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NEWS FROM THE FIELD FOR 2009

• December 28, 2009
  Johns Hopkins Scientists Discover a Controller of Brain Circuitry
  
  
• December 28, 2009
  Cockroaches Offer Inspiration for Running Robots
  
  
• December 23, 2009
  Sun and Moon Trigger Deep Tremors on San Andreas Fault
  
  
• December 23, 2009
  Glacier Melt Adds Ancient Edibles to Marine Buffet
  
  
• December 22, 2009
  Seeing How Evolutionary Mechanisms Yield Biological Diversity
  
  
• December 22, 2009
  New Human Reproductive Hormone Could Lead to Novel Contraceptives
  
  
• December 22, 2009
  Fungal Footage Fosters Foresight Into Plant, Animal Disease
  
  
• December 22, 2009
  Fossil Shelved for a Century Reworks Carnivore Family Tree
  
  
• December 21, 2009
  Genetic Study Clarifies African and African-American Ancestry
  
  
• December 21, 2009
  Caltech Physicists Propose Quantum Entanglement for Motion of Microscopic Objects
  
  
• December 21, 2009
  Boston University Researchers Develop Faster, Cheaper DNA-Sequencing Method
  
  
• December 20, 2009
  Global Warming Likely to be Amplified by Slow Changes to Earth Systems
  
  
• December 20, 2009
  Global Temperatures Could Rise More Than Expected, New Study Shows
  
  
• December 17, 2009
  WHOI-operated ROV Jason Images the Discovery of the Deepest Explosive Eruption on the Seafloor
  
  
• December 17, 2009
  Water Droplets Shape Graphene Nanostructures
  
  
• December 17, 2009
  Long-term Study Finds That Nutrient Enrichment of Headwater Stream Disrupts Food Web in Unexpected Ways
  
  
• December 17, 2009
  Dyslexia Defined: New Yale Study 'Uncouples' Reading and IQ Over Time
  
  
• December 17, 2009
  Discovery of 4.4 Million-year-old 'Ardi' Named 'Breakthrough of the Year'
  
  
• December 17, 2009
  Colliding Auroras Produce an Explosion of Light, UCLA Scientists Report
  
  
• December 17, 2009
  Caltech Scientists Discover Fog on Titan
  
  
• December 16, 2009
  Warming Climate Chills Sonoran Desert's Spring Flowers
  
  
• December 16, 2009
  Thermochemical Nanolithography Now Allows Multiple Chemicals on a Chip
  
  
• December 16, 2009
  Researchers Find Cells Move in Mysterious Ways
  
  
• December 16, 2009
  Caltech Scientists Film Photons With Electrons
  
  
• December 16, 2009
  Astronomers Find Super-Earth Using Amateur, Off-the-shelf Technology
  
  
• December 15, 2009
  Rare Earth Metal Enhances Phosphate Glass
  
  
• December 15, 2009
  Irrigation Decreases, Urbanization Increases Monsoon Rains
  
  
• December 15, 2009
  Greenland Glaciers: What Lies Beneath
  
  
• December 15, 2009
  'Extreme' Genes Shed Light on Origins of Photosynthesis
  
  
• December 14, 2009
  Yellowstone's Plumbing Exposed
  
  
• December 14, 2009
  New Planet Discoveries Suggest Low-mass Planets are Common Around Nearby Stars
  
  
• December 14, 2009
  Hypoxia Increases as Climate Warms
  
  
• December 14, 2009
  First Super-Earths Discovered Around Sun-like Stars
  
  
• December 13, 2009
  Newly Identified Enzymes Help Plants Sense Elevated CO₂ and Could Lead to Water-wise Crops
  
  
• December 11, 2009
  Rice Physicists Find Reappearing Quantum Trios
  
  
• December 11, 2009
  Reaching the Summit of Protein Dynamics
  
  
• December 10, 2009
  UA-led Study Grapples With Health Effects of Low-intensity Warfare
  
  
• December 10, 2009
  Study Reveals H1N1 Unexpected Weakness
  
  
• December 10, 2009
  Rare Fossil Forces Rethinking of Early Dinosaur Evolution
  
  
• December 10, 2009
  New Meat-eating Dinosaur Alters Evolutionary Tree
  
  
• December 10, 2009
  New Approach to Emissions Makes Climate and Air Quality Models More Accurate, Major Study Finds
  
  
• December 10, 2009
  Introns: A Mystery Renewed
  
  
• December 10, 2009
  Early Carnivorous Dinosaurs Crossed Continents
  
  
• December 10, 2009
  Drug Kills Cells Through Novel Mechanism
  
  
• December 9, 2009
  Two Kent State Professors Help Break Record for Packing Tetrahedra
  
  
• December 9, 2009
  The Pitch of Blue Whale Songs is Declining Around the World, Scientists Discover
  
  
• December 9, 2009
  Female Birds--Acting Just Like the Guys--Become Sexual Show-offs in Cooperative Breeding Species
  
  
• December 9, 2009
  EPSRC and NSF Join Forces to Award £6 Million in Research Funding
  
  
• December 9, 2009
  A Faint Star Orbiting the Big Dipper's Alcor Discovered
  
  
• December 8, 2009
  Study Finds New Relationship Between Gene Duplication and Alternative Splicing in Plants
  
  
• December 8, 2009
  Bacteria Provide New Insights into Human Decision Making
  
  
• December 7, 2009
  A See-through Surprise
  
  
• December 6, 2009
  Mayo Clinic Researchers Show Brain Waves Can 'Write' on a Computer in Early Tests
  
  
• December 6, 2009
  Caltech Scientists Discover Aggression-promoting Pheromone in Flies
  
  
• December 4, 2009
  UD Scientists Take Theoretical Research on 'Nasty' Molecule to Next Level
  
  
• December 4, 2009
  Greenhouse Gas Carbon Dioxide Ramps Up Aspen Growth
  
  
• December 3, 2009
  New Research Uncovers Deep Origins of the 'Hawaiian Hotspot'
  
  
• December 3, 2009
  Hawaiian Hotspot Has Deep Roots
  
  
• December 3, 2009
  Grooving Down the Helix
  
  
• December 3, 2009
  Birds Call to Warn Friends and Enemies
  
  
• December 2, 2009
  Some Birds Listen Instead of Look for Mates
  
  
• December 2, 2009
  Sea Level is Rising Along U.S. Atlantic Coast, Say Penn Environmental Scientists
  
  
• December 2, 2009
  A Superbright Supernova That's the First of Its Kind
  
  
• December 2, 2009
  A Little Magic Provides an Atomic-level Look at Bone
  
  
• December 1, 2009
  UAF Chooses Shipyard to Build Alaska Region Research Vessel
  
  
• December 1, 2009
  Nervy Research: Researchers Take Initial Look at Ion Channels in a Model System
  
  
• December 1, 2009
  In CO₂-rich Environment, Some Ocean Dwellers Increase Shell Production
  
  
• December 1, 2009
  Combining Nanotubes and Antibodies for Breast Cancer 'Search and Destroy' Missions
  
  
• December 1, 2009
  A Novel, 10,000-year Study of Strata Compaction and Sea-level Rise on English Coast
  
  
• November 30, 2009
  Study: Believers' Inferences About God's Beliefs are Uniquely Egocentric
  
  
• November 30, 2009
  Naked Mole Rats May Hold Clues to Surviving Stroke
  
  
• November 27, 2009
  Past Regional Cold and Warm Periods Linked to Natural Climate Drivers
  
  
• November 26, 2009
  Nanowires Key to Future Transistors, Electronics
  
  
• November 25, 2009
  It's Not Just Dirt!
  
  
• November 25, 2009
  Caltech Scientists Find Emotion-like Behaviors, Regulated by Dopamine, in Fruit Flies
  
  
• November 24, 2009
  Researchers Establish Common Seasonal Pattern Among Bacterial Communities in Arctic Rivers
  
  
• November 24, 2009
  First Black Holes May Have Incubated in Giant, Starlike Cocoons, Says CU-Boulder Study
  
  
• November 24, 2009
  Chemists Get Custom-designed Microscopic Particles to Self-assemble in Liquid Crystal
  
  
• November 23, 2009
  Water Droplets Direct Self-assembly Process in Thin-film Materials
  
  
• November 23, 2009
  The Cause Behind The Characteristic Shape of a Long Leaf Revealed
  
  
• November 23, 2009
  Oceanic Crust Formation is Dynamic After All
  
  
• November 23, 2009
  New Hydrogen-storage Method Discovered
  
  
• November 23, 2009
  Fish Food Fight: Fish Don't Eat Trees After All, Says New Study
  
  
• November 23, 2009
  Computational Microscope Peers Into the Working Ribosome
  
  
• November 20, 2009
  Smartphone App Illuminates Power Consumption
  
  
• November 20, 2009
  NJIT Receives NSF Funding to Improve Big Bear Telescope, Study Solar Energy
  
  
• November 19, 2009
  Search Engines Are Source of Learning
  
  
• November 19, 2009
  Paleontologists Find Extinction Rates Higher in Open-ocean Settings During Mass Extinctions
  
  
• November 19, 2009
  New Method to Measure Snow, Vegetation Moisture With GPS May Benefit Farmers, Meteorologists
  
  
• November 19, 2009
  Maize Genome: Scientists at UA, Collaborating Institutions, Decode Maize Genome
  
  
• November 19, 2009
  Maize Genome: Reference Genome of Maize, Most Important U.S. Crop, Is Published by Team Co-led by CSHL Scientists
  
  
• November 19, 2009
  Maize Genome: New Maize Map to Aid Plant Breeding Efforts
  
  
• November 19, 2009
  Maize Genome: ISU's Plant Sciences Institute Researchers Provide Understanding to Maize Genome Sequence
  
  
• November 19, 2009
  Maize Genome: A-maize-ing: Corn Genome Decoded
  
  
• November 19, 2009
  Like Humans, Ants Use Bacteria to Make Their Gardens Grow
  
  
• November 19, 2009
  Engineer Designs Micro-endoscope to Seek Out Early Signs of Cancer
  
  
• November 19, 2009
  Beyond Genomics, Biologists and Engineers Decode the Next Frontier
  
  
• November 19, 2009
  After Mastodons and Mammoths, a Transformed Landscape
  
  
• November 18, 2009
  Scientists Unravel Evolution of Highly Toxic Box Jellyfish
  
  
• November 18, 2009
  Proton's Party Pals May Alter Its Internal Structure
  
  
• November 18, 2009
  Oceans' Uptake of Manmade Carbon May be Slowing
  
  
• November 17, 2009
  Shape Perception in Brain Develops by Itself
  
  
• November 17, 2009
  Rice Ties in Race for Atomic-scale Breakthrough
  
  
• November 17, 2009
  Putting Math Problems in Proper Order
  
  
• November 17, 2009
  Petascale Computing Tools Could Provide Deeper Insight Into Genomic Evolution
  
  
• November 17, 2009
  Petascale Computational Tools Could Revolutionize Understanding of Genomic Evolution
  
  
• November 17, 2009
  Girls 'Disengage' From High-school Science
  
  
• November 16, 2009
  Warmer Means Windier on World's Biggest Lake
  
  
• November 16, 2009
  Volatile Gas Could Turn Rwandan Lake Into a Freshwater Time Bomb
  
  
• November 16, 2009
  UT's Kraken Named World's Third Fastest Computer, ORNL's Jaguar is No. 1
  
  
• November 16, 2009
  Small Optical Force Can Budge Nanoscale Objects
  
  
• November 16, 2009
  Record-breaking Radio Astronomy Project to Measure Sky With Extreme Precision
  
  
• November 16, 2009
  NJIT Engineer Discovers Why Particles Disperse on Liquids
  
  
• November 16, 2009
  Close-up Movie Shows Hidden Details in the Birth of Super-suns
  
  
• November 16, 2009
  Accidental Discovery Produces Durable New Blue Pigment for Multiple Applications
  
  
• November 15, 2009
  Scientists Guide Immune Cells With Light and Microparticles
  
  
• November 15, 2009
  MIT Scientists Pinpoint Origin of Dissolved Arsenic in Bangladesh Drinking Water
  
  
• November 13, 2009
  One Small Step for Women, One Giant Leap for Polar Science
  
  
• November 12, 2009
  UT Southwestern Receives $42 Million in Recovery Act Stimulus Funding
  
  
• November 12, 2009
  Record-high Temperatures Far Outpace Record Lows Across U.S.
  
