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Government Sites Reach 40 Percent of Americans but Lag Behind Overall Internet Growth

By Guest PostSeptember 12, 2011Technologyamericans, Comscore, comscore data, department of education, gillian heltai, Google, government agencies, internal revenue service, national institutes of health, national oceanic and atmospheric administration, nih, traffic to federal government sites, usajobs

*Interest in Government Jobs Propels USAJobs.gov Alongside Commercial Career Sites*

RESTON, VA, September 12, 2011 – comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released an analysis of traffic to federal Government sites, which showed a decline over the past year despite attempts to make the government more digital-friendly. In July 2011, 87.6 million Americans visited a government site, representing 40.7 percent of the total U.S. online population. Although today’s audience represents an 11-percent increase in visitors vs. five years ago, this number is significantly lower than the 24-percent growth in the total U.S. Internet population over the same period of time. (more…)

Get the Light, Beat the Heat

By Guest PostSeptember 11, 2011Scienceandre anders, anna llordes, berkeley lab, breakthrough technology, carbon emissions in the united states, coloration efficiency, delia milliron, department of energy, doe, dynamic window coatings, electric charge, electrochromic materials, evan runnerstrom, guillermo garcia, lawrence berkeley national laboratory, near infrared frequency range, raffaella buonsanti, rueben mendelsberg, semiconductor nanocrystal coating material, semiconductor nanocrystals, smart window, thomas richardson

*Berkeley Lab Researchers Develop New Infrared Coating for Windows*

Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have unveiled a semiconductor nanocrystal coating material capable of controlling heat from the sun while remaining transparent. Based on electrochromic materials, which use a jolt of electric charge to tint a clear window, this breakthrough technology is the first to selectively control the amount of near infrared radiation. This radiation, which leads to heating, passes through the film without affecting its visible transmittance. Such a dynamic system could add a critical energy-saving dimension to “smart window” coatings. (more…)

Politicians Have Less Influence Through News Media

By Guest PostSeptember 11, 2011Media, Politicsamerican public, corwin smidt, gun control in 2000, health care reform, media coverage, michigan state university, million mom march, news media, public agenda, public opinion, Washington, washington politicians

EAST LANSING, Mich. — News coverage of Washington politicians and their rhetoric appears to have less influence on the American public compared to other news coverage, according to a study by a Michigan State University political scientist.

Instead, citizens are more apt to be swayed by news stories about grassroots protests and local events, said Corwin Smidt, assistant professor of political science. His study appears in the research journal Public Opinion Quarterly. (more…)

Can Scientists Look at Next Year’s Climate?

By Guest PostSeptember 11, 2011Environmentclimate dynamics, climate forecasts, climate models, climate predictions, climate sensitivity, predicting climate

Is it possible to make valid climate predictions that go beyond weeks, months, even a year? UCLA atmospheric scientists report they have now made long-term climate forecasts that are among the best ever — predicting climate up to 16 months in advance, nearly twice the length of time previously achieved by climate scientists. (more…)

The Next Generation of Ice Cream: One Bite, Two Flavors

By Guest PostSeptember 11, 2011Scienceamerica, caramel, chewing gum, chocolate, elizabeth fenner, experimental ice cream, flavor release, frozen desserts, gastric activity, ice cream, ingolf gruen, micro encapsulation, microwave cooking, national ice cream retailers association, neapolitan, nut, probiotic bacteria, strawberry, Technology, vanilla, vanilla flavor

*MU researchers develop “flavor release” ice cream with two distinct flavors*

COLUMBIA, Mo. — As the spoon slides into your mouth, you feel the freshness of the ice cream cool your mouth with a rich vanilla flavor. Yet, as you dig your spoon in for more, the vanilla changes, ever so slightly at first, but then to a distinct second flavor as you begin to taste cherry just before you swallow that first bite. The two-flavor, or “flavor release,” ice cream is an experimental ice cream that is being tested by researchers at the University of Missouri College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources.

Using a process known as “micro-encapsulation,” Elizabeth Fenner, a food science graduate student, and Ingolf Gruen, associate professor and chair of food sciences, developed the ice cream that starts as one flavor and — after immediately breaking down inside the mouth — releases a second flavor. (more…)

A “Jumping Gene’s” Preferred Targets May Influence Genome Evolution

By Guest PostSeptember 10, 2011Sciencegene disruption project, genetic blueprint, genome evolution, jumping gene, transposon elements

Baltimore, MD — The human genome shares several peculiarities with the DNA of just about every other plant and animal. Our genetic blueprint contains numerous entities known as transposons, or “jumping genes,” which have the ability to move from place to place on the chromosomes within a cell. (more…)

Parents’ Behavior Linked to Kids’ Videogame Playing

By Guest PostSeptember 10, 2011Health, Technologychild parent relationship, children, moral reasoning, parental behavior, videogame behavior, videogame playing

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Children who think their parents are poor monitors or nag a lot tend to play videogames more than other kids, according to a study by Michigan State University researchers. (more…)

Developers Tune In to Microsoft’s Channel 9

By Guest PostSeptember 10, 2011Technologymicrosoft lab, microsoft research, mind of microsoft, people at microsoft

Channel 9 has been broadcasting from inside Microsoft’s labs and offices since 2004, giving a large community of developers an insider’s view of the people behind the company’s products and technologies

REDMOND, Wash – Passengers on United Airlines flights have long turned their in-flight entertainment dials to Channel 9 to hear what’s happening in the cockpit. For more than seven years, developers have had a similar opportunity to get inside the mind of Microsoft. (more…)

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