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Science RSS FeedsThis Week in Science - Nanoparticles, Lightly Twisted | Thalidomide Teratogenicity Target | Scattered and Coupled | Slightly Cracked | Speak to Me, Mama | Dinosaur Plumage | Titan Through to the Core | Moving Signals | Diheme Conversion | Hair Today, Skin Tomorrow | Steady As She Blows | Spite and Altruism | Solar Meridional Flow | An Electrochemical Landscape | Theoretically Speedy Trees...Feed Source: www.sciencemag.org Editors' Choice - Ecology: Collecting Coral | Geochemistry: Split When the Going Gets Hot | Astronomy: Bursting Expectations | Cell Biology: p75 Goes Nuclear | Physics: A Coherent Sonic Boom Box | Cancer: Enzymes Adopt New M.O. in Cancer | Development: Methylation Map... Random Samples - People's Choice Mini-Grants | Inheriting Mental Illness | Song of the Shelf | Great Brains of Science... [Editorial] Peace Through Vaccine Diplomacy - Author: Peter J. Hotez... [News of the Week] Latin America: Chile's Earthquake May Set Back Research for Years - Scientists in Chile have lost years of research from last month's massive earthquake, which overturned microscopes, destroyed research labs, and took the life of a young marine biologist.Authors: Jocelyn Kaiser, Antonio Regalado... [News of the Week] Pharmacology: The Puzzling Rise and Fall of a Dark-Horse Alzheimer's Drug - The announcement last week that a closely watched phase III clinical trial for Alzheimer's disease had failed to show a significant effect deals yet another demoralizing blow to patients, families, and caregivers.Author: Greg Miller... [News of the Week] Ecology: Severe Drought Puts Spotlight on Chinese Dams - Environmental groups in Thailand and elsewhere are laying at least part of the blame for low levels of the Lancang-Mekong River on China's doorstep. They claim that China's management of a series of dams on the Lancang River has aggravated the unfolding crisis.Author: Richard Stone... [News of the Week] ScienceNOW.org: From Science's Online Daily News Site - ScienceNOW reported this week on the results of our blogging contest at this year's AAAS meeting, a new hiding spot for HIV, genes for pain sensitivity, and a solution to the rangeland paradox, among other stories.... [News of the Week] North Korea: New Tuberculosis Lab Hailed as Breakthrough in Health Diplomacy - Researchers from Stanford University and a consortium of nonprofit organizations have been working side by side with colleagues from the North Korean Ministry of Public Health to help set up the isolated nation's first laboratory capable of growing the mycobacterium that causes tuberculosis and detecting drug-resistant strains.Author: Richard Stone... [News of the Week] ScienceInsider: From the Science Policy Blog - ScienceInsider reported this week that the H1N1 virus may have had less impact this winter than expected, but a new report from Hong Kong suggests that the virus in pigs has picked up genes from the human version, among other stories.... [News of the Week] Psychiatry: APA Seeks to Overhaul Personality Disorder Diagnoses - A work group of the American Psychiatric Association is proposing revisions for personality disorders in the forthcoming fifth version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, often referred to as psychiatry's bible.Author: Constance Holden... [News of the Week] Newsmaker Interview: A Civil Conversation About Animals in Research - Last week, neuroscientist Dario Ringach of the University of California, Los Angeles, spoke with Science about a recent panel discussion he co-organized on animal research and the resulting renewed attention he's gotten from animal-rights extremists after having given up primate research in 2006.Author: Greg Miller... [News of the Week] Scientific Publishing: Elsevier to Editor: Change Controversial Journal or Resign - The editor of the journal Medical Hypotheses?an oddity in the world of scientific publishing because it does not practice peer review?will apparently lose his job over the publication last summer of a paper that says HIV does not cause AIDS.Author: Martin Enserink... [News of the Week] Energy Research: Matchmaking Is Part of the Party as ARPA-E Marks Its First Birthday - Last week, 1700 politicians, scientists, industrialists, and investors attended a 3-day summit in a