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NEWS FROM THE FIELD FOR 2008

• December 29, 2008
  Education Practices Influence Women Engineer Shortage, MU Study Finds
  
  
• December 29, 2008
  Grazing Animals Help Spread Plant Disease
  
  
• December 24, 2008
  Biologists Learn Structure, Mechanism of Powerful 'Molecular Motor' in Virus
  
  
• December 23, 2008
  In Many Fungi, Reproductive Spores are Remarkably Aerodynamic
  
  
• December 23, 2008
  New Technique is Quantum Leap Forward in Understanding Proteins
  
  
• December 23, 2008
  Princeton Researchers Discover New Type of Laser
  
  
• December 23, 2008
  Research Team Reports How, When Life on Earth Became So Big
  
  
• December 23, 2008
  SUNY Downstate Researchers Find That Memory Storage Molecule Preserves Complex Memories
  
  
• December 23, 2008
  University of California, Davis Discovery Offers Hope for Treating Kidney Cancer
  
  
• December 22, 2008
  Maura Borrego receives prestigious National Science Foundation Presidential Award
  
  
• December 22, 2008
  Shade Coffee Benefits More Than Birds
  
  
• December 19, 2008
  Arizona State University Geographer Receives Presidential Science Award
  
  
• December 19, 2008
  CAT Scan Reveals Inner Workings of Volcano Island
  
  
• December 19, 2008
  MIT: Fighting Malaria by Changing the Environment
  
  
• December 19, 2008
  Unusual Microbial Ropes Grow Slowly in Cave Lake
  
  
• December 18, 2008
  Groundbreaking, Inexpensive, Pocket-sized Ultrasound Device Can Help Treat Cancer, Relieve Arthritis
  
  
• December 18, 2008
  Life on Mars? Brown-led Research Team Says Elusive Mineral Bolsters Chances
  
  
• December 18, 2008
  MIT Finds Climate Change Could Dramatically Affect Water Supplies
  
  
• December 18, 2008
  New Label-free Method Tracks Molecules and Drugs in Live Cells
  
  
• December 18, 2008
  Scientists Study How Asbestos Fibers Trigger Cancer in Human Cells
  
  
• December 17, 2008
  "Smart" Surveillance System May Tag Suspicious or Lost People
  
  
• December 17, 2008
  A Microscale System to Study Frustration in Buckled Monolayers of Microspheres at Penn
  
  
• December 17, 2008
  Kidnapped Senior Needed IU-patented Home Security System
  
  
• December 17, 2008
  No Quick or Easy Technological Fix for Climate Change, Researchers Say
  
  
• December 17, 2008
  The More You Take, the More You Lose
  
  
• December 16, 2008
  Biggest Breach of Earth's Solar Storm Shield Discovered
  
  
• December 16, 2008
  Blue Ribbon Task Force: Economic Plans Needed to Preserve Digital Data
  
  
• December 16, 2008
  Purdue Study Suggests Warmer Temperatures Could Lead to a Boom in Corn Pests
  
  
• December 16, 2008
  Science at the Center of the Storm
  
  
• December 16, 2008
  USC Researchers Print Dense Lattice of Transparent Nanotube Transistors on Flexible Base
  
  
• December 15, 2008
  Ancient Magma 'Superpiles' May Have Shaped the Continents
  
  
• December 15, 2008
  Diverse Landscapes are Better: Policymakers Urged to Think Broadly About Biofuel Crops
  
  
• December 15, 2008
  Light Shines for Potential Early Cancer Diagnosis Technique
  
  
• December 15, 2008
  Method Sorts Out Double-walled Carbon Nanotube Problem
  
  
• December 15, 2008
  Quiet Bison Sire More Calves Than Louder Rivals
  
  
• December 15, 2008
  Researchers Create New Class of Fluorescent Dyes to Detect Reactive Oxygen Species in Vivo
  
  
• December 14, 2008
  MIT Nanotubes Sniff Out Cancer Agents in Living Cells
  
  
• December 13, 2008
  As Ice Melts, Antarctic Bedrock is on the Move
  
  
• December 13, 2008
  Greenland's Glaciers Losing Ice Faster This Year Than Last Year, Which was Record-setting Itself
  
  
• December 13, 2008
  Looking for Extraterrestrial Life in all the Right Places
  
  
• December 13, 2008
  Researchers Use Satellites to Measure Inland Floods
  
  
• December 12, 2008
  University of Virginia to Probe Milky Way History in Sloan Digital Sky Survey III
  
  
• December 11, 2008
  Inside the Consumer Mind: U of M Brain Scans Reveal Choice Mechanism
  
  
• December 11, 2008
  MIT Developing a Better Flight Plan for Weather Forecasting
  
  
• December 11, 2008
  New Research Shows How Gene Function Drives Natural Selection in Important Class of Genetic Elements
  
  
• December 11, 2008
  Oregon Theory May Help Design Tomorrow's Sustainable Polymer
  
  
• December 10, 2008
  Chemist Tames Long-standing Electron Computation Problem
  
  
• December 10, 2008
  Great Indian Ocean Earthquake of 2004 Set Off Tremors in San Andreas Fault
  
  
• December 10, 2008
  New MIT Detector Will Aid Dark Matter Search
  
  
• December 10, 2008
  Team Led by Purdue Professor First to Record Key Event That Breaks Continents Apart
  
  
• December 9, 2008
  Developing Countries Lack Means to Acquire More Efficient Technologies
  
  
• December 9, 2008
  New Record for Information Storage and Retrieval Lifetime Advances Quantum Networks
  
  
• December 9, 2008
  Princeton-led Team Finds Secret Ingredient for the Health of Tropical Rainforests
  
  
• December 9, 2008
  Researchers Focus on Building Telescope at South Pole
  
  
• December 9, 2008
  Why Do Dolphins Carry Sponges?
  
  
• December 8, 2008
  CT Scans Reveal That Dinosaurs Were Airheads
  
  
• December 8, 2008
  DOE Joint Genome Institute Completes Soybean Genome
  
  
• December 8, 2008
  Dune and Dirty: Hurricane Teaches Lessons Through Ecosystem Research
  
  
• December 8, 2008
  Men are Red, Women are Green, Brown Researcher Finds
  
  
• December 8, 2008
  Why Do Some Bird Species Lay Only One Egg? UC-San Diego Study Offers Some Answers
  
  
• December 8, 2008
  Wii Bit of Fun at Rice University has Serious Intent
  
  
• December 7, 2008
  Genes for 9 Health Indicators
  
  
• December 7, 2008
  Nanotechnology 'Culture War' Possible, Says Yale Study
  
  
• December 5, 2008
  Metabolic Reactions: Less is More in Single-celled Organisms
  
  
• December 4, 2008
  Cave's Climate Clues Show Ancient Empires Declined During Dry Spell
  
  
• December 4, 2008
  Model Unravels Rules That Govern How Genes are Switched On and Off
  
  
• December 4, 2008
  Researchers Solve Piece of Large-scale Gene Silencing Mystery
  
  
• December 3, 2008
  Dogs Chase Efficiently, but Cats Skulk Counterintuitively
  
  
• December 3, 2008
  New 'Control Knobs' for Stem Cells Identified
  
  
• December 3, 2008
  PNNL Researchers Earn Top Honors at Supercomputing Conference
  
  
• December 3, 2008
  Potential for Large Earthquake Off Coast of Sumatra Remains Large, Says Caltech-led Team
  
  
• December 2, 2008
  New Holographic Method Could be Used for Lab-on-a-chip Technologies
  
  
• December 2, 2008
  Twin Study Defines Shared Features of Human Gut Microbial Communities: Variations Linked to Obesity
  
  
• December 1, 2008
  No Place Like Home: New Theory for How Salmon, Sea Turtles Find Their Birthplace
  
  
• December 1, 2008
  Stanford Blood Scanner Detects Even Faint Indicators of Cancer
  
  
• December 1, 2008
  Study on Wildlife Corridors Shows How They Work Over Time
  
  
• December 1, 2008
  Tool Helps Identify Gene Function in Soybeans
  
  
• November 27, 2008
  Fast Molecular Rearrangements Hold Key to Plastic's Toughness
  
  
• November 27, 2008
  Speed Matters For Ice-shelf Breaking
  
  
• November 27, 2008
  UW Tackles Neglected Realm of Training for Science Professors
  
  
• November 26, 2008
  'The Photon Force Is With Us': Harnessing Light to Drive Nanomachines
  
  
• November 26, 2008
  Boosting the Power of Solar Cells
  
  
• November 25, 2008
  Jupiter's Rocky Core Bigger and Icier, According to New Simulation
  
  
• November 25, 2008
  Lehigh's IMI Supports Diversity in Materials Engineering
  
  
• November 25, 2008
  Making the Ultimate Family Sacrifice
  
  
• November 25, 2008
  Milagro Detects Cosmic Ray Hot Spots
  
  
• November 25, 2008
  New Discovery May Enhance MRI Scans, Lead to Portable MRI Machines
  
  
• November 25, 2008
  UC San Diego Engineers Work to Make Historic Buildings Safer During Strong Earthquakes
  
  
• November 24, 2008
  Key Link in How Plants Adapt to Climate Discovered by Stanford Researchers
  
  
• November 24, 2008
  Plants Grow Bigger and More Vigorously Through Changes in Their Internal Clocks
  
  
• November 24, 2008
  Robo-lizards Help Prove Long-standing Signaling Theory
  
  
• November 24, 2008
  SDSC-led Team Sets Records in Simulating Seismic Wave Propagation Across the Earth
  
  
• November 21, 2008
  Household Exposure to Toxic Chemicals Lurks Unrecognized, Researchers Find
  
  
• November 20, 2008
  Caltech 4-D Microscope Revolutionizes the Way We Look at the Nano World
  
  
• November 20, 2008
  Iowa State Researchers to Develop National Energy/Transportation Model and Plan
  
  
• November 20, 2008
  Race Guides Neighborhood Evaluation, Study Says
  
  
• November 20, 2008
  Researchers Make New Electronics -- With a Twist
  
  
• November 20, 2008
  Sea Level Rise Alters Bay's Salinity
  
  
• November 20, 2008
  Soybean Grant Gives Researchers Tools to Unravel Better Bean
  
  
• November 20, 2008
  U of M Independent Study of the I-35W Bridge Collapse Results Parallel NTSB Report
  
