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2007 | 2006

NEWS FROM THE FIELD FOR 2007

• December 28, 2007
  Resilience Concepts Poised to Aid Management of Coastal Marine Ecosystems
  
  
• December 27, 2007
  Fraudsters Beware: Iowa State Engineer is Developing Cyber Technology to Find You
  
  
• December 27, 2007
  Study Maps Life in Extreme Environments
  
  
• December 20, 2007
  Magnetic Alloy with Swiss Cheese Structure Morphs Shape
  
  
• December 17, 2007
  New Study Helps Explain How the Brain Detects Stimuli, Including Odors
  
  
• December 17, 2007
  Study Shows Urban Sprawl Continues to Gobble Up Land
  
  
• December 14, 2007
  Cholesterol Fine Tunes Hearing
  
  
• December 14, 2007
  Wild Chimpanzees Appear Not to Regularly Experience Menopause
  
  
• December 13, 2007
  As Waters Clear, Scientists Seek to End A Muddy Debate
  
  
• December 13, 2007
  Biocapture Surfaces Produced for Study of Brain Chemistry
  
  
• December 12, 2007
  Deep-ocean Drilling Researchers Target Earthquake and Tsunami Zone
  
  
• December 12, 2007
  Female Lower Back Has Evolved to Accommodate the Weight of Pregnancy
  
  
• December 11, 2007
  Earth's Magnetic Field Could Help Protect Astronauts Working on the Moon
  
  
• December 11, 2007
  Neurotransmitters in Biopolymers Stimulate Nerve Regeneration
  
  
• December 11, 2007
  Study Finds U.S. Middle School Math Teachers Ill-Prepared
  
  
• December 11, 2007
  Without Its Insulating Ice Cap, Arctic Surface Waters Warm to as Much as 5 Degrees C Above Average
  
  
• December 10, 2007
  Genome Study Places Modern Humans in the Evolutionary Fast Lane
  
  
• December 10, 2007
  Greenland Melt Accelerating, According to CU-Boulder Study
  
  
• December 10, 2007
  To Catch a Panda
  
  
• December 10, 2007
  West Antarctic to be Covered With Scientific Instruments; Network to Watch Through Dark Polar Night
  
  
• December 9, 2007
  Using Carbon Nanotubes to Seek and Destroy Anthrax Toxin and Other Harmful Proteins
  
  
• December 7, 2007
  Arctic Expeditions Find Giant Mud Waves, Glacier Tracks
  
  
• December 7, 2007
  Earth's Heat Adds to Climate Change to Melt Greenland Ice
  
  
• December 7, 2007
  In Search of Water on Mars, Clues From Antarctica
  
  
• December 7, 2007
  New Filtering Unit Being Tested for Water-starved Regions
  
  
• December 7, 2007
  New Research May Lead to Better Climate Models for Global Warming, El Niño
  
  
• December 7, 2007
  New Tibetan Ice Cores Missing A-bomb Blast
  
  
• December 6, 2007
  CU-Boulder Supercomputer Simulation of Universe May Help in Search for Missing Matter
  
  
• December 6, 2007
  Current Melting of Greenland's Ice Mimicks 1920s-1940s Event
  
  
• December 6, 2007
  Free Software Brings Affordability, Transparency to Mathematics
  
  
• December 6, 2007
  Ultrafast Optical Shutter is Switched Entirely by Laser Light
  
  
• December 5, 2007
  Astronomers at Northwestern University and NCSA Outline a Common Occurrence, The Evolution of Binary Stars and Acts of "Stellar Cannibalism"
  
  
• December 5, 2007
  Smell Experience During Critical Period Alters Brain
  
  
• December 3, 2007
  'Magma P.I.' Unearths Clues to How Crust Was Sculpted
  
  
• December 3, 2007
  A Really Inconvenient Truth: Divorce Is Not Green
  
  
• December 3, 2007
  Global Warming Causes Stronger Storms
  
  
• December 3, 2007
  New Smartpen and Paper to Help Teach Blind College Students
  
  
• December 3, 2007
  Radiation Flashes May Help Crack Cosmic Mystery
  
  
• December 3, 2007
  UIC Chemists Characterize Alzheimer's Neurotoxin Structure
  
  
• December 3, 2007
  Were the First Stars Dark?
  
  
• November 30, 2007
  Duke Scientists Map Imprinted Genes in Human Genome
  
  
• November 30, 2007
  University of Iowa Research: Even Today, Couples Put More Emphasis on Husband's Career
  
  
• November 29, 2007
  Nano-sized Voltmeter Measures Electric Fields Deep Within Cells
  
  
• November 29, 2007
  New Research Discredits $100 Billion Global Warming 'Fix'
  
  
• November 29, 2007
  University of Pennsylvania Study Reveals Inconspicuous Hosts in The Lyme Disease Epidemic
  
  
• November 28, 2007
  Odd Little Star Has Magnetic Personality
  
  
• November 28, 2007
  Student Research Makes the Pages of Top Scientific Journal
  
  
• November 28, 2007
  Study of Malaria Parasite in Patient Blood Finds Distinct Physiological States
  
  
• November 26, 2007
  Manure Management Reduces Levels of Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance Genes
  
  
• November 26, 2007
  Nanotech's Health, Environment Impacts Worry Scientists
  
  
• November 26, 2007
  Organic Transistors: Researchers Produce High Performance Field-Effect Transistors with Thin Films of Carbon 60
  
  
• November 26, 2007
  Tree of Life for Flowering Plants Reveals Relationships Among Major Groups
  
  
• November 22, 2007
  'Cooper Pairs' Can Be Found in Insulators as Well as in Superconductors
  
  
• November 22, 2007
  Liquid Crystal Phases of Tiny DNA Molecules Point Up New Scenario for First Life on Earth
  
  
• November 22, 2007
  Rising Tides Intensify Non-volcanic Tremor in Earth's Crust
  
  
• November 21, 2007
  Babies Prefer Good Samaritans
  
  
• November 20, 2007
  Northwestern Study Looks at Sensing, Movement and Behavior
  
  
• November 19, 2007
  Atmospheric Measuring Device for Understanding Smog Formation
  
  
• November 19, 2007
  Carnegie Mellon Algorithm Identifies Top 100 Blogs For News
  
  
• November 19, 2007
  Evolution is Deterministic, Not Random, Biologists Conclude from Multi-Species Study
  
  
• November 19, 2007
  MIT: 'Micro' Livers Could Aid Drug Screening
  
  
• November 15, 2007
  'Ultrasound' of Earth's Crust Reveals Inner Workings of a Tsunami Factory
  
  
• November 15, 2007
  A New Window on The Universe
  
  
• November 15, 2007
  Evolutionary Comparison Finds New Human Genes
  
  
• November 15, 2007
  White Children More Positive Toward Blacks After Learning About Racism, Study Shows
  
  
• November 14, 2007
  First-ever 'State of the Carbon Cycle Report' Finds Troubling Imbalance
  
  
• November 14, 2007
  Princeton Scientists Break Cholera's Lines of Communication
  
  
• November 14, 2007
  Scientists Get First Look At How Water 'Lubricates' Proteins
  
  
• November 13, 2007
  Early Academic Skills, Not Behavior, Best Predict School Success
  
  
• November 13, 2007
  Together We Stand: Bacteria Organize to Survive Hostile Zones
  
  
• November 12, 2007
  Chimps Dig Up Clues to Human Past?
  
