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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
Public Release: 13-Dec-2012
{DISSERTATION} University of Illinois receives grant to study ozone resistance in corn The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has received a five-year, $5.7 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop ozone resistance in corn. These strains have the potential to combat the losses climate change and air pollutants have caused in crop yield. A team at the Institute for Genomic Biology in the Genomic Ecology of Global Change research theme will lead the research.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Nicholas Vasi
Public Release: 13-Dec-2012
eLife{DISSERTATION} Team solves mystery associated with DNA repair Scientists have long sought to understand how a DNA repair protein, known as RecA in bacterial cells, helps broken DNA find a way to bridge the gap. In a new study, researchers report they have identified how the RecA protein does its job.
National Science Foundation, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Contact: Diana Yates
Public Release: 13-Dec-2012
Nano Letters{DISSERTATION} Engineers roll up their sleeves -- and then do same with inductors On the road to smaller, high-performance electronics, University of Illinois researchers have smoothed one speed bump by shrinking a key, yet notoriously large element of integrated circuits. Three-dimensional rolled-up inductors have a footprint more than 100 times smaller without sacrificing performance. The research team used industry-standard two-dimensional processing to pattern metal lines on a very thin dielectric film before rolling, creating a spiral inductor.
National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research
Contact: Liz Ahlberg
Public Release: 13-Dec-2012
{DISSERTATION} Congress works better than many think, new research shows The perception of Congress as a gridlocked institution where little happens is overblown, according to new research by scholars at the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Washington.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Scott Adler
Public Release: 13-Dec-2012
Neural Information Processing Systems Conference {DISSERTATION} Head-mounted cameras could help robots understand social interactions What is everyone looking at? It's a common question in social settings because the answer identifies something of interest, or helps delineate social groupings. Those insights someday will be essential for robots designed to interact with humans, so researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute have developed a method for detecting where people's gazes intersect. The researchers tested the method using groups of people with head-mounted video cameras.
National Science Foundation, Intel, Samsung Global Research Outreach Program
Contact: Byron Spice
Public Release: 13-Dec-2012
{DISSERTATION} SystemsX.ch sets off into the second half with 15 projects SystemsX.ch, the Swiss initiative in systems biology, sets off into the second half in 2013. Emphasis this time around is on the quantitative modeling of biological processes and medical questions. To instigate this second half, SystemsX.ch has approved yesterday 15 new, interdisciplinary research projects, which have a total budget of CHF 60 million at their disposal up until 2016.
SystemsX.ch, Swiss National Science Foundation
Contact: Daniel Vonder Mühll
Public Release: 13-Dec-2012
Ecology and Evolution{DISSERTATION} Warming climate unlikely to cause extinction of ancient Amazon trees, study finds New genetic analysis has revealed that many Amazon tree species are likely to survive man-made climate warming in the coming century, contrary to previous findings that temperature increases would cause them to die out.
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Michigan University, National Science Foundation, Royal Society
Contact: Ed Nash
Public Release: 13-Dec-2012
Ecology and Evolution{DISSERTATION} Climate warming unlikely to cause near-term extinction of Amazon trees, but threats remain A new genetic analysis has revealed that many Amazon tree species are likely to survive human-caused climate warming in the coming century, contrary to previous findings that temperature increases would cause them to die out.
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, University of Michigan, National Science Foundation
Contact: Jim Erickson
Public Release: 13-Dec-2012
Science{DISSERTATION} Building better structural materials When materials are stressed, they eventually change shape. Initially these changes are elastic, and reverse when the stress is relieved. When the material's strength is exceeded, the changes become permanent. This could result in the material breaking or shattering, but it could also re-shape the material, such as a hammer denting a piece of metal. Understanding this last group of changes is the focus of research from a team including Carnegie's Ho-kwang "Dave" Mao.
