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Science RSS FeedsThis Week in Science - Vaginal Gel Versus HIV | Antimalarial Drug Candidate | Icy Adsorption | Free Falling Vortices | Join the Club | From Simplicity to Complexity | Sea of Plastic | Skin Reaction | Cosmic Fullerenes | No Guide to the Future | Gee-Up, NEDD8 | Regulation of Energy Homeostasis | Here to Stay...Feed Source: www.sciencemag.org Editors' Choice - Planetary Science: Lunar Exposure | Cell Biology: Turn On and Stay Put | Microbiology: Monsters in the Mangrove | Chemistry: Easing in Fluorine... Random Samples - Dolphin Spray Yields DNA | Outnumbered | Pulse of the City | Chock-Full of Genes... [Editorial] China's Research Culture - Authors: Yigong Shi, Yi Rao... [News of the Week] Embryonic Stem Cells: Controversial Ruling Throws U.S. Research Into a Tailspin - A U.S. judge's surprise decision last week to block government funding of human embryonic stem cell research has left scientists across the country confused, upset, and angry.Authors: Jocelyn Kaiser, Gretchen Vogel... [News of the Week] Climate Change: Panel Faults IPCC Leadership But Praises Its Conclusions - A new independent review of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says the increased public scrutiny IPCC is facing and the growing importance of its work mean that it must do better than it's been doing.Author: Eli Kintisch... [News of the Week] Antarctica: In Ground-Based Astronomy's Final Frontier, China Aims for New Heights - At a workshop last month, astronomers unveiled plans to build two major telescopes at Dome A on the East Antarctic icecap during the Chinese government's next 5-year plan, to start in 2011.Author: Richard Stone... [News of the Week] ScienceNOW.org: From Science's Online Daily News Site - ScienceNOW reported this week on the first feast, the world's smallest refrigerator, the backfiring of "hunting for conservation," and a pea-sized frog, among other stories.... [News of the Week] Energy Innovation: Novel Grant Promises Greener Buildings, Regional Growth - Last week, a consortium led by Pennsylvania State University won a federal competition for $129 million over 5 years to spur efforts to develop technologies for making buildings more energy efficient.Author: Jeffrey Mervis... [News of the Week] Newsmaker Interview: Frank Gannon: Ireland's Departing Research Chief on Irish and European Science - Frank Gannon probably could have finished out his career comfortably as director of the national funding agency Science Foundation Ireland (SFI). But the biologist will resign his position at the end of the year and head off to Australia to become director of the Queensland Institute of Medical Research.Author: John Travis... [News of the Week] ScienceInsider: From the Science Policy Blog - ScienceInsider reported this week that the editor of the journal Cognition says he believes that fabrication is the most plausible explanation for data in a 2002 paper by Harvard University's Marc Hauser involving cotton-top tamarins, among other stories.... [News Focus] Mammoth-Killer Impact Flunks Out - After a new study failed to find nanodiamonds, impact experts are flatly rejecting outsiders' claims that an impact 12,900 years ago devastated the megafauna.Author: Richard A. Kerr... [News Focus] Profile: François Nosten: The Dour Frenchman on Malaria's Frontier - When he arrived at the dangerous Thai-Burmese border in 1984, François Nosten barely knew what research was. Today, he's one of the world's top malaria scientists.Author: Martin Enserink... [News Focus] Astrophysics: An Unsettled Debate About the Chemistry of the Sun - Researchers thought they knew the sun very well. Now, they are squabbling over the abundance of different elements in it.Author: Yudhijit Bhattacharjee... [Letter] Give Beach Ecosystems Their