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Public Release: 5-Sep-2012
{DISSERTATION} Internal relations Cybersecurity experts are working to keep medical devices -- and the patients they help -- safe from hackers. 
National Science Foundation
Contact: Eugene Vasserman
Public Release: 5-Sep-2012
{DISSERTATION} Center will create self-powered health monitoring devices North Carolina State University will lead a national nanotechnology research effort to create self-powered devices to help people monitor their health and understand how the surrounding environment affects it, the National Science Foundation announced today.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Mick Kulikowski
Public Release: 5-Sep-2012
 Nature{DISSERTATION} Huge human gene study includes Penn State University research The first integrated understanding of how the human genome functions will be published this week -- the triumphant result of a collaborative five-year project called ENCODE, involving more than 440 researchers working in 32 labs worldwide. Penn State's contribution involves using the new ENCODE data to help explain how genetic variants that do not affect the structure of encoded proteins could affect a person's susceptibility to disease.
NIH/National Human Genome Research Institute, National Science Foundation
Contact: Barbara K. Kennedy
Public Release: 5-Sep-2012
PLOS ONE{DISSERTATION} Fathers who sleep closer to children have lower testosterone levels Closer sleeping proximity between fathers and children is associated with a greater decrease in the father's testosterone level, with possible implications for parenting behavior.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Yael Franco
Public Release: 4-Sep-2012
Astrophysical Journal{DISSERTATION} Explosion of galaxy formation lit up early universe The universe was dark until the first stars began to form, but really lit up once massive hydrogen clouds began birthing galaxies of stars. A study by UC Berkeley post-docs Oliver Zahn and Christian Reichardt using data from the South Pole Telescope finds that this period, the Epoch of Reionization, was later and more explosive than thought, ending 13 billion years ago. The clues come from minute temperature fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background radiation.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Robert Sanders
Public Release: 4-Sep-2012
Psychological Science{DISSERTATION} Repeated exposure to traumatic images may be harmful to health Repeated exposure to violent images from the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and the Iraq War led to an increase in physical and psychological ailments in a nationally representative sample of US adults, according to a new UC Irvine study.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Laura Rico
Public Release: 4-Sep-2012
{DISSERTATION} Birth of a planet The Earth and the planets of our solar system are not alone in the universe. Over the past few decades, the hunt for extrasolar planets has yielded incredible discoveries, and now planetary researchers have a new tool -- simulated models of how planets are born.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Faith Singer-Villalobos
Public Release: 4-Sep-2012
Scientific Reports{DISSERTATION} Human impact felt on Black Sea long before industrial era Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution geologist Liviu Giosan and an international team of collaborators including environmental engineers, modelers, paleogeographers, and paleobiologists have pieced together a unique history of the Danube River delta and watershed that ultimately provides evidence for a transformative impact of humans on the Black Sea over hundreds, if not thousands of years.
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, National Science Foundation
Contact: WHOI Media Relations
Public Release: 4-Sep-2012
Optics Letters{DISSERTATION} UCF researchers record world record laser pulse A University of Central Florida research team has created the world's shortest laser pulse and in the process may have given scientists a new tool to watch quantum mechanics in action -- something that has been hidden from view until now.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Defense
Contact: Zenaida Kotala
Public Release: 4-Sep-2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} Gardener's delight offers glimpse into the evolution of flowering plants Double flowers -- though beautiful -- are mutants. The genetic interruption that causes that mutation previously helped scientists pinpoint the genes for normal development of flower sexual organs in Arabidopsis thaliana. Now scientists have proved the same class of genes at work in a representative of a more ancient plant lineage, offering a glimpse further back into the evolutionary development of flowers.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Sandra Hines
Public Release: 4-Sep-2012
Advanced Materials{DISSERTATION} Spinach power gets a big boost Spinach power has just gotten a big boost. Vanderbilt researchers have combined the photosynthetic protein that converts light into electrochemical energy in spinach with silicon, the material used in solar cells, in a fashion that produces substantially more electrical current than has been reported by previous "biohybrid" solar cells.
National Science Foundation, Research Corporation for Scientific Advancement
Contact: David Salisbury
Public Release: 3-Sep-2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} Tigers take the night shift to coexist with people Tigers don't have a reputation for being accommodating, but a new study indicates that the feared and revered carnivores in and around a park in Nepal are taking the night shift to better coexist with their human neighbors. The revelation that tigers and people are sharing the same space flies in the face of long-held convictions in conservation circles. It also underscores how successful conservation efforts need sciences that takes into account both nature and humans.
National Science Foundation, NASA, US Fish and Wildlife Service
Contact: Sue Nichols
Public Release: 31-Aug-2012
{DISSERTATION} Origami design methods project receives $2 million NSF grant A two million dollar grant from the National Science Foundation has been awarded to Mary Frecker, professor of mechanical engineering at Penn State, to develop methods to design active origami structures to be used for applications in minimally invasive surgery, adaptive aircraft structures, reconfigurable robots and deployable space structures.
