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Public Release: 22-Sep-2009
 Journal of Experimental Psychology: General{DISSERTATION} Our emotions can lead us astray when assessing risks, says new CU-Boulder study If you find yourself more concerned about highly publicized dangers that grab your immediate attention such as terrorist attacks, while forgetting about the more mundane threats such as global warming, you're not alone. 
National Science Foundation, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
Contact: Leaf Van Boven
Public Release: 22-Sep-2009
Nanotechnology{DISSERTATION} Therapeutic nanoparticles give new meaning to sugar-coating medicine A research team at NIST studying sugar-coated nanoparticles for use as a possible cancer therapy has uncovered a delicate balancing act that makes the particles more effective than conventional thinking says they should be. Just like individuals in a crowd respecting other people's personal space, the particles work because they get close together, but not too close.
US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, National Science Foundation
Contact: Chad Boutin
Public Release: 22-Sep-2009
{DISSERTATION} UA develops network to improve weather forecasting with $5.45 million from NSF University of Arizona scientists are developing a network of probes to provide quick access to soil moisture data to improve weather forecasting. A grant from the National Science Foundation is funding the project. A recent National Research Council report called for a national network to measure soil moisture, and the new project speaks to that need. Several probes are already installed and being tested in southern Arizona.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Mari N. Jensen
Public Release: 22-Sep-2009
{DISSERTATION} Georgia State researcher to use $1 million grant to improve computer models for fighting wildfires A Georgia State University professor has been selected to receive a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to improve a computer simulation model that may help firefighters combat wildfires more effectively.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Jeremy Craig
Public Release: 22-Sep-2009
Thermal Investigations of ICs and Systems{DISSERTATION} New findings could help hybrid, electric cars keep their cool Understanding precisely how fluid boils in tiny "microchannels" has led to formulas and models that will help engineers design systems to cool high-power electronics in electric and hybrid cars, aircraft, computers and other devices.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Emil Venere
Public Release: 22-Sep-2009
The Analyst{DISSERTATION} New multi-use device can shed light on oxygen intake A fiber-optic sensor created by a team of Purdue University researchers that is capable of measuring oxygen intake rates could have broad applications ranging from plant root development to assessing the effectiveness of chemotherapy drugs.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Brian Wallheimer
Public Release: 22-Sep-2009
{DISSERTATION} A trillion triangles Mathematicians from North America, Europe, Australia and South America have resolved the first one trillion cases of an ancient mathematics problem. The advance was made possible by a clever new computational technique for multiplying large numbers. The numbers involved are so enormous that if their digits were written out by hand they would stretch to the moon and back.
National Science Foundation, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
Contact: Estelle Basor
Public Release: 21-Sep-2009
{DISSERTATION} 'The doctor can understand you now' University of Southern California computer scientists, communication specialists and health professionals are working to create a cheap, robust and effective speech-to-speech translation system for clinics, emergency rooms and even ambulances, and plan to deliver a working prototype within the four-year window of a recently awarded $2.2 million NSF grant for "An Integrated Approach to Creating Context Enriched Speech Translation Systems."
National Science Foundation
Contact: Eric Mankin
Public Release: 21-Sep-2009
{DISSERTATION} $453,000 NSF grant funds Florida Tech scientist Climate change, warming the waters of Antarctica, is creating an environment for predatory crabs to return to an area they inhabited millions of years ago. Their return would disrupt Antarctica's primeval marine communities.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Karen Rhine
Public Release: 21-Sep-2009
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} Math used as a tool to heal toughest of wounds Scientists expect a new mathematical model of chronic wound healing could replace intuition with clear guidance on how to test treatment strategies in tackling a major public-health problem. The researchers are the first to publish a mathematical model of an ischemic wound -- a chronic wound that heals slowly or is in danger of never healing because it is fed by an inadequate blood supply.
National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health
Contact: Chandan Sen
Public Release: 20-Sep-2009
Nature Neuroscience{DISSERTATION} UCLA scientists make paralyzed rats walk again after spinal-cord injury UCLA researchers found that drugs, electrical stimulation and regular exercise can enable paralyzed rats to walk and even run again. The finding may hold implications for human rehabilitation after spinal cord injuries.
Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation, Craig Nielsen Foundation, NIH/National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, US Civilian Research and Development Foundation, International Paraplegic Foundation, Swiss National Science Foundation
Contact: Elaine Schmidt
Public Release: 18-Sep-2009
Science{DISSERTATION} Bugs in boxes show difficulty of predicting invaders' progress A study in today's Science by University of California and University of Colorado researchers suggests it won't be as easy as some had hoped to catalog all the factors that influence the spread of an invading species. If it is difficult to predict the course of an invasion, it will be difficult to control it. And there are hundreds of destructive invaders in the US alone, from kudzu to zebra mussels to the light brown apple moth.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Alan Hastings
Public Release: 18-Sep-2009
{DISSERTATION} Cybernetwork to help K-State researchers study tallgrass prairie, respond to global warming The cyberCommons promises to help ecologists researching the tallgrass prairie by filling in gaps in common modeling methods and ecological forecasting.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Walter Dodds
Public Release: 18-Sep-2009
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} Portable and precise gas sensor could monitor pollution and detect disease Researchers have demonstrated a method for identifying nitric oxide gas using lasers and sensors that are inexpensive, compact and highly sensitive. Such a portable device could be of great value to atmospheric science, pollution control, biology and medicine.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy
Contact: Steven Schultz
Public Release: 17-Sep-2009
Journal of Geophysical Research{DISSERTATION} More to solar cycle than sunspots; sun also bombards Earth with high-speed streams of wind Challenging conventional wisdom, new research finds that the number of sunspots provides an incomplete measure of changes in the Sun's impact on Earth over the course of the 11-year solar cycle. The sun can bombard Earth with high-speed streams of energy even in the virtual absence of sunspots.
