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for the Week of December 27, 2009 to January 3, 2010
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Posted 2010-01-02:
- How the Moon gets its exosphere
- Use of telemedicine for ICU patients not linked with improvement in survival
- Making payments via cell phones
- NASA's Mars rover Spirit has uncertain future as sixth anniversary nears
- NASA's WISE space telescope jettisons its cover
- Explaining plasma motion around Saturn
Posted 2010-01-02:
- Window opens into Moon's past volcanism
- Quelling Casimir: Scientists to control quantum mechanical force
- Looking back in time 12 billion years with new instruments on Herschel Space Observatory
Posted 2010-01-01:
- A facial expression is worth a thousand words
- Moving video to 'captcha' robot hackers
- Lithium-air batteries could displace gasoline in future cars
- New RNA interference technique can silence up to five genes
- How much ice needed to create Martian land formations?
- New video reveals secrets of Webb Telescope's MIRI
- Saturn's auroral hiss is asymmetrical
Posted 2009-12-31:
- Researchers demonstrate nanoscale X-ray imaging of bacterial cells
- Cardiovascular devices often approved by FDA without high-quality studies, study suggests
- 'Spaghetti' Scaffolding Could Help Grow Skin In Labs
- Born in beauty: Proplyds in the Orion Nebula
- Nanoscale changes in collagen are a tipoff to bone health
- Perfectly Proportioned: Evenly Distributed Powder Density For Manufacturing Parts
Posted 2009-12-30:
- Molecular chaperone keeps bacterial proteins from slow-dancing to destruction
- Superatoms mimic elements: Research gives new perspective on periodic table
- Divide and conquer: Splitting fluorescent protein helps image clusters in live cells
- Cockroaches offer inspiration for running robots
- Climate Wizard makes large databases of climate information visual, accessible
- Deep sea anchors for offshore installations
- Researchers develop drug information interface to save lives
Posted 2009-12-29:
- Miss whiplash with locking headrest, study suggests
- Of girls and geeks: Environment may be why women don't like computer science
- Neuroscientists store information in isolated brain tissue; possible basis of short-term memory
- Giant planet set for cataclysmic show
- Wet Ethanol Production Process Yields More Ethanol And More Co-products
Posted 2009-12-28:
- Microscopic gyroscopes, the key for motion sensing
- An easy way to see the world's thinnest material
- Structured reporting software creates less complete and accurate radiology reports than free text
Posted 2009-12-27:
- Vampires and collisions rejuvenate stars
- Magnetic field measurements of the human heart at room temperature
- New warning system warns of driver drowsiness and distraction
- Low-cost temperature sensors: Tennis balls to monitor mountain snowpack
Posted 2009-12-26:
- Weir in space and dimmed sun creates 200-million-mile-long lab bench for turbulence research
- Do computers understand art?
- Method makes refineries more efficient
- Keck telescopes gaze into young star's 'life zone'
- Wii Fit may not help families get fit
Posted 2009-12-25:
- Santa’s sleigh: Researcher explains science of Christmas magic
- Cassini Holiday Movies Showcase Dance of Saturn's Moons
- Herschel Space Telescope uncovers sources of cosmic infrared background
- Santa Claus at risk? Unhealthy lifestyle, unreasonable working conditions, and stress
- World's first molecular transistor created
- How do you improve mammogram accuracy? Add noise
- Youthful appearance of stars known as blue stragglers explained
- Chemical energy influences tiny vibrations of red blood cell membranes
Posted 2009-12-24:
- SPARKy devices helps amputees return to normal lives
- System developed to detect plastic anti-personnel mines
- Glitter-sized solar photovoltaics could revolutionize the way solar energy is collected and used
- Scientists improve chip memory by stacking cells
- Brown dwarf pair mystifies astronomers
- Chemistry makes the natural 'wonder fabric' -- wool -- more wonderful
- New-generation reactors help reduce nuclear waste
- List helps computers understand expressions with more than one meaning
- Gravity in Potsdam and a dignified Christmas tree ball
- Improved recipe for catalysts
Posted 2009-12-23:
- Electronic health records: Concerns about potential privacy breaches remain an issue
- Among apes, teeth are made for the toughest times
- Scientists shed light on a mysterious particle, the neutrino
- Discrimination in the citations that scientists use
- Next-generation lens promises wider view, greater detail
- Electronic nose can select produce with appealing aromas
- Sensor can detect single nanoparticle and take its measurement
- What are the amounts of greenhouse gases released in your area and what are the sources?
