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Newswise: Research Résumé: Kun Luo, exploring microstructures for high-performance materials
Released: 21-Feb-2024 1:05 PM EST
Research Résumé: Kun Luo, exploring microstructures for high-performance materials
Iowa State University

Kun Luo is combining his experience in materials experimentation and theoretical simulations to explain the atomic mechanisms that create special properties in high-performance materials.

Released: 21-Feb-2024 11:00 AM EST
Engineers use AI to wrangle fusion power for the grid
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

A Princeton-led team composed of engineers, physicists, and data scientists from the University and the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have harnessed the power of artificial intelligence to predict — and then avoid — the formation of a specific plasma problem in real time.

Newswise: UAH researcher wins 2024 Worthington Medal for innovations in pumping sciences
Released: 21-Feb-2024 10:05 AM EST
UAH researcher wins 2024 Worthington Medal for innovations in pumping sciences
University of Alabama Huntsville

Dr. Phillip Ligrani, Eminent Scholar in Propulsion at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has won the 2024 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Henry R. Worthington Medal for developing innovative micro, millimeter and macro-scale pumping devices. Ligrani’s innovations are beneficial to a variety of applications, such as transporting biological samples without significant alteration or destruction of cells, and supplying coolant to maintain the temperatures of components subject to thermal loading, like lasers.

Released: 20-Feb-2024 3:05 PM EST
Water quality monitor, locust-inspired electronic nose under development
Washington University in St. Louis

Two teams of engineers led by faculty in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis will work toward developing products to monitor drinking water quality and to detect explosives with an electronic nose with one-year, $650,000 Convergence Accelerator Phase 1 grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Released: 20-Feb-2024 2:05 PM EST
U.S. Department of Energy Announces $61 Million for Small Business Research and Development Grants
Department of Energy, Office of Science

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced awards totaling $61 million for small businesses in 17 states. The 50 projects funded by DOE’s Office of Science include the development of advanced scientific instruments, advanced materials, and clean energy conversion and storage technologies that will conduct climate research and advance the Biden-Harris Administration’s goal of a net-zero emissions economy.

   
Released: 20-Feb-2024 10:05 AM EST
Media Tip: An ingredient in toothpaste may make electric cars go farther
Argonne National Laboratory

An ingredient in many toothpastes is sodium fluoride, a compound of fluorine. It is added to protect teeth against decay. But compounds containing fluorine have other practical uses that might surprise you. The U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory scientists have discovered a fluoride electrolyte that could protect a next generation battery against performance decline.

Newswise: Company co-founded by Case Western Reserve University researcher named finalist in South by Southwest pitch competition
Released: 19-Feb-2024 4:05 PM EST
Company co-founded by Case Western Reserve University researcher named finalist in South by Southwest pitch competition
Case Western Reserve University

Dustin Tyler, the Kent H. Smith II Professor of Biomedical Engineering at CWRU’s Case School of Engineering, co-founded a company that restores for people the sensation of touch—with help from a set of electrical rings that fit snugly on users’ fingers—from a distance.

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15-Feb-2024 9:05 AM EST
Can Astronomers Use Radar to Spot a Cataclysmic Asteroid?
National Radio Astronomy Observatory

How does ground-based astronomical radar expand our understanding of the Universe? By allowing us to study our nearby Solar System, and everything in it, in unprecedented detail. Radar can reveal the surface and ancient geology of planets and their moons, letting us trace their evolution.

Newswise: Plasma Technology for More Effective Lithium Extraction
Released: 16-Feb-2024 9:00 AM EST
Plasma Technology for More Effective Lithium Extraction
National Research Council of Science and Technology

Korea Institute of Fusion Energy(KFE) announced revealed that their researchers have successfully increased the lithium extraction rate by three times compared to pre-existing methods by applying CO2 microwave plasma technology.

Newswise: A battery’s hopping ions remember where they’ve been
Released: 15-Feb-2024 1:15 PM EST
A battery’s hopping ions remember where they’ve been
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Scientists discover that ions hopping through a battery electrolyte can reverse direction in response to a jolt of voltage and briefly return to their previous positions – .the first indication that the ions remembered, in a sense, where they had just been.

Newswise: Thermally engineering templates for highly ordered self-assembled materials
Released: 14-Feb-2024 3:05 PM EST
Thermally engineering templates for highly ordered self-assembled materials
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the University of Michigan Ann Arbor have developed a template material that carries almost no heat and therefore stops heat transfer between the template material itself and the solidifying eutectic material.

