WASHINGTON, April 13 -- ACS Applied Nano Materials, a peer-reviewed journal from the American Chemical Society that says it covers engineering, chemistry, physics and biology relevant to applications of nanomaterials, published research articles on the following topics in its April 12, 2024, edition (Vol. 7, Issue 7): Forum Articles: * Affordable Paper-Based Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Substrates Containing Silver Nanorods Using Glancing-Angle Deposition for Nosocomial Infection Detecti  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, April 13 -- Ansys, a computer-aided engineering software developer, issued the following news release on April 11, 2024: * * * Key Highlights * AnsysGPT(TM) complements Ansys' artificial intelligence (AI)+ family of products by providing access to curated Ansys knowledge, 24/7 user support, and vast multiphysics expertise * The new tool features advanced data engineering to index information across the Ansys portfolio, forming a customized knowledge repository * An  more

WASHINGTON, April 13 -- Applied Polymer Materials, a peer-reviewed journal from the American Chemical Society that says it covers engineering, chemistry, physics and biology relevant to applications of polymers, published research articles on the following topics in its April 12, 2024, edition (Vol. 6, Issue 7): Reviews: * Enhanced Perovskite Photovoltaics with Non-conjugated Polymers: Recent Developments and Future Prospects Articles: * The Quest for Sustainable Composites: Developing Hig  more

PASADENA, California, April 12 -- The California Institute of Technology issued the following news: David Goodstein, the Frank J. Gilloon Distinguished Teaching and Service Professor, Emeritus, and professor of physics and applied physics, emeritus, passed away on April 10. He served as a professor at Caltech for more than four decades, and as the Institute's vice provost from 1987 to 2007. His research focused on condensed matter physics, in particular on phases and phase transitions in two- a  more

BUFFALO, New York, April 13 (TNSres) -- The University at Buffalo (State University of New York) issued the following news release: * * * Temperature-controlled droplet formation may have protected RNA in the prebiotic world, allowing it to self-replicate and kickstart life * * * The RNA world theory suggests that life on Earth began with RNA molecules that copied themselves. It's believed this self-replication eventually gave rise over millions of years to DNA and protein, which then formed  more

GARCHING, Germany, April 13 -- The European Commission issued the following news release: Minister-President, dear Markus, Professor Gunter, Thank you very much for the invitation. That was an impressive presentation and visit here for me. I will take much back to the European level. We will indeed need a lot more energy in the future. We need it to be clean and we need it to be safe, and nuclear fusion can provide that. So we need to invest in this and, above all, to advance the research. F  more

ITHACA, New York, April 12 -- Cornell University issued the following news: Physicist Keefe Mitman, selected as an Einstein Fellow in the prestigious NASA Hubble Fellowship Program, has chosen to do his research at Cornell University, working with Nils Deppe, assistant professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S). The Hubble Fellowship Program enables outstanding postdoctoral scientists to pursue independent research in any area of NASA astrophysics at a U.S. institution of t  more

HOUSTON, Texas, April 13 (TNSres) -- The University of Texas's MD Anderson Cancer Center issued the following news release: * * * Featuring strategies to overcome treatment resistance, targets for ovarian and BRAF-mutated cancers, and a novel risk prediction tool for hereditary cancers * * * The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center's Research Highlights showcases the latest breakthroughs in cancer care, research and prevention. These advances are made possible through seamless colla  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, April 12 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: In 2023, liaisons from the Science Engagement section in the National Center for Computational Sciences at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory were recognized as part of the two teams who would go on to win the Association for Computing Machinery's Gordon Bell Prize and the Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modeling at the International Conference f  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, April 12 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: The Neutron Scattering Society of America, or NSSA, recognized Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Ke An and Ken Herwig as fellows for their outstanding contributions to neutron scattering. The NSSA recognized An for sustained contributions in the development and application of neutron diffraction to the understanding of structure and properties of engineering materia  more

