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NEWS FROM THE FIELD FOR 2011

• December 27, 2011
  To Children (But Not Adults) a Rose by Any Other Name Is Still a Rose
  
  
• December 27, 2011
  Frogs Use Calls to Find Mates With Matching Chromosomes, University of Missouri Researchers Find
  
  
• December 23, 2011
  University of Nevada, Reno, Using New Technology to Record Antarctic Ocean, Ice Temperatures
  
  
• December 22, 2011
  Study Uncovers a Molecular 'Maturation Clock' That Modulates Branching Architecture in Tomato Plants
  
  
• December 22, 2011
  Shearing Triggers Odd Behavior in Microscopic Particles
  
  
• December 22, 2011
  New Technique Makes It Easier to Etch Semiconductors
  
  
• December 22, 2011
  New Device Could Bring Optical Information Processing
  
  
• December 22, 2011
  MSU Chemists Become the First to Solve an 84-year-old Theory
  
  
• December 22, 2011
  Long Intervening Non-coding RNAs Play Pivotal Roles in Brain Development
  
  
• December 22, 2011
  DOE Researchers Achieve Important Genetic Breakthroughs to Help Develop Cheaper Biofuels
  
  
• December 22, 2011
  CAD for RNA
  
  
• December 22, 2011
  Biochemists Develop Promising New Treatment Direction for Rare Metabolic Diseases
  
  
• December 22, 2011
  'Nanoantennas' Show Promise in Optical Innovations
  
  
• December 21, 2011
  To Turn Up the Heat in Chilies, Just Add Water
  
  
• December 21, 2011
  Self-affirmation May Break Down Resistance to Medical Screening
  
  
• December 21, 2011
  'Head-first' Diversity Shown to Drive Vertebrate Evolution
  
  
• December 20, 2011
  Pitt Researchers Propose New Model to Design Better Flu Shots
  
  
• December 20, 2011
  New Tool Offers Unprecedented Access for Root Studies
  
  
• December 20, 2011
  Ironing Out the Details of the Earth's Core
  
  
• December 20, 2011
  Boron Nanoribbons Reveal Surprising Thermal Properties in Bundles
  
  
• December 20, 2011
  'Painless' Plasma Brush Is Becoming Reality in Dentistry, MU Engineers Say
  
  
• December 19, 2011
  Will Antarctic Worms Warm to Changing Climate?
  
  
• December 19, 2011
  Virginia Tech's Wu Feng Unveils HokieSpeed, a New Powerful Supercomputer for the Masses
  
  
• December 19, 2011
  Upper Atmosphere Facilitates Changes That Let Mercury Enter Food Chain
  
  
• December 19, 2011
  UCF Nanotechnology May Speed Up Drug Testing
  
  
• December 19, 2011
  Research Could Improve Laser-manufacturing Technique
  
  
• December 19, 2011
  Comprehensive Study Makes Key Findings of Ocean pH Variations
  
  
• December 19, 2011
  Babies Remember Even as They Seem to Forget
  
  
• December 19, 2011
  A Major Step Forward Towards Drought Tolerance in Crops
  
  
• December 16, 2011
  Tool Detects Patterns Hidden in Vast Data Sets
  
  
• December 16, 2011
  Genome Tree of Life is Largest Yet for Seed Plants
  
  
• December 16, 2011
  Gene Discovery Explains How Fruit Flies Retreat From Heat
  
  
• December 15, 2011
  Traumatic Experiences May Make You Tough
  
  
• December 15, 2011
  Team Designs a Bandage That Spurs, Guides Blood Vessel Growth
  
  
• December 15, 2011
  Nitrogen From Humans Pollutes Remote Lakes for More Than a Century
  
  
• December 15, 2011
  Let's Do the Twist: Spiral Proteins Are Efficient Gene Delivery Agents
  
  
• December 15, 2011
  Less Knowledge, More Power: Uninformed Can Be Vital to Democracy, Study Finds
  
  
• December 15, 2011
  Hubble Images Help Pin Down Identity of August Supernova's Companion Star
  
  
• December 15, 2011
  Discovery of a 'Dark State' Could Mean a Brighter Future for Solar Energy
  
  
• December 15, 2011
  Close Family Ties Keep Cheaters in Check, Study Finds
  
  
• December 15, 2011
  Acid Rain Poses a Previously Unrecognized Threat to Great Lakes Sugar Maples
  
  
• December 14, 2011
  Twisting Molecules by Brute Force: A Top-down Approach
  
  
• December 14, 2011
  The 'Supernova of a Generation' Shows Its Stuff
  
  
• December 14, 2011
  Stress Causes Clogs in Coffee and Coal
  
  
• December 14, 2011
  Solving a Supernova Mystery
  
  
• December 14, 2011
  New Method for Enhancing Thermal Conductivity Could Cool Computer Chips, Lasers and Other Devices
  
  
• December 14, 2011
  MIT Research: A Glow of Recognition
  
  
• December 14, 2011
  MIT Research Update: Sharpening the Lines
  
  
• December 14, 2011
  Endangered Orangutans Offer a New Evolutionary Model for Early Humans
  
  
• December 13, 2011
  Starving Orangutans Might Help to Better Understand Obesity and Eating Disorders in Humans
  
  
• December 13, 2011
  Microneedle Sensors May Allow Real-time Monitoring of Body Chemistry
  
  
• December 13, 2011
  High-energy Physicists Set Record for Network Data Transfer
  
  
• December 13, 2011
  First Electronic Optical Fibers With Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon Are Developed
  
  
• December 12, 2011
  World's Smallest Frogs Discovered in New Guinea
  
  
• December 12, 2011
  Iowa State Engineers Study How Hills, Nearby Turbines Affect Wind Energy Production
  
  
• December 12, 2011
  As Climate Change Sets In, Plants and Bees Keep Pace
  
  
• December 9, 2011
  Slow Road to Stability for Emulsions
  
  
• December 9, 2011
  Researchers Design Alzheimer's Antibodies
  
  
• December 9, 2011
  Early Black Holes Grew Big Eating Cold, Fast Food
  
  
• December 9, 2011
  2010 Spike in Greenland Ice Loss Lifted Bedrock, GPS Reveals
  
  
• December 8, 2011
  What Do Animals 'Know'? More Than You May Think
  
  
• December 8, 2011
  Stress in Early Pregnancy Can Lead to Shorter Pregnancies, More Pre-term Births and Fewer Baby Boys
  
  
• December 8, 2011
  Helping Your Fellow Rat: Rodents Show Empathy-driven Behavior
  
  
• December 8, 2011
  A Study of Strong Ground Motion May Show Need to Modify Building Codes
  
  
• December 7, 2011
  Researchers Find Best Routes to Self-assembling 3-D Shapes
  
  
• December 7, 2011
  New Study Shows Evacuation Plans Need to Incorporate Family Perspectives
  
  
• December 7, 2011
  CAFE Standards Create Profit Incentive for Larger Vehicles
  
  
• December 6, 2011
  Researchers Assess Radioactivity Released to the Ocean From the Fukushima Nuclear Facility
  
  
• December 6, 2011
  New '3-D' Transistors Promising Future Chips, Lighter Laptops
  
  
• December 6, 2011
  Good or Bad: Surprises Drive Learning in Same Neural Circuits
  
  
• December 6, 2011
  Addressing Pain and Disease on the Fly
  
  
• December 5, 2011
  Study: Giant Super-earths Made of Diamond Are Possible
  
  
• December 5, 2011
  Study Finds Climate Changes Faster Than Species Can Adapt
  
  
• December 5, 2011
  Scientists Discover a Climate Change Warning Deep Under the Dead Sea
  
  
• December 5, 2011
  Record Massive Black Holes Discovered Lurking in Monster Galaxies
  
  
• December 5, 2011
  Penn Geneticists Help Show Bitter Taste Perception Is Not Just About Flavors
  
  
• December 5, 2011
  Chemists Become Molecular Sculptors, Synthesizing Tiny, Molecular Traps
  
  
• December 5, 2011
  'Label-free' Imaging Tool Tracks Nanotubes in Cells, Blood for Biomedical Research
  
  
• December 4, 2011
  Study Identifies Mechanisms Cells Use to Remove Bits of RNA From DNA Strands
  
  
• December 2, 2011
  Powerful Mathematical Model Greatly Improves Predictions for Species Facing Climate Change
  
  
• December 2, 2011
  Engineering Cartilage Replacements
  
  
• December 2, 2011
  Caltech-led Team of Astronomers Finds 18 New Planets
  
  
• December 2, 2011
  Are Doing Harm and Allowing Harm Equivalent? Ask fMRI
  
  
• December 1, 2011
  When Babies Awake: New Study Shows Surprise Regarding Important Hormone Level
  
  
• December 1, 2011
  Study of Wolves Will Help Scientists Predict Climate Effects on Endangered Animals
  
  
• December 1, 2011
  Rise of Atmospheric Oxygen More Complicated Than Previously Thought
  
  
• December 1, 2011
  Not All Cellular Reprogramming Is Created Equal
  
  
• December 1, 2011
  Drop in Carbon Dioxide Levels Led to Polar Ice Sheet, Study Finds
  
  
• December 1, 2011
  Archaeologists Find New Evidence Of Animals Being Introduced To Prehistoric Caribbean
  
  
• November 30, 2011
  Stronger Corn? Take It Off Steroids, Make It All Female
  
  
• November 30, 2011
  Researchers Find Some Smartphone Models More Vulnerable to Attack
  
  
• November 30, 2011
  Penn and Brown Researchers Demonstrate Earthquake Friction Effect at the Nanoscale
  
  
• November 30, 2011
  In a Star's Final Days, Astronomers Hunt "Signal of Impending Doom"
  
  
• November 30, 2011
  Astronomers Look to Neighboring Galaxy for Star Formation Insight
  
  
• November 30, 2011
  Abrupt Permafrost Thaw Increases Climate Threat
  
  
• November 29, 2011
  Seeking to be the 'Pefect Parent' Not Always Good for New Moms and Dads
  
  
• November 29, 2011
  Graphene Lights Up With New Possibilities
  
  
• November 29, 2011
  Genetic Buzzer-beater Genes May Save Fish
  
  
• November 29, 2011
  Engineers Conduct Residential Soils Study, One of Few Such U.S. Studies Ever Done
  
  
• November 29, 2011
  Elemental 'Cookbook' Guides Efficient Thermoelectric Combinations
  
  
• November 29, 2011
  A Smarter Way to Make Ultraviolet Light Beams
  
  
• November 28, 2011
  Submarine Springs Offer Preview of Ocean Acidification Effects on Coral Reefs
  
  
• November 25, 2011
  Ancient Environment Found to Drive Marine Biodiversity
  
  
• November 24, 2011
  Climate Sensitivity to CO₂ More Limited Than Extreme Projections
  
  
• November 23, 2011
  They Call It 'Guppy Love': UCLA Biologists Solve an Evolution Mystery
  
  
• November 23, 2011
  Physicists Set Strongest Limit on Mass of Dark Matter
  
  
• November 23, 2011
  Earth's Core Deprived of Oxygen
  
  
• November 23, 2011
  Blueprint of Spider Mite May Yield Better Pesticides
  
  
• November 22, 2011
  New Magnetic-field-sensitive Alloy Could Find Use in Novel Micromechanical Devices
  
  
• November 22, 2011
  Nanowrinkles, Nanofolds Yield Strange Hidden Channels
  
  
• November 22, 2011
  Commercial 'Green' Solar Cells May Be Possible, Say Pitt Researchers
  
  
• November 22, 2011
  Blocked Holes Can Enhance Rather Than Stop Light Going Through
  
  
• November 21, 2011
  UGA Scientists Invent Long-lasting, Near Infrared-emitting Material
  
  
• November 21, 2011
  Taking Bushmeat Off the Menu Could Increase Child Anemia, Study Finds
  
  
• November 21, 2011
  New Research on Body Parts' Sensitivity to Environmental Changes
  
  
• November 21, 2011
  New Medical, Research Tool Possible by Probing Cell Mechanics
  
  
• November 21, 2011
  Nerve Cells Key to Making Sense of Our Senses
  
  
• November 21, 2011
  Kilobots Are Leaving the Nest
  
  
• November 21, 2011
  Future Prostate Cancer Treatments Might Be Guided by Math
  
  
• November 21, 2011
  After 25 Years, Sustainability Is a Growing Science That's Here to Stay
  
  
• November 18, 2011
  Researchers Pinpoint Date and Rate of Earth's Most Extreme Extinction
  
  
• November 17, 2011
  VLBA Observations Key to 'Complete Description' of Black Hole
  
  
• November 17, 2011
  University of Alaska Science Station Nets $16 Million Award
  
  
• November 17, 2011
  The Buzz Around Beer
  
  
• November 17, 2011
  Soybean Adoption Came Early by Many Cultures, Archaeologists Say
  
  
• November 17, 2011
  Rice Chemists Cram Two Million Nanorods Into Single Cancer Cell
  
  
• November 17, 2011
  Researchers Watch a Next-gen Memory Bit Switch in Real Time
  
  
• November 17, 2011
  Molecules on Branched-polymer Surfaces Can Capture Rare Tumor Cells in Blood
  
  
• November 17, 2011
  Massive Volcanoes, Meteorite Impacts Delivered One-two Death Punch to Dinosaurs
  
  
• November 17, 2011
  Dramatic Diversity of Columbine Flowers Explained by a Simple Change in Cell Shape
  
  
• November 17, 2011
  Archaeologists Investigate Ice Age Hominins' Adaptability to Climate Change
  
  
• November 17, 2011
  A Tailored Pair of Genes
  
  
• November 16, 2011
  Use of Technology-rich Learning Environment Reveals Improved Retention Rates
  
  
• November 16, 2011
  Use of Technology-Rich Learning Environment Reveals Improved Retention Rates
  
  
• November 16, 2011
  Genome Sequence Sheds New Light on How Plants Evolved Nitrogen-fixing Symbioses
  
  
• November 15, 2011
  No Extraordinary Effects From Microwave and Mobile Phone Heating
  
  
• November 15, 2011
  Invasive False Brome Grass Is Spreading, but Oregon's Insects Are Biting
  
  
• November 15, 2011
  In New Quantum-dot LED Design, Researchers Turn Troublesome Molecules to Their Advantage
  
  
• November 15, 2011
  Georgia Tech Develops Speedy Software Designed to Improve Drug Development
  
  
• November 15, 2011
  Frogs' Amazing Leaps Due to Springy Tendons
  
  
• November 15, 2011
  Creation of the Largest Human-designed Protein Boosts Protein Engineering Efforts
  
  
• November 14, 2011
  Research Examines a Growing Immigrant Population's Self Employment in the U.S.
  
  
• November 14, 2011
  New Study Finds That Even the Cleanest Wastewater Contains 'Super bacteria'
  
  
• November 14, 2011
  Ancient Bronze Artifact From East Asia Unearthed at Alaska Archaeology Site
  
  
• November 13, 2011
  Rising Air Pollution Worsens Drought, Flooding, UMD-led Study Shows
  
  
• November 13, 2011
  A More Flexible Window Into the Brain
  
  
• November 10, 2011
  Trees on Tundra's Border Are Growing Faster in a Hotter Climate
  
  
• November 10, 2011
  Storm Chasers of Utah
  
  
• November 10, 2011
  Researching Graphene Nanoelectronics for a Post-silicon World
  
  
• November 10, 2011
  Penn and Rutgers Psychologists Increase Understanding of How the Brain Perceives Shades of Gray
  
  
• November 10, 2011
  Mid-ocean Creatures Control Light to Avoid Becoming Snacks
  
  
• November 10, 2011
  Giant Planet Ejected From the Solar System
  
  
• November 10, 2011
  Astronomers Find Clouds of Primordial Gas From the Early Universe
  
  
• November 9, 2011
  NC State, NSF Project to Boost Computer Science Knowledge Through Gaming
  
  
• November 9, 2011
  Learning Spatial Terms Improves Children's Spatial Skills
  
  
• November 9, 2011
  Accelerating Robotic Innovation
  
  
• November 8, 2011
  Protein Love Triangle Key to Crowning Bees Queens?
  
  
• November 8, 2011
  Pitt Researchers Using Mathematics to Target Parkinson's Disease Symptoms
  
  
• November 8, 2011
  Nanowires Could Be Solution for High-performance Solar Cells
  
  
• November 8, 2011
  Galaxy DNA-analysis Software Is Now Available 'in the Cloud'
  
  
• November 7, 2011
  Why Cooking Counts
  
  
• November 7, 2011
  UGA Researchers Develop First Mouse Model to Study Important Aspect of Alzheimer's
  
  
• November 7, 2011
  Study Compares Techniques for Doping Graphene for Device and Interconnect Fabrication
  
  
• November 7, 2011
  Students Will Use Futuristic Technology to Dive Into the Past
  
  
• November 7, 2011
  Paper Uncovers Power of Foldit Gamers' Strategies
  
  
• November 4, 2011
  Biodiversity Can Promote Survival on a Warming Planet
  
  
• November 3, 2011
  UA Scientists Find Evidence of Roman Period Megadrought
  
  
• November 3, 2011
  Research Team Unravels Tomato Pathogen's Tricks of the Trade
  
  
• November 3, 2011
  Long-term Carbon Storage in Ganges Basin May Portend Global Warming Worsening
  
  
• November 3, 2011
  IU Biologists Identify Light-regulated Mechanism in Cyanobacteria as Aid to Optimizing Photosynthesis
  
  
• November 3, 2011
  It Takes Two: Brains Come Wired for Cooperation, Neuroscientist Asserts
  
  
• November 3, 2011
  Discovery of New Gene Could Improve Efficiency of Molecular Factories
  
  
• November 3, 2011
  Decline in Dead Zones: Efforts to Heal Chesapeake Bay Are Working
  
  
• November 3, 2011
  Arabian Sea Tropical Cyclones Are Intensified by Air Pollution, Study Shows
  
  
• November 3, 2011
  Android Add-on Monitors Eyewitness Mobile Media Reports
  
  
• November 2, 2011
  Video Game Playing Tied to Creativity
  
  
• November 2, 2011
  UT Study: Climate Change Affects Ants and Biodiversity
  
  
• November 2, 2011
  Uof L Scientist Discovers First Known Mammalian Skull From Late Cretaceous in South America
  
  
• November 2, 2011
  That's Gross! Study Uncovers Physiological Nature of Disgust in Politics
  
  
• November 2, 2011
  Humans and Climate Contributed to Extinctions of Large, Ice-age Mammals, New Study Finds
  
  
• November 2, 2011
  Geologists Find Ponds Not the Cause of Arsenic Poisoning in India's Groundwater
  
  
• November 2, 2011
  Caltech Researchers Find Pulsating Response to Stress in Bacteria
  
  
• November 2, 2011
  Born to Roar
  
  
• November 1, 2011
  Forests Not Keeping Pace With Climate Change
  
  
• October 31, 2011
  Fighting Violent Gang Crime With Math
  
  
• October 31, 2011
  Carnegie Mellon Report Finds Internet Privacy Tools Are Confusing, Ineffective for Most People
  
  
• October 28, 2011
  Zoning Boundaries Can Make Good Neighbors in Conservation
  
  
• October 28, 2011
  Pitt Research Team Finds Ways to Reduce Computing Energy Consumption While Saving Money
  
  
• October 28, 2011
  More Power to the Cranberry: Study Shows Juice Better Than Extracts at Fighting Infections
  
  
• October 27, 2011
  Prehistoric Greenhouse Data From Ocean Floor Could Predict Earth's Future, MU Study Finds
  
  
• October 27, 2011
  Fatty Acids Involved in Python Heart Growth Could Benefit Diseased Human Heart
  
  
• October 27, 2011
  Astronomers Pin Down Galaxy Collision Rates by Comparing Hubble Images to Supercomputer Simulations
  
  
• October 26, 2011
  Researchers Complete Mollusk Evolutionary Tree
  
  
• October 25, 2011
  The Generation X Report: U-M Survey Paints a Surprisingly Positive Portrait
  
  
• October 25, 2011
  Restraint Improves Dielectric Performance, Lifespan
  
  
• October 25, 2011
  Land Animals, Ecosystems Walloped After Permian Dieoff
  
  
• October 25, 2011
  Cyberchase, the PBS Math Series for Kids, Launches Extensive Multimedia Website
  
  
• October 24, 2011
  Research Finds Gallium Nitride Is Nontoxic, Biocompatible--Holds Promise for Implants
  
  
• October 24, 2011
  Nanoparticles and Their Size May Not Be Big Issues
  
  
• October 24, 2011
  Discovery Illuminates Elusive Proton Channel Gene in Dinoflagellates
  
  
• October 23, 2011
  Run-off, Emissions Deliver Double Whammy to Coastal Marine Creatures, UGA Study Finds
  
  
• October 23, 2011
  How Plants Sense Low Oxygen Levels to Survive Flooding
  
  
• October 23, 2011
  Breakthrough in the Production of Flood-tolerant Crops
  
  
• October 21, 2011
  Giant Flakes Make Graphene Oxide Gel
  
  
• October 21, 2011
  American Society of Plant Biologists Supports Science Outreach by Grad Students and Postdocs
  
  
• October 20, 2011
  Why Do Some Athletes Choke Under Pressure?
  
  
• October 20, 2011
  West Nile Virus Transmission Linked to Land-use Patterns and 'Super-spreaders'
  
  
• October 20, 2011
  Scientists Determine Family Tree for Most-endangered Bird Family in the World
  
  
• October 20, 2011
  New Study Shows Passing Mood Can Profoundly Alter 'Rational Decisions'
  
  
• October 20, 2011
  Brain Study Reveals How Successful Students Overcome Math Anxiety
  
  
• October 19, 2011
  Study Links Pollutants to a 450 Percent Increase in Risk of Birth Defects
  
  
• October 19, 2011
  Researchers Turn Viruses Into Molecular Legos
  
  
• October 19, 2011
  Record-breaking Photo Reveals a Planet-sized Object as Cool as the Earth
  
  
• October 19, 2011
  Moving Poor Women to Lower-poverty Neighborhoods Improves Their Health
  
  
• October 19, 2011
  Impact Study: Princeton Model Shows Fallout of a Giant Meteorite Strike
  
  
• October 19, 2011
  Fiery Volcano Offers Geologic Glimpse Into Land That Time Forgot
  
  
• October 19, 2011
  'Microring' Device Could Aid in Future Optical Technologies
  
  
• October 18, 2011
  Young Human-specific Genes Correlated With Human Brain Evolution
  
  
• October 17, 2011
  Study Identifies Molecules Used by Certain Species of Seaweed to Harm Corals
  
  
• October 17, 2011
  Robotic Bug Gets Wings, Sheds Light on Evolution of Flight
  
  
• October 17, 2011
  Growth of High Quality Graphene by UCSB Researchers a Critical Discovery for Producing Next Generation Electronics
  
  
• October 17, 2011
  Blue Stragglers
  
  
• October 13, 2011
  Severe Drought, Other Changes Can Cause Permanent Ecosystem Disruption
  
  
• October 13, 2011
  Robot Biologist Solves Complex Problem From Scratch
  
  
• October 13, 2011
  Researchers Do Precise Gene Therapy Without a Needle
  
  
• October 13, 2011
  New Technologies Challenge Old Ideas About Early Hominid Diets
  
  
• October 13, 2011
  Insoluble Dust Particles Can Form Cloud Droplets, Affecting Global and Regional Climates
  
  
• October 13, 2011
  Extreme Melting on Greenland Ice Sheet, Reports CCNY Team
  
  
• October 13, 2011
  Emulating--and Surpassing--Nature
  
  
• October 13, 2011
  Can Indigenous Peoples Be Relied on to Gather Reliable Environmental Data?
  
  
• October 12, 2011
  Scientists Find Possible Trigger for Volcanic 'Super-eruptions'
  
  
• October 12, 2011
  NYU Scientists' Creation of Self-replication Process Holds Promise for Production of New Materials
  
  
• October 12, 2011
  Minnesota Discovery Could Make Fuel and Plastics Production More Energy Efficient and Cost Effective
  
  
• October 12, 2011
  Feeding the World While Protecting the Planet
  
  
• October 12, 2011
  Dark Matter of the Genome Revealed Through Analysis of 29 Mammals
  
  
• October 12, 2011
  Clearing the Cosmic Fog of the Early Universe: Massive Stars May Be Responsible
  
  
• October 12, 2011
  Caltech Researchers Take the Temperature of Mars' Past
  
  
• October 12, 2011
  Bacterial Communication Could Affect Earth's Climate
  
  
• October 11, 2011
  New Form of Super-hard Carbon Observed
  
  
• October 11, 2011
  Most Vertebrates--Including Humans--Descended From Ancestor With Sixth Sense
  
  
• October 11, 2011
  Molecular Depth Profiling Modeled Using Buckyballs and Low-Energy Argon
  
  
• October 10, 2011
  Two Seemingly Unrelated Phenomena Share Surprising Link
  
  
• October 10, 2011
  Research Shows How Life Might Have Survived 'Snowball Earth'
  
  
• October 10, 2011
  In Bubble-rafting Snails, the Eggs Came First
  
  
• October 9, 2011
  Smarter Toxins Help Crops Fight Resistant Pests
  
  
• October 9, 2011
  Progress in Quantum Computing, Qubit by Qubit
  
  
• October 7, 2011
  Star Packs Big Gamma-ray Jolt, Researchers Discover
  
  
• October 7, 2011
  Physicists Localize 3-D Matter Waves for First Time
  
  
• October 7, 2011
  Measuring Elusive Neutrinos Flowing Through the Earth, Physicists Learn More About the Sun
  
  
• October 7, 2011
  Ammonia Gets Overdue Overview
  
  
• October 6, 2011
  Suspects in the Quenching of Star Formation Exonerated
  
  
• October 6, 2011
  Southern California's Tectonic Plates Revealed in Detail
  
  
• October 6, 2011
  Seed Time-capsule Will Aid Study of Plant Evolution Amid Environmental Change
  
  
• October 6, 2011
  Learning to Live in Mountain Lion Country
  
  
• October 6, 2011
  Iowa State Researchers Help Detect Very-high-energy Gamma Rays From Crab Pulsar
  
  
• October 6, 2011
  Crab Pulsar Beams Most Energetic Gamma Rays Ever Detected From a Pulsar
  
  
• October 5, 2011
  University of Colorado Boulder Team Discovers Ancient Road at Maya Village Buried by Volcanic Ash 1,400 Years Ago
  
  
• October 5, 2011
  One Room--63 Different Dust Particles? Researchers Aim to Build Dust Library
  
  
• October 5, 2011
  New Technique Offers Enhanced Security for Sensitive Data in Cloud Computing
  
  
• October 5, 2011
  Long-lost Lake Agassiz Offers Clues to Climate Change
  
  
• October 5, 2011
  Last Universal Common Ancestor More Complex Than Previously Thought
  
  
• October 5, 2011
  Fish Jump Into Picture of Evolutionary Land Invasion
  
  
• October 4, 2011
  Survey Gives Clues to Origin of Type Ia Supernovae
  
  
• October 4, 2011
  Rice Physicists Move One Step Closer to Quantum Computer
  
  
• October 4, 2011
  Advance Offers New Opportunities in Chemistry Education, Research
  
  
• October 3, 2011
  University of Washington Researchers Use Kraken to Unravel Mysterious Antarctic Sea Ice
  
  
• October 3, 2011
  Rising CO₂ Levels at End of Ice Age Not Tied to Pacific Ocean
  
  
• October 3, 2011
  Rising Carbon Dioxide Levels at End of Last Ice Age Not Tied to Pacific Ocean, As Had Been Suspected
  
  
• October 3, 2011
  In Reading Facial Emotion, Context Is Everything
  
  
• October 3, 2011
  How the Brain Makes Memories: Rhythmically!
  
