Noteworthy Web Articles: June 2012

Here are our picks for interesting articles we've come across in June 2012. The summarized posts have links to the original article and, to help you locate them in the future, links to the categories and topics where they're also filed.

• Landfill-free Manufacturing: Ideas for You?  A couple of car companies at the 2012 Auto Show in Chicago touted their "Zero landfill" achievements. My first reaction: Wow! My second reaction: Yeah, right.
• Prevent Sports Injuries? There's an App for That  Neither reformed couch potatoes, professional athletes, nor sports and fitness buffs are immune to sprains, pains or serious damage to their ACL (knee ligament) or other body parts.
• Life Cycle Analysis Fuels Biofuel Dispute  In the words of Kermit the Frog, "It's not easy being green." Paper or plastic? That's easy (kind of): Neither. Bio- or fossil fuels? "Neither" isn't a realistic option when it comes to energy.
• A Better Way; Ten Creative Inventions  What draws more water and more energy than any other daily household activity? Discover a solution to this situation and 9 others.
  

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• Weizmann Institute Solar Technology to Convert Greenhouse Gas into Fuel
• Study Will Provide Information on How Infectious Diseases May be Transmitted on Aircraft
• Driving without a Blind Spot May Be Closer Than It Appears
  
• Venus transit pays homage to physics’ past and future
  
• Scientists reveal structure of bacterial chainmail
  
• New property of flames sparks advances in technology
  
• Armored Caterpillar’ Could Inspire New Body Armor
  
• Novel Brain Imaging Technique Explains Why Concussions Affect People Differently
  
• Professors Take Big Step to Develop Nuclear Fusion Power
  
• Study: Environmental benefit of biofuels is overestimated
• CU-Boulder-led team finds microbes in extreme environment on South American volcanoes
  
• A SMART(er) way to track influenza
  
• The Global Obesity Bomb
  
• Research at the University of Twente: Wi-Fi will soon reach its limits
  
• A new spin on antifreeze
  
• UCSF Implements Policy to Make Research Papers Freely Accessible to Public
  
• Computer Model Successfully Predicts Drug Side Effects
  
• Study Jointly Led by UCSB Researcher Finds New Evidence Supporting Theory of Extraterrestrial Impact
  
• Gene Therapy Society Looking to NIH to Revisit Role of the Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee
  
• Cell Contents May be Key to Controlling Toxicity of Huntington’s Disease Protein
  
• Protein Knots Gain New Evolutionary Significance
  
• Lawrence Livermore research identifies precise measurement of radiation damage
  
• Scientists ID Mechanism for Regulating Plant Oil Production
  
• Living Microprocessor Tunes in to Feedback
  
• UCI researchers create mosquitoes incapable of transmitting malaria
  
• A different drummer: Stanford engineers discover neural rhythms drive physical movement
  
• Energy-dense biofuel from cellulose close to being economical
  
• 'Hippie chimp' genome sequenced
  
• “More than One Way to Be Healthy”: First Map of the Bacterial Makeup of Humans Relies on MBL Innovations, Insights
  
• NIH Human Microbiome Project defines normal bacterial makeup of the body
  
• Population Genetics, Oxford University Partner on Biomarkers for in MI, Diabetes, Metabolic Disease
  
• Lariats: How RNA splicing decisions are made
  
• Robots equipped with tactile sensor better able to identify materials through touch than humans, enabling more lifelike prosthetics
  
• Utah Chemists Use Nanopores to Detect DNA Damage
  
• Clues to Nervous System Evolution Found in Nerve-less Sponge
  
• On Early Earth, Iron May Have Performed Magnesium’s RNA Folding Job
  
• Physicists predict success of movies at the box office
  
• Biosimilar Market Posts Steady Gains
  
• Taming Difficult to Express Proteins
  
• Researchers develop optical displays from water and air
  
• Carnegie Mellon-Led Research Team Finds Knowledge Of Fractions and Long Division Predicts Long-Term Math Success
  
• Syracuse University researchers use nanotechnology to harness the power of fireflies
  
• Nano-pesticides: Solution or threat for a cleaner and greener agriculture?
  
• NREL Helps "Supersize" Butanol Production
  
• Gold Nanoparticles Capable of ‘Unzipping’ DNA
  
• Jury Is Still Out Over Disclosing Genomic Research Findings to Patients
  
• Paddle vs. Propeller: Which Olympic Swimming Stroke is Superior?
  
• UCLA scientists discover how key enzyme involved in aging, cancer assembles
  
• UC Santa Barbara Researchers Develop Synthetic Platelets
  
• In the World: MIT-designed cooler preserves tuberculosis drugs, records doses
  
• Nowhere to hide: New device sees bacteria behind the eardrum
  
• New small solid oxide fuel cell reaches record efficiency
  
• Study links carcinogens to cancer stem cells – but spinach can help
  
• All-carbon solar cell harnesses infrared light
  
• Wireless 'tooth tattoo' detects harmful bacteria
  
• Researchers advance biometric security
• Aging and Breast Cancer
  
• Berkeley Lab Scientists Help Define the Healthy Human Microbiome
  
• World experts meet in Edinburgh to consider how life experiences impact on our genes
• Researchers discover potential new weapon against African crop pests
  
• National Botanic Garden of Wales logs plant DNA barcode
  
• The Impressive Power of Breast Milk
  
• Attack of the Flying, Invasive Carp
  
• Microspheres Could Save Patients Whose Lungs Have Stopped Working
  
• Safer cataract surgery at hand
  
• Heart attack worsens atherosclerosis
  
• Life partner
  
• Structural CLOCKwork of Circadian Rhythms
  
• Keeping Up with Embryogenesis
  
• New Molecular Structure Offers First Picture of a Protein Family Vital to Human Health
  
• Difference Engine: Shape of cars to come
  
• The world’s deadliest bioterrorist
• What Clementines Can Teach Surgeons