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for the Week of August 7 to August 14, 2011
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Posted 2011-08-13:
Posted 2011-08-13:
- NASA's asteroid photographer beams back science data
- New anti-censorship scheme could make it impossible to block individual Web sites
- Darkest known exoplanet: Alien world is blacker than coal
- Bilayer graphene: Another step towards graphene electronics
- Engineers redefine how the brain plans movement
- Tracking illegal online pharmacies: Evidence of web manipulation
- Smart skin: Electronics that stick and stretch like a temporary tattoo
- Researchers fight cholera with computer forecasting
Posted 2011-08-12:
- Steering a beam of 'virtual particles' to manipulate ultra-small-scale particles in real time
- Software predicted risk in California West Nile virus epidemic
- Shooting light a curve: New tool may yield smaller, faster optoelectronics
- Wikipedia gender biases revealed
- Supernovae parents found: Clear signatures of gas outflows from stellar ancestors
- High levels of potentially toxic flame retardants in California pregnant women
- Escaping gravity's clutches: Information could escape from black holes after all, study suggests
- Paper money worldwide contains bisphenol A
- Quantum computers? Physicists 'entangle' two atoms using microwaves for the first time
- Working towards replacing platinum in fuel cells: Performance of iron-based catalysts improved
- Stick-on tattoos go electric: Micro-electronics, elegant design and existing tattoo tech combine to create complex device
Posted 2011-08-11:
- Rehab robots lend stroke patients a hand
- Telephone trumps social media when communicating with teens about research
- NASA Mars rover arrives at new site on Martian surface
- Exotic quantum crystal exists: Researchers discover novel state of crystal matter
- High energy output found from algae-based fuel, but 'no silver bullet'
- Revolutionary material dramatically increases explosive force of weapons
- Tactile technology for video games guaranteed to send shivers down your spine
- Light speed hurdle to invisibility cloak overcome by undergraduate
- Hybrid solar system makes rooftop hydrogen
- 'Data motion metric' needed for supercomputer rankings, experts say
Posted 2011-08-10:
- Solar flares: What does it take to be X-class? Sun emits an X-Class flare on August 9, 2011
- New way to manage energy in the smart grid
- Scientists pioneer new method for nanoribbon production
- When atoms are surfing on optical waves
- DNA building blocks can be made in space, NASA evidence suggests
- Research outlines math framework that could help convert 'junk' energy into useful power
- Body-mounted cameras turn motion capture inside out
- Like superman's X-Ray vision, new microscope reveals nanoscale details
- Technique to stimulate heart cells may lead to light-controlled pacemakers
- NASA Mars rover Opportunity approaches long-term goal
- Modified metals change color in the presence of particular gases
- Biology, materials science get a boost from robust imaging tool: Collaborators give a new view of macromolecular systems
- Cosmic superbubble carved by stellar winds from bright young stars and supernova shockwaves
- Putting it all together on Saturn's moon Titan
- Live from the scene -- biochemistry in action: New microscope follows single molecules by the millisecond
- Improved electrical conductivity in polymeric composites
- Most Canadians can be uniquely identified from their date of birth and postal code; New research unveils privacy risks
- Scientists develop new technique to protect photographers from persecution
Posted 2011-08-09:
- Light unlocks fragrance in laboratory
- Tracking crime in real time
- Researchers use neutrons to spy on the elusive hydronium ion: Unprecedented proof of ion's role in enzymatic process
- You can count on this: Math ability is inborn, new research suggests
- Discovery points way to graphene circuits: Materials scientists find new way to control electronic properties of graphene 'alloys'
- Flowing structures in soft crystals
- Increase in tornado, hurricane damage brings call for more stringent building standards
- New conducting properties discovered in bacteria-produced wires
