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Released: 12-Sep-2023 8:00 AM EDT
Innovation Thrives Here: New Report Names Boston a Top Food Tech Hub
Tufts University

In a report released from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, researchers say New England is where a majority of food tech pioneers are flourishing.

Newswise: Plastic Deformation Engineering Dramatically Enhances Quantum Phenomena
Released: 11-Sep-2023 3:05 PM EDT
Plastic Deformation Engineering Dramatically Enhances Quantum Phenomena
Department of Energy, Office of Science

Researchers have discovered that applying plastic deformation to the quantum material strontium titanate causes defects (known as dislocations) to organize themselves into repeating structures. These changes lead to improvements of strontium titanate’s superconducting and ferroelectric properties.

Newswise: Two in one: FSU researchers develop polymer that can be adapted to high and low temperature extremes
Released: 7-Sep-2023 2:05 PM EDT
Two in one: FSU researchers develop polymer that can be adapted to high and low temperature extremes
Florida State University

Researchers at FAMU-FSU College of Engineering have developed two closely related polymers that respond differently to high and low temperature thresholds, despite their similar design.

Newswise: UM Board of Curators approves Missouri S&T biomedical engineering program
Released: 7-Sep-2023 1:00 PM EDT
UM Board of Curators approves Missouri S&T biomedical engineering program
Missouri University of Science and Technology

Missouri University of Science and Technology has long been home to some of the world’s leading biomedical engineering researchers, and the university is now on track to launch a new bachelor’s degree program in this field.

Newswise: KERI, Transfer of ‘Ion Implantation Evaluation Technology for the SiC Power Semiconductor’ to Hungary
Released: 7-Sep-2023 12:00 PM EDT
KERI, Transfer of ‘Ion Implantation Evaluation Technology for the SiC Power Semiconductor’ to Hungary
National Research Council of Science and Technology

KERI succeeded in transferring the ‘Ion Implantation and its Evaluation Technology for the SiC (silicon carbide) Power Semiconductor’ to a Hungarian company.

Released: 7-Sep-2023 11:05 AM EDT
NYU Tandon School of Engineering Researchers Develop Hurricane Power Outage Prediction Model that Outperforms Traditional Methods
NYU Tandon School of Engineering

Conventional hurricane power-outage prediction models often produce incomplete or incorrect results, hampering companies’ abilities to prepare to restore power as quickly as possible, especially in cities that are susceptible to prolonged hurricane-induced power outages.

Newswise: UWF engineering students develop software to improve military intelligence gathering
Released: 7-Sep-2023 9:20 AM EDT
UWF engineering students develop software to improve military intelligence gathering
University of West Florida

UWF students in the Dr. Muhammad Harunur Rashid Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering are working with the Air Force Research Laboratory to improve battlefield intelligence gathering by creating a machine-learning algorithm.

Newswise: Era of Hydrogen-Fueled Vehicles to Begin
Released: 7-Sep-2023 8:00 AM EDT
Era of Hydrogen-Fueled Vehicles to Begin
National Research Council of Science and Technology

The joint research team led by Principal Researcher Young Choi of the Department of Mobility Power Research of the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM), an institute under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Science and ICT, and Researcher Hong-gil Baek of the Zero-Carbon Engine Research Lab of Hyundai-Kia Motor Company developed the “direct injection hydrogen engine” that runs entirely on hydrogen fuels, and demonstrated its world-class excellence through performance evaluation.

Newswise: Paving the Way for More Asphalt Recycling
Released: 7-Sep-2023 2:05 AM EDT
Paving the Way for More Asphalt Recycling
Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology

Switzerland is built, at least as far as the road network is concerned. Therefore – and despite recycling –, significantly more reclaimed asphalt is generated today than can be reused in new roads. Empa researcher Martins Zaumanis has set himself the goal of increasing the recycled content of asphalt – with adapted production methods and simple instructions. Two test sections with recycled asphalt in Uster and on the Lukmanier Pass are promising.

Newswise: Alyssa Kody is helping develop a low-carbon power grid
Released: 6-Sep-2023 12:05 PM EDT
Alyssa Kody is helping develop a low-carbon power grid
Argonne National Laboratory

The Fellow discusses her efforts to improve power systems and how Argonne has supported her career development.

Newswise: Easier and faster materials microstructure analysis through human-AI collaboration!
Released: 6-Sep-2023 12:00 AM EDT
Easier and faster materials microstructure analysis through human-AI collaboration!
National Research Council of Science and Technology

The research team led by Dr. Se-Jong Kim and Dr. Juwon Na of the Materials Data Management Center in the Materials Digital Platform Division together with the research team led by Professor Seungchul Lee of POSTECH has developed a technology that can automatically identify and quantify materials microstructure from microscopic images through human-in-the-loop machine learning.

