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Science in Society RSS FeedsThis Week in Science - Ancient Carbonate Minerals on Mars | Pulsar Clocks | Let There Be Light | Quantum Mechanics Born to Be Linear | Network Approaches to Highly Porous Materials | Acidification of the Ancient Oceans | Staying in Place | Location, Location, Location | Fat's Mixed Messages | Complex I Under Scrutiny | Heme Communication Revealed by Asymmetry | Brain Over Muscle | A New Look at Old Data | Making the Final Cut...Feed Source: www.sciencemag.org Editors' Choice - Psychology: Clarity of Writing | Biochemistry: Inhibiting the Uninhibited | Ecology: Hawks Take Out Sparrows | Chemistry: Gazing Up at a Cone | Astrophysics: Flowing Farther | Climate Science: Untangling the Threads | Cell Biology: Where to Mate... Random Samples - What the Heck? | Big Bucks Down Under | Moose Maladies | Stitching Light... [Editorial] Escalating Threat of Wheat Rusts - Authors: Mogens Støvring Hovmøller, Stephanie Walter, Annemarie Fejer Justesen... [News of the Week] HIV/AIDS: At Last, Vaginal Gel Scores Victory Against HIV - For the first time ever, a vaginal gel has unequivocally blocked the transmission of HIV, it was reported online this week in Science and in a presentation at the 18th International AIDS Conference in Vienna.Author: Jon Cohen... [News of the Week] Drug Safety: Planned Study of Avandia in Doubt After FDA Review - Last week's sharply divided opinion on whether the Food and Drug Administration should pull the glucose-lowering drug Avandia from the U.S. market for potentially increasing the risk of heart attacks in diabetes patients has left a lingering scientific question: What should happen to a study, called TIDE, that compares Avandia and a competing drug, Actos?Author: Sam Kean... [News of the Week] Undergraduate Education: NSF Misfires on Plan to Revamp Minority Programs - A new plan by the National Science Foundation to fold three programs aimed at preparing more minority students to enter careers in science and engineering into a still-to-be-defined initiative has scientists and university administrators involved in the programs up in arms, and Congress is telling NSF to go back to the drawing board.Author: Jeffrey Mervis... [News of the Week] Rare-Earth Elements: Chinese Policies Could Pinch U.S. Efforts to Make Electric Vehicles - This month, China announced that it will cut exports this year of rare-earth elements by 40%, which could ground fledgling efforts to build clean-energy industries in the United States and other Western countries.Author: Robert F. Service... [News of the Week] ScienceInsider: From the Science Policy Blog - ScienceInsider reported this week that climate scientist and activist Stephen Schneider, 65, died 19 July of an apparent heart attack, ending a nearly 40-year career doing climate science, assessing climate science for policymakers, explaining it articulately to the public, and defending it energetically against skeptics, among other stories.... [News of the Week] Conservation Biology: Last Stand on the Yangtze - Time is running out for the world's only freshwater porpoise, the Yangtze finless porpoise: Unless threats to its survival are met head on, the porpoise could be gone in 15 years, ecologists say.Author: Richard Stone... [News of the Week] ScienceNOW.org: From Science's Online Daily News Site - ScienceNOW reported this week on a way to better quantify a couple's chance of having a child using IVF, why gorillas play tag, a Jupiter-sized comet, and new studies showing that adult cells reprogrammed to resemble embryonic cells retain signatures of the tissue from which they came, among other stories.... [News of the Week] Newsmaker Interview: Nobelist Paul Nurse to Pilot Royal Society, London Superlab - Paul Nurse spoke with Science last week about his past, his recent suggestion to bolster U.K. funding for 100 to 150 top researchers, and his busy future as both president of the Royal Society and founding director of the UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation.Author: Jocelyn Kaiser... [News Focus] Energy: Dams for Patagonia - Pressed by a demand for electricity, Chile is considering seven big dams and a transmission