Newswise: Argonne scientists use AI  to identify new materials for carbon capture
Released: 14-Feb-2024 10:05 AM EST
Argonne scientists use AI to identify new materials for carbon capture
Argonne National Laboratory

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory have used new generative AI techniques to propose new metal-organic framework materials that could offer enhanced abilities to capture carbon

Released: 13-Feb-2024 8:05 PM EST
A new way to let AI chatbots converse all day without crashing
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

When a human-AI conversation involves many rounds of continuous dialogue, the powerful large language machine-learning models that drive chatbots like ChatGPT sometimes start to collapse, causing the bots’ performance to rapidly deteriorate.

Released: 13-Feb-2024 2:05 PM EST
NJIT Researchers Unveil Method to Detect 'Forever Chemicals' in Under 3 Minutes
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)

Researchers report one of the fastest and most sensitive approaches yet for detecting toxic per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) accumulating in the environment, which are linked to health risks ranging from cancers to birth defects.

Newswise: Are shapeshifting “soft machines” in our future? LLNL researchers advance material that responds to light
Released: 12-Feb-2024 1:05 PM EST
Are shapeshifting “soft machines” in our future? LLNL researchers advance material that responds to light
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have furthered a new type of soft material that can change shape in response to light, a discovery that could advance “soft machines” for a variety of fields, from robotics to medicine.

Newswise: UT Southwestern collaborates with Pfizer to develop improved RNA delivery technologies
Released: 12-Feb-2024 12:05 PM EST
UT Southwestern collaborates with Pfizer to develop improved RNA delivery technologies
UT Southwestern Medical Center

UT Southwestern Medical Center is partnering with Pfizer Inc. to develop RNA-enhanced delivery technologies for genetic medicine therapies through the Dallas-based medical center's Program in Genetic Drug Engineering.

   
Newswise: Argonne training program alumni find success in extreme-scale computing
Released: 12-Feb-2024 10:05 AM EST
Argonne training program alumni find success in extreme-scale computing
Argonne National Laboratory

Past attendees of the annual Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing are thriving in careers across the field of high performance computing.

Newswise: “ViaBus,” an innovation by Chula engineering alumni, wins the DEmark Award 2023 in Thailand and the Good Design Award (G-Mark) in Japan
Released: 12-Feb-2024 8:55 AM EST
“ViaBus,” an innovation by Chula engineering alumni, wins the DEmark Award 2023 in Thailand and the Good Design Award (G-Mark) in Japan
Chulalongkorn University

Congratulations to the ViaBus Application, developed by alumni of Chula Faculty of Engineering, for winning Thailand’s Design Excellence Award (DEmark) 2023 in the category of Systems, Services, Digital Platform, Online Interface Design, Apps for Smartphones and Tablets, Website.

Newswise: New adhesive tape picks up and sticks down 2D materials as easily as child’s play
Released: 11-Feb-2024 8:05 PM EST
New adhesive tape picks up and sticks down 2D materials as easily as child’s play
Kyushu University

Materials just atoms in thickness, known as two-dimensional (2D) materials, are set to revolutionize future technology, including in the electronics industry.

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5-Feb-2024 8:00 AM EST
3D Ice Printing can Create Artificial Blood Vessels in Engineered Tissue
Biophysical Society

Over 100,000 individuals in the United States are currently in need of organ transplants. The demand for organs, such as hearts, kidneys, and livers, far exceeds the available supply and people sometimes wait years to receive a donated organ.

   
Released: 9-Feb-2024 3:05 PM EST
This ultrasound sticker senses changing stiffness of deep internal organs
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

MIT engineers have developed a small ultrasound sticker that can monitor the stiffness of organs deep inside the body.

   
Newswise: How the Quantum World Can Help Scientists Engineer Biology
Released: 9-Feb-2024 2:05 PM EST
How the Quantum World Can Help Scientists Engineer Biology
Department of Energy, Office of Science

By studying how CRISPR-Cas works, scientists can predict and design where these tools modify DNA.

Newswise: Haran and Saif elected to the National Academy of Engineering
Released: 8-Feb-2024 5:05 PM EST
Haran and Saif elected to the National Academy of Engineering
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

Kiruba Haran, who is a professor of electrical and computer engineering and the Grainger Endowed Director’s Chair in Electric Machinery and Electromechanics, and Taher Saif, the Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell Professor in mechanical science and engineering, were elected to the National Academy of Engineering

Released: 8-Feb-2024 9:30 AM EST
45 Finalists Named for the 2024 Hertz Fellowships
The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation

The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation today announced 45 finalists for the 2024 Hertz Fellowships in applied science, mathematics and engineering.

