Latest USC Dornsife News in the Topic Natural Sciences http://dornsife.usc.edu/news/topics/919/natural-sciences/ Memory is our brain’s library, the key to our consciousness and identity. Its loss may be triggered by obesity, head injury, even traffic pollution. Can fasting help?]]> Tue, 18 Dec 2012 09:35:00 -0500 USC Dornsife doctoral student Candy Hwang wins two top NSF awards for a video that dissects the chemistry behind the nitrogenase enzyme that produces ammonia from nitrogen in the atmosphere.]]> Wed, 12 Dec 2012 10:50:00 -0500 USC Dornsife chemist G.K. Surya Prakash and his team discover a way to turn a harmful byproduct of Teflon — used on everything from cooking pans to armor-piercing bullets — into material for pharmaceuticals.]]> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:55:00 -0500 USC Dornsife’s Jed Fuhrman will receive part of a $35 million award from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to conduct high-risk research focusing on how complex marine microbial systems interact and change over time.]]> Wed, 5 Dec 2012 13:40:00 -0500 Distinguished Professor Arieh Warshel of USC Dornsife has been honored with the 2012 Soft Matter & Biophysical Chemistry Award. He and his research team have pioneered the key models for computer simulations of the functions of biological molecules.]]> Tue, 4 Dec 2012 12:30:00 -0500 An unprecedented 13 USC Dornsife professors are honored as AAAS fellows by their peers for 2012. The organization seeks to advance science and engineering innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all people.]]> Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:05:00 -0500 Combining genetic tools, drug treatment and state-of-the-art imaging, USC Dornsife’s Susan Forsburg and her researchers have found that some cancer cells continue to replicate even after treatment.]]> Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:00:00 -0500 Director of the Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations, USC Dornsife’s Katrina Edwards has received the prestigious A.G. Huntsman Award presented annually by the Royal Society of Canada.]]> Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:30:00 -0500 The impending tragic extinction of the great apes does not have to happen, USC Dornsife’s Craig Stanford argues in his new book. The biologist offers some solutions that can help save the apes' existence on Earth into at least the next century.]]> Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:30:00 -0500 Sarah Bottjer of neurobiology and psychology and her team are the first to locate the neural circuit in the songbird brain that encodes a representation of learned vocal sounds.]]> Fri, 9 Nov 2012 09:30:00 -0500 Fri, 9 Nov 2012 09:00:00 -0500 Thu, 8 Nov 2012 10:55:00 -0500 The American Geosciences Institute honors the USC Dornsife University Professor for his earthquake preparedness work, including as chair of a commission formed after the 2009 quake that killed more than 300 people in L’Aquila, Italy.]]> Tue, 6 Nov 2012 14:05:00 -0500 USC Dornsife doctoral student Justin Hall is a lead author on a study that unravels the mystery of dinosaur hind-wings, solving a major problem in the evolution of dinosaur flight.]]> Fri, 2 Nov 2012 14:35:00 -0500 The Open University of Catalonia presents USC Dornsife’s Hanna Damasio with its highest honor for her digital imaging brain research.]]> Fri, 2 Nov 2012 13:20:00 -0500 USC Dornsife mathematicians are honored by the American Mathematical Society.]]> Thu, 1 Nov 2012 11:10:00 -0500 USC Dornsife has started a Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) chapter on campus to promote diversity in all scientific fields.]]> Wed, 31 Oct 2012 15:20:00 -0500 Rather than explain in writing the science behind her research, USC Dornsife chemistry doctoral candidate Candy Hwang has used animation in a National Science Foundation contest.]]> Mon, 29 Oct 2012 11:25:00 -0500 Multicellular bacteria transmit electrons across relatively enormous distances in the sea, according to a new Nature study co-authored by USC Dornsife’s Moh El-Naggar.]]> Thu, 25 Oct 2012 09:00:00 -0500 For a quarter century, USC Dornsife foreman Donald Wiggins has worked in a machine shop in the basement of Kaprielian Hall, where he and another foreman create parts for scientific experiments.]]> Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:20:00 -0500 A two-day symposium commemorated the 35th year of the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute and the 85th birthday of Nobel Laureate George Olah of USC Dornsife.]]> Tue, 23 Oct 2012 09:35:00 -0500 USC Dornsife researchers receive part of large grants to approach their inquiry into cancer in imaginative ways.]]> Thu, 18 Oct 2012 09:30:00 -0500 Neuroscientists Antonio and Hanna Damasio, both USC Dornsife University Professors, supervise a five-year study that tracks the effects of musical training on emotional, social and cognitive development in children.]]> Mon, 15 Oct 2012 12:50:00 -0500 An international workshop held at USC and organized by USC Dornsife’s Douglas Capone and David Hutchins probes how climate change affects our oceans.]]> Mon, 15 Oct 2012 12:40:00 -0500 A recently published study co-authored by USC Dornsife’s Nicos Petasis reveals a new drug that may be an effective alternative for cancer patients resistant to currently available drugs.]]> Thu, 11 Oct 2012 15:45:00 -0500