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Release date: 19-Apr-2024 5:05 PM EDT
Jumbo Discovery: Astronomers Offer New Model for Formation of Recently Discovered “Free-Floating” Planets
University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV)

Study in Nature Astronomy theorizes that dense stellar clusters may eject pairs of giant planets, which remain gravitationally bound to one another as they float through space.

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Newswise: ORNL researchers win Best Paper award for nickel-based alloy tailoring
Release date: 19-Apr-2024 4:40 PM EDT
ORNL researchers win Best Paper award for nickel-based alloy tailoring
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Rishi Pillai and his research team from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory will receive a Best Paper award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers International Gas Turbine Institute in June at the Turbo Expo 2024 in London.

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Newswise: Surf Clams Off the Coast of Virginia Reappear – and Rebound
Release date: 19-Apr-2024 4:05 PM EDT
Surf Clams Off the Coast of Virginia Reappear – and Rebound
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

The Atlantic surfclam, an economically valuable species that is the main ingredient in clam chowder and fried clam strips, has returned to Virginia waters in a big way, reversing a die-off that started more than two decades ago. In a comprehensive study of surfclams collected from an area about 45 miles due east from the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, Rutgers scientists found the population to be thriving and growing.

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Newswise: New Beta-Decay Measurements in Mirror Nuclei Pin Down the Weak Nuclear Force
Release date: 19-Apr-2024 4:05 PM EDT
New Beta-Decay Measurements in Mirror Nuclei Pin Down the Weak Nuclear Force
Department of Energy, Office of Science

Scientists have gained insights into the weak nuclear force from new, more sensitive studies of the beta decays of the “mirror” nuclei lithium-8 and boron-8. The weak nuclear force drives the process of nuclear beta decay. The research found that the properties of the beta decays of lithium-8 and boron-8 are in perfect agreement with the predictions of the Standard Model.

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Newswise: How 3D printers can give robots a soft touch
Release date: 19-Apr-2024 3:05 PM EDT
How 3D printers can give robots a soft touch
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

A recent study demonstrates that soft skin pads doubling as sensors made from thermoplastic urethane can be efficiently manufactured using 3D printers.

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Newswise: University of Florida scientist to fly on Blue Origin suborbital mission
Release date: 19-Apr-2024 2:05 PM EDT
University of Florida scientist to fly on Blue Origin suborbital mission
University of Florida

Rob Ferl will be the first NASA-funded academic researcher to conduct an experiment as part of a commercial space crew

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Newswise: Compact quantum light processing
19-Apr-2024 1:00 AM EDT
Compact quantum light processing
University of Vienna

An international collaboration of researchers, led by Philip Walther at University of Vienna, have achieved a significant breakthrough in quantum technology, with the successful demonstration of quantum interference among several single photons using a novel resource-efficient platform.

Newswise: Researchers develop a new way to safely boost immune cells to fight cancer
16-Apr-2024 12:05 PM EDT
Researchers develop a new way to safely boost immune cells to fight cancer
Virginia Tech

Researchers in the College of Engineering explore a cancer immunotherapy treatment that involves activating the immune cells in the body and reprogramming them to attack and destroy cancer cells. This therapeutic method frequently uses cytokines, small protein molecules that act as intercellular biochemical messengers and are released by the body's immune cells to coordinate their response.

   
Newswise: NASA selects University of Delaware's CubeSat spacecraft for upcoming mission
Release date: 19-Apr-2024 1:05 PM EDT
NASA selects University of Delaware's CubeSat spacecraft for upcoming mission
University of Delaware

At a least a dozen University of Delaware students are leading a NASA-supported mission as part of the CubeSat Launch Initiative, which provides an opportunity to take part in a real mission.

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Newswise: Wayne State researcher aims to improve coding peer review practices
Release date: 19-Apr-2024 1:05 PM EDT
Wayne State researcher aims to improve coding peer review practices
Wayne State University Division of Research

Amiangshu Bosu, Ph.D., assistant professor of computer science in the College of Engineering at Wayne State University, received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to formulate better practices involving peer code review.

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Release date: 19-Apr-2024 12:05 PM EDT
Monell Center Presentations Span Sensory Science at National Meeting, April 17 to 20, 2024
Monell Chemical Senses Center

Over 20 scientists from the Monell Chemical Senses Center will present their latest research at the 46th Association for Chemoreception Sciences (AChemS) annual conference, which covers the latest advances in the fields of taste, smell, and related chemical senses.

