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Newswise: New Co-STAR Receptor Shows Promise Treating Cancers in Laboratory Study
9-Jul-2024 11:05 AM EDT
New Co-STAR Receptor Shows Promise Treating Cancers in Laboratory Study
Johns Hopkins Medicine

Using genetic engineering techniques, investigators at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and its Ludwig Center, the Lustgarten Laboratory and Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy have designed a novel type of cell to recognize and fight cancer.

Newswise: ARPA-E IGNIITE award launches new initiatives of ORNL researchers Yang and Westover
Released: 10-Jul-2024 10:05 AM EDT
ARPA-E IGNIITE award launches new initiatives of ORNL researchers Yang and Westover
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Guang Yang and Andrew Westover of Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been selected to join the first cohort of the Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, or ARPA-E, Inspiring Generations of New Innovators to Impact Technologies in Energy 2024, or IGNIITE 2024, program.

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Released: 10-Jul-2024 9:05 AM EDT
As Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games approach, experts give tips for athletes, weekend warriors, and travelers
Virginia Tech

With less than a month until the Summer Olympic Games in Paris, and with Olympic Trials taking place all around the world in different sports, Virginia Tech experts offer perspective on aspects of the competitions, applying Olympic habits to our own lives, and how the Games are impacting both travel to and life on the ground in Paris.

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Released: 10-Jul-2024 9:05 AM EDT
Safety concerns for construction workers go beyond physical injuries, says expert
Virginia Tech

According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the construction industry has one of the highest rates of suicide among professions with 6,000 workers dying by suicide in 2022 compared to 1,000 who died from a construction-related work injury. 

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Released: 10-Jul-2024 8:00 AM EDT
Producing ‘Space Brick’ for Moon Base Using Microwave
National Research Council of Science and Technology

Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT), has developed technology for producing construction materials using in-situ resources from the moon.

9-Jul-2024 8:00 AM EDT
A simple firmware update completely hides a device’s Bluetooth fingerprint
University of California San Diego

A smartphone's unique Bluetooth fingerprint could be used to track the device's user--until now. A team of researchers have developed a simple firmware update that can completely hide the Bluetooth fingerprint, eliminating the vulnerability. The method was developed by a team of researchers at the University of California San Diego.

Newswise: Rapid Joule-heating synthesis of metal/carbon-based electrocatalysts for efficient carbon dioxide reduction
Released: 10-Jul-2024 7:05 AM EDT
Rapid Joule-heating synthesis of metal/carbon-based electrocatalysts for efficient carbon dioxide reduction
Chinese Academy of Sciences

In comparison with conventional pyrolysis processes, the researchers developed a rapid thermal shock method to achieve a uniform dispersion of metal nanoparticles on carbon supports. This approach effectively prevented nanoparticle aggregation, ensuring the full utilization of active sites.

Newswise: Engineering eco-friendly solvents
Released: 9-Jul-2024 2:05 PM EDT
Engineering eco-friendly solvents
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Oak Ridge National Laboratory scientists have developed a method leveraging artificial intelligence to accelerate the identification of environmentally friendly solvents for industrial carbon capture, biomass processing, rechargeable batteries and other applications.

Newswise: Simulating blood flow dynamics for improved nanoparticle drug delivery
Released: 9-Jul-2024 1:05 PM EDT
Simulating blood flow dynamics for improved nanoparticle drug delivery
University Of Illinois Grainger College Of Engineering

Despite gaining a bad rap in mainstream media in recent years, nanoparticles have been successfully used for decades in targeted drug delivery systems. Drug molecules can be encapsulated within biodegradable nanoparticles to be delivered to specific cells or diseased tissues.

Newswise: Laura Boon’s accelerator experience moves beyond the Advanced Photon Source
Released: 9-Jul-2024 11:05 AM EDT
Laura Boon’s accelerator experience moves beyond the Advanced Photon Source
Argonne National Laboratory

The Advanced Photon Source (APS) recently went through a year’s long shut down and upgrade. Technical facilities and systems specialist Laura Boon is applying the skills from her experience working on the APS Upgrade Project to other accelerators across Argonne’s campus.

