ITHACA, New York, Aug. 21 -- Cornell University issued the following news: A policy influencer, an entrepreneur, an academic and a journalist will offer their perspectives on how to make a difference in addressing climate change in the Cornell Climate Impact Speaker Series, a four-part series co-hosted by The 2030 Project: A Cornell Climate Initiative and the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability. .p2030-location-hor{margin: 12px -320px 0 36px !important;} .p2030-image-hor{width: 55% !im  more

MADISON, Wisconsin, Aug. 21 -- The University of Wisconsin Madison campus issued the following news: From major research milestones to gold medals to the rite of passage known as SOAR (Student Orientation, Advising and Registration), the past few months were filled with a mix of work and play--it's what Badgers do best. Before the hustle and bustle of another academic year begins, let's take a look back at a few standout moments from this summer. Research on There's no such thing as a summer   more

HOBOKEN, New Jersey, Aug. 22 -- Advanced Materials, a journal that says it publishes reviews, progress reports, communications and research news at the cutting edge of the chemistry and physics of functional materials, published research articles on the following topics in its Aug. 22, 2024, special issue (Vol. 36, Issue 34) entitled Advanced Materials for Additive Manufacturing: Perspective * AI-Enabled Materials Design of Non-Periodic 3D Architectures With Predictable Direction-Dependent Ela  more

LA GRANGE PARK, Illinois, Aug. 22 -- The American Nuclear Society issued the following news: The American Nuclear Society is excited to announce the launch of its inaugural Nuclear 101 certificate course, scheduled to take place in-person at the 2024 ANS Winter Conference and Expo this November. This comprehensive five-day program is designed to provide participants with a robust understanding of nuclear energy and engineering, delivered by some of the field's foremost experts. Nuclear 101 is   more

OLD ELVET, England, Aug. 22 (TNSres) -- Durham University issued the following news: * * * This summer we celebrated the phenomenal success of three Durham scholars who have just been awarded a prestigious Fubright Scholarship to continue their studies and research at universities across the USA. * * * Fulbright is an international educational and cultural exchange programme between the UK and USA. Since 1948, Fulbright Awards have funded American and British students to do a postgraduate de  more

HANOVER, New Hampshire, Aug. 22 (TNSres) -- Dartmouth College issued the following news: * * * Paper questions model of rapid polar ice collapse, but says retreat is still dire. * * * In recent years, the news about Earth's climate--from raging wildfires and stronger hurricanes to devastating floods and searing heat waves--has provided little good news. A new Dartmouth-led study, however, reports that one of the worst-case projections of how high the world's oceans might rise as polar ice s  more

SYRACUSE, New York, Aug. 21 -- Syracuse University issued the following news: A special exhibition, "On My Own Time--Celebrating the Artistic Talents of Syracuse University Faculty and Staff," was held in Bird Library earlier this summer. This year is the 51st anniversary of this program, organized by CNY Arts, and faculty and staff were invited to showcase their talents along with other employers and businesses in the region. All active full-time and part-time faculty and staff were eligible  more

TUCSON, Arizona, Aug. 22 (TNSres) -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release: Imagine owning a camera so powerful it can take freeze-frame photographs of a moving electron - an object traveling so fast it could circle the Earth many times in a second. Researchers at the University of Arizona have developed the world's fastest electron microscope that can do just that. They believe their work will lead to groundbreaking advancements in physics, chemistry, bioengineering, ma  more

LAUREL, Maryland, Aug. 22 -- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory issued the following news release: The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and Whiting School of Engineering welcomed 70 students from the U.S. Space Force's Schriever and West Space Scholars Program on Aug. 9 and 16 for a tour of APL's campus and a chance to find potential paths for collaboration as the students work on world-class space-related research and development projects. The candidates --   more

DURHAM, North Carolina, Aug. 22 (TNSres) -- Duke University Pratt School of Engineering issued the following news: * * * Researchers at Duke are focused on understanding how 2-meter-long DNA is organized within a micron-size cell nucleus * * * If stretched out, the DNA in a human cell would be about 2 meters long, but the nucleus of the cell is only about 6 micrometers in diameter. This is similar to packing 24 miles of thread into a tennis ball, and it's at the heart of one of the biggest q  more