- Nanoscale secret to stronger alloys: Scientists find nanoparticle size is readily controlled to make stronger aluminum alloys
- Stress protection: How blue-green algae hoard energy
- What do Facebook and Rembrandt have in common? Everything
- Solar energy: Smart energy management systems help store power for later use
- Human influence on the 21st century climate: One possible future for the atmosphere
- Dealing with the cyberworld's dark side
- Meteorites: Tool kits for creating life on Earth
- CERN supports European Year of Volunteering through Citizen Cyberscience Centre
Posted 2011-08-08:
- Four unusual views of the Andromeda Galaxy
- Electrons and lattice vibrations: A strong team in the nano world
- Social networking's good and bad impacts on kids
Posted 2011-08-07:
- Spotting weaknesses in solid wood
- NASA's Juno spacecraft launches to Jupiter
- Mars' northern polar regions in transition
- Better desalination technology key to solving world's water shortage
- Wireless network in hospital monitors vital signs, even as patients move about
- How to eliminate motion sickness on tilting trains
- Researchers uncover new catalysis site
- Web search is ready for a shakeup, says computer scientist
- It’s official: Computerized trading agents do beat humans in foreign exchange markets
- Engineers solve longstanding problem in photonic chip technology: Findings help pave way for next generation of computer chips
- Designing diamond circuits for extreme environments
- Theft protection developed for virtual machines
Posted 2011-08-05:
- Soft spheres settle in somewhat surprising structure
- Physicists show that quantum ignorance is hard to expose
- One box of Girl Scout Cookies worth billion: Lab shows troop how any carbon source can become valuable graphene
- First opal-like crystals discovered in meteorite
- Making runways safer
- Scientists invent heat-regulating building material
- Water flowing on Mars, NASA spacecraft data suggest
- Accident protection device for small cars
- DNA strands that select nanotubes are first step to a practical 'quantum wire'
- Gold nanoparticles used to diagnose flu in minutes
- 'Watermark ink' device identifies unknown liquids instantly
- Mindful eating: Researchers are making every bite count
- Ninety-six star clusters discovered hidden behind dust of Milky Way
- Evolutionary computation offers flexibility, insight
- New high-speed 3-D imaging system holds potential for improved cancer screening
- Italian academia: A family business? Statistical analysis points to high frequency of last names in disciplines, institutions
- New paper examines future of seawater desalinization
- Breakthrough in photonic chip research paves way for ultrafast information sharing
- Briny water may be at work in seasonal flows on Mars
- Protection against falling rock
Posted 2011-08-04:
- Scientists find way to identify synthetic biofuels in atmosphere
- Novel coatings show great promise as flame retardants in polyurethane foam
- Getting to the heart of the appeal of video games
- 'Big splat' may explain the moon's mountainous far side
- Simulated atmosphere research to help NASA interpret data from Juno mission to Jupiter
- Is our universe inside a bubble? First observational test of the 'multiverse'
- Ethanol-loving bacteria accelerate cracking of pipeline steels
- Lattice of magnetic vortices: Researchers find magnetic skyrmions in atomically thin metal film
- Researchers develop webcam tool to improve office worker posture
- Researchers propose Internet consumer 'nutrition label'
- Juno to show Jupiter's magnetic field in high-def
- Engineers develop one-way transmission system for sound waves
- Special software helps researchers identify individual animals when studying behavior in the wild
- A simple slice of energy storage
- RIBA-II: The next generation care-giving robot
- Nanotechology's impact on mass spectrometry
- Researchers create a successful scheduling method for umpires in Major League Baseball
- New computer hardware prototyping board designed in Crete successfully tested
Posted 2011-08-03:
- The origin of comet material formed at high temperatures
- A bit of boron, a pinch of palladium: One-stop shop for the Suzuki reaction
- Avoiding Nemesis: Does impact rate for asteroids and comets vary periodically with time?
