MEDFORD, Massachusetts, Aug. 17 -- Advanced Science, an open access journal that covers fundamental and applied research in materials science, physics and chemistry, medical and life sciences, as well as engineering, published research articles on the following topics in its Aug. 14, 2024, edition (Vol. 11, Issue 30). Here are excerpts: * * * Review * Drivers and Pathways for the Recovery of Critical Metals from Waste-Printed Circuit Boards * Physiochemically and Genetically Engineered Bact  more

WEINHEIM, Germany, Aug. 17 -- Annalen der Physik, a physics journal, published research articles on the following topics in its August 2024 edition (Vol. 536, Issue 8): Perspective - Then & Now * The Roles of Thomson and Rutherford in the Birth of Atomic Physics: The Interaction of Experiment and Theory Research Article * Wavelength Scale Singlet Achromatic Microlenses Based on High Refractive Index Materials * Photon Blockades in an Optomechanical Cavity with a Bose-Einstein Condensate in  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 -- Applied Polymer Materials, a peer-reviewed journal from the American Chemical Society that says it covers engineering, chemistry, physics and biology relevant to applications of polymers, published research articles on the following topics in its Aug. 9, 2024, edition (Vol. 6, Issue 15). Here are excerpts: * * * Reviews * Chiral Covalent Organic Frameworks as Promising Materials for Racemate Resolution Letters * Dehydrogenated Polyethylene from Discarded Plastics as   more

BRISTOL, England, Aug. 17 -- Communications in Theoretical Physics, a peer-reviewed journal that says it reports theoretical developments in different areas of physics, published research articles on the following topics in its September 2024 edition (Vol. 76, No. 9): Papers - Mathematical Physics * Stability analysis and soliton solutions of the (1+1)-dimensional nonlinear chiral Schrodinger equation in nuclear physics Quantum Physics and Quantum Information * Efficient fidelity estimation  more

HOBOKEN, New Jersey, Aug. 17 -- Laser and Photonics Reviews, a journal that covers current range of laser physics and photonics, published research articles on the following topics in its August 2024 edition (Vol. 18, Issue 8): Review * Advances in Quantum Imaging with Machine Intelligence * Nanophotonics with Plasmonic Nanorod Metamaterials * Nanostructures in Organic Light-Emitting Diodes: Principles and Recent Advances in the Light Extraction Strategy Research Article * In-Situ Wavefron  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Aug. 17 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * By studying ancient, supermassive black holes called quasars, Dominika Durovcikova is illuminating an early moment when galaxies could first be observed. * * * By Austin Chen, MIT News correspondent Watching crowds of people hustle along Massachusetts Avenue from her window seat in MIT's student center, Dominika Durovcikova has just one wish. "What I would really like t  more

MELVILLE, New York, Aug. 17 -- Physics of Plasmas, a peer-reviewed journal, published research articles on the following topics in its August 2024 edition (Vol. 31, Issue 8). Here are excerpts: * * * REVIEW ARTICLE * The crucial role of diagnostics in achieving ignition on the National Ignition Facility (NIF) LETTERS * Statistical characterization of high voltage vacuum surface flashover with gapped and ungapped anodes ARTICLES - Basic Plasma Phenomena, Waves, Instabilities * Refractive  more

BRISTOL, England, Aug. 17 -- Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, a peer-reviewed journal that says it features the physics of hot, highly ionized plasmas, published research articles on the following topics in its September 2024 edition (Vol. 66, No. 9): * Assessment of the runaway electron load distribution in ITER during 3D MHD induced beam termination * The effect of high-Z dopant on the ablation of carbon-hydrogen polymer target * System size scaling of triangularity effects on global t  more

TORONTO, Ontario, Aug. 17 (TNSres) -- The University of Toronto issued the following news: * * * The new model expands on the capabilities of Google DeepMind's AlphaFold, the leading AI system for predicting protein structures * * * By Anika Hazra Researchers at the University of Toronto have developed a deep-learning model that can predict all possible shapes of peptides - chains of amino acids that are shorter than proteins, but perform similar biological functions. Called PepFlow, the m  more