suburb of Washington, D.C., to mark the first anniversary of the Advanced Research Projects Agency?Energy.Author: Eli Kintisch... [News Focus] On Rarity and Richness - Two researchers have taken a stab at explaining why oceans have far fewer species than terrestrial habitats.Author: Elizabeth Pennisi... [News Focus] Physics: Ironing Out Consensus on the Iron-Based Superconductors - The emerging understanding of the 2-year-old materials could change physicists' views on the decades-old mystery of high-temperature superconductivity.Author: Adrian Cho... [News Focus] Space Science: NASA Dives Into Its Past to Retrieve Vintage Satellite Data - Once forgotten or erased, 1960s-era satellite images are being salvaged from old equipment and proving valuable in climate and space science.Author: Heather Pringle... [Letter] Rebuilding Haiti Smarter - Authors: Tim Dixon, Falk Amelung, Chris Harrison, Shimon Wdowinksi, Guoqing Lin... [Letter] The Hidden Face of Haiti's Tragedy - Authors: Menachem Ben-Ezra, Amit Shrira, Yuval Palgi... [Letter] The Fate of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna - Author: Jean-Marc Fromentin... [Letter] Applying Privacy Guidelines - Authors: Shesen Guo, Ganzhou Zhang, Run Zhai... [Letter] Applying Privacy Guidelines?Response - Author: Tom Mitchell... [Book Review] Psychology: Bad Theories Can Harm Victims - Clancy argues that children generally do not experience abuse as traumatic when it occurs but that often the trauma develops later, when "therapeutic culture dictates to victims how they should feel about their experience."Authors: Elizabeth F. Loftus, Steven J. Frenda... [Book Review] Sociology: Putting Law into Practice in Personnel - Examining the origins and evolution of affirmative action and equal opportunity, Dobbin argues that the crucial roles in shaping these transformative employment policies were played by human resources professionals rather than the law.Author: Anna-Maria Marshall... [Books et al.] Books Received - A listing of books received at Science during the week ended 05 March 2010.... [Policy Forum] Conservation: Elephants, Ivory, and Trade - Trade decisions made by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species must place science over politics.Authors: Samuel Wasser, Joyce Poole, Phyllis Lee, Keith Lindsay, Andrew Dobson, John Hart, Iain Douglas-Hamilton, George Wittemyer, Petter Granli, Bethan Morgan, Jody Gunn, Susan Alberts, Rene Beyers, Patrick Chiyo, Harvey Croze, Richard Estes, Kathleen Gobush, Ponjoli Joram, Alfred Kikoti, Jonathan Kingdon, Lucy King, David Macdon... [Perspective] Physics: Random Quantum Networks - The optical modes of disordered materials can couple with atomic emission and could create states that would be useful in quantum information processing.Author: Diederik S. Wiersma... [Perspective] Evolution: Trees, Fast and Accurate - A scalable and fast method for building very large evolutionary trees achieves greater accuracy than previously thought.Authors: Elizabeth S. Allman, John A. Rhodes... [Perspective] Biophysics: Enforcing Order on Signaling - Mechanical forces constrain the spatial organization of a cell surface receptor, thereby altering its signaling function and cell behavior.Authors: Matthew Paszek, Valerie Weaver... [Perspective] Biochemistry: Remote Enzyme Microsurgery - Protein structures reveal a surprising mechanism for construction of a complex enzyme cofactor from standard amino acids.Authors: J. Martin Bollinger Jr., Megan L. Matthews... [Perspective] Planetary Science: Revealing Titan's Interior - Gravity field measurements by the Cassini spacecraft suggest that Titan's interior was too cold for the primordial mixture of ice and rock to melt and fully separate.Author: Frank Sohl... [Perspective] Oceans: Interesting Times for Marine N2O - Changes in ocean chemistry could exacerbate global warming by raising the atmospheric concentration of nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas.Author: Louis A. Codispoti... [Review] Altruism, Spite, and Greenbeards - Authors: Stuart A. West, Andy Gardner... [Research Article] Identification of a Primary Target of Thalidomide Teratogenicity - Thalidomide exerts its damaging effects by binding to cereblon and blocking its activity in limb development.Authors: Takumi Ito, Hideki Ando, Takayuki Suzuki, Toshihiko