WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 -- Advanced Functional Materials, a peer-review journal produced in Weinheim, Germany, that says it reports on breakthrough research in all aspects of materials science, including nanotechnology, chemistry, physics and biology, published research articles on the following topics in its Nov. 19, 2024, special issue (Vol. 34, Issue 47) entitled Cyclophanes as Emerging Materials -- From Synthesis To Functions: Review * Vapor-Phase Synthesis of Poly(para-xylylene): From Coating  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 -- Advanced Functional Materials, a peer-review journal produced in Weinheim, Germany, that says it reports on breakthrough research in all aspects of materials science, including nanotechnology, chemistry, physics and biology, published research articles on the following topics in its Oct. 22, 2024, special issue (Vol. 34, Issue 43) entitled Reticular Materials to Address Societal Challenges: * Biomedical Metal-Organic Framework Materials: Perspectives and Challenges * Cha  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Nov. 20 -- Ansys, a computer-aided engineering software developer, issued the following news release on Nov. 19, 2024: * * * Integration of NVIDIA Modulus AI framework with the Ansys SeaScape platform will enable engineers to easily build customized AI solutions that can improve designer productivity and quickly identify optimal design configurations Key Highlights * NVIDIA Modulus artificial intelligence (AI) framework will be integrated into the Ansys SeaScape cl  more

LIVERMORE, California, Nov. 20 -- The U.S. Department of Energy Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news: On the newest episode of the Big Ideas Lab podcast, listeners will go behind the scenes of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's (LLNL) latest groundbreaking achievement: El Capitan, the world's most powerful supercomputer. Listen on Apple or Spotify. Built by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) with AMD's new Instinct MI300A Accelerated Processing Units (APUs), El C  more

EINDHOVEN, The Netherlands, Nov. 19 -- Eindhoven University of Technology issued the following news: The first engineers of the AI&ES master's program recently received their diplomas. The engineers know the ins and outs of AI and other data science solutions to help companies and institutions with their need for insights. After there were already master's tracks that embraced AI in various separate TU/e programs, seven TU/e departments joined forces to start the new master's in Artificial Int  more

NEW YORK, Nov. 19 -- Foundations of Physics, a peer-reviewed journal that says it is devoted to the conceptual bases and fundamental theories of modern physics, published research articles on the following topics in its December 2024 edition (Vol. 54, Issue 6): * Dressing vs. Fixing: On How to Extract and Interpret Gauge-Invariant Content * The Determinacy Problem in Quantum Mechanics The December 2024 edition of Foundations of Physics can be viewed at https://link.springer.com/journal/10701/  more

NEW YORK, Nov. 19 -- Foundations of Physics, a peer-reviewed journal that says it is devoted to the conceptual bases and fundamental theories of modern physics, published research articles on the following topics in its October 2024 edition (Vol. 54, Issue 5): * A Proposal for a Metaphysics of Self-Subsisting Structures. II. Quantum Physics * Arrival Times Versus Detection Times * Bayes Keeps Boltzmann Brains at Bay * Complementary Detector and State Preparation Error and Classicality in the  more

LAUREL, Maryland, Nov. 20 (TNSres) -- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory issued the following news release: The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, received global recognition as a finalist for Lab of the Year by the Scientific Equipment and Furniture Association (SEFA) for one of its newest state-of-the-art research and development centers: Building 201. Building 201 is a 263,000-square-foot facility featuring 90,000 square feet of lab spac  more

LAUREL, Maryland, Nov. 20 (TNSres) -- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * Key Takeaways * Road Transportation: APL has been leading efforts to monitor road transportation emissions for the last four years. This year, the Lab expanded efforts to also monitor non-greenhouse-gas pollutants that stem from brake wear, tire wear and exhaust. * Wastewater Treatment Plants: APL analyzed emissions from wastewater treatment plants around the  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory issued the following news: By Lauren Biron Researchers used the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument to map how nearly 6 million galaxies cluster across 11 billion years of cosmic history. Their observations line up with what Einstein's theory of general relativity predicts. * * * Key Takeaways * A complex analysis of DESI's first year of data provides one of the most stringent tests yet of  more

