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for the Week of September 4 to September 11, 2011
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Posted 2011-09-10:
- NASA Launches Mission to Study Moon From Crust to Core
- Nanoscale spin waves can replace microwaves
- Fermi's latest gamma-ray census highlights cosmic mysteries
Posted 2011-09-10:
- Milestones for two radiation machines used to test U.S. defenses against atomic weapons
- What's in a name? Names, not social networks, bind us to global cultural and ethnic communities
- Designing high-rise buildings: World still learning lessons of 9/11
- Where does all Earth's gold come from? Precious metals the result of meteorite bombardment, rock analysis finds
- New cooling system raises efficiency of oil and gas processing
- Powered by seaweed: Polymer from algae may improve battery performance
- New method to grow synthetic collagen unveiled: New material may find use in reconstructive surgery, cosmetics, tissue engineering
- Managing intellectual property a challenge for firms, innovators
- Cotton's potential for padding nonwovens
Posted 2011-09-09:
- New record for measurement of atomic lifetime
- Researchers power line-voltage light bulb with nanotube wire
- New translator app makes sense of foreign-language food menus
- 'Invisible' world discovered: Planet alternately runs late and early in its orbit, tugged by second hidden world
- Switching from coal to natural gas would do little for global climate, study indicates
- New material possible boon for lithium ion batteries
- Neutron scattering confirms DNA is as stretchy as nylon
- Space instrument observes new characteristics of solar flares; Findings may lead to improved space weather forecasting
- Computer-aided design used for breast tissue reconstruction
- New material shows promise for trapping pollutants
- Forecasting human behavior by supercomputing global news
- Neutron analysis reveals unique atom-scale behavior of 'cobalt blue'
- New video gaming technology used to detect illness, prevent falls in older adults
- Researchers expand capabilities of miniature analyzer for complex samples
- Smartphones as helpers during disasters: Software for autonomous smartphone network developed
- Mathematics will increase aluminium recycling
Posted 2011-09-08:
- The geophysicist's guide to striking it rich
- Nanosensors made from DNA may light path to new cancer tests and drugs
- Innovative superconductor fibers carry 40 times more electricity
- New type of solar cell retains high efficiency for long periods
- Reuse, reliability will launch future, expert says
- Parents' behavior linked to kids' videogame playing
- Growing meat in the lab: Scientists initiate action plan to advance cultured meat
- Innovative nanoparticle purification system uses magnetic fields
- Virtual reality may help adults recover from stroke
- Innovation is step toward digital graphene transistors
- Ultrasound improves stem cell transplants, Swedish researchers discover
- Novel magnetic, superconducting material opens new possibilities in electronics
- 'Proton flux hypothesis' offers new explanation for effects of ocean acidification on coral reefs
- Breakthrough could double wireless capacity with no new towers
- Pretreatment, proper harvest time boost ethanol from switchgrass
- Something new on the sun: SDO spots a late phase in solar flares
- 'TF beacons' may light path to new cancer tests and drugs
Posted 2011-09-07:
- Neutrinos: Ghostly particles with unstable egos
- Researchers pioneer novel technique to make plasmonic nanogap arrays
- Microbes generate electricity while cleaning up nuclear waste
- People communicate in bursts: Rhythms of communication revealed in study of 9 billion phone calls
- Milky Way galaxy might hold thousands of ticking 'time bombs'
- Foam that lasts and lasts and lasts, and disappears when you want
- Sharper views of Apollo 12, 14, 17 sites in new images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
- Record-low error rate for quantum information processing with one qubit
- A step toward a saliva test for cancer
- Research gives crystal clear temperature readings from toughest environments
- Tiny wires change behavior at nanoscale
- Flexible electronics hold promise for consumer applications
- Innovative organic solar cell architecture sets new performance level, Belgian researchers demonstrate
- Manufacturing method paves way for commercially viable quantum dot-based LEDs
- World’s largest fusion experiment back in operation
- Robotic loader system achieves composite material testing milestone
Posted 2011-09-06:
- Photovoltaics among fastest growing industries in the world
- A whole new light on graphene metamaterials: Tunable graphene device is first tool in a kit for putting terahertz light to work
- World's smallest electric motor made from a single molecule
- Revolutionary three-dimensional model shows how breast tissue grows