  
• September 29, 2011
  Scientists Release Most Accurate Simulation of the Universe to Date
  
  
• September 29, 2011
  If You're Happy and You Know It: Researchers Trail Twitter to Track World's Mood Swings
  
  
• September 29, 2011
  Building Better Catalysts
  
  
• September 28, 2011
  Saving Heart Attack Victims With Computer Science
  
  
• September 28, 2011
  Americans Move Dramatically Toward Acceptance of Homosexuality
  
  
• September 27, 2011
  What Do Infants Remember When They Forget?
  
  
• September 27, 2011
  Self-cleaning Cotton Breaks Down Pesticides, Bacteria
  
  
• September 27, 2011
  Carnegie Mellon Scientists Track Neuronal Stem Cells Using MRI
  
  
• September 26, 2011
  Study of Bees Links Gene Regulatory Networks in the Brain to Behavior
  
  
• September 26, 2011
  New 'FeTRAM' is Promising Computer Memory Technology
  
  
• September 26, 2011
  LSU Researchers Find Impact of Oil Spill in Marsh Fish Species
  
  
• September 26, 2011
  Location Matters: For Invasive Aquatic Species, It's Better to Start Upstream
  
  
• September 26, 2011
  How Graphene's Electrical Properties Can Be Tuned
  
  
• September 26, 2011
  Glow-in-the-dark Millipede Says 'Stay Away'
  
  
• September 26, 2011
  Changing Race by Changing Clothes
  
  
• September 26, 2011
  Carnegie Mellon Study Finds Benefits of Plug-in Vehicles Depend on Battery Size
  
  
• September 26, 2011
  Caltech Neuroscientists Record Novel Responses to Faces From Single Neurons in Humans
  
  
• September 26, 2011
  'Next-generation' Optical Tweezers Trap Tightly Without Overheating
  
  
• September 25, 2011
  Jumping Gene Enabled Key Step in Corn Domestication
  
  
• September 23, 2011
  USF Physicists Discover Super-Elastic Shock Wave
  
  
• September 23, 2011
  Suffering of the Poor May Have Helped Societies With Class Structures Spread Across Globe
  
  
• September 23, 2011
  Edible Carbon Dioxide Sponge
  
  
• September 22, 2011
  Zebras vs. Cattle: Not So Black and White
  
  
• September 22, 2011
  What Makes Rainforests Unique? History, Not Ecology
  
  
• September 22, 2011
  Scientists Probe Indian Ocean for Clues to Worldwide Weather Patterns
  
  
• September 22, 2011
  Researchers Greatly Improve Evolutionary Tree of Life for Mammals
  
  
• September 22, 2011
  Model Provides Successful Seasonal Forecast for the Fate of Arctic Sea Ice
  
  
• September 22, 2011
  DNA Study Suggests Asia Was Settled in Multiple Waves of Migration
  
  
• September 22, 2011
  Controlling Silicon Evaporation Allows Scientists to Boost Graphene Quality
  
  
• September 22, 2011
  Close-up Look at a Microbial Vaccination Program
  
  
• September 22, 2011
  A New Underwater Video Camera Opens Window into the Behavior of Jellies
  
  
• September 21, 2011
  Slippery Slope: Researchers Take Advice From a Carnivorous Plant
  
  
• September 21, 2011
  Researchers' Chance Viewing of River Cutoff Forming Provides Rare Insight
  
  
• September 21, 2011
  Researchers Studying 10,000 Solutions Participatory Online Platform
  
  
• September 21, 2011
  NSF Funds Collaborative Effort to Identify Genes Supporting Life in Extreme Conditions
  
  
• September 21, 2011
  From Protein to Planes and Pigskin
  
  
• September 21, 2011
  Catching Molecular Motion at Just the Right Time
  
  
• September 21, 2011
  Advice to Divorcees: Go Easy on Yourself
  
  
• September 20, 2011
  Microwave Ovens a Key to Energy Production From Wasted Heat
  
  
• September 19, 2011
  Using Human Genomes to Illuminate the Mysteries of Early Human History
  
  
• September 19, 2011
  SRC and National Science Foundation Award $20 Million to Fund U.S. University Research on Nanoelectronics for 2020 and Beyond
  
  
• September 19, 2011
  Size Matters: Length of Songbirds' Playlists Linked to Brain Region Proportions
  
  
• September 19, 2011
  Gamers Succeed Where Scientists Fail
  
  
• September 19, 2011
  For Unzipping DNA Mysteries--Literally--Cornell Physicists Discover How a Vital Enzyme Works
  
  
• September 19, 2011
  Fast-evolving Genes Control Developmental Differences in Social Insects
  
  
• September 19, 2011
  Catching a Breath--Wirelessly
  
  
• September 18, 2011
  Why Carbon Nanotubes Spell Trouble for Cells
  
  
• September 16, 2011
  Deep Oceans Can Mask Global Warming for Decade-long Periods
  
  
• September 15, 2011
  Watching the World in Motion, Babies Take a First Step Toward Language
  
  
• September 15, 2011
  Smartphone Battery Life Could Dramatically Improve With New Invention
  
  
• September 15, 2011
  Small Distant Galaxies Host Supermassive Black Holes
  
  
• September 15, 2011
  Diamonds Show Depth Extent of Earth's Carbon Cycle
  
  
• September 15, 2011
  Career Award Winner Develops an App to Help Commercial Boats Stay Safe
  
  
• September 15, 2011
  Are Genes Our Destiny?
  
  
• September 14, 2011
  Salmon and Other Fish Predators Rely on 'No Guts, No Glory' Survival Tactic
  
  
• September 14, 2011
  'Synthetic' Chromosome Permits Rapid, On-demand 'Evolution' of Yeast
  
  
• September 13, 2011
  This Beetle Uses Eggs as Shields Against Wasps
  
  
• September 13, 2011
  Plant Breeding Revolution for Cassava, Banana
  
  
• September 13, 2011
  Motor Memory: The Long and Short of It
  
  
• September 13, 2011
  Gene Linked to Optimism, Self-esteem
  
  
• September 12, 2011
  Researchers Find Way to Measure Effect of Wi-Fi Attacks
  
  
• September 12, 2011
  New Study Quantifies Use of Social Media in Arab Spring
  
  
• September 12, 2011
  Evolution Keeps Sex Determination Flexible
  
  
• September 12, 2011
  'Clumps' of Opportunities for Cutting-edge Science
  
  
• September 11, 2011
  New Coral Dating Method Hints at Possible Future Sea-level Changes
  
  
• September 9, 2011
  Microbes Travel Through the Air; It Would Be Good to Know How and Where
  
  
• September 9, 2011
  Appalachian Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly Is a Hybrid of Two Other Swallowtails, Scientists Find
  
  
• September 8, 2011
  Switching From Coal to Natural Gas Would Do Little for Global Climate, Study Indicates
  
  
• September 8, 2011
  Rice Unveils New Method to Grow Synthetic Collagen
  
  
• September 8, 2011
  Rice Breakthrough Could Double Wireless Capacity With No New Towers
  
  
• September 8, 2011
  Researcher Sees Spring-like Protein as Key to Muscle Behavior
  
  
• September 8, 2011
  800,000 Years of Abrupt Climate Variability
  
  
• September 7, 2011
  Scripps Research Scientists Find Clue to Cause of Childhood Hydrocephalus
  
  
• September 7, 2011
  Peer Pressure? It's Hardwired Into Our Brains
  
  
• September 7, 2011
  Parents' Behavior Linked to Kids' Video Game Playing
  
  
• September 7, 2011
  King Crabs Threaten Seafloor Life Near Antarctica
  
  
• September 7, 2011
  Evidence for a Persistently Iron-rich Ocean Changes Views on Earth's Early History
  
  
• September 7, 2011
  Endangered Horse Has Ancient Origins and High Genetic Diversity, New Study Finds
  
  
• September 6, 2011
  Stevens Researchers Pioneer Novel Technique to Make Plasmonic Nanogap Arrays
  
  
• September 6, 2011
  Recycling Fat Might Help Worms Live Longer
  
  
• September 6, 2011
  New Material Shows Promise for Trapping Pollutants
  
  
• September 6, 2011
  Innovative Nanoparticle Purification System Uses Magnetic Fields
  
  
• September 6, 2011
  'Culturomics 2.0' Forecasts Human Behavior By Supercomputing Global News
  
  
• September 5, 2011
  WHOI-led Study Sharpens Picture of How Much Oil and Gas Flowed in Deep Water Horizon Spill
  
  
• September 5, 2011
  Ancient Humans Were Mixing It Up
  
  
• September 1, 2011
  To Clear Digital Waste in Computers, 'Think Green,' Researchers Say
  
  
• September 1, 2011
  Mapping a Model: International Research on Plant Species Appears in Journal Nature
  
  
• September 1, 2011
  Manipulating Plants' Circadian Clock May Make All-season Crops Possible
  
  
• September 1, 2011
  From a Flat Mirror, Designer Light
  
  
• September 1, 2011
  Faster Progress Through Puberty Linked to Behavior Problems
  
  
• September 1, 2011
  Engineers Test Effects of Fire on Steel Structures, Nuclear Plant Design
  
  
• September 1, 2011
  Cornell Physicists Capture Microscopic Origins of Thinning and Thickening Fluids
  
  
• August 31, 2011
  UC-Davis Researchers Develop Computer Model for Testing Heart-disease Drugs
  
  
• August 31, 2011
  Penn Physicists Develop New Insight Into How Disordered Solids Deform
  
  
• August 31, 2011
  IU Research Finds Promiscuousness Results in Genetic 'Trade-up,' More Offspring
  
  
• August 31, 2011
  Humans Shaped Stone Axes 1.8 Million Years Ago, Study Says
  
  
• August 30, 2011
  New Insight Into Impulse Control
  
  
• August 30, 2011
  Breakthrough in Hydrogen Fuel Cells
  
  
• August 29, 2011
  Tiny Wires Change Behavior at Nanoscale
  
  
• August 29, 2011
  Testing the Water for Bioenergy Crops
  
  
• August 29, 2011
  Bilingual Babies' Vocabulary Linked to Early Brain Differentiation
  
  
• August 29, 2011
  Astrophysicists Report First Simulation to Create a Milky Way-like Galaxy
  
  
• August 28, 2011
  School Support for ADHD Children May Be Missing the Mark
  
  
• August 28, 2011
  Little Plant Tells Big Stories
  
  
• August 25, 2011
  Yale Researchers Use Genetic Code to Engineer a Living Protein
  
  
• August 25, 2011
  Tolerance Grows for a Wide Variety of Groups, Except for Muslim Extremists
  
  
• August 25, 2011
  Possible Biological Control Discovered for Pathogen Devastating Amphibians
  
  
• August 25, 2011
  New Imaging Method Sheds Light on Cell Growth
  
  
• August 25, 2011
  Molecular Chaperones Traffic Signaling Proteins Between Cells in Plant Stem Cell Maintenance Pathway
  
  
• August 25, 2011
  Exotic Galaxy Reveals Tantalizing Tale
  
  
• August 23, 2011
  UT Researchers Develop Algorithm to Improve Remote Electrocardiography
  
  
• August 23, 2011
  Unexpected Adhesion Properties of Graphene May Lead to New Nanotechnology Devices
  
  
• August 23, 2011
  Storing Vertebrates in the Cloud
  
  
• August 23, 2011
  New Theory May Shed Light on Dynamics of Large-polymer Liquids
  
  
• August 23, 2011
  Human Gait Could Soon Power Portable Electronics
  
  
• August 23, 2011
  Engineers Discover Nanoscale Balancing Act That Mirrors Forces at Work in Living Systems
  
  
• August 22, 2011
  Southern South American Wildfires Expected to Increase, Says CU-Boulder Study
  
  
• August 22, 2011
  Researchers Reach World-record 97.4 Tesla Magnetic Field
  
  
• August 22, 2011
  Princeton Research: In the Early Life of an Embryo, a Monster Lurks
  
  
• August 22, 2011
  Not So Fast--Researchers Find That Lasting Evolutionary Change Takes About One Million Years
  
  
• August 22, 2011
  Nano Bundles Pack a Powerful Punch
  
  
• August 22, 2011
  Hyenas' Ability to Count Helps Them Decide to Fight or Flee
  
  
• August 22, 2011
  Ancient Whale Skulls and Directional Hearing: A Twisted Tale
  
  
• August 21, 2011
  Newly Discovered Icelandic Current Could Change North Atlantic Climate Picture
  
  
• August 19, 2011
  Restoration As Science: Case of the Collared Lizard
  
  
• August 19, 2011
  Researchers Complete First Major Survey of Amphibian Fungus in Asia
  
  
• August 18, 2011
  Penn Molecular Scientists Develop Color-changing Stress Sensor
  
  
• August 18, 2011
  New Nanoscale Parameter by Aalto University Resolves Dilemmas on Silicon Property
  
  
• August 18, 2011
  New Images Reveal Structures of the Solar Wind As It Travels Toward and Impacts Earth
  
  
• August 18, 2011
  New CU-Boulder Study Reveals Bacteria From Dog Feces in Outdoor Air of Urbanized Air
  
  
• August 18, 2011
  New Component of a Plant Steroid-activated Pathway Discovered
  
  
• August 18, 2011
  Football Analysis Leads to Advance in Artificial Intelligence
  
  
• August 17, 2011
  Researchers Find Way to Align Gold Nanorods on a Large Scale
  
  
• August 17, 2011
  Penn Physicists Undo the 'Coffee Ring Effect'
  
  
• August 17, 2011
  New 'Bionic' Leg Gives Amputees a Natural Gait
  
  
• August 17, 2011
  Model Shows Polar Ice Caps Can Recover From Warmer, Climate-induced Melting
  
  
• August 17, 2011
  Human Pathogen Killing Corals in the Florida Keys
  
  
• August 17, 2011
  Arizona State University Taking Lead Role in Accelerating Solar Energy Advances
  
  
• August 16, 2011
  Tsunami Observed by Radar
  
  
• August 16, 2011
  Scripps Research Scientists Expand Knowledge of Cell Process Involved in Many Diseases
  
  
• August 16, 2011
  Genome-wide Mapping Reveals Developmental and Environmental Impacts
  
  
• August 15, 2011
  Team Led by IU Biologists Confirms Sunflower Domesticated in U.S., not Mexico
  
  
• August 15, 2011
  Rapid Evolution Within Single Crop-growing Season Increases Insect Pest Numbers
  
  
• August 15, 2011
  How the Internet Architecture Got Its Hourglass Shape and What That Means for the Future
  
  
• August 12, 2011
  Pacific Tsunami Creates Icebergs in Antarctica
  
  
• August 12, 2011
  How the Visual System Constructs Moving Objects: One by One
  
  
• August 11, 2011
  Stanford Engineers Redefine How the Brain Plans Movement
  
  
• August 11, 2011
  Smart Skin: Electronics That Stick and Stretch Like a Temporary Tattoo
  
  
• August 11, 2011
  Shooting Light a Curve
  
  
• August 11, 2011
  Researchers Fight Cholera With Computer Forecasting
  
  
• August 11, 2011
  Polar Climate Change May Lead to Ecological Change
  
  
• August 11, 2011
  New Data Shows El Mayor-Cucapah Earthquake was Simple on Surface, Complicated at Depth
  
  
• August 11, 2011
  Gut Coils With Help From Its Elastic Neighbor
  
  
• August 11, 2011
  Carnegie Mellon Scientists Discover How Molecular Motors Go Into 'Energy Save Mode'
  
  
• August 11, 2011
  Arctic Ice Melt Could Pause for Several Years, Then Resume Again
  
  
• August 10, 2011
  UCI Studies Find Different Reasons for Global Methane Riddle
  
  
• August 9, 2011
  Scientists Discover New Eruption at Undersea Volcano, After Successfully Forecasting the Event
  
  
• August 9, 2011
  Rats Control Appetite for Poison
  
  
• August 9, 2011
  A Change in Perspective Could Be All It Takes to Succeed in School
  
  
• August 8, 2011
  Study: Severe Low Temperatures Devastate Coral Reefs in Florida Keys
  
  
• August 8, 2011
  Many Top U.S. Scientists Wish They Had More Children
  
  
• August 8, 2011
  Light Unlocks Fragrance in Laboratory
  
  
• August 8, 2011
  Increase in Storm Damage Brings Call for More Stringent Standards
  
  
• August 7, 2011
  UMass Amherst Research Team Discovers New Conducting Properties of Bacteria-produced Wires
  
  
• August 5, 2011
  Ocean Probes to Help Refine Climate Change Forecasting
  
  
• August 5, 2011
  Females Can Place Limits on Evolution of Attractive Features in Males, Research Shows
  
  
• August 4, 2011
  Rice Discovery Points Way to Graphene Circuits
  
  
• August 4, 2011
  La Niñas Distant Effects in East Africa
  
  
• August 4, 2011
  Fossils of Forest Rodents Found in Highland Desert
  
  
• August 4, 2011
  East Africa's Climate Under the Spell of El Niño Since the Last Ice Age
  
  
• August 4, 2011
  Caltech-led Engineers Solve Long-standing Problem in Photonic Chip Technology
  
  
• August 4, 2011
  Breakthrough in Photonic Chip Research Paves Way for Ultrafast Information Sharing
  
  
• August 3, 2011
  UCLA Life Scientists' Study of Abalone Yields New Insights into Sexual Reproduction
  
  
• August 3, 2011
  Six Million Years of Savanna
  
  
• August 2, 2011
  How Do You Stop Tasting?
  
  
• August 2, 2011
  Digital Photos Can Animate a Face So It Ages and Moves Before Your Eyes
  
  
• August 1, 2011
  WHOI Study Reports Microbes Consumed Oil in Gulf Slick at Unexpected Rates
  
  
• August 1, 2011
  Some Plants Duplicate Their DNA to Overcome Adversity
  
  
• August 1, 2011
  Plant Biologists Dissect Genetic Mechanism Enabling Plants to Overcome Environmental Challenge
  
  
• August 1, 2011
  Microbial Study Reveals Sophisticated Sensory Response
  
  
• August 1, 2011
  Ancient Glacial Melting Process Similar to Existing Concerns About Antarctica, Greenland
  
  
• July 29, 2011
  Penn Chemists Make First Molecular Binding Measurement of Radon
  
  
• July 29, 2011
  Averting Bridge Disasters: New Technology Could Save Hundreds of Lives
  
  
• July 29, 2011
  Ancient Tides Quite Different From Today--Some Dramatically Higher
  
  
• July 28, 2011
  UC-Riverside Chemists Transform Acids Into Bases
  
  
• July 28, 2011
  Sea Level Rise Less From Greenland, More From Antarctica, Than Expected During Last Interglacial
  
  
• July 28, 2011
  Scientists Report Dramatic Carbon Loss From Massive Arctic Wildfire
  
  
• July 28, 2011
  More Illness, Doctor Visits Reported in Years After Sept. 11, UCI Study Finds
  
  
• July 28, 2011
  How Bats Stay on Target Despite the Clutter
  
  
• July 28, 2011
  Genetic Evidence Clears Ben Franklin
  
  
• July 28, 2011
  First Large-scale Map of a Plant's Protein Network Addresses Evolution, Disease Process
  
  
• July 28, 2011
  An Unexpected Clue to Thermopower Efficiency
  
  
• July 27, 2011
  University of Nevada, Reno, Scientists to Shake Five-story Building in Japan
  
  
• July 27, 2011
  The First True View of Global Erosion
  
  
• July 27, 2011
  Scientists Map Attack Tactics of Plant Pathogens
  
  
• July 27, 2011
  Researchers Aim for 'Direct Brain Control' of Prosthetic Arms
  
  
• July 27, 2011
  Pigment Discovery Expanding Into New Colors
  
  
• July 27, 2011
  Largest Recorded Tundra Fire Yields Scientific Surprises
  
  
• July 27, 2011
  Farmers More Likely to be Green if They Talk to Their Neighbors, According to MSU Research
  
  
• July 27, 2011
  Carnegie Mellon Develops iPhone App That Predicts When Bus Will Arrive
  
  
• July 26, 2011
  Think Healthy, Eat Healthy: Caltech Scientists Show Link Between Attention and Self-control
  
  
• July 26, 2011
  Scientists Design Nano-sized Drug Transporter to Fight Disease
  
  
• July 26, 2011
  Penn Researchers Help Graft Olfactory Receptors Onto Nanotubes
  
  
• July 26, 2011
  Mitochondria Share an Ancestor With SAR11, a Globally Significant Marine Microbe
  
  
• July 26, 2011
  Caltech Engineers Develop One-way Transmission System for Sound Waves
  
  
• July 26, 2011
  Artificial Cilia Spur New Nanotechnology Approach
  
  
• July 25, 2011
  Pocket Chemistry: DNA Helps Glucose Meters Measure More Than Sugar
  
  
• July 25, 2011
  Piezoelectric Nanowires Allow Electrical Signals to Be Produced From Mechanical Actions
  
  
• July 25, 2011
  Pacific Northwest Trees Struggle for Water While Standing in It
  
  
• July 25, 2011
  Gemini Image Captures Planetary Nebula Discovered by Amateur Astronomer
  
  
• July 25, 2011
  Exploring Science Through Underwater Robotics
  
  
• July 22, 2011
  Summer Research for Teachers Fosters Engineering-rich High School Courses
  
  
• July 22, 2011
  Penn: Nanoplasmonic 'Whispering Gallery' Breaks Emission Time Record in Semiconductors
  
  
• July 22, 2011
  Harvard Bioengineers Identify the Cellular Mechanisms of Traumatic Brain Injury
  
  
• July 22, 2011
  Earliest Watery Black Hole Discovered
  
  
• July 22, 2011
  Caltech-led Astronomers Discover the Largest and Most Distant Reservoir of Water Yet
  
  
• July 21, 2011
  U of M Researchers Discover Gene Required to Maintain Male Sex Throughout Life
  
  
• July 21, 2011
  Social Media Study: Conservatives Were Top Tweeters in 2010 Elections
  
  
• July 21, 2011
  NSF Hosts "Think Tank" to Promote STEM Education for Veterans
  
  
• July 21, 2011
  Nanomembranes Promise New Materials for Advanced Electronics
  
  
• July 21, 2011
  Link Between Competing Phases in Cuprates Leads to New Theory
  
  
• July 21, 2011
  Identical Virus, Host Populations Can Prevail for Centuries, WHOI Researcher Reports
  
  
• July 21, 2011
  Electrons Exhibit Liquid Crystal-like States
  
  
• July 20, 2011
  Sperm Coat Protein May Be Key to Male Infertility
  
  
• July 20, 2011
  Seeing the S-curve in Everything
  
  
• July 20, 2011
  Research Outlines Math Framework That Could Help Convert 'Junk' Energy Into Useful Power
  
  
• July 20, 2011
  Fermilab Experiment Discovers a Heavy Relative of the Neutron
  
  
• July 20, 2011
  Experiments by USC Scientist Make a Breakthrough in Quantum Computing
  
  
• July 20, 2011
  Discovery May Overcome Obstacle for Quantum Computing
  
  
• July 20, 2011
  Caltech Researchers Create the First Artificial Neural Network Out of DNA
  
  
• July 20, 2011
  Battle of the Bugs
  
  
• July 19, 2011
  USC Research: Cancer Cells and Stem Cells Share Same Origin
  
  
• July 19, 2011
  Memories May Skew Visual Perception
  
  
• July 19, 2011
  Avian 'Axe Effect' Attracts Attention of Females and Males
  
  
• July 18, 2011
  WHOI Scientists Analyze, Explain the Chemical Makeup of Gulf Plume
  
  
• July 18, 2011
  When Viruses Attack
  
  
• July 18, 2011
  USC Researchers Explore the Source of Empathy in the Brain
  
  
• July 18, 2011
  Study of Soil Effects From March 11 Japan Earthquake Could Improve Building Design
  
  
• July 18, 2011
  New Contrast Agents Detect Bacterial Infections With High Sensitivity and Specificity
  
  
• July 18, 2011
  Kids Found to be Safer in Crashes When Grandparents are Behind the Wheel
  
  
• July 18, 2011
  Heated AFM Tip Allows Direct Fabrication of Ferroelectric Nanostructures on Plastic
  
  
• July 14, 2011
  Speed Limit on Babies' Vision
  
  
• July 14, 2011
  Soft Memory Device Opens Door to New Biocompatible Electronics
  
  
• July 14, 2011
  Rising Oceans--Too Late to Turn the Tide?
  