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Newswise: Lemur’s lament: when one vulnerable species stalks another
Release date: 19-Apr-2024 10:05 AM EDT
Lemur’s lament: when one vulnerable species stalks another
Washington University in St. Louis

What can be done when one threatened animal kills another? Scientists studying critically endangered lemurs in Madagascar confronted this difficult reality when they witnessed attacks on lemurs by another vulnerable species, a carnivore called a fosa.

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16-Apr-2024 7:05 AM EDT
Alcohol-Induced Blackouts May Be Linked to How a Person Drinks, Not Just How Much
Research Society on Alcoholism

Certain drinking behaviors beyond just the quantity of alcohol consumed may predict the likelihood a person will experience an alcohol-induced blackout, a condition where someone is conscious and engaging with their surroundings but will be unable to remember some or any of what occurred.

     
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Release date: 19-Apr-2024 9:05 AM EDT
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm Visits Brookhaven National Laboratory
Brookhaven National Laboratory

U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm visited the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory on April 8-9, getting an up-close look at cutting-edge facilities researchers use to advance the mission of DOE and its Office of Science.

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Newswise: Physical field technologies to improve extraction and quality of extracted juices
Released: 19-Apr-2024 8:05 AM EDT
Physical field technologies to improve extraction and quality of extracted juices
Chinese Academy of Sciences

Traditional juice extraction methods, though sufficient for juice production, have limitations in terms of yield, quality, nutritional value, and sustainability. This has led to a growing need for improved juice extraction methods that can address these challenges and meet the evolving preferences of health-conscious consumers. PEF excels in juice extraction with high efficiency, preserving sensory properties and nutrients, while consuming less energy and offering excellent scalability as compared to other physical field technologies.

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Newswise: Lightweight and flexible yet strong? Versatile fibers with dramatically improved energy storage capacity
Released: 19-Apr-2024 8:00 AM EDT
Lightweight and flexible yet strong? Versatile fibers with dramatically improved energy storage capacity
National Research Council of Science and Technology

The Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) announced that a joint research team has developed a fiber-like electrode material that can store energy. The fibers are strong, lightweight, and highly flexible, enabling greater freedom in wearable device form factors and the ability to be made into various shapes and applications.

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17-Apr-2024 4:05 AM EDT
Silent flight edges closer to take off, according to new research
University of Bristol

The mystery of how futuristic aircraft embedded engines, featuring an energy-conserving arrangement, make noise has been solved by researchers at the University of Bristol.

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Newswise: UAH student cyber team wins VICEROY national championship
Released: 18-Apr-2024 3:05 PM EDT
UAH student cyber team wins VICEROY national championship
University of Alabama Huntsville

  A student team from The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, has been crowned national champion in the first Virtual Institutes for Cyber and Electromagnetic Spectrum Research and Employ (VICEROY) National Cyber Competition. The VICEROY Institute is a program of the Air Force Research Laboratory managed by the Griffiss Institute to provide support for a virtual institute at UAH to develop expertise in critical cyber and electromagnetic spectrum operational skills for future military and civilian leaders of the Armed Forces and the Department of Defense.

Newswise: Three ORNL scientists elected AAAS Fellows
Released: 18-Apr-2024 3:05 PM EDT
Three ORNL scientists elected AAAS Fellows
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Keith Kline, Rigoberto Advincula and Takeshi Egami have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Newswise: Why can zebrafish regenerate damaged heart tissue, while other fish species cannot?
Released: 18-Apr-2024 2:05 PM EDT
Why can zebrafish regenerate damaged heart tissue, while other fish species cannot?
University of Utah

A heart attack will leave a permanent scar on a human heart, yet other animals, including zebrafish, can clear cardiac scar tissue and regrow damaged muscle as adults. New research by University of Utah biologists sheds new light on how zebrafish heal heart tissue by comparing how this species responds to heart injury with medaka, a fish species that cannot regenerate cardiac tissue.

Newswise: AI tool predicts responses to cancer therapy using information from each cell of the tumor
Released: 18-Apr-2024 2:05 PM EDT
AI tool predicts responses to cancer therapy using information from each cell of the tumor
Sanford Burnham Prebys

With more than 200 types of cancer and every cancer individually unique, ongoing efforts to develop precision oncology treatments remain daunting. In a new study published in the journal Nature Cancer, first author Sanju Sinha, Ph.D., at Sanford Burnham Prebys, with senior authors Eytan Ruppin, M.D., Ph.D., and Alejandro Schaffer, Ph.D., at the National Cancer Institute—and colleagues—describe a first-of-its-kind computational pipeline to systematically predict patient response to cancer drugs at single-cell resolution.