  
• November 11, 2009
  Understanding Mechanical Properties of Silicon Nanowires Paves Way for Nanodevices
  
  
• November 11, 2009
  Study Shows Brief Training in Meditation May Help Manage Pain
  
  
• November 11, 2009
  Partnership with Chemists in Ireland, Italy Yields New Discovery
  
  
• November 11, 2009
  New Brain Findings on Dyslexic Children
  
  
• November 10, 2009
  New 'FinFETS' Promising for Smaller Transistors, More Powerful Chips
  
  
• November 10, 2009
  Iowa State University Researcher Discovers Key to Vital DNA, Protein Interaction
  
  
• November 10, 2009
  Iowa State Scientist Develops Lab Machine to Study Glacial Sliding Related to Rising Sea Levels
  
  
• November 10, 2009
  Hundreds of Genes Distinguish Patients Likely to Survive Advanced Melanoma
  
  
• November 10, 2009
  Engineers Image Nanostructure of a Solid Acid Catalyst and Boost its Catalytic Activity
  
  
• November 10, 2009
  Ancient Penguin DNA Raises Doubts About Accuracy of Genetic Dating Techniques
  
  
• November 9, 2009
  Rutgers Computer Scientists Work to Strengthen Online Security
  
  
• November 9, 2009
  New Transparent Insulating Film Could Enable Energy-efficient Displays
  
  
• November 9, 2009
  Caltech Scientists Develop DNA Origami Nanoscale Breadboards for Carbon Nanotube Circuits
  
  
• November 6, 2009
  Why Nice Guys Usually Get the Girls
  
  
• November 6, 2009
  Pathogen Protection and Virulence: Dark Side of Fungal Membrane Protein Revealed
  
  
• November 6, 2009
  Past Climate of the Northern Antarctic Peninsular Informs Global Warming Debate
  
  
• November 6, 2009
  New Insight Into Predicting Cholera Epidemics in the Bengal Delta
  
  
• November 5, 2009
  Sabertoothed Males Were Pussycats
  
  
• November 5, 2009
  Rapid Supernova Could be New Class of Exploding Star
  
  
• November 5, 2009
  Quantum Gas Microscope Offers Glimpse of Quirky Ultracold Atoms
  
  
• November 5, 2009
  Kent State Receives $2.7 Million NSF Training Grant for Environmental Aquatic Resource Sensing
  
  
• November 5, 2009
  Iowa State Psychologist is Conducting Two New Studies on Eyewitness Misidentifications
  
  
• November 5, 2009
  Community Education and Evacuation Planning Saved Lives in Sept. 29 Samoan Tsunami
  
  
• November 5, 2009
  Caught in the Act: Butterfly Mate Preference Shows How One Species Can Become Two
  
  
• November 5, 2009
  Airborne Nitrogen Shifts Aquatic Nutrient Limitation in Pristine Lakes
  
  
• November 4, 2009
  OU Achieves $10 Million in Stimulus Grants for 33 Projects on the Norman Campus
  
  
• November 4, 2009
  Mimicking Nature, Scientists Can Now Extend Redox Potentials
  
  
• November 4, 2009
  Materials Scientists Find Better Model for Glass Creation
  
  
• November 3, 2009
  Longer Toes, Unique Ankle Structure Aid Sprinters
  
  
• November 3, 2009
  First Impressions Count When Making Personality Judgments, New Research Shows
  
  
• November 2, 2009
  Wolves, Moose and Biodiversity: An Unexpected Connection
  
  
• November 2, 2009
  There's a Speed Limit to the Pace of Evolution, Penn Biologists Say
  
  
• November 2, 2009
  Study Gives Clearer Picture of How Land-use Changes Affect U.S. Climate
  
  
• November 2, 2009
  Robot Fish Could Monitor Water Quality
  
  
• November 2, 2009
  Rice U. Lab Leads Hunt for New Zeolites
  
  
• November 2, 2009
  High-precision Measurements Confirm Cosmologists' Standard View of Universe
  
  
• November 2, 2009
  Green is Cool, but U.S. Land Changes Generally Are Not
  
  
• November 2, 2009
  Glaciers Subject of Three Penn State Grants
  
  
• November 2, 2009
  Deep-sea Ecosystems Affected by Climate Change
  
  
• November 2, 2009
  Climate Variability Impacts the Deep Sea
  
  
• November 2, 2009
  Breakthrough in Industrial-scale Nanotube Processing
  
  
• October 30, 2009
  Inconspicuous Leaf Beetles Reveal Environment's Role in Formation of New Species
  
  
• October 29, 2009
  Inequality 'Silver Spoon' Effect Found in Ancient Societies
  
  
• October 29, 2009
  A New Wrinkle in Ancient Ocean Chemistry
  
  
• October 28, 2009
  Trees Facilitate Wildfires as a Way to Protect Their Habitat
  
  
• October 28, 2009
  North Carolina Sea Levels Rising Three Times Faster Than in Previous 500 Years, Penn Study Says
  
  
• October 28, 2009
  Gossip in the Workplace: A Weapon or Gift, Says New Research From IU
  
  
• October 28, 2009
  Electrical Engineers Go Head to Head With Genius on Music Playlists
  
  
• October 28, 2009
  Blast From the Past Offers Clues About Early Universe
  
  
• October 27, 2009
  When Ants Attack: Researchers Recreate Chemicals That Trigger Aggression in Argentine Ants
  
  
• October 27, 2009
  University of Cincinnati Researchers Create All-electric Spintronics
  
  
• October 27, 2009
  Snail Fossils Suggest Semiarid Eastern Canary Islands Were Wetter 50,000 Years Ago
  
  
• October 27, 2009
  Scientists Are First to Observe the Global Motions of an Enzyme Copying DNA
  
  
• October 27, 2009
  Newly Drilled Ice Cores May Be the Longest Taken From the Andes
  
  
• October 27, 2009
  Fortuitous Research Provides First Detailed Documentation of Tsunami Erosion
  
  
• October 26, 2009
  UC-Davis Researchers Identify Dominant Chemical That Attracts Mosquitoes to Humans
  
  
• October 26, 2009
  Modified Crops Reveal Hidden Cost of Resistance
  
  
• October 25, 2009
  Mantis Shrimp Could Show Us The Way to a Better DVD
  
  
• October 23, 2009
  Caltech Scientists First to Trap Light and Sound Vibrations Together in Nanocrystal
  
  
• October 22, 2009
  The White Stuff: Marine Lab Team Seeks to Understand Coral Bleaching
  
  
• October 22, 2009
  Team Led by Scripps Researchers and UC-San Diego Scientists Reveals Secrets of Drought Resistance
  
  
• October 22, 2009
  Researchers Make Key Step Towards Turning Methane Gas Into Liquid Fuel
  
  
• October 22, 2009
  Penn Study: Transforming Nanowires Into Nano-tools Using Cation Exchange Reactions
  
  
• October 22, 2009
  Mushrooms, Water-repellants More Similar Than You Might Think
  
  
• October 22, 2009
  Harvard Scientists Bend Nanowires Into 2-D and 3-D Structures
  
  
• October 22, 2009
  Ethiopia's Climate 27 Million Years Ago Had Higher Rainfall, Warmer Soil
  
  
• October 22, 2009
  Color Differences Within and Between Species Have Common Genetic Origin
  
  
• October 22, 2009
  Carnegie Mellon's Rohit Negi Receives Government Stimulus Funds
  
  
• October 22, 2009
  Caltech Scientists Solve Decade-long Mystery of Nanopillar Formations
  
  
• October 21, 2009
  Volcanoes Played Pivotal Role in Ancient Ice Age, Mass Extinction
  
  
• October 21, 2009
  Single-stranded DNA-binding Protein Is Dynamic, Critical to DNA Repair
  
  
• October 21, 2009
  Reproduction: Do Males Really Matter?
  
  
• October 21, 2009
  It Takes Two to Tutor a Sparrow
  
  
• October 21, 2009
  Designer Molecule Detects Tiny Amounts of Cyanide, Then Glows
  
  
• October 20, 2009
  Penn Team Uses Self-assembly to Make Molecule-sized Particles With Patches of Charge
  
  
• October 20, 2009
  New Material Could Boost Data Storage, Save Energy
  
  
• October 20, 2009
  Genomes of 2 Popular Research Strains of E. Coli Sequenced
  
  
• October 20, 2009
  Cuts to Mississippi Levees Could Build New Land in Sinking Delta
  
  
• October 19, 2009
  Time in a Bottle: Scientists Watch Evolution Unfold
  
  
• October 19, 2009
  RIT Scientists Use Supercomputers to 'See' Black Holes
  
  
• October 19, 2009
  Caltech Scientists Create Robot Surrogate for Blind Persons in Testing Visual Prostheses
  
  
• October 19, 2009
  Arctic Lake Sediment Record Shows Warming, Unique Ecological Changes in Recent Decades
  
  
• October 16, 2009
  Science Teachers' Research Experiences Improve Student Results
  
  
• October 15, 2009
  Tiny Test Tube Experiment Shows Reaction of Melting Materials at the Nano Scale
  
  
• October 15, 2009
  Quantum Computer Chips Now One Step Closer to Reality
  
  
• October 15, 2009
  Light at Night Linked to Symptoms of Depression in Mice
  
  
• October 15, 2009
  Caltech Researchers Reveal Unexpected Sources of Nitrogen Fixation
  
  
• October 14, 2009
  Tiny But Adaptable Wasp Brains Show Ability to Alter Their Architecture
  
  
• October 14, 2009
  Rutgers Physicists Discover Novel Electronic Properties in Two-dimensional Carbon Structure
  
  
• October 14, 2009
  Researchers Save Electricity With Low-power Processors and Flash Memory
  
  
• October 14, 2009
  Plants Recognize Siblings, and UD Researchers Have Discovered How
  
  
• October 13, 2009
  Researchers to Model the Life Cycles of Successful Virtual Teams
  
  
• October 13, 2009
  Recent 'Momentum' Influences Choices of Baby Names, NYU and Indiana Psychology Professors Find
  
  
• October 13, 2009
  Magnetic Nanotags Spot Cancer in Mice Earlier Than Methods Now in Clinical Use
  
  
• October 13, 2009
  Looking For Privacy in the Clouds
  
  
• October 13, 2009
  Like Humans, Monkeys Fall Into The 'Uncanny Valley'
  
  
• October 13, 2009
  High-tech Tools to Unlock Ancient Treasures
  
  
• October 12, 2009
  Radio Waves 'See' Through Walls
  
  
• October 12, 2009
  Nitrogen Mysteries in Urban Grasslands
  
  
• October 12, 2009
  New Study of Steller Sea Lions Suggests Death by Predation May Be Higher
  
  
• October 12, 2009
  New Nanotech Sensor Developed With Medical, Chemistry Applications
  
  
• October 11, 2009
  Banded Rocks Reveal Early Earth Conditions and Changes
  
  
• October 9, 2009
  Scientists Obtain Rocks Moving Into Seismogenic Zone
  
  
• October 8, 2009
  Toward Better Solar Cells: Chemists Gain Control of Light-harvesting Paths
  
  
• October 8, 2009
  Scientists Decipher the 3-D Structure of the Human Genome
  
  
• October 8, 2009
  Physicists Measure Elusive 'Persistent Current' That Flows Forever
  
  
• October 8, 2009
  Kraken Becomes First Academic Machine to Achieve Petaflop
  
  
• October 8, 2009
  Inside the First Bird, Surprising Signs of a Dinosaur
  
  
• October 8, 2009
  Household Robots Do Not Protect Users' Security and Privacy, Researchers Say
  
  
• October 8, 2009
  Chinese and American Paleontologists Discover a New Mesozoic Mammal
  
  
• October 8, 2009
  Archaeopteryx Was Not Very Bird-like
  
  
• October 7, 2009
  UA Scientists Discover Quantum Fingerprints of Chaos
  
  
• October 6, 2009
  Study Shows How to Lower Costs and Waiting Times for Colonoscopies
  
  
• October 6, 2009
  Sand Dunes Reveal Unexpected Dryness During Heavy Monsoon
  
  
• October 6, 2009
  Prion Study Reveals First Direct Information About the Protein's Molecular Structure
  
  
• October 6, 2009
  Dirty Stars Make Good Solar System Hosts
  
  
• October 5, 2009
  Team Finds a Better Way to Watch Bacteria Swim
  
  
• October 5, 2009
  Seven New Luminescent Mushroom Species Discovered
  
  
• October 5, 2009
  Models Begin to Unravel How Single DNA Strands Combine
  
  
• October 5, 2009
  First Direct Information About the Prion's Molecular Structure Reported
  
  
• October 5, 2009
  Chance to Usurp Reproductive Power of Royal Throne Keeps Worker Termites Home
  
  
• October 5, 2009
  Bizarre New Horned Tyrannosaur From Asia Described
  
  
• October 5, 2009
  Alfalfa Sprouts Key to Discovering How Meandering Rivers Form and Maintain
  
  
• October 2, 2009
  There's Still Time to Cut the Risk of Climate Catastrophe, MIT Study Shows
  
  
• October 2, 2009
  Princeton Paleomagnetists Put Controversy to Rest
  
  
• October 2, 2009
  Physicists Observe Magnetism in Gas for the First Time
  
  
• October 1, 2009
  The eScience Revolution
  
  
• October 1, 2009
  Loss of Top Predators Causing Surge in Smaller Predators, Ecosystem Collapse
  
  
• October 1, 2009
  In Amoeba World, Cheating Doesn't Pay
  
  
• October 1, 2009
  Genetic Conflict in Fish Led to Evolution of New Sex Chromosomes
  
  
• October 1, 2009
  First Light for BOSS: A New Kind of Search for Dark Energy
  
  
• October 1, 2009
  Ethiopian Desert Yields Oldest Hominid Skeleton
  
  
• October 1, 2009
  Estrogen Link in Male Aggression Sheds New Light on Sex-specific Behaviors
  
  
• October 1, 2009
  Coal-mining Hazard Resembles Explosive Volcanic Eruption, Study Shows
  
  
• October 1, 2009
  Before 'Lucy,' There was 'Ardi': First Major Analysis of Early Hominid Published
  
  
• October 1, 2009
  Algae and Pollen Grains Provide Evidence of Remarkably Warm Period in Antarctica's History
  
  
• September 30, 2009
  Science 'Boot Camp' for Undergrads
  
  
• September 30, 2009
  San Andreas Affected by 2004 Sumatran Quake
  
  
• September 30, 2009
  Planet's Nitrogen Cycle Overturned by 'Tiny Ammonia Eater of the Seas'
  
  
• September 30, 2009
  New Way to Monitor Faults May Help Predict Earthquakes
  
  
• September 30, 2009
  Kansas State Physicist Works to Understand Atomic Collisions Important to Ultracold Quantum Gasses
  
  
• September 29, 2009
  University of Michigan Physicists Create First Atomic-scale Map of Quantum Dots
  
  
• September 29, 2009
  Studies Examine How Living Conditions Impact Reproductive Health
  
  
• September 29, 2009
  Novel Chemistry for Ethylene and Tin
  
  
• September 28, 2009
  Mystery Solved: Marine Microbe Is Source of Rare Nutrient
  
  
• September 28, 2009
  Arizona State Has Earned More Than $32 Million in Federal Stimulus Research Grants
  
  
• September 25, 2009
  How Would Einstein Use E-mail?
  
