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Public Release: 27-Jun-2012
 Astrophysical Journal Letters{DISSERTATION} New planet-weighing technique found Although there have been about 800 extra-solar planets discovered so far in our galaxy, the precise masses of the majority of them are still unknown, as the most-common planet-finding technique provides only a general idea of an object's mass. Previously, the only way to determine a planet's exact mass was if it transits. Former Carnegie scientist Mercedes López-Morales has, for the first time, determined the mass of a non-transiting planet. 
National Science Foundation
Contact: Mercedes López-Morales
Public Release: 27-Jun-2012
{DISSERTATION} Pressure testing of new Alvin Personnel Sphere successful The human-occupied submersible Alvin reached a major milestone in its upgrade project on June 22 when its new titanium personnel sphere successfully completed pressure testing, reports the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the vehicle's operator.
National Science Foundation
Contact: WHOI Media Relations
Public Release: 27-Jun-2012
Nature{DISSERTATION} Diet of early human relative Australopithecus shows surprises, says Texas A&M researcher Australopithecus sediba, believed to be an early relative of modern-day humans, enjoyed a diet of leaves, fruits, nuts, and bark, which meant they probably lived in a more wooded environment than is generally thought, a surprising find published in the current issue of Nature magazine by an international team of researchers that includes a Texas A&M University anthropologist.
National Science Foundation, Smithsonian Institution, Institute for Human Evolution at the University of Witwatersrand, Ray A. Rothrock '77 Fellowship in the College of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M, Max Planck Society
Contact: Keith Randall
Public Release: 27-Jun-2012
Applied Physics Letters{DISSERTATION} New technique controls crystalline structure of titanium dioxide Researchers have developed a new technique for controlling the crystalline structure of titanium dioxide at room temperature. The development should make titanium dioxide more efficient in a range of applications, including photovoltaic cells, hydrogen production, antimicrobial coatings, smart sensors and optical communication technologies.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Matt Shipman
Public Release: 27-Jun-2012
PLOS ONE{DISSERTATION} How sticky toepads evolved in geckos and what that means for adhesive technologies Geckos are known for sticky toes that allow them to climb up walls and even hang upside down on ceilings. A new study shows that geckos have gained and lost these unique adhesive structures multiple times over the course of their long evolutionary history in response to habitat changes.
National Science Foundation, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Contact: Jonathan Gust
Public Release: 27-Jun-2012
Nature{DISSERTATION} Ancient human ancestors had unique diet, according to study involving CU Boulder When it came to eating, an upright, 2-million-year-old African hominid had a diet unlike virtually all other known human ancestors, says a study led by the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and involving the University of Colorado Boulder.
National Science Foundation, Smithsonian Institution, Institute for Human Evolution at the University of Witwatersrand, Max Planck Institute
Contact: Paul Sandberg
Public Release: 26-Jun-2012
Google I/O Conference{DISSERTATION} Musical robot companion enhances listener experience Wedding DJs everywhere should be worried about job security now that a new robot is on the scene. Shimi, an interactive musical companion developed by Georgia Tech's Center for Music Technology, recommends songs, dances to the beat and keeps the music pumping based on listener feedback.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Liz Klipp
Public Release: 26-Jun-2012
American Mineralogist{DISSERTATION} Caltech scientists find new primitive mineral in meteorite In 1969, an exploding fireball tore through the sky over Mexico, scattering thousands of pieces of meteorite across the state of Chihuahua. More than 40 years later, the Allende meteorite is still serving the scientific community as a rich source of information about the early stages of our solar system's evolution. Recently, scientists from the California Institute of Technology discovered a new mineral embedded in the space rock -- one they believe to be among the oldest minerals formed in the solar system.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy, NASA's Office of Space Science
Contact: Deborah Williams-Hedges
Public Release: 26-Jun-2012
Nature Communications{DISSERTATION} Rewriting quantum chips with a beam of light The promise of ultrafast quantum computing has moved a step closer to reality with a technique to create rewritable computer chips using a beam of light. Researchers from The City College of New York and the University of California -- Berkeley used light to control the spin of an atom's nucleus in order to encode information.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Jessa Netting
Public Release: 26-Jun-2012
Geology{DISSERTATION} Evidence of oceanic 'green rust' offers hope for the future "Green rust" played a key role in making the Earth habitable and may now have an equally important role to play in cleaning it up for the future.
Natural Environment Research Council, Danish National Research Foundation, National Science Foundation, Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada
Contact: Simon Poulton
Public Release: 25-Jun-2012
Proceedings of the Royal Society B{DISSERTATION} Romancing the firefly While a female firefly's initial assessment of potential mates is based on males' luminescent flashes, once a pair makes physical contact, sexy flashes no longer matter. Instead, it's males that have larger nuptial gifts (a protein-packed sperm package that helps females produce more eggs) that mate more often and father more offspring.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Kim Thurler
Public Release: 25-Jun-2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} Greenland ice may exaggerate magnitude of 13,000-year-old deep freeze Ice samples pulled from nearly a mile below the surface of Greenland glaciers have long served as a historical thermometer, adding temperature data to studies of the local conditions up to the Northern Hemisphere's climate. But the method -- comparing the ratio of oxygen isotopes buried as snow fell over millennia -- may not be such a straightforward indicator of air temperature.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy
Contact: Anders Carlson
Public Release: 25-Jun-2012
American Mineralogist{DISSERTATION} Mercury mineral evolution Mineral evolution posits that Earth's near-surface mineral diversity gradually increased through an array of chemical and biological processes. A dozen different species in interstellar dust particles that formed the solar system have evolved to more than 4500 species today. New work from Carnegie's Bob Hazen demonstrates that the creation of most minerals containing mercury is fundamentally linked to several episodes of supercontinent assembly over the last 3 billion years.