Newswise: China’s sinking cities indicate global-scale problem, Virginia Tech researcher says
Released: 18-Apr-2024 2:00 PM EDT
China’s sinking cities indicate global-scale problem, Virginia Tech researcher says
Virginia Tech

A third of China’s urban population at risk of city sinking, according to new satellite data. In an invited article for the journal Science, Manoochehr Shirzaei discusses how this phenomenon points to a global problem: Land is sinking everywhere.

16-Apr-2024 11:05 AM EDT
Novel material supercharges innovation in electrostatic energy storage
Washington University in St. Louis

Artificial heterostructures made of freestanding 2D and 3D membranes developed by WashU's Sang-Hoon Bae have an energy density up to 19 times higher than commercially available capacitors.

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Released: 18-Apr-2024 1:05 PM EDT
Invasive species sound off about impending ecosystem changes
Virginia Tech

Anticipating changes to ecosystems is often at best an educated guess, but what if there was a way to better tune into possible changes occurring? A team of researchers led by Grace O’Malley, a Ph.D. candidate in biological sciences, and Gabrielle Ripa, a Ph.D. student in plant and environmental sciences, have discovered that the silent growth of non-native invasive plants can affect the soundscape of an ecosystem.

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Released: 18-Apr-2024 1:05 PM EDT
Tom Dingus recognized with the SAE International Humanitarian Award
Virginia Tech

Tom Dingus has dedicated his life’s work to improving roadway safety through innovative transportation technologies and amassed multiple awards for his efforts. The Society of Automotive Engineers’ (SAE) International Humanitarian Award now joins that list. The award recognizes work with undeniably positive impact on safety in transportation in honor of Arnold W.

Released: 18-Apr-2024 1:05 PM EDT
DOE to Support 1,073 Outstanding Undergraduate Students and 113 Faculty Members from Institutions Underrepresented in the Scientific Research Enterprise
Department of Energy, Office of Science

The Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Science will sponsor the participation of 1,073 undergraduate students and 113 faculty members in three STEM-focused workforce development programs at 17 DOE national laboratories and a national fusion facility during Summer 2024. Collectively, these programs ensure DOE and our nation have a strong, sustained workforce trained in the skills needed to address the energy, environment, and national security challenges of today and tomorrow.

Released: 18-Apr-2024 1:00 PM EDT
American Association of Immunologists Celebrates President Akiko Iwasaki's Inclusion in TIME's 2024 List of 100 Most Influential People
American Association of Immunologists (AAI)

The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) proudly congratulates President Akiko Iwasaki, Ph.D., for her remarkable achievement in being named one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People of 2024. Dr. Iwasaki, a Sterling Professor of Immunobiology and Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at Yale University, has been recognized for her groundbreaking contributions to science and public health.

   
Released: 18-Apr-2024 11:05 AM EDT
4 UC Irvine researchers are elected AAAS fellows
University of California, Irvine

Irvine, Calif., April 18, 2024 — Four University of California, Irvine researchers – working in fields as diverse as computational chemistry, statistical methods, particle physics and inorganic chemistry – have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society.

Newswise: Metabolic health before vaccination determines effectiveness of anti-flu response
Released: 18-Apr-2024 11:05 AM EDT
Metabolic health before vaccination determines effectiveness of anti-flu response
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Poor metabolic health or dysfunction, not obesity, leads to poor anti-influenza immune responses. Learn about the new St. Jude influenza vaccination research.

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Released: 18-Apr-2024 11:05 AM EDT
New Study Explores Alphabetical Ordering of Last Names and Grading Fairness
University of Michigan Ross School of Business

An analysis of more than 30 million grading records from U-M finds students with alphabetically lower-ranked names receive lower grades. This is due to sequential grading biases and the default order of students’ submissions in Canvas—the most widely used online learning management system—which is based on the alphabetical rank of their surnames.

   
Newswise: Atom-by-atom: Imaging structural transformations in 2D materials
Release date: 18-Apr-2024 11:05 AM EDT
Atom-by-atom: Imaging structural transformations in 2D materials
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

In an effort to understand how and why 2D interfaces take on the structures they do, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a method to visualize the thermally-induced rearrangement of 2D materials, atom-by-atom, from twisted to aligned structures using transmission electron microscopy (TEM).

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Released: 18-Apr-2024 11:05 AM EDT
Department of Energy Announces $16 Million for Traineeships in Accelerator Science & Engineering
Department of Energy, Office of Science

Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $16 million in funding for four projects providing classroom training and research opportunities to train the next generation of accelerator scientists and engineers needed to deliver scientific discoveries.

