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Science in Society RSS FeedsThis Week in Science - Spring Into Flower | Pull Me-No!-Push You | Subterranean Eruption Clues | Tiny Tinny Bumps | Majoranas Arrive | Growing in Liquid | Maximizing Molecular Pore Diameters | New Digs | Finessing Crystal Analysis | More Glycine, Please | Who's Who | Magnetic Sense | Human Argonaute Revealed...Feed Source: www.sciencemag.org Editors' Choice - Chemistry: A Carbon Bond's Photo Finish | Geophysics: Yellowstone's Deep Roots | Plant Sciences: Shared Symbiotic Signaling | Biochemistry: Locked and Loaded | Cell Biology: Cell-Cell Fusion | Economics: No Simple Links | Chemistry: Switching Hands... Findings - Indelible Ink | Solid Advance for Solar Cells... [Editorial] Cultivating Global Science - Author: Subra Suresh... [News of the Week] Around the World - In science news around the world this week, a British team has canceled a geoengineering experiment, field biologists seeking research permits to work in the tiger reserves of Karnataka in southern India may be getting a reprieve, a project to drill into the heart of a "supervolcano" in southern Italy got the go-ahead, budget cuts are engulfing a unique research area in Ontario, an intruder was arrested at a GM field trial, and a prostate cancer test has been deemed to do more harm than good.... [News of the Week] Random Sample - Questions surrounding the origin of a nearly complete skeletonofan Asian relative of Tyrannosaurus called Tarbosaurus, auctioned off on 20 May in New York City, touched off a protest by the Mongolian government. With funding from Arts Council England, the University of Cambridge's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology is delving into its collections to find new ways to describe complex migration and trading routes through Cambridgeshire, as well as human history back to the Paleolithic. And this week's numbers quantify fish stocks that are not being overfished and U.S. teenagers who have prediabetes or diabetes.... [News of the Week] Newsmakers - This week's Newsmaker is electrical engineer L. Rafael Reif, who has been voted president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.... [News & Analysis] Archaeology: Dams Along Sudanese Nile Threaten Ancient Sites - Sudanese officials said last week that their government intends to move ahead with three massive dams along the Nile River and its tributaries, threatening hundreds of largely unexplored ancient sites.Author: Andrew Lawler... [News & Analysis] Immigration Reform: Senate Bills Would Make Room for More STEM Graduates - The U.S. Senate has waded into the debate over whether to permit more foreign-born scientists trained at U.S. universities to stay in the country.Author: Jeffrey Mervis... [News & Analysis] Science Funding: NSF's ?Big Pitch? Tests Anonymized Grant Reviews - An experiment being conducted at the U.S. National Science Foundation indicates that NSF may be turning down deserving research proposals because of potential biases in the grant-review process.Author: Yudhijit Bhattacharjee... [News & Analysis] Planetary Science: Homegrown Organic Matter Found on Mars, But No Life - Researchers have discovered organic matter encased in once-molten martian rocks, demonstrating that the planet has been producing its own organic matter for eons with no help from life.Author: Richard A. Kerr... [News & Analysis] Alternative Energy: Military's Plan to Buy Biofuels Hits Roadblock in U.S. House - The U.S. House of Representatives last week blocked the Department of Defense from buying more costly substitutes for petroleum-based fuels.Author: Robert F. Service... [News & Analysis] Psychology: NSF Gives Clinical Students a Shot At Winning Graduate Fellowships - The U.S. National Science Foundation has restored the funding eligibility of students in graduate psychology programs, allowing a doctoral student in psychology to win a prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship.Author: Siri Carpenter... [News Focus] Evolutionary Biology: An Evolutionary Theory of Dentistry - Why are our teeth so rotten? Biologists point to a mismatch between our diets and lifestyles and those of our ancestors.Author: Ann Gibbons... [News Focus] Evolutionary Biology: The Burdens of Being a Biped - A number of musculoskeletal issues are rooted in our evolutionary history, in particular to the switch