Voices Of Innovation - Stephen Wolfram: Simple Solutions, Business Week 
Excerpts: Even if you're not into exotic subjects such as particle physics, cosmology, or math theory, chances are pretty good that you know about Mathematica, the program created by physicist Stephen Wolfram. He's the iconoclastic London-born genius who won a PhD from California Institute of Technology in just one year, at age 20. Since Mathematica's launch in 1988 by Wolfram Research Inc., the software has become hugely popular among product designers, architects, and financial analysts. And for engineers and scientists, Mathematica is something of a bible.
HHMI Awards $10 Million for Interdisciplinary Graduate Education, HHMI News
Excerpts: Biomedical science is becoming increasingly interdisciplinary, as reliant on the physical and computational sciences as on biology. But how are the biomedical investigators of the future going to learn to work effectively across disciplinary lines? (...) The program's students will continue to work in small teams, collaborating with faculty from different departments within the University of New Mexico, the Santa Fe Institute, Los Alamos National Laboratories, and research centers in Latin America. The program will consolidate and coordinate a new curriculum that teaches students to apply the tools of math, physics, and computer science to the study of complex systems.
Design for Living, Science
Excerpts: When a child sees a bird flying past or the fluttering wings of a butterfly, does it inspire thoughts about how to build airplanes? Or does it simply convey the idea that flight is possible? We are immersed in the natural world, so it is not surprising that it inspires the design of engineered structures, or that we would like to probe this world further to learn all its secrets.
- Source: Design for Living, Marc Lavine, Valda Vinson, Robert Coontz, DOI: 10.1126/science.310.5751.1131, Science Vol. 310. no. 5751, p. 1131, 05/11/18
Inspirations from Biological Optics for Advanced Photonic Systems, Science
Excerpts: Observing systems in nature has inspired humans to create technological tools that allow us to better understand and imitate biology. Biomimetics, in particular, owes much of its current development to advances in materials science and creative optical system designs. New investigational tools, such as those for microscopic imaging and chemical analyses, have added to our understanding of biological optics. Biologically inspired optical science has become the emerging topic among researchers and scientists. This is in part due to the availability of polymers with customizable optical properties and the ability to rapidly fabricate complex designs using soft lithography and three-dimensional microscale processing techniques.
Wisdom Of The Crowd, Nature
Excerpts: Decision makers, wrestling with thorny choices, are tapping into the collective foresight of ordinary people. Like all of their rivals in the pharmaceutical industry, executives at Eli Lilly routinely need to make tough predictions. How much of a new product do they expect to sell? Is a competing drug going to win approval first?
Making Sense Of Science - Peer Review Is The Missing Link For The Public, The Scientist
Excerpts: (...) "I don't know what to believe..." - an eight-page explanation of how scientists publish their research results and why that matters. (...) The aim of the guide, launched this month and available at [http://www.senseaboutscience.org], is to popularize the quality checking and rigor that begins to separate scientific work first from conjecture and then from flawed work. It suggests that the first question to be asked is "Is it published?" The guide covers the kinds of things that scientific reviewers look for - validity, significance and originality - and describes the process of scientific publishing.
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Excerpts: The peer review process has changed relatively little in the 55 years since officials began to rate applications. The last assessment of the process occurred ten years ago when NIH Director Harold Varmus adopted the five criteria used today: significance, approach, innovation, investigator, and environment.
Geneticists Claim Ageing Breakthrough But Immortality Will Have To Wait, The Guardian
Excerpts: The geneticists behind the study say the increase in lifespan is so striking, they may have tapped into one of the most fundamental mechanisms that controls the rate at which living creatures age. The tests were carried out in single-celled organisms, forcing them into what the researchers refer to as an "extreme survival mode". Instead of growing quickly and showing signs of ageing, the organisms became resilient to damage and were better able to repair the genetic defects that build up with age, often leading to cancer in later life.
