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Newswise: SMU Chemist and Colleagues Develop Machine Learning Model for Atomic-level Interactions
Released: 13-Mar-2024 8:30 AM EDT
SMU Chemist and Colleagues Develop Machine Learning Model for Atomic-level Interactions
Southern Methodist University

Machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIP)s have become an efficient and less expensive alternative to traditional quantum chemical simulations.

Newswise: High Resolution Imagery Advances the Ability to Monitor Decadal Changes in Emperor Penguin Populations
Released: 13-Mar-2024 8:05 AM EDT
High Resolution Imagery Advances the Ability to Monitor Decadal Changes in Emperor Penguin Populations
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

High resolution satellite imagery and field-based validation surveys have provided the first multi-year time series documenting emperor penguin populations.

Released: 13-Mar-2024 8:05 AM EDT
Exotic molecules embedded into continuum refuse to break apart, defying initial expectations
Bar-Ilan University

Researchers have unveiled the extraordinary behavior of weakly-bound three-atomic molecules, defying conventional understanding of quantum mechanics.

Newswise: You don’t need glue to hold these materials together — just electricity
8-Mar-2024 8:00 AM EST
You don’t need glue to hold these materials together — just electricity
American Chemical Society (ACS)

A study in ACS Central Science shows that applying voltage to certain objects forms chemical bonds linking the objects together. Reversing the direction of electron flow separates the materials. This could help create biohybrid robots, improve biomedical implants and enable new battery technologies.

Newswise: Bristol leaps ahead in record £1 billion UK investment to train next generation of leaders to tackle major global challenges
Released: 13-Mar-2024 7:05 AM EDT
Bristol leaps ahead in record £1 billion UK investment to train next generation of leaders to tackle major global challenges
University of Bristol

Hundreds of talented scientists and engineers are set to advance solutions for some of the world’s most pressing challenges, ranging from reaching net-zero and developing sustainable energy to improving digital security and making the latest health breakthroughs.

Newswise: Sonic Youth: Healthy Reef Sounds Increase Coral Settlement
Released: 13-Mar-2024 7:05 AM EDT
Sonic Youth: Healthy Reef Sounds Increase Coral Settlement
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Researchers at WHOI demonstrated that replaying healthy reef sounds could potentially be used to encourage coral larvae to recolonize damaged or degraded reefs.

Newswise: Exploring the Transferability of Extracytoplasmic Function Switches Across Bacterial Species
Released: 13-Mar-2024 4:05 AM EDT
Exploring the Transferability of Extracytoplasmic Function Switches Across Bacterial Species
Chinese Academy of Sciences

Extracytoplasmic function sigma factors (ECFs) have been successfully used for constructing predictable artificial gene circuits bacteria like Escherichia coli, but their transferability between species within the same phylum remained unknown.

Newswise: Drought, Soil Desiccation Cracking, and Carbon Dioxide Emissions: An Overlooked Feedback Loop Exacerbating Climate Change
Released: 13-Mar-2024 12:05 AM EDT
Drought, Soil Desiccation Cracking, and Carbon Dioxide Emissions: An Overlooked Feedback Loop Exacerbating Climate Change
Tufts University

Soil stores 80 percent of carbon on earth, yet with increasing cycles of drought, that crucial reservoir is cracking and breaking down, releasing even more greenhouse gases creating an amplified feedback loop that could accelerate climate change.

Released: 12-Mar-2024 10:05 PM EDT
Staying in the Loop: How Superconductors Are Helping Computers “Remember”
University of California San Diego

To advance neuromorphic computing, some researchers are looking at analog improvements--advancing not just software, but hardware too. Research from the UC San Diego and UC Riverside shows a promising new way to store and transmit information using disordered superconducting loops.

Newswise: Tsetse fly fertility damaged after just one heatwave, study finds
11-Mar-2024 7:05 AM EDT
Tsetse fly fertility damaged after just one heatwave, study finds
University of Bristol

The fertility of both female and male tsetse flies is affected by a single burst of hot weather, researchers at the University of Bristol and Stellenbosch University in South Africa have found.

