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Released: 3-Sep-2019 1:35 AM EDT
Website Rates Security of Internet-Connected Devices
Georgia Institute of Technology

If you’re in the market for an internet-connected garage door opener, doorbell, thermostat, security camera, yard irrigation system, slow cooker – or even a box of connected light bulbs – a new website can help you understand the security issues these shiny new devices might bring into your home.

Released: 30-Aug-2019 1:05 PM EDT
HOT SHOT findings could save defense tech developers time and money
Sandia National Laboratories

An analysis of HOT SHOT sounding rocket data has revealed a way to provide an earlier, more accurate indicator of whether an experimental technology will succeed in flight without falling to pieces.

Released: 30-Aug-2019 12:05 PM EDT
SMART Algorithm Makes Beamline Data Collection Smarter
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Researchers in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Center for Advanced Mathematics for Energy Research Applications have been working with beamline scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory to develop and test SMART, a mathematical method that enables autonomous experimental decision making without human interaction.

Released: 30-Aug-2019 9:50 AM EDT
New GCOOS-Funded Radar Installations at the Mouth of the Mississippi Will Help to Protect Lives and Support the Nation’s Blue Economy
Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing System-Regional Association (GCOOS-RA)

The Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing System (GCOOS) joined with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the National Ocean Service (NOS), Fugro and the University of Southern Mississippi to celebrate the installation of two new high-frequency radars situated at the mouth of the Mississippi River.

Released: 30-Aug-2019 6:05 AM EDT
Virtual Reality Brings History to Life for Students
Gonzaga University

Students in Gonzaga University Professor Andrew Goldman’s History 193 course can look forward to traveling somewhere new and far away — and often into the past — most afternoons this fall.

   
Released: 29-Aug-2019 5:05 PM EDT
New funding awarded to two early career scientists
Argonne National Laboratory

Two scientists from Argonne National Laboratory have earned prestigious Early Career Research Program awards from the Department of Energy’s Office of Science. The award is $2.5 million over five years for early career scientists to advance their research.

Released: 29-Aug-2019 5:05 PM EDT
DOE Announces $60.7 Million to Advance Quantum Computing and Networking
Department of Energy, Office of Science

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $60.7 million in funding to advance the development of quantum computing and networking.

Released: 29-Aug-2019 1:05 PM EDT
Supercomputers Pave the Way for New Machine Learning Approach
University of California San Diego

Researchers have developed a machine learning approach called transfer learning that lets them model novel materials by learning from data collected about millions of other compounds. The new approach can be applied to new molecules in milliseconds, enabling research into a far greater number of compounds over much longer timescales.

Released: 29-Aug-2019 10:05 AM EDT
DHS S&T Awards $200K to San Diego's Planck Aerosystems Inc. for Final Testing of Small Unmanned Aircraft System
Homeland Security's Science And Technology Directorate

DHS S&T awarded Planck Aerosystems, Inc. of San Diego, California, $200,000 to begin testing its autonomous small Unmanned Aircraft System (sUAS) in operational settings.

Released: 29-Aug-2019 9:55 AM EDT
Giving Smart Vehicles Their Sense of Direction
University of Delaware

Before self-driving vehicles become a permanent fixture on our roads they need to overcome two challenges—figuring out where they are and their range of motion (localization) and modeling their surroundings to avoid running into stuff (mapping). In the world of robotics, it’s called SLAM—simultaneous localization and mapping. Researchers at the University of Delaware have developed novel SLAM algorithms that offer the best solution to date for giving these vehicles a sense of direction.

22-Aug-2019 2:05 PM EDT
Clickbait Secrets Exposed! Humans and AI team up to improve clickbait detection
Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences

Humans and machines worked together to help train an artificial intelligence -- AI -- model that outperformed other clickbait detectors, according to researchers. In addition, the new AI-based solution was also able to tell the difference between clickbait headlines that were generated by machines -- or bots -- and ones written by people.

