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Public Release: 14-Jun-2012
 Structure{DISSERTATION} Atomic-resolution view of a receptor reveals how stomach bacterium avoids acid University of Oregon scientists have discovered how the bacterium Helicobacter pylori navigates through the acidic stomach, opening up new possibilities to inactivate its disease-causing ability without using current strategies that often fail or are discontinued because of side effects. 
National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation
Contact: Jim Barlow
Public Release: 14-Jun-2012
Genetics{DISSERTATION} Gene may link diabetes and Alzheimer's, CCNY researchers find In recent years it became clear that people with diabetes face an ominous prospect -- a far greater risk of developing Alzheimer's disease. Now researchers at the City College of New York (CCNY) have shed light on one reason why. Biology Professor Chris Li and her colleagues have discovered that a single gene forms a common link between the two diseases.
National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation
Contact: Jessa Netting
Public Release: 14-Jun-2012
Science{DISSERTATION} Scientists dispel myths, provide new insight into human impact on pre-Columbian Amazon River Basin A paper published this week in Science provides the most nuanced view to date of the small, shifting human populations in much of the Amazon before the arrival of Europeans. The research, which includes the first landscape-scale sampling of central and western Amazonia, finds that early inhabitants were concentrated near rivers and lakes but actually had little long-term impact on the outlying forests, hardly touching land far from natural sources of water.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Karen Rhine
Public Release: 14-Jun-2012
Current Biology{DISSERTATION} Ptooey! In Israel's Negev Desert, a plant called sweet mignonette or taily weed uses a toxic "mustard oil bomb" to make the spiny mouse spit out the plant's seeds when eating the fruit. Thus, the plant has turned a seed-eating rodent into a seed spreader that helps the plant reproduce, says a new study by Utah and Israeli scientists.
US-Israel Bi-National Science Foundation, Israel Science Foundation, US Agency for International Development Middle East Regional Cooperation Program
Contact: Lee Siegel
Public Release: 13-Jun-2012
Proceedings of Graphics Interface{DISSERTATION} Mindful multitasking: Meditation first can calm stress, aid concentration Need to do some serious multitasking? Some training in meditation beforehand could make the work smoother and less stressful, new research from the UW Information School shows.
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, National Science Foundation
Contact: Peter Kelley
Public Release: 13-Jun-2012
{DISSERTATION} 'No-sleep energy bugs' drain smartphone batteries Researchers have proposed a method to automatically detect a new class of software glitches in smartphones called "no-sleep energy bugs," which can entirely drain batteries while the phones are not in use.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Emil Venere
Public Release: 13-Jun-2012
Journal of Vision{DISSERTATION} Increased use of hand held devices may call for new photo guidelines Viewing Facebook and Flickr photos on a smart phone are becoming common practice. But according to a recently published Journal of Vision study, pictures on the small screen often appear distorted. Vision scientists found that perceptual distortions occur because picture takers do not take their viewing distance into account.
National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, others
Contact: Katrina Norfleet
Public Release: 13-Jun-2012
Nature{DISSERTATION} Got mass? Princeton scientists observe electrons become both heavy and speedy A Princeton University-led team of scientists has shown how electrons moving in certain solids can behave as though they are a thousand times more massive than free electrons, yet at the same time act as speedy superconductors.
US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, W.M. Keck Foundation, Eric and Wendy Schmidt Transformative Technology Fund
Contact: Morgan Kelly
Public Release: 13-Jun-2012
Nature Nanotechnology{DISSERTATION} Self-assembling nanocubes for next generation antennas and lenses Researchers at the University of California, San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering have developed a technique that enables metallic nanocrystals to self-assemble into larger, complex materials for next-generation antennas and lenses. The metal nanocrystals are cube-shaped and, like bricks or Tetris blocks, spontaneously organize themselves into larger-scale structures with precise orientations relative to one another. Their findings were published online June 10 in the journal Nature Nanotechnology.
National Science Foundation, Hellman Foundation, UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering
Contact: Catherine Hockmuth
Public Release: 13-Jun-2012
PLOS ONE{DISSERTATION} Consortium of scientists maps the human body's bacterial ecosystem Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes today are announcing their role in an unprecedented collaboration organized by the National Institutes of Health, which used groundbreaking methods to vastly improve our understanding of bacteria that reside in and on the human body.
San Simeon Fund, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, National Science Foundation
Contact: Anne Holden
Public Release: 13-Jun-2012
Attention, Perception & Psychophysics{DISSERTATION} Videogamers no better at talking while driving No matter how much time you've spent training your brain to multitask by playing "Call of Duty," you're probably no better at talking on the phone while driving than anybody else, according to a study by the Visual Cognition Laboratory at Duke University.
National Science Foundation, US Army Research Office
Contact: Karl Leif Bates
Public Release: 13-Jun-2012
Proceedings of the Royal Society B{DISSERTATION} Inner ear may hold key to ancient primate behavior CT scans of fossilized primate skulls or skull fragments from both the Old and New Worlds may shed light on how these extinct animals moved, especially for those species without any known remains, according to an international team of researchers.