  
• July 14, 2011
  Loss of Large Predators has Caused Widespread Disruption of Ecosystems
  
  
• July 14, 2011
  Loss of Large Predators Disrupting Multiple Plant, Animal and Human Ecosystems
  
  
• July 14, 2011
  Link Found Between Increased Crops and Deforestation in Amazon, but Issue Not so Cut and Dry
  
  
• July 14, 2011
  Graphene Gives Up More of Its Secrets
  
  
• July 14, 2011
  Editing the Genome
  
  
• July 14, 2011
  Acidifying Oceans Could Hit California Mussels, a Key Species
  
  
• July 14, 2011
  A Manganite Changes Its Stripes
  
  
• July 13, 2011
  Wind-turbine Placement Produces Tenfold Power Increase, Caltech Researchers Say
  
  
• July 13, 2011
  Spread of Fungus-farming Beetles Is Bad News for Trees
  
  
• July 13, 2011
  Narrowest Bridges of Gold Are Also the Strongest, Study Finds
  
  
• July 13, 2011
  Carnegie Mellon and Princeton Neuroscientists Uncover Neural Mechanisms of Object Recognition
  
  
• July 13, 2011
  25 Tesla, World-record 'Split Magnet' Makes its Debut
  
  
• July 12, 2011
  UCI Study Points to New Means of Overcoming Antiviral Resistance in Influenza
  
  
• July 12, 2011
  Scientists Model Physics of a Key Dark-energy Probe
  
  
• July 12, 2011
  Long Distance: Research Shows Ancient Rock Under Haiti Came From 1,000-plus Miles Away
  
  
• July 11, 2011
  UC-Riverside Physicists Discover New Way to Produce Antimatter-containing Atom
  
  
• July 11, 2011
  Quick Test Can Predict Immune Responses to Flu Shots
  
  
• July 11, 2011
  Perfecting the Meat of the Potato
  
  
• July 10, 2011
  Engineering Excitable Cells for Studies of Bioelectricity and Cell Therapy
  
  
• July 7, 2011
  Teaching the Neurons to Meditate
  
  
• July 7, 2011
  Talking 'Green' Can Help Candidates Win Votes, Stanford Study Finds
  
  
• July 7, 2011
  Sex Works Thanks to Ever-evolving Host, Parasite Relationships
  
  
• July 7, 2011
  Organizational Climate Drives Commercialization of Scientific and Engineering Discoveries
  
  
• July 7, 2011
  Device Captures Ambient Electromagnetic Energy to Drive Small Electronic Devices
  
  
• July 7, 2011
  Cellular Origin of Deadly Brain Cancer is Identified
  
  
• July 7, 2011
  Ancestry of Polar Bears Traced to Ireland
  
  
• July 6, 2011
  Teaching Workshops Fail to Spur Learner-centered Teaching
  
  
• July 6, 2011
  Scripps Researchers Discover New Force Driving Earth's Tectonic Plates
  
  
• July 6, 2011
  Researchers Characterize Biomechanics of Ovarian Cells According to Phenotype at Stages of Cancer
  
  
• July 6, 2011
  Gray Whales Likely Survived the Ice Ages by Changing Their Diets
  
  
• July 5, 2011
  New Laser Technology Could Kill Viruses and Improve DVDs
  
  
• July 5, 2011
  Infants Learn to Transfer Knowledge by 16 Months, Study Finds
  
  
• July 5, 2011
  How Hot Did Earth Get in the Past? Team of Scientists Uncovers New Information
  
  
• July 5, 2011
  Being Small Has Its Advantages, If You Are a Leaf
  
  
• July 4, 2011
  Scripps Research Scientists Solve Mystery of Nerve Disease Genes
  
  
• July 3, 2011
  Researchers Decipher Protein Structure of Key Molecule in DNA Transcription System
  
  
• July 3, 2011
  Researchers Decipher Protein Structure of Key Molecule
  
  
• July 1, 2011
  Magnetic Memory and Logic Could Achieve Ultimate Energy Efficiency
  
  
• June 30, 2011
  WiFi 'Napping' Doubles Phone Battery Life
  
  
• June 30, 2011
  WHOI Study Sheds Light on Tunicate Evolution
  
  
• June 30, 2011
  Takeoffs and Landings Cause More Precipitation Near Airports
  
  
• June 30, 2011
  iMobot Modular Robot Technology Licensed
  
  
• June 30, 2011
  Hawaiian Hotspot Variability Attributed to Small-scale Convection
  
  
• June 30, 2011
  Evolutionary Kings of the Hill Use Good, Bad and Ugly Mutations to Speed Ahead of Competition
  
  
• June 29, 2011
  This Game Leaves Student Researchers Little Time for Play
  
  
• June 29, 2011
  New Smartphone App Automatically Tags Photos
  
  
• June 29, 2011
  Global Warming's Impact on Premium Wine
  
  
• June 29, 2011
  Finding Showing Human Ancestor Older Than Previously Thought Offers New Insights Into Evolution
  
  
• June 28, 2011
  LiquidText Software Supports Active Reading Through Fingertip Manipulation of Text
  
  
• June 28, 2011
  Gene Flow May Help Plants Adapt to Climate Change
  
  
• June 28, 2011
  Domed Dinosaur King of the Head Butt
  
  
• June 27, 2011
  Tongue Makes the Difference in How Fish and Mammals Chew
  
  
• June 27, 2011
  Tiny Ring Laser Accurately Detects and Counts Nanoparticles
  
  
• June 27, 2011
  Researchers Solve Problem Filling Space-- Without Cubes
  
  
• June 27, 2011
  Researchers Find a Keystone Nutrient Recycler in Streams
  
  
• June 27, 2011
  Nanowire-based Sensors Offer Improved Detection of Volatile Organic Compounds
  
  
• June 27, 2011
  Fossilized Pollen Reveals Climate History of Northern Antarctica
  
  
• June 26, 2011
  Ocean Currents Speed Melting of Antarctic Ice
  
  
• June 24, 2011
  Syracuse University Biologist Discovers Key Regulators for Biofilm Development
  
  
• June 24, 2011
  Fermilab Experiment Weighs in on Neutrino Mystery
  
  
• June 23, 2011
  Stiff Sediments Made 2004 Sumatra Earthquake Deadliest in History
  
  
• June 23, 2011
  Smartphone App Helps You Find Friends in a Crowd
  
  
• June 23, 2011
  Scientists Uncover an Unhealthy Herds Hypothesis
  
  
• June 23, 2011
  Caltech-led Researchers Measure Body Temperatures of Dinosaurs for the First Time
  
  
• June 22, 2011
  Salt Marsh Sediments Help Gauge Climate-change-induced Sea-level Rise
  
  
• June 22, 2011
  Researchers Identify Components of Speech Recognition Pathway in Humans
  
  
• June 22, 2011
  Prejudice Linked to Women's Menstrual Cycle
  
  
• June 22, 2011
  Penn Physicists Observe 'Campfire Effect' in Blinking Nanorod Semiconductors
  
  
• June 22, 2011
  Economic Cost of Weather May Total $485 Billion in U.S.
  
  
• June 21, 2011
  University of Minnesota Engineering Researchers Discover Source for Generating 'Green' Electricity
  
  
• June 21, 2011
  New Curation Tool a Boon for Genetic Biologists
  
  
• June 21, 2011
  Carnegie Mellon Methods Keep Bugs Out of Software for Self-driving Cars
  
  
• June 20, 2011
  TPT National Productions Wins Daytime Emmy For PBS Series "SciGirls"
  
  
• June 20, 2011
  Putting a New Spin on Computing
  
  
• June 20, 2011
  Penn Researchers Link Fastest Sea-level Rise in 2 Millennia to Increasing Temperatures
  
  
• June 20, 2011
  Northern Illinois University Scientists Find Simple Way to Produce Graphene
  
  
• June 20, 2011
  Nanoparticles Disguised as Red Blood Cells Will Deliver Cancer-fighting Drugs
  
  
• June 20, 2011
  Genius of Einstein, Fourier Key to New Human-like Computer Vision
  
  
• June 20, 2011
  Bacteria Develop Restraint for Survival in a Rock-paper-scissors Community
  
  
• June 19, 2011
  Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Buildup Unlikely to Spark Abrupt Climate Change
  
  
• June 18, 2011
  Winners Announced for International Student ROV Competition
  
  
• June 17, 2011
  Solitary Atoms Are Stiffer Than Groups
  
  
• June 17, 2011
  Restoring Memory, Repairing Damaged Brains
  
  
• June 16, 2011
  Searching for the 'Perfect Glass'
  
  
• June 16, 2011
  Researchers Engineer the Environment for Stem Cell Development to Control Differentiation
  
  
• June 16, 2011
  Plants Teach Humans a Thing or Two About Fighting
  
  
• June 16, 2011
  New Stamps Honor Four Distinguished American Scientists
  
  
• June 16, 2011
  Gamma-ray Flash Came From Star Being Eaten by Massive Black Hole
  
  
• June 15, 2011
  What Makes a Plant a Plant?
  
  
• June 15, 2011
  UH Chemist Developing Materials to Detect, Repel E. Coli
  
  
• June 15, 2011
  Rutgers Contributes to Findings That Black Holes Were Surprisingly Common in Early Universe
  
  
• June 15, 2011
  New Sensor to Measure Structural Stresses Can Heal Itself When Broken
  
  
• June 15, 2011
  Neutrinos Change Flavors While Crossing Japan
  
  
• June 14, 2011
  Researchers Record Two-state Dynamics in Glassy Silicon
  
  
• June 14, 2011
  Researchers Findings Shed Light on the Progression of Parkinson's Disease
  
  
• June 14, 2011
  Proving Darwin Right: New Study Supports Hypothesis that Competition is Stronger Between More Closely Related Species
  
  
• June 14, 2011
  Penn Researchers Break Light-matter Coupling Strength Limit in Nanoscale Semiconductors
  
  
• June 14, 2011
  Learning to Count Not as Easy as 1, 2, 3
  
  
• June 14, 2011
  Copper Folds Protein Into Precursors of Parkinson's Plaques
  
  
• June 13, 2011
  Louisiana Tech University, LA-SiGMA Help Teachers Transform Materials Science
  
  
• June 13, 2011
  Life-history Traits May Affect DNA Mutation Rates in Males More Than in Females
  
  
• June 12, 2011
  Single GFP-expressing Cell is Basis of Living Laser Device
  
  
• June 9, 2011
  UW-Madison Chemists Devise Better Way to Prepare Workhorse Molecules
  
  
• June 9, 2011
  Teen Brain Data May Predict Pop Song Success, Emory Study Finds
  
  
• June 9, 2011
  Physicists Hit on Mathematical Description of Superfluid Dynamics
  
  
• June 9, 2011
  Penn Researchers Show New Evidence of Genetic 'Arms Race' Against Malaria
  
  
• June 9, 2011
  Banning Federal Funding for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research Would Derail Related Work
  
  
• June 8, 2011
  Water's Surface Not All Wet
  
  
• June 8, 2011
  Scientists Learn From Kids, Kids Become Scientists in New MU Effort
  
  
• June 8, 2011
  Can Evolution Outpace Climate Change?
  
  
• June 8, 2011
  Caltech-led Astronomers Find a New Class of Stellar Explosions
  
  
• June 7, 2011
  Paved Surfaces Can Foster Build-up of Polluted Air
  
  
• June 7, 2011
  Innovative Device for Quantum Simulations
  
  
• June 7, 2011
  Carbon Release and Global Warming Now and in the Ancient Past
  
  
• June 6, 2011
  Stanford Climate Scientists Forecast Permanently Hotter Summers
  
  
• June 6, 2011
  Randomness Rules in Turbulent Flows
  
  
• June 6, 2011
  Penn Researchers Develop Biological Circuit Components, New Microscope Technique for Measuring Them
  
  
• June 6, 2011
  New Data Still Have Scientists in Dark Over Dark Matter
  
  
• June 6, 2011
  Columbia Engineering Team Makes Major Step in Improving Forecasts of Weather Extremes
  
  
• June 6, 2011
  Carbon Release Into Atmosphere Ten Times Faster Than in the Past
  
  
• June 6, 2011
  Astrophysicists Use X-ray Fingerprints to Study Eating Habits of Giant Black Holes
  
  
• June 5, 2011
  Early Light Refines the Brain's Circuitry for Vision
  
  
• June 5, 2011
  CERN Group Traps Antihydrogen Atoms for More Than 16 Minutes
  
  
• June 5, 2011
  ALPHA Stores Antimatter Atoms for Over a Quarter of an Hour--and Still Counting
  
  
• June 3, 2011
  What, Me Worry? Young Adults Get Self-esteem Boost From Debt
  
  
• June 2, 2011
  Work by UH Evolutionary Biologist May One Day Help With Chronic Diseases
  
  
• June 2, 2011
  Revamped College Science Course Improves Student Performance--In Spite of Cuts
  
  
• June 2, 2011
  Non-independent Mutations Present New Path to Evolutionary Success
  
  
• June 2, 2011
  Climate Projections Don't Accurately Reflect Soil Carbon Release
  
  
• June 2, 2011
  Caltech Researchers Build Largest Biochemical Circuit Out of Small Synthetic DNA Molecules
  
  
• June 1, 2011
  USC Study Locates the Source of Key Brain Function
  
  
• June 1, 2011
  New Map Reveals Giant Fjords Beneath East Antarctic Ice Sheet
  
  
• June 1, 2011
  Mass Extinction Victim Survives! Snail Long Thought Extinct, Isn't
  
  
• June 1, 2011
  Ancient Hominid Males Stayed Home While Females Roamed, Says CU-Boulder Study
  
  
• June 1, 2011
  3-D Model Mimics Volcanic Explosions
  
  
• May 31, 2011
  Stamping Out Low-cost Nanodevices
  
  
• May 31, 2011
  Nanoscale Waveguide for Future Photonics
  
  
• May 31, 2011
  Lasers Used to Form 3-D Crystals Made of Nanoparticles
  
  
• May 31, 2011
  Climate Change Allows Invasive Weed to Outcompete Local Species
  
  
• May 31, 2011
  Carnegie Mellon Researchers Uncover How the Brain Processes Faces
  
  
• May 30, 2011
  Climate Played Big Role in Vikings' Disappearance From Greenland
  
  
• May 27, 2011
  Penn Researchers Help Nanoscale Engineers Choose Self-assembling Proteins
  
  
• May 27, 2011
  Changes in Brain Circuitry Play Role in Moral Sensitivity as People Grow Up
  
  
• May 26, 2011
  UMD-led Researchers Assess Pivotal Cultural Differences Among Countries and Why These Exist
  
  
• May 26, 2011
  New Research Published in Science Points to the Significant Role of Oceans in Ancient Global Cooling
  
  
• May 26, 2011
  Chameleon Magnets: Ability to Switch Magnets 'On' or 'Off' Could Revolutionize Computing
  
  
• May 25, 2011
  New Bandwidth Management Techniques Boost Operating Efficiency in Multi-core Chips
  
  
• May 25, 2011
  Mars Formed Rapidly Into Runt of Planetary Litter
  
  
• May 25, 2011
  Global Warming May Affect the Capacity of Trees to Store Carbon, MBL Study Finds
  
  
• May 24, 2011
  Expanded VLA Flexing New Scientific Muscle
  
  
• May 23, 2011
  New Resource Developed to Encourage Undergraduate Research Experiences
  
  
• May 22, 2011
  Scientists Find Odd Twist in Slow 'Earthquakes': Tremor Running Backwards
  
  
• May 20, 2011
  Ants Give New Evidence for Interaction Networks
  
  
• May 19, 2011
  Sniff Sniff: Smelling Led to Smarter Mammals, Researchers Say
  
  
• May 19, 2011
  Mammals First Evolved Big Brains for Better Sense of Smell
  
  
• May 18, 2011
  UF Research Aims to Help Preserve Plants, Animals Caught Between Forest 'Fragments'
  
  
• May 18, 2011
  New Technique Sheds Light on the Mysterious Process of Cell Division
  
  
• May 18, 2011
  Language Learning: CMU Researchers Use Video Games to Crack the Speech Code
  
  
• May 18, 2011
  Errors in Protein Structure Sparked Evolution of Biological Complexity
  
  
• May 18, 2011
  China Fossil Shows Bird, Crocodile Family Trees Split Earlier Than Thought
  
  
• May 18, 2011
  Caltech Researchers Release First Large Observational Study of 9.0 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake
  
  
• May 18, 2011
  Astronomer Bennett's Team Discovers New Class of Planets
  
  
• May 17, 2011
  UT Physicist Accelerates Simulations of Thin Film Growth
  
  
• May 17, 2011
  Researchers Develop Hardware Encryption for New Computer Memory Technology
  
  
• May 17, 2011
  Real Nature Beats Technological Stand-ins for Human Well-being
  
  
• May 17, 2011
  Penn Research Answers Long-standing Question About Swimming in Elastic Liquids
  
  
• May 17, 2011
  Nuclear Magnetic Resonance With No Magnets
  
  
• May 16, 2011
  UF Researchers Link Oceanic Land Crab Extinction to Colonization of Hawaii
  
  
• May 16, 2011
  Splitting Water to Create Renewable Energy Simpler Than First Thought?
  
  
• May 16, 2011
  Patterns of Ancient Croplands Give Insight Into Early Hawaiian Society, Research Shows
  
  
• May 16, 2011
  Happiness Has a Dark Side
  
  
• May 16, 2011
  Graduate Student Developing Solutions for Water Problems in Ethiopia
  
  
• May 16, 2011
  Comparison of Genomes of Plant Parasites Provides Solid Clues for Response
  
  
• May 16, 2011
  AgriLife Research Scientists Work with RNA Silencing and Plant Stem Cells
  
  
• May 15, 2011
  Scientists Find New Class of Compounds With Great Potential for Research and Drug Development
  
  
• May 14, 2011
  Persuasive Speech: The Way We, Um, Talk Sways Our Listeners
  
  
• May 13, 2011
  New SETI Survey Focuses on Kepler's Top Earth-like Planets
  
  
• May 12, 2011
  Study: Most At-risk Patients Don't Adhere to Statin Treatment, Despite Real Benefits
  
  
• May 12, 2011
  Massive Tornado Onslaught Raises Questions About Building Practices, Code Enforcement
  
  
• May 12, 2011
  Latitude and Rain Dictated Where Species Lived
  
  
• May 12, 2011
  Artificial Grammar Learning Reveals Inborn Language Sense, JHU Study Shows
  
  
• May 12, 2011
  Activated Graphene Makes Superior Supercapacitors for Energy Storage
  
  
• May 11, 2011
  UGA Scientists Discover Missing Links in the Biology of Cloud Formation Over the Oceans
  
  
• May 11, 2011
  Musical Experience Offsets Some Aging Effects
  
  
• May 11, 2011
  Flipping Hot Jupiters
  
  
• May 11, 2011
  Antarctic Icebergs Help the Ocean Take Up Carbon Dioxide
  
  
• May 11, 2011
  A 2,300-year Climate Record Suggests Severe Tropical Droughts as Northern Temperatures Rise
  
  
• May 10, 2011
  Darkness Stifles Reproduction of Surface-dwelling Fish
  
  
• May 9, 2011
  Virtual Possessions Have Powerful Hold on Teenagers, Carnegie Mellon Researchers Say
  
  
• May 9, 2011
  Tree Rings Tell a 1,100-year History of El Niño
  
  
• May 9, 2011
  The Brain Performs Visual Search Near Optimally
  
  
• May 9, 2011
  Teenage Alcohol Consumption Associated With Computer Use
  
  
• May 9, 2011
  Researchers Get New View of How Water and Sulfur Dioxide Mix
  
  
• May 9, 2011
  Obesity Creates Wimpy Rats
  
  
• May 9, 2011
  A Tiltable Head Could Improve the Ability of Undulating Robots to Navigate Disaster Debris
  
  
• May 8, 2011
  Graphene Optical Modulators Could Lead to Ultrafast Communications
  
  
• May 8, 2011
  Electronic Life on the Edge
  
  
• May 8, 2011
  Does the Central Andean Backarc Have the Potential for a Great Earthquake?
  
  
• May 6, 2011
  Model Developed to Improve Combination Vaccine Accessibility Worldwide
  
  
• May 5, 2011
  University of Minnesota Researchers Who Map Antarctic Turn to the Arctic
  
  
• May 5, 2011
  Study Shows Corn Gene Provides Resistance to Multiple Diseases
  
  
• May 5, 2011
  Study Probes Sources of Mississippi River Phosphorus
  
  
• May 5, 2011
  Selaginella Genome Adds Piece to Plant Evolutionary Puzzle
  
  
• May 5, 2011
  Scientists Sequence Genomes of Two Major Threats to American Food and Fuel
  
  
• May 5, 2011
  Scientists Afflict Computers With Schizophrenia to Better Understand the Human Brain
  
  
• May 5, 2011
  Robot Based on Carnegie Mellon Research Engages Novice Computer Scientists
  
  
• May 5, 2011
  Ecstasy Associated With Chronic Change in Brain Function
  
  
• May 4, 2011
  Undergraduate Institutions Should Play Larger Research Role
  
  
• May 4, 2011
  Study Helps Explain Behavior of Latest High-temp Superconductors
  
  
• May 3, 2011
  First Rainforests Arose When Plants Solved Plumbing Problem
  
  
• May 3, 2011
  Carnegie Mellon Uses Social Networking to Tap Collective Intelligence of Online Study Groups
  
  
• May 3, 2011
  "Small Fry" Fish Just as Vulnerable to Population Plunges as Sharks or Tuna, Stanford Researchers Say
  
  
• May 2, 2011
  Study: Rare Deep-sea Starfish Stuck in Juvenile Body Plan
  
  
• May 2, 2011
  Rice's Origins Point to China, Genome Researchers Conclude
  
  
• May 2, 2011
  Pain and Itch Connected Down Deep
  
  
• May 2, 2011
  Oklahoma Researchers Use Supercomputer to Detail the Inner Workings of Tornadoes
  
  
• May 2, 2011
  Global Warming Won't Harm Wind Energy Production, Climate Models Predict
  
  
• May 1, 2011
  Measuring the Distant Universe in 3-D
  
  
• April 29, 2011
  New Material Could Improve Safety for First Responders to Chemical Hazards
  
  
• April 29, 2011
  Digging in Dirt, Arbor Day Planting, May Help Build Citizenship: UMD Study Finds
  
  
• April 28, 2011
  Scientists Detect Early Warning Signal for Ecosystem Collapse
  
  
• April 28, 2011
  Jump in Communication Skills Led to Species Explosion in Electric Fish
  
  
• April 28, 2011
  Iowa State Chemist Designs New Polymer Structures for Use as 'Plastic Electronics'
  
  
• April 28, 2011
  Fluctuations Before the Fall: Predicting and Preventing Environmental Collapse
  
  
• April 28, 2011
  Electrical Oscillations Found to be Critical for Storing Spatial Memories in Brain
  
  
• April 28, 2011
  Eddies Found to Be Deep, Powerful Modes of Ocean Transport
  
  
• April 27, 2011
  Scorpion Venom--Bad for Bugs, Good for Pesticides
  
  
• April 27, 2011
  Rice University Geologist Leads Team Effort to Solve Mystery of the Colorado Plateau
  
  
• April 27, 2011
  Record Number of Whales, Krill Found in the Antarctic Bays
  
  
• April 27, 2011
  Exchange Network Will Help Hardware Security Experts Do Research Enhancing the Integrity of Computer Chips
  
  
• April 27, 2011
  Agulhas Leakage Fueled by Global Warming Could Stabilize Atlantic, Overturning Circulation
  
  
• April 27, 2011
  'Explosive' Evolution in Pupfish
  
  
• April 26, 2011
  Cold Case: Siberian Hot Springs Reveal Ancient Ecology
  
  
• April 25, 2011
  Zeroing in on the Elusive Green LED
  
  
• April 25, 2011
  University of Oklahoma Researchers Working to Advance Predictability Research Initiatives
  
  
• April 25, 2011
  Study Shows How Mosquitoes Handle the Heat of a Hot Blood Meal
  
  
• April 25, 2011
  Catastrophic Amphibian Declines Have Multiple Causes, No Simple Solution
  
  
• April 21, 2011
  Purdue-led Team Studies Earth's Recovery From Prehistoric Global Warming
  
  
• April 21, 2011
  In Time For Spring, Biologist Illuminates How Seedlings Regulate Growth
  
  
• April 21, 2011
  Columbia Engineering Study Links Ozone Hole to Climate Change All the Way to the Equator
  
  
• April 20, 2011
  Houston Grandmother Is Nation's First 'Super Wi-Fi' User
  
  
• April 20, 2011
  Evolution of Human 'Super-brain' Tied to Development of Bipedalism, Tool-making
  
  
• April 20, 2011
  A Scratched Coating Heals Itself
  
  
• April 19, 2011
  New Biosensor Microchip Could Speed Up Drug Development, Stanford Researchers Say
  
  
• April 19, 2011
  Gulf Oil Spill Similar to Exxon Valdez in Social and Mental Impacts
  
  
• April 19, 2011
  Better Design Decisions Make Energy-efficient Buildings, Clemson University Researcher Says
  
  
• April 18, 2011
  Zoom-up Star Photos Poke Holes in Century-old Astronomical Theory
  
  
• April 18, 2011
  Sandia and UNM Lead Effort to Destroy Cancers
  
  
• April 18, 2011
  Researchers Create Super-Small Single ElectronTransistor
  
  
• April 18, 2011
  Report Cites 'Liquefaction' As Key to Much of Japanese Earthquake Damage
  
  
• April 18, 2011
  Polarized Microscopy Technique Shows New Details of How Proteins Are Arranged
  
  
• April 18, 2011
  New Baylor Research Shows Using Leaves' Characteristics Improves Accuracy Measuring Past Climates
  
  
• April 18, 2011
  Human Rules May Determine Environmental 'Tipping Points'
  
  
• April 18, 2011
  CRASAR Now in Japan With the International Rescue Systems Institute, Heading to Minami-Sanriku-Cho
  
  
• April 15, 2011
  Caltech Researchers Use GPS Data to Model Effects of Tidal Loads on Earth's Surface
  
  
• April 14, 2011
  The Eyes Have It: Dinosaurs Hunted by Night
  
  
• April 14, 2011
  The Bouncing Gas
  
  
• April 14, 2011
  New Global Portal for Cyber-physical Systems Research Launched
  
  
• April 14, 2011
  New DNA Nanoforms Take Shape
  
  
• April 14, 2011
  Highest Percentage of Americans in Four Decades Say Financial Situation Has Gotten Worse
  
  
• April 14, 2011
  Carbon Sequestration Estimate in U.S. Increased--Barring a Drought
  
  
• April 13, 2011
  UMD Scientists Make Magnetic New Graphene Discovery
  
  
• April 13, 2011
  The 'Quantum Magnet'
  
  
• April 13, 2011
  Researchers Create Privacy Mode to Help Secure Android Smartphones
  
  
• April 13, 2011
  Researchers Advance Toward Hybrid Spintronic Computer Chips
  
  
• April 13, 2011
  Long-sought Fossil Mammal With Transitional Middle Ear Found
  
  
• April 13, 2011
  Ceramic Coatings May Protect Jet Engines From Volcanic Ash
  
  
• April 13, 2011
  Biochemist Uses Computer Models to Study Protein Involved With Cancer, aging and Chronic Disease
  
  
• April 12, 2011
  Study Finds Public Relatively Unconcerned About Nanotechnology Risks
  
  
• April 12, 2011
  Researchers Discover the Cause of Irradiation-induced Instability in Materials Surfaces
  
  
• April 12, 2011
  Rainbow-trapping Scientist Now Strives to Slow Light Waves Even Further
  
  
• April 12, 2011
  Circadian Rhythms Spark Plants' Ability to Survive Freezing Weather
  
  
• April 12, 2011
  Birds Inherited Strong Sense of Smell From Dinosaurs
  
  
• April 12, 2011
  Birds Inherited Sense of Smell From Dinosaurs ... and Improved It
  
  
• April 11, 2011
  Physicists Discover New Way to Visualize Warped Space and Time
  
  
• April 11, 2011
  Molecular Frameworks Show Potential for Better Solar Cells
  
  
• April 11, 2011
  Electric Yellowstone
  
  
• April 10, 2011
  West Antarctic Warming Triggered by Warmer Sea Surface in Tropical Pacific
  
  
• April 10, 2011
  New Genetic Study Helps to Solve Darwin's Mystery About the Ancient Evolution of Flowering Plants
  
  
• April 10, 2011
  Accelerated Lab Evolution of Biomolecules Could Yield New Generation of Medicines
  
  
• April 8, 2011
  King Crabs Invade Antarctica, Could Jeopardize Cures for Disease
  
  
• April 8, 2011
  Dowling College Researcher Finds that Nanoparticles Pose Danger to Arctic Ecosystem
  
  
• April 8, 2011
  DOE Announces Nearly $170 Million in Available Funding to Advance Solar Energy Technologies
  
  
• April 7, 2011
  U.S. Students and Science: AAAS Testing Gives New Insight on What They Know and Their Misconceptions
  
  
• April 7, 2011
  Surveys Confirm Enormous Value of Science Museums, 'Free Choice' Learning
  
  
• April 7, 2011
  Starch-controlling Gene Fuels More Protein in Soybean Plants
  
  
• April 7, 2011
  Scientists Make Bamboo Tools to Test Theory Explaining East Asia's Stone Age Tool Scarcity
  
  
• April 7, 2011
  Penn Research Advances Understanding of Lead Selenide Nanowires
  
  
• April 7, 2011
  Instant Evolution in Whiteflies: Just Add Bacteria
  
  
• April 7, 2011
  Free Software Makes Computer Mouse Easier for People With Disabilities
  
  
• April 7, 2011
  Fish That Don't Sleep Point to Genetic Basis for Slumber, NYU Biologists Find
  
  
• April 6, 2011
  Unprepared Cities Vulnerable to Climate Change
  
  
• April 6, 2011
  Under Pressure: Germanium
  
  
• April 6, 2011
  Nano Fit-ness: Helping Enzymes Stay Active and Keep in Shape
  
  
• April 6, 2011
  Biodiversity Improves Water Quality in Streams Through a Division of Labor
  
  
• April 5, 2011
  University of Oklahoma Acquires New Mobile Radar to Better Understand Tornadoes
  
  
• April 5, 2011
  Exploring the Possibilities for Zeolites
  
  
• April 5, 2011
  Early Cancer Treatment Successes Lead to CAREER Award for Rafael Davalos
  
  
• April 5, 2011
  Drought-exposed Leaves Adversely Affect Soil Nutrients, Study Shows
  
  
• April 4, 2011
  When African Animals Hit the Hay
  
  
• April 4, 2011
  Oxygen Sensor Invention Could Benefit Fisheries to Breweries
  
  
• April 4, 2011
  Nanopolymer Shows Promise for Helping Reduce Cancer Side Effects
  
  
• April 4, 2011
  In Fireflies, Flightless Females Lose Out on Gifts From Males
  
  
• April 4, 2011
  Formaldehyde: Poison Could Have Set the Stage for the Origins of Life
  
  
• April 4, 2011
  Algae That Live Inside the Cells of Salamanders Are the First Known Vertebrate Endosymbionts
  
  
• April 4, 2011
  'Epidemiological' Tree Study Shows Impacts of Climate Change on Forests
  
  
• April 3, 2011
  Search for Advanced Materials Aided by Discovery of Hidden Symmetries in Nature
  
  
• April 3, 2011
  Materials Scientists at Harvard Demonstrate the First Macro-scale, Thin-film Solid-oxide Fuel Cell
  
  
• April 1, 2011
  When Food Is Scarce, Hungry Female Spiders Alter Mating Preferences
  
  
• April 1, 2011
  Many U.S. Women Have Children by More Than One Man
  
  
• March 31, 2011
  Poop Reveals an Immigrant in Isle Royale Wolves' Gene Pool
  
  
• March 31, 2011
  Novel Technique Reveals How Glaciers Sculpted Their Valleys
  
  
• March 31, 2011
  New Tool Makes Programs More Efficient Without Sacrificing Safety Functions
  
  
• March 31, 2011
  Human Impacts on the Marine Ecosystems of Antarctica
  
  
• March 31, 2011
  Carnegie Mellon Researchers Electrify Polymerization
  
  
• March 31, 2011
  Are We Really Communicating Uncertain Climate Risks?
  