- Physicists propose quantum entanglement for motion of microscopic objects
- Little stars from the early galaxy: Understanding the Milky Way's oldest stellar population
- NASA Flight Tests Unique Jumbo Jet; Plane's Airborne Telescope Will Be Used to Unlock Secrets of the Cosmos
Posted 2009-12-22:
- Mystery of golden ratio explained
- Quantum information: Disentangling a billion-dollar opportunity
- Supernova remnants reveal how the star exploded
- Predicting insurgent attacks with a mathematical model
- Physicist sees through the opaque with 'T-rays'
- Computer algorithm identifies authentic Van Gogh
- Black holes in star clusters stir up time and space
- Bioactive glass nanofibers produced
- New filling, cooling and storage system may prevent bacterial growth and prolong shelf life of orange juice
- Doctors' bedside skills trump medical technology
Posted 2009-12-21:
- Fog discovered on Saturn's largest moon, Titan
- Colliding auroras produce an explosion of light
- Hubble's festive view of a grand star-forming region
Posted 2009-12-20:
- Hubble finds smallest Kuiper Belt object ever seen
- Valuable, rare, raw earth materials extracted from industrial waste stream
- Why some insects can survive freezing: Huge X-ray microscope provides clues
- 'Smart' nanocapsule delivery system created for use in protein therapy
Posted 2009-12-19:
- Avatar's moon Pandora could be real, planet-hunters say
- Water droplets shape graphene nanostructures
- Video games: Racing, shooting and zapping your way to better visual skills
- Synthetic red blood cells developed: Red-blood-cell-like particles carry oxygen, drugs, and more
- Stellar Nursery: Inside the dark heart of the Eagle
- Everlasting quantum wave: Physicists predict new form of soliton in ultracold gases
- Glint of sunlight confirms liquid in lake on Saturn's moon Titan
- Scientists demystify utility of power factor correction devices
- Gender divide in children's use of cell phone features, study finds
- Privacy concerns could limit benefits from real-time data analysis
Posted 2009-12-18:
- NASA tech zooms in on water and land
- Cells move in mysterious ways, experiments reveal
- Significant advances made in molecular computing
- Scientists film photons with electrons
- Heart cells on lab chip display 'nanosense' that guides behavior
- Bacteria used to power simple machines: Organisms turn microgears in suspended solution by swimming
- Trough deposits on Mars point to complex hydrologic past
- Close-up photos of dying star show our sun's fate
Posted 2009-12-17:
- Thermochemical nanolithography now allows multiple chemicals on a chip
- World champion in automatic image and video search
- Record-breaking ultrasensitive spectrometer created
- New bacterial behavior: Puzzling 'dance' of electricity-producing bacteria near energy sources
- Astronomers find super-Earth orbiting red dwarf star; may have atmosphere
- Research may lead to better UV/radiation blocking in eye glasses
- World's longest laser -- 270 km long -- created
- Formula that can ID music industry payola developed
- Icy moons of Saturn and Jupiter may have conditions needed for life
- Latest results from lunar mission unveiled by NASA
Posted 2009-12-16:
- DNA needs a good editor: Researchers unravel the mysteries of DNA packaging
- Nanoprobes hit targets in tumors, could lessen chemo side effects
- Tracking new cancer-killing particles with MRI
- 'Rock-breathing' bacteria could generate electricity and clean up oil spills
- Large Hadron Collider produces first physics results
- New kind of micro-mobility: Microscopic system for moving tiny objects inside a microfluidic chip
- Unveiling mysterious possible comet strikes on Earth
- Physicists lay the groundwork for cooler, faster computing
- Theorists propose a new way to shine -- and a new kind of star: 'electroweak'
Posted 2009-12-15:
- Universal quantum mechanism: Physicists find reappearing quantum trios
- NASA's WISE Eye on the Universe Begins All-Sky Survey Mission
- Chemists Create Class Of Carbenes Used To Make Catalysts
- Rapid cardiac biomarker testing system developed; cuts testing time from 6 hours to 45 minutes
- New light vision goggles light up the night
- Texting, tweeting ought to be viewed as GR8 teaching tools, scholar says
- Ethanol-powered vehicles generate more ozone than gas-powered ones
- First super-Earths discovered orbiting Sun-like stars
- 3-D microchips for more powerful and environmentally friendly computers