line through its southern wilderness; critics say the environmental risks have not been fully examined.Author: Gaia Vince... [News Focus] Energy: A Craving for Hydropower - Environmentalists and independent energy analysts argue that by improving efficiency and investing in renewable energy, Chile could find more than enough power within its borders for at least a decade?and without more dams. So far, however, energy planners have not been persuaded.Author: Gaia Vince... [News Focus] Profile: Nicholas Dodman: Can Dogs Behaving Badly Suggest a New Way to Treat OCD? - One of the world's most popular vets argues that research on animals with behavioral problems can offer insight into people with obsessive-compulsive disorder.Authors: Constance Holden, John Travis... [Letter] Bracing for Oil - Author: Rachel N. Silverstein... [Letter] Evolution of Fairness: Cultural Variability - Authors: Nicolas Baumard, Pascal Boyer, Dan Sperber... [Letter] Evolution of Fairness: Rereading the Data - Authors: Andrew W. Delton, Max M. Krasnow, Leda Cosmides, John Tooby... [Letter] Response?Evolution of Fairness: Cultural Variability - Authors: Joseph Henrich, Jean Ensminger, Richard McElreath, Abigail Barr, Clark Barrett, Alexander Bolyanatz, Juan Camilo Cardenas, Michael Gurven, Edwins Gwako, Natalie Henrich, Carolyn Lesorogol, Frank Marlowe, David Tracer, John Ziker... [Book Review] Plant Science: A Plant Breeder's History of the World - Drawing on historical and scientific accounts, Kingsbury traces the use of selective breeding and hybridization in attempts to make plants more reliable, productive, and nutritious.Author: Alan B. Bennett... [Books et al.] Books Received - A listing of books received at Science during the week ended 16 July 2010.... [Book Review] Anthropology: Cultivating Chaos - Wells considers some of the drawbacks that have stemmed from the prehistoric shift to farming for our food supply.Author: Saleem H. Ali... [Policy Forum] Information Access: Prepublication Data Release, Latency, and Genome Commons - Scientific information commons can be modulated by adjusting the twin ?dials? of knowledge and rights latency.Author: Jorge L. Contreras... [Perspective] Plant Science: Launched at 36,000g - Peat mosses project thousands of spores in a turbulent vortex ring from a millimeter-sized pressurized cylindrical capsule.Author: Johan L. van Leeuwen... [Perspective] Physics: Pairs Rule Quantum Interference - Quantum interference between many different pathways is simply the sum of the effects from all pairs of pathways.Author: James D. Franson... [Perspective] Medicine: Wnt Fans the Flames in Obesity - The balance between two factors released by mammalian fat cells controls the degree of inflammation and insulin sensitivity in adipose tissue.Authors: Da Young Oh, Jerrold M. Olefsky... [Perspective] Philosophy of Science: Machine Science - Soon, computers could generate many useful hypotheses with little help from humans.Authors: James Evans, Andrey Rzhetsky... [Perspective] Planetary Science: Carbonates and Martian Climate - The detection of large volumes of carbonates reasserts the importance of carbon dioxide in martian climate history.Author: Ralph P. Harvey... [Perspective] Ecology: Filtering Wildlife - ?Extinction filters? help visualize complex threats faced by wildlife in protected areas.Author: Justin S. Brashares... [Perspectie] Neuroscience: Seeing the Light of Day - A potential gene therapy approach could restore some vision to patients with retinitis pigmentosa.Author: Constance Cepko... [Brevia] Sphagnum Moss Disperses Spores with Vortex Rings - Fluid dynamics similar to those known to drive smoke rings shoot moss spores far and wide.Authors: Dwight L. Whitaker, Joan Edwards... [Brevia] Reactivation of Hepatic EPO Synthesis in Mice After PHD Loss - Stimulating erythropoietin production in the mouse liver points to a treatment for anemia caused by chronic kidney disease.Authors: Yoji Andrew Minamishima, William G. Kaelin Jr.... [Research Article] Switched Magnetospheric Regulation of Pulsar Spin-Down - Irregularities in pulsar rotation rates can be explained by quasi-periodic, abrupt changes in the pulsar magnetosphere.Authors: Andrew Lyne, George