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Public Release: 11-Jun-2012
 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} Global warming threat seen in fertile soil of northeastern US forests Vast stores of carbon in U.S. forest soils could be released by rising global temperatures, according to a study by UC Irvine and other researchers in today's online Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. 
National Science Foundation, ARCS Foundation, Ralph J. & Carol M. Cicerone Graduate Fellowship, US Department of Energy, US Forest Service, Michigan Technological University, others
Contact: Janet Wilson
Public Release: 11-Jun-2012
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences{DISSERTATION} Researchers work to untangle knots, slipknots in species separated by a billion years of evolution A new study by scientists at Rice University and elsewhere examines structures of proteins that not only twist and turn themselves into knots, but also form slipknots that, if anybody could actually see them, might look like shoelaces for cells.
National Science Foundation, Swiss National Science Foundation
Contact: David Ruth
Public Release: 11-Jun-2012
ACS Nano{DISSERTATION} A new spin on antifreeze A team of researchers from Harvard University have invented a way to keep any metal surface free of ice and frost. The treated surfaces quickly shed even tiny, incipient condensation droplets or frost simply through gravity. The technology prevents ice sheets from developing on surfaces -- and any ice that does form, slides off effortlessly.
National Science Foundation, Croucher Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship
Contact: Michael Patrick Rutter
Public Release: 11-Jun-2012
Ecology{DISSERTATION} Recreational fishing causes Cape Cod salt marsh die-off As recreational fishing activity has reduced predators in many of Cape Cod's salt marsh ecosystems, Sesarma crabs have feasted on grasses, causing dramatic die-offs of the marshes, according to a new study. The researchers assessed the "trophic cascade" in several experiments that also ruled out alternative explanations for the problem.
National Science Foundation
Contact: David Orenstein
Public Release: 11-Jun-2012
220th American Astronomical Society Meeting{DISSERTATION} Neighbor galaxies may have brushed closely, astronomers find New observations confirm a tenuous "bridge" of hydrogen gas streaming between two prominent members of our Local Group of galaxies -- the Andromeda Galaxy and the Triangulum Galaxy. This indicates the two may have had a close encounter in the distant past.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Dave Finley
Public Release: 11-Jun-2012
Journal of Molecular Diagnostics{DISSERTATION} A SMART(er) way to track influenza Brown University researchers have created a reliable and fast flu-detection test that can be carried in a first-aid kit. The novel prototype device isolates influenza RNA using a combination of magnetics and microfluidics, then amplifies and detects probes bound to the RNA. The technology could lead to real-time tracking of influenza. Results are published in the Journal of Molecular Diagnostics.
National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation
Contact: David Orenstein
Public Release: 10-Jun-2012
Nature Geoscience{DISSERTATION} Undersea volcano gave off signals before eruption in 2011 A team of scientists that last year created waves by correctly forecasting the 2011 eruption of Axial Seamount years in advance now says that the undersea volcano located some 250 miles off the Oregon coast gave off clear signals hours before its impending eruption.
National Science Foundation, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Contact: Bill Chadwick
Public Release: 8-Jun-2012
Physical Review Letters{DISSERTATION} Theorem unifies superfluids and other weird materials Despite physicists' fascination with the weird behavior of materials at extremely low temperatures -- 11 Nobel Prizes have been awarded in the area -- a unified explanation of materials like superfluids and Bose-Einstein condensates remained elusive. Now, UC Berkeley physicists Hitoshi Murayama and Haruki Watanabe have proved that counting the number of Nambu-Goldstone bosons in a material reveals the material's behavior at low temperatures, allowing the prediction of behavior and design of new materials with spooky properties.
US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, others
Contact: Robert Sanders
Public Release: 8-Jun-2012
Journal of Geophysical Research -- Biogeosciences{DISSERTATION} CU-Boulder-led team finds microbes in extreme environment on South American volcanoes A team led by the University of Colorado Boulder looking for organisms that eke out a living in some of the most inhospitable soils on Earth has found a hardy few living on volcanoes that reaching nearly 20,000 feet in height.
