#Catalyst makes tiny rods swim to target University of Warwick rightoriginal Studyposted by Anna Blackaby-Warwick on September 10 2013putting a bit of catalyst on the ends of microscopic atchstickscan propel them through water to a specific chemical report researchers.
at the University of Warwick. t may even provide some insight into how rod shapes were selected for self-propelled microscopic shapes in the natural world. he team has now found a way to do it by simply adding a chemical in a specific spot
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#Laser pinpoints tiniest traces of explosive Michigan State university rightoriginal Studyposted by Layne Cameron-Michigan State on September 9 2013a bomb-detecting laser that can find micro-traces of explosive
and Liam Hill at the University of Leeds in partnership with the Bradford Institute for Health Research and colleagues at the University of Indiana. n trying to support a child with handwriting
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#Untangled DNA is how guys become guys University of Queensland rightoriginal Studyposted by Bronwyn Adams-Queensland on September 9 2013.
An enzyme that nravelsdna appears to trigger male development of the embryo a finding that may give greater insight into intersex disorders.
or female says Peter Koopman a professor from the University of Queensland s Institute for Molecular Bioscience. ost mammals including humans
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but it turned up in an earlier survey of genes involved in leaf senesce says Su-Sheng Gan professor of horticulture at Cornell University.
#How slow-wave sleep helps us learn Boston University Brown University Posted by David Orenstein-Brown on August 22 2013brown (US)# Scientists have pinpointed the brainwave frequencies
#The mechanisms of memory consolidations regarding motor memory learning were still uncertain until now#says Masako Tamaki a postdoctoral researcher at Brown University
#In addition to Tamaki Sasaki and Watanabe other authors on the paper contributed from Boston University MGH National Taiwan University and Arizona State university.
#Surprise virus caused blue chicken eggs University of Nottingham rightoriginal Studyposted by Emma Rayner-Nottingham on August 20 2013u.
and Asian chickens#says team leader David Wragg a doctoral research fellow at University of Nottingham.#
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#Genes from the father build the placenta CORNELL (US)- Placentas support the fetus and mother but new research with horses mules and donkeys confirms that the father provides the genetic blueprints for the organ.
of molecular biology and genetics at Cornell University. Using mouse studies only about 100 genes with imprinted expression had been identified.
what breeders call the maternal grandsire effect says co-senior author Doug Antczak equine geneticist at Cornell s College of Veterinary medicine.
#Add arsenic to magnesium to make it stainless Monash University rightoriginal Studyposted by Emily Walker-Monash on August 19 2013monash U. AUS)# Adding a little arsenic to magnesium slows down the metal s corrosion
A team led by Nick Birbilis an associate professor of materials engineering at Monash University found that the addition of very low levels of arsenic to magnesium retards the corrosion reaction by effectively#poisoning#the reaction before it completes.
and electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern University, worked with Nicholas Fang, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT,
#Ice may explain odd craters on Mars Brown University right Original Studyposted by Kevin Stacey-Brown on August 6 2013brown (US) More than 600 double-layer craters on Mars may have been caused by debris
Recent discoveries by planetary geoscientists at Brown and elsewhere have shown that the climate of Mars has varied in the past says James W. Head professor of geological science at Brown University.
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says Lee Hickey a research fellow at University of Queensland. The discovery will enable selective breeding of barley that will provide genetic protection to the disease.
the University of Sydne; and Uruguay's Instituto de Investigacion Agropecaria. The Grains Research and development Corporation partially funded the study.
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#Compact graphene device could shrink supercapacitors Monash University rightoriginal Studyposted by Emily Walker-Monash on August 5 2013monash U. AUS)# A new strategy to engineer graphene-based supercapacitors could make them viable
for widespread use in renewable energy storage portable electronics and electric vehicles. Supercapacitors are made generally of highly porous carbon impregnated with a liquid electrolyte to transport the electrical charge.
Dan Li a materials engineering professor at Monash University and his team created a supercapacitor with energy density of 60 watt-hours per liter#comparable to lead-acid batteries and around 12 times higher than commercially available supercapacitors.#
#Robots show how alcohol calms fear in fish New york University rightoriginal Studyposted by James Devitt-NYU on July 31 2013nyu (US)# Bio-inspired robots that look like predators can scare fish
Maurizio Porfiri associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the Polytechnic institute of New york University (NYU-Poly) and Simone Macr##a collaborator at the Istituto Superiore di Sanit##in Rome Italy published their findings
#The National Science Foundation the Honors Center of Italian Universities and the Mitsui USA Foundation supported the research.