New Technique Multiplies Life Span In Simple Organisms, Innovations-report
Excerpts: A counterintuitive experiment has resulted in one of the longest recorded life-span extensions in any organism and opened a new door for anti-aging research in humans. Scientists have known for several years that an extra copy of the SIR2 gene can promote longevity in yeast, worms and fruit flies. That finding was covered widely and incorporated into anti-aging drug development programs at several biotechnology companies. (...) The result was a dramatically extended life span - up to six times longer than normal (...).
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Excerpts: Potential perils from bioterrorism to bird flu are increasingly pushing proteomics researchers to identify molecules involved in the infection process. Often stymied in characterizing all the proteins of a single organism, investigators must now contend with the complexities inherent in characterizing two intertwined, antagonistic organisms: host and pathogen. (...)
Most projects to date have focused on the pathogen's proteome, which is simpler than the host's and easier to manipulate genetically in follow-up studies. Findings about bacteria, in particular, are "more easily interpreted" because microbes regulate protein expression much more strictly than hosts do, (...).
Epidemiology: Dimensions Of Superspreading, Nature
Excerpts: Analyses of contact-tracing data on the spread of infectious disease, combined with mathematical models, show that control measures require better knowledge of variability in individual infectiousness.
The SARS epidemic was notable for the existence of 'superspreaders' who infected dozens of people, whereas other infectious individuals infected few or none. Were SARS superspreaders anomalies, or are superspreaders characteristic of most infectious diseases? What effects does heterogeneity in infectiousness have on disease emergence and control?
The Ants Go Marching - On Your Screen - Google Earth Enables, The Scientist
Excerpts:  April Nobile [http://www.AntWeb.org |
AntWeb's graphically rich Web site opens its collection - tens of thousands of specimens strong - to both the research community and the general public. That makes AntWeb an interesting visit for anyone with anyone with an entymological bent. But what makes AntWeb unique among life science databases is its integration with Google Earth (GE), a freely available software tool from search goliath Google [http://earth.google.com]. GE presents a three-dimensional satellite view of Earth. The image is scaleable, allowing users to zoom from a hemisphere-wide view down to an individual building.
Ant Navigation: Priming Of Visual Route Memories, Nature
Excerpts: Ants travelling to and fro between their nest and a foraging area may follow stereotyped foodward and homeward routes that are guided by different visual and directional memory sequences.
Honeybees are known to fly a feeder-to-hive or hive-to-feeder vector according to whether or not they have recently fed - their feeding state controls which compass direction they select. We show here that the feeding state of the wood ant Formica rufa also determines the choice between an outward or inward journey, but by priming the selective retrieval of visual landmark memories.
Internet Species Tracking, The Scientist
Excerpts: April Nobile [http://www.AntWeb.org |
AntWeb's graphically rich Web site opens its collection - tens of thousands of specimens strong - to both the research community and the general public. That makes AntWeb an interesting visit for anyone with anyone with an entymological bent. But what makes AntWeb unique among life science databases is its integration with Google Earth (GE), a freely available software tool from search goliath Google [http://earth.google.com]. GE presents a three-dimensional satellite view of Earth. The image is scaleable, allowing users to zoom from a hemisphere-wide view down to an individual building.
Tszzzzzt! Electric Fish May Jam Rivals' Signals, Science News
Excerpts:  BROWN GHOST. This male brown ghost knifefish has an electric organ in his tail. Its collection of nerves fires rapidly and surrounds him with a weak electric field. Receptors scattered across his body, especially around his head, monitor the field and use distortions in the field to navigate and pick up information about other electric fish. Joerg Oestreich, Harvard Medical School |
When researchers put two fish in an unfamiliar tank or used a field-emitting dummy to mimic an intruder in a fish's home tank, both males and females tended to raise their electric-field frequencies as they attacked. The changes' timing and context convinced the researchers that the attacking fish was jamming the other's signals.
