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Public Release: 10-Jul-2012
 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} UI researchers develop technique to help pollution forecasters see past clouds University of Iowa scientists have created a technique to help satellites "see" through the clouds and better estimate the concentration of pollutants, such as soot. 
National Science Foundation, NASA
Contact: Gary Galluzzo
Public Release: 10-Jul-2012
Eukaryotic Cell{DISSERTATION} UMass Amherst researchers unravel secrets of parasites' replication A group of diseases that kill millions of people each year can't be touched by antibiotics, and some treatment is so harsh the patient can't survive it. They're caused by parasites, and for decades researchers have searched for a "magic bullet" to kill them without harming the patient. Now UMass Amherst microbiologists report the first detailed characterization of the way key proteins in the model parasite Trypanosoma brucei organize to replicate its mitochondrial DNA.
NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Science Foundation
Contact: Janet Lathrop
Public Release: 10-Jul-2012
IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures{DISSERTATION} Toward achieving 1 million times increase in computing efficiency Northwestern University researchers have created an entirely new family of logic circuits based on magnetic semiconductor devices. The advance could lead to logic circuits up to one million times more power-efficient than today's.
National Science Foundation, Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Contact: Megan Fellman
Public Release: 10-Jul-2012
Radiology{DISSERTATION} Preclinical studies use specialized ultrasound to detect presence of cancer Vessel "bendiness" can indicate the presence and progression of cancer. This principle led UNC scientists to a new method of using a high-resolution ultrasound to identify early tumors in preclinical studies. The method, based on vessel bendiness or "tortuosity," potentially offers an inexpensive, non-invasive and fast method to detect cancer that could someday help doctors identify cancers when tumors are less than a centimeter in size.
National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, UNC Lineberger
Contact: Dianne G. Shaw
Public Release: 9-Jul-2012
Physics Review Letters {DISSERTATION} A roll of the dice Researchers from the University of Calgary's Institute for Quantum Information Science along with researchers from the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo and the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zurich, Switzerland, have published a paper that suggests quantum theory is close to optimal in terms of its predictive power. The paper looks at measurements on members of maximally entangled pairs of photons that are sent into Stern-Gerlach-type apparatus, in which each photon can take one out of two possible paths.
Industry Canada, Ministry of Research and Innovation of Ontario, Swiss National Science Foundation, European Research Council, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, QuantumWorks, and others
Contact: Leanne Yohemas
Public Release: 9-Jul-2012
{DISSERTATION} Carnegie Mellon's smart headlight system will have drivers seeing through the rain Drivers can struggle to see when driving at night in a rainstorm or snowstorm, but a smart headlight system invented by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute can improve visibility by constantly redirecting light to shine between particles of precipitation. The system, demonstrated in laboratory tests, prevents the glare that occurs when headlight beams are reflected by precipitation back toward the driver.
Office of Naval Research, National Science Foundation, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Intel Corp.
Contact: Byron Spice
Public Release: 9-Jul-2012
Nano Letters{DISSERTATION} Triboelectric generator produces electricity by harnessing friction between surfaces Researchers have discovered yet another way to harvest small amounts of electricity from motion in the world around us -- this time by capturing the electrical charge produced when two different kinds of plastic materials rub against one another.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy, US Air Force
Contact: John Toon
Public Release: 9-Jul-2012
Environmental Science & Technology{DISSERTATION} University of Miami-led study finds winds played important role in keeping oil away from S. Fla. University of Miami-led study finds that winds played an important role in keeping oil away from South Florida. Article in Environmental Science and Technology.
National Science Foundation/RAPID
Contact: Barbra Gonzalez
Public Release: 9-Jul-2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} Tiny bubbles snap carbon nanotubes like twigs A computer model from Rice University shows that long nanotubes bend and snap like a twig when blasted with ultrasonic energy. The research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that short and long nanotubes behave differently during sonication. The discovery answers a longstanding question about the origin of competing power laws that were found in experiments on cutting nanotubes by sonication.
Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Air Force Research Laboratory, Welch Foundation, National Science Foundation, Cray, AMD, Ric/Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology and others
Contact: Mike Williams
Public Release: 9-Jul-2012
Journal of Biological Chemistry{DISSERTATION} Lipid helps cells find their way by keeping their 'antennae' up A lipid that helps lotion soften the skin also helps cells find and stay in the right location in the body by ensuring they keep their "antennae" up, scientists report.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Greg Deriso
Public Release: 6-Jul-2012
{DISSERTATION} Grant to allow graduate students to research water quantity and quality improvement To address questions on water quantity and quality issues, the University of California, Riverside has received a five-year, $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation. Starting this fall, six or seven graduate students will receive fellowships for two years to conduct doctoral-level research on water-related topics. Each "water scholar" will receive preparation for leadership positions in government and private and nonprofit organizations aimed at improving community health and child development outcomes related to water.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Iqbal Pittalwala
Public Release: 6-Jul-2012
{DISSERTATION} UMass Amherst physicists' work is critical to Higgs boson search The UMass Amherst physicists use ATLAS, one of two general-purpose detectors at the Large Hadron Collider deep under Switzerland and France, to make significant contributions to the project in muon identification and reconstruction. They have written large parts of the code now used to reconstruct the trajectories of muons detected in the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer.
US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation
Contact: Janet Lathrop
Public Release: 6-Jul-2012
Nature Communications{DISSERTATION} Microscope probe-sharpening technique improves resolution, durability A simple new improvement to an essential microscope component could greatly improve imaging for researchers who study the very small, from cells to computer chips. University of Illinois researchers developed a technique to sharpen microscope probes, giving images much higher resolution, and a coating to make the probes durable.