  
• March 31, 2011
  Archaeologists Explore Iraqi Marshes for Origins of Urbanization
  
  
• March 30, 2011
  Warm Water Causes Extra-cold Winters in Northeastern North America and Northeastern Asia
  
  
• March 30, 2011
  To Meet, Greet or Retreat During Flu Epidemics?
  
  
• March 30, 2011
  Study: Emissions Trading Doesn't Cause Pollution 'Hot Spots'
  
  
• March 30, 2011
  Researchers Make the Leap to Whole-cell Simulations
  
  
• March 30, 2011
  Butterfly Study Reveals Traits and Genes Associated With Establishment of New Populations
  
  
• March 30, 2011
  Astrophysicist: White Dwarfs Could be Fertile Ground for Other Earths
  
  
• March 30, 2011
  'Spincasting' Holds Promise for Creation of Nanoparticle Thin Films
  
  
• March 29, 2011
  Like Products, Plants Wait for Optimal Configuration Before Market Success
  
  
• March 28, 2011
  UC Pioneers Research on Environmental Practices of Ancient Maya
  
  
• March 28, 2011
  Twinkle, Twinkle, Quantum Dot--New Particles Can Change Colors and Tag Molecules
  
  
• March 28, 2011
  SU Physicists First to Observe Rare Particles Produced at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN
  
  
• March 28, 2011
  Study Sheds Light on How Heat Is Transported to Greenland Glaciers
  
  
• March 28, 2011
  Icebergs in the Antarctic Play Important Role in Carbon Cycle
  
  
• March 28, 2011
  How Do Plants Fight Disease?
  
  
• March 25, 2011
  Research May Lead to New Treatments for Parkinson’s Disease and Other Neurological Disorders
  
  
• March 25, 2011
  Open-source Software Designed to Minimize Synthetic Biology Risks
  
  
• March 24, 2011
  New Research Suggests Wild Birds May Play a Role in the Spread of Bird Flu
  
  
• March 24, 2011
  iMobot Rolls, Crawls and Creeps
  
  
• March 24, 2011
  Can We Get More Social Benefits From Forests and Have Higher Biodiversity?
  
  
• March 24, 2011
  Algae, Bacteria Hogged Oxygen After Ancient Mass Extinction, Slowed Marine Life Recovery
  
  
• March 24, 2011
  'Can You Hear Me Now?' Researchers Detail How Neurons Decide How to Transmit Information
  
  
• March 23, 2011
  Syracuse University Chemist Develops Technique to Use Light to Predict Molecular Crystal Structures
  
  
• March 23, 2011
  Larger Female Hyenas Produce More Offspring
  
  
• March 23, 2011
  Epigenomic Findings Illuminate Veiled Variants
  
  
• March 22, 2011
  Sign Language Users Read Words and See Signs Simultaneously
  
  
• March 22, 2011
  Nanomodified Surfaces Seal Leg Implants Against Infection
  
  
• March 22, 2011
  In the Race of Life, Better an Adaptable Tortoise Than a Fit Hare
  
  
• March 22, 2011
  Evolutionary 'Winners' and 'Losers' Revealed in Collaborative Study
  
  
• March 22, 2011
  Biofilm Reorganization: Back to the Theoretical Drawing Board
  
  
• March 21, 2011
  Templated Growth Technique Produces Graphene Nanoribbons With Metallic Properties
  
  
• March 21, 2011
  Seeing in Stereo: Engineers Invent Lens for 3-D Microscope
  
  
• March 21, 2011
  Research Brings Habitat Models Into the Future
  
  
• March 21, 2011
  Program Highlights How to Foster Entrepreneurship in Engineering, Research Community
  
  
• March 21, 2011
  Primordial Soup Gets Spicier
  
  
• March 21, 2011
  MU Researchers Use Motion Sensors to Determine Equine Lameness
  
  
• March 21, 2011
  How the Lily Blooms
  
  
• March 20, 2011
  New Imaging Technique Provides Rapid, High-definition Chemistry
  
  
• March 17, 2011
  UF Researcher: Flowering Plant Study 'Catches Evolution in the Act'
  
  
• March 17, 2011
  Study Finds More Efficient Means of Creating, Arranging Carbon Nanofibers
  
  
• March 17, 2011
  New Plant Species Gives Insights Into Evolution
  
  
• March 16, 2011
  Purdue Startup Hopes to Change the Way We Test Cancer Drugs
  
  
• March 15, 2011
  Creation of Optical Knots Offers New Power Source
  
  
• March 14, 2011
  Seedless Cherimoya, the Next Banana?
  
  
• March 14, 2011
  Nanorods Developed in UC Riverside Lab Could Greatly Improve Visual Display of Information
  
  
• March 14, 2011
  Gender Stereotypes About Math Develop As Early As Second Grade
  
  
• March 14, 2011
  Fundamental Discovery Could Lead to Better Memory Chips
  
  
• March 14, 2011
  Brown Biologist Wins NSF's Waterman Award
  
  
• March 10, 2011
  UWM Study Finds Work Climate the Main Reason Women Leave Engineering
  
  
• March 10, 2011
  U.S. Commerce Department Announces Launch of i6 Green Challenge to Promote Clean Energy Innovation and Economic Growth
  
  
• March 10, 2011
  Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Scientists Co-Author Paper on Wiring Diagram of the Brain
  
  
• March 10, 2011
  In Celebration of Women's History Month, McWhinnie First Woman to Sail in Antarctic Waters
  
  
• March 10, 2011
  EERI'S Learning from Earthquakes Program to Send Team to New Zealand: Scientists and Engineers to Bring Back Lessons
  
  
• March 10, 2011
  Aging Rates, Gender Gap in Mortality Similar Across All Primates
  
  
• March 10, 2011
  Age Affects Us All
  
  
• March 10, 2011
  A Small Quantum Leap
  
  
• March 9, 2011
  Tiny Gems Take Big Step Toward Battling Cancer
  
  
• March 9, 2011
  Study Shows How Plants Sort and Eliminate Genes Over Millennia
  
  
• March 9, 2011
  Student Innovator at Rensselaer Uses Sound Waves, T-rays for Safer Detection of Bombs
  
  
• March 9, 2011
  Rutgers Researchers Identify Materials That May Deliver More 'Bounce'
  
  
• March 9, 2011
  Physicists Measure Current-induced Torque in Nonvolatile Magnetic Memory Devices
  
  
• March 9, 2011
  New Study Shows Government Spending Preferences of Americans
  
  
• March 9, 2011
  Iowa State Engineer Studies Damage Caused by New Zealand Earthquake
  
  
• March 8, 2011
  Ultrafast Laser 'Scribing' Technique to Cut Cost, Hike Efficiency of Solar Cells
  
  
• March 8, 2011
  Real March Madness Is Relying on Seedings to Determine Final Four
  
  
• March 7, 2011
  Web Use Doesn't Encourage Belief in Political Rumors, but E-mail Does
  
  
• March 7, 2011
  Virginia Tech Researcher Seeks to Use Electrical Stimulation to Give Voice to Stroke Patients
  
  
• March 7, 2011
  UNM Researchers Publish First Steps to Drug Delivery Using Molecular Spiders
  
  
• March 7, 2011
  Stretchable Balloon Electronics Get to the Heart of Cardiac Medicine
  
  
• March 7, 2011
  Researchers Develop Curious Snapshot of Powerful Retinal Pigment and Its Partners
  
  
• March 7, 2011
  Iowa State, Ames Lab Researcher Hunts for Green Catalysts
  
  
• March 7, 2011
  DNA Better Than Eyes When Counting Endangered Species
  
  
• March 7, 2011
  Columbia Engineer Observes Surprising Behavior of Cells During Blood-vessel Formation
  
  
• March 7, 2011
  Cardiac Catheter That Can Do It All
  
  
• March 3, 2011
  Some Antarctic Ice is Forming from Bottom
  
  
• March 3, 2011
  California Islands Give Up Evidence of Early Seafaring
  
  
• March 3, 2011
  Black Holes: A Model for Superconductors?
  
  
• March 2, 2011
  Scripps Oceanography Researchers Discover Arctic Blooms Occurring Earlier
  
  
• March 2, 2011
  New Kind of Optical Fiber Developed
  
  
• March 2, 2011
  Has the Earth's Sixth Mass Extinction Already Arrived?
  
  
• March 2, 2011
  Combined Molecular Study Techniques Reveal More About DNA Proteins
  
  
• March 2, 2011
  Algal Antifreeze Makes Inroads Into Ice
  
  
• March 1, 2011
  New 'Frozen Smoke' May Improve Robotic Surgery
  
  
• March 1, 2011
  Global ISU Study: Invasive Species Widespread, but Not More Than at Home Range
  
  
• March 1, 2011
  Ecological Adaptation Likely to Influence Impacts of Climate Change
  
  
• February 28, 2011
  Stretched Rubber Offers Simpler Method for Assembling Nanowires
  
  
• February 28, 2011
  Silk Moth's Antenna Inspires New Nanotech Tool With Applications in Alzheimer's Research
  
  
• February 28, 2011
  Probing Atomic Chicken Wire
  
  
• February 28, 2011
  Missing Chromium Is Clue to Planet Formation
  
  
• February 28, 2011
  Mating Mites Trapped in Amber Reveal Sex Role Reversal
  
  
• February 28, 2011
  Increasing Processor Efficiency by 'Shutting Off the Lights'
  
  
• February 25, 2011
  Scientists Find Increase in Microearthquakes After Chilean Quake
  
  
• February 25, 2011
  Overfertilizing Corn Undermines Ethanol
  
  
• February 24, 2011
  UT Researchers Crack Code to Harmful Brown Tides
  
  
• February 24, 2011
  Scientists Find Gene Responsible for Color Patterns in Mice
  
  
• February 24, 2011
  Redesign of U.S. Donor-liver Network Could Boost Transplants by Several Hundred Per Year
  
  
• February 24, 2011
  Quasar's Outflow Solves Mystery
  
  
• February 24, 2011
  Penn Physicists Develop Scalable Method for Making Graphene
  
  
• February 24, 2011
  Oldest Subarctic North American Human Remains Found
  
  
• February 24, 2011
  Notre Dame Research Offers Important Clues About Grasshopper Population Explosions
  
  
• February 24, 2011
  Language Patterns Are Roller-coaster Ride During Childhood Development
  
  
• February 24, 2011
  Child's Cremation Site Reveals Domestic Life in Paleoindian Alaska
  
  
• February 24, 2011
  Before the Explosion--Volcano's Warning Tremors Explained
  
  
• February 23, 2011
  Simpler Way of Making Proteins Could Lead to New Nanomedicine Agents
  
  
• February 23, 2011
  People With Low Self-esteem Show More Signs of Prejudice
  
  
• February 23, 2011
  Nanowire Research at Stevens Makes Cover of Applied Physics Letters
  
  
• February 23, 2011
  MIT Scientists Say Ocean Currents Cause Microbes to Filter Light
  
  
• February 23, 2011
  Kent State Geology Professor and Research Team Present Findings Studying Drought
  
  
• February 23, 2011
  Arizona State University Archaeologist Models Past and Future Landscapes
  
  
• February 22, 2011
  Toward Computers That Fit on a Pen Tip: New Technologies Usher in the Millimeter-scale Computing Era
  
  
• February 22, 2011
  Texas Leafcutter Ants Aided, But Also Limited, by Cold-tolerant Fungus Crops, Research Shows
  
  
• February 22, 2011
  New Finding in Ribosome Signaling May Lead to Improved Antibiotics
  
  
• February 22, 2011
  Liquid Metal Key to Simpler Creation of Electrodes for Microfluidic Devices
  
  
• February 22, 2011
  Gas Rich Galaxies Confirm Prediction of Modified Gravity Theory
  
  
• February 22, 2011
  Crying Baby Draws Blunted Response in Depressed Mom's Brain
  
  
• February 21, 2011
  Texas-bound: Fungus Keeps Texas Leaf-cutter Ants From Spreading
  
  
• February 21, 2011
  Polygamy Hurt 19th Century Mormon Wives' Evolutionary Fitness
  
  
• February 21, 2011
  Plankton Key to Origin of Earth's First Breathable Atmosphere
  
  
• February 21, 2011
  First Harmful Algal Bloom Species Genome Sequenced
  
  
• February 21, 2011
  Applied Physicists Discover That Migrating Cells Flow Like Glass
  
  
• February 19, 2011
  Super-sharp Radio 'Eye' Remeasuring the Universe
  
  
• February 19, 2011
  Plants That Can Move Inspire New Adaptive Structures
  
  
• February 18, 2011
  UC-Santa Cruz Scientist Uses Storm-chasing Weather Radar to Track Bat Populations
  
  
• February 18, 2011
  Scientists Uncover Surprising Features of Bear Hibernation
  
  
• February 18, 2011
  Really Big Eruptions, Lots and Lots of CO₂
  
  
• February 18, 2011
  Physicists Build Bigger 'Bottles' of Antimatter to Unlock Nature's Secrets
  
  
• February 18, 2011
  'Telecoupling' Explains Why It's a Small (and Fast) World, After All
  
  
• February 17, 2011
  Video Game Introduces Youths to Big Ideas About a Nano-sized World
  
  
• February 17, 2011
  Subtle Shifts, Not Major Sweeps, Drove Human Evolution
  
  
• February 17, 2011
  Plants Cloned as Seeds
  
  
• February 17, 2011
  Oldest Fossils of Large Seaweeds, Possible Animals Tell Story About Oxygen in an Ancient Ocean
  
  
• February 17, 2011
  Magma Power for Geothermal Energy?
  
  
• February 17, 2011
  Gender Gap: Selection Bias Snubs Scholarly Achievements of Female Scientists
  
  
• February 16, 2011
  To Escape Blame, Be a Victim, Not a Hero, New Study Finds
  
  
• February 16, 2011
  Global Warming May Reroute Evolution
  
  
• February 16, 2011
  Geologists Get Unique and Unexpected Opportunity to Study Magma
  
  
• February 15, 2011
  U.S. Public's Knowledge of Science: Getting Better but a Long Way to Go
  
  
• February 15, 2011
  Tick Population Plummets in Absence of Lizard Hosts
  
  
• February 14, 2011
  World Phosphorous Use Crosses Critical Threshold
  
  
• February 14, 2011
  P Summit Calls for a 'New Alchemy' Around Phosphorus and Food
  
  
• February 14, 2011
  Monitoring Killer Mice From Space
  
  
• February 14, 2011
  Collaboration Leads to Discovery, Confirmation of Unexpected Form of Ice
  
  
• February 13, 2011
  Study Finds Massive Flux of Gas, in Addition to Liquid Oil, at BP Well Blowout in Gulf
  
  
• February 13, 2011
  Jewel-toned Organic Phosphorescent Crystals: A New Class of Light-emitting Material
  
  
• February 11, 2011
  Team Hopes to Cut Years Off Development Time of New Antibiotics
  
  
• February 11, 2011
  On Their Own Two Feet
  
  
• February 11, 2011
  In Online Dating, Blacks More Open to Romancing Whites Than Vice Versa
  
  
• February 10, 2011
  Study Shows That Defensive Military Alliances Enhance Peace
  
  
• February 10, 2011
  Simple Marine Worms Distantly Related to Humans
  
  
• February 10, 2011
  Powerful New Ways to Electronically Mine Research May Lead to Scientific Breakthroughs
  
  
• February 10, 2011
  Newly Discovered Pheromone Linked to Aggressive Behavior in Squid
  
  
• February 10, 2011
  Lake-effect Theory Sinks, but Quake Timing Questions Go On
  
  
• February 9, 2011
  When Nature Calls
  
  
• February 8, 2011
  Scientists Develop Method to Identify Fleetingly Ordered Protein Structures
  
  
• February 8, 2011
  Pollution Controls Used During China Olympics Could Save Lives if Continued
  
  
• February 8, 2011
  In February Journal, UC and Industry Researchers Predict Future of Electronic Devices
  
  
• February 7, 2011
  Words Help People Form Mathematical Concepts
  
  
• February 7, 2011
  Where Did Flowers Come From?
  
  
• February 7, 2011
  Math May Help Calculate Way to Find New Drugs for HIV and Other Diseases
  
  
• February 7, 2011
  Larger Cities Drive Growing Wage Gap Between the Rich and the Poor, Study Shows
  
  
• February 7, 2011
  Bound Neutrons Pave Way to Free Ones
  
  
• February 4, 2011
  New Model by University of Nevada for How Nevada Gold Deposits Formed May Help in Gold Exploration
  
  
• February 4, 2011
  Internet Addresses: An Inevitable Shortage, But an Uneven one
  
  
• February 4, 2011
  Discovery of Jumping Gene Cluster Tangles Tree of Life
  
  
• February 3, 2011
  Wolverine Population Threatened by Climate Change
  
  
• February 3, 2011
  Quantum Quirk: JILA Scientists Pack Atoms Together to Prevent Collisions in Atomic Clock
  
  
• February 3, 2011
  Plant's Immune Defense Revs Up for the Morning Attack
  
  
• February 3, 2011
  New Drought Record From Long-lived Mexican Trees May Illuminate Fates of Past Civilizations
  
  
• February 3, 2011
  Massive Daphnia Genome Leads to Understanding Gene-environment Interactions
  
  
• February 3, 2011
  First Stars in Universe Were Not Alone
  
  
• February 3, 2011
  First Crustacean Genome Is Sequenced
  
  
• February 3, 2011
  Animal With the Most genes? A Tiny Crustacean
  
  
• February 2, 2011
  Two Severe Amazon Droughts in Five Years Alarms Scientists
  
  
• February 2, 2011
  Scripps Research Scientists Develop Powerful New Methodology for Stabilizing Proteins
  
  
• February 2, 2011
  Same Rules Apply to Some Experimental Systems Regardless of Scale
  
  
• February 2, 2011
  New Technique Boosts High-power Potential for Gallium Nitride Electronics
  
  
• February 2, 2011
  New Quartet of Ant Genomes Advanced by International Collaborative
  
  
• February 2, 2011
  Neurobiologists Find That Weak Electrical Fields in the Brain Help Neurons Fire Together
  
  
• February 2, 2011
  Field Study of Smoggy Inversions to End
  
  
• February 2, 2011
  Early Tests Find Nanoshell Therapy Effective Against Brain Cancer
  
  
• February 2, 2011
  Crowd Workers Are Not Online Shakespeares, But Carnegie Mellon Research Shows They Can Write
  
  
• February 1, 2011
  Tuning Graphene Film So It Sheds Water
  
  
• February 1, 2011
  Engineered Cells Could Usher in Programmable Cell Therapies
  
  
• January 31, 2011
  Wealth of Orchid Varieties Is Down to Busy Bees and Helpful Fungi, Says Study
  
  
• January 31, 2011
  UMD Advance Lights Possible Path to Creating Next-gen Computer Chips
  
  
• January 31, 2011
  Resolved to Quit Smoking?
  
  
• January 31, 2011
  Pakistan Floods Last Summer Could Have Been Predicted
  
  
• January 31, 2011
  New Hardware Boosts Communication Speed on Multi-core Chips
  
  
• January 31, 2011
  'Cornell Dots' That Light Up Cancer Cells Go Into Clinical Trials
  
  
• January 31, 2011
  Smart Lasers Could Make Cancer Biopsies Painless, Help Speed New Drugs to Market
  
  
• January 28, 2011
  Island-scale Study Reveals Climate-change Effects
  
  
• January 28, 2011
  A New Appreciation of the Ecology-evolution Dynamic
  
  
• January 27, 2011
  New Transistor for Plastic Electronics Exhibits the Best of Both Worlds
  
  
• January 27, 2011
  Making a Point
  
  
• January 27, 2011
  Caltech Geobiologists Uncover Links Between Ancient Climate Change and Mass Extinction
  
  
• January 27, 2011
  'Catch-up' Growth Signals Revealed
  
  
• January 26, 2011
  The Undead May Influence Biodiversity, Greenhouse Gas Emissions
  
  
• January 26, 2011
  Orangutan DNA More Diverse Than Human's, Remarkably Stable Through the Ages
  
  
• January 26, 2011
  Hardware, Software Advances Help Protect Operating Systems From Attack
  
  
• January 26, 2011
  Fluorescent Color of Coral Larvae Predicts Whether They'll Settle or Swim
  
  
• January 26, 2011
  First Study of Dispersants in Gulf Spill Suggests a Prolonged Deepwater Fate
  
  
• January 26, 2011
  DNA Caught Rock 'n Rollin'
  
  
• January 25, 2011
  The Language of Young Love: The Ways Couples Talk Can Predict Relationship Success
  
  
• January 25, 2011
  New Lab-on-chip Advance Uses Low-cost, Disposable Paper Strips
  
  
• January 25, 2011
  Long-term Hypoxia in Flies Shown to Result in Permanent DNA Changes
  
  
• January 24, 2011
  Spiders Adjust Courtship Signals for Maximum Effect
  
  
• January 24, 2011
  New Use for Nanoscale Transistors
  
  
• January 24, 2011
  GRIN Plasmonics
  
  
• January 21, 2011
  With Cloud Computing, the Mathematics of Evolution May Get Easier to Learn
  
  
• January 21, 2011
  Researchers Discover How to Tame Hammering Droplets
  
  
• January 21, 2011
  New Melt Record for Greenland Ice Sheet
  
  
• January 21, 2011
  Aquatic Food Web Tied to Land
  
  
• January 20, 2011
  University of Tokyo, Rutgers Physicists Unveil Unexpected Properties in Superconducting Material
  
  
• January 20, 2011
  UC-Davis Study Shows Plants Moved Downhill, Not Up, in Warming World
  
  
• January 20, 2011
  Sensors to Detect Explosives, Monitor Food Being Developed at UH
  
  
• January 20, 2011
  Research Finds Practicing Retrieval is Best Tool for Learning
  
  
• January 20, 2011
  New Math Theories Reveal the Nature of Numbers
  
  
• January 20, 2011
  New Device May Revolutionize Computer Memory
  
  
• January 20, 2011
  Long-distance Migration May Help Reduce Infectious Disease Risks for Many Animal Species
  
  
• January 20, 2011
  For Robust Robots, Let Them Be Babies First
  
  
• January 19, 2011
  VIMS Team Glides Into Polar Research
  
  
• January 19, 2011
  Putting the Dead to Work for Conservation Biology
  
  
• January 19, 2011
  New Reactor Paves the Way for Efficiently Producing Fuel from Sunlight
  
  
• January 19, 2011
  Mathematical Model Explains How Complex Societies Emerge, Collapse
  
  
• January 19, 2011
  Big City Life May Make Residents Lean Toward Green, Study Says
  
  
• January 18, 2011
  Stress, Anxiety Both Boon and Bane to Brain
  
  
• January 18, 2011
  Shrinking Snow and Ice Cover Intensify Global Warming
  
  
• January 18, 2011
  Sharply Focused on Neurons, Light Controls a Worm's Behavior
  
  
• January 18, 2011
  Loss of Reflectivity in the Arctic Doubles Estimate of Climate Models
  
  
• January 18, 2011
  Breakthrough in Converting Heat Waste to Electricity
  
  
• January 18, 2011
  Better Than the Human Eye
  
  
• January 17, 2011
  Farther and Farther Apart
  
  
• January 17, 2011
  Australian Birds Attract Mates With 'Scary Movie Effect'
  
  
• January 16, 2011
  Retreat of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet During the Last Glacial Termination
  
  
• January 14, 2011
  Dramatic Ocean Circulation Changes Revealed
  
  
• January 13, 2011
  Writing About Worries Eases Anxiety and Improves Test Performance
  
  
• January 13, 2011
  Study Highlights Flaw in Common Approach of Public Opinion Surveys About Science
  
  
• January 13, 2011
  Self-assembling Structures Open Door to New Class of Materials
  
  
• January 13, 2011
  New Software Quantifies Leaf Venation Networks, Enables Plant Biology Advances
  
  
• January 13, 2011
  New Predator 'Dawn Runner' Discovered in Early Dinosaur Graveyard
  
  
• January 13, 2011
  Fruit Fly Nervous System Provides New Solution to Fundamental Computer Network Problem
  
  
• January 13, 2011
  Forget Planet X! New Technique Could Pinpoint Galaxy X
  
  
• January 13, 2011
  Earth's Hot Past Could be Prologue to Future Climate
  
  
• January 12, 2011
  Virus Killer Gets Supercharged
  
  
• January 12, 2011
  Researchers Show How One Gene Becomes Two (With Different Functions)
  
  
• January 12, 2011
  Cracking a Tooth
  
  
• January 12, 2011
  Biomedical Breakthrough: Blood Vessels for Lab-grown Tissues
  
  
• January 12, 2011
  Astronomers Discover Close-knit Pairs of Massive Black Holes
  
  
• January 11, 2011
  Our Perceptions of Masculinity and Femininity Are Swayed by Our Sense of Touch
  
  
• January 11, 2011
  Gene Helps Plants Use Less Water Without Biomass Loss
  
  
• January 11, 2011
  Coiled Nanowires May Hold Key to Stretchable Electronics
  
  
• January 10, 2011
  Wildflower Colors Tell Butterflies How to do Their Jobs
  
  
• January 10, 2011
  Study Estimates Land Available for Biofuel Crops
  
  
• January 10, 2011
  Species Loss Tied to Ecosystem Collapse and Recovery
  
  
• January 10, 2011
  Possible Missing Link Between Young and Old Galaxies
  
  
• January 10, 2011
  Played by Humans, Scored by Nature, Online Game Helps Unravel Secrets of RNA
  
  
• January 10, 2011
  Oxygen-free Early Oceans Likely Delayed Rise of Life on Planet
  
  
• January 10, 2011
  New Glass Tops Steel in Strength and Toughness
  
  
• January 10, 2011
  How Do You Make Lithium Melt in the Cold?
  