Day in the Sun - Authors: Jenifer E. Dugan, Omar Defeo, Eduardo Jaramillo, Alan R. Jones, Mariano Lastra, Ronel Nel, Charles H. Peterson, Felicita Scapini, Thomas Schlacher, David S. Schoeman... [Letter] Methane from the East Siberian Arctic Shelf - Authors: Vasilii V. Petrenko, David M. Etheridge, Ray F. Weiss, Edward J. Brook, Hinrich Schaefer, Jeffrey P. Severinghaus, Andrew M. Smith, Dave Lowe, Quan Hua, Katja Riedel... [Letter] Methane from the East Siberian Arctic Shelf?Response - Authors: Natalia Shakhova, Igor Semiletov, Örjan Gustafsson... [Letter] Candidate Gene Approach's Missing Link - Author: Janardan P. Pandey... [Book Review] Social Psychology: Mood Swings - Casti applies his background in complexity studies to explore the role of psychology in shaping the mass behavior of humans.Author: Richard Taylor... [Book Review] Astronomy: Findings Brought to Ground - Through discussions of particular observatories around the globe, the contributors explore the practices, technologies, and contexts of 19th-century astronomy.Author: Gustav Holmberg... [Books et al.] Books Received - A listing of books received at Science during the week ended 27 August 2010.... [Education Forum] Science Education: Growing Roles for Science Education in Community Colleges - To help meet economic challenges, 2- and 4-year colleges must collaborate to improve student completion and transfer.Author: George R. Boggs... [Perspective] Microbiology: Is the Tide Turning for New Malaria Medicines? - A return to traditional screening methods has rapidly produced a candidate malaria drug.Author: Timothy N. C. Wells... [Perspective] Immunology: CAR'ing for the Skin - Epidermal T cell responses to injury and infection require stimulation by a protein that maintains cell adhesion and normal dermal integrity.Authors: Andrey S. Shaw, Yina Huang... [Perspective] Paleontology: Marine Biodiversity Dynamics over Deep Time - Analysis of a large fossil database puts a new curve on the history of marine life.Author: Charles R. Marshall... [Perspective] Chemistry: Just Add Water - A graphene overlayer is used to map the structure of water from ice to liquid, one atomic layer at a time.Author: Mikhail I. Katsnelson... [Perspective] Transcription: Targeting the Core of Transcription - An enzyme that senses metabolic stress phosphorylates a chromatin protein to control gene expression and adaptive responses.Author: D. Grahame Hardie... [Perspective] Astronomy: Fullerenes and Cosmic Carbon - Hydrogen-poor conditions in a planetary nebula enable the detection of carbon-cage molecules C60 and C70, confirming the existence of fullerenes in space.Authors: Pascale Ehrenfreund, Bernard H. Foing... [Review] Heavy Fermions and Quantum Phase Transitions - Authors: Qimiao Si, Frank Steglich... [Brevia] Chlorine Isotope Fractionation in the Stratosphere - Isotope fractionation in a common refrigerant may provide insights into the mechanism of stratospheric ozone depletion.Authors: J. C. Laube, J. Kaiser, W. T. Sturges, H. Bönisch, A. Engel... [Research Article] Effectiveness and Safety of Tenofovir Gel, an Antiretroviral Microbicide, for the Prevention of HIV Infection in Women - Tenofovir in a vaginal gel formulation shows significant protection against HIV infection in a randomized control trial.Authors: Quarraisha Abdool Karim, Salim S. Abdool Karim, Janet A. Frohlich, Anneke C. Grobler, Cheryl Baxter, Leila E. Mansoor, Ayesha B. M. Kharsany, Sengeziwe Sibeko, Koleka P. Mlisana, Zaheen Omar, Tanuja N. Gengiah, Silvia Maarschalk, Natasha Arulappan, Mukelisiwe Mlotshwa, Lynn Morris, Douglas Taylor, on behalf of the CAPRI... [Research Article] Spiroindolones, a Potent Compound Class for the Treatment of Malaria - High-throughput screening has offered up an oral antimalarial drug and pointers to its mechanism of action.Authors: