Articles and News for Jul08
  1. 14-year-old CEO makes chemistry a game with 'Elementeo'

  2. $1.8M awarded for metastatic colon cancer research

  3. 1 year after Solomon Islands, scientists learn barrier to earthquakes weaker than expected

  4. 200 leading experts to attend NJIT's Fifth Annual Math Conference set for May 19-21, 2008 in Newark

  5. 2 University of Illinois researchers named HHMI investigators

  6. 72 new members chosen by Academy

  7. AACR annual meeting showcases developments in understanding and targeting cancers

  8. AGI reports on the price of oil and the US dollar

  9. AGU Journal Highlights -- July 3, 2008

  10. AGU Journal Highlights -- June 11, 2008

  11. AGU Journalism Awards won by Margaret Munro and Dr. Richard Smith

  12. AGU journal highlights -- June 4, 2008

  13. ASPB engages Latin America colleagues at Annual Meeting in Merida, Mexico June 22-25

  14. A Kapitza?Dirac?Talbot?Lau interferometer for highly polarizable molecules

  15. A bird's eye view

  16. A compact synchrotron radiation source driven by a laser-plasma wakefield accelerator

  17. A complex mind

  18. A few holes to fill

  19. A molecular state of correlated electrons in a quantum dot

  20. A new method for generating ultraintense and ultrashort laser pulses

  21. A non-volatile-memory device on the basis of engineered anisotropies in (Ga,Mn)As

  22. A potential sugar fix for tumors

  23. A protein sequence associated with Huntington’s disease may become life-saving vaccine component

  24. A quantum-enhanced prototype gravitational-wave detector

  25. A single-photon transistor using nanoscale surface plasmons

  26. A strip revealed...and more

  27. A sub-femtosecond stop watch for 'photon finish' races

  28. A tangled web we weave

  29. A testable prediction

  30. A thermodynamic unification of jamming

  31. A transient semimetallic layer in detonating nitromethane

  32. Absinthe uncorked: The 'Green Fairy' was boozy -- but not psychedelic

  33. Accelerometer backpacks aid study of gliding behavior in the 'flying' lemur

  34. Accurate theoretical fits to laser-excited photoemission spectra in the normal phase of high-temperature superconductors