- Magnetic power revealed in gamma-ray burst jet
- Black hole found to be much closer to Earth than previously thought
- New approach to emissions makes climate and air quality models more accurate, major study finds
- Nanosensors used to measure cancer biomarkers in blood for first time
- More 20 mph zones in London would prevent 100 killed or seriously injured casualties each year
Posted 2009-12-14:
- Bacteria provide new insights into human decision making
- Understanding ocean climate
- Absorbing hydrogen fluoride gas to enhance crystal growth
- First known binary star is discovered to be a triplet, quadruplet, quintuplet, sextuplet system
- Synthetic protein mimics structure, function of metalloprotein in nature
Posted 2009-12-13:
- Brightest-ever 'blazar' flare from distant galaxy spotted by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
- Older dental fillings contain form of mercury unlikely to be toxic, study finds
- Elusive 'hot' electrons captured in ultra-thin solar cells
- Lightning-produced radiation a potential health concern for air travelers
- VISTA: Pioneering new survey telescope starts work
- Suzaku catches retreat of a black hole's disk
Posted 2009-12-12:
- Super-massive black holes observed at the center of galaxies
- Astronaut balancing act: Training to help explorers adapt to a return to gravity
- Old math reveals new thinking in children's cognitive development
- Surgery on beating heart thanks to robotic helping hand
- Earth's atmosphere came from outer space, scientists find
- Real human bone grown in tissue culture
- Bacteria engineered to turn carbon dioxide into liquid fuel
- 'Fighting' IED attacks with SCARE technology
- U.S. forests and soils store equivalent of 50 years of nation's CO<sub>2</sub> emissions, new estimates find
- Dark side of a Saturnian moon: Iapetus is coated with foreign dust
- Swiss scientists measure glacial melting with light
- Knowing goalkeeper’s movements in a penalty increases success rate and reduces kicker’s decision time
- Scientists take theoretical research on 'nasty' molecule to next level
- Ubiquitous health: Enabling telemedicine to cut hospital visits, save money
Posted 2009-12-11:
- XMM-Newton celebrates decade of discovery
- Safer space vehicles thanks to optic fiber sensors
- Measuring impact of climate change from space: Gravity measurements shed light on key questions
- Supportive materials to help regenerate heart tissue
- Formula to detect an author’s literary ‘fingerprint’
- First submersible robot glider to cross Atlantic makes landfall in Spain
- Faint star orbiting the Big Dipper's Alcor discovered
- Electromagnetic fields as cutting tools
- Chopper drop tests new technology: Expandable honeycomb cushion could make helicopters safer
- Digital avalanche rescue dog: Geolocation system can locate victims to within centimeters
- Nature's solution to age-old chemical paradox: Chemical basis for extra 'quality control' in protein production
- Saturn's mysterious hexagon emerges from winter darkness
- Robotic Perception, On Purpose
- Entropy alone can create complex crystals from simple shapes; tetrahedra packing record broken
- Danish Eco City proves waste management can reverse greenhouse trend
- Digital television signals with Java applications embedded broadcast to small remote towns
Posted 2009-12-10:
- World-Record Energy Collisions Achieved at Large Hadron Collider
- Energy efficiency technologies offer major savings, report finds
- Fine-tuned laser: Step toward airport scanners that can identify explosives
- Hunt for Higgs boson: Mass of top quark narrows search
- Star power: Astronomers recreate stellar jet with laser blast
- Facebook (and systems biologists) take note: Network analysis reveals true connections
- Snowflake chemistry could give clues about ozone depletion
- Nanoparticle protects oil in foods from oxidation, spoilage
- See-through surprise: Lab makes solid material transparent to terahertz waves
- Engineers on course to make super-efficient solar-electric powered boat
- How dinoflagellates protect themselves during photosynthesis
- Brightness variations of sun-like stars: The mystery deepens
- Deep space maintenance deep in Australia's bush
- Milling and drilling in cyberspace
Posted 2009-12-09:
- Life on Mars theory boosted by new methane study
- Turning metal black more than just a novelty: Laser technique could have important medical implications