Newswise: General deep learning framework for emissivity engineering
Released: 8-Feb-2024 7:50 AM EST
General deep learning framework for emissivity engineering
Chinese Academy of Sciences

Chinese scientists developed a deep learning framework to optimize wavelength-selective thermal emitters (WS-TEs) for applications like radiative cooling and gas sensing.

Newswise: ORNL's Jason DeGraw named ASHRAE Fellow
Released: 7-Feb-2024 2:05 PM EST
ORNL's Jason DeGraw named ASHRAE Fellow
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

The American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Engineers, or ASHRAE, selected Jason DeGraw, a researcher with the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, as one of 23 members elevated to Fellow during its 2024 winter conference.

Newswise: Breaking boundaries in quantum photonics:
Groundbreaking nanocavities unlock new frontiers in light confinement
5-Feb-2024 9:30 AM EST
Breaking boundaries in quantum photonics: Groundbreaking nanocavities unlock new frontiers in light confinement
Bar-Ilan University

In a significant leap forward for quantum nanophotonics, a team of European and Israeli physicists, introduces a new type of polaritonic cavities and redefines the limits of light confinement. This pioneering work, detailed in a study published today in Nature Materials, demonstrates an unconventional method to confine photons, overcoming the traditional limitations in nanophotonics.

Newswise: ORNL’s Sholl elected to National Academy of Engineering
Released: 5-Feb-2024 5:05 PM EST
ORNL’s Sholl elected to National Academy of Engineering
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

David Sholl, director of the Transformational Decarbonization Initiative at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for his contributions in addressing large-scale chemical separation challenges, including carbon dioxide capture, using quantitative materials modeling.

Newswise: New method monitors grid stability with hydropower project signals
Released: 5-Feb-2024 3:05 PM EST
New method monitors grid stability with hydropower project signals
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, have developed an algorithm to predict electric grid stability using signals from pumped storage hydropower projects.

Newswise:Video Embedded mystery-of-moths-warning-sound-production-explained-in-new-study
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1-Feb-2024 5:05 AM EST
Mystery of moths’ warning sound production explained in new study
University of Bristol

The workings of the ultrasonic warning sounds produced by the wings of a species of moth have been revealed by researchers at the University of Bristol.

Released: 5-Feb-2024 2:05 PM EST
Green steel from toxic red mud
Max Planck Society (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft)

An economical process with green hydrogen can be used to extract CO2-free iron from the red mud generated in aluminium production.

Newswise: Ultra-sensitive lead detector could significantly improve water quality monitoring
Released: 5-Feb-2024 10:00 AM EST
Ultra-sensitive lead detector could significantly improve water quality monitoring
University of California San Diego

UC San Diego engineers have developed an ultra-sensitive sensor made with graphene that can detect extraordinarily low concentrations of lead ions in water.

Newswise: Innovative urban living concept tackles housing woes and offers socially connected solutions
Released: 4-Feb-2024 10:05 PM EST
Innovative urban living concept tackles housing woes and offers socially connected solutions
University of South Australia

Co-locating homes on single suburban allotments to create smaller and more socially connected living options could help address the nation’s housing crisis, according to a University of South Australia researcher.

Released: 1-Feb-2024 10:05 PM EST
3D-printed pneumatic modules replace electric controls in soft robots
University of Freiburg

In the future, soft robots will be able to perform tasks that cannot be done by conventional robots.

Newswise:Video Embedded binghamton-battery-project-named-one-of-10-nsf-innovation-engines-in-the-nation
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Released: 1-Feb-2024 1:05 PM EST
Binghamton battery project named one of 10 NSF Innovation Engines in the nation
Binghamton University, State University of New York

Binghamton University, State University of New York's role as a national leader in battery innovation and manufacturing received a multimillion-dollar investment Monday when the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) designated Upstate New York as one of 10 inaugural NSF Regional Innovation Engines.

Newswise: Idaho National Laboratory and Colorado School of Mines expand research partnership
Released: 1-Feb-2024 12:05 PM EST
Idaho National Laboratory and Colorado School of Mines expand research partnership
Idaho National Laboratory (INL)

Idaho National Laboratory and Colorado School of Mines have agreed to expand their joint efforts in scientific research for the next five years.