  
• January 10, 2011
  Engineering Team Invents Lab-on-a-chip for Fast, Inexpensive Blood Tests
  
  
• January 10, 2011
  Early Investigations Promising for Detecting Metastatic Breast Cancer Cells
  
  
• January 10, 2011
  'Hot-bunking' Bacterium Recycles Iron to Boost Ocean Metabolism
  
  
• January 9, 2011
  Biogeochemistry at the Core of Global Environmental Solutions
  
  
• January 9, 2011
  Surprise: Dwarf Galaxy Harbors Super-massive Black Hole
  
  
• January 7, 2011
  UC San Diego Engineers Lead National Effort to Save Lives and Buildings During Earthquakes
  
  
• January 7, 2011
  Study Finds Energy Limits Global Economic Growth
  
  
• January 7, 2011
  CMU Research Finds Regional Dialects Are Alive and Well on Twitter
  
  
• January 6, 2011
  UF Study of Lice DNA Shows Humans First Wore Clothes 170,000 Years Ago
  
  
• January 6, 2011
  Princeton Scientists Construct Synthetic Proteins That Sustain Life
  
  
• January 6, 2011
  Plasma Jets Are Prime Suspect in Solar Mystery
  
  
• January 6, 2011
  Iowa State, Ames Lab Researcher Developing Bio-based Polymers That Heal Cracks
  
  
• January 5, 2011
  Study: Graphene Grains Make Atomic Patchwork Quilts
  
  
• January 5, 2011
  Oxygen's Challenge to Early Life
  
  
• January 5, 2011
  Gesturing While Talking Helps Change Your Thoughts
  
  
• January 5, 2011
  Co-management Holds Promise of Sustainable Fisheries Worldwide
  
  
• January 5, 2011
  At South Pole, World's Most Extreme Scientific Construction Project
  
  
• January 4, 2011
  Oceanic 'Garbage Patch' not Nearly as Big as Portrayed in Media
  
  
• January 4, 2011
  Detecting Esophageal Cancer With Light
  
  
• January 4, 2011
  'Nanoscoops' Could Spark New Generation of Electric Automobile Batteries
  
  
• January 3, 2011
  New Glaucoma Test Allows Earlier, More Accurate Detection
  
  

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NEWS FROM THE FIELD FOR 2010

• December 27, 2010
  Broken Glass Yields Clues to Climate Change
  
  
• December 26, 2010
  Microfluidic Device Rapidly Orients Hundreds of Embryos for High-throughput Experiments
  
  
• December 26, 2010
  'Food of the Gods' Genome Sequence Could Make Finest Chocolate Better
  
  
• December 23, 2010
  SU Scientists Find That in the Evolutionary Mating Game, Brawn and Stealth Rule
  
  
• December 23, 2010
  Gatekeeper for Tomato Pollination Identified
  
  
• December 22, 2010
  Researchers Train Software to Help Monitor Climate Change
  
  
• December 22, 2010
  Genome of Extinct Siberian Human Sheds New Light on Modern Human Origins
  
  
• December 22, 2010
  Fossil Finger Bone Yields Genome of a Previously Unknown Human Relative
  
  
• December 22, 2010
  Ever-sharp Urchin Teeth May Yield Tools That Never Need Honing
  
  
• December 21, 2010
  UNH Scientists Help Show Potent GHG Emissions are Three Times Estimated Levels
  
  
• December 21, 2010
  Tumor Cells in Blood May Signal Worse Prognosis in Head and Neck Cancer Patients
  
  
• December 21, 2010
  Psychologists Find Skill in Recognizing Faces Peaks After Age 30
  
  
• December 21, 2010
  New Study Focuses on Nitrogen in Waterways as Cause of Nitrous Oxide in the Atmosphere
  
  
• December 21, 2010
  Fruit Fly Study Digs Deeper Into Poorly Understood Details of Forming Embryos
  
  
• December 20, 2010
  Young Female Chimpanzees Appear to Treat Sticks as Dolls
  
  
• December 20, 2010
  Waterways Contribute to Growth of Potent Greenhouse Gas
  
  
• December 20, 2010
  The Universe's Most Massive Stars Can Form in Near Isolation, New Study Finds
  
  
• December 20, 2010
  Strange New Twist: Berkeley Researchers Discover Möbius Symmetry in Metamaterials
  
  
• December 20, 2010
  New Imaging Advance Illuminates Immune Response in Breathing Lung
  
  
• December 20, 2010
  Milestone: A Methane-metal Marriage
  
  
• December 20, 2010
  Malaria-infected Cells Stiffen, Block Blood Flow
  
  
• December 20, 2010
  Invention Could Improve Cancer Drug Delivery, Lessen Harmful Effects of Chemotherapy
  
  
• December 20, 2010
  Dodds Contributes to New National Study on Nitrogen Water Pollution
  
  
• December 20, 2010
  CCNY-led Interdisciplinary Team Recreates Colonial Hydrology
  
  
• December 19, 2010
  Scientists Take Plasmon Lasers Out of Deep Freeze
  
  
• December 19, 2010
  Scientists Decipher Three Billion-year-old Genomic Fossils
  
  
• December 17, 2010
  Quantum Device Named Science's Breakthrough of the Year
  
  
• December 17, 2010
  K-State Research Looks at Pathogenic Attacks on Host Plants
  
  
• December 17, 2010
  Into the Ice: Completing the IceCube Neutrino Observatory
  
  
• December 16, 2010
  Structural Distortions Emerge From Nothing at the Nanoscale
  
  
• December 16, 2010
  One Tale Told is Two Tails Gained
  
  
• December 16, 2010
  Kids Got the Blues? Maybe They Don't Have Enough Friends
  
  
• December 16, 2010
  How Do You Cut a Nanotube? Lots of Compression
  
  
• December 16, 2010
  First Measurement of Magnetic Field in Earth's Core
  
  
• December 16, 2010
  Fear Discovery Could Lead to New Interventions for PTSD
  
  
• December 16, 2010
  Extinctions, Loss of Habitat Harm Evolutionary Diversity
  
  
• December 16, 2010
  Computer Memory Takes a Spin
  
  
• December 16, 2010
  Breakthrough in Worm Research has Implications for Human Disease Studies
  
  
• December 16, 2010
  Age Doesn't Matter: New Genes Are as Essential as Ancient Ones
  
  
• December 15, 2010
  UGA Researchers Develop Rapid Diagnostic Test for Common Type of Pneumonia
  
  
• December 15, 2010
  Study Improves Understanding of Method for Creating Multi-metal Nanoparticles
  
  
• December 15, 2010
  Polar Bears Still on Thin Ice, but Cutting Greenhouse Gases Now Can Avert Extinction
  
  
• December 15, 2010
  Opportunity Leads to Promiscuity Among Squirrels, Study Finds
  
  
• December 15, 2010
  New Method for Making Tiny Catalysts Holds Promise for Air Quality
  
  
• December 15, 2010
  Ancient Forest Emerges Mummified From the Arctic
  
  
• December 15, 2010
  'Cadillac Desert' Withstands the Test of Time and Technology
  
  
• December 14, 2010
  Two People Receive Kidney Transplants in Pilot Program Using CMU Software
  
  
• December 13, 2010
  Study Probes Link Between Magnetism, Superconductivity
  
  
• December 13, 2010
  Geologist's Discoveries Resolve Debate About Oxygen in Earth's Mantle
  
  
• December 13, 2010
  Capasso Lab Demonstrates Highly Unidirectional 'Whispering Gallery' Microlasers
  
  
• December 13, 2010
  Bering Sea Was Ice-free and Full of Life During Last Warm Period, Study Finds
  
  
• December 12, 2010
  MGH Researchers Develop Faster Method of Engineering Zinc-finger Nucleases
  
  
• December 11, 2010
  Web of International Collaboration Boosts Worldwide Nanotechnology Research
  
  
• December 10, 2010
  Look: What Your Reaction to Someone's Eye Movements Says About Your Politics
  
  
• December 10, 2010
  Iron Legacy Leaves Soil High in Manganese
  
  
• December 10, 2010
  ASU Astronomer Opens New Window Into Early Universe
  
  
• December 10, 2010
  A Positive Step in the Face of Uncertainty
  
  
• December 9, 2010
  When Their Tools Get Dull, Leaf-cutters Switch Jobs
  
  
• December 9, 2010
  Technique Turns Computer Chip Defects Into an Advantage
  
  
• December 9, 2010
  Simulations Aim to Unlock Nature's Process of Biomineralization
  
  
• December 9, 2010
  Rice Physicists Discover Ultra-sensitive Microwave Detector
  
  
• December 9, 2010
  Massive Gene Loss Linked to Pathogen's Stealthy Plant-dependent Life-style
  
  
• December 9, 2010
  Ice-age Reptile Extinctions Provide a Glimpse of Likely Responses to Human-caused Climate Change
  
  
• December 9, 2010
  Gene Hunters Tackle Crop Diseases
  
  
• December 8, 2010
  Virginia Tech Engineer Identifies New Concerns for Antibiotic Resistance, Pollution
  
  
• December 8, 2010
  Researchers Describe Fourth Planet Orbiting HR 8799
  
  
• December 8, 2010
  Bering Sea Chill Yields Fatter Plankton, Pollock Diet Changes
  
  
• December 7, 2010
  Rice Physicists Help Unravel Mystery of Repetitive DNA Segments
  
  
• December 7, 2010
  Pure Nanotube-type Growth Edges Toward the Possible
  
  
• December 7, 2010
  Plants 'Remember' Winter to Bloom in Spring With Help of Special Molecule
  
  
• December 7, 2010
  Nanoparticle Gives Antimicrobial Ability to Fight Listeria Longer
  
  
• December 7, 2010
  Life Thrives in Porous Rock Deep Beneath the Seafloor, Scientists Say
  
  
• December 7, 2010
  Invisible Invasive Species
  
  
• December 7, 2010
  Are Depressed People Too Clean?
  
  
• December 6, 2010
  The LouseBuster Returns
  
  
• December 6, 2010
  Ravenous Foreign Pests Threaten National Treasures
  
  
• December 6, 2010
  New Observations of Exploding Stars Reveal Pauses, Flickers and Flares Not Reliably Seen Before
  
  
• December 6, 2010
  Metabolism Models May Explain Why Alzheimer's Disease Kills Some Neuron Types First
  
  
• December 6, 2010
  Heat Wave Deaths Highest in Early Summer
  
  
• December 6, 2010
  Forest Pests Accumulating Despite Regulations
  
  
• December 3, 2010
  Using New Materials to Make More Reliable Nanoelectromechanical Systems
  
  
• December 3, 2010
  The Gene-environment Enigma
  
  
• December 3, 2010
  Light Touch Brightens Nanotubes
  
  
• December 2, 2010
  Your Web Surfing History is Accessible (Without Your Permission) Via JavaScript
  
  
• December 2, 2010
  Study Predicts Distribution of Gravitational Wave Sources
  
  
• December 2, 2010
  Research Provides Better Understanding of Long-term Changes in the Climate System
  
  
• December 1, 2010
  UF Expert: Biodiversity Loss Correlates With Increases in Infectious Disease
  
  
• December 1, 2010
  Scientists Ratchet up Understanding of Cellular Protein Factory
  
  
• December 1, 2010
  More Focus on Finances Needed to Increase Latino Science and Math Graduates
  
  
• December 1, 2010
  Loss of Species Large and Small Threatens Human Health
  
  
• December 1, 2010
  A 'USB' for Medical Diagnosis?
  
  
• November 30, 2010
  Water Resources Played Important Role in Patterns of Human Settlement, New UNH Research Shows
  
  
• November 30, 2010
  Study: Ecological Effects of Biodiversity Loss Underestimated
  
  
• November 30, 2010
  Snakes on a Rope: Researchers Take a Unique Look at the Climbing Abilities of Boa Constrictors
  
  
• November 30, 2010
  Mystery Dissolves With Calcium Pump Discovery
  
  
• November 30, 2010
  Astronomers Use Moon in Effort to Corral Elusive Cosmic Particles
  
  
• November 29, 2010
  Online Science Project Launched by CU Nobel Laureate Receives $2.5 Million to Enhance Middle School Science
  
  
• November 29, 2010
  NC State and IBM Researchers Discover New Way to Patch Holes in the 'Cloud'
  
  
• November 29, 2010
  Duke Scientists Look Deeper for Coal Ash Hazards
  
  
• November 25, 2010
  Giants Among Us: Research Paper Explores Evolution of the World's Largest Mammals
  
  
• November 25, 2010
  Gender Gap in Physics Exams Reduced by Simple Writing Exercises, Says CU-Boulder Study
  
  
• November 25, 2010
  Discovery at Young Star Hints Magnetism Common to All Cosmic Jets
  
  
• November 24, 2010
  Short, On-chip Light Pulses Will Enable Ultrafast Data Transfer Within Computers
  
  
• November 24, 2010
  Massive Galaxies Formed When Universe was Young
  
  
• November 24, 2010
  How Pathogens Hijack Host Plants
  
  
• November 24, 2010
  Finger-trap Tension Stabilizes Cells' Chromosome-separating Machinery
  
  
• November 24, 2010
  Female Fish--and Humans?--Lose Interest When Their Male Loses a Slugfest
  
  
• November 23, 2010
  Technology Uses Auto Exhaust Heat to Create Electricity, Boost Mileage
  
  
• November 23, 2010
  LSU Sociologist Produces Documentary on Kenyan Election Violence
  
  
• November 23, 2010
  Getting Lost in Buildings: Architecture Can Bias Your Cognitive Map
  
  
• November 22, 2010
  UC Breakthrough May Lead to Disposable E-Readers
  
  
• November 22, 2010
  Making Stars: Studies Show How Cosmic Dust and Gas Shape Galaxy Evolution
  
  
• November 22, 2010
  Gene Find Could Lead to Healthier Food, Better Biofuel Production
  
  
• November 22, 2010
  Flexible Wings Driven by Simple Oscillation May be Viable for Efficient Micro Air Vehicles
  
  
• November 19, 2010
  UH Physicists Study Behavior of Enzyme Linked to Alzheimer's, Cancer
  
  
• November 19, 2010
  SCEC's 'M8' Earthquake Simulation Breaks Computational Records, Promises Better Quake Models
  
  
• November 19, 2010
  Busy Microbial World Discovered in Deepest Ocean Crust Ever Explored
  
  
• November 18, 2010
  Ten Years of Soufriere Hills Volcano Research Published
  
  
• November 18, 2010
  Researchers Uncover Surprise Link Between Weird Quantum Phenomena
  
  
• November 18, 2010
  Bacteria Use ‘Toxic Darts' to Disable Each Other, According to UCSB Scientists
  
  
• November 17, 2010
  Scientists Question Indicator of Fisheries Health, Evidence for 'Fishing Down Food Webs'
  
  
• November 17, 2010
  Pushing Black-hole Mergers to the Extreme: RIT Scientists Achieve 100:1 Mass Ratio
  
  
• November 17, 2010
  Physicists Demonstrate a Four-Fold Quantum Memory
  
  
• November 17, 2010
  Open Study Aims to Create Worldwide Study Group
  
  
• November 17, 2010
  New Technology Gives On-site Assessments in Archaeology
  
  
• November 17, 2010
  Months of Geologic Unrest Signaled Reawakening of Icelandic Volcano
  
  
• November 17, 2010
  Faster Water Flow Means Greater Diversity of Invertebrate Marine Life
  
  
• November 17, 2010
  As Arctic Temperatures Rise, Tundra Fires Increase, Researchers Find
  
  
• November 17, 2010
  Antihydrogen Trapped for First Time
  
  
• November 16, 2010
  The Lifeblood of Leaves: Vein Networks Control Plant Patterns
  
  
• November 16, 2010
  Study Rewrites the Evolutionary History of C4 Grasses
  
  
• November 16, 2010
  Rescue Missions Underway to Save Haiti's Species From Mass Extinctions
  
  
• November 16, 2010
  Organ Network Uses Carnegie Mellon Algorithm to Match Live Kidney Donors With Recipients
  
  
• November 16, 2010
  Methane-powered Laptops May be Closer Than You Think
  
  
• November 16, 2010
  Engineers Test Effects of Fire on Steel Structures
  
  
• November 16, 2010
  Doomsday Messages About Global Warming Can Backfire, New Study Shows
  
  
• November 16, 2010
  A New Twist for Nanopillar Light Collectors
  
  
• November 16, 2010
  Imaging Tool May Aid Nanoelectronics by Screening Tiny Tubes
  
  
• November 15, 2010
  Shortest-pulse X-ray Beams Could Illuminate Atomic, Molecular Interactions
  
  
• November 15, 2010
  New Research Changes Understanding of C4 Plant Evolution
  
  
• November 15, 2010
  Molecular Evolution Proves Source of HIV Infection in Criminal Cases
  
  
• November 15, 2010
  Microsensors Offer First Look at Whether Cell Mass Affects Growth Rate
  
  
• November 14, 2010
  Pitt-led Team Develops Nanoscale Light Sensor Compatible With 'Etch-a-sketch' Nanoelectronic Platform
  
  
• November 12, 2010
  Tests Show Bright Future for Gadonanotubes in Stem Cell Tracking
  
  
• November 12, 2010
  Sleep Makes Your Memories Stronger
  
  
• November 11, 2010
  Tropical Forest Diversity Increased During Ancient Global Warming Event
  
  
• November 11, 2010
  This Faster-growing E. Coli Strain's a Good Thing
  
  
• November 11, 2010
  Scientists Demystify an Enzyme Responsible for Drug and Food Metabolism
  
  
• November 11, 2010
  Graphene's Strength Lies in Its Defects
  
  
• November 11, 2010
  Gene Discovery Suggests Way to Engineer Fast-growing Plants
  
  
• November 10, 2010
  Research Provides New Leads in the Case Against Drug-resistant Biofilms
  
  
• November 9, 2010
  Rural Library Outreach a New Initiative in 'Free-choice Learning' Movement
  
  
• November 9, 2010
  Parents Should Talk About Math Early and Often With Their Children
  
  
• November 9, 2010
  New Timeline for Appearances of Skeletal Animals in Fossil Record Developed by UCSB Researchers
  
  
• November 8, 2010
  Scientists Discover How the Songbird's Brain Controls Timing During Singing
  
  
• November 8, 2010
  Nanogenerators Grow Strong Enough to Power Small Conventional Electronics
  
  
• November 8, 2010
  Iron Stimulates Blooms of Toxin-producing Algae in Open Ocean, Study Finds
  
  
• November 7, 2010
  Threshold Sea Surface Temperature for Hurricanes and Tropical Thunderstorms Is Rising
  
  
• November 5, 2010
  Marshes Show Adverse Effects of Oil Spill
  
  
• November 5, 2010
  Johns Hopkins Researchers Reshape Basic Understanding of Cell Division
  
  
• November 5, 2010
  'Prima Donna' Protein Doesn't Work Well in Pairs
  
  
• November 4, 2010
  Obesity Rate Will Reach at Least 42 Percent, Say Models of Social Contagion
  
  
• November 4, 2010
  NYU Researchers Find Corn Starch Solution Can Help Shape Solid Materials
  
  
• November 4, 2010
  Neutron Stars May Be Too Weak to Power Some Gamma-ray Bursts
  
  
• November 4, 2010
  Missouri Botanical Garden Researchers Discover Eight New Species in Boliva National Parks
  
  
• November 4, 2010
  Iowa State, Ames Laboratory Scientists Advance the Understanding of the Big Getting Bigger
  
  
• November 3, 2010
  Volcanoes Have Shifted Asian Rainfall
  
  
• November 3, 2010
  Moving Holograms: From Science Fiction to Reality
  
  
• November 3, 2010
  Chromosome Imbalances Lead to Predictable Plant Defects
  
  
• November 3, 2010
  Cell Membranes Behave Like Cornstarch and Water
  
  
• November 2, 2010
  Unique Duality: Princeton-led Team Discovers 'Exotic' Superconductor with Metallic Surface
  
  
• November 2, 2010
  U of M Researcher Finds Public Support for HPV Vaccine Wanes When Linked to Controversy
  
  
• November 2, 2010
  Hostile Environments Encourage Political Action in Immigrant Communities
  
  
• November 1, 2010
  Rutgers, Chilean Astrophysicists Discover New Galaxy Clusters Revealed by Cosmic 'Shadows'
  
  
• November 1, 2010
  Researchers Developing Real-Time Electronic Monitoring For Coastal Waters
  
  
• November 1, 2010
  Physics Experiment Finds Violation of Matter/Antimatter Symmetry
  
  
• November 1, 2010
  Grasses Have Potential as Alternate Ethanol Crop, Illinois Study Finds
  
  
• October 29, 2010
  Study: Race Plays a Minor Role in Forging Facebook Friendships
  
  
• October 29, 2010
  Scripps Research Team 'Watches' Formation of Cells' Protein Factories for First Time
  
  
• October 29, 2010
  Dracula Orchids and Goblin Spiders
  
  
• October 29, 2010
  Advance Could Change Modern Electronics
  
  
• October 28, 2010
  Fingers Detect Typos Even When Conscious Brain Doesn't
  
  
• October 27, 2010
  Researchers Find a 'Liberal Gene'
  
  
• October 27, 2010
  New Methods Detect Subtleties in Human Genomes' Repetitive Landscapes
  
  
• October 27, 2010
  New Evidence Supports 'Snowball Earth' as Trigger for Early Animal Evolution
  
  
• October 27, 2010
  Low Elevations Hold Climate Surprises
  
  
• October 27, 2010
  Getting the Big Picture Quickly
  
  
• October 27, 2010
  Educational Researchers Target Earth and Space Sciences
  
  
• October 27, 2010
  Astronomers Discover Most Massive Neutron Star Yet Known
  
  
• October 26, 2010
  Researchers Find a Stable Way to Store the Sun's Heat
  
  
• October 25, 2010
  Study Describes a Tabletop Source of Bright, Coherent X-rays
  
  
• October 25, 2010
  Researchers Find Haiti Quake Caused By Unknown Fault
  
  
• October 25, 2010
  Quakes Don't Completely Shake China's Environmental Gains, Thanks to Conservation Programs
  
  
• October 25, 2010
  New Trove of Fossils Suggests Global Distribution of Tropical Forest Ecosystems in the Eocene
  
  
• October 24, 2010
  Neurons Work Like a Chain of Dominos to Control Action Sequences
  
  
• October 22, 2010
  Algeo Tracks Evidence of 'The Great Dying'
  
  
• October 21, 2010
  Sometimes Smaller Is Better
  
  
• October 21, 2010
  Poor Start in Life Need not Spell Doom in Adulthood
  
  
• October 21, 2010
  Pitt Researchers: Plant-based Plastics not Necessarily Greener Than Oil-based Relatives
  
  
• October 21, 2010
  Nightshades' Mating Habits Strike Uneasy Evolutionary Balance
  
  
• October 21, 2010
  Iowa State, Ames Lab Chemists Discover Proton Mechanism Used by Flu Virus to Infect Cells
  
  
• October 21, 2010
  Coccolithophore Blooms in the Southwest Atlantic
  
  
• October 21, 2010
  Carnegie Mellon Researchers Break Speed Barrier in Solving Important Class of Linear Systems
  
  
• October 20, 2010
  New Research Provides Insights Into Space Weather, Could Benefit Satellites, Aircraft
  
  
• October 20, 2010
  Microbes May Consume Far More Oil-spill Waste Than Earlier Thought
  
  
• October 20, 2010
  Coral Algae (Symbiodinium) Discovered in Black Corals at Never-seen-before Depths
  
  
• October 19, 2010
  System Would Help Haiti Build, Modify Earthquake-prone Structures
  
  
• October 19, 2010
  New Nano Techniques Integrate Electron Gas-producing Oxides With Silicon
  
  
• October 19, 2010
  New Nano Techniques Integrate Electron Gas-producing Oxides with Silicon
  
  
• October 19, 2010
  From Bees to Coral Reefs: How Humans Impact Partnerships in the Natural World
  
  
• October 19, 2010
  Drought May Threaten Much of Globe Within Decades
  
  
• October 19, 2010
  Culturally Inspired Mobile Phone Games Help Chinese Children Learn Language Characters
  
  
• October 18, 2010
  Questions Fuel 'Ask A Biologist' Website Success
  
  
• October 18, 2010
  Geophysicists Claim Conventional Understanding of Earth's Deep-water Cycle Needs Revision
  
  
• October 18, 2010
  Climate Change May Alter Natural Climate Cycles of Pacific
  
  
• October 15, 2010
  National Medal of Science Awarded to Stephen Benkovic of Penn State University
  
  
• October 15, 2010
  Image of Mosquito's Heart Wins First Place in Nikon's 'Small World' Photomicrography Competition
  
  
• October 15, 2010
  Humidity Makes Gecko Feet Stickier
  
  
• October 14, 2010
  Yale Scientist Helps Pinpoint Threats to Life in World's Rivers
  
  
• October 14, 2010
  I Want to See What You See: Babies Treat 'Social Robots' as Sentient Beings
  
  
• October 13, 2010
  UC-Riverside Physicists Pave the Way for Graphene-based Spin Computer
  
  
• October 13, 2010
  Triple-mode Transistors Show Potential
  
  
• October 13, 2010
  New Discoveries in North America's Great Plains Bring Ammonites to Life
  
  
• October 13, 2010
  JILA Unveils Improved 'Molecular Fingerprinting' for Trace Gas Detection
  
  
• October 13, 2010
  Grad Students Help Kids Expand Perception of Scientists
  
  
• October 13, 2010
  Ghosts of the Future
  
  
• October 13, 2010
  Breaking Curveball Too Good to Be True
  
  
• October 12, 2010
  Study of Planarian Hormones May Aid in Understanding Parasitic Flatworms
  
  
• October 12, 2010
  Semiconductor Research Corporation and National Science Foundation Further Fuel Nanoelectronics Research
  
  
• October 12, 2010
  Microchip Technology Rapidly Identifies Compounds for Regrowing Nerves in Live Animals
  
  
• October 12, 2010
  Forget the Coppertone: Water Fleas in Mountain Ponds Can Handle UV Rays
  
  
• October 11, 2010
  Too Much Light at Night May Lead to Obesity, Study Finds
  
  
• October 11, 2010
  Population Trends: Another Influence on Climate Change
  
  
• October 11, 2010
  Giant Star Goes Supernova--and Is Smothered by Its Own Dust
  
  
• October 10, 2010
  Tsunami Risk Higher in Los Angeles, Other Major Cities
  
  
• October 10, 2010
  Rutgers Discovery Paves Way for Development of Efficient, Inexpensive Plastic Solar Cells
  
  
• October 10, 2010
  Researchers Develop Oral Delivery System to Treat Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
  
  
• October 8, 2010
  Why It's Hard to Crash the Electric Grid
  
  
• October 8, 2010
  Taking a Fresh Look
  
  
• October 7, 2010
  Single-crystal Films Could Advance Solar Cells
  
  
• October 7, 2010
  Novel Protein Critical for Cellular Proliferation Discovered
  
  
• October 7, 2010
  New Report Reveals Current Strengths, Shortcomings of Engineering Students' Academic Pathways
  
  
• October 7, 2010
  Brown University Chemists Simplify Biodiesel Conversion
  
  
• October 6, 2010
  Scientists Give Extinct Passenger Pigeon a Place on the Family Tree
  
  
• October 6, 2010
  New Fossil Suggests Dinosaurs Not so Fierce After All
  
  
• October 6, 2010
  Long-extinct Passenger Pigeon Finds a Place in the Family Tree
  
  
• October 6, 2010
  GUMC Researchers Find the Blind Use Visual Brain Area to Improve Other Senses
  
  
• October 6, 2010
  Greatest Warming is in the North, but Biggest Impact on Life is in the Tropics
  
  
• October 6, 2010
  Family Ties Bind Desert Lizards in Social Groups
  
  
• October 6, 2010
  Coral Records Show Ocean Thermocline Rise With Global Warming
  
  
• October 6, 2010
  BLADE Software Eliminates 'Drive-by Downloads' From Malicious Websites
  
  
• October 5, 2010
  UW-built Device Reveals Invisible World Teeming With Microscopic Algae
  
  
• October 5, 2010
  UNH Researcher Helps Identify Key Reproductive Hormone in Oldest Vertebrate
  
  
• October 5, 2010
  The World is Full of Darkness, Reflected in the Physiology of the Human Retina, Penn Researchers Say
  
  
• October 5, 2010
  New Type of Liquid Crystal Promises to Improve Performance of Digital Displays
  
  
• October 5, 2010
  New Graphene Fabrication Method Uses Silicon Carbide Templates to Create Desired Growth
  
  
• October 5, 2010
  New Fossil Suggests Dinosaurs Not so Fierce After All
  
  
• October 5, 2010
  Microfluidic Devices Advance 3-D Tissue Engineering at Stevens
  
  
• October 5, 2010
  Evolutionary Tinkering Produced Complex Proteins With Diverse Functions
  
  
• October 5, 2010
  Early Lung Cancer Detection
  
  
• October 4, 2010
  Doppler Radars Help Increase Monsoon Rainfall Prediction Accuracy
  
  
• October 4, 2010
  Breakthrough E-display Means Electronics With High Speed, High Readability and Low Power Usage
  
  
• October 4, 2010
  Breakthrough Allows Multifunctional Smart Sensors and High-powered Devices on a Computer Chip
  
  
• October 4, 2010
  'Living Voters Guide' Invites Washington Voters to Hash Out Ballot Initiatives
  
  
• October 1, 2010
  Climate Change Forcing a 'Move it or Lose it' Approach to Species Conservation?
  
