http://webtools.uiuc.edu/pc/imageList/608 Science Research at the University of Illinois http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/08/0508neural.html Diana Yates, Life Sciences Editor Science http://webtools.uiuc.edu/pc/article/608/13292 Thu, 08 May 2008 13:00:00 CDT Science News at Illinois Which is better, giving more food to a few hungry people or letting some food go to waste so that everyone gets a share? A study appearing this week in Science finds that most people choose the latter, and that the brain responds in unique ways to inefficiency and inequity. http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/08/0507ironsnow.html James E. Kloeppel, Physical Sciences Editor Science http://webtools.uiuc.edu/pc/article/608/13266 Wed, 07 May 2008 08:00:00 CDT Science News at Illinois New scientific evidence suggests that deep inside the planet Mercury, iron "snow" forms and falls toward the center of the planet, much like snowflakes form in Earth's atmosphere and fall to the ground. http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/08/0428nanowires.html James E. Kloeppel, Physical Sciences Editor Science http://webtools.uiuc.edu/pc/article/608/12850 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:00:00 CDT Science News at Illinois A new low-temperature, catalyst-free technique for growing copper nanowires has been developed by researchers at the University of Illinois. The copper nanowires could serve as interconnects in electronic device fabrication and as electron emitters in a television-like, very thin flat-panel display known as a field-emission display. http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/08/0423papaya.html Diana Yates, Life Sciences Editor Science http://webtools.uiuc.edu/pc/article/608/12658 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:00:00 CDT Science News at Illinois Researchers have produced a first draft of a transgenic papaya genome. This draft sheds new light on the evolution of flowering plants and offers the most detailed picture yet of the genetic changes that make the plant resistant to the papaya ringspot virus. http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/08/0422poxvirus.html Diana Yates, Life Sciences Editor Science http://webtools.uiuc.edu/pc/article/608/12328 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:00:00 CDT Science News at Illinois Researchers report that red colobus monkeys in western Uganda have been exposed to an unknown orthopoxvirus, a pathogen related to the viruses that cause smallpox, monkeypox and cowpox. http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/08/0416immunogold.html Diana Yates, Life Sciences Editor Science http://webtools.uiuc.edu/pc/article/608/12188 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:00:00 CDT Science News at Illinois Researchers have developed a technique for imaging cells under an electron microscope that yields a sharper image of the structure of chromatin, the tightly wound bundle of genetic material and proteins that makes up the chromosomes. http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/08/0407ionchannels.html Diana Yates, Life Sciences Editor Science http://webtools.uiuc.edu/pc/article/608/11512 Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:00:00 CDT Science News at Illinois Researchers have painstakingly mapped the interior of a key component of the relay system that allows the neurotransmitter acetylcholine to get its message across. http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/08/0327femtogram.html James E. Kloeppel, Physical Sciences Editor Science http://webtools.uiuc.edu/pc/article/608/10790 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:00:00 CDT Science News at Illinois Finding a simple and convenient technique that combines nanoscale structural measurements and chemical identification has been an elusive goal. With current analytical instruments, spatial resolution is too low, signal-to-noise ratio too poor, sample preparation too complex or sample size too large to be of good service. Now, researchers at the University of Illinois have demonstrated a method for simultaneous structural and chemical characterization of samples at the femtogram level and below. http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/08/0327electronics.html James E. Kloeppel, Physical Sciences Editor Science http://webtools.uiuc.edu/pc/article/608/10812 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:00:00 CDT Science News at Illinois Scientists have developed a new form of stretchable silicon integrated circuit that can wrap around complex shapes such as spheres, body parts and aircraft wings, and can operate during stretching, compressing, folding and other types of extreme mechanical deformations, without a reduction in electrical performance. http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/08/0325plantdefense.html Diana Yates, Life Sciences Editor Science http://webtools.uiuc.edu/pc/article/608/10594 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 00:00:00 CDT Science News at Illinois Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are rising at an alarming rate, and new research indicates that soybean plant defenses go down as CO2 goes up. Elevated CO2 impairs a key component of the plant's defenses against leaf-eating insects, according to the report. http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/08/0324hyper.html James E. Kloeppel, Physical Sciences Editor Science http://webtools.uiuc.edu/pc/article/608/10565 Mon, 24 Mar 2008 08:00:00 CDT Science News at Illinois The record for the most amount of information sent by a single photon has been broken by researchers at the University of Illinois. Using the direction of "wiggling" and "twisting" of a pair of hyper-entangled photons, they have beaten a fundamental limit on the channel capacity for dense coding with linear optics. http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/08/0320exoticpets.html Diana Yates, Life Sciences Editor Science http://webtools.uiuc.edu/pc/article/608/10586 Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:00:00 CDT Science News at Illinois Ferrets, frogs and finches are becoming more common as pets, but the list of unusual species adopted into human households now includes some of the most exotic creatures on the planet. A new textbook on exotic pet practice offers practical guidance on how to treat your average crocodile, cicada or