  35. Adaptive optics: Scattered focus

  36. Advances in C. difficile research

  37. Advil or Excedrin? New model helps predict product choices

  38. Aerodynamics: Four wings good

  39. Al Gore and Tom Stoppard among 2008 Dan David Prize Winners at TAU

  40. Alcohol alters prefrontal cortex activity through ion channel disruption

  41. Algae could one day be major hydrogen fuel source

  42. Algae from the ocean a sustainable energy source of the future

  43. Algebraic charge liquids

  44. All done with mirrors: NIST microscope tracks nanoparticles in 3-D

  45. All-optical injection of ballistic electrical currents in unbiased silicon

  46. American Association for Cancer Research hosts 2008 Annual Meeting

  47. American Chemical Society honors 7 Springer scientists

  48. American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Feb. 20, 2008

  49. An off-board quantum point contact as a sensitive detector of cantilever motion

  50. An unexpected thrill

  51. Anisotropic behaviours of massless Dirac fermions in graphene under periodic potentials

  52. Answering challenges of life in extreme environments research

  53. Ant guts could pave the way for better drugs

  54. Antarctic ice shelf disintegrating as result of climate change, say scientists

  55. Antidepressants do work in depression while evidence for CBT is poorer say experts

  56. Anyonic interferometry and protected memories in atomic spin lattices

  57. Anyons in a weakly interacting system

  58. April GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY media highlights

  59. Arable land can have a negative impact on air quality

  60. Arctic explorer delivers unique snow-depth data for CryoSat

  61. Are existing large-scale simulations of water dynamics wrong?

  62. Are microbes the answer to the energy crisis?

  63. Argonne, DOT open transportation research, computing center

  64. Argonne scientists, collaborators create first superinsulator

  65. Argonne scientists develop techniques for creating molecular movies

  66. Argonne's Crabtree elected to National Academy of Sciences

  67. Argonne's lithium-ion battery technology to be commercialized by Japan's Toda Kogyo

  68. Aripiprazole has potential for treating alcohol dependence

  69. Arsenic and new rice

  70. Artificial intelligence boosts science from Mars

  71. Astrophysics: Black is black

  72. Astrophysics: Dust before the storm

  73. Astrophysics: Rings around the lenses

  74. Astute Nanotechnology celebrates first year of success

  75. At ACS' national meeting, global initiative set to tackle water issues

  76. At the synapse: Gene may shed light on neurological disorders

  77. Atomic dark solitons: Quantum canaries learn to fly

  78. Atomic force microscopy reveals liquids adjust viscosity when confined, shaken

  79. Atomic physics: Cold gases venture into Flatland

  80. Attoscience: An attosecond stopwatch

  81. Attosecond angular streaking

  82. Attosecond physics: Ultrafast goes ultralong

  83. Author-physicist Peter Freund has passion for storytelling

  84. Avalon Pharmaceuticals names lead development candidate in beta-catenin inhibitor program

  85. BP funds scholarship for University of Houston to help fill industry ranks

  86. Back to a space future

  87. Beat the cycle of preference

  88. Beating the channel capacity limit for linear photonic superdense coding

  89. Bend, bounce and relax...

  90. Best code for disease detection, bar none

  91. Best practice for engineering science faculties

  92. Beyond the hype

  93. Big Dave's last stand

  94. Bilateral agreement to commercialize cargo screening technology

  95. Biophysics: Cell commuters avoid delays

  96. Biophysics: Cell dipoles feel their way

  97. Bitter orange SRMs: Tools for product analysis/quality

  98. Black holes have simple feeding habits

  99. Blocked brain enzyme decreases appetite and promotes weight loss

  100. Boeing's Phantom Works arrives in Australia

  101. Bon MOT: Innovative atom trap catches highly magnetic atoms

  102. Boost for 'green plastics' from plants

  103. Bose?Einstein condensation in magnetic insulators

  104. Breakdown of the adiabatic limit in low-dimensional gapless systems

  105. Breaking news: Study revives Olympic prospects for amputee sprinter

  106. Breast cancer more aggressive among obese women

  107. Bridging length scales in colloidal liquids and interfaces from near-critical divergence to single particles

  108. British dignitaries to honor Sen.Domenici's dedication to scientific collaboration

  109. Brown opens Institute for Molecular and Nanoscale Innovation

  110. Brown to host conference on advances in neurotechnology

  111. Business of drug development on verge of great change

  112. CAPHOSOL relieves oral mucositis and improves quality-of-life in cancer patients

  113. CCNY researchers demonstrate effectiveness of contrast agent Cytate in detectcing prostate cancer

  114. CSIRO astronomers to join 'private data highway' across US

  115. CSIRO unveils a new class of fatty acids

  116. CSI: Milky Way team works scene of dead star

  117. Calpis' AmealPeptide lowers blood pressure in 2 placebo-controlled trials

  118. Caltech astrophysicist wins 1 of first Kavli Prizes

  119. Carbon nanotube measurements: latest in NIST 'how-to' series

  120. Carbon nanotubes: Old nanotubes, new tricks

  121. Carbon nanotubes made into conductive, flexible 'stained glass'

  122. Carbon nanotubes outperform copper nanowires as interconnects

  123. Carnegie Mellon develops computer model to study cell membrane dynamics

  124. Carnegie Mellon researchers create invisibiity cloak

  125. Carnegie Mellon's Nadine Aubry, colleague Pushpendra Singh develop new model

  126. Carnegie's Russell Hemley elected to Royal Society of Edinburgh

  127. Cavity QED: Signs of anharmonicity

  128. Chaotic dynamics: Stuck with the flow

  129. Charge fractionalization in quantum wires

  130. Charge inversion accompanies DNA condensation by multivalent ions

  131. Charge-density-wave origin of cuprate checkerboard visualized by scanning tunnelling microscopy

  132. Charged-impurity scattering in graphene

  133. Charge-order-maximized momentum-dependent superconductivity

  134. Chassapis and team awarded $3 million GK-12 grant from NSF for multiscale research

  135. Chemical engineering researchers identify biofilms that cause infections

  136. Chemist wins national award for contributions in surface chemistry

  137. Chile's Chaiten volcano one of scores of active volcanoes in region, says CU-Boulder professor

  138. Clean diesels

  139. Climate change

  140. Closed circle

  141. Clumps of red and white blood cells may contribute to sickle cell disease

  142. Coarsening of granular segregation patterns in quasi-two-dimensional tumblers

  143. Coherent control of attosecond emission from aligned molecules

  144. Coherent dynamics of plasma mirrors

  145. Coherent superposition of laser-driven soft-X-ray harmonics from successive sources

  146. Collimation of sound assisted by acoustic surface waves

  147. Colossal magnetocapacitance and scale-invariant dielectric response in phase-separated manganites

  148. Columbus camera captures first views of Earth

  149. Commencement 2008: Student innovation could improve data storage, magnetic sensors

  150. Commercialization of air traffic control greatly improves performance

  151. Compact X-ray sources: Towards a table-top free-electron laser

  152. Computer simulations strongly support new theory of Earth's core

  153. Computing: Quantum to classical and back

  154. Condensed matter: An insulator with a twist

  155. Cone snails and plants used to develop oral drug for pain

  156. Conference registration: how people react to a deadline

  157. Congressional R&D Caucus co-chairs join scientists, engineers and graduate students

  158. Controlled dephasing of electrons by non-gaussian shot noise

  159. Controlling most atoms now possible

  160. Copper nanowires grown by new process create long-lasting displays