  
• November 12, 2007
  Clean, Carbon-Neutral Hydrogen on the Horizon
  
  
• November 12, 2007
  Fragile Detector Installed at International Nuclear Research Facility
  
  
• November 12, 2007
  Human Ancestors: More Gatherers Than Hunters?
  
  
• November 12, 2007
  The Key to Unlocking the Secret of Highly Specific DNAzyme Catalysis
  
  
• November 12, 2007
  Yellowstone Viruses 'Jump' Between Hot Pools
  
  
• November 9, 2007
  "Strange Matter" Takes Shape at Humacao's Casa Roig Museum
  
  
• November 9, 2007
  Scientists Discover Record-Breaking Hydrogen Storage Materials for Use in Fuel Cells
  
  
• November 8, 2007
  Yellowstone Rising
  
  
• November 7, 2007
  Deep Drilling for 'Black Smoker' Clues
  
  
• November 7, 2007
  Energy From Hot Rocks
  
  
• November 7, 2007
  Evolution and Fly Genomics
  
  
• November 7, 2007
  Researchers Develop Lecture Search Engine to Aid Students
  
  
• November 6, 2007
  Astronomers Discover Record 5th Planet Around Nearby Star 55 Cancri
  
  
• November 6, 2007
  Health Toll of Climate Change Seen As Ethical Crisis
  
  
• November 6, 2007
  MU Research Team Makes Progress Toward 'Printing' Organs
  
  
• November 6, 2007
  Physicists See Similarities in Stream of Sand Grains, Exotic Plasma at Birth of Universe
  
  
• November 5, 2007
  Species Extinction Could Slash Productivity of Earth's Plants by as Much as Half
  
  
• November 2, 2007
  Heavier Hydrogen on the Atomic Scale Reduces Friction
  
  
• November 2, 2007
  Researchers Examine Closest Living Relative to Primates
  
  
• November 1, 2007
  'Heftier' Atoms Reduce Friction at the Nanoscale, Study Led by Penn Researcher Reveals
  
  
• November 1, 2007
  Flying Lemurs Are the Closest Relatives of Primates
  
  
• November 1, 2007
  Rutgers Physicists Show How Electrons 'Gain Weight' in Metal Compounds Near Absolute Zero
  
  
• November 1, 2007
  Vacation Photos Create 3-D Models of World Landmarks
  
  
• October 31, 2007
  Coral Reefs Will be Permanently Damaged Without Urgent Action
  
  
• October 31, 2007
  Elevated Nitric Oxide in Blood is Key to High Altitude Function for Tibetans
  
  
• October 31, 2007
  Let There Be Light: New Magnet Design Continues Magnet Lab's Tradition of Innovation
  
  
• October 31, 2007
  MU Researchers Go Nano, Natural and Green
  
  
• October 31, 2007
  New Computer Architecture Aids Emergency Response
  
  
• October 31, 2007
  Physicist's Innovative Technique Makes Atomic-level Microscopy at Least 100 Times Faster
  
  
• October 31, 2007
  US Fires Release Large Amounts of Carbon Dioxide
  
  
• October 31, 2007
  Why Do so Many Species Live in Tropical Forests and Coral Reefs?
  
  
• October 31, 2007
  Wildfire Drives Carbon Levels in Northern Forests
  
  
• October 31, 2007
  World's Smallest Radio Uses Single Nanotube to Pick Up Good Vibrations
  
  
• October 30, 2007
  Could 'Hairy Roots' Become Biofactories?
  
  
• October 30, 2007
  MIT's 'Electronic Nose' Could Detect Hazards
  
  
• October 30, 2007
  Speed Plays Crucial Role in Breaking Protein's H-bonds
  
  
• October 29, 2007
  Dead Clams Tell Many Tales
  
  
• October 29, 2007
  Dinosaur Deaths Outsourced to India?
  
  
• October 29, 2007
  Fuel Cells Gearing Up to Power Auto Industry
  
  
• October 29, 2007
  Mineral Ages Show Blue Mountain Rocks Related to Klamath, Sierra Nevadas
  
  
• October 29, 2007
  New Magnetic Separation Technique Might Detect Multiple Pathogens at Once
  
  
• October 29, 2007
  Social Standing Influences Elephant Movement
  
  
• October 29, 2007
  Ten Minutes of Talking Has a Mental Payoff
  
  
• October 28, 2007
  Burrowing Mammals Dig For a Living, But How Do They Do That?
  
  
• October 26, 2007
  MIT: Human-Generated Ozone Will Damage Crops
  
  
• October 26, 2007
  Seismologists See Earth's Interior as Interplay Between Temperature, Pressure and Chemistry
  
  
• October 25, 2007
  Going Live with Click Chemistry
  
  
• October 25, 2007
  New Study Uncovers Secrets Behind Butterfly Wing Patterns
  
  
• October 25, 2007
  Scientists Alter Sexual Orientation in Worms
  
  
• October 24, 2007
  Home Computers to Help Researchers Better Understand Universe
  
  
• October 24, 2007
  Researchers View Swimming Tactics of Tiny Aquatic Predators
  
  
• October 24, 2007
  Solar Telescope Reaches 120,000 Feet on Jumbo-Jet-Sized Balloon
  
  
• October 24, 2007
  Study Reveals Lakes a Major Source of Prehistoric Methane
  
  
• October 24, 2007
  Three First-ever Atomic Nuclei Created at NSCL; New Super-heavy Aluminum Isotopes May Exist
  
  
• October 22, 2007
  200 Journals Join in Theme Issues on Poverty and Human Development
  
  
• October 22, 2007
  Biggest "Small" Black Hole Discovered
  
  
• October 22, 2007
  Harvard University Engineers Demonstrate Quantum Cascade Laser Nanoantenna
  
  
• October 22, 2007
  MIT Works Toward Novel Therapeutic Device
  
  
• October 22, 2007
  New Insights Into How Lasers Cut Flesh
  
  
• October 22, 2007
  Researchers Discover Natural Herbicide Released by Grass
  
  
• October 18, 2007
  Hospital Room Shook Up in First Seismic Experiment of Its Kind
  
  
• October 14, 2007
  Novel Semiconductor Structure Bends Light 'Wrong' Way--the Right Direction for Many Applications
  
  
• October 11, 2007
  Green Algae--The Nexus of Plant/Animal Ancestry
  
  
• October 11, 2007
  Morning Forecast on Titan Calls for Widespread Methane Drizzle off Xanadu
  
  
• October 11, 2007
  New Force-Fluorescence Device Measures Motion Previously Undetectable
  
  
• October 11, 2007
  New membrane Strips Carbon Dioxide from Natural Gas Faster and Better
  
  
• October 11, 2007
  Stem Cell Nuclei Are Soft 'Hard Drives,' Penn Study Finds
  
  
• October 11, 2007
  UD Plant Biologists Uncover Top Wetland Plant's Hidden Weapon
  
  
• October 10, 2007
  Discovery of Retinal Cell Type Ends 4-Decade Search
  
  
• October 10, 2007
  Harvard Scientists Predict the Future of the Past Tense
  
  
• October 10, 2007
  Landmark Modeling Study at Penn Reveals How Ferroelectric Computer Memory Works
  
  
• October 9, 2007
  Generating 'oohs' and 'aahs': Vocal Joystick Uses Voice to Surf the Internet
  
  
• October 9, 2007
  Study Shows Genetically Engineered Corn Could Affect Aquatic Ecosystems
  
  
• October 8, 2007
  Newfound Ancient African Megadroughts May Have Driven the Evolution of Humans and Fish
  
  
• October 8, 2007
  Plant Viruses from Past Provide Ecological Clues
  
  
• October 5, 2007
  Developing a Modular, Nanoparticle Drug Delivery System
  
  
• October 5, 2007
  Technology Would Help Detect Terrorists Before They Strike
  
  
• October 4, 2007
  Even Without Math, Ancients Engineered Sophisticated Machines
  
  
• October 4, 2007
  Fungus Genome Yielding Answers to Protect Grains, People and Animals
  
  
• October 4, 2007
  Geologists Recover Rocks Yielding Unprecedented Insights into San Andreas Fault
  
  
• October 4, 2007
  Scientists 'Weigh' Tiny Galaxy Halfway Across Universe
  
  
• October 4, 2007
  Simplest Circadian Clocks Operate Via Orderly Phosphate Transfers
  
  
• October 3, 2007
  How Basil Gets Its Zing
  
  
• October 3, 2007
  Magnetic Lab Researchers' Material May Lead to Advances in Quantum Computing
  
  
• October 2, 2007
  Are Women Being Scared Away From Math, Science, and Engineering Fields?
  