  
• November 19, 2008
  Carnegie Mellon Theory of Visual Computation Reveals How Brain Makes Sense of Natural Scenes
  
  
• November 19, 2008
  How Do Bacteria Swim? Brown Physicists Explain
  
  
• November 19, 2008
  Rational or Random? Professor Models How People Send E-mails
  
  
• November 19, 2008
  Researchers Shed New Light on Catalyzed Reactions
  
  
• November 18, 2008
  Antibiotics Can Cause Pervasive, Persistant Changes to Microbiota in Human Gut
  
  
• November 18, 2008
  Missing Radioactivity in Ice Cores Bodes Ill For Part of Asia
  
  
• November 18, 2008
  The Smart Way to Study
  
  
• November 17, 2008
  'Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon' Game Provides Clue to Efficiency of Complex Networks
  
  
• November 17, 2008
  MIT: A Quicker, Easier Way to Make Coal Cleaner
  
  
• November 17, 2008
  New Deep-sea Observatory Goes Live
  
  
• November 17, 2008
  Nontoxic Nanoparticle Can Deliver and Track Drugs
  
  
• November 17, 2008
  NSF/NASA 'Firefly' Cubesat to Study Link Between Lightning and Terrestrial Gamma Ray Flashes
  
  
• November 17, 2008
  Pinning Down the Fleeting Internet: Web Crawler Archives Historical Data For Easy Searching
  
  
• November 13, 2008
  Findings Suggest Nanowires Ideal for Electronics Manufacturing
  
  
• November 13, 2008
  Gemini Releases Historic Discovery Image of Planetary 'First Family'
  
  
• November 13, 2008
  Microbes -- Important Role in Ocean Ecology
  
  
• November 13, 2008
  Prehistoric Pelvis Offers Clues to Human Development
  
  
• November 13, 2008
  Survey Highlights Support for Nanotech in Health Fields but Disapproval Elsewhere
  
  
• November 13, 2008
  UC Berkeley Astronomers Lead Hubble Team in Capturing First Optical Photos of Exoplanet
  
  
• November 12, 2008
  Electronic Heat Trap Grips Deep Earth
  
  
• November 12, 2008
  Global Warming Link to Amphibian Declines in Doubt
  
  
• November 12, 2008
  NCAR Installs Massive Digital Storage Library From Sun Microsystems for Climate and Weather Records
  
  
• November 12, 2008
  Shifts in Soil Bacterial Populations Linked to Wetland Restoration Success
  
  
• November 12, 2008
  Study a Step Toward Disease-resistant Crops, Sustainability
  
  
• November 11, 2008
  Case Western Reserve University Uncovers Genetic Basis for Some Birth Defects
  
  
• November 11, 2008
  UD Researchers Show That Plants Can Accumulate Nanoparticles in Tissues
  
  
• November 10, 2008
  Deep-sea Expedition Sets Sail
  
  
• November 10, 2008
  Evolution's New Wrinkle
  
  
• November 10, 2008
  Sedimentary Records Link Himalayan Erosion Rates and Monsoon Intensity Through Time
  
  
• November 10, 2008
  Signaling Between Protein, Growth Factor is Critical for Coordinated Cell Migration
  
  
• November 10, 2008
  Stroke Patients Soon May Have Fun, High-tech Tool
  
  
• November 9, 2008
  New Small-scale Generator Produces Alternating Current by Stretching Zinc Oxide Wires
  
  
• November 7, 2008
  Bullies May Enjoy Seeing Others in Pain
  
  
• November 7, 2008
  U of M Researchers Uncover Surprising Effects of Climate Patterns in Ancient China
  
  
• November 6, 2008
  Evidence Found for Climate-driven Ecological Shifts in North Atlantic, Says Cornell Study
  
  
• November 6, 2008
  Following the Leader Can Be a Drag, According to Student's Research on Flapping Flags
  
  
• November 6, 2008
  Magic Porthole Named Great Web Site for Kids
  
  
• November 6, 2008
  MIT Creates Tiny Backpacks For Cells
  
  
• November 5, 2008
  Nature Study Demonstrates That Bacterial Clotting Depends on Clustering
  
  
• November 4, 2008
  Death by Hyperdisease
  
  
• November 4, 2008
  DNA Provides 'Smoking Gun' in the Case of The Missing Songbirds
  
  
• November 4, 2008
  Just Scratching The Surface: New Technique Maps Nanomaterials as They Grow
  
  
• November 4, 2008
  NYU Biologists Identify Genes That Prevent Changes in Physical Traits Due to Environmental Changes
  
  
• November 3, 2008
  Dried Mushrooms Slow Climate Warming in Northern Forests
  
  
• November 3, 2008
  Ecologists Say Metabolism Accounts for Why Natural Selection Favors Only Some Species
  
  
• November 3, 2008
  Protect Your Vote--Avoid Election Machine Errors
  
  
• November 3, 2008
  Researchers Uncover Clue in Spread of 'Superbugs'
  
  
• November 3, 2008
  Women Have More Diverse Hand Bacteria Than Men, Says CU-Boulder Study
  
  
• November 2, 2008
  Flatworms Help Researchers Answer Evolutionary Questions
  
  
• October 31, 2008
  Bare Bones of Crystal Growth: Biomolecules Enhance Metal Contents in Calcite
  
  
• October 31, 2008
  New Nanocluster to Boost Thin Films for Semiconductors
  
  
• October 31, 2008
  NSF Grant to Launch Undergrads From Case Western Reserve Into Math and Science Teaching
  
  
• October 31, 2008
  Virginia Tech Engineers Identify Conditions That Initiate Erosion
  
  
• October 31, 2008
  West Nile's North American Spread Described
  
  
• October 30, 2008
  'Living Fossil' Tree Contains Genetic Imprints of Rain Forests Under Climate Change
  
  
• October 30, 2008
  Corn Researchers Discover Novel Gene Shut-off Mechanisms
  
  
• October 30, 2008
  MIT Researchers Find Clues to Planets' Birth
  
  
• October 30, 2008
  Ultrafast Lasers Give CU-Boulder Researchers a Snapshot of Electrons in Action
  
  
• October 29, 2008
  A Card-swipe For Medical Tests
  
  
• October 29, 2008
  Caltech-led Researchers Find Negative Cues From Appearance Alone Matter For Real Elections
  
  
• October 29, 2008
  Scientists Find Evidence of Tsunamis on Indian Ocean Shores Long Before 2004
  
  
• October 28, 2008
  New Brain Link as Cause of Schizophrenia
  
  
• October 28, 2008
  Study Confirms Amphibians' Ability to Predict Changes in Biodiversity
  
  
• October 28, 2008
  Virtual Screening Leads to Real Progress in Drug Design
  
  
• October 27, 2008
  Catching Quakes With Laptops
  
  
• October 27, 2008
  Cut and Run: MSU Research Predicts Risk Avoidance in the Face of Chronic Economic Loss
  
  
• October 27, 2008
  Earthworm Activity Can Alter Forests' Carbon-carrying Capabilities
  
  
• October 27, 2008
  Effects of Climate Change Vary Greatly Across Plant Families
  
  
• October 27, 2008
  Good Code, Bad Computations: A Computer Security Gray Area
  
  
• October 27, 2008
  In Mice, Anxiety is Linked to Immune System
  
  
• October 27, 2008
  King Solomon's (Copper) Mines?
  
  
• October 27, 2008
  Scientists Probe Antarctic Glaciers for Clues to Past and Future Sea Level
  
  
• October 27, 2008
  Sea Urchin Yields a Key Secret of Biomineralization
  
  
• October 27, 2008
  U of Chicago Scientists Invent Device That Controls, Measures Dynamics of Chemicals in Live Tissue
  
  
• October 27, 2008
  UC Riverside Scientist to Explore How Vegetation Affects Urban Heat Islands
  
  
• October 27, 2008
  When You Look at a Face, You Look Nose First
  
  
• October 23, 2008
  CU-Boulder Research Finds Link Between Physical and Interpersonal Warmth
  
  
• October 23, 2008
  Deprived of a Sense of Smell, Worms Live Longer
  
  
• October 22, 2008
  British Scientists Go Cloud-hopping in the Pacific to Improve Climate Predictions
  
  
• October 22, 2008
  Denser, More Powerful Computer Chips Possible With Plasmonic Lenses That 'Fly'
  
  
• October 22, 2008
  Silencing a Protein Could Kill T-cells, Reverse Leukemia
  
  
• October 21, 2008
  New CU-Boulder Study Shows Diversity Decreases Chances of Parasitic Disease
  
  
• October 21, 2008
  Wiens Heads Seismology Effort in International Antarctic Study
  
  
• October 20, 2008
  AERA, NAEd Launch Assessment of Education Research Doctorate Programs With NSF Support
  
  
• October 20, 2008
  Cosmic Lens Reveals Distant Galactic Violence
  
  
• October 20, 2008
  Study Sheds New Light on Dolphin Coordination During Predation
  
  
• October 20, 2008
  Study: Wildlife Need More Complex Travel Plans
  
  
• October 19, 2008
  Drug-embedded Microparticles Bolster Heart Function in Animal Studies
  
  
• October 17, 2008
  Waste From Gut Bacteria Helps Host Control Weight, UT Southwestern Researchers Report
  
  
• October 17, 2008
  When Under Attack, Plants Can Signal Microbial Friends For Help
  
  
• October 16, 2008
  Brain Structure Provides Key to Unraveling Function of Bizarre Dinosaur Crests
  
  
• October 16, 2008
  New Solar Energy Material Captures Every Color of the Rainbow
  
  
• October 16, 2008
  Researchers Show How to 'Stamp' Nanodevices With Rubber Molds
  
  
• October 15, 2008
  'Fishapod' Reveals Origins of Head and Neck Structures of First Land Animals
  
  
• October 15, 2008
  First Tunable, 'Noiseless' Amplifier May Boost Quantum Computing, Communications
  
  
• October 15, 2008
  Origin of Alps-size Antarctic Mountain Range Unknown
  
  
• October 15, 2008
  Researchers Write Protein Nanoarrays Using a Fountain Pen and Electric Fields
  
  
• October 15, 2008
  Scientists Discover Quantum Mechanical 'Hurricanes' Form Spontaneously
  
  
• October 14, 2008
  Single-pixel Camera Has Multiple Futures
  
  
• October 14, 2008
  Why Do Women Get More Cavities Than Men?
  