to walking upright more than 7 million years ago.Author: Elizabeth Pennisi... [News Focus] The Biology of Genomes: Single-Cell Sequencing Tackles Basic and Biomedical Questions - At the meeting, four groups described new insights derived from sequencing DNA from individual human cells.... [News Focus] The Biology of Genomes: HDL Itself Does Not Prevent Heart Attacks - A new genetic analysis presented at the meeting shows that while high HDL might correlate with a healthier heart, it's not itself responsible for lowering heart attack risks.Author: Elizabeth Pennisi... [Letter] Support for Greece - Author: Harald zur Hausen... [Letter] ?Two Heads Are Better? Stands to Reason - Authors: Hugo Mercier, Dan Sperber... [Letter] Life in Science: The Noblest Lesson - Author: Rebecca Sinclair... [Book Review] Psychology: On Ruts and Getting Out of Them - Duhigg recounts engaging stories that illuminate how habits function and offer hope to those trying to change their behavior.Author: Wendy Wood... [Book Review] Exhibitions: Astronomy: Transit Reflections - The Royal Observatory marks the upcoming transit of Venus with a small exhibition on our efforts to grasp the vast distances of the universe.Author: Deborah Dixon... [Books et al.] Books Received - A listing of books received at Science during the week ending 18 May 2012.... [Policy Forum] Science Policy: From ?Science in Europe? to ?European Science? - Early impacts of the European Research Council suggest shifts toward competition and excellence in EU-wide basic science.Authors: Maria Nedeva, Michael Stampfer... [Perspective] Development: Pushing Your Back into Place - Establishment of the dorsal-ventral body axis during fly oogenesis depends on pushing forces provided by polymerizing microtubules.Authors: Bruce Bowerman, Sean M. O'Rourke... [Perspective] Biochemistry: Guided Tour to the Heart of RISC - The crystal structures of human and yeast Argonaute proteins reveal the intricacies of the multidomain enzyme at the hub of the RNA interference machinery.Authors: Emine Kaya, Jennifer A. Doudna... [Perspective] Biochemistry: Resolving Some Old Problems in Protein Crystallography - Two methods improve the quality and ease of structural modeling by showing how to include diffraction data that are often thrown away.Author: Phil Evans... [Perspective] Psychology: Kinship and Human Thought - Language and communication are central to shaping concepts such as kinship categories.Author: Stephen C. Levinson... [Perspective] Physics: Enter the Majorana Fermion - Electrical measurements on a semiconductor?superconductor hybrid structure reveal the signature of this long-predicted exotic particle.Author: Piet W. Brouwer... [Perspective] Cancer: Systems Biology, Metabolomics, and Cancer Metabolism - Constructing metabolic profiles of 60 cancer cell lines by integrating metabolomics and systems biology revealed increased glycine consumption in highly proliferative cancer cells.Authors: Masaru Tomita, Kenjiro Kami... [Perspective] Physiology: An Avian Magnetometer - Neurons in the pigeon brain encode information on Earth's magnetic field for orientation and navigation.Author: Michael Winklhofer... [Essay] IBI* Series Winner: Learning Biology by Recreating and Extending Mathematical Models - Dynamics of Biological Systems, the IBI Prize?winning module, brings mathematics into the biology laboratory.Authors: Hillel J. Chiel, Jeffrey P. Gill, Jeffrey M. McManus, Kendrick M. Shaw... [Brevia] Predicting Pragmatic Reasoning in Language Games - A Bayesian inference model predicts how listeners decode communications.Authors: Michael C. Frank, Noah D. Goodman... [Research Article] Growing Microtubules Push the Oocyte Nucleus to Polarize the Drosophila Dorsal-Ventral Axis - The addition of tubulin monomers to microtubules provides the force to relocate the oocyte nucleus.Authors: Tongtong Zhao, Owen S. Graham, Alexandre Raposo, Daniel St Johnston... [Report] Signatures of Majorana Fermions in Hybrid Superconductor-Semiconductor Nanowire Devices - Theoretically predicted particles that double as their own antiparticles emerge in a superconductor-coupled indium antimonide nanowire.Authors: V. Mourik, K. Zuo, S. M. Frolov, S. R. Plissard, E. P. A. M. Bakkers, L. P. Kouwenhoven... [Report] Unidirectional Growth of Microbumps on (111)-Oriented and Nanotwinned Copper - Oriented copper grains grown using direct-current