Matthias Rottmann, Case McNamara, Bryan K. S. Yeung, Marcus C. S. Lee, Bin Zou, Bruce Russell, Patrick Seitz, David M. Plouffe, Neekesh V. Dharia, Jocelyn Tan, Steven B. Cohen, Kathryn R. Spencer, Gonzalo E. González-Páez, Suresh B. Lakshminarayana, Anne Goh, Rossarin Suwanarusk, Timothy Jegla, Esther K. Schmitt, Hans-Peter Beck, Re... [Report] Detection of C60 and C70 in a Young Planetary Nebula - Hydrogen-poor conditions allow fullerenes to form in space.Authors: Jan Cami, Jeronimo Bernard-Salas, Els Peeters, Sarah Elizabeth Malek... [Report] Real-Time Dynamics of Single Vortex Lines and Vortex Dipoles in a Bose-Einstein Condensate - The temporal evolution of vortices in a superfluid is revealed by imaging an ultracold atomic cloud undergoing free fall.Authors: D. V. Freilich, D. M. Bianchi, A. M. Kaufman, T. K. Langin, D. S. Hall... [Report] Plastic Accumulation in the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre - The amount of plastic debris in the surface waters of the western North Atlantic Ocean has plateaued over the past 22 years.Authors: Kara Lavender Law, Skye Morét-Ferguson, Nikolai A. Maximenko, Giora Proskurowski, Emily E. Peacock, Jan Hafner, Christopher M. Reddy... [Report] Graphene Visualizes the First Water Adlayers on Mica at Ambient Conditions - Water trapped between mica and graphene layers at ambient conditions was imaged with atomic force microscopy.Authors: Ke Xu, Peigen Cao, James R. Heath... [Report] The Shifting Balance of Diversity Among Major Marine Animal Groups - Future assemblies of animals following mass extinction cannot be predicted by analyses of Phanerozoic fossils.Author: J. Alroy... [Report] The Spread of Behavior in an Online Social Network Experiment - An online experiment shows how network structure affects the spread of health behavior.Author: Damon Centola... [Report] Human-Restricted Bacterial Pathogens Block Shedding of Epithelial Cells by Stimulating Integrin Activation - Bacterial colonization of the mucosa is facilitated if the microbes engage a human receptor that counteracts epithelial exfoliation.Authors: Petra Muenzner, Verena Bachmann, Wolfgang Zimmermann, Jochen Hentschel, Christof R. Hauck... [Report] Signaling Kinase AMPK Activates Stress-Promoted Transcription via Histone H2B Phosphorylation - The energy sensor AMPK facilitates gene transcription by localizing to chromatin and phosphorylating histone H2B.Authors: David Bungard, Benjamin J. Fuerth, Ping-Yao Zeng, Brandon Faubert, Nancy L. Maas, Benoit Viollet, David Carling, Craig B. Thompson, Russell G. Jones, Shelley L. Berger... [Report] The Junctional Adhesion Molecule JAML Is a Costimulatory Receptor for Epithelial ?? T Cell Activation - A costimulatory receptor for immune cells in the skin is identified.Authors: Deborah A. Witherden, Petra Verdino, Stephanie E. Rieder, Olivia Garijo, Robyn E. Mills, Luc Teyton, Wolfgang H. Fischer, Ian A. Wilson, Wendy L. Havran... [Report] The Molecular Interaction of CAR and JAML Recruits the Central Cell Signal Transducer PI3K - Ligand engagement and initiation of signaling has been imaged for a costimulatory receptor for immune cells in the skin.Authors: Petra Verdino, Deborah A. Witherden, Wendy L. Havran, Ian A. Wilson... [Report] Glutamine Deamidation and Dysfunction of Ubiquitin/NEDD8 Induced by a Bacterial Effector Family - Pathogenic bacterial proteins interfere with eukaryotic ubiquitination pathways to induce cytopathic effects.Authors: Jixin Cui, Qing Yao, Shan Li, Xiaojun Ding, Qiuhe Lu, Haibin Mao, Liping Liu, Ning Zheng, She Chen, Feng Shao... 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 how social network structure affects the spread of behavior, challenging the mammoth-killer impact hypothesis, your letters to Science, and more.... Copyright © 2010, Blurbosphere.com. All Rights Reserved. |