- Mars Science Laboratory launch preparations
Posted 2011-09-05:
- Rock rafts could be 'cradle of life'
- Rush hour in a coffee stain: Transition from order to disorder
- Adding hydrogen triples transistor performance in graphene
- Robots learn to handle objects, understand new places
- Advertising in violent video games results in poor recall, negative brand perception
Posted 2011-09-04:
- Rare Martian lake delta spotted by Mars Express
- Understanding next-generation electronic devices: Smallest atomic displacements ever
Posted 2011-09-03:
- Engineers test effects of fire on steel structures, nuclear plant design
- Hiding objects with a terahertz invisibility cloak
- NASA's Mars rover Opportunity begins study of Martian crater
- Physicists capture microscopic origins of thinning and thickening fluids
- New microscope might see beneath skin in 4-D
- Biological 'computer' destroys cancer cells: Diagnostic network incorporated into human cells
- Digital quantum simulator developed
- To clear digital waste in computers, 'think green,' researchers say
- Hubble movies reveal solar-system-sized traffic jams: Giant jets spewing from newborn stars revealed in telescope's images
- Hydrogen powered prototype vessel for inland waterways: Canal boat runs on fuel cell drive
- Physicists demonstrate quantum integrated circuit that implements quantum von Neumann architecture
- New salts for chemical 'soups'
- Zero-gravity experiments
Posted 2011-09-02:
- From a flat mirror, designer light: Bizarre optical phenomenon defies laws of reflection and refraction
- Insect gut microbe with a molecular iron reservoir: Researchers analyze the structure of an iron storage protein
- NASA's Chandra finds nearest pair of supermassive black holes
- Faster diagnostics through cheap, ultra-portable blood testing
- 'Plastic bottle' solution for arsenic-contaminated water threatening 100 million people
- A 'nano,' environmentally friendly, and low toxicity flame retardant protects fabric
- Iron 'veins' are secret of promising new hydrogen storage material
- Communication via electron spin: Scientists propose new kind of information technology
- The star that should not exist
- Magnetic memories manipulated by voltage, not heat
- Cutting soot emissions: Fastest, most economical way to slow global warming?
- Down to the wire: Inexpensive technique for making high quality nanowire solar cells
- New insight into how disordered solids deform
- Computer model for testing heart-disease drugs: Simulations solve decades-old mystery of failed anti-arrhythmia therapy
- First flaws in the Advanced Encryption Standard used for internet banking identified
- Cryogenic catering truck comes to the ALMA observatory
Posted 2011-09-01:
- Ion armageddon: Measuring the impact energy of highly charged ions
- Tiny oxygen generators boost effectiveness of anticancer treatment
- Solar industry responsible for lead emissions in developing countries, research finds
- Hubble movies provide unprecedented view of supersonic jets from young stars
- New tests for dangerous 'legal marijuana,' 'bath salts' and other emerging designer drugs
- Graphene's shining light could lead to super-fast Internet
- Panda poop may be a treasure trove of microbes for making biofuels
- New light shed on pulsars
- Jupiter-bound space probe captures Earth and Moon
- What's really in that luscious chocolate aroma?
- Mobile phone data help track populations during disasters
Posted 2011-08-31:
- Monitoring ground-level ozone from space
- Discovery sheds light on the ecosystem of young galaxies
- Breakthrough in hydrogen fuel cells: Chemists develop way to safely store, extract hydrogen
- Novel alloy could produce hydrogen fuel from sunlight
- Atlas of the Milky Way leads to discovery of two supernova remnants
- Microscope on the go: Cheap, portable, dual-mode microscope uses holograms, not lenses
- Epic search for evidence of life on Mars heats up with focus on high-tech instruments
- The pancreas as we’ve never seen it before
- Watching viruses 'friend' a network: Researchers develop Facebook application to track the path of infection
- Wearable device that vibrates fingertip could improve one's sense of touch
- Discovery turns seaweed into biofuel in half the time
- First nuclear power plants for settlements on the moon and Mars
- Computers are oversold and underused, research on educational programs suggests
- Diamond planet: Radio wave observations show transformation of a galaxy into a millisecond pulsar and its companion planet
- Social media valuable tool to recruit study participants for rare diseases
Posted 2011-08-30:
- 'Smelling' heart failure: Evaluation of an electronic nose
- Filling the pantry for the first voyages to the Red Planet
- Astrophysicists solve 40-year-old Mariner 5 solar wind problem: Turbulence doesn’t go with the flow
- Hollywood screenwriters and scientists: More than an artistic collaboration
