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Newswise: NASA Space Technology and Google Earth Engine Computing Power Are Helping to Save Tigers
Released: 27-Feb-2024 12:05 PM EST
NASA Space Technology and Google Earth Engine Computing Power Are Helping to Save Tigers
Wildlife Conservation Society

A new computer platform called TCL 3.0 represents a breakthrough in how scientists measure and monitor changes in tiger habitat and provides a framework for monitoring other wildlife species across the globe.

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Released: 27-Feb-2024 9:10 AM EST
Out of the desert, a quantum powerhouse rises
Sandia National Laboratories

In January, Sandia National Laboratories and The University of New Mexico created the Quantum New Mexico Institute, a cooperatively run research center headquartered at the university.

Newswise: Reproducing the Moon's Surface Environment on Earth
Released: 27-Feb-2024 8:00 AM EST
Reproducing the Moon's Surface Environment on Earth
National Research Council of Science and Technology

The Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT) successfully implemented an electrostatic environment that simulates the Moon's surface conditions, not in space but on Earth. The researchers also assessed its performance and effectiveness.

Released: 26-Feb-2024 10:05 PM EST
Resistance to social robots futile
Edith Cowan University

While the rise of artificial intelligence is proving to be a contentious issue, new research from Edith Cowan University (ECU) has found that the use of social robots in a commercial setting would likely be met with less resistance.

Released: 26-Feb-2024 5:05 PM EST
NSF and DOE Establish a Research Coordination Network Dedicated to Enhancing Privacy Research
Department of Energy, Office of Science

In response to the rapidly evolving landscape of data collection and analysis driven by advances in artificial intelligence, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) have established a Research Coordination Network (RCN) dedicated to advancing privacy research and the development, deployment and scaling of privacy enhancing technologies (PETs). Fulfilling a mandate from the "Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence," the initiative advances the recommendations in the National Strategy to Advance Privacy-Preserving Data Sharing and Analytics to move towards a data ecosystem where the beneficial power of data can be unlocked while protecting privacy.

Released: 26-Feb-2024 12:05 PM EST
Resurrecting niobium for quantum science
Argonne National Laboratory

Niobium has long been considered an underperformer in superconducting qubits. Scientists supported by Q-NEXT, a US DOE quantum center led by Argonne, have now engineered a high-quality niobium-based qubit, taking advantage of niobium’s superior qualities.

Newswise: E67 - Coaching, skill acquisition and virtual reality in sport
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Released: 26-Feb-2024 11:05 AM EST
E67 - Coaching, skill acquisition and virtual reality in sport
Loughborough University

Dr Rob Gray (Associate Professor in Human Systems Engineering at Arizona State University) talks about coaching in sport as well as skill acquisition in baseball and the future of virtual reality in sport

Newswise: Revolutionary brain stimulation technique shows promise for treating brain disorders
Released: 23-Feb-2024 8:05 PM EST
Revolutionary brain stimulation technique shows promise for treating brain disorders
Institute for Basic Science

The human brain's adaptability to internal and external changes, known as neural plasticity, forms the foundation for understanding cognitive functions like memory and learning, as well as various neurological disorders.

Newswise: Vlasov and Bashir groups develop nanoscale device for brain chemistry analysis
Released: 23-Feb-2024 2:05 PM EST
Vlasov and Bashir groups develop nanoscale device for brain chemistry analysis
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

The device, developed by researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, is silicon-based and takes advantage of techniques developed for microelectronics manufacturing.

   
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Released: 23-Feb-2024 1:05 PM EST
NJIT Marketing Experts Measure Brain Waves and Skin Current to Predict Emotions
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)

Machines still can’t think, but now they can validate your feelings, based on new research from New Jersey Institute of Technology Assistant Professor Jorge Fresneda.

     
Released: 23-Feb-2024 11:05 AM EST
Lab-spun sponges form perfect scaffolds for growing skin cells to heal wounds
University of Surrey

A new technique for electrospinning sponges has allowed scientists from the University of Surrey to directly produce 3D scaffolds – on which skin grafts could be grown from the patient’s own skin.

