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Public Release: 28-Aug-2009
 Lab on a Chip{DISSERTATION} Acoustic tweezers can position tiny objects Manipulating tiny objects like single cells or nanosized beads often requires relatively large, unwieldy equipment, but now a system that uses sound as a tiny tweezers can be small enough to place on a chip, according to Penn State engineers. 
National Science Foundation
Contact: A'ndrea Elyse Messer
Public Release: 28-Aug-2009
Lancet{DISSERTATION} New tool to predict the risk of death in COPD may help physicians to individualize treatment Researchers have developed an index scale to help physicians predict a patient's risk of dying from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The ADO index can help physicians assess the severity of a patient's illness to determine the appropriate level of treatment. COPD is a major public health problem and it is the fourth leading cause of death in the US. The study of the ADO index is published in the Aug. 29 edition of the Lancet.
Swiss National Science Foundation, Klinik Barmelweid, Fondo de Investigación Sanitaria Ministry of Health, Spain, Agència d'Avaluació de Tecnologia i Recerca Mèdiques, Catalonia Government, Spanish Society of Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery
Contact: Tim Parsons
Public Release: 27-Aug-2009
Geology{DISSERTATION} Slowly slip-sliding faults don't cause earthquakes Some slow-moving faults may help protect against destructive earthquakes, suggests new research. Until now, geologists thought when the crack between two pieces of the Earth's crust was at a very gentle slope, there was no movement along that particular fault line. Now two University of Arizona geoscientists have found that such a low-angle normal fault in Italy is moving slowly and steadily.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Mari N. Jensen
Public Release: 27-Aug-2009
{DISSERTATION} Fisk/Vanderbilt program receives $3.7 million to increase minority Ph.D.s in the physical sciences A unique collaboration between Fisk and Vanderbilt universities that is poised to become the nation's top source of Ph.D.s awarded to underrepresented minorities in physics and astronomy has received a major boost from three federal grants totaling $3.7 million.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Education
Contact: David F. Salisbury
Public Release: 27-Aug-2009
Marine Biodiversity{DISSERTATION} Texas A&M-Galveston professor discovers new species of marine life Two tiny worms much smaller than a rice grain and a strange crustacean that has no eyes and poisonous fangs are among several new species of marine life discovered in an underwater cave by a Texas A&M University at Galveston researcher, who has had one of the new species named after him.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Tom Iliffe
Public Release: 27-Aug-2009
Biomaterials{DISSERTATION} Researchers pinpoint neural nanoblockers in carbon nanotubes A team of Brown University scientists has pinpointed why carbon nanotubes tend to block a critical signaling pathway in neurons. It's not the tubes, the team finds, but the metal catalysts used to form the tubes. The discovery means carbon nanotubes without metal catalysts may be useful in treating human neurological disorders. The results appear in Biomaterials.
National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, US Environmental Protection Agency
Contact: Richard Lewis
Public Release: 27-Aug-2009
Nature{DISSERTATION} New temperature reconstruction from Indo-Pacific warm pool A new 2,000-year-long reconstruction of sea surface temperatures from the Indo-Pacific warm pool suggests that temperatures in the region may have been as warm during the Medieval Warm Period as they are today.
National Science Foundation, WHOI Ocean and Climate Change Institute
Contact: Media Relations
Public Release: 27-Aug-2009
{DISSERTATION} Making global science networking more user-friendly Computer scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago's Electronic Visualization Laboratory have received a $1.9 million National Science Foundation grant to develop ways to make NSF's "OptIPuter" project that networks collaborating scientists around the globe more "user-friendly."
National Science Foundation
Contact: Paul Francuch
Public Release: 27-Aug-2009
{DISSERTATION} Cognitive scientists use eye-tracking technology to learn what makes a great geologist Cognitive scientists, geologists and vision scientists are teaming up to learn how expert geologists unconsciously view landscapes for clues that point the way to important discoveries. The National Science Foundation has awarded the team, led by the University of Rochester and including the Rochester Institute of Technology, $2 million over the next five years to find the answers.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Jonathan Sherwood
Public Release: 27-Aug-2009
{DISSERTATION} Galaxy formation research earns astronomer NSF CAREER award for young scientists An astronomer who came to Indiana University Bloomington two years ago to study the formation and evolution of galaxies has received the National Science Foundation's most prestigious award for early career, tenure-track teachers and scholars.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Steve Chaplin
Public Release: 27-Aug-2009
{DISSERTATION} Stimulus funding helps K-State bring undergrads to prairie for ecology, molecular biology research Federal stimulus research funding means Kansas State University ecologists will get more help studying the tallgrass prairie.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Ari Jumpponen
Public Release: 27-Aug-2009
Quaternary Research{DISSERTATION} The mysterious glaciers that grew when Asia heated up Long ago a group of Himalayan glaciers grew by several kilometers even while Central Asia's climate warmed up to six degrees Celsius. BYU professor Summer Rupper's analysis attributes much of the glacial growth to increased cloudiness and wind. Rupper is lending her glacier expertise to a project that will forecast the Indus River system's water supply for the coming decades.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Joe Hadfield
Public Release: 27-Aug-2009
Science{DISSERTATION} Scientists uncover solar cycle, stratosphere and ocean connections Subtle connections between the 11-year solar cycle, the stratosphere, and the tropical Pacific Ocean work in sync to generate periodic weather patterns that affect much of the globe, according to research appearing this week in the journal Science.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy
Contact: David Hosansky
Public Release: 27-Aug-2009
Science{DISSERTATION} Mice living in sandy hills quickly evolved lighter coloration In a vivid illustration of natural selection at work, scientists at Harvard University have found that deer mice living in Nebraska's Sand Hills quickly evolved lighter coloration after glaciers deposited sand dunes atop what had been much darker soil. The work is described this week in the journal Science.