Newswise: UAH senior design students develop new water supply system for Nicaraguan village through Engineers Without Borders
Released: 5-Sep-2023 2:05 PM EDT
UAH senior design students develop new water supply system for Nicaraguan village through Engineers Without Borders
University of Alabama Huntsville

Electrical engineering senior design students at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) recently designed an automated chlorine dispenser to upgrade the water supply for a village in Sabana Larga, Nicaragua.

Newswise: Researchers use AI to find new magnetic materials without critical elements
Released: 5-Sep-2023 1:05 PM EDT
Researchers use AI to find new magnetic materials without critical elements
Ames National Laboratory

A team of scientists from Ames National Laboratory developed a new machine learning model for discovering critical-element-free permanent magnet materials based on the predicted Curie temperature of new material combinations.

Newswise: Scammers Can Abuse Security Flaws in Email Forwarding to Impersonate High-profile Domains
1-Sep-2023 7:05 PM EDT
Scammers Can Abuse Security Flaws in Email Forwarding to Impersonate High-profile Domains
University of California San Diego

Sending an email with a forged address is easier than previously thought, due to flaws in the process that allows email forwarding, according to a research team led by computer scientists at the University of California San Diego.

   
Newswise: ‘Broadband Prairie’ rural wireless project moves to public phase of researching, testing
Released: 1-Sep-2023 10:05 AM EDT
‘Broadband Prairie’ rural wireless project moves to public phase of researching, testing
Iowa State University

With wireless infrastructure installed in and around Ames, Iowa, the $16 million ARA Wireless Living Lab for Smart and Connected Rural Communities is moving to a public testing phase. The progress will be celebrated with technical presentations and field trips during a launch event Sept. 6-8 on the Iowa State University campus.

Released: 1-Sep-2023 9:15 AM EDT
“Countercation engineering” for thermoresponsive graphene-oxide nanosheets
Shinshu University

Graphene-based two-dimensional materials have recently emerged as a focus of scientific exploration due to their exceptional structural, mechanical, electrical, optical, and thermal properties.

Newswise:Video Embedded air-leak-detection-system-visualizes-building-drafts-with-the-click-of-a-camera
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Released: 31-Aug-2023 3:05 PM EDT
Air leak detection system visualizes building drafts with the click of a camera
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have created a new detection system that allows home energy auditors to see air leaking from a building in real time with the help of a camera. It’s an advancement that could provide more accurate readings far more quickly than current diagnostic tools allow.

Released: 31-Aug-2023 12:05 PM EDT
Protecting the protectors: Virginia Tech researchers work to secure power grid communication on military bases.
Virginia Tech

For months, U.S. officials have been sniffing out malicious computer code that they suspect to be planted inside the power grid and communication control systems on U.S. military bases. Virginia Tech researchers already are working on a plan to secure future military base power grid operations and their critical missions from such threats.

Newswise: TRIAD Streamlines Edge Processing of Data in Phased-Array Antennas
Released: 31-Aug-2023 9:50 AM EDT
TRIAD Streamlines Edge Processing of Data in Phased-Array Antennas
Georgia Institute of Technology

As the number of elements on phased array antennas continues to grow, so does the volume of data that must be processed. To address this, researchers have developed a new approach to process that data closer to where it is generated - on the antenna subarrays themselves.

Newswise: Researchers Test Quantum Theory with Precision-Engineered Thin Films
Released: 30-Aug-2023 4:05 PM EDT
Researchers Test Quantum Theory with Precision-Engineered Thin Films
Department of Energy, Office of Science

Comparing experimental results and theoretical calculations can be difficult for quantum materials. One solution is to use sample materials that isolate and emphasize an atomic line with one dimensional properties. In this study, scientists grew thin films of layered copper-oxygen materials to experimentally test theories of electron interaction in quantum materials. The study indicates that standard theory is not sufficient and requires a new term to fit the experimental data.

Released: 30-Aug-2023 2:05 PM EDT
The robustness of the world's skyscrapers stress-tested by Surrey model
University of Surrey

The safety of tall buildings in the world's cities, in the face of extreme external traumas like vehicle impacts, blasts or fires, has been tested using a model developed by structural engineers at the University of Surrey – with reassuring results.

Newswise:Video Embedded cabling-for-lhc-upgrade-wraps-up
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Released: 30-Aug-2023 11:15 AM EDT
Cabling for LHC Upgrade Wraps Up
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Experts at Berkeley Lab finished winding more than 2000 kilometers of superconducting wire into cables for new magnets that will help upgrade the Large Hadron Collider and the search for new physics.

