David Kaplan Wins 2018 Gemant Award from the American Institute of Physics

The American Institute of Physics announced today that particle physicist and movie producer David Kaplan has won the 2018 Andrew Gemant Award, an annual prize recognizing contributions to the cultural, artistic and humanistic dimension of physics.
23-Apr-2018 8:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Performing under Pressure: Modeling Oxidation in High-Stress Materials

Each year, the effects of corroding materials sap more than $1 trillion from the global economy. As certain alloys are exposed to extreme stress and temperatures, an oxide film begins to form, causing the alloys to break down even more quickly. What...
10-Apr-2018 8:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Machine Learning Techniques May Reveal Hidden Cause-Effect Relationships in Protein Dynamics Data

Machine learning algorithms excel at finding complex patterns within big data, so researchers often use them to make predictions. Researchers are pushing the technology beyond finding correlations to help uncover hidden cause-effect relationships...
12-Apr-2018 11:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Understanding Mercury’s Magnetic Tail

Theoretical physicists used simulations to explain the unusual readings collected in 2009 by the Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging mission. The origin of energetic electrons detected in Mercury’s magnetic tail has...
12-Apr-2018 12:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Course Set to Overcome ‘Mismatch’ Between Lab-Designed Nanomaterials and Nature’s Complexity

Advances in nanotechnology have made it possible to control the size, shape, composition, elasticity and chemical properties of laboratory-made nanomaterials. Yet many of these materials do not to function as expected in the body. In a recent issue...
16-Apr-2018 9:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Diamond-Based Circuits Can Take the Heat for Advanced Applications

When power generators transfer electricity to homes, businesses and the power grid, they lose almost 10 percent of the generated power. To address this problem, scientists are researching new diamond semiconductor circuits to make power conversion...
9-Apr-2018 9:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Save the Date: Leading Acoustics Meeting in Minneapolis May 7-11, 2018

Science promises to sound more exciting than ever at this year's Acoustical Society of America meeting. Presenters will reveal the latest in acoustics research with insight into topics like how new materials could control acoustic waves, improving...
6-Apr-2018 9:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Ionizing Radiation Found to Soften Tumor Cell Microenvironment

Researchers from Vanderbilt aim to unlock how irradiation -- part of radiation therapy in cancer treatment -- might alter the mechanical properties of the microenvironment. The team demonstrated that ionizing radiation can reduce the stiffness of...
2-Apr-2018 8:05 AM EDT Add to Favorites

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