 |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| News From the National Science Foundation The National Science Foundation (NSF) — For more information about NSF and its programs, visit www.nsf.gov NSF Funded News
Key: Meeting
Showing releases 376-400 out of 712. [ 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 ]
Public Release: 29-Aug-2012
 Evolution{DISSERTATION} Computer viruses could take a lesson from showy peacocks Computer viruses are constantly replicating throughout computer networks and wreaking havoc. But what if they had to find mates in order to reproduce? In the current issue of Evolution, Michigan State University researchers created the digital equivalent of spring break to see how mate attraction played out through computer programs, said Chris Chandler, MSU postdoctoral researcher at MSU's BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action. 
National Science Foundation
Contact: Layne Cameron
Public Release: 29-Aug-2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} URI oceanographers find there is one-third less life on Earth Estimates of the total mass of all life on Earth should be reduced by about one third, based on the results of a study by a team of scientists at the University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography and colleagues in Germany. The new estimate is based on revisions to the amount of carbon stores in subseafloor microbes.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Todd McLeish
Public Release: 29-Aug-2012
Langmuir{DISSERTATION} New antibacterial coating for sutures could reduce infections after surgery Responding to an urgent need for better antibacterial coatings on surgical sutures, scientists are reporting the discovery of a new coating that is almost 1,000 times more effective than the most widely used commercial coating. Their report appears in ACS' journal Langmuir.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Michael Bernstein
Public Release: 29-Aug-2012
{DISSERTATION} Soaking up the Sun Engineers from Drexel University and The University of Pennsylvania are teaming up to make dye-sensitized solar panels more efficient. The group is using mathematical modeling to test the use of nanotubes and a polymer substrate in the panels.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Britt Faulstick
Public Release: 29-Aug-2012
Nature{DISSERTATION} Scripps researchers pinpoint hot spots as earthquake trigger points Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have come a step closer to deciphering some of the basic mysteries and mechanisms behind earthquakes and how average-sized earthquakes may evolve into massive earthquakes. In a paper published in Nature, Scripps scientists describe new information gleaned from laboratory experiments mimicking earthquake processes. The researchers discovered how fault zones weaken in select locations shortly after a fault reaches an earthquake tipping point.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Mario Aguilera or Robert Monroe
Public Release: 29-Aug-2012
Nature{DISSERTATION} Study suggests large methane reservoirs beneath Antarctic ice sheet The Antarctic Ice Sheet could be an overlooked but important source of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, according to a report by an international team of scientists.
Natural Environment Research Council, Leverhulme Trust, National Science Foundation
Contact: Tim Stephens
Public Release: 28-Aug-2012
Ecology Letters{DISSERTATION} Male snails babysit for other dads Pity the male of the marine whelk, Solenosteira macrospira. He does all the work of raising the young, from egg-laying to hatching -- even though few of the baby snails are his own. Throw in extensive promiscuity and sibling cannibalism, and the species has one of the most extreme life histories in the animal kingdom.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Andy Fell
Public Release: 28-Aug-2012
Applied Physics Letters{DISSERTATION} By detecting smallest virus, researchers open possibilities for early disease detection Researchers have created an ultra-sensitive biosensor capable of identifying the smallest single virus particles in solution, an advance that may revolutionize early disease detection in a point-of-care setting and shrink test result wait times from weeks to minutes. The team led by Polytechnic Institute of New York University Professor of Applied Physics Professor Stephen Arnold reported the findings in the most recent issue of Applied Physics Letters.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Kathleen Hamilton
Public Release: 28-Aug-2012
28th General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union Science{DISSERTATION} Kepler discovers planetary system orbiting 2 suns Astronomers at the International Astronomical Union meeting announced the discovery of the first transiting circumbinary multi-planet system: two planets orbiting around a pair of stars. The discovery shows that planetary systems can form and survive even in the chaotic environment around a binary star. And such planets can exist in the habitable zone of their stars.
NASA, National Science Foundation
Contact: Gina Jacobs
Public Release: 28-Aug-2012
Proceedings of the Royal Society B{DISSERTATION} Less is more for reef-building corals Researchers at the University of Hawaii made a discovery that challenges a major theory in the field of coral reef ecology. The general assumption has been that the more flexible corals are, regarding which species of single-celled algae they host in coral tissues, the greater ability corals will have to survive environmental stress. However, scientists documented that the more flexible corals are, the more sensitive to environment disturbances they are.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Marcie Grabowski
Public Release: 27-Aug-2012
USENIX workshoop{DISSERTATION} Frankenstein programmers at UT Dallas test a cybersecurity monster To catch a thief, you have to think like one. UT Dallas computer scientists are trying to stay one step ahead of cyberattackers by creating their own monster. Their monster can cloak itself as it steals and reconfigures information in a computer program.
