ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, New York, Sept. 11 -- Bard College issued the following news release: Antonios Kontos, associate professor and director of physics at Bard College, has been awarded a research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Kontos' proposal, titled "Stray Light Control for Cosmic Explorer," has been awarded a total of $351,951 in funding over a period of three years, which will also cover student salaries, travel, and equipment. "Try to imagine a telescope that can hear   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory issued the following news: Three scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science to receive funding through the Early Career Research Program (ECRP). The Department of Energy today announced the selection of 91 early career scientists from across the nation to receive funding for research as part of the program.  more

SYRACUSE, New York, Sept. 11 -- Syracuse University issued the following news: The creator of the term "bio art," an expressive form that interprets scientific principles and concepts through artistic installations, exhibitions and performances, is the keynote speaker for the University's annual Kashi and Kameshwar C. Wali Lecture in the Sciences and Humanities. Eduardo Kac Eduardo Kac, an internationally recognized contemporary artist and poet, will speak on Thursday, Oct. 24, at 4:30 p.m. i  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce International Trade Administration has issued a notice, published in the Federal Register on Sept. 11, 2024, entitled "Massachusetts Institute of Technology et al.; Notice of Decision on Application for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instruments." This is a decision pursuant to section 6(c) of the Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Materials Importation Act of 1966 (Pub. L. 89-651, as amended by Pub. L. 106-36; 80 Stat. 897; 15 CFR part   more

SYRACUSE, New York, Sept. 11 -- Syracuse University issued the following news: The 2024 cohort of Syracuse-area high school students who took part in the Syracuse University Physics Emerging Research Technologies Summer High School Internship Program. Thanks to a new National Science Foundation grant, Syracuse University's physics department doubles the number of Syracuse-area high school participants in their paid summer internship program. STEM jobs are quickly becoming the backbone of Amer  more

MUNICH, Germany, Sept. 6 [Category: Science] (TNSres) -- The Max Planck Society issued the following news: The dwarf planet Ceres has a diameter of almost 1000 kilometres and is located in the asteroid belt. In the television series 'The Expanse', Ceres gained new fame as the main base of the so called 'belters': in this series, which is based on real physics, humans colonize the asteroid belt for mining. Ceres is no less prominent in the real world either. For a long time, however, it was not   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory issued the following news release: Scientists working on the Short-Baseline Near Detector at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have identified the detector's first neutrino interactions. The SBND collaboration has been planning, prototyping and constructing the detector for nearly a decade. And, after a few-months-long process of carefully turning on each of the detector subsystems, the moment the  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 -- The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, a peer-reviewed journal from the American Chemical Society that says it advances in physical chemistry, chemical physics and materials science, published research articles on the following topics in its Sept. 12, 2024, edition (Vol. 15, Issue 36): Physical Insights into Quantum Phenomena and Function * Resolving the Debate between Boltzmann and Gibbs Entropy: Relative Energy Window Eliminates Thermodynamic Inconsistencies and A  more

MANHATTAN, Kansas, Sept. 12 (TNSres) -- Kansas State University issued the following news release: A Kansas State University engineer recently published results from an observational study in support of a century-old theory that directly challenges the validity of the Big Bang theory. Lior Shamir, associate professor of computer science, used imaging from a trio of telescopes and more than 30,000 galaxies to measure the redshift of galaxies based on their distance from Earth. Redshift is the c  more

COLLEGE PARK, Maryland, Sept. 12 -- The American Association of Physics Teachers issued the following news release: The American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) proudly announces that Karen Jo Matsler, UTeach Master Teacher at the University of Texas at Arlington, will be awarded the 2025 Melba Newell Phillips Medal. This honor recognizes her extensive contributions to physics education and her tireless efforts to support educators nationwide. The award will be presented during the AAPT   more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 11 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: The Department of Energy's Office of Science has selected Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientist Matthew Loyd for an Early Career Research Program award. Loyd, an R&D staff scientist in the Neutron Technologies Division, was selected by the Basic Energy Sciences program for his proposal, "Development of a Novel High-Count-Rate, High-Resolution Neutron Camera with   more

ITHACA, New York, Sept. 11 -- Cornell University issued the following news: The legacy of microscale robotics at Cornell continues to unfold and refold and unfold itself again. The latest addition is a robot less than 1 millimeter in size that is printed as a 2D hexagonal "metasheet" but, with a jolt of electricity, morphs into preprogrammed 3D shapes and crawls. The robot's versatility is due to a novel design based on kirigami, a cousin of origami in which slices in the material (the Japan  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 -- NASA issued the following news release: NASA will host a news conference at 11 a.m. EDT Tuesday, Sept. 17, at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California to discuss the upcoming Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter's icy moon Europa. The briefing will be open to media and will air live on NASA+ and the agency's website, plus Facebook, X, and YouTube. Learn how to stream NASA content through a variety of platforms, including social media. Participants in   more

