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Released: 19-Jul-2021 10:05 AM EDT
ORNL’s Gluesenkamp, Im receive ASHRAE Distinguished Service Awards
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Kyle Gluesenkamp and Piljae Im, Oak Ridge National Laboratory building technology researchers, were two of 15 scientists recognized with 2021 Distinguished Service Awards by ASHRAE, the international professional association for heating, refrigerating and air conditioning engineers.

Released: 16-Jul-2021 4:10 PM EDT
利用人工智能筛选3000万种针对SARS-CoV-2的候选药物
Mayo Clinic

妙佑医疗国际(Mayo Clinic)的研究人员和合作者利用计算机模拟和人工智能(AI)来筛选3000万种候选药物,这些药物有可能阻断导致COVID-19的SARS-CoV-2病毒。在一篇发表在《Biomolecules》上的论文中,研究人员阐述了他们如何加速药物发现,从而为开展进一步的研究确定最有希望的目标。他们的最终目的是寻找治疗COVID-19的新方法。

Released: 16-Jul-2021 4:00 PM EDT
Invention: The Storywrangler
University of Vermont

Scientists have invented a first-of-its-kind instrument to peer deeply into billions of Twitter posts--providing an unprecedented, minute-by-minute view of popularity, from rising political movements, to K-pop, to emerging diseases. The tool--called the Storywrangler--gathers phrases across 150 different languages, analyzing the rise and fall of ideas and stories, each day, among people around the world. The Storywrangler quantifies collective attention.

Released: 16-Jul-2021 3:25 PM EDT
DOE Provides $28 Million To Advance Scientific Discovery Using Supercomputers
Department of Energy, Office of Science

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $28 million in funding for five research projects to develop software that will fully unleash the potential of DOE supercomputers to make new leaps in fields such as quantum information science and chemical reactions for clean energy applications.

Released: 16-Jul-2021 3:20 PM EDT
DHS S&T Seeks Blast Resistant Trash Receptacles for Market Survey Analysis
Homeland Security's Science And Technology Directorate

DHS S&T issued a RFI on commercially available Blast Resistant Trash Receptacles (BRTRs) to be included in a market survey conducted by S&T’s NUSTL in New York.

Released: 16-Jul-2021 12:25 PM EDT
DOE’s Office of Science Is Now Accepting Applications for Spring 2022 Undergraduate Internships
Department of Energy, Office of Science

Applications are currently being accepted for the Spring 2022 term of two undergraduate internship programs offered by the DOE Office of Science: the Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI) program and the Community College Internships (CCI) program.

Released: 16-Jul-2021 7:30 AM EDT
3-D Printed Replicas Reveal Swimming Capabilities of Ancient Cephalopods
University of Utah

Researchers took 3-D printed reconstructions of fossil cephalopods to actual water tanks (including a swimming pool) to see how their shell structure may have been tied to their movement and lifestyle.

Released: 15-Jul-2021 5:10 PM EDT
Accelerating Science from Idea to Publication with Bold National Research Platform
University of California San Diego

National Science Foundation supports first-of-its-kind cyberinfrastructure ecosystem that meets the needs of today’s data-intensive science.

Released: 15-Jul-2021 2:20 PM EDT
DHS S&T Partnership Brings Next-Generation Incident Command System to a Wider Response Community
Homeland Security's Science And Technology Directorate

DHS S&T is joining forces with the non-profit Beacon NGO to advance open source software capabilities for public safety.

12-Jul-2021 4:00 PM EDT
Scientists Take First Snapshots of Ultrafast Switching in a Quantum Electronic Device
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Scientist demonstrated a new way of observing atoms as they move in a tiny quantum electronic switch as it operates. Along the way, they discovered a new material state that could pave the way for faster, more energy-efficient computing.

Released: 15-Jul-2021 1:00 PM EDT
PPPL Selected for Three New Public-Private Partnerships to Speed the Development of Fusion Energy
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

These partnerships facilitate breakthroughs in harvesting on Earth the fusion power that drives the sun and stars.

Released: 15-Jul-2021 9:40 AM EDT
Advancing Future Energy Technologies With More Accurate Electrochemical Simulations
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)

With the support of a $2.6 million grant from the Department of Energy, Ravishankar Sundararaman, an associate professor of materials science and engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in collaboration with a multi-institution team of researchers, is taking on the challenge of developing accurate, cost-effective, and highly accessible computational electrochemistry tools.

