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Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 11:40:24 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Studies Show How Fruit Flies Recover From Aerial Stumbles
Studies Show How Fruit Flies Recover From Aerial Stumbles
Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:16:00 -0600
Using high-speed cameras and computer models, Cornell researchers have shown exactly how fruit flies maneuver through the air, and how they keep stable even when a whoosh of wind knocks them off course.
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Cornell University
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Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 12:40:24 -0600 (CST)
Subject: How Can Policymakers Cope With Ambiguity?
How Can Policymakers Cope With Ambiguity?
Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:54:00 -0600
How might policymakers make reasonable decisions when they have
limited information? In the case of vaccination policy, Northwestern University economist Charles Manski says that policymakers may only partially know how effective vaccination will be in generating an immune response. Secondly, the policymaker may only partially know how effective vaccination will be in preventing transmission of the disease to the general public.
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Northwestern University
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Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 12:40:24 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Stickleback Genomes Shining Bright Light on Evolution
Stickleback Genomes Shining Bright Light on Evolution
Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:51:00 -0600
Twenty-billion pieces of DNA in 100 small fish have
opened the eyes of biologists studying evolution. After combining new technologies, researchers now know many of the genomic regions that allowed an ocean-dwelling fish to adapt to fresh water in several independently evolved populations.
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University of Oregon
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Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 12:40:24 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Field Study Exposes How Sea Turtle Hatchlings Use Their Flippers to Move Quickly on Sand
Field Study Exposes How Sea Turtle Hatchlings Use Their Flippers to Move Quickly on Sand
Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:51:00 -0600
Georgia Tech researchers conducted
the first field study showing how endangered loggerhead sea turtle hatchlings use their limbs to move quickly over a variety of terrains in order to reach the ocean.
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Georgia Institute of Technology Research News
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 12:40:24 -0600 (CST)
Subject: The Mathematics Behind a Good Night's Sleep
The Mathematics Behind a Good Night's Sleep
Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:55:00 -0600
Professor of Mathematics Mark Holmes and his graduate student Lisa Rogers are
using math to develop a new computer model that can be easily manipulated by other scientists and doctors to predict how different environmental, medical or physical changes to a person's body will affect their sleep. Their model will also provide clues to the most basic dynamics of the sleep-wake cycle.
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 12:40:25 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Princeton Scientists Find an Equation for Materials Innovation
Princeton Scientists Find an Equation for Materials Innovation
Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:55:00 -0600
Princeton University engineers have made a
breakthrough in an 80-year-old quandary in quantum physics, paving the way for the development of new materials that could make electronic devices smaller and cars more energy efficient.
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Princeton University, Engineering School
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Message: 7
From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 12:40:25 -0600 (CST)
Subject: New Developments in Nanotechnology Tackle the Two Biggest Problems Associated With Chemotherapy
New Developments in Nanotechnology Tackle the Two Biggest Problems Associated With Chemotherapy
Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:56:00 -0600
Huixin He, associate
professor of nanoscale chemistry at Rutgers University, and Tamara Minko, professor at the Rutgers Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, have developed a nanotechnology approach that potentially could eliminate the problems of side effects and drug resistance in the treatment of cancer. Under traditional chemotherapy, cancer cells, like bacteria, can develop resistance to drug therapy, leading to a relapse of the disease.
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Rutgers University
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Message: 8
From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 12:40:25 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Nanotechnologists From Penn State Collaborate to Form Near-frictionless Diamond Material
Nanotechnologists From Penn State Collaborate to Form Near-frictionless Diamond Material
Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:54:00 -0600
Mechanical engineers have
fabricated an ultra sharp, diamond-like carbon tip possessing such high strength, that it is 3,000 times more wear-resistant at the nanoscale than silicon. The end result is a diamond-like carbon material mass-produced at the nanoscale that doesn't wear.
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University of Pennsylvania
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Message: 9
From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 12:40:25 -0600 (CST)
Subject: UW-Madison Physicists Build Basic Quantum Computing Circuit
UW-Madison Physicists Build Basic Quantum Computing Circuit
Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:56:00 -0600
Exerting delicate control over a pair of atoms within a
mere seven-millionths-of-a-second window of opportunity, physicists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison created an atomic circuit that may help quantum computing become a reality.
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University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Message: 10
From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 12:40:26 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Scanning for Skin Cancer: Infrared System Looks for Deadly Melanoma
Scanning for Skin Cancer: Infrared System Looks for Deadly Melanoma
Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:52:00 -0600
Researchers have developed a noninvasive
infrared scanning system to help doctors determine whether pigmented skin growths are benign moles or melanoma, a lethal form of cancer.
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Johns Hopkins University
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Message: 11
From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 12:40:26 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Discovery in Legumes Could Reduce Fertilizer Use, Aid Environment, Say Stanford Researchers
Discovery in Legumes Could Reduce Fertilizer Use, Aid Environment, Say Stanford Researchers
Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:52:00 -0600
Escalating use of nitrogen fertilizer is increasing algal blooms and global warming, but a discovery by Stanford University researchers could begin to reverse that. They have revealed a key step in how symbiotic bacteria living in legumes turn nitrogen into plant food, which could be used to improve the process in some plants, reducing the need for chemical fertilizers.
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Stanford University
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From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 12:40:26 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Atmospheric Nanoparticles Impact Health, Weather Professor Says
Atmospheric Nanoparticles Impact Health, Weather Professor Says
Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:57:00 -0600
Nanoparticles are atmospheric materials so small that
they can't be seen with the naked eye, but they can very visibly affect both weather patterns and human health all over the world--and not in a good way, according to a study by a team of researchers at Texas A&M University.
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Texas A&M University
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Message: 13
From: National Science Foundation Update <nsf-update@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 12:40:26 -0600 (CST)
Subject: New Technique Allows Study of Protein Folding, Dynamics in Living Cells
New Technique Allows Study of Protein Folding, Dynamics in Living Cells
Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:57:00 -0600
A new
technique to study protein dynamics in living cells has been created by a team of University of Illinois scientists, and evidence yielded from the new method indicates that an in vivo environment strongly modulates a protein's stability and folding rate.
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Message: 14
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Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 12:40:27 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Glue, Fly, Glue
Glue, Fly, Glue
Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:51:00 -0600
Like silkworm moths, butterflies and spiders, caddisfly larvae spin silk, but they do so
underwater instead of on dry land. Now, University of Utah researchers have discovered why the fly's silk is sticky when wet and how that may make it valuable as an adhesive tape during surgery.
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University of Utah
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