Newswise: Audiology Student Researches Security Vulnerabilities in Hearing Aids
Released: 23-Feb-2024 11:05 AM EST
Audiology Student Researches Security Vulnerabilities in Hearing Aids
University of Northern Colorado

Student combines her fascination with technology and research to uncover whether hearing aids that use Bluetooth technology can be hacked.

   
Released: 22-Feb-2024 10:25 AM EST
BMI OrganBank, Atrium Health and LifeShare Carolinas Partner to Launch Nation's First Organ Banking Technology
BMI OrganBank

Atrium Health's Division of Abdominal Transplant, Carolinas Medical Center (DAT Atrium), LifeShare Carolinas, one of nation's leading Organ Procurement Organizations, and BMI OrganBank, a developer of organ perfusion systems based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, announced today that their organizations have partnered to develop and launch the nation's first Organ Banking technology, which will greatly expand the possibilities for organ preservation and reconditioning.

Newswise: ETRI Unveils Ultra-Fast Generative Visual Intelligence Model: Creates Images in Just 2 Seconds
Released: 22-Feb-2024 9:00 AM EST
ETRI Unveils Ultra-Fast Generative Visual Intelligence Model: Creates Images in Just 2 Seconds
National Research Council of Science and Technology

ETRI’s researchers have unveiled a technology that combines generative AI and visual intelligence to create images from text inputs in just 2 seconds, propelling the field of ultra-fast generative visual intelligence.

Newswise: KIER’s Success in the Development of the World's Top-level Semi-transparent Perovskite Solar Cells.
Released: 21-Feb-2024 9:00 AM EST
KIER’s Success in the Development of the World's Top-level Semi-transparent Perovskite Solar Cells.
National Research Council of Science and Technology

KIER has achieved advancements in the stability and efficiency of semi-transparent perovskite solar cells.

Newswise: Membrane Technology: Looking Deep into Smallest Pores
Released: 21-Feb-2024 4:05 AM EST
Membrane Technology: Looking Deep into Smallest Pores
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

Membranes of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (VaCNT) can be used to clean or desalinate water at high flow rate and low pressure. Recently, researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and partners carried out steroid hormone adsorption experiments to study the interplay of forces in the small pores. They found that VaCNT of specific pore geometry and pore surface structure are suited for use as highly selective membranes. The researchers report in Nature Communications. (DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-44883-2)

Newswise: U of T-led study finds positive support from parents and clinicians for pediatric cancer pain management app
Released: 21-Feb-2024 2:05 AM EST
U of T-led study finds positive support from parents and clinicians for pediatric cancer pain management app
University of Toronto

A recent study led by Assistant Professor Lindsay Jibb of the Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing and Scientist at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) found that parents of young children with cancer, along with pediatric cancer clinicians are in favour of an app-based solution that Jibb and her team are creating, to help parents manage their child’s cancer pain at home.

Newswise: These Tiny Power Converters Run on Vibrational Energy
Released: 20-Feb-2024 5:05 PM EST
These Tiny Power Converters Run on Vibrational Energy
University of California San Diego

Scientists at the University of California San Diego and CEA-Leti have developed a ground-breaking piezoelectric-based DC-DC converter that unifies all power switches onto a single chip to increase power density. This new power topology, which extends beyond existing topologies, blends the advantages of piezoelectric converters with capacitive-based DC-DC converters.

Released: 20-Feb-2024 3:05 PM EST
Water quality monitor, locust-inspired electronic nose under development
Washington University in St. Louis

Two teams of engineers led by faculty in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis will work toward developing products to monitor drinking water quality and to detect explosives with an electronic nose with one-year, $650,000 Convergence Accelerator Phase 1 grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Newswise: MTSU Quantum takes new leap with two NSF grants totaling $1M-plus
Released: 20-Feb-2024 3:05 PM EST
MTSU Quantum takes new leap with two NSF grants totaling $1M-plus
Middle Tennessee State University

Middle Tennessee State University’s Quantum Science Initiative is taking more giant leaps with two new grants — totaling more than $1 million — from the National Science Foundation to expand research, education and inclusivity in quantum education.