  
• September 30, 2010
  One-dimensional Window on Superconductivity, Magnetism
  
  
• September 30, 2010
  New Study Finds Groups Demonstrate Distinctive 'Collective Intelligence' When Facing Difficult Tasks
  
  
• September 30, 2010
  Fossilized Giant Penguin Reveals Unusual Colors, Sheds Light on Bird Evolution
  
  
• September 30, 2010
  Fossilized Giant Penguin Feathers Reveal Color, Feather Structure of Ancient Birds
  
  
• September 30, 2010
  Dinosaurs Significantly Taller Than Previously Thought, MU Researcher Finds
  
  
• September 30, 2010
  Catalyst Sandwich
  
  
• September 29, 2010
  Slicing Proteins with Occam's Razor
  
  
• September 29, 2010
  Researchers Find First Genetic Evidence for Loss of Teeth in the Common Ancestor of Baleen Whales
  
  
• September 29, 2010
  Purifying Proteins: Rensselaer Researchers Use NMR to Improve Drug Development
  
  
• September 29, 2010
  Physicists Break Color Barrier for Sending, Receiving Photons
  
  
• September 29, 2010
  Newly Discovered Planet May be First Truly Habitable Exoplanet
  
  
• September 29, 2010
  Genome Inversion Gives Plant a New Lifestyle
  
  
• September 28, 2010
  Model Aims to Reduce Disaster Toll on City's Social, Economic Fabric
  
  
• September 28, 2010
  Less Than Half of Essential Workers Willing to Report to Work During a Serious Pandemic
  
  
• September 28, 2010
  Individual Mutations Are Very Slow to Promote Tumor Growth
  
  
• September 28, 2010
  'Firefly' Stem Cells May Repair Damaged Hearts
  
  
• September 27, 2010
  Tile Drainage Directly Related to Nitrate Loss
  
  
• September 27, 2010
  Semiconductor Could Turn Heat Into Computing Power
  
  
• September 27, 2010
  Semiconductor Could Turn Heat Into Computing Power
  
  
• September 27, 2010
  Let Your Fingers Do the Driving
  
  
• September 27, 2010
  Insecticides From Genetically Modified Corn Present in Adjacent Streams
  
  
• September 27, 2010
  A Shot to the Heart: Nanoneedle Delivers Quantum Dots to Cell Nucleus
  
  
• September 26, 2010
  Researchers Convert Quantum Signals to Telecom Wavelengths, Increase Memory Times
  
  
• September 23, 2010
  Taking a New Look at Old Digs: Trampling Animals May Alter Stone Age Sites
  
  
• September 23, 2010
  Robotic Arm's Big Flaw: Patients Say It's 'Too Easy'
  
  
• September 23, 2010
  Researchers Generate Compelling Computational Results On TACC's Longhorn Visualization Cluster
  
  
• September 23, 2010
  Researchers Discover Less Expensive Low-temperature Catalyst for Hydrogen Purification
  
  
• September 23, 2010
  Nonstick Coating of a Protein Found in Semen Reduces HIV Infection
  
  
• September 23, 2010
  NIH, NSF & EDA Partner to Recognize Six Projects in Competition to Reward American Innovation
  
  
• September 23, 2010
  More Predators Doesn't Equal More Danger for Urban Bird Nest
  
  
• September 23, 2010
  High Pressure Experiments Reproduce Mineral Structures 1,800 Miles Deep
  
  
• September 23, 2010
  Genetic Clues to Evolution of Jaws in Vertebrates Unearthed by CU-led Team
  
  
• September 23, 2010
  Caltech Researchers Design a New Nanomesh Material
  
  
• September 22, 2010
  Video Simulations of Real Earthquakes Made Available to Worldwide Network
  
  
• September 22, 2010
  Amazing Horned Dinosaurs Unearthed on 'Lost Continent'
  
  
• September 21, 2010
  The Achilles' Heel of Tendons
  
  
• September 21, 2010
  Psychologist Shows Why We 'Choke' Under Pressure--and How to Avoid It
  
  
• September 21, 2010
  New Research Improves Ability to Detect Malware in Cloud-computing Systems
  
  
• September 21, 2010
  New Research Improves Ability To Detect Malware in Cloud-Computing Systems
  
  
• September 21, 2010
  New MSU Research Sheds Light on How We Become Altruistic
  
  
• September 21, 2010
  Mixed-use Neighborhoods Reduce Some Violent Crimes, Study Says
  
  
• September 21, 2010
  Grasping the Tree of Life: There is an App for That, Too
  
  
• September 20, 2010
  USC Lab Releases Smartphone App That Measures Particulate Air Pollution
  
  
• September 20, 2010
  Purdue Researcher Cracks Open Secret of Oysters' Ability to Stick Together
  
  
• September 20, 2010
  New App for Genes on Earth is Tool for Scientists and Entertaining for All
  
  
• September 20, 2010
  NASA Study Shows Desert Dust Cuts Colorado River Flow
  
  
• September 20, 2010
  Nanocatalyst Is a Gas
  
  
• September 20, 2010
  For Neurons to Work as a Team, It Helps to Have a Beat
  
  
• September 17, 2010
  Study Finds Possible 'Persistence' Switch for Tuberculosis
  
  
• September 17, 2010
  Analysis of the Chocolate Genome Could Lead to Improved Crops and Products
  
  
• September 16, 2010
  UCSB, Texas A&M Scientists Document Fate of Deep Hydrocarbon Plumes in Gulf Oil Spill
  
  
• September 16, 2010
  UCI Scientists Decode Genomes of Sexually Precocious Fruit Flies
  
  
• September 16, 2010
  Scientific Understanding of T. Rex Revised by a Decade of New Research and Discovery
  
  
• September 16, 2010
  3-D Computer Simulations Help Envision Supernovae Explosions
  
  
• September 16, 2010
  'Archeologists of the Air' Isolate Pristine Aerosol Particles in the Amazon
  
  
• September 15, 2010
  Glaciers Help High-latitude Mountains Grow Taller
  
  
• September 15, 2010
  Glaciers Boost Mountain Growth in Andes
  
  
• September 15, 2010
  Electron Switch Between Molecules Points Way to New High-powered Organic Batteries
  
  
• September 14, 2010
  Putting a Spin on Light and Atoms
  
  
• September 14, 2010
  Adapting to Darkness: How Behavioral and Genetic Changes Helped Cavefish Survive Extreme Environment
  
  
• September 13, 2010
  Would a Molecular Horse Trot, Pace or Glide Across a Surface?
  
  
• September 13, 2010
  MIT Researchers Develop a Way to Funnel Solar Energy
  
  
• September 13, 2010
  Male Maturity Shaped by Early Nutrition
  
  
• September 12, 2010
  New Artificial Skin Could Make Prosthetic Limbs and Robots More Sensitive
  
  
• September 12, 2010
  Engineers Make Artificial Skin Out of Nanowires
  
  
• September 10, 2010
  Carnegie Mellon Researchers Develop Method to Help Computer Vision Systems Decipher Outdoor Scenes
  
  
• September 9, 2010
  OU Study on Genetics in Fruit Flies Leads to New Method for Understanding Brain Function
  
  
• September 8, 2010
  Study Identifies Critical 'Traffic Engineer' of the Nervous System
  
  
• September 8, 2010
  Study Adds New Clue to How Last Ice Age Ended
  
  
• September 8, 2010
  Forcing Mismatched Elements Together Could Yield Better Solar Cells
  
  
• September 8, 2010
  Education More Important Than Knowledge in Stopping Spread of HIV in Africa
  
  
• September 8, 2010
  Brown-led Research Divines Structure for Class of Proteins
  
  
• September 7, 2010
  The Brain Speaks
  
  
• September 6, 2010
  Caltech Scientists Create New Process to 'Program' Cancer Cell Death
  
  
• September 5, 2010
  Fears of a Decline in Bee Pollination Confirmed
  
  
• September 5, 2010
  'Slow Light' on a Chip Holds Promise for Optical Communications
  
  
• September 3, 2010
  Research Shows Continued Decline of Oregon's Largest Glacier
  
  
• September 3, 2010
  Magnetism's Subatomic Roots
  
  
• September 2, 2010
  UCLA Chemists, Engineers Achieve World Record With High-speed Graphene Transistors
  
  
• September 2, 2010
  Melding Wi-Fi With Digital TV 'White Space'
  
  
• September 2, 2010
  Edible Nanostructures
  
  
• September 2, 2010
  Death of the 'Doughnut'
  
  
• September 1, 2010
  Study Finds Commercial Organic Farms Have Better Fruit and Soil, Lower Environmental Impact
  
  
• September 1, 2010
  Researchers Create New Class of Piezoelectric Logic Devices Using Zinc Oxide Nanowires
  
  
• September 1, 2010
  New Research Finds Evidence of Charitable Behavior in Bacteria
  
  
• September 1, 2010
  Mimicking Fish and Tailoring Radar to Warn of Bridge Peril
  
  
• September 1, 2010
  Economic Theory Suggests Symbiosis is Driven by Simple Self-interest, Not Rewards or Punishment
  
  
• September 1, 2010
  Capacity for Exercise Can Be Inherited, UC-Riverside Biologists Find
  
  
• September 1, 2010
  Caltech Mineral Physicists Find New Scenery at Earth's Core-mantle Boundary
  
  
• August 31, 2010
  Study: The Bright Red of Cardinals Means Less in Urban Areas
  
  
• August 31, 2010
  Silicon Oxide Circuits Break Barrier
  
  
• August 31, 2010
  New Pump Created for Microneedle Drug-delivery Patch
  
  
• August 31, 2010
  Listen Up! U-M Experiment Records Ultrafast Chemical Reaction With Vibrational Echoes
  
  
• August 31, 2010
  First Clear Evidence of Feasting in Early Humans
  
  
• August 30, 2010
  Workers Rate Safety Most Important Workplace Issue in New Labor Day Study
  
  
• August 30, 2010
  Strange Predatory Dinosaur From Europe's Late Cretaceous Discovered
  
  
• August 29, 2010
  Location Determines Social Network Influence, CCNY-led Team Finds
  
  
• August 27, 2010
  Major Moral Decisions Use General-purpose Brain Circuits to Manage Uncertainty
  
  
• August 26, 2010
  Prediction of Intrinsic Magnetism at Silicon Surfaces Could Lead to Single-spin Magnetoelectronics
  
  
• August 26, 2010
  New View of Tectonic Plates
  
  
• August 26, 2010
  Distant Star's Sound Waves Reveal Cycle Similar to the Sun's
  
  
• August 25, 2010
  Sunlight Exposes Divorcees When Asteroids Split Up
  
  
• August 25, 2010
  Scientists Say Natural Selection Alone Can Explain Eusociality
  
  
• August 25, 2010
  Rutgers Researchers Find a 'Great Fizz' of Carbon Dioxide at the End of the Last Ice Age
  
  
• August 25, 2010
  Plant Scientists Move Closer to Making Any Crop Drought-tolerant
  
  
• August 25, 2010
  North American Continent is a Layer Cake, Scientists Discover
  
  
• August 25, 2010
  Microneedle, Quantum Dot Study Opens Door to New Clinical Cancer Tools
  
  
• August 25, 2010
  Evolution Writ Small
  
  
• August 24, 2010
  Study Shows Carnivore Species Shrank During Global Warming Event
  
  
• August 24, 2010
  See Amazing New Sun Images From NJIT's Big Bear Solar Observatory
  
  
• August 24, 2010
  Secrets of the Gecko Foot Help Robot Climb
  
  
• August 24, 2010
  New Study Shows How Tortoises, Alligators Thrived in High Arctic Some 50 Million Years Ago
  
  
• August 24, 2010
  'Spintronics' Breakthrough Holds Promise for Next-generation Computers
  
  
• August 23, 2010
  What the Locals Ate 10,000 Years Ago
  
  
• August 23, 2010
  Sensor Important to Understanding Root, Seedling Development
  
  
• August 23, 2010
  Researchers Gain Focus on a Bug With Bifocals
  
  
• August 23, 2010
  Princeton Builds Research Ties With Historically Black Universities
  
  
• August 23, 2010
  Plants Give Up Some Deep Secrets of Drought Resistance
  
  
• August 23, 2010
  Math From the Heart: Simulating Stent Design and Coating
  
  
• August 22, 2010
  Ancient Microbes Responsible for Breathing Life Into Ocean 'Deserts'
  
  
• August 20, 2010
  Researchers Advance Understanding of Enzyme That Regulates DNA
  
  
• August 20, 2010
  Big Quakes More Frequent Than Thought on San Andreas Fault
  
  
• August 19, 2010
  WHOI Scientists Map and Confirm Origin of Large, Underwater Hydrocarbon Plume in Gulf
  
  
• August 19, 2010
  Slowing Urban Sprawl, Adding Forests Curb Floods and Help Rivers
  
  
• August 19, 2010
  Sea Education Association Finds Widespread Floating Plastic Debris in the Western North Atlantic Ocean
  
  
• August 19, 2010
  Rice Sociologist Finds Male Scientists Regret Parenthood Decisions More Than Female Counterparts
  
  
• August 19, 2010
  Ho-hum to High Performance: Researchers 'Stretch' a Lackluster Material Into a Possible Electronics Revolution
  
  
• August 18, 2010
  Not One, but Two Great Earthquakes Caused 2009 Samoa-Tonga Tsunami Disaster
  
  
• August 18, 2010
  New Computer Model Advances Climate Change Research
  
  
• August 18, 2010
  Ancient 'Terror Bird' Used Powerful Beak to Jab Like an Agile Boxer
  
  
• August 18, 2010
  A Seismic Triple Whammy
  
  
• August 17, 2010
  Possible Discovery of Earliest Animal Life Pushes Back Fossil Record
  
  
• August 17, 2010
  Passing in the Night: Examining Work Schedules, Gender and Marital Quality
  
  
• August 17, 2010
  Evolution May Have Pushed Humans Toward Greater Risk for Type 1 Diabetes, Stanford Study Shows
  
  
• August 17, 2010
  Brain Gene Expression Changes When Honey Bees Go the Distance
  
  
• August 16, 2010
  Survey Shows Many are Still Clueless on How to Save Energy
  
  
• August 16, 2010
  Resolving the Paradox of the Antarctic Sea Ice
  
  
• August 16, 2010
  Drugs Encased in Nanoparticles Travel to Tumors on the Surface of Immune-system Cells
  
  
• August 13, 2010
  The Nano World of Shrinky Dinks
  
  
• August 13, 2010
  Cow Vaccines Go Vroom
  
  
• August 12, 2010
  Wireless Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems in Cars May Compromise Privacy, Pose Security Threat
  
  
• August 12, 2010
  Surf Your Way to a Deep Ocean Research Expedition
  
  
• August 12, 2010
  Extended Solar Minimum Linked to Changes in Sun's Conveyor Belt
  
  
• August 12, 2010
  Einstein@Home 'Citizen Scientists' Discover a New Pulsar in Arecibo Telescope Data
  
  
• August 11, 2010
  Dark-matter Search Plunges Physicists to New Depths
  
  
• August 10, 2010
  New Paper Offers Breakthrough on Blinking Molecules Phenomenon
  
  
• August 10, 2010
  Innovation Could Bring Super-accurate Sensors, Crime Forensics
  
  
• August 10, 2010
  Dogs' Physical Traits Controlled by Small Number of Genetic Regions, Stanford Researcher Finds
  
  
• August 10, 2010
  Distracted Drivers Benefit From In-car Driving Coach
  
  
• August 10, 2010
  Distinguishing 'Senior Moments' From Alzheimer's
  
  
• August 9, 2010
  Study Shows that Hitchhiking Bacteria Can Go Against the Flow
  
  
• August 9, 2010
  Study of Electron Orbits in Multilayer Graphene Finds Unexpected Energy Gaps
  
  
• August 9, 2010
  Researchers Successfully Test New Alternative to Traditional Semiconductors
  
  
• August 9, 2010
  Popping Cells Surprise Living Circuits Creators
  
  
• August 9, 2010
  Forest Fires Help Power the Nitrogen Cycle
  
  
• August 6, 2010
  Researchers Find Clues to Gut Immunity Evolution, Reveal Similarities Between Fish/Humans
  
  
• August 6, 2010
  MIT Physicists Use Offshoot of String Theory to Describe Puzzling Behavior of Superconductors
  
  
• August 6, 2010
  Greenland Glacier Calves Island Four Times the Size of Manhattan
  
  
• August 5, 2010
  UT Professor Uncovers Clues into How Viruses Jump from Hosts
  
  
• August 5, 2010
  Robot Climbs Walls
  
  
• August 5, 2010
  Indonesian Ice Field May be Gone in a Few Years, Core May Contain Secrets of Pacific El Niño Events
  
  
• August 5, 2010
  Frogs Evolution Tracks Rise of Himalayas and Rearrangement of Southeast Asia
  
  
• August 5, 2010
  BU Scientists Release Alarming Data on Regional Bat Populations
  
  
• August 5, 2010
  Bats Facing Regional Extinction From Rapidly Spreading Disease
  
  
• August 5, 2010
  Apathetic Aphids With Attitude Become Easier Prey for Ladybugs
  
  
• August 4, 2010
  Quantum Networks Advance With Entanglement of Photons, Solid-state Qubits
  
  
• August 4, 2010
  NSF Funds Innovative Approach to Biomimetic Nanofiber Bone Regeneration
  
  
• August 4, 2010
  New Findings Promising for 'Transformation Optics,' Cloaking
  
  
• August 4, 2010
  Mammal-like Crocodile Fossil Found in East Africa, Scientists Report
  
  
• August 4, 2010
  Improving Armor, Helmets and Diagnosis
  
  
• August 4, 2010
  First Nearshore Survey of Antarctic Krill Reveals High-density, Stable Population in Shallow Waters
  
  
• August 4, 2010
  Computer Games Offer Potential Path to a Cure
  
  
• August 4, 2010
  Caltech Biologists Discover MicroRNAs That Control Function of Blood Stem Cells
  
  
• August 4, 2010
  Ancient Hawaiian Glaciers Reveal Clues to Global Climate Impacts
  
  
• August 4, 2010
  A Breakthrough in Adaptive Optics
  
  
• August 3, 2010
  Texas A&M Spring Graduate Contributes to Mental Retardation Research Published in Nature
  
  
• August 3, 2010
  Study Finds Permafrost Warming, Monitoring Improving
  
  
• August 3, 2010
  Carnivorous Mice Spread Deadly Plague in Prairie Dog Towns, Stanford Study Finds
  
  
• August 2, 2010
  What the Doctor Prescribes: Customized Medical-image Databases
  
  
• August 2, 2010
  Uncovering Life's Beginnings
  
  
• August 2, 2010
  UH Salt Marsh Expert Studies Damage to Gulf Coast
  
  
• August 2, 2010
  People Reject Popular Opinions if They Already Hold Opposing Views, Study Finds
  
  
• August 2, 2010
  OSU Scientists Simulate Wave Conditions to Determine Value of Wetland Vegetation
  
  
• August 2, 2010
  MIT Researchers Show Silicon Can Be Made to Melt in Reverse
  
  
• August 2, 2010
  Ice-free Ocean May Not Absorb CO₂, a Component in Global Warming
  
  
• August 2, 2010
  Ice-core Drilling Effort Involving CU-Boulder to Help Assess Abrupt Climate Change Risks
  
  
• August 2, 2010
  Eruptive Characteristics of Oregon's Mount Hood Analyzed
  
  
• August 2, 2010
  15,000 Beams of Light
  
  
• August 1, 2010
  Mechanical Regulation of Cell Substrates Effects Stem Cell Development, Adhesion
  
  
• July 29, 2010
  University of Nevada, Reno Tests Cutting-edge Technology for Underwater Mapping at Tahoe Basin
  
  
• July 29, 2010
  Study Finds Diet and Alcohol Alter Epigenetics of Breast Cancer
  
  
• July 29, 2010
  Small Increases in Vaccine Cost Can Cause Large Gaps in Protection
  
  
• July 29, 2010
  Behind the Secrets of Silk Lie High-tech Opportunities
  
  
• July 29, 2010
  'White Graphene' to the Rescue
  
  
• July 28, 2010
  Quantum Fractals at the Border of Magnetism
  
  
• July 28, 2010
  Polymer Passage Takes Time
  
  
• July 28, 2010
  People Confront Prejudice Only When They Believe Others' Personalities Can Change
  
  
• July 28, 2010
  Nanomaterials Poised for Big Impact in Construction
  
  
• July 28, 2010
  Most Panda Habitat is Outside Nature Reserves According to Joint MSU-Chinese Research
  
  
• July 28, 2010
  Hormonal Birth Control Alters Scent Communication in Primates
  
  
• July 28, 2010
  Geoscientists and Engineers Help Haiti Prepare for the Next Big Earthquake
  
  
• July 28, 2010
  Brown Dwarf Found Orbiting a Young Sun-like Star
  
  
• July 28, 2010
  Best Hope for Saving Arctic Sea Ice is Cutting Soot Emissions, Says Stanford Researcher
  
  
• July 28, 2010
  Ancient DNA Identifies Donkey Ancestors, People Who Domesticated Them
  
  
• July 27, 2010
  Study Finds Black Carbon Implicated in Global Warming
  
  
• July 27, 2010
  Multifunctional Nanoparticle Enables New Type of Biological Imaging
  
  
• July 27, 2010
  In the 'Neck' of Time: Scientists Unravel Another Key Evolutionary Trait
  
  
• July 27, 2010
  Humble Protein, Nanoparticles Tag-team to Kill Cancer Cells
  
  
• July 26, 2010
  Shade-coffee Farms Support Native Bees That Maintain Genetic Diversity in Tropical Forests
  
  
• July 26, 2010
  Rutgers Study Finds Male Modesty a Turn Off for Women (and Men)
  
  
• July 26, 2010
  Negative Stereotypes Shown to Affect Learning, Not Just Performance
  
  
• July 26, 2010
  Fermilab Experiments Narrow Allowed Mass Range For Higgs Boson
  
  
• July 26, 2010
  Converging Weather Patterns Caused Last Winter's Huge Snows
  
  
• July 23, 2010
  Now You See It, Now You Don't
  
  
• July 23, 2010
  Gut Movements in Caterpillars Inspire Soft-body Robot Design
  
  
• July 23, 2010
  Getting Young Scientists into the Science Teacher Pipeline
  
  
• July 22, 2010
  Unique Means of Animal Locomotion Reported for First Time
  
  
• July 22, 2010
  Stanford Releases Open-source Camera Software
  
  
• July 22, 2010
  Scientists Discover How Deadly Fungal Microbes Enter Host Cells
  
  
• July 22, 2010
  Data Mining Made Faster
  
  
• July 21, 2010
  Some Like it Hot: How to Heat a 'Nano Bathtub' the JILA Way
  
  
• July 21, 2010
  Research Links Recreational Pool Disinfectants to Health Problems
  
  
• July 21, 2010
  Radio Astronomers Develop New Technique for Studying Dark Energy
  
  
• July 21, 2010
  Penn Collaboration Leads to Simpler Method for Building Varieties of Nanocrystal Superlattices
  
  
• July 21, 2010
  Nanotech Coatings Produce 20 Times More Electricity From Sewage
  
  
• July 21, 2010
  Mountain Marmots Made Bigger by Climate Change, Says New Study
  
  
• July 21, 2010
  Children Gain From Cross-Platform Learning
  
  
• July 20, 2010
  Schools Safer, Discipline Worse
  
  
• July 20, 2010
  Replacing Hydrogen in Fluorescent Dyes Improves Detection Ability, Stability and Shelf Life
  
  
• July 20, 2010
  Rapid Growth in Adolescence Leads to Fewer Offspring, UC-Riverside Biologists Find
  
  
• July 20, 2010
  MSU Sea Lamprey Research Sheds Light on How Stress Hormones Evolved
  
  
• July 20, 2010
  Combined Technologies Offer Promise for Detecting Colon Cancer in Women
  
  
• July 20, 2010
  By 'Putting a Ring on It,' Microparticles Can Be Captured
  
  
• July 19, 2010
  Frog Killer Caught in the Act
  
  
• July 19, 2010
  Foreign Accents Make Speakers Seem Less Truthful to Listeners
  
  
• July 19, 2010
  DNA Barcoding Reveals Five Undiscovered Frog Species Among 30 Wiped Out by Fungal Epidemic in Panama
  
  
• July 19, 2010
  Advance Made Toward Communication, Computing at 'Terahertz' Speeds
  
  
• July 16, 2010
  Scientists Identify Nature's Insect Repellents
  
  
• July 16, 2010
  Astronomers Discover an Unusual Cosmic Lens
  
  
• July 15, 2010
  WPI Research Shows How Cranberry Juice Fights Bacteria at the Molecular Level
  
  
• July 15, 2010
  Tiny Marine Microbes Exert Influence on Global Climate
  
  
• July 15, 2010
  Stanford Scientists Develop New Way to Grow Adult Stem Cells in Culture
  
  
• July 15, 2010
  Nanotubes Pass Acid Test
  
  
• July 14, 2010
  Princeton Scientists Find Unusual Electrons That Go With the Flow
  
  
• July 14, 2010
  Key Advance in Understanding 'Pseudogap' Phase in High-Tc Superconductors
  
  
• July 14, 2010
  Fossil Find Puts a Face on Early Primates
  
  
• July 14, 2010
  Footloose Glaciers Crack Up
  
  
• July 14, 2010
  Correcting a Trick of the Light Brings Molecules Into View
  
  
• July 14, 2010
  'Broken Symmetry' Discovery in High-temperature Superconductors Opens New Research Path
  
  
• July 13, 2010
  Sea Levels Rising in Parts of Indian Ocean, According to New Study
  
  
• July 12, 2010
  New Research Can Spot Cloud Computing Problems Before They Start
  
  
• July 12, 2010
  MIT Researchers Create Fibers That Can Detect and Produce Sound
  
  
• July 12, 2010
  Making the Invisible Visible: Verbal--not Visual--Cues Enhance Visual Detection, Says Penn Researcher
  
  
• July 12, 2010
  For Speediest Athletes, It's All in the Center of Gravity
  
  
• July 12, 2010
  Engineering Could Give Reconstructive Surgery a Facelift
  
  
• July 12, 2010
  A New Spin on Drug Delivery
  
  
• July 9, 2010
  The North Pacific, a Global Backup Generator for Past Climate Change
  
  
• July 9, 2010
  Scientists Describe Two New Species of Fish From Area Engulfed by Oil Spill
  
  
• July 8, 2010
  Heat Waves Could be Commonplace in the U.S. by 2039, Stanford Study Finds
  
  
• July 8, 2010
  Geoscientists Find Clues to Why First Sumatran Earthquake Was Deadlier Than Second
  
  
• July 8, 2010
  Electronic Health Records Prime Clinicians to Provide Progressive Care to Older Adults
  
  
• July 8, 2010
  Alternative Evolution: Why Change Your Own Genes When You Can Borrow Someone Else's?
  