  
• October 13, 2008
  Florida's 'Worm Grunters' Collect Bait Worms by Inadvertently Imitating Mole Sounds
  
  
• October 13, 2008
  Scientists Trace Molecular Origin of Proportional Development
  
  
• October 13, 2008
  Strong Elasticity Size Effects in ZnO Nanowires
  
  
• October 10, 2008
  Brainy Genes, Not Brawn, Key to Success on Mussel Beach
  
  
• October 10, 2008
  Iowa State Researchers Developing Wireless Soil Sensors to Improve Farming
  
  
• October 10, 2008
  Making Waves
  
  
• October 10, 2008
  Materials Researchers Create Breakthroughs in Single-electron Device Fabrication
  
  
• October 10, 2008
  Sensitive Nanowire Disease Detectors Made by Yale Scientists
  
  
• October 9, 2008
  Cosmic Eye Sheds Light on Early Galaxy Formation
  
  
• October 9, 2008
  Deep Magma Matters in Volcanic Eruption Cycle
  
  
• October 9, 2008
  Diversity of Plant-eating Fishes May Be Key to Recovery of Coral Reefs
  
  
• October 9, 2008
  Dry Adhesive Based on Carbon Nanotubes Gets Stronger, With Directional Gripping Ability
  
  
• October 9, 2008
  Ripple Effect: Water Snails Offer New Propulsion Possibilities
  
  
• October 9, 2008
  Risk and Reward Compete in Brain
  
  
• October 9, 2008
  Tropical Rainforest and Mountain Species May Be Threatened by Global Warming
  
  
• October 9, 2008
  Wildfires Cause Ozone Pollution to Violate Health Standards, New Study Shows
  
  
• October 9, 2008
  Yosemite Resurvey Shows Small Mammals Moving up in World
  
  
• October 8, 2008
  'Fingerprinting' Method Tracks Mercury Emissions From Coal
  
  
• October 8, 2008
  MIT's CarTel Aims to Reduce Commute Times, Detect Engine Woes
  
  
• October 8, 2008
  NCAR Launches Intensive Study Into Future Hurricane Risk
  
  
• October 8, 2008
  Preserved by Ice: Glacial Dams Helped Prevent Erosion of Tibetan Plateau
  
  
• October 8, 2008
  Researchers Teach Computers to Search for Photos Based on Their Contents
  
  
• October 8, 2008
  Rutgers Researcher Examines Connections Between Vision and Movement
  
  
• October 8, 2008
  Using Living Cells as Nanotechnology Factories
  
  
• October 7, 2008
  Deep Biosphere Research Points to New Methods for Recovering Petroleum
  
  
• October 6, 2008
  Case Western Reserve University Researchers Track Chernobyl Fallout
  
  
• October 6, 2008
  Surface Tension Drives Segregation Within Cell Mixtures
  
  
• October 6, 2008
  UC-San Diego Bioengineers Fill Holes in Science of Cellular Self-organization
  
  
• October 3, 2008
  Bee Swarms Follow High-speed 'Streaker' Bees to Find a New Nest
  
  
• October 3, 2008
  World's Biggest Computing Grid Launched
  
  
• October 2, 2008
  Nanodiamond Drug Device Could Transform Cancer Treatment
  
  
• October 2, 2008
  Reproducing Early and Often is The Key to Rapid Evolution in Plants
  
  
• October 2, 2008
  Study Pushes Appearance of Northern Hemisphere Ice Sheets Back by 22 Million Years
  
  
• October 2, 2008
  UC-Riverside Biochemists Devise Method For Bypassing Aluminum Toxicity Effects in Plants
  
  
• October 2, 2008
  Under Pressure at the Nanoscale, Polymers Play by Different Rules
  
  
• October 2, 2008
  Wielding Microbe Against Microbe, Beetle Defends its Food Source
  
  
• October 2, 2008
  Young Students Develop Bright Ideas Through STEM Initiative
  
  
• October 2, 2008
  Zooming Way in, Technique Offers Close-up of Electrons, Nuclei
  
  
• October 1, 2008
  Fire Detection of Magnetic Field in Distant Galaxy Produces a Surprise
  
  
• October 1, 2008
  Green Coffee-growing Practices Buffer Climate-change Impacts
  
  
• October 1, 2008
  New Structural Information About a Destructive Group of Plant Viruses Could Lead to New Ways to Improve Crop Yields
  
  
• October 1, 2008
  Researchers and Students to Develop Small CubeSat Satellites
  
  
• October 1, 2008
  Scientists Explore Putting Electric Cars on a Two-way Power Street
  
  
• October 1, 2008
  Structures of Important Plant Viruses Determined
  
  
• October 1, 2008
  UC-Berkeley Study Tests Impact of Terror Warnings on Presidential Race
  
  
• October 1, 2008
  Young Galaxy's Magnetism Surprises Astronomers
  
  
• September 30, 2008
  DHS and National Science Foundation Announce $3.1 Million in Academic Research Initiative Awards
  
  
• September 29, 2008
  'Hub' of Fear Memory Formation Identified in Brain Cells
  
  
• September 29, 2008
  New Formula Predicts How People Will Migrate in Coming Decades
  
  
• September 29, 2008
  Researchers Attribute Thinning of Greenland Glacier to Ocean Warming Preceded by Atmospheric Changes
  
  
• September 29, 2008
  Shade Trees Can Protect Coffee Crops
  
  
• September 28, 2008
  Scientists Identify Gene That May Contribute to Improved Rice Yield
  
  
• September 26, 2008
  Argonne Scientists Peer Into Heart of Compound That May Detect Chemical, Biological Weapons
  
  
• September 26, 2008
  Oldest Known Rocks Discovered
  
  
• September 26, 2008
  Penn Biophysicists Create New Model for Protein-cholesterol Interactions in Brain and Muscle Tissue
  
  
• September 25, 2008
  A 'Wild Cousin' Emerges From Family Tree of Exploding Stars
  
  
• September 25, 2008
  Lava Flows Reveal Clues to Magnetic Field Reversals
  
  
• September 25, 2008
  MIT Solves 100-year-old Engineering Problem
  
  
• September 25, 2008
  Most Elementary Schools in California Will Fail to Meet Proficiency Requirements by 2014
  
  
• September 25, 2008
  New Nanoscale Process Created by UCSB Scientists Will Help Computers Run Faster and More Efficiently
  
  
• September 25, 2008
  Zeroing in on Wi-Fi 'Dead Zones'
  
  
• September 24, 2008
  CU-Boulder Study Suggests Air Quality Regulations Miss Key Pollutants
  
  
• September 24, 2008
  International Field Campaign Examines Impact of Beetle Kill on Rocky Mountain Weather, Air Quality
  
  
• September 24, 2008
  Unraveling 'Math Dyslexia'
  
  
• September 24, 2008
  Video Game to Help Meet New High School Graduation Requirements
  
  
• September 23, 2008
  25 New MacArthur Fellows Announced
  
  
• September 23, 2008
  Step Right Up, Let the Computer Look at Your Face and Tell You Your Age
  
  
• September 23, 2008
  Students and Astronauts Use Powerful New Tool to Explore Earth From Space
  
  
• September 22, 2008
  Controlling Light With Sound: New Liquid Camera Lens as Simple as Water and Vibration
  
  
• September 22, 2008
  IU Sends Innovative Technology to Antarctica to Speed Polar Research
  
  
• September 22, 2008
  Ocean Floor Geysers Warm Flowing Sea Water
  
  
• September 22, 2008
  Purifying Nanorods: Big Success With Tiny Cleanup
  
  
• September 22, 2008
  When Leaves Fall, More Is Occurring than a Change of Weather
  
  
• September 21, 2008
  Climate Change, Human Activity and Wildfires
  
  
• September 19, 2008
  Using Novel Tool, UD Researchers Dig Through Cell 'Trash' and Find Treasure
  
  
• September 18, 2008
  'Buckyballs' Have High Potential to Accumulate in Living Tissue
  
  
• September 18, 2008
  Comet Dust Reveals Unexpected Mixing of Solar System
  
  
• September 18, 2008
  CU Scientists Create World's Thinnest Balloon -- Just One Atom Thick
  
  
• September 18, 2008
  Expanding Cell Girth Indicates Seriousness of Breast Cancer
  
  
• September 18, 2008
  Global Warming's Ecosystem Double Whammy
  
  
• September 18, 2008
  Novel Anti-cancer Mechanism Found in Long-lived Rodents
  
  
• September 18, 2008
  Plants in Forest Emit Aspirin Chemical to Deal with Stress; Discovery May Help Agriculture
  
  
• September 18, 2008
  Reseachers Derive 'Green Gasoline' From Plant Sugars
  
  
• September 17, 2008
  Coating Copies Microscopic Biological Surfaces
  
  
• September 16, 2008
  From Xbox to T-Cells: Michigan Tech Researchers Borrow Video Game Technology to Model Human Biology
  
  
• September 16, 2008
  Physicists Find That Size Matters When Initiating an Object's Movement Through Grains
  
  
• September 15, 2008
  Biologists Identify Genes Controlling Rhythmic Plant Growth
  
  
• September 15, 2008
  BOSS: The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey
  
  
• September 15, 2008
  Slicing Solar Power Costs
  
  
• September 12, 2008
  A Green Future For Scrap Iron
  
  
• September 3, 2008
  Evolving Designer Ecosystem Sheds Light on Unintended Consequences
  
  
• September 3, 2008
  New Virtual Telescope Zooms in on Milky Way's Super-massive Black Hole
  
  
• September 3, 2008
  NYU, American Museum of Natural History Receive $1.6 Million NSF Grant
  
  
• September 3, 2008
  Putting the Squeeze on Nitrogen for High Energy Materials
  
  
• September 3, 2008
  UT Knoxville Wins $16 Million NSF Mathematics and Biology Center
  
  
• September 2, 2008
  Biological Invasions Increasing Due to Freshwater Impoundments, Says CU-Boulder Study
  
  
• September 2, 2008
  Cell Division Study Resolves 50-Year-Old-Debate, May Aid Cancer Research
  
  
• September 2, 2008
  Complex Ocean Behavior Studied With 'Artificial Upwelling'
  
  
• September 2, 2008
  Esche, Chassapis Awarded $500K by NSF for 'Virtual Environments for Collaborative Learning'
  
  
• September 2, 2008
  Global Warming Greatest in Past Decade
  
  
• September 2, 2008
  How Media Covered Katrina Aftermath Affects Response By Blacks and Whites
  