National Science Foundation, Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Contact: LaKisha Ladson
Public Release: 27-Aug-2012
{DISSERTATION} University of Tennessee Team receives NSF support to study toxic water in China More than 12 million Chinese rely on Lake Taihu for drinking water but about 20 years ago the once pristine lake turned pea green. It had become overrun with toxic blue-green algae which can damage the liver, intestines and nervous system.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Whitney Heins
Public Release: 27-Aug-2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} Plants unpack winter coats when days get shorter Mechanisms that protect plants from freezing are placed in storage during the summer and wisely unpacked when days get shorter. Michael Thomashow, University Distinguished Professor of molecular genetics, demonstrates how the CBF cold response pathway is inactive during warmer months when days are long, and how it's triggered by waning sunlight to prepare plants for freezing temperatures.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy
Contact: Layne Cameron
Public Release: 27-Aug-2012
Molecular Ecology{DISSERTATION} Darwin discovered to be right: Eastern Pacific barrier is virtually impassable by coral species Coral from the eastern Pacific rarely crosses a deep-ocean barrier to reach the west coast of the Americas, according to research that will be published in the journal Molecular Ecology. The finding has important implications for climate-change research, species-preservation efforts, and the economic stability of the eastern Pacific region, including the Galapagos, Costa Rica, Panama, and Ecuador.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Barbara Kennedy
Public Release: 27-Aug-2012
Nature Genetics{DISSERTATION} Vitamin B12 deficiency: Tracing the causes Vitamin B12 is vital. In collaboration with colleagues from Canada, Germany and the United States, researchers from Zurich's University Children's Hospital and the University of Zurich have succeeded in decoding a novel cause of hereditary vitamin B12 deficiency. They have discovered an important gene that determines how vitamin B12 gets into cells. Their discovery enables the diagnosis and treatment of this rare genetic disease.
Swiss National Science Foundation, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Contact: Matthias Baumgartner
Public Release: 26-Aug-2012
Nature Geoscience{DISSERTATION} How ocean currents affect global climate is a question oceanographer may be close to answering Florida State University oceanographer Kevin Speer has a "new paradigm" for describing how the world's oceans circulate -- and with it he may help reshape science's understanding of the processes by which wind, water, sunlight and other factors interact and influence the planet's climate. Speer and a colleague recently published a significant paper in the respected journal Nature Geoscience. With it, they have created what Speer calls a new paradigm in the study of ocean currents on a global scale.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Kevin Speer
Public Release: 26-Aug-2012
Nature Nanotechnology{DISSERTATION} Weighing molecules 1 at a time A team led by scientists at the California Institute of Technology has made the first-ever mechanical device that can measure the mass of individual molecules one at a time.
National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation
Contact: Lawren Markle
Public Release: 24-Aug-2012
{DISSERTATION} Professor's Antarctica research shows potential king crab invasion Dr. Aronson's research finds predatory crabs poised to return to warming Antarctic waters and disrupt the primeval marine communities that have lived there for millions of years.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Karen Rhine
Public Release: 23-Aug-2012
Nano Letters{DISSERTATION} Flat lens offers a perfect image Applied physicists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have created an ultrathin, flat lens that focuses light without imparting the distortions of conventional lenses. It operates at telecom wavelengths -- i.e., those used for fiber-optics -- and is scalable to a wider range.
National Science Foundation, Robert A. Welch Foundation, European Communities Seventh Framework Programme
Contact: Caroline Perry
Public Release: 23-Aug-2012
Nature Geoscience{DISSERTATION} Antarctic ice sheet quakes shed light on ice movement and earthquakes Analysis of small, repeating earthquakes in an Antarctic ice sheet may not only lead to an understanding of glacial movement, but may also shed light on stick slip earthquakes like those on the San Andreas fault or in Haiti, according to Penn State geoscientists.
National Science Foundation
Contact: A'ndrea Elyse Messer
Public Release: 23-Aug-2012
ACS Nano{DISSERTATION} Nanoparticles reboot blood flow in brain Nanoparticles show promise in restoring blood flow to the brain when administered soon after a traumatic brain or other injury.
US Department of Defense, National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
Contact: David Ruth
Public Release: 23-Aug-2012
Science{DISSERTATION} Video-gaming fish play out the advantages of groups Princeton University researchers designed a video game for predatory fish that has unraveled some lingering evolutionary questions about group formation and movement in animals.
Office of Naval Research, National Science Foundation, US Army Research Office
Contact: Morgan Kelly
Public Release: 23-Aug-2012
American Journal of Human Genetics{DISSERTATION} More clues about why chimps and humans are genetically different In research published in September's American Journal of Human Genetics, Georgia Tech's Soojin Yi looked at brain samples of each species. She found that differences in certain DNA modifications, called methylation, may contribute to phenotypic changes. The results also hint that DNA methylation plays an important role for some disease-related phenotypes in humans, including cancer and autism.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Jason Maderer
Public Release: 23-Aug-2012
{DISSERTATION} Origami inspires research into materials that self-assemble when exposed to light A multi-university research team led by North Carolina State University will be developing methods to create two-dimensional materials capable of folding themselves into three-dimensional objects when exposed to light. The effort, which is funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation, is inspired by origami and has a broad range of potential applications.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Matt Shipman
Public Release: 23-Aug-2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} Past tropical climate change linked to ocean circulation, says Texas A&M team A new record of past temperature change in the tropical Atlantic Ocean's subsurface provides clues as to why the Earth's climate is so sensitive to ocean circulation patterns, according to climate scientists at Texas A&M University.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Keith Randall
Showing releases 376-400 out of 712. [ 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 ]
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