Newswise: Machine learning algorithm reveals long-theorized glass phase in crystal
Released: 18-Apr-2024 10:45 AM EDT
Machine learning algorithm reveals long-theorized glass phase in crystal
Argonne National Laboratory

Scientists have found experimental evidence of the long-theorized Bragg glass phase present in a material. Bragg glasses display both the ordered properties of crystals and the disordered nature of glasses at the same time.

Released: 18-Apr-2024 10:05 AM EDT
Teaching a computer to type like a human
Aalto University

A new typing model simulates the typing process instead of just predicting words

Newswise: Hubble Goes Hunting for Small Main Belt Asteroids
Released: 18-Apr-2024 10:00 AM EDT
Hubble Goes Hunting for Small Main Belt Asteroids
Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)

Astronomers and volunteer citizen scientists used Hubble's unique capabilities to identify a largely unseen population of very small asteroids. The treasure hunt required perusing 37,000 archived Hubble images spanning 19 years. The payoff? Finding 1,701 asteroid trails, with 1,031 of the asteroids previously uncatalogued. About 400 of these uncatalogued asteroids are smaller than 1 kilometer.

Newswise: Two U Professors Selected as AAAS Fellows
12-Apr-2024 1:05 PM EDT
Two U Professors Selected as AAAS Fellows
University of Utah Health

Medicinal chemist Amy Barrios and developmental biologist H. Joseph Yost earned this lifetime honor for their excellence in research and commitment to mentoring.

Released: 18-Apr-2024 9:05 AM EDT
New research finds electric vehicles depreciate faster than gas cars, but the trend is changing
George Washington University

New research finds that while older electric vehicle models depreciate in value faster than conventional gas cars, newer electric vehicle models with longer driving ranges are holding their value better and approaching the retention rates of many gas cars.

   
Newswise: Understanding climate warming impacts on carbon release from the tundra
Released: 18-Apr-2024 9:05 AM EDT
Understanding climate warming impacts on carbon release from the tundra
Aalto University

The warming climate shifts the dynamics of tundra environments and makes them release trapped carbon, according to a new study published in Nature. These changes could transform tundras from carbon sinks into a carbon source, exacerbating the effects of climate change.

Released: 18-Apr-2024 9:05 AM EDT
UIowa finance expert says AI will only slowly affect hiring on Wall Street
University of Iowa Tippie College of Business

While artificial intelligence will eventually change the way business is done on Wall Street, a finance expert from the University of Iowa's Tippie College of Business doesn’t expect to see significant changes in hiring for junior bankers right away.

   
Newswise: Four MD Anderson researchers elected AAAS Fellows
Released: 18-Apr-2024 9:05 AM EDT
Four MD Anderson researchers elected AAAS Fellows
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

In recognition of their significant achievements in the realm of cancer care and research, four researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). This prestigious distinction stands as one of the highest accolades within the scientific research community.

Newswise: Two Argonne scientists recognized for achievements in their fields
18-Apr-2024 9:05 AM EDT
Two Argonne scientists recognized for achievements in their fields
Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne scientist Massimiliano Delferro and scientist emeritus Arthur Schultz elected as American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellows for their pioneering work in conversion of single-use plastics and neutron diffraction science, respectively.

Newswise: Smoother Surfaces Make for Better Accelerators
Released: 18-Apr-2024 8:05 AM EDT
Smoother Surfaces Make for Better Accelerators
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

Accelerator scientists at Jefferson Lab have used an enhanced topographic analysis toolkit they developed to show that it not only successfully predicts particle accelerator component performance, but also points toward even better surface treatments not yet tested on a large scale.

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Newswise: Recycling CFRP waste is a challenge, but we've found a way to make it work
Released: 18-Apr-2024 12:00 AM EDT
Recycling CFRP waste is a challenge, but we've found a way to make it work
National Research Council of Science and Technology

The Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) announced that a research team led by Yong-chae Jung, has developed a technology that recycles more than 99% of CFRP materials within tens of minutes by using water in a supercritical state, which occurs under conditions of temperature and pressure above a certain level.

Newswise: Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Illinois Chicago launch the George Crabtree Institute for Discovery and Sustainability
Released: 17-Apr-2024 11:45 PM EDT
Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Illinois Chicago launch the George Crabtree Institute for Discovery and Sustainability
Argonne National Laboratory

The new institute, which honors the memory of the noted researcher in superconducting and clean energy, will advance research on a wide array of scientific challenges.



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