Released: 15-Jul-2021 8:05 AM EDT
Tracking COVID-19 across Europe
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

A COVID tracker developed by IIASA researcher Asjad Naqvi, aims to identify, collect, and collate various official regional datasets for European countries, while also combining and homogenizing the data to help researchers and policymakers explore how the virus spreads.

   
Released: 14-Jul-2021 4:45 PM EDT
How Does The World Use Emojis?
University of Southern California (USC)

Before Millennials were over laugh-cry emojis, they were the most used emojis across the world, according to researchers at USC.

Released: 14-Jul-2021 4:35 PM EDT
Finding New Uses for Approved Drugs
South Dakota State University

To treat cancer and other diseases, the Center for Drug, Disease and Delivery will develop new formulations and therapeutic targets for approved drugs.

Released: 14-Jul-2021 3:50 PM EDT
Laboratory, Partners Secure $4.7 Million in DOE Funding
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Los Alamos National Laboratory and private-sector partners have secured a total of $4.7 million in Technology Commercialization Funds from the Department of Energy (DOE) to accelerate bringing cutting-edge energy technologies and solutions to the marketplace.

Released: 14-Jul-2021 3:35 PM EDT
Chemistry Discovery Could Remove Micropollutants from Environment
U.S. ARMY Research Laboratory

Army-funded research identified a new chemistry approach that could remove micropollutants from the environment.

Released: 14-Jul-2021 2:55 PM EDT
DHS S&T Tests Innovative Autonomous Surface and Underwater Ocean Surveillance Technology
Homeland Security's Science And Technology Directorate

DHS S&T is evaluating innovative ocean surveillance technology to support USCG's mission of protecting maritime border shoreline, waterways, seaports, and other commercially navigable waters.

Released: 14-Jul-2021 12:40 PM EDT
Groundbreaking tomorrow: UIC kicks off construction for new computer science center
University of Illinois Chicago

The University of Illinois Chicago will celebrate the start of construction on a 135,000-square-foot, multi-use computer science and engineering building with a groundbreaking ceremony on July 15.

Released: 14-Jul-2021 11:25 AM EDT
The Hidden Culprit Killing Lithium-metal Batteries From the Inside
Sandia National Laboratories

The first nanoscale images ever taken inside intact, lithium-metal coin batteries (also called button cells or watch batteries) challenge prevailing theories and could help make future high-performance batteries, such as for electric vehicles, safer, more powerful and longer lasting.

14-Jul-2021 5:05 AM EDT
Heisenberg Under the Microscope
University of Vienna

The quantum movements of a small glass sphere could be controlled for the first time in Vienna by combining microscopy with control engineering, setting the course for future quantum technologies.A football is not a quantum particle. There are crucial differences between the things we know from everyday life and tiny quantum objects.

Released: 14-Jul-2021 10:20 AM EDT
Interactive Media Reduce Negative Reactions to Health Messages, Boost Compliance
Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences

People often react negatively to health messages because they tend to dictate what we can and cannot do, but new research reveals that interactive media can soften negative reactions -- or reactance -- to health messages that are distributed online.

   
14-Jul-2021 9:30 AM EDT
Encrypting photos on the cloud to keep them private
Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science

A new study from computer scientists at Columbia Engineering reveals what may be the first way to encrypt personal images on popular cloud photo services, such as those from Google, Apple, Flickr and others, all without requiring any changes to — or trust in — those services.

Released: 14-Jul-2021 9:00 AM EDT
Call for Speakers for Cryptocurrency Conference
Harrisburg University of Science and Technology

Harrisburg University of Science and Technology is looking for subject matter experts in cryptocurrency, bitcoin, blockchain topics at the upcoming Harrisburg Cryptocurrency and Blockchain conference. The in-person day-long event is set for September 22, 2021, at Harrisburg University. The University seeks speakers for the keynote addresses and panel discussions who can passionately and effectively share their subject matter expertise and insights with the attendees. ​

Released: 14-Jul-2021 8:30 AM EDT
Liquid Metal Sensors and AI Could Help Prosthetic Hands to ‘Feel’
Florida Atlantic University

Prosthetics currently lack the sensation of “touch.” To enable a more natural feeling prosthetic hand interface, researchers are the first to incorporate stretchable tactile sensors using liquid metal and machine learning. This hierarchical multi-finger tactile sensation integration could provide a higher level of intelligence for artificial hands by improving control, providing haptic feedback and reconnecting amputees to a previously severed sense of touch.

