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Public Release: 29-Sep-2009
 Science{DISSERTATION} Novel chemistry for ethylene and tin New work by chemists at UC Davis shows that ethylene, a gas that is important both as a hormone that controls fruit ripening and as a raw material in industrial chemistry, can bind reversibly to tin atoms. 
National Science Foundation
Contact: Andy Fell
Public Release: 29-Sep-2009
Nature Geoscience{DISSERTATION} Mystery solved: Marine microbe is source of rare nutrient A new study of microscopic marine microbes, called phytoplankton, by researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the University of South Carolina has solved a 10-year-old mystery about the source of an essential nutrient in the ocean.
National Science Foundation, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Contact: WHOI Media Relations
Public Release: 29-Sep-2009
{DISSERTATION} SDSC part of $15 million project to create 'FutureGrid' computer network The San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego is part of a team chosen by the National Science Foundation to build and run an experimental high-performance grid test-bed, allowing researchers to collaboratively develop and test new approaches to parallel, grid and cloud computing.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Jan Zverina
Public Release: 29-Sep-2009
INVEST - IODP New Ventures in Exploring Scientific Targets{DISSERTATION} Unlocking the secrets of the seafloor: The future of scientific ocean drilling Close to 600 scientists from 21 countries met Sept. 23-25, 2009, in Bremen, Germany, to outline major scientific targets for a new and ambitious ocean drilling research program. The scientific community envisions that this program will succeed the current Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, which ends in 2013. The outcome of the Bremen meeting will result in a new science plan, enabling scientific ocean drilling to take on a central role in environmental understanding and stewardship of our planet in the 21st century.
National Science Foundation, Japan Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Contact: Raesah Et'Tawil
Public Release: 29-Sep-2009
Nature Nanotechnology{DISSERTATION} U-M physicists create first atomic-scale map of quantum dots University of Michigan physicists have created the first atomic-scale maps of quantum dots, a major step toward the goal of producing "designer dots" that can be tailored for specific applications.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Jim Erickson
Public Release: 28-Sep-2009
{DISSERTATION} ASU has earned more than $32 million in Federal stimulus research grants Arizona State University researchers to date have received more than $32 million in stimulus package research grants. For ASU, which has played a very active role in attracting this additional funding, much of these research funds have gone for projects that meet challenges currently confronting society.
National Institutes of Health, US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation
Contact: Skip Derra
Public Release: 28-Sep-2009
American Journal of Human Biology{DISSERTATION} Studies examine how living conditions impact reproductive health Life is all about tradeoffs. Recently published research by Virginia J. Vitzthum, senior scientist at Indiana University's Kinsey Institute and professor in the department of anthropology, has shown that during periods of intense labor and low food intake, rates of early pregnancy loss can more than double. In a second study involving men, she reports a similar relationship between reproductive fitness and external influences.
National Science Foundation, NIH/National Institute for Mental Health
Contact: Steve Chaplin
Public Release: 28-Sep-2009
{DISSERTATION} Critical Zone Observatory seeks to answer climate change questions The University of Delaware, in collaboration with Stroud Water Research Center in Avondale, Pa., has won a $4.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation to establish the Christina River Basin as a "Critical Zone Observatory" for researching questions relating to climate change. The scientists will be working to determine how, and how rapidly, soil erosion and sediment transport through rivers impact the exchange of carbon between the land and the atmosphere and affect climate.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Tracey Bryant
Public Release: 28-Sep-2009
{DISSERTATION} Louisiana Tech University receives grant to advance women in engineering, science The College of Engineering and Science at Louisiana Tech University has received a grant from the National Science Foundation's ADVANCE program in the amount of $736,500 to support a four-year project titled "Creating a Culture of Success for Women in Engineering and Science."
National Science Foundation
Contact: Dave Guerin
Public Release: 25-Sep-2009
Science{DISSERTATION} How would Einstein use e-mail? You're not as different from Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin after all, at least when it comes to patterns of correspondence. A new Northwestern University study of human behavior has determined that those who wrote letters using pen and paper -- long before electronic mail existed -- did so in a pattern similar to the way people use e-mail today. The probability model provides some insight into how people make choices.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Megan Fellman
Public Release: 25-Sep-2009
{DISSERTATION} NSF funds state's first imaging system for UAB microscale research lab The National Science Foundation has awarded $431,200 to the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Physics to facilitate the purchase of a new highly-specialized imaging system -- the first of its kind in Alabama -- that will be a centerpiece of a new interdisciplinary research laboratory on campus.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Andrew Hayenga
Public Release: 24-Sep-2009
PLoS ONE{DISSERTATION} Getting a leg up on whale and dolphin evolution A comprehensive study that builds on previous phylogenetic research on cetaceans and that combines morphology, genetics and behavior confirms that the closest living relative is the hippo and demonstrates that the closest fossil relative is Indohyus. These evolutionary relationships imply that stem whales adapted to water first, and then to carnivory.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Kristin Elise Phillips
Public Release: 24-Sep-2009
{DISSERTATION} WPI receives $1.3 million in federal awards for ongoing research in the life sciences Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute's Life Sciences and Bioengineering Center at Gateway Park have received a total of $1.3 million in new awards from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation to fund ongoing research in several areas of the life sciences, including a study of the bacterium that causes tuberculosis, work aimed at using adult stem cells to repair damaged hearts, and efforts to create engineered blood vessels.