  
• October 2, 2007
  Carnegie Mellon Researchers Fight Phishing Attacks with Phishing Tactics
  
  
• October 2, 2007
  Computer Science Researchers Explore Virtualization Potential for High-end Computing
  
  
• October 2, 2007
  Computer Science, Art & Technology Team on NSF Grant
  
  
• October 2, 2007
  MIT Aids Creation of Neural Prosthetic Devices
  
  
• October 2, 2007
  Technology Could Enable Computers to 'Read the Minds' of Users
  
  
• October 2, 2007
  Thumb-size Microsystem Enables Cell Culture and Incubation
  
  
• October 2, 2007
  Woods Hole Research Center to Lead Undergraduate Initiative in the Siberian Arctic
  
  
• October 1, 2007
  "Radio Lab" Receives Award From National Academies
  
  
• October 1, 2007
  ANDRILL Project Seeks the "Rosetta Stone" of Climate History in Antarctica
  
  
• October 1, 2007
  Engineers Study Brain Folding in Higher Mammals
  
  
• October 1, 2007
  Native Language Governs the Way Toddlers Interpret Speech Sounds, According to Penn Study
  
  
• October 1, 2007
  New Partnership Opens Doors of Cosmic Discovery
  
  
• October 1, 2007
  Sign of 'Embryonic Planets' Forming in Nearby Stellar Systems
  
  
• October 1, 2007
  Three-way Mating Game of North American Lizard Found in Distant European Relative
  
  
• September 28, 2007
  How 'Mother of Thousands' Makes Plantlets
  
  
• September 27, 2007
  Doctors Learn to Control Their Own Brains' Pain Responses to Better Treat Patients
  
  
• September 27, 2007
  Environmental Changes Preceded First Great Rise in Atmospheric Oxygen
  
  
• September 27, 2007
  Great Plains' Historical Stability Vulnerable to Future Changes
  
  
• September 27, 2007
  Nanowire Generates Power by Harvesting Energy from the Environment
  
  
• September 27, 2007
  Powerful Radio Burst Indicates New Astronomical Phenomenon
  
  
• September 27, 2007
  Researchers Detect Hint of Oxygen 50 to 100 Million-Years-Earlier than First Believed
  
  
• September 27, 2007
  Three NSF-funded Biologists Receive Prestigious MacArthur Fellowships
  
  
• September 27, 2007
  Tunes and Talk: Researchers Find Music and Language are Processed by the Same Brain Systems
  
  
• September 27, 2007
  Using Catalysts to Stamp Nanopatterns Without Ink
  
  
• September 27, 2007
  Using Nanotubes to Detect and Repair Cracks in Aircraft Wings, Other Structures
  
  
• September 27, 2007
  Wasp Genetics Study Suggests Altruism Evolved from Maternal Behavior
  
  
• September 26, 2007
  Cave Records Provide Clues to Climate Change
  
  
• September 26, 2007
  Doping Technique Brings Nanomechanical Devices into the Semiconductor World
  
  
• September 26, 2007
  Fish Respond Quickly to Changes in Mercury Deposition
  
  
• September 26, 2007
  High-School Teams Joining Massive Pulsar Search
  
  
• September 26, 2007
  Male Voice Pitch Predicts Reproductive Success in Hunter-Gatherers
  
  
• September 26, 2007
  Program Provides Blueprint for Recruiting Minorities to Science and Engineering
  
  
• September 26, 2007
  Researchers Discover Forests of Endangered Tropical Kelp
  
  
• September 26, 2007
  The Interaction Between Personality, Offspring Fitness, and Food Abundance in North American Red Squirrels
  
  
• September 26, 2007
  Yale Scientists Make Two Giant Steps in Advancement of Quantum Computing
  
  
• September 25, 2007
  City Birds Better Than Rural Species in Coping with Human Disruption
  
  
• September 25, 2007
  Immune System Modulation Can Halt Liver Failure in Animals
  
  
• September 25, 2007
  New Keys to Keeping a Diverse Planet
  
  
• September 25, 2007
  Researchers Set New Record for Brightness of Quantum Dots
  
  
• September 25, 2007
  Thriving Hybrid Salamanders Contradict Common Wisdom
  
  
• September 24, 2007
  Collaboration Shines Possible Light on Objects 'Weirder than Black Holes'
  
  
• September 24, 2007
  Cystic Fibrosis Patients May Breathe Easier, Thanks to Bioengineered Antimicrobials
  
  
• September 24, 2007
  Extraterrestrial Impact Likely Source of Sudden Ice Age Extinctions
  
  
• September 24, 2007
  Nutrient Pollution Drives Frog Deformities By Ramping Up Infections, Says CU-Boulder study
  
  
• September 24, 2007
  Online Game Helps People Recognize Internet Scams
  
  
• September 24, 2007
  Ragweed Research Is Nothing to Sneeze At
  
  
• September 24, 2007
  Scientists Get First Look at Nanotubes Inside Living Animals
  
  
• September 23, 2007
  MIT Model Could Improve Some Drugs' Effectiveness
  
  
• September 21, 2007
  Scientists Launch Deep-sea Scientific Drilling Program to Study Volatile Earthquake Zone
  
  
• September 20, 2007
  Computer Program Traces Ancestry Using Anonymous DNA Samples
  
  
• September 20, 2007
  Power Switch
  
  
• September 20, 2007
  Scientists Decipher Mechanism Behind Antimicrobial 'Hole Punchers'
  
  
• September 20, 2007
  Velociraptor Had Feathers
  
  
• September 19, 2007
  Argon Conclusion: Researchers Reassess Theories on Formation of Earth's Atmosphere
  
  
• September 19, 2007
  Brown Scientists Take the Petri Dish to New Dimensions
  
  
• September 19, 2007
  Study Looks at Mitochondrial Variation in Sperm Traits and Sperm Competitive Ability
  
  
• September 18, 2007
  A New Technology for Cancer Screening Listens for the Signs of Cancer
  
  
• September 18, 2007
  New Microsensor Measures Volatile Organic Compounds in Water and Air On-site
  
  
• September 18, 2007
  Researchers Genetically Engineer Micro-organisms Into Tiny Factories
  
  
• September 18, 2007
  UT Researcher Sheds New Light on Hybrid Animals
  
  
• September 18, 2007
  Why Conservation Efforts Often Fail
  
  
• September 17, 2007
  International Team Shows Mercury Concentrations in Fish Respond Quickly to Increased Deposition
  