Hobbs, Michael Kramer, Ingrid Stairs, Ben Stappers... [Research Article] Genetic Reactivation of Cone Photoreceptors Restores Visual Responses in Retinitis Pigmentosa - A bacterial ion pump rescues visual function in damaged cone-photoreceptor cells in mouse models of retinitis pigmentosa.Authors: Volker Busskamp, Jens Duebel, David Balya, Mathias Fradot, Tim James Viney, Sandra Siegert, Anna C. Groner, Erik Cabuy, Valérie Forster, Mathias Seeliger, Martin Biel, Peter Humphries, Michel Paques, Saddek Mohand-Said, Didier Trono, Karl Deisseroth, José A. Sahel, Serge Picaud, Botond Roska... [Report] Ruling Out Multi-Order Interference in Quantum Mechanics - A multiple-slit diffraction experiment shows that interference arises from pairs of paths.Authors: Urbasi Sinha, Christophe Couteau, Thomas Jennewein, Raymond Laflamme, Gregor Weihs... [Report] Identification of Carbonate-Rich Outcrops on Mars by the Spirit Rover - Substantial carbonate concentration in martian outcrops implies extensive aqueous activity in the past.Authors: Richard V. Morris, Steven W. Ruff, Ralf Gellert, Douglas W. Ming, Raymond E. Arvidson, Benton C. Clark, D. C. Golden, Kirsten Siebach, Göstar Klingelhöfer, Christian Schröder, Iris Fleischer, Albert S. Yen, Steven W. Squyres... [Report] Ultrahigh Porosity in Metal-Organic Frameworks - The large surface areas of these materials would correspond to that of dispersed nanocubes just 3 to 6 nanometers wide.Authors: Hiroyasu Furukawa, Nakeun Ko, Yong Bok Go, Naoki Aratani, Sang Beom Choi, Eunwoo Choi, A. Özgür Yazaydin, Randall Q. Snurr, Michael O?Keeffe, Jaheon Kim, Omar M. Yaghi... [Report] Calcareous Nannoplankton Response to Surface-Water Acidification Around Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a - Rather than going extinct, calcareous plankton adapted to ocean acidification ~120 million years ago.Authors: Elisabetta Erba, Cinzia Bottini, Helmut J. Weissert, Christina E. Keller... [Report] The Landscape of C. elegans 3?UTRs - Genome-wide analysis of the nematode worm indicates a role for complex expression of 3? untranslated regions in development.Authors: Marco Mangone, Arun Prasad Manoharan, Danielle Thierry-Mieg, Jean Thierry-Mieg, Ting Han, Sebastian D. Mackowiak, Emily Mis, Charles Zegar, Michelle R. Gutwein, Vishal Khivansara, Oliver Attie, Kevin Chen, Kourosh Salehi-Ashtiani, Marc Vidal, Timothy T. Harkins, Pascal Bouffard, Yutaka Suzuki, Sumio Sugano, Yuji Kohara, Nikolaus Rajewsky, Fabio Piano, Kristin C. Gunsalus, John K. Kim... [Report] A Septin Diffusion Barrier at the Base of the Primary Cilium Maintains Ciliary Membrane Protein Distribution - Signaling proteins are retained in the cilium by a diffusion barrier created by a member of the septin family.Authors: Qicong Hu, Ljiljana Milenkovic, Hua Jin, Matthew P. Scott, Maxence V. Nachury, Elias T. Spiliotis, W. James Nelson... [Report] Integrative Modeling Defines the Nova Splicing-Regulatory Network and Its Combinatorial Controls - Network modeling reveals an RNA splicing network in the brain and uncovers complex mechanisms of regulation.Authors: Chaolin Zhang, Maria A. Frias, Aldo Mele, Matteo Ruggiu, Taesun Eom, Christina B. Marney, Huidong Wang, Donny D. Licatalosi, John J. Fak, Robert B. Darnell... [Report] Dnmt3a-Dependent Nonpromoter DNA Methylation Facilitates Transcription of Neurogenic Genes - DNA methylation is normally repressive but can activate genes when the methylated sites lie outside promoter regions.Authors: Hao Wu, Volkan Coskun, Jifang Tao, Wei Xie, Weihong Ge, Kazuaki Yoshikawa, En Li, Yi Zhang, Yi Eve Sun... [Report] Functional Modules and Structural Basis of Conformational Coupling in Mitochondrial Complex I - A long helix transduces conformational energy to the proton-pumping elements in complex I.Authors: Carola Hunte, Volker Zickermann, Ulrich Brandt... [Report] An Electronic Bus Bar Lies in the Core of Cytochrome bc1 - Electrons move across the entire structure of a functional dimer of an enzyme central to cellular bioenergetics.Authors: Monika ?wierczek, Ewelina Cieluch, Marcin Sarewicz, Arkadiusz Borek, Christopher C. Moser, P. Leslie Dutton, Artur Osyczka... [Report] Sfrp5 Is an Anti-Inflammatory Adipokine That Modulates Metabolic Dysfunction