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Public Release: 13-Jul-2009
{DISSERTATION} Arizona researchers to sequence West African rice strain A $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation will allow University of Arizona researchers to unlock the genetic code of West African cultivated rice. 
National Science Foundation
Contact: Deborah Daun
Public Release: 13-Jul-2009
 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} Neuroimaging suggests that truthfulness requires no act of will for honest people Scientists at Harvard University have found that honest people show no additional neural activity when telling the truth. However, dishonest people display activation in the brain regions associated with attention and control, even when telling the truth. In this new study, participants were given the opportunity to lie to gain money and their brain activity was examined using fMRI.
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, National Science Foundation, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
Contact: Amy Lavoie
Public Release: 13-Jul-2009
{DISSERTATION} NSF awards $2.5M grant to Antarctic research facility at Florida State Times are tough, especially in the Sunshine State, but with a new, five-year, $2.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation, life is cooler than ever at the Antarctic Marine Geology Research Facility.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Sherwood Wise
Public Release: 13-Jul-2009
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} Active genes discovered in the developing mammal brain New information about the genes involved in a mammal's early brain development, including those that contribute to neurological disorders such as autism and mental retardation, has been discovered in a research study led by Penn State biologists. The study is the first to use high-throughput sequencing to uncover active genes in developing brains, and it may be the best evidence yet for the activity in the brain of a large number of genes.
Penn State University, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation
Contact: Barbara K. Kennedy
Public Release: 13-Jul-2009
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} Sex involved in plant defense Why do some plants defend themselves from insect attacks better than others? New evidence shows that the difference might be due to whether they're getting any plant love. In research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists from North Carolina State University and Duke University discovered that sexually produced evening primrose plants withstand attacks from plant-eaters like caterpillars better than plant relatives that reproduce by themselves.
National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health
Contact: Dr. Marc Johnson
Public Release: 13-Jul-2009
Nature Photonics{DISSERTATION} Scientists discover repulsive side to light force A team of Yale University researchers has discovered a "repulsive" light force that can be used to control components on silicon microchips, meaning future nanodevices could be controlled by light rather than electricity.
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, National Science Foundation
Contact: Suzanne Taylor Muzzin
Public Release: 10-Jul-2009
{DISSERTATION} University of Oklahoma professor selected for most prestigious award Amy Cerato, assistant professor in the School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science within the College of Engineering at the University of Oklahoma, is among 100 beginning researchers nationwide named by President Obama as a recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the US government on outstanding scientists and engineers starting their independent careers.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Jana Smith
Public Release: 9-Jul-2009
{DISSERTATION} SF State professor honored by President Obama for science mentoring SF State Professor Frank Bayliss has been honored with a Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring for two decades of mentoring and creating opportunities for underrepresented minority students in the sciences.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Michael Bruntz
Public Release: 9-Jul-2009
{DISSERTATION} 4 from Penn State receive PECASE awards The White House announced today that four Penn State researchers will receive 2009 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Defense, White House
Contact: A'ndrea Elyse Messer
Public Release: 9-Jul-2009
Ecology Letters{DISSERTATION} New theory gives more precise estimates of large-scale biodiversity The Census Bureau is good at profiling the US population by sampling small groups of people. Biologists, however, lack a good theory of how to estimate the richness of life in large areas like the Amazon from small-plot studies. UC Berkeley ecologist John Harte has applied information theory to develop a new and robust theory that does a much better job predicting biodiversity in large biomes and could be a boon to conservation biologists.
National Science Foundation, Czech Ministry of Education Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Contact: Robert Sanders
Public Release: 9-Jul-2009
Science Express{DISSERTATION} Simulations illuminate universe's first twin stars The earliest stars in the universe formed not only as individuals, but sometimes also as twins, according to a paper published today in Science Express. By creating simulations of the early universe, astrophysicists Matthew Turk and Tom Abel of the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, located at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, and Brian O'Shea of Michigan State University have gained the most detailed understanding to date of the formation of the first stars.
NASA, National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy
Contact: Melinda Lee
Public Release: 9-Jul-2009
{DISSERTATION} Rensselaer researchers to participate in seismic test of 7-story building Rensselaer Associate Professor Michael Symans and incoming Dean of Engineering David Rosowsky are among the team of researchers who will converge in Japan next week to perform the largest earthquake simulation ever attempted on a wooden structure. The multi-university team has placed a seven-story building on the world's largest shake table and will expose it to the force of an earthquake that hits only once every 2,500 years.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Michael Mullaney
Public Release: 9-Jul-2009
PLoS Genetics{DISSERTATION} Seals quickly respond to gain and loss of habitat under climate change Southern elephant seals responded rapidly to climate and habitat change and established a new breeding site thousands of kilometers from existing breeding grounds, according to new research. An international research team led by Professor Rus Hoelzel from the School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Durham University, found that when the Antarctic ice sheets of the Ross Sea Embayment retreated in the Holocene period 8,000 years ago, elephant seals, Mirounga leonina, adopted the emergent habitat and established a new population which flourished.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Carl Stiansen
Public Release: 9-Jul-2009
Science{DISSERTATION} Tremors on southern San Andreas Fault may mean increased earthquake risk Tremors under the Parkfield segment of the San Andreas Fault have increased with increasing stress on a nearby locked segment of the fault, perhaps signaling a greater chance of an earthquake. The tremors, like a constant, low-level rumble, increased after quakes in 2003 and 2004, and are at the end of a segment that last ruptured in 1857 in a 7.8 magnitude quake.
