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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…)

First Global Picture of Greenhouse Gases Emerges from Pole-to-Pole Research Flights

By Guest PostSeptember 10, 2011Environmentandy watt, anne-marie schmoltner, Antarctic, Arctic, black carbon particles, britton stephens, carbon dioxide, climate, concentrations of greenhouse gases, earth, global distribution of gases, gulfstream v aircraft, harvard university, hiaper, hiaper pole to pole observations, high performance instrumented airborne platform for environmental research, hippo, Houston, industrial age, los angeles, national science foundation, natural carbon dioxide uptake and storage, new zealand, nsf, pacific, particles in the atmosphere, portrait of greenhouse gases, ryan spackman, steven wofsy

*Three-year series of scientific missions from Arctic to Antarctic produces new views of atmospheric chemistry*

A three-year series of research flights from the Arctic to the Antarctic has successfully produced an unprecedented portrait of greenhouse gases and particles in the atmosphere.

The far-reaching field project, known as HIPPO, ends this week, and has enabled researchers to generate the first detailed mapping of the global distribution of gases and particles that affect Earth’s climate. (more…)

Scientists Simulate Seashells’ Structures

By Guest PostSeptember 9, 2011Scienceartificial biominerals, artificial proteins, biological minerals, biominerals, bones, calcite crystals, calcium carbonate, crystal structure, fiona meldrum, hardness, microscopic level, nanoindenter, sea urchin spines, seashells, stephen eichhorn, synthetic crystals, synthetic polymer nanoparticles, teeth, university of exeter

*Scientists have successfully created synthetic crystals whose structures and properties mimic those of naturally-occurring biominerals such as seashells.*

*The findings, published in the journal Nature Materials, could be an important step in the development of high-performance materials, which could be manufactured under environmentally-friendly conditions.*

Professor Stephen Eichhorn, who has just moved to the University of Exeter from the University of Manchester, played a key role in the research. Professor Eichhorn has been appointed to a Chair in Functional Materials, through the University of Exeter’s £230 million investment in science, medicine and engineering. Exeter’s vision is for a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approach to the understanding and application of functional materials – from fundamentals to manufacture – exploiting world-leading materials knowledge to deliver new concepts, processes and products. (more…)

The Waning of American Apartheid? Residential Segregation Declines in U.S. Metros

By Guest PostSeptember 9, 2011Politicsamerican apartheid, black white segregation, neighborhood composition, residential segregation, urban america

ANN ARBOR, Mich.— The ideal of equal housing opportunities is closer to becoming a reality in most major U.S. metro areas, according to a University of Michigan researcher. (more…)

Microbes Generate Electricity While Cleaning Up Nuclear Waste

By Guest PostSeptember 8, 2011Environmentallison speers, conductive pili, dena cologgi, electricity, environmental disasters, gemma reguera, geobacter bacteria, groundwater, michigan state university, microbes, microbial fuel cells, microorganisms, nanowires, nuclear contamination, nuclear waste, polluted sites, production of nuclear fuel, radioactive material, sanela lampa pastirk, shelly kelly, toxic metals, uranium

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Researchers at Michigan State University have unraveled the mystery of how microbes generate electricity while cleaning up nuclear waste and other toxic metals.

Details of the process, which can be improved and patented, are published in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The implications could eventually benefit sites forever changed by nuclear contamination, said Gemma Reguera, MSU microbiologist. (more…)

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