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Physics Tipoffs from TNS Newsletter for Wednesday November 13, 2024 ( 16 items )  

Aalto University: Physicists Unlock Transformative New Way to Transmit Huge Amounts of Data via Laser Light
AALTO, Finland, Nov. 12 (TNSres) -- Aalto University issued the following news release: * * * The discovery, centred around controlling tiny hurricanes of light and electromagnetic fields, could revolutionise how much information we can deliver over cables. * * * Much of modern life depends on the coding of information onto means of delivering it. A common method is to encode data in laser light and send it through optic cables. The increasing demand for more information capacity demands th  more

ACS Applied Energy Materials Journal Issues Research Articles in Nov. 11, 2024 Edition
WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 -- ACS Applied Energy Materials, a peer-reviewed journal that says it covers all aspects of materials, engineering, chemistry, physics and biology relevant to energy conversion and storage from the American Chemical Society, published research articles on the following topics in its Nov. 11, 2024, edition (Vol. 7, Issue 21): Forum Articles * Ruthenium-Based High-Entropy Alloys Expediting Hydrogen Evolution through Catalytic Hydrolysis of Ammonia Borane Reviews * Zinc-Ion   more

ACS Applied Energy Materials Journal Issues Research Articles in Oct. 14, 2024 Edition
WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 -- ACS Applied Energy Materials, a peer-reviewed journal that says it covers all aspects of materials, engineering, chemistry, physics and biology relevant to energy conversion and storage from the American Chemical Society, published research articles on the following topics in its Oct. 14, 2024, edition (Vol. 7, Issue 19): Forum Articles * Tailoring of Self-Healable Polydimethylsiloxane Films for Mechanical Energy Harvesting Reviews * Recent Advances in Development of O  more

ACS Applied Energy Materials Journal Issues Research Articles in Oct. 28, 2024 Edition
WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 -- ACS Applied Energy Materials, a peer-reviewed journal that says it covers all aspects of materials, engineering, chemistry, physics and biology relevant to energy conversion and storage from the American Chemical Society, published research articles on the following topics in its Oct. 28, 2024, edition (Vol. 7, Issue 20): Reviews * A Review on Most Recent Development of Electrode Structures for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell Application with Upcoming Prospects Artic  more

Aerospace Journal Issues Research Articles in Vol. 11, Issue 10
BASEL, Switzerland, Nov. 13 -- Aerospace, a peer-reviewed open access journal of aeronautics and astronautics, published research articles on the following topics in its October 2024 edition (Vol. 11, Issue 10): * Article - A Cooperative Control Method for Wide-Range Maneuvering of Autonomous Aerial Refueling Controllable Drogue * Article - A Dual-Dimension Convolutional-Attention Module for Remaining Useful Life Prediction of Aeroengines * Article - A High-Reliability Photoelectric Detection  more

Aerospace Journal Issues Research Articles in Vol. 11, Issue 11
BASEL, Switzerland, Nov. 13 -- Aerospace, a peer-reviewed open access journal of aeronautics and astronautics, published research articles on the following topics in its November 2024 edition (Vol. 11, Issue 11): * Article - A Comparative Study of Airfoil Stall Characteristics Based on Detached Eddy Simulation Incorporated with Weighted Essentially Non-Oscillatory Scheme and Weighted Compact Nonlinear Scheme * Article - A Conceptual Design of Deployable Antenna Mechanisms * Article - A Convol  more

Georgia Institute of Technology: Novel Machine Learning Techniques Measure Ocean Oxygen Loss More Accurately
ATLANTA, Georgia, Nov. 13 (TNSres) -- Georgia Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Georgia Tech researchers introduced a groundbreaking machine learning technique to improve the assessment and analysis of declining oxygen levels in the ocean. * * * Oxygen is essential for living organisms, particularly multicellular life, to metabolize organic matter and energize all life activities. About half of the oxygen we breathe comes from terrestrial plant life, such as forests an  more

Inaugural recipients named for Lutz Awards
BLACKSBURG, Virginia, Nov. 12 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: Four longtime researchers recently received a prestigious first-time honor. Sophia Economou, Zheng "Phil" Xiang, John Rossmeisl, and Markus Breitschmid were named the inaugural recipients of the Jacob A. Lutz III Award for Eminent Scholars during Virginia Tech's annual research awards ceremony, Celebrating Scholarly Excellence, on Nov. 6. "Universities, from an external perspective and internally too, are recognized a  more