US Geological Survey, National Science Foundation
Contact: Robert Sanders
Public Release: 9-Jul-2009
Science{DISSERTATION} Methane-eating microbes can use iron and manganese oxides to 'breathe' Iron and manganese compounds, in addition to sulfate, may play an important role in converting methane to carbon dioxide and eventually carbonates in the Earth's oceans, according to a team of researchers looking at anaerobic sediments. These same compounds may have been key to methane reduction in the early, oxygenless days of the planet's atmosphere.
National Science Foundation, NASA Astrobiology Institute
Contact: A'ndrea Elyse Messer
Public Release: 8-Jul-2009
IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning{DISSERTATION} Robot learns to smile and frown A hyper-realistic Einstein robot at the University of California, San Diego, learned to smile and make facial expressions through a process of self-guided learning. The UC San Diego researchers used machine learning to "empower" their robot to learn to make realistic facial expressions. "As far as we know, no other research group has used machine learning to teach a robot to make realistic facial expressions," said Tingfan Wu, computer science Ph.D. student, UC San Diego.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Daniel Kane
Public Release: 8-Jul-2009
Nature{DISSERTATION} Explosive growth of life on Earth fueled by early greening of planet Earth's 4.5-billion-year history is filled with several turning points but one of the biggest is the Cambrian explosion of life, roughly 540 million years ago, when complex, multicellular life burst out all over the planet. Now, researchers led by Arizona State University geologist L. Paul Knauth believe they have found the trigger for the Cambrian explosion.
NASA, National Science Foundation
Contact: Skip Derra
Public Release: 8-Jul-2009
Ecological Applications{DISSERTATION} Forest fire prevention efforts will lessen carbon sequestration, add to greenhouse warming Widely sought efforts to reduce fuels that increase catastrophic fire in Pacific Northwest forests will be counterproductive to another important societal goal of sequestering carbon to help offset global warming, forestry researchers at Oregon State University conclude in a new report.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Mark Harmon
Public Release: 8-Jul-2009
Materials Chemistry and Physics{DISSERTATION} New way to make sensors that detect toxic chemicals Ohio State University researchers have developed a new method for making extremely pure, very small metal-oxide nanoparticles. They are using this simple, fast, and low-temperature process to make materials for gas sensors that detect toxic industrial chemicals and biological warfare agents.
National Science Foundation, Ohio State University
Contact: Patricia Morris
Public Release: 8-Jul-2009
Journal of Neuroscience{DISSERTATION} 1-finger exercise reveals unexpected limits to dexterity "Push your finger as hard as you can against the surface. Now as hard as you can but move it slowly -- follow the ticking clock. Now faster. Now faster." These were the commands for volunteers in a simple experiment that casts doubt on old ideas about mechanisms to control hand muscles. Complete understanding of the result may help explain why manual dexterity is so vulnerable to aging and disease, and even help design more versatile robotic graspers.
National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health
Contact: Eric Mankin
Public Release: 8-Jul-2009
Nature{DISSERTATION} Giant supernovae farthest ever detected UC Irvine cosmologists have found two supernovae farther away than any previously detected by using a new technique that could help find other dying stars at the edge of the universe.
National Science Foundation, Gary McCue
Contact: Jennifer Fitzenberger
Public Release: 7-Jul-2009
Cancer Research{DISSERTATION} 'Normal' cells far from cancer give nanosignals of trouble A new Northwestern University-led study of human colon, pancreatic and lung cells is the first to report that cancer cells and their noncancerous cell neighbors, although quite different under the microscope, share very similar structural abnormalities on the nanoscale level. The most striking findings were that these nanoscale alterations occurred at some distance from the tumor and, importantly, could be identified by assessing more easily accessible tissue, such as the cheek for lung cancer detection.
National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, V Foundation
Contact: Megan Fellman
Public Release: 6-Jul-2009
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} Nitrogen research shows how some plants invade, take over others University of Nebraska-Lincoln research shows how plants gain nitrogen and how this allows some species to invade and take over native plants.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Steve Smith
Public Release: 6-Jul-2009
Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering{DISSERTATION} Clinical trial shows quadriplegics can operate powered wheelchair with tongue drive system An assistive technology that enables individuals to maneuver a powered wheelchair or control a mouse cursor using simple tongue movements can be operated by individuals with high-level spinal cord injuries, according to the results of a recently completed clinical trial.
National Science Foundation, Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation
Contact: Abby Vogel
Public Release: 6-Jul-2009
{DISSERTATION} Virginia Bioinformatics Institute to develop petascale computer modeling capabilities The goal of the proposal is to use new computer technology to study events like disease pandemics, financial crises, as well as the spread of opinions, attitudes or social beliefs, through populations on a global scale. Current agent-based computer models can simulate the spread of a disease like influenza through a population the size of the United States. Petascale modeling would make comparable agent-based studies of disease transmission possible for global populations.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Barry Whyte
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