CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Oct. 24 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Professors Matthew Vander Heiden and Fan Wang, along with five MIT alumni, are honored for their outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service. * * * The National Academy of Medicine recently announced the election of more than 90 members during its annual meeting, including MIT faculty members Matthew Vander Heiden and Fan Wang, along with five MIT alumni  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 -- The U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy has issued a notice for funding opportunity involving Quantum Computing for Computational Chemistry. * * * Description: DE-FOA-0003483 - Quantum Computing for Computational Chemistry SBIR/STTR (QC3 SBIR/STTR) To obtain a copy of the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) please go to ARPA-E eXCHANGE at https://arpa-e-foa.energy.gov. To apply to this NOFO, Applicants must register with and submit applica  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 -- The U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy has issued a notice for funding opportunity involving Quantum Computing for Computational Chemistry. * * * Description: Quantum Computing for Computational Chemistry (Q3) To obtain a copy of the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) please go to ARPA-E eXCHANGE at https://arpa-e-foa.energy.gov. To apply to this NOFO, Applicants must register with and submit application materials through ARPA-E eXCHANGE  more

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio, Oct. 25 -- The U.S. Air Force Wright-Patterson Air Force Base issued the following news: By Air Force Institute of Technology The Air Force Institute of Technology's Graduate School of Engineering and Management held their annual fall commencement ceremony Sept. 12 at the Dayton Masonic Center to celebrate 99 new graduates. The Graduate School conferred 84 master's degrees and 15 doctorate degrees in science, technology, engineering and math fields. Additionally, o  more

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB, Ohio, Oct. 25 -- The U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center issued the following news: By Joe Danielewicz, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Public Affairs The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center's Engineering Directorate hosted the 20th annual Wright-Patterson Pumpkin Chuck on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024. Teams ranging from local high school students to professional Air Force engineers competed to hurl pumpkins and squashes using catapults, trebuchets and human  more

PASADENA, California, Oct. 24 -- The California Institute of Technology issued the following news: For nearly six months during the year 1181, people looked up to the skies to find a new star glittering in the constellation Cassiopeia. Chinese and Japanese astronomers recorded the rare event, an explosion of a star, or supernova. In the centuries since, astronomers have searched for the remains of the blast, but it was not until 2013 that they were finally found. As part of a citizen scientist   more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Oct. 24 -- Brown University issued the following news: PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] Rashid Zia, Brown University's dean of the College since 2018, will conclude his term after seven years of leadership effective June 30, 2025, and return to research and teaching as a professor of engineering and physics at Brown.Zia has spent half of his life at Brown, but he finds there's still more to learn and inspire him every day.Whether speaking with students over breakfas  more

MADISON, Wisconsin, Oct. 24 -- The University of Wisconsin Madison campus issued the following news: Science on the Square fused with the Madison Night Market on Oct. 17 for a fun and energetic night filled with hands-on science and local vendors in downtown Madison. It was part of the Wisconsin Science Festival, which featured in-person and virtual events across the state Oct. 14-20. During what was officially proclaimed "Wisconsin Science Week" by Governor Tony Evers, the festival hosted more  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 -- George Washington University issued the following news: In a new report by Microsoft, Iranian government-linked hackers investigated U.S. election-related websites in swing states, in a possible effort to discover vulnerabilities that could be used to influence the presidential election, CNN reports. Microsoft says the probing took place in April and also included a dive into major U.S. media outlets, but this was only just discovered recently by Microsoft analysts. Facu  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Oct. 25 -- The Journal of Climate, a peer-reviewed journal from the American Meteorological Society that focuses on a basic understanding of the dynamics and physics of the climate system on a large spatial scales, including variability of the atmosphere, oceans, land surface and cryosphere, published research articles on the following topics in its November 2024 edition (Vol. 37, Issue 22): * A Dynamical Adjustment Approach to Estimating Forced and Internal Variability i  more

CAMBRIDGE, England, Oct. 25 -- The Journal of Plasma Physics, a peer-reviewed journal that says it features laboratory plasmas, space physics and plasma astrophysics, published research articles on the following topics in its October 2024 edition (Vol. 90, Issue 5): * A necessary condition for breakeven in dipole-confined plasmas * Electron scattering on small-scale electrostatic fields in the shock front * Experimental study on the formation and evolution of unconfined counter-helicity spher  more

OXFORD, Ohio, Oct. 24 (TNSres) -- Miami University issued the following news: * * * Trapped and frozen atoms at heart of Samir Bali's research * * There is a line Samir Bali often uses when discussing his research. "All good science," Bali tells his audience, "happens in the dark." That certainly fits for one of Bali's main research topics, as the Miami University Physics professor uses infrared viewers to demonstrate how lasers can trap and freeze atoms in a type of "optical lattice." Thi  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Oct. 24 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news on Oct. 23, 2024: * * * System observed 8,000 light-years away may be the first direct evidence of "gentle" black hole formation. * * * Many black holes detected to date appear to be part of a pair. These binary systems comprise a black hole and a secondary object -- such as a star, a much denser neutron star, or another black hole -- that spiral around each other, drawn together  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology has released the following public communication on Sept. 9, 2024, from Argonne National Laboratory: * * * Eliu Huerta, Nicholas Chia, Ian Foster Argonne National Laboratory {elihu, chia, foster}@anl.gov * * * Argonne National Laboratory is a multidisciplinary research center operated by UChicago Argonne, LLC for the US Department of Energy. Argonne is at the forefront of scientific innovat  more

LAWRENCE, Kansas, Oct. 25 (TNSres) -- The University of Kansas issued the following news: Research using the ALICE experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider suggests for the first time the presence of gluonic quantum fluctuations at the subnucleon level in heavy nuclei. University of Kansas experimental nuclear physicist Daniel Tapia Takaki and his team have published findings detailing the breakthrough discovery in the Editor's Suggestion of Physical Review Letters. "Gluons, the elementary   more

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama, Oct. 25 (TNSres) -- The University of Alabama issued the following news: By Russ Nelson Ian Wagner, a doctoral candidate of mechanical and aerospace engineering at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has been selected to receive the United States Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) award. The honor resulted from Wagner's proposed research project to study plasma-jet driven magneto-inertial fusion, to be conducted at Los  more