   
Released: 20-Feb-2024 2:05 PM EST
U.S. Department of Energy Announces $61 Million for Small Business Research and Development Grants
Department of Energy, Office of Science

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced awards totaling $61 million for small businesses in 17 states. The 50 projects funded by DOE’s Office of Science include the development of advanced scientific instruments, advanced materials, and clean energy conversion and storage technologies that will conduct climate research and advance the Biden-Harris Administration’s goal of a net-zero emissions economy.

   
Newswise: Collegiate cyber defenders shine in CyberForce Program’s inaugural Conquer the Hill — Command Edition competition
Released: 20-Feb-2024 12:05 PM EST
Collegiate cyber defenders shine in CyberForce Program’s inaugural Conquer the Hill — Command Edition competition
Argonne National Laboratory

More than 75 college students competed to test their skills in the fundamentals of IT and cybersecurity infrastructure in the DOE CyberForce Program’s inaugural Conquer the Hill — Command Edition competition.

Newswise: Time watching videos may stunt toddler language development, but it depends on why they're watching
Released: 20-Feb-2024 12:00 PM EST
Time watching videos may stunt toddler language development, but it depends on why they're watching
Southern Methodist University

A new study from SMU psychologist Sarah Kucker and colleagues reveals that passive video use among toddlers can negatively affect language development, but their caregiver’s motivations for exposing them to digital media could also lessen the impact.

Newswise: St. Jude taps health care start-up veteran as first Senior Vice President of Tech Commercialization
Released: 20-Feb-2024 11:45 AM EST
St. Jude taps health care start-up veteran as first Senior Vice President of Tech Commercialization
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Jordan will work with researchers to bring a greater number of new technologies, innovations and scientific breakthroughs to the clinic, enabling breakthroughs from St. Jude laboratories to benefit more patients.

Released: 20-Feb-2024 11:00 AM EST
Improving traffic signal timing with a handful of connected vehicles
University of Michigan

With GPS data from as little as 6% of vehicles on the road, University of Michigan researchers can recalibrate traffic signals to significantly reduce congestion and delays at intersections.

Newswise: Fresh Meat: New Biosensor Accurately and Efficiently Determines Meat Freshness
15-Feb-2024 9:05 AM EST
Fresh Meat: New Biosensor Accurately and Efficiently Determines Meat Freshness
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

Despite the technological advances keeping meat fresh for as long as possible, certain aging processes are unavoidable. Adenosine triphosphate is a molecule produced by breathing and responsible for providing energy to cells. When an animal stops breathing, ATP synthesis also stops, and the existing molecules decompose into acid, diminishing first flavor and then safety. Hypoxanthine and xanthine are intermediate steps in this transition. Assessing their prevalence in meat indicates its freshness. In AIP Advances, researchers developed a biosensor using graphene electrodes modified by zinc oxide nanoparticles to measure HXA. The team demonstrated the sensor’s efficacy on pork meat.

Newswise: Media Tip: A new blueprint for designing high-performance batteries
Released: 20-Feb-2024 10:05 AM EST
Media Tip: A new blueprint for designing high-performance batteries
Argonne National Laboratory

A team of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory have discovered an intriguing ​“cooperative” behavior among components in batteries that points to an exciting new approach to designing next-generation technologies. The team found that combining two different types of anions, negatively charged ions, with cations, positively charged ions, can significantly improve the overall battery’s performance.

Newswise: New study finds anti-piracy messages backfire, especially for men
Released: 20-Feb-2024 10:05 AM EST
New study finds anti-piracy messages backfire, especially for men
University of Portsmouth

Threatening messages aimed to prevent digital piracy have the opposite effect if you’re a man, a new study from the University of Portsmouth has found.