MANOA, Hawaii, Aug. 22 (TNSres) -- The University of Hawaii Manoa campus issued the following news release: Discovering a behavior key to humpback whales' survival and offering a case to include humpbacks among the rare animals that make and wield their own tools is the focus of new research out of the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology researchers have known that humpback whales create "bubble nets" to hunt, but they discovered that they manipulate the bubble net  more

THOUSAND OAKS, California, Aug. 22 -- The Journal for the History of Astronomy, a peer-reviewed journal that says it features branches of mathematics and physics and the use of historical records in the service of astronomy, published research articles on the following topics in its August 2024 edition (Vol. 55, Issue 3): * Nebulae or galaxies? The history of a change in astronomical terminology * Francois Viete and his analysis of the Copernican lunar model * An astronomical analysis of the   more

NEW YORK, Aug. 22 -- The Journal of Low Temperature Physics, a peer-reviewed journal that says it features low temperature physics and cryogenics, published research articles on the following topics in its August 2024 edition (Vol. 216, Issue 3-4): * Modeling and Analysis of Flow Through the Orifice of Still in Dilution Refrigerator * Dispersion Law for a One-Dimensional Weakly Interacting Bose Gas with Zero Boundary Conditions * Low Working Temperature of Erbium Orthophosphate ErPO4 with Lar  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Agreement with AI4OPT will drive research and training on AI problem-solving * * * A new agreement between Los Alamos National Laboratory and the National Science Foundation's Artificial Intelligence Institute for Advances in Optimization, or AI4OPT, at Georgia Institute of Technology will drive research in applied artificial intelligence and engage students and oth  more

BLACKSBURG, Virginia, Aug. 21 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: Rain delays at a sporting event. Tornado damage to a rural town in the Great Plains. Icy roads during a morning work commute in the winter months. We've all experienced the impacts of inclement weather, but did you know weather conditions high in our atmosphere also can affect our everyday lives? "While space weather can spark the beautiful auroras across our skies, it also has the potential to cause disruptions for us   more

PASADENA, California, Aug. 21 -- The California Institute of Technology issued the following news: Steven Nadj-Perge, professor of applied physics and materials science, has been named one of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation's 19 new Experimental Physics Investigators and will receive a five-year $1.25 million grant to further his research goals. "I'm deeply honored by this award," says Nadj-Perge. "It will provide us with an unusual opportunity to pursue some of the riskier ideas that we  more

BIRMINGHAM, England, Aug. 21 (TNSres) -- The University of Birmingham issued the following news: * * * Doctoral researcher Upasna Chauhan interviews world-leading physicists to explore the impact of their research and what this means for the world we live in. * * * Doctoral researcher Upasna Chauhan heads a new podcast series interviewing world-leading physicists working on a project called AION (Atom Interferometry Observatory and Network) which aims to develop the science and technology to  more

PASADENA, California, Aug. 21 -- The California Institute of Technology issued the following news: Natural rubber is a crucial material with limited and therefore vulnerable sources Caltech is joining a multi-institution effort to develop domestic sources of natural rubber--a crucial material that is often irreplaceable by synthetic alternatives. Dubbed the Transformation of American Rubber through Domestic Innovation for Supply Security (TARDISS) Engineering Research Center (ERC), the $26 mi  more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Aug. 22 (TNSres) -- The University of Chicago issued the following news: * * * UChicago-led study casts new light on the origins of life on Earth * * * By Paul Dailing One of the major unanswered questions about the origin of life is how droplets of RNA floating around the primordial soup turned into the membrane-protected packets of life we call cells. A new paper by researchers with the University of Chicago and the University of Houston proposes a solution. They show  more

