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Public Release: 24-Jul-2012
 Molecular Psychiatry{DISSERTATION} Some harmful effects of light at night can be reversed Chronic exposure to dim light at night can lead to depressive symptoms in rodents -- but these negative effects can be reversed simply by returning to a standard light-dark cycle, a new study suggests. 
National Science Foundation, US Department of Defense
Contact: Tracy Bedrosian
Public Release: 23-Jul-2012
The Condor{DISSERTATION} UC Berkeley survey shows college campuses can make good bird havens Thanks to the discovery of an unpublished 1913-18 campus bird survey, a UC Berkeley student undertook a resurvey and discovered that, while the types of birds have changed over the past 90+ years, the variety and diversity is still strong. The finding suggests that urban green spaces, and college campuses in particular, can serve as islands of diversity in dense urban areas, say ornithologist Rauri Bowie and Allison Shultz, now a graduate student at Harvard.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Robert Sanders
Public Release: 23-Jul-2012
Proceedings of the Royal Society B{DISSERTATION} Superfast evolution in sea stars How quickly can new species arise? In as little as 6,000 years, according to a study of Australian sea stars.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Andy Fell
Public Release: 23-Jul-2012
{DISSERTATION} A portal for Earth science data exploration As the earth and environmental sciences evolve to be more data-intensive, discovering, integrating and analyzing massive amounts of heterogeneous information becomes critical to enable researchers to address complex questions about our environment and our role within it. DataONE, the Data Observation Network for Earth, today released technology capable of providing researchers access to globally distributed, networked data from a single point of discovery.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Amber Budden
Public Release: 23-Jul-2012
American Museum Novitates{DISSERTATION} New species of ancient rodents hint at what could be world's oldest grasslands Researchers have described two ancient species of South American rodents, including the oldest chinchilla, a discovery that substantiates what might be the earliest grasslands in the world. The two new species lived about 32.5 million years ago in what are now the Chilean Andes. Studies of the teeth of the ancient chinchilla support evidence indicating that the animals inhabited an open and dry environment 15 million years before grasslands emerged elsewhere in the world.
US National Science Foundation
Contact: Kendra Snyder
Public Release: 23-Jul-2012
Computers in Human Behavior{DISSERTATION} Study shows why some types of multitasking are more dangerous than others In a new study that has implications for distracted drivers, researchers found that people are better at juggling some types of multitasking than they are at others.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Zheng Wang
Public Release: 23-Jul-2012
Nature Geoscience{DISSERTATION} Traveling through the volcanic conduit Scientists widely believe that volcanic particle size is determined by the initial fragmentation process, when bubbly magma deep in the volcano changes into gas-particle flows. But new Georgia Tech research indicates a more dynamic process where the amount and size of volcanic ash actually depend on what happens afterward, as the particles race toward the surface.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Jason Maderer
Public Release: 23-Jul-2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} Scientists confirm existence of vitamin 'deserts' in the ocean Using a newly developed analytical technique, a team led by scientists at USC was the first to identify long-hypothesized vitamin B deficient zones in the ocean.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Robert Perkins
Public Release: 23-Jul-2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} Polar bear evolution tracked climate change, new DNA study suggests A whole-genome analysis suggests that polar bear numbers waxed and waned with climate change, and that the animals may have interbred with brown bears since becoming a distinct species millions of years ago.
Penn State University, University at Buffalo, US Geological Survey, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation
Contact: Barbara K. Kennedy
Public Release: 22-Jul-2012
Nature Cell Biology{DISSERTATION} Lighting up the plant hormone 'command system' Light is not only the source of a plant's energy, but also an environmental signal that instructs growth. As a result, a plant's sensitivity to light is of great interest to scientists and their research on this issue could help improve crop yields down the road. Similarly understanding a plant's temperature sensitivity could also help improve agriculture and feed more people. Two new papers identify key aspects of the hormonal responses of plants to changes in light and heat in their environments.
National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, China Scholarship Council
Contact: Zhiyong Wang
Public Release: 22-Jul-2012
Nature Biotechnology{DISSERTATION} Medusa reimagined: Caltech-led team reverse engineers a jellyfish with the ability to swim When one observes a jellyfish pulsating through the ocean, Greek mythology probably doesn't immediately come to mind. But the animal once was known as the medusa, after the snake-haired mythological creature its tentacles resemble. The mythological Medusa's gaze turned people into stone, and now, thanks to recent advances in bio-inspired engineering, a team of researchers have flipped that fable on its head: turning a solid element -- silicon -- and muscle cells into a freely swimming "jellyfish."
Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard, National Science Foundation
Contact: Deborah Williams-Hedges
Public Release: 22-Jul-2012
Nature Biotechnology{DISSERTATION} Artificial jellyfish swims in a heartbeat A team of researchers at Harvard University and the California Institute of Technology have turned inanimate silicone and living cardiac muscle cells into a freely swimming "jellyfish." The finding serves as a proof of concept for reverse engineering a variety of muscular organs and simple life forms.
Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard, National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Office of Naval Research
Contact: Michael Patrick Rutter
Public Release: 20-Jul-2012
Journal of Applied Physics{DISSERTATION} Radiation damage bigger problem in microelectronics than previously thought The amount of damage that radiation causes in electronic materials may be at least 10 times greater than previously thought. That is the surprising result of a new characterization method that uses a combination of lasers and acoustic waves to that allows scientists to peer through solid materials to pinpoint the size and location of detects buried deep inside with unprecedented precision.