EVANSTON, Illinois, Sept. 11 -- Northwestern University issued the following news release: Meet the newest board members. David A. Helfand '86 David Helfand is the chair, CEO and president of Equity Commonwealth, a publicly traded real estate investment trust (REIT) that owns and operates commercial office properties throughout the United States. Helfand serves as an advisor to Equity Group Investments (EGI), a private investment firm, where he previously served as co-president, overseeing E  more

PRINCETON, New Jersey, Sept. 11 (TNSres) -- Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs issued the following news: The Program on Science and Global Security (SGS) has been awarded a two-year, $750,000 core support grant by Carnegie Corporation of New York. This new investment will support SGS in using scientific, technical, and policy research, education, and outreach to advance effective policies for nuclear arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament, and a safer an  more

MELBOURNE, Australia, Sept. 11 -- The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University issued the following news release: RMIT University senior lecturer Dr Ascelin Gordon presented at the Senate Select Committee into Adopting Artificial Intelligence, warning that the technology could lead to a rise in carbon emissions and other environmental impacts if not managed carefully. The committee report to Parliament is expected this month. Dr Ascelin Gordon, Senior Lecturer in Sustainability & Ur  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 (Sen.) -- Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-New York, issued the following news release: Senator Has Long Been One Of The Corning Museum Of Glass's Advocates, Delivering A Critical $10+M In Relief During The Height Of The COVID Pandemic To Keep Staff On Payroll Through The Schumer-Led Save Our Stages Program In The American Rescue Plan New Funding Will Expand Museum's K-12 STEAM Education Initiatives & Target Expansion Of Outreach To Schools In Upstate NY Beyond  more

BURNABY, British Columbia, Sept. 11 (TNSres) -- Simon Fraser University issued the following news: By Ray Sharma SFU scientists are among a team of researchers from universities across Canada that has received a multimillion-dollar government grant to build a state-of-the-art neutrino telescope off the B.C. coast. SFU physics professor Matthias Danninger is co-leading the project with Carsten Krauss, associate professor at the University of Alberta. The researchers received $15 million in fun  more

ANTIGONISH, Nova Scotia, Sept. 12 (TNSres) -- St. Francis Xavier University issued the following news: Being given the trust and responsibility to lead important decisions as well as the opportunity to work with world-class researchers and impact society are just some of the benefits of receiving the John P. Cunningham Internship (Chemistry) and the Richard Cunningham Engineering Internship awards, say StFX student recipients. Allie Clark and Noah Ruscica are each recipients of the John P. Cun  more

STANFORD, California, Sept. 12 (TNSres) -- Stanford University issued the following news release: * * * Two new biology lab tools will help researchers quickly turn out scores of uniformly sized tissue samples to study many therapies at once. * * * As fascinating as it is to work in a modern biology lab, in many cases a lot of repetitive, detailed work is necessary before the research can start. For example, cancer researchers are now capable of using hundreds or even thousands of small, lab  more

GUILFORD, England, Sept. 12 (TNSres) -- The University of Surrey issued the following news release: Children need to dream big and reach for the stars to become the country's future space engineers and budding astronauts, say the organisers of Guildford's World Space Week High Street Takeover. Scientists from the University of Surrey and the Institute of Physics are encouraging young people, who may one day want to build the rockets and technology that make their way to space, to join them at   more

SWINDON, England, Sept. 12 (TNSres) -- The UK Research and Innovation posted the following news: * * * UK plans are underway for the world's most advanced dark matter detector that could be hosted at the UK's deep underground science facility at Boulby mine. * * * UK researchers have begun designing a new device to detect the elusive dark matter particles thought to make up more than 85% of the content of the Universe. A preliminary award of pound sterling8 million from the UK Research and   more

CHICAGO, Illinois, Sept. 11 (TNSres) -- The University of Chicago issued the following news: * * * Experiment turns on to search for answers to mysteries and evidence of new physics * * * Scientists working on the Short-Baseline Near Detector (SBND) at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have identified the detector's first neutrino interactions. The detector has been been planned, prototyped and constructed over nearly a decade, by an international collaboration of 250 physicists and eng  more

NEW YORK, Sept. 12 (TNSres) -- Columbia University issued the following news: * * * The data, which has taken years of preparation to collect, will be used to search for evidence of new physics. * * * Scientists working on the Short-Baseline Near Detector (SBND) at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, also known as Fermilab, have identified the detector's first neutrino interactions. The SBND collaboration, of which Columbia is a key partner, has been planning, prototyping and constructing  more