electroplating serve as a template for intermetallic microbumps.Authors: Hsiang-Yao Hsiao, Chien-Min Liu, Han-wen Lin, Tao-Chi Liu, Chia-Ling Lu, Yi-Sa Huang, Chih Chen, K. N. Tu... [Report] Real-Time Imaging of Pt3Fe Nanorod Growth in Solution - An in situ liquid stage is used to study the formation of nanowires from solution in a transmission electron microscope.Authors: Hong-Gang Liao, Likun Cui, Stephen Whitelam, Haimei Zheng... [Report] Direction-Specific Interactions Control Crystal Growth by Oriented Attachment - Iron oxyhydroxide nanoparticles rotate until finding a perfect lattice match with a neighboring particle to grow.Authors: Dongsheng Li, Michael H. Nielsen, Jonathan R. I. Lee, Cathrine Frandsen, Jillian F. Banfield, James J. De Yoreo... [Report] Large-Pore Apertures in a Series of Metal-Organic Frameworks - Metal-organic frameworks with hexagonal channel pores up to almost 100 angstroms in diameter have been synthesized.Authors: Hexiang Deng, Sergio Grunder, Kyle E. Cordova, Cory Valente, Hiroyasu Furukawa, Mohamad Hmadeh, Felipe Gándara, Adam C. Whalley, Zheng Liu, Shunsuke Asahina, Hiroyoshi Kazumori, Michael O?Keeffe, Osamu Terasaki, J. Fraser Stoddart, Omar M. Yaghi... [Report] Linking Petrology and Seismology at an Active Volcano - Volcanic minerals from a Mount St. Helens eruption reveal a causal relationship between magma processes and seismicity.Authors: Kate Saunders, Jon Blundy, Ralf Dohmen, Kathy Cashman... [Report] Temperature-Dependent Alterations in Host Use Drive Rapid Range Expansion in a Butterfly - A warmer UK has enabled the brown argus butterfly to expand its range by feasting on the geranium.Authors: Rachel M. Pateman, Jane K. Hill, David B. Roy, Richard Fox, Chris D. Thomas... [Report] Linking Crystallographic Model and Data Quality - A statistical method places model and data quality on the same scale and indicates how far one can model.Authors: P. Andrew Karplus, Kay Diederichs... [Report] Structures from Anomalous Diffraction of Native Biological Macromolecules - Don?t get MAD or be SAD; try lower energy.Authors: Qun Liu, Tassadite Dahmane, Zhen Zhang, Zahra Assur, Julia Brasch, Lawrence Shapiro, Filippo Mancia, Wayne A. Hendrickson... [Report] The Crystal Structure of Human Argonaute2 - The structure of the core protein of the human RNA interference machinery is determined at high resolution.Authors: Nicole T. Schirle, Ian J. MacRae... [Report] Metabolite Profiling Identifies a Key Role for Glycine in Rapid Cancer Cell Proliferation - Rapidly growing cancer cells rely on the amino acid glycine to make nucleotides.Authors: Mohit Jain, Roland Nilsson, Sonia Sharma, Nikhil Madhusudhan, Toshimori Kitami, Amanda L. Souza, Ran Kafri, Marc W. Kirschner, Clary B. Clish, Vamsi K. Mootha... [Report] FKF1 Conveys Timing Information for CONSTANS Stabilization in Photoperiodic Flowering - A plant protein sensitive to blue light links longer afternoons to more flowering.Authors: Young Hun Song, Robert W. Smith, Benjamin J. To, Andrew J. Millar, Takato Imaizumi... [Report] Kinship Categories Across Languages Reflect General Communicative Principles - The systems of terms used in different languages to describe kin are optimized for simplicity and informativeness.Authors: Charles Kemp, Terry Regier... [Report] Neural Correlates of a Magnetic Sense - Neurons in a pigeon?s brain encode the direction and intensity of the geomagnetic field.Authors: Le-Qing Wu, J. David Dickman... 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 classifying cousins, the evolution of bad teeth, where science and comedy meet, and more.... Say it With Skype Facebook app Wants to Be American Idol - Skype announced a new contest to find the next great music band using their Say it With Skype Facebook app, an engaging-group video greeting app that lives on both Facebook and Skype.com. Simply use Say it With Skype to record your music band on video and you could be the next American Idol Skype Music Super Hero! Hey, it worked for Justin Bieber, who was discovered via a YouTube video.Similar to American Idol, there will be some relatively... Skype v4.0.1325 Released for Apple iOS - A new version of Skype was just released to the Apple App Store. No new major features to report - just some stability fixes and a fix for a sign in issue as seen here:
Certainly if you're having sign-in issues by all means have this version a go.