Ogura, Kentaro Hotta, Yoshimasa Imamura, Yuki Yamaguchi, Hiroshi Handa... [Report] Variations in the Sun?s Meridional Flow over a Solar Cycle - Observed variations in the Sun?s poleward flow have consequences for models and predictions of the solar cycle.Authors: David H. Hathaway, Lisa Rightmire... [Report] Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics with Anderson-Localized Modes - Optical scattering is used to induce quantum coupling between light and an artificial atom.Authors: Luca Sapienza, Henri Thyrrestrup, Søren Stobbe, Pedro David Garcia, Stephan Smolka, Peter Lodahl... [Report] Light-Controlled Self-Assembly of Semiconductor Nanoparticles into Twisted Ribbons - The photooxidation of cadmium sulfide nanoparticles within cadmium telluride nanoparticle ribbons causes surface stresses that lead to twisting.Authors: Sudhanshu Srivastava, Aaron Santos, Kevin Critchley, Ki-Sub Kim, Paul Podsiadlo, Kai Sun, Jaebeom Lee, Chuanlai Xu, G. Daniel Lilly, Sharon C. Glotzer, Nicholas A. Kotov... [Report] The Near-Tip Fields of Fast Cracks - The linear and nonlinear elastic responses near a growing crack tip can reveal how materials fail.Authors: Ariel Livne, Eran Bouchbinder, Ilya Svetlizky, Jay Fineberg... [Report] Imaging Local Electrochemical Current via Surface Plasmon Resonance - The concentration of electrochemically active species on a gold electrode provides a local measurement of current density.Authors: Xiaonan Shan, Urmez Patel, Shaopeng Wang, Rodrigo Iglesias, Nongjian Tao... [Report] Gravity Field, Shape, and Moment of Inertia of Titan - Analysis of gravity data reveals that Saturn?s moon Titan has a partially differentiated internal structure.Authors: Luciano Iess, Nicole J. Rappaport, Robert A. Jacobson, Paolo Racioppa, David J. Stevenson, Paolo Tortora, John W. Armstrong, Sami W. Asmar... [Report] Plumage Color Patterns of an Extinct Dinosaur - Comparison of melanosome shape and density between fossil feathers and modern ones reveals the appearance and color of a theropod.Authors: Quanguo Li, Ke-Qin Gao, Jakob Vinther, Matthew D. Shawkey, Julia A. Clarke, Liliana D?Alba, Qingjin Meng, Derek E. G. Briggs, Richard O. Prum... [Report] Parent-Offspring Conflict and Coadaptation - Prenatal hormonal signaling can match a mother bird?s capacity to provide food with her offsprings? expectations.Authors: Camilla A. Hinde, Rufus A. Johnstone, Rebecca M. Kilner... [Report] Toward Extracting All Phylogenetic Information from Matrices of Evolutionary Distances - Methods recently developed for taxonomic analysis are fast and do not compromise accuracy.Author: Sebastien Roch... [Report] Restriction of Receptor Movement Alters Cellular Response: Physical Force Sensing by EphA2 - Mechanical forces acting on a cell-surface receptor affect the activation of a signaling pathway involved in breast cancer.Authors: Khalid Salaita, Pradeep M. Nair, Rebecca S. Petit, Richard M. Neve, Debopriya Das, Joe W. Gray, Jay T. Groves... [Report] Lgr6 Marks Stem Cells in the Hair Follicle That Generate All Cell Lineages of the Skin - Skin wounds can be repaired by primitive stem cells into fully differentiated tissue, complete with hairs and sebaceous glands.Authors: Hugo J. Snippert, Andrea Haegebarth, Maria Kasper, Viljar Jaks, Johan H. van Es, Nick Barker, Marc van de Wetering, Maaike van den Born, Harry Begthel, Robert G. Vries, Daniel E. Stange, Rune Toftgård, Hans Clevers... [Report] Structural Sources of Robustness in Biochemical Reaction Networks - Models of metabolic regulation show how the stability of specific components is maintained within a varying environment.Authors: Guy Shinar, Martin Feinberg... [Report] In Crystallo Posttranslational Modification Within a MauG/Pre?Methylamine Dehydrogenase Complex - Bacterial ammonia and formaldehyde production requires prior processing of a dehydrogenase to form a cofactor.Authors: Lyndal M. R. Jensen, Ruslan Sanishvili, Victor L. Davidson, Carrie M. Wilmot... New Products - A weekly roundup of information on newly offered instrumentation, apparatus, and laboratory materials of potential interest to researchers.... [Podcast] Science Podcast - The show includes parent-offspring conflict in birds, peace through vaccine diplomacy, ocean versus land biodiversity, and more.... Copyright © 2010, Market Your Sites. All Rights Reserved. |