#To beat stem rust, wheat crops get new gene University of California Davis rightoriginal Studyposted by Pat Bailey-UC Davis on July 30 2013uc DAVIS (US)# Scientists
since 1999 threatening important wheat production areas of the world#says co-author Jorge Dubcovsky a wheat geneticist at University of California Davis and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.#
The team which includes researchers from Washington University School of medicine plans to explore whether the mutations identified in the new study confer specific survival advantages.
##Shifty#neutrinos hint at antimatter mystery Boston University Duke university Stony Brook University University of Pittsburgh University of Rochester University of Washington Posted by Leonor Sierra-Rochester
which is full of surprises#says Chang Kee Jung professor of physics at Stony Brook University and international co-spokesperson for the T2k Collaboration.#
The experiment shows that researchers can now accurately observe the type of neutrino oscillation that will need to be studied in detail in future experiments aiming to measure CP violation explains Steven Manly professor of physics at the University of Rochester and part of the collaboration.
For that reason the University of Rochester group has focused on understanding these other processes to ensure that what is measured is really the neutrino oscillation they have sought.
Funded by the US Department of energy Office of Science the US T2k collaborating team includes Boston University;
University of California Irvine; University of Colorado; Colorado State university; Duke university; Louisiana State university; Stony Brook University;
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#iphone artists help solve#fat finger#problem CARNEGIE MELLON (US) Using the data amassed with an iphone drawing game,
researchers have built a tool that improves touchscreen art. The fingers of thousands of people who created sketches of Brad pitt
and Angelina jolie on their iphones can collectively guide and correct the drawing strokes of subsequent touchscreen users in an application created by researchers at Carnegie mellon University and Microsoft Research.
The app compensates for the at fingerproblem associated with touchscreens, automatically correcting a person drawing strokes
while preserving the user artistic style. ur goal was to make it invisible to the user, so people wouldn even be aware the correction is taking place,
says Alex Limpaecher, a Ph d. student in Carnegie mellon University computer science department. Adrien Treuille, associate professor of computer science and robotics, says the drawing assistance app is just one example of how Big data can be used to enhance drawing
and writing on touchscreens and even provide deep insights into art and perception. The trick has been to create drawing databases large enough to leveragen obstacle that he
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'when judging art health-care-cartoons 525 University of Rochester Cartoons depict 100 years of health care debate Other applications abound.
#Graphene#s jagged edge can easily slice cells Brown University right Original Study Posted by Kevin Stacey-Brown on July 10 2013brown (US) the jagged edges of tiny graphene sheets
Other contributors to the study were Brown graduate students Yinfeng Li (now a professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University) Hongyan Yuan and Megan Creighton.
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. and an adjunct researcher at both Duke and the University of California Santa cruz. These findings help us understand risks to these animals from human sound
##Streamloading puts video buffering on hold New york University Posted by James Devitt-NYU on June 26 2013nyu (US)# A new type of streaming technology that fuses streaming
Shivendra S. Panwar professor of electrical and computer engineering the Polytechnic institute of New york University and the lead developer of streamloading estimates that the technique could remove as much as 75 percent of the streaming content from increasingly overloaded cellular wireless networks
when to self-destruct Brown University rightoriginal Studyposted by David Orenstein-Brown on June 20 2013brown (US)# New research identifies genes that may control the death of pollen tubes during plant reproduction.##
High school biology leaves off with this: In normal pollination sperm-carrying pollen grains land on the pistil s tip
In his lab at Brown University Mark Johnson associate professor of biology studies the true complexity of intercellular communications that conduct this process with exquisite precision.
Identifying emotions based on neural activity builds on previous discoveries by Carnegie mellon University researchers Marcel Just and Tom M. Mitchell, who used similar techniques to create a computational model that identifies individualsthoughts
professor of psychology, director of the university Center for Cognitive Brain imaging, and neuroscientist, explains, e found that three main organizing factors underpinned the emotion neural signatures, namely the positive or negative valence of the emotion, its intensityild or strong,
#Why some GM CROPS fail to fight pests University of Arizona rightoriginal Studyposted by Daniel Stolte-Arizona on June 18 2013u.