Released: 28-Aug-2019 11:05 AM EDT
DHS S&T Study Recommends Federal Agencies Integrate EMM & APP Vetting Solutions for Maximum Security
Homeland Security's Science And Technology Directorate

A new study released today by DHS S&T describes a continuous approach to mobile app vetting that integrates the capabilities of enterprise mobility management (EMM) solutions with app vetting tools to improve the security of mobile devices.

Released: 28-Aug-2019 11:05 AM EDT
DHS S&T, St. Louis Launch Smart Cities Tech Pilot
Homeland Security's Science And Technology Directorate

DHS S&T is leading the effort to bring smart cities standards to the nation’s public safety community. Today, DHS S&T is launching a smart cities technology integration pilot in St. Louis, Missouri, in collaboration with both the city and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC).

Released: 28-Aug-2019 10:00 AM EDT
Smarter Experiments for Faster Materials Discovery
Brookhaven National Laboratory

UPTON, NY - A team of scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory designed, created, and successfully tested a new algorithm to make smarter scientific measurement decisions.

Released: 28-Aug-2019 9:00 AM EDT
Millennials, Think You’re Digitally Better Than Us? Yes, According to Science
Florida Atlantic University

Legend has it that millennials, specifically the “Net Generation,” masterfully switch from one technology to the next. They claim that it’s easy and that they can do it better than older generations. Research, so far, hasn’t proven this claim.

Released: 28-Aug-2019 8:05 AM EDT
S&T Joins with International Partners to Establish Latest Emergency Response Best Practices
Homeland Security's Science And Technology Directorate

S&T, in coordination with the governments of Canada and the UK, organized a trilateral exercise aimed at testing the robustness of SAGE under a hypothetical scenario focused around a national-level response to an infectious pathogen.

27-Aug-2019 9:00 AM EDT
New MRI Computing Technique Can Spot Scar Muscles of Heart Without Damaging Kidneys
University of Warwick

3D MRI computing can measure strain in the heart using image registration method. Traditional method involves giving the patient a dose of gadolinium which can affect the kidney, researchers at WMG, University of Warwick have found.

Released: 27-Aug-2019 5:05 PM EDT
Researchers Earn NASA Grant to Explore Plasma-Jet Printing for In-Space Manufacturing
Boise State University

A team of researchers led by College of Engineering assistant professor Harish Subbaraman have been selected to receive a NASA Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) three-year grant of more than $700,000.

Released: 27-Aug-2019 12:05 PM EDT
Enhancing Materials for Hi-Res Patterning to Advance Microelectronics
Brookhaven National Laboratory

Scientists created organic-inorganic materials for transferring ultrasmall features into silicon with a high aspect ratio.

Released: 27-Aug-2019 11:10 AM EDT
Observing Hundreds of Neurons at Once with Two-Photon Microscopy
Optica

Computational Approach Speeds Up Advanced Microscopy Imaging

26-Aug-2019 4:00 PM EDT
Seagate, UC Santa Cruz Collaboration Poised to Accelerate Genomics Data Analysis
University of California, Santa Cruz

Seagate Technology, along with the Genomics Institute and Baskin School of Engineering at University of California, Santa Cruz announced today that they have entered into a multi-year, joint research and development agreement to accelerate genomics data analysis using computational storage technology

   
26-Aug-2019 2:05 PM EDT
Particle Accelerators Drive Decades of Discoveries at Berkeley Lab and Beyond
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

This article and accompanying video highlight the decades of discoveries, achievements and progress in particle accelerator R&D at Berkeley Lab. These accelerators have enabled new explorations of the atomic nucleus; the production and discovery of new elements and isotopes, and of subatomic particles

20-Aug-2019 8:00 AM EDT
American Chemical Society Fall 2019 National Meeting & Exposition Press Conference Schedule
American Chemical Society (ACS)

Attend press conferences live – online at http://bit.ly/acs2019sandiego or in person - at the American Chemical Society Fall 2019 National Meeting & Exposition. Press conferences will be held Monday, Aug. 26 and Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2019.

20-Aug-2019 8:00 AM EDT
Nanoparticles Could Someday Give Humans Built-in Night Vision
American Chemical Society (ACS)

Movies featuring heroes with superpowers, such as flight, X-ray vision or extraordinary strength, are all the rage.

