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Public Release: 17-Apr-2013
 Nature
Massive star factory churned in universe's youth
Astronomers find the most prolific star factory yet seen, in a far-distant galaxy that reveals important information about the cosmic environment in the early history of the Universe.

National Science Foundation
Contact: Dave Finley
dfinley@nrao.edu
575-835-7302
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Public Release: 16-Apr-2013
 Nature Communications
Small in size, big on power: New microbatteries the most powerful yet
The most powerful batteries on the planet are only a few millimeters in size, yet they pack such a punch that a driver could use a cellphone powered by these batteries to jump-start a dead car battery -- and then recharge the phone in the blink of an eye. Developed by researchers at the University of Illinois, the new microbatteries out-power even the best supercapacitors and could drive new applications in radio communications and compact electronics.

National Science Foundation, Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Contact: Liz Ahlberg
eahlberg@illinois.edu
217-244-1073
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Public Release: 16-Apr-2013
 ACS Nano
Building a better capacitor with custom nanorods
A new process for growing forests of manganese dioxide nanorods may lead to the next generation of high-performance capacitors.

National Science Foundation
Contact: Marcia Goodrich
mlgoodri@mtu.edu
906-231-2551
Michigan Technological University
Public Release: 16-Apr-2013
 Rapid Research Letters
Layered '2-D nanocrystals' promising new semiconductor
Researchers are developing a new type of semiconductor technology for future computers and electronics based on "two-dimensional nanocrystals" layered in sheets less than a nanometer thick that could replace today's transistors.

National Science Foundation
Contact: Emil Venere
venere@purdue.edu
765-494-4709
Purdue University
Public Release: 16-Apr-2013

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
Researchers devise X-ray approach to track surgical devices, minimize radiation exposure
Researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have developed a new tool to help surgeons use X-rays to track devices used in "minimally invasive" surgical procedures while also limiting the patient's exposure to radiation from the X-rays.

National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health
Contact: Matt Shipman
matt_shipman@ncsu.edu
919-515-6386
North Carolina State University
Public Release: 16-Apr-2013
Scientists look to ancient past to better predict how species may respond climate change
What do woolly mammoths wandering around the ancient spruce woodlands of eastern North America have to do with predicting how species could respond to climate change? Researchers have received an award from the National Science Foundation to study how plants and animals responded to changes in climate during the ice age to better predict what we can expect in the near future.

National Science Foundation
Contact: Amy Pelsinsky
apelsinsky@umces.edu
410-330-1389
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
Public Release: 15-Apr-2013
 Nature Geoscience
Study reveals seasonal patterns of tropical rainfall changes from global warming
Projections of rainfall changes from global warming have been very uncertain because scientists could not determine how two different mechanisms will impact rainfall. The two mechanisms turn out to complement each other and together shape the spatial distribution of seasonal rainfall in the tropics, according to the study of a group of Chinese and Hawaii scientists that is published in the April 14, 2013, online issue of Nature Geoscience.

National Basic Research Program of China, China Natural Science Foundation, US National Science Foundation
Contact: Gisela Speidel
gspeidel@hawaii.edu
808-956-9252
University of Hawaii ‑ SOEST
Public Release: 15-Apr-2013
 Psychological Science
Our futures look bright -- Because we reject the possibility that bad things will happen
People believe they'll be happy in the future, even when they imagine the many bad things that could happen, because they discount the possibility that those bad things will actually occur, according to a new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

National Science Foundation
Contact: Anna Mikulak
amikulak@psychologicalscience.org
202-293-9300
Association for Psychological Science
Public Release: 14-Apr-2013
 Nature Geoscience
Recent climate, glacier changes in Antarctica at the 'upper bound' of normal
In recent decades glaciers at the edge of Antarctica have thinned and research has shown the rate of thinning has accelerated and contributed significantly to sea level rise. New ice core research led by the University of Washington indicates that the changes, though dramatic, cannot be confidently attributed to human-caused global warming.

National Science Foundation Office of Polar Programs
Contact: Vince Stricherz
vinces@uw.edu
206-543-2580
University of Washington
Public Release: 14-Apr-2013
 Nature Nanotechnology
Nanosponges soak up toxins released by bacterial infections and venom
Engineers at the University of California, San Diego have invented a "nanosponge" capable of safely removing a broad class of dangerous toxins from the bloodstream -- including toxins produced by MRSA, E. coli, poisonous snakes and bees.

National Science Foundation, NIH/National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Contact: Catherine Hockmuth
chockmuth@ucsd.edu
858-822-1359
University of California - San Diego
Public Release: 14-Apr-2013
 Nature Climate Change
Cutting specific pollutants would slow sea level rise
With coastal areas bracing for rising sea levels, new research indicates that cutting emissions of certain pollutants can greatly slow down sea level rise. Reductions in the four pollutants that cycle comparatively quickly through the atmosphere could forestall the rate of sea level rise by roughly 25 to 50 percent.

National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy
Contact: David Hosansky
hosansky@ucar.edu
303-497-8611
National Center for Atmospheric Research/University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Public Release: 12-Apr-2013
 Evolutionary Biology
Study proposes alternative way to explain life's complexity
Evolution skeptics argue that some biological structures, like the eye, are too complex for natural selection to explain. Biologists have proposed various ways that so-called "irreducibly complex" structures could emerge incrementally over time. But a new study proposes an alternative route.

National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, National Science Foundation
Contact: Robin Ann Smith
rsmith@nescent.org
919-668-4544
National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent)
Public Release: 11-Apr-2013
 Scientific Reports
Maya Long Count calendar and European calendar linked using carbon-14 dating
The Maya are famous for their complex, intertwined calendric systems, and now one calendar, the Maya Long Count, is empirically calibrated to the modern European calendar, according to an international team of researchers.

