ALBANY, New York, Aug. 28 -- The State University of New York University at Albany issued the following news: Physicists at the University at Albany on Monday hailed the latest progress in the hunt for direct evidence of dark matter -- believed to be a massive-but-so-far-invisible building block to the universe -- as the newest results from the LUX-ZEPLIN project were unveiled at two scientific conferences. LUX-ZEPLIN, or LZ, is the most sensitive dark matter detector in the world, and its ope  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 (TNSres) -- The National Science Foundation issued the following news release: The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration, a global network of radio telescopes funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and international partners, has achieved the highest resolution radio observations of astronomical objects ever obtained. For this experiment, the researchers detected radio waves from distant galaxies at a wavelength of 0.87 mm, a substantial improvement from the 1.3 mm  more

LOS ANGELES, California, Aug. 28 (tnsRES) -- The University of California issued the following news release: * * * Radiation from dark matter may have kept hydrogen gas hot enough to condense into black holes Key takeaways * Supermassive black holes typically take billions of years to form. But the James Webb Space Telescope is finding them not that long after the Big Bang -- before they should have had time to form. * UCLA astrophysicists have discovered that if dark matter decays, the pho  more

LONDON, England, Aug. 28 (TNSres) -- Imperial College-London issued the following news: * * * New results from the world's most sensitive dark matter detector narrow down the possibilities for what makes up our universe's invisible mass. * * * By Hayley Dunning Figuring out the nature of dark matter, the invisible substance that makes up most of the mass in our universe, is one of the greatest puzzles in physics. New results from the world's most sensitive dark matter detector, LUX-ZEPLIN (  more

PASADENA, California, Aug. 27 (TNSres) -- NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news: NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft recently got outfitted with a set of enormous solar arrays at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Each measuring about 46 1/2 feet (14.2 meters) long and about 13 1/2 feet (4.1 meters) high, the arrays are the biggest NASA has ever developed for a planetary mission. They have to be large so they can soak up as much sunlight as possible during the space  more

NORMAN, Oklahoma, Aug. 28 (TNSres) -- The University of Oklahoma issued the following news release: * * * The existence of topological excitons predicted by OU-led research team. * * * Bruno Uchoa, a professor of condensed matter physics, and Hong-yi Xie, a postdoctoral fellow in condensed matter physics at the University of Oklahoma, have published research in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that predicts the existence of a new type of exciton. These particles co  more

SYRACUSE, New York, Aug. 27 -- Syracuse University issued the following news: The College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) mourns the passing of John Baldwin, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of chemistry. Remembered as a dynamic scholar of physical organic chemistry, Baldwin was a pioneer in utilizing density functional theory to gain insight into chemical bonding and reaction mechanisms. He published more than 150 articles over the course of his career, and continued to publish important works up   more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Aug. 27 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Using a polymer to make a strong yet springy thin film, scientists led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are speeding the arrival of next-generation solid-state batteries. This effort advances the development of electric vehicle power enabled by flexible, durable sheets of solid-state electrolytes. The sheets may allow scalable production o  more

WOLLONGONG, Australia, Aug. 28 (TNSres) -- The University of Wollongong issued the following news release: * * * UOW invention being brought to market by Electrogenics Laboratories Ltd * * * A groundbreaking invention that will improve radiation treatments for cancer patients is receiving $1 million in grant funding from the Australian Government to support its path towards commercialisation. MOSkinTM is the world's most advanced and cost-effective medical radiation sensor technology. It wa  more