Newswise: Virginia Tech researchers work to create biodegradable bioplastics from food waste
Released: 8-Jul-2024 2:05 PM EDT
Virginia Tech researchers work to create biodegradable bioplastics from food waste
Virginia Tech

Researchers in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences are making affordable bioplastics.

Newswise: From doubt to trust: the journey of Cameroonian software developers in open source
Released: 8-Jul-2024 10:05 AM EDT
From doubt to trust: the journey of Cameroonian software developers in open source
Chinese Academy of Sciences

A recent study delves into the trust and engagement of Cameroonian software developers in open-source projects, offering critical insights into the collaborative software development landscape.

Newswise: Acoustic radiation and scattering: a new era with BINNs technology
Released: 8-Jul-2024 9:05 AM EDT
Acoustic radiation and scattering: a new era with BINNs technology
Chinese Academy of Sciences

A new method called Boundary Integrated Neural Networks (BINNs) has been developed for analyzing acoustic radiation and scattering.

Newswise: Achieving High Performance and Stability Simultaneously!
Released: 8-Jul-2024 9:00 AM EDT
Achieving High Performance and Stability Simultaneously!
National Research Council of Science and Technology

The research team of Dr. Jae Ho Kim and Dr. Myungkwan Song from the Energy and Environmental Materials Research Division at the KIMS, developed hybrid bio-nanostructures.

Newswise: Time-of-flight resolved stimulated Raman scattering microscopy using counter-propagating ultraslow Bessel light bullets generation
Released: 8-Jul-2024 7:05 AM EDT
Time-of-flight resolved stimulated Raman scattering microscopy using counter-propagating ultraslow Bessel light bullets generation
Chinese Academy of Sciences

Scientists led by Prof Zhiwei Huang at National University of Singapore have developed a novel time-of-flight resolved Bessel light bullet-enabled stimulated Raman scattering microscopy for deeper tissue 3D chemical imaging with high resolution.

Newswise: Improving safety of AI research for engineering biology
Released: 8-Jul-2024 6:05 AM EDT
Improving safety of AI research for engineering biology
University of Bristol

Hazards posed by using data-centric methods to engineer biology, have been identified by experts at the University of Bristol with the aim of making future research safer.

Released: 5-Jul-2024 10:05 AM EDT
Texas Tech Professor Receives DOE Grant to Advance Clean Energy
Texas Tech University

The project is part of more than $17 million invested in university-led research.

Newswise: Unveiling East Asia's urban landscape: a massive mapping project illuminates 280 million buildings
Released: 3-Jul-2024 8:05 AM EDT
Unveiling East Asia's urban landscape: a massive mapping project illuminates 280 million buildings
Chinese Academy of Sciences

A pioneering study has completed a detailed mapping of 280 million buildings in East Asia, a region grappling with urbanization challenges. This mapping, the most extensive to date, utilizes very high-resolution (VHR) imagery to create a precise and comprehensive dataset.

Newswise: Unleashing the potential of high-spin polymers for next-gen optoelectronics and spintronics
Released: 3-Jul-2024 8:05 AM EDT
Unleashing the potential of high-spin polymers for next-gen optoelectronics and spintronics
Chinese Academy of Sciences

In a significant article, scientists have shed new light on the capabilities of open-shell oligomers and polymers. These materials, distinguished by their high-spin ground states, hold promise for advancing technologies in ambipolar organic field-effect transistors (OFETs), photodetectors, thermoelectrics, and spintronics.

Newswise: What Was Behind the 2021-2022 Energy Crisis Within Europe?
28-Jun-2024 10:05 AM EDT
What Was Behind the 2021-2022 Energy Crisis Within Europe?
American Institute of Physics (AIP)

A team of researchers had already been working with electricity price data for years before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, exploring statistics and developing forecasting methods. Now they zero in on how prices in different countries relate and how countries were affected by the energy crisis and address the interdependencies of different markets.



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