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Science in Society RSS FeedsThis Week in Science - Wrapped DNA | Spring Bloom | Earthquakes from Above | Edging In on MoS2 | Challenging the Mushroom Bodies | Maintaining Equilibrium | Too Much Tolerance? | Be My Guests | Ties That Bind | Close-Up of DNA Methylation | Before Tohoku-Oki | Keeping a Kinase in Check...Feed Source: www.sciencemag.org Editors' Choice - Immunology: Energy to Burn | Applied Physics: Magnetized at the Interface | Genetics: Mom's in Charge | Materials Science: A Model for Aging | Evolution: Getting from One to Two | Biomedicine: All Eyes on Epigenetics | Chemistry: Polymer, Heal Thyself... Findings - Study Fails to Find Arsenic in Microbial DNA | Telltale Isotopes Hint at North Korea Weapons Test | New Malaria Death Toll Disputed... [Editorial] The Endangered Bond - Author: Gottfried Schatz... [News of the Week] Around the World - In science news around the world this week, a senator is questioning the FDA about its actions in response to a lawsuit brought by whistleblowers, an Indiana creationism bill is unlikely to advance, Russian space scientists may build a new version of the failed Fobos-Grunt sample return spacecraft, the genome of an extinct human is now online, the Kavli Foundation is endowing its first institute in Japan, Minnesota began destroying blood samples collected in its newborn-screening program, scientists are boycotting Elsevier to protest its journal pricing, and a report outlines the steps needed to increase the number of U.S. science degrees.... [News of the Week] Random Sample - From 20 to 22 April, the winners of GE's 2011 IN Cell Analyzer Image Competition will appear on NBC Universal's high-definition screen of Times Square in New York City. On 2 February, scientists at the Paranal Observatory in Chile for the first time successfully linked all four telescopes of the Very Large Telescope array. Alan Stern, the principal investigator of NASA's New Horizons mission to the dwarf planet, and Dan Durda, an astronomer and space artist, have posted a petition on the website change.org urging the U.S. Postal Service to issue an official stamp in 2015 honoring the mission's arrival at Pluto. And this week's numbers quantify the annual cost of a new cystic fibrosis drug and the amount raised for pediatric cancer research at a disco dance party.... [News & Analysis] France: ?22 Billion Stimulus Brings Worries About Egalité - On 3 February, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon announced five new winners in the ?7.7 billion Excellence Initiatives, which aims to help create a group of five to 10 world-class research and higher education clusters.Author: Barbara Casassus... [News & Analysis] Personalized Medicine: New Cystic Fibrosis Drug Offers Hope, at a Price - The new cystic fibrosis drug Kalydeco illustrates both the promise and peril of personalized medicine: It is extremely expensive and helps only 4% of people with the disease, or 1200 patients.Author: Jocelyn Kaiser... [News & Analysis] Paleontology: More Than One Way for Invaders to Wreak Havoc - A new paper published in the January issue of GSA Today holds invasions responsible for the failure to speciate in some marine animal groups in the Devonian period 380 million years ago.Author: Richard A. Kerr... [News & Analysis] Eastern Europe: High Hopes for Croatia's 'Warm Spring Harbor' Remain Unfulfilled - What was supposed to be a rising star in Eastern European science, the Mediterranean Institute for Life Sciences in Split, is mired in controversy and appears to be on the brink of collapse.Author: Mico Tatalovic... [News Focus] Indoor Ecosystems - The microbial ecology of buildings gets a boost from a foundation and researchers trying to better understand the invisible communities in our homes, hospitals, and workspaces.Author: Courtney Humphries... [News Focus] Profile : Stephen Friend: The Visionary - Seeking to spur drug development, Stephen Friend has launched a daring series of initiatives to make biomedical research more open and effective.Author: Jocelyn Kaiser... [Letter] Carbon Shifted But Not Sequestered - Author: Rane L. Curl... [Letter] Response?Carbon Shifted But Not Sequestered - Authors: C. Groves, J. Cao, C. Zhang... [Letter] Ecosystem Services: Heed Social Goals - Authors: Esteve Corbera, Unai Pascual... [Letter] Ecosystem Services: Free Lunch No More - Author: Lucas N. Joppa... [Letter] Response?Ecosystem Services: Free Lunch No More - Authors: Ann P. Kinzig, Charles Perrings, F. Stuart Chapin II, Stephen Polasky, V. Kerry Smith, David Tilman, B. L. Turner III... [Technical Comment] Comment on ?Phonemic Diversity Supports a Serial Founder Effect Model of Language Expansion from Africa? - Authors: Michael Cysouw, Dan Dediu, Steven Moran... [Technical Comment] Comment on ?Phonemic