National Science Foundation, National Geographic Society
Contact: Steve Schmidt
Public Release: 7-Jun-2012
{DISSERTATION} UCLA Engineering-led team gets $1 million grant to study effect of quakes on modern structures A research team led by John Wallace, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at UCLA Engineering, has received a $1 million research grant from the National Science Foundation's National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program to explore revisions in design of solid reinforced concrete structural walls that would ensure future construction meets the high resiliency required for modern buildings. The team also includes co-principal investigators Jack Moehle and Claudia Ostertag, both from UC Berkeley.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Matthew Chin
Public Release: 7-Jun-2012
Nature Communications{DISSERTATION} 'Nanocable' could be big boon for energy storage Rice University researchers have created a coaxial nanocable capacitor that outperforms previously reported microcapacitors. The three-layer, 100-nanometer-wide cable is described this week in Nature Communications. The cable was produced with techniques pioneered in the nascent graphene field and could be used to build next-generation energy-storage systems.
National Science Foundation, Rice University, Office of Naval Research, Welch Foundation, Center for Exotic NanoCarbons at Shinshu University, Japan Regional Innovation Strategy Program by the Excellence
Contact: Jade Boyd
Public Release: 7-Jun-2012
IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference{DISSERTATION} Rice, UCLA slash energy needs for next-generation memory Researchers from Rice University and UCLA have unveiled a new data-encoding scheme that slashes more than 30 percent of the energy needed to write data onto memory cards that use "phase-change memory" -- a competitor to flash memory that has big backing from industry heavyweights. The breakthrough was presented this week at the IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference in San Francisco.
Office of Naval Research, US Army Research Office, National Science Foundation
Contact: Jade Boyd
Public Release: 7-Jun-2012
Optics Letters{DISSERTATION} Driving without a blind spot may be closer than it appears A driver's side mirror that eliminates the dangerous "blind spot" has received a US patent. The subtly curved mirror, invented by a Drexel mathematics professor, dramatically increases the field of view with minimal distortion. Its smooth surface is analogous to a disco ball made of many smaller mirror faces, with each face's direction calculated to manipulate the direction of reflected light so drivers see a wide, not-too-distorted view of the scene behind them.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Rachel Ewing
Public Release: 7-Jun-2012
Science{DISSERTATION} New twist on old chemical process could boost energy efficiency An unappreciated aspect of chemical reactions on the surface of metal oxides could be key in developing more efficient energy systems, including more productive solar cells or hydrogen fuel cells efficient enough for automobiles.
University of Washington, American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund, National Science Foundation/Center for Enabling New Technologies through Catalysis, US Department of Energy
Contact: Vince Stricherz
Public Release: 7-Jun-2012
Science{DISSERTATION} CU-Boulder physicists use ultrafast lasers to create first tabletop X-ray device An international research team led by the University of Colorado Boulder has generated the first laser-like beams of X-rays from a tabletop device, paving the way for major advances in many fields including medicine, biology and nanotechnology development.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Margaret Murnane
Public Release: 7-Jun-2012
Cell Stem Cell{DISSERTATION} Gladstone scientists reprogram skin cells into brain cells Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have for the first time transformed skin cells -- with a single genetic factor -- into cells that develop on their own into an interconnected, functional network of brain cells. The research offers new hope in the fight against many neurological conditions because scientists expect that such a transformation -- or reprogramming -- of cells may lead to better models for testing drugs for devastating neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's disease.
California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Tau Consortium, Roddenberry Foundation, S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation
Contact: Anne Holden
Public Release: 7-Jun-2012
Journal of Experimental Biology{DISSERTATION} Virgin male moths think they're hot when they're not Talk about throwing yourself into a relationship too soon. A University of Utah study found that when a virgin male moth gets a whiff of female sex attractant, he's quicker to start shivering to warm up his flight muscles, and then takes off prematurely when he's still too cool for powerful flight. So his headlong rush to reach the female first may cost him the race.
