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Public Release: 11-Feb-2013
Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsCarnegie Mellon analysis shows online songwriters seek collaborators with complementary skills A musical collaboration, be it Rodgers and Hammerstein or Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, requires a mix of shared and complementary traits that is not always obvious. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University discovered elements of this unique chemistry by using an automated technique to analyze an online songwriting community. 
National Science Foundation, Google
Contact: Byron Spice
Public Release: 11-Feb-2013
 Journal of Theoretical BiologyRice University lab shows how blood vessels regroup after stroke Rice scientists simulate "robot" cells to study the development of microvascular systems in the brain. The goal is to find a way to direct the development of vessels that feed oxygen-starved cells in stroke and neurodegenerative disease patients.
National Academies Keck Future Initiatives, Hamill Innovation Award, National Science Foundation
Contact: David Ruth
Public Release: 11-Feb-2013
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesSunlight stimulates release of climate-warming gas from melting Arctic permafrost Ancient carbon trapped in Arctic permafrost is extremely sensitive to sunlight and, if exposed to the surface when long-frozen soils melt and collapse, can release climate-warming carbon dioxide gas into the atmosphere much faster than previously thought.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Jim Erickson
Public Release: 11-Feb-2013
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesIsotopic data show farming arrived in Europe with migrants For decades, archaeologists have debated how farming spread to Stone Age Europe, setting the stage for the rise of Western civilization. Now, new data gleaned from the teeth of prehistoric farmers and the hunter-gatherers with whom they briefly overlapped shows that agriculture was introduced to Central Europe from the Near East by colonizers who brought farming technology with them.
National Science Foundation
Contact: T. Douglas Price
Public Release: 7-Feb-2013
UT Arlington engineer wins NSF award to support microfluidic analyses of tissue, cell samples A UT Arlington mechanical engineer has been honored by the National Science Foundation with a $400,000 Early Career Development grant to support her work with microfluidic devices, which promise to improve 3D tissue and cell sample analyses.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Herb Booth
Public Release: 7-Feb-2013
UT Arlington bioengineer to use hybrid imaging system to see deep tissue A UT Arlington bioengineer has been awarded a $407,163 National Science Foundation Early Career Development grant to use light and sound to produce an accurate image of a patient's deep tissue.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Herb Booth
Public Release: 7-Feb-2013
ScienceFor drug makers, new 3-D control opens wealth of options A team of scientists anchored at Yale University has demonstrated a new, highly versatile approach for quickly assembling drug-like compounds, establishing a broad new route to drug discovery and medical treatment. They report their results in the journal Science on Feb. 8.
National Institutes of Health, US Department of Energy, Swiss National Science Foundation
Contact: Eric Gershon
Public Release: 7-Feb-2013
Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social ComputingResearch could ensure that crowd work becomes a career option, not a dead end Crowdsourcing is an effective way to mobilize people to accomplish tasks on a global scale, but some researchers fear that crowd work for pay could easily become the high-tech equivalent of a sweat shop. Trivial work for rock bottom pay isn't inevitable, however. Leading researchers in crowd work will outline a research agenda to make crowd work both intellectually and monetarily rewarding at the Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, Feb. 27 in San Antonio, Texas.
National Science Foundation, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Center for the Future of Work
Contact: Byron Spice
Public Release: 7-Feb-2013
NatureUnique peptide could treat cancers, neurological disorders, and infectious diseases UT Southwestern scientists have synthesized a peptide that shows potential for pharmaceutical development into agents for treating infections, neurodegenerative disorders, and cancer through an ability to induce a cell-recycling process called autophagy.
National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Robert A. Welch Foundation, UK, Netherlands
Contact: Russell Rian
Public Release: 7-Feb-2013
Social ForcesGoing along means getting along -- and that's not always good, Baylor study finds Caving in to social pressure -- such as saying that you love a movie because friends do -- makes for good vibes about being part of a group and can produce more of the same conduct, according to a Baylor University sociological study. The finding has implications for people ranging from philanthropists to gangs, researchers said.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Terry Goodrich
Public Release: 7-Feb-2013
Current BiologySalmon may use magnetic field as a navigational aid The mystery of how salmon navigate across thousands of miles of open ocean to locate their river of origin before journeying upstream to spawn has intrigued biologists for decades. A new study suggests a correlation with changes in the intensity of the geomagnetic field.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Nathan Putman
Public Release: 7-Feb-2013
ScienceLargest-ever study of mammalian ancestry completed by renowned research team A groundbreaking six-year research collaboration has produced the most complete picture yet of the evolution of placental mammals, the group that includes humans. Researchers from Carnegie Museum of Natural History are among the team of 23 that took part in this extensive interdisciplinary effort that utilizes molecular (DNA) and morphological (anatomy) data on an extraordinary scale. By combining these two types of data scientists reconstructed, to an unprecedented level of detail, the family tree of placental mammals.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Leigh Kish
Public Release: 7-Feb-2013
ScienceNew evidence suggests comet or asteroid impact was last straw for dinosaurs While many assume that a comet or asteroid impact killed off the dinosaurs, the actual dates of the impact and extinction are imprecise enough that some have questioned the connection. UC Berkeley and Berkeley Geochronology Center scientists have now dated the extinction with unprecedented precision and concluded that the impact and extinction where synchronous. While global climate change probably brought dinosaurs and other creatures to the brink, the impact likely was the final blow.