Newswise: Who knew that eating poo was so vital for birds’ survival?
Released: 12-Mar-2024 6:05 PM EDT
Who knew that eating poo was so vital for birds’ survival?
University of South Australia

New research led by the University of South Australia explains how eating faeces (known as coprophagy) shapes wild birds’ digestive tracts (gut biota), enabling them to absorb lost or deficient nutrients and adjust to seasonal variations in food sources.

Newswise: How Much Dam Water is Needed for Fish and Energy?
Released: 12-Mar-2024 4:05 PM EDT
How Much Dam Water is Needed for Fish and Energy?
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

New research identifies the most important factors in successful fish passage, pointing toward new options for flexible dam operations.

Newswise: Two New CZI Awards Power Studies of Metabolism and Intergenerational Memory
Released: 12-Mar-2024 3:05 PM EDT
Two New CZI Awards Power Studies of Metabolism and Intergenerational Memory
University of Utah Health

$2 million in total funds will accelerate interdisciplinary neurobiology research and scale up a search for new rules of human biochemistry.

   
Released: 12-Mar-2024 2:00 PM EDT
How we remember
University of Pittsburgh

In two experiments, Temple and Pitt researchers asked participants to repeatedly study pairs of items and scenes that were either identical on each repetition or in which the item stayed the same but the scene changed each time.

Newswise: SLAS Announces $100,000 Graduate Education Fellowship Grant Awarded to Lan Mi of the University of Massachusetts Amherst
Released: 12-Mar-2024 2:00 PM EDT
SLAS Announces $100,000 Graduate Education Fellowship Grant Awarded to Lan Mi of the University of Massachusetts Amherst
SLAS

The Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) is pleased to announce Lan Mi, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Chemistry from the University of Massachusetts Amherst

Newswise: PPPL unveils new laboratory space to advance quantum information science
Released: 12-Mar-2024 1:05 PM EDT
PPPL unveils new laboratory space to advance quantum information science
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

On March 11, PPPL opened its new Quantum Diamond Lab, a space devoted to studying and refining the processes involved in using plasma, the electrically charged fourth state of matter, to create high-quality diamond material for quantum information science applications.

Newswise: Charging Up the Commute
Released: 12-Mar-2024 1:05 PM EDT
Charging Up the Commute
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

A team of researchers at ORNL demonstrated that a light-duty passenger electric vehicle can be wirelessly charged at 100-kW with 96% efficiency using polyphase electromagnetic coupling coils with rotating magnetic fields.

Released: 12-Mar-2024 12:05 PM EDT
During National CP Awareness Month, a voice recognition project recruits U.S., Puerto Rican adults with cerebral palsy.
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The Speech Accessibility Project, which aims to train voice recognition technologies to understand people with diverse speech patterns and disabilities, is recruiting U.S. and Puerto Rican adults with cerebral palsy.

     
Newswise: Condor Telescope Reveals a New World for Astrophysicists
Released: 12-Mar-2024 12:05 PM EDT
Condor Telescope Reveals a New World for Astrophysicists
Stony Brook University

A new telescope called the “Condor Array Telescope” may open up a new world of the very-low-brightness Universe for astrophysicists.

Released: 12-Mar-2024 12:05 PM EDT
UC Irvine study: vehicle brakes produce charged particles that may harm public health
University of California, Irvine

Irvine, Calif., March 12, 2024 — Scientists know relatively little about particles released into the air when a vehicle driver brakes, though evidence suggests those particles may be more harmful to health than particles exiting the tailpipe.

Newswise: More than flying cars: eVTOL battery analysis reveals unique operating demands
Released: 12-Mar-2024 11:05 AM EDT
More than flying cars: eVTOL battery analysis reveals unique operating demands
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are taking cleaner transportation to the skies by creating and evaluating new batteries for airborne electric vehicles that take off and land vertically.