  
• September 24, 2009
  Smart Memory Foam Made Smarter
  
  
• September 24, 2009
  Room's Ambience Fingerprinted by Phone
  
  
• September 24, 2009
  Peruvian Glacial Retreats Linked to European Events of Little Ice Age
  
  
• September 24, 2009
  NYU's Amodio Explores Neurological Activity That Fuels Racial Bias
  
  
• September 24, 2009
  MSU Scientist Helps Map Potato Genome, Could Improve Crop Yield
  
  
• September 24, 2009
  Getting a Leg Up on Whale and Dolphin Evolution
  
  
• September 23, 2009
  UA Awarded $4.35 Million to Study Earth's Critical Zone
  
  
• September 23, 2009
  Retinal Implant Could Help Restore Some Vision
  
  
• September 23, 2009
  Research Team Finds First Evolutionary Branching for Bilateral Animals
  
  
• September 23, 2009
  Ratchet-like Genetic Mutations Make Evolution Irreversible
  
  
• September 23, 2009
  NYU's Courant Part of Team to Resolve Ancient Mathematics Problem
  
  
• September 23, 2009
  ALMA Telescope Reaches New Heights
  
  
• September 22, 2009
  UA Develops Network to Improve Weather Forecasting With $5.45 Million From NSF
  
  
• September 22, 2009
  Therapeutic Nanoparticles Give New Meaning to Sugar-coating Medicine
  
  
• September 22, 2009
  Our Emotions Can Lead Us Astray When Assessing Risks, Says New CU-Boulder Study
  
  
• September 22, 2009
  NSF Funds State's First Imaging System for UAB Microscale Research Lab
  
  
• September 22, 2009
  New Findings Could Help Hybrid, Electric Cars Keep Their Cool
  
  
• September 22, 2009
  High-school Student Discovers Strange Astronomical Object
  
  
• September 22, 2009
  Georgia State Researcher to Use $1 Million Grant to Improve Computer Models for Fighting Wildfires
  
  
• September 22, 2009
  A Trillion Triangles
  
  
• September 21, 2009
  NSF Grant Funds Florida Tech Scientist to Explore Antarctic Sea for Predatory Crabs
  
  
• September 21, 2009
  New Multi-use Device Can Shed Light on Oxygen Intake
  
  
• September 21, 2009
  Math Used as a Tool to Heal Toughest of Wounds
  
  
• September 20, 2009
  World's River Deltas Sinking Due to Human Activity, Says New Study Led by CU-Boulder
  
  
• September 18, 2009
  Bugs in Boxes Show Difficulty of Predicting Invaders' Progress
  
  
• September 17, 2009
  Researchers Find High Numbers of Heat-loving Bacteria in Cold Arctic Ocean
  
  
• September 17, 2009
  More to Solar Cycle Than Sunspots--Sun Also Bombards Earth With High-speed Streams of Wind
  
  
• September 16, 2009
  UCSF Scientists Illuminate How MicroRNAs Drive Tumor Progression
  
  
• September 16, 2009
  Project Aids Environmental Decisions in the Face of Complicated Trade-offs
  
  
• September 16, 2009
  Portable and Precise Gas Sensor Could Monitor Pollution and Detect Disease
  
  
• September 16, 2009
  How to Spell B-Y-U With DNA
  
  
• September 16, 2009
  Engineers Produce 'How-to' Guide for Controlling the Structure of Nanoparticles
  
  
• September 16, 2009
  Carnegie's Winslow Briggs Receives International Prize for Biology
  
  
• September 15, 2009
  STEM Initiative Introduces Budding Scientists to Renewable Energy
  
  
• September 15, 2009
  Sophisticated Telescope Camera Debuts With Peek at Nest of Black Holes
  
  
• September 15, 2009
  Rome Was Built in a Day, With Hundreds of Thousands of Digital Photos
  
  
• September 15, 2009
  Laser Processes Promise Better Artificial Joints, Arterial Stents
  
  
• September 15, 2009
  Indiana U. Medical Researchers Boost Research and Jobs With Stimulus Legislation Grants
  
  
• September 14, 2009
  When Nano May Not Be Nano
  
  
• September 14, 2009
  Sierra Nevada Birds Move in Response to Warmer, Wetter Climate
  
  
• September 14, 2009
  Digging Deeper Below Antarctica's Lake Vida
  
  
• September 13, 2009
  Strain on Nanocrystals Could Yield Colossal Results
  
  
• September 11, 2009
  New X-ray Technique Illuminates Reactivity of Environmental Contaminants
  
  
• September 11, 2009
  First Complete Image Created of Himalayan Fault, Subduction Zone
  
  
• September 10, 2009
  Seaglider Sets New Underwater Endurance and Range Records
  
  
• September 10, 2009
  Scientists Seek New Emphases in Arctic Climate Change Research
  
  
• September 10, 2009
  Scientists Develop Novel Use of Neurotechnology to Solve Classic Social Problem
  
  
• September 10, 2009
  RNA Interference Found in Budding Yeasts
  
  
• September 10, 2009
  Environmental Scientists Estimate That China Could Meet Its Entire Future Energy Needs by Wind Alone
  
  
• September 10, 2009
  Dramatic Biological Responses to Global Warming in the Arctic
  
  
• September 10, 2009
  Dividing Cells 'Feel' Their Way Out of Warp
  
  
• September 10, 2009
  Carbon Nanotubes Could Make Efficient Solar Cells
  
  
• September 9, 2009
  Successful Flight of Unmanned Craft Enhances KU's Role in Climate Change Research
  
  
• September 9, 2009
  Scientists Discover Surprise in Earth's Upper Atmosphere
  
  
• September 9, 2009
  New Robot Travels Across the Seafloor to Monitor the Impact of Climate Change on Deep-sea Ecosystems
  
  
• September 9, 2009
  Individual Cells Isolated From Biological Clock Can Keep Daily Time, But Are Unreliable
  
  
• September 9, 2009
  Global Warming Causes Outbreak of Rare Algae Associated With Corals, Study Finds
  
  
• September 9, 2009
  Genome of Irish Potato Famine Pathogen Decoded
  
  
• September 8, 2009
  Virginia Tech's Proposed Next Generation Nano-CT System Will Enhance Nano-scale Research
  
  
• September 8, 2009
  Tornado Threat Increases as Gulf Hurricanes Get Larger
  
  
• September 8, 2009
  Plants on Steroids: Key Missing Link Discovered
  
  
• September 8, 2009
  Electrical Circuit Runs Entirely Off Power in Trees
  
  
• September 4, 2009
  NYU Part of $10 Million NSF Grant to Study Impact of Global Warming in the Antarctic
  
  
• September 3, 2009
  Molecular Decay of Enamel-specific Gene in Toothless Mammals Supports Theory of Evolution
  
  
• September 3, 2009
  Long-term Cooling Trend in Arctic Abruptly Reverses, Signaling Potential for Sea Rise
  
  
• September 3, 2009
  Carrots Are Better Than Sticks for Building Human Cooperation
  
  
• September 3, 2009
  Arctic Lakes Help Scientists Understand Climate Change
  
  
• September 3, 2009
  Arctic at Warmest Levels in 2,000 Years or More
  
  
• September 2, 2009
  University of Georgia Researchers Show Component of Mothballs is Present in Deep-space Clouds
  
  
• September 2, 2009
  Gladstone Scientists Find First Genetic Link Between Reptile and Human Heart Evolution
  
  
• September 2, 2009
  Denitrification, Its Importance Once Diluted, May be Back on Top, Princeton-led Team Says
  
  
• September 2, 2009
  Believing is Seeing
  
  
• September 1, 2009
  Shifting Baselines Confound River Restoration
  
  
• September 1, 2009
  Researchers Design New Graphene-based, Nanomaterial with Magnetic Properties
  
  
• September 1, 2009
  Radio-telescope Measurements Advance Frontier Physics
  
  
• September 1, 2009
  Promise of Nanodiamonds for Safer Gene Therapy
  
  
• September 1, 2009
  Moths Cloaked in Color
  
  
• September 1, 2009
  Engineers Design Self-righting Buildings That Survive Earthquake Test in Style
  
  
• September 1, 2009
  'FEAsy' Analyzes Designs From Raw Sketches to Speed Parts Creation
  
  
• August 31, 2009
  World's Smallest Semiconductor Laser Heralds New Era in Optical Science
  
  
• August 31, 2009
  Slowly Slip-sliding Faults Don't Cause Earthquakes
  
  
• August 31, 2009
  Silk-based Optical Waveguides Meet Biomedical Needs
  
  
• August 31, 2009
  Platinum Nanocatalyst Could Aid Drugmakers
  
  
• August 31, 2009
  Is the Milky Way Doomed to be Destroyed by Galactic Bombardment? Probably Not, Study Says
  
  
• August 30, 2009
  Counting Duplicated Genome Segments Now Possible
  
  
• August 28, 2009
  Texas A&M-Galveston Professor Discovers New Species of Marine Life
  
  
• August 28, 2009
  Acoustic Tweezers Can Position Tiny Objects
  
  
• August 27, 2009
  The Mysterious Glaciers That Grew When Asia Heated Up
  
  
• August 27, 2009
  Stimulus Funding Helps K-State Bring Undergrads to Prairie for Ecology, Molecular Biology Research
  
  
• August 27, 2009
  Scientists Uncover Solar Cycle, Stratosphere and Ocean Connections
  
  
• August 27, 2009
  Researchers Pinpoint Neural Nanoblockers in Carbon Nanotubes
  
  
• August 27, 2009
  New Temperature Reconstruction From Indo-Pacific Warm Pool
  
  
• August 27, 2009
  Mice Living in Sandy Hills Quickly Evolved Lighter Coloration
  
  
• August 27, 2009
  Making Global Science Networking More User-friendly
  
  
• August 26, 2009
  Tropical Storms Endure Over Wet Land, Fizzle Over Dry
  
  
• August 26, 2009
  Scientists Find Evidence of Iridescence in 40 million-year-old Feather Fossil
  
  
• August 26, 2009
  International Greenland Ice Coring Effort Sets New Drilling Record in 2009
  
  
• August 25, 2009
  Retrofitted Historic Building Survives Strong Simulated Jolts During UCSD Test
  
  
• August 25, 2009
  Professor and Students Unlock Secrets of Evolution
  
  
• August 25, 2009
  LEGO Toy Helps Researchers Learn What Happens on Nanoscale
  
  
• August 24, 2009
  Slow-motion Earthquake Testing Probes How Buildings Collapse in Quakes
  
  
• August 24, 2009
  Scientists Shed New Light on Behavior of Shark 'Tweens' and 'Teenagers'
  
  
• August 24, 2009
  Scientists Discover New Species of Crustacean on Lanzarote
  
  
• August 24, 2009
  Global Warming Threatens Tropical Species, The Ecosystem and its By-products
  
  
• August 21, 2009
  UCSF Researchers Identify Two Key Pathways in Adaptive Response
  
  
• August 21, 2009
  Aphids Saved From Gruesome Death By Virus-infected Bacteria
  
  
• August 20, 2009
  Ultrathin LEDs Create New Classes of Lighting and Display Systems
  
  
• August 20, 2009
  Optimal Flu Vaccine Priorities Developed at Clemson University
  
  
• August 20, 2009
  Millionths of a Second Can Cost Millions of Dollars: A New Way to Track Network Delays
  
  
• August 20, 2009
  Let There be Light: Teaching Magnets to do More Than Just Stick Around
  
  
• August 19, 2009
  Water in Mantle May be Associated With Subduction
  
  
• August 19, 2009
  NSF TeraGrid Helps Hayden Planetarium Create Advanced Planetarium Show
  