  
• September 2, 2008
  Ice Age Lesson Predicts a Faster Rise in Sea Level
  
  
• September 2, 2008
  Playing, and Even Watching, Sports Improves Brain Function
  
  
• August 29, 2008
  Caltech Scientists Create DNA Tubes With Programmable Sizes for Nanoscale Manufacturing
  
  
• August 29, 2008
  Engineers Create Bone That Blends Into Tendons
  
  
• August 29, 2008
  University of Georgia Researchers Show For The First Time That Dramatically More Genes Are Controlled by Biological Clocks Than Previously Known
  
  
• August 28, 2008
  Antarctic Research Helps Shed Light on Climate Change on Mars
  
  
• August 28, 2008
  Caltech Scientists Discover Why Flies Are So Hard to Swat
  
  
• August 28, 2008
  Thawing Permafrost Likely to Boost Global Warming
  
  
• August 27, 2008
  Jamaican Lizards' Shows of Strength Mark Territory at Dawn, Dusk
  
  
• August 27, 2008
  UCI Scientists Discover Minimum Mass for Galaxies
  
  
• August 26, 2008
  NSF Approves $1.3M for OSU and OU Microbes Hunt
  
  
• August 26, 2008
  NSF Makes Award to Study Path of Pollutants to the Dinner Table
  
  
• August 26, 2008
  Scientists Aim for Green Production of Medications Via Cell Engineering
  
  
• August 26, 2008
  Yerkes Researchers Find Monkeys Enjoy Giving to Others
  
  
• August 25, 2008
  Carnegie Mellon System Thwarts Internet Eavesdropping
  
  
• August 25, 2008
  How 'Secondary' Sex Characters Can Drive the Origin of Species
  
  
• August 25, 2008
  New Analysis of Earthquake Zone Raises Questions
  
  
• August 25, 2008
  New Evidence Debunks 'Stupid' Neanderthal Myth
  
  
• August 25, 2008
  Study: DNA Barcoding in Danger of 'Ringing Up' Wrong Species
  
  
• August 25, 2008
  UCLA's Leonard Kleinrock to Receive National Medal of Science
  
  
• August 21, 2008
  'Can You See Me Now?' Sign Language Over Cell Phones Comes to United States
  
  
• August 21, 2008
  Polymer Electric Storage, Flexible and Adaptable
  
  
• August 21, 2008
  Tahitian Vanilla Originated in Maya Forests, Says UC-Riverside Botanist
  
  
• August 20, 2008
  'Dream Team' to Tackle Profound Questions in Computer Science
  
  
• August 20, 2008
  Biodegradable Polymers Show Promise for Improving Treatment of Acute Inflammatory Diseases
  
  
• August 20, 2008
  Biologists Find Diatom to Reduce Red Tide's Toxicity
  
  
• August 20, 2008
  New 'Nano-positioners' May Have Atomic-scale Precision
  
  
• August 20, 2008
  Polymer Electric Storage, Flexible and Adaptable
  
  
• August 19, 2008
  $3.2M for Rutgers to Apply Biology, Engineering, Physical Sciences Toward Stem Cells
  
  
• August 19, 2008
  Engineers Part of Nationwide Effort to Make Buildings Earthquake Safe
  
  
• August 19, 2008
  Large Hadron Collider Set to Unveil a New World of Particle Physics
  
  
• August 19, 2008
  The 160-Mile Download Diet: Local File-sharing Drastically Cuts Network Load
  
  
• August 19, 2008
  True Properties of Carbon Nanotubes Measured
  
  
• August 19, 2008
  UC-San Diego Engineers Part of Nationwide Effort to Make Buildings Earthquake Safe
  
  
• August 18, 2008
  Caltech Researchers Awarded $10M for Molecular Programming Project
  
  
• August 18, 2008
  Fish Cancer Gene Linked to Pigment Pattern That Attracts Mates
  
  
• August 18, 2008
  Future Impact of Global Warming is Worse When Grazing Animals are Considered, Scientists Suggest
  
  
• August 18, 2008
  Improved Technique Determines Structure in Membrane Proteins
  
  
• August 18, 2008
  Long-term Study Shows Effect of Climate Change on Animal Diversity
  
  
• August 18, 2008
  Studies of Dynamic Past Ice Age May Help Prepare Society for Future Changes
  
  
• August 18, 2008
  Switching It Up: How Memory Deals With A Change in Plans
  
  
• August 18, 2008
  UCSD Researchers' New Algorithm Significantly Boosts Routing Efficiency of Networks
  
  
• August 17, 2008
  Cataloguing Invisible Life: Microbe Genome Emerges From Lake Sediment
  
  
• August 15, 2008
  Penn Study Finds Way to Prevent Protein Clumping Characteristic of Parkinson's Disease
  
  
• August 14, 2008
  MSU's Discovery of Plant Protein Holds Promise for Biofuel Production
  
  
• August 14, 2008
  Northwestern Chemists Take Gold, Mass-produce Beijing Olympic Logo
  
  
• August 14, 2008
  Research Expedition on Corals and Global Warming: Aug. 17-26 in Puerto Rico
  
  
• August 14, 2008
  Self-assembling Polymer Arrays Improve Data Storage Potential
  
  
• August 14, 2008
  Studying Volcanoes With Balloons
  
  
• August 13, 2008
  'Virtual Archaeologist' Reconnects Fragments of an Ancient Civilization
  
  
• August 13, 2008
  Hidden Infections Crucial to Understanding, Controlling Disease Outbreaks
  
  
• August 13, 2008
  Hollywood Hair Will Be Captured at Last: Details in SIGGRAPH 2008 Paper
  
  
• August 13, 2008
  Keeping an Eye on the Surroundings
  
  
• August 13, 2008
  New Robot Scouts Best Locations for Components of Undersea Lab
  
  
• August 13, 2008
  New Theory for Latest High-temperature Superconductors
  
  
• August 13, 2008
  Study Finds That Sleep Selectively Preserves Emotional Memories
  
  
• August 12, 2008
  Antarctic Climate: Short-Term Spikes, Long-Term Warming Linked to Tropical Pacific
  
  
• August 12, 2008
  Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
  
  
• August 12, 2008
  Changes in Work Force, Not Pay, Narrowing the Gender Wage Gap
  
  
• August 12, 2008
  Dying Frogs Sign of a Biodiversity Crisis
  
  
• August 12, 2008
  Images For 3-D Video Games Without High Price Tags or Stretch Marks From UC San Diego
  
  
• August 11, 2008
  Bugs Put the Heat in Chili Peppers
  
  
• August 11, 2008
  Climate Change Caused Widespread Tree Death in California Mountain Range, Study Confirms
  
  
• August 11, 2008
  Invisibility Shields One Step Closer With New Metamaterials That Bend Light Backwards
  
  
• August 11, 2008
  Microbes, By Latitudes and Altitudes, Shed New Light on Life's Diversity
  
  
• August 11, 2008
  New Research Reveals Why Chili Peppers are Hot
  
  
• August 8, 2008
  Sustainability Science Policy Paper Wins Ecological Society of America Award
  
  
• August 8, 2008
  Testosterone Key to Disease Transmission
  
  
• August 8, 2008
  Tiny Invasive Snail Impacts Great Lakes, Alters Ecology
  
  
• August 7, 2008
  Forward Step in Forecasting Global Warming
  
  
• August 7, 2008
  New Computer Simulations Show How Special the Solar System Is
  
  
• August 7, 2008
  Robotics Research: Enhancing the Lives of People With Disabilities
  
  
• August 7, 2008
  Study Helps Pinpoint Genetic Variations in European Americans
  
  
• August 6, 2008
  Jupiter and Saturn Full of Liquid Metal Helium
  
  
• August 6, 2008
  New JILA Technique Reveals Hidden Properties of Ultracold Atomic Gases
  
  
• August 6, 2008
  New Technology Could Lead to Camera Based on Human Eye
  
  
• August 6, 2008
  Quantum Chaos Unveiled?
  
  
• August 6, 2008
  Skipping Atomic-scale Stones to Study Some Chemistry Basics
  
  
• August 6, 2008
  Viterbi Algorithm Goes Quantum
  
  
• August 6, 2008
  Water is 'Designer Fluid' That Helps Proteins Change Shape, Scientists Say
  
  
• August 5, 2008
  Little Teeth Suggest Big Jump in Primate Timeline
  
  
• August 5, 2008
  Rare Antarctic Fossils Reveal Extinction of Tundra Before Full Polar Climate Arrived
  
  
• August 5, 2008
  Whom Do We Fear or Trust?
  
  
• August 4, 2008
  A New Look at How Memory and Spatial Cognition Are Related
  
  
• August 3, 2008
  World's Smallest Snake Found in Barbados
  
  
• July 31, 2008
  'Major Discovery' From MIT Primed to Unleash Solar Revolution
  
  
• July 31, 2008
  Microbe Diet Key to Carbon Dioxide Release
  
  
• July 30, 2008
  New Insight on Superconductors
  
  
• July 30, 2008
  New Technique to Compress Light Could Open Doors for Optical Communications
  
  
• July 30, 2008
  Penn Scientists Carve Functional Nanoribbons Using Super-heated, Nano-sized Particles of Iron
  
  
• July 30, 2008
  Penn Scientists Demonstrate Potential of Graphene Films as Next-generation Transistors
  
  
• July 30, 2008
  Prelude to the Higgs: A Work for 2 Bosons in the Key of Z
  
  
• July 30, 2008
  Professor Works on Overhaul of 911 Services
  
  
• July 29, 2008
  Killer Pulses Help Characterize Special Surfaces
  
  
• July 29, 2008
  Life in a Bubble
  
  
• July 29, 2008
  UT Knoxville Professor Finds Unexpected Key to Flowering Plants' Diversity
  
  
• July 28, 2008
  A Bee's Future as Queen or Worker May Rest With Parasitic Fly
  
  
• July 28, 2008
  Caltech Bioengineers Develop 'Microscope on A Chip'
  
  
• July 28, 2008
  Newly Discovered Proteins in Seminal Fluid May Affect Odds of Producing Offspring
  
  
• July 28, 2008
  Piecing Together an Extinct Lemur, Large as a Big Baboon
  
  
• July 28, 2008
  Symbiotic Microbes Induce Profound Genetic Changes in Their Hosts
  