  
• July 7, 2010
  Pinpoint Precision: Delivering a Biochemical Payload to One Cell
  
  
• July 7, 2010
  Fouls Go Left: Soccer Referees May Be Biased Based on Play's Direction of Motion
  
  
• July 7, 2010
  First Research Trip Across Western Amazon Yields Surprising Results
  
  
• July 6, 2010
  With Magnetic Nanoparticles, Scientists Remotely Control Neurons and Animal Behavior
  
  
• July 6, 2010
  Scientists Design New Delivery Device for Gene Therapy
  
  
• July 6, 2010
  Rice Program Takes on Protein Puzzle
  
  
• July 6, 2010
  New Biofuels Processing Method for Mobile Facilities
  
  
• July 6, 2010
  Joseph Stalin's Rise to Power: Facts More Intriguing Than Fiction
  
  
• July 6, 2010
  JILA Team Finds New Parallel Between Cold Gases and 'Hot' Superconductors
  
  
• July 6, 2010
  A New Balance for the Global Carbon Balance
  
  
• July 2, 2010
  WSU Researchers Use Super-high Pressures to Create Super Battery
  
  
• July 2, 2010
  Sustainability: Will We Recognize It When We See It?
  
  
• July 1, 2010
  Transformation Optics Make a U-turn for the Better
  
  
• July 1, 2010
  Tibetan Adaptation to High Altitude Occurred in Less Than 3,000 Years
  
  
• July 1, 2010
  Thermal-powered, Insect-like Robot Crawls into Microrobot Contenders' Ring
  
  
• July 1, 2010
  Histone H1 Regulates Gene Activity Throughout the Cell Cycle
  
  
• July 1, 2010
  Dogs May Help Collar Chagas Disease
  
  
• June 30, 2010
  UM Scientists Advance Quantum Computing and Energy Conversion Tech
  
  
• June 30, 2010
  Scientists Find Direct Line From Development to Growth
  
  
• June 30, 2010
  Dartmouth Researchers Contribute to Solving a Quantum Puzzle
  
  
• June 29, 2010
  Scientist Goes Mad for Philanthropy and Teaching
  
  
• June 29, 2010
  Potential Industrial and Agricultural Uses of Echinacea Trump Health Claims
  
  
• June 29, 2010
  Molecules Typically Found in Blue Jean and Ink Dyes May Lead to More Efficient Solar Cells
  
  
• June 29, 2010
  Key Component Identified That Helps Plants Go Green
  
  
• June 29, 2010
  Arctic Climate May be More Sensitive to Warming Than Thought, Says New Study
  
  
• June 28, 2010
  New Study Challenges Long-Held Assumption about Competition in Disturbed Ecosystems
  
  
• June 28, 2010
  Alzheimer's Imaging Study Identifies Changes in Brain's White Matter
  
  
• June 25, 2010
  Biodiversity's Holy Grail is in the Soil
  
  
• June 24, 2010
  Tropical Biodiversity is About the Neighbors
  
  
• June 24, 2010
  Tiny Clays Curb Big Earthquakes
  
  
• June 24, 2010
  Testing the Best-yet Theory of Nature
  
  
• June 24, 2010
  Industry Fishing for Profits, Not Predators
  
  
• June 24, 2010
  Do Bosons Ever Masquerade as Fermions?
  
  
• June 24, 2010
  Climate Change Complicates Plant Diseases of the Future
  
  
• June 24, 2010
  Arctic Freshwater Cycle is Intensifying Consistent With Climate Warming
  
  
• June 23, 2010
  Timely Technology Sees Tiny Transitions
  
  
• June 23, 2010
  Researchers Discover Source of Essential Nutrients for Mid-ocean Algae
  
  
• June 23, 2010
  Enterprise PCs Work While They Sleep--Saving Energy and Money--With New Software
  
  
• June 23, 2010
  Could Clothing Teach Babies With Brain Injury How to Move?
  
  
• June 21, 2010
  Scientists Announce Discovery of 3.6 Million-year-old Relative of 'Lucy'
  
  
• June 21, 2010
  Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Develop New Method for Mass-producing Graphene
  
  
• June 21, 2010
  No Longer Anchored, Antarctic Ice Stream Surges to Sea
  
  
• June 21, 2010
  Gender-bending Fish Problem in Colorado Creek Mitigated by Treatment Plant Upgrade
  
  
• June 21, 2010
  Discovery of Subatomic Particles Could Answer Deep Questions in Geology
  
  
• June 21, 2010
  Chimpanzee Gangs Kill for Land, New Study Shows
  
  
• June 21, 2010
  American Team of Scientists Help Protect Guatemala's Lake Atitlan
  
  
• June 18, 2010
  Using Carbon Nanotubes in Lithium Batteries Can Dramatically Improve Energy Capacity
  
  
• June 17, 2010
  WHOI Scientist Takes Comprehensive Look at Human Impacts on Ocean Chemistry
  
  
• June 17, 2010
  University of Minnesota Researchers Clear Major Hurdle in Road to High-efficiency Solar Cells
  
  
• June 17, 2010
  Physicists Get an Up-close Look at Synthetic Quantum Materials
  
  
• June 17, 2010
  Carbon Dioxide is the Missing Link to Past Global Climate Changes
  
  
• June 16, 2010
  Using Science to Identify True Soccer Stars
  
  
• June 16, 2010
  Researchers Develop Ultra-simple Method for Creating Nanoscale Gold Coatings
  
  
• June 16, 2010
  MIT Astronomer Leads the First Team to Study a Kuiper Belt Object During a Stellar Occultation
  
  
• June 16, 2010
  Flower Power Makes Tropics Cooler, Wetter
  
  
• June 16, 2010
  Dinosaur-chewing Mammals Leave Behind Oldest Known Tooth Marks
  
  
• June 16, 2010
  A 110-foot Concrete Bridge Withstands 8.0 Earthquake Simulation
  
  
• June 15, 2010
  Crayfish Brain May Offer Rare Insight Into Human Decision-making
  
  
• June 14, 2010
  Study Shows Adding UV Light Helps Form 'Missing G' of RNA Building Blocks
  
  
• June 14, 2010
  Reinventing The Wheel--Naturally
  
  
• June 14, 2010
  New Study Documents Use of Hormone Progesterone in Simple Microscopic Aquatic Animals
  
  
• June 14, 2010
  Aircraft Cause Precipitation, Hole-punch Clouds
  
  
• June 11, 2010
  Pala Learning Center Youth Visit Old Point Loma Lighthouse at Cabrillo National Monument Via HPWREN LIVE
  
  
• June 10, 2010
  Zooming in on an Infant Solar System
  
  
• June 10, 2010
  Suspended Animation Protects Against Lethal Hypothermia, Study Shows
  
  
• June 10, 2010
  Stretching Single Molecules Allows Precision Studies of Interacting Electrons
  
  
• June 10, 2010
  Scientists Strive to Replace Silicon With Graphene on Nanocircuitry
  
  
• June 10, 2010
  Large Majority of Americans Still Believe in Global Warming, Stanford Poll Finds
  
  
• June 10, 2010
  Fern's Evolution Gives Arsenic Tolerance That May Clean Toxic Land
  
  
• June 10, 2010
  Changing Chesapeake Bay Acidity Impacting Oyster Shell Growth
  
  
• June 9, 2010
  Solution to Beading-saliva Mystery Has Practical Purposes
  
  
• June 9, 2010
  Discovery in 'Pop' Science Reveals the Elegant, Complex Way Bubbles Burst
  
  
• June 9, 2010
  Crocodile and Hippopotamus Served as 'Brain Food' For Early Human Ancestors
  
  
• June 8, 2010
  Some Like It Hot: Site of Human Evolution was Scorching
  
  
• June 8, 2010
  Arsenic Hyperaccumulating Ferns: How Do They Survive?
  
  
• June 7, 2010
  New Method Manipulates Particles for Sensors, Crime Scene Testing
  
  
• June 7, 2010
  East African Human Ancestors Lived in Hot Environments, Says Caltech-led Team
  
  
• June 7, 2010
  Amount of Dust, Pollen Matters for Precipitation in Clouds, Climate Change, Colorado State University Atmospheric Scientists Reveal
  
  
• June 4, 2010
  Gulf Oil Spill Could Widen, Worsen 'Dead Zone'
  
  
• June 3, 2010
  The Biomechanics of Information
  
  
• June 3, 2010
  Flow in Earth's Mantle Moves Mountains
  
  
• June 3, 2010
  Biosensors Reveal How Single Bacterium Gets the Message to Split Into a Swimming and a Stay-put Cell
  
  
• June 2, 2010
  UCLA Stem Cell Researchers Uncover Previously Unknown Patterns in DNA Methylation
  
  
• June 2, 2010
  Sociological Study Reflects High Financial Malfeasance Rates in Largest U.S. Corporations
  
  
• June 2, 2010
  Physicists Reveal How to Cope With Frustration
  
  
• June 2, 2010
  New Culture Dish Could Advance Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research
  
  
• June 2, 2010
  Arctic Ice at Low Point Compared to Recent Geologic History
  
  
• June 2, 2010
  Age Gap Really Does Matter
  
  
• June 2, 2010
  Nature Cover Study Provides New Standards for Reliable Fisheries
  
  
• June 1, 2010
  Squirrels Show Softer Side by Adopting Orphans, Study Finds
  
  
• June 1, 2010
  New Gecko Species Identified in West African Rain Forests
  
  
• June 1, 2010
  Nanosponge Drug Delivery System More Effective Than Direct Injection
  
  
• May 31, 2010
  Sugary Band-aid May Help Heal Postoperative Tissue
  
  
• May 31, 2010
  Scientists Decipher Structure of Nature's 'Light Switch'
  
  
• May 31, 2010
  Powerful Genome Barcoding System Reveals Large-scale Variation in Human DNA
  
  
• May 28, 2010
  Zeroing In On Quantum Effects
  
  
• May 28, 2010
  UCLA Biologists Report How Whales Have Changed Over 35 Million Years
  
  
• May 28, 2010
  Rutgers Cell Biologist Pinpoints How RNA Viruses Copy Themselves
  
  
• May 28, 2010
  A New Approach to Finding and Removing Defects in Graphene
  
  
• May 27, 2010
  The Star of Africa's Savanna Ecosystems May Be the Lowly Termite
  
  
• May 27, 2010
  The Great Pond Experiment
  
  
• May 27, 2010
  Shape Matters: The Corkscrew Twist of H. Pylori Enables It to 'Set Up Shop' In the Stomach
  
  
• May 27, 2010
  Optical Legos: Building Nanoshell Structures
  
  
• May 27, 2010
  Applied Physicists Create Building Blocks For a New Class of Optical Circuits
  
  
• May 26, 2010
  Two New Frog Species Discovered in Panama's Fungal War Zone
  
  
• May 26, 2010
  Study Sheds Light on How Marine Animals Survive Stress
  
  
• May 26, 2010
  Physicists Help Uncover 'Magic' Nature of Tin
  
  
• May 26, 2010
  Lowly Termite, Not the Lion or Elephant, May Be the Star of Africa's Savanna
  
  
• May 26, 2010
  Genetic Data Added to Archaeology and Linguistics to Get Picture of African Population History
  
  
• May 26, 2010
  Astronomers Discover Clue to Origin of Milky Way Gas Clouds
  
  
• May 26, 2010
  A Dicty Mystery Solved
  
  
• May 25, 2010
  NIST Scientists Gain New 'Core' Understanding of Nanoparticles
  
  
• May 25, 2010
  New Study First to Directly Measure Body Temperatures of Extinct Species
  
  
• May 25, 2010
  Inspired by a Cotton Candy Machine, Engineers Put a New Spin on Creating Tiny Nanofibers
  
  
• May 25, 2010
  20th Century One of Driest in Nine Centuries for Northwest Africa
  
  
• May 24, 2010
  Odds Are One in Three That a Huge Quake Will Hit Northwest in Next 50 Years
  
  
• May 24, 2010
  New Study Shows How Networks Keep Themselves in Synch
  
  
• May 24, 2010
  Caltech-led Team First to Directly Measure Body Temperatures of Extinct Vertebrates
  
  
• May 21, 2010
  Physicists Describe the Melting of Colloidal Crystal Films
  
  
• May 21, 2010
  OU Researchers Capture Impressive Tornadic Data and Images
  
  
• May 21, 2010
  Lehigh Helps Open First-of-its Kind, Space-age Education/Research Facility at Local Middle School
  
  
• May 20, 2010
  Penn-Led Collaboration Mimics Library of Bio-Membranes for Use In Nanomedicine, Drug Delivery
  
  
• May 20, 2010
  How Laptops Can Enhance Learning in College Classrooms
  
  
• May 19, 2010
  Semiconductor Manufacturing Technique Holds Promise for Solar Energy
  
  
• May 19, 2010
  Possible New Class of Supernovae Puts Calcium in Your Bones
  
  
• May 19, 2010
  New Microneedle Antimicrobial Techniques May Foster Medical Tech Innovation
  
  
• May 18, 2010
  Unique Eclipsing Binary Star System Discovered by UCSB Astrophysicists
  
  
• May 18, 2010
  Hammerhead Sharks of All Sizes Evolved from Single Large Ancestor
  
  
• May 18, 2010
  Greenland Rapidly Rising as Ice Melt Continues
  
  
• May 17, 2010
  Software Tool Helps Tap Into the Power of Graphics Processing
  
  
• May 17, 2010
  Prehistoric Fish Extinction Paved the Way For Modern Vertebrates
  
  
• May 17, 2010
  Physicists' Findings About Helium Could Lead to More Accurate Temperature
  
  
• May 17, 2010
  New Research Links Decline of Endangered California Delta Smelt to Nutrient Pollution
  
  
• May 17, 2010
  Kudzu is Major Factor in Surface Ozone Pollution
  
  
• May 17, 2010
  Kids Understand the Relationship Between Humans and Other Animals
  
  
• May 17, 2010
  Fish Facing Reflections Become Feisty But Fearful
  
  
• May 17, 2010
  Extinct Giant Shark Nursery Discovered in Panama
  
  
• May 17, 2010
  Bacterial Growths May Offer Clues About Earth's Distant Past
  
  
• May 17, 2010
  20th-century Warming in Lake Tanganyika is Unprecedented
  
  
• May 16, 2010
  Brown Geologists Show Unprecedented Warming in Lake Tanganyika
  
  
• May 14, 2010
  Baby Corals Dance Their Way Home
  
  
• May 14, 2010
  'Votes' of Sub-cellular Variables Control Cell Fate
  
  
• May 13, 2010
  Using Mathematics to Untangle Facebook, Decode Congress
  
  
• May 13, 2010
  Tissue Engineers Create a New Way to Assemble Artificial Tissues
  
  
• May 13, 2010
  Study Documents Widespread Extinction of Lizard Populations Due to Climate Change
  
  
• May 13, 2010
  Silver Tells a Volatile Story of Earth's Origin
  
  
• May 13, 2010
  Advanced Geographical Models Bring New Perspective to Study of Archaeology
  
  
• May 12, 2010
  University of Pennsylvania Mathematicians Solve 140-year-old Boltzmann Equation
  
  
• May 12, 2010
  Spiders at the Nanoscale: Molecules That Behave Like Robots
  
  
• May 12, 2010
  Size Matters: Eavesdropping on Sexual Signals
  
  
• May 11, 2010
  Folate Helps Repair Damage Linked to Aging and Disease
  
  
• May 10, 2010
  Researchers Offer First Proof That Chemicals From Seaweeds Damage Coral on Contact
  
  
• May 10, 2010
  Quantum Mechanics Reveals New Details of Deep Earth
  
  
• May 10, 2010
  Paper Offers New Insights Into the Genomics of Speciation
  
  
• May 10, 2010
  New Insights Into How Deadly Amphibian Disease Spreads and Kills
  
  
• May 10, 2010
  Hot New Material Can Keep Electronics Cool
  
  
• May 10, 2010
  Animals Talk, Sing and Act Like Humans?
  
  
• May 9, 2010
  Dartmouth Scientists Use Caribbean Islands as Natural Laboratories
  
  
• May 7, 2010
  Stem Cells: In Search of a Master Controller
  
  
• May 6, 2010
  Trapping Giant Rydberg Atoms for Faster Quantum Computers
  
  
• May 6, 2010
  Bald Eagle Diet Shift Enhances Conservation
  
  
• May 6, 2010
  Ancient Leaves Help Researchers Understand Future Climate
  
  
• May 5, 2010
  Stream Water Study Detects Thawing Permafrost
  
  
• May 5, 2010
  New York City Security May Be Underfunded
  
  
• May 5, 2010
  New Study Examines Use of Social Media in the Classroom
  
  
• May 5, 2010
  Epidemic This Year? Check The Lake's Shape
  
  
• May 5, 2010
  Aseismic Slip as a Barrier to Earthquake Propagation
  
  
• May 4, 2010
  Researchers Find Future Temperatures Could Exceed Livable Limits
  
  
• May 4, 2010
  Natural Selection For Moderate Testosterone Surprises Scientists
  
  
• May 4, 2010
  Maya Plumbing, First Pressurized Water Feature Found in New World
  
  
• May 4, 2010
  DNA Barcoding Exposes Fake Ferns in International Plant Trade
  
  
• May 3, 2010
  UC Davis Researchers Discover Odorant Receptor in Fruit Fly That Detects Sex Pheromone of Silkworm Moth
  
  
• May 3, 2010
  U.S. Commerce Department, NIH, NSF Announce "i6 Challenge" to Bring Innovative Ideas to Market
  
  
• May 3, 2010
  Scientists Alter Developing Brain to Resemble That of Another Species
  
  
• May 3, 2010
  Enlisting Volunteers Can Boost Confidence in Scientific Research
  
  
• April 30, 2010
  New Research by UCR Physicists Could Help Develop Gamma Ray Lasers and Produce Fusion Power
  
  
• April 30, 2010
  Global Glaciation Snowballed Into Giant Change in Carbon Cycle
  
  
• April 30, 2010
  Berkeley Scientists Discover Inexpensive Metal Catalyst for Generating Hydrogen From Water
  
  
• April 29, 2010
  Tiny Particles May Help Surgeons by Marking Brain Tumors
  
  
• April 29, 2010
  First Case of Animals Making Their Own Carotene
  
  
• April 28, 2010
  Scientists to Track Twisters in World's Largest Tornado Study
  
  
• April 28, 2010
  New Microscopy Technique Reveals Mechanics of Blood Cell Membranes
  
  
• April 28, 2010
  Nanodots Breakthrough May Lead to 'A Library On One Chip'
  
  
• April 28, 2010
  It's Electrifying
  
  
• April 27, 2010
  Peptides May Hold 'Missing Link' to Life
  
  
• April 27, 2010
  Paper Wasps and Honey Bees Share a Genetic Toolkit
  
  
• April 27, 2010
  New Research Offers Security for Virtualization, Cloud Computing
  
  
• April 27, 2010
  At-risk Children Who Can Self-regulate Behavior Have Higher Test Scores Than Their Peers
  
  
• April 26, 2010
  Research in Antarctica Reveals Non-organic Mechanism for Production of Important Greenhouse Gas
  
  
• April 26, 2010
  Race and Empathy Matter on Neural Level
  
  
• April 26, 2010
  Physicists Capture First Images of Atomic Spin
  
  
• April 26, 2010
  Mobile Devices Serve as Own Mice With Optical Sensing Method From Carnegie Mellon
  
  
• April 26, 2010
  Is It Safe to Breathe Yet?
  
  
• April 26, 2010
  Gene Discovery May Lead to New Varieties of Soybean Plants
  
  
• April 26, 2010
  Cellular Mechanical Forces May Initiate Angiogenesis
  
  
• April 26, 2010
  Brain-like Computing on an Organic Molecular Layer
  
  
• April 25, 2010
  WHOI Scientists Find Ancient Asphalt Domes Off California Coast
  
  
• April 25, 2010
  Scientists Crack Code of Critical Bacterial Defense Mechanism
  
  
• April 25, 2010
  How to Move Protons, Improve Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology
  
  
• April 22, 2010
  Study Reconstructs Asia's Most Devastating Droughts
  
  
• April 22, 2010
  Crystal Defect Shown to be Key to Making Hollow Nanotubes
  
  
• April 21, 2010
  Topography of Mountains Could Complicate Rates of Global Warming
  
  
• April 21, 2010
  Rattlesnakes Sound Warning on Biodiversity and Habitat Fragmentation
  
  
• April 21, 2010
  Carbon, Nitrogen Link May Provide New Ways to Mitigate Pollution Problems
  
  
• April 21, 2010
  Caltech Researchers Create 'Sound Bullets'
  
  
• April 21, 2010
  Bizarre Matter Could Find Use in Quantum Computers
  
  
• April 20, 2010
  New Solar Concentrator Design
  
  
• April 20, 2010
  Materials Research Advances Reliability Of Faster Smart Sensors
  
  
• April 20, 2010
  Advance Made in Thin-film Solar Cell Technology
  
  
• April 19, 2010
  USF Biologists Link El Niño, Temperature Variability to Amphibian Declines
  
  
• April 19, 2010
  Student Research Team Sequences Genome of Bacterium Discovered in Virginia Tech Garden
  
  
• April 19, 2010
  Lionfish Invasion Continuing to Expand
  
  
• April 19, 2010
  Food vs. Fuel: MSU Scientists Say Growing Grain For Food is More Energy Efficient
  
  
• April 19, 2010
  'Ten Most Wanted' Plants Inspected For Clues to Climate Change
  
  
• April 16, 2010
  Volcanic Ash Research Shows How Plumes End Up in the Jet Stream
  
  
• April 15, 2010
  The New T. Rex: A Leech with an Affinity for Noses
  
  
• April 15, 2010
  Lost Light From the Moon May be Sent Astray by Dusty Reflectors
  
  
• April 15, 2010
  'Missing' Heat May Affect Future Climate Change
  
  
• April 14, 2010
  Structure of Inner-ear Protein is Key to Both Hearing and Inherited Deafness
  
  
• April 14, 2010
  Random, But Not by Chance
  
  
• April 14, 2010
  Classic Maya History is Embedded in Commoners' Homes
  
  
• April 14, 2010
  Cat Brain: A Step Toward the Electronic Equivalent
  
  
• April 13, 2010
  Plant Pathogen Genetically Tailors Attacks to Each Part of Host, Say Stanford Researchers
  
  
• April 13, 2010
  Birds of a Feather Don't Always Respond Together to Infection
  
  
• April 12, 2010
  Ultrasensitive Imaging Method Uses Gold-silver 'Nanocages'
  
  
• April 12, 2010
  Study Shows That Size Affects Structure of Hollow Nanoparticles
  
  
• April 12, 2010
  Sand Fly Barcoding in Panama Reveals Leishmania Strain and Its Potential Control
  
  
• April 12, 2010
  OU Geophysics Group Teams with China on Seismic Projects
  
  
• April 12, 2010
  New Thick-shelled Turtle Species Lived With World's Biggest Snake
  
  
• April 12, 2010
  National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping Comes to Houston
  
  
• April 12, 2010
  Gene Studies Lead to Kissing Cousins
  
  
• April 12, 2010
  Deepest Core Drilled From Antarctic Peninsula; May Contain Glacial Stage Ice
  
  
• April 12, 2010
  Deciphering the Mysteries of an Ancient Seafloor Goliath
  
  
• April 9, 2010
  Deciphering the Mysteries of an Ancient Seafloor Goliath
  
  
• April 9, 2010
  Closing in on a Carbon-based Solar Cell
  
  
• April 8, 2010
  With Support, Graphene Still a Superior Thermal Conductor
  
  
• April 7, 2010
  Traditional Inuit Knowledge Combines With Science to Shape Weather Insights
  
  
• April 7, 2010
  New High-speed Integrated Circuit for World's Biggest Physics Experiment is Fastest of its Kind
  
  
• April 7, 2010
  Brown University Scientists Discover New Principle in Material Science
  
  
• April 7, 2010
  Astronomers Take Close-up Pictures of Mysterious Dark Object
  
  
• April 6, 2010
  New Study Shows Rising Water Temperatures in U.S. Streams and Rivers
  
  
• April 6, 2010
  Dig Looks at Society Just Before Dawn of Urban Civilization in the Middle East
  
  
• April 6, 2010
  Convergent Evolution in Lignin Biosynthesis: Tools for Re-engineering Biomass Composition
  
  
• April 6, 2010
  Cold Atoms and Nanotubes Come Together in an Atomic 'Black Hole'
  
  
• April 5, 2010
  New Software Design Technique Allows Programs to Run Faster
  
  
• April 5, 2010
  A Planet-like Companion Growing up in the Fast Lane
  
  
• April 2, 2010
  Traces of Early Native Americans--in Sunflower Genes
  
  
• April 2, 2010
  MIT Makes Significant Step Toward Lightweight Batteries
  
  
• April 2, 2010
  Ecologists Receive Mixed News From Fossil Record
  
  
• April 1, 2010
  To Be Sustainable, China Must Implement Bold Innovations
  
  
• April 1, 2010
  Not So Fast! Andes Rise Was Gradual, Not Abrupt
  
  
• April 1, 2010
  Nanoscale 'Stealth' Probe Slides Into Cell Walls Seamlessly, Say Stanford Engineers
  
  
• April 1, 2010
  For Dual-income Husbands and Wives, It's Still a Man's World
  
  
• April 1, 2010
  Engineers Turn Noise Into Vision
  
  
• March 31, 2010
  Second Plant Pathway Could Improve Nutrition, Biofuel Production
  
  
• March 31, 2010
  Rx for Health: Engineers Design Pill That Signals It Has Been Swallowed
  
  
• March 30, 2010
  Plastic Electronics Could Slash the Cost of Solar Panels
  
  
• March 30, 2010
  Giggles Give Clues to Hyena's Social Status
  
  
• March 30, 2010
  Ancient Snakes Living in Madagascar
  
  
• March 29, 2010
  Weathercasters Take on Role of Science Educators; Feel Some Uncertainty on Issue of Climate Change
  
  
• March 29, 2010
  Single Gene Dramatically Boosts Yield, Sweetness in Tomato Hybrids, CSHL-Israeli Study Finds
  
  
• March 29, 2010
  Researchers Use Improved Nanogenerators to Power Sensors Based on Zinc Oxide Nanowires
  
  
• March 29, 2010
  Orange Corn Holds Promise for Reducing Blindness, Child Death
  
  
• March 29, 2010
  New Mathematical Model Helps Biologists Understand How Coral Dies in Warming Waters
  
  
• March 29, 2010
  Did Climate Influence Angkor's Collapse?
  