  
• August 19, 2009
  NSF Emerging Frontiers' Program Supports Development of Smart Materials Based on Study of Fish
  
  
• August 19, 2009
  Major Insights Into Evolution of Life Reported by UCLA Molecular Biologist
  
  
• August 19, 2009
  LIGO Listens for Gravitational Echoes of the Birth of the Universe
  
  
• August 19, 2009
  'Rich Interaction' May Make Computers a Partner, Not a Product
  
  
• August 18, 2009
  New Iowa State Supercomputer, Cystorm, Unleashes 28.16 Trillion Calculations Per Second
  
  
• August 18, 2009
  LSU Professor Develops Integrated Storm Surge and Hurricane Wave Modeling Capabilities for Coastal Protection and Restoration
  
  
• August 18, 2009
  How Mercury Becomes Toxic in the Environment
  
  
• August 17, 2009
  Taking Up Music So You Can Hear
  
  
• August 17, 2009
  Research Points to New Target for Stopping Colon Cancer
  
  
• August 17, 2009
  Organic Electronics a Two-way Street, Thanks to New Plastic Semiconductor
  
  
• August 17, 2009
  New DNA Test Uses Nanotechnology to Find Early Signs of Cancer
  
  
• August 17, 2009
  Listening to Rocks Helps Researchers Better Understand Earthquakes
  
  
• August 17, 2009
  Honey-bee Aggression Study Suggests Nurture Alters Nature
  
  
• August 17, 2009
  Caltech and IBM Scientists Use Self-assembled DNA Scaffolding to Build Tiny Circuit Boards
  
  
• August 17, 2009
  New Nanolaser Key to Future Optical Computers and Technologies
  
  
• August 14, 2009
  Math Model Accurately Mimics Cell Division in Carbon-cycling Bacterium
  
  
• August 14, 2009
  Carnegie Mellon Develops Innovative Method to Detect Genetic Causes of Complex Diseases
  
  
• August 13, 2009
  Early Modern Humans Use Fire to Engineer Tools From Stone
  
  
• August 12, 2009
  The Mind's Eye Scans Like a Spotlight
  
  
• August 12, 2009
  Princeton Pair Sets World Record in Packing Puzzle
  
  
• August 12, 2009
  Harbingers of Increased Atlantic Hurricane Activity Identified
  
  
• August 12, 2009
  Genome Duplication Responsible for More Plant Species Than Previously Thought
  
  
• August 12, 2009
  Caltech Scientists Discover Storms in the Tropics of Titan
  
  
• August 11, 2009
  SLAC Researchers Reveal the Dance of Water
  
  
• August 11, 2009
  Physicists Make Crystal/Liquid Interface Visible for First Time
  
  
• August 11, 2009
  Discovery to Aid Study of Biological Structures, Molecules
  
  
• August 11, 2009
  Capping a Two-faced Particle Gives Duke Engineers Complete Control
  
  
• August 10, 2009
  Tiny 'MEMS' Devices to Filter, Amplify Electronic Signals
  
  
• August 10, 2009
  New Light-emitting Biomaterial Could Improve Tumor Imaging, Study Shows
  
  
• August 10, 2009
  Lower-cost Solar Cells to be Printed Like Newspaper, Painted on Rooftops
  
  
• August 10, 2009
  First Black Holes Born Starving
  
  
• August 10, 2009
  Camera Flash Turns an Insulating Material Into a Conductor
  
  
• August 10, 2009
  Biologists ID Molecular Basis of High-altitude Adaptation in Mice
  
  
• August 6, 2009
  Scientists Devise Efficient Way of Learning About Complex Corn Traits
  
  
• August 6, 2009
  Protein Folding: Diverse Methods Yield Clues
  
  
• August 6, 2009
  Penn Researchers Show That Protein Unfolding is Key for Understanding Blood Clot Mechanics
  
  
• August 6, 2009
  New Cancer Drug Delivery System is Effective and Reversible
  
  
• August 6, 2009
  Maize Findings Could Lead to Vigorous New Varieties and Insights Into Human Genetics
  
  
• August 6, 2009
  Long Debate Ended Over Cause, Demise of Ice Ages--May Also Help Predict Future
  
  
• August 6, 2009
  Educate Yourself to Boost Achievement in Kids
  
  
• August 6, 2009
  Carnegie Donates Landmark Clones to Biology
  
  
• August 6, 2009
  Carbon Nanoparticles Toxic to Adult Fruit Flies but Benign to Young
  
  
• August 6, 2009
  Beep, Beep, Oops, What Was I Doing?
  
  
• August 5, 2009
  Students Build Robotic Teams in Summer Research Experience
  
  
• August 5, 2009
  Shaking the Earth: Just Add Water
  
  
• August 4, 2009
  Research Findings Contradict Myth of High Engineering Dropout Rate
  
  
• August 4, 2009
  Plastics That Convert Light to Electricity Could Have a Big Impact
  
  
• August 4, 2009
  Bone's Material Flaws Lead to Disease
  
  
• August 3, 2009
  Sex in the Caribbean: Environmental Change Drives Evolutionary Change--Eventually
  
  
• August 3, 2009
  Higher Carbon Dioxide May Give Pines Competitive Edge
  
  
• August 3, 2009
  African Village Dogs are Genetically Much More Diverse Than Modern Breeds
  
  
• July 31, 2009
  University of Minnesota Researchers Discover Breakthrough Method for Chemical Separations
  
  
• July 31, 2009
  Rodent Size Linked to Human Population and Climate Change
  
  
• July 31, 2009
  Iron Isotopes as a Tool in Oceanography
  
  
• July 30, 2009
  Successful Completion of First Riser-drilling Operations in Earthquake Zone
  
  
• July 30, 2009
  Researchers Report Successful Riser-drilling Operations in Seismogenic Zone
  
  
• July 30, 2009
  Crashing Comets Not Likely the Cause of Earth's Mass Extinctions
  
  
• July 30, 2009
  Algebra Adds Value to Mathematical Biology Education
  
  
• July 29, 2009
  Trailblazing CSNET Network Receives 2009 Jonathan B. Postel Service Award
  
  
• July 29, 2009
  New Computer Simulation Helps Explain Folding in Important Cellular Protein
  
  
• July 29, 2009
  Douglas-fir and Geoducks Make Strange Bedfellows in Studying Climate Change
  
  
• July 29, 2009
  Caltech Researchers Link Tiny Sea Creatures to Large-scale Ocean Mixing
  
  
• July 28, 2009
  Stories We Tell About National Trauma Reflect Our Psychological Well-being
  
  
• July 28, 2009
  Naming Evolution's Winners and Losers
  
  
• July 27, 2009
  Video Shows Nanotube Spins as It Grows
  
  
• July 27, 2009
  Nanodiamonds Deliver Insulin for Wound Healing
  
  
• July 27, 2009
  Jade Sheds Light on Guatemala's Geologic History
  
  
• July 27, 2009
  Earliest Animals Lived in a Lake Environment, Research Shows
  
  
• July 27, 2009
  All-in-one Nanoparticle: A Swiss Army Knife for Nanomedicine
  
  
• July 27, 2009
  After Dinosaurs, Mammals Rise but Their Genomes Get Smaller
  
  
• July 26, 2009
  UCR Scientists Manipulate Ripples in Graphene, Enabling Strain-based Graphene Electronics
  
  
• July 26, 2009
  Researchers Rapidly Turn Bacteria Into Biotech Factories
  
  
• July 24, 2009
  Researchers Develop 'Brain-reading' Methods
  
  
• July 23, 2009
  Parasitic Worms Make Sex Worthwhile
  
  
• July 22, 2009
  Ytterbium's Broken Symmetry
  
  
• July 22, 2009
  New Windows Opened on Cell-to-cell Interactions
  
  
• July 22, 2009
  Music is the Engine of New University of Michigan Lab-on-a-chip Device
  
  
• July 21, 2009
  This Article Will Self-destruct: A Tool to Make Online Personal Data Vanish
  
  
• July 21, 2009
  For Horned Lizard, Horns Alone Do Not Make the Species
  
  
• July 21, 2009
  Brain's Center for Perceiving 3-D Motion Is Identified
  
  
• July 20, 2009
  UCI Scientists Discover Ozone-boosting Chemical Reaction
  
  
• July 20, 2009
  UC Scientists Determine That Ancient Maya Practiced Forest Conservation--3,000 Years Ago
  
  
• July 20, 2009
  Sea Lamprey Jettison One-fifth of Their Genome
  
  
• July 20, 2009
  Prehistoric Cold Case Shows Hints of Interspecies Homicide
  
  
• July 20, 2009
  Pacific Tsunami Threat Greater Than Expected
  
  
• July 20, 2009
  Caltech-led Team Shows How Evolution Can Allow for Large Developmental Leaps
  
  
• July 17, 2009
  Why Winning Athletes Are Getting Bigger
  
  
• July 16, 2009
  Summer Research Internship Exposes Middle School Students to Robotics, Complex Data Collection
  
  
• July 16, 2009
  Study Reveals Small Lizard Tucks Legs and Swims Like a Snake Through Desert Sand
  
  
• July 16, 2009
  Solar Cycle Linked to Global Climate, Drives Events Similar to El Niño, La Niña
  
  
• July 16, 2009
  Researchers Discover Evolutionary Event Underlying the Origin of Dachshunds, Dogs With Short Legs
  
  
• July 16, 2009
  Research Indicates Ocean Current Shutdown May Be Gradual
  
  
• July 16, 2009
  New Pheromone Helps Female Flies Tell Suitors to 'Buzz Off'
  
  
• July 16, 2009
  Male Sex Chromosome Losing Genes by Rapid Evolution, Study Reveals
  
  
• July 16, 2009
  Learning is Social, Computational, Supported by Neural Systems Linking People
  
  
• July 16, 2009
  'Motion Picture' of Past Warming Paves Way for Snapshots of Future Climate Change
  
  
• July 15, 2009
  Greater Yellowstone Elk-wolf Study Shows Elk Having Fewer Calves Due to Changes in Nutrition
  
  
• July 14, 2009
  Sex Involved in Plant Defense
  
  
• July 14, 2009
  Scientists Report First Remote, Underwater Detection of Harmful Algae, Toxins
  
  
• July 14, 2009
  Reviews of Microbial Gene Language Published in Special Issue of Trends in Microbiology
  
  
• July 14, 2009
  Mathematics Taking Guesswork Out of Plastic Surgery Tissue Transfer
  
  
• July 14, 2009
  Concrete Columns with Internal Bars Made of Glass Fibers Can Make a Building Sturdier
  
  
• July 14, 2009
  A Whole Lot of Shakin' Going On
  
  
• July 13, 2009
  Scientists Discover Repulsive Side to Light Force
  
  
• July 13, 2009
  Neuroimaging Suggests That Truthfulness Requires No Act of Will for Honest People
  
  
• July 13, 2009
  Active Genes Discovered in the Developing Mammal Brain
  
  
• July 9, 2009
  Tremors on Southern San Andreas Fault May Mean Increased Earthquake Risk
  
  
• July 9, 2009
  Simulations Illuminate Universe's First Twin Stars
  
  
• July 9, 2009
  Seals Quickly Respond to Gain and Loss of Habitat Under Climate Change
  
  
• July 9, 2009
  Rensselaer Researchers to Participate in Seismic Test of Seven-story Building
  
  
• July 9, 2009
  New Theory Gives More Precise Estimates of Large-scale Biodiversity
  
  
• July 9, 2009
  New Theory Gives More Precise Estimates of Large-scale Biodiversity
  
  
• July 9, 2009
  Methane-eating Microbes Can Use Iron and Manganese Oxides to 'Breathe'
  
  
• July 8, 2009
  UCSD Engineers to Shake Historic Masonry Building During Strong Simulated Earthquakes
  
  
• July 8, 2009
  Robot Learns to Smile and Frown
  
  
• July 8, 2009
  One-finger Exercise Reveals Unexpected Limits to Dexterity
  
  
• July 8, 2009
  New Way to Make Sensors That Detect Toxic Chemicals
  
  
• July 8, 2009
  Giant Supernovae Farthest Ever Detected
  
  
• July 8, 2009
  Forest Fire Prevention Efforts Will Lessen Carbon Sequestration, Add to Greenhouse Warming
  
  
• July 8, 2009
  Explosive Growth of Life on Earth Fueled by Early Greening of Planet
  
  
• July 7, 2009
  'Normal' Cells Far From Cancer Give Nanosignals of Trouble
  
  
• July 6, 2009
  Nitrogen Research Shows How Some Plants Invade, Take Over Others
  
  
• July 6, 2009
  Clinical Trial Shows Quadriplegics Can Operate Powered Wheelchair With Tongue Drive System
  
  
• July 6, 2009
  Carnegie Mellon Researchers Find Social Security Numbers Can Be Predicted With Public Information
  
  
• July 2, 2009
  VLBA Locates Superenergetic Bursts Near Giant Black Hole
  
  
• July 2, 2009
  Second Life Data Offers Window Into How Trends Spread
  
  
• July 2, 2009
  Pinpointing Origin of Gamma Rays From a Supermassive Black Hole
  
  
• July 2, 2009
  Perfect Pitch Study Offers Window Into Influences of Nature and Nurture
  