National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation
Contact: Michael Cohen
Public Release: 24-Sep-2009
{DISSERTATION} NYU's Amodio explores neurological activity that fuels racial bias Overt expressions of bigotry are relatively infrequent, but current psychological research finds that racial biases often lurk in the unconscious mind, influencing behavior in subtle ways without one's intent. Under a National Science Foundation CAREER award, NYU's David Amodio is examining the dynamics of such unconscious, or "implicit," racial associations, through research that aims to advance our basic understanding of how neural mechanisms of learning and memory function in social behavior.
National Science Foundation
Contact: James Devitt
Public Release: 24-Sep-2009
{DISSERTATION} MSU scientist helps map potato genome, hope to improve crop yield It's been cultivated for at least 7,000 years and spread from South America to grow on every continent except Antarctica. Now the humble potato has had its genome sequenced. "The potato is the most important vegetable worldwide," said Robin Buell, an MSU associate professor of plant biology. She was part of the consortium that released the first draft sequence of the potato genome. "This first draft that is being released will help breeders improve yield, quality, disease resistance and nutritional value."
National Science Foundation
Contact: Mark Fellows
Public Release: 24-Sep-2009
Chemistry of Materials{DISSERTATION} Engineers produce 'how-to' guide for controlling the structure of nanoparticles Researchers from North Carolina State University have learned how to consistently create hollow, solid and amorphous nanoparticles of nickel phosphide, which has potential uses in the development of solar cells and as catalysts for removing sulfur from fuel. Their work can now serve as a "how-to" guide for other researchers to controllably create hollow, solid and amorphous nanoparticles -- in order to determine what special properties they may have.
North Carolina State University, National Science Foundation
Contact: Matt Shipman
Public Release: 24-Sep-2009
15th International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking{DISSERTATION} Room's ambience fingerprinted by phone Your smart phone may soon be able to know not only that you're at the mall, but whether you're in the jewelry store or the shoe store.
National Science Foundation, Nokia, Verizon, Microsoft Research
Contact: Richard Merritt
Public Release: 24-Sep-2009
Science{DISSERTATION} Peruvian glacial retreats linked to European events of Little Ice Age A new study that reports precise ages for glacial moraines in southern Peru links climate swings in the tropics to those of Europe and North America during the Little Ice Age approximately 150 to 350 years ago. The study, published this week in Science, "brings us one step closer to understanding global-scale patterns of glacier activity and climate during the Little Ice Age," says lead author Joe Licciardi of the University of New Hampshire.
National Science Foundation, University of New Hampshire, Sigma Xi, Geological Society of America
Contact: Beth Potier
Public Release: 23-Sep-2009
Nature Materials{DISSERTATION} Smart memory foam made smarter Researchers from Northwestern University and Boise State University have figured out how to produce a less expensive shape-shifting "memory" foam, which could lead to more widespread applications of the material, such as in surgical positioning tools and valve mechanisms. They have created easily processable polycrystalline foams of a nickel-manganese-gallium alloy that changes shape when exposed to a magnetic field. These shape-changing properties resemble those of the much more expensive single crystals.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Megan Fellman
Public Release: 23-Sep-2009
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering{DISSERTATION} MIT retinal implant could help restore some vision MIT engineers have designed a retinal implant for people who have lost their vision from retinitis pigmentosa or age-related macular degeneration, two of the leading causes of blindness. The retinal prosthesis would help restore some vision by electrically stimulating the nerve cells that normally carry visual input from the retina to the brain.
VA Center for Innovative Visual Rehabilitation, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Catalyst Foundation, MOSIS Microchip Fabrication Service
Contact: Jen Hirsch
Public Release: 23-Sep-2009
{DISSERTATION} NYU's Courant part of team to resolve ancient mathematics problem Mathematicians from North America, Europe, Australia and South America have resolved the first one trillion cases of an ancient mathematics problem on congruent numbers. The advance, which included work by David Harvey, an assistant professor at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, was achieved through a complex technique for multiplying large numbers.
American Institute of Mathematics, National Science Foundation
Contact: James Devitt
Public Release: 23-Sep-2009
{DISSERTATION} UA awarded $4.35 million to study Earth's critical zone The zone from the treetops to the bottom of the groundwater table has been dubbed the "Critical Zone" because of its key role in processing and cycling water, carbon and nutrients necessary for life. A $4.35 million NSF grant to the University of Arizona will allow researchers to study how the zone's components interact. The research will be conducted in mountains outside Tucson, Ariz., and in the Valles Caldera National Preserve near Los Alamos, N.M.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Mari N. Jensen
Public Release: 23-Sep-2009
Proceedings of the Royal Society B{DISSERTATION} Research team finds first evolutionary branching for bilateral animals In the most computationally intensive phylogenetic analysis to date, an international research team led by Brown University has found the first evolutionary branching for bilateral animals. The researchers determined that the flatworm group Acoelomorpha is a product of the deepest split within the bilateral creatures -- multi-celled organisms that, like humans, have symmetrical body forms. Results appear online in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
National Science Foundation, San Diego Supercomputing Center
Contact: Richard Lewis
Public Release: 23-Sep-2009
{DISSERTATION} ALMA telescope reaches new heights The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array astronomical observatory marked another huge step forward as the first of its many high-tech antennas was carried to the 16,500-foot-high observing site on Chile's plateau of Chajnator.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Dave Finley
Public Release: 23-Sep-2009
Nature{DISSERTATION} Ratchet-like genetic mutations make evolution irreversible A University of Oregon research team has found that evolution can never go backwards, because the paths to the genes once present in our ancestors are forever blocked. The findings come from the first rigorous study of reverse evolution at the molecular level.
National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Contact: Jim Barlow
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