sharing research data safer in cyberspace Harvard researchers will receive a four-year NSF grant totaling nearly $5 million to study and enhance the privacy of research data.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Michael Patrick Rutter
Public Release: 25-Sep-2012
Nature Communications{DISSERTATION} Rice University lab encodes collagen In a discovery with implications for drug design, tissue engineering and the treatment of disease, Rice University researchers have created a program to encode self-assembling collagen proteins.
National Science Foundation, Robert A. Welch Foundation, Norman Hackerman Advanced Research
Contact: David Ruth
Public Release: 25-Sep-2012
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences{DISSERTATION} Language use is simpler than previously thought, finds Cornell study For more than 50 years, language scientists have assumed that sentence structure is fundamentally hierarchical, made up of small parts in turn made of smaller parts, like Russian nesting dolls. But a new Cornell University study suggests language use is simpler than they had thought.
Netherlands Organizations for Scientific Research, Binational Science Foundation
Contact: Syl Kacapyr
Public Release: 25-Sep-2012
ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing{DISSERTATION} Georgia Tech creating high-tech tools to study autism Researchers in Georgia Tech's Center for Behavior Imaging have developed two new technological tools that automatically measure relevant behaviors of children, and promise to have significant impact on the understanding of behavioral disorders such as autism.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Michael Terrazas
Public Release: 25-Sep-2012
Molecular & Cellular Proteomics{DISSERTATION} Researchers develop new technique for IDing proteins secreted by cells Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new technique to identify the proteins secreted by a cell. The new approach should help researchers collect precise data on cell biology, which is critical in fields ranging from zoology to cancer research.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Matt Shipman
Public Release: 24-Sep-2012
Psychological Science{DISSERTATION} Feeling guilty versus feeling angry -- who can tell the difference? The ability to identify and distinguish between negative emotions helps us address the problem that led to those emotions in the first place. But while some people can tell the difference between feeling angry and frustrated, others may not be able to separate the two. Clinically depressed people often experience negative emotions that interfere with everyday life. A new study examines whether clinically depressed people are able to discriminate between different types of negative emotions.
NIH/National Institute of Mental Health, Swiss National Science Foundation, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Contact: Anna Mikulak
Public Release: 24-Sep-2012
{DISSERTATION} OU receives award from Council of Graduate Schools The University of Oklahoma Graduate College and the Center for Applied Social Research have received one of five awards nationwide from the Council of Graduate Schools to integrate research ethics education into international collaborations in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics fields.
Council of Graduate Schools and National Science Foundation
Contact: Jana Smith
Public Release: 24-Sep-2012
Physical Review Letters{DISSERTATION} A clock that will last forever Imagine a clock that will keep perfect time forever or a device that opens new dimensions into the study of quantum phenomena such as emergence and entanglement. Berkeley Lab researchers have proposed a space-time crystal based on an electric-field ion trap and the Coulomb repulsion of particles that carry the same electrical charge.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Lynn Yarris
Public Release: 24-Sep-2012
2012 European Planetary Science Congress Astrobiology{DISSERTATION} Princeton release: Slow-moving rocks better odds that life crashed to Earth from space Microorganisms that crashed to Earth embedded in the fragments of distant planets might have been the sprouts of life on this one, according to new research from Princeton University, the University of Arizona and the Centro de Astrobiología in Spain. The researchers provide the strongest support yet for "lithopanspermia," the idea that life came to Earth -- or spread from Earth to other planets -- via meteorite-like planetary fragments cast forth by disruptions such as volcanic eruptions and collisions with other matter.
NASA, National Science Foundation, Ministry of Science and Innovation in Spain
Contact: Morgan Kelly
Public Release: 24-Sep-2012
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin{DISSERTATION} When they do not all look alike: Using identity to reduce own-race bias People often remark that people of a different race "all look alike." However, when we have trouble recognizing people from another race, it may actually have little to do with the other person's race. Instead, new research finds that that we can improve our memory of members of another race by identifying ourselves as part of the same group. Such identification could improve everything from race relations to eyewitness identification.
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, National Science Foundation
Contact: Lisa M.P. Munoz
Public Release: 24-Sep-2012
Nature Physics{DISSERTATION} Scientists shed light on riddle of sun's explosive events Four decades of active research and debate by the solar physics community have failed to bring consensus on what drives the sun's powerful coronal mass ejections that can have profound "space weather" effects on Earth-based power grids and satellites in near-Earth geospace.
Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Science Foundation
Contact: David Sims
Public Release: 24-Sep-2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} In birds' development, researchers find diversity by the peck The genetic/molecular signals that produce a variety of beak shapes in finches show even more variation than is apparent on the surface. Not only can two very different beaks share the same developmental pathway, as in Darwin's finches, but two very different developmental pathways can produce exactly the same shaped beak.
National Science Foundation, Kavli Institute for Bionano Science and Technology, National Institutes of Health
Contact: Caroline Perry
Public Release: 24-Sep-2012
Journal of Applied Physics{DISSERTATION} Researchers demonstrate cheaper way to produce NFO thin films Researchers from North Carolina State University and the Georgia Institute of Technology have demonstrated a less-expensive way to create textured nickel ferrite (NFO) ceramic thin films, which can easily be scaled up to address manufacturing needs. NFO is a magnetic material that holds promise for microwave technologies and next-generation memory devices.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Matt Shipman
Public Release: 24-Sep-2012
Nature Chemistry{DISSERTATION} Researchers at Harvard's Wyss Institute engineer novel DNA barcode Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have created a new kind of barcode that could come in an almost limitless array of styles -- with the potential to enable scientists to gather vastly more vital information, at one given time, than ever before. The method harnesses the natural ability of DNA to self-assemble, as reported today in the online issue of Nature Chemistry.
National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, Wyss Institute
Contact: Kristen Kusek
Public Release: 24-Sep-2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} Video: 3-D time-lapse imaging captures twisted root mechanics for first time Using an advanced 3-D time-lapse imaging system, a group of physicists and plant biologists from Cornell University have discovered how certain plant roots exhibit powerful mechanical abilities while navigating their environment.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Syl Kacapyr
Public Release: 23-Sep-2012
Nature Geoscience{DISSERTATION} Large bacterial population colonized land 2.75 billion years ago New University of Washington research suggests that early microbes might have been widespread on land, producing oxygen and weathering pyrite, an iron sulfide mineral, which released sulfur and molybdenum into the oceans.
National Science Foundation, University of Washington/Astronomy Department's Virtual Planet Laboratory
Contact: Vince Stricherz
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