  
• September 17, 2007
  New Research Seeks to Enhance Quality and Security of Wireless Telemedicine
  
  
• September 14, 2007
  JILA Finds Flaw in Model Describing DNA Elasticity
  
  
• September 13, 2007
  Ancient Whale Fall from California's Año Nuevo Island One of Youngest, Most Complete Known
  
  
• September 13, 2007
  Marrying Natural and Social Sciences for Mother Earth's Sake
  
  
• September 13, 2007
  New Evidence on the Role of Climate in Neanderthal Extinction
  
  
• September 12, 2007
  Molecules of Positronium Observed in the Laboratory for the First Time
  
  
• September 12, 2007
  NSF Awards MU $2.16M for Intraplate Earthquake Studies
  
  
• September 12, 2007
  Physicists Pin Down Spin of Surface Atoms
  
  
• September 12, 2007
  Taxol Bristle Ball: A Wrench in the Works for Cancer
  
  
• September 10, 2007
  A Step Toward Tissue-engineered Heart Structures for Children
  
  
• September 10, 2007
  Drawing Nanoscale Features the Fast and Easy Way
  
  
• September 10, 2007
  Examining the Lacey Act
  
  
• September 10, 2007
  Icy Calculations on a Hot Topic
  
  
• September 10, 2007
  UD Leads $5.3-Million Research Project on Rice Epigenetics
  
  
• September 7, 2007
  Acid Rain Has a Disproportionate Impact on Coastal Waters
  
  
• September 7, 2007
  MIT Works Toward Safer Gene Therapy
  
  
• September 6, 2007
  Improved E-jet Printing Provides Higher Resolution and More Versatility
  
  
• September 6, 2007
  New Insight into How Antibiotics Kill Might Make Them Deadlier
  
  
• September 6, 2007
  New System Helps Aircraft Avoid Turbulence
  
  
• September 5, 2007
  'Alien' Jaws Help Moray Eels Feed
  
  
• September 5, 2007
  Adult Brain Can Change, Study Confirms
  
  
• September 5, 2007
  MIT Research Details Parasitic Battles
  
  
• September 5, 2007
  New Study Shows Greenback Cutthroat Trout Involved in Recovery Effort Misidentified
  
  
• September 4, 2007
  Widely Held Beliefs About Early Cherokee Settlement Patterns Likely Incorrect
  
  
• September 3, 2007
  Researchers Detect Low-energy Neutrinos, Probe Energy Production in Sun's Center
  
  
• September 2, 2007
  Engineers Develop Low-Cost Recipe for Patterning Microchips
  
  
• September 2, 2007
  Princeton Engineers Develop Low-cost Recipe for Patterning Microchips
  
  
• August 30, 2007
  Digital Dandelions
  
  
• August 30, 2007
  Iowa State Researcher Studies the Sustainability of the Bioeconomy
  
  
• August 30, 2007
  One Species' Entire Genome Discovered Inside Another's
  
  
• August 30, 2007
  Scientists Find Elusive Waves in Sun's Corona
  
  
• August 30, 2007
  Yale Scientists Use Nanotechnology to Fight E. Coli
  
  
• August 29, 2007
  First Orchid Fossil Puts Showy Blooms at Some 80 Million Years Old
  
  
• August 29, 2007
  Laser Blasts Viruses in Blood
  
  
• August 29, 2007
  One of the Most Curious Objects in the Sky Delights Astronomers Again
  
  
• August 29, 2007
  Researchers Develop Magnetic Networks That Could Rival Semiconductors
  
  
• August 29, 2007
  Volcanoes Key to Earth's Oxygen Atmosphere
  
  
• August 28, 2007
  Controlling Bandwidth in the Clouds
  
  
• August 28, 2007
  Finding That 1-in-a-Billion That Could Lead to Disease
  
  
• August 28, 2007
  New MRI Finding Sheds Light on Multiple Sclerosis Disease Progression
  
  
• August 28, 2007
  Novel Method Enables Genomic Screening of Blood Vessels From Patient Tissue
  
  
• August 27, 2007
  CU Researcher Engineers Sorghum That Grows in Poisonous Soils
  
  
• August 27, 2007
  Despite Grumbling, Most Americans Say They Are Happy at Work
  
  
• August 24, 2007
  Food Packaging that Provides Visibility Can Reduce Shelf Life
  
  
• August 24, 2007
  Los Angeles Enjoying 1,000 Year Seismic Lull
  
  
• August 24, 2007
  MIT Probes Secret to Bone's Strength
  
  
• August 23, 2007
  Astronomers Find Enormous Hole in the Universe
  
  
• August 23, 2007
  Astronomers Get First Look at Uranus's Rings as They Swing Edge-on to Earth
  
  
• August 23, 2007
  Carnegie Mellon Scientist Uses Mass Spectrometer to Weigh Virus Particle, von Willebrand Factor
  
  
• August 23, 2007
  New Light-sensing Ability Discovered in Disease-causing Bacteria
  
  
• August 22, 2007
  Carnegie Mellon Scientists Investigate Initial Molecular Mechanism that Triggers Neuronal Firing
  
  
• August 22, 2007
  Undergraduates Complete Intense Summer Physics Research Experience
  
  
• August 21, 2007
  Clemson Scientists Shed Light on Molecules in Living Cells
  
  
• August 20, 2007
  Carnegie Mellon Scientists Develop Nanogels that Enable Controlled Delivery of Carbohydrate Drugs
  
  
• August 20, 2007
  New Nanoparticle Could Provide Simple Early Diagnosis of Many Diseases
  
  
• August 20, 2007
  Princeton Scientists Confirm Long-held Theory About Source of Sunshine
  
  
• August 20, 2007
  Silicon Nanoparticles Enhance Performance of Solar Cells
  
  
• August 20, 2007
  Small Molecule Spurs Genes to Action
  
  
• August 20, 2007
  University of Oregon Researcher Finds That on Water's Surface, Nitric Acid is Not so Tough
  
  
• August 20, 2007
  University of Oregon Researcher Finds That on Water's Surface, Nitric Acid is Not so Tough
  
  
• August 16, 2007
  CU-Boulder Team Forcasts 92 Percent Chance of Record Low Arctic Sea Ice Extent in 2007
  
  
• August 16, 2007
  Dominant Cholesterol-Metabolism Ideas Challenged by New Research
  
  
• August 16, 2007
  Fewer Degrees of Separation Make Companies More Innovative, Creative
  
  
• August 16, 2007
  Humans Fostering Forest-destroying Disease
  
  
• August 16, 2007
  Researchers at University of Pennsylvania Develop Method for Mass Production of Nanogap Electrodes
  
  
• August 16, 2007
  Savanna Habitat Drives Birds, and Perhaps Others, to Cooperative Breeding
  
  
• August 16, 2007
  Scientists Retrace Evolution With First Atomic Structure of an Ancient Protein
  
  
• August 16, 2007
  Structure of 450 Million-Year-Old Protein Reveals Evolution's Steps
  
  
• August 16, 2007
  Texas Researchers and Educators Head for Antarctica
  
  
• August 16, 2007
  Today's White Rice is Mutation Spread by Early Farmers
  
  
• August 16, 2007
  Wireless Sensors Limit Earthquake Damage
  
  
• August 15, 2007
  Cities Incite Thunderstorms, Researchers Find
  
  
• August 15, 2007
  Nicotinic Receptors May be Important Targets for Treatment of Multiple Addictions
  
  
• August 14, 2007
  Frigid Enceladus: An Unlikely Harbor for Life
  
  
• August 14, 2007
  Older Climbers Face Uphill Battle on Mount Everest
  
  
• August 13, 2007
  Beyond Batteries: Storing Power in a Sheet of Paper
  
  
• August 13, 2007
  Corals and Climate Change
  
  
• August 13, 2007
  Interaction of Just 2 Genes Governs Coloration Patterns in Mice
  
  
• August 13, 2007
  New Technology Has Dramatic Chip-cooling Potential for Future Computers
  
  
• August 13, 2007
  Which Came First, the Moth or the Cactus?
  
