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Public Release: 23-Aug-2012
 Advanced Functional Materials{DISSERTATION} Sensor detects glucose in saliva and tears for diabetes testing Researchers have created a new type of biosensor that can detect minute concentrations of glucose in saliva, tears and urine and might be manufactured at low cost because it does not require many processing steps to produce. 
National Science Foundation, US Office of Naval Resarch
Contact: Emil Venere
Public Release: 23-Aug-2012
Association for Computing Machinery's MobiCom 2012{DISSERTATION} How to feed data-hungry mobile devices? Use more antennas Rice University researchers today unveiled Argos, a new multi-antenna technology that could help wireless providers keep pace with the voracious demands of data-hungry smartphones and tablets. Argos prototype results were presented today at ACM MobiCom 2012 in Istanbul. Argos aims to dramatically increase network capacity by allowing cell towers to simultaneously beam signals to more than a dozen customers on the same frequency.
National Science Foundation, Bell Labs, Alcatel Lucent, Air Force Office of Sponsored Research
Contact: David Ruth
Public Release: 23-Aug-2012
Science{DISSERTATION} Supernovae of the same brightness, cut from vastly different cosmic cloth The multi-institutional Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) team presents the first-ever direct observations of a Type 1a supernova progenitor system. Astronomers have collected evidence indicating that the progenitor system of a Type 1a supernova, called PTF 11kx, contains a red giant star. They also show that the system previously underwent at least one much smaller nova eruption before it ended its life in a destructive supernova.
US Department of Energy, NASA, National Science Foundation
Contact: Linda Vu
Public Release: 22-Aug-2012
Cell Reports{DISSERTATION} Video shows the traffic inside a brain cell Using bioluminescent proteins from a jellyfish, a team of scientists has lit up the inside of a neuron, capturing spectacular video footage that shows the movement of proteins throughout the cell.
National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation
Contact: Robert Perkins
Public Release: 21-Aug-2012
Current Biology{DISSERTATION} Research reveals unique solution to gene regulation Research on a unique vertebrate called the sea lamprey shows that more than a thousand genes are shed during its early development. By undergoing programmed genome rearrangement and gene loss during embryogenesis, the sea lamprey "seals" the genes away in the small germline compartment so they cannot be misexpressed and create untoward problems (such as development of cancer, for example). The study was completed at the Benaroya Research Institute and recently published in Current Biology.
National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Contact: Kay Branz
Public Release: 21-Aug-2012
Child Development{DISSERTATION} For poorer children, living in a high-cost area hurts development Researchers have found that young children in lower-income families who live in high-cost areas don't do as well academically as their counterparts in low-cost areas. The study used data from a nationally representative sample of more than 17,500 children at more than 2,000 schools who started kindergarten in 1998. Differences for lower-income families according to cost of living in the area of residence held even when taking into account a comprehensive set of demographic variables.
National Science Foundation, others
Contact: Sarah Mancoll
Public Release: 20-Aug-2012
Physical Review Letters{DISSERTATION} Halo of neutrinos alters physics of exploding stars Sparse halos of neutrinos within the hearts of exploding stars exert a previously unrecognized influence on the physics of the explosion and may alter which elements can be forged by these violent events.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Susan Brown
Public Release: 20-Aug-2012
Physical Review Letters{DISSERTATION} It's always sunny in Caltech Lab In orbit around Earth is a wide range of satellites that we rely on for everything from television feeds to GPS navigation. Although these spacecraft soar high above storms on Earth, they are still vulnerable to weather from the sun. Large solar flares can cause widespread damage, which is why researchers at Caltech are working to learn more about the possible precursors to solar flares called plasma loops by recreating them in the lab.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy, Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Contact: Brian Bell
Public Release: 20-Aug-2012
American Journal of Botany{DISSERTATION} Information overload in the era of 'big data' The ability of botanists and other scientists to generate data quickly and cheaply is surpassing their ability to access and analyze it. Scientists facing too much information rely on computers to search large data sets for patterns that are beyond the capability of humans to recognize. New tools called ontologies provide the rules computers need to transform information into knowledge, by attaching meaning to data, thereby making those data more retrievable and understandable.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Richard Hund
Public Release: 19-Aug-2012
Nature Methods{DISSERTATION} Artificial intelligence helps detect subtle differences in mutant worms Scientists have demonstrated an automated system that uses artificial intelligence and cutting-edge image processing to rapidly examine large numbers of individual nematodes -- a species widely used in biological research.
National Institute of Health, National Science Foundation
Contact: John Toon
Public Release: 18-Aug-2012
PLOS Genetics{DISSERTATION} Molecular code cracked Scientists have cracked a molecular code that may open the way to destroying or correcting defective gene products, such as those that cause genetic disorders in humans.
Australian Research Council, WA State Government, National Science Foundation
Contact: Janine MacDonald
Public Release: 17-Aug-2012
Science{DISSERTATION} Princeton study reveals the brain's mysterious switchboard operator Princeton University researchers report that a mysterious region deep in the human brain could be where we sort through the onslaught of stimuli from the outside world and focus on the information most important to our behavior and survival.
