COLLEGE PARK, Maryland, Oct. 26 -- Applied Physics Letters, a peer-reviewed journal from the American Institute of Physics, published research articles on the following topics in its oct. 21, 2024, edition (Vol. 125, Issue 17): PHOTONICS AND OPTOELECTRONICS * Enhanced optical nonlinearity in suspensions of dual-resonance gold-copper chalcogenide core-shell nanoparticles * Generation of partially coherent full Poincare beam arrays and their Stokes scintillations in turbulent media * Active in  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 -- The White House issued the following remarks on Oct. 24, 2024, by Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs Jake Sullivan at an event at the National Defense University on AI and national security: * * * MR. SULLIVAN: Good morning, everyone. And thanks so much for that introduction, Lieutenant Colonel Grewal. And I also want to thank the National War College for bringing us all together today. And I want to thank my colleagues from across the intelligence   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 -- The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued the following commentary on Oct. 25, 2024: * * * Unleashing Quantum's Potential By Julia Dickson and Emily Harding Quantum technologies will revolutionize computing power, encryption and decryption, and sensing, potentially creating a crucial advantage or a critical failure in strategic competition. Experts assess that the United States leads China overall in quantum technologies, but that lead is in peril. The   more

LEIPZIG, Germany, Oct. 26 -- The Max Planck Institute for Chemistry issued the following news release: * * * Drawing on evidence involving about 25 million population worldwide, an international research team led by the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry demonstrates that long-term exposure to ambient PM2.5 significantly increases the risk of asthma, affecting both children and adults. The researchers find that approximately 30 percent of new asthma cases worldwide were linked to fine particul  more

LONDON, England, Oct. 26 -- Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, a peer-reviewed journal from the Royal Society of Chemistry that says it features physical chemistry, chemical physics and biophysical chemistry, published research articles on the following topics in its Nov. 7, 2024, edition (Vol. 26, Issue 41): Review Article * The empty world - a view from the free volume concept and Eyring's rate process theory * Investigation of perovskite materials for solar cells using scanning tunneling  more

CORK, Ireland, Oct. 26 (TNSres) -- Tyndall National Institute, a research centre in integrated Information and Communications Technology hardware and systems, issued the following news: Tyndall has welcomed a cutting-edge quantum light source as part of QuanTour, a groundbreaking European science outreach project. This unique project, which is in anticipation of the UNESCO International Year of Quantum Science and Technology 2025, aims to inspire the public and shed light on the future of quant  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

BASEL, Switzerland, Oct. 26 -- Remote Sensing, a peer-reviewed open access journal about the science and application of remote sensing technology, published research articles on the following topics in its oct. 2, 2024, edition (Vol. 16, Issue 20): * Article - A Disparate Disaster: Spatial Patterns of Building Damage Caused by Hurricane Ian and Associated Socio-Economic Factors * Article - A Framework for Subregion Ensemble Learning Mapping of Land Use/Land Cover at the Watershed Scale * Arti  more

MENLO PARK, California, Oct. 25 -- The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * Descamps was recognized for turning the world's most powerful X-ray laser into a sophisticated tool for probing extremely hot, dense matter. * * * With the power of 10 nuclear power plants, a laser beam strikes. For an instant, a ten billionth of a second, the human-hair-thin wafers of plastic and silicon become so hot and dense that standard descriptions of matter don't cut i  more

MERCED, California, Oct. 26 (TNSres) -- The University of California Merced issued the following news: By Patty Guerra, UC Merced Conducting research can be daunting. UC Merced, like its sister University of California campuses, prides itself on the opportunities it provides its students to conduct research as part of their educational experiences. But the idea of looking into a concept and producing new results can seem intimidating. Where do you even start? That's where "Course-Based Under  more

LOS ANGELES, California, Oct. 26 -- The University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering issued the following news: * * * Two professors at USC Viterbi School of Engineering are collaborating on a puzzle with direct consequences for human health: identifying the best model for predicting the flow of contaminants in groundwater sources. * * * Flowing rivers, icy mountain lakes, crystalline reservoirs - we like to think that our water comes straight from these sources. In realit  more

LOS ANGELES, California, Oct. 25 (TNSres) -- The University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering issued the following news: * * * California DREAMS provided training and internships to two undergraduate cohorts this summer * * * Like many of her peers, USC sophomore Cecilia Betancourt receives a lot of emails each day, many littered with opportunities on and off campus, but few catch her attention. However, this spring, she noticed something unique that she didn't want to pas  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 -- The U.S. Office of Trade Representative has released the following public communication dated Oct. 21, 2024, from the Center for Building in North America, Brooklyn, New York: * * * To: Michael Rogers Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Europe Office of the United States Trade Representative 600 17th St, NW Washington, DC 20508 Re: Docket No. USTR-2024-0017, Request for Comment: United States-European Union Trade and Technology Council Global Trade Challe  more

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Oct. 25 (TNSres) -- The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio issued the following news release: A new study led by The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) is shedding light on a novel role of breast cancer gene 1 (BRCA1) in tumor suppression. Individuals with inherited mutations in BRCA1 are predisposed to breast, ovarian and other cancers. BRCA1 helps prevent cancer by repairing damaged DNA, but how it does s  more