  
• July 28, 2008
  X-ray Diffraction Looks Inside Aerogels in 3-D
  
  
• July 25, 2008
  Penn Researchers Demonstrate a Flexible, One-Step Assembly of Nanoscale Structures
  
  
• July 25, 2008
  Princeton Scientists Spy an Electron Dance
  
  
• July 25, 2008
  Scientists Search for Answers From the Carbon in the Clouds
  
  
• July 24, 2008
  Consortium Develops New Method Enabling Routine Targeted Gene Modification
  
  
• July 24, 2008
  Robot Playmates May Help Children With Autism
  
  
• July 24, 2008
  Study: No Gender Differences in Math Performance
  
  
• July 23, 2008
  'Nanonet' Circuits Closer to Making Flexible Electronics Reality
  
  
• July 23, 2008
  Cancer Drug Delivery Research at Case Western Reserve University Cuts Time From Days to Hours
  
  
• July 23, 2008
  Study: Typhoons Bury Tons of Carbon in the Oceans
  
  
• July 23, 2008
  Unique Fossil Discovery Shows Antarctic Was Once Much Warmer
  
  
• July 22, 2008
  Amazon Powers Tropical Ocean's Carbon Sink
  
  
• July 22, 2008
  New Chlorine-tolerant, Desalination Membrane Hopes to Boost Access to Clean Water
  
  
• July 21, 2008
  Caltech Scientists Offer New Explanation for Monsoon Development
  
  
• July 21, 2008
  Chinese Earthquake Provides Lessons for Future
  
  
• July 21, 2008
  Cranberry Juice Creates Energy Barrier That Keeps Bacteria Away From Cells, Study Shows
  
  
• July 21, 2008
  Dartmouth Researchers Identify an Important Gene for a Healthy, Nutritious Plant
  
  
• July 21, 2008
  Exotic Materials Using Neptunium, Plutonium Provide Insight Into Superconductivity
  
  
• July 21, 2008
  Microbes Beneath Sea Floor Genetically Distinct
  
  
• July 21, 2008
  Milkweed's Evolutionary Approach to Caterpillars: Counter Appetite With Fast Repair
  
  
• July 21, 2008
  Outdoor Enthusiasts Scaring Off Native Carnivores in Parks
  
  
• July 20, 2008
  90 Billion Tons of Microbial Organisms Live in the Deep Biosphere
  
  
• July 17, 2008
  'Nanosculpture' Could Enable New Types of Heat Pumps and Energy Converters
  
  
• July 17, 2008
  From Humming Fish to Puccini: Vocal Communication Evolved With Ancient Species
  
  
• July 17, 2008
  Lionfish Decimating Tropical Fish Populations, Threaten Coral Reefs
  
  
• July 16, 2008
  Students Who Use 'Clickers' Score Better on Physics Tests
  
  
• July 16, 2008
  Virtual World is Sign of Future for Scientists, Engineers
  
  
• July 15, 2008
  Study: Future Snowmelt in West Twice as Early as Expected; Threatens Ecosystems and Water Reserves
  
  
• July 14, 2008
  Divide and Protect: Study Reveals Principles Behind Stability and Electronic Properties of Gold Nanoclusters
  
  
• July 14, 2008
  Iron Lion Design Challenge Jumpstarts Engineering Research
  
  
• July 14, 2008
  Sociological Research Shows Combined Impact of Genetics, Social Factors on Delinquency
  
  
• July 10, 2008
  Bluffing Could Be Common in Prediction Markets, Study Shows
  
  
• July 10, 2008
  Wasps and Bumble Bees Heat Up, Fly Faster With Protein-Rich Food
  
  
• July 3, 2008
  Ancient Marine Invertebrate Diversity Less Explosive Than Thought
  
  
• July 3, 2008
  Geologists Push Back Date Basins Formed, Supporting Frozen Earth Theory
  
  
• July 3, 2008
  Unique Stellar System Gives Einstein a Thumbs-up
  
  
• July 2, 2008
  Researchers Coat Titanium With Polymer to Improve Integration of Joint Replacements
  
  
• July 2, 2008
  Some Fundamental Interactions of Matter Found to be Fundamentally Different Than Thought
  
  
• July 2, 2008
  Species Extinction Threat Underestimated Due To Math Glitch, Says CU-Boulder Study
  
  
• July 2, 2008
  Synthetic Molecules Emulate Enzyme Behavior for the First Time
  
  
• July 2, 2008
  Worms Do Calculus to Find Meals or Avoid Unpleasantness
  
  
• July 1, 2008
  New Paper Offers Insights Into 'Blinking' Phenomena
  
  
• July 1, 2008
  Physicists Create Millimeter-sized 'Bohr Atom'
  
  
• July 1, 2008
  Research Yields Pricey Chemicals From Biodiesel Waste
  
  
• June 30, 2008
  China Quake Rare and Unexpected, Says New MIT Study
  
  
• June 30, 2008
  Happiness is Rising Around The World: U-M Study Says
  
  
• June 30, 2008
  Tongue Drive System Lets Persons With Disabilities Operate Powered Wheelchairs, Computers
  
  
• June 30, 2008
  U.S. Completes Contribution to World's Most Powerful Particle Accelerator
  
  
• June 30, 2008
  Unheard of Life History for a Vertebrate
  
  
• June 27, 2008
  Quantum Computing Breakthrough Arises From Unknown Molecule
  
  
• June 26, 2008
  "Early Bird" Project Really Gets the Worm
  
  
• June 26, 2008
  Entrepreneurial Leader Recognized For Bridging Disciplines and Innovating Solutions
  
  
• June 26, 2008
  Hard Work While Fatigued Affects Blood Pressure
  
  
• June 26, 2008
  Higher Temperatures Helped New Strain of West Nile Virus Spread
  
  
• June 26, 2008
  On the Boil: New Nano Technique Significantly Boosts Boiling Efficiency
  
  
• June 25, 2008
  Mars Air Once Had Moisture, New Soil Analysis Says
  
  
• June 25, 2008
  Online Service Lets Blind Surf the Internet From Any Computer, Anywhere
  
  
• June 24, 2008
  Cooperative System Could Wipe Out Car Alarm Noise
  
  
• June 24, 2008
  Extreme Weather Events Can Unleash a 'Perfect Storm' of Infectious Diseases, Research Study Says
  
  
• June 24, 2008
  Floridians Believe Global Warming Will Have Dangerous Impacts on the State
  
  
• June 24, 2008
  Pitt Receives $2.5 Million to Simulate and Analyze Brain, Immune System Activity
  
  
• June 23, 2008
  Aquatic Insect 'Family Trees' Provide Clues About Sensitivity to Pollution
  
  
• June 23, 2008
  Automated Microfluidic Device Reduces Time to Screen Small Organisms for Genetic Studies
  
  
• June 23, 2008
  Climate Change Could Impact Vital Functions of Microbes
  
  
• June 23, 2008
  Laser Fluorescence Could Find Life on Mars
  
  
• June 23, 2008
  Laser Surgery Probe Targets Individual Cancer Cells
  
  
• June 23, 2008
  Primate's Scent Speaks Volumes
  
  
• June 23, 2008
  Radio Telecopes Reveal Unseen Galactic Cannibalism
  
  
• June 23, 2008
  Sticky Notes Go Virtual
  
  
• June 23, 2008
  To Prevent Hurricane Damage, Build More Land
  
  
• June 20, 2008
  Math Could Help Cure Leukemia
  
  
• June 19, 2008
  Experimental Phone Network Uses Virtual Sticky Notes
  
  
• June 19, 2008
  Greenland Ice Core Analysis Shows Drastic Climate Change Near End of Last Ice Age
  
  
• June 19, 2008
  Microscopic 'Clutch' Puts Flagellum in Neutral
  
  
• June 19, 2008
  Researchers Confirm Benzene-like Electron Delocalization of Important Molecule
  
  
• June 19, 2008
  Tiny Refrigerator Taking Shape to Cool Future Computers
  
  
• June 18, 2008
  Birds Communicate Reproductive Success In Song
  
  
• June 18, 2008
  Carnegie Mellon System Estimates Geographic Location of Photos
  
  
• June 18, 2008
  LSU Professor Dissects Patterns of Violence in Rural Communities
  
  
• June 18, 2008
  Newly Born Identical Twin Stars Show Surprising Differences
  
  
• June 18, 2008
  Researchers Explain Nitrogen Paradox in Forests
  
  
• June 18, 2008
  Worm-like Marine Animal Providing Fresh Clues about Human Evolution
  
  
• June 17, 2008
  Global Sanitation: Latrines Trounce Toilets
  
  
• June 17, 2008
  MIT Researchers See Alternative to Common Colorectal Cancer Drug
  
  
• June 17, 2008
  Researchers Witness Assembly of Molecules Critical to Protein Function
  
  
• June 16, 2008
  Center Installs World's Most Powerful Commercial Wide-Field Light Microscope
  
  
• June 16, 2008
  Michigan Tech Physicist Models Single Molecular Switch
  
  
• June 16, 2008
  U of M Professor Provides In-depth Analysis of Six Sigma Phenomenon
  
  
• June 16, 2008
  UC Davis Research Could Lead to No Scent, No Sex For the Japanese Beetle
  
  
• June 13, 2008
  Nanoparticles Aid Bone Growth
  
  
• June 12, 2008
  'Nanoglassblowing' Seen as Boon to Study of Individual Molecules
  
  
• June 12, 2008
  Brucella Abortus S19 Genome Sequenced; Points Toward Virulence Genes
  
  
• June 11, 2008
  Arecibo Joins Global Network to Create 6,000-mile Telescope
  
  
• June 11, 2008
  Astronomers Find Embryonic Planet
  
  
• June 11, 2008
  Diamonds Reveal Deep Source of Platinum Deposits
  
  
• June 11, 2008
  Researchers Reveal Insights Into Hidden World of Protein Folding
  
  
• June 11, 2008
  Study Finds New Properties in Nonmagnetic Materials
  
  
• June 10, 2008
  Permafrost Threatened By Rapid Retreat of Arctic Sea Ice, NCAR Study Finds
  
  
• June 10, 2008
  Scenes of Nature Trump Technology in Reducing Low-level Stress
  
  
• June 10, 2008
  Testing, Radiation Testing: Northwestern Transistors on Space Station
  
  
• June 9, 2008
  Climate Change Hastens Extinction in Madagascar's Reptiles and Amphibians
  