  
• August 9, 2007
  Arctic Climate Study Reveals Impact of Industrial Soot
  
  
• August 9, 2007
  NCAR Adds Resources to TeraGrid
  
  
• August 9, 2007
  New Search Engine Ranks Tables by Title, Document Content, Text Reference
  
  
• August 9, 2007
  Rainforest Insects Are More Widespread Than Previously Thought
  
  
• August 9, 2007
  Tropical Insects 'Go The Distance' to Inform Rainforest Conservation
  
  
• August 9, 2007
  Ultrafast Laser Spectrometer Measures Heat Flow Through Molecules
  
  
• August 9, 2007
  X-ray Images Help Explain Limits to Insect Body Size
  
  
• August 8, 2007
  Climate Change and Permafrost Thaw Alter Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Northern Wetlands
  
  
• August 8, 2007
  Study: Sticking to the Sand Might Not be Such Good, Clean Fun for Beachgoers
  
  
• August 8, 2007
  What We Can Learn from the Biggest Extinction in the History of Earth
  
  
• August 7, 2007
  Baby DVDs, Videos May Hinder, Not Help, Infants' Language Development
  
  
• August 7, 2007
  Indo-Pacific Coral Reefs Disappearing More Rapidly Than Expected
  
  
• August 7, 2007
  Magnet Lab Sets New World Record
  
  
• August 7, 2007
  Quantum Analog of Ulam's Conjecture Can Guide Molecules, Reactions
  
  
• August 7, 2007
  Role of Thyroid Hormones in Slumber Under Investigation at Rutgers
  
  
• August 7, 2007
  Wealth Gap is Increasing, University of Michigan Study Shows
  
  
• August 7, 2007
  Weed Gave Up Sex Long Ago
  
  
• August 6, 2007
  Genetic Analysis Finds Greater Threat in Frog-killing Fungus
  
  
• August 6, 2007
  Iowa State Researchers Work to Track North American Climate Change
  
  
• August 6, 2007
  Nanoparticle Technique Could Lead to Improved Semiconductors
  
  
• August 6, 2007
  Study Sees U.S. Retirement Wealth Up Sharply by 2040
  
  
• August 6, 2007
  Sunspot Abundance Linked to Heavy Rains in East Africa
  
  
• August 6, 2007
  UC-San Diego Computer Scientists Shed Light on Internet Scams
  
  
• August 3, 2007
  Scientists Train Nano-'Building Blocks' to Take on New Shapes, as Reported in Science
  
  
• August 2, 2007
  2006 Tectonic Plate Motion Reversal Near Acapulco Puzzles Earthquake Scientists
  
  
• August 2, 2007
  Coelacanth Fossil Sheds Light on Fin-to-limb Evolution
  
  
• August 2, 2007
  Forecasting System Provides Flood Warnings to Vulnerable Residents of Bangladesh
  
  
• August 2, 2007
  Iraqi Attitudes Continue to Shift Toward Secular Values
  
  
• August 2, 2007
  New Oxidation Methods Streamline Synthesis of Important Compounds
  
  
• August 2, 2007
  New Study Demonstrates Important Role of Glia in Circadian Timing
  
  
• August 2, 2007
  Porphyrin Electron-transfer Reactions Observed at the Molecular Level
  
  
• August 2, 2007
  Unlocking Proteins From Their Cellular Shell
  
  
• August 1, 2007
  Automated Technique Paves Way for Nanotechnology's Industrial Revolution
  
  
• August 1, 2007
  Method Shows Promise for Early Detection of Pancreatic Cancer
  
  
• August 1, 2007
  New Minimally Invasive Sampling Technique Allows for Earlier Diagnosis of Pancreatic Cancer
  
  
• August 1, 2007
  Pollution Amplifies Greenhouse Gas Warming Trends to Jeopardize Asian Water Supplies
  
  
• August 1, 2007
  Purdue 'Milestone' a Step Toward Advanced Sensors, Communications
  
  
• August 1, 2007
  Scientists Gain New Understanding of Adult Stem Cell Regulation
  
  
• July 30, 2007
  Blacks Who Kill Whites are Most Likely to be Executed
  
  
• July 30, 2007
  First ALMA Observatory Transporter Ready for Challenging Duty
  
  
• July 29, 2007
  Frequency of Atlantic Hurricanes Doubled Over Last Century, Climate Change Suspected
  
  
• July 27, 2007
  New Aerogels Could Clean Contaminated Water, Purify Hydrogen for Fuel Cells
  
  
• July 27, 2007
  Rare Example of Darwinism Seen in Action
  
  
• July 26, 2007
  College Science Success Linked to Math and Same-subject Preparation
  
  
• July 26, 2007
  Discovery of 'Hidden' Quantum Order Improves Prospects for Quantum Super Computers
  
  
• July 26, 2007
  Surprising New Species of Light-harvesting Bacterium Discovered in Yellowstone
  
  
• July 25, 2007
  Gene-transcription Machinery Seen Poised for Action, Held in Check Until Needed
  
  
• July 25, 2007
  Graphene Oxide Paper Could Spawn a New Class of Materials
  
  
• July 25, 2007
  New Tool to Measure Speeding Nuclei is a Fast-Beam First
  
  
• July 24, 2007
  Scientists Discover New Way to Study Nanostructures
  
  
• July 23, 2007
  Graphene Nanoelectronics: Making Tomorrow's Computers From a Pencil Trace
  
  
• July 23, 2007
  X-ray Study Reveals How HIV Infiltrates Cell Membranes
  
  
• July 22, 2007
  Tightly Packed Molecules Lend Unexpected Strength to Nanothin Sheet of Material
  
  
• July 20, 2007
  Physicists Get Ultra-sharp Glimpse of Electrons
  
  
• July 19, 2007
  Glaciers and Ice Caps to Dominate Sea Level Rise This Century, Says CU-Boulder Study
  
  
• July 19, 2007
  Protein Pulling--Learning how Proteins Fold by Pulling Them Apart
  
  
• July 18, 2007
  Study Explains How Pathogens Evolve to Escape Detection
  
  
• July 18, 2007
  UD Scientists Invent Novel Hydrogels for Repairing, Regenerating Human Tissue
  
  
• July 17, 2007
  Charon: An Ice Machine in the Ultimate Deep Freeze
  
  
• July 17, 2007
  New Particle Explains Odd Behavior in Cuprate Superconductors
  
  
• July 17, 2007
  University of Pennsylvania Engineers Discover Natural 'Workbench' for Nanoscale Construction
  
  
• July 16, 2007
  Clues to Future Evolution of HIV Come From African Green Monkeys
  
  
• July 13, 2007
  Children with Tourette's Quicker at Certain Mental Grammar Skills
  
  
• July 13, 2007
  Fruit Fly Research May 'Clean Up' Conventional Impressions of Biology
  
  
• July 13, 2007
  On a Wire or in a Fiber, a Wave is a Wave
  
  
• July 12, 2007
  Dramatic Comeback of Male Butterflies in Population That Was Once Nearly Entirely Male
  
