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Public Release: 28-Feb-2013
Modified bacteria turn waste into fat for fuel
Genetically engineered E. coli bacteria developed at Rice University turn biomass from plant waste into fatty acids in a project sponsored by the United States Department of Agriculture. The acids can then be turned into synthetic fuel or lubricants.
Department of Agriculture, National Science Foundation

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

Public Release: 28-Feb-2013
Astrophysical Journal Letters
Discoveries suggest icy cosmic start for amino acids and DNA ingredients
Using new technology at the telescope and in laboratories, researchers have discovered an important pair of prebiotic molecules in interstellar space. The discoveries indicate that some basic chemicals that are key steps on the way to life may have formed on dusty ice grains floating between the stars.
National Science Foundation

Contact: Dave Finley
dfinley@nrao.edu
575-835-7302
National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Public Release: 28-Feb-2013
2013 International Workshop on Clinical BMI Systems
Journal of Neural Engineering
Brown unveils novel wireless brain sensor
In a significant advance for brain-computer interfaces, engineers at Brown University have developed a novel wireless, broadband, rechargeable, fully implantable brain sensor that has performed well in animal models for more than a year. They described the result in the Journal of Neural Engineering and at a conference this week.
National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Contact: David Orenstein
david_orenstein@brown.edu
401-863-1862
Brown University

Public Release: 28-Feb-2013
Science
Walking in the footsteps of 19th and 20th century naturalists
Two biologists at Washington University in St. Louis were delighted to discover a meticulous dataset on a plant-pollinator network recorded by Illinois naturalist Charles Robertson between 1884 and 1916. Re-collecting part of Robertson's network, they learned that although the network has compensated for some losses, battered by climate change and habitat loss it is now weaker and less resilient than in Robertson's time.
National Science Foundation

Contact: Diana Lutz
dlutz@wustl.edu
314-935-5272
Washington University in St. Louis

Public Release: 27-Feb-2013
Biologists explore link between amphibian behavior and deadly disease
In a new study, biologists will investigate the connection between amphibians' social habits and a disease that has killed a record number of frogs, toads and salamanders worldwide. This week, San Francisco State University biologists received a $595,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to explore the relationship between amphibian social behavior and a fungus called Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis. This harmful fungus attacks an amphibian's skin and causes the disease Chytridiomycosis.
National Science Foundation

Contact: Elaine Bible
ebible@sfsu.edu
415-405-3606
San Francisco State University

Public Release: 27-Feb-2013
PLOS ONE
Silver nanoparticles may adversely affect environment
In experiments mimicking a natural environment, Duke University researchers have demonstrated that the silver nanoparticles used in many consumer products can have an adverse effect on plants and microorganisms.
National Science Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency

Contact: Richard Merritt
richard.merritt@duke.edu
919-660-8414
Duke University

Public Release: 27-Feb-2013
American Economic Review
New insight into how people choose insurance plans
Study: Consumers avoid high-deductible plans if they expect to reduce their use of medical care.
Alcoa, NIA, National Science Foundation, Sloan Foundation, MacArthur Foundation Network, US Social Security Administration grant to the National Bureau of Economic Research

Contact: Sarah McDonnell
s_mcd@mit.edu
617-827-7637
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Public Release: 27-Feb-2013
Scientific Reports
Rice builds nanotube photodetector
A nanotube-based photodetector that gathers light in and beyond visible wavelengths shows promise for unique optoelectronic devices and specialized cameras.
US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, LANCER, Welch Foundation

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

Public Release: 27-Feb-2013
New fabrication technique could provide breakthrough for solar energy systems
A University of Connecticut scientist is using a novel fabrication process to create ultra-efficient solar energy rectennas capable of harvesting more than 70 percent of the sun's electromagnetic radiation and simultaneously converting it into usable electric power.
National Science Foundation

Contact: Colin Poitras
colin.poitras@uconn.edu
860-486-4656
University of Connecticut

