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Released: 11-Jul-2019 10:05 AM EDT
The best of both worlds: how to solve real problems on modern quantum computers
Argonne National Laboratory

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory, along with researchers at Clemson University and Fujitsu Laboratories of America, have developed hybrid algorithms to run on size-limited quantum machines and have demonstrated them for practical applications.

Released: 10-Jul-2019 9:05 PM EDT
NUS scientists discover how to 'lock' heat in place using quantum mechanics
National University of Singapore (NUS)

In a global first, NUS scientists have demonstrated that heat energy can be manipulated by utilising the quantum mechanical principle of anti-parity-time symmetry. Using this method, they were able to control the flow of heat in a material.

Released: 10-Jul-2019 4:40 PM EDT
Can Computer Use, Crafts and Games Slow or Prevent Age-Related Memory Loss?
American Academy of Neurology (AAN)

A new study has found that mentally stimulating activities like using a computer, playing games, crafting and participating in social activities are linked to a lower risk or delay of age-related memory loss called mild cognitive impairment, and that the timing and number of these activities may also play a role. The study is published in the July 10, 2019, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

Released: 10-Jul-2019 2:05 PM EDT
DHS S&T, IJIS Host Text-to-911 Techfest on Google Campus
Homeland Security's Science And Technology Directorate

DHS S&T recently joined the Integrated Justice Information Systems (IJIS) Institute and Google to host the Text-to-911 Translation TechFest at the Google campus in Kirkland, Washington.

Released: 10-Jul-2019 11:05 AM EDT
Bringing the blockchain into the physical world
Lancaster University

A kit made from everyday objects is bringing the blockchain into the physical world

Released: 10-Jul-2019 9:40 AM EDT
Four ways scholars say we can cut the chances of nasty satellite data surprises
Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences

A team of Penn State researchers are reminding policy makers, industry, and citizens that satellite data, left unchecked, can be as dangerous as it is useful and as threatening to national security and civil liberties as it is helpful to the national economy.

Released: 10-Jul-2019 9:00 AM EDT
Moon landing’s legacy: a better life on Earth
University of Georgia

As the world prepares to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing on July 20, 2019, UGA Today talked with Ben Davis, a professor of mechanical engineering at UGA, about the wide-ranging benefits of this technological triumph. Before coming to UGA, Davis was a propulsion vibrations analyst at NASA.

Released: 10-Jul-2019 9:00 AM EDT
Beat the Heat
University of Utah

University of Utah mechanical engineering associate professor Mathieu Francoeur has discovered a way to produce more electricity from heat than thought possible by creating a silicon chip, also known as a “device,” that converts more thermal radiation into electricity. This could lead to devices such as laptop computers and cellphones with much longer battery life and solar panels that are much more efficient at converting radiant heat to energy.

Released: 10-Jul-2019 4:05 AM EDT
Creating a Culture of Excellence: Lessons from The 9 Cs Enterprise-Perspective Model, Part 2
University of Virginia Darden School of Business

To compete in today’s complex business environment, executives must excel at making decisions with an enterprise perspective. Darden Professor Elliott N. Weiss’ 9 Cs Enterprise-Perspective Model offers a useful decision-making framework.

Released: 9-Jul-2019 2:05 PM EDT
Cyborg-like microchip valve driven by earthworm muscle
RIKEN

Scientists at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) in Japan have developed the first microchip valve powered by living cells.

Released: 9-Jul-2019 12:05 PM EDT
S&T's Blockchain program focuses on security, privacy, interoperability & standards
Homeland Security's Science And Technology Directorate

S&T is paving the way for multiple agencies such as CBP, USCIS, TSA and others to successfully and easily integrate Blockchain into their mission.