Newswise: Filamentos estelares fantasmales capturados con la imagen de DECam más grande jamás publicada
Released: 12-Mar-2024 11:00 AM EDT
Filamentos estelares fantasmales capturados con la imagen de DECam más grande jamás publicada
NSF's NOIRLab

Con la poderosa Cámara de Energía Oscura (DECam por sus siglas en inglés) de 570 megapíxeles, fabricada por el Departamento de Energía de Estados Unidos, los astrónomos han construido una imagen gigante de 1,3 gigapíxeles que muestra la parte central del remanente de Supernova Vela, un cadáver cósmico de una gigantesca estrella que explotó como una supernova. DECam es uno de los instrumentos de imágenes de campo amplio más productivos del mundo y está montada en el Telescopio de 4 metros Víctor M. Blanco de la Fundación Nacional de Ciencias de EE.UU en el Observatorio Interamericano Cerro Tololo en Chile, un Programa de NOIRLab de NSF.

Newswise: Ghostly Stellar Tendrils Captured in Largest DECam Image Ever Released
Released: 12-Mar-2024 11:00 AM EDT
Ghostly Stellar Tendrils Captured in Largest DECam Image Ever Released
NSF's NOIRLab

With the powerful, 570-megapixel Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera (DECam), astronomers have constructed a massive 1.3-gigapixel image showcasing the central part of the Vela Supernova Remnant, the cosmic corpse of a gigantic star that exploded as a supernova.

Newswise: Ultrablack Coating Could Make Next-Gen Telescopes Even Better
7-Mar-2024 11:05 AM EST
Ultrablack Coating Could Make Next-Gen Telescopes Even Better
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

For telescopes operating in the vacuum of space, or optical equipment in extreme environments, existing coatings are often insufficient. In the Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology Aresearchers in China turned to atomic layer deposition and developed an ultrablack thin-film coating for aerospace-grade magnesium alloys. The team used alternating layers of aluminum-doped titanium carbide and silicon nitride and together the materials prevent nearly all light from reflecting off the coated surface. The coating absorbs 99.3% of light while being durable enough to survive in harsh conditions.

Newswise:Video Embedded how-does-ai-work
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Released: 12-Mar-2024 10:05 AM EDT
How does AI work?
Bar-Ilan University

In an article recently published in Scientific Reports, researchers from Bar-Ilan University reveal the mechanism underlying successful machine learning, which enables it to perform classification tasks with resounding success.

Newswise: São Paulo State University chooses Digital Science to help realize its potential for global and regional impact
Released: 12-Mar-2024 10:00 AM EDT
São Paulo State University chooses Digital Science to help realize its potential for global and regional impact
Digital Science and Research Solutions Ltd

São Paulo State University (UNESP) has chosen Dimensions and Altmetric from Digital Science’s flagship products to advance its world-class research program.

   
Released: 12-Mar-2024 9:05 AM EDT
Choosing March Madness underdogs: Study finds people are riskier in gambles, forecasts made later in a sequence
University of Delaware

A new study offers potential insights into how and when we fill out March Madness brackets. The paper found that people are more risk seeking (more likely to predict a relatively improbable outcome) in their later forecasts and are thus more likely to make an incorrect prediction for them.

Newswise: Harnessing Nature's Shield: Enhancing Sun Protection with Lignin Nanoparticles in Cosmetics
Released: 12-Mar-2024 8:05 AM EDT
Harnessing Nature's Shield: Enhancing Sun Protection with Lignin Nanoparticles in Cosmetics
Chinese Academy of Sciences

Pioneering research unveils lignin nanoparticles as potent UV-blocking agents, with their chemical structure and size effects extensively altering the sun protection efficacy of cosmetics. LNPs with tailored structures outperform conventional additives, offering enhanced UV resistance and eco-friendly solutions for skincare formulations.

Newswise: Comparison of diploid and triploid hybrid fish from the same parents
Released: 12-Mar-2024 8:05 AM EDT
Comparison of diploid and triploid hybrid fish from the same parents
Chinese Academy of Sciences

The researchers carried out a hybridization experiment between female koi carp and male Chinese rare minnow, eventually obtaining allodiploid and allotriploid hybrid offspring. They made a systemic comparison between them and found that the triploid hybrids showed faster growth, higher expression of growth-promoting genes and lower expression of growth-inhibiting genes than the diploid hybrids. This study provides implications to explain the faster growth of polyploid fish.

Newswise: Eco-labeling: self or certification?
Released: 12-Mar-2024 8:05 AM EDT
Eco-labeling: self or certification?
Chinese Academy of Sciences

Researchers use game theory to analyze the eco-label strategy selection of the manufacturer in green supply chain.