in Obesity - Fat cells secrete an anti-inflammatory factor that has beneficial effects on metabolic health.Authors: Noriyuki Ouchi, Akiko Higuchi, Koji Ohashi, Yuichi Oshima, Noyan Gokce, Rei Shibata, Yuichi Akasaki, Akihiko Shimono, Kenneth Walsh... [Report] Muscle Dysfunction Caused by a KATP Channel Mutation in Neonatal Diabetes Is Neuronal in Origin - Identification of the origin of muscle weakness that accompanies a form of neonatal diabetes may lead to safer therapies.Authors: Rebecca H. Clark, James S. McTaggart, Richard Webster, Roope Mannikko, Michaela Iberl, Xiu Li Sim, Patrik Rorsman, Maike Glitsch, David Beeson, Frances M. Ashcroft... [Business Office Feature] Business Office Feature: LIFE SCIENCE TECHNOLOGIES: Protein-Protein Interaction Technologies Toward a Human Interactome - Author: Perkel Jeffrey M.... 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 A microbicidal gel for preventing HIV infection, dams plans for Patagonia, turbulent moss spore dispersal, and more..... Xirrus - "Cut the Cord. No Wire to the Desktop - 100% wireless" - Rich Tehrani has an excellent interview with wireless visionary, serial entrepreneur and CEO of both Xircom and Xirrus, Dirk Gates in the TMC Newsroom. Xirrus Arrays provide super high-capacity 802.11 access points by utilizing cell phone tower technology used by wireless carriers and are capable of sending signals in three directions. TMC uses Xirrus XN8 to provide full coverage in TMC's office. As CTO I made the decision to go with Xirrus after... Activity for Jul 29, 2010 -
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... Jailbreaking and Ripping DVDs Now Legal in One Fell Swoop! - The copyright overlords have shined brightly this day upon us jailbreakers, phone unlockers, and DVD rippers. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today won three exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) anti-circumvention provisions, which will bring a smile to those that enjoy the freedom to do with their legally owned iPhones and DVDs/Blurays as they please. In short, you have the right to: jailbreak your phone, install an... Microsoft Releases some Updates for Office Communications Server 2007 R2 - Microsoft just released some patches/updates to Office Communications Server 2007 R2. First up is KB 968802, which includes the following updates: loadTOCNode(2, 'moreinformation');
Update for Application Host 967832 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967832/ ) Description of the update package for Communications Server 2007 R2 Application Host: ... Citi Launches Citi Text Banking - Today, Citibank launched Citi Text Banking, which gives you quick updates on your Citibank and Citi credit card accounts. All you have to do is send a short command to 692484 (MYCITI) and get account information on demand. Pretty cool feature. Now you don't have to logon via a mobile phone or PC browser to get a quick balance. Though Citi also has the iPhone Citibank app and that's pretty fast - though it requires a 5 digit PIN to logon.I just tr... Google Voice Adds Faster dialing on Android and Blackberry devices - Google has some new updates to their Google Voice mobile apps for your Android and Blackberry phone fans (sorry iPhone fans - no update today for you!).According to Google:At Google we are obsessed with speed. Our mantra is faster = better. This is true for our Google Voice mobile apps as well. When you want to make a call, your phone should connect you as quickly as possible, whether you're calling via Google Voice or not.Today we are laun... Skype for iPhone Multitasks & Drops Planned 3G Fee - Rich has the goods on the new Skype for iPhone app, which finally adds multitasking support to the iPhone iOS 4 operating system. Of course, there still isn't any video support. Get on that, will ya Skype? I'd use fring to make video calls over Skype, but we know what happened there. Interestingl... Attention All Startups in the VoIP Industry! - I thought I'd share some TMC news about a very cool opportunity TMC is providing to startup companies. At the next Internet Telephony Conference & Expo (ITEXPO), TMC will offer startup companies the ability to pitch their products and services. It was