BEAUMONT, Texas, Nov. 20 -- Lamar University issued the following news: The Lamar University Association of Rocketry (LUNAR) has officially been accepted into the NASA Student Launch Challenge competition for the second year in a row. Following endless hours of work over the summer, and the submission of the proposal, LUNAR is one of three teams from Texas to be a part of this competition. "The NASA Student Launch is a nine-month competition in which we design, build and test a rocket and engi  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Nov. 20 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Acclaimed keyboardist Jordan Rudess's collaboration with the MIT Media Lab culminates in live improvisation between an AI "jam_bot" and the artist. * * * By Nicole Estvanik Taylor, Arts at MIT A crowd gathered at the MIT Media Lab in September for a concert by musician Jordan Rudess and two collaborators. One of them, violinist and vocalist Camilla Backman, has performed   more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Nov. 20 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news on Nov. 18, 2024: * * * New work suggests the ability to create fractionalized electrons known as non-Abelian anyons without a magnetic field, opening new possibilities for basic research and future applications. * * * By Elizabeth A. Thomson, Materials Research Laboratory MIT physicists have shown that it should be possible to create an exotic form of matter that could be manip  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Nov. 20 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news on Nov. 19, 2024: * * * MIT CSAIL researchers used AI-generated images to train a robot dog in parkour, without real-world data. Their LucidSim system demonstrates generative AI's potential for creating robotics training data. * * * By Rachel Gordon, MIT CSAIL For roboticists, one challenge towers above all others: generalization -- the ability to create machines that can adapt   more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Nov. 20 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news on Nov. 19, 2024: * * * Professor of the practice Alan Lightman's new book digs into the wonder of striking visual phenomena in nature. * * * By Peter Dizikes, MIT News When we gaze at nature's remarkable phenomena, we might feel a mix of awe, curiosity, and determination to understand what we are looking at. That is certainly a common response for MIT's Alan Lightman, a traine  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Nov. 15 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Progress on the energy transition depends on collective action benefiting all stakeholders, agreed participants in MITEI's annual research conference. * * * By Leda Zimmerman, MIT Energy Initiative To fend off the worst impacts of climate change, "we have to decarbonize, and do it even faster," said William H. Green, director of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) and Hoyt   more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Nov. 20 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news on Nov. 18, 2024: * * * Physicists surprised to discover electrons in pentalayer graphene can exhibit fractional charge. New study suggests how this could work. * * * By Jennifer Chu, MIT News MIT physicists have taken a key step toward solving the puzzle of what leads electrons to split into fractions of themselves. Their solution sheds light on the conditions that give rise to  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Nov. 20 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news on Nov. 19, 2024: * * * Alumni and founders of MIT Washington Summer Internship Program reflect on three decades of impact. * * * By Leda Zimmerman, MIT Political Science Anoushka Bose '20 spent the summer of 2018 as an MIT Washington program intern, applying her nuclear physics education to arms control research with a D.C. nuclear policy think tank. "It's crazy how much three  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Nov. 20 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * The Lincoln Laboratory-developed laser communications payload operates at the data rates required to image these never-before-seen thin halos of light. * * * By Ariana Tantillo, Haley Wahl, MIT Lincoln Laboratory In April 2019, a group of astronomers from around the globe stunned the world when they revealed the first image of a black hole -- the monstrous accumulation of  more

HAMILTON, New York, Nov. 19 -- Colgate University issued the following news: Recent research by a student-faculty team at Colgate University unlocks new clues that could radically change the world's understanding of the origin of dark matter. Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy Cosmin Ilie and Richard Casey '24 have explored an idea put forth by two scientists at the University of Texas at Austin, Katherine Freese and Martin Winkler, suggesting that dark matter may have originated fro  more

BETHESDA, Maryland, Nov. 20 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences issued the following news: * * * Analyzers speed diagnostic and treatment development * * * One of the biggest achievements in modern medicine involves some of the smallest known substances. Much of today's biological research and drug development involves tiny particles, each smaller than one millionth of a millimeter - t  more

NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, England, Nov. 19 (TNSres) -- Northumbria University issued the following news release: The North East's reputation for world-class space research and innovation has been recognised with the announcement of pound sterling2.5 million from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). The funding has been awarded to a consortium of academic, civic and industry partners who together will form the North East Space Communications Accelerator (NESCA), which is o  more

NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, England, Nov. 20 -- Northumbria University issued the following news release: Northumbria University has announced a multi-million pound investment in its first university-wide high-performance computing facility which will give researchers access to state-of-the-art technology built to handle large scientific datasets at high speeds. The University has teamed up with global digital technology providers, Lenovo and Logicalis, to deliver the new Higgs high-performance compu  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 -- Optical Materials Express, a peer-reviewed journal from Optica that says it serves the optics and photonics community, published research articles on the following topics in its Nov. 1, 2024, edition (Vol. 14, Issue 11): Research Articles - Artificially Structured Media, Metasurfaces, and Metamaterials * Design of an RGB tunable narrowband metalens using BaTiO3 material with a high electro-optic coefficient * Pure moving optical media consisting of magnetochiral metasu  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory issued the following news: Written by Rachel Kremen A different mix of fuels with enhanced properties could overcome some of the major barriers to making fusion a more practical energy source, according to a new study (http://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/ad7da3). The proposed approach would still use deuterium and tritium, which are generally accepted as the most promising pair of fuels for fusio  more

