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Public Release: 11-Sep-2012
{DISSERTATION} Disaster is just a click away Two professors are researching how to help computer users who have little to no computer experience improve their Web browsing safety without security-specific education. The goal is to keep users from making mistakes that could compromise their online security and to inform them when a security failure has happened. 
National Science Foundation
Contact: Eugene Vasserman
Public Release: 11-Sep-2012
 Psychological Science{DISSERTATION} Who (and what) can you trust? People face this predicament all the time -- can you determine a person's character in a single interaction? Can you judge whether someone you just met can be trusted when you have only a few minutes together? And if you can, how do you do it? Using a robot named Nexi, Northeastern University psychology professor David DeSteno and collaborators Cynthia Breazeal from MIT's Media Lab and Robert Frank and David Pizarro from Cornell University have figured out the answer.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Anna Mikulak
Public Release: 11-Sep-2012
Data Mining and Knowledge Recovery{DISSERTATION} Researchers devise more accurate method for predicting hurricane activity Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new method for forecasting seasonal hurricane activity that is 15 percent more accurate than previous techniques.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy
Contact: Matt Shipman
Public Release: 10-Sep-2012
1st International Conference and Summer School in Molecular and Materials Informatics{DISSERTATION} Iowa State, Ames Lab researcher developing new computing approach to materials science Krishna Rajan of Iowa State University and the Ames Laboratory is using data mining, information theory and statistical learning concepts to develop a new approach to discovering materials. Like other methods of materials informatics, Rajan's approach can collect large amounts of data. But he's also developing ideas to target the data that's most relevant to solving a particular problem.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Defense, Iowa State University
Contact: Krishna Rajan
Public Release: 10-Sep-2012
{DISSERTATION} SDSC awarded NSF grant to facilitate sharing and streaming of scientific visualizations The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, has been awarded a three-year, $810,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a resource that lets researchers seamlessly share and stream scientific visualizations on a variety of platforms, including mobile devices.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Jan Zverina
Public Release: 10-Sep-2012
ACM International Conference on Autonomic Computing{DISSERTATION} Researchers craft program to stop cloud computer problems before they start Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new software tool to prevent performance disruptions in cloud computing systems by automatically identifying and responding to potential anomalies before they can develop into problems.
National Science Foundation, US Army Research Office
Contact: Matt Shipman
Public Release: 10-Sep-2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} Wind could meet many times world's total power demand by 2030, researchers say In a new study, researchers at Stanford University's School of Engineering and the University of Delaware developed the most sophisticated weather model available to show that not only is there plenty of wind over land and near to shore to provide half the world's power, but there is enough to exceed total demand by several times if need be, even after accounting for reductions in wind speed caused by turbines.
National Science Foundation, US Environmental Protection Agency, NASA
Contact: Andrew Myers
Public Release: 10-Sep-2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} Wind power's potential Wind turbines could power half the world's future energy demands with minimal environmental impact, according to new research published by University of Delaware and Stanford University scientists in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
National Science Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency, NASA
Contact: Andrea Boyle Tippet
Public Release: 9-Sep-2012
Molecular Cell{DISSERTATION} Study identifies genes associated with genomic expansions that cause disease A study of more than 6,000 genes in a common species of yeast has identified the pathways that govern the instability of GAA/TTC repeats. In humans, the expansions of these repeats is known to inactivate a gene – FXN – which leads to Friedreich's ataxia, a neurodegenerative disease that is currently incurable.
National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation
Contact: John Toon
Public Release: 7-Sep-2012
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment{DISSERTATION} UC Santa Cruz study shows how sea otters can reduce CO2 in the atmosphere A new study by two UC Santa Cruz researchers suggest that a thriving sea otter population that keeps sea urchins in check will in turn allow kelp forests to prosper and help reverse a principal cause of global warming.
National Science Foundation, National Oeanic and Atmoshperic Administration
Contact: Guy Lasnier
Public Release: 7-Sep-2012
Social Computing Conference {DISSERTATION} Who's the most influential in a social graph? Georgia Tech has developed a new algorithm that quickly determines betweenness centrality for streaming graphs. The algorithm can identify influencers as information changes within a network. The first-of-its-kind streaming tool was presented this week by Computational Science and Engineering Ph.D. candidate Oded Green at the Social Computing Conference in Amsterdam.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Jason Maderer
Public Release: 7-Sep-2012
Lethaia{DISSERTATION} Ancient, bottom-dwelling critter proves: Newer isn't always better Tiny sea creatures called rhabdopleurids have lived on the ocean floor for some 500 million years, outlasting more elaborate species that also descended from a common ancestor, according to a new study in the journal Lethaia.
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, National Science Foundation
Contact: Charlotte Hsu
Public Release: 7-Sep-2012
Physical Review Letters{DISSERTATION} Needle beam could eliminate signal loss in on-chip optics An international, Harvard-led team of researchers have demonstrated a new type of light beam that propagates without spreading outwards, remaining very narrow and controlled along an unprecedented distance. This "needle beam," as the team calls it, could greatly reduce signal loss for on-chip optical systems and may eventually assist the development of a more powerful class of microprocessors.
