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Public Release: 19-Feb-2013
 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} Computer modeling reveals how surprisingly potent hepatitis C drug works A study by researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory and a multinational team reveals how daclatasvir, a direct-acting antiviral agent in development for the treatment of hepatitis C virus (HCV), targets one of its proteins and causes the fastest viral decline ever seen with anti-HCV drugs -- within 12 hours of treatment. 
National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, University of Illinois Walter Payton Liver Center Guild
Contact: Nancy Ambrosiano
Public Release: 19-Feb-2013
Nature{DISSERTATION} Mutant champions save imperiled species from almost-certain extinction Species facing widespread and rapid environmental changes can sometimes evolve quickly enough to dodge the extinction bullet. University of Washington scientists consider the genetic underpinnings of such "evolutionary rescue."
National Science Foundation, University of Washington Royalty Research Funds
Contact: Sandra Hines
Public Release: 19-Feb-2013
Nature Communications{DISSERTATION} That's the way the droplets adhere A new technique developed by MIT researchers provides the first direct views of how drops and bubbles adhere to surfaces -- and how they let go.
National Science Foundation, DuPont-MIT Alliance
Contact: Sarah McDonnell
Public Release: 19-Feb-2013
{DISSERTATION} NYU project to examine social media's impact on political attitudes and behavior NYU faculty have established a project to examine the impact of social media use on political attitudes and participation by applying methods from a range of academic disciplines. The project, Social Media and Political Participation, is funded by a three-year, $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
National Science Foundation
Contact: James Devitt
Public Release: 19-Feb-2013
{DISSERTATION} Tufts civil engineer wins national award for research on monitoring public structures Promising research into monitoring structural soundness of buildings and bridges has earned Babak Moaveni, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering in the Tufts School of Engineering, an early career award from the National Science Foundation.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Alex Reid
Public Release: 19-Feb-2013
Proceedings of the Royal Society B{DISSERTATION} Climate change effect on plant communities is buffered by large herbivores, new research suggests Can existing ecological communities persist intact as temperatures rise? A news study suggests that the answer to this question may have as much to do with the biological interactions that shape communities as with the effects of climate change itself.
National Geographic Society, National Science Foundation
Contact: Barbara Kennedy
Public Release: 19-Feb-2013
{DISSERTATION} Nature's phenomena might teach Virginia Tech engineers new tricks The National Science Foundation has a Physics of Living program that funds research projects at the interface of biology, mathematical modeling, physics, and engineering. NSF has awarded Sunghwan Jung, principal investigator, along with Jake Socha, both assistant professors of engineering science and mechanics, and Pavlos Vlachos, professor of mechanical engineering, a little over a half a million dollars to investigate the water entry and exit problems that are apparent in engineering mechanics based on a better understanding of biology.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Lynn Nystrom
Public Release: 18-Feb-2013
Geology{DISSERTATION} Ancient fossilized sea creatures yield oldest biomolecules isolated directly from a fossil Though scientists have long believed that complex organic molecules couldn't survive fossilization, some 350-million-year-old remains of aquatic sea creatures uncovered in Ohio, Indiana, and Iowa have challenged that assumption.
National Science Foundation, Geological Society of America
Contact: Pam Frost Gorder
Public Release: 18-Feb-2013
Journal of Biomedical Materials Research{DISSERTATION} Researchers coat spinal polymer implants with bioactive film to improve bonding with bone Researchers from North Carolina State University have for the first time successfully coated polymer implants with a bioactive film. The discovery should improve the success rate of such implants -- which are often used in spinal surgeries.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Matt Shipman
Public Release: 18-Feb-2013
{DISSERTATION} New supercomputer to aid genomics research The National Center for Supercomputing Applications has gifted the Institute for Genomic Biology a highly parallel shared memory supercomputer named Ember. The Ember computing system has become part of the IGB biocluster, adding 1536 cores and eight terabytes of memory spread across four nodes.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Nicholas Vasi
Public Release: 18-Feb-2013
Monthly Weather Review{DISSERTATION} Lake-effect snow sometimes needs mountains University of Utah researchers ran computer simulations to show that the snow-producing "lake effect" isn't always enough to cause heavy snowfall, but that mountains or other surrounding topography sometimes are necessary too.
National Science Foundation, NOAA/National Weather Service
Contact: Lee J. Siegel
Public Release: 18-Feb-2013
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} The role of goop: Research shows pollution doesn't change the rate of droplet formation When it comes to forming the droplets that make up clouds, a little oily and viscous organic material apparently doesn't matter that much. And that's good news for reducing the uncertainty of climate model predictions.
National Science Foundation, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NASA, US Department of Energy, Office of Naval Research
Contact: John Toon
Public Release: 17-Feb-2013
Nature Materials{DISSERTATION} New material interface improves functioning of non-silicon-based electronic devices For the first time, researchers have designed a special material interface that has been shown to add to and to improve the functioning of non-silicon-based electronic devices, such as those used in certain kinds of random access memory. The new method could be used to design improved, more-efficient, multilevel and multifunctional devices, as well as enhanced nanoelectronic components -- such as non-volatile information storage and processing; and spintronic components
US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation
Contact: Barbara Kennedy
Public Release: 17-Feb-2013
Nature Physics{DISSERTATION} Dopants dramatically alter electronic structure of superconductor Study demonstrates that doping dramatically alters the atomic-scale electronic structure of the parent of a high-temperature superconductor, with important consequences for the behavior of the current-carrying electrons. The findings could potentially point to new ways to design superconductors with improved properties.