  
• July 2, 2009
  New Type of El Niño Could Mean More Hurricanes Make Landfall
  
  
• July 2, 2009
  Ferns Took to the Trees and Thrived
  
  
• July 2, 2009
  Cells Use Import Machinery to Export Their Goods as Well
  
  
• July 2, 2009
  'Genetic Arms Race' Between Bacteria, Viruses, Subject of Stimulus Grant
  
  
• July 1, 2009
  Plants Save the Earth From an Icy Doom
  
  
• July 1, 2009
  Plants Kept the Ice Age in Check
  
  
• July 1, 2009
  New Fossil Primate Suggests Common Asian Ancestor, Challenges Primates Such as 'Ida'
  
  
• July 1, 2009
  International Team of Students and Scientists on Month-long Field Course in Siberian Arctic
  
  
• June 30, 2009
  UB Geologists to Help Communicate the Dangers of Colombian Volcano
  
  
• June 30, 2009
  Stirred, Not Shaken: Bio-inspired Cilia Mix Medical Reagents at Small Scales
  
  
• June 30, 2009
  Plant Protein 'Doorkeepers' Block Invading Microbes, Study Finds
  
  
• June 30, 2009
  New Statistical Technique Improves Precision of Nanotechnology Data
  
  
• June 30, 2009
  Integrated Optical Trap Holds Particles for On-chip Analysis
  
  
• June 30, 2009
  Earth's Most Prominent Rainfall Feature Creeping Northward
  
  
• June 30, 2009
  Anti-biotech Groups Obstruct Forest Biotechnology
  
  
• June 29, 2009
  Straighten Up and Fly Right: Moths Benefit More From Flexible Wings Than Rigid
  
  
• June 29, 2009
  Reading the Brain Without Poking It
  
  
• June 29, 2009
  Peer Pressure Plays Major Role in Environmental Behavior
  
  
• June 29, 2009
  New Tool Finds Best Heart Disease and Stroke Treatments for Patients With Diabetes
  
  
• June 29, 2009
  Fermilab's CDF Observes Omega-sub-b Baryon
  
  
• June 26, 2009
  First Riser-drilling Research Operations Undertaken
  
  
• June 26, 2009
  Dolphins Get a Lift From Delta Wing Technology
  
  
• June 25, 2009
  Dowling College Professors Develop Groundbreaking Experiment That Shows Promise for Bioengineering Field
  
  
• June 24, 2009
  Study Finds DNA Barcoding Requires Caution Without Closer Examination
  
  
• June 24, 2009
  Streaming Sand Grains Help Define Essence of a Liquid
  
  
• June 24, 2009
  Space Shuttle Science Shows How 1908 Tunguska Explosion Was Caused By a Comet
  
  
• June 24, 2009
  Lasers Can Lengthen Quantum Bit Memory by 1,000 Times
  
  
• June 24, 2009
  Computers Aid in Cracking Deception in Plants
  
  
• June 23, 2009
  U of M Study Finds New Insight on Therapy for a Devastating Parasitic Disease
  
  
• June 23, 2009
  On Malaria Struggle, Baboons and Humans Have Similar Stories to Tell
  
  
• June 23, 2009
  Notre Dame Study Describes Evidence of World's Oldest Known Granaries
  
  
• June 23, 2009
  Employee Involvement Programs Key to Workplace Diversity
  
  
• June 23, 2009
  Changes in Brain Architecture May be Driven by Different Cognitive Challenges
  
  
• June 23, 2009
  300 Billion Weather Forecasts Used by Americans Annually, Survey Finds
  
  
• June 23, 2009
  'Mixed Reality' Human Helps Medical Students Learn to Do Intimate Exams
  
  
• June 22, 2009
  Obsidian 'Trail' Provides Clues to How Humans Settled, Interacted in Kuril Islands
  
  
• June 22, 2009
  Midget Plant Gets Makeover
  
  
• June 22, 2009
  Carb Synthesis Sheds Light on Promising Tuberculosis Drug Target
  
  
• June 22, 2009
  Bioengineers Develop a Microfabricated Device to Measure Cellular Forces During Tissue Development
  
  
• June 21, 2009
  Ice Sheets Can Retreat 'In a Geologic Instant,' Study of Prehistoric Glacier Shows
  
  
• June 19, 2009
  Researchers Observe Single Protein Dimers Wavering Between Two Symmetrically-opposed Structures
  
  
• June 19, 2009
  Mechanics: Ordinary Meets Quantum
  
  
• June 19, 2009
  Athletes, Spectators Faced Unprecedented Air Pollution at 2008 Olympic Games
  
  
• June 18, 2009
  Sunspots Revealed in Striking Detail by Supercomputers
  
  
• June 18, 2009
  Mate Selection: How Does She Know He'll Take Care of the Kids?
  
  
• June 18, 2009
  Discovery of a Water Snake That Startles Fish in a Way That Makes Them Flee Into its Jaws
  
  
• June 18, 2009
  CO² Higher Today Than Last 2.1 Million Years
  
  
• June 18, 2009
  Argonne, UC Scientists Reach Milestone in Study of Emergent Magnetism
  
  
• June 18, 2009
  Ancient Drought and Rapid Cooling Drastically Altered Climate
  
  
• June 17, 2009
  Unlike Rubber Bands, Molecular Bonds May Not Break Faster When Pulled
  
  
• June 17, 2009
  Study Supports Validity of Test That Indicates Widespread, Unconscious Bias
  
  
• June 17, 2009
  Scientists Sequence Genome of the N2-fixing, Soil-living Bacterium, Azotobacter Vinelandii
  
  
• June 17, 2009
  Researchers Putting a Freeze on Oscillator Vibrations
  
  
• June 17, 2009
  Nonstick and Laser-safe Gold Aids Laser Trapping of Biomolecules
  
  
• June 17, 2009
  Carnegie Mellon Develops Java Programming Tools Employing Human-centered Design Techniques
  
  
• June 16, 2009
  Putting a Name to a Face May Be Key to Brain's Facial Expertise
  
  
• June 16, 2009
  New Research Effort Discovers Ancient Maya Intensively Cultivated Manioc
  
  
• June 16, 2009
  Crustacean Shell With Polyester Creates Mixed-fiber Material for Nerve Repair
  
  
• June 16, 2009
  Cells Are Like Robust Computational Systems
  
  
• June 15, 2009
  VBI Researchers Develop New Method for Breast Cancer Biomarker Discovery
  
  
• June 15, 2009
  Vanderbilt Researchers Pioneer an Advanced Sepsis Detection and Management System
  
  
• June 15, 2009
  Stress Puts Double Whammy on Reproductive System, Fertility
  
  
• June 15, 2009
  NYU Researchers Create Method to Precisely Glue Particles Together on the Micro- and Nano-scale
  
  
• June 15, 2009
  IUPUI Chemists Develop Distributed Drug Discovery: Finding Drugs for Neglected Diseases
  
  
• June 15, 2009
  How Young Mice Phone Home: Study Gives Clue to How Mothers' Brains Screen for Baby Calls
  
  
• June 15, 2009
  Fossil Teeth of Browsing Horse Found in Panama Canal Earthworks
  
  
• June 15, 2009
  Caltech Scientists Use High-pressure 'Alchemy' to Create Nonexpanding Metals
  
  
• June 15, 2009
  Advance in Understanding Cellulose Synthesis
  
  
• June 15, 2009
  A Tiny Frozen Microbe May Hold Clues to Extraterrestrial Life
  
  
• June 12, 2009
  Protein That Triggers Plant Cell Division Revealed by Researchers
  
  
• June 11, 2009
  Maple Seeds and Animals Exploit the Same Trick to Fly
  
  
• June 11, 2009
  Abrupt Global Warming Could Shift Monsoon Patterns, Hurt Agriculture
  
  
• June 10, 2009
  Physicists Make a Splash with Rain Discovery
  
  
• June 10, 2009
  Penn Materials Scientist Finds Plumber's Wonderland on Graphene
  
  
• June 10, 2009
  Peculiar, Junior-sized Supernova Discovered by New York Teen
  
  
• June 10, 2009
  Evolution Can Occur in Less Than 10 Years
  
  
• June 10, 2009
  'Weedy' Bird Species May Win as Temperatures Rise
  
  
• June 9, 2009
  University of Nevada, Reno, Surveys Earthquake Faults Through Downtown
  
  
• June 9, 2009
  Red Giant Star Betelgeuse is Mysteriously Shrinking
  
  
• June 9, 2009
  MIT Takes Aim at 'Pphantom' Traffic Jams
  
  
• June 9, 2009
  Isolated Forest Patches Lose Species, Diversity
  
  
• June 9, 2009
  Discovery Raises New Doubts About Dinosaur-bird Links
  
  
• June 9, 2009
  Colon Cancer Screening Technique Shows Continued Promise in New Study
  
  
• June 8, 2009
  To 300 Million Light Years, and Beyond--a New Way to Measure Cosmic Distances
  
  
• June 8, 2009
  Thinnest Superconducting Metal Created
  
  
• June 8, 2009
  Study: Engineering Stereotypes Drive Counterproductive Practices
  
  
• June 8, 2009
  Study Shows Animal Mating Choices More Complex Than Once Thought
  
  
• June 8, 2009
  Fossil Bone Bed Helps Reconstruct Life Along California's Ancient Coastline
  
  
• June 8, 2009
  Effective Over-the-counter Prostate Cancer Test Kit Likely in Next Few Years
  
  
• June 8, 2009
  Archeological Evidence of Human Activity Found Beneath Lake Huron
  
  
• June 5, 2009
  If at First You Don't Succeed, Let the Search Engine Try
  
  
• June 5, 2009
  ASU STEM Initiative Named 'Best Emerging Partnership'
  
  
• June 4, 2009
  New, Light-driven Nanomotor is Simpler, More Promising, Scientists Say
  
  
• June 4, 2009
  New Proxy Reveals How Humans Have Disrupted the Nitrogen Cycle
  
  
• June 4, 2009
  Midge Keeps Invasive Mosquito in Check, Aiding Native Mosquitoes
  
  
• June 4, 2009
  Caltech Scientists Create Nanoscale Zipper Cavity That Responds to Single Photons of Light
  
  
• June 4, 2009
  At Long Last, How Plants Make Eggs
  
  
• June 4, 2009
  'Pelvis Has Left the Building'
  
  
• June 3, 2009
  Small Molecules Mimic Natural Gene Regulators
  
  
• June 2, 2009
  Scientists Create Metal That Pumps Liquid Uphill
  
  
• June 2, 2009
  Hybrid Remotely Operated Vehicle Nereus Reaches Deepest Part of the Ocean
  
  
• June 2, 2009
  Computer Modeling Shows Strategies to Rein in Epidemics Need to be Retooled for Rural Populations
  
  
• June 1, 2009
  Time Series Identify Population Responses to Climate Change
  
  
• June 1, 2009
  Splash, Babble, Sploosh: Computer Algorithm Simulates the Sound of Water
  
  
• June 1, 2009
  Protein Linked to Mental Retardation Controls Synapse Maturation, Plasticity, CSHL Team Finds
  
  
• June 1, 2009
  Faster Protein Folding Achieved Through Nanosecond Pressure Jump
  
  
• June 1, 2009
  CU-Boulder Study Shows 53-million-year-old High Arctic Mammals Wintered in Darkness
  
  
• May 29, 2009
  Theorists Reveal Path to True Muonium
  
  
• May 29, 2009
  Slicing Chromosomes Leads to New Insights Into Cell Division
  
  
• May 28, 2009
  Studies Shed Light on Collapse of Coral Reefs
  
  
• May 28, 2009
  MIT, BU Engineer Cellular Circuits That Count Events
  
  
• May 27, 2009
  What Goes Down, Must Come Up: Earth's Leaky Mantle
  
  
• May 27, 2009
  Rare Radio Supernova in Nearby Galaxy is Nearest Supernova in Five Years
  
  
• May 27, 2009
  Melting Greenland Ice Sheets May Threaten Northeast United States, Canada
  
  
• May 27, 2009
  First 'Nanorust' Field Test Slated in Mexico
  
  
• May 27, 2009
  Biologists: Greening Arctic Not Likely to Offset Permafrost Carbon Release
  
  
• May 26, 2009
  Toward Cheap Underwater Sensor Nets
  
  
• May 26, 2009
  Notre Dame Researchers Describe New Tool for Evaluating 'Managed Relocations'
  
  
• May 26, 2009
  New Technique Could Find Water on Earth-like Planets Orbiting Distant Suns
  
  
• May 26, 2009
  MSU Discoveries Upend Traditional Thinking About How Plants Make Certain Compounds
  
  
• May 22, 2009
  Waxy Plant Substance Key for Absorption of Water, Nutrients
  
  
• May 22, 2009
  'Biodiversity Beyond the Habitat's Borders
  
  
• May 21, 2009
  Psychologists Find That Head Movement is More Important Than Gender in Nonverbal Communication
  
  
• May 21, 2009
  Mockingbirds in Fickle Climates Sing Fancier Tunes
  
  
• May 21, 2009
  K-State's Fast Laser Research and Theory Building on Einsten's Work by Timing Electrons Emissions
  