Released: 8-Jul-2019 7:05 PM EDT
Can’t Take the Heat? ‘Cool Walls’ Can Reduce Energy Costs, Pollution
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

A Berkeley Lab study modeled different types and ages of homes, retail stores, and office buildings and found that sunlight-reflecting “cool” exterior walls can save as much or more energy than sunlight-reflecting cool roofs in many places across the U.S.

Released: 8-Jul-2019 4:25 PM EDT
Researchers Enhance Surgical Training with 3D Printing
Texas A&M University

Merging engineering and medical education, a team is providing surgeons-in-training with more realistic and accurate orthopedic surgery simulations through 3D printing and visualized performance data.

Released: 8-Jul-2019 3:15 PM EDT
Iowa State Students Develop Self-Checkout Fraud Detection Model to Win International Data Mining Competition
Iowa State University

A team of Iowa State University graduate students brought home the top prize from the 20th annual Data Mining Cup, beating nearly 150 teams from 114 universities in 28 countries. The winners were announced July 3 in Berlin. The students developed a mathematical model to detect cases of fraud at self-checkouts in grocery stores.

   
Released: 8-Jul-2019 1:05 PM EDT
Hate spoilers? This AI tool spots them for you
University of California San Diego

Did social media spoil the Avengers’ Endgame movie for you? Or maybe one of the Game of Thrones books? A team of researchers from the University of California San Diego is working to make sure that doesn’t happen again. They have developed an AI-based system that can flag spoilers in online reviews of books and TV shows.

Released: 8-Jul-2019 11:30 AM EDT
Argonne Team Breaks Record for Globus Data Movement
Globus

Globus, the leading research data management service, today announced the largest single file transfer in its history: a team led by Argonne National Laboratory scientists moved 2.9 petabytes of data as part of a research project involving three of the largest cosmological simulations to date.

Released: 8-Jul-2019 10:10 AM EDT
Do Passengers Prefer Autonomous Vehicles Driven Like Machines or Like Humans?
University of Warwick

Passenger and pedestrian confidence and acceptance will be key to the future and development of autonomous vehicles so researchers at WMG at the University of Warwick

Released: 8-Jul-2019 9:40 AM EDT
Pairing "glue" for electrons in iron-based high-temp superconductors studied
Ames National Laboratory

Newly published research from a team of scientists led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory sheds more light on the nature of high-temperature iron-based superconductivity.

Released: 8-Jul-2019 8:05 AM EDT
Optimizing the Growth of Coatings on Nanowire Catalysts
Brookhaven National Laboratory

A chemical surface treatment boosts the catalytic activity of the wire-looking nanostructures for a key reaction in solar fuel production.

Released: 5-Jul-2019 11:05 AM EDT
Camera brings unseen world to light
Harvard John A. Paulson School Of Engineering And Applied Sciences

When the first full-length movie made with the advanced, three-color process of Technicolor premiered in 1935, The New York Times declared "it produced in the spectator all the excitement of standing upon a peak ... and glimpsing a strange, beautiful and unexpected new world."

Released: 3-Jul-2019 12:05 PM EDT
S&T NUSTL Supports First Responder Radiological Preparedness
Homeland Security's Science And Technology Directorate

in 2017, DHS S&T NUSTL, in partnership with the FEMA and DOE NNSA published guidance for first responders and emergency managers on how to plan for the first minutes of an RDD detonation response.

Released: 2-Jul-2019 3:05 PM EDT
Using Machine Learning Models to Better Predict Bladder Cancer Stages
University of California San Diego

Bladder cancer, one of the most common cancers in the U.S., may be soon helped by a novel non-invasive diagnostic method thanks to advances in machine learning research at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), Moores Cancer Center, and CureMatch Incorporated.