US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, UK Research Council, Scottish Funding Council, Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research
Contact: Karen McNulty Walsh
Public Release: 17-Feb-2013
Nature{DISSERTATION} 'Snooze button' on biological clocks improves cell adaptability The circadian clocks that control and influence dozens of basic biological processes have an unexpected 'snooze button' that helps cells adapt to changes in their environment.
NIH/National Institute of General Medical Sciences, National Science Foundation, Welch Foundation, Burroughs Wellcome Fund, David & Lucille Packard Foundation
Contact: David Salisbury
Public Release: 17-Feb-2013
2013 AAAS Annual Meeting{DISSERTATION} Brown University scientists to discuss resilience of coastal communities at AAAS Heather Leslie and Leila Sievanen are members of an interdisciplinary research team focused on human-environment interactions in coastal regions. They will participate in a symposium titled, "Building Resilience of Coastal Communities to Environmental and Institutional Shocks," at the AAAS meeting in Boston.
National Science Foundation, Brown University/Environmental Change Initiative, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Contact: Kevin Stacey
Public Release: 16-Feb-2013
2013 AAAS Annual Meeting{DISSERTATION} Malawi's bountiful harvests and healthier children In Malawi, the fields are full -- and so are the children. Through research led by Michigan State University, crop yields have increased dramatically. The children of Ekwendi, Malawi, also have gained weight and are taller. These improvements bring smiles to Sieglinde Snapp, MSU ecologist, and other researchers who have worked in Malawi for many years.
National Science Foundation, McKnight Foundation, US Agency for International Development
Contact: Layne Cameron
Public Release: 16-Feb-2013
2013 AAAS Annual Meeting{DISSERTATION} Mentoring models to move minorities to majorities in STEM Evidence of a shift in US demographics and importance of minorities took center stage during the Presidential election, but how do those growing toward majority acquire representation in our educational and technological communities?
National Science Foundation
Contact: Margaret Coulombe
Public Release: 15-Feb-2013
Scientific Reports{DISSERTATION} Forget about leprechauns, engineers are catching rainbows University at Buffalo engineers have created a more efficient way to catch rainbows, an advancement in photonics that could lead to technological breakthroughs in solar energy, stealth technology and other areas of research.
National Science Foundation, University at Buffalo Electrical Engineering Department
Contact: Cory Nealon
Public Release: 15-Feb-2013
Physical Review Letters{DISSERTATION} Force is the key to granular state-shifting Ever wonder why sand can both run through an hourglass like a liquid and be solid enough to support buildings? It's because granular materials -- like sand or dirt -- can change their behavior, or state. Researchers from North Carolina State University have found that the forces individual grains exert on one another are what most affect that transition.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Tracey Peake
Public Release: 14-Feb-2013
Nucleic Acids Research{DISSERTATION} A microbial biorefinery provides new insight into how bacteria regulate genes New research reveals the genetic and chemical mechanisms through which some bacteria consume lignin, a highly stable polymer that accounts for up to a third of plant biomass. Microorganisms that can break down plant biomass into the precursors of biodiesel or other commodity chemicals might one day be used to produce alternatives to petroleum.
National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Brown University
Contact: Kevin Stacey
Public Release: 14-Feb-2013
12th Joint MMM/Intermag Conference{DISSERTATION} Researchers invent 'acoustic-assisted' magnetic information storage Electrical engineers have discovered a way to use high-frequency sound waves to enhance the magnetic storage of data, offering a new approach to improve the data storage capabilities of a multitude of electronic devices around the world.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Pallavi Dhagat
Public Release: 14-Feb-2013
SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics{DISSERTATION} Math helps detect gang-related crime and better allocate police resources Social groups in a population can lend important cues to law enforcement officials, consumer-based services and risk assessors. Social and geographical patterns that provide information about such communities or gangs have been a popular subject for mathematical modeling. In a paper published last month in the SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, authors use police department records about individuals' social and geographical information to determine gang memberships.
National Science Foundation, DMS, Office of Naval Research, AFOSR MURI
Contact: Karthika Muthukumaraswamy
Public Release: 14-Feb-2013
Astrophysical Journal{DISSERTATION} MOND used to predict key property in Andromeda's satellites Using modified laws of gravity, researchers from Case Western Reserve University and Weizmann Institute of Science closely predicted a key property - velocity dispersion - measured in faint dwarf galaxies that are satellites of the nearby giant spiral galaxy Andromeda.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Kevin Mayhood
Public Release: 14-Feb-2013
Science{DISSERTATION} Tough, light and strong: Lessons from nature could lead to the creation of new materials In a sweeping review of the field of bio-inspired engineering and biomimicry in the Feb. 15 issue of the journal Science, two engineers at the University of California, San Diego, identify three characteristics of biological materials that they believe engineers would do well to emulate in man-made materials: light weight, toughness and strength.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Ioana Patringenaru
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