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for the Week of November 22 to November 29, 2009
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Posted 2009-11-29:
Posted 2009-11-29:
- Nuclear waste reduction: Polymers designed to mop up radioactive isotopes
- 24-carat gold 'snowflakes' improve graphene's electrical properties
- Small hairy balls hide foul-tasting healthful enzymes
- Volunteers wanted for simulated 520-day Mars mission
Posted 2009-11-28:
- With first neutrino events, physicists closer to answering why only matter in universe
- Nano-scale drug delivery developed for chemotherapy
- Plasma-in-a-bag for sterilizing devices
- Building real security with virtual worlds
- 3-D software gives doctors, students a view inside the body
- Research sheds light on workings of anti-cancer drug
- New computer virus disguised as social security administration download
- Overcoming barriers for organic electronics
- New tool for helping pediatric heart surgery
- RFID Chips: Intelligence inside metal components
- Predicting the effectiveness of metal catalysts
- Search engines are source of learning
- New nano color sorters from molecular foundry
- Technique finds gene regulatory sites without knowledge of regulators
Posted 2009-11-27:
- Cassini captures ghostly dance of Saturn's northern lights
- Chemists get custom-designed microscopic particles to self-assemble in liquid crystal
- Virtual streams created to help restore real ones
- Biology, training and profit sharing make best traders
- Bioengineers succeed in producing plastics without the use of fossil fuels
- Scientists watch as peptides control crystal growth with 'switches, throttles and brakes'
- Unique micronail chip makes electronics and bio cells communicate
- Cause behind the characteristic shape of a long leaf revealed
- New imagining technique could lead to better antibiotics and cancer drugs
- Discovery allows scientists for the first time to annotate genomes experimentally
- Frost-covered Phoenix lander seen in winter images from Mars
Posted 2009-11-26:
- New computer cluster gets its grunt from games
- 'Scarless' thyroid surgery uses 3-D, high-def robotic equipment
- Cosmic 'dig' reveals vestiges of the Milky Way's building blocks
- High-tech origami: Water droplets direct self-assembly process in thin-film materials
- Magic box for mission impossible
- Atomic-level snapshot catches protein motor in action
- First black holes may have incubated in giant, starlike cocoons
- Hydrogen-economy on the way? New hydrogen-storage method discovered
- 'No muss, no fuss' miniaturized analysis for complex samples developed
- Organizational psychologists use Rock Band to study how people achieve flow while at work
- First Bose-Einstein Condensation Of Strontium
- Systems biology approach provides insulin resistance insights
Posted 2009-11-25:
- Navy Researchers Apply Science To Fire Fighting
- Smartphone app illuminates power consumption
- To the bat cave: Researchers reconstruct evolution of bat migration with aid of mathematical model
- Cassini's big sky: View from the center of our solar system
- Computational microscope peers into the working ribosome
- How might navy sonar affect hearing of whales and other marine animals?
- Polymer with honeycomb structure: Scientists synthesize graphene-like material
- Spitzer Telescope observes baby brown dwarf
- Visual assistance for cosmic blind spots
- Straightening messy correlations with a quantum comb
- Cassini sends back images of Saturn's moon Enceladus as winter nears
- Flax and yellow flowers can produce bioethanol
- Insect resistance to Bt crops can be predicted, monitored and managed
Posted 2009-11-24:
- Common plastics chemicals -- phthalates -- linked to ADHD symptoms
- Spiral galaxies: Exploring the baffling boxy bulge
- Two circulating beams bring first collisions in Large Hadron Collider
- Predicting the fate of underground carbon
- Extensive valley network on Mars adds to evidence for ancient Martian ocean
- Small optical force can budge nanoscale objects
- How the brain filters out distracting thoughts to focus on a single bit of information
- The search: Computers dig deeper for meaning
- Physicists move one step closer to quantum computing
- Adding one single gene to yeast dramatically improves bioethanol production from agricultural waste
- Low carbon straw house passes fire safety test
Posted 2009-11-23:
- Toward home-brewed electricity with 'personalized solar energy'
- Solar winds triggered by magnetic fields
- Energy-saving powder may allow exploitation of unused reserves of natural gas
Posted 2009-11-22:
- Software knowledge unnecessarily lost
- Watching a cannibal galaxy dine
- Small nanoparticles bring big improvement to medical imaging
- Engineer designs micro-endoscope to seek out early signs of cancer
- Active hearing process in mosquitoes
Posted 2009-11-21:
- Large Hadron Collider: Beams are back on at world's most powerful particle accelerator
- Braking news: Particles from car brakes harm lung cells
- Spotting evidence of directed percolation
- Proton's party pals may alter its internal structure
- Examining mathematical abilities in children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
