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Public Release: 19-Aug-2009
{DISSERTATION} Managing disasters with high-tech imaging could save lives Improving disaster response is one of the goals of the Information Products Laboratory for Emergency Response, a partnership between Rochester Institute of Technology and the University at Buffalo. The collaboration will foster research to improve disaster mitigation planning, real-time response and recovery efforts, and to create potential business opportunities for industry. The incubator is being funded by a $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. 
National Science Foundation
Contact: Susan Gawlowicz
Public Release: 19-Aug-2009
 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} Geobiologists propose that the earliest complex organisms fed by absorbing ocean buffet Research at Virginia Tech has shown that the oldest complex life forms -- living in nutrient-rich oceans more than 540 million years ago -- likely fed by osmosis.
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, NASA, National Science Foundation, Bateman Fellowship
Contact: Susan Trulove
Public Release: 19-Aug-2009
{DISSERTATION} NSF Emerging Frontiers' program supports development of smart materials based on study of fish After engineers and scientists at Virginia Tech, Harvard and Drexel finish studying the locomotion of fish in water, Michael Phelps may find he has a few new ways to increase his world-breaking Olympic times. The remarkable ability of fish to maneuver in tight places, or to hover in one area efficiently, or to accelerate in a seemingly effortless fashion has researchers wondering if they can create smarter materials that emulate the biology of these vertebrates.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Lynn Nystrom
Public Release: 19-Aug-2009
Nature{DISSERTATION} Water in mantle may be associated with subduction A team of scientists from Oregon State University has created the first global 3-D map of electrical conductivity in the Earth's mantle and their model suggests that that enhanced conductivity in certain areas of the mantle may signal the presence of water.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Adam Schultz
Public Release: 19-Aug-2009
{DISSERTATION} Carnegie Mellon leads NSF initiative to develop modeling tools for disease and complex systems A multidisciplinary team led by Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist Edmund M. Clarke has received a five-year, $10 million grant from the National Science Foundation's Expeditions in Computing program to create revolutionary computational tools that will advance science on a broad array of fronts, from discovering new cancer treatments to designing safer aircraft.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Byron Spice
Public Release: 19-Aug-2009
Nature{DISSERTATION} LIGO listens for gravitational echoes of the birth of the universe An investigation by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration has significantly advanced our understanding the early evolution of the universe. Analysis of data taken from 2005 to 2007 has set the most stringent limits yet on the amount of gravitational waves that could have come from the Big Bang in the gravitational wave frequency band where LIGO can observe. The data put new constraints on the details of how the universe looked in its earliest moments.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Kathy Svitil
Public Release: 18-Aug-2009
American Chemical Society 238th National Meeting{DISSERTATION} How mercury becomes toxic in the environment Naturally occurring organic matter in water and sediment appears to play a key role in helping microbes convert tiny particles of mercury in the environment into a form that is dangerous to most living creatures.
National Science Foundation, American Chemical Society
Contact: Richard Merritt
Public Release: 17-Aug-2009
Nature Nanotechnology{DISSERTATION} Caltech and IBM scientists use self-assembled DNA scaffolding to build tiny circuit boards Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and IBM's Almaden Research Center have developed a new technique to orient and position self-assembled DNA shapes and patterns -- or "DNA origami" -- on surfaces that are compatible with today's semiconductor manufacturing equipment. These precisely positioned DNA nanostructures, each no more than one one-thousandth the width of a human hair, can serve as scaffolds or miniature circuit boards for the precise assembly of computer-chip components.
National Science Foundation, Focus Center Research Program
Contact: Kathy Svitil
Public Release: 17-Aug-2009
Advanced Materials{DISSERTATION} Organic electronics a 2-way street, thanks to new plastic semiconductor A new organic material lets both positive and negative charges flow efficiently. It permits a simpler design of organic electronics, using a single material for transporting positive and negative charges.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy, Ford Foundation
Contact: Hannah Hickey
Public Release: 17-Aug-2009
Ear and Hearing{DISSERTATION} Taking up music so you can hear Anyone with an MP3 device has a notion of the majesty of music, of the primal place it holds in the human imagination. But musical training should not be seen simply as stuff of the soul -- a frill that has to go when school budgets dry up, according to a new Northwestern University study. It is the first demonstration of musical training offsetting the deleterious effects of background noise, and the implications are provocative.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Pat Vaughan Tremmel
Public Release: 17-Aug-2009
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} Listening to rocks helps researchers better understand earthquakes Using a technique called "ambient noise correlation," University of Illinois seismologist Xiaodong Song and graduate student Zhen J. Xu have observed significant changes in the behavior of parts of Earth's crust that were disturbed by three major earthquakes.
National Science Foundation, US Air Force Research Laboratory
Contact: James E. Kloeppel
Public Release: 17-Aug-2009
American Association for Cancer Research 97th Annual Meeting Genome Research{DISSERTATION} New DNA test uses nanotechnology to find early signs of cancer Using tiny crystals called quantum dots, Johns Hopkins researchers have developed a highly sensitive test to look for DNA attachments that often are early warning signs of cancer.