- Just after the Big Bang: Hubble's deepest view of universe unveils never-before-seen galaxies
- 'Rational drug design' identifies fragments of FDA-approved drugs relevant to emerging viruses
- A greener way to get electricity from natural gas
- Dip ordinary paper into ink infused with nanotubes and nanowires to create an instant battery
- New platinum compound shows promise in tumor cells
- World's smallest semiconductor laser to have big impact in computing, bio-hazard detection
- Metamaterials could reduce friction in nanomachines
- Super cool atom thermometer: New, reliable ways of measuring extreme low temperatures
- Mathematical model of simple circuit in chicken brain raises fundamental questions about neural circuitry
- Method to detect chocolate fraud becomes an international standard
- Self-destructing bacteria improve renewable biofuel production
- Solving the mysteries of enigmatic binary star system Cygnus X-3
- Untold levels of oil sands pollution on Athabasca River confirmed
Posted 2009-12-08:
- Breakthrough in 'spintronics' could lead to energy efficient chips
- New computer model could lead to safer stents
- Cosmic rays hunted down: Physicists closing in on origin of mysterious particles
- Diesel truck engine made with barely measurable emissions
- Mathematical model advances heart-related research
- New optical sensors enabling lightning-fast trace gas detectors
- Brain waves can 'write' on a computer in early tests, researchers show
- Better way for computers to 'see' combines molecular biology and gaming hardware
- Single-atom transistor discovered
Posted 2009-12-07:
Posted 2009-12-06:
- Superbright supernova is first of its kind
- 'Smell of old books' offers clues to help preserve them
- Combining nanotubes and antibodies for breast cancer 'search and destroy' missions
- Breaking carbon-hydrogen bonds: Cheap, easy 'kitchen chemistry' developed to perform formerly complex synthesis
Posted 2009-12-05:
- Researchers put a new spin on atomic musical chairs
- Safe journey for works of art
- Young star cluster Trumpler 14 revealed in stunning image
- What happens when an enormous star blows up?
- A window that washes itself? New nano-material may revolutionize solar panels and batteries, too
- Understanding mechanical properties of silicon nanowires paves way for nanodevices
- Experimental validation tool for cell phone forensics developed
Posted 2009-12-04:
- First direct observation of a planet-like object orbiting star similar to sun
- Lasers used to make first boron-nitride nanotube yarn
- Suzaku X-ray observatory spies treasure trove of intergalactic metal
- Hidden protein structures are essential for catalysis
- Synthetic magnetic fields 'trick' neutral atoms into acting as if electrically charged
- Simulated car crashes involving pregnant women
- Nanowires key to future transistors, electronics
- Stick and slide: Computer simulation advances understanding of molecular motors
Posted 2009-12-03:
- Multiferroic compounds used to produce smaller and cheaper digital memories
- 100-watt-level mid-infrared lasers created
- New algorithms for computerized, large-scale surveillance
- Innovation puts next-generation solar cells on the horizon
- Crime scene measurements can be taken from a single image
Posted 2009-12-02:
- Data from outer space open new frontiers for researchers
- Facebook profiles capture true personality, according to new psychology research
- Elastography reduces unnecessary breast biopsies
- Traditional wood-carving craft industry goes high-tech
- Will copper keep us safe from the superbugs?
- Blushing dusty nebula
- Shape shifters: Researchers create new breed of antennas
- First metallic nanoparticles resistant to extreme heat
- NASA's Fermi telescope peers deep into a 'micro-quasar'
- There are lasers, and then there are compact, multibeam, multi-wavelength lasers
- Bacteria 'invest' wisely to survive uncertain times, scientists report
- Hydrogen-powered fuel cell unmanned air vehicle sets 26-hour flight endurance record
- Action recommended for indoor radon below current guidelines
- Protein engineering advancing Alzheimer’s research
Posted 2009-12-01:
- Molecular architecture of Treponema pallidum, bacterium that causes syphilis
- Black hole caught zapping galaxy into existence?
- Climate studies to benefit from 12 years of satellite aerosol data
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