Diversity Supports a Serial Founder Effect Model of Language Expansion from Africa? - Authors: Chuan-Chao Wang, Qi-Liang Ding, Huan Tao, Hui Li... [Technical Comment] Comment on ?Phonemic Diversity Supports a Serial Founder Effect Model of Language Expansion from Africa? - Authors: Rory Van Tuyl, Asya Pereltsvaig... [Technical Response] Response to Comments on ?Phonemic Diversity Supports a Serial Founder Effect Model of Expansion from Africa? - Author: Quentin D. Atkinson... [Book Review] Paradoxical Roots of ?Social Construction? - Nye locates the roots of the "social turn" (highlighting the importance of social communities, behavioral norms, and personal commitments) in the scientific culture and political events of 1930s Europe.Author: David Kaiser... [Book Review] Imaginary Identities - Zerubavel examines social and cultural aspects of how we understand kinship---and hence approach ethnicity, race, and nationalism.Author: Marta Tienda... [Books et al.] Books Received - A listing of books received at Science during the week ending 03 February 2012.... [Policy Forum] Public Health and Biosecurity: Adaptations of Avian Flu Virus Are a Cause for Concern - Members of the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity explain its recommendations on the communication of experimental work on H5N1 influenza.Authors: Kenneth I. Berns, Arturo Casadevall, Murray L. Cohen, Susan A. Ehrlich, Lynn W. Enquist, J. Patrick Fitch, David R. Franz, Claire M. Fraser-Liggett, Christine M. Grant, Michael J. Imperiale, Joseph Kanabrocki, Paul S. Keim, Stanley M. Lemon, Stuart B. Levy, John R. Lumpkin, Jeffery F. Miller, Randall Murch, Mark E. Nance, Michael T. Osterholm, David A. Relman, James A. Roth, Anne K. Vidaver... [Policy Forum] Public Health and BIosecurity: Restricted Data on Influenza H5N1 Virus Transmission - Authors of a debated flu transmission study discuss why such work is important and should be published.Authors: Ron A. M. Fouchier, Sander Herfst, Albert D. M. E. Osterhaus... [Perspective] Neuroscience: Ode to the Mushroom Bodies - Neurons that stabilize memory storage are located outside of a region in the insect brain long thought to handle this task.Author: Josh Dubnau... [Perspective] Mathematics: Critical Truths About Power Laws - Most reported power laws lack statistical support and mechanistic backing.Authors: Michael P. H. Stumpf, Mason A. Porter... [Perspective] Immunology: Remembering to Be Tolerant - Self-tolerant T cells can be transiently reactivated.Authors: June-Yong Lee, Stephen C. Jameson... [Perspective] Chemistry: Probing Frozen Molecular Embraces - The conformation of the complex formed by a catalyst and its substrate was determined with a method that combined mass spectrometry and infrared spectroscopy.Author: Timothy S. Zwier... [Perspective] Structural Biology: It's All in the Symmetry - The structure of a sodium-calcium exchange protein provides insight into the mechanism of Ca2+ transport through the cell membrane.Authors: Jeff Abramson, Aviv Paz, Kenneth D. Philipson... [Review] Seasonality in Ocean Microbial Communities - Authors: Stephen J. Giovannoni, Kevin L. Vergin... [Brevia] Pigment Pattern Formation by Contact-Dependent Depolarization - Cell culture experiments reveal that direct interactions between pigment cells play a key role in skin pattern formation.Authors: Masafumi Inaba, Hiroaki Yamanaka, Shigeru Kondo... [Research Article] Visualizing Long-Term Memory Formation in Two Neurons of the Drosophila Brain - Protein synthesis underlying olfactory memory storage takes place outside the mushroom body?the site of memory storage.Authors: Chun-Chao Chen, Jie-Kai Wu, Hsuan-Wen Lin, Tsung-Pin Pai, Tsai-Feng Fu, Chia-Lin Wu, Tim Tully, Ann-Shyn Chiang... [Research Article] Structural Insight into the Ion-Exchange Mechanism of the Sodium/Calcium Exchanger - The arrangement of four central ion-binding sites with differing specificities suggests how a membrane transporter protein works.Authors: Jun Liao, Hua Li, Weizhong Zeng, David B. Sauer, Ricardo Belmares, Youxing Jiang... [Report] One-Step Fabrication of Supramolecular Microcapsules from Microfluidic Droplets - A molecular host that binds two guests directs scalable fabrication of hollow polymer/gold nanoparticle hybrid structures.Authors: Jing Zhang, Roger J. Coulston, Samuel T. Jones, Jin Geng, Oren A. Scherman, Chris Abell... [Report] Determination of Noncovalent Docking by Infrared Spectroscopy of Cold Gas-Phase Complexes - Conformationally freezing a weakly bound complex in the gas phase sheds light on its likely binding motifs in solution.Authors: Etienne Garand, Michael Z. Kamrath, Peter A. Jordan, Arron B. Wolk, Christopher M. Leavitt, Anne B. McCoy, Scott J. Miller, Mark A. Johnson... [Report] A Molecular MoS2 Edge Site Mimic for Catalytic Hydrogen Generation - A