Bruce Tabashnik and Yves Carri##re in the entomology department at the University of Arizona s College of Agriculture and Life sciences together with visiting scholar Thierry Br##vault from the Center
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of the Otter Project at Cardiff University. ontinued work is necessary to help us to better understand their transmission pathways
professor of mechanical engineering at Columbia University, who led the study with Jeffrey Kysar, professor of mechanical engineering. ut defect-free,
Researchers from Nagoya University Japan collaborated on the project. The NASA Astrobiology Institute the Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science Directorate Johnson Space center and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science supported this research.
New york University rightoriginal Studyposted by Kathleen Hamilton-NYU on June 7 2013nyu (US)# Robotic fish could reduce the number of live animals needed to study the effects of alcohol on behavior
#One of the major advantages of robotics is that we can provide a fully controllable consistent stimulus for the zebrafish#says Maurizio Porfiri associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the Polytechnic institute of New york University (NYU-Poly.#
The National Science Foundation and the Honors Center of Italian Universities supported the project. Source:
#For better concrete, do did as Romans University of California Berkeley rightoriginal Studyposted by Sarah Yang-Berkeley on June 5 2013uc BERKELEY (US)# Ancient Roman structures that have withstood the elements for more than 2000 years
#Roman concrete has remained coherent and well-consolidated for 2000 years in aggressive maritime environments#says Marie Jackson a research engineer in civil and environmental engineering at University of California Berkeley.#
#The research began with initial funding from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi arabia (KAUST)
#Swarms of tiny drones built to spy on hurricanes University of Florida Posted by Cindy Spence-Florida on June 5 2013u.
we use the hurricane to take us places#says Kamran Mohseni professor in the department of mechanical and aerospace engineering and the department of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Florida.
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#Nano web trips up bed bugs Stony Brook University Posted by James Montalto-Stony Brook on May 31 2013stony BROOK (US)# A new non-chemical solution literally stops bed bugs
or carpets#says lead researcher Miriam Rafailovich professor of materials science and engineering and co-director in the program of chemical and molecular engineering at Stony Brook University.
#First boson laser could save power Stanford university University of Michigan rightoriginal Studyposted by Bjorn Carey-Stanford on May 24 2013stanford (US)# Scientists have demonstrated a revolutionary electrically driven polariton laser
and confirmed by scientists at the University of Michigan who published their work in the journal Physical Review Letters.)
and a team from the University of W##rzburg in Germany led by physicist Alfred Forchel.
##Dynamo accounts for Sun s weather cycle University of Chicago University of Leeds rightoriginal Studyposted by Richard Mellor-Leeds on May 23 2013u.
which served to damp these small-scale variations revealing the dominant large-scale pattern#says co-author Steve Tobias professor at the University of Leeds#School of Mathematics.
The dynamo was developed through simulations using the high-performance computing facilities located at the University of Leeds.#The fact that it took 50 years
and huge supercomputers shows how complicated the dynamo process really is#says Professor Fausto Cattaneo of the University of Chicago#s department of astronomy and astrophysics.
The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and the National Science Foundation-sponsored Center for Magnetic Self-organization at the University of Chicago partially funded the research.
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#Bendy nanosensors detect infrared light University of Pennsylvania rightoriginal Studyposted by Evan Lerner-Pennsylvania on May 22 2013u.
#We set out to make an optomechanical thermal infrared detector#says Ertugrul Cubukcu assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania.#
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But smartphones are also capable of transforming into competitive diagnostic tools as a team of biomedical engineers out of Columbia University is showing with their new attachment that can detect both HIV and syphilis in a single 15-minute test.
and Sciences University just outside Portland. his procedure uses a very high-tech imaging system microscopes, lasers,
Shoukhrat Mitalipov, Oregon Health and Sciences University For years Mitalipov has been working on this procedure so that mothers with faulty mitochondria (typically known to be faulty
Researchers from the Vienna University of Technology are developing a technique in which chitin is being used to cheaply produce a currently very-expensive source of antiviral drugs.
and regrowth,"said Ralph Dubayah, the GEDI principal investigator at the University of Maryland.""GEDI will help scientists fill in this missing piece by revealing the vertical structure of the forest,
The GEDI lidar will be built at NASA'S GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER, with the University of Maryland, College Park leading the project e
#Nature inspires color-sensitive CMOS-compatible photodetector Researchers at Rice university's Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP) have developed a new image sensor that mimics the way we see color by integrating light amplifiers and color
Inspired by shellfish scientists at Montreal's Mcgill University have devised a new process that drastically increases the toughness of glass.