very successful at the last ITEXPO and so we decided to do it again. Here's the full news release including news about the keynote speaker: TMC and Embrase Business Consulting Announce Keynote S... trixbox CE Training at ITEXPO - Kerry Garrison, formerly with Fonality, but now with 888VoipStore, is going to be part of the trixbox CE training that is happening at the next ITEXPO in Los Angeles. It's a great opportunity to roll up your sleeves and learn the ins and outs of trixbox CE, an Asterisk-based distro. ITEXPO has been doing trixbox training for some time now, and it's always well attended.According to Kerry: Titled "FtOCC CE Technician", the course provides telep... XO Communications Offers SIP Savings Estimator Tool - Today XO Communications launched their XO Enterprise SIP Savings Estimator, an online calculator to show users just how much money they can save by switching to SIP trunks. The online tool demonstrates how XO Enterprise SIP "Simplifies, Streamlines and Reduces Costs of Managing Voice Services Across Distributed Enterprise Networks".It's a useful tool, though the calculator is a bit strict in its assumptions and doesn't provide the maximum flexib... Blind Research Study Says Skype Users Prefer ooVoo - ooVoo told me they had recently commissioned a study with some interesting results, which will be released on Monday. A blind study conducted by a third party research firm revealed that ooVoo was preferred by 8 our of 10 Skype users.I couldn't help but reminded of the famous Trident slogan/study which said 4 out of 5 dentists preferred sugarless gum. In fact, it's exactly double! So is this study legit or manufactured? Was this study done by a... Sign into Multiple Google Accounts Feature Coming! - Google is testing a new feature that allows you to sign in to multiple Google accounts in the same browser. Sweet! I hate signing out of one account and switching to another. Or worse, leaving Firefox and having to use Internet Explorer to sign onto another account. I suppose I could use Chrome. Still, it's a pain to toggle between Google accounts. Multiple sign-in only works for Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Reader, Google Docs, Google Sites ... SkypeKit SDK Comes to Windows & Mac - Linux got the first from Skype when they launched the SkypeKit SDK on Linux before any other operating system. Today, Skype announced SkypeKit availability for both Mac and Windows. This enables almost any desktop application to offer Skype capabilities, including video, voice, and text without the need for users to separately download Skype software. As I've stated before, think of SkypeKit as a "headless" version of Skype - tha... fring vs. Skype War - A war between fring and Skype is heating up. fring fired the first salvo when they put out a release claiming Skype was blocking fring. fring wrote:For 4 years we have led mobile communication innovation, most recently with video calling on any advanced Smartphone and network.Now that fring expanded capacity to s... Kids take photos of Earth's curvature using Balloon and Help from iPad - Oh kids these days get all the fun! I wish my science class (back in the day) offered our class a challenge to fly a cellphone with GPS & camera up into the stratosphere to take photos of the Earth's curvature. Alas, the closest I came was an egg drop contest, which was designed to teach about gravity, mass, and seat belt safety (don't ask). A firetruck ladder would drop our eggs in our homemade egg protection cases and see whose eggs survive... Tandberg Movi Review - Multi-party HD videoconferencing is often thought of as an expensive proposition that is restricted to special boardrooms with expensive video equipment and large monitor displays. One of the major driving forces behind videoconferencing is its ability to enable collaborative meetings across distances with multiple participants, so having multiple high-tech videoconferencing boardrooms can be cost prohibitive. Further, many employees work from ho... Texas, feds wait turns in polygamist cult leader cases - A Utah Supreme Court decision that overturns polygamous church leader Warren Jeffs' 2007 criminal conviction won't automatically make him a free man.
