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Public Release: 19-Dec-2012
Scientific Reports
{DISSERTATION} Super-fine sound beam could one day be an invisible scalpel
A carbon-nanotube-coated lens that converts light to sound can focus high-pressure sound waves to finer points than ever before. The University of Michigan engineering researchers who developed the new therapeutic ultrasound approach say it could lead to an invisible knife for noninvasive surgery.
National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health

Contact: Nicole Casal Moore
ncmoore@umich.edu
734-647-7087
University of Michigan

Public Release: 19-Dec-2012
Bioresource Technology
{DISSERTATION} Soybeans a source of valuable chemical
The humble soybean could become an inexpensive new source of a widely used chemical for plastics, textiles, drugs, solvents and as a food additive.
United Soybean Board, National Science Foundation

Contact: David Ruth
david@rice.edu
713-348-6327
Rice University

Public Release: 19-Dec-2012
{DISSERTATION} UT Arlington engineers working to prevent heat buildup within 3D integrated circuits
In the effort to pile more power atop silicon chips, engineers have developed the equivalent of mini-skyscrapers in three-dimensional integrated circuits and encountered a new challenge: how to manage the heat created within the tiny devices.
National Science Foundation

Contact: Herb Booth
hbooth@uta.edu
817-272-7075
University of Texas at Arlington

Public Release: 19-Dec-2012
Biology Letters
{DISSERTATION} UC Irvine study of leaping toads reveals muscle-protecting mechanism
Most people are impressed by how a toad jumps. UC Irvine biologist Emanuel Azizi is more impressed by how one lands.
National Science Foundation

Contact: Tom Vasich
tmvasich@uci.edu
949-824-6455
University of California - Irvine

Public Release: 19-Dec-2012
PLOS ONE
{DISSERTATION} Multi-tasking whales sing while feeding, not just breeding
Humpback whales are famed for their songs, most often heard in breeding season when males are competing to mate with females. In recent years, however, reports of whale songs occurring outside traditional breeding grounds have become more common. A new study may help explain why.
National Science Foundation

Contact: Tim Lucas
tdlucas@duke.edu
919-613-8084
Duke University

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
butler@dtm.ciw.edu
202-478-8866
Carnegie Institution

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
jadeboyd@rice.edu
713-348-6778
Rice University

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
laura.ost@nist.gov
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

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
lee.siegel@utah.edu
801-581-8993
University of Utah

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
kathryn@biologists.com
44-078-763-44333
The Company of Biologists

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
ipatrin@ucsd.edu
858-822-0899
University of California - San Diego

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
diya@illinois.edu
217-333-5802
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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
matt_shipman@ncsu.edu
919-515-6386
North Carolina State University

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
daniel.oppenheimer@utexas.edu
512-745-3353
University of Texas at Austin

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
smguns@rit.edu
585-475-5061
Rochester Institute of Technology

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
shines@uw.edu
206-543-2580
University of Washington

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
gary-galluzzo@uiowa.edu
319-384-0009
University of Iowa

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
mls29@psu.edu
814-865-9481
Penn State

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
david_orenstein@brown.edu
401-863-1862
Brown University

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
eahlberg@illinois.edu
217-244-1073
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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
david@rice.edu
713-348-6327
Rice University

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
chsu22@buffalo.edu
716-645-4655
University at Buffalo

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
beverly.clark@emory.edu
404-712-8780
Emory Health Sciences

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
ajhatt@lbl.gov
510-495-2391
DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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
skoppes@uchicago.edu
773-702-8366
University of Chicago

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