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 ANIMAL: Little fire ant, Wasmannia auropunctata ALIEN TO: Globally restricted to warm climates. Particularly troublesome in ecologically important island systems, such as the Galapagos archipelago. (...) |
Invasive species cause ethical, economic, and ecological problems the world over. Fire ants, zebra mussels, American mink, sea lampreys, and feral pigs are just a few of the most troublesome animal species, and hundreds more come from every kingdom of life. The World Conservation Union (IUCN) estimates the annual global cost of invasive species at more than $400 billion (US). Turning the tide is a significant challenge. "Once a species becomes established it's almost impossible to eradicate" says Michael Slimak, associate director of ecology at the US Environmental Protection Agency.
Invasive Species: Shoot To Kill, Nature
Excerpts: The US government has adopted a tough approach to battling harmful exotic plants: specialist strike teams. But can they prevail? (...)
Chesapeake bay in Virginia played host to some of the first British colonists. And along the banks of the York River, crumpled beer cans and someone's soggy hunting cap bear witness to their success. Another colonial type has also put down roots by the river: a few feet above the high-tide line sit some feathery reeds. They are Phragmites australis - and they are the enemy.
Gene Turn-Off Makes Meek Mice Fearless, New Scientist
Excerpts: Deactivating a specific gene transforms meek mice into daredevils, researchers have found. The team believe the research might one day enable people suffering from fear - in the form of phobias or anxiety disorders, for example - to be clinically treated. The research found that mice lacking an active gene for the protein stathmin are not only more courageous, but are also slower to learn fear responses to pain-associated stimuli, says geneticist Gleb Shumyatsky, at Rutgers University in New Jersey, US.
The Food You Eat May Change Your Genes For Life, New Scientist
Excerpts: It sounds like science fiction: simply swallowing a pill, or eating a specific food supplement, could permanently change your behaviour for the better, or reverse diseases such as schizophrenia, Huntington's or cancer. Yet such treatments are looking increasingly plausible. In the latest development, normal rats have been made to behave differently just by injecting them with a specific amino acid. The change to their behaviour was permanent.
Developmental Basis Of Evolution Meeting: Hummingbirds Keep Plant Speciation Humming Along, Science
Excerpts: A student-run meeting on evolution and development attracted top-notch researchers here from 20 to 23 October. Many evolutionary biologists argue that the extraordinary biodiversity in the tropics is the product of a long evolutionary history. But that's not the case for tropical plants called spiral gingers, says Douglas Schemske, an evolutionary ecologist at Michigan State University in East Lansing. Schemske and his colleagues have found that more than 50 distinct spiral ginger species have evolved from a single common ancestor in just a few million years. The researchers are building a strong case that, for these species, rapid evolution occurred as slight genetic changes altered the plants' ability to attract various bee species and, more important, hummingbirds. "This is a truly spectacular story," says Eric Haag, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Developmental Basis Of Evolution Meeting: - Development Out of Sync, Science
Excerpts: In development, timing is everything. Get it wrong, and organs fail to grow or wind up in the wrong place. But for some animals, altering the normal sequence of organ formation can be key to survival--and, some evolutionary biologists argue, a driver of evolution. Take the case of the spadefoot toad.
'Perception' Gene Tracked Humanity's Evolution, ScienceDaily
Excerpts: A gene thought to influence perception and susceptibility to drug dependence is expressed more readily in human beings than in other primates, and this difference coincides with the evolution of our species, say scientists (...). The gene encodes prodynorphin, an opium-like protein implicated in the anticipation and experience of pain, social attachment and bonding, as well as learning and memory. (...) The notion that humans are more perceptive than other primates would hardly be news. But the list of genes known to have tracked or guided humanity's separation from the other apes is a short one. (...)
Performance-Based Pay Is Fair, Particularly When I Perform Better, Euro. J. Soc. Psycho.
Excerpts: We examined in two experiments the impact of the roles that people enact (allocator or recipient) and performance attributions (talent or effort) on fairness perceptions of pay systems (performance-based pay or job-based pay). To test the relative effects of the roles that people enact, in the control conditions, participants were asked to evaluate the fairness of both allocation norms (...). As hypothesized, the results consistently demonstrate that whereas recipients were biased in their fairness perceptions, allocators tended to be non-biased in their fairness perceptions. The self-interest bias among recipients was particularly strong when talent rather than effort attributions were imposed on them.