small molecule functionally models the active component of an extended solid material with wide catalytic applications.Authors: Hemamala I. Karunadasa, Elizabeth Montalvo, Yujie Sun, Marcin Majda, Jeffrey R. Long, Christopher J. Chang... [Report] Near-Field Deformation from the El Mayor?Cucapah Earthquake Revealed by Differential LIDAR - Optical remote sensing before and after a large earthquake reveals its rupture dynamics.Authors: Michael E. Oskin, J Ramon Arrowsmith, Alejandro Hinojosa Corona, Austin J. Elliott, John M. Fletcher, Eric J. Fielding, Peter O. Gold, J. Javier Gonzalez Garcia, Ken W. Hudnut, Jing Liu-Zeng, Orlando J. Teran... [Report] Propagation of Slow Slip Leading Up to the 2011 Mw 9.0 Tohoku-Oki Earthquake - Two sequences of slow slip preceded and migrated toward the main rupture.Authors: Aitaro Kato, Kazushige Obara, Toshihiro Igarashi, Hiroshi Tsuruoka, Shigeki Nakagawa, Naoshi Hirata... [Report] Structure-Based Mechanistic Insights into DNMT1-Mediated Maintenance DNA Methylation - The enzyme that maintains DNA methylation in eukaryotes flips out the target C base in hemimethylated DNA for methylation.Authors: Jikui Song, Marianna Teplova, Satoko Ishibe-Murakami, Dinshaw J. Patel... [Report] Structure and Allostery of the PKA RII? Tetrameric Holoenzyme - Details are revealed as to how cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) binding causes dissociation and activation of cAMP-dependent protein kinase.Authors: Ping Zhang, Eric V. Smith-Nguyen, Malik M. Keshwani, Michael S. Deal, Alexandr P. Kornev, Susan S. Taylor... [Report] The Crystal Structure of TAL Effector PthXo1 Bound to Its DNA Target - Structures show how a virulence factor in a plant pathogen recognizes and binds to host DNA.Authors: Amanda Nga-Sze Mak, Philip Bradley, Raul A. Cernadas, Adam J. Bogdanove, Barry L. Stoddard... [Report] Structural Basis for Sequence-Specific Recognition of DNA by TAL Effectors - Structures show how a virulence factor in a plant pathogen recognizes and binds to host DNA.Authors: Dong Deng, Chuangye Yan, Xiaojing Pan, Magdy Mahfouz, Jiawei Wang, Jian-Kang Zhu, Yigong Shi, Nieng Yan... [Report] Rescued Tolerant CD8 T Cells Are Preprogrammed to Reestablish the Tolerant State - Maintenance of T cell tolerance is likely regulated by epigenetic mechanisms.Authors: Andrea Schietinger, Jeffrey J. Delrow, Ryan S. Basom, Joseph N. Blattman, Philip D. Greenberg... 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 ultraviolet light sensing in plants, investigating earthquakes with LIDAR, indoor microbe populations, and more.... Apple Planned the iPad BEFORE the iPhone. Who knew? - Everyone assumes that Apple was working on the iPhone before the iPad. However, the recent lawsuit by Proview Electronics suing Apple over the name 'iPad' says others wise. The iPhone was launched in 2007 and the iPad in 2010. However, in 2006 Apple purchased the iPad trademark from display manufacturer Proview Electronics (Taiwan) for $55,000 by way of a front company called IP Application Development. So it appears Apple planned on making a tab... Dell Voice Launches in Canada - Will it Fail As Badly As Dell Video Chat? - Dell has partnered with Ontario-based Fongo to offer Dell Voice, a VoIP app exclusively available exclusively in Canada that offers a Canadian phone number and free calls to most of Canada. Also, incoming calls and Dell Voice-to-Dell Voice calls are free of charge. This reminds me of how Dell partnered with Sightspeed, now a ... Vonage Attacks Skype with 30% Price Cut and Free App-to-App Calling & Texts - Vonage today launched new versions of their mobile app for both iOS and Android phones that feature free app-to-app calling and international calling rates that on average are 70 percent less than major mobile carriers and 30 percent less than Skype according to their release notes on iTunes. What's nice about their mobile app is it lets you talk and text worldwide for FREE with anyone else who has the app. It's also wideband HD audio for better... ITEXPO IP Communications Trade Show Continues Solid Growth - ITEXPO East 2012 in Miami was TMC's best show ever with over 200 booths and over 8,200 attendees. Conferee attendance for ITEXPO East increased more than 50% from 2011, resulting in dozens of standing room only sessions at ITEXPO and collocated conferences such as HTML5 Summit, M2M Evolution, Business Video Expo, Super WiFi Summit, and 4GWE. As an example, here's a photo I took at the jam-packed Ingate SIP trunking conference session:Even with th... Verizon and BT Announce Cross-Network Video Calling & Telepresnce -
Verizon and BT announced a deal enabling each of their respective customers initiate high-quality video conferences and telepresence sessions. I spoke with representatives from BT and Verizon to learn more about their collaboration.