WASHINGTON, April 13 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy Pacific Northwest National Laboratory issued the following abstract of a journal article: * * * Abstract This study explores the transport properties of aluminum-carbon composite material via ab initio methods. Interfacial and electronic dynamics of the aluminum-graphene interface structure were investigated using models of amorphous graphene added to an aluminum matrix. We examine the impact on electronic conduction caused by the  more

WASHINGTON, April 13 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy Pacific Northwest National Laboratory issued the following abstract of a journal article: * * * Abstract Climate models have changed the world. Starting out as simple globally averaged representations of vertical energy exchanges in the atmosphere in the 1950s, today's climate models are highly complex numerical representations of the Earth System based on the fundamental laws of physics. Their development has largely been driven  more

BRISTOL, England, April 13 -- Physics in Medicine and Biology, a peer-reviewed journal from the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine that says it features developments and applications of physics to medicine, physiology and biology, published research articles on the following topics in its April 21, 2024, edition (Vol. 69, No. 8): Papers: * Cross noise level PET denoising with continuous adversarial domain generalization * 2.5D UNet with context-aware feature sequence fusion for  more

HOUSTON, Texas, April 12 -- Rice University issued the following news release: Rice University engineers have developed the smallest implantable brain stimulator demonstrated in a human patient. Thanks to pioneering magnetoelectric power transfer technology, the pea-sized device developed in the Rice lab of Jacob Robinson in collaboration with Motif Neurotech and clinicians Dr. Sameer Sheth and Dr. Sunil Sheth can be powered wirelessly via an external transmitter and used to stimulate the br  more

STONY BROOK, New York, April 13 (TNSres) -- The State University of New York's Stony Brook University issued the following news release: The US Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board have selected Stony Brook University Professor Kenneth Lanzetta, PhD, in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, as a Fulbright US Scholar for 2024-2025. Professor Lanzetta will spend the next academic year in Chile, where he will collaborate with the Astronomy Department at the University  more

ST. PETERSBURG, Florida, April 13 (TNSres) -- Eckerd College issued the following news: By Claire Barnett Eckerd College senior Lili Kosa began testing noninvasive drug treatments on the gene that leads to central nervous system tumor growth when she was an intern at the Center for Human Genetic Research in Harvard Medical School's Massachusetts General Hospital Research Institute during her first year. Lili, an animal studies and biology student from St. Petersburg, Florida, kept at it even   more

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, April 13 (TNSres) -- Texas A&M University's College of Engineering issued the following news: * * * Dr. Sean Carroll and Dr. Michael G. Strauss deliver a joint lecture on science, philosophy, and religion as part of the Trotter Endowed Lecture Series. * * * By Jan McHarg Two accomplished scientists and researchers will present their views on science, philosophy, and religion as part of Texas A&M University's annual Trotter Endowed Lecture Series. Dr. Sean Carroll, H  more

RIVERSIDE, California, April 13 (TNSres) -- The University of California Riverside campus issued the following news: * * * UC Riverside study offers an explanation for dark matter distribution in a massive quiescent galaxy * * * Last September, the James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, discovered JWST-ER1g, a massive ancient galaxy that formed when the universe was just a quarter of its current age. Surprisingly, an Einstein ring is associated with this galaxy. That's because JWST-ER1g acts a  more

UTRECHT, Netherlands, April 13 (TNSres) -- Utrecht University issued the following news: Bringing together chemists and physicists to thoroughly investigate how electrochemical processes work on the smallest scale. That is the goal of the new Advanced Nano-electrochemistry Institute of the Netherlands, or ANION for short. The consortium receives a Gravitation funding of 23.6 million euros for this purpose. Professor Petra de Jongh from Utrecht University is one of the co-applicants. "Ultimatel  more

NEW WILMINGTON, Pennsylvania, April 13 -- Westminster College issued the following news release: Westminster College announced a generous $1 million lead challenge gift from alumni donors Will and Carol Jean Young Maurer designated to encourage additional contributions toward the last phase of the Hoyt Science Center Renovation and Expansion Project. To honor the Maurers, the College unveiled and dedicated the Maurer Atrium, located within Hoyt Science Center's expanded wing, on Friday, April  more