  
• May 21, 2009
  'Missing Link': Revealing Fast-spinning Pulsar Mysteries
  
  
• May 20, 2009
  World's Largest Telescope at NJIT's Big Bear Captures Sun's Magnetic Field Better
  
  
• May 20, 2009
  Small Evolutionary Shifts Make Big Impacts--Like Developing Night Vision
  
  
• May 20, 2009
  New 'Broadband' Cloaking Technology Simple to Manufacture
  
  
• May 20, 2009
  Exposure to Two Languages Carries Far-reaching Benefits
  
  
• May 20, 2009
  Beneficial Plant 'Spillover' Effect Seen From Landscape Corridors
  
  
• May 18, 2009
  U of Minnesota Researcher Develops Brain-scanning Process that Holds Promise for Epilepsy Treatments
  
  
• May 18, 2009
  New Tool Isolates RNA Within Specific Cells
  
  
• May 18, 2009
  New Tool for Next-generation Cancer Treatments Using Nanodiamonds
  
  
• May 18, 2009
  New Insight Into Primate Eye Evolution
  
  
• May 18, 2009
  New Element Found to Be a Superconductor
  
  
• May 18, 2009
  Enabling Graphene-based Technology Via Chemical Functionalization
  
  
• May 18, 2009
  Cosmology's Best Standard Candles Get Even Better
  
  
• May 18, 2009
  Babies Born to Native High-altitude Mothers Have Decreased Risk of Low Birth Weight
  
  
• May 15, 2009
  Tumor Growth and Chemo Response May Be Predicted by Mathematical Model
  
  
• May 15, 2009
  Snail Venoms Reflect Reduced Competition
  
  
• May 15, 2009
  Immersive Game Engages Girls in Science and Technology
  
  
• May 15, 2009
  From a Queen Song to a Better Music Search Engine
  
  
• May 15, 2009
  Arctic River Deltas May Hold Clues to Future Global Climate
  
  
• May 14, 2009
  Nanotechnology Research Paves the Way to Ever Smaller Electronic Devices
  
  
• May 14, 2009
  MIT Reels in RNA Surprise With Microbial Ocean Catch
  
  
• May 14, 2009
  Graphene Yields Secrets to its Extraordinary Properties
  
  
• May 14, 2009
  Computer Model Predicts Brain Tumor Growth and Evolution
  
  
• May 14, 2009
  Brain's Organization Switches as Children Become Adults
  
  
• May 13, 2009
  Study Finds Surprising New Pathway for North Atlantic Circulation
  
  
• May 13, 2009
  Of Traffic Jams, Beach Sands and the Zero-temperature Jamming Transition
  
  
• May 13, 2009
  Natural Petroleum Seeps Release Equivalent of Eight to 80 Exxon Valdez Oil Spills
  
  
• May 13, 2009
  Cold Water Ocean Circulation Doesn't Work as Expected
  
  
• May 12, 2009
  MIT's Implantable Device Offers Continuous Cancer Monitoring
  
  
• May 12, 2009
  Dogs, Maybe Not, But Old Genes Can Learn New Tricks
  
  
• May 12, 2009
  Any Way You Slice It, Warming Climate is Affecting Cascades Snowpack
  
  
• May 11, 2009
  Warriors Do Not Always Get the Girl
  
  
• May 11, 2009
  River Delta Areas Can Provide Clue to Environmental Changes, Texas A&M Professor Says
  
  
• May 11, 2009
  Pliable Proteins Keep Photosynthesis on the Light Path
  
  
• May 11, 2009
  Liquid Lens Creates Tiny Flexible Laser on a Chip
  
  
• May 10, 2009
  New Nanocrystals Show Potential for Cheap Lasers, New Lighting
  
  
• May 8, 2009
  Vise Squad: Putting the Squeeze on a Crystal Leads to Novel Electronics
  
  
• May 8, 2009
  Scientists Discover Ultrasonic Communication Among Frogs
  
  
• May 8, 2009
  Caltech Physicists Detect Entanglement of One Photon Shared Among Four Locations
  
  
• May 7, 2009
  The Rise of Oxygen Caused Earth's Earliest Ice Age
  
  
• May 7, 2009
  Team of Researchers Achieves Major Step Toward Faster Chips
  
  
• May 7, 2009
  Physicists Take First Steps to Harness Antimatter
  
  
• May 6, 2009
  UCLA Physicists Create World's Smallest Incandescent Lamp
  
  
• May 4, 2009
  Study Finds Particles, Molecules Prefer Not to Mix
  
  
• May 4, 2009
  Research Gives Clues for Self-cleaning Materials, Water-striding Robots
  
  
• May 4, 2009
  Princeton Geoscientist Offers New Evidence That Meteorite Did Not Wipe Out Dinosaurs
  
  
• May 4, 2009
  MIT: Targeting Tumors Using Tiny Gold Particles
  
  
• May 4, 2009
  A Bridge Between Land and Sea
  
  
• May 1, 2009
  Researchers are Pioneering the Use of 'Smart Cameras' to Help Monitor Elderly People Who Live Alone
  
  
• May 1, 2009
  Climate Change Threatens Lake Baikal's Unique Biota
  
  
• April 30, 2009
  Synthetic Chemical Offers Solution for Crops Facing Drought
  
  
• April 30, 2009
  Southern Glaciers Grow Out of Step With North
  
  
• April 30, 2009
  Report Shows U.S. Wildlife Trade Poorly Regulated
  
  
• April 30, 2009
  Penn Geneticist Publishes Largest-ever Study on African Genetics Revealing Origins, Migration
  
  
• April 30, 2009
  New Sequences From Hadrosaur Dinosaur Confirm That Ancient Protein is Preserved Over Time
  
  
• April 29, 2009
  Nanophysicists Find Unexpected Magnetic Effect
  
  
• April 29, 2009
  Make Brighter, Full-color Electronic Readers? Brilliant!
  
  
• April 29, 2009
  Darwin in a Test Tube
  
  
• April 29, 2009
  Brain Processes Written Words as Unique 'Objects,' GUMC Neuroscientists Say
  
  
• April 28, 2009
  Unifying the Animate and the Inanimate Designs of Nature
  
  
• April 28, 2009
  Seaglider Monitors Waters From Arctic During Record-breaking Journey Under Ice
  
  
• April 28, 2009
  Native Americans Descended From a Single Ancestral Group, DNA Study Confirms
  
  
• April 28, 2009
  Nanoneedle is Small in Size, but Huge in Applications
  
  
• April 28, 2009
  Keynoter to Highlight Need for Continual Change in Sustainable Education Reform
  
  
• April 28, 2009
  Astronomers Find Farthest Known Object
  
  
• April 27, 2009
  Plants Could Override Climate Change Effects on Wildfires
  
  
• April 27, 2009
  New Human Movement Model Can Aid in Studying Epidemic Outbreaks, Public Planning
  
  
• April 27, 2009
  Catching the Lightwave: Nano-mechanical Sensors 'Wired' by Photonics
  
  
• April 26, 2009
  MIT: Making Waves in the Brain
  
  
• April 24, 2009
  New Technique That Scrambles Light May Lead to Sharper Images, Wider Views
  
  
• April 23, 2009
  Study Rules Out Ancient Bursts of Seafloor Methane Emissions
  
  
• April 23, 2009
  Fire Influences Global Warming More Than Previously Thought
  
  
• April 23, 2009
  Fingerprinting Slow Earthquakes
  
  
• April 23, 2009
  Discovery of an Unexpected Boost for Solar Water-splitting Cells
  
  
• April 23, 2009
  Ancient Greenland Methane Study Good News for Planet, Says CU-Boulder Scientist
  
  
• April 22, 2009
  Using Combinatorial Libraries to Engineer Genetic Circuits Advances Synthetic Biology
  
  
• April 22, 2009
  Self-healing Concrete for Safer, More Durable Infrastructure
  
  
• April 22, 2009
  Researchers Report 'Moderately Large' Potential for Red Tide Outbreak in Gulf of Maine Region
  
  
• April 22, 2009
  Advances in Computer Simulation are Crucial to Future for U.S. Science and Engineering, New Report Shows
  
  
• April 21, 2009
  Workshop Seeks to Lure Women Researchers From Industry to Academia
  
  
• April 21, 2009
  Water Levels Dropping in Some Major Rivers as Global Climate Changes
  
  
• April 21, 2009
  Remembrance of Things Past Influences How Female Field Crickets Select Mates
  
  
• April 21, 2009
  Power Steering for Your Hearing
  
  
• April 21, 2009
  New 167-processor Chip is Super-fast, Ultra Energy-efficient
  
  
• April 21, 2009
  Brown Anthropologist Examines Stigma of Infertility in Nigeria
  
  
• April 20, 2009
  UH Initiative Will Use 'Harry Potter' to Conjure Love for Science in Houston-area Schools
  
  
• April 20, 2009
  Self-assembled Nanowires Could Make Chips Smaller and Faster
  
  
• April 20, 2009
  Carnegie Mellon Scientists Develop Method for Verifying Safety of Computer-controlled Devices
  
  
• April 20, 2009
  Baby Mammoth Studies Validate Researcher's Techniques
  
  
• April 17, 2009
  Unlikely Life Thriving at Antarctica's Blood Falls
  
  
• April 17, 2009
  Museum Specimens Aid Conservation Effort in Madagascar
  
  
• April 17, 2009
  Alligators Hint at What Life May Have Been Like for Dinosaurs
  
  
• April 16, 2009
  Scientists Get a Grip on Colliding Fermions to Enhance Atomic Clock Accuracy
  
  
• April 16, 2009
  Putting the Squeeze on an Old Material Could Lead to 'Instant On' Electronic Memory
  
  
• April 16, 2009
  Origins of Sulfur in Rocks Tells Early Oxygen Story
  
  
• April 16, 2009
  Novel CU-Boulder Technique Shrinks Size of Nanotechnology Circuitry
  
  
• April 16, 2009
  Microbes Thrive in Harsh, Isolated Water Under Antarctic Glacier
  
  
• April 16, 2009
  Megadroughts in Sub-saharan Africa Normal for the Region
  
  
• April 15, 2009
  UI Chemists' DNA Biosynthesis Discovery Could Lead to Better Antibiotics
  
  
• April 15, 2009
  UI Biologist Studies Ocean Plant Cell Adaptation in Climate Change
  
  
• April 15, 2009
  Separating the Good From the Bad
  
  
• April 15, 2009
  Light Scattering Technology May Hold Promise for Quickly Determining Chemotherapy's Effectiveness
  
  
• April 15, 2009
  Implementing Sustainable Technology to Monitor the Integrity of the Nation's Bridges
  
  
• April 15, 2009
  Brown Researchers Create Novel Technique to Sequence Human Genome
  
  
• April 14, 2009
  Researchers Study Signaling Networks That Set Up Genetic Code
  
  
• April 14, 2009
  People's Misperceptions Cloud Their Understanding of Rainy Weather Forecasts
  
  
• April 14, 2009
  One-story Masonry Building Survives Strong Jolts During UC-San Diego Seismic Tests
  
  
• April 14, 2009
  Duke Physicists See the Cosmos in a Coffee Cup
  
  
• April 14, 2009
  Cuts in Greenhouse Gas Emissions Would Save Arctic Ice, Reduce Sea-level Rise
  
  
• April 14, 2009
  'Natural' Nitrogen-fixing Bacteria Protect Soybeans From Aphids
  
  
• April 13, 2009
  Measuring the Immeasurable: New Study Links Heat Transfer, Bond Strength of Materials
  
  
• April 13, 2009
  Biosphere 2 Experiment Shows How Fast Heat Could Kill Drought-stressed Trees
  
  
• April 12, 2009
  UCSF Team Closer to Creating Safe Embryonic-like Stem Cells
  
  
• April 10, 2009
  IU Astronomer's Discovery Poses Challenge to Galaxy Formation Theories
  
  
• April 10, 2009
  CSI: Pisco, Peru
  
  
• April 9, 2009
  Solomon Islands Earthquake Sheds Light on Enhanced Tsunami Risk
  
  
• April 9, 2009
  Genes From Tiny Marine Algae Suggest Unsuspected Avenues for New Research
  
  
• April 9, 2009
  First Results From Penn's Balloon-borne Telescope BLAST
  
  
• April 8, 2009
  Study Compares Sound From Exploding Volcanoes With Jet Engines
  
  
• April 8, 2009
  Software Improves P2P Privacy by Hiding in the Crowd
  
  
• April 8, 2009
  Physicists Discover Important Step for Making Light Crystals
  
  
• April 8, 2009
  Caltech Scientists Control Complex Nucleation Processes Using DNA Origami Seeds
  
  
• April 8, 2009
  Ancient Diatoms Lead to New Technology for Solar Energy
  
  
• April 7, 2009
  Mass Spec Technique Analyzes Defensive Chemicals on Seaweed Surfaces for Potential Drugs
  
  
• April 7, 2009
  Caltech Researchers Train Computers to Analyze Fruit-fly Behavior
  