Released: 13-Jul-2021 5:05 PM EDT
New Argonne study puts charge into drive for sustainable lithium production
Argonne National Laboratory

A new study by a team of scientists from Argonne National Laboratory and Chilean-based SQM shows the best ways to produce lithium more efficiently.

Released: 13-Jul-2021 5:05 PM EDT
استخدام الذكاء الاصطناعي لفحص 30 مليون عقار مرشح لمكافحة فيروس كورونا 2 المسبب لمتلازمة الالتهاب التنفسي الحاد الوخيم (السارز)
Mayo Clinic

استخدم باحثو مايو كلينك وشركاؤهم محاكاة الحاسوب والذكاء الاصطناعي لفحص 30 مليون عقار افتراضيًا تم ترشيحها لحجب فيروس كورونا 2 المسبب لمتلازمة الالتهاب التنفسي الحاد الوخيم (السارز)، الفيروس المسبب لفيروس كورونا المستجد (كوفيد-19).

Released: 13-Jul-2021 3:05 PM EDT
Trajectory tracking with balance: the key to bicycles that ride themselves
NYU Tandon School of Engineering

This paper studies the trajectory tracking and balance control problem for an autonomous bicycle — one that is ridden like a normal bicycle before automatically traveling by itself to the next user — that is a non-minimum phase, strongly nonlinear system.

Released: 13-Jul-2021 2:40 PM EDT
Usando a inteligência artificial para fazer a triagem de 30 milhões de possíveis medicamentos contra o SARS-CoV-2
Mayo Clinic

Os pesquisadores e colaboradores da Mayo Clinic usaram a simulação em computadores e inteligência artificial (AI) para fazer a triagem virtual de 30 milhões de possíveis medicamentos que podem bloquear o SARS-CoV-2, o vírus que causa a COVID-19.

   
Released: 13-Jul-2021 2:35 PM EDT
Inteligencia artificial permite seleccionar 30 millones de posibles fármacos contra el SARS-CoV-2
Mayo Clinic

Los investigadores de Mayo Clinic y sus colaboradores usaron simulación por computadora e inteligencia artificial (IA) para seleccionar 30 millones de posibles fármacos que obstruyan al virus SARS-CoV-2, causante de la COVID-19.

Released: 13-Jul-2021 12:40 PM EDT
University of Portsmouth becomes the first non-US partner of a new project to tackle plastic pollution in the USA
University of Portsmouth

The University of Portsmouth is now a key member of a collaborative effort funded by the United States Department of Energy (DOE) and industry to tackle the growing global crisis of plastic waste.

Released: 13-Jul-2021 12:35 PM EDT
€1 Million Prize for Plastics-to-Protein Research Awarded to Steve Techtmann, Ting Lu
Michigan Technological University

Steve Techtmann has won the 2021 Future Insight Prize — awarded to innovative research in health, nutrition and energy — for his food generator concept.

Released: 13-Jul-2021 11:25 AM EDT
Delivering Clean Power to Disaster Scenes, Without Compromise
Homeland Security's Science And Technology Directorate

The H2Rescue is an innovative new truck that can bring power to a disaster scene, with zero emissions.

9-Jul-2021 5:15 PM EDT
Calling all couch potatoes: this finger wrap can let you power electronics while you sleep
University of California San Diego

A new wearable device turns the touch of a finger into a source of power for small electronics and sensors. Engineers at the University of California San Diego developed a thin, flexible strip that can be worn on a fingertip and generate small amounts of electricity when a person’s finger sweats or presses on it. What’s special about this sweat-fueled device is that it generates power even while the wearer is asleep or sitting still.

Released: 13-Jul-2021 9:00 AM EDT
WCG Acquires Intrinsic Imaging, Leading Full-Service Medical Imaging Core Lab
WCG

WCG today announced the acquisition of Intrinsic Imaging, a leading global provider of medical imaging core lab services.

Released: 13-Jul-2021 9:00 AM EDT
The Polo Tecnologico Piemontese opens in Candiolo (Turin)
Sbarro Health Research Organization (SHRO)

The Polo Tecnologico Piemontese (PTP) is born in Candiolo (Turin), a hub of innovative companies that will host avant-garde technological companies and research institutes dedicated to medicine and which sees the HBW Group * as the leader.

