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Public Release: 18-Sep-2012
 Physical Review Letters{DISSERTATION} Quasars: Mileposts marking the universe's expansion Researchers at Case Western Reserve University and two partnering institutions have found a possible way to map the spread and structure of the universe, guided by the light of quasars. 
US National Science Foundation
Contact: Kevin Mayhood
Public Release: 17-Sep-2012
Nature Neuroscience{DISSERTATION} Songbirds shed light on brain circuits and learning By studying how birds master songs used in courtship, scientists at Duke University have found that regions of the brain involved in planning and controlling complex vocal sequences may also be necessary for memorizing sounds that serve as models for vocal imitation.
National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health
Contact: Julie Rhodes
Public Release: 17-Sep-2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} New gene could lead to better bug-resistant plants The discovery of a new gene could lead to better bug-resistant plants. Research led by Michigan State University and appearing on the cover of this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, demonstrates that domestic tomatoes could re-learn a thing or two from their wild cousins.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Layne Cameron
Public Release: 17-Sep-2012
{DISSERTATION} UMN scientists get federal grant for biotechnology development to purify fracking water A University of Minnesota research team has earned a new $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation's Partnerships for Innovation program to develop innovative biotechnology to purify wastewater produced by hydraulic fracturing (fracking).
National Science Foundation
Contact: Peggy Rinard
Public Release: 17-Sep-2012
{DISSERTATION} Ancient diatoms could make biofuels, electronics and health food -- at the same time Diatoms, tiny marine life forms that have been around since the dinosaurs, could finally make biofuel production from algae truly cost-effective –- because they can simultaneously produce other valuable products such as semiconductors, biomedical products and even health foods.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Greg Rorrer
Public Release: 17-Sep-2012
{DISSERTATION} Berkeley Lab sensors enable first light for the dark energy camera Mounted on a telescope high in the Andes, the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) saw first light September 12. DECam's half-billion-pixel focal plane is made of Berkeley Lab CCDs, invented and developed by scientists and engineers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and descended from sensors developed for high-energy physics. Highly sensitive to the near-infrared region of the spectrum, Berkeley Lab CCDs are an essential component of the most powerful dark-energy survey instrument yet made.
Department of Energy Office of Science, National Science Foundation, Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, National Optical Astronomy Observatory
Contact: Paul Preuss
Public Release: 17-Sep-2012
Communication Research{DISSERTATION} Your body doesn't lie: People ignore political ads of candidates they oppose A recent study examined people's bodily responses while watching presidential campaign ads -- and discovered another way that people avoid political information that challenges their beliefs.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Zheng Wang
Public Release: 17-Sep-2012
Information Security Conference{DISSERTATION} Carnegie Mellon voice verification technology prevents impersonators from obtaining voiceprints Computer users have learned to preserve their privacy by safeguarding passwords, but with the rise of voice authentication systems, they also need to protect unique voice characteristics. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Language Technologies Institute (LTI) say that is possible with a system they developed that converts a user's voiceprint into something akin to passwords.
National Science Foundation, Foundation for Science and Technology
Contact: Byron Spice
Public Release: 14-Sep-2012
Solid-State Electronics{DISSERTATION} 'Memristors' based on transparent electronics offer technology of the future The transparent electronics that were pioneered at Oregon State University may find one of their newest applications as a next-generation replacement for some uses of non-volatile flash memory, a multi-billion dollar technology nearing its limit of small size and information storage capacity. The solution: memristors.
National Science Foundation, US Office of Naval Research
Contact: John Conley
Public Release: 14-Sep-2012
{DISSERTATION} Oil from algae closer to reality through studies by unique collaboration of scientists A team of researchers that has been working on getting fuel-grade oil out of algae may be within four years of a near-commercial-scale production level. The team, with a combined expertise from agriculture to engineering, has received a two million dollar National Science Foundation grant to help hasten the process.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Kathleen Phillips
Public Release: 13-Sep-2012
Journal of Family Psychology{DISSERTATION} Should I marry him? In the first scientific study to test whether doubts about getting married are more likely to lead to an unhappy marriage and divorce, UCLA psychologists report that when women have doubts before their wedding, those doubts are often a warning sign of trouble if they go ahead with the marriage. The study demonstrates that pre-wedding uncertainty, especially among women, predicts higher divorce rates and less marital satisfaction years later.
NIH/National Institute of Mental Health, National Science Foundation, UCLA
Contact: Stuart Wolpert
Public Release: 13-Sep-2012
PLOS ONE{DISSERTATION} Snakes minus birds equals more spiders for Guam Ecologists have found as many as 40 times more spiders in Guam's remote jungle than are found on nearby islands. The booming spider population is likely due to the destruction of the island's forest birds, including those that eat insects, by the invasive brown treesnake. The large-scale cross-island comparison, published online this week in PLOS ONE, uncovered a larger effect of birds on spiders than had been predicted from small-scale experiments.
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, National Science Foundation, US Department of Agriculture, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Washington
Contact: Jade Boyd
Public Release: 13-Sep-2012
Children and Youth Services Review{DISSERTATION} Poorest miss out on benefits, experience more material hardship, since 1996 welfare reform Although the federal government's 1996 reform of welfare brought some improvements for the nation's poor, it also may have made extremely poor Americans worse off, new research shows. Welfare has become more difficult to obtain for families at the very bottom, who often have multiple barriers to work. As a result, in the new welfare system, the working poor may be doing better while the deeply poor are doing worse.