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Related tags: release... The New In Your Face Facebook Ads - Coming Soon! - After Facebook's disastrous IPO leading some to speculate Facebook's actual worth is in the $16-$24 range, it's worth examining what went wrong. Was it the Nasdaq computer glitches, which some claim resulted in $100 million in losses to investment firms? Perhaps a small factor. Was the initial stock price too high? Probably, but not the most important factor. Is the IPO debacle due to Facebook not monetizing its huge base of mobile users though a... Comcast Skype on Xfinity $9.95/month - Lame or Cool? - Comcast today unveiled their Skype video calling service, Skype on Xfinity which directly integrates into your HDTV. The beauty of the system is you can make and receive Skype video and audio calls from your TV. Users can send instant messages via Skype, while watching TV at the same time.The only problem is Skype on Xfinity costs $9.95 a month extra. We saw what happened to the $599 Cisco Umi, which Rich Tehrani and I rightly predicted would fai... Plixer Scrutinizer Network Traffic Analyzer Preview - I've been testing Plixer Scrutinizer, a network traffic analyzer product for several weeks now. It's a great product that supports NetFlow used by popular routers and switches, including the popular Cisco ASA series of firewall/security routers, Checkpoint, Adtran, Riverbed, and more. It also supports Juniper Jflow and Juniper IPFIX, SonicWALL NetFlow and SonicWALL IPFIX and Citrix AppFlow. It also supports sFlow.Having insights into your network... Netflix Temporarily Offline? On Movie Night? Ahhhh! - Oh joy - was checking my Netflix DVD queue to see if any interesting movies to stream as well as which ones arrived in the mail and I got this lovely error message:
Watch as many TV episodes and movies as you want for one low price! One month FREE Trial.
We’re sorry, the Netflix website is temporarily unavailable.
Our shipping centers are continuing to send and receive DVDs, so your movies will be processed as usual... Telefonica Launches Skype Competitor Tu Me - Telefónica today launched a new mobile app called Tu Me, which essentially takes the approach if you can't beat Skype, join em'. Tu Me features texts, voice calls, messages, and location and photo sharing - all free of charge, with the caveat that it uses your data plan more, so it isn't technically "free" unless you are on an unlimited data plan or you use free Wi-Fi hotspots most of the time.The app is currently only available on iOS ho... Viber Announces BlackBerry Beta and Windows Phone 7 Beta - Viber today announced the availability of Viber for BlackBerry Beta and Windows Phone 7 Beta.Both Viber for BlackBerry Beta and Viber for Windows Phone 7 Beta initially offer Viber Messaging, allowing users to exchange text and high-quality photo messages and share locations with other Viber users. The beta does not yet include their HD VoIP calling. Some may call this a bit premature beta since Viber is a known as a mobile VoIP app not a st... Nokia City Lens Augmented Reality Launches on Lumia Phones - Nokia today released its City Lens app for Windows Phone, an app that is an augmented reality browser. Users open the app, and depending on the phone's angle (landscape [facing away from you], 45 degrees, or parallel to ground) it automatically changes modes - augmented reality, list of locations, and map mode respectively.The coolest mode is obviously augmented reality where you hold the phone up and scan the horizon with the camera and it... Ooma Telo Review - Back in 2007 I wrote an article "Ooma goes Booma" because Ooma's claim-to-fame feature was that it worked by 'sharing' your PSTN analog phone line with other Ooma users. I was right that this PSTN sharing feature and business model wouldn't work, so certainly that did go "Booma". However, 5 years later after dropping the PSTN sharing and moving to a VoIP-centric business model Ooma has redeemed themselves with some really cool features. Ooma is a... Skype Aware of IP Security Flaw Back in 2010 - Some more interesting information has come to light regarding the IP revealing security flaw in Skype. Researchers from Inria, a research institute in France, and the Polytechnic Institute of New York University discovered the flaw. Stevens Le Blond, one of the team's researchers who discovered the exploit told the Wall Street Journal that the team first discovered the flaw in November 2010. They were actually able to track the city-level locat... Skype Responds to IP Address Privacy Vulnerability - Yesterday it was reported that a simple script could expose any Skype user's IP address. A Microsoft representative saw my article and gave me this official response, which they also provided to other media outlets:
“We are investigating reports of a new tool that captures a Skype user’s last known IP address. This is an ongoing, industry-wide issue f... Does HTML5 Rock Your Mobile World? - We've heard the hype surrounding HTML5, but does it live up to its promise? If TMC's recently completed DevCon5 show in Santa Clara, California is any indication, HTML5 will soon rock your mobile world!At DevCon5, an international community of HTML5 developers and designers gathered to focus on Mobile Apps, Consistent UI Development, and more. Gaming was a huge draw featuring a large, enthusiastic group.With breakout sessions led by experts from ... New Skype for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch Sports Ability to Move Video Preview - Some new features in the latest release of Skype for Apple iOS, including the ability to move your own video preview, app auto-restart if it crashes, improved accessibility, improved stability, some UI improvements and more. See full release notes in screenshot.
