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Public Release: 3-Jun-2009
{DISSERTATION} Effective over-the-counter prostate cancer test kit likely in next few years An over-the-counter prostate cancer test kit could be coming to a pharmacy near you, thanks to the collaborative work of a University of Central Florida chemist and M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Orlando researchers. 
National Science Foundation
Contact: Zenaida Gonzalez Kotala
Public Release: 2-Jun-2009
{DISSERTATION} Hybrid remotely operated vehicle 'Nereus' reaches deepest part of the ocean A new type of deep-sea robotic vehicle called Nereus has successfully reached the deepest part of the world's ocean, reports a team of US engineers and scientists aboard the research vessel Kilo Moana. The dive to 10,902 meters (6.8 miles) occurred on May 31, 2009, at the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean.
National Science Foundation, US Office of Naval Research, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Russell Family Foundation, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Contact: Stephanie Murphy
Public Release: 2-Jun-2009
International Federation for Information Processing Networking 2009{DISSERTATION} Computer modeling shows strategies to rein in epidemics need to be retooled for rural populations Strategies to mitigate disease epidemics in cities will not be so effective in rural areas, according to researchers using computer models to study the spread of disease. They found that in cities, people have a lot of informal contact with one another but looser ties.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Caterina Scoglio
Public Release: 2-Jun-2009
 Applied Physics Letters{DISSERTATION} Scientists create metal that pumps liquid uphill In nature, trees pull vast amounts of water from their roots up to their leaves hundreds of feet above the ground through capillary action, but now scientists at the University of Rochester have created a simple slab of metal that lifts liquid using the same principle -- but does so at a speed that would make nature envious.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Jonathan Sherwood
Public Release: 1-Jun-2009
Nature Methods{DISSERTATION} Faster protein folding achieved through nanosecond pressure jump A University of Illinois chemist says that prodding proteins to fold by suddenly removing high pressure (a technique also known as "pressure jumping") through electrical bursting makes for a "kindler, gentler way" of inducing proteins to fold.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Phil Ciciora
Public Release: 1-Jun-2009
Geology{DISSERTATION} CU-Boulder study shows 53-million-year-old high Arctic mammals wintered in darkness Ancestors of tapirs and ancient cousins of rhinos living above the Arctic Circle 53 million years ago endured six months of darkness each year in a far milder climate than today that featured lush, swampy forests, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Jaelyn Eberle
Public Release: 1-Jun-2009
Genes & Development{DISSERTATION} Protein linked to mental retardation controls synapse maturation, plasticity, CSHL team finds A team of neuroscientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory has demonstrated the mechanism by which a signaling protein found throughout the brain controls the maturation and strength of excitatory synapses, the tiny gaps across which the majority of neurons communicate. The discovery is important, in part, because deficits of the signaling protein in question, called oligophrenin-1, have been previously linked with X-linked mental retardation.
National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health
Contact: Peter Tarr
Public Release: 1-Jun-2009
Evolution{DISSERTATION} Temporary infidelity may contribute to the stability of ancient relationships Partner switching between fungus farming ants and their fungal clones during nest establishment may contribute to the stability of this long-term mutualistic relationship.
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Lundbeck Foundation, National Science Foundation, Danish National Research Foundation
Contact: Beth King
Public Release: 1-Jun-2009
BioScience{DISSERTATION} Time series identify population responses to climate change Sophisticated studies that correlate fluctuations in animal populations with climate indices across large areas and over multiple years are revealing rich patterns. The approach can point researchers to particularly vulnerable populations, and it can reveal previously unrecognized biological interactions between species.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Jennifer Williams
Public Release: 29-May-2009
Current Biology{DISSERTATION} Slicing chromosomes leads to new insights into cell division By using ultrafast laser pulses to slice off pieces of chromosomes and observe how the chromosomes behave, biomedical engineers at the University of Michigan have gained pivotal insights into mitosis, the process of cell division.
National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health
Contact: Nicole Casal Moore
Public Release: 29-May-2009
Physical Review Letters{DISSERTATION} Theorists reveal path to true muonium True muonium, a long-theorized but never-seen atom, might be observed in future experiments, thanks to recent theoretical work by researchers at the US Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Arizona State University. True muonium was first theorized more than 50 years ago, but until now no one had uncovered an unambiguous method by which it could be created and observed.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy
Contact: Melinda Lee
Public Release: 28-May-2009
Science{DISSERTATION} MIT, BU engineer cellular circuits that count events MIT and Boston University engineers have designed cells that can count and "remember" cellular events, using simple circuits in which a series of genes are activated in a specific order.