  
• June 9, 2008
  MIT: Stripes Key to Nanoparticle Drug Delivery
  
  
• June 9, 2008
  Study: Sad Children Out-perform Happy Children in Attention-to-detail Tasks
  
  
• June 9, 2008
  Surprising Graphene
  
  
• June 9, 2008
  Thinking Ahead: Bacteria Anticipate Coming Changes in Their Environment
  
  
• June 7, 2008
  Scientists Find 245-Million-year-old Burrows of Land Vertebrates in Antarctica
  
  
• June 6, 2008
  A Supra New Kind of Froth
  
  
• June 5, 2008
  Researchers Observe Spontaneous 'Ratcheting' of Single Ribosome Molecules
  
  
• June 4, 2008
  A New Way to Protect Computer Networks from Internet Worms
  
  
• June 4, 2008
  Children Learn Smart Behaviors Without Knowing What They Know
  
  
• June 4, 2008
  Data Show Antarctic Ice Stream Radiating Seismically
  
  
• June 4, 2008
  Microsurgery on the Brain of the Fruit Fly Leads to New Insights into Irreparable Nerve Injuries
  
  
• June 4, 2008
  New Superconductors Present New Mysteries, Possibilities
  
  
• June 4, 2008
  Simple Membranes Could Have Allowed Nutrients to Pass Into Primitive Cells
  
  
• June 4, 2008
  Virginia Tech Researchers Find Human Virus in Chimpanzees
  
  
• June 3, 2008
  Brown Researchers Work Toward Ending Cartilage Loss
  
  
• June 3, 2008
  Prehistoric Man Killed Over Women
  
  
• June 2, 2008
  Astonomers Find Tiny Planet Orbiting Tiny Star
  
  
• June 2, 2008
  For Barn Swallows, Feathers Make the Man
  
  
• June 2, 2008
  Heart of the Crab Pulsar Probed--First Direct Look Into the Core of a Neutron Star
  
  
• May 31, 2008
  TB Treatment for the Elderly Likely Requires a Boost to Immune Response
  
  
• May 29, 2008
  Carnegie Mellon Computer Model Reveals How Brain Represents Meaning
  
  
• May 29, 2008
  How to Make Microwaves on a Chip to Replace X-rays for Medical Imaging and Security
  
  
• May 29, 2008
  Oregon Physicists Don't Flip Spin But Find Possible Electron Switch
  
  
• May 29, 2008
  Protons Pair Up With Neutrons
  
  
• May 29, 2008
  Toad Research Could Leapfrog to New Muscle Model
  
  
• May 28, 2008
  'Barren' Seafloor Teeming With Microbial Life
  
  
• May 28, 2008
  A Survivor in Greenland: A Novel Bacterial Species is Found Trapped in 120,000-Year-old Ice
  
  
• May 28, 2008
  CSI: Milky Way Team Works Scene of Dead Star
  
  
• May 28, 2008
  Large Methane Release Could Cause Abrupt Climate Change, as Happened 635 Million Years Ago
  
  
• May 28, 2008
  Mountain Ranges Rise Much More Rapidly Than Geologists Expected
  
  
• May 28, 2008
  NC State Breakthrough Results in Super-hard Nanocrystalline Iron That Can Take the Heat
  
  
• May 28, 2008
  Online Help for STEM Faculty
  
  
• May 28, 2008
  Powerful Superconductor Is In A Class All Its Own
  
  
• May 27, 2008
  Complex Dynamics Underlie Bark Beetle Eruptions
  
  
• May 27, 2008
  Courtship Pattern Shaped by Emergence of a New Gene in Fruit Flies
  
  
• May 27, 2008
  Stress Buildup Precedes Large Sumatra Quakes
  
  
• May 27, 2008
  What Makes Life Go in the Tropics?
  
  
• May 22, 2008
  Radio Telescopes to Keep Sharp Eye on Mars Lander
  
  
• May 21, 2008
  Boston University Researchers Find Neotropical Treefrog That Can Choose to Lay Eggs in Water or on Land
  
  
• May 21, 2008
  Texas Advanced Computing Center Supercomputer Performs Laser Cancer Surgery on Canine
  
  
• May 20, 2008
  Instant Messaging Proves Useful in Reducing Workplace Interruption
  
  
• May 20, 2008
  The Photonic Beetle
  
  
• May 16, 2008
  By Adding Graphene, Researchers Create Superior Polymer
  
  
• May 16, 2008
  MIT Crafts Bacteria-resistant Films
  
  
• May 16, 2008
  MIT Creates New Material For Fuel Cells
  
  
• May 16, 2008
  MIT Solves Gravity-defying Bird Beak Mystery
  
  
• May 15, 2008
  Collaboration Between UW and IBM Will Use Donated Computer Time to Tackle Rice Crisis
  
  
• May 15, 2008
  Research Puts New Wrinkle in Study of Materials Folding Under Pressure
  
  
• May 15, 2008
  Scientists Unveil New Tool To Understand Evolution of Multi-Domain Genes
  
  
• May 15, 2008
  Simple Model Cell is Key to Understanding Cell Complexity
  
  
• May 15, 2008
  Small Primate Ancestors Had a Leg Up
  
  
• May 14, 2008
  Estimated 3.2 Million Burmese Potentially Affected By Cyclone
  
  
• May 14, 2008
  Item! Candidates Are Buying Your Vote
  
  
• May 14, 2008
  Monarch Butterflies Help Explain Why Parasites Harm Hosts
  
  
• May 14, 2008
  Physicists Demonstrate How Information Can Escape From Black Holes
  
  
• May 13, 2008
  Deep Sea Methane Scavengers Captured
  
  
• May 13, 2008
  Nanowires May Boost Solar Cell Efficiency, UC San Diego Engineers Say
  
  
• May 12, 2008
  Astronomers Search For Orphan Stars Using Newly Upgraded Telescope
  
  
• May 9, 2008
  Study May Explain Variations in Superconducting Temperatures
  
  
• May 8, 2008
  Bread Mold May Hold Secret to Eliminating Disease-causing Genes
  
  
• May 8, 2008
  Made-to-order Isotopes Hold Promise on Science's Frontier
  
  
• May 8, 2008
  NCAR Installs 76-teraflop Supercomputer for Critical Research on Climate Change, Severe Weather
  
  
• May 8, 2008
  New Evidence From Earliest Known Human Settlement in the Americas
  
  
• May 8, 2008
  New Technique Measures Ultrashort Laser Pulses at Focus
  
  
• May 8, 2008
  Scientists Demonstrate Method for Integrating Nanowire Devices Directly onto Silicon
  
  
• May 7, 2008
  Genetic 'Tag Team' Keeps Cells on Cycle
  
  
• May 7, 2008
  Iron 'Snow' Could Help Maintain Mercury's Magnetic Field
  
  
• May 5, 2008
  RFID Testbed Measures Multiple Tags at Once and Rapidly Assesses New Antenna Designs
  
  
• May 5, 2008
  Trouble in Paradise: Warming a Greater Danger to Tropical Species
  
  
• May 2, 2008
  Atomic Force Microscopy Shows Liquids Adjust Viscosity When Confined, Shaken
  
  
• May 2, 2008
  Diatoms Discovered to Remove Phosphorus From Oceans
  
  
• May 2, 2008
  Imaging Yields Insights Into 'Nanomedicine' For Cancer Treatment
  
  
• May 2, 2008
  New Software Allows ISPs and P2P Users to Get Along Without Getting too Cozy
  
  
• May 1, 2008
  Carnegie Mellon Technique Accelerates Biological Image Analysis
  
  
• May 1, 2008
  Micro-origami: USC Folds up Micrometer-Scale 'Voxels' for Drug Delivery
  
  
• May 1, 2008
  Southern Flavor in the Arctic
  
  
• May 1, 2008
  Spiraling Nanotrees Offer New Twist on Growth of Nanowires
  
  
• April 30, 2008
  Biologists Are From Mars, Chemists Are From Venus?
  
  
• April 30, 2008
  CU-Boulder Researchers Forecast 3-in-5 Chance of Record Low Arctic Sea Ice in 2008
  
  
• April 30, 2008
  Scientists Discover How Some Bacteria Survive Antibiotics
  
  
• April 30, 2008
  Scientists Discover New Ocean Current
  
  
• April 30, 2008
  You Are What You Eat? Maybe Not for Ancient Man
  
  
• April 29, 2008
  Ancient Sunflower Fuels Debate About Agriculture in the Americas
  
  
• April 29, 2008
  Scientists Head to Warming Alaska on Ice Core Expedition
  
  
• April 29, 2008
  Too Much Technology May Be Killing Beneficial Bacteria
  
  
• April 28, 2008
  'Sticky Nanotubes' Hold Key to Future Technologies
  
  
• April 28, 2008
  What Does It Mean to Be Alive?
  
  
• April 24, 2008
  First Nanoscale Image of Soil Reveals an 'Incredible' Variety, Rich With Patterns
  
  
• April 24, 2008
  Scientists Discover Exotic Quantum State of Matter
  
  
• April 23, 2008
  Developer of Online Science Tutoring Program Receives Award from Distance Learning Association
  
  
• April 21, 2008
  Scientists Automate Molecular Evolution
  
  
• April 18, 2008
  What Happens When You Pop a Quantum Balloon?
  