Newswise: Grid electronics research to bridge gap to cleaner, more reliable power
Released: 1-Feb-2024 11:05 AM EST
Grid electronics research to bridge gap to cleaner, more reliable power
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are looking for a happy medium to enable the grid of the future, filling a gap between high and low voltages for power electronics technology that underpins the modern U.S. electric grid.

Newswise: How wood is making a comeback in construction
Released: 1-Feb-2024 11:05 AM EST
How wood is making a comeback in construction
University of Utah

University of Utah engineering researchers experiment with various wood laminates and "mass timber" construction techniques to come up with ways to build wood buildings that can stand up to earthquakes, hurricanes, bugs and the elements.

Newswise: Engineers unmask nanoplastics in oceans for the first time, revealing their true shapes and chemistry
Released: 1-Feb-2024 10:45 AM EST
Engineers unmask nanoplastics in oceans for the first time, revealing their true shapes and chemistry
University of Notre Dame

In a new study, engineers at the University of Notre Dame have presented clear images of nanoplastics in ocean water off the coasts of China, South Korea and the United States, and in the Gulf of Mexico.

Released: 31-Jan-2024 5:05 PM EST
Oxford scientists launch ambitious roadmap for circular carbon plastics economy
University of Oxford

Researchers from the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Plastics, University of Oxford, have outlined ambitious targets to help deliver a sustainable and net zero plastic economy.

Newswise: Dr. Gabe Xu wins $75K McMahon-Pleiad Prize from University of Alabama System in recognition of research contributions
Released: 31-Jan-2024 2:05 PM EST
Dr. Gabe Xu wins $75K McMahon-Pleiad Prize from University of Alabama System in recognition of research contributions
University of Alabama Huntsville

Dr. Gabe Xu, an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering in the College of Engineering at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has been selected to receive the 2023 University of Alabama (UA) System McMahon-Pleiad Prize.

Newswise: The use of biofuels may reduce black smoke emissions of cars by 90%
Released: 31-Jan-2024 12:05 PM EST
The use of biofuels may reduce black smoke emissions of cars by 90%
University of Malaga

The UMA participates in an international study with the Future Power Systems Group of the University of Birmingham (UK) that investigates how to reduce pollutant emissions from vehicles without affecting engine performance.

Newswise: National achievement awards go to two Sandia Labs engineers
Released: 31-Jan-2024 10:05 AM EST
National achievement awards go to two Sandia Labs engineers
Sandia National Laboratories

Sandia National Laboratories scientists Patrick Feng and Thushara Gunda recently were honored with national achievement awards by the Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers.

Released: 31-Jan-2024 8:05 AM EST
Surgical robot developed at Nebraska launches into space
University of Nebraska-Lincoln

A surgeon’s hands could stretch 250 miles above Earth, should an upcoming test of a miniaturized surgical robot aboard the International Space Station prove successful.

Newswise: Bringing Together Real-world Sensors and VR to Improve Building Maintenance
Released: 31-Jan-2024 7:00 AM EST
Bringing Together Real-world Sensors and VR to Improve Building Maintenance
University of California San Diego

A new system that brings together real-world sensing and virtual reality would make it easier for building maintenance personnel to identify and fix issues in commercial buildings that are in operation.

Released: 30-Jan-2024 6:05 PM EST
Using computers to design proteins allows researchers to make tunable hydrogels that can form both inside and outside of cells
University of Washington

New research led by the University of Washington demonstrates a new class of hydrogels that can form not just outside cells, but also inside of them. These hydrogels exhibited similar mechanical properties both inside and outside of cells, providing researchers with a new tool to group proteins together inside of cells.

Newswise: Bringing supercomputers and experiments together to accelerate discoveries
Released: 30-Jan-2024 4:40 PM EST
Bringing supercomputers and experiments together to accelerate discoveries
Argonne National Laboratory

Through its Nexus effort, Argonne National Laboratory is working to closely integrate supercomputers with experiments to help researchers keep pace with the ever-increasing influx of scientific data.

Newswise: Meet Edward Schmitt, facilities engineer
Released: 30-Jan-2024 11:50 AM EST
Meet Edward Schmitt, facilities engineer
Argonne National Laboratory

Edward Schmitt is supporting Argonne’s efforts at the lab’s quantum materials foundry.

Newswise: SpaceX launches staph infection experiment to ISS today
Released: 30-Jan-2024 11:05 AM EST
SpaceX launches staph infection experiment to ISS today
University of Florida

University of Florida scientist hopes to learn what happens if you get infected with Staphylococcus aureus while in space.



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