#Snake Monster robot can be easily reconfigured to suit user needs Carnegie mellon University (CMU) has created a new robot that has six legs, looks creepily like a spider when it walks,
But for Stan Larkin a patient at the University of Michigan Frankel Cardiovascular Center a new form of wearable technology is allowing him to keep on the move.
Larkin's departure from hospital marks the first time that a patient has been switched over to the Freedom Driver at the University of Michigan hospital
and we hope to transplant him as soon as an organ is available says Jonathan Haft a cardiac surgeon at the University of Michigan.
and can mill about with virtual versions of your high school class or family members who live on the other side of the world.
Spain University of Seville is also working on a solar wind-powered streetlight, while New york-based Urban Green energy already manufacturers one r
But this latest breakthrough by researchers from Novobiotic in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Northeastern University in Boston, the University of Bonn in Germany,
"says Northeastern University Distinguished Professor Kim Lewis, lead author of the paper outlining the discovery."
#Self-tinting breathing window doubles as a transparent battery Scientists at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore have developed a smart window that is able to tint itself blue,
To help address this, Austrian scientists working at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna)
University of Illinois researchers and colleagues in South korea led by U. of I. electrical and computer engineering senior research scientist Hyungsoo Choi and professor Kyekyoon#Kevin#Kim published details about the gelatin
reveals that the number of college-educated young adults (ages 25 to 34) living within three miles of city centers has risen 37 percent since the millennium.
because these places registered some of the largest percent increases in college-educated millennials living downtown between 2000 and 2010:
#How Scientists Can Turn off Pain Receptors In research published in the medical journal Brain, Saint louis University researcher Daniela Salvemini, Ph d. and colleagues within SLU,
The above story is provided based on materials by Saint louis University Medical center. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length
A team at the University of Bristol in Great britain worked on the project, which uses complex ultrasound patterns to create air disturbances
Mr. Kwak, the local government official, arranges for nursery school classes to play games with nursing home patients,
has visited kindergartens, bringing tofu. his is very soft, like the brain, he said, letting it crash down.
The Mapo Center for Dementia perches at a busy crossroads of old and new, near a university and a shop selling naturopathic goat extracts.
Cha Jeong-eun. worried his pride would be hurt going through this kindergarten experience. But when y mother asked him to get ingredients for curry rice
#Online education Exploding at Campuses Across the country Like most other undergraduates, Anish Patel likes to sleep in. Even though his Principles of Microeconomics class at 9: 35 a m. is just a five-minute stroll from his dorm,
The University of Florida broadcasts and archives Dr. Rush lectures less for the convenience of sleepy students like Mr. Patel than for a simple principle of economics:
1, 500 undergraduates are enrolled and no lecture hall could possibly hold them. Dozens of popular courses in psychology, statistics, biology and other fields are offered also primarily online.
nontraditional students who can not travel to colleges because of jobs and family. But the same technologies of istance learningare now finding their way onto brick-and-mortar campuses,
At the University of Florida, for example resident students are earning 12 percent of their credit hours online this semester,
This may delight undergraduates who do not have to change out of pajamas to ttendclass.
But it also raises questions that go to the core of a college mission: Is it possible to learn as much
She felt like she paying for me to go to college and not sit at home and watch through a computer.
Many are in community colleges, he said. Very few attend private colleges; families paying $53, 000 a year demand low student-faculty ratios.
Colleges and universities that have plunged into the online field, mostly public, cite their dual missions to serve as many students as possible while remaining affordable,
as well as a desire to exploit the latest technologies. At the University of Iowa, as many as 10 percent of 14,000 liberal arts undergraduates take an online course each semester,
including Classical mythology and Introduction to American Politics. At the University of North carolina at Chapel hill, first-year Spanish students are offered no longer a face-to-face class;
the university moved all instruction online, despite internal research showing that online students do slightly less well in grammar
and speaking. ou have X amount of money, what are you going to do with it? said Larry king, chairman of the Romance languages department,
where budget cuts have forced difficult choices. ou can be all things to all people. The University of Florida has faced sweeping budget cuts from the State Legislature totaling 25 percent over three years.