- Defects in carbon nanotubes could lead to improved charge and energy storage systems
- Maize cell wall genes identified, giving boost to biofuel research
- New nanomethod paves the way for new measuring technology and hypersensitive sensors
Posted 2009-11-20:
- Building the smart home wirelessly
- 'Fly paper' created to capture circulating cancer cells
- Finding more in 'most'
- 'Fingerprinting' RFID tags: Researchers develop anti-counterfeiting technology
- Accidental discovery produces durable new blue pigment for multiple applications
- Beyond genomics, biologists and engineers decode the next frontier
- Novel connector uses magnets for leak-free microfluidic devices
- Harnessing waste heat from laptop computers, cell phones may double battery time
- Engineering functional structures with single atoms and molecules
- Freezing: A phenomenon that 'jumps'
Posted 2009-11-19:
- Customizing electric cars for cost-effective urban commuting
- Oscar Pistorius' artificial limbs give him clear, major advantage for sprint running, new study suggests
- Immediate, aggressive spending on HIV/AIDS could end epidemic
- Cat brain-based computer: Scientists perform cat-scale cortical simulations and map the human brain
- Entangled photons created from quantum dots
- New on-off 'switch' triggers and reverses paralysis in animals with a beam of light
- Can playing active video games equal moderate intensity exercise?
- Exotic electric properties of graphene confirmed
- Advanced nuclear fuel sets global performance record
- Text message reminders may encourage sunscreen use
- Engineer discovers why particles disperse on liquids
- US physics lab ties in race for atomic-scale breakthrough
- Tension on the grapevine: Trellis tension monitoring offers accurate solution for grape growers
Posted 2009-11-18:
- Using Darwin in helping to define the biological essentiality of silicon and aluminium
- 'Vampire star': Ticking stellar time bomb identified
- Counterfeit euros are detected with an optical mouse
- Glimpsing a greener future: Computer model foresees effects of alternative transportation fuels
- Scientists put interactive flu tracking at public's fingertips
- Researchers find reliable, mess-free way to grow graphene
- Nanoparticles used in common household items cause genetic damage in mice
- Oak Ridge 'Jaguar' supercomputer is world's fastest
- Disease-matching software could save children
- Tennessee's Kraken named world's third fastest computer, ORNL's Jaguar is No. 1
Posted 2009-11-17:
- Close-up movie shows hidden details in the birth of super-suns
- Simple test could offer cheap solution to detecting landmines
- Tiny bubbles clean oil from water
- 'Universal' programmable two-qubit quantum processor created
- Scientists take the lead out of piezoelectrics
- Algae turned into high-temperature hydrogen source
- Biosensor to help enlist cancer resistance fighters?
- Facial biometrics system capable of creating a facial 'DNA'
- Listen, watch, read: Computers search for meaning
- Smart solution: Researchers use smartphones to improve health of elderly diabetics in China
Posted 2009-11-16:
- Ideal nanoparticle cancer therapies surf the bloodstream
- Improving security with face recognition technology
- Runners: Train less and be faster
- Self-cleaning silicone gel insect wings
- Computer database compresses DNA sequences used in medical research
- Sculptured materials allow multiple channel plasmonic sensors
Posted 2009-11-15:
- Green heating and cooling technology turns carbon from eco-villain to hero
- Canada: Alberta's hidden valleys offer both resources and danger
- Lightning strike in Africa helps take pulse of Sun
- Software for solving life-threatening medical puzzles
- 'Doomsday' 2012 prediction explained: Mayan calendar was cyclical
- Bubbling ball of gas: SUNRISE telescope delivers spectacular pictures of Sun's surface
- Right first time: Pioneering new methods of drug manufacture
Posted 2009-11-14:
- Telling an old book by its smell: Aroma hints at ways of preserving treasured documents
- Largest-ever database for liver proteins may lead to treatments for hepatitis
- Squeezing light into much tighter spaces than previously believed possible
- Behavior modification could ease concerns about nanoparticles
- Rosetta bound for outer solar system after final Earth swingby
- New experiment could reveal make-up of the universe
- LCROSS impact analysis indicates water on Moon
- Futuristic communications systems could help protect frontline troops
- Nanotech in space: New experiment to weather the trials of orbit
- Two Earth-sized bodies with oxygen-rich atmospheres found, but they're stars not planets
- Device enables world's first voluntary gorilla blood pressure reading
- Professor to predict weather on Mars
- Invisibility visualized: New software for rendering cloaked objects
- New nanowires may contribute to highly efficient solar cells
- Video fingerprinting offers search solution
- Athletes on performance enhancers more likely to abuse alcohol, other drugs, study suggests
- ESA spacecraft may help unravel cosmic mystery
- Chemists declare war on 'ice-plugs' in oil pipelines
- Should eBay sellers be trusted?