In related news, today gHacks revealed that Skype reveals remote and local IP Address of all online Skype users using a script. Yikes! Privacy zealots have at em'!
Tags: apple, ipa... Ooma Telo installed - Ooo Look, Shiny Bright Blue LEDs! - I received the latest version of the Ooma Telo along with the Wi-Fi dongle for a product review. I'll have to ask Ooma for the Bluetooth dongle to test since that seems like a cool mobile integration feature. Ooma competes with magicJack and netTALK offering low-cost phone service leveraging VoIP.
I hooked up the Ooma Telo in front of my Cisco Wi-Fi router and in addition to having an eerily similar size, shape, and color they both sport bright b... Jury selection starts in child?s faith healing death case - In Tulsa, Oklahoma, the jury selection process is under way for the trial of a woman accused of relying on faith and prayer, rather than seeking medical care, to treat her 9-year-old son who died of diabetes-related complications. Susan Grady is a member of the Church of the First Born -- a network of churches whose extremist teachings regarding faith healing have resulted in many unnecessary deaths.... Charges against leader of renegade Amish beard cutting group defended - The U.S. Justice Department says it plans to introduce evidence at the trial of Amish sect leader Sam Mullet to prove he had total authority over his Ohio community, including disciplining its members with beatings and having sex with other men's wives to "counsel" them. Mullet and several of his family members and other followers are awaiting trial on a Federal hate crimes indictment for a series of beard- and hair cutting attacks against Amis... Belgium court charges six people in deadly exorcism of Muslim woman - A court in Brussels opened the trial of six people charged in connection with the 2004 murder of a young Muslim woman in a deadly act of exorcism, a practice of evicting demons or other spiritual entities from a person believed to be possessed. The woman was reportedly deceived into believing that she could not have children because she was possessed and that she had to undergo a practice of exorcism.... Warren Jeffs? appeal is rejected by Texas state court - In August, 2011, a Texas jury convicted polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs of child sexual assault in a case stemming from two young followers he took as brides in what his church calls ?spiritual marriages.? Jeffs has appealed his conviction with 'revelations' in which Jesus Christ allegedly demands his release, but the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has turned down the appeal.... Police: Boy, 13, Tortured And Abused In Front Of Bible Study Group - A California pastor's assault on a 13-year-old boy took place during a Bible study session as a circle of men watched, newly released court records say. The pastor has other legal problems as well.... Religion News Briefing: Widow of first televangelist dies - In today's issue: The widow of Rex Humbard, the world's first televangelist, dies. An Agape Ministries cult member gets his ammunition back. A court orders gated communities in Puerto Rico to provide access to Jehovah's Witnesses. Plus a short, but though-provoking documentary on the Westboro Baptist Church -- a hate group that masquerades as a Christian church.... Faith-healing parents acquitted of murder charge - Gregory and Garnet JaLea Swezey have been found not guilty of second-degree murder in the death of their 17-year-old son. They had been accused of relying on faith healing instead of getting their son proper medical attention... Court affirms rejection of insanity defense in ?exorcism? murder - The Indiana Court of Appeals has upheld a jury's rejection of an insanity defense in the case of a woman who suffocated her 3-year-old son by forcing him to drink oil and vinegar because he was possessed by a demon. In June 2011 Latisha Lawson was sentenced to 62 years in prison.... Church sues ex-members for defamation over blog criticizing church?s practices - Pastor Charles O'Neal of Beaverton Grace Bible Church in Oregon is trying to silence critics by filing lawsuits against them -- even though the Bible teaches that Christians should not file lawsuits against other Christians. The family being sued says it was shunned after leaving the church a few years ago.... ?Holy Ghost? cult leader sentenced to six years to life in rape of daughter - A religious cult leader has been sentenced to six years to life for raping his daughter and allowing his friend to rape her as well. Terrill Dalton, who called himself the 'Holy Ghost,' promised the girl "great blessings" if she had sex with him.... Copyright © 2012, Golf Information 4 U. All Rights Reserved. |