Released: 26-Aug-2019 8:05 PM EDT
Shaping the future of Australia’s mining operations
University of Adelaide

The University of Adelaide will lead a new national mining research and training centre utilising advanced technologies that will help to shape the future of Australia’s mining operations.

Released: 26-Aug-2019 3:10 PM EDT
American Psychological Association Conference on Technology, Mind and Society
American Psychological Association (APA)

Technology, Mind and Society – an interdisciplinary conference exploring the links between psychology and technology

Released: 26-Aug-2019 2:05 PM EDT
Greek temple ruins suggest lifting machines in use 1.5 centuries earlier than previously believed
University of Notre Dame

New research from the University of Notre Dame adds nuance to the broadly accepted view that the crane was not in use until 515 B.C. by demonstrating how forerunners to the machine were experimented with as early as 700-650 B.C.   

Released: 26-Aug-2019 1:05 PM EDT
Kids ‘test drive’ social media in new interactive simulations
Cornell University

Educators across the country can now use interactive tutorials to teach elementary and middle schoolers how to participate positively in social media – while simultaneously learning to navigate some of its potential perils.

Released: 26-Aug-2019 12:00 AM EDT
Physicists' Study Demonstrates Silicon's Energy-Harvesting Power
University of Texas at Dallas

A University of Texas at Dallas physicist has teamed with Texas Instruments to design a better way for electronics to convert waste heat into reusable energy. Silicon in the form of nanoblades can harvest thermoelectric energy at a greatly increased rate while remaining mass-producible when combined with integrated circuits.

Released: 23-Aug-2019 1:05 PM EDT
Chaos Ensues When Lasers and Plasma Meet
Department of Energy, Office of Science

Warp+PXR dramatically improves the accuracy of the simulations compared to those typically used in plasma research. Now, researchers can simulate lasers’ interactions with plasma with much higher precision.

Released: 23-Aug-2019 12:05 PM EDT
Mumbai Students Look for Geohazards on the Horizon
Michigan Technological University

A U.S. team is in Mumbai this month working on disaster management curriculum with the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS). TISS is the only institution in all of Mumbai — one of the world's largest cities with 19 million people — to offer a degree in disaster management.

   
Released: 23-Aug-2019 12:05 PM EDT
Tech Time Not to Blame for Teens’ Mental Health Problems
University of California, Irvine

A new study, published in the journal Clinical Psychological Science, suggests that the time adolescents are spending on their phones and online is not that bad.

Released: 23-Aug-2019 7:05 AM EDT
Focusing computational power for more accurate, efficient weather forecasts
Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences

Penn State researchers are using artificial intelligence to pinpoint those swift-changing weather areas to help meteorologists produce more accurate weather forecasts without wasting valuable computational power.

Released: 22-Aug-2019 3:05 PM EDT
Cracking a Decades-Old Test, Researchers Bolster Case for Quantum Mechanics
Optica

At upcoming FiO + LS conference, researchers will discuss creative tactics to get rid of loopholes that have long confounded tests of quantum mechanics. With their innovative method, the researchers were able to demonstrate quantum interactions between two particles spaced more than 180 meters (590 feet) apart while eliminating the possibility that shared events during the past 11 years affected their interaction.

21-Aug-2019 8:35 AM EDT
Lasers enable engineers to weld ceramics, no furnace required
University of California San Diego

Using lasers, engineers have developed a new ceramic welding technology that works in ambient conditions, making it more practical than traditional methods that require melting the parts in a furnace at extremely high temperatures. This could make it possible to build ceramic-encased electronics.

Released: 22-Aug-2019 1:05 PM EDT
This Superconductor Does Not Take Light Lightly
Department of Energy, Office of Science

Superconductors are materials that show no resistance to electrical current when cooled. Recently, scientists discovered a new superconducting material. Now, scientists have found that when exposed to low-energy ultraviolet light, the material acts as a superconductor at higher temperatures.

Released: 22-Aug-2019 12:05 PM EDT
Scurrying Roaches Help Researchers Steady Staggering Robots
Georgia Institute of Technology

To walk or run with finesse, roaches or robots coordinate leg movements via signals sent through centralized systems. Though their moving parts are utterly divergent, researchers have devised handy principles and equations to assess how both beasts and bots locomote and to improve robotic gait.