US Department of Energy, Army Research Office, National Science Foundation
Contact: David Salisbury
Public Release: 20-Jul-2012
ESA 97th Annual Meeting Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment{DISSERTATION} Inaugural cross-disciplinary Public Participation in Scientific Research conference Citizen science, crowd-sourced science, DIY research, volunteer monitoring, community participatory action research -- the variety of banners flying over participatory science projects reflects the diversity of their origins, from astronomy to zoology. They welcome non-specialists to work on real scientific questions. This August, the first cross-disciplinary conference on Public Participation in Scientific Research will bring the clans together as part of the Ecological Society of America's 2012 annual meeting in Portland, Ore.
S. D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation, National Science Foundation, and others
Contact: Liza Lester
Public Release: 19-Jul-2012
{DISSERTATION} Rice receives $1 million INSPIRE award from National Science Foundation A $1 million INSPIRE award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to Rice University will fund research on how bacterial decision-making occurs at the molecular level. Rice was one of 11 institutions chosen for the NSF's first round of INSPIRE (Integrated NSF Support Promoting Interdisciplinary Research and Education) awards.
National Science Foundation
Contact: B.J. Almond
Public Release: 19-Jul-2012
{DISSERTATION} RIT professor receives National Science Foundation grant to improve on-chip networks with wireless technology Amlan Ganguly, an assistant professor of computer engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology, is part of the team that received an $800,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. He will be working to develop the new infrastructure that could increase the speed and reduce the power usage in today's computer processors, augmenting the on-chip network of miniature copper wires with wireless interconnects.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Michelle Cometa
Public Release: 19-Jul-2012
SPIE Defense, Security and Sensing Conference Lab on a Chip{DISSERTATION} UGA researchers develop rapid diagnostic test for pathogens, contaminants Using nanoscale materials, researchers at the University of Georgia have developed a single-step method to rapidly and accurately detect viruses, bacteria and chemical contaminants. The scientists were able to detect compounds such as lactic acid and albumin in highly diluted samples and in mixtures that included dyes and other chemicals. Their results suggest the same system could be used to detect pathogens and contaminants in biological mixtures such as food, blood, saliva and urine.
US Department of Agriculture, National Science Foundation, University of Georgia
Contact: Yiping Zhao
Public Release: 19-Jul-2012
{DISSERTATION} SIAM-NSF Workshop on Modeling across the curriculum The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics was recently awarded a National Science Foundation grant for an initiative to increase mathematical modeling and computational applied mathematics in high school and college curricula. The effort is being led by SIAM Executive Director Jim Crowley and SIAM Vice President for Education Peter Turner (Clarkson University) with guidance from a Steering Committee representing several constituencies.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Karthika Muthukumaraswamy
Public Release: 19-Jul-2012
{DISSERTATION} Innovation promises to cut massive power use at big data companies in a flash Princeton researchers have developed a technique to allow flash memory to substitute for RAM in many applications, allowing for savings in equipment costs and power consumption.
National Science Foundation
Contact: John Sullivan
Public Release: 19-Jul-2012
{DISSERTATION} Searching for 1,000 times the capacity of 4G wireless Researchers at Polytechnic Institute of New York University have assembled a powerful consortium of government and business to advance beyond today's fourth generation (4G) wireless technologies toward 5G cellular networks that could potentially increase cell phone capacity by more than 1,000 times. The National Science Foundation awarded the team $800,000, matched by $1.2 million from corporate backers and the Empire State Development Division of Science, Technology & Innovation.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Kathleen Hamilton
Public Release: 19-Jul-2012
Physical Review Letters{DISSERTATION} In neutrino-less double-beta decay search, UMass Amherst physicists excel Physicists Andrea Pocar and Krishna Kumar of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, part of an international research team, recently reported results of an experiment conducted at the Enriched Xenon Observatory, located in a salt mine one-half mile under Carlsbad, N.M., part of a decades-long search for evidence of the elusive neutrino-less double-beta decay of Xenon-136.
US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation
Contact: Janet Lathrop
Public Release: 19-Jul-2012
Science{DISSERTATION} Scientists connect seawater chemistry with climate change and evolution Humans get most of the blame for climate change with little attention paid to the contribution of other natural forces. Now, scientists from the University of Toronto and the University of California Santa Cruz are shedding light on one potential cause of the cooling trend of the past 45 million years that has everything to do with the chemistry of the world's oceans.
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, National Science Foundation, Integrated Ocean Drilling Program
Contact: Sean Bettam
Public Release: 19-Jul-2012
{DISSERTATION} Generation X is surprisingly unconcerned about climate change Generation X is lukewarm about climate change -- uninformed about the causes and unconcerned about the dangers, according to a new report.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Diane Swanbrow
Public Release: 18-Jul-2012
FASEB Journal{DISSERTATION} Lungs respond to hospital ventilator as if it were an infection When hospital patients need assistance breathing and are placed on a mechanical ventilator for days at a time, their lungs react to the pressure generated by the ventilator with an out-of-control immune response that can lead to excessive inflammation, new research suggests.
National Institutes of Health, American Heart Association, National Science Foundation
Contact: Samir Ghadiali, (614) 247-1849; Ghadiali.1@osu.edu
Public Release: 18-Jul-2012
{DISSERTATION} El Zotz masks yield insights into Maya beliefs A team of archaeologists led by Stephen Houston has made a new discovery at the Maya archaeological site in El Zotz, Guatemala, uncovering a pyramid believed to celebrate the Maya sun god. The structure's outer walls depict the god in an unprecedented set of images done in painted stucco. In 2010, the team uncovered a royal tomb filled with artifacts and human remains at the same site. Researchers believe the pyramid was built to link the deceased lord to the eternal sun.
National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, Pacunam
Contact: Courtney Coelho
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