Newswise: Breathing Easy: New Study Declares Waste-to-Energy Plants a Low Health Risk
Released: 12-Mar-2024 8:05 AM EDT
Breathing Easy: New Study Declares Waste-to-Energy Plants a Low Health Risk
Chinese Academy of Sciences

A recent study has highlighted the insignificant health hazards posed by the emissions from waste-to-energy (WtE) facilities in China's Bohai Rim. This investigation brings to light the negligible impact of WtE plant emissions on public health, grounded in sophisticated regression analysis techniques.

   
Newswise: Modulation of cellular recycling by calcium ion dynamics across cellular compartments
Released: 12-Mar-2024 8:05 AM EDT
Modulation of cellular recycling by calcium ion dynamics across cellular compartments
Chinese Academy of Sciences

This study discovers that upon induction of different autophagy processes, mitochondria immediately import calcium and calcium concentrations at the ER membrane start to fluctuate. The major calcium import channel in the inner mitochondrial membrane, mitochondrial calcium uniporter (MCU), is required for mitophagy-inducer-initiated mitochondrial calcium uptake. Inhibiting MCU accelerates mitophagy. In neurons derived from a Parkinson’s patient, mitophagy-inducer-triggered mitochondrial calcium influx is faster, which may slow the ensuing mitophagy.

Released: 12-Mar-2024 8:00 AM EDT
You Didn’t See It Coming: the Spontaneous Nature of Turbulence
University of California San Diego

UC San Diego Professor of Physics Nigel Goldenfeld has shown in theoretical models of turbulence that even molecular motions can create large-scale patterns of randomness over a defined period of time.

Newswise: Prize of the Leopoldina for young scientist Jingyuan Xu from KIT
Released: 12-Mar-2024 7:05 AM EDT
Prize of the Leopoldina for young scientist Jingyuan Xu from KIT
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

With the Leopoldina Prize for young scientists 2023, German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina honors Dr. Jingyuan Xu, who researches novel heating and cooling technologies for the energy transition at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Currently, the young engineer can boast two more significant awards: the Hector RCD Award as well as admission to the Global Young Academy, an exclusive association of international young scientists.

Newswise: When a team is less than the sum of its parts: tensions between individual and team wellbeing
Released: 12-Mar-2024 5:05 AM EDT
When a team is less than the sum of its parts: tensions between individual and team wellbeing
Aalto University

Individual wellbeing doesn’t always add up to team wellbeing – but reflection and open communication can help

   
Released: 11-Mar-2024 8:05 PM EDT
How do neural networks learn? A mathematical formula explains how they detect relevant patterns
University of California San Diego

Researchers found that a formula used in statistical analysis provides a streamlined mathematical description of how neural networks, such as GPT-2, a precursor to ChatGPT, learn relevant patterns in data, known as features. This formula also explains how neural networks use these relevant patterns to make predictions. The team presented their findings in the March 7 issue of the journal Science.

   
Newswise: New device could improve pediatric concussion recovery
Released: 11-Mar-2024 4:05 PM EDT
New device could improve pediatric concussion recovery
Ohio State University

Researchers have received a three-year, $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to measure cognitive workload with a wearable sensor to monitor how children recover from a brain injury.

Newswise: Giving particle detectors a boost
Released: 11-Mar-2024 3:45 PM EDT
Giving particle detectors a boost
Argonne National Laboratory

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory have tested the performance of a new device that boosts particle signals.

Newswise: Inverting Fusion Plasmas Improves Performance
Released: 11-Mar-2024 3:05 PM EDT
Inverting Fusion Plasmas Improves Performance
Department of Energy, Office of Science

At high temperatures and densities, plasmas in fusion devices can develop gradients that can grow into instabilities, including edge localized modes (ELMs) that can damage reactor walls. In this research, scientists studied negative triangularity, a way the plasma shape can deviate from an oval. The research found this shaping was inherently free of instabilities across various plasma conditions, including operating reactor conditions.

Released: 11-Mar-2024 3:05 PM EDT
Q&A: How Instagram influencers profit from anti-vaccine misinformation
University of Washington

New research from the UW examines how three wellness Instagram influencers profited from anti-vaccine misinformation.