Marc Hambley, Sr. Product Manager at BT explained, "We are connecting our respective telepresence exchanges together - that will allow BT clients to have meetings with Verizon clients, either hosted on BT service or ... Why Apple's A5 Processor is Big (Siri) + Why Doesn't Siri Support Dictating Emails? - According to CNet, Apple's A5 processor includes noise-reduction circuitry licensed from a start-up called Audience. Audience's technology enhances speech and works well even when you hold the phone are arm's length ('far-field speech'). This explains the mysteriously larger A5 processor on the iPhone 4S and why the previous gen iPhone 4 didn't get the Siri via a simple iOS software upgrade.The iPhone 4S has just a few advantages over the iPhone ... Forget Super Wi-Fi! Go with Super Wi-Fi! Wait. What? - Everyone is hyping the new Super Wi-Fi standard which uses lower-frequency white spaces between television channel frequencies. These lower frequencies enable the signal to travel further (miles) and penetrate walls better than the higher frequencies previously used (hundreds of feet). Well, forget about Super Wi-Fi!I met with Thomas Ngeow from Altai Technologies at ITEXPO, a Hong Kong-based company and he explained they coined Super Wi-Fi for on... Billionaire Gives Secrets to Startup Success - Sir Terry Matthews is a Welsh/Canadian high tech entrepreneur, and Wales's first billionaire. He has directly started 89 companies with an amazing 83 out of 89 success rate. It's an even more astounding fact when you consider that according to TMC's Peter Bernstein, 90% of startups fail. Terry has sold many of these companies for millions and even hundreds of millions of dollars. Terry Matthews keynoted the StartupCamp at ITEXPO in Miami and he w... TMC Showcases the Top 40 "Newsmakers" at ITEXPO - There is a lot of news (product launches, new versions) being made at TMC's ITEXPO, some of which I've already covered (Digium, Xorcom) ITEXPO has a record number of exhibitors that have unveiled new products and services at ITEXPO in Miami.
There have been many competing shows over the years, most notably VON, which suffered an untimely demise. ITEXPO and VON were the two best shows focused on VoIP and IP communications. ITEXPO has continued t... Rich Tehrani With ITEXPO Facts + Super Wi-Fi, M2M, StartupCamp & VC Funding - Rich Tehrani gave some interesting ITEXPO facts during his keynote introductions. He also covered Super Wi-Fi, M2M, Facebook IPO causing new millionaires to fund new companies and StartupCamp, which in the past has had actually VCs in the audience write checks to startups after they gave their pitch / demo during StartupCamp. Watch the video:
Tags: facebook, funding, ipo, ... New Digium IP Phones Up Close - I got to see the new Digium IP Phones up close - sort of. I ran into Digium's Steve Sokol in their ITEXPO booth and proceeded to ask Steve about these new IP phones. I asked him if they were developed internally (yes) or white-labeled, where they were being built (China), and a few other questions.
I was about to ask him to see a demo when a Digium employee interrupted and asked Steve to give a demo to two attendees standing a few feet away. Ste... Ingate SIP Trunking Session at ITEXPO is Packed! - Ingate, makers of SIP-capable enterprise firewalls, has done it again! Every show they have one of if not *the* largest conference room and they continually pack it in - often standing room only in the back. I stopped in to check it out. This short video followed by a cool interactive panoramic says it all:... The Crowd Gathers to Enter ITEXPO Exhibit Floor - Good crowd entering the show floor as it opens.
