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Public Release: 24-Jul-2013
 Journal of Experimental BiologyRules of attraction: Catching a peahen's eye It's not always easy attracting a female mate and peacocks have resorted to colorful displays to catch a peahen's eye. But what is a peahen looking at in a potential suitor? In a collaborative project between the University of California Davis and Duke University, USA, Jessica Yorzinski finds out using an eye-tracking technique that it's the bottom edge of a peacocks train that catches a peahen's attention most. 
National Science Foundation
Contact: Nicola Stead
Public Release: 23-Jul-2013
With NSF grant, Boston College professor cultivates a 'green collar' workforce With a $1.2 million NSF grant, Lynch School of Education Associate Professor Mike Barnett, Boston College colleagues and community groups use innovative indoor gardening technology to foster social entrepreneurship among Boston high school students.
National Science Foundation/Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers Program
Contact: Ed Hayward
Public Release: 23-Jul-2013
SIGGRAPH 2013 ACM Transactions on GraphicsPerfecting digital imaging Three Harvard papers presented at SIGGRAPH this week aim to improve computer graphics and display technologies! One tackles the challenge of rendering realistic translucent objects like soap; the second creates a new type of 3D display technology; and the third makes color grading accessible to amateur videographers.
National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, European Research Council, and others
Contact: Caroline Perry
Public Release: 23-Jul-2013
NatureControlling genes with light A new technology developed at MIT and the Broad Institute can rapidly start or halt the expression of any gene of interest simply by shining light on the cells.
Hubert Schoemaker Felllowship, NIH/Transformative R01 & Director's Pioneer Award, and others
Contact: Sarah McDonnell
Public Release: 23-Jul-2013
SIGGRAPH 20136 months of computing time generates detailed portrait of cloth behavior It would be impossible to compute all of the ways a piece of cloth might shift, fold and drape over a moving human figure. But after six months of computation, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of California, Berkeley, are pretty sure they've simulated almost every important configuration of that cloth. This presents a new paradigm for computer graphics, in which it will be possible to provide real-time simulation for virtually any complex phenomenon.
Intel, National Science Foundation, Google, Qualcomm, Adobe, Pixar, Okawa Foundation
Contact: Byron Spice
Public Release: 23-Jul-2013
Wayne State receives NSF grant to develop plan for field-based water research center Wayne State University researchers announced today a $25,000 planning grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a strategic plan for a field-based water research center.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Julie O'Connor
Public Release: 22-Jul-2013
NatureChemical reaction could streamline manufacture of pharmaceuticals and other compounds Researchers have discovered a new chemical reaction that has the potential to lower the cost and streamline the manufacture of compounds ranging from agricultural chemicals to pharmaceutical drugs. The reaction resolves a long-standing challenge in organic chemistry in creating phenolic compounds from aromatic hydrocarbons quickly and cheaply.
Welch Foundation, National Science Foundation
Contact: Dionicio Siegel
Public Release: 22-Jul-2013
GeologyGeochemical 'fingerprints' leave evidence that megafloods eroded steep gorge For the first time, scientists have direct geochemical evidence that the 150-mile long Tsangpo Gorge, possibly the world's deepest, was the conduit by which megafloods from glacial lakes, perhaps half the volume of Lake Erie, drained catastrophically through the Himalayas when their ice dams failed during the last 2 million years.
National Science Foundation, University of Washington Quaternary Research Center
Contact: Vince Stricherz
Public Release: 22-Jul-2013
Nature GeoscienceSea level rise: New iceberg theory points to areas at risk of rapid disintegration In events that could exacerbate sea level rise over the coming decades, stretches of ice on the coasts of Antarctica and Greenland are at risk of rapidly cracking apart and falling into the ocean, according to new iceberg calving simulations from the University of Michigan.
National Science Foundation, NASA
Contact: Nicole Casal Moore
Public Release: 22-Jul-2013
NatureHow to survive without sex: Rotifer genome reveals its strategies How a group of animals can abandon sex, yet produce more than 460 species over evolutionary time, became a little less mysterious this week with the publication of the complete genome of a bdelloid rotifer (Adineta vaga) in the journal Nature.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Diana Kenney
Public Release: 22-Jul-2013
SIGGRAPH 2013Carnegie Mellon, Microsoft scientists use game to generate database for analysis of drawing The fingers of thousands of people who created sketches of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie on their iPhones can collectively guide and correct the drawing strokes of subsequent touchscreen users in an application created by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft Research.
National Science Foundation, Google, Qualcomm, Adobe, Intel, Okawa Foundation
Contact: Byron Spice
Public Release: 22-Jul-2013
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesBees 'betray' their flowers when pollinator species decline Remove even one bumblebee species from an ecosystem and the impact is swift and clear: their floral "sweethearts" produce significantly fewer seeds. The results show how reduced competition among pollinators disrupts floral fidelity, or specialization, among the remaining bees in the system, leading to less successful plant reproduction. The alarming trend suggests that global declines in pollinators could have a bigger impact on flowering plants and food crops than was previously realized.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Beverly Clark
Public Release: 22-Jul-2013
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesMost flammable boreal forests in North America become more so A 2,000-square-kilometer zone in the Yukon Flats of interior Alaska -- one of the most flammable high-latitude regions of the world, according to scientists -- has seen a dramatic increase in both the frequency and severity of fires in recent decades. Wildfire activity in this area is higher than at any other time in the past 10,000 years, the researchers report.