National Science Foundation
Contact: A'ndrea Elyse Messer
Public Release: 30-Aug-2012
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology{DISSERTATION} Affluent people less likely to reach out to others in times of trouble? Crises are said to bring people closer together. But a new study from the University of California, Berkeley, suggests that while the have-nots reach out to one another in times of trouble, the wealthy are more apt to find comfort in material possessions.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Yasmin Anwar
Public Release: 30-Aug-2012
IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnolgy{DISSERTATION} 'Nanoresonators' might improve cell phone performance Researchers have learned how to mass produce tiny mechanical devices that could help cell phone users avoid the nuisance of dropped calls and slow downloads. The devices are designed to ease congestion over the airwaves to improve the performance of cell phones and other portable devices.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Emil Venere
Public Release: 30-Aug-2012
Scientific Reports{DISSERTATION} Microbes help hyenas communicate via scent Bacteria in hyenas' scent glands may be the key controllers of communication. The results, featured in the current issue of Scientific Reports, show a clear relationship between the diversity of hyena clans and the distinct microbial communities that reside in their scent glands, said Kevin Theis, the paper's lead author and Michigan State University postdoctoral researcher.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Layne Cameron
Public Release: 30-Aug-2012
{DISSERTATION} University at Buffalo, TACC receive funding to evaluate XSEDE clusters A National Science Foundation grant is funding the University at Buffalo and the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas at Austin to evaluate the effectiveness of high-performance computing (HPC) systems in the NSF Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment program and HPC systems in general.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Faith Singer-Villalobos
Public Release: 30-Aug-2012
PLOS ONE{DISSERTATION} Monogamy and the immune system Researchers from UC Berkeley examined the differences between two species of mice -- one monogamous and one promiscuous -- on a microscopic and molecular level. They discovered that the lifestyles of the two mice had a direct impact on the bacterial communities that reside within the female reproductive tract. These differences correlate with enhanced diversifying selection on genes related to immunity against bacterial diseases.
National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health
Contact: Aaron Dubrow
Public Release: 30-Aug-2012
Applied Physics Letters{DISSERTATION} Wayne State's new flexible electronics technology may lead to new medical uses A Wayne State University researcher has developed technology that opens new possibilities for health care and medical applications of electronic devices.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Julie O'Connor
Public Release: 30-Aug-2012
{DISSERTATION} NC State leads national effort to evaluate fresh water sustainability in the southern US North Carolina State University is leading a four-year federal research effort to evaluate freshwater sustainability across the southern United States and develop policy recommendations on what can be done to make the best use of water supplies in the face of population growth and the effects of climate change over the next 10 to 30 years.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Matt Shipman
Public Release: 30-Aug-2012
Journal of Neurology{DISSERTATION} Studying everyday eye movements could aid in diagnosis of neurological disorders Researchers at the University of Southern California have devised a method for detecting certain neurological disorders through the study of eye movements.
National Science Foundation, Army Research Office, Human Frontier Science Program, Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Contact: Katie Dunham
Public Release: 30-Aug-2012
Astrophysical Journal Letters{DISSERTATION} Record-breaking stellar explosion helps understand far-off galaxy Astronomers took advantage of the most distant supernova of its type to probe a galaxy some 9.5 billion light years away. The light from the exploding star, discovered by Pan-STARRS with followup spectroscopic observations by the Gemini North telescope and the Multiple Mirror Telescope, confirmed that the gas environment between the stars in the distant galaxy is "reassuringly normal." The full release is available at: http://sciopsedit.gemini.edu/node/11882.
National Science Foundation, NASA, Us Air Force Research Laboratory
Contact: Peter Michaud
Public Release: 30-Aug-2012
Science{DISSERTATION} Up in the air: Heating by black carbon aerosol re-evaluated Black carbon, in the form of soot particles, has been ranked just behind carbon dioxide for its role in warming regional and global climates. But a new study finds airborne black carbon absorbs significantly less sunlight than scientists had predicted, leading an international team of researchers to reconsider the impact of soot on atmospheric warming.
NOAA, Environmental Protection Agency, National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy, California Air Resources Board, Canadian Federal Government
Contact: Ed Hayward
Public Release: 29-Aug-2012
Nano Letters{DISSERTATION} 'Nano machine shop' shapes nanowires, ultrathin films A new "nano machine shop" that shapes nanowires and ultrathin films could represent a future manufacturing method for tiny structures with potentially revolutionary properties.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Emil Venere
Public Release: 29-Aug-2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} Collagen-seeking synthetic protein could lead doctors to tumor locations A new synthetic protein can pinpoint cancer and other diseases in the body by finding nearby damaged collagen.
National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, US Department of Defense
Contact: Phil Sneiderman
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