Public Release: 27-Feb-2013
Journal of Experimental Biology
Nemo helps anemone partner breath by fanning with his fins
Nestled amongst the tentacles of their anemone sanctuary, clownfish have reached an amicable arrangement with their deadly hosts. But what does the anemone get in return? Joe Szczebak and colleagues from Auburn University, USA, have discovered that the helpful fish increase the flow of water through their anemone-haven at night improving the anemone's oxygen supply when it is scarce.
National Science Foundation

Contact: Nicola Stead
nicola.stead@biologists.com
44-012-234-25525
The Company of Biologists

Public Release: 26-Feb-2013
Insect research heads down path to start-up company with NSF I-Corps program
A team of researchers at the University of Nevada, Reno have strayed from the lab to the boardroom in an effort to build a business based on discoveries from years of research studying insect enzymes.
National Science Foundation

Contact: Mike Wolterbeek
mwolterbeek@unr.edu
University of Nevada, Reno

Public Release: 25-Feb-2013
Experiments in Fluids
2 vortex trails with 1 stroke
As of today, the Wikipedia entry for the hummingbird explains that the bird's flight generates in its wake a single trail of vortices that helps the bird hover. But after conducting experiments with hummingbirds in the lab, researchers at the University of California, Riverside propose that the hummingbird produces two trails of vortices -- one under each wing per stroke -- that help generate the aerodynamic forces required for the bird to power and control its flight.
National Science Foundation

Contact: Iqbal Pittalwala
iqbal@ucr.edu
951-827-6050
University of California - Riverside

Public Release: 25-Feb-2013
Nature Materials
A new look at high-temperature superconductors
A new method allows direct detection of rapid fluctuations that may help to explain how high-temperature superconducting materials work.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy

Contact: Sarah McDonnell
s_mcd@mit.ed
617-253-8923
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Public Release: 25-Feb-2013
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Clues to climate cycles dug from south pole snow pit
Particles from the upper atmosphere trapped in a deep pile of Antarctic snow hold clear chemical traces of global meteorological events, a team from the University of California, San Diego and a colleague from France have found. Anomalies in oxygen found in sulfate particles coincide with several episodes of the world-wide disruption of weather known as El Nino and can be distinguished from similar signals left by the eruption of huge volcanoes, the team reports.
National Science Foundation

Contact: Susan Brown
sdbrown@ucsd.edu
858-246-0161
University of California - San Diego

Public Release: 25-Feb-2013
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Study finds maize in diets of people in coastal Peru dates to 5,000 years ago
A team of scientists led by Dr. Jonathan Haas of Chicago's Field Museum has concluded that during the Late Archaic, maize (corn) was a primary component in the diet of people living in the Norte Chico region of Peru, an area of remarkable cultural florescence in 3rd millennium B.C. Up until now, the prevailing theory was that marine resources, not agriculture and corn, provided the economic engine behind the development of civilization in the Andean region of Peru.
National Science Foundation

Contact: Nancy O'Shea
media@fieldmuseum.org
312-665-7103
Field Museum

Public Release: 24-Feb-2013
Nature Materials
Laser mastery narrows down sources of superconductivity
Uncovering the mechanism behind high-temperature superconductivity -- a phenomenon with tremendous value to advances in energy efficiency and sustainability -- remains one of the greatest and most pressing puzzles in physics. Now, using precise laser pulses and atomically perfect 2D materials, collaborating scientists have ruled out one possible source of HTS: Fleeting fluctuations called charge-density waves.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy

Contact: Justin Eure
jeure@bnl.gov
631-344-2347
DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory

Public Release: 24-Feb-2013
Nature Climate Change
UN sustainable energy initiative could put world on a path to climate targets
The UN's Sustainable Energy for All initiative, if successful, could make a significant contribution to the efforts to limit climate change to target levels, according to a new analysis from IIASA and ETH Zurich.
Swiss National Science Foundation, IIASA Peccei Award Grant