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Released: 11-Mar-2024 2:05 PM EDT
Propelling 3D printing into the future
Sandia National Laboratories

A team of chemists and materials scientists at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a new printing process that prints stronger nonmetallic materials in record time, five times faster than traditional 3D printing.

Released: 11-Mar-2024 12:05 PM EDT
Modern Hydrogen CTO Max Mankin Elected to Hertz Foundation Board of Directors
The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation

The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to empowering the nation’s most promising innovators in science and technology, today announced the election of Max Mankin to its board of directors, along with four other new board members: Cheri Ackerman, co-founder and CEO, Concerto Biosciences; Steven B. Lipner, executive director, SAFECode; Michael Schnall-Levin, CTO and founding scientist, 10x Genomics; and Alfred Spector, visiting scholar, MIT, and senior advisor, Blackstone.

Released: 11-Mar-2024 12:05 PM EDT
10x Genomics CTO Michael Schnall-Levin Elected to Hertz Foundation Board of Directors
The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation

The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to empowering the nation’s most promising innovators in science and technology, today announced the election of Michael Schnall-Levin to its board of directors, along with four other new board members: Cheri Ackerman, co-founder and CEO, Concerto Biosciences; Steven B. Lipner, executive director, SAFECode; Max Mankin, co-founder and CTO, Modern Hydrogen; and Alfred Spector, visiting scholar, MIT, and senior advisor, Blackstone.

Released: 11-Mar-2024 11:05 AM EDT
MSU finds insights in microbes near Centralia mine fire that could help alleviate impacts of climate change
Michigan State University

Michigan State University researchers have provided new answers to that question by analyzing soil microbes near a mine fire that’s been burning for more than 60 years.

Newswise: Preventing Magnet Meltdowns Before They Can Start
Released: 11-Mar-2024 11:00 AM EDT
Preventing Magnet Meltdowns Before They Can Start
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

High-temperature superconductor magnets have the potential to lower the costs of operating particle accelerators and enable powerful new technologies like fusion reactors. But quenches – the sudden, destructive events wherein a part of the material loses superconductivity – are a major barrier to their deployment.

Newswise:Video Embedded turns-out-male-roundworms-are-picky-when-choosing-a-mate-new-research-finds
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6-Mar-2024 9:05 AM EST
Turns out—male roundworms are picky when choosing a mate, new research finds
University of Rochester Medical Center

The Portman lab at the Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience at the University of Rochester discovered that the male roundworms use pheromones and touch signals to determine the sex, age, nutritional health, and mating history of the hermaphrodites and show preference toward worms that have not previously mated with another male and are nutritionally healthy.

Newswise: NASA’s Webb, Hubble Telescopes Affirm Universe’s Expansion Rate, Puzzle Persists
Released: 11-Mar-2024 10:05 AM EDT
NASA’s Webb, Hubble Telescopes Affirm Universe’s Expansion Rate, Puzzle Persists
Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)

The best measurements from Hubble show the universe is now expanding faster than predicted based on observations of how it looked shortly after the big bang. Some scientists suggested that Hubble observations are wrong due to some creeping inaccuracy in its deep-space yardstick. However, Webb’s sharp infrared views of milepost markers known as Cepheids agree with Hubble data.

Newswise: What Does the American Public Really Think of AI?
Released: 11-Mar-2024 10:05 AM EDT
What Does the American Public Really Think of AI?
Stony Brook University

In 2021, two Stony Brook University researchers began conducting a survey study on attitudes toward artificial intelligence (AI) among American adults. Some of their recent findings, published in the journal Seeds of Science, show a shift in Americans’ views on AI.

Newswise: New Research Shows Sexual Minority Adults More Willing to Use Digital Health Tools for Public Health
Released: 11-Mar-2024 9:45 AM EDT
New Research Shows Sexual Minority Adults More Willing to Use Digital Health Tools for Public Health
JMIR Publications

In the current climate of increased medical mistrust, survey data show sexual minority adults are more open to using COVID-19 screening and tracking tools, challenging stereotypes and highlighting the need for inclusive health care solutions.

   


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