  161. Cosmic bubbles and demonic exercise

  162. Cosmic rays: Try this at home

  163. Cosmology: Inflation alive and well

  164. Cross-sectional imaging of spin injection into a semiconductor

  165. Cruising through molecular bound-state manifolds with radiofrequency

  166. Crystal bells stay silent as physicists look for dark matter

  167. DFG introduces Reinhart Koselleck Projects

  168. DFG welcomes decision on stem cell research by German parliament

  169. DOE grant funds solar energy project

  170. Daljit Ahluwalia, acclaimed math chair at NJIT, to be honored

  171. Data show Antarctic ice stream radiating seismically

  172. 'Death protein' research secures funding for UCF scientists

  173. Decade of the Mind symposium in Iowa to emphasize need for $4 billion in federal support

  174. Defining gene's role may lead to prevention of dangerous corn toxin

  175. Dehydrated tomatoes show promise for preventing prostate cancer

  176. Dental chair a possible source of neurotoxic mercury waste

  177. Desert power: A solar renaissance

  178. Detecting dangerous chemicals with lasers, exploring the brain's circuitry with light and more

  179. Dirac charge dynamics in graphene by infrared spectroscopy

  180. Discovery of an excited pair state in superfluid 3He

  181. Discovery of most recent supernova in our galaxy

  182. Dislocations and vortices in pair-density-wave superconductors

  183. Disorder enables extreme sensitivity in piezoelectric materials

  184. Domoic acid from toxic algal blooms may cause seizures in California sea lions

  185. Drugs like aspirin could reduce breast cancer and help existing sufferers

  186. Dynamical synapses causing self-organized criticality in neural networks

  187. Dynamics of cell orientation

  188. Dynamin drug discovery team win prestigious international epilepsy grant

  189. ECNP launches research grant for young scientists

  190. EC infuses Serbian nuclear relic cleanup with critical donation

  191. EPFL Research Day 2008, in the presence of Al Gore

  192. ETH Zurich competence center ESC introduces energy strategy

  193. Early exposure to common weed killer impairs amphibian development

  194. Early parents didn't stand for weighty kids

  195. Eating and weight gain not necessarily linked, study shows

  196. Echo in the mountain: Sonar technology for application in tunnel excavation

  197. Eclipses again prove key for Einstein

  198. Efficient coupling of photons to a single molecule and the observation of its resonance fluorescence

  199. Efficient state transfer in an ultracold dense gas of heteronuclear molecules

  200. Egg hunt from there to here

  201. Einstein was right, McGill astrophysicists say

  202. Electrical spin-injection into silicon from a ferromagnetic metal/tunnel barrier contact

  203. Electric-field-controlled spin reversal in a quantum dot with ferromagnetic contacts

  204. Electrohydrodynamic tip streaming and emission of charged drops from liquid cones

  205. Elements of style

  206. Elevated biomarkers predict risk for prostate cancer recurrence

  207. Emergency links: NIST identifies 'sweet spot' for radios in tunnels

  208. Emission reduction assumptions for carbon dioxide overly optimistic, study says

  209. Energy Crossroads conference April 30 and May 1 at Stanford University

  210. Energy harvesting: Rubbed the right way

  211. Engineering students: Headset muffles loud, unnerving MRI noises

  212. Engineers demonstrate a new type of optical tweezer

  213. Engineers demonstrate first room-temperature semiconductor source of coherent Terahertz radiation

  214. Enhanced reaction kinetics in biological cells

  215. Entangling independent photons by time measurement

  216. Eribulin mesylate demonstrated anti-tumor activity in patients with advanced breast cancer

  217. Esoteric no more

  218. Europe to build state of the art laboratory

  219. Europeans unite to tap early universe for secrets of fundamental physic

  220. Euroscience Open Forum 2008: 1 month to go

  221. Even low levels of air pollution may pose stroke risk

  222. Everything is Particles

  223. Evolution equation for quantum entanglement

  224. Expect the unexpected

  225. Experiments and multiscale simulations of laser propagation through ignition-scale plasmas

  226. Experts tackle shipment issues for beneficial radiation sources

  227. Experts to discuss sleep science and the health risks of sleep disorders in Baltimore this June

  228. Experts will analyze the nutrition and health relationship from pregnancy to adolescence

  229. FDA deadlines may compromise drug safety by rushing approval

  230. FEBS Letters Structured Digital Abstracts experiment

  231. Failed HIV drug gets second chance with addition of gold nanoparticles

  232. Families shed light on likely causative gene for Alzheimer's

  233. Fast AFM probes measure multiple properties of biomolecules or materials simultaneously

  234. Fatal mine collapse covered 50 acres

  235. Feel the force

  236. Finally, the 'planet' in planetary nebulae?

  237. Findings a step toward making new optical materials

  238. First early-detection blood test for Parkinson's shows promise

  239. First-class protein crystals thanks to weightlessness on earth

  240. Flipping fluctuations

  241. Florida Tech student earns first place in national science competition

  242. Flow diagram of the metal?insulator transition in two dimensions

  243. Flu vaccines can reduce respiratory problems by up to 3/4

  244. Fluid Dynamics: The invisible jet

  245. Fly me to the Moon?

  246. Focusing capillary jets close to the continuum limit

  247. Food writer wins prestigious ACS journalism award

  248. For some who have lost their sense of smell, a once popular asthma drug could help

  249. Fossils found in Tibet by FSU geologist revise history of elevation, climate

  250. Fractional charge and quantized current in the quantum spin Hall state

  251. Fractional exchange statistics: A home for anyon?

  252. Fractional quantum Hall effect: A game of five halves

  253. Fractional quantum Hall effect in a quantum point contact at filling fraction 5/2

  254. Friction without contact

  255. Frog in a bucket

  256. Fruit fly phlebotomy holds neuroscience promise

  257. Future returns

  258. GLAST ready to go!

  259. GSA South-Central Section meeting in Hot Springs next week

  260. Gate-induced quantum-confinement transition of a single dopant atom in a silicon FinFET

  261. Geisinger study: Use of digital health records improve health of the elderly

  262. Gene therapy reduces cocaine use in rats

  263. Generation of intense continuum extreme-ultraviolet radiation by many-cycle laser fields

  264. Geothermics now published by Elsevier

  265. Geotimes investigates Iraq's oil prospects

  266. Glowing films developed by UC San Diego chemists reveal traces of explosives

  267. Goddard scientists receive Lindsay Award for black hole research

  268. Golden nanocrown

  269. Golden wheat 'greens' Kenya's drylands

  270. Gone, but not forgotten

  271. Good vibrations

  272. Graphene gazing gives glimpse of foundations of universe

  273. Graphene-based gadgets may be just years away

  274. Gravitational wave detectors: Squeezing up the sensitivity

  275. Gravity wave 'smoking gun' fizzles, says Case Western Reserve University physics researchers

  276. Growth hormone found to have new role in development of brain's smell center

  277. Gyro-resonant electron acceleration at Jupiter

  278. Handheld DNA detector

  279. Health risks after cessation of postmenopausal hormone therapy

  280. Hebrew University scientists named fellows of American Academy

  281. High-flying electrons may provide new test of quantum theory

  282. High-speed science

  283. High-temperature superconductivity: Fits and starts

  284. History of quantum mechanics: The path to agreement

  285. 'Hot' oxygen atoms on titanium dioxide motivated by more than just temperature