Released: 21-Aug-2019 2:05 PM EDT
Health records pin broad set of health risks on genetic premutation
University of Wisconsin–Madison

Researchers from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Marshfield Clinic have found that there may be a much broader health risk to carriers of the FMR1 premutation, with potentially dozens of clinical conditions that can be ascribed directly to carrying it. The researchers employed machine learning to mine decades of electronic health records of nearly 20,000 individuals.

Released: 21-Aug-2019 2:05 PM EDT
Diagnosis in 2.127 seconds: Solving a years-long vomiting mystery using AI, research and brain power
University of Alabama at Birmingham

An artificial intelligence tool developed at UAB's Precision Medicine Institute helped find relief for a young woman with cyclical vomiting syndrome. One unlikely remedy? isopropyl alcohol

Released: 21-Aug-2019 1:00 PM EDT
GW Researchers Develop First of Its Kind Mapping Model to Track How Hate Spreads and Adapts Online
George Washington University

Researchers at the George Washington University developed a mapping model, the first of its kind, to track how online hate clusters thrive globally. They believe it could help social media platforms and law enforcement in the battle against hate online.

   
Released: 21-Aug-2019 1:00 PM EDT
Measuring the Charge of Electrons in a High-Temp Superconductor
Brookhaven National Laboratory

The measurements could inform the search for new materials that perfectly conduct electricity at relatively higher temperatures.

Released: 21-Aug-2019 11:05 AM EDT
Congress of Neurological Surgeons Hosts 2019 Annual Meeting in San Francisco, October 19–23
Congress of Neurological Surgeons

Schaumburg, Illinois, August 21, 2019 — The Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) is proud to host its 67th Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California, October 19–23. Each year, thousands of neurosurgeons, advanced practice providers, health care advocates, and other professionals from around the world gather to celebrate and learn about the advances are being made in the field of neurosurgery.

Released: 21-Aug-2019 11:00 AM EDT
DOE Issues Small Business Research and Development Funding Opportunity Announcement
Department of Energy, Office of Science

The Department of Energy (DOE) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs issued its first Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for Fiscal Year 2020.

   
Released: 21-Aug-2019 9:40 AM EDT
New way to make micro-sensors may revolutionize future of electronics
Binghamton University, State University of New York

Researchers at Binghamton University, State University of New York researchers have found a way to improve the performance of tiny sensors that could have wide-reaching implications for electronic devices we use every day.

Released: 21-Aug-2019 8:50 AM EDT
Engineers make transistors and electronic devices entirely from thread
Tufts University

A team of Tufts University engineers has developed a transistor made from linen thread, enabling them to create electronic devices made entirely of thin threads that could be woven into fabric, worn on the skin, or even (theoretically) implanted surgically for diagnostic monitoring.

Released: 21-Aug-2019 6:05 AM EDT
‘Quantum Annealer’ Shows Promise in New Study
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

An international team of researchers has developed a new algorithm for solving equations using a type of quantum computer called a “quantum annealer.” The team systematically examined how this method scales when facing increasingly difficult mathematical equations, with promising results.

Released: 21-Aug-2019 12:05 AM EDT
ECP’s Exastar Project Seeks Answers Hidden in the Cosmos
Department of Energy, Office of Science

ExaStar aims to create simulations for comparison with experiments and observations to help answer a variety of questions: Why is there more iron than gold in the universe? Why is anything rarer than anything else? Why is finding transuranic elements on the face of the earth difficult?

Released: 20-Aug-2019 1:50 PM EDT
New Tools to Minimize Risks in Shared, Augmented-Reality Environments
University of Washington

UW security researchers have created ShareAR, a toolkit that lets developers build collaborative and interactive features into AR apps without sacrificing their users’ privacy and security.

Released: 20-Aug-2019 1:05 PM EDT
Using Virtual Assistants to Tackle Emergencies in Space
Texas A&M University

A team of researchers at Texas A&M University is studying the use of virtual assistants to provide support during emergencies in space.



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