BINGHAMTON, New York, April 11 -- Binghamton University issued the following news: By John Brhel Several of Binghamton University's graduate programs placed prominently on this year's prestigious U.S. News & World Report's Best Graduate Schools list. This year's highlights include business and pharmacy programs cracking the top 100; and three programs from the College of Community and Public Affairs. "I'm happy to see so many Binghamton graduate programs recognized on this well-respected lis  more

BRYN MAWR, Pennsylvania, April 11 (TNSres) -- Bryn Mawr College issued the following news: * * * Using Lock-In Detection to Build a Barcode Scanner (https://pubs.aip.org/aapt/ajp/article/91/12/1023/2922116/Using-lock-in-detection-to-build-a-barcode-scanner) Authors: Riley E. Alexander '23, Maya M. DiFrischia '23, Margaret J. Doubman (HC), Stefany Fabian Dubon '23, Lily Goltz '23, Yuqian Li '23, Rebecca A. Long '22, Genevieve Love '22, Nina Martinez Diers '24, Matangi Melpakkam '23, Catie Robi  more

GENEVA, Switzerland, April 11 -- The European Organization for Nuclear Research issued the following news release: Peter Higgs has passed away at the age of 94. An iconic figure in modern science, Higgs in 1964 postulated the existence of the eponymous Higgs boson. Its discovery at CERN in 2012 was the crowning achievement of the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics - a remarkable theory which explains the visible universe at the most fundamental level. Alongside Robert Brout and Francois E  more

MADISON, Wisconsin, April 10 -- The University of Wisconsin Madison campus issued the following news: UW-Madison undergraduates (from left to right) Max Khanov, Nathan Wagner, Katarina Aranguiz, and Scott Chang have been awarded 2024 Goldwater Scholarships for their excellence in mathematics, engineering and the natural sciences. Photo: Taylor Wolfram Four University of Wisconsin-Madison students have been named winners of 2024 Goldwater Scholarships, the premier undergraduate scholarship in m  more

BONN, Germany, April 11 -- The German Research Foundation issued the following news release: * * * DFG honours two researchers from Tubingen for their organ-on-chip systems / "Good chance of widespread use" / Award ceremony on 6 June in Wurzburg * * * Professor Dr. Peter Loskill and Dr. Silke Riegger of the University of Tubingen have been awarded this year's Ursula M. Handel Animal Welfare Prize by the DFG. According to the jury, the researchers' development, application and dissemination o  more

CHESTER, England, April 11 -- IUCrJ, a peer-reviewed journal from the International Union of Crystallography that says it covers biology and medicine, chemistry and crystal engineering, physics and free electron laser science and technology, published research articles on the following topics in its March 2024 edition: Editorial: * Poetry in motion: catching molecules in action Scientific Commentaries: * Characterizing self-assembled structures made with magnetic Janus nanoparticles Resea  more

CHESTER, England, April 11 -- IUCrJ, a peer-reviewed journal from the International Union of Crystallography that says it covers biology and medicine, chemistry and crystal engineering, physics and free electron laser science and technology, published research articles on the following topics in its May 2024 edition: Topical Reviews: * RCSB Protein Data Bank: supporting research and education worldwide through explorations of experimentally determined and computationally predicted atomic leve  more

LONDON, England, April 11 -- Nature Protocols, a peer-reviewed journal that says it covers the biological and biomedical sciences, including methods grounded in physics and chemistry with biological applications, published research articles on the following topics in its April 2024 edition (Vol. 19, Issue 4): Protocol Updates: * Functionalized tetrahedral DNA frameworks for the capture of circulating tumor cells Protocols: * Irreversible light-activated SpyLigation mediates split-protein a  more

MATERIALS PARK, Ohio, April 11 (TNSres) -- ASM International posted the following news: From lithium-ion batteries to next-generation superconductors, the functionality of many modern, advanced technologies depends on the physical property known as intercalation. Unfortunately, it's difficult to identify in advance which of the many possible intercalated materials are stable, which necessitates a lot of trial-and-error lab work in product development. Now, in a new study, researchers from the   more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 10 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: QS World University Rankings has placed MIT in the No. 1 spot in 11 subject areas for 2024, the organization announced today. The Institute received a No. 1 ranking in the following QS subject areas: Chemical Engineering; Civil and Structural Engineering; Computer Science and Information Systems; Data Science and Artificial Intelligence; Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Lin  more

TUCSON, Arizona, April 11 -- Research Corporation for Science Advancement issued the following news: Neural systems, shaped by millions of years of evolution, enable living things to perceive and react to their surroundings. But how does the nervous system adapt to today's unprecedented challenge of rapid and extensive human-caused environmental changes, including exposure to pollution, toxins, and increasingly unpredictable environments? In 2025, Research Corporation for Science Advancement,   more

ROCHESTER, New York, April 11 -- Rochester Institute of Technology issued the following news release: Graduate degree programs at Rochester Institute of Technology were named among the best in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report. In the U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Schools 2024, RIT's Saunders College of Business tied for 97th as one of the top full-time MBA programs. New methodologies for ranking full-time MBA programs placed more emphasis on earnings. This ranking fa  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, April 10 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news: Using machine learning, researchers at Penn State have tied low-magnitude microearthquakes to the permeability of subsurface rocks beneath the Earth, a discovery that could have implications for improving geothermal energy transfer. Generating geothermal energy requires a permeable subsurface to efficiently release heat when cold fluids are forced into the rock. This research reveals the optimum  more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, April 11 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release on April 10, 2024: Sandia National Laboratories electrical engineer Michael Ropp has been named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, one of the world's largest technical professional organizations. Ropp's research focuses on developing algorithms to improve the resiliency of the electrical grid, particularly with the addition of many   more

CRANFIELD, England, April 11 -- Cranfield University issued the following news release: Cranfield University is ranked amongst the world's best universities in the 2024 QS World University Rankings by Subject, underscoring its role as a leading global institution for specialist postgraduate study and research. The rankings are based on analysis of the reputation and research outputs of almost 5,000 universities across the world. Cranfield continues to lead on the international stage in enginee  more

MUNICH, Germany, April 11 -- The Technical University of Munich issued the following news: In the latest edition of the QS World University Rankings by Subject, TUM has improved to 19th place in engineering and 23rd place in natural sciences. TUM is also among the top 25 universities worldwide in the rankings for seven individual subjects. In eight other areas, it is one of the top 50 universities. The British university service provider QS Quacquarelli Symonds compiles its university rankings  more

COLLEGE PARK, Maryland, April 11 -- The University of Maryland issued the following news release on April 9, 2024: Dozens of University of Maryland programs earned high rankings in U.S. News & World Report's 2024-25 Best Graduate Schools lists released Tuesday, with many achieving top-25 placements in overall and specialty categories. Among UMD's highlights, the College of Education and the School of Public Health both climbed into the top 25, and the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Nat  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, April 11 (TNSres) -- The University of Nebraska Lincoln campus issued the following news release on April 10, 2024: Edgeworks, a new research and service facility launched by the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, is helping scientists, inventors and entrepreneurs transform cutting-edge concepts into game-changing reality. Edgeworks is redefining the core research facility model long used in the hard sciences to provide access  more

PASADENA, California, April 10 -- The California Institute of Technology issued the following news: What can Antarctica tell us about global sea level rise? On Wednesday, April 24, 2024, at 7:30 p.m. PT in Caltech's Beckman Auditorium, Zhognwen Zhan, professor of geophysics and a member of Caltech's Seismological Laboratory, will explain how understanding the behavior of the Antarctic ice sheet at its base is crucial to forecasting future ocean levels. In a public talk called "Voices of the Ic  more