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Public Release: 7-Feb-2013
 Social Forces{DISSERTATION} Going along means getting along -- and that's not always good, Baylor study finds Caving in to social pressure -- such as saying that you love a movie because friends do -- makes for good vibes about being part of a group and can produce more of the same conduct, according to a Baylor University sociological study. The finding has implications for people ranging from philanthropists to gangs, researchers said. 
National Science Foundation
Contact: Terry Goodrich
Public Release: 7-Feb-2013
Current Biology{DISSERTATION} Salmon may use magnetic field as a navigational aid The mystery of how salmon navigate across thousands of miles of open ocean to locate their river of origin before journeying upstream to spawn has intrigued biologists for decades. A new study suggests a correlation with changes in the intensity of the geomagnetic field.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Nathan Putman
Public Release: 7-Feb-2013
Science{DISSERTATION} Largest-ever study of mammalian ancestry completed by renowned research team A groundbreaking six-year research collaboration has produced the most complete picture yet of the evolution of placental mammals, the group that includes humans. Researchers from Carnegie Museum of Natural History are among the team of 23 that took part in this extensive interdisciplinary effort that utilizes molecular (DNA) and morphological (anatomy) data on an extraordinary scale. By combining these two types of data scientists reconstructed, to an unprecedented level of detail, the family tree of placental mammals.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Leigh Kish
Public Release: 7-Feb-2013
Science{DISSERTATION} New evidence suggests comet or asteroid impact was last straw for dinosaurs While many assume that a comet or asteroid impact killed off the dinosaurs, the actual dates of the impact and extinction are imprecise enough that some have questioned the connection. UC Berkeley and Berkeley Geochronology Center scientists have now dated the extinction with unprecedented precision and concluded that the impact and extinction where synchronous. While global climate change probably brought dinosaurs and other creatures to the brink, the impact likely was the final blow.
Getty Foundation, National Science Foundation, University of California Berkeley
Contact: Robert Sanders
Public Release: 7-Feb-2013
Science{DISSERTATION} Placental mammal diversity exploded after age of dinosaurs Researchers have reconstructed the common ancestor of placental mammals--a diverse group including animals ranging from rodents to whales to humans--using the world's largest dataset of both genetic and physical traits. In research to be published in the journal Science, the scientists reveal that, contradictory to a commonly held theory, placental mammals did not diversify into their present-day lineages until after the extinction event that eliminated non-avian dinosaurs some 65 million years ago.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Kendra Snyder
Public Release: 6-Feb-2013
Geosphere{DISSERTATION} Volcano location could be greenhouse-icehouse key A new Rice University-led study suggests that Earth's repeated flip-flopping between greenhouse and icehouse climates during the past 500 million years may have been caused by an episodic flare-up of volcanoes at key locations where enormous amounts of carbon dioxide were poised for release into the atmosphere. The study by scientists at Rice, the University of Tokyo, the University of British Columbia, Pomona College, Caltech and Texas A&M University appears this month in GeoSphere.
Packard Foundation, University of Tokyo, National Science Foundation, University of California - Berkeley Miller Institute
Contact: Jade Boyd
Public Release: 6-Feb-2013
Nature Genetics{DISSERTATION} Scientists identify genetic mechanism that contributed to Irish Famine A team of plant pathologists at the University of California, Riverside studied the pathogen that triggered the Irish Famine of the 19th century by infecting potato plants, and deciphered how it succeeded in crippling the potato plant's immune system.
US Department of Agriculture, National Science Foundation
Contact: Iqbal Pittalwala
Public Release: 6-Feb-2013
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} Sensing the light, but not to see In a primitive marine organism, MBL scientists find photosensitive cells that may be ancestral to the "circadian receptors" in the mammalian retina.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Diana Kenney
Public Release: 6-Feb-2013
Journal of Phycology{DISSERTATION} Nitrogen from pollution, natural sources causes growth of toxic algae, study finds Nitrogen in ocean waters fuels the growth of two tiny but toxic phytoplankton species that are harmful to marine life and human health, warns a new study published in the Journal of Phycology. Researchers from San Francisco State University found that nitrogen entering the ocean -- whether through natural processes or pollution -- boosts the growth and toxicity of a group of phytoplankton that can cause the human illness amnesic shellfish poisoning.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Elaine Bible
Public Release: 6-Feb-2013
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} Preserving biodiversity can be compatible with intensive agriculture Preserving genetically diverse local crops in areas where small-scale farms are rapidly modernizing is possible, according to a Penn State geographer, who is part of an international research project investigating the biodiversity of maize, or corn, in hotspots of Bolivia, Peru and Mexico.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Melissa Beattie-Moss
Public Release: 6-Feb-2013
Earth and Planetary Science Letters{DISSERTATION} India joined with Asia 10 million years later than previously thought A new timeline suggests India's size before this collision was much smaller than generally assumed.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Caroline McCall
Public Release: 6-Feb-2013
Earth and Planetary Science Letters{DISSERTATION} The deep roots of catastrophe A University of Utah seismologist analyzed seismic waves that bombarded Earth's core, and believes he got a look at the earliest roots of Earth's most cataclysmic kind of volcanic eruption. But don't worry. He says it won't happen for perhaps 200 million years.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Lee J. Siegel
Public Release: 6-Feb-2013
{DISSERTATION} Book shows evolution that joins human and environmental sciences Hot-button issues such as climate change, wildlife conservation and restoring decimated rainforests are renowned scientific playgrounds. Emilio Moran, co-editor of a new book "Human-Environmental Interactions," makes the case that people -- their motivations and indeed, how they feel -- are indispensable data when it comes to saving the planet and addressing environmental problems.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Sue Nichols
Public Release: 6-Feb-2013
Nature{DISSERTATION} Forecasting a supernova explosion Type II supernovae are formed when massive stars collapse, initiating giant explosions. It is thought that stars emit a burst of mass as a precursor to the supernova explosion. If this process were better understood, it could be used to predict and study supernova events in their earliest stages. New observations from a team of astronomers including Carnegie's Mansi Kasliwal show a remarkable mass-loss event about a month before the explosion of a type IIn supernova.