Journal of Plasma Physics Issues Research Articles in December 2024 Edition
CAMBRIDGE, England, Nov. 12 -- 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 December 2024 edition (Vol. 90, Issue 6): * Classical-quantum simulation of non-equilibrium Marshak waves * Exact boundary-value solution for an electromagnetic wave propagating in a linearly varying index of refraction * Impact of a free normal velocity boundary on the   more

New Report Shows Growing UW Economic Impact on Wyoming
LARAMIE, Wyoming, Nov. 12 -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: Sk Rivajuddin, a postdoctoral researcher in the UW physics lab of Associate Professor Jifa Tian, works on a project involving topological superconductors, which are believed to be a practical approach for handling information in future quantum computers. Tian has secured millions of dollars from the National Science Foundation for research at UW, an example of the university's contribution to Wyoming's ec  more

Physics-Based Approach for Attack Detection and Localization in Closed-Loop Controls for Autonomous Vehicles
ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, Nov. 12 -- INTEL CORPORATION, Santa Clara, California has been assigned a patent (No. US 12141274 B2, initially filed June 7, 2022) developed by six inventors Marcio Juliato, Portland, Oregon; Shabbir Ahmed, Beaverton, Oregon; Manoj Sastry, Portland, Oregon; Liuyang L. Yang, Vancouver, Washington; Vuk Lesi, Cornelius, Oregon; and Li Zhao, Beaverton, Oregon, for "Physics-based approach for attack detection and localization in closed-loop controls for autonomous vehicles."  more

PRX Quantum Journal Issues Research Articles in April - June 2024 Edition
COLLEGE PARK, Maryland, Nov. 13 -- PRX Quantum, a peer-reviewed journal from the American Physical Society that says it features topics relevant to quantum information science and technology research communities spanning physics, computer science, mathematics, chemistry, materials, engineering and technology, published research articles on the following topics in its April - June 2024 edition (Vol. 5, Issue 2): HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES - Featured in Physics * Multimode Ion-Photon Entanglement ove  more

Sagan celebrated for scientific mind - and imagination
ITHACA, New York, Nov. 12 -- Cornell University issued the following news: While the internationally popular "Cosmos" series and late-night TV appearances with Johnny Carson helped make Carl Sagan a beloved public figure, some peers questioned the seriousness of such outreach. And as a member of NASA's Voyager 1 mission, managers rejected his pleas for years before finally agreeing to point the distant spacecraft back toward Earth for a final photo, producing the iconic "Pale Blue Dot" image.   more

University of Kansas: Atomically Thin Memory Resistors Will Optimize Semiconductors for Neuromorphic Computing
LAWRENCE, Kansas, Nov. 13 -- The University of Kansas issued the following news: A joint project between University of Kansas and University of Houston supported by $1.8 million from the National Science Foundation's second Future of Semiconductor program (FuSe2) will produce atomically tunable memory resistors, dubbed "memristors," for brain-inspired advanced computing -- while training the workforce for the nation's semiconductor industry. The program was created in 2023 to address fundament  more

University of Liverpool: New Study Explores Nuclear Structure of Fermium and Nobelium Isotopes Using Laser Spectroscopy
LIVERPOOL, England, Nov. 12 (TNSres) -- The University of Liverpool issued the following news release: University of Liverpool researchers are part of an international research collaboration that has shed light on what happens at the extremes of neutron and proton numbers, in search of where the periodic table of chemical elements ends. In a study published in the journal Nature, the research team provide insight into the structure of atomic nuclei of fermium (element 100) and nobelium (elemen  more

Watson Lecture: Katerina Chatziioannou Explores the Struggle Between Matter and Gravity in the Universe
PASADENA, California, Nov. 12 -- The California Institute of Technology issued the following news: How do we learn more about the universe's most extreme objects? On November 20, 2024, at 7:30 p.m. PT in Caltech's Beckman Auditorium, theoretical astrophysicist Katerina Chatziioannou, assistant professor of physics and William H. Hurt Scholar, will describe how she uses gravitational waves to study collisions of neutron stars and black holes. In a public talked called "Matter vs. Gravity: Liste  more