NIH/National Cancer Institute, National Science Foundation, Hodson Foundation, Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute
Contact: Phil Sneiderman
Public Release: 17-Aug-2009
Nature Geoscience{DISSERTATION} Ocean-drilling expedition cites new evidence related to origin and evolution of seismogenic faults New research about what triggers earthquakes, authored by Michael Strasser of Bremen University, Germany, with colleagues from the US, Japan, China, France and Germany, will appear in the Aug. 16, 2009, issue of Nature Geoscience (online version). The research article, titled "Origin and evolution of a splay-fault in the Nankai accretionary wedge" is drawn from the scientists' participation in the Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone Experiment (NanTroSEIZE).
National Science Foundation, Japan Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Contact: Raesah Et'Tawil
Public Release: 17-Aug-2009
Journal of Clinical Investigation{DISSERTATION} Research points to new target for stopping colon cancer New research led by scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine have found a drug target that suggests a potent way to kill colon cancers that resist current drugs aimed at blocking a molecule found on the surface of cells.
NIH/National Cancer Institute, National Science Foundation, Korea Science and Engineering Foundation
Contact: Les Lang
Public Release: 17-Aug-2009
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} Honey-bee aggression study suggests nurture alters nature A new study of honey bees lends support to the idea that nurture (an organism's environment) may ultimately influence nature (it's genetic inheritance).
National Science Foundation, Fyssen Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Illinois Sociogenomics Initiative, US Department of Agriculture
Contact: Diana Yates
Public Release: 16-Aug-2009
Optics Express{DISSERTATION} A new cloaking method University of Utah mathematicians developed a new cloaking method, and it's unlikely to lead to invisibility cloaks like those used by Harry Potter or Romulan spaceships in "Star Trek." Instead, the new method someday might shield submarines from sonar, planes from radar, buildings from earthquakes, and oil rigs and coastal structures from tsunamis.
National Science Foundation, University of Utah
Contact: Lee Siegel
Public Release: 16-Aug-2009
Nature{DISSERTATION} New nanolaser key to future optical computers and technologies Researchers have created the tiniest laser since its invention nearly 50 years ago, paving the way for a host of innovations, including superfast computers that use light instead of electrons to process information, advanced sensors and imaging.
National Science Foundation, US Army Research Office
Contact: Emil Venere
Public Release: 13-Aug-2009
PLoS Computational Biology{DISSERTATION} Math model accurately mimics cell division in carbon-cycling bacterium Virginia Tech scientists have developed a quantitative, mathematical model of DNA replication and cell division for the bacterium Caulobacter crescentus.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Barry Whyte
Public Release: 13-Aug-2009
{DISSERTATION} Louisiana Tech receives $1.8M in grants for nanosystems, energy research Louisiana Tech University's College of Engineering and Science has been awarded a $1.4 million grant from the US Department of Energy, while Dr. Long Que, an assistant professor of electrical engineering, has received a $400,000 National Science Foundation CAREER award.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy
Contact: Dave Guerin
Public Release: 13-Aug-2009
Science{DISSERTATION} Early modern humans use fire to engineer tools from stone Evidence that early modern humans living on the southern coast of Africa 72,000 years ago employed pyrotechnology -- the controlled use of fire -- to increase the quality and efficiency of their stone tool manufacturing process, is being reported in the Aug. 14 issue of Science. This technology required a novel association between fire, its heat, and a structural change in stone with consequent flaking benefits; findings ignite notion of complex cognition in these early engineers.
National Science Foundation, Hyde Family Foundation
Contact: Carol Hughes
Public Release: 13-Aug-2009
PLoS Genetics{DISSERTATION} Carnegie Mellon develops innovative method to detect genetic causes of complex diseases Computational biologists at Carnegie Mellon University have developed an analytical technique to detect the multiple genetic variations that contribute to complex disease syndromes such as diabetes, asthma and cancer, which are characterized by multiple clinical and molecular traits.
National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Contact: Byron Spice
Public Release: 12-Aug-2009
Journal of American Chemical Society{DISSERTATION} Camera flash turns an insulating material into a conductor An insulator can now be transformed to conduct electricity by an ordinary camera flash. A team of Northwestern University researchers has found a new way of turning graphite oxide -- a low-cost insulator made by oxidizing graphite powder -- into graphene, a hotly studied material that conducts electricity. Scientists believe graphene could be used to produce low-cost carbon-based transparent and flexible electronics.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Megan Fellman
Public Release: 12-Aug-2009
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} Genome duplication responsible for more plant species than previously thought Extra genomes appear, on average, to offer no benefit or disadvantage to plants, but still play a key role in the origin of new species, say scientists from Indiana University Bloomington and three other institutions in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Contact: David Bricker
Public Release: 12-Aug-2009
Nature{DISSERTATION} Princeton pair sets world record in packing puzzle Two Princeton University researchers have made a major advance in addressing a twist in the packing problem, jamming more tetrahedra -- solid figures with four triangular faces -- and other polyhedral solid objects than ever before into a space. The work could result in better ways to store data on compact discs as well as a better understanding of matter itself.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Kitta MacPherson
Public Release: 12-Aug-2009
{DISSERTATION} LSU professor develops integrated storm surge and hurricane wave modeling capabilities Q. Jim Chen, LSU associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and recipient of one of the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards, the NSF Career Grant, leads a research group tasked with helping our coastal communities better prepare for hurricanes and other inevitable events that come with living near the coast.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Ashley Berthelot
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