National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health
Contact: Lee Siegel
Public Release: 6-Jun-2012
Scientific Reports{DISSERTATION} Stanford researchers help predict the oceans of the future with a mini-lab Scientists from the Stanford and elsewhere joined to create a mini-lab in Australia's Great Barrier Reef. The device can simulate predicted future ocean conditions – such as rising carbon dioxide levels – and their effects on ecosystems such as coral.
Australian Research Council, Queensland Government, National Science Foundation, Pacific Blue Foundation
Contact: Mark Shwartz
Public Release: 6-Jun-2012
Nature{DISSERTATION} Sea temperatures less sensitive to CO2 13 million years ago In the modern global climate, higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are associated with rising ocean temperatures. But the seas were not always so sensitive to this CO2 "forcing," according to a new report. Around 5 to 13 million years ago, oceans were warmer than they are today -- even though atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations were considerably lower.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Nan Broadbent
Public Release: 6-Jun-2012
Proceedings of the Royal Society B{DISSERTATION} Variations in sex steroid gene expression can predict aggressive behaviors An Indiana University biologist has shown that natural variation in measures of the brain's ability to process steroid hormones predicts functional variation in aggressive behavior.
National Institutes of Health, Indiana Academy of Sciences, National Science Foundation
Contact: Steve Chaplin
Public Release: 6-Jun-2012
PLOS ONE{DISSERTATION} Microbial communities shifted dramatically after Deepwater Horizon spill Communities of microbial organisms -- species such as nematodes, protists and fungi -- on beaches along the Gulf of Mexico changed significantly following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in April 2010, research from the University of New Hampshire's Hubbard Center for Genome Studies and partners found. The findings analyzed marine sediments from five Gulf Coast sites prior to and several months following shoreline oiling.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Beth Potier
Public Release: 6-Jun-2012
PLOS ONE{DISSERTATION} Stealth behavior allows cockroaches to seemingly vanish Cockroaches, known for their stealth behavior, have a strategy up their sleeve only recently discovered by UC Berkeley biologists. They are able to quickly disappear under ledges by flinging themselves off at full speed, grabbing the edge with hook-like claws on their hind legs, and swinging like a pendulum to land upside down underneath. Such a behavior was reproduced by a six-legged robot using Velcro strips.
National Science Foundation, US Army
Contact: Robert Sanders
Public Release: 6-Jun-2012
Rio+20 Conference Nature{DISSERTATION} 20 years after Rio Earth Summit Twenty years after the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, 17 prominent ecologists are calling for renewed international efforts to curb the loss of biological diversity, which is compromising nature's ability to provide goods and services essential for human well-being.
National Science Foundation, University of California -- Santa Barbara, State of California
Contact: Jim Erickson
Public Release: 5-Jun-2012
Journal of Structural Biology{DISSERTATION} Molecular matchmaking for drug discovery Computational drug discovery allows researchers to target a small group of possible molecules for therapeutic use, saving significant time and money. In the February 2012 edition of the Journal of Structural Biology, UT researcher Chandrajit Bajaj reported on advances in image reconstruction that allow his group to detect the secondary structures of proteins from single particle cryo-electron microscopy.
National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Texas Institute of Drug and Diagnostic Development
Contact: Faith Singer-Villalobos
Public Release: 5-Jun-2012
{DISSERTATION} WPI awarded $3 million from the NSF for new graduate program in biofabrication Worcester Polytechnic Institute has received a five-year, $3 million award from the National Science Foundation to launch an innovative graduate program in biofabrication. By combining interdisciplinary research, translational engineering, and industrial and international experiences -- all with a focus on innovation—the program will prepare a new cadre of researchers who can translate their discoveries into solutions for societal problems. The award is funded through the NSF's Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship program.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Michael Cohen
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