Posted 2009-11-13:
- Rapid star formation spotted in 'stellar nurseries' of infant galaxies
- Butterfly payload to launch Nov. 16 on space shuttle
- Darwin meets Facebook: Social networking tool lets natural historians share data
- Exoplanets Clue To Sun's Curious Chemistry
- Quantum Gas Microscope Offers Glimpse Of Quirky Ultracold Atoms
- Small Asteroid 2009 VA Whizzes By Earth
- Tiny Injector To Speed Development Of New, Safer, Cheaper Drugs
- Inexpensive 'Dipstick' Test For Pesticides In Foods
- High-performance Plasmas May Make Reliable, Efficient Fusion Power A Reality
- Nano Bubble Gum For Enhancing Drug Delivery In Gut
- Underground Power Lines That Bypass Monuments In Cities
- Unexpected Properties Of Nanostructures: When Holes Obscure The View
Posted 2009-11-12:
- Wireless Phones Can Affect The Brain, Swedish Study Suggests
- Are Earth's Oceans Made Of Extraterrestrial Material?
- NASA Reproduces A Building Block Of Life In Laboratory
- Star Trek-like Replicator? Electron Beam Device Makes Metal Parts, One Layer At A Time
- New 'FinFETs' Promising For Smaller Transistors, More Powerful Chips
- Avatars Can Surreptitiously And Negatively Affect User In Video Games, Virtual Worlds
- Laser-plasma Accelerators Ride On Einstein's Shoulders
- Upping The Power Triggers An Ordered Helical Plasma
- Implications Of Past Forecasting Errors Often Underestimated
- Cell Phones Become Handheld Tools For Global Development
Posted 2009-11-11:
- Pain In The Neck: Too Much Texting Could Lead To Overuse Injuries
- Researchers Hunt For New Zeolites
- When Is A Fetus Able To Survive Outside The Womb?
- DNA Origami Nanoscale Breadboards Developed For Carbon Nanotube Circuits
- Costs Of Plug-in Cars Key To Broad Consumer Acceptance
- Middleweight Black Hole: Swift, XMM-Newton Satellites Tune Into X-ray Source
- Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Sees Channels From Hale Crater
- Flipping A Photonic Shock Wave
- Antimicrobials: Silver (and copper) bullets to kill bacteria
- MESSENGER Spacecraft Reveals More Hidden Territory On Mercury
- Economists Forecast For 2010 Looks Better, Relative To This Year
- Cassini Makes Successful Flight Through Plume Of Saturn's Moon Enceladus
- Virtual Goods Offer An Alternative To Material Consumption As Social Lives Move To Online Networks
Posted 2009-11-10:
- Harvesting Energy From Nature's Motions
- Computer Predicts Reactions Between Molecules And Surfaces, With 'Chemical Precision'
- Computer Scientists Work To Strengthen Online Security
- 'Dropouts' Pinpoint Earliest Galaxies
- Notion That Amputee Runners Gain Advantage From Protheses Further Disputed
- Failing The Sniff Test: Researchers Find New Way To Spot Fraud
- Unsettled Youth: Spitzer Observes A Chaotic Planetary System
- Lasers Put A Shine On Metals
- Nanomedicine Promising For Treating Spinal Cord Injuries, Findings Show
- Super-fast Quantum Computer Gets Ever Closer: Quantum Particles Pinned Down
- Boat Tail Reduces Truck Fuel Consumption By 7.5 Percent
- Dangers Of Incapacitating Chemical Weapons And Widespread Misuse Of Riot Control Agents
- How Size Matters For Catalysts: Study Links Size, Activity, Electronic Properties
- New Plastic Optical Fiber Technology May Revolutionize High Speed Last-mile Communication Networks
Posted 2009-11-09:
- Hubble Image Showcases Star Birth In M83, The Southern Pinwheel
- Nothing But Net: The Physics Of Basketball Free Throws
- 'Optical Biopsy' For Breast Cancer Increasingly Accurate, Research Finds
- Novel Cancer Detection Method Uses Tiny Silica Beads To Adhere To Cells
- ChIA-PET: Novel Method For 3-D Whole Genome Mapping Research
Posted 2009-11-08:
- New Computer Simulator Helps Design Military Strategies Based On Ants' Movements
- Magnetic Nanoparticles To Simultaneously Diagnose, Monitor And Treat
