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Public Release: 19-Dec-2012
 Astronomy & Astrophysics{DISSERTATION} Closest sun-like star may have planets An international team of scientists, including Carnegie's Paul Butler, has discovered that Tau Ceti, one of the closest and most sun-like stars, may have five planets. Their work is published by Astronomy & Astrophysics. 
RoPACS, European Commmission, Fondecyt, Centro de Astrofisica, Gemini-Conicyt, National Science Foundation, Australia, Chile
Contact: Paul Butler
Public Release: 19-Dec-2012
Nature{DISSERTATION} Genomic frontier: The unexplored animal kingdom A new report in Nature unveils three of the first genomes from a vast, understudied swath of the animal kingdom that includes as many as one-quarter of Earth's marine species. By publishing the genomes of a leech, an ocean-dwelling worm and a limpet, scientists from Rice University, the University of California-Berkeley and the Joint Genome Institute have more than doubled the number of sequenced genomes from a diverse group of animals called lophotrochozoans.
US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Moore Foundation, R. Melmon, Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds, NIH/Human Genome Research Institute
Contact: Jade Boyd
Public Release: 19-Dec-2012
Nature{DISSERTATION} JILA physicists achieve elusive 'evaporative cooling' of molecules Achieving a goal considered nearly impossible, JILA physicists have chilled a gas of molecules to very low temperatures by adapting the familiar process by which a hot cup of coffee cools. Evaporative cooling has long been used to cool atoms, at JILA and elsewhere, to extraordinarily low temperatures. The process was used at JILA in 1995 to create the Bose-Einstein condensate. The latest demonstration marks the first time evaporative cooling has been achieved with molecules.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Contact: Laura Ost
Public Release: 19-Dec-2012
Journal of Experimental Biology{DISSERTATION} Fine hands, fists of fury Men whacked punching bags for a University of Utah study that suggests human hands evolved not only for the manual dexterity needed to use tools, play a violin or paint a work of art, but so men could make fists and fight.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Lee J. Siegel
Public Release: 19-Dec-2012
Journal of Experimental Biology{DISSERTATION} Fighting shaped human hands We're all used to the idea that humans evolved their distinctive hand proportions for enhanced dexterity, but now David Carrier and Michael Morgan from the University of Utah, USA, have come up with an alternative theory: that human hands evolved for combat. The duo provide evidence that the long thumb that wraps across the fingers in a fist packs the curled digits tightly together to make a compact club for use in combat.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Kathryn Knight
Public Release: 18-Dec-2012
Wireless Health 2012 conference {DISSERTATION} Small, portable sensors allow users to monitor exposure to pollution on their smart phones Computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego have built a small fleet of portable pollution sensors that allow users to monitor air quality in real time on their smart phones. The sensors could be particularly useful to people suffering from chronic conditions, such as asthma, who need to avoid exposure to pollutants. CitiSense is the only air-quality monitoring system that delivers real-time data to users' cell phones and home computers -- at any time.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Ioana Patringenaru
Public Release: 18-Dec-2012
American Antiquity{DISSERTATION} Study of pipestone artifacts overturns a century-old assumption In a new study, the first to actually test pipestone from quarries across the upper Midwest, researchers conclude that those who buried ceremonial pipes in a famous mound site in southeastern Ohio got the stone – and perhaps even the finished, carved pipes – from Illinois. The findings offer new insight into the Hopewell people, who lived in the region from about 100 B.C. to A.D. 400.
National Science Foundation, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Contact: Diana Yates, Life Sciences Editor, U. I. News Bureau
Public Release: 18-Dec-2012
Advanced Functional Materials{DISSERTATION} Researchers use liquid metal to create wires that stretch 8 times their original length Researchers from North Carolina State University have created conductive wires that can be stretched up to eight times their original length while still functioning. The wires can be used for everything from headphones to phone chargers, and hold potential for use in electronic textiles.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Matt Shipman
Public Release: 18-Dec-2012
Nature Chemistry{DISSERTATION} A new breed of stable anti-aromatic compound The novel compound is a new chapter in a story that began in 1825, when English scientist Michael Faraday first isolated benzene from gas lights. Benzene would later be identified as one of a class of compounds known as aromatics, which have immense importance in both biological function and industrial production.
National Science Foundation, Welch Foundation, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Western Carolina University, and more
Contact: Daniel Oppenheimer
Public Release: 17-Dec-2012
Journal of Bacteriology{DISSERTATION} RIT scientists decode 3 bacterial strains common to grapevines and sugarcane Scientists at Rochester Institute of Technology have sequenced one of the first bacterial genomes associated with Jamaican sugarcane. The team also decoded two bacteria linked to Riesling grapevines. Studying the effects of organisms on crops is gaining attention as the world populations increases and concerns about food production and protection grow.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Susan Gawlowicz
Public Release: 17-Dec-2012
Applied and Environmental Microbiology{DISSERTATION} Plumes across the Pacific deliver thousands of microbial species to West Coast Microorganisms ‑ more than 100 times more kinds than reported just four months ago ‑ are leaping the biggest gap on the planet. Hitching rides in the upper troposphere, they're making their way from Asia across the Pacific Ocean and landing in North America.
National Science Foundation, National Geographic Society, National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Astrobiology Institute, University of Washington
Contact: Sandra Hines
Public Release: 17-Dec-2012
Physical Review Letters{DISSERTATION} UI-led team confirms 'gusty winds' in space turbulence A research team led by the University of Iowa reports to have directly measured a kind of turbulence that occurs in space plasma for the first time in the laboratory.