  286. How pre-melting on surrounding interfaces broadens solid?liquid phase transitions

  287. How the atmospheres of Mars and Venus are affected by carbon monoxide

  288. How to build a critical mind

  289. Hs and OHs in the spotlight

  290. Huge hole in the cosmos disappears

  291. Hybrid computer materials may lead to faster, cheaper technology

  292. Hybrid materials: Exciting interdisciplinary field offering future solutions for industry

  293. Hybrid single-electron transistor as a source of quantized electric current

  294. Hyperentanglement: Breaking the communication barrier

  295. Hyperviscous fluids: Better treatment for severe blood loss

  296. IEEE Fellow first woman to receive highest award in engineering profession

  297. INL-led team achieves nuclear fuel performance milestone

  298. Imaging single atoms in a three-dimensional array

  299. Imaging spontaneous currents in superconducting arrays of ?-junctions

  300. Imaging the two gaps of the high-temperature superconductor Bi2Sr2CuO6+x

  301. Immunotherapy: enlisting the immune system to fight cancer

  302. Impact of long- and short-range disorder on the metallic behaviour of two-dimensional systems

  303. Imports from Latin America may help US meet energy goals, study finds

  304. Improved governance needed to realize nanotech's benefits

  305. Improved ion mobility is key to new hydrogen storage compound

  306. Impurity-stabilized solid 4He below the solidification pressure of pure helium

  307. In blood vessel stents, innovative materials allow better control, delivery of gene therapy

  308. In situ doping control of the surface of high-temperature superconductors

  309. In unique stellar laboratory, Einstein's theory passes strict, new test

  310. Incoherent non-Fermi-liquid scattering in a Kondo lattice

  311. Injection of harmonics generated in gas in a free-electron laser providing intense and coherent extreme-ultraviolet light