Released: 2-Jul-2019 2:05 PM EDT
Researchers cast neural nets to simulate molecular motion
Los Alamos National Laboratory

New work from Los Alamos National Laboratory, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the University of Florida is showing that artificial neural nets can be trained to encode quantum mechanical laws to describe the motions of molecules

Released: 2-Jul-2019 11:05 AM EDT
Moon Landing 50 Years Later: Texas A&M Space Expert Discusses Its Importance
Texas A&M University

Texas A&M astronomer and physics expert Nick Suntzeff has been involved with space research for almost 30 years, and spent 20 years as an astronomer in Chile, where he helped co-discover dark energy. He offers his thoughts about the 50th anniversary of the moon landing and what’s ahead for the U.S. space program.

Released: 2-Jul-2019 9:00 AM EDT
Researchers use forecasting models and data analysis for hurricane recovery efforts
Texas State University

Dr. Eduardo Perez, associate professor in the College of Science and Engineering at Texas State University, is using forecasting models and data to help food banks be prepared for hurricanes during hurricane season, which began June 1.

Released: 1-Jul-2019 5:05 PM EDT
SDSC’s Sherlock Division Debuts Innovation Accelerator Platforms
University of California San Diego

The Sherlock Division at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California San Diego has announced the launch of Innovation Accelerator Platforms within its Sherlock Cloud infrastructure and its newest offering

Released: 1-Jul-2019 4:55 PM EDT
How You and Your Friends Can Play a Video Game Together Using Only Your Minds
University of Washington

UW researchers created a method for two people help a third person solve a task using only their minds.

Released: 1-Jul-2019 12:05 PM EDT
Physicists use light waves to accelerate supercurrents, enable ultrafast quantum computing
Iowa State University

Researchers have discovered that terahertz light --light at trillions of cycles per second -- can act as a control knob to accelerate supercurrents. That can help open up the quantum world of matter and energy at atomic and subatomic scales to practical applications such as ultrafast computing.

Released: 1-Jul-2019 10:20 AM EDT
Story tips from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, July 2019
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Study finds waste soft drinks for carbon capture could help cut carbon dioxide emissions; sharing secret messages using quantum communications just got more practical for better cybersecurity; designed synthetic polymers for better binding in next-generation li-ion batteries; predictive modeling could point to nuclear reactors running longer; scientists to create computers that mimic human brain.

Released: 1-Jul-2019 10:10 AM EDT
Researchers develop new, low-cost method to create thin film electrodes for supercapacitors
University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Researchers at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock have developed a new and inexpensive method to fabricate thin film electrode materials for supercapacitors that produce higher power at a lower cost. 

Released: 1-Jul-2019 10:05 AM EDT
Personalized Medicine Software Vulnerability Uncovered by Sandia Researchers
Sandia National Laboratories

A weakness in one common open source software for genomic analysis left DNA-based medical diagnostics vulnerable to cyberattacks. Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories identified the weakness and notified the software developers, who issued a patch to fix the problem. The issue has also been fixed in the latest release of the software.

   
Released: 1-Jul-2019 10:05 AM EDT
Professor investigates transparent face mask to help deaf and hard of hearing patients better communicate with healthcare providers
University of Arkansas at Little Rock

A University of Arkansas at Little Rock faculty member is hoping to make visits to healthcare professionals easier for patients and other health workers who are deaf or hard of hearing by researching a prototype transparent surgical face mask that allows those who are deaf or hard of hearing and non-native English speakers to read lips.

Released: 1-Jul-2019 9:20 AM EDT
WVU chemist is a molecular architect
West Virginia University - Eberly College of Arts and Sciences

West Virginia University chemist Kung Wang is an architect. Not the kind that builds houses – one that designs molecules. Wang is constructing a synthetic pathway to creating new molecular templates for growing carbon nanotubes

Released: 1-Jul-2019 6:05 AM EDT
Meet the Health-Tech Companies in New Cedars-Sinai Accelerator Class
Cedars-Sinai

The Cedars-Sinai Accelerator is welcoming 11 health-tech companies from across the United States and Europe to its newest accelerator class. The companies are innovating solutions for a wide variety of healthcare challenges-from the way hospitals count inventory and schedule staffers to products such as a smart brace for knee replacement patients.