Nano-Optics: Gold Loses Its Lustre, Nature
Excerpts: The perfect lens would immaculately reproduce an image of an object, with no light losses in the transition. The strange optical properties of a gold nanostructure bring the prospect of such a component into sharper focus. (...)
(...) have produced nanostructured gold with remarkable optical properties. Although not quite perfect lens material, what they have made is a significant step towards that end.
Grigorenko and colleagues' gold demonstrates, when illuminated by visible light of certain polarizations and at certain incident angles, a characteristic known as negative permeability.
Butterfly Wings Work Like LEDs, BBC News
Excerpt:  "The way light is extracted from the butterfly's system is more than an analogy - it's all but identical in design to the LED"
Pete Vukusic, University of Exeter |
When scientists developed an efficient device for emitting light, they hadn't realised butterflies have been using the same method for 30 million years.
Say Sayonara to Blurry Pics, Wired News
Excerpts: Ng calls his creation the "light field camera" (...). Traditionally, light rays filter through a camera's lens and converge at one point on film or a digital sensor, then the camera summarizes incoming light without capturing much information about where it came from. Ng's camera pits about 90,000 micro lenses between the main lens and sensor. The mini lenses measure all the rays of incoming light and their directions of origin. The software later adds up the rays, according to how the picture is being refocused.
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Excerpts: One of the chief hopes of entanglement research is to exploit the superposition idea and the entanglement idea for performing unusually fast quantum computation. In the Illinois experiment, two photons, (...), are entangled not just in terms of polarization, but also in a number of other ways: energy, momentum, and orbital angular momentum (see PNU 721).
Actually, the photon pair can be produced in either of two crystals, and the uncertainty in the production details of the individual photons is what provides the ability to attain entanglement in all degrees of freedom.
Groovy Science - Cassini Gets The Skinny On Saturn's Rings, Science News
Excerpts:  This false-color ultraviolet portrait, taken by the Cassini spacecraft, captures the majesty and complexity of Saturn's A ring. Red denotes areas of lower density, and blue indicates high density. The craft is revealing how the gravity of Saturn's moons sculpts the waves, kinks, and knots in the ring system. JPL/NASA, Space Science Institute |
"It's amazing to me that something as prominent in the solar system as the rings still has so many fundamental unanswered questions," says Cassini scientist Joshua Colwell (...). "How old are they? How did they form? and How will they evolve?" he asks.The rings are vast. They fan out across a region of space larger than the separation between the Earth and its moon but are only a few meters thick. The proportions are equivalent to those of a piece of paper big enough to blanket San Francisco.
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Excerpts: The Library of Congress is launching a campaign today to create the World Digital Library, an online collection of rare books, manuscripts, maps, posters, stamps and other materials from its holdings and those of other national libraries that would be freely accessible for viewing by anyone,...
UN Predicts 'Internet Of Things', BBC News
Excerpts: The result could mean remote controls embedded in clothing, cars that alert their driver when they have developed a fault, managers who check on workers through the RFID devices embedded in their phones, and bags that remind their owners that they have forgotten something. (...) Some of the benefits of this ubiquitous networked society include cheaper HIV treatments, more effective pharmaceutical controls and the purification of water using nanofilters.
Unlike previous technological revolutions, some developing countries are already heavily involved in generating the science and products around these items.
E-Mail Is So Five Minutes Ago, Business Week
Excerpts: It's being replaced by software that promotes real-time collaboration (...) other software tools that function as real-time virtual workspaces. Among them: private workplace wikis (searchable, archivable sites that allow a dedicated group of people to comment on and edit one another's work in real time); blogs (chronicles of thoughts and interests); Instant Messenger (which enables users to see who is online and thus chat with them immediately rather than send an e-mail and wait for a response); RSS (really simple syndication, which lets people subscribe to the information they need); (...).