NASA/Astrobiology Institute, National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy
Contact: Robert Hazen
Public Release: 25-Jun-2012
62nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting{DISSERTATION} UC Riverside graduate student gets rare opportunity to consort with Nobel laureates Michael Maroun, a physics graduate student at the University of California, Riverside, is one of only 580 young researchers from 69 countries who will spend six days next month with more than 25 Nobel laureates at the 62nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. Dedicated this year to physics, the meeting will take place July 1-6 in Lindau, Germany. The annual meetings attract thousands of applications from around the world.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Iqbal Pittalwala
Public Release: 24-Jun-2012
Nature Neuroscience{DISSERTATION} Learn that tune while fast asleep Want to nail that tune that you've practiced and practiced? Maybe you should take a nap with the same melody playing during your sleep, new provocative Northwestern University research suggests. The research grows out of exciting existing evidence that suggests that memories can be reactivated during sleep and storage of them can be strengthened in the process.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Hilary Hurd Anyaso
Public Release: 24-Jun-2012
Nature Biotechnology{DISSERTATION} Blood-brain barrier building blocks forged from human stem cells The blood-brain barrier may be poised to give up some of its secrets as researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have created in the laboratory dish the cells that make up the brain's protective barrier. The Wisconsin researchers describe transforming stem cells into endothelial cells with blood-brain barrier qualities.
National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation
Contact: Terry Devitt
Public Release: 24-Jun-2012
Nature{DISSERTATION} Brain structure helps guide behavior by anticipating changing demands A study from Massachusetts General Hospital researchers finds that a structure deep within the brain, believed to play an important role in regulating conscious control of goal-directed behavior, helps to optimize behavioral responses by predicting how difficult upcoming tasks will be.
National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Klingenstein Foundation, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Sackler Scholar Programme in Psychobiology, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Contact: Sue McGreevey
Public Release: 22-Jun-2012
{DISSERTATION} Forgotten star cluster now found useful in studies of Sun and hunt for Earth-like planets A loose group of stars, known for over 180 years but never before studied in detail, has been revealed to be an important new tool in the quest to understand the evolution of stars like the Sun, and in the search for planets like Earth. The star cluster holds great promise for use as a standard gauge in fundamental stellar astrophysics More information is online at http://science.psu.edu/news-and-events/2012-news/Wright6-2012
National Science Foundation
Contact: Barbara Kennedy
Public Release: 22-Jun-2012
Plant Cell{DISSERTATION} Is your leaf left-handed? Research published in the Plant Cell shows that the spiral pattern of leaf formation from the point of growth affects the developing leaf's exposure to the plant hormone auxin; This exposure leads to measurable left-right asymmetry in leaf development, in species previously assumed to have symmetric leaves.
National Science Foundation, SystemsX.ch
Contact: Kathy Roberts Munkvold
Public Release: 21-Jun-2012
{DISSERTATION} University of Houston selected to participate in project that will help shape future internets The University of Houston is one of ten universities nationwide to be involved in a project that help shape future internets.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Laura Tolley
Public Release: 21-Jun-2012
Nano Letters{DISSERTATION} Nano-infused paint can detect strain Nanotube-infused paint developed at Rice University can reveal strain in materials by its fluorescence. The material holds promise for detecting strain in aircraft, bridges and buildings.
National Science Foundation, Welch Foundation, Air Force Research Laboratory, Rice, Infrastructure-Center for Advanced Materials
Contact: David Ruth
Public Release: 21-Jun-2012
Science{DISSERTATION} Top predators key to extinctions as planet warms Global warming may cause more extinctions than predicted if scientists fail to account for interactions among species in their models, Yale and UConn researchers argue in Science.
National Science Foundation
Contact: David DeFusco
Public Release: 21-Jun-2012
Quaternary Science Reviews{DISSERTATION} New deglaciation data opens door for earlier First Americans migration A new study of lake sediment cores from Sanak Island in the western Gulf of Alaska suggests that deglaciation there from the last Ice Age took place as much as 1,500 to 2,000 years earlier than previously thought, opening the door for earlier coastal migration models for the Americas.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Nicole Misarti
Public Release: 21-Jun-2012
Science{DISSERTATION} Penn researchers' study of phase change materials could lead to better computer memory Memory devices for computers require a large collection of components that can switch between two states, which represent the ones and zeros of binary language. Engineers hope to make next-generation chips with materials that distinguish between these states by physically rearranging their atoms into different phases. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have now provided new insight into how this phase change happens, which could help engineers make memory storage devices faster and more efficient.
Penn State/Nano/Bio Interface Center, National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, MIT/Materials Structures and Devices Center
Contact: Evan Lerner
Public Release: 21-Jun-2012
Science{DISSERTATION} Planetrise Few nighttime sights offer more drama than the full Moon rising over the horizon. Now imagine that instead of the Moon, a gas giant planet spanning three times more sky loomed over the molten landscape of a lava world. This alien vista exists in the newly discovered two-planet system of Kepler-36.
NASA, Space Telescope Science Institute, National Science Foundation
Contact: Christine Pulliam
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