  
• April 6, 2009
  NSF Supercomputer Helps SoCal Prepare for the Big One
  
  
• April 6, 2009
  NOAA: National Tornado Experiment to Begin in May
  
  
• April 6, 2009
  MIT: Cooperative Behavior Meshes With Evolutionary Theory
  
  
• April 6, 2009
  Digital Album Puts Focus on Kids' Health
  
  
• April 6, 2009
  Bridging the Gap Between Wireless Sensor Networks and the Scientists Who Use Them
  
  
• April 5, 2009
  Poison: It's What's for Dinner
  
  
• April 3, 2009
  Penn Researchers Demonstrate a New Model for Drug Discovery With a Fluorescent Anesthetic
  
  
• April 3, 2009
  Bone Deformities Linked to Inbreeding in Wolves
  
  
• April 2, 2009
  Simulations and Ancient Magnetism Suggest Mantle Plumes May Bend Deep Beneath Earth's Crust
  
  
• April 2, 2009
  Researchers Unravel Role of Priming in Plant Immunity
  
  
• April 2, 2009
  Redefining What It Means to Be a Prion
  
  
• April 2, 2009
  Nimbus and Cloud Computing Meet STAR Production Demands
  
  
• April 2, 2009
  Naturally Fluorescent Molecules May Serve As Cancer Biomarker
  
  
• April 2, 2009
  MIT Virus Battery Could Power Cars, Electronic Devices
  
  
• April 2, 2009
  Being Isaac Newton: Computer Derives Natural Laws From Raw Data
  
  
• April 1, 2009
  Study Unravels Why Certain Fishes Went Extinct 65 Million Years Ago
  
  
• April 1, 2009
  Peering Inside Nanowires
  
  
• April 1, 2009
  NCSA Researchers Create Interactive Virtual Learning Space
  
  
• April 1, 2009
  Mollusks Taste Memories to Build Shells
  
  
• April 1, 2009
  Humans May Be Losers if Technological Nature Replaces the Real Thing
  
  
• April 1, 2009
  Distinguishing Single Cells With Nothing But Light
  
  
• April 1, 2009
  'Dramatic' Increase in Ph.D.s Awarded to Minority Scientists, AAAS Report Shows
  
  
• March 31, 2009
  Rocket Launches May Need Regulation to Prevent Ozone Depletion, Says Study
  
  
• March 31, 2009
  Researchers Find Better Way to Manufacture Fast Computer Chips
  
  
• March 31, 2009
  Magnetic Nano-'shepherds' Organize Cells
  
  
• March 31, 2009
  Landscape Found to Influence Spread of Malairia
  
  
• March 30, 2009
  New Molecular Force Probe Stretches Molecules, Atom by Atom
  
  
• March 30, 2009
  Microbes Turn Electricity Directly to Methane Without Hydrogen Generation
  
  
• March 27, 2009
  Penn Biologists Demonstrate That Size Matters... In Snail Shells
  
  
• March 26, 2009
  New Metasearch Engine Leaves Google, Yahoo Crawling
  
  
• March 25, 2009
  You Don't Call, You Don't Write: Connectivity in Marine Fish Populations
  
  
• March 25, 2009
  Structure More Effective in High School Science Classes, Study Reveals
  
  
• March 25, 2009
  Rice Fine-tunes Attack on Cancer
  
  
• March 25, 2009
  Arecibo Pulsar Survey is Using 50,000 PCs Worldwide to Generate Supercomputing Power
  
  
• March 25, 2009
  Airborne Disease Holds Potential for Unexpected, Accelerated Spread
  
  
• March 24, 2009
  Video Games, Cell Phones and Academic Performance: Some Good News
  
  
• March 24, 2009
  Self-cleaning, Low-reflectivity Treatment Boosts Efficiency for Photovoltaic Cells
  
  
• March 24, 2009
  New EINSTEIN@HOME Effort Launched: Home Computers to Search Arecibo Data for New Pulsars
  
  
• March 24, 2009
  Making a Point: Picoscale Stability in a Room-temperature AFM
  
  
• March 24, 2009
  Flexible, Transparent Supercapacitors Are Latest Devices From USC Nanotube Lab
  
  
• March 24, 2009
  Citizen Scientists Watch Flowers for Clues About Climate
  
  
• March 24, 2009
  Argonne Cloud Computing Helps Scientists Run High Energy Physics Experiments
  
  
• March 24, 2009
  A New Family of Molecules for Self-assembly: The Carboranes
  
  
• March 24, 2009
  4,000-year-old Coral Beds Among World's Oldest Living Things
  
  
• March 23, 2009
  Solving a Subatomic Shell Game
  
  
• March 23, 2009
  Researchers Find the Earliest Evidence of Domesticated Maize
  
  
• March 23, 2009
  Proteins by Design: Penn Biochemists Create New Protein From Scratch
  
  
• March 23, 2009
  Hollow Gold Nanospheres Show Promise for Biomedical and Other Applications
  
  
• March 22, 2009
  Education Slowing AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa
  
  
• March 19, 2009
  The World's a Classroom? Thanks to Technology, It Can Be
  
  
• March 19, 2009
  Syracuse University Researchers Build a New Surface Material That Resists Biofilm Growth
  
  
• March 19, 2009
  Stranger Knows Best
  
  
• March 19, 2009
  Pilot Study Shows Effectiveness of New, Low-cost Method for Monitoring Hand Hygiene Compliance
  
  
• March 19, 2009
  Brown-led Team Offers First Look at How Bats Land
  
  
• March 18, 2009
  Zinc Oxide Gives Green Shine to New Photoconductors
  
  
• March 18, 2009
  West Antarctic Ice Comes and Goes, Rapidly
  
  
• March 18, 2009
  Swimming Pool Game Inspires Robot Detection
  
  
• March 18, 2009
  Shellfish and Inkjet Printers May Hold Key to Faster Healing From Surgeries
  
  
• March 18, 2009
  Scientists Cable Seafloor Seismometer Into California's Earthquake Network
  
  
• March 18, 2009
  Particle Oddball Surprises CDF Physicists at Fermilab
  
  
• March 18, 2009
  Lab-on-a-chip Homes in on How Cancer Cells Break Free
  
  
• March 18, 2009
  Earth's Crust Melts Easier Than Previously Thought
  
  
• March 17, 2009
  MIT: 'Alarming' Use of Energy in Modern Manufacturing Methods
  
  
• March 17, 2009
  Brown Chemists Create More Efficient Palladium Fuel Cell Catalysts
  
  
• March 16, 2009
  Mighty Diatoms: Global Climate Feedback From Microscopic Algae
  
  
• March 13, 2009
  Stainless Steel Replaces Platinum in Hydrogen-producing Microbial Electrolysis Cells
  
  
• March 13, 2009
  Physicists Offer New Theory for Iron Compounds
  
  
• March 13, 2009
  Malaria Immunity Trigger Found for Multiple Mosquito Species
  
  
• March 13, 2009
  Fledgling Mantle Plume May be Cause of African Volcano's Unique Lava
  
  
• March 13, 2009
  Fermilab Experiments Constrain Higgs Mass
  
  
• March 12, 2009
  Wind Shifts May Stir CO₂ From Antarctic Depths
  
  
• March 12, 2009
  Rabies Deaths From Dog Bites Could Be Eliminated
  
  
• March 12, 2009
  Phytoplankton is Changing Along the Antarctic Peninsula
  
  
• March 12, 2009
  Physicists Offer New Theory for Iron Compounds
  
  
• March 12, 2009
  Argonne Scientists Reveal Interaction Between Supersonic Fuel Spray and its Shock Wave
  
  
• March 12, 2009
  American Carnivores Evolved to Avoid Each Other, New Study Suggests
  
  
• March 12, 2009
  'Peking Man' Older Than Thought; Somehow Adapted to Cold
  
  
• March 11, 2009
  Texas-sized Tract of Single-celled Clones
  
  
• March 11, 2009
  Researchers Identify a Process That Regulates Seed Germination
  
  
• March 11, 2009
  Precision Measurement of W Boson Mass Portends Stricter Limits for Higgs Particle
  
  
• March 11, 2009
  New Computer Models Successfully Link Donors and Kidney Transplant Patients
  
  
• March 11, 2009
  Nanowires May Lead to Better Fuel Cells
  
  
• March 11, 2009
  MIT Battery Material Could Lead to Rapid Recharging of Many Devices
  
  
• March 11, 2009
  Cells Get Two Chances, Not Just One, to Fix Their Mistakes
  
  
• March 11, 2009
  Caltech Scientists Discover Mechanism for Wind Detection in Fruit Flies
  
  
• March 10, 2009
  Polarizers May Enhance Remote Chemical Detection
  
  
• March 10, 2009
  Biofilms: Even Stickier Than Suspected
  
  
• March 10, 2009
  Barbara Liskov Wins Turing Award
  
  
• March 10, 2009
  Amazonian Amphibian Diversity Traced to Andes
  
  
• March 9, 2009
  Spinning Carbon Nanotubes Spawns New Wireless Applications
  
  
• March 9, 2009
  How Moths Key Into the Scent of a Flower
  
  
• March 9, 2009
  Brown Physicists Play Key Role in Single Top Quark Discovery
  
  
• March 9, 2009
  Arizona Middle School Students Blend Aesthetics and Technology to Create Art Installations
  
  
• March 6, 2009
  UConn Chemists Find Secret to Increasing Luminescence Efficiency of Carbon Nanotubes
  
  
• March 5, 2009
  Study Finds That Students Benefit From Depth, Rather Than Breadth, in High School Science Courses
  
  
• March 5, 2009
  PowerNap Plan Could Save 75 Percent of Data Center Energy
  
  
• March 5, 2009
  Markets Outperform Patents in Promoting Intellectual Discovery, Say Caltech-led Economists
  
  
• March 5, 2009
  Buckyballs Could Keep Water Systems Flowing
  
  
• March 3, 2009
  Researchers Discover a Potential On-off Switch For Nanoelectronics
  
  
• March 3, 2009
  Musicians Have Biological Advantage in Identifying Emotion in Sound
  
  
• March 3, 2009
  Kraken Passes Formal Acceptance, Ready for Science
  
  
• March 3, 2009
  Highest Known Microbial Ecosystems on Earth Fueled by Volcanic Gases
  
  
• March 2, 2009
  The Two Worlds of Kids' Morals
  
  
• March 2, 2009
  Study Critiques Corn-for-ethanol's Carbon Footprint
  
  
• March 2, 2009
  Optical Techniques Show Continued Promise in Detecting Pancreatic Cancer
  
  
• February 26, 2009
  Spun-sugar Fibers Spawn Sweet Technique for Nerve Repair
  
  
• February 26, 2009
  Purdue Study Projects Weakened Monsoon Season in South Asia
  
  
• February 26, 2009
  Prehistoric Global Cooling Caused by CO₂, Research Finds
  
  
• February 26, 2009
  CO₂ Drop and Global Cooling Caused Antarctic Glacier to Form
  
  
• February 25, 2009
  Researchers Capture Wave of Brain Activity Linked to Anticipation
  
  
• February 25, 2009
  Nanotechnologists Gain Powerful New Materials Probe
  
  
• February 25, 2009
  Models Present a New View of Nanoscale Friction
  
  
• February 25, 2009
  Crab Claws Pack Strengthening Bromide-rich Biomaterial
  
  
• February 25, 2009
  All Prejudice Isn't Created Equal; Whites Distribute it Unequally to Minorities
  
  
• February 24, 2009
  Stalagmites in Northeast Brazilian Caves Confirm 9,000-Year Model of Diminishing Rainfall Developed by UMass Amherst Geoscientists
  
  
• February 24, 2009
  New Tool Improves Productivity, Quality When Translating Software
  
  
• February 24, 2009
  Great Lake's Sinkholes Host Exotic Ecosystems
  
  
• February 24, 2009
  DNA Evidence Is In: Newly Discovered Species of Fish Dubbed H. Psychedelica
  
  
• February 23, 2009
  UCR Scientists Identify Stem-cell Genes That Help Form Plant Organs
  
  
• February 23, 2009
  New Direction in Teaching Computer Science Emphasizes Activity, Interaction, Critique
  
  
• February 23, 2009
  Caltech and UCSD Researchers Shed Light on How Proteins Find Their Shapes
  
  
• February 23, 2009
  Building a Better Protein
  
  
• February 22, 2009
  Safer Nanoparticles Spotlight Tumors, Deliver Drugs
  
  
• February 20, 2009
  Forget the Freezer: Research Suggests Novel Way to Control Water Behavior
  
  
• February 19, 2009
  Team Learns how Cellular Protein Detects Viruses and Sparks Immune Response
  
  
• February 19, 2009
  Rutgers Physicists Find Unusual Electronic Properties in Bismuth-based Crystalline Material
  
  
• February 19, 2009
  MIT Research Could Help Predict Red Tide
  
  
• February 19, 2009
  Malaria Parasite Zeroes in on Molecule to Enhance its Survival, Team Finds
  
  
• February 19, 2009
  Billions of Years Ago, Microbes Were Key in Developing Modern Nitrogen Cycle
  
  
• February 19, 2009
  'Transformative' Method for Generating the Smallest, Most Perfect Ultradense Polymer Films Ever
  
  
• February 18, 2009
  Using a Tuned Magnetic Field, Researchers Form a Record Number of Beautiful Nanostructures
  
