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Power
Cracking of Cash Card Codes
Monitoring the power usage of a smart card's microcircuitry can provide data for breaching the card's security.
Sources:
Ross Anderson
University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
New Museums Site
Pembroke Street
Cambridge CB2 3QG
United Kingdom
Web site: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/rja14/Paul Kocher
Cryptography Research
870 Market Street, Suite 1088
San Francisco, CA 94102
Web site: http://www.cryptography.com/Peter G. Neumann
SRI International
333 Ravenswood Avenue
Menlo Park, CA 94025
Flies carry gene for alcohol sensitivity
A fruit fly gene that makes the insects especially wobbly when exposed to alcohol fumes could aid research into human alcoholism.
Sources:
Ulrike Heberlein
University of California, San Francisco
SFGH, Building 1, 101
San Francisco, CA 94143Robert Karp
National Institutes of Health
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
6000 Executive Boulevard, Suite 402
Bethesda, MD 20892
Unveiling the tau of neurodegeneration
Mutations in the gene that encodes the tau protein have been linked to frontotemporal dementia, suggesting that the protein plays a role in brain cell degeneration.
Sources:
Michael Hutton
Mayo Clinic
4500 San Pablo Road
Jacksonville, FL 32224Marcelle Morrison-Bogorad
National Institute on Aging, NNA
Gateway Building, Suite 3C307
7201 Wisconsin Avenue
Bethesda, MD 20892Maria Grazia Spillantini
University of Cambridge
Brain Repair Center
Forvie Side, Robinson Way
Cambridge CB2 2PY
United Kingdom
Protein’s shape may give extra-sugary taste
Researchers have determined the structure of brazzein, a protein 2,000 times sweeter than sugar.
Sources:
Joseph Brand
Monell Chemical Senses Center
3500 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-3308Göran B. Hellekant
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Department of Animal Health and Biomedical Sciences
Madison, WI 53706John L. Markley
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Department of Biochemistry
National Magnetic Resonance Facility
Madison, WI 53706
Computer model captures missing matter
Computer simulations indicate that half the ordinary matter in the universe remains hidden because it radiates at difficult-to-detect wavelengths.
Sources:
Richard Mushotzky
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Mailstop Code 662
Greenbelt, MD 20771Jeremiah P. Ostriker
Princeton University
Princeton University Observatory
Peyton Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544
Toads can’t tell guys from gals
Male western toads can’t identify females, but the species keeps going thanks to the philosophy: "If it’s large and moving, grab it and mate."
Sources:
Joseph M. Kiesecker
Yale University
School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
370 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511Adolfo Marco
Universidad de Salamanca
Departamento de Biologia Animal
37071 Salamanca
SpainPaul Verrell
Washington State University
Department of Zoology
Center for Reproductive Biology &
Sustainable Development Program and Institute
P.O. Box 644236
Pullman, WA 99164-4236
Getting the
scoop from the poop of T. rex
Fossilized feces from a tyrannosaur show crunched bones from another dinosaur.
Sources:
Karen Chin
U.S. Geological Survey
345 Middlefield Road
Mailstop 975
Menlo Park, CA 94025Gregory M. Erickson
University of California, Berkeley
Museums of Paleontology and Vertebrate Zoology
Department of Integrative Biology
3060 VLSB
Berkeley, CA 94720-3140James O. Farlow
Indiana-Purdue University
Department of Geosciences
2101 Coliseum Boulevard East
Fort Wayne, IN 46805
Healthy functioning takes social cues
A large study of British civil servants finds poorer general health in those whose work efforts go unrewarded and in those who report substantial conflict in intimate relationships.
Sources:
Lisa F. Berkman
Harvard University
Harvard School of Public Health
Department of Health and Social Behavior
677 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115Stephen A. Stansfeld
University College London
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health
1-19 Torrington Place
London WC1E 6BT
England
Research Notes
Biology
Island has the world’s only red nectars
The only three plant species in the world known to have red nectar all live in Mauritius.
Sources:
Jens M. Olesen
Aarhus University
Department of Ecology and Genetics
Ny Munkegade Building 540
DK-8000 Aarhus C
Denmark
Washington has the really tough singers
A comparison of song sparrows shows that Washington males hold song-matching bouts, but Pennsylvania birds don’t know the right tunes.
Sources:
Stephen Nowicki
Duke University
Department of Zoology
Evolution, Ecology and Oranismal Biology Group
Box 90325
Durham, NC 27708-0325
If a tree falls, will lizards listen?
A study of gaps in the Amazonian forest suggests that even single-tree logging might invite a boom in heat-loving lizards.
Sources:
Laurie J. Vitt
University of Oklahoma
Department of Zoology
Norman, OK 73019
Earth Sciences
Life got a kick out of dreary years
A billion years of geologic stability may have spurred the evolution of complex life.
Sources:
Martin D. Brasier
Oxford University
Department of Earth Sciences
Parks Road
Oxford OX1 2JD
United KingdomAlan J. Kaufman
University of Maryland, College Park
Department of Geology
Building 237, Room 1118
College Park, MD 20742-4211
Global warming eggs on El Niño
El Niños have gotten warmer and more frequent this century.
Sources:
James J. O’Brien
Florida State University
Department of Meteorology
404 Love Building
Tallahassee, FL 32306-3034
Articles:
Researchers study herbal remedies for hot flashes
Components of some age-old treatments function like estrogen.
Sources:
James A. Duke
Herbal Vineyard, Inc.
8210 Murphy Road
Fulton, MD 20759Catherine L. Eagon
Allegheny General Hospital
320 East North Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15212Patricia K. Eagon
University of Pittsburgh
Scaife Hall, Room 556
3550 Terrace Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15261
Psychology’s Tangled Web
Deceptive methods may backfire on behavioral researchers
Psychologists disagree over the practical implications of using deceptive tactics in their research.
Sources:
Arndt Bröder
University of Bonn
Department of Psychology
Römerstrasse 164
D-53117 Bonn
GermanyRalph Hertwig
Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition
Lentzeallee 94
14195 Berlin
GermanyDenis J. Hilton
Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales
Graduate School of Management
Avenue Bernard Hirsch, B.P. 105
95021 Cergy-Pontoise
FranceAllan J. Kimmel
Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris
26, rue du Capitaine Guynemer
93110 Rosny-sous-Bois
FranceJames H. Korn
Saint Louis University
Department of Psychology
221 North Grand Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63103Andreas Ortmann
Bowdoin College
Department of Economics
Brunswick, ME 04011James A. Shepperd
University of Florida
Department of Psychology
P.O. Box 112250
Gainesville, FL 32611-2250Kevin M. Taylor
University of Florida
Department of Psychology
P.O. Box 112250
Gainesville, FL 32611-2250
Printing the pages of an electronic book
A new type of ink made up of microencapsulated particles changes color in response to an electric signal.
Sources:
E Ink Corporation
45 Spinelli Place
Cambridge, MA 02138
E-mail: info@eink.com
Web site: http://www.electronic-ink.com/Joseph M. Jacobson
MIT Media Laboratory
20 Ames Street
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307Paul R. Kolodner
Bell Laboratories
Lucent Technologies Inc.
Murray Hill, NJ 07974-0636
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