NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Oct. 7 -- Vanderbilt University issued the following news: Keivan StassunStevenson Professor of Physics and Astronomy (Vanderbilt University) When a Mexican immigrant mother with bold dreams for her only child gave him the name Keivan, meaning "universe" or "Saturn" in several ancient languages, she had no inkling he was to become a celebrated astrophysicist with achievements reaching far beyond his field that would earn him a prestigious MacArthur Foundation "genius" gra  more

RESTON, Virginia, Oct. 7 [Category: Aerospace] -- The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics issued the following news release: The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2024 Zarem Graduate Student Award for Distinguished Achievement: Mohammed Abir Mahdi and Shafi Romeo, Oklahoma State University, won the astronautics award for their paper, "Convolutional Neural Network and Homogenization based Hybrid Approach for Lattic  more

ATLANTA, Georgia, Oct. 7 [Category: Medical] -- The American Cancer Society issued the following news release: October 7, 2024 The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to American scientists Dr. Victor Ambros and Dr. Gary Ruvkun for their work on the discovery of microRNA, a molecule that governs how cells in the body function. They join 50 other investigators funded by the American Cancer Society (ACS) who have previously received this prestigious honor. The Nobel Prize   more

MIAMI, Florida, Oct. 8 -- Holland and Knight, a law firm, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON (October 7, 2024) - Holland & Knight welcomes Dr. Joseph Greenberg as a senior policy advisor in Washington, D.C. Most recently, Dr. Greenberg was president of TechVentures Inc., an independent clean tech consulting firm, where he secured $2.5 billion in competitive grant funding and more than 100 competitive awards primarily from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for early-stage to Fortune  more

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Oct. 4 -- The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa issued the following news: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia -- (ECA) A vibrant display of innovation, creativity, and passion filled the United Nations Conference Center as Ethiopia's brightest young minds convened for the World Robot Olympiad (WRO) National Competitions. From ingenious AI-driven robots to sustainability-focused solutions, the national competitions, held concurrently in Ethiopia and Tanzania, showcased a pr  more

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, Oct. 7 -- The University of Michigan issued the following news: Artist's rendering shows NASA's Europa mission spacecraft, which is being developed for a launch sometime in the 2020s. This view shows the spacecraft configuration, which could change before launch, as of early 2016. credit: NASA EXPERTS ADVISORY The launch window will soon open for NASA's Europa Clipper, the organization's latest mission to Jupiter's system of moons. Once the spacecraft launches between Oc  more

SYRACUSE, New York, Oct. 7 -- Syracuse University issued the following news: Doctoral students in clinical psychology Alexa Deyo '21 and Alison Vrabec G'23 spent their summer testing a theory that a certain kind of therapeutic technique called motivational interviewing could improve sleep and overall health among adolescents. According to the National Institutes of Health, sleep problems can impact how people learn, think and get along with others. "If teens are sleeping better, their mental he  more

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, Oct. 8 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory issued the following news release on Oct. 7, 2024: Deslonde de Boisblanc (1923-2009) was an inventive engineer from New Orleans who played a key role in nuclear reactor design, notably the Advanced Test Reactor at Idaho National Laboratory. Despite not having a Ph.D. or prior experience with nuclear reactors, his innovative clover-leaf design allows multiple experiments on various fuels and material  more

NEWPORT NEWS, Virginia, Oct. 8 (TNSres) -- The Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility Jefferson Lab issued the following news release: * * * The American Physical Society has named four Jefferson Lab staff members as new APS Fellows for 2024 * * * Four physicists affiliated with the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility have been selected by their peers for the distinct honor of Fellow of the American Physical Society. "Our staff power the scienc  more

LAUREL, Maryland, Oct. 8 -- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory issued the following news release: A national research team led by quantum information scientist Gregory Quiroz at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, has earned a competitive quantum computing award from the Department of Energy (DOE) to fund the engineering of potentially game-changing open-source software systems to propel scientific discoveries. The award -- one of 38 the  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Analysis uses Bennu trajectory in effort to extend the Standard Model of physics * * * In 2023, the NASA OSIRIS-REx mission returned a sample of dust and rocks collected on the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. In addition to the information about the universe gleaned from the sample itself, the data generated by OSIRIS-REx might also present an opportunity to probe new phy  more

LONDON, England, Oct. 7 -- Nature Protocols, a peer-reviewed journal that says it covers the biological and biomedical sciences, including methods grounded in physics and chemistry with biological applications, published research articles on the following topics in its October 2024 edition (Vol. 19, Issue 10): * A versatile tissue-rolling technique for spatial-omics analyses of the entire murine gastrointestinal tract * All-optical voltage imaging-guided postsynaptic single-cell transcriptome   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 -- Optics Express, a peer-reviewed journal from the Optical Society that emphasizes scientific and technology innovations in all aspects of optics and photonics, published research articles on the following topics in its Oct. 7, 2024, edition (Vol. 32, Issue 21): Research Articles - Atomic and Molecular Physics * Spectral behavior and expansion dynamics of Gd plasma generated by dual-pulse laser irradiation - Coherence, Statistical Optics, and Scattering * Radiation force  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory issued the following news on Oct. 7, 2024: * * * Boron could help the tungsten wall inside a tokamak keep its atoms to itself * * * Fusion (https://youtu.be/kNve35UnkHs?si=vkEISI8YbREqexDD) researchers are increasingly turning to the element tungsten when looking for an ideal material for components that will directly face the plasma(Link is external) inside fusion reactors known as tokamaks (h  more