National Science Foundation, NASA
Contact: David Hosansky
Public Release: 17-Sep-2009
Nature Nanotechnology{DISSERTATION} Strain on nanocrystals could yield colossal results In finally answering an elusive scientific question, researchers with the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have shown that the selective placement of strain can alter the electronic phase and its spatial arrangement in correlated electron materials. This unique class of materials is commanding much attention now because they can display properties such as colossal magnetoresistance and high-temperature superconductivity, which are highly coveted by the high-tech industry.
DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, National Science Foundation
Contact: Lynn Yarris
Public Release: 17-Sep-2009
{DISSERTATION} Georgia Tech to transform unemployed technology workers into high school computing teachers Through a recent $2.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation, the Georgia Tech College of Computing will mitigate the stress of joblessness for unemployed information technology professionals over the next three years. Operation Reboot, as the project is aptly titled, will transform an initial set of 30 IT workers in Georgia into high school computing teachers.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Stefany Wilson
Public Release: 17-Sep-2009
Science{DISSERTATION} U of C alumnus finds high numbers of heat-loving bacteria in cold Arctic Ocean A Canadian-led team of scientists has detected high numbers of heat loving, or thermophilic, bacteria in subzero sediments in the Arctic Ocean. The bacterial spores might provide a unique opportunity to trace seepages of fluids from hot sub-seafloor habitats, possibly pointing towards undiscovered offshore petroleum reservoirs. The findings could also hold important clues for solving broader riddles of bio-geography.
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Max Planck Society, Austrian Science Fund, National Science Foundation
Contact: Leanne Yohemas
Public Release: 16-Sep-2009
Genes & Development{DISSERTATION} UCSF scientists illuminate how microRNAs drive tumor progression UCSF researchers have identified collections of tiny molecules known as microRNAs that affect distinct processes critical for the progression of cancer. The findings, they say, expand researchers' understanding of the important regulatory function of microRNAs in tumor biology and point to new directions for future study and potential treatments.
NIH/National Cancer Institute, American Cancer Society, National Science Foundation
Contact: Elizabeth Fernandez
Public Release: 16-Sep-2009
{DISSERTATION} Project aids environmental decisions in the face of complicated trade-offs Energy shortages, climate change, pollution -- some of the world's most pressing problems weigh on the shoulders of some of the world's most hard-pressed people. Michigan State University researchers aim to help them sort out such complex problems.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Mark Fellows
Public Release: 16-Sep-2009
{DISSERTATION} Researchers to probe whether Lyme disease will follow spread of ticks across US Potentially debilitating Lyme disease doesn't afflict people everywhere that the ticks harboring it are found. At least not yet. A five-university consortium led by a Michigan State University researcher wants to find out why. "These ticks are on the move. As ticks expand into new areas, more people will likely become infected," said MSU fisheries and wildlife assistant professor Jean Tsao.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Mark Fellows
Public Release: 16-Sep-2009
{DISSERTATION} RIT professor wins NSF grant to explore next-generation ion-conductive materials RIT scientist Tom Smith is experimenting with synthesizing liquid salts into a gel. He recently received a grant from the National Science Foundation to create an entirely new material -- a polymer from ionic liquid monomers -- that will confine charge-carrying ions in a gelled, pseudo-liquid state. Smith will bypass the loss of conductivity that results from tethering free-moving ions by incorporating the gelatinous ionic-liquid polymer into composite materials at nanoscopic dimensions.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Susan Gawlowicz
Public Release: 16-Sep-2009
{DISSERTATION} Professors receive $2.5 million to better convert water into clean hydrogen fuel using sunlight Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have received about $2.5 million to identify new materials that will efficiently absorb sunlight and split water into clean hydrogen fuel, which could power cars and be used to generate electricity.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy
Contact: Charles Mullins
Public Release: 16-Sep-2009
Nano Letters{DISSERTATION} How to spell B-Y-U with DNA DNA origami just got a new "twist" from BYU researchers who use DNA strands of customized length to spell "BYU." The advance puts them one critical step closer to building nanoscale electronic circuits.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Joe Hadfield
Public Release: 15-Sep-2009
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} New X-ray technique illuminates reactivity of environmental contaminants A chemical reaction can occur in the blink of an eye. Thanks to a new analytical method employed by researchers at the University of Delaware, scientists can now pinpoint, at the millisecond level, what happens as harmful environmental contaminants such as arsenic begin to react with soil and water under various conditions.
US Department of Agriculture, National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy
Contact: Tracey Bryant
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