Arye Dissentshik, Helen Kimmel Center, Israeli MoS, Royal Society, National Science Foundation, Israeli SF, and more
Contact: Mansi Kasliwal
Public Release: 6-Feb-2013
ACS Nano{DISSERTATION} X-rays reveal uptake of nanoparticles by soya bean crops Scientists have for the first time traced engineered nanoparticles, taken up from soil by crop plants, and analyzed the chemical states of their metallic elements. Zinc dissolves and accumulates throughout the plants; cerium does not dissolve, but CeO2 nanoparticles were detected in plant tissue. This contributes to the controversial debate on plant toxicity of nanoparticles and entry of engineered nanoparticles into the food chain.
National Science Foundation, US Environmental Protection Agency
Contact: Claus Habfast
Public Release: 5-Feb-2013
{DISSERTATION} UT Dallas researchers pushing the boundaries of virtual reality UT Dallas researchers are leading a multimedia project that allows people to interact with each other in the same space, even if they are miles apart.
National Science Foundation
Contact: LaKisha Ladson
Public Release: 5-Feb-2013
Nature Scientific Reports{DISSERTATION} Next-gen e-readers: Improved 'peacock' technology could lock in color for high-res displays Iridescence, or sheen that shifts color depending on your viewing angle, is pretty in peacock feathers. But it's been a nuisance for engineers trying to mimic the birds' unique color mechanism to make high-resolution, reflective, color display screens.
Air Force Office of Scientific Research, National Science Foundation
Contact: Nicole Casal Moore
Public Release: 5-Feb-2013
PLOS Genetics{DISSERTATION} Mitochondrial mutations: When the cell's 2 genomes collide Animal cells contain two genomes: One in the nucleus and one in the mitochondria. When mutations occur in each, they can become incompatible, leading to disease. To increase understanding of such illnesses, scientists at Brown University and Indiana University have traced one example in fruit flies down to the individual errant nucleotides and the mechanism by which the flies become sick.
National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Indiana University
Contact: David Orenstein
Public Release: 5-Feb-2013
PLOS Genetics{DISSERTATION} Biologists map rare case of fitness-reducing interaction in nuclear, mitochondrial DNA A team of biologists from Indiana University and Brown University believes it has discovered the mechanism by which interacting mutations in mitochondrial and nuclear DNA produce an incompatible genotype that reduces reproductive fitness and delays development in fruit flies.
National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Indiana University
Contact: Steve Chaplin
Public Release: 5-Feb-2013
Langmuir{DISSERTATION} Achilles heel: Popular drug-carrying nanoparticles get trapped in bloodstream Many medically minded researchers are in hot pursuit of designs that will allow drug-carrying nanoparticles to navigate tissues and the interiors of cells, but University of Michigan engineers have discovered that these particles have another hurdle to overcome: escaping the bloodstream.
American Heart Association, National Science Foundation
Contact: Kate McAlpine
Public Release: 5-Feb-2013
Plant Cell{DISSERTATION} Newly discovered plant structure may lead to improved biofuel processing When Li Tan approached his colleagues at the University of Georgia with some unusual data he had collected, they initially seemed convinced that his experiment had become contaminated; what he was seeing simply didn't make any sense.
National Science Foundation, Department of Energy BioEnergy Science Center
Contact: Debra Mohnen
Public Release: 5-Feb-2013
ASME 32nd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering{DISSERTATION} Cargo container research to improve buildings' ability to withstand tsunamis A multi-university team lead by Ronald Riggs, a structural engineer at the University of Hawaii, has determined just what the impact of cargo containers could be and will present findings at an international conference in June. The goal is to supply structural engineers with information to design buildings in areas vulnerable to tsunamis.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Jeanne Norberg
Public Release: 5-Feb-2013
Nature Communications{DISSERTATION} Using single quantum dots to probe nanowires Plasmonic antennas will help image and detect bio-particles. This new research helps establish this approach.
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, National Science Foundation, PFS, Naval Research Applied Electromagnetics Center
Contact: Phillip F. Schewe
Public Release: 5-Feb-2013
Nature Communications{DISSERTATION} Evidence that at least 1 mammal can smell in stereo Neuroscientist Kenneth Catania has resolved a long-standing scientific debate by showing that the common mole can smell in stereo.
National Science Foundation
Contact: David Salisbury
Public Release: 4-Feb-2013
{DISSERTATION} New effort to find why replacement hips and knees go bad A Case Western Reserve University researcher has been awarded a five-year $600,000 National Science Foundation-CAREER grant to create new materials and equipment to test ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene used to make artificial joints. She and her team of researchers will also develop magnetic particle imaging techniques to monitor degradation and wear.
US National Science Foundation
Contact: Kevin Mayhood
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