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for the Week of September 11 to September 18, 2011
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Posted 2011-09-17:
- Opportunity on verge of new discovery: Mars rover poised on rock that may yield yet more evidence of a wet Red Planet
- Gamma-ray bursts shed light on the nature of dark energy
Posted 2011-09-17:
- How single stars lost their companions
- Biochemical cell signals quantified: Data capacity much lower than expected, scientists find
- Shake, rattle and … power up? New device generates energy from small vibrations
- Smartphone battery life could dramatically improve with new invention
- Electronic bucket brigade could boost solar cell voltages
- Carbon nanoparticles break barriers -- and that may not be good
- New method for detecting lung cancer unveiled
- Researchers create new Urban Network Analysis toolbox
- Small distant galaxies host supermassive black holes, astronomers find
- Archivist in the sound library: New model for speech and sound recognition
- New study quantifies use of social media in Arab Spring
- Balloon-based experiment to measure gamma rays 6,500 light years distant
Posted 2011-09-16:
- NASA Mars research helps find buried water on Earth
- Meteor likely cause of Southwest U.S. light show
- Mobile phone electromagnetic field affects local glucose metabolism in the human brain, Finnish study finds
- Cancer information on Wikipedia is accurate, but not very readable, study finds
- New material synthesized: Graphene nanoribbons inside of carbon nanotubes
- NASA's Kepler discovery confirms first planet orbiting two stars
- Scientists take first step towards creating 'inorganic life'
- Milky Way's spiral arms are the product of an intergalactic collision course; Models show dark matter packs a punch
- Preschoolers' grasp of numbers predicts math performance in school years; Early number sense linked to elementary math scores
- New technology for recovering valuable minerals from waste rock
- Chemists help astronauts make sure their drinking water is clean
- 3-D television without glasses
- Cancer-killing cells are caught on film in more 3-D detail than ever before
- Pioneering device reduces the cost and power consumption of telecommunications systems
- Astronomer: 'Beware the wildlife, even in apparently quiet galaxies'
- From Star Wars to science fact: Tatooine-like planet discovered
- Tatooine-like planet discovered
- New report on creating clinical public use microdata files
- How the Milky Way got its spiral: Supercomputer simulation uncovers how collision with dwarf galaxy triggered formation of spiral arms
Posted 2011-09-15:
- Air pollution caused by ships plummets when vessels shift to cleaner, low-sulfur fuels, study finds
- 'Synthetic biology' could replace oil for chemical industry
- Novel software used in first global camera trap mammal study
- NASA announces design for new deep space exploration system: New heavy-lift rocket will take humans far beyond Earth
- Messy better than neat: Tangled coat of nanowires increases solar cell efficiency by absorbing more light
- Crashes common among helicopters used in oil and gas operations, study finds
- Double jeopardy: Building codes may underestimate risks due to multiple hazards
- Polonium poisoning case sheds light on infection control practices
- Superconductivity: New piece in the puzzle
- Vigorous star birth without galactic collisions: Herschel paints new story of galaxy evolution
- New hybrid imaging device shows promise in spotting hard-to-detect ovarian cancer
- Identifying dangerous intersections with help of new computer simulation
- In immune cells, super-resolution imaging reveals natural killers' M.O.
- Team finds stable RNA nano-scaffold within virus core
- Intense magnetic fields probably formed shortly after Big Bang, researchers say
- Cyber security report identifies key research priorities
- Discovering the hidden universe: TheSkyNet Launched
Posted 2011-09-14:
- In the early life of an embryo, a monster lurks: Newly fertilized cells only narrowly avoid degenerating into fatal chaos
- Terahertz radiation's impact on cellular function and gene expression
- Pressure for positive results puts science under threat, study shows
- Civil engineering professor develops 'superlaminate' industrial pipe repair system
- Star blasts planet with X-rays
- Graphene may open the gate to future terahertz technologies
- Astronomers find extreme weather on an alien world: Cosmic oddball may harbor a gigantic storm
- First proof in patients of an improved 'magic bullet' for cancer detection and radio-therapy
- Nuclear detector: New materials hold promise for better detection of nuclear weapons
- Is smartphone technology the future of US elections?
- Ferroelectrics could pave way for ultra-low power computing
- Parabolic mirrors concentrate sunlight to power lasers
- Taming light: Mastering the fine structuring of ultrashort light fields
- Fast, cheap, and accurate: Detecting CO<sub>2</sub> with a fluorescent twist
- Four new reports update Security Content Automation Protocol
- Two new publications provide a cloud computing standards roadmap and reference architecture
- Blood vessels from your printer?
- Memorial image taken on Mars on Sept. 11, 2011
- Methodology applied to historical walls may explain why moss gathers and how paint blackens
Posted 2011-09-13:
- Sustainability scientists suggest how countries can cooperate on climate
- Health fears over CO<sub>2</sub> storage are unfounded, study shows
- Nanopatterning technique throws new light on photovoltaics
- 'Trojan Horse' particle sneaks chemotherapy in to kill ovarian cancer cells
- New clues to molecular understanding of autism
- Physicist detects movement of macromolecules engineered into our food
- Astronomers find 50 new exoplanets: Richest haul of planets so far includes 16 new super-Earths
- Airplanes: New tool analyzes black-box data for flight anomalies
- Breath and sweat used to detect trapped humans
- Hubble to target 'Hot Jupiters'
- Physicists report progress in understanding high-temperature superconductors
- Mitosis: New techniques expose surprises in cell division
- Acoustic tests verify Orion’s sound engineering
- Young stars take a turn in the spotlight
- A guiding light for new directions in energy production: Optofluidics could help solve the energy challenge
- Researchers find way to measure effect of Wi-Fi attacks
Posted 2011-09-12:
- Squeezed laser will bring gravitational waves to the light of day
- Reducing costs of electric vehicle batteries
- Research on US nuclear levels after Fukushima could aid in future nuclear detection
- Researcher sees spring-like protein as key to muscle behavior
Posted 2011-09-11:
- 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
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