Air Force Office of Scientific Research, National Science Foundation
Contact: Caroline Perry
Public Release: 7-Sep-2012
Environmental Research Letters {DISSERTATION} Researchers emphasize evaluation of tradeoffs in battling urban heat island A team of researchers from Arizona State University have found that warming resulting from megapolitan expansion is seasonally dependent, with greatest warming occurring during summer and least during winter. Among the most practical ways to combat urbanization-induced warming -- the painting of building's roofs white -- was found to disrupt regional hydroclimate, highlighting the need for evaluation of tradeoffs associated with combating urban heat islands.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Skip Derra
Public Release: 6-Sep-2012
Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology{DISSERTATION} Biopsies may overlook esophagus disease University of Utah engineers mapped white blood cells called eonsinophils and showed an existing diagnostic method may overlook an elusive digestive disorder that causes swelling in the esophagus and painful swallowing. By pinpointing the location and density of eosinophils, which regulate allergy mechanisms in the immune system, these researchers suggest the disease eosinophilic esophagitis, or EoE, may be under- or misdiagnosed in patients using the current method, which is to take biopsies.
University of Utah, Utah Governor's Office of Economic Development, National Science Foundation
Contact: Aditi Risbud
Public Release: 6-Sep-2012
Science{DISSERTATION} Weapon-wielding marine microbes may protect populations from foes Researchers at MIT have recently found evidence that some ocean microbes wield chemical weapons that are harmless to close relatives within their own population, but deadly to outsiders.
Moore Foundation, Broad Institute, National Science Foundation, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Contact: Sarah McDonnell
Public Release: 6-Sep-2012
Analytical Chemistry{DISSERTATION} Rice University researchers optimize photoluminescent probes to study DNA and more Rice University researchers fine-tune time-resolved spectroscopy for the study of molecular-scale fluorescent targets.
Welch Foundation, National Science Foundation
Contact: David Ruth
Public Release: 6-Sep-2012
{DISSERTATION} 2 pioneering plant genomics efforts given a funding boost by National Science Foundation With research in plant biology "at a tipping point," in the words of a leading investigator, two pathbreaking efforts by scientists interested in making comparisons across and within sequenced plant genomes -- called Gramene and Plant Reactome -- have been given a significant funding boost and vote of confidence from the National Science Foundation.
National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health
Contact: Peter Tarr
Public Release: 6-Sep-2012
Journal of Experimental Biology{DISSERTATION} Deep-sea crabs grab grub using UV vision Crabs living half-a-mile down in the ocean, beyond the reach of sunlight, have a sort of color vision combining sensitivity to blue and ultraviolet light. Their detection of shorter wavelengths may give the crabs a way to ensure they grab food, not poison.
NOAA, National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Contact: Karl Bates
Public Release: 6-Sep-2012
Journal of Experimental Biology{DISSERTATION} Bright life on the ocean bed: Predators may even color code food Bioluminescence is a common feature of life in the open ocean, but what about on the ocean bed? Scientists from the USA have made the perilous 700 meter descent off the Bahamas' coast and discovered that the ocean bed is awash with flashes of light. Also, the animals down there have impressive color vision, which is perfectly tuned to the dim conditions. The team suggests that these creatures may even color code their food.
US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Science Foundation, US Office of Naval Research
Contact: Kathryn Knight
Public Release: 5-Sep-2012
Nature Geoscience{DISSERTATION} CU-Boulder-led mountain forest study shows vulnerability to climate change A new University of Colorado Boulder-led study that ties forest "greenness" in the western United States to fluctuating year-to-year snowpack indicates mid-elevation mountain ecosystems are most sensitive to rising temperatures and changes in precipitation and snowmelt.
National Science Foundation, NASA
Contact: Noah Molotch
Public Release: 5-Sep-2012
{DISSERTATION} NSF awards $450,000 to UNH, Conductive Compounds Inc. for solar panel innovation University of New Hampshire researchers and Conductive Compounds Inc. in Hudson recently received $450,000 from the National Science Foundation to help produce more conductive and cost-effective solar panels. The three-year grant, under the GOALI (Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry) program, will support the engineering of nanoparticles of silver suitable for screen-printing onto photovoltaic solar panels.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Beth Potier
Public Release: 5-Sep-2012
Palaeogeoraphy, Palaeocilmatology, Palaeoecology{DISSERTATION} Dinosaur die-out might have been second of 2 closely timed extinctions New research indicates that shortly before an asteroid impact spelled doom for the dinosaurs, a separate extinction triggered by volcanic eruptions killed life on the ocean floor.
National Science Foundation, National Scientific and Technological Promotion Agency in Argentina
Contact: Vince Stricherz
Public Release: 5-Sep-2012
Nature{DISSERTATION} Tough gel stretches to 21 times its length, recoils, and heals itself A team of experts in mechanics, materials science, and tissue engineering at Harvard have created an extremely stretchy and tough gel that may pave the way to replacing damaged cartilage in human joints.
ARO, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health
Contact: Caroline Perry
Public Release: 5-Sep-2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} New study examines how ocean energy impacts life in the deep sea A new study of deep-sea species worldwide examines how gradients in food and temperature in the deep sea's dark, frigid waters affect the creatures that live there. Similar studies have been conducted in the shallow oceans, but our understanding of the impact of food and temperature on life in the deep sea -- the Earth's largest and most remote ecosystem -- is more limited. The results will help scientists understand what to expect under future climate change.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Robin Ann Smith
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