National Institute of Health, National Science Foundation, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Contact: Elizabeth Thomson
Public Release: 28-May-2009
Science{DISSERTATION} Studies shed light on collapse of coral reefs An explosion of knowledge has been made in the last few years about the basic biology of corals, researchers say in a new report, helping to explain why coral reefs around the world are collapsing and what it will take for them to survive a gauntlet of climate change and ocean acidification.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Virginia Weis
Public Release: 27-May-2009
{DISSERTATION} NSF announces funding for Alaska Region Research Vessel The National Science Foundation has announced that the Alaska Region Research Vessel will be the first project funded from NSF's portion of the nation's economic stimulus funds, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Carin Stephens
Public Release: 27-May-2009
Astronomy and Astrophysics{DISSERTATION} Rare radio supernova in nearby galaxy is nearest supernova in 5 years Robotic telescopes and dedicated satellites now search the sky for exploding stars, but not all supernovas are visible to optical, ultraviolet or X-ray telescopes. A subset of supernovas is seen only through radio emissions because other wavelengths are blocked by gas and dust. A new survey of the radio sky by the Allen Telescope Array promises to discover more radio supernovas and give a better idea of the rate of star formation in dusty galaxies.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Robert Sanders
Public Release: 27-May-2009
Geophysical Research Letters{DISSERTATION} Melting Greenland ice sheets may threaten Northeast United States, Canada A melting of the Greenland ice sheet this century may drive more water than previously thought toward the already threatened coastlines of New York, Boston, Halifax and other cities in the northeastern United States and in Canada, according to new research led by NCAR.
National Science Foundation, US Department of Energy
Contact: David Hosansky
Public Release: 27-May-2009
{DISSERTATION} First 'nanorust' field test slated in Mexico Rice University researchers today announced that the first field tests of "nanorust," the University's revolutionary, low-cost technology for removing arsenic from drinking water, will begin later this year in Guanajuato, Mexico. In the tests, tiny particles of rust will be added to sand in large filters and used to remove arsenic from groundwater.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Jade Boyd
Public Release: 27-May-2009
Nature{DISSERTATION} What goes down, must come up: Earth's leaky mantle Research in this week's Nature takes aim at a conundrum that's long vexed geoscientists: How to reconcile convection of the Earth's mantle with observations of ancient noble gases in volcanic rocks. Solving the problem requires that the recycling of tectonic plates into the Earth's lower mantle is balanced by hot, buoyant mantle plumes that rise with little mixing to the Earth's surface, producing volcanic island chains like Hawaii.
National Science Foundation, University of Hawaii
Contact: Jade Boyd
Public Release: 27-May-2009
Nature{DISSERTATION} Biologists: Greening Arctic not likely to offset permafrost carbon release As the frozen soil in the Arctic thaws, bacteria will break down organic matter, releasing long-stored carbon into the warming atmosphere.
National Science Foundation, NASA
Contact: Ted Schuur
Public Release: 26-May-2009
IEEE Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop{DISSERTATION} Toward cheap underwater sensor nets UC San Diego computer scientists are one step closer to building low cost networks of underwater sensors for real time underwater environmental monitoring. At the IEEE Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop in Rome, Italy, on May 25, computer scientists from the Jacobs School of Engineering presented a paper highlighting the energy conservation benefits of using reconfigurable hardware rather than competing hardware platforms for their experimental underwater sensor nets.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Daniel Kane
Public Release: 26-May-2009
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} Notre Dame researchers describe new tool for evaluating 'managed relocations' Three University of Notre Dame researchers are among the authors of a new paper that describes a ground-breaking tool designed to help policy makers determine when and how to use an environmental strategy known as "managed relocation."
National Science Foundation, Cedar Tree Foundation
Contact: William Gilroy
Public Release: 26-May-2009
{DISSERTATION} K-State grad student receives National Science Foundation fellowship for computer science Tim Weninger, research associate in computer science at K-State, will receive three years of funding for graduate studies in computer science.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Tim Weninger
Public Release: 26-May-2009
Astrophysical Journal{DISSERTATION} New technique could find water on Earth-like planets orbiting distant suns A team of astronomers and astrobiologists has devised a technique to tell whether small Earth-like planets orbiting other suns harbor liquid water, which in turn could tell whether they might be able to support life.
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, National Science Foundation, NASA Discovery Program
Contact: Vince Stricherz
Public Release: 26-May-2009
Nature Neuroscience{DISSERTATION} Scientists reaching consensus on how brain processes speech Neuroscientists feel they are much closer to an accepted unified theory about how the brain processes speech and language, according to a scientist at Georgetown University Medical Center who first laid the concepts a decade ago and who has now published a review article confirming the theory.
National Science Foundation, NIH/National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Wellcome Trust
Contact: Karen Mallet
Public Release: 25-May-2009
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} MSU discoveries upend traditional thinking about how plants make certain compounds Michigan State University plant scientists have identified two new genes and two new enzymes in tomato plants; those findings led them to discover that the plants were making monoterpenes, compounds that help give tomato leaves their distinctive smell, in a way that flies in the face of accepted thought.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Jamie DePolo
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