Released: 1-Jul-2019 2:05 AM EDT
Navigating Digital Disruption: A Q & A with Darden Professor Michael Lenox
University of Virginia Darden School of Business

Digital technologies are redefining business landscape, disrupting markets and industries. Darden Professor Michael Lenox offers insights how incumbent firms can start capturing the opportunities offered by digitization.

26-Jun-2019 5:30 PM EDT
Using Machine Learning to Create More Capable Capacitors
University of California San Diego

Capacitors, given their high energy output and recharging speed, could play a major role in powering the machines of the future, from electric cars to cell phones. However, the biggest hurdle for capacitors as energy storage devices is that they store much less energy than a similar-sized battery. Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology are tackling that problem by using supercomputers and machine learning techniques to ultimately find ways to build more capable capacitors.

Released: 27-Jun-2019 11:05 AM EDT
Pilot study in smart systems launched as part of Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship
Penn State College of Engineering

A pilot study involving academic and industry collaborators in smart systems has been initiated by Vittal Prabhu, professor in the Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Penn State, as part of his 2018-19 Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship.

Released: 27-Jun-2019 10:25 AM EDT
3D printed prosthetic hand can guess how you play rock, paper, scissors
Hiroshima University

Losing a limb, either through illness or accident, can present emotional and physical challenges for an amputee, damaging their quality of life.

Released: 27-Jun-2019 9:05 AM EDT
U.S. Department of Energy Renews Midwest Integrated Center for Computational Materials
Argonne National Laboratory

The Department of Energy has announced that, over the next four years, it will invest $32 million to accelerate the design of new materials through use of high-performance computing. One of the seven funded projects is the Midwest Integrated Center for Computational Materials (MICCoM), founded in 2015 and led by the Materials Science Division at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory. This center draws co-investigators from the University of Chicago, University of Notre Dame, and University of California, Davis.

Released: 27-Jun-2019 7:05 AM EDT
Older adults can serve communities as engines of everyday innovation
Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences

A team of researchers found that older adults are often leaders in innovation, coupling their knowledge and creativity to, among other things, revitalize communities, improve the environment, and pass on skills and hobbies.

   
Released: 27-Jun-2019 6:00 AM EDT
Artificial Intelligence Controls Robotic Arm to Pack Boxes and Cut Costs
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

Rutgers computer scientists used artificial intelligence to control a robotic arm that provides a more efficient way to pack boxes, saving businesses time and money.

   
Released: 26-Jun-2019 3:50 PM EDT
DePaul University computer scientist earns NSF CAREER grant to study computational reproducibility
DePaul University

The National Science Foundation has awarded Tanu Malik at DePaul University a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant to support her work to lay the foundation for establishing reproducibility of real-world computational and data science.

Released: 26-Jun-2019 1:05 PM EDT
Practice makes perfect
Argonne National Laboratory

Argonne researchers are beginning to employ Bayesian methods in developing optimal models of thermodynamic properties. Research available online for the September 2019 issue of the International Journal of Engineering Science focused on hafnium (Hf), a metal emerging as a key component in computer electronics.

Released: 26-Jun-2019 11:05 AM EDT
Study: Social robots can benefit hospitalized children
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

A new study demonstrates, for the first time, that "social robots" used in support sessions held in pediatric units at hospitals can lead to more positive emotions in sick children.

   
Released: 26-Jun-2019 10:20 AM EDT
Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt Reminds Drivers About July 1 Cellphone Ban
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Injury prevention experts at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt hope the state’s newest law banning cellphone use while driving will have an impact.

   
Released: 26-Jun-2019 10:05 AM EDT
Lessons from Columbine: New technology provides insight during active shooter situations
Purdue University

Run, hide, fight. It has become a mantra for how to act during an active shooter situation. The idea is to escape the situation or protect oneself, and counter the gunman as a last resort.

   


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