National Science Foundation, National Parks Ecological Research Fellowship
Contact: Diana Yates
Public Release: 19-Jul-2013
Nature CommunicationsDesktop printing at the nano level A new low-cost, high-resolution tool is primed to revolutionize how nanotechnology is produced from the desktop, according to a new study by Northwestern University researchers.
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, National Science Foundation, US Department of Defense, Chicago Biomedical Consortium, others
Contact: Erin White
Public Release: 18-Jul-2013
ScienceLizards show evolution is predictable If you could hit the reset button on evolution and start over, would essentially the same species appear? Yes, according to a study of Caribbean lizards.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Andy Fell
Public Release: 18-Jul-2013
NWSC named 'green' data center of the year The NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center has been named the 2013 "'Green' Data Center of the Year" at the inaugural Datacenter Dynamics North American Awards.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Rachael Drummond
Public Release: 18-Jul-2013
Genes & DevelopmentNewly found CLAMP protein regulates genes A newly discovered protein, found in many species, turns out to be the missing link that allows a key regulatory complex to find and operate on the lone X chromosome of male fruit flies, bringing them to parity with females. Called CLAMP, the protein provides a model of how such regulatory protein complexes find their chromosome targets.
National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Pew Biomedical Scholars Program, Rhode Island Foundation
Contact: David Orenstein
Public Release: 18-Jul-2013
Chemistry - A European JournalNew methods to visualize bacterial cell-to-cell communication Researchers at the University of Basel have developed a live-cell fluorescent labeling that makes bacterial cell-to-cell communication pathways visible. The communication between bacterial cells is essential in the regulation of processes within bacterial populations, such as biofilm development. The results have been published in the journal Chemistry: A European Journal.
Swiss National Science Foundation
Contact: Reto Caluori
Public Release: 18-Jul-2013
SciencePenn researchers help show new way to study and improve catalytic reactions A study by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Trieste and Brookhaven National Laboratory has shown a way to precisely design the active elements of a certain class of catalysts, showing which parameters are most critical for improving performance. This highly controlled process could be a new paradigm for fine-tuning catalysts used in everything from making new materials to environmental remediation.
COST, US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Contact: Evan Lerner
Public Release: 18-Jul-2013
ScienceMicrobes can influence evolution of their hosts Contrary to current scientific understanding, it appears that our microbial companions play an important role in their hosts' evolution. A new study provides the first direct evidence that these microbes can contribute to the origin of new species by reducing the viability of hybrids produced between males and females of different species.
National Science Foundation
Contact: David Salisbury
Public Release: 17-Jul-2013
Proceedings of the Royal Society AIroning out the origins of wrinkles, creases and folds Engineers from Brown University have mapped out the amounts of compression required to cause wrinkles, creases, and folds to form in rubbery materials. The findings could help engineers control the formation of these structures, which can be useful in designing nanostructured materials for flexible electronic devices or surfaces that require variable adhesion.
National Science Foundation, Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials
Contact: Kevin Stacey
Public Release: 17-Jul-2013
PLOS BiologyInformation in brain cells' electrical activity combines memory, environment, and state of mind The information carried by the electrical activity of neurons is a mixture of stored memories, environmental circumstances, and current state of mind, scientists have found in a study of laboratory rats. The findings offer new insights into the neurobiological processes that give rise to knowledge and memory recall.
National Science Foundation
Contact: James Devitt
Public Release: 17-Jul-2013
Proceedings of the Royal Society BBig-nosed, long-horned dinosaur discovered in Utah A remarkable new species of horned dinosaur has been unearthed in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, southern Utah. The huge plant-eater inhabited Laramidia, a landmass formed when a shallow sea flooded the central region of North America, isolating western and eastern portions for millions of years during the Late Cretaceous Period. The newly discovered dinosaur, belonging to the same family as the famous Triceratops, was announced today in the British scientific journal, Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Bureau of Land Management, National Science Foundation
Contact: Patti Carpenter
Public Release: 16-Jul-2013
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesFamily tree of fish yields surprises The mighty tuna is more closely related to the delicate seahorse than to a marlin or sailfish. That is one of the surprises from the first comprehensive family tree, or phylogeny, of the "spiny-rayed fish," a group that includes about a third of all living vertebrate species. The work is published July 15 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Andy Fell
Public Release: 16-Jul-2013
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesResearchers step closer to custom-building new blood vessels Researchers at Johns Hopkins have coaxed stem cells into forming networks of new blood vessels in the laboratory, then successfully transplanted them into mice. The stem cells are made by reprogramming ordinary cells, so the new technique could potentially be used to make blood vessels genetically matched to individual patients and unlikely to be rejected by their immune systems, the investigators say.
American Heart Association, NIH/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH/National Cancer Institute, National Science Foundation
Contact: Shawna Williams
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