  
• July 12, 2007
  Fragmented Structure of Seafloor Faults May Dampen Effects
  
  
• July 12, 2007
  Semiconductor Membrane Mimics Biological Behavior of Ion Channels
  
  
• July 12, 2007
  Speed Bumps Less Important Than Potholes for Graphene
  
  
• July 12, 2007
  Unraveling the Physics of DNA's Double Helix
  
  
• July 11, 2007
  Benchmark Survey Shows That Giant Outer Extrasolar Planets Are Rare
  
  
• July 11, 2007
  How the Brain and an iPhone Differ
  
  
• July 10, 2007
  Carnegie Mellon Researchers Use Web Images to Add Realism to Edited Photos
  
  
• July 10, 2007
  Late Nights May Impact Preteen Behavior
  
  
• July 10, 2007
  UIC and Japanese Chemists Close in on Molecular Switch
  
  
• July 9, 2007
  Internal Clock, External Light Regulate Plant Growth
  
  
• July 9, 2007
  Invisible Gases Form Most Organic Haze in Urban, Rural Areas
  
  
• July 9, 2007
  Study Finds Minimal Racial Bias in Charitable Giving to Victims of Hurricane Katrina
  
  
• July 6, 2007
  It Don't Mean a Thing if it Ain't Got that (modern) Swing
  
  
• July 6, 2007
  MIT, BU Team Builds Viruses to Combat Harmful 'Biofilms'
  
  
• July 5, 2007
  Amoebae Control Cheating by Keeping It in the Family
  
  
• July 5, 2007
  Insight Into Neural Stem Cells Has Implications for Designing Therapies
  
  
• July 4, 2007
  University of New Hampshire Researchers Prove Existence of New Type of Electron Wave
  
  
• July 2, 2007
  'Smart' Traffic Boxes Could Help Monitor Roads, Save Money
  
  
• July 2, 2007
  Glimmer of Hope for Tahitian Tree Snails' Survival
  
  
• July 2, 2007
  Mother-of-Pearl: Classic Beauty and Remarkable Strength
  
  
• July 2, 2007
  Satellite Images Reveal Link between Urban Growth and Changing Rainfall Patterns
  
  
• July 1, 2007
  What Happened Before the Big Bang?
  
  
• June 28, 2007
  Earliest-known Evidence of Peanut, Cotton and Squash Farming Found
  
  
• June 28, 2007
  New Undersea Images Challenge Prevailing Ideas About the Antarctic Ice Sheet
  
  
• June 28, 2007
  New, Invisible Nano-fibers Conduct Electricity, Repel Dirt
  
  
• June 27, 2007
  'CARS' Imaging Reveals Clues to Myelin Damage
  
  
• June 27, 2007
  Carnegie Mellon University-led Team Conducts Most Detailed Cosmological Simulation to Date
  
  
• June 26, 2007
  Carnegie Mellon University Chemists Advance Organic Semiconductor Processing
  
  
• June 26, 2007
  Understanding Smooth Eye Pursuit
  
  
• June 25, 2007
  March of the Giant Penguins
  
  
• June 25, 2007
  University of Colorado Study Shows Desert Droughts Lead to Earlier Annual Mountain Snow Loss
  
  
• June 22, 2007
  Ice Age Extinction Claimed Highly Carnivorous Alaskan Wolves
  
  
• June 22, 2007
  New Nano-Method May Help Compress Computer Memory
  
  
• June 21, 2007
  Ancient Retrovirus Sheds Light on Modern Pandemic
  
  
• June 21, 2007
  Catching Waves: Measuring Self-Assembly in Action
  
  
• June 21, 2007
  Dead on Target
  
  
• June 21, 2007
  Explorers to Use New Robotic Vehicles to Hunt for Life and Hydrothermal Vents on Arctic Seafloor
  
  
• June 21, 2007
  Scientists Close in on Missing Carbon Sink
  
  
• June 20, 2007
  Arctic Ocean History Is Deciphered by Ocean-drilling Research Team
  
  
• June 20, 2007
  UW-Madison Engineers Develop Higher-energy Liquid-Transportation Fuel From Sugar
  
  
• June 18, 2007
  A New Technique for Building Nanodevices in the Lab
  
  
• June 18, 2007
  Nanotube Adhesive Sticks Better Than a Gecko's Foot
  
  
• June 18, 2007
  Reconstructing the Biology of Extinct Species: A New Approach
  
  
• June 18, 2007
  Research Could Help Advance 'Spintronics'
  
  
• June 15, 2007
  Marine Phytoplankton Changes Form to Protect Itself From Different Predators
  
  
• June 15, 2007
  Research Team Observes Elusive Copper (III) Intermediates
  
  
• June 14, 2007
  Reduced Greenhouse Gas Emissions Required to Avoid Dangerous Increases in Heat Stress
  
  
• June 14, 2007
  University of Colorado Invention May Allow Thirsty Crops to Signal Farmers
  
  
• June 12, 2007
  CT Scan Reveals Ancient Long-necked Gliding Reptile
  
  
• June 12, 2007
  Guessing Robots Predict Their Environments, Navigate Better
  
  
• June 12, 2007
  Mother Mice More Attuned to Pup Sounds Than Others
  
  
• June 12, 2007
  Study Shows Lizard Moms Dress Their Children for Success
  
  
• June 12, 2007
  UCR Biologists Unravel the Genetic Secrets of Black Widow Spider Silk
  
  
• June 11, 2007
  Carnegie Mellon Scientists Devise Method to Increase Kidney Transplants
  
  
• June 11, 2007
  UGA Study Finds That Weaker Nations Prevail in 39 Percent of Military Conflicts
  
  
• June 8, 2007
  Scientists Propose the Kind of Chemistry That Led to Life
  
  
• June 7, 2007
  MIT Demonstrates Wireless Power Transfer
  
  
• June 7, 2007
  Nanotube Flickering Reveals Single-Molecule Rendezvous
  
  
• June 7, 2007
  Research Brightens Prospects for Using the World's Smallest Candles in Medical Applications
  
  
• June 6, 2007
  Caribbean Frogs Started With a Single, Ancient Voyage on a Raft From South America
  
  
• June 6, 2007
  Dirty Snow May Warm Arctic as Much as Greenhouse Gases
  
  
• June 6, 2007
  Scientists Discover Unique, New T Cell Receptor in Marsupial Research
  
  
• June 6, 2007
  UCF Researchers Hope Virtual Reality Can Help to Prevent Wildfires
  
  
• June 5, 2007
  Ports Could Hasten Freight Traffic by Doubling Up on Crane Trips
  
  
• June 5, 2007
  Scientists Help to Create "Trail of Time" at Grand Canyon National Park
  
  
• June 4, 2007
  Fire and Structural Safety a Hot Topic for Engineers--and the Nation
  
  
• June 1, 2007
  How to Rip and Tear a Fluid
  
  
• June 1, 2007
  Journal Sleep: Advanced Cancer Patients Have Less Quality Sleep
  
  
• June 1, 2007
  Journal Sleep: Longer CPAP Use at Night Can Normalize One's Daytime Functioning
  
  
• June 1, 2007
  Mouse Model Points to Possible New Strategy for Treating Rare Muscle Disease, Kidney Disorders
  
  
• June 1, 2007
  UC Santa Cruz Researchers Achieve Atomic Spectroscopy on a Chip
  
  
• June 1, 2007
  Wide Range of Sleep-related Disorders Associated with Abnormal Sexual Behaviors, Experiences
  
  
• May 31, 2007
  Gazing Up at the Man in the Star?
  