  312. Innovative antennae may signal a 'new wave' in health care provision

  313. Inside-out evacuation of transitional protoplanetary discs by the magneto-rotational instability

  314. Integrating restoration and conservation within the ecosystem approach

  315. Interfering with the Global Positioning System

  316. International team of scientists discover clue to delay of life on Earth

  317. Into the trees

  318. Iron banded worms drying out of blood could be linked to Parkinson's and Alzheimer's

  319. Is the outer Solar System chaotic?

  320. Itinerant to localized transition of f electrons in the antiferromagnetic superconductor UPd2Al3

  321. It's just a phase...

  322. John Wheeler: Three ages of man

  323. Johns Hopkins researcher leads international effort to create 'proteinpedia'

  324. Joint research: Probing the mysteries of a surprisingly tough hydrogel

  325. Journal of Ultrasound In Medicine features bioeffects consensus report

  326. KAUST announces academic excellence alliance partnership with Imperial College London

  327. Kansas City builder creates Health Home

  328. Kavli Prize: Science on all scales

  329. Kent State awarded more than $14M to study liquid crystals and soft matter

  330. Keyhole coherent diffractive imaging

  331. LLNL's prototype hydrogen storage tank maintains extended thermal endurance

  332. Lab in a drop

  333. Large binocular telescope achieves first binocular light

  334. Laser-driven fusion: Incoherent light on the road to ignition

  335. Laser?plasma interactions: Fast electrons on a wire

  336. Laws, power laws and statistics

  337. Leading researchers honored for progress in cancer prevention, detection and treatment

  338. Learning from bacteria

  339. Leicester medical team announces 'predictor' for pregnant women who may have miscarriages

  340. Licorice extract provides new treatment option for canker sores

  341. Limited transparency in federal nanotech research may hamper development

  342. Liquid?solid-like transition in quasi-one-dimensional driven granular media

  343. Listening for the cosmic symphony: New SU supercomputer will help scientists listen for black holes

  344. Livermore researchers use carbon nanotubes for molecular transport

  345. Localization and loss of coherence in molecular double-slit experiments

  346. Long-term study of middle-aged mice shows

  347. Louisiana Tech students win first in 11 categories at civil engineering conference

  348. Lunar surface: Shades of grey

  349. MEDEA+ Noblanc award highlights improvements in microelectronics

  350. MIT: Stripes key to nanoparticle drug delivery

  351. MIT-led teams unravel heparin death mystery

  352. MIT's PANTHER sensor quickly detects pathogens

  353. MSU professor earns Bowditch Award for work on hypertension

  354. Magnetic flux periodicity of h/e in superconducting loops

  355. Magnetic tunnel junctions: Spin-torque measured up

  356. Major 'missed' biochemical pathway emerges as important in virtually all cells

  357. Making a good impression: Nanoimprint lithography tests at NIST

  358. Making sure the wonder materials don't become the wonder pollutant

  359. Malignant tumor or benign cyst?

  360. Manufactured Buckyballs don't harm microbes that clean the environment

  361. Many stroke, heart attack patients may not benefit from aspirin

  362. May 2008 GEOLOGY media highlights

  363. McMaster University engineering professor receives Humboldt Research Award

  364. Measurement of Rashba and Dresselhaus spin?orbit magnetic fields

  365. Measurement of the spin-transfer-torque vector in magnetic tunnel junctions

  366. Measurement technique probes surface structure of gold nanocrystals

  367. Measuring nanomechanical motion with a microwave cavity interferometer

  368. Mechanism of blood clot elasticity revealed in high definition

  369. Media highlights for February in Biophysical Journal

  370. Media highlights in the March 1 issue of Biophysical Journal

  371. Media star

  372. Medicare Part D beneficiaries may pay a price for poor knowledge of their Part D benefits

  373. Memory-built-in quantum teleportation with photonic and atomic qubits

  374. Meningitis vaccine study gets £200,000 boost

  375. Micro and Nano Scale Characterization of Fibers

  376. Micro-origami: USC folds up micrometer-scale 'voxels' for drug delivery

  377. Microsoft and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev announce agreement

  378. Mike Lazaridis donates additional $50M to Perimeter Institute

  379. Milky Way's giant black hole awoke from slumber 300 years ago

  380. Mimic molecules to protect against plague

  381. Mini-donut catches chloride ions

  382. Mining for dark matter

  383. Moderate prenatal exposure to alcohol and stress in monkeys can cause touch sensitivity

  384. Modern physics is critical to global warming research

  385. Molecules that changed the world

  386. Monash researcher receives prestigious Commonwealth Health Minister's award

  387. Moores UCSD Cancer Center study links vitamin D, type 1 diabetes

  388. More solid than solid: A potential hydrogen-storage compound

  389. Moss protein plays role in Alzheimer's disease

  390. Most powerful laser in the world fires up

  391. Mouse study: When it comes to living longer, it's better to go hungry than go running

  392. Mystery behind the strongest creature in the world

  393. NASA'S GLAST launch successful

  394. NASA selects 3 research fellows for GLAST mission

  395. NC State physics advance leads to a better understanding of optics at the atomic scale

  396. NIST, Army researchers pave the way for anthrax spore standards

  397. NIST micro sensor and micro fridge make cool pair

  398. NJIT applauds students for studies on brain injury, glaucoma and more

  399. NJIT doctoral students receive recognition at poster competition

  400. NJIT start-up company NeuroTrax named best in show

  401. NRL scientists produce carbon nanotubes using commercially available polymeric resins

  402. Names of inaugural Kavli Prize winners revealed

  403. 'Nanodrop' test tubes created with a flip of a switch

  404. Nanoengineered barrier invented to protect plastic electronics from water degradation

  405. Nano-optics: Quantum light switch

  406. Nano-sized technology has super-sized effect on tumors

  407. Nanotube production leaps from sooty mess in test tube to ready formed chemical microsensors

  408. Nanotubes could help study retrovirus transmission between human cells

  409. Nanotubes grown straight in large numbers

  410. Nature Conservancy study raises major questions on biofuels

  411. Needle-size device created to track tumors, radiation dose

  412. Neural cell transplants may help those with Parkinson's disease

  413. Neuroscience Peer Review Consortium announces increased journal participation

  414. Neutrino Physics: Solar probe

  415. Neutron stars: A magnetar by another name

  416. New 3-D test method for biomaterials 'flat out' faster

  417. New NIST detector can 'see' single neutrons over broad range

  418. New OLED encapsulation method reduces water intrusion and increases lifetime

  419. New alliance builds low carbon future

  420. New approach to measuring carbon in forests

  421. New cell-based sensors sniff out danger like bloodhounds

  422. New cements for vertebral lesions

  423. New chemical tool kit manipulates mitochondria, reveals insights into drug toxicity

  424. New data show benefit of finasteride in preventing prostate cancer

  425. New data to help with Afghanistan's natural resources and hazards assessments

  426. New discoveries from Harvard and Baylor get to the heart of cardiovascular disease

  427. New discoveries, new labs highlight international Canadian Light Source meeting

  428. New formula for combating the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide

  429. New guest at ESA's test center: The Herschel telescope

  430. New nanotechnology television series does 'sweat the small stuff'

  431. New nanotube sensor can continuously monitor minute amounts of insulin

  432. New organic molecule in space

  433. New report looks at the state of the North American environment

  434. New source for biofuels discovered

  435. New star systems first of their kind

  436. New study examines the validity of epo testing

  437. New study finds adverse effects of estrogen replacement therapy are related to the dose

  438. New study reveals brain cell mechanism of alcohol dependence

  439. New superconductors present new mysteries, possibilities

  440. New test makes cheating with drugs in sports easier to detect

  441. New text highlights role of microorganisms in alternative energy development

  442. New treatment for hepatitis C

  443. New vaccine approach prevents/reverses diabetes in lab study at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh

  444. New whale detection buoys will help ships take the right way through marine habitat

  445. News and features abound at ACS National Meeting in New Orleans, April 6-10

  446. News tips from ACS Nano

  447. No-Bell announcement

  448. Nobel Prize 2007: Fert and Grünberg

  449. Noise autocorrelation spectroscopy with coherent Raman scattering

  450. Nonlinear optics: Quasiparticles undressed

  451. Nonlinear spectroscopy of photons bound to one atom

  452. Nothing ventured

  453. Novel toxin receptor discovered for ulcer-causing stomach pathogen

  454. Nuclear astrophysics: Among the super brilliant

  455. Nuclear astrophysics: The first 50 years

  456. OPEC accepts no substitute

  457. ORNL demonstrates super-sensitive explosives detector

  458. OSU technologies funded for development

  459. Observation of Landau levels of Dirac fermions in graphite

  460. Observation of electron?hole puddles in graphene using a scanning single-electron transistor

  461. Observation of energetic electrons within magnetic islands

  462. Observation of quantum-measurement backaction with an ultracold atomic gas

  463. Observation of the optical spin Hall effect

  464. Onwards and upwards

  465. Optical antennas based on coupled nanoholes in thin metal films

  466. Optical conductivity and the correlation strength of high-temperature copper-oxide superconductors

  467. Optically detected coherent spin dynamics of a single electron in a quantum dot

  468. Optically mapping the electronic structure of coupled quantum dots

  469. Optomechanics: Push towards the quantum limit

  470. Oscillations and interactions of dark and dark?bright solitons in Bose?Einstein condensates

  471. Outstanding German-Polish scientific cooperation

  472. PATH MVI and SBRI to accelerate malaria vaccine search by expanding human challenge tests

  473. PET confirmed as valuable cancer diagnostic and disease-staging tool

  474. Pain receptor in brain may be linked to learning and memory

  475. Pairing fluctuations in the pseudogap state of copper-oxide superconductors probed by the Josephson effect

  476. Pan American Congress on Plants & BioEnergy

  477. Particle physics: A win?win situation

  478. Pattern formation: Watch your step

  479. Peculiar many-body effects revealed in the spectroscopy of highly charged quantum dots

  480. Penn State microbial fuel cell scientist named KAUST Investigator

  481. Persistent man-made chemical pollutants found in deep-sea octopods and squids

  482. Peter J. McGuire, MB BCh, is awarded the 2008-2009 Genzyme/ACMGF Clinical Genetics Fellowship

  483. Phantom parent molecule of important class of chemical compounds isolated for first time

  484. Phase transitions: A complex view of criticality

  485. Phoenix mission to Mars will search for climate clues

  486. Physicists: After 30 years of study, rare particle confirms prediction

  487. Physicists and engineers search for new dimension

  488. Physics 2.0

  489. Physics breakthroughs on tap at New Orleans conference

  490. Physics for development

  491. Physics is dead, long live physics!

  492. Pinch points and Kasteleyn transitions in kagome ice

  493. Planetary atmospheres: Stormy weather

  494. Plasma astrophysics: Acceleration of killer electrons

  495. Plasmonics: Beaming light into the nanoworld

  496. Policing cells demand ID to tell friend from foe, say University of Pennsylvania cell engineers

  497. Populist quantum theory

  498. Portable device effective in zapping away migraine pain

  499. Post brain injury: New nerve cells originate from neural stem cells

  500. Potential treatment for TB solves puzzle

  501. Potential treatments from cryptic genes

  502. Potential viral therapy weapon for difficult cancers is safe and effective in study

  503. Powerful superconductor is in a class all its own

  504. Prednisone tablets less variable than marketed drugs

  505. Premiere for Europe: Jules Verne refuels the ISS

  506. Prescription costs rise more than 6 times when patients reach 65 says study of 5M people

  507. Presence of certain antibodies signals healthier teeth and gums

  508. Principles and applications of compact laser?plasma accelerators

  509. Probing quantum and thermal noise in an interacting many-body system

  510. Probing vortex-core dynamics using current-induced resonant excitation of a trapped domain wall

  511. Process tomography of quantum memory in a Josephson-phase qubit coupled to a two-level state

  512. Professor Toh-Ming Lu named fellow of the Materials Research Society

  513. Promising new nanotechnology for spinal cord injury

  514. Protein data bank archives 50,000th molecule structure

  515. Protein fibrils as alternative plastics?

  516. Prototype terahertz imager promises biochem advances

  517. Purdue researchers propose way to incorporate deforestation into climate change treaty

  518. Quantitative measurement of voltage dependence of spin-transfer torque in MgO-based magnetic tunnel junctions

  519. Quantum communication: Coherence by measurement

  520. Quantum critical behaviour in the superfluid density of strongly underdoped ultrathin copper oxide films

  521. Quantum criticality in heavy-fermion metals

  522. Quantum dots: An optical point of view

  523. Quantum dots: Time to get the nukes out

  524. Quantum gravity: Beyond the screen of time

  525. Quantum information processing: Move around the clock

  526. Quantum interference of photon pairs from two remote trapped atomic ions

  527. Quantum interference of tunnel trajectories between states of different spin length in a dimeric molecular nanomagnet