WESTVILLE, Indiana, Nov. 19 -- Purdue University Northwest issued the following news release: Purdue University Northwest invites community members to build their professional knowledge and work toward expanding their career goals through evening courses at PNW's Westville branch campus, 1401 S. U.S. 421, Westville, Ind. Starting in January 2025, PNW will offer several undergraduate-level courses that introduce students to foundational concepts and hands-on learning experiences in key subject   more

SANTA FE, New Mexico, Nov. 20 (TNSres) -- Santa Fe Institute issued the following news release: Every other month, the subscription-based indie press ISOLARII publishes a single book. ISOLARII's distinctive palm-sized volumes offer thought-provoking texts on exquisitely crafted pages. Their newest release -- a 120-page reprint of science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick's 1978 speech "How To Build A Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later" -- includes an introduction by SFI President David  more

KONGENS LYNGBY, Denmark, Nov. 19 (TNSres) -- The Technical University of Denmark issued the following news: A new research building at DTU - the Climate Challenge Laboratory - brings together energy and materials researchers from Danish and international environments to accelerate the development of climate solutions in the form of new materials that can convert and store green energy. The sun has literally been switched on in a new building at DTU - the Climate Challenge Laboratory - where a  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Nov. 19 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: NETL and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) will post a pre-recorded webinar to provide information on the University Training and Research (UTR) Program (https://www.energy.gov/fecm/university-training-and-research-utr-program) and a grant writing discussion. The UTR Program supports the FECM mis  more

KANSAS CITY, Missouri, Nov. 20 (TNSres) -- The University of Missouri Kansas City campus issued the following news: * * * Grant recipients represent students from across campus * * * The University of Missouri-Kansas City's Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship has awarded 23 students with SEARCH grants. Started in 2000, SEARCH stands for Students Engaged in the Arts and Research and represents UMKC's first structured undergraduate research program. Initially offering sm  more

BAYREUTH, Germany, Nov. 19 (TNSres) -- The University of Bayreuth issued the following news release: Researchers at the University of Bayreuth have contributed to a more comprehensive understanding of soft matter, such as liquids and gels, through a fundamental extension of density functional theory and the discovery of a previously hidden gauge invariance. New "hyper-density functionals" enable the systematic study of fundamental physical mechanisms behind structure formation, while new equati  more

BIRMINGHAM, England, Nov. 19 (TNSres) -- The University of Birmingham issued the following news: A new theory, that explains how light and matter interact at the quantum level has enabled researchers to define the precise shape of a single photon. Research at the University of Birmingham, published in Physical Review Letters, explores the nature of photons (individual particles of light) in unprecedented detail to show how they are emitted by atoms or molecules and shaped by their environment  more

KUOPIO, Finland, Nov. 19 -- The University of Eastern Finland issued the following news: The doctoral dissertation in the field of Applied Physics will be examined at the Faculty of Science, Forestry and Technology, Kuopio campus and online. What is the topic of your doctoral research? Why is it important to study the topic? My doctoral dissertation on the detailed characterization of hypoxemia events enhances the assessment of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) severity. OSA is characterized by f  more

MACAU, China, Nov. 19 (TNSres) -- The University of Macau issued the following news release: The residential colleges of the University of Macau (UM) have emerged in recent years as a breeding ground for many entrepreneurial teams. The success of these teams is not only the results of students' hard work, but is also attributed to the invaluable guidance and support provided by their mentors at the university. Tang Yu Ming, a resident fellow at Cheng Yu Tung College (CYTC), exemplifies the sign  more

ARMONK, New York, Nov. 20 -- IBM issued the following news release on Nov. 19, 2024: * * * - Second university in the world to install an on-premises, utility-scale IBM Quantum System One - Now online, the quantum system, powered by a 127-qubit IBM Quantum Eagle processor, will support the university's aim to build an innovative research and industry ecosystem as a quantum technology hub * * * Today, Yonsei University and IBM (NYSE: IBM) deployed the first IBM Quantum System One in the Repu  more