  
• February 18, 2009
  Sophisticated Nano-structures Assembled With Magnets
  
  
• February 18, 2009
  Quantum Dance: Discovery Led by Princeton Researchers Could Revolutionize Computing
  
  
• February 18, 2009
  New Imaging Technique Reveals the Atomic Structure of Nanocrystals
  
  
• February 18, 2009
  IODP to Operate 3 Drilling Platforms in 2009
  
  
• February 18, 2009
  Engineers Create Intelligent Molecules That Seek-and-destroy Diseased Cells
  
  
• February 17, 2009
  San Diego Supercomputer Center Begins Cloud Computing Research Using the Google-IBM CluE Cluster
  
  
• February 17, 2009
  Nanoscopic Changes to Pancreatic Cells Reveal Cancer
  
  
• February 17, 2009
  Air-filled Bones Helped Prehistoric Reptiles Take First Flight
  
  
• February 16, 2009
  Scientists Prove Graphene's Edge Structure Affects Electronic Properties
  
  
• February 16, 2009
  Cosmologists Aim to Observe First Moments of Universe
  
  
• February 16, 2009
  Chemists Offer New Hydrogen Purification Method
  
  
• February 15, 2009
  New Monitoring Stations Detect 'Silent Earthquakes' in Costa Rica
  
  
• February 15, 2009
  Clemson Chemists Present Revolutionary Teaching Concepts
  
  
• February 15, 2009
  Chemists Create Two-armed Nanorobotic Device to Maneuver World's Tiniest Particles
  
  
• February 14, 2009
  Artificial Cells, Simple Model for Complex Structure
  
  
• February 13, 2009
  Tailless Lizards Lose Agility
  
  
• February 13, 2009
  Swimmers at Public Beaches Show Increased Risk of Exposure to Contagious Staph Bacteria
  
  
• February 13, 2009
  Social Support During Breast-feeding Helps Humans Have More Children
  
  
• February 13, 2009
  McMaster Researchers Discover New Mode of How Diseases Evolve
  
  
• February 13, 2009
  African Initiative Trains Students, Explores Geophysical Mysteries
  
  
• February 12, 2009
  High-tech Tests Allow Anthropologists to Track Ancient Hominids Across the Landscape
  
  
• February 12, 2009
  Astronomers Unveiling Life's Cosmic Origins
  
  
• February 11, 2009
  Yale Engineers Revolutionize Nano-device Fabrication Using Amorphous Metals
  
  
• February 11, 2009
  On the Origin of Subspecies
  
  
• February 11, 2009
  Molecular Machines Drive Plasmonic Nanoswitches
  
  
• February 10, 2009
  Simple Method Strengthens Schools, Other Buildings Against Earthquakes
  
  
• February 10, 2009
  Public Support Grows for Spending on Mass Transit and Infrastructure
  
  
• February 10, 2009
  Biodiversity Itself Begets a Species Cascade, Researchers Say
  
  
• February 9, 2009
  World's Largest Snake Discovered in Fossilized Rainforest
  
  
• February 9, 2009
  Scientists Document Salamander Decline in Central America
  
  
• February 9, 2009
  Rapid Burst of Flowering Plants Set Stage for Other Species
  
  
• February 9, 2009
  New Technique Boosts Protein NMR Imaging Speeds
  
  
• February 9, 2009
  How an Antarctic Worm Makes Antifreeze and What That Has to Do With Climate Change
  
  
• February 9, 2009
  Carbon Nanotube Avalanche Process Nearly Doubles Current
  
  
• February 9, 2009
  Carbon Acts Like Rustoleum Around Hydrothermal Vents
  
  
• February 9, 2009
  A Zen Discovery: Unrusted Iron in Ocean
  
  
• February 6, 2009
  Rapidly Evolving Gene Contributes to Origin of Species
  
  
• February 6, 2009
  NSF-funded Workshops Help Young Researchers Teach Science
  
  
• February 6, 2009
  Genetic Adaptations Key to Microbe's Survival in Challenging Environment
  
  
• February 6, 2009
  First North American Antenna Enables Next Phase in ALMA Observatory
  
  
• February 6, 2009
  Accidental Discovery has Potential for New Applications in Packaging
  
  
• February 5, 2009
  Sea Level Rise Could be Worse Than Anticipated
  
  
• February 5, 2009
  Predicting Diversity Within Hotspots to Enhance Conservation
  
  
• February 5, 2009
  Nanotube's 'Tapestry' Controls its Growth
  
  
• February 5, 2009
  Host Shift Triggers Cascading Effect on Ecosystem, Research Finds
  
  
• February 5, 2009
  Beaming New Light on Life
  
  
• February 5, 2009
  A New Twist in Sexual Selection Theory: Darwin's Beetles Still Producing Suprises
  
  
• February 5, 2009
  A Better Mesh: Researchers 'Tighten' Body's Protective Coating
  
  
• February 4, 2009
  Scientists Can Predict Nano Drug Outcome
  
  
• February 4, 2009
  Researchers Find Earliest Evidence for Animal Life
  
  
• February 4, 2009
  New Open-source Software Permits Faster Desktop Computer Simulations of Molecular Motion
  
  
• February 4, 2009
  Global Warming May Delay Recovery of Stratospheric Ozone
  
  
• February 4, 2009
  Early Whales Gave Birth on Land, Fossil Find Reveals
  
  
• February 4, 2009
  Caltech Scientists Lead Deep-sea Discovery Voyage
  
  
• February 3, 2009
  Simplicity is Crucial to Design Optimization at Nanoscale
  
  
• February 3, 2009
  Research Team Finds Evidence Cacao Ritually Used in Chaco Canyon
  
  
• February 3, 2009
  Early Humans Had 'Jaws of Steel'
  
  
• February 2, 2009
  Why Don't More Animals Change Their Sex?
  
  
• February 2, 2009
  What's Killing the Coral Reefs?
  
  
• February 2, 2009
  Scattered Light Rapidly Detects Tumor Response to Chemotherapy
  
  
• February 2, 2009
  Phytoplankton Cell Membranes Challenge Fundamentals of Biochemistry
  
  
• February 2, 2009
  New Technique Images Tumor Vessel Leakiness to Predict Breast Cancer Chemotherapy Outcome
  
  
• February 2, 2009
  Engineers Try to Bring Down the House During Simulated Earthquake Tests
  
  
• February 2, 2009
  Ecologists Report Quantifiable Measures of Nature's Services to Humans
  
  
• February 2, 2009
  Connectivity Illuminates Risk of Spread of Crop Pests, Diseases
  
  
• February 2, 2009
  Cell-building Discovery Could Reduce Need for Some Animal Research
  
  
• February 1, 2009
  Single Gene Lets Bacteria Jump From Host to Host
  
  
• January 30, 2009
  Mesh-like Network of Arteries Adjusts to Restore Blood Flow to Stroke-injured Brain
  
  
• January 29, 2009
  Research Links Seismic Slip and Tremor, With Implications for Subduction Zone
  
  
• January 29, 2009
  Pole-to-pole Flights Provide First Global Picture of Greenhouse Gases
  
  
• January 29, 2009
  Ocean Islands Fuel Productivity and Carbon Sequestration Through Natural Iron Fertilization
  
  
• January 28, 2009
  Stanford Writes in World's Smallest Letters
  
  
• January 28, 2009
  Sequencing of Sorghum Genome Completed
  
  
• January 28, 2009
  Scientists Discover 'Hot Spot' for Toxic HABS Off Washington Coastline
  
  
• January 28, 2009
  It's the Network: Penn Researchers Examine Behavior Influenced by Network Structure
  
  
• January 28, 2009
  Charcoal Evidence Tracks Climate Changes in Younger Dryas
  
  
• January 28, 2009
  Capture of Nanomagnetic 'Fingerprints' a Boost for Next-generation Information Storage Media
  
  
• January 27, 2009
  The Pseudogap Persists as Material Superconducts
  
  
• January 27, 2009
  Game Provides Clue to Improving Remote Sensing
  
  
• January 27, 2009
  Billion-year Revision of Plant Evolution Timeline May Stem From Discovery of Lignin in Seaweed
  
  
• January 27, 2009
  'Fishy' Clue Helps Establish How Proteins Evolve
  
  
• January 26, 2009
  The Genes in Your Congeniality: Researchers Identify Genetic Influence in Social Networks
  
  
• January 26, 2009
  Ocean Research Officials Hail Completion of Modernization for U.S. Scientific Ocean Drilling Vessel
  
  
• January 26, 2009
  Emperor Penguins March Toward Extinction?
  
  
• January 26, 2009
  Comet Impact Theory Disproved
  
  
• January 23, 2009
  Plasmonic Whispering Gallery Microcavity Paves the Way to Future Nanolasers
  
  
• January 23, 2009
  How Natural Oils Can be Hydrogenated Without Making Unhealthy Trans Fats
  
  
• January 23, 2009
  Gene's Past Could Improve the Future of Rice
  
  
• January 22, 2009
  Warmer Climate Causing Huge Increase in Tree Mortality Across the West
  
  
• January 22, 2009
  Survey: Few People Believed Campaign Rumors About Obama, McCain
  
  
• January 22, 2009
  Quantum Teleportation Between Distant Matter Qubits
  
  
• January 22, 2009
  Genetic Interactions Are the Key to Understanding Complex Traits
  
  
• January 21, 2009
  Solarmer Energy Inc. Expects Sun to Shine on Chicago Invention
  
  
• January 21, 2009
  Satellites Confirm Half-Century of West Antarctic Warming
  
  
• January 21, 2009
  Off the Shelf Maps Help Mitigate Volcanic Hazards
  
  
• January 21, 2009
  Earth's Seasons Now Arrive 2 Days Earlier, UC Berkeley, Harvard Researchers Report
  
  
• January 21, 2009
  Dynamical Theory and Novel 4-D Colorimetric Method Reveal Modus Operandi of Intact Living Brain
  
  
• January 21, 2009
  Cosmic Rays Detected Deep Underground Reveal Secrets of the Upper Atmosphere
  
  
• January 20, 2009
  Fish Out of Water
  
  
• January 20, 2009
  Chemical Come-on Successfully Lures Lovesick Lampreys to Traps
  
  
• January 19, 2009
  Scientific Sub Makes Deep-sea Discoveries
  
  
• January 15, 2009
  New Study Resolves Mystery of How Massive Stars Form
  
  
• January 15, 2009
  New Genetic Model Predicts Plant Flowering in Different Environments
  
  
• January 15, 2009
  Easy Assembly of Electronic Biological Chips
  
  
• January 14, 2009
  Common Soil Mineral Degrades the Nearly Indestructible Prion
  
  
• January 13, 2009
  Smart Lighting: New LED Drops the 'Droop'
  
  
• January 13, 2009
  High-tech Imaging of Inner Ear Sheds Light on Hearing, Behavior of Oldest Fossil Bird
  
  
• January 13, 2009
  Energy-efficient Water Purification Made Possible by Yale Engineers
  
  
• January 12, 2009
  Wireless Microgrippers Grab Living Cells in 'Biopsy' Tests
  
  
• January 12, 2009
  Tiny Capsules Deliver
  
  
• January 12, 2009
  Study of Disease Risk Suggests Ways to Avoid Slaughter of Yellowstone Bison
  
  
• January 9, 2009
  Researchers First to 'See' Reactive Oxygen Species in Vital Enzyme
  
  
• January 9, 2009
  Digital Communication Technology Helps Clear Path to Personalized Therapies
  
  
• January 8, 2009
  Web site Clarifies What Science Is, Is Not
  
  
• January 8, 2009
  New Tool Enables Powerful Data Analysis
  
  
• January 8, 2009
  Half of World's Population Could Face Climate-induced Food Crisis by 2100
  
  
• January 8, 2009
  A Warming Climate Could Lead to a Hungry World
  
  
• January 7, 2009
  Researchers Measure Elusive, Repulsive Force from Quantum Fluctuations
  
  
• January 7, 2009
  Decline of Carbon-dioxide-gobbling Plankton Coincided With Ancient Global Cooling
  
  
• January 6, 2009
  Volcanoes Cool the Tropics, Say Researchers
  
  
• January 6, 2009
  Studies Offer Guide as Protein Interaction Mapping Comes of Age
  
  
• January 6, 2009
  Innovative Water Detoxification
  
  
• January 6, 2009
  Health-monitoring Technology Helps Seniors Live at Home Longer, MU Researchers Find
  
  
• January 6, 2009
  Black Holes Lead Galaxy Growth, New Research Shows
  
  
• January 6, 2009
  Big, Old Mice Spread Hantavirus
  
  
• January 6, 2009
  Astronomers Use Gamma-ray Burst to Probe Star Formation in the Early Universe
  
  
• January 5, 2009
  Milky Way a Swifter Spinner, More Massive, New Measurements Show
  
  
• January 1, 2009
  The Gold Standard: Biodesign Institute Researchers Use Nanoparticles to Make 3-D DNA Nanotubes
  
  
• January 1, 2009
  6 North American Sites Hold 12,900-year-old Nanodiamond-rich Soil
  
  

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NEWS FROM THE FIELD FOR 2008

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

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NEWS FROM THE FIELD FOR 2007

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

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