Office of Naval Research, Defense Advanced Research Project Agency, National Science Foundation
Contact: Liz Ahlberg
Public Release: 6-Jul-2012
Atmospheric Environment{DISSERTATION} Atmospheric scientists release first 'bottom-up' estimates of China's CO2 emissions Atmospheric scientists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Nanjing University have produced the first "bottom-up" estimates of China's carbon dioxide emissions, for 2005 to 2009, and the first statistically rigorous estimates of the uncertainties surrounding China's CO2 emissions.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Caroline Perry
Public Release: 5-Jul-2012
{DISSERTATION} OU physicists part of international collaboration leading to discovery of Higgs boson University of Oklahoma high-energy physicists were among the 1,700 US scientists from 89 American universities who collaborated on the international effort in the search for the Higgs boson. Results announced this week from CERN indicate discovery of a new particle consistent with the Higgs boson.
US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation
Contact: Jana Smith
Public Release: 5-Jul-2012
Science{DISSERTATION} Satellite research reveals smaller volcanoes could cool climate A University of Saskatchewan-led international research team has discovered that aerosols from relatively small volcanic eruptions can be boosted into the high atmosphere by weather systems such as monsoons, where they can affect global temperatures.
Natural Science and Engineering Research Council, Canadian Space Agency, National Science Foundation
Contact: Michael Robin
Public Release: 5-Jul-2012
SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation Meeting{DISSERTATION} New instrument sifts through starlight to reveal new worlds An advanced telescope imaging system that started taking data last month is the first of its kind capable of spotting planets orbiting suns outside of our solar system. The collaborative set of high-tech instrumentation and software, called Project 1640, is now operating on the Hale telescope at the Palomar Observatory in California after more than six years of development.
NASA, National Science Foundation, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech Optical Observatories, Defense University Research Instrumentation Program, Plymouth Foundation, Ron and Glo Helin, Hilary and Ethel Lipsit
Contact: Kendra Snyder
Public Release: 5-Jul-2012
Science{DISSERTATION} Scientists discover new trigger for immense North Atlantic Ocean spring plankton bloom On this July 4th week, US beachgoers are thronging their way to seaside resorts and parks to celebrate with holiday fireworks. But across the horizon and miles out to sea toward the north, the Atlantic Ocean's own spring and summer ritual unfolds. It entails the blooming of countless microscopic plants, or phytoplankton.
National Science Foundation
Contact: WHOI Media Relations Office
Public Release: 5-Jul-2012
IEEE International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics{DISSERTATION} Robot vision: Muscle-like action allows camera to mimic human eye movement Using piezoelectric materials, researchers have replicated the muscle motion of the human eye to control camera systems in a way designed to improve the operation of robots. This new muscle-like action could help make robotic tools safer and more effective for MRI-guided surgery and robotic rehabilitation.
National Science Foundation
Contact: John Toon
Public Release: 5-Jul-2012
Science{DISSERTATION} Eddies, not sunlight, spur annual bloom of tiny plants in North Atlantic Researchers have long believed that the longer days and calmer seas of spring set off an annual bloom of plants in the North Atlantic, but University of Washington scientists and collaborators discovered that warm eddies fuel the growth three weeks before the sun does.
National Science Foundation, NASA
Contact: Nancy Gohring
Public Release: 5-Jul-2012
Cell{DISSERTATION} Scripps Florida scientists identify critical 'quality control' for cell growth Scientists from the Florida campus of the Scripps Research Institute have identified a series of intricate biochemical steps that lead to the successful production of proteins, the basic working units of any cell.
National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Scripps Research Institute's Kellogg School of Science and Technology
Contact: Mika Ono
Public Release: 4-Jul-2012
{DISSERTATION} Statement by US Secretary of Energy on the Higgs Particle Congratulatory Statement by US Secretary of Energy Steven Chu on the latest results of the search for the Higgs particle. Hundreds of scientists and graduate students from US institutions have played important roles in the search for the Higgs using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN laboratory.
US Deptartment of Energy, National Science Foundation
Contact: Jeff Sherwood
Public Release: 4-Jul-2012
Nature{DISSERTATION} Study in Nature sheds new light on planet formation A study published in the July 5 edition of the journal Nature is challenging scientists' understanding of planet formation, suggesting that planets might form much faster than previously thought or, alternatively, that stars harboring planets could be far more numerous.
DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, National Science Foundation, NASA
Contact: Inseok Song
Public Release: 3-Jul-2012
Physics Review Letters{DISSERTATION} New method knocks out stubborn electron problem A newly published article in Physical Review Letters eliminates one of the top unsolved theoretical problems in chemical physics as ranked by the National Research Council in 1995. Scientists now can more accurately predict the dynamic behavior of electrons in atoms and molecules in chemical reactions that govern a wide range of phenomena, including the fuel efficiency of combustion engines and the depletion of the atmospheric ozone.
National Science Foundation, Army Research Office, Microsoft Corporation, Dreyfus Foundation, David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Contact: Steve Koppes
Public Release: 3-Jul-2012
Proceedings of the Royal Society B{DISSERTATION} Researchers from Penn, Michigan and Duke study how cooperation can trump competition in monkeys Being the top dog-- or, in this case, the top gelada monkey-- is even better if the alpha male is willing to concede at times to subordinates, according to a study by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Michigan and Duke University. Alpha male geladas who allowed subordinate competitors into their group had a longer tenure as leader, resulting in an average of three more offspring each during their lifetimes.
National Science Foundation, Leakey Foundation, National Geographic Society
Contact: Evan Lerner
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