National Science Foundation, German Science Foundation
Contact: A'ndrea Elyse Messer
aem1@psu.edu
814-865-9481
Penn State
Public Release: 11-Apr-2013
 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
New technique measures evaporation globally
Researchers at Columbia Engineering and Boston University have developed the first method to map evaporation globally using weather stations, which will help scientists evaluate water resource management, assess recent trends of evaporation throughout the globe, and validate surface hydrologic models in various conditions. The study was published in the April 1 online early edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

National Science Foundation
Contact: Holly Evarts
holly.evarts@columbia.edu
347-453-7408
Columbia University
Public Release: 11-Apr-2013
Small satellites becoming big deal for CU-Boulder students
NASA recently selected the University of Colorado Boulder as one of 24 institutions or organizations to fly tiny satellites designed and built by students as auxiliary payloads aboard rockets planned for launch in 2014, 2015 and 2016.

NASA, National Science Foundation
Contact: Scott Palo
scott.palo@colorado.edu
303-492-4289
University of Colorado at Boulder
Public Release: 11-Apr-2013
 Physical Review Letters
Researchers evaluate Bose-Einstein condensates for communicating among quantum computers
Physicists have examined how Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) might be used to provide communication among the nodes of a distributed quantum computer. The researchers determined the amount of time needed for quantum information to propagate across their BEC.

Department of Energy, National Science Foundation
Contact: John Toon
jtoon@gatech.edu
404-894-6986
Georgia Institute of Technology
Public Release: 11-Apr-2013

IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications
New software alleviates wireless traffic
The explosive popularity of wireless devices -- from WiFi laptops to Bluetooth headsets to ZigBee sensor nodes -- is increasingly clogging the airwaves, resulting in dropped calls, wasted bandwidth and botched connections.

National Science Foundation
Contact: Nicole Casal Moore
ncmoore@umich.edu
734-647-7087
University of Michigan
Public Release: 11-Apr-2013
 Current Biology
How some leaves got fat: It's the veins
Some plants, such as succulents, have managed to grow very plump leaves. For that to happen, according to a new study in Current Biology, plants had to evolve three-dimensional arrangements of their leaf veins. That's how they could maintain adequately efficient hydraulics for photosynthesis.

National Science Foundation
Contact: David Orenstein
david_orenstein@brown.edu
401-863-1862
Brown University
Public Release: 11-Apr-2013
 Science
Fossilized teeth provide new insight into human ancestor
A dental study of fossilized remains found in South Africa in 2008 provides new support that this species is one of the closest relatives to early humans.

National Science Foundation, National Geographic Society
Contact: Debbie Guatelli-Steinberg
Guatelli-steinbe.1@osu.edu
614-292-9768
Ohio State University
Public Release: 10-Apr-2013
 American Journal of Public Health
IU study: 'Backbone' of mental illness stigma common in 16 countries studied
An international study found that despite widespread acceptance that mental illness is a disease that can be effectively treated, a common "backbone" of prejudice exists that unfairly paints people with conditions such as depression and schizophrenia as undesirable for close personal relationships and positions of authority.

NIH/National Institute of Mental Health, Fogarty International Center, National Science Foundation
Contact: Alex Laszlo Capshew
acapshew@indiana.edu
812-855-6256
Indiana University
Public Release: 10-Apr-2013
 Nature
Early warning signs of population collapse
Spatial measurements of population density could reveal when threatened natural populations are in danger of crashing.

Whitaker Health Sciences Fund, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Sloan Fellowship, Pew Scholars Program, Allen Investigator Program
Contact: Sarah McDonnell
s_mcd@mit.edu
617-253-8923
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Public Release: 10-Apr-2013
 Nature Neuroscience
Subconscious mental categories help brain sort through everyday experiences
Princeton University researchers found that the brain breaks experiences into the "events," or related groups that help us mentally organize the day's many situations, using subconscious mental categories it creates. These categories are based on how the considers people, objects and actions are related in terms of how they tend to -- or tend not to -- pop up near one another at specific times.

National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, John Templeton Foundation, James S. McDonnell Foundation
Contact: Morgan Kelly
mgnkelly@princeton.edu
609-258-5729
Princeton University
Public Release: 10-Apr-2013
 ACS Nano
Redesigned material could lead to lighter, faster electronics
Chemists at the Ohio State University have developed a method for making a material that conducts electrons 10 times faster than silicon.

National Science Foundation, US Army Research Office
Contact: Pam Frost Gorder
gorder.1@osu.edu
614-292-9475
Ohio State University
Public Release: 10-Apr-2013
 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Clinging to crevices, E. coli thrive
The scourge of the health care industry, bacteria like E. coli are adept at clinging to the materials used in medical implants like pacemakers, prosthetics, stents, and catheters, spreading slimy biofilm and causing dangerous infections. New research from Harvard University helps to explain how these waterborne bacteria can colonize rough surfaces -- even those that have been designed to resist water.

Office of Naval Research, National Science Foundation, BASF
Contact: Caroline Perry
cperry@seas.harvard.edu
617-496-1351
Harvard University
Public Release: 10-Apr-2013
 New England Journal of Medicine
First objective measure of pain discovered in brain scan patterns by CU-Boulder study
For the first time, scientists have been able to predict how much pain people are feeling by looking at images of their brains, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder.

NIH/National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIH/National Institute of Mental Health, National Science Foundation
Contact: Tor Wager
Tor.Wager@colorado.edu
303-492-7487
University of Colorado at Boulder

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