- Solar cells get a boost from bouncing light
- Digital photos can animate a face so it ages and moves before your eyes
- Dream screens from graphene: Indium-free transparent, flexible electrodes developed
- Engineers fly world's first 'printed' aircraft
- Exposure to magnetic fields in pregnancy increases asthma risk, study suggests
- Mission to Jupiter: Gas giant may hold keys to understanding solar system formation, evolution
- Computers: The art of magnetic writing
- Bionic microrobot mimics the 'water strider' and walks on water
- Restoring blood flow after a heart attack: Nanostructure promotes growth of new blood vessels, mimics natural protein
- New sensor promises rapid detection of dangerous heavy metal levels in humans
- A new catalyst for ethanol made from biomass: Potential renewable path to fuel additives, rubber and solvents
- Artificial nanoparticles influence heart rate and rhythm, study finds
- Sugar doesn't melt -- it decomposes, scientists demonstrate
- IT solution to improve hospital workflow and schedules
Posted 2011-08-02:
- In the battle to relieve back aches, researchers create bioengineered spinal disc implants
- NASA's Dawn spacecraft begins science orbits of Vesta
- Nobel Prize winner’s unfinished symphony
- Oxygen molecules found in nearby star-forming cloud
- New composite material may restore damaged soft tissue
- Greenhouse gas impact of hydroelectric reservoirs downgraded
- Cold electrons to aid better design of drugs and materials
- Helping children learn to understand numbers: It's all in the way we speak to them
- Manipulating light at will: Research could help replace electronic components with optical technology
- In the pursuit of dangerous clumps: Customized surfaces help reveal the causes of diseases
- 'Wonder material' graphene tapped for electronic memory devices
- Chemists transform acids into bases: Research offers vast family of new catalysts for use in drug discovery, biotechnology
- Scientists build battery in a nanowire: Hybrid energy storage device is as small as it can possibly get
- Engineering innovative hand-held lab-on-a-chip could streamline blood testing worldwide
- Elliptical galaxies are not dead
- Electronic tongue identifies cava wines
- Possible association between maternal exposure to magnetic fields and development of asthma in children
- Debating the safety of cell phone use
- NASA's Dawn spacecraft views dark side of Vesta
- Herschel telescope detects oxygen molecules in space
- Discovery of Alfvén waves in the corona of the Sun
Posted 2011-08-01:
- Sun-free photovoltaics: Materials engineered to give off precisely tuned wavelengths of light when heated
- Discovery of a new magnetic order
Posted 2011-07-31:
- Warmed-up organic memory transistor has larger memory capacity
- Motorcycle helmets hard on hearing
- Averting bridge disasters: New technology could save hundreds of lives
- Powerful fluorescence tool lights the way to new insights into RNA of living cells
- Study of golf swings pinpoints biomechanical differences between pros and amateurs
Posted 2011-07-30:
- 'Brain cap' technology turns thought into motion; Mind-machine interface could lead to new life-changing technologies for millions of people
- Scary driving? Put the brakes on using your brain power
- Chandra X-ray Observatory images gas flowing toward black hole
- SOHO watches a comet fading away
- Emulating nature for better engineering
- Common Korean surname tells tale of nationhood
Posted 2011-07-29:
- Unexpected clue to thermopower efficiency: Uneven temperature can lead to electronic whirlpools and sideways magnetic fields
- Fundamental matter-antimatter symmetry confirmed
- Protecting networks is just a game
- New invisibility cloak hides objects from human view
- Research reveals why hedge funds are an unlikely large source of systemic risk
- Artificial cilia open new nanotech possibilties; One step closer to learning how cilia movement is coordinated
- NASA's WISE finds Earth's first 'trojan' asteroid
- Pigment discovery expanding into new colors
- Social media poised to drive disaster preparedness and response
- Wave power can drive sun's intense heat
- Children and adolescent cell phone users at no greater risk of brain cancer than non-users, study suggests
- Graphene nanocomposite a bridge to better batteries
- New X-ray camera will reveal big secrets about how chemistry works
- Speed cameras in urban areas save millions in cash, analysis finds
- Computer-aided detection does not improve mammogram accuracy, study suggests
- Closer look at cells: Fluorescence microscopy lets scientists observe exchanges across cell membranes
- Experts complacent about network attacks: Study shows physical attacks to communications network infrastructure deemed low priority risk
- CERN experiment weighs antimatter with unprecedented accuracy
Posted 2011-07-28:
- VST looks at the Leo Triplet -- and beyond
- CT shows changes in lungs associated with COPD flare-ups
- NASA tests future deep space vehicle for water landings
- More powerful 'lab-on-a-chip' made for genetic analysis
- New material lets electrons 'dance' and form new state
- Researchers graft olfactory receptors onto nanotubes
- Researchers mimic nature to create a 'bio-inspired brain' for robots
- Nano sensor detects minute traces of plastic explosives: Scientists enable inexpensive, reliable checks for explosives