$100 Laptop For Poor Children Unveiled, vnunet.com
Excerpts: Nicholas Negroponte, founder and chairman of MIT's Media Lab, has shown off his prototype $100 laptop at the Tunis World Summit on the Information Society. The ruggedised laptop, which includes a crank for generating its own power, is being developed under the One Laptop Per Child initiative, which aims to allow children in the Third World to own their own PC. (...) The current specs include a 500MHz processor, 1GB of memory and a unique dual-mode display that can be used in full-colour or in a black-and-white sunlight-readable mode. Negroponte confirmed that the laptop will run an open source operating system, probably Linux, (...).
UN Debut for $100 Laptop for Poor, BBC News
Excerpt: (...) "Every single problem you can think of, poverty, peace, the environment, is solved with education or including education," said Professor Negroponte.
"So when we make this available, it is an education project, not a laptop project. The digital divide is a learning divide - digital is the means through which children learn leaning. This is, we believe, the way to do it."
Climate Change: The Long-Range Forecast, Nature
Excerpts: The Himalayas, roof of the world, are springing a leak. As the climate warms up, melting glaciers are threatening the livelihoods of millions. (...)
In Nepal, rising temperatures are swelling glacial lakes to bursting point. Across the mountains in Tibet, herdsmen are struggling to feed their livestock on an increasingly deteriorating landscape. In recent years, the locals have begun to blame global warming for many of their troubles - and the data now being collected suggest that they may be right.
Climate Proofing The Netherlands, Nature
Excerpts: Throughout human history, people in regions all over the world have learnt, (...), to cope with extreme-climate events. Based on limited climatic and hydrological data from past events, countries have developed infrastructure and legislation to protect people from floods and droughts. Protective measures differ widely between regions, countries and continents - as do the risks. In economically important and densely populated parts of the Netherlands the standards of flood defence are the highest in the world; dykes protect delta regions from a flood event expected to occur once every 10,000 years.
- Source: Climate Proofing The Netherlands, Pavel Kabat, Wim van Vierssen, Jeroen Veraart, Pier Vellinga, Jeroen Aerts, DOI: 10.1038/438283a, Nature 438, 283-284, 05/11/17
The Butterfly Cipher -- Let Chaos Keep Your Secrets Safe, New Scientist
Excerpts: However, no one is yet claiming that chaotic encryption will necessarily spell the end for its quantum-based cousin. Quantum cryptography is inherently secure because quantum states are so delicate that any attempt to listen in disrupts the message, alerting both sender and receiver. While chaotic cryptography can provide impressive levels of security, it does not have the same built-in resistance to eavesdroppers. Typically, the message is injected into the chaotic carrier at about 1 per cent of the chaotic signal's amplitude.
Hidden In Disorder: Chaos-Encrypted Information Goes The Distance, Science
Excerpts:  FUZZY INFORMATION. The top signal is an electronic version of the message. It's hidden within the chaotic signal (middle). The bottom signal is the recovered message. Nature |
Although scientists don't understand why the receiver laser synchronizes with only the chaotic signal and not the embedded message, this synchronization permits the message to be extracted. To reveal the message, the researchers simply subtract the receiver's output, which represents the chaotic signal, from its input.
The team transmitted roughly 1 gigabyte of chaos-encrypted information per second. This rate, Shore says, is comparable to those of most commercial transmissions of data. Moreover, the test transmission lost only about 1 byte in every 10 million, Shore notes.
Communications Technology: Chaos Down The Line, Nature
Excerpts: Chaos, goes conventional wisdom, can only be a malign influence in telecommunications. But a technique that uses chaotically varying signals to transmit information more privately may help it shed that bad-boy image.
Synchronization leads to communication - even when the signals used are chaotic. (...)
The transmitter and receiver become harmonized in chaotic synchrony, allowing information to be reliably extracted at the other end - a result that brings us closer to exploiting the inherent advantages of chaos, rather than trying to eliminate it whenever it appears.