chinchilla. http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/08/0317hivprotein.html Diana Yates, Life Sciences Editor Science http://webtools.uiuc.edu/pc/article/608/10446 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:00:00 CDT Science News at Illinois Scientists have known for more than a decade that a protein associated with the HIV virus is good at crossing cell membranes, but they didn't know how it worked. A multidisciplinary team from the University of Illinois has solved the mystery, and their findings could improve the design of therapeutic agents that cross a variety of membrane types. http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/08/0310nanocrystal.html James E. Kloeppel, Physical Sciences Editor Science http://webtools.uiuc.edu/pc/article/608/10201 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:00:00 CDT Science News at Illinois Finding the key to gold's chemical reactivity (or that of any metal nanocrystal) has been difficult, as few measurement techniques work at the nanoscale. Now, researchers at the University of Illinois have demonstrated a sensitive probe that can identify and characterize the atomic structure of gold and other nanocrystalline materials. http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/08/0310mixedreality.html James E. Kloeppel, Physical Sciences Editor Science http://webtools.uiuc.edu/pc/article/608/10182 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:00:00 CDT Science News at Illinois Using a virtual pendulum and its real-world counterpart, scientists at the University of Illinois have created the first mixed reality state in a physical system. Through bidirectional instantaneous coupling, each pendulum "sensed" the other, their motions became correlated, and the two began swinging as one. http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/08/0310core.html James E. Kloeppel, Physical Sciences Editor Science http://webtools.uiuc.edu/pc/article/608/10172 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:00:00 CDT Science News at Illinois Geologists at the University of Illinois have confirmed the discovery of Earth's inner, innermost core, and have created a three-dimensional model that describes the seismic anisotropy and texturing of iron crystals within the inner core. http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/08/0307RNA.html Diana Yates, Life Sciences Editor Science http://webtools.uiuc.edu/pc/article/608/10126 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:45:00 CST Science News at Illinois Transfer RNA is an ancient molecule, central to every task a cell performs and thus essential to all life. A new study from the University of Illinois indicates that it is also a great historian, preserving some of the earliest and most profound events of the evolutionary past in its structure. http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/08/0225honeybees.html Diana Yates, Life Sciences Editor Science http://webtools.uiuc.edu/pc/article/608/9754 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:00:00 CST Science News at Illinois Like any species that aspires to rule the world, the honey bee, Apis mellifera, invades new territories in repeated assaults. A new study demonstrates that when these honey bees arrive in a place that has already been invaded, the newcomers benefit from the genetic endowment of their predecessors. http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/08/0225bloodclots.html Diana Yates, Life Sciences Editor Science http://webtools.uiuc.edu/pc/article/608/9737 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 08:00:00 CST Science News at Illinois A new study reveals in atomic detail how a blood protein that is a fundamental building block of blood clots gives them their life-enhancing, or life-endangering, properties. http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/08/0225temples.html Andrea Lynn, Humanities Editor Science http://webtools.uiuc.edu/pc/article/608/9738 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 08:00:00 CST Science News at Illinois An intrepid archaeologist is well on her way to dislodging the prevailing assumptions of scholars about the people who built and used Maya temples. http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/08/0218helicase.html Kaushik Ragunathan, News Bureau Intern Science http://webtools.uiuc.edu/pc/article/608/9612 Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:00:00 CST Science News at Illinois U. of I. researchers have taken the first steps toward understanding how an enzyme repairs DNA. http://www.uiuc.edu/minutewith/sheldonjacobson.html Diana Yates, Life Sciences Editor Science http://webtools.uiuc.edu/pc/article/608/9446 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:00:00 CST Science News at Illinois In a recent study in the Journal of Transportation Security, U. of I. computer science professor Sheldon Jacobson tackled the problem of how best to screen the baggage of airline passengers to prevent terror attacks. http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/08/0214oldfield.html Diana Yates, Life Sciences Editor Science http://webtools.uiuc.edu/pc/article/608/9426 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:00:00 CST Science News at Illinois Researchers at the University of Illinois helped lead a collaborative effort to uncover a completely new treatment strategy for serious Staphylococcus aureus ("Staph") infections. http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/08/0214holonyak.html James E. Kloeppel, Physical Sciences Editor Science http://webtools.uiuc.edu/pc/article/608/9421 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:00:00 CST Science News at Illinois Nick Holonyak Jr., a John Bardeen Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics at the University of Illinois, will be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Holonyak was selected for his invention of the first practical light emitting diode, in addition to the body of work on transistor and laser electronics generated over the span of his career (55+ years). http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/08/0130parsnips.html Diana Yates, Life Sciences Editor Science http://webtools.uiuc.edu/pc/article/608/8646 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:00:00 CST Science News at Illinois The long association of the parsnip and parsnip webworm offers a unique window on the complex interaction of plant and insect enemies.