- Computational Method Points To New Uses, Unexpected Side Effects Of Already Existing Drugs
- Hybrid Composite For Root Canal Treatment
- Capturing Those In-between Moments: Timing Problem In Molecular Modeling Solved
- Bogus E-mails 'From' FDIC Link Computer Users To Viruses, Says Computer Forensics Expert
Posted 2009-11-07:
- Genomes Of Biofuel Yeasts Reveal Clues That Could Boost Fuel Ethanol Production Worldwide
- Materials Scientists Find Better Model For Glass Creation
- Iconic Photo Of JFK Assassin Oswald Was Not Faked, Professor Finds
- Rapid Supernova Could Be New Class Of Exploding Star
- Chemists Describe Solar Energy Progress And Challenges, Including The 'Artificial Leaf'
- Keeping Hearts Pumping With 'LifeFlow': Smart IV Device To Save Lives At Disaster Sites
- New System Preserves Right To Privacy In Internet Searches
- New Technique For Specifying Location Of Sugars On Proteins Paves Way For Medical Discoveries
- Powerful Laser Sheds Light On Fast Ignition And High Energy Density Physics
Posted 2009-11-06:
- Mimicking Nature, Scientists Can Now Extend Redox Potentials
- Chart Junk? How Pictures May Help Make Graphs Better
- Carbon Atmosphere Discovered On Neutron Star
- Portable 3-D Laser Technology Preserves Texas Dinosaur's Rare Footprint
- Test Proves 'The Eyes Have It' For ID Verification
- Spinal Cord Regeneration Enabled By Stabilizing, Improving Delivery Of Scar-degrading Enzyme
- Creating Cultured Pearls From The Queen Conch: Scientists Unlock Mystery
- Applause For The SmartHand: Human-machine Interface Is Essential Link In Groundbreaking Prosthetic Hand
- Internet Search Process Affects Cognition, Emotion
- History In 3-D: Digitally Archived Works Of Art
- Electron Self-injection Into An Evolving Plasma Bubble
- Low Levels Of 'Heart Attack Risk' Protein Quantified
- Modified Bluetooth Speeds Up Telemedicine
Posted 2009-11-05:
- Not Just Bleach: Hydrogen Peroxide May Tell Time For Living Cells
- Protecting Your Virtual Privacy: A Closer Look At Digital And Internet Security
- Shedding Light On The Cosmic Skeleton
- Engineers Strive To Make Algae Oil Production More Feasible
- Improved Human, Object Detection Technology With New Computer Software
- Liquid Granite: Building Material Of The Future Unveiled
- North America Automobile Sector Bottom Of 'World Sustainability League'
- Short Heels Make Elite Sprinters Super Speedy: Longer Toes, Unique Ankle Structure Aid Sprinters
- Laser Etching Safe Alternative For Labeling Grapefruit
- Oxygen Exchangers Increase Propene Yield
Posted 2009-11-04:
- World Trade Center Responders Plagued With Asthma; 9/11 Responders Twice As Likely To Have Asthma
- Dark Matter And Dark Energy Make Up 95 Percent Of Universe, Detailed Measurements Reveal
- Hooks Hijacked? New Research Shows How To Block Stealthy Malware Attacks
- Smart Drug Delivery System; Gold Nanocage Covered With Polymer That Responds To Light
- Hidden Solar Cells: 3-D System Based On Optical Fiber Could Provide New Options For Photovoltaics
- Adapting Space-industry Technology To Treat Breast Cancer
- Art Restoration: Technique Removes Old Polymer Layers From Sensitive Historic Artworks
- Trident Laser Accelerates Protons To Record Energies
- Breakthrough In Industrial-scale Nanotube Processing
- Losing Your Tongue: World's Top Endangered Language Experts Gather
- Origin Of Cosmic Rays: VERITAS Telescopes Help Solve 100-year-old Mystery
- Ensuring Quality In Lightweight Construction
Posted 2009-11-03:
- 'Ultra-primitive' Particles Found In Comet Dust
- NASA's Fermi Telescope Detects Gamma Rays From 'Star Factories' In Other Galaxies
- Links Between City Walkability And Air Pollution Exposure Revealed
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