Complex Challenges: Global Terrorist Network
Collateral Damage: American Science And The War On Terrorism, Tech. & Soc. Mag., IEEE
Excerpt: In the terrorist attacks of 2001, the United States government undertook a rushed effort to increase security. In addition to new legislation such as the Patriot Act and the Homeland Security Act of 2002, the government dramatically ramped up enforcement of laws that have long been on the books, and revised its policies to deal with new terrorist threats. While the need for increased security is undeniable, the costs of security measures need to be weighed as well, in terms of collateral damage they produce to the U.S. science and engineering (S&E) enterprise. In this article we focus on two main problems (...).
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Excerpts: Even in less extreme circumstances, and even if we don't intend to torture captured terrorists, do we have to reduce our leverage by informing all of them in advance they can stonewall indefinitely if captured, without fear of that fate?
This is not only an era of international terrorist networks but also of runaway litigation and runaway judges. Do we really want a federal law that will enable captured terrorists to take their cases to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals?
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- Bright Infrared Emission from Electrically Induced Excitons in Carbon Nanotubes, Jia Chen, Vasili Perebeinos, Marcus Freitag, James Tsang, Qiang Fu, Jie Liu, Phaedon Avouris, 05/11/18, Science : 1171-1174. When paired electrons and holes generated in suspended nanotubes recombine, they emit intense infrared radiation, with an efficiency greater than that of typical light-emitting diodes.
- The Problem With an Almost-Perfect Genetic World, Amy Harmon, 05/11/20, NYTimes
- Staff 'Crisis' Threatens Physics, 05/11/21, BBC News, Physics will die out in schools unless ministers act to deal with a shortage of specialist teachers, a report warns.
- An Evolutionary Perspective On Caching By Corvids, S. R. de Kort, N. S. Clayton, 2005/11/08, Proceedings: Biological Sciences, DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3350
- Another Way to Calculate Fitness from Life History Variables: Solution of the Age-Structured Logistic Equation, Josh Mitteldorf, 2005/11/14, arXiv, DOI: q-bio.PE/0511018
- Americans Bin Newspapers And Turn To The Web: Visitors To Online News Sites Jump 11 Per Cent In October 2005, R. Jaques, 2005/11/16, vnunet.com
- Microsoft May Open Windows For Free: Redmond Considering Advertising-Supported Versions Of Its Flagship Products, T. Sanders, 2005/11/16, vnunet.com
- How Effective Are Maternal Effects At Having Effects?, A. P. Beckerman, T. G. Benton, C. T. Lapsley, N. Koesters, 2005/11/16, Proceedings: Biological Sciences, DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3315
- Breakthrough Streamlines Complex Work Assignments, 2005/11/16, ScienceDaily & Princeton University
- The Brainstem Reticular Formation Is A Small-World, Not Scale-Free, Network, M. D. Humphries, K. Gurney, T. J. Prescott, 2005/11/17, Proceedings: Biological Sciences, DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3354
- Immigrant Youth Better Off If Still Attached To Their Ethnic Culture, Largest-Ever International Study Finds, 2005/11/18, Innovations-report & Queen's University
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- Economic Fragmentation In Russia: The Influence Of International Trade And Initial Conditions, D. Berkowitz, D. N. DeJong, Nov. 2005, Economics of Governance, DOI: 10.1007/s10101-004-0092-8
- Making Sense Of Life Stories: The Role Of Narrative Perspective In Perceiving Hidden Information About Social Identity, T. Polya, J. Laszlo - laszlomtapi.hu, J. P. Forgas, Nov.-Dec. 2005, Online 2005/11/15, European Journal of Social Psychology, DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.277
- Distinguishing The Effects Of Beliefs And Preconditions: The Folk Psychology Of Goals And Actions, A. Boonzaier, J. McClure - john.mcclurevuw.ac.nz, R. M. Sutton, Nov.-Dec. 2005, Online 2005/11/15, European Journal of Social Psychology, DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.280
- Artificial Neural Network Medical Decision Support Tool: Predicting Transfusion Requirements Of ER Patients, Walczak, S., Sct. 2005, online 2005/09/06, Information Technology in Biomedicine, IEEE Trans., DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2005.847510
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