  
• April 17, 2008
  Inherited Cancer Mutation is Widespread in America
  
  
• April 17, 2008
  Lakes of Meltwater Can Crack Greenland's Ice and Contribute to Faster Ice Sheet Flow
  
  
• April 17, 2008
  New Research Shows Slight of Hand Is Not So Slight
  
  
• April 16, 2008
  Fast AFM Probes Measure Multiple Properties of Biomolecules or Materials Simultaneously
  
  
• April 16, 2008
  Older People Are Nation's Happiest
  
  
• April 16, 2008
  U of M Researchers Identify Process That May Help Treat Parkinson's, Spinal Cord Injuries
  
  
• April 15, 2008
  A Better Fog and Smoke Machine From Computer Scientists at UC San Diego
  
  
• April 10, 2008
  Absence of Clouds Caused Prehuman Super-greenhouse Periods
  
  
• April 10, 2008
  AMNH Scientists Grace Science and Nature Covers
  
  
• April 10, 2008
  Flowers' Fragrance Diminished By Air Pollution, University of Virginia Study Indicates
  
  
• April 10, 2008
  Grand Canyon May Be as Old as Dinosaurs, Says New Study
  
  
• April 10, 2008
  Hurricane Forecasters Adopt NCAR Radar Technique
  
  
• April 10, 2008
  Popcorn-ball Design Doubles Efficiency of Dye-sensitized Solar Cells
  
  
• April 9, 2008
  Carbon Nanotubes Made Into Conductive, Flexible 'Stained Glass'
  
  
• April 9, 2008
  Method to Deliver Molecules Within Embryonic Stem Cells Improves Differentiation
  
  
• April 9, 2008
  Researchers Discover Novel "Gene Toggles" in World's Top Food Crop
  
  
• April 8, 2008
  Computer Scientist Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
  
  
• April 8, 2008
  Hubble Maps the Changing Constellation of Internet 'Black Holes'
  
  
• April 8, 2008
  Manufactured Buckyballs Don't Harm Microbes That Clean the Environment
  
  
• April 8, 2008
  Needle-size Device Created to Track Tumors, Radiation Dose
  
  
• April 7, 2008
  Using Street Theater to Channel the Lessons of Molecules
  
  
• April 4, 2008
  Lucky Squirrels Born With 'Silver Spoon' Effect
  
  
• April 4, 2008
  Researchers Take Step Toward Creating Quantum Computers Using Entangled Photons in Optical Fibers
  
  
• April 4, 2008
  Yale Scientists Visualize the Machinery of mRNA Splicing
  
  
• April 3, 2008
  Exactly How Much Housework Does a Husband Create?
  
  
• April 3, 2008
  Huge Virulence Gene Superfamily Responsible for Devastating Plant Diseases
  
  
• April 3, 2008
  NC State Researchers Identify Genes Key to Hormone Production in Plants
  
  
• April 3, 2008
  One Large Organic Shade-grown Coffee, Please -- With Extra Bats
  
  
• April 2, 2008
  Emission Reduction Assumptions for Carbon Dioxide Overly Optimistic, Study Says
  
  
• April 2, 2008
  Is DNA Repair a Substitute for Sex?
  
  
• April 2, 2008
  Models Look Good When Predicting Climate Change
  
  
• April 2, 2008
  New Fish Has a Face Even Dale Chihuly Could Love
  
  
• April 2, 2008
  Russian-American Research Team Examines Origins of Whaling Culture
  
  
• April 1, 2008
  Continents Loss to Oceans Boosts Staying Power
  
  
• April 1, 2008
  Music File Compressed 1,000 Times Smaller Than MP3
  
  
• April 1, 2008
  Vive The Vole!
  
  
• March 31, 2008
  Newly Discovered Galaxy Cluster in Early Stage of Formation is Farthest Ever Identified
  
  
• March 31, 2008
  Some Migratory Birds Can't Find Success in Urban Areas, Study Finds
  
  
• March 31, 2008
  Study Questions 'Cost of Complexity' in Evolution
  
  
• March 31, 2008
  Two New Star Systems Are First of Their Kind Ever Found
  
  
• March 27, 2008
  Biology Professor’s Classes Take a Dip into the Ocean and Jimmy Buffett
  
  
• March 27, 2008
  Femtogram-level Chemical Measurements Now Possible, U. of I. Team Reports
  
  
• March 27, 2008
  Foldable and Stretchable, Silicon Circuits Conform to Many Shapes
  
  
• March 27, 2008
  Self-assembled Materials Form Mini Stem Cell Lab
  
  
• March 26, 2008
  Dental Chair a Possible Source of Neurotoxic Mercury Waste
  
  
• March 26, 2008
  FDA Deadlines May Compromise Drug Safety By Rushing Approval
  
  
• March 26, 2008
  Low Oxygen and Molybdenum in Ancient Oceans Delayed Evolution of Life by 2 Billion Years
  
  
• March 26, 2008
  New Study Illuminates the Role of Ants as Fungus Farmers
  
  
• March 26, 2008
  Uncovering the Mechanisms of Lightning Varieties
  
  
• March 26, 2008
  Visualize This
  
  
• March 25, 2008
  Ant Guts Could Pave the Way for Better Drugs
  
  
• March 25, 2008
  Common Aquatic Animals Show Extreme Resistance to Radiation
  
  
• March 25, 2008
  Mantis Shrimp Vision Reveals New Way That Animals Can See
  
  
• March 24, 2008
  'Designer Enzymes' Created By Chemists
  
  
• March 24, 2008
  UM Physicists Show Electrons Can Travel Over 100 Times Faster in Graphene Than in Silicon
  
  
• March 21, 2008
  Nanoscience Will Change the Way We Think About the World
  
  
• March 20, 2008
  Boston College, MIT Researchers Achieve Dramatic Increase in Thermoelectric Efficiency
  
  
• March 20, 2008
  Punishment Does Not Earn Rewards or Cooperation, Study Finds
  
  
• March 20, 2008
  Rare Cosmic Rays are From Far Away
  
  
• March 20, 2008
  Research on Consequences: Hyperactive Girls Face Problems as Adults
  
  
• March 20, 2008
  Research Shows Earth's Earliest Animal Ecosystem Was Complex and Included Sexual Reproduction
  
  
• March 20, 2008
  Researchers Achieve Dramatic Increase in Thermoelectric Efficiency
  
  
• March 20, 2008
  Systems Biology Approach Identifies Nutrient Regulation of Biological Clock in Plants
  
  
• March 20, 2008
  UMd-Led Team Finds Ancient Asteroids Formed at Solar System's Start
  
  
• March 19, 2008
  Arctic Pollution's Surprising History
  
  
• March 19, 2008
  Findings Could Improve Fuel Cell Efficiency
  
  
• March 18, 2008
  Work With Power Grids Leads to Cell Biology Discovery
  
  
• March 17, 2008
  Chemical Engineers Discover New Way to Control Particle Motion
  
  
• March 17, 2008
  Controlling a Sea of Information
  
  
• March 17, 2008
  Gecko's 'Active' Tail Key to Preventing Falls and Aerial Maneuvers
  
  
• March 17, 2008
  Physicists and Engineers Search For New Dimension
  
  
• March 14, 2008
  Researchers Use Light to Detect Alzheimer's
  
  
• March 13, 2008
  Compound Removes Radioactive Material From Power Plant Waste
  
  
• March 13, 2008
  Cornell Sets Record for Creating High-frequency Microresonator in Silicon
  
  
• March 13, 2008
  Genes That Control Tomato Shapes are Discovered
  
  
• March 13, 2008
  How Alligators Rock and Roll
  
  
• March 13, 2008
  Research Team Finds that Microorganisms Filter Nitrogen From Small Streams
  
  
• March 13, 2008
  Sand Dollar Larvae Use Cloning to 'Make Change,' Confound Predators
  
  
• March 12, 2008
  From the Backyard to the Ocean: New Study Shows Streams Act as Key Nitrogen Filters
  
  
• March 12, 2008
  Increasing Nitrogen Pollution Overwhelms Filtering Capability of Streams
  
  
• March 12, 2008
  Single-crystal Semiconductor Wire Built Into an Optical Fiber
  
  
• March 12, 2008
  Snakes Vault Past Toxic Newts in Evolutionary Arms Race
  
  
• March 11, 2008
  Implantable Medical Devices May Expose Patients to Security, Privacy Risks; Solutions Suggested
  
  
• March 11, 2008
  Insecticide Combo Delivers Knockout Punch
  
  
• March 11, 2008
  Which Came First, Social Dominance or Big Brains? Wasps May Tell
  
  
• March 10, 2008
  Finally, the 'Planet' in Planetary Nebulae?
  
  
• March 10, 2008
  Language of a Fly Proves Surprising
  
  
• March 10, 2008
  Marine Bacteria's Mealtime Dash is a Swimming Success
  
  
• March 10, 2008
  Measurement Technique Probes Surface Structure of Gold Nanocrystals
  
  
• March 10, 2008
  Physicists: After 30 Years of Study, Rare Particle Confirms Prediction
  
  
• March 10, 2008
  Policing Cells Demand ID to Tell Friend From Foe, Say University of Pennsylvania Cell Engineers
  
  
• March 10, 2008
  Real and Virtual Pendulums Swing as One in Mixed Reality State
  
  
• March 10, 2008
  ResearchChannel Leading iTunes U Downloads List
  
  
• March 10, 2008
  Researchers Confirm Discovery of Earth's Inner, Innermost Core
  
  
• March 7, 2008
  Allergic Response Tied to Lipid Molecules in Cell Membrane
  
  
• March 7, 2008
  Assembly Technique for Tiny Wires May Eventually Help Detect Cancer and Other Diseases
  
  
• March 7, 2008
  Biologists Surprised to Find Parochial Bacterial Viruses
  
  
• March 6, 2008
  Newly Defined Signaling Pathway Could Mean Better Biofuel Sources
  
  
• March 6, 2008
  Rutgers Research Reveals How Deadly Food Poisoning and Bioterrorism Toxins Could Be Tamed
  
  
• March 5, 2008
  Brown-led Study Rearranges Some Branches on Animal Tree of Life
  
  
• March 5, 2008
  Key Component of Earth's Crust Formed from Moving Molten Rock
  
  
• March 5, 2008
  New Technique Takes a Big Step in Examination of Small Structures
  
  
• March 5, 2008
  Synthetic Peptoids Hold Forth Promise for New Antibiotics
  
  
• March 4, 2008
  Brown Study: Schistosomiasis More Debilitating Than Estimated
  
  
• March 4, 2008
  Magnetic Levitation Gives Computer Users Sense of Touch
  
  
• March 3, 2008
  Etch A Sketch^TM Toy Inspires Technique for Switching Electrical Properties at Nanometric Scales
  
  
• March 3, 2008
  Researchers Find Unique Genomes in Three Ancient Microbial Communities
  
  
• March 3, 2008
  Surface Dislocation Nucleation: Strength Is But Skin Deep at the Nanoscale, Penn Engineers Discover
  
  
• March 3, 2008
  Team Probes Mysteries of Oceanic Bacteria
  
  
• March 3, 2008
  Tiny Polyps Need Two Kinds of Carbon to Survive Coral Bleaching
  
  
• March 3, 2008
  U of M Researchers Discover Key for Converting Waste to Electricity
  
  
• March 3, 2008
  Viruses Evolve to Play By Host Rules, According to University of Pennsylvania Researchers
  
  
• February 29, 2008
  Last Large Piece of ATLAS Particle Detector Lowered into Ground
  