National Science Foundation, NIH/National Eye Institute
Contact: Morgan Kelly
Public Release: 17-Aug-2012
{DISSERTATION} HASTAC wins NSF grant to study its own social network Six years after building a first-of-its-kind academic network for virtual collaborations, HASTAC has received a $294,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to perform a large-scale analysis of the interplay of cyberinfrastructure and scholarly communication.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Anna Rose Beck
Public Release: 17-Aug-2012
Global Change Biology{DISSERTATION} Studies shed light on why species stay or go in response to climate change Two new studies by UC Berkeley scientists provide a clearer picture of why some species move -- and where they go -- in response to climate change. One found a dramatic decline in populations of a mountain ground squirrel, except where humans lived. Another paper finds that precipitation is an underappreciated driving force for species' response to climate change.
National Science Foundation, National Park Service, California Landscape Conservation Cooperative
Contact: Sarah Yang
Public Release: 16-Aug-2012
{DISSERTATION} Researchers hope to transform software engineering training Failures in communication, organization and teamwork are the primary cause of the high rate of failure for software projects, says SF State's Dragutin Petkovic. He is leading a project that hopes to improve the effectiveness of software engineering teams by learning what causes them to fail.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Jonathan Morales
Public Release: 16-Aug-2012
Nature Geoscience{DISSERTATION} Tibetan Plateau may be older than previously thought The growth of high topography on the Tibetan Plateau in Sichuan, China, began much earlier than previously thought, according to an international team of geologists who looked at mountain ranges along the eastern edge of the plateau.
Chinese National Key Projects Program, National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Science Foundation
Contact: A'ndrea Elyse Messer
Public Release: 16-Aug-2012
{DISSERTATION} Maryland - Delaware partnership brings teachers and scientists together on climate change The National Science Foundation announced that it is funding a major initiative to help prepare educators in Maryland and Delaware to teach climate change science in the classroom. The $5.8 million cooperative agreement supports implementation of the Maryland-Delaware Climate Change Education, Assessment, and Research (MADE CLEAR) partnership, an effort to forge new ways to deliver effective and relevant climate change education that could serve as a national model.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Amy Pelsinsky
Public Release: 16-Aug-2012
Cell{DISSERTATION} Researchers uncover how poxviruses such as smallpox evolve rapidly -- despite low mutation rates Poxviruses, a group of DNA-containing viruses that includes smallpox, are responsible for a wide range of diseases in humans and animals. They are highly virulent and able to cross species barriers, yet how they do so has been largely a mystery because of their low mutation rates.
National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Life Sciences Research Foundation
Contact: Kristen Woodward
Public Release: 15-Aug-2012
Nature{DISSERTATION} Giant galaxy cluster sets record pace for star creation Astronomers have found an extraordinary galaxy cluster -- one of the largest objects in the universe -- that is breaking several important cosmic records. The discovery of this cluster, known as the Phoenix Cluster, made with the National Science Foundation's South Pole Telescope, may force astronomers to rethink how these colossal structures, and the galaxies that inhabit them, evolve.
National Science Foundation, NASA
Contact: Steve Koppes
Public Release: 15-Aug-2012
Nature{DISSERTATION} Good vibrations Using a unique optical trapping system that provides ensembles of ultracold atoms, Berkeley Lab scientists have recorded the first direct observations of distinctly quantum optical effects -- amplification and squeezing -- in an optomechanical system. Their findings point the way toward low-power quantum optical devices and enhanced detection of gravitational waves among other possibilities.
US Air Force, Office of Scientific Research, National Science Foundation
Contact: Lynn Yarris
Public Release: 15-Aug-2012
{DISSERTATION} New method to remove phosphorous from wastewater A professor at Michigan State University is part of a team developing a new method of removing phosphorous from our wastewater -- a problem seriously affecting lakes and streams across the country.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Tom Oswald
Public Release: 15-Aug-2012
Translational Psychiatry{DISSERTATION} Acute stress alters control of gene activity Acute stress alters the methylation of the DNA and thus the activity of certain genes. This is reported by researchers at the Ruhr-Universitat Bochum together with colleagues from Basel, Trier and London for the first time in the journal Translational Psychiatry. "The results provide evidence how stress could be related to a higher risk of mental or physical illness", says Prof. Dr. Gunther Meinlschmidt from the University Hospital of the RUB.
German Research Foundation, Swiss National Science Foundation
Contact: Proffesor Dr. Gunther Meinlschmidt
Public Release: 15-Aug-2012
{DISSERTATION} Greenland melting breaks record 4 weeks before season's end Melting over the Greenland ice sheet shattered the seasonal record on Aug. 8 -- a full four weeks before the close of the melting season, reports Marco Tedesco, assistant professor of Earth and atmospheric sciences at the City College of New York.
National Science Foundation, NASA
Contact: Jessa Netting
Public Release: 14-Aug-2012
Journal of the American Chemical Society{DISSERTATION} Color-coded markers may help doctors diagnose neural diseases through the eyes Scientists have devised several new fluorescent probes that change color depending on what type of amyloid they encounter. Because amyloids accumulate in the eye as well as the brain, their discovery offers hope that one day neurodegenerative diseases could be differentially diagnosed with simple eye drops or ointment and an eye exam.
National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health
Contact: Susan Brown
Public Release: 14-Aug-2012
{DISSERTATION} How do they do it? Predictions are in for Arctic sea ice low point Each year scientists predict the low point of Arctic Sea ice. The final predictions were released Aug. 13. But how do they do it? University of Washington researchers used some new techniques this year in hopes of improving the accuracy of their prediction.
NSF, NASA
Contact: Nancy Gohring
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