LEE'S SUMMIT, Missouri, Aug. 17 (TNSres) -- The Aircraft Electronics Association issued the following news release: The Aircraft Electronics Association released its second-quarter 2023 Avionics Market Report. In the first six months of the year, total worldwide business and general aviation avionics sales amounted to $1,601,414,712.48, or more than $1.6 billion as reported by the participating companies. Second-quarter sales increased 5.9% sequentially from the first quarter of 2023. During t  more

MIDDLETOWN, Connecticut, Aug. 19 (TNSres) -- Connecticut Wesleyan University issued the following news on Aug. 17, 2023: The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded a Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities grant to Jennifer Tucker, Professor of History at Wesleyan University, and Stephen Hargarten, Professor of Emergency Medicine at Medical College of Wisconsin, (MCW) and the senior policy and injury science advisor for the Comprehensive Injury  more

TALLAHASSEE, Florida, Aug. 16 (TNSres) -- Florida State University's National High Magnetic Field Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * Researchers now have a better understanding of how even a slight tug changes the marvel material. * * * Like opening or closing lanes on a highway changes traffic flow, stretching atomic-scale materials can impact the flow of electricity. Researchers now have a better understanding of how even a tiny tug can change the marvel material graphene.  more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Aug. 18 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release: * * * Sandia Labs produces its first devices capable of supporting 200 trapped ion qubits * * * Sandia National Laboratories has produced its first lot of a new world-class ion trap, a central component for certain quantum computers. The new device, dubbed the Enchilada Trap, enables scientists to build more powerful machines to advance the experimental  more

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Aug. 19 (TNSres) -- Texas A&M University's College of Engineering issued the following news: By Justin Agan A microscopic crack grew in a very small piece of platinum when placed under repetitive stretching. The experiment, designed to study fatigue crack growth, continued as predicted for a while before something unexpected happened. The crack stopped growing and instead began to get shorter, effectively "healing" itself. A group of researchers at Sandia National Labo  more