- Nano-thermometers show first temperature response differences within living cells
- New method detects emerging sunspots deep inside the sun, provides warning of dangerous solar flares
- New imaging method sheds light on cell growth
- New device helps the blind to move independently
- Sensor chip for monitoring tumors
- Stopping dengue fever with bacteria and math
- Astrophysicists simulate a Milky Way-like galaxy; Supercomputer experiment supports cosmological model of a 'cold dark matter' universe
Posted 2011-08-29:
- Cassini closes in on Saturn's tumbling moon Hyperion
- Peculiar pair of galaxies nicknamed 'The Eyes'
- Beyond smart phones: Sensor network to make 'smart cities' envisioned
Posted 2011-08-28:
- Atomic clock with the world's best long-term accuracy is revealed after evaluation
- First glimpse into birth of the Milky Way
- NASA moon mission in final preparations for September launch
Posted 2011-08-27:
- Cars could run on recycled newspaper, scientists say
- Feeding the five thousand -- or was it three? Researchers claim most crowd estimations are unreliable
- Exotic galaxy reveals tantalizing tale
- Uncovering the spread of deadly cancer: New imaging device enables scientists to see tumor cells traveling in the brain
- New depiction of light could boost telecommunications channels
- New X-ray technique for electronic structures: Ability to probe deep below material surfaces should be boon for nanoscale devices
- Mathematical model predicts weight with varying diet, exercise changes; Findings challenge one-size-fits-all weight assumptions
- Earth-bound asteroids come from stony asteroids, new studies confirm
- Build music with blocks: Audio d-touch
- Milky Way's halo raining ionized gas to fuel continued star formation
- Using math to fight cancer
- Simple way to grow muscle tissue with real muscle structure
- New model predicts environmental effect of pharmaceutical products
- Hand-held unit to detect cancer in poorer countries
Posted 2011-08-26:
- Scientists discover an 'instant cosmic classic' supernova
- Surprise difference in neutrino and antineutrino mass lessening with new measurements from a Fermilab experiment
- Pulsar transformed into small planet made of diamond discovered in Milky Way
- Math-based model for deep-water oil drilling
- Researchers discover superdense aluminum
- Beams to order from table-top accelerators
- Why spiders don't drop off of their threads: Source of spider silk's extreme strength unveiled
- Tunable nano-suspensions for light harvesting; Discovery may be key to solar energy and smart glass technologies
- How a distant black hole devoured a star
- Storing vertebrates in the cloud: Cloud-based data make searching the world’s museum collections easier
- Engineers discover nanoscale balancing act that mirrors forces at work in living systems
- DNA cages 'can survive inside living cells'
- Astronomers discover 'once in a generation' supernova
- Hedge funds sold stocks quickly while mutual fund investors suffered larger losses during crisis
- Nearest supernova observed in 40 years
- Researchers produce viable bacterium in which one of four DNA bases is replaced by synthetic analog
Posted 2011-08-25:
- New Mars rover snapshots capture Endeavour crater vistas
- New theory may shed light on dynamics of large-polymer liquids
- Health risks with nanotechnology? Nanoparticles can hinder intracellular transport
- Simple security for wireless
- NASA's WISE mission discovers coolest class of stars
- Scientists develop new approaches to predict the environmental safety of chemicals
- Unexpected adhesion properties of graphene may lead to new nanotechnology devices
- Human gait could soon power portable electronics
- Nanowires get into the groove
- Ancient 'daddy long legs' revealed in 3-D models
- NASA's GRAIL moon twins are joined to their booster
- James Webb Space Telescope instrument completes cryogenic testing
- NASA picks three proposals for flight demonstration
- Database of water, wastewater pipeline infrastructure systems
Posted 2011-08-24:
- Quick and cheap data storage? New multiferroic material is both electrically charged and magnetic
- Exploring the possibilities for zeolites: Team creates database of 2.6 million varieties of molecular sieves
- World-record pulsed magnetic field achieved; Lab moves closer to 100-tesla mark
- New set of building blocks for simple synthesis of complex molecules
- Melanin's 'trick' for maintaining radioprotection studied
- Text search tool for electronic medical records shows promise for identifying postoperative complications
- Nickel nanoparticles may contribute to lung cancer
- Nano bundles pack a powerful punch: Solid-state energy storage takes a leap forward
- Are stellar explosions created equal? Scientists recheck a standard model for supernovae on which cosmic distance measurement is based