  528. Quantum leaps in small steps

  529. Quantum magnetism and criticality

  530. Quantum many-body physics: 2D or not 2D?

  531. Quantum mechanical complementarity probed in a closed-loop Aharonov?Bohm interferometer

  532. Quantum mechanics: Dynamics of entanglement

  533. Quantum molecular dynamics: The physics of explosive chemistry

  534. Quantum non-demolition detection of strongly correlated systems

  535. Quantum spin liquids: A flood or a trickle?

  536. Quantum this and quantum that

  537. Quasicrystal mystery unraveled with computer simulation

  538. Quasiparticle interference and superconducting gap in Ca2?xNaxCuO2Cl2

  539. Queen's develops safe 'green' decontamination method

  540. Quest for better treatment for effects of menopause

  541. RAND study finds increase in piracy and terrorism at sea

  542. RFID engineers and researchers to convene in Las Vegas for 2nd IEEE International RFID Conference

  543. RIT team simulates first merger of 3 black holes on a supercomputer

  544. RNA engineering to combat series of illnesses wins Kaye Award for Hebrew University dean

  545. Radiation for health

  546. Radicals shake up molecules in a tug o' war

  547. Random organization: Ordered chaos

  548. Random organization in periodically driven systems

  549. Relic topological defects from brane annihilation simulated in superfluid 3He

  550. Research measures movement of nanomaterials in simple model food chain

  551. Researchers bridge the 'terahertz gap' with new tunable metamaterial

  552. Researchers confirm discovery of Earth's inner, innermost core

  553. Researchers control growth rate of replacement blood vessels, tissues

  554. Researchers create the first thermal nanomotor in the world

  555. Researchers develop first transgenic monkey model of Huntington's disease

  556. Researchers discover molecular basis of a form of muscular dystrophy

  557. Researchers engineer new polymers to change their stiffness and strength when exposed to liquids

  558. Researchers reveal insights into hidden world of protein folding

  559. Researchers reveal structure of protein that repairs damage to cancer cells

  560. Researchers 'see' structure of open nicotinic acetylcholine ion channels

  561. Researchers take step toward creating quantum computers using entangled photons in optical fibers

  562. Researchers visualize complex pigment mixtures in living cells

  563. Resolved-sideband cooling of a micromechanical oscillator

  564. Reverse age discrimination

  565. 'Revolutionary' CO2 maps zoom in on greenhouse gas sources

  566. Risky manager

  567. Rocky water source

  568. Roll with it, take your time

  569. Rutgers center sparks 'liquid bandage,' a new frontline wound treatment

  570. Rutgers research reveals how deadly food poisoning and bioterrorism toxins could be tamed

  571. Rutgers researchers show how the brain can protect against cancer

  572. SNM congratulates NOPR and its supporting organizations on successful conclusion of project

  573. Satellite observations of separator-line geometry of three-dimensional magnetic reconnection

  574. Satellites take sustainability to new heights

  575. Scaling strong-field interactions towards the classical limit

  576. Scanning probe spectroscopy: Probing dopants at the atomic level

  577. Scanning-probe spectroscopy of semiconductor donor molecules

  578. Science for the citizen

  579. Scientists aim to boost world energy supplies -- with microbes!

  580. Scientists aim to unlock deep-sea 'secrets' of Earth's crust

  581. Scientists discover that protons partner with neutrons more often than with other protons

  582. Scientists find giant ring encircling exotic dead star

  583. Scientists find how neural activity spurs blood flow in the brain

  584. Scientists find mercury threatens next generation of loons

  585. Scientists make chemical cousin of DNA for use as new nanotechnology building block

  586. Scientists set out to measure how we perceive naturalness

  587. Scientists successfully treat new mouse model of inflammatory bowel disease

  588. Screening the herbal pharmacy

  589. Sea salt worsens coastal air pollution: study

  590. Self-organized network evolution coupled to extremal dynamics

  591. Self-similarity in ultrafast nonlinear optics

  592. Seniors with type 2 diabetes may experience memory declines immediately after eating unhealthy meal

  593. Sharp peaks in the momentum distribution of bosons in optical lattices in the normal state

  594. Sharp tactics

  595. Shpyrko receives APS organization's Young Investigator Award

  596. Sierra Nevada rose to current height earlier than thought, say Stanford geologists

  597. Single-atom gating of quantum-state superpositions

  598. Single-celled bacterium works 24-7

  599. Single-molecule detection: Identification without labels

  600. Single-photon bus connecting spin-wave quantum memories

  601. Singlet?triplet physics and shell filling in carbon nanotube double quantum dots

  602. Sisyphus cooling and amplification by a superconducting qubit

  603. Slowing light to speed data: USC Viterbi School wins $4.3M photonics IT contract

  604. 'Smart' materials get smarter with ability to better control shape and size

  605. Smokers with lung disease need more than 'brief' intervention

  606. Social dynamics: Emergence of language

  607. Solar wind: Thar she blows

  608. Sophisticated soil analysis for improved land use

  609. Sounding out Congo Red

  610. Source of drug-tolerant tuberculosis possibly behind TB relapses, intensity of treatment

  611. Soy compound may halt spread of prostate cancer

  612. Space science simulation at UNH now better, faster, cheaper

  613. Special relativity: A matter of time

  614. Specialists in drug discovery and development convene

  615. Spectral weight transfer in the integer quantum Hall effect and its consequences

  616. Spin blockade and lifetime-enhanced transport in a few-electron Si/SiGe double quantum dot

  617. Spin control: New technique sorts nanotubes by length

  618. Spin dynamics in the pseudogap state of a high-temperature superconductor

  619. Spin qubits: A host with many facets

  620. Spinning, rotating, losing

  621. Spinons and triplons in spatially anisotropic frustrated antiferromagnets

  622. Spintronics: Silicon takes a spin

  623. Sputnik, space and me

  624. Stabilization of a purely dipolar quantum gas against collapse

  625. Stanford researchers hear the sound of quantum drums

  626. Statins have unexpected effect on pool of powerful brain cells

  627. Statistical mechanics: Crackling crossover

  628. Statistics are insufficient for study of proteins' signal system

  629. Stellar astronomy: Phenomenal weather

  630. Stevens chemists identify compounds to lure nutria, a rat-like pest ravaging Gulf Coast wetlands

  631. 'Sticky nanotubes' hold key to future technologies

  632. Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, June 2008

  633. Stressed seaweed contributes to cloudy coastal skies, study suggests

  634. String cosmology: Cosmic defects in the lab

  635. String theory: Stringlish lessons

  636. Structure reveals how cells 'sugar-coat' proteins

  637. Study finds Chinese food good for your heart

  638. Study finds new properties in non-magnetic materials

  639. Study recommends development of standards for pediatric doses in nuclear medicine

  640. Stunt doubles: Ultracold atoms could replicate the electron 'jitterbug'

