FORT BRAGG, North Carolina, Oct. 2 -- The U.S. Army Reserve Command issued the following news: JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, N.J. Her co-workers in the Army Reserve know her as the Soldier doing her best amidst a myriad of military systems, regulations and processes that all move very slowly at times. But most are not aware of the life Sgt. 1st Class Nichole Hill led outside the military, when she often moved very, very fast. In fact, when Hill put on her running shoes,   more

LONDON, England, Oct. 3 -- Food and Function, a peer-reviewed journal from the Royal Society of Chemistry that says it provides a unique venue for physicists, chemists, biochemists, nutritionists and other food scientists to publish work at the interface of the chemistry, physics and biology of food, published research articles on the following topics in its Oct. 7, 2024, edition (Vol. 15, Issue 19): Review Article * Chemistry, bioactivities, structure-activity relationship, biosynthesis and m  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 -- GAMMA MEDICAL PHYSICS, Honolulu, Hawaii, won a federal contract award for $117,750 from the Department of Veterans Affairs, Mather, California, for other scientific and technical consulting services. Contract Award Number: 36C26125P0015; ueiSAM: JGZBYMUH4NQ7; NAICS Code: 541690; Product Service Code (PSC): H165; Solicitation Number: 36C26125Q0012  more

BASEL, Switzerland, Oct. 3 -- The International Journal of Molecular Sciences, an open access journal that says it provides an advanced forum for biochemistry, molecular and cell biology and molecular biophysics, with a strong emphasis on molecular biology and molecular medicine, published research articles on the following topics in its Sept. 2, 2024, edition (Vol. 25, Issue 18): * A Machine Learning Algorithm Suggests Repurposing Opportunities for Targeting Selected GPCRs * Accumulation of C  more

BRISTOL, England, Oct. 3 -- The Journal of Physics A-Mathematical and Theoretical, a journal of theoretical physics reporting research on the mathematical structures, published research articles on the following topics in its Nov. 1, 2024, edition (Vol. 57, No. 41): Papers - Statistical physics * Training neural networks with structured noise improves classification and generalization * Discrete Laplacian thermostat for flocks and swarms: the fully conserved Inertial Spin Model - Mathematic  more

WILKES-BARRE, Pennsylvania, Oct. 3 -- Wilkes University issued the following news release: Nancy E. Levinger, professor of chemistry at Colorado State University, will deliver the Catherine H. Bone Lecture in Chemistry at Wilkes University at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 16, in Stark Learning Center 105. Levinger's lecture, "Save the Plants! Visualizing Cryoprotectant Permeation and Location Confined in Plant Cells and Tissues," is free and open to the public. For anyone who has looked out the wi  more

MUNICH, Germany, Oct. 2 [Category: Science] (TNSres) -- The Max Planck Society issued the following news: Ferenc Krausz received the Nobel Prize in Physics in Stockholm on December 10, 2023. This marked the sixth consecutive prize for the Max Planck Society since 2020 and the 31st Nobel Prize in total, dating back to its origins in the Kaiser Wilhelm Society (KWG). The big question is: will the winning streak continue this year? Starting on 7 October, the excitement around the Nobel Prizes wil  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news: Arno Allan Penzias, who served in the Army during the Cold War in 1955 and 1966, is also a Nobel laureate. In 1964, Penzias and Robert Wilson, using an ultra-sensitive microwave receiving system to study radio emissions from the Milky Way galaxy, found something unexpected. They detected background noise from outside the Milky Way. They realized that the radio signal was cosmic radiation that had survived from e  more

WEST LAFAYETTE, Indiana, Oct. 3 (TNSres) -- Purdue University issued the following news release: * * * Research published in Nature Communications * * * Purdue University researchers have developed patent-pending one-dimensional boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) containing spin qubits, or spin defects. The BNNTs are more sensitive in detecting off-axis magnetic fields at high resolution than traditional diamond tips used in scanning probe magnetic-field microscopes. Tongcang Li, a professor   more

NEWPORT NEWS, Virginia, Oct. 3 -- The Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility Jefferson Lab issued the following news release: * * * DOE tasks a Jefferson Lab team to evaluate whether proton therapy cancer treatments may serve as a safer alternative to treatments using radioactive isotopes * * * Radiation therapy techniques have been used for more than a century to treat cancers. Physicists in the Radiation Detector and Imaging group and associated with the Biomedical Research & Innov  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Oct. 2 -- Vanderbilt University issued the following news: When the MacArthur Foundation begins making its calls, there typically isn't a "heads-up" for the person on the other end of the line. "Honestly, my immediate reaction was disbelief," said Keivan Stassun, Stevenson Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Vanderbilt. "I remember saying several times into the phone, 'Really?!' This is just not the sort of thing I ever imagined for myself." Keivan Stassun was named a 2  more