US Department of Health and Human Services, National Science Foundation
Contact: William Harms
Public Release: 13-Sep-2012
BMC Evolutionary Biology{DISSERTATION} Study of giant viruses shakes up tree of life A new study of giant viruses supports the idea that viruses are ancient living organisms and not inanimate molecular remnants run amok, as some scientists have argued. The study reshapes the universal family tree, adding a fourth major branch to the three that most scientists agree represent the fundamental domains of life.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Diana Yates
Public Release: 13-Sep-2012
Journal of Neural Engineering{DISSERTATION} Scientists use prosthetic device to restore and improve impaired decision-making ability in animals Imagine a prosthetic device capable of restoring decision-making in people who have reduced capacity due to brain disease or injury. While this may sound like science fiction, researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center have proven for the first time that it is possible in non-human primates, and believe that one day it will be possible in people.
National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Contact: Marguerite Beck
Public Release: 13-Sep-2012
Cell{DISSERTATION} Whitehead scientists bring new efficiency to stem cell reprogramming New genetic markers identified by researchers at Whitehead Institute and MIT could help make the process for reprogramming regular body cells into pluripotent stem cells more efficient, allowing scientists to predict which treated cells will successfully become pluripotent.
National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Cancer Institute/Physical Sciences Oncology Center at MIT, Vertex Pharma, National Science Foundation, and others
Contact: Nicole Rura
Public Release: 13-Sep-2012
Science{DISSERTATION} How fast can ice sheets respond to climate change? A new Arctic study in the journal Science is helping to unravel an important mystery surrounding climate change: How quickly glaciers can melt and grow in response to shifts in temperature.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Charlotte Hsu
Public Release: 12-Sep-2012
{DISSERTATION} NSF grant supports innovative big data social science training An interdisciplinary team of Penn State researchers is creating a new training program for doctoral students in Big Data Social Science, with the help of a National Science Foundation grant totaling three million dollars over five years.
National Science Foundation
Contact: A'ndrea Elyse Messer
Public Release: 12-Sep-2012
Journal of Cognition and Development{DISSERTATION} Math anxiety causes trouble for students as early as first grade Many high-achieving students experience math anxiety at a young age -- a problem that can follow them throughout their lives, new research at the University of Chicago shows. In a study of first- and second-graders, Sian Beilock, professor in psychology, found that students report worry and fear about doing math as early as first grade. Most surprisingly math anxiety harmed the highest-achieving students, who typically have the most working memory.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Education
Contact: William Harms
Public Release: 12-Sep-2012
Nature{DISSERTATION} Predicting if scientists will be stars Will a young scientist's career be brilliant or ordinary? Now there's a crystal ball in the form of a new formula that accurately predicts a young scientist's success up to 10 years into the future and could be useful for hiring, tenure and funding decisions. The new formula is more than twice as accurate as a measure called the h index for predicting future success for researchers in the life sciences.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Marla Paul
Public Release: 11-Sep-2012
{DISSERTATION} New software helps reveal patterns in space and time The GeoDa Center for Geographical Analysis & Computation new version of its signature software, OpenGeoDa, adds space-time analysis -- maps and charts that make it possible to track changes in spatial patterns over time.
National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Justice
Contact: Barbara Trapido-Lurie
Public Release: 11-Sep-2012
Physical Review Letters{DISSERTATION} Sliding metals show fluidlike behavior, new clues to wear Researchers have discovered a swirling fluidlike behavior in a solid piece of metal sliding over another, providing new insights into the mechanisms of wear and generation of machined surfaces that could help improve the durability of metal parts.
National Science Foundation, US Army, General Motors
Contact: Emil Venere
Public Release: 11-Sep-2012
{DISSERTATION} Partnership enhances biology teaching at California community colleges With funding from the National Science Foundation, San Francisco State University is bringing together Bay Area community college biology instructors and helping them find innovative ways to refine their teaching. Through workshops, summer sessions and discussion groups, community college faculty are learning how to apply the rigor of scientific research to their teaching through an approach called 'scientific teaching.'
National Science Foundation
Contact: Elaine Bible
Public Release: 11-Sep-2012
{DISSERTATION} American Physiological Society to receive $2.3 million in federal grants American Physiological Society to receive $2.3 million in federal grants to be used to provide new opportunities aimed at bringing traditionally underrepresented groups into science, biomedical careers
NIH/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, NIH/Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Science Foundation
Contact: Donna Krupa
Public Release: 11-Sep-2012
Environmental Science & Technology{DISSERTATION} At least 200,000 tons of oil and gas from Deepwater Horizon spill consumed by gulf bacteria Researchers from the University of Rochester and Texas A&M University have found that, over a period of five months following the disastrous 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill, naturally-occurring bacteria that exist in the Gulf of Mexico consumed and removed at least 200,000 tons of oil and natural gas that spewed into the deep Gulf from the ruptured well head. See video interview with co-author here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Vb7rvWvTjA&feature=youtu.be.
National Science Foundation, NOAA, and others
Contact: Leonor Sierra
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