National Science Foundation/Department of Energy Partnership in Basic Plasma Science and Engineering
Contact: Gary Galluzzo
Public Release: 17-Dec-2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} Plant sniffs out danger to prepare defenses against pesky insect A plant may start to prime its defenses as soon as it gets a whiff of a male fly searching for a mate, according to Penn State entomologists.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Matthew Swayne
Public Release: 17-Dec-2012
BioScience{DISSERTATION} Farm soil determines environmental fate of phosphorous Brazil's soybean yields have become competitive with those of the United States and Argentina, but the soil demands a lot of phosphorous, which is not renewable. In the United States, meanwhile, historical applications of the fertilizer have polluted waterways. What accounts for these problems? It's the soils, according to a new study comparing agriculture in the three countries.
National Science Foundation, Andrew Mellon Foundation
Contact: David Orenstein
Public Release: 17-Dec-2012
Nature Nanotechnology{DISSERTATION} Nanofibers clean sulfur from fuel Sulfur compounds in petroleum fuels have met their nano-structured match. University of Illinois researchers developed mats of metal oxide nanofibers that scrub sulfur from petroleum-based fuels much more effectively than traditional materials. Sulfur has to be removed because it emits toxic gasses and corrodes catalysts. Such efficiency could lower costs and improve performance for fuel-based catalysis, advanced energy applications and toxic gas removal.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Liz Ahlberg
Public Release: 17-Dec-2012
Journal of American Chemical Society{DISSERTATION} Rice University opens new window on Parkinson's disease Scientists discover a new molecular probe to track aggregated fibroids inside living cells that cause Parkinson's disease.
National Science Foundation, Welch Foundation
Contact: David Ruth
Public Release: 17-Dec-2012
Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology{DISSERTATION} Injured coral? Expect less sex Coral colonies that suffered tissue damage in The Bahamas were still producing low numbers of eggs four years after the injuries occurred, according to new research by University at Buffalo scientists. Tiny sperm-producing factories called spermaries were also in short supply.
National Science Foundation, Mark Diamond Research Fund
Contact: Charlotte Hsu
Public Release: 17-Dec-2012
RAMANUJAN 125{DISSERTATION} Math formula gives new glimpse into the magical mind of Ramanujan Dec. 22 marks the 125th anniversary of the birth of Srinivasa Ramanujan, an Indian mathematician renowned for intuiting extraordinary numerical patterns without the use of proofs or modern mathematical tools. Emory mathematician Ken Ono has solved one of the greatest puzzles left behind by the enigmatic Indian genius with the development of a formula for mock modular forms that may prove useful to physicists who study black holes.
National Science Foundation, National Security Agency
Contact: Beverly Clark
Public Release: 17-Dec-2012
Nano Letters{DISSERTATION} Flexing fingers for micro-robotics: Berkeley Lab scientists create a powerful, microscale actuator Researchers with Berkeley Lab and the University of California, Berkeley, have developed an elegant and powerful new microscale actuator that can flex like a tiny beckoning finger. Based on an oxide material that expands and contracts dramatically in response to a small temperature variation, the actuators are smaller than the width of a human hair and are promising for microfluidics, drug delivery, and artificial muscles.
US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation
Contact: Alison Hatt
Public Release: 16-Dec-2012
Earth and Planetary Science Letters{DISSERTATION} Exploding star missing from formation of solar system A new study published by University of Chicago researchers challenges the notion that the force of an exploding star forced the formation of the solar system.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, Packard Foundation
Contact: Steve Koppes
Public Release: 16-Dec-2012
Nature Climate Change{DISSERTATION} Nature Climate Change: Action by 2020 key for limiting climate change Limiting climate change to target levels will become much more difficult to achieve, and more expensive, if action is not taken soon, according to a new analysis from IIASA, ETH Zurich, and NCAR.
EU Ampere Project, Swiss National Science Foundation, IIASA Young Scientists Summer Program 2011
Contact: Katherine Leitzell
Public Release: 14-Dec-2012
{DISSERTATION} NSF-funded inventory of mega-diverse insect order now underway An ambitious three-year insect inventory of a Costa Rican rainforest, funded by a $900,000 National Science Foundation, is now underway. Led by Drs. Brian Brown (Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County) and Art Borkent (Royal British Columbia Museum, Canada), an international, 44-member team of fly specialists, including experts at the National Biodiversity Institute of Costa Rica, are working to inventory all the species living in an approximately five-acre area.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Kristin Friedrich
Public Release: 14-Dec-2012
Nano Letters{DISSERTATION} Dreidel-like dislocations lead to remarkable properties Dreidel-shaped dislocations put a new spin on two-dimensional materials for advanced electronics, hinting at sub-nanometer signal paths.
US Army Research Office Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative, National Science Foundation
Contact: David Ruth
Public Release: 14-Dec-2012
Nano Letters{DISSERTATION} Stretchable electronics Electronic devices become smaller, lighter, faster and more powerful with each passing year. Currently, however, electronics such as cell phones, tablets, laptops, etc., are rigid. But what if they could be made bendable or stretchy? According to the University of Delaware's Bingqing Wei, stretchable electronics are the future of mobile electronics, leading giants such as IBM, Sony and Nokia to incorporate the technology into their products.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Andrea Boyle Tippett
Public Release: 14-Dec-2012
{DISSERTATION} 'House hunters walrus' Walrus use sea ice as a reproductive, migration and resting habitat. However, as sea ice melts and recedes, this marine mammal increasingly is threatened. A University of Delaware research team has developed a novel camera system to map the surface topography of Arctic sea ice in 3-D, with accuracy to 10-20 centimeters.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Andrea Boyle Tippet
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