Released: 20-Feb-2024 10:05 AM EST
Media Tip: An ingredient in toothpaste may make electric cars go farther
Argonne National Laboratory

An ingredient in many toothpastes is sodium fluoride, a compound of fluorine. It is added to protect teeth against decay. But compounds containing fluorine have other practical uses that might surprise you. The U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory scientists have discovered a fluoride electrolyte that could protect a next generation battery against performance decline.

Newswise: Media Tip: Previously unknown pathway to batteries with high energy, low cost and long life
Released: 20-Feb-2024 10:05 AM EST
Media Tip: Previously unknown pathway to batteries with high energy, low cost and long life
Argonne National Laboratory

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory scientists have discovered a new pathway to enhance lithium-sulfur batteries, addressing their major drawback of short lifetimes. The discovery, published in Nature, reveals a previously unknown reaction mechanism that overcomes rapid performance decline in lithium-sulfur batteries.

Newswise: Media Tip: Cathode innovation makes sodium-ion battery an attractive option for electric vehicles
Released: 20-Feb-2024 10:05 AM EST
Media Tip: Cathode innovation makes sodium-ion battery an attractive option for electric vehicles
Argonne National Laboratory

The U.S, Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory researchers have invented and patented a new cathode material that could pave the way for eco- and budget-friendly electric vehicles. The material is inspired by earlier work at Argonne that led to the lithium-ion batteries in the Chevy Volt and Bolt. It could help the supply of low-cost and abundant elements for electric vehicle batteries.

Newswise: Large-capacity ultra-low temperature chiller for industrial use opens the era of “zero GWP”
Released: 20-Feb-2024 9:00 AM EST
Large-capacity ultra-low temperature chiller for industrial use opens the era of “zero GWP”
National Research Council of Science and Technology

The KIMM has succeeded in conducting the cooling test of a large-capacity ultra-low temperature (hereinafter referred to as ULT) Turbo-Brayton cooling system using a zero GWP refrigerant.

Newswise: It's the spin that makes the difference
Released: 20-Feb-2024 4:05 AM EST
It's the spin that makes the difference
Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology

Biomolecules such as amino acids and sugars occur in two mirror-image forms – in all living organisms, however, only one is ever found. Why this is the case is still unclear. Researchers at Empa and Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany have now found evidence that the interplay between electric and magnetic fields could be at the origin of this phenomenon.

Released: 19-Feb-2024 10:05 PM EST
Widely used machine learning models reproduce dataset bias in Rice study
Rice University

High-income communities overrepresented in relevant datasets for immunotherapy research.

   
Newswise: Scientists try out stone age tools to understand how they were used
Released: 19-Feb-2024 9:05 PM EST
Scientists try out stone age tools to understand how they were used
Tokyo Metropolitan University

Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University crafted replica stone age tools and used them for a range of tasks to see how different activities create traces on the edge.

Newswise: Combating fractional spurs in phase locked loops to improve wireless system performance in Beyond 5G
Released: 19-Feb-2024 9:05 PM EST
Combating fractional spurs in phase locked loops to improve wireless system performance in Beyond 5G
Tokyo Institute of Technology

Two innovative design techniques lead to substantial improvements in performance in fractional-N phase locked loops (PLLs), report scientists from Tokyo Tech.

Newswise: Company co-founded by Case Western Reserve University researcher named finalist in South by Southwest pitch competition
Released: 19-Feb-2024 4:05 PM EST
Company co-founded by Case Western Reserve University researcher named finalist in South by Southwest pitch competition
Case Western Reserve University

Dustin Tyler, the Kent H. Smith II Professor of Biomedical Engineering at CWRU’s Case School of Engineering, co-founded a company that restores for people the sensation of touch—with help from a set of electrical rings that fit snugly on users’ fingers—from a distance.

Newswise: ETRI Develops Revolutionary Light Source Device to Address Data Explosion
Released: 19-Feb-2024 9:00 AM EST
ETRI Develops Revolutionary Light Source Device to Address Data Explosion
National Research Council of Science and Technology

ETRI’s researchers have pioneered the development of light source devices that can be utilized in mega/hyper datacenters and 5G/6G mobile communication base stations. The technology innovated by the research team can transmit full HD movies of 5 GB size at a rate of 5.6 per second.