   
Released: 13-Jul-2021 4:05 AM EDT
Molecules in Collective Ecstasy
Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology

When fluorescent dye molecules nestle perfectly together, something completely new is created: an excited state distributed over many molecules. Such collective excitations can be used in a variety of ways – for organic solar panels, in sensors, for ultrafast data transmission or in microscopy, for example. Empa researchers, together with colleagues from ETH Zurich, EPFL, the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) and IBM Research Zurich, have succeeded in making such chemical light amplifiers ten times more efficient than before.

Released: 12-Jul-2021 4:10 PM EDT
Neutron-clustering Effect in Nuclear Reactors Demonstrated for First Time
Los Alamos National Laboratory

For the first time, the long-theorized neutron-clustering effect in nuclear reactors has been demonstrated, which could improve reactor safety and create more accurate simulations, according to a new study recently published in the journal Nature Communications Physics.

Released: 12-Jul-2021 1:50 PM EDT
MRI's Magnetic Field Affects Focused Ultrasound Technology
Washington University in St. Louis

A new finding prompts researchers, clinicians to consider this impact in future research and clinical treatment of brain diseases

   
Released: 12-Jul-2021 10:35 AM EDT
New electronic paper displays brilliant colours
Chalmers University of Technology

Imagine sitting out in the sun, reading a digital screen as thin as paper, but seeing the same image quality as if you were indoors.

Released: 12-Jul-2021 10:25 AM EDT
Liangyuan Hu Joins the Rutgers School of Public Health
Rutgers School of Public Health

Liangyuan Hu, PhD, joins the School as an associate professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology.

Released: 9-Jul-2021 5:05 PM EDT
Ecologists compare accuracy of lidar technologies for monitoring forest vegetation
Northern Arizona University

The findings from Northern Arizona University's Ecological Restoration Institute suggest mobile platforms have great potential for monitoring a variety of forest attributes.

Released: 9-Jul-2021 3:05 PM EDT
Harrisburg University & Blumberg Institute Introduce Biotech Workforce Leadership Development Programs
Harrisburg University of Science and Technology

Harrisburg University of Science and Technology and The Baruch S. Blumberg Institute have teamed to offer graduate-level biotechnology certificates to prepare working professionals with workforce and leadership skills within the biotechnology industry. Beginning Fall 2021 semester, the Biotechnology Certificate Program will be offered in partnership with The Blumberg Institute. The Blumberg Institute is the nation’s leading translational research organization dedicated to finding a cure for hepatitis B and liver cancer.

Released: 9-Jul-2021 12:25 PM EDT
SLAC hosts Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm for a virtual visit
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Highlights of the two-hour visit included behind-the-scenes looks at one of the most powerful X-ray sources on the planet and at the construction of the world’s largest digital camera for astronomy. She also joined presentations of the lab’s research in machine learning, quantum technology and climate science and engaged in discussions about diversity, equity and inclusion at SLAC.

6-Jul-2021 11:25 AM EDT
Tool Helps Predicts Who Will Respond Best to Targeted Prostate Cancer Therapy
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Health Sciences

A new prognostic tool helps predict which men with advanced metastatic prostate cancer will respond favorably to a novel targeted therapy.

Released: 8-Jul-2021 3:00 PM EDT
From Satellite to Smartphone, App Warns Public of Unsafe Water
University of Rhode Island

University of Rhode Island College of Engineering Professor Ali Shafqat Akanda and a team of researchers have developed an application for smartphones called CholeraMap to serve as an early warning device for cholera.

   
Released: 8-Jul-2021 1:50 PM EDT
Glancing into a Nuclear Mirror: the Fate of Aluminum-26 in Stars
Department of Energy, Office of Science

Aluminum-26 has a quantum state difficult to study in a lab. Scientists instead use ion beam-target interactions to create an environment that adds a neutron to the radioactive isotope Silicon-26 to study excited quantum states in Silicon-27. This approach is possible because of the symmetry between protons and neutrons. This provides rare insight into processes in stars.

Released: 8-Jul-2021 1:45 PM EDT
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Stevens Institute of Technology To Establish the First-Ever NSF-Backed Fintech Research Center
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Stevens Institute of Technology announced today that they have been awarded the first-ever National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to create an industry-university cooperative research center devoted specifically to financial technology and science.



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