LOS ANGELES, California, Aug. 22 -- The Museum of Contemporary Art issued the following news release: The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) is delighted to present Olafur Eliasson: OPEN from September 15, 2024 through July 6, 2025 at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. The first major solo exhibition of the Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson (b. 1967, Copenhagen; lives and works in Berlin) in Los Angeles, OPEN is part of the landmark Getty initiative PST ART: Art & Science Collide and is orga  more

WEST LAFAYETTE, Indiana, Aug. 22 -- Purdue University issued the following news release: * * * Achievements, honors for electrical engineer Samuel Peana now will include a 3-year Truman Fellowship at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico * * * Growing up, Samuel Peana loved to build things. The world was his playground for tinkering and taking apart common things and discovering how they work -- especially the inner workings of computers and potential interconnections between computers   more

SAN JOSE, California, Aug. 22 -- Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-California, issued the following news release on Aug. 21, 2024: Today, U.S. Representative Zoe Lofgren (CA-18) - Ranking Member of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee - along with her colleagues, U.S. Representatives Anna Eshoo (CA-16), Ro Khanna (CA-17), and Jimmy Panetta (CA-19), announced that San Jose State University (SJSU) and its Research Foundation will receive a total of $1,930,421 from the U.S. Department of Health an  more

SAN JOSE, California, Aug. 22 -- Rep. Jimmy Panetta, D-California, issued the following news release on Aug. 21, 2024: Today, U.S. Representative Zoe Lofgren (CA-18) - Ranking Member of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee - along with her colleagues, U.S. Representatives Anna Eshoo (CA-16), Ro Khanna (CA-17), and Jimmy Panetta (CA-19), announced that San Jose State University (SJSU) and its Research Foundation will receive a total of $1,930,421 from the U.S. Department of Health   more

MENLO PARK, California, Aug. 22 (TNSres) -- The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory issued the following news brief: * * * Their method provides a new tool to study electron-electron interactions, which are fundamental to many technologies, including semiconductors and solar cells. * * * Scientists Use Attosecond X-ray Pulses to Shed New Light on the Photoelectric Effect By Ali Sundermier A team of scientists from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has uncover  more

ALBANY, New York, Aug. 22 -- The State University of New York University at Albany issued the following news: The University at Albany's College of Nanotechnology, Science, and Engineering has launched three new graduate certificate programs in semiconductor engineering. The programs are designed to meet the demand for a skilled workforce in the U.S. and global semiconductor industry, a market that is expected to reach $1 trillion annually by the end of the decade. The new programs are a cr  more

BELLINGHAM, Washington, Aug. 22 -- SPIE (formerly the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers) issued the following news release: * * * The Society's next Vice President is a longtime participant in the Society's conference, publications, and outreach activities * * * Cather Simpson, of the University of Auckland and Orbis Diagnostics, has been elected to serve as the 2025 Vice President of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. She will serve as President-Elect  more

HOUSTON, Texas, Aug. 22 (TNSres) -- The University of Houston issued the following news on Aug. 21, 2024: * * * A Nobel-winning Biologist, Two Engineering Schools, and a Vial of Houston Rainwater Cast New Light on the Origin of Life on Earth * * * One of the major unanswered questions about the origin of life is how droplets of RNA floating around the primordial soup turned into the membrane-protected packets of life we call cells. A new paper by engineers from the University of Houston's   more

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Aug. 22 (TNSres) -- The University of the Witwatersrand issued the following news: * * * Deviations in the way that particles interact point to the existence of new bosons. * * * Working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Switzerland, researchers collide atoms against each other at the speed of light, in order to study the way they break up. The ultimate goal is to observe new particles hidden in the data. Professors Andreas Crivellin of the University  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Aug. 22 (TNSres) -- Yale University issued the following news: * * * Yale experimental physicist Alison Sweeney will receive $1.25 million to fund her research that might lead to innovations in optics and solar technology. * * * By Jim Shelton In her research, Yale's Alison Sweeney has crafted innovative studies that have revealed novel mechanisms in the natural world that could aid in the design of future technology. For instance, she has discovered the blueprints f  more