  
• February 27, 2008
  Gene That Controls Ozone Resistance of Plants Could Lead to Drought-Resistant Crops
  
  
• February 27, 2008
  Ohio 'Paper' Vote System Debuting With Flaws, Researchers Say
  
  
• February 27, 2008
  Researchers Catch Rats' Twitchy Whiskers in Action
  
  
• February 27, 2008
  UCLA Solution to Chemical Mystery Could Yield More Efficient Hydrogen Cars
  
  
• February 27, 2008
  Why Juniper Trees Can Live On Less Water
  
  
• February 26, 2008
  Yale Scientists Create Artificial "Cells" That Boost the Immune Response to Cancer
  
  
• February 25, 2008
  Discovery of a Novel Organism Adds to 'Tree of Life'
  
  
• February 21, 2008
  Color-coded Atoms
  
  
• February 18, 2008
  Early Environment May Be Key to Determining Bird Migration Location
  
  
• February 18, 2008
  MIT Creates Gecko-inspired Bandage
  
  
• February 18, 2008
  Research Uncovers the Social Dynamics of Yellow Jackets
  
  
• February 18, 2008
  Scientists Using Laser Light to Detect Potential Diseases Via Breath Samples, Says New Study
  
  
• February 17, 2008
  A Widescreen View of Methylation
  
  
• February 17, 2008
  Math Model Identifies Key to Controlling Epidemic
  
  
• February 17, 2008
  New Technology Makes 3-D Imaging Quicker, Easier
  
  
• February 17, 2008
  Roads Not Taken Disappear More Quickly Than We Realize
  
  
• February 17, 2008
  Small Sea Creatures May Be the 'Canaries in the Coal Mine' of Climate Change
  
  
• February 17, 2008
  Will North Atlantic Threshold Response to Ocean Changes Be Enough?
  
  
• February 15, 2008
  Defining Cancer's Genetic 'Support Network'
  
  
• February 15, 2008
  New Method for Measuring Biodiversity
  
  
• February 15, 2008
  Pacific Northwest Hypoxic Events Unprecedented
  
  
• February 15, 2008
  Past Greenhouse Warming Events Provide Clues to What the Future May Hold
  
  
• February 15, 2008
  Peptide Discovered in Scorpion Venom May Hold Key to Secretory Diseases
  
  
• February 15, 2008
  Religion Colors Americans' Views of Nanotechnology
  
  
• February 15, 2008
  USC and Second Sight Announce European Clinical Trial for Argus II Retinal Implant
  
  
• February 14, 2008
  Astronomers Discover Scaled-down Jupiter and Saturn in a Faraway Solar System Like Our Own
  
  
• February 14, 2008
  Cheating is Easy--for the Social Amoeba
  
  
• February 14, 2008
  Collaboration Helps Make JILA Strontium Atomic Clock 'Best in Class'
  
  
• February 14, 2008
  COUPP Experiment Tightens Limits on Dark Matter
  
  
• February 14, 2008
  Fruit Flies Show Surprising Sophistication in Locating Food Source
  
  
• February 14, 2008
  Predators Are More Important than Plants on Ecosystem Function
  
  
• February 14, 2008
  Protein's Strength Lies in H-bond Cooperation
  
  
• February 14, 2008
  Scientists Reveal First-ever Global Map of Total Human Effects on Oceans
  
  
• February 13, 2008
  Fiber-based Nanotechnology in Clothing Could Harvest Energy from Physical Movement
  
  
• February 13, 2008
  Microbial 'Cheaters' Help Scientists ID 'Social' Genes
  
  
• February 13, 2008
  Missing Link Shows Bats Flew First, Developed Echolocation Later
  
  
• February 12, 2008
  Future of Social Networking Explored in UW's Computer Science Building
  
  
• February 12, 2008
  MIT Reveals Superconducting Surprise
  
  
• February 11, 2008
  Melting Snow Provides Clues For Acidification
  
  
• February 8, 2008
  Bacterium Sequenced Makes Rare Form of Chlorophyll
  
  
• February 8, 2008
  Stanford Researchers Hear the Sound of Quantum Drums
  
  
• February 8, 2008
  Urban Ecology: Taking Measure of the Coming Megacity's Impact
  
  
• February 7, 2008
  Coral Reefs May Be Protected By Natural Ocean Thermostat
  
  
• February 7, 2008
  Determining Ancestral Histories in Admixed Populations
  
  
• February 7, 2008
  Slow-motion Video Study Shows Shrews Are Highly Sophisticated Predators
  
  
• February 7, 2008
  U of M Study: Destroying Native Ecosystems for Biofuel Crops Worsens Global Warming
  
  
• February 6, 2008
  Fossil Fuels and Nitrogen Fertilizers May Be Slowly Reducing the Number of Plant Species Globally
  
  
• February 6, 2008
  MIT Applies Engineering Approach to Studying Biological Pathways
  
  
• February 6, 2008
  New Devices to Boost Nematode Research on Neurons and Drugs
  
  
• February 6, 2008
  Nitrogen Pollution Boosts Plant Growth in Tropics By 20 Percent
  
  
• February 6, 2008
  Rice Scientists Make Breakthrough in Single-molecule Sensing
  
  
• February 6, 2008
  What Gives Us Fingertip Dexterity?
  
  
• February 5, 2008
  Avian Origins: New Analysis Confirms Ancient Beginnings
  
  
• February 5, 2008
  Small Bit of a CMOS Chip Holds 2-D Through-the-walls Radar Imager
  
  
• February 4, 2008
  Baboon Dads Have Surprising Influences on Offspring
  
  
• February 4, 2008
  Researchers Decode Genetics of Rare Photosynthetic Bacterium
  
  
• February 1, 2008
  Nanotechnology's Future Depends on Who the Public Trusts
  
  
• January 31, 2008
  University of Delaware Grad Students to Develop Code of Research Ethics in Novel Project
  
  
• January 28, 2008
  Baffin Island Ice Caps Have Shrunk 50 Percent Since the 1950s
  
  
• January 24, 2008
  New Technique Would Allow Fast Printing of Microscopic Elements for Large Electronic Devices
  
  
• January 24, 2008
  Popular Arthritis Drug May Disrupt Heart Rhythm, Study Shows
  
  
• January 23, 2008
  Ants and Avalanches: Insects on Coffee Plants Follow Widespread Natural Tendency
  
  
• January 22, 2008
  Greenhouse Ocean May Downsize Fish
  
  
• January 22, 2008
  Voters Like Electronic Voting Machines, But They Can Still Lead to Voting Errors
  
  
• January 21, 2008
  In Diatom, Scientists Find Genes That May Level Engineering Hurdle
  
  
• January 20, 2008
  Researchers Unlock Fundamental Secret of Bird Flight
  
  
• January 18, 2008
  Commerce Secretary Calls for Government, Private Sector and Academic Actions on Innovation Measurement
  
  
• January 18, 2008
  People Not Always Needed to Alleviate Loneliness
  
  
• January 17, 2008
  'Nonlinear' Ecosystem Response Points to Environmental Solutions
  
  
• January 17, 2008
  Alzheimer's Molecule is a Smart Speed Bump on the Nerve-cell Transport Highway
  
  
• January 17, 2008
  Contact Lenses With Circuits, Lights a Possible Platform for Superhuman Vision
  
  
• January 17, 2008
  Ecosystem-based Management Not Enough to Reverse Coastal Habitat Decline
  
  
• January 17, 2008
  Genome Scan Shows Polynesians Have Little Genetic Relationship to Melanesians
  
  
• January 17, 2008
  Paired Microbes Eliminate Methane-Using Sulfur Pathway
  
  
• January 17, 2008
  Predators Do More Than Kill Prey
  
  
• January 17, 2008
  Researchers Reveal HIV Peptide's Possible Pathway Into The Cell
  
  
• January 17, 2008
  Scientists to Preview New Climate Change Research
  
  
• January 17, 2008
  Weird Water: Discovery Challenges Long-held Beliefs About Water's Special Properties
  
  
• January 16, 2008
  Math Models Snowflakes
  
  
• January 16, 2008
  Researchers Discover Surprising Gymnastics in One Type of Chemical Reaction Fundamental to Biochemistry
  
  
• January 15, 2008
  Alaska Glacier Speed-up Tied to Internal Plumbing Issues, Says CU-Boulder Study
  
  
• January 14, 2008
  Researchers Find New Way to Block Destructive Rush of Immune Cells
  
  
• January 11, 2008
  Researchers Create Mathematical Model of Fruit Fly Eyes
  
  
• January 10, 2008
  Quakes Under Pacific Floor Reveal Unexpected Circulatory System
  
  
• January 9, 2008
  Dartmouth Researchers Alarmed By Levels of Mercury and Arsenic in Chinese Freshwater Ecosystem
  
  
• January 9, 2008
  MIT Reports New Twist in MicroRNA Biology
  
  
• January 8, 2008
  Rutgers, Penn State Astronomy Teams Discover Ancestors of Milky Way-type Galaxies
  
  
• January 7, 2008
  International Team Identifies 480 Genes that Control Human Cell Division
  
  
• January 7, 2008
  Progeny of Blind Cavefish Can Regain Their Sight
  
  
• January 7, 2008
  Researchers Bend Light Through Waveguides in Colloidal Crystals
  
  
• January 7, 2008
  Researchers Find September 11 Stress Increases Risk of Heart Problems
  
  
• January 4, 2008
  New Route for Heredity Bypasses DNA
  
  
• January 4, 2008
  North Atlantic Warming Tied to Natural Variability; But Global Warming May Be at Play Elsewhere
  
  
• January 4, 2008
  Two Explosive Evolutionary Events Shaped Early History of Multicellular Life
  
  
• January 3, 2008
  Carnegie Mellon Study Identifies Where Thoughts of Familiar Objects Occur Inside the Human Brain
  
  
• January 3, 2008
  Daily Alcohol Use Causes Changes in Sexual Behavior, New Study Reveals
  
  
• January 2, 2008
  Model is First to Compare Performance of 'Biosensors'
  
  

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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
  Astronomers Find Triple Interactions of Supermassive Black Holes to be Very Common in Early Universe
  
  
• January 4, 2007
  Earth's Bumpy Shift from Icehouse to Greenhouse World
  
  
• January 4, 2007
  UCLA's J. Fraser Stoddart Adds Knight Bachelor to His List of Honors
  
  
• January 2, 2007
  How Trees Manage Water in Arid Environments
  
  

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