- Self-healing, self-cooling, metamaterials: Vascular composites enable dynamic structural materials
- Got flow cytometry? All you need is five bucks and a cell phone
- Biological interface using piezotronics: Nanowires allow electrical signals to be produced from mechanical actions
- Hubble constant: A new way to measure the expansion of the universe
- Scientists complete final scan of space shuttle heat shield
- NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory spots extra energy in the sun's corona
- NASA's Jupiter-bound Juno spacecraft mated to its rocket
- Electronic publishing 'goes live': News from the International Botanical Congress in Melbourne
- NASA and international partners discuss new uses for space station
Posted 2011-07-27:
- Heavy metal hardens battle: Body armor hindered Medieval warriors
- Minority rules: Scientists discover tipping point for the spread of ideas
- Newly developed fluorescent protein makes internal organs visible
- Scientists design nano-sized drug transporter to fight disease
- Modeling plant metabolism to optimize oil production
- Enceladus rains water onto Saturn
- Unique volcanic complex discovered on Moon's far side
- Cancer-causing mineral found in U.S. road gravel: Erionite in roads may increase risk of mesothelioma
- Biofuels: Novel gene increases yeast's appetite for plant sugars
- Making biological images sharper, deeper and faster
- Saving fuel while plowing
- New software protects water utilities from terrorist attacks and contaminants
Posted 2011-07-26:
- Eat, prey, rain: New model of dynamics of clouds and rain is based on a predator-prey population model
- Rare coupling of magnetic and electric properties in a single material: New multiferroic mechanism could lead to next-generation memory and sensing devices
- How to tell real whiskey from fake, faster
- Nanoplasmonic 'whispering gallery' breaks emission time record in semiconductors
- Nanomechanics: New test measures key properties of polymer thin films and membranes
- Major step toward creating faster electronics using graphene
- Pocket chemistry: DNA helps glucose meters measure more than sugar
- Arrays of long nanotubes may help measure terahertz laser power
- Key early skills for later math learning discovered
- Hydrogen may be key to growth of high-quality graphene
- New photonic crystals have both electronic and optical properties
- Computer program could 'revolutionise the world's healthcare'
Posted 2011-07-25:
Posted 2011-07-24:
- Shining a light on the elusive 'blackbody' of energy research: Designer material has potential applications for thermophotovoltaics
- Test for classifying force used in bottle stabbings: New study aids understanding of force required for creating injury
Posted 2011-07-23:
- Inside the innards of a nuclear reactor: Tiny robots may monitor underground pipes for radioactive leaks
- Astronomers discover largest and most distant reservoir of water yet
- Smartphone making your eyes tired? Images placed in front of the screen increase visual discomfort
- Chemists create molecular flasks: Researchers design a self-assembling material that can house other molecules
- Computer simulations aid understanding of bacterial resistance against commonly used antibiotics
- Software helps synthetic biologists customize protein production
- Juvenile diarrhea virus analyzed down to the atomic level
- New discovery paves the way for using super strong nanostructured metals in cars
- Ohio Supercomputer Center lifts land speed racer toward 400-mph goal
- Farthest, largest water mass in universe discovered
- Earliest watery black hole discovered
Posted 2011-07-22:
- Link between competing phases in cuprates leads to new theory; Discovery in parent of one high-temperature superconductor may lead to predictive control
- Chance favors the concentration of wealth, study shows; New model isolates the effects of chance in an investment-based economy
- Exoplanet aurora: An out-of-this-world sight
- Nanotechnology for water filter
- Tevatron experiments close in on favored Higgs mass range
- Heavy relative of the neutron discovered
- NASA's space shuttle program ends with Atlantis landing
- Scholar helps make Major League Baseball umpire schedule a hit
- Breakthrough in quantum computing: Researchers develop system that resists 'quantum bug'
- An advance toward ultra-portable electronic devices
- Movement of black holes powers quasars, the universe's brightest lights
- Fast prediction of axon behavior: Computer modeling method may lead to more accurate and capable electrodes to stimulate nerves
- Disputes over content of Wikipedia articles reflect a country’s geopolitical instability, study finds
- Social media study: Conservatives were top tweeters in 2010 U.S. elections
- CARE positions disaster relief with promising discipline of humanitarian logistics
- Texas experts bring science and policy to hydraulic fracturing debate
- Chemists create molecular polyhedron -- and potential to enhance industrial and consumer products
- A twisted ring in the Galactic Centre
Posted 2011-07-21:
- Bold new approach to wind 'farm' design may provide efficiency gains
- Seeing the S-curve in everything
- Technology to throw new light on ancient artifacts
- NASA's Hubble discovers another moon around Pluto
- At small scales, tug-of-war between electrons can lead to magnetism
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