That is a main reason the university is moving aggressively to offer more online instruction. e see this as the future of higher education,
said Joe Glover, the university provost. uite honestly, the higher education industry in the United states has not been tremendously effective in the face-to-face mode
if you look at national graduation rates, he added. t the very least we should be experimenting with other modes of delivery of education.
A sampling of Florida professors teaching online found both enthusiasm and doubts. would prefer to teach classes of 50
said that he chose his field because of the passion of a professor who taught him as an undergraduate.
The technology, produced by Pascal Katana, a 24-year-old University of Nairobi engineering student,
In a demonstration at the University of Nairobi Katana altered sensor levels to detect body temperate
a communications professor at the University of Arizona who studies the marketing of children food. his forces Toucan Sam to be associated with healthier products.
Jon Shane, a professor in the Department of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
Other larger projects include finishing the police academy at its new campus in College Point, Queens,
##Wu, who is a member of both Berkeley Lab and the Berkeley University s Materials science and engineering department,
##At the University of Cambridge, researchers have pulled off something of a 3d printing coup. Using lab rats,
a college-degreed, up-and-coming Filipino youth, were annoying because of your accent. Now imagine being told that hundreds of times a day.
such as NMN,##says#Shin-Ichiro Imai, at Washington University School of medicine in St louis, Missouri. Photo credit: W. U k Via New Scientist Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorat s
Paul Wilcox, professor of ultrasonics at Bristol University s faculty of engineering,#told#The Sunday Times: The obvious way of doing it is to have an ultrasonic transducer in the corner of the windshield that would excite waves at around 30khz to bounce across the windshield.
providing them with a tailored curriculum from kindergarten to high school.####Your teacher spends time getting to know you every year,
However, the revelation made by the research team led by John Stamatoyannopoulos of the University of Washington indicates that genomes use the genetic code to write two separate languages.##
But, a team of scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago have figured out#a way to make synthetic gas inexpensively,
##We re a group of professionals from the army, security services and (straight) from university,##said an instructor who called himself##Mister
a Ph d. candidate at the University of Cambridge#who has written papers#on the automatic analysis of facial expressions.
#Computer analyzes images to teach itself common sense At Carnegie mellon University computers are running a program that analyze images to learn common sense.
##The Never Ending Image Learner (NEIL) program is being run at Carnegie mellon University in the United states. The work is being funded by the US Department of defense s Office of Naval Research and Google.
Leif Ristroph, an applied mathematician at New york University, wanted to build the##simplest possible##flying machine.#
Scientists at the National University of Singapore have developed a new electrode that could be the first step in making that happen.
The University of Utah has tested a wireless charging infrastructure for city buses and has spun out a company called Wireless Advanced Vehicle Electrification#to build commercial products.
#Elementary school students in Finland to learn coding Teaching programming is part of an effort to encourage the development of tech skills at an early age.
In the near future, elementary school students in Finland could be adding coding and programming to their nightly homework routine.
##We have a strong education system and rank among the top countries in both primary and secondary education,
Estonia rolled out a similar program for elementary school students in 2012, with 20 schools across the country testing a program called#Progetiiger.
##The country is also embracing coding education at the university level via Aalto University s Appcampus program#outside Helsinki.
Programming##Micro Colleges##have sprung up in over#40 cities with Davinci Coders in Boulder, Colorado rated##top value##with its beginner-based, 11-week, full-immersion program for $6, 000.
Video)##In the TED Talk video below, Behrokh Khoshnevis, a professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC), demonstrates automated construction,
. a 21-year-old student studying business at a Catholic university in La paz, Bolivia. She started the MOOC Camp in September,
a Coursera course taught by Michael Lenox at the University of Virginia s Darden School of business.
which helps international students go to U s. colleges. For its part, Coursera is providing training resources for facilitators.
Globally, 90%of those who enroll in the online courses created by professors at universities like Stanford, Pennsylvania State university, Wesleyan,
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