Hans Joachim (John) Schellnhuber appointed as IIASA Director General
It is our pleasure to announce the appointment of John Schellnhuber as the new IIASA Director General effective from 1 December 2023.
Study: An inverse model for food webs and ecosystem stability
In a new study published, authors invert a classical approach to modeling food webs.
Designing Detectors for DUNE
PNNL scientists design a highly sensitive neutrino detector for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment.
Cerro Tololo descubre galaxias en un tira y afloja cosmico, antes de fusionarse completamente
La galaxia espiral NGC 1532, tambien conocida como Haley's Coronet, esta atrapada en un tira y afloja desigual con su vecina mas pequena, NGC 1531. La imagen captura las influencias gravitacionales mutuas durante la fusion de una galaxia masiva y otra galaxia enana, y fue posible registrarla gracias a la Camara de Energia Oscura, del Departamento de Energia de los Estados Unidos (DOE), que se encuentra montada en el Telescopio de 4 metros Victor M. Blanco del Observatorio de Cerro Tololo un Programa que opera NOIRLab de NSF en Chile.
Dark Energy Camera Captures Galaxies in Lopsided Tug of War, a Prelude to Merger
The spiral galaxy NGC 1532, also known as Haley's Coronet, is caught in a lopsided tug of war with its smaller neighbor, the dwarf galaxy NGC 1531. The image -- taken by the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Dark Energy Camera mounted on the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Victor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of NSF's NOIRLab -- captures the mutual gravitational influences of a massive- and dwarf-galaxy merger.
Improving Recyclable Waste Classification With Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy
Delving into the intricacies of waste management, researchers in China explore the application of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy technology for the identification and classification of recyclable waste and discuss their work in AIP Advances.
Pioneering study signals new era of environment-friendly programmable bioelectronics
Researchers have created a unique microscopic toolkit of 'green' tuneable electrical components, paving the way for a new generation of bioelectronic devices and sensors.
Masters of defects
Bruno Schuler and his young team are embarking on an ambitious research project: He will selectively generate defects in atomically-thin semiconductor layers and attempt to measure and control their quantum properties with simultaneous picosecond temporal resoluÂtion and atomic precision. The resulting insights are expected to establish fundamental knowledge for future quantum computers.
With a new app, smart devices can have GPS underwater
A team at the University of Washington has developed the first underwater 3D-positioning app for smart devices. When at least three divers are within about 98 feet of each other, the app tracks each user's location relative to the leader.
An innovative addition to the chemist's 'toolbox'
Microscopic materials made of clay designed by researchers at the University of Missouri could be key to the future of synthetic materials chemistry.
Jongsoo Yoo pursues his passion as deputy head of Discovery Plasma Science
Profile describes new role for plasma physicist Jongsoo Yoo and the high-profile magnetic reconnection device he oversees.
Webb Detects Water Vapor in Rocky Planet-Forming Zone
Water, water, everywhere - not in drops, but as steam. Scientists using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have discovered that thirsty planets in the PDS 70 system have access to a reservoir of water. Importantly, the water vapor was found within 100 million miles of the star - the region where terrestrial planets like Earth may be forming. (The Earth orbits 93 million miles from our Sun.)
Dancing Magnons: HZDR team advances to next step toward neuromorphic computing
Neuromorphic computers do not calculate using zeros and ones. They instead use physical phenomena to detect patterns in large data streams at blazing fast speed and in an extremely energy-efficient manner.
Virginia Tech particle physicist: Christopher Nolan's 'Oppenheimer' film excels at accuracy
Christopher Nolan's highly anticipated film "Oppenheimer," shattered expectations on opening weekend, bringing in $80.5 million. The biopic about the so-called "father of the atomic bomb," J. Robert Oppenheimer, science director of the Manhattan Project during World War II, was Nolan's biggest non-Batman debut. But how accurate is the science and the history behind Oppenheimer's (portrayed in the film by Cillian Murphy) life portrayed? Virginia Tech's Kevin Pitts, a physicist and high-energy experimentalist who previously was chief research officer at the Fermilab National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois, weighs in.
Device on the base of 3D-printer helped to make magnetic field maps
Researchers from The Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University developed a new unexpensive method of magnetic field mapping.
Fiber optic sensing tracks seismicity from injected carbon dioxide at Australian site
Researchers at a field site in Victoria, Australia are among the first to use fiber optic distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) for high-precision tracking of induced seismicity from a small carbon dioxide (CO2) injection, according to a new study published in Seismological Research Letters.
Dark SRF experiment at Fermilab demonstrates ultra-sensitivity for dark photon searches
Scientists working on the Dark SRF experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have demonstrated unprecedented sensitivity in an experimental setup used to search for theorized particles called dark photons.
On the Hunt for Strangeness
Peter Hurck has been searching for strange particles, named such because they contain strange quarks, since beginning work on his Ph.D. As the 2023 Jefferson Science Associates (JSA) Postdoctoral Prize winner, he'll continue conducting data analyses to identify strange particles and learn about their properties at Jefferson Lab.
Going the distance for better wireless charging
A better way to wirelessly charge over long distances has been developed at Aalto University.
SwRI-led team finds ancient, high-energy impacts could have fueled Venus volcanism
A Southwest Research Institute-led team has modeled the early impact history of Venus to explain how Earth's sister planet has maintained a youthful surface despite lacking plate tectonics.
Discovery may lead to terahertz technology for quantum sensing
Visible light is a mere fraction of the electromagnetic spectrum, and the manipulation of light waves at frequencies beyond human vision has enabled such technologies as cell phones and CT scans. Rice University researchers have a plan for leveraging a previously unused portion of the spectrum.
New Advancements in Assay Development Research
The July 2023 issue of SLAS Discovery, the open access journal focused on research progressing drug discovery, is now available.
Hubble Sees Boulders Escaping from Asteroid Dimorphos
A Hubble Space Telescope image of the asteroid Dimorphos, taken on December 19, 2022, nearly three months after the asteroid was impacted by NASA's DART mission. Hubble's sensitivity reveals a few dozen boulders knocked off the asteroid by the force of the collision. The boulders range in size from three feet to 22 feet across, based on Hubble brightness measurements. They are drifting away from the asteroid at little more than a half-mile per hour.
Precision Measurement of Polarization
Allison Zec has been awarded the 2022 JSA Thesis Prize for recounting experiments that achieved the world record in the precise measurement of an electron beam's polarization. Since 1999, the prize has been awarded to the top doctoral dissertation on research related to Jefferson Lab science. The prize is funded by the JSA Initiatives Fund program, which supports programs, initiatives and activities that further the scientific outreach and promote the science, education and technology missions of Jefferson Lab, and which benefit the laboratory's scientific user community.