  
• May 31, 2007
  NASA Pondering a Future Grapple on the James Webb Space Telescope
  
  
• May 31, 2007
  Northeastern University Researchers Solve Rubik's Cube in 26 Moves
  
  
• May 31, 2007
  Single Spinning Nuclei in Diamond Offer a Stable Quantum Computing Building Block
  
  
• May 31, 2007
  Study: Directly Observed HIV Therapy for Children Is Promising
  
  
• May 31, 2007
  UCR Physicist Demonstrates How Light Can be Used to Remotely Operate Micromachines
  
  
• May 16, 2007
  Inexpensive "Nanoglue" Can Bond Nearly Anything Together
  
  
• May 16, 2007
  Iowa State Scientists Demonstrate First Use of Nanotechnology to Enter Plant Cells
  
  
• May 16, 2007
  West Nile Virus Threatens Backyard Birds
  
  
• May 15, 2007
  Medical Imaging Advance Relies on Microscopic Detector
  
  
• May 15, 2007
  Reproductive Speed Protects Large Animals From Being Hunted to Extinction
  
  
• May 14, 2007
  Brain, Size and Gender Surprises in Latest Fossil Tying Humans, Apes and Monkeys
  
  
• May 14, 2007
  Learning Cut-and-Paste Rules to Fight a Deadly Fungus
  
  
• May 14, 2007
  NASA's Close-up Look at a Hurricane's Eye Reveals a New 'Fuel' Source
  
  
• May 14, 2007
  Protecting Reef Fish Species Helps Corals Recover
  
  
• May 11, 2007
  Simple Equations Track Listeria Trails
  
  
• May 11, 2007
  Study Sheds Light on Earth's CO2 Cycles
  
  
• May 10, 2007
  "Missing Mass" Found in Recycled Dwarf Galaxies
  
  
• May 10, 2007
  Drylands Are Not the Same as Badlands
  
  
• May 10, 2007
  Real-time Seismic Monitoring Station Installed Atop Active Underwater Volcano
  
  
• May 10, 2007
  Species Thrive When Sexual Dimorphism Broadens Their Niches
  
  
• May 10, 2007
  Study Tracks Carbon Dioxide at End of Last Ice Age
  
  
• May 9, 2007
  Extreme Winds Rule Exoplanet's Weather
  
  
• May 7, 2007
  Drought Limits Tropical Plant Distributions, Scientists at the Smithsonian Report
  
  
• May 4, 2007
  Hamilton College Researchers Discover Molecules With the Potential to Treat Breast Cancer
  
  
• May 4, 2007
  Light Sticks May Lure Turtles to Fishing Lines
  
  
• May 3, 2007
  Astronomer Finds That Mercury Has Molten Core
  
  
• May 3, 2007
  Platinum Nanocrystals Boost Catalytic Activity for Fuel Oxidation, Hydrogen Production
  
  
• May 3, 2007
  Scientists Offer New View of Photosynthesis
  
  
• May 2, 2007
  Ecology in an Era of Globalization
  
  
• May 2, 2007
  Laser-Induced Shocks in Diamond Anvil Can Achieve Pressures Inside Supergiant Planets
  
  
• May 1, 2007
  'Wrapping' Gleevec® Fights Drug-Resistant Cancer
  
  
• May 1, 2007
  Climate Change a Threat to Indonesian Agriculture, Study Says
  
  
• May 1, 2007
  Technique Monitors Thousands of Molecules Simultaneously
  
  
• April 30, 2007
  'War Between the Sexes:' The Co-evolution of Genitalia in Waterfowl
  
  
• April 30, 2007
  Arctic Ice Retreating More Quickly Than Computer Models Project
  
  
• April 30, 2007
  BCM, Rice Make Major Advance in Structural Biology
  
  
• April 30, 2007
  Beijing Restrictions Offer Case Study in Emissions of Key Atmospheric Gases
  
  
• April 30, 2007
  New VERITAS Telescope Array May Help Find 'Dark Matter'
  
  
• April 30, 2007
  Researchers Develop New Laser for Taking High-Resolution, 3-D Images of the Retina
  
  
• April 30, 2007
  Researchers to Visit Site of 2004, 2005 Indonesian Earthquakes
  
  
• April 27, 2007
  Arming the Fight Against Resistant Bacteria
  
  
• April 27, 2007
  Gold Nanoparticles Help Detect a Toxic Metal--Mercury
  
  
• April 27, 2007
  UC Researchers Shatter World Records With Length of Latest Carbon Nanotube Arrays
  
  
• April 26, 2007
  Decision Making by the Growing Elderly Population Is Uncharted Territory
  
  
• April 26, 2007
  New Nanocomposite Processing Technique Creates More Powerful Capacitors
  
  
• April 26, 2007
  Volcanic Eruptions, Ancient Global Warming Period Linked
  
  
• April 25, 2007
  Cosmologically Speaking, Diamonds May Actually Be Forever
  
  
• April 25, 2007
  Global Warming, Antarctic Ice Is Focus of Multinational Workshop
  
  
• April 25, 2007
  New Technique Weighs Single Living Cells
  
  
• April 25, 2007
  Water Flows Like Molasses on the Nanoscale
  
  
• April 24, 2007
  Meeting the Ethanol Challenge: Scientists Use Supercomputer to Target Cellulose Bottleneck
  
  
• April 24, 2007
  Moonlighting Enzyme Linked to Neurodegenerative Disease
  
  
• April 24, 2007
  New Model Describes Avalanche Behavior of Superfluid Helium
  
  
• April 24, 2007
  Scientists Unravel Clue in Cortisol Production
  
  
• April 23, 2007
  Buried, Residual Oil Is Still Affecting Wildlife Decades After a Spill
  
  
• April 23, 2007
  Mosquito Genes Explain Response to Climate Change
  
  
• April 23, 2007
  Nanowires Make Great Photodetectors
  
  
• April 23, 2007
  Theory Predicts Aging Process in DVDs, Plexiglas, Other Polymer Glasses
  
  
• April 19, 2007
  Iowa State Astrophysicists Provide the Eyes for New Gamma Ray Telescope System
  
  
• April 19, 2007
  Scientists Design New Super-Hard Material
  
  
• April 19, 2007
  University of California-Riverside Chemists Identify Organic Molecules That Mimic Metals
  
  
• April 19, 2007
  University of Colorado Researchers Forecast One In Three Chance of Record Low Sea Ice in 2007
  
  
• April 19, 2007
  Why Some Aphids Can't Stand the Heat
  
  
• April 18, 2007
  New Method to Directly Probe the Quantum Collisions of Individual Atoms
  
  
• April 18, 2007
  Racing Neurons Control Whether We Stop or Go
  
  
• April 17, 2007
  Biologists Prove Critical Step in Membrane Fusion
  
  
• April 17, 2007
  Brown Dwarfs: A New Class of Stellar Lighthouse
  
  
• April 17, 2007
  Carnegie Mellon University Scientists Identify Genes Activated During Learning and Memory
  
  
• April 16, 2007
  Researchers Setting Up Observatories to Examine Changes Under the Arctic Ice
  
  
• April 13, 2007
  Hotter-Than-Expected Neutron Star Surfaces Help Explain Superburst Frequency
  
  
• April 12, 2007
  Complex Structure Observed in Tonga Mantle Wedge Has Implications for the Evolution of Volcanic Arcs
  