- Large Hadron Collider experiments eliminate more Higgs hiding spots
- Algorithm developed to improve remote electrocardiography
- Careers advice 'crucial' in encouraging greater science take-up
Posted 2011-08-23:
- Measurement tools for traffic crash injury severity improving
- Sketching with superconductors: Breakthrough in controlling defects could lead to new generation of electronic devices
- Astronomers find ice and possibly methane on Snow White, a distant dwarf planet
- Antennas in your clothes? New design could pave the way
- Better 'photon loops' may be key to computer and physics advances
- Galaxies are running out of gas: Why the lights are going out in the Universe
- Sweet insight: Discovery could speed drug development
- Computational chemistry shows the way to safer biofuels
- Student turns paper mill waste into ‘green’ material for industrial applications
- U.S. Naval Research Laboratory set to launch experimental TacSat-4 spacecraft
- How nitrous oxide is decomposed: Researchers identify structure of enzyme that breaks down potent greenhouse gas
Posted 2011-08-22:
- New 'bionic' leg gives amputees a natural gait
- Data traveling by light
- Miniature power plants for aircraft bodies
Posted 2011-08-21:
- Giant space blob glows from within: Primordial cloud of hydrogen is centrally powered
- Powerful X-rays enable development of successful treatment for melanoma and other life-threatening diseases
- Molecular scientists develop color-changing stress sensor
- Quantum optical link sets new time records
- Research team achieves first two-color STED microscopy of living cells
- New images reveal structures of the solar wind as it travels toward and impacts Earth
- Are those liquids explosive?
- Climate change and ozone destruction hastened with nitrous oxide used in agriculture
- DNA construction software saves time, resources and money
- Cashless parking: Windshield microchip to make it easier
- Ions control shape of nanofibers grown on clear substrate
- Disordered networks synchronise faster than small world networks
- Is oil pricing itself out of the market?
- Cosmic eye emerges from exhaustive tests in UK space lab
Posted 2011-08-19:
- Physicists uncover new data on adenine, a crucial building block of life
- Study exposes habit formation in smartphone users
- Honeycomb carbon crystals possibly detected in space
- Embryo development obeys the laws of hydrodynamics
- Football analysis leads to advance in artificial intelligence
- Ensuring reliable wireless alarm beacons for first responders
- New method can speed development of organic semiconductors for flexible displays
- No technical know-how needed: Endless forms web site helps users 'breed' 3-D printable objects
- Moon younger than previously thought, analysis of lunar rock reveals
- Computers will be able to tell social traits from human faces, researchers predict
- Computational method predicts new uses for existing medicines; Match-making program uses gene expression patterns
- Researchers find way to align gold nanorods on a large scale
- Near-infrared imaging system shows promise as future pancreatic cancer diagnostic tool
Posted 2011-08-18:
- Physicists undo the 'coffee ring effect'
- Robotic refueling module, soon to be relocated to permanent space station position
- Can stock markets regulate themselves? History of markets offers insight into effects of regulation on success of initial public offerings
- Reliability issues for carbon nanotubes in future electronics uncovered
- Wind-turbine placement produces tenfold power increase, researchers say
- New tool allows first responders to visualize post-event disaster environments
- Researchers improving GPS accuracy in the third dimension
- Phone losing charge? With photovoltaic polarizers, devices could be powered by sunlight, own backlight
- A new look below the surface of nanomaterials
- Holograms reveal brain's inner workings: Microscopy technique used to observe activity of neurons like never before
- Mimicking biological complexity, in a tiny particle
- Gemini-Scout robot likely to reach trapped miners ahead of rescuers
- Cosmological evolution of dark matter is similar to that of visible matter
- Diamond’s quantum memory
- Moon and Earth may be younger than originally thought
- Scientists find new uses for existing drugs by mining gene-activity data banks
- Man in the moon looking younger
- Future of inks, paints and coatings takes shape: Researchers determine that particle shape affects the 'coffee ring effect'
Posted 2011-08-17:
- Carbon nanotube structures changed by ‘attack’ from within, researchers discover
- Tiny gold particles boost organic solar cell efficiency: Plasmonic technique helps enhance power conversion by up to 20 percent
- Dramatic simplification paves the way for building a quantum computer
- Researchers unravel the magic of flocks of starlings
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