Getty Foundation, National Science Foundation, University of California Berkeley
Contact: Robert Sanders
Public Release: 7-Feb-2013
SciencePlacental mammal diversity exploded after age of dinosaurs Researchers have reconstructed the common ancestor of placental mammals--a diverse group including animals ranging from rodents to whales to humans--using the world's largest dataset of both genetic and physical traits. In research to be published in the journal Science, the scientists reveal that, contradictory to a commonly held theory, placental mammals did not diversify into their present-day lineages until after the extinction event that eliminated non-avian dinosaurs some 65 million years ago.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Kendra Snyder
Public Release: 6-Feb-2013
GeosphereVolcano location could be greenhouse-icehouse key A new Rice University-led study suggests that Earth's repeated flip-flopping between greenhouse and icehouse climates during the past 500 million years may have been caused by an episodic flare-up of volcanoes at key locations where enormous amounts of carbon dioxide were poised for release into the atmosphere. The study by scientists at Rice, the University of Tokyo, the University of British Columbia, Pomona College, Caltech and Texas A&M University appears this month in GeoSphere.
Packard Foundation, University of Tokyo, National Science Foundation, University of California - Berkeley Miller Institute
Contact: Jade Boyd
Public Release: 6-Feb-2013
Nature GeneticsScientists identify genetic mechanism that contributed to Irish Famine A team of plant pathologists at the University of California, Riverside studied the pathogen that triggered the Irish Famine of the 19th century by infecting potato plants, and deciphered how it succeeded in crippling the potato plant's immune system.
US Department of Agriculture, National Science Foundation
Contact: Iqbal Pittalwala
Public Release: 6-Feb-2013
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesSensing the light, but not to see In a primitive marine organism, MBL scientists find photosensitive cells that may be ancestral to the "circadian receptors" in the mammalian retina.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Diana Kenney
Public Release: 6-Feb-2013
Journal of PhycologyNitrogen from pollution, natural sources causes growth of toxic algae, study finds Nitrogen in ocean waters fuels the growth of two tiny but toxic phytoplankton species that are harmful to marine life and human health, warns a new study published in the Journal of Phycology. Researchers from San Francisco State University found that nitrogen entering the ocean -- whether through natural processes or pollution -- boosts the growth and toxicity of a group of phytoplankton that can cause the human illness amnesic shellfish poisoning.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Elaine Bible
Public Release: 6-Feb-2013
Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesPreserving biodiversity can be compatible with intensive agriculture Preserving genetically diverse local crops in areas where small-scale farms are rapidly modernizing is possible, according to a Penn State geographer, who is part of an international research project investigating the biodiversity of maize, or corn, in hotspots of Bolivia, Peru and Mexico.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Melissa Beattie-Moss
Public Release: 6-Feb-2013
Earth and Planetary Science LettersIndia joined with Asia 10 million years later than previously thought A new timeline suggests India's size before this collision was much smaller than generally assumed.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Caroline McCall
Public Release: 6-Feb-2013
Earth and Planetary Science LettersThe deep roots of catastrophe A University of Utah seismologist analyzed seismic waves that bombarded Earth's core, and believes he got a look at the earliest roots of Earth's most cataclysmic kind of volcanic eruption. But don't worry. He says it won't happen for perhaps 200 million years.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Lee J. Siegel
Public Release: 6-Feb-2013
Book shows evolution that joins human and environmental sciences Hot-button issues such as climate change, wildlife conservation and restoring decimated rainforests are renowned scientific playgrounds. Emilio Moran, co-editor of a new book "Human-Environmental Interactions," makes the case that people -- their motivations and indeed, how they feel -- are indispensable data when it comes to saving the planet and addressing environmental problems.
National Science Foundation
Contact: Sue Nichols
Public Release: 6-Feb-2013
NatureForecasting a supernova explosion Type II supernovae are formed when massive stars collapse, initiating giant explosions. It is thought that stars emit a burst of mass as a precursor to the supernova explosion. If this process were better understood, it could be used to predict and study supernova events in their earliest stages. New observations from a team of astronomers including Carnegie's Mansi Kasliwal show a remarkable mass-loss event about a month before the explosion of a type IIn supernova.
Arye Dissentshik, Helen Kimmel Center, Israeli MoS, Royal Society, National Science Foundation, Israeli SF, and more
Contact: Mansi Kasliwal
Public Release: 6-Feb-2013
ACS NanoX-rays reveal uptake of nanoparticles by soya bean crops Scientists have for the first time traced engineered nanoparticles, taken up from soil by crop plants, and analyzed the chemical states of their metallic elements. Zinc dissolves and accumulates throughout the plants; cerium does not dissolve, but CeO2 nanoparticles were detected in plant tissue. This contributes to the controversial debate on plant toxicity of nanoparticles and entry of engineered nanoparticles into the food chain.
National Science Foundation, US Environmental Protection Agency
Contact: Claus Habfast
Public Release: 5-Feb-2013
UT Dallas researchers pushing the boundaries of virtual reality UT Dallas researchers are leading a multimedia project that allows people to interact with each other in the same space, even if they are miles apart.
National Science Foundation
Contact: LaKisha Ladson
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