Even if Utah doesn't retry him, Texas and federal prosecutors are waiting to move forward with their own cases.... Pastor in Russian Republic of Dagestan Killed - A pastor in the Russian republic of Dagestan known for founding the biggest Protestant church in the region and for successfully reaching out to Muslims has been killed by unidentified gunmen, local authorities have confirmed. The identity of the shooters remains unclear, but in the weeks leading up to the killing, Dagestan media broadcast calls for people to take measures against Suleimanov because he was too ?active? and converted ethnic Musl... Jury to decide if John Allen Rubio will get death in beheadings - A jury that already rejected an insanity defense and convicted a south Texas man of beheading his common-law wife's three children will next decide whether he will get the death penalty or spend the rest of his life behind bars. Rubio said he believed the children were possessed and tried to smother and stab them before ultimately decapitating them.... A Polygamist?s Victory: Will Texas Have Better Luck with Warren Jeffs? - The best bet for those in pursuit of Jeffs may be the pending Eldorado charges in Texas, where he is facing trial for bigamy, sexual assault of a child and aggravated assault.
Texas prosecutors have been racking up a list of successful prosecutions against 12 FLDS members, based on evidence obtained in the Eldorado raid and DNA samples from FLDS children ta... Utah court tosses FLDS cult leader Warren Jeffs? conviction - Jeffs, 54, once was listed among the FBI's most-wanted fugitives and faced criminal prosecutions related to child rapes in three states.
Assistant Utah Attorney General Laura Dupaix told CNN affiliate KSTU that the opinion is "going to make it difficult, I think, for us to do future prosecutions in cases where some of these men in positions of power -- almost complete power, like Warren Jeffs is -- to prosecute them for forcing young girls into... Supreme Court: FLDS cult leader Warren Jeffs gets new trial - The Utah Supreme Court on Tuesday reversed polygamous sect leader Warren S. Jeffs? conviction on two counts of rape as an accomplice and sent the case back for a new trial, saying there were ?serious errors? in instructions given to the jury that deprived Jeffs of a fair hearing. The justices unanimously ruled 5th District Judge James Shumate erred when he rejected a defense request to instruct jurors that in order to convict, they must find tha... Televangelists Benny Hinn and Paula White deny affair - Without Walls International Church senior pastor Paula White and worldwide televangelist and faith healer Benny Hinn posted statements on their websites recently denying a National Enquirer report that they are romantically involved. The tabloid's article includes photos identified as Hinn and White holding hands on a supposed "romantic trip to Rome."... Tyke, 3, raised as shady guru?s ?son? - A motherless, 3-year-old boy is living in near-isolation at an upstate "cult" compound ? as the heir of the group?s shady svengali, who feeds off the Seagram?s booze fortune, sources told The New York Post.
He was brought to Keith Raniere ? the controversial leader of the Albany-based "behavior modification" group NXIVM that counts two Seagram heiresses among its devotees ? by a longtime member who claimed that she was given guardianship when t... Jury finds John Allen Rubio guilty of beheading children - A South Texas man accused of beheading his common-law wife's three children was found guilty of capital murder Monday at his second trial.
A state appeals court had overturned John Allen Rubio's previous conviction and death sentence in 2007, saying the children's mother had wrongly been allowed to testify. A second jury deliberated for about three hours before convicting him again.... Russian Satanists jailed for ?ritual sacrifice? teen killings - Six members of a Satanic cult were jailed for up to 20 years in Russia on Monday for four murders in which they "ritually sacrificed", dismembered and then ate their teenage victims in a forest. The members of the gang called themselves Satanists and earlier carried out animal sacrifices, Komsomolskaya Pravda, the Russian daily, reported, citing investigators.... Copyright © 2010, Donna's List. All Rights Reserved. |