Contact: Katherine Leitzell
leitzell@iiasa.ac.at
43-223-680-7316
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

Public Release: 22-Feb-2013
Biological Cybernetics
Lessons from cockroaches could inform robotics
Running cockroaches start to recover from being shoved sideways before their dawdling nervous system kicks in to tell their legs what to do, researchers have found. These new insights on how biological systems stabilize could one day help engineers design steadier robots and improve doctors' understanding of human gait abnormalities.
National Science Foundation

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

Public Release: 22-Feb-2013
Nature
Genomic detectives crack the case of the missing heritability
Despite years of research, the genetic factors behind many human diseases and characteristics remain unknown, and has been called the "missing heritability" problem. A new study by Princeton University researchers, however, suggests that heritability in humans may be hidden due only to the limitations of modern research tools, but could be discovered if scientists know where (and how) to look.
National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, James S. McDonnell Centennial Fellowship

Contact: Morgan Kelly
mgnkelly@princeton.edu
609-258-5729
Princeton University

Public Release: 22-Feb-2013
UC Berkeley, UCSF and Stanford join forces to help commercialize university innovations
The University of California, Berkeley, UC San Francisco and Stanford University are collaborating on an educational program aimed at commercializing university research and fostering innovation locally and nationally, thanks to a three-year, $3.75 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
National Science Foundation

Contact: Ute Frey
frey@haas.berkeley.edu
510-642-0342
University of California - Berkeley Haas School of Business

Public Release: 21-Feb-2013
Gender & Society
Student loans help women more than men in reaching graduation
Student loans provide more help to women than they do for men in encouraging graduation from college, a new nationwide study reveals.
National Science Foundation, NIH/National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Contact: Rachel Dwyer
Dwyer.46@osu.edu
614-247-6682
Ohio State University

Public Release: 21-Feb-2013
Particle & Particle Systems Characterization
Researchers 'nanoweld' by applying light to aligned nanorods in solid materials
Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a way to melt or "weld" specific portions of polymers by embedding aligned nanoparticles within the materials. Their technique, which melts fibers along a chosen direction within a material, may lead to stronger, more resilient nanofibers and materials.
National Science Foundation, Sigma Xi

Contact: Tracey Peake
tracey_peake@ncsu.edu
919-515-6142
North Carolina State University

Public Release: 21-Feb-2013
Science
Journey to the limits of spacetime
Black holes shape the growth and death of the stars around them through their powerful gravitational pull and explosive ejections of energy. In a recent Science paper, researchers predicted the formation of accretion disks and relativistic jets that warp and bend more than previously thought, shaped by the extreme gravity of the black hole and by powerful magnetic forces generated by its spin.
National Science Foundation

Contact: Faith Singer-Villalobos
faith@tacc.utexas.edu
512-232-5771
University of Texas at Austin, Texas Advanced Computing Center

Public Release: 21-Feb-2013
Wayne State University researcher's techniques enable more, faster testing of biological liquids
Two National Science Foundation grants to a Wayne State University researcher could amount to far more than a drop in the bucket when it cassistant professor of electrical and computer eomes to handling liquids for biological screening. WSU's Amar Basu, Ph.D., recently received the grants, which total $636,000, to support his work on microfluidic technologies in an effort to help scientists rapidly conduct thousands of chemical, genetic and pharmacological tests through a process called high-throughput screening.
National Science Foundation

Contact: Julie O'Connor
julie.oconnor@wayne.edu
313-577-8845
Wayne State University - Office of the Vice President for Research

Public Release: 21-Feb-2013
Biologists lead international team to track Arctic response to climate change
Last summer was the highest ice retreat in the Arctic on record. An international team of scientists is setting up observatories in the Alaskan Arctic to track how everything from clams to polar bears respond to sea ice retreat and the resulting environmental changes.
National Science Foundation

Contact: Amy Pelsinsky
apelsinsky@umces.edu
410-330-1389
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

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