National Science Foundation, National Science and Engineering Council of Canada
Contact: A'ndrea Elyse Messer
Public Release: 13-Jun-2012
Development Psychology{DISSERTATION} Early learning about spatial relationships boosts understanding of numbers Children who are skilled in understanding how shapes fit together to make recognizable objects also have an advantage when it comes to learning the number line and solving math problems. The work is further evidence of the value of providing young children with early opportunities in spatial learning, which contributes to their ability to mentally manipulate objects and understand spatial relationships.
NIH/National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Science Foundation, National Center for Education Research
Contact: William Harms
Public Release: 13-Jun-2012
{DISSERTATION} UMass Amherst network researchers help lay groundwork for White House's 'US Ignite' Scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst are among those from nearly two dozen institutions tapped by NSF to take part. It builds on important contributions over the past several years by researchers across the nation who participated in NSF's Global Environment for Networking Innovation program.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Janet Lathrop
Public Release: 13-Jun-2012
Cell Host and Microbe{DISSERTATION} Bacterium signals plant to open up and let friends in Researchers have identified the set of tools an infectious microbe uses to persuade a plant to open the windows and let the bug and all of its friends inside.
National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, US Department of Energy, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Contact: Karl Leif Bates
Public Release: 13-Jun-2012
Nature{DISSERTATION} Mapping the healthy human microbiome Human beings are ecosystems on two legs, each of us carrying enough microbes to outnumber our human cells by 10 to 1 and our genes by even more. The Human Microbiome Project Consortium, a five-year collaboration including the Broad Institute, has for the first time answered two fundamental questions about the microbiota that healthy humans carry: Who's there and what are they doing?
National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, LANL Laboratory-Directed Research and Development grant, US Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation, Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of Canada Grant, others
Contact: Nicole Davis
Public Release: 13-Jun-2012
220th American Astronomical Society Meeting{DISSERTATION} 'Extremely little' telescope discovers pair of odd planets Though the KELT North telescope in southern Arizona carries a lens no more powerful than a high-end digital camera, it's just revealed the existence of two very unusual faraway planets.
National Science Foundation, NASA, Vanderbilt University
Contact: Thomas Beatty
Public Release: 13-Jun-2012
Nature{DISSERTATION} Where we split from sharks: Common ancestor comes into focus The common ancestor of all jawed vertebrates on Earth resembled a shark, according to a new analysis of the braincase of a 290-million-year-old fossil fish that has long puzzled paleontologists. Research on Acanthodes bronni, a Paleozoic fish, sheds light on the evolution of the earliest jawed vertebrates and offers a glimpse of the last common ancestor before the split between the earliest sharks and the first bony fishes -- the lineage that would eventually include human beings.
National Science Foundation, Natural Environment Research Council
Contact: Rob Mitchum
Public Release: 12-Jun-2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} Protein residues kiss, don't tell Jose Onuchic and colleagues at the Center for Theoretical Biological Physics have developed a tool, known as direct coupling analysis-fold, that enhances existing methods. Details of their research appear today in the online version of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
National Science Foundation/Center for Theoretical Biological Physics
Contact: David Ruth
Public Release: 12-Jun-2012
Physics Review Letters{DISSERTATION} Tiny 'speed bump' device could sort cancer cells Engineers have found an easy way to sort microscopic particles and bits of biological matter, including circulating tumor cells.
National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health
Contact: Mary Spiro
Public Release: 12-Jun-2012
Physical Review Letters{DISSERTATION} Quantum computers could help search engines keep up with the Internet's growth With the web constantly expanding, researchers at USC have proposed -- and demonstrated the feasibility -- of using quantum computers to speed up the processing of Google's page ranking algorithm.
National Science Foundation, NASA Ames Research Center, Lockheed Martin Corporation University Research Initiative, Google
Contact: Robert Perkins
Public Release: 12-Jun-2012
PLOS ONE{DISSERTATION} Evaluation of microscopy techniques may help scientists to better understand ancient plants In a paper published in PLoS ONE, scientists at the University of Illinois released their findings on what microscopy techniques are needed to identify the shape and texture of pollen grains. Because pollen morphologies often align quite closely to taxonomic groupings, understanding the appearance of ancient pollen allows scientists to better understand prehistoric flora in the context of modern-day ancestors.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Nicholas Vasi
Public Release: 12-Jun-2012
Ecosphere{DISSERTATION} Climate change to alter global fire risk Climate change is widely expected to disrupt future fire patterns around the world, with some regions, such as the western United States, seeing more frequent fires within the next 30 years, according to a new analysis led by UC Berkeley researchers in collaboration with an international team of scientists. The study used 16 different climate change models to generate what the researchers said is one of the most comprehensive projections to date of how climate change might affect global fire patterns.
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, US Forest Service, National Science Foundation, Nature Conservancy
Contact: Sarah Yang
Public Release: 12-Jun-2012
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association{DISSERTATION} UTMB researchers create powerful new method to analyze genetic data Researchers have developed a powerful visual analytical approach to explore genetic data, enabling scientists to identify novel patterns of information that could be crucial to human health.
National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Library of Medicine, National Science Foundation
Contact: Jim Kelly
Public Release: 12-Jun-2012
Nature Communications{DISSERTATION} A 'dirt cheap' magnetic field sensor from 'plastic paint' University of Utah physicists developed an inexpensive, highly accurate magnetic field sensor for scientific and possibly consumer uses based on a "spintronic" organic thin-film semiconductor that basically is "plastic paint."
US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Australian Research Council
Contact: Lee Siegel
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