  641. Substance in red wine found to keep hearts young

  642. Sullivan wins NSF Career Award for research on therapeutic drug carriers

  643. Sun's corona is both hot and kinky

  644. Superconductivity: A celebration of pairs

  645. Superconductivity: Beyond convention

  646. Superconductivity: Bring on the real resonance

  647. Superconductivity: Has lightning struck twice?

  648. Superconductivity: Importance of fluctuations

  649. Superconductivity and quantum criticality in the heavy-fermion system ?-YbAlB4

  650. Superconductors: The electron shatters

  651. Superfluid dynamics: Vortices on the scales

  652. Suprafroth in type-I superconductors

  653. Surface heating of wire plasmas using laser-irradiated cone geometries

  654. Surface physics: Electron wrangling in quantum corrals

  655. Switchyard for single electrons

  656. Symmetry of large physical systems implies independence of subsystems

  657. Symposium on energy research highlights future challenges, opportunities

  658. Synchrotron light unveils oil in ancient Buddhist paintings from Bamiyan

  659. Synergy between biology and physics drives cell-imaging technology

  660. Taking the temperature of the no-fly zone

  661. Talking the talk

  662. Target support for young scientists, says panel/Mote

  663. Tell me by the way I walk

  664. Test of relativistic time dilation with fast optical atomic clocks at different velocities

  665. Testing quantum correlations versus single-particle properties within Leggett?s model and beyond

  666. Testosterone replacement theraphy beneficial in men 60 and older

  667. That extra dimension

  668. The bombardier beetle, power venom and spray technologies

  669. The chatter of 100,000 voices

  670. The conflict of reward in depression

  671. The drifting star

  672. The energization of relativistic electrons in the outer Van Allen radiation belt

  673. The final frontier?

  674. The law of accelerating returns

  675. The method of science

  676. The one-dimensional Wigner crystal in carbon nanotubes

  677. The philanthropic principle

  678. The puzzling 'eye of a hurricane' on Venus

  679. The trouble with hybrids

  680. The unpaid debt

  681. Theatre: Entangled stage

  682. Theoretical neuroscience: How to build a critical mind

  683. Thermodynamic properties of a spin-1/2 spin-liquid state in a ?-type organic salt

  684. Thermodynamics: Limited adiabaticity

  685. This issue

  686. Three-body interactions with cold polar molecules

  687. Three-dimensional imaging of magnetic fields with polarized neutrons

  688. Tinkering with time

  689. Tipsheet for June issue of BSSA

  690. To a fault: the bottom line on earthquakes

  691. Too much technology may be killing beneficial bacteria

  692. Topological order: How spin splits the electron

  693. Towards fault-tolerant quantum computing with trapped ions

  694. Towards the zero-surface-tension limit in granular fingering instability

  695. Toxic to aliens -- but key to health of planet

  696. Tracking your carbon footprint

  697. Transitions in focus

  698. Trap and zap: Harnessing the power of light to pattern surfaces on the nanoscale

  699. Treating SSRI-resistant depression

  700. Treatment with an anti-psychotic drug found to cause changes in metabolism earlier than expected

  701. Triplet supercurrents in clean and disordered half-metallic ferromagnets

  702. True or false

  703. Tunable narrowband terahertz emission from mastered laser?electron beam interaction

  704. Tunable scaling behaviour observed in Barkhausen criticality of a ferromagnetic film

  705. Two-dimensional transport and transfer of a single atomic qubit in optical tweezers

  706. Two-photon probe of the Jaynes?Cummings model and controlled symmetry breaking in circuit QED

  707. Two-proton radioactivity: Caught in the act

  708. UAB study shows investigational drug may treat biliary cancers

  709. UCSB's Nakamura wins Prince of Asturias Award

  710. UC Davis researcher leads climate-change discovery

  711. UC San Diego researchers target tumors with tiny 'nanoworms'

  712. UC biology prof traces his roots to the first Earth Day

  713. UD astronomers coordinating international observatories in white-dwarf watch

  714. UGA research may lead to safer, more effective gene therapy

  715. UMass Medical School researcher Victor Ambros receives Gairdner Award, Franklin Medal

  716. UNC awarded grant to improve understanding of chemical effects on environment, health

  717. USP Convention and Chinese Pharmacopoeia Commission sign Memorandum of Understanding

  718. US Pharmacopeia releases new edition of the Food Chemicals Codex

  719. UTMB wins $3.4 million federal grant to study addiction-recovery drugs

  720. UTSA hosts North American Energy Summit May 1-2

  721. U of M researchers discover gene linked to adult-onset obesity

  722. U of Minnesota study: Destroying native ecosystems for biofuel crops worsens global warming

  723. Ultra-dense galaxies found in early universe

  724. Ultrafast X-ray study of dense-liquid-jet flow dynamics using structure-tracking velocimetry

  725. Undergraduates develop 'dirt-powered' microbial fuel cells to light Africa

  726. Unexpected drop of dynamical heterogeneities in colloidal suspensions approaching the jamming transition

  727. Unexpected features of branched flow through high-mobility two-dimensional electron gases

  728. Unique stellar system gives Einstein a thumbs-up

  729. Universal emission intermittency in quantum dots, nanorods and nanowires

  730. Universal scaling between structural relaxation and vibrational dynamics in glass-forming liquids and polymers

  731. University of Florida professor designs plasma-propelled flying saucer

  732. University of Pittsburgh researchers crack code of 3-D structure in key metabolic protein

  733. Urban ecology: taking measure of the coming megacity's impact

  734. Violation of the London law and Onsager?Feynman quantization in multicomponent superconductors

  735. Visualization of the interplay between high-temperature superconductivity, the pseudogap and impurity resonances

  736. Visualizing atomic-scale acoustic wavesin nanostructures

  737. Vitamin D: New way to treat heart failure?

  738. WRAIR investigators pioneering work on an exciting new class of antimalarial compounds

  739. Watching rocks grow

  740. We are what we drink

  741. Weather in stellar atmosphere revealed by the dynamics of mercury clouds in ? Andromedae

  742. Weather, waves and wireless: Super strength signalling

  743. Wendelstein 7-X reaches first milestone

  744. What happened before the Big Bang?

  745. What's in a name?

  746. Where man has gone before

  747. Who benefits from antidepressants? US health inequities

  748. Willis lamb: Shift to quantum electrodynamics

  749. Wolfgang Panofsky: Man and machine

  750. Wouldn't you like to know?

  751. XMM-Newton discovers part of the missing matter in the universe

  752. X-Ray optics: Clarity through a keyhole

  753. X-rays often repeated for patients in developing countries

  754. X-ray-scattering information obtained from near-field speckle

  755. Yale University's Strobel recognized for work on RNA

  756. Yale scientist honored for academic innovation and leadership

  757. Yerkes researchers develop first transgenic nonhuman primate model of Huntington's disease

  758. d-wave duality and its reflections in high-temperature superconductors

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