National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration
Contact: Ho-kwang “Dave” Mao
Public Release: 12-Dec-2012
{DISSERTATION} 60th anniversary of NSF Grad Research Fellowship Program; UM fellow Staaterman's video recognized University of Miami grad student and NSF graduate research fellow Erica Staaterman was recognized for her work on the video "Sonic Reef" as part of NSF's video contest recognizing the 60th anniversary of the grad research fellow program.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Barbra Gonzalez, UM Rosenstiel School
Public Release: 12-Dec-2012
{DISSERTATION} U of M to lead international virtual institute studying climatic and human effects on Earth The National Science Foundation announced that it will award an $720,000 grant to the University of Minnesota to lead Linked Institutions for Future Earth, an international, multi-university virtual institute for the study of Earth-surface systems, with a special emphasis on watersheds and deltas.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Julie Bodurtha
Public Release: 12-Dec-2012
{DISSERTATION} Notre Dame researchers examining electric vehicles and the power grid As plug-in electric vehicles become an ever more central part of America's daily life, University of Notre Dame researchers are anticipating what that development will mean for the nation's power grid.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Vijay Gupta
Public Release: 12-Dec-2012
PLOS ONE{DISSERTATION} Tool could help uncover bias against female faculty in STEM fields A Northwestern University study of professors in STEM fields at top research universities across the country found that the "productivity gap" between male and female faculty varied depending on discipline. In fields that require more resources, women publish less. This suggests the gap may exist because academic departments historically have not invested resources equally in female faculty from the start of their careers. Men are getting greater resources.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Megan Fellman
Public Release: 12-Dec-2012
Nature{DISSERTATION} Fragile X protein linked to nearly 100 genes involved in autism Doctors have known for many years that patients with fragile X syndrome, the most common form of inherited intellectual disability, are often also diagnosed with autism. But little has been known about how the two diagnoses are related. Now a collaborative research effort at Duke University Medical Center and Rockefeller University has pinpointed the precise genetic footprint that links the two.
National Institutes of Health, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative, National Science Foundation
Contact: Sarah Avery
Public Release: 12-Dec-2012
Nature{DISSERTATION} Microquasar found in neighbor galaxy, tantalizing scientists Scientists who discovered the first microquasar beyond our own Milky Way Galaxy are excited at the prospect of more such objects yielding valuable clues about how these mysterious powerhouses actually work.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Dave Finley
Public Release: 11-Dec-2012
Ecology{DISSERTATION} Fish have enormous nutrient impacts on marine ecosystems, study finds Fish play a far more important role as contributors of nutrients to marine ecosystems than previously thought, according to researchers at the University of Georgia and Florida International University. In a pair of papers in the journal Ecology, they show that fish contribute more nutrients to their local ecosystems than any other source -- enough to cause changes in the growth rates of the organisms at the base of the food web.
National Science Foundation, US Environmental Protection Agency
Contact: Jacob Allgeier
Public Release: 11-Dec-2012
Astrophysical Journal Letters{DISSERTATION} An older Vega: New insights about the star all others are measured by Vega, a star astronomers have used as a touchstone to measure other stars' brightness for thousands of years, may be more than 200 million years older than previously thought. That's according to new findings from the University of Michigan.
National Science Foundation, NASA
Contact: Nicole Casal Moore
Public Release: 11-Dec-2012
Journal of Neuroscience{DISSERTATION} How our sense of touch is a lot like the way we hear Researchers at the University of Chicago find that the timing and frequency of vibrations produced in the skin when exploring surfaces play an important role in how humans use the sense of touch to gather information, drawing a powerful analogy to the auditory system.
National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation
Contact: Matt Wood
Public Release: 11-Dec-2012
ACS Nano{DISSERTATION} Capturing circulating cancer cells could provide insights into how disease spreads A glass plate with a nanoscale roughness could be a simple way for scientists to capture and study the circulating tumor cells that carry cancer around the body through the bloodstream.
National Science Foundation, UM-SJTU Collaboration on Biomedical Technologies
Contact: Nicole Casal Moore
Public Release: 11-Dec-2012
Scientific Reports{DISSERTATION} Ancient red dye powers new 'green' battery Rose madder -- a natural plant dye once prized throughout the Old World to make fiery red textiles -- has found a second life as the basis for a new "green" battery. Chemists from the City College of New York teamed with researchers from Rice University and the US Army Research Laboratory to develop a non-toxic and sustainable lithium-ion battery powered by purpurin, a dye extracted from the roots of the madder plant.
National Science Foundation, US Army Research Office, Professional Staff Congress-City University of New York
Contact: Jessa Netting
Public Release: 11-Dec-2012
{DISSERTATION} Device helps children with disabilities access tablets Researchers at Georgia Tech are trying to open the world of tablets to children whose limited mobility makes it difficult for them to perform the common pinch and swipe gestures required to control the devices.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Liz Klipp
Public Release: 11-Dec-2012
Radiology{DISSERTATION} Combining diagnostic tests more accurate at predicting Alzheimer's Employing a combination of imaging and biomarker tests improves the ability of doctors to predict Alzheimer's in patients with mild cognitive impairment, according to researchers at Duke Medicine.
National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Dana Foundation, and others
Contact: Rachel Bloch Harrison
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