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... Sprint's Michael A. Rouleau Kicks off ITEXPO Keynotes - The keynotes have started with Michael Rouleau telling the story of a company that has invented a flying car. It can travel 65mph on the ground and I think he said 115mph or 150mph in the air with a range of 450 miles. Hit traffic on I-95? Fly over it! He went onto explain all the issues this great idea has - $200,000 price tag, certified for both flight and ground, need for pilot's license, etc. Now he's discussing M2M examples. He said customer... Digium Gamechanger! Launches D40, D50, & D70 IP Phones - Today, at ITEXPO, the premiere communications event, Digium launched a line of IP phones that work in conjunction with their Asterisk and Switchvox solutions. This truly could be a gamechanger, since Asterisk is a popular IP-PBX solution that popular 3rd party phone vendors such as Aastra, snom, and Polycom offer products for. This move by Digium and the impact on these phone vendors could be quite interesting. This reminds me of 2008 when Aastra... Former FLDS spokesman sues jailed cult leader Warren Jeffs - The former spokesman for the polygamous sect led by Warren Jeffs says in a new lawsuit that sect leaders arranged a nighttime burglary that gutted his business after he was excommunicated for refusing to falsify sect records on Jeffs? marriages to underage girls. Willie Jessop, a onetime Jeffs bodyguard and sect spokesman, is seeking more than $100 million in damages for business losses, repayment of money he loaned for sect legal expenses and c... Parents charged in faith-healing death of teenage son - Parents in Carlton, WA who police say unsuccessfully tried to faith-heal their son back to health have been charged with second-degree murder. The charges against Gregory P. Swezey, 47, and Garnet JaLea Swezey, 45, in Okanogan County Superior Court come nearly three years after Zachery, 17, died of a burst appendix at their home on March 18, 2009.... Bizarre sex scandal within Toronto?s Jesus First Church concludes as pastor found not guilty of sex assault - The pastor of a scandal-plagued church in Toronto, Canada, was found not guilty of sexually assaulting a member of his congregation. Jae-Kap Song had been accused of telling a parishioner that evil spirits would turn her into a hunchback-like creature, before sexually assaulting her.... Arizona bill targets police in FLDS-controlled city - A bill under which Colorado City, Arizona -- a town controlled by leaders of the polygamous FLDS cult -- would be forced to disband its police force has advanced in the Arizona Legislature. While the bill does not mention the town by name, Attorney General Tom Horne says that officers in Colorado City have actively interfered with the law.... Fingerprint links cult leader to dead bodies in murder case - Investigators have matched a fingerprint from the graves of a young boy and a woman with the leader of a religious cult who has been charged in their deaths, search warrants issued by the Durham, NC Police Department show. The single fingerprint found on a piece of tape that had been wrapped around plastic bags that encased the body of 5-year-old Jadon Higganbothan has been conclusively identified as belonging to Peter Lucas Moses Jr.... Russian Mission Group Warns Of Crackdown On Evangelicals - As protesters demanding more freedom and fair elections prepared to demonstrate in freezing temperatures in Moscow last Saturday, a major Russian mission group warned of more difficulties for evangelical Christians and other religious minorities in Russia and other former Soviet Union nations.... Senior scientologist charged with perverting justice - One of the Church of Scientology's senior international figures, Jan Eastgate, has been charged for a second time with perverting the course of justice. Eastgate is the international president of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights -- a hate group found by the Church of Scientology engaged in a hate campaign against psychiatry and psychiatrists.... Chinese government attacks ?evil cult? dance group performance in Seattle - The Consul General of the People's Republic of China in San Francisco has written an official letter addressed to members of the city council of Seattle, Washington, dismissing a performance of a Falun Gong-related dance group and asking him not to attend, nor to congratulate the group. Naturally nobody takes him seriously.... Police arrest 9 suspected Jerusalem cult members - Police arrested nine people Monday suspected of being members of a Jerusalem cult. In August, 2011, the cult's three central defendants were indicted in the Jerusalem District Court on Wednesday, in a case of what police and social workers have called the worst abuse of its kind they have seen in decades.... Eddie Long apologizes for Torah ceremony in which he was crowned ?King? - Megachurch pastor Eddie Long has apologized to the Anti-Defamation League over an incident in which he was wrapped in a Torah scroll and crowned "king." The stunt was the idea of visiting speaker 'Rabbi' Ralph Messer.... Copyright © 2012, Answer the Telephone. All Rights Reserved. |