WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 -- The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued the following transcript of a dialogue on Oct. 22, 2024, featuring Shira Efron, senior director of policy research of Israel Policy Forum at the Diane and Guilford Glazer Foundation, and Hanan Balkhy, regional director for the Eastern Mediterranean at the World Health Organization: * * * J. Stephen Morrison: Good morning, good afternoon, good evening. I'm J. Stephen Morrison, senior vice president here at the Cent  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released the following public communication dated Oct. 15, 2024, from ACAT and 28 collaborators. Here are excerpts: * * * To: Barry Breen, Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator Office of Land and Emergency Management US EPA Submitted to: Docket ID No EPA-HQ-OLEM-2020-0527 via Regulations.gov Re: Request for Public Comment, Federal Register, April 16, 2024 (89 FR 26879) * * * We the undersigned 29 environmental, hea  more

DECORAH, Iowa, Oct. 21 -- Luther College issued the following news: Luther College is celebrating Indigenous Peoples Heritage Month in November with a series of events. Guest speakers will highlight Indigenous perspectives on educational leadership, regional history, and current events. Film screenings and an extraordinary planetarium experience will reveal more about Native American cultures. This heritage month's activities build on a fall semester of guest speakers from Native American com  more

NORMAN, Oklahoma, Oct. 23 -- The University of Oklahoma issued the following news release: Alisa Javadi, Ph.D., professor at the University of Oklahoma School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy, has received funding from the U.S. Department of Energy Early Career Research Program for research that offers the potential for advancing quantum technology development. Javadi's research will test the use of cerium oxide as a host for qua  more

LAUREL, Maryland, Oct. 23 (TNSres) -- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory issued the following news release: Space weather is a double-edged sword: It's capable of delivering majestic phenomena like the auroras near Earth's poles, but it can also have more alarming consequences with significant national security implications. In 2014, for example, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, discovered that plasma bubbles connected   more

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, Oct. 23 -- The Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, a peer-reviewed journal that says it features radiation oncology physics, medical imaging, radiation protection and regulations from the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, published research articles on the following topics in its October 2024 edition (Vol. 25, Issue 10): RADIATION ONCOLOGY PHYSICS * Geometric and dosimetric evaluation for breast and regional nodal auto-segmentation structures * Ada  more

CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee, Oct. 23 (TNSres) -- The University of Tennessee Chattanooga Campus issued the following news: Thanks to an almost $800,000 funding award from the National Science Foundation, the Quantum Information Science and Engineering (QISE) program at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga is off to a great start. The grant funding will be awarded incrementally over three years, beginning this month and concluding in October 2027. It will enable the hiring of postdoctoral rese  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Observatory research points to extreme cosmic accelerator as source of galactic cosmic rays * * * At the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory, 13,000 feet above sea level on the Sierra Negra volcano of Mexico, researchers are getting a look into a violent mystery in the Milky Way galaxy. An international research team co-led by Los Alamos National Labora  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Oct. 16 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Associate professor of physics Riccardo Comin never stops seeking uncharted territory. * * * By Michaela Jarvis, MIT News correspondent Riccardo Comin says the best part of his job as a physics professor and exotic-materials researcher is when his students come into his office to tell him they have new, interesting data. "It's that moment of discovery, that moment of awe  more

PASADENA, California, Oct. 22 -- The California Institute of Technology issued the following news: Caltech scientists have developed a method driven by machine learning that allows them to accurately measure the mass of individual particles and molecules using complex nanoscale devices. The new technique opens the possibility of using a variety of devices for the measurement of mass and, therefore, the identification of proteins, and could pave the way to determining the sequence of the complet  more

LONDON, England, Oct. 23 (TNSres) -- Queen Mary University of London issued the following news: Three Queen Mary University of London academics have been recognised as leading researchers in their fields, receiving one of the most coveted awards in the UK academic landscape--the Philip Leverhulme Prize. Dr. Nivi Manchanda, Reader in International Politics from the School of Politics and International Relations, and Dr. Sasha Litvintseva and Dr. Mario Slugan, Senior Lecturers in Film from the Sc  more

BROOKLYN, New York, Oct. 23 (TNSres) -- New York University Tandon School of Engineering issued the following news release: An international research team led by NYU Tandon School of Engineering and KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) has pioneered a new technique to identify and characterize atomic-scale defects in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), a two-dimensional (2D) material often dubbed "white graphene" for its remarkable properties. This advance could accelerate the  more

BELLINGHAM, Washington, Oct. 23 -- SPIE (formerly the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers) issued the following news release: * * * Networking, new products, and Nobel laureates complement the broad technical program and four exhibitions at the most exciting week in optics and photonics * * * Registration has opened for SPIE Photonics West 2025, which will run from 25 to 30 January at San Francisco's Moscone Center. The largest annual conference and exhibition in optics and ph  more

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Oct. 23 (TNSres) -- Texas A&M University's College of Engineering issued the following news: * * * A research team at Texas A&M has received a $1.8M National Science Foundation Future of Semiconductor grant to develop new energy-efficient interconnect technologies for microchips. * * * By Michelle Revels Modern computing infrastructures in data centers or distributed computing systems contribute significantly to global electricity use. The increasing demand for elect  more

MERCED, California, Oct. 23 (TNSres) -- The University of California Merced issued the following news: By Patty Guerra, UC Merced A new instrument that can fabricate extremely small features and devices could have a very big impact on several STEM programs at UC Merced. Parveen Kumar of the university's Office of Research and Economic Development leads a team that secured a grant from the Army Research Office, the Office of Naval Research and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research to buy  more

HOUSTON, Texas, Oct. 23 (TNSres) -- The University of Houston issued the following news: Researchers at the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston have received second-year funding from Intellectual Ventures, a global leader in the business of invention, to continue their important study of the retention at atmospheric pressure of high-pressure-induced/enhanced superconductivity. The project, which has been awarded $767,000 to date, is led by Paul C. W. Chu, T.L.L. Tem  more