Released: 29-Aug-2023 4:30 PM EDT
Using neuroscience to stop phantom braking
Michigan State University

When customers began complaining that their vehicles with driver-assistance technologies were “phantom braking” or slamming on the brakes without any visible obstacles present, researchers at Michigan State University wanted to learn more about this phenomenon — why it happens and how to stop it.

Newswise: Milenkovic gaining biological insights by analyzing data embedded in non-Euclidean spaces
Released: 29-Aug-2023 4:05 PM EDT
Milenkovic gaining biological insights by analyzing data embedded in non-Euclidean spaces
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

Olgica Milenkovic’s group has been developing machine learning approaches that can tell revealing new stories about biological phenomena—but her work has very old roots.

Released: 29-Aug-2023 10:50 AM EDT
The race to build the world’s smallest atomic clock, again
Sandia National Laboratories

Yuan-Yu Jau is on a quest to build the world’s smallest atomic clock, a device that measures time with extreme accuracy.

Newswise: Intense ultraviolet-visible-infrared full-spectrum laser
Released: 29-Aug-2023 9:00 AM EDT
Intense ultraviolet-visible-infrared full-spectrum laser
Chinese Academy of Sciences

High-brightness femtosecond laser sources with large spectral coverage are indispensable tools that enable optical spectroscopy to simultaneously resolve the ultrafast dynamics of multiple physical, chemical, and biological processes of a sample.

Newswise: Plasmonic Metafibers Electro-optic Modulators
Released: 29-Aug-2023 9:00 AM EDT
Plasmonic Metafibers Electro-optic Modulators
Chinese Academy of Sciences

Electro-optic modulators (EOMs) translating elcetrical signals into optical domains are indispensable elements in modern optical communications.

Newswise: High-fidelity mode scaling via topological-optimized on-chip metalens for compact photonic interconnection
Released: 29-Aug-2023 9:00 AM EDT
High-fidelity mode scaling via topological-optimized on-chip metalens for compact photonic interconnection
Chinese Academy of Sciences

Metalens plays an essential role in the optical interconnection of photonic integrated circuits. However, the traditional design method of metalens ignores the coupling between unit cell structures, resulting in errors between the actual and the ideal phase distribution. Scientists from China proposed an on-chip metalens design method based on topology optimization, with the optimized free-form metalens achieving efficient optical interconnections between waveguide devices with large width scaling ratios.

Newswise: Fabry–Perot-based phase demodulation of heterodyne light-induced thermoelastic spectroscopy
Released: 29-Aug-2023 9:00 AM EDT
Fabry–Perot-based phase demodulation of heterodyne light-induced thermoelastic spectroscopy
Chinese Academy of Sciences

A Fabry-Perot (F-P) based phase demodulation of heterodyne light-induced thermoelastic spectroscopy (H-LITES) is demonstrated. The vibration of quartz tuning fork (QTF) was detected by using F-P interferometer (FPI) to avoid the thermal noise. Given that FPI is vulnerable to disturbance, a phase demodulation method is employed in H-LITES. This new method of phase demodulation is structurally simple and was found to be resistant to interference from light sources and the surroundings using the LITES technique.

Newswise: Quantum discovery offers glimpse into other-worldly realm
Released: 29-Aug-2023 7:05 AM EDT
Quantum discovery offers glimpse into other-worldly realm
Aalto University

Experiments promote a curious flipside of decaying monopoles: a reality where particle physics is quite literally turned on its head

Newswise: Rechargable revolution
Released: 29-Aug-2023 3:05 AM EDT
Rechargable revolution
Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology

The Empa spin-off BTRY wants to revolutionize rechargeable batteries: Their thin-film batteries are not only safer and longer-lasting than conventional lithium-ion batteries, they are also much more environmentally friendly to manufacture and can be charged and discharged in just one minute. For now, the battery is very small, but the founders have big plans for it.

Newswise: Professor receives grant to develop electronic devices made entirely of paper
Released: 28-Aug-2023 2:35 PM EDT
Professor receives grant to develop electronic devices made entirely of paper
Binghamton University, State University of New York

A professor at Binghamton University, State University of New York has received a $400,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop electronic devices made entirely of paper.

Newswise: Researcher finds inspiration from spider webs and beetles to harvest fresh water from thin air
Released: 28-Aug-2023 2:30 PM EDT
Researcher finds inspiration from spider webs and beetles to harvest fresh water from thin air
University of Waterloo

A team of researchers is designing novel systems to capture water vapour in the air and turn it into liquid.

Newswise: Low cost, high efficiency, multiple colours at the same time!
Released: 28-Aug-2023 11:00 AM EDT
Low cost, high efficiency, multiple colours at the same time!
National Research Council of Science and Technology

A research team led by Dr. Jung-dae Kwon from the Department of Energy & Electronic Materials at the Korea Institute of Materials Science(KIMS) has succeeded in realizing the world's first transparent thin-film solar cell on a flexible substrate that exhibits different reflective colours and does not significantly reduce solar cell's efficiency.