  
• March 29, 2010
  Brown University-led Team Discovers How Bats Avoid Collisions
  
  
• March 26, 2010
  Tectonics: Precision is Hallmark of 20-year Study
  
  
• March 25, 2010
  Talk to Your Babies
  
  
• March 25, 2010
  Revolutionary New Solution for Semiconductor & Nano Materials
  
  
• March 25, 2010
  Pollution From Asia Circles Globe at Stratospheric Heights
  
  
• March 25, 2010
  New Research Indicates Plants Can Grow Quickly or Ward Off Hungry Insects, But Not Both
  
  
• March 25, 2010
  Move Over Predators: Plants Can Control the Food Chain Too--From the Bottom Up
  
  
• March 25, 2010
  Early Child-parent Attachment Affects Behavior, Especially for Boys
  
  
• March 24, 2010
  Searching for Genes Behind a Trait
  
  
• March 24, 2010
  Key Enzyme Discovered to Be Master Regulator in Protein-protein Reactions
  
  
• March 24, 2010
  Emotions Key to Judging Others
  
  
• March 23, 2010
  Women Caught Up In 'Rug Rat Race'
  
  
• March 23, 2010
  Virtual Driving Leads Penn Psychologists to the Cells That Sense Direction in the Brain: Path Cells
  
  
• March 23, 2010
  New Approach to Water Desalination
  
  
• March 23, 2010
  Greenland Ice Sheet Losing Mass on Northwest Coast
  
  
• March 23, 2010
  Donal Manahan Studies Growth of Oysters
  
  
• March 23, 2010
  Could Smell Play a Role in the Origin of New Bird Species?
  
  
• March 23, 2010
  Colonies of Bacteria Fight for Resources With Lethal Protein
  
  
• March 22, 2010
  Twenty-year Study Yields Precise Model of Tectonic-plate Movements
  
  
• March 22, 2010
  Incorporating Biofunctionality Into Nanomaterials for Medical, Health Devices
  
  
• March 22, 2010
  Helium Rain on Jupiter Explains Lack of Neon in Atmosphere
  
  
• March 22, 2010
  Cracking the Plant-Cell Membrane Code
  
  
• March 22, 2010
  Brown University-led Team Explains How Dinosaurs Rose to Prominence
  
  
• March 19, 2010
  Students Discover New Species of Raptor Dinosaur
  
  
• March 19, 2010
  GW Ph.D. Candidate and UCL Grad Student Discover New Species of Raptor Dinosaur
  
  
• March 19, 2010
  Bacteria Divide Like Clockwork
  
  
• March 19, 2010
  A Lab-on-a-chip With Moveable Channels
  
  
• March 18, 2010
  Study Probes Evolution of Fairness and Punishment
  
  
• March 18, 2010
  Songbirds Provide Insight Into Speech Production
  
  
• March 18, 2010
  Science Inquiry Tools Deliver Significant Improvement in Middle-school Students' Skills
  
  
• March 18, 2010
  Research Reveals Frequency and Cost of Copying College Homework
  
  
• March 18, 2010
  China and India: Neighbors Need to Collaborate for Sake of Global Environment
  
  
• March 17, 2010
  University of Arizona Astronomers Discover Most Primitive Super-massive Black Holes Known
  
  
• March 17, 2010
  Dogs Likely Originated in the Middle East, New Genetic Data Indicate
  
  
• March 17, 2010
  A Marine Mr. Mom: Male Pipefish Give Birth, But Some are Deadbeat Dads, Study Shows
  
  
• March 16, 2010
  Study: Grass, Fungus Combination Affects Ecology
  
  
• March 16, 2010
  Simulations Solve a 20-Year-Old Riddle About Why Nebulae Around Massive Stars Don't Disappear
  
  
• March 16, 2010
  Prescribed Burns May Help Reduce U.S. Carbon Footprint
  
  
• March 16, 2010
  Nanotechnology Project Opens at Disney World
  
  
• March 16, 2010
  Catastrophic Flooding May Be More Predictable After Penn Researchers Build a Mini River Delta
  
  
• March 16, 2010
  Caltech and UCSD Scientists Establish Leech as Model for Study of Reproductive Behavior
  
  
• March 16, 2010
  3-D Cell Culture: Making Cells Feel Right at Home
  
  
• March 15, 2010
  Urged on by Urchins: How Sea Lilies Got Their Get-up-and-go
  
  
• March 15, 2010
  U-M Researchers Solve a Molecular Mystery in Muscle
  
  
• March 15, 2010
  Phylogenetic Analysis of Mexican Cave Scorpions Suggests Adaptation to Caves is Reversible
  
  
• March 15, 2010
  New CU-Boulder Hand Bacteria Study Holds Promise for Forensics Identification
  
  
• March 15, 2010
  New Analysis of the Structure of Silks Explains Paradox of Super-strength
  
  
• March 12, 2010
  Mathematical Model Can Help Communities Better Evaluate Sex Offender Policies
  
  
• March 12, 2010
  Look at Mie!
  
  
• March 11, 2010
  University of Minnesota Discovery Gives Insight Into Brain 'Replay' Process
  
  
• March 11, 2010
  Scavenging Energy Waste to Turn Water Into Hydrogen Fuel
  
  
• March 11, 2010
  New Imaging Technology Brings Trace Chemicals Into Focus
  
  
• March 11, 2010
  More Maize Ethanol May Boost Greenhouse Gas Emissions
  
  
• March 11, 2010
  Carnegie Mellon Research Provides Insight Into Brain's Decision-making Process
  
  
• March 10, 2010
  Why Surprises Temporarily Blind Us
  
  
• March 10, 2010
  Why Female Moths are Big and Beautiful
  
  
• March 10, 2010
  The Smell of Salt Air, a Mile High and 900 Miles Inland
  
  
• March 10, 2010
  Prehistoric Response to Global Warming Informs Human Planning Today
  
  
• March 10, 2010
  Conquering the Chaos in Modern, Multiprocessor Computers
  
  
• March 9, 2010
  NYU Courant Professor Wins NSF's Waterman Award
  
  
• March 8, 2010
  Unselfish Molecules May Have Helped Give Birth to the Genetic Material of Life
  
  
• March 8, 2010
  New Sensor Array Detects Single Molecules for the First Time
  
  
• March 8, 2010
  MIT Scientists Transform Polyethylene Into a Heat-conducting Material
  
  
• March 8, 2010
  MIT Researchers Discover New Way of Producing Electricity
  
  
• March 8, 2010
  A High-tech Handrest
  
  
• March 5, 2010
  Oldest Measurement of Earth's Magnetic Field Reveals Battle Between Sun and Earth for Our Atmosphere
  
  
• March 4, 2010
  Who Does What on Wikipedia?
  
  
• March 4, 2010
  Study: Arctic Seabed Methane Stores Destabilizing, Venting
  
  
• March 4, 2010
  New Evidence Hints at Global Glaciation 716.5 Million Years Ago
  
  
• March 4, 2010
  Loss of Enzyme Reduces Neural Activity in Angelman Syndrome
  
  
• March 3, 2010
  Utah Paleontologist Part of International Team to Discover Oldest Known Dinosaur Relative
  
  
• March 3, 2010
  Trapping Sunlight With Silicon Nanowires
  
  
• March 3, 2010
  Researchers Find Weakness in Common Digital Security System
  
  
• March 3, 2010
  New Way to Control Disease-spreading Mosquitoes: Make Them Hold Their Urine
  
  
• March 3, 2010
  Dinosaurs Might Be Older Than Previously Thought
  
  
• March 3, 2010
  'Microrings' Could Nix Wires for Communications in Homes, Offices
  
  
• March 2, 2010
  Barnacles Prefer Upwelling Currents, Enriching Food Chains in the Galapagos
  
  
• March 1, 2010
  Tiny Shelled Creatures Shed Light on Extinction and Recovery 65 Million Years Ago
  
  
• March 1, 2010
  Studies Show How Fruit Flies Recover From Aerial Stumbles
  
  
• March 1, 2010
  Predicting the Fate of Stem Cells
  
  
• March 1, 2010
  New Technique Allows Study of Protein Folding, Dynamics in Living Cells
  
  
• March 1, 2010
  New Magnetic Solders Are a Leap Towards Green Alternatives
  
  
• March 1, 2010
  Glue, Fly, Glue
  
  
• March 1, 2010
  El Niño and a Pathogen Killed Costa Rican Toad, Study Finds
  
  
• March 1, 2010
  A Diagnostic Approach to Alternatives Can Lead to Better Decision-making
  
  
• February 28, 2010
  Atmospheric Nanoparticles Impact Health, Weather Professor Says
  
  
• February 26, 2010
  Scanning for Skin Cancer: Infrared System Looks for Deadly Melanoma
  
  
• February 26, 2010
  Discovery in Legumes Could Reduce Fertilizer Use, Aid Environment, Say Stanford Researchers
  
  
• February 25, 2010
  UW-Madison Physicists Build Basic Quantum Computing Circuit
  
  
• February 25, 2010
  Torn Apart By Its Own Tides, Massive Planet is on a 'Death March'
  
  
• February 25, 2010
  The Mathematics Behind a Good Night's Sleep
  
  
• February 25, 2010
  Stickleback Genomes Shining Bright Light on Evolution
  
  
• February 25, 2010
  Princeton Scientists Find an Equation for Materials Innovation
  
  
• February 25, 2010
  New Developments in Nanotechnology Tackle the Two Biggest Problems Associated With Chemotherapy
  
  
• February 25, 2010
  Nanotechnologists From University of Pennsylvania Collaborate to Form Near-frictionless Diamond Material
  
  
• February 25, 2010
  Field Study Exposes How Sea Turtle Hatchlings Use Their Flippers to Move Quickly on Sand
  
  
• February 24, 2010
  Virginia Tech Researchers Engage Communities to Support Women in IT Careers
  
  
• February 24, 2010
  The Bigger the Animal, the Stiffer the 'Shoes'
  
  
• February 24, 2010
  Rapid Response Science Missions Assess Potential for Another Major Haiti Earthquake
  
  
• February 24, 2010
  Optical System Promises to Revolutionize Undersea Communications
  
  
• February 24, 2010
  New Clues Found Linking Larger Animals to Colder Climates
  
  
• February 24, 2010
  More Tropical Cyclones in Past Could Play Role in Warmer Future
  
  
• February 24, 2010
  How Can Policymakers Cope With Ambiguity?
  
  
• February 24, 2010
  Caltech Scientists Find First Physiological Evidence of Brain's Response to Inequality
  
  
• February 23, 2010
  University of Oklahoma Geologists Look for Answers in Antarctica
  
  
• February 23, 2010
  New Photonic Material May Facilitate All-optical Switching and Computing
  
  
• February 23, 2010
  New Dinosaur Rears Its Head; U-M Researchers Part of Team Announcing Find
  
  
• February 23, 2010
  NASA Unveils New Space-weather Science Tool
  
  
• February 23, 2010
  Brown Physicist Discovers Odd, Fluctuating Magnetic Waves
  
  
• February 22, 2010
  Using Math to Unravel the Secrets of the Cell
  
  
• February 22, 2010
  Smart Phones Expose Users to Clever Attacks
  
  
• February 22, 2010
  Simple Math Explains Dramatic Beak Shape Variation in Darwin's Finches
  
  
• February 22, 2010
  Earthquake Engineers Release Report on Damage in Haiti
  
  
• February 22, 2010
  Better Snowfall Forecasting
  
  
• February 21, 2010
  Genome Analysis of Marine Microbe Reveals a Metabolic Minimalist
  
  
• February 20, 2010
  Roots Key to Second Green Revolution
  
  
• February 19, 2010
  Scientists Unlock Mystery in Important Photosynthesis Step
  
  
• February 19, 2010
  Local Social Dynamics Key to Success of Tropical Marine Conservation Areas
  
  
• February 18, 2010
  Visualizing the Unseen in Nature
  
  
• February 18, 2010
  Images of Extrasolar Planets Win Award for Most Outstanding Papers in Science
  
  
• February 18, 2010
  Evolutionary Game of Rock-paper-scissors May Lead to New Species
  
  
• February 18, 2010
  Electric Avenue: Electric Cars on a Two-way Street?
  
  
• February 18, 2010
  Biologists Discover How Biological Clock Controls Cell Division in Bacteria
  
  
• February 18, 2010
  A New Type of Genetic Variation Could Strengthen Natural Selection
  
  
• February 18, 2010
  2009 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge Winners Announced
  
  
• February 17, 2010
  Upside-down Answer for Deep Earth Mystery
  
  
• February 17, 2010
  Surface Science Goes Inorganic
  
  
• February 17, 2010
  Stiff Party Competition, Modest Salaries Good for State Government, Study Shows
  
  
• February 17, 2010
  Random Fluctuations Give Rise to Odd Genetic Phenomenon
  
  
• February 17, 2010
  Duke Scientists Image Brain at Point When Vocal Learning Begins
  
  
• February 17, 2010
  Atom Interferometer Provides Most Precise Test Yet of Einstein's Gravitational Redshift
  
  
• February 16, 2010
  The Carbon Cycle Before Humans
  
  
• February 16, 2010
  Team Finds Subtropical Waters Flushing Through Greenland Fjord
  
  
• February 16, 2010
  New Material Mimics Bone to Create Better Biomedical Implants
  
  
• February 16, 2010
  Clinical Trial Underway: Miniature Ultrasound Device Could Revolutionize Pain Relief
  
  
• February 16, 2010
  Caltech Researchers Create Highly Absorbing, Flexible Solar Cells With Silicon Wire Arrays
  
  
• February 16, 2010
  Butterfly Vision, Wing Colors Linked, UCI Study Finds
  
  
• February 15, 2010
  Protein Study Shows Evolutionary Link Between Plants, Humans
  
  
• February 15, 2010
  Lou's Clues Lead to Nano Revelation
  
  
• February 15, 2010
  Iowa State Researchers Win $16.38 Million in Federal Grants Supported by Stimulus Funding
  
  
• February 15, 2010
  Brain-controlled Cursor Doubles as a Neural Workout
  
  
• February 14, 2010
  Diversity of Corals, Algae in Warm Indian Ocean Suggests Resilience to Future Global Warming
  
  
• February 14, 2010
  Digging Deep Into Diamonds, Applied Physicists Advance Quantum Science and Technology
  
  
• February 14, 2010
  Caltech Researchers Obtain First Brain Recordings From Behaving Fruit Flies
  
  
• February 12, 2010
  Penn Materials Scientists Turn Light Into Electrical Current Using a Golden Nanoscale System
  
  
• February 12, 2010
  New Fiber Nanogenerators Could Lead to Electric Clothing
  
  
• February 11, 2010
  UNH Chemists Create Molecule With Promising Semiconductor Properties
  
  
• February 11, 2010
  The Cost of Being on Your Toes
  
  
• February 11, 2010
  Study Finds That Long-distance Migration Shapes Butterfly Wings
  
  
• February 11, 2010
  Seeing the Quantum in Chemistry: JILA Scientists Control Chemical Reactions of Ultracold Molecules
  
  
• February 11, 2010
  Scientists Discover Origin of HIV Transmission Among Male Partners
  
  
• February 11, 2010
  Research Challenges Models of Sea-level Change During Ice-age Cycles
  
  
• February 11, 2010
  New Picture of Ancient Ocean Chemistry Argues for Chemically Layered Water
  
  
• February 11, 2010
  Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapse Possibly Triggered by Ocean Waves, Scripps-led Study Finds
  
  
• February 10, 2010
  Study Finds Surprising New Branches on Arthropod Family Tree
  
  
• February 10, 2010
  PCs Around the World Unite to Map the Milky Way
  
  
• February 10, 2010
  'Fingerprinting' Method Reveals Fate of Mercury in Arctic Snow
  
  
• February 9, 2010
  WPI, Colorado School of Mines Establish Center for Sustainable Metals Recovery and Recycling
  
  
• February 9, 2010
  New UC-Davis Study: Climate 'Tipping Points' May Arrive Without Warning, Says Top Forecaster
  
  
• February 9, 2010
  Feeling Blue? You'll Shun the New
  
  
• February 9, 2010
  Comprehensive Study Using Bioinformatics Predicts the Molecular Causes of Many Genetic Diseases
  
  
• February 9, 2010
  Caltech Researchers Develop Nanoscale Structures With Superior Mechanical Properties
  
  
• February 9, 2010
  Biologist Discovers 'Stop' Signal in Honey Bee Communication
  
  
• February 8, 2010
  New International Satellite Observations Help Assess Future Earthquake Risk in Haiti
  
  
• February 8, 2010
  Millimeter-scale, Energy-harvesting Sensor System Developed
  
  
• February 8, 2010
  Adapting to Clogged Airways Makes Common Pathogen Resist Powerful Drugs
  
  
• February 5, 2010
  Princeton Scientist Makes a Leap in Quantum Computing
  
  
• February 5, 2010
  Electrons on the Brink: Fractal Patterns May be Key to Semiconductor Magnetism
  
  
• February 4, 2010
  Yale Scientists Complete Color Palette of a Dinosaur for the First Time
  
  
• February 4, 2010
  Research Finds Water Movements Can Shape Fish Evolution
  
  
• February 4, 2010
  Merging Galaxies Create a Binary Quasar
  
  
• February 3, 2010
  Smart Coating Opens Door to Safer Hip, Knee and Dental Implants
  
  
• February 3, 2010
  Iowa State, Ames Lab Chemists Discover How Antiviral Drugs Bind to and Block Flu Virus
  
  
• February 1, 2010
  Stressed Nanomaterials Display Unexpected Movement
  
  
• February 1, 2010
  Researchers Show Applied Electric Field can Significantly Improve Hydrogen Storage Properties
  
  
• February 1, 2010
  New Adhesive Device Could Let Humans Walk on Walls
  
  
• February 1, 2010
  Mechanical Forces Could Affect Gene Expression
  
  
• February 1, 2010
  Haiti Earthquake a Reminder That Disasters Are Preventable, CU-Boulder Expert Says
  
  
• February 1, 2010
  Gene Function Discovery: Guilt by Association
  
  
• February 1, 2010
  Evolution Impacts Environment, Challenging Traditionally Held View, UC-Riverside Study Finds
  
  
• February 1, 2010
  Engineers Explore Environmental Concerns of Nanotechnology
  
  
• February 1, 2010
  'Peter Pan' Apes Never Seem to Learn Selfishness
  
  
• January 29, 2010
  Using Magnetic Toys as Inspiration, Researchers Tease Out Structures of Self-assembled Clusters
  
  
• January 29, 2010
  UC-Davis Researchers Identify Brain Protein for Synapse Development
  
  
• January 29, 2010
  CCNY Biologists Identify New Spiny Pocket Mouse Species
  
  
• January 28, 2010
  Researchers Find New Way to Study How Enzymes Repair DNA Damage
  
  
• January 28, 2010
  How Many Argon Atoms Can Fit on the Surface of a Carbon Nanotube?
  
  
• January 28, 2010
  GW Research Team's Dinosaur Discovery Helps Solve Piece of Evolutionary Puzzle
  
  
• January 28, 2010
  Computer Model Demonstrates That White Roofs May Successfully Cool Cities
  
  
• January 27, 2010
  Innovative Technique Can Spot Errors in Key Technological Systems
  
  
• January 27, 2010
  Brain Scientists Extend Map of Fear Memory Formation
  
  
• January 27, 2010
  Astronomers Find Rare Beast by New Means
  
  
• January 26, 2010
  Marine Lab Hunts Subtle Clues to Environmental Threats to Blue Crabs
  
  
• January 26, 2010
  Green Plant Transport Mystery Solved
  
  
• January 26, 2010
  Environmental Change Impacts Oklahoma Rivers
  
  
• January 26, 2010
  A Venus Flytrap for Nuclear Waste
  
  
• January 25, 2010
  Illuminating Protein Networks in One Step
  
  
• January 25, 2010
  Elementary School Women Teachers Transfer Their Fear of Doing Math to Girls
  
  
• January 24, 2010
  How 'Random' Lasers Work
  
  
• January 22, 2010
  Discovery of Algae's Toxic Hunting Habits Could Help Curb Fish Kills
  
  
• January 21, 2010
  Watching Crystals Grow Provides Clues to Making Smoother, Defect-free Thin Films
  
  
• January 21, 2010
  San Andreas Fault Study Unearths New Quake Information
  
  
• January 21, 2010
  Language Structure is Partly Determined by Social Structure, Says Penn Psychology Study
  
  
• January 21, 2010
  Cave Reveals Southwest's Abrupt Climate Swings During Ice Age
  
  
• January 20, 2010
  Research Team 'Virtualizes' Supercomputer
  
  
• January 20, 2010
  New Radar System Provides 3-D Image of Bedrock Through Miles of Ice
  
  
• January 20, 2010
  Global Business Teams Need Time to Talk, Not Just E-mail
  
  
• January 19, 2010
  New Visible Light Photocatalyst Kills Bacteria, Even After Light Turned Off
  
  
• January 18, 2010
  Mixed Water Portfolio Helps Thirsty Cities
  
  
• January 18, 2010
  MIT: Unusual Snail Shell Could Be a Model for Better Armor
  
  
• January 15, 2010
  Parasitic Wasps' Genomes Provides New Insights Into Pest Control, Genetics
  
  
• January 14, 2010
  Yap: Harnessing the Divas of the Nanoworld
  
  
• January 14, 2010
  Stimulus Grant to Support Research on Climate and Infectious Disease
  
  
• January 14, 2010
  President Bestows Highest Honor on University of Oklahoma Scientist
  
  
• January 14, 2010
  Gators Breathe Like Birds
  
  
• January 14, 2010
  Game-changing Nanodiamond Discovery for MRI
  
  
• January 13, 2010
  Virginia Tech Licenses GenoCAD Source Code to ISCB
  
  
• January 13, 2010
  UI Astronomers Capture First-of-kind Image at Distant Star
  
  
• January 13, 2010
  Soybean Genome Analysis Reveals Pathways for Improving Biodiesel
  
  
• January 13, 2010
  New Research Resolves Conflict in Theory of How Galaxies Form
  
  
• January 13, 2010
  Heat and Moisture From Himalayas Could be a Key Cause of the South Asian Monsoon
  
  
• January 13, 2010
  Giant Magnetic Loop Sweeps Through Space Between Stellar Pair
  
  
• January 13, 2010
  Genome Sequencing Speeds Ability to Improve Soybeans
  
  
• January 13, 2010
  Carnegie Mellon Scientists Crack Brain's Codes for Noun Meanings
  
  
• January 12, 2010
  Climate Change and Habitat Destruction Affect Butterfly Populations
  
  
• January 11, 2010
  UC-Davis Study: Butterflies Reeling From Impacts of Climate and Development
  
  
• January 11, 2010
  Study Shows That Delivering Stem Cells Improves Repair of Major Bone Injuries in Rats
  
  
• January 11, 2010
  Researchers Trace HIV Mutations That Lead to Drug Resistance
  
  
• January 11, 2010
  Microbe Understudies Await Their Turn in the Limelight
  
  
• January 11, 2010
  Climate Conditions in 2050 Crucial to Avoid Harmful Impacts in 2100
  
  
• January 10, 2010
  Bering Strait Influenced Ice-age Climate Patterns Worldwide
  
  
• January 8, 2010
  Study: Quantum Fluctuations are Key in Superconductors
  
  
• January 8, 2010
  Paper Strips Can Quickly Detect Toxin in Drinking Water
  
  
• January 8, 2010
  New Online Videos Discuss Climate Change
  
  
• January 7, 2010
  Scripps Research Team Wins Global Race to Achieve Landmark Synthesis of Perplexing Natural Product
  
  
• January 7, 2010
  Rules Governing RNA's Anatomy Revealed
  
  
• January 7, 2010
  New Tidal Streams Found in Andromeda Reveal History of Galactic Mergers
  
  
• January 7, 2010
  MIT Neuroengineers Silence Brain Cells With Multiple Colors of Light
  
  
• January 7, 2010
  How the Earth Survived Birth
  
  
• January 7, 2010
  Duda, Where'd My Spines Go?
  
  
• January 7, 2010
  All Sustainable Transportation Subsidies Shouldn't be Created Equal, Experts Say
  
  
• January 6, 2010
  Astronomers Say Alien Dust Is Nothing to Sneeze At
  
  
• January 5, 2010
  New Mathematical Model Aids Big-bang Supercomputer Research
  
  
• January 5, 2010
  In All the Universe, Just 15 Percent of Solar Systems Are Like Ours
  
  
• January 5, 2010
  Birds Fight Alien Parasites
  
  
• January 5, 2010
  Astronomers Get New Tools for Gravitational-wave Detection
  
  
• January 4, 2010
  Runaway Anti-matter Production Makes for a Spectacular Stellar Explosion
  
  
• January 4, 2010
  Revealing the Explosive Heart of Eta Carinae
  
  
• January 4, 2010
  Reducing Some Water Flow Rates May Bring Environmental Gains
  
  
• January 4, 2010
  Biodegradable Particles Can Bypass Mucus, Release Drugs Over Time
  
  
• January 4, 2010
  ALMA Test Sharpens Vision of New Observatory