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April 19, 2010
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Good Morning,

A new sensor has been developed by scientists that can weigh
cells with great precision. Find out all about how it works
and what it means for future studies in the last article.

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NASA: Venus may be geologically alive

PASADENA, Calif. - NASA says its scientists have, for the
first time, detected clear signs of recent lava flows on
Venus that suggest the planet is geologically alive. Sue
Smrekar, a scientist at the space agency's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., said the observations reveal
volcanoes on Venus appeared to erupt between a few hundred
years to 2.5 million years ago. That, she said, would make
Venus one of the few worlds in our solar system that has been
volcanically active within the last 3 million years. Scien-
tists said the evidence comes from the European Space
Agency's Venus Express that has been orbiting the planet
since 2006 and from NASA's Magellan spacecraft that orbited
Venus from 1990 to 1994. The researchers said relatively
young lava flows have been identified by the way they emit
infrared radiation and it is those observations, among other
data, that suggest Venus is still capable of volcanic erup-
tions. "The geological history of Venus has long been a
mystery," said Smrekar, lead author of a paper describing
the study. "Previous spacecraft gave us hints of volcanic
activity, but we didn't know how long ago that occurred.
Now we have strong evidence right at the surface for recent
eruptions." The research is reported in the journal Science.

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'Black hole' at atomic scale demonstrated

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - U.S. physicists say they have discovered
atoms spiral toward a charged carbon nanotube, displaying
dramatic acceleration before splitting apart. Harvard Univer-
sity researchers said their findings mean carbon nanotubes
-- long touted for applications in materials and electronics
-- might also be the stuff of atomic-scale black holes. The
scientists said they've found a high-voltage nanotube can
cause cold atoms to spiral inward under dramatic acceleration
before violently disintegrating. They said their experiments
are the first to demonstrate something akin to a black hole
at atomic scale. "On a scale of nanometers, we create an
inexorable and destructive pull similar to what black holes
exert on matter at cosmic scales," Professor Lene Vestergaard
Hau said. "As importantly for scientists, this is the first
merging of cold-atom and nanoscale science, and it opens the
door to a new generation of cold atom experiments and nano-
scale devices." Hau and co-authors Anne Goodsell, Trygve
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Self-pollinating almond trees developed

PARLIER, Calif. - U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists
say they've developed self-pollinating almond trees that can
produce a bountiful harvest without insect pollination.
Scientists led by the USDA's Agricultural Research Service
said the development is good news for almond growers who
face rising costs for insect pollination because of nation-
wide shortages of honeybees. The research into the self-
pollinating almond trees is not new, said geneticist Craig
Ledbetter, who is leading the study. He said the Tuono vari-
ety, originally from Spain, has been around for centuries.
But its traits are not attractive when compared to Califor-
nia's most popular almond, Nonpareil. Ledbetter and his
colleagues used Tuono as the male (pollen) parent in con-
ventional hybridizations with California-adapted almond
cultivars and selections. The scientists made crosses at
bloom time and came back at harvest time to collect the
nuts. They then grew those nuts into seedlings and surrounded
the branches with insect-proof nylon bags to exclude insects
that could serve as pollinators. The seedlings bloomed and
some produced fruits inside the bags, making those seedlings
self-pollinating. The Almond Board of California evaluated
the almonds and said it was pleased with the skin color, oil
content and, most importantly, the flavor. The research is
reported in the April issue of Agricultural Research maga-
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Sensor weights cells with unique precision

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - U.S. scientists say they have created a
sensor that can measure cells with unprecedented precision,
determining the rate at which single cells accumulate mass.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Univ-
ersity researchers said their findings might explain how
cells control their growth and why those controls fail in
cancerous cells. MIT Associate Professor Scott Manalis, who
led the study, said his team found individual cells vary
greatly in their growth rates, and also found evidence that
cells grow exponentially. The scientists said the new
measurement system is the first technique that can measure
a cell's mass as it grows over a period of time, ranging
from five to 30 minutes. Previous methods for measuring
cell growth rates focused on volume or length measurements,
and have not exhibited the necessary precision for revealing
single cell growth models, the scientists said. The study
that included Michel Godin, Francisco Delgado, Harvard Pro-
fessor Marc Kirschner, Sungmin Son, William Glover, Andrea
Bryan, Amit Tzur, Paul Jorgensen, Kris Payer and Alan
Grossman appears in the journal Nature Methods.

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