WILLIAMSBURG, Virginia, Oct. 7 -- William and Mary issued the following news: * * * New school to speed the evolution of liberal arts and sciences through data fluency * * * Douglas "Doug" Schmidt '84, M.A. '86, an internationally recognized scholar with more than three decades of experience in academic and government leadership roles, has been named the inaugural dean of William & Mary's School of Computing, Data Sciences & Physics. The new school - the university's first in more than 50   more

BASEL, Switzerland, Oct. 7 -- Sensors, a peer-reviewed open access journal that says it provides a forum for the science and technology of sensors and Sept. 2, 2024, edition (Vol. 24, Issue 18): *Article - A Custom-Developed Device for Testing Tensile Strength and Elasticity of Vascular and Intestinal Tissue Samples for Anastomosis Regeneration Research *Article - A Deep Learning Method for Human Sleeping Pose Estimation with Millimeter Wave Radar *Article - A Joint Active Damping Strategy Ba  more

MENLO PARK, California, Oct. 8 (TNSres) -- The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory issued the following news feature on Oct. 7, 2024: * * * This series explores how early-career researchers are helping the DOE's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University reimagine our energy future. United around the goal of sustainability, these scientists and engineers have embarked on paths that target specific solutions, such as better batteries, alternative energy sources and a stronger  more

STONY BROOK, New York, Oct. 8 (TNSres) -- The State University of New York's Stony Brook University issued the following news release: Stony Brook University's Patrick Meade, professor in the C.N. Yang Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP), was recently elected to a fellowship with the American Physical Society (APS). Meade was elected for his pioneering research and leadership in particle theory and phenomenology, including signatures of gauge-mediated supersymmetry, top partners, long-liv  more

BASEL, Switzerland, Oct. 8 -- Symmetry, a peer-reviewed open access journal that says it covers research on symmetry phenomena wherever they occur in mathematical and scientific studies, published research articles on the following topics in its August 2024 edition (Vol. 16, Issue 8): *Article - A DDVV Conjecture for Riemannian Maps *Article - A General and Comprehensive Subclass of Univalent Functions Associated with Certain Geometric Functions *Article - A Hybrid Data Envelopment Analysis-R  more

BASEL, Switzerland, Oct. 8 -- Symmetry, a peer-reviewed open access journal that says it covers research on symmetry phenomena wherever they occur in mathematical and scientific studies, published research articles on the following topics in its September 2024 edition (Vol. 16, Issue 9): *Article - A Channel-Sensing-Based Multipath Multihop Cooperative Transmission Mechanism for UE Aggregation in Asymmetric IoE Scenarios *Article - A Comprehensive Security Framework for Asymmetrical IoT Networ  more

BASEL, Switzerland, Oct. 8 -- Universe, a peer-reviewed open access journal that says it focuses on fundamental principles in physics, published research articles on the following topics in its August 2024 edition (Vol. 10, Issue 8): *Article - A Study of Spin 1 Unruh-De Witt Detectors *Article - A Study of the Accretion-Jet Coupling of Black Hole Objects at Different Scales *Article - Calibration of Polarization Data for Vector Magnetographs at the Huairou Solar Observing Station over the Pa  more

BASEL, Switzerland, Oct. 8 -- Universe, a peer-reviewed open access journal that says it focuses on fundamental principles in physics, published research articles on the following topics in its September 2024 edition (Vol. 10, Issue 9): *Article - A Comprehensive Study on the Mid-Infrared Variability of Blazars *Article - About Jordan and Einstein Frames: A Study in Inflationary Magnetogenesis *Article - Bayesian Knowledge Infusion for Studying Historical Sunspot Numbers *Article - Character  more

BAYREUTH, Germany, Oct. 8 (TNSres) -- The University of Bayreuth issued the following news release: Researchers at the University of Bayreuth and Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf have described a previously unknown mechanism in the perception of light and heat in plants. The results contribute to a better understanding of plant physiological processes. The researchers report on their findings in the journal "The Plant Cell". What for? Plants can perceive light and heat via so-called phyto  more

BLACKSBURG, Virginia, Oct. 7 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: On a quiet Friday morning, the sun played peek-a-boo among the clouds, birds chirped noisily, and periodically across the New River, a train's steel wheels clanged loudly against tracks, echoing off the river's small canyon walls. This is normally a typical daily scene at Eggleston Springs Campground except not seven days prior, when an angry river, swollen from Hurricane Helene's rains, turned into an unruly neighbor and  more