Released: 17-Feb-2024 2:05 PM EST
Imageomics poised to enable new understanding of life
Ohio State University

Imageomics, a new field of science, has made stunning progress in the past year and is on the verge of major discoveries about life on Earth, according to one of the founders of the discipline. Tanya Berger-Wolf, faculty director of the Translational Data Analytics Institute at The Ohio State University, outlined the state of imageomics in a presentation at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Newswise: Plasma technology for more effective lithium extraction
Released: 16-Feb-2024 9:05 PM EST
Plasma technology for more effective lithium extraction
National Research Council of Science and Technology

Applying plasma technology increases efficiency by 3-fold. Confirmation of a novel approach for lithium extraction from brine.

Newswise: Using AI to develop enhanced cybersecurity measures
Released: 16-Feb-2024 4:05 PM EST
Using AI to develop enhanced cybersecurity measures
Los Alamos National Laboratory

A research team at Los Alamos National Laboratory is using artificial intelligence to address several critical shortcomings in large-scale malware analysis, making significant advancements in the classification of Microsoft Windows malware and paving the way for enhanced cybersecurity measures. Using their approach, the team set a new world record in classifying malware families.

Newswise: New technology brings advanced blood imaging closer to the clinic
Released: 16-Feb-2024 10:05 AM EST
New technology brings advanced blood imaging closer to the clinic
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

The qualities of flowing blood, or hemodynamics, hold important insights into vascular diseases, but technological limitations have largely kept measurements of these properties out of reach in the clinic. Now, there may be a potential solution on the horizon.

Newswise: Plasma Technology for More Effective Lithium Extraction
Released: 16-Feb-2024 9:00 AM EST
Plasma Technology for More Effective Lithium Extraction
National Research Council of Science and Technology

Korea Institute of Fusion Energy(KFE) announced revealed that their researchers have successfully increased the lithium extraction rate by three times compared to pre-existing methods by applying CO2 microwave plasma technology.

Released: 15-Feb-2024 7:05 PM EST
Studies with more diverse teams of authors get more citations
University of Surrey

Diverse research is more impactful in the business management field, with female influence growing stronger in the past decade, finds a new study from the University of Surrey.

Released: 15-Feb-2024 7:05 PM EST
New treatment for a rare and aggressive cancer improves survival rates in breakthrough clinical trial
Queen Mary University of London

An innovative treatment significantly increases the survival of people with malignant mesothelioma, a rare but rapidly fatal type of cancer with few effective treatment options, according to results from a clinical trial led by Queen Mary University of London.

Newswise: Shuffling the deck for privacy
Released: 15-Feb-2024 7:05 PM EST
Shuffling the deck for privacy
King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST)

By integrating an ensemble of privacy-preserving algorithms, a KAUST research team has developed a machine-learning approach that addresses a significant challenge in medical research: How to use the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate discovery from genomic data while protecting the privacy of individuals

   
Released: 15-Feb-2024 5:05 PM EST
Q&A: What is the best route to fairer AI systems?
University of Washington

Mike Teodorescu, a University of Washington assistant professor in the Information School, proposes that private enterprise standards for fairer machine learning systems would inform governmental regulation.

Newswise: Electrons screen against conductivity-killer in organic semiconductors
Released: 15-Feb-2024 5:05 PM EST
Electrons screen against conductivity-killer in organic semiconductors
University of Utah

Scientists uncover the physics driving dopant and polymer interactions that boost conductivity in organic materials.

Newswise: A battery’s hopping ions remember where they’ve been
Released: 15-Feb-2024 1:15 PM EST
A battery’s hopping ions remember where they’ve been
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Scientists discover that ions hopping through a battery electrolyte can reverse direction in response to a jolt of voltage and briefly return to their previous positions – .the first indication that the ions remembered, in a sense, where they had just been.



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