Newswise: Scientists use quantum device to slow down simulated chemical reaction 100 billion times
25-Aug-2023 11:05 AM EDT
Scientists use quantum device to slow down simulated chemical reaction 100 billion times
University of Sydney

Scientists at the University of Sydney have, for the first time, used a quantum computer to engineer and directly observe a process critical in chemical reactions by slowing it down by a factor of 100 billion times.

Released: 25-Aug-2023 2:20 PM EDT
NIH selects undergraduate winners of 2023 DEBUT Challenge for impressive medical device designs
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

The National Institutes of Health and the higher education non-profit VentureWell have selected 10 winners and five honorable mentions of the Design by Biomedical Undergraduate Teams (DEBUT) Challenge, who are set to receive prizes totaling $145,000.

Released: 24-Aug-2023 12:45 PM EDT
Leslie Rogers explores the mysterious imbalance of matter and antimatter
Argonne National Laboratory

Leslie Rogers describes her research on radioactive decay and how Argonne supported her career development.

Newswise:Video Embedded new-dual-arm-robot-achieves-bimanual-tasks-by-learning-from-simulation
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22-Aug-2023 4:05 AM EDT
New dual-arm robot achieves bimanual tasks by learning from simulation
University of Bristol

An innovative bimanual robot displays tactile sensitivity close to human-level dexterity using AI to inform its actions.

Released: 23-Aug-2023 6:05 PM EDT
Alexander Brand receives NSF CAREER award to discover the mechanisms that make concrete work
Virginia Tech

Alexander Brand, assistant professor in the Charles E. Via, Jr. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, has received a $600,000 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award.

Released: 23-Aug-2023 6:05 PM EDT
Quantum powers researchers to see the unseen
Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech researchers are leveraging a quantum-based discovery to help people see better in the dark.

Newswise: Argonne researchers win three 2023 R&D 100 Awards
Released: 23-Aug-2023 5:15 PM EDT
Argonne researchers win three 2023 R&D 100 Awards
Argonne National Laboratory

Past winners include Fortune 500 companies, Department of Energy national laboratories, academic institutions and smaller companies.

Released: 23-Aug-2023 5:05 PM EDT
2024 Hertz Fellowship Application Now Open
The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation

The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation, an organization dedicated to empowering the nation’s most promising innovators in science and technology, announced today that it is accepting applications for the 2024 Hertz Fellowship awards.

Released: 23-Aug-2023 4:15 PM EDT
Coastal experts available to discuss hurricane emergency preparation, disaster response, and recovery
Virginia Tech

Tropical Storm Hilary packed a punch but wasn’t nearly as devastating as it could have been. Meanwhile Tropical Storm Franklin is battering the Caribbean. As we enter the height of hurricane season, Virginia Tech has a team of coastal experts available who can provide insight about hurricanes, flash flooding, storm surge, sea-level rise and emergency response.

Released: 23-Aug-2023 1:50 PM EDT
Department of Energy Announces $9.96 Million for Basic Plasma Science Research
Department of Energy, Office of Science

Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $9.96 million in funding for universities, private industry, and a national laboratory to support research in basic plasma science and engineering as well as frontier plasma science experiments at several midscale DOE Collaborative Research Facilities (CRFs) across the nation.

Released: 23-Aug-2023 12:35 PM EDT
Unravelling the water dynamics and structure of water-coordinated metal complexes
Chiba University

Lanthanide-containing complexes are important compounds for sophisticated nuclear-fuel processing and medical imaging.

Newswise: UIC leads national consortium educating next generation of quantum engineers
Released: 23-Aug-2023 11:05 AM EDT
UIC leads national consortium educating next generation of quantum engineers
University of Illinois Chicago

Harnessing the potential of quantum physics for advances in computing, communication and other technologies promises to be the next great engineering challenge.

Newswise: Brown fluid dynamics researchers shed light on how partially submerged objects experience drag
Released: 22-Aug-2023 11:40 PM EDT
Brown fluid dynamics researchers shed light on how partially submerged objects experience drag
Brown University

One of the most common and practically useful experiments in all of fluid dynamics involves holding an object in air or submerging it fully underwater, exposing it to a steady flow to measure its resistance in the form of drag

Newswise:Video Embedded a-way-to-protect-coastlines-and-restore-marine-ecosystems
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Released: 22-Aug-2023 2:05 PM EDT
A way to protect coastlines and restore marine ecosystems
University of Miami

Wahoo Bay, a new marine park in northern Broward County, offers University of Miami researchers the first test case of an innovative way to combine natural and human-made solutions to improve coastal resilience.



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