National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology
Contact: Steve Bradt
Public Release: 26-Aug-2009
Geophysical Research Letters{DISSERTATION} Tropical storms endure over wet land, fizzle over dry If it has already rained, it's going to continue to pour, according to a Purdue University study of how ocean-origin storms behave when they come ashore. More than 30 years of monsoon data from India showed that ground moisture where the storms make landfall is a major indicator of what the storm will do from there. If the ground is wet, the storm is likely to sustain, while dry conditions should calm the storm.
National Science Foundation, NASA
Contact: Brian Wallheimer
Public Release: 26-Aug-2009
{DISSERTATION} International Greenland ice coring effort sets new drilling record in 2009 A new international research effort on the Greenland ice sheet with the University of Colorado at Boulder as the lead US institution set a record for single-season deep ice-core drilling this summer, recovering more than a mile of ice core that is expected to help scientists better assess the risks of abrupt climate change in the future.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Jim White
Public Release: 26-Aug-2009
{DISSERTATION} WPI professor receives CAREER Award to pursue groundbreaking research on dust explosions Although dust buildup is among the most serious and common fire and explosion hazards in a range of industries, little is known about how dust ignites or how dust explosions propagate, according to Ali Rangwala, assistant professor of fire protection engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Rangwala recently received a five-year, $429,000 National Science Foundation CAREER Award to close this knowledge gap through a groundbreaking study of dust ignition and flame propagation in dust clouds.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Michael Dorsey
Public Release: 26-Aug-2009
Biology Letters{DISSERTATION} Scientists find evidence of iridescence in 40 million-year-old feather fossil A team of paleontologists and ornithologists led by Yale University has discovered evidence of vivid iridescent colors in feather fossils more than 40 million years old. The finding signifies the first evidence of a preserved color-producing nanostructure in a fossilized feather.
National Science Foundation, National Geographic Society, Yale University
Contact: Suzanne Taylor Muzzin
Public Release: 25-Aug-2009
Physical Review Letters{DISSERTATION} LEGO toy helps researchers learn what happens on nanoscale Johns Hopkins engineers are using a popular children's toy to visualize the behavior of particles, cells and molecules in environments too small to see with the naked eye. These researchers are arranging little LEGO pieces shaped like pegs to recreate microscopic activity taking place inside lab-on-a-chip devices at a scale they can more easily observe.
National Science Foundation, American Chemical Society
Contact: Mary Spiro
Public Release: 25-Aug-2009
{DISSERTATION} Slow-motion earthquake testing probes how buildings collapse in quakes It takes just seconds for tall buildings to collapse during earthquakes. Knowing what's happening in those seconds can help engineers design buildings that are less prone to sustaining that kind of damage. But the nature of collapse is not well understood. That's why researchers at the University at Buffalo and Kyoto University teamed up to try an innovative "hybrid" approach to testing that may provide a safer, less expensive way to learn about building collapses.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Ellen Goldbaum
Public Release: 25-Aug-2009
{DISSERTATION} NSF awards Space@VT $2 million to improve space weather understanding Members of Virginia Tech's Space@VT research group will to build a chain of space weather instrument stations in Antarctica.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Lynn Nystrom
Public Release: 25-Aug-2009
{DISSERTATION} Global warming threatens tropical species, the ecosystem and its by-products Tropical lizards detect the effects of global warming in a climate where the smallest change makes a big difference, according to herpetologist Laurie Vitt, curator of reptiles and George Lynn Cross Research Professor at the University of Oklahoma's Sam Noble Museum of Natural History. Climate change caused by global warming threatens the very existence of these and other tropical species, the ecosystem and its by-products, Vitt maintains.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Jana Smith
Public Release: 24-Aug-2009
Molecular Ecology{DISSERTATION} Scientists shed new light on behavior of shark 'tweens' and 'teenagers' A long-term study by the Institute for Ocean Conservation Science and others has shown that young lemon sharks born in Bimini, Bahamas, tend to stay near their coastal birthplace for many years. Knowledge about these intermediate-aged animals -- the breeders of tomorrow -- has been limited. Thus, tropical island-nations that sacrifice their nursery habitats to coastal development are therefore likely to lose both babies and much older sharks, with potentially dire effects on the surrounding ecosystem.
Pew Charitable Trusts, National Science Foundation, Roe Foundation, others
Contact: Kathryn Cervino
Public Release: 24-Aug-2009
{DISSERTATION} NISS to work on syndomic surveillance project for NSF and DTRA The National Science Foundation and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency have awarded $664,019 to the National Institute of Statistical Sciences for collaborative research to develop Bayesian methods for syndromic surveillance. The research focuses on use of conditionally auto regressive models to provide quantified estimates of the probability that a disease is present in a particular location, on characterization of associated uncertainties, and on computational implementation at a nationwide scale.
National Science Foundation, Defense Threat Reduction Agency
Contact: Jamie Nunnelly
Public Release: 24-Aug-2009
Journal of the American Chemical Society{DISSERTATION} Lower-cost solar cells to be printed like newspaper, painted on rooftops Solar cells could soon be produced more cheaply using nanoparticle "inks" that allow them to be printed like newspaper or painted onto the sides of buildings or rooftops to absorb electricity-producing sunlight.
National Science Foundation, Welch Foundation, Air Force Research Laboratory
Contact: Brian Korgel
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