  
• April 12, 2007
  Protein Fragments Sequenced in 68 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus Rex
  
  
• April 12, 2007
  Where Is the Proton? Yale Scientists Discover Footprints of Shared Protons
  
  
• April 11, 2007
  Earthshaking Images
  
  
• April 11, 2007
  MiniBooNE Findings Clarify the Behavior of Neutrinos
  
  
• April 11, 2007
  Study of Coastal Disasters Yields Surprising Findings, Arresting Images
  
  
• April 10, 2007
  Ancient Coral Reef Tells the History of Kenya's Soil Erosion
  
  
• April 10, 2007
  Carnegie Mellon P2P System Could Speed Movie, Music Downloads
  
  
• April 10, 2007
  Little Lifesavers--Nanoparticles Improve Delivery of Medicines and Diagnostics
  
  
• April 10, 2007
  University of Cincinnati Engineering Researchers Uncover Factors That Control Ion Motion in Solid Electrolytes
  
  
• April 9, 2007
  Anthropologist Finds Earliest Evidence of Maize Farming in Mexico
  
  
• April 9, 2007
  Nanotextured Implant Materials: Blending in, Not Fighting Back
  
  
• April 6, 2007
  3.2 Billion-year-old Surprise: Earth Had Strong Magnetic Field
  
  
• April 6, 2007
  High Resolution Images Herald New Era in Earth Sciences
  
  
• April 6, 2007
  New Study Shows Climate Change Leads to Extreme Drought in U.S. Southwest
  
  
• April 5, 2007
  Laser-Cooling Brings Large Object Near Absolute Zero
  
  
• April 5, 2007
  Researchers Identify Gene That Plays Key Role in Size of Dogs
  
  
• April 5, 2007
  Why Small Dogs Are Small
  
  
• April 4, 2007
  Device Draws Cells Close--But Not Too Close--Together
  
  
• April 3, 2007
  Magnet Lab to Build World's Strongest Magnet Designed for Neutron Scattering
  
  
• April 2, 2007
  "Picky-eater" Flies Losing Smell Genes
  
  
• April 2, 2007
  First Impressions: Computer Model Behaves Like Humans on Visual Categorization Task
  
  
• April 2, 2007
  Possibilities Widen for Electronic Devices
  
  
• March 29, 2007
  Attention Linked to Specific Brain Regions
  
  
• March 29, 2007
  New Algorithms Improve Automated Image Labeling
  
  
• March 28, 2007
  Researchers Reveal the Tangle Under Turbulence
  
  
• March 28, 2007
  University of Alaska Fairbanks Scientist to Lead Sea Ice Expedition
  
  
• March 26, 2007
  Engineers Developing Robotic Locomotion That Mimics the Amoeba
  
  
• March 25, 2007
  Dust in Antarctic Ice Reveals Important Climate Clues
  
  
• March 22, 2007
  The Delicate Trails of Star Birth
  
  
• March 21, 2007
  A New View on Plate-Mantle Activity
  
  
• March 21, 2007
  Moral Judgment Fails Without Feelings
  
  
• March 21, 2007
  Researchers Find Way to Use Microbial Fuel Cells for Large-Scale Electricity Production
  
  
• March 20, 2007
  Researchers Find Mercury Entering Ocean Through Groundwater
  
  
• March 14, 2007
  Quantum Chemistry-Inspired Mathematical Tool Helps Physicists Pare Down Huge Datasets and Explain Heavy Nuclei
  
  
• March 9, 2007
  Tiny Building Blocks Could Aid Development of New Nanodevices
  
  
• March 8, 2007
  Regardless of Global Warming, Rising CO2 Levels Threaten Marine Life
  
  
• March 7, 2007
  International Telescope Achieves Major Milestone With Antenna-Link Success
  
  
• March 7, 2007
  Sunlight Can Change the Way Asteroids Spin in Space
  
  
• March 6, 2007
  Fundamental Property of Galaxies Discovered at W. M. Keck Observatory
  
  
• March 5, 2007
  Geologists Reveal Secrets Behind Supervolcano Eruption
  
  
• March 1, 2007
  Hurricanes Can Form New Eyewall and Change Intensity Rapidly
  
  
• March 1, 2007
  Individuals and Populations Differ in Gene Activity Levels
  
  
• February 26, 2007
  Researchers Break New Ground in Spin Electronics
  
  
• February 25, 2007
  New Technique Opens Door To Tabletop X-Ray Laser
  
  
• February 22, 2007
  Killing the Messenger RNA--But Which One?
  
  
• February 21, 2007
  Bacteria Could Steady Buildings Against Earthquakes
  
  
• February 15, 2007
  Quantum Hall Effect Observed at Room Temperature
  
  
• February 15, 2007
  Research Yields New Evidence that the Sun's Recent Brightness Variations are Typical of Sun-Like Stars
  
  
• February 13, 2007
  Controlling the Movement of Water Through Nanotube Membranes
  
  
• February 11, 2007
  New Mechanism for Nutrient Uptake Discovered
  
  
• February 8, 2007
  Scientists Use Seismic Waves to Locate Missing Rock Under Tibet
  
  
• February 7, 2007
  In Tiny, Supercooled Clouds, Physicists Exchange Light and Matter
  
  
• February 7, 2007
  Machine Learning Could Speed Up Radiation Therapy for Cancer Patients
  
  
• February 5, 2007
  New Finding Helps Further Understanding of X-ray Bursts
  
  
• February 2, 2007
  Florida State University Researcher Unlocking Secrets of Superconductivity
  
  
• February 2, 2007
  Physicists Find Way to 'See' Extra Dimensions
  
  
• February 1, 2007
  Artificial Atoms Make Microwave Photons Countable
  
  
• February 1, 2007
  Bones in Motion: Scientists Create New 3-D X-ray Images
  
  
• January 31, 2007
  Breakthrough in Nanodevice Synthesis Revolutionizes Biological Sensors
  
  
• January 26, 2007
  DNA Gets New Twist: Scientists Develop Unique DNA "Nanotags"
  
  
• January 25, 2007
  How Does Your Brain Respond When You Think About Gambling or Taking Risks? UCLA Study Offers New Insights
  
  
• January 22, 2007
  Scientists Map North American Carbon Dioxide Using Corn
  
  
• January 19, 2007
  Illinois Researchers Break Billion Variable Optimization Barrier
  
  
• January 18, 2007
  Rotting Leaf Litter Key in Accurate Climate Models
  
  
• January 17, 2007
  Large Keck Survey Identifies Young Binaries to Test Models of Star Formation
  
  
• January 16, 2007
  Quantum Biology: Powerful Computer Models Reveal Key Biological Mechanism
  
  
• January 11, 2007
  Earliest Evidence of Modern Humans in Europe Discovered by International Team
  
  
• January 11, 2007
  Shoulder Ligament a Linchpin in the Evolution of Flight
  
  
• January 11, 2007
  Soil Nutrients Determine Spatial Distributions of Tropical Tree Species
  
  
• January 10, 2007
  New Findings Show Revised Nitrogen Assumptions About Ocean
  
  
• January 9, 2007
  Radio Telescopes Provide Key Clue on Black Hole Growth
  
  
• January 9, 2007
  Sloan and the Seven--Make that Eight--Dwarfs
  
  
• January 8, 2007
  Hybrid Structures Combine Strengths of Carbon Nanotubes and Nanowires
  
  
• January 8, 2007
  VLBA Helps Build New Picture of Star-Forming Regions
  
  
• January 7, 2007
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