Friday - November 22, 2024
Physics Tipoffs from TNS Newsletter for Thursday October 24, 2024 ( 11 items )  

Baruch College Faculty Included in World's Top Scientist List
NEW YORK, Oct. 23 (TNSres) -- Baruch College issued the following news: * * * Global recognition for research excellence and impact * * * Four Baruch College professors were named to Stanford University and Elsevier's "World's Top 2% Scientists" list for 2024, a prestigious ranking which identifies the most influential researchers across a broad range of scientific fields. The list evaluated more than six million scientists around the world and encompasses researchers from more than 20 dive  more

DOD Kicks Off Groundbreaking Applied Research Project in Hypersonic Infrared Targeting Sensing
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news: The Department of Defense (DoD) today announced the Hypersonic Infrared Target Sensing (HITS) joint-service proposal as the winner of the fiscal year 2025 Applied Research for the Advancement of S&T Priorities (ARAP) Program award competition. The HITS team includes the Naval Research Laboratory, Air Force Research Laboratory, and Missile Defense Agency, led by the Combat Capabilities Development Command Army Resea  more

Eindhoven University of Technology: 'Everyone Professor' Brings More Equality and Recognition
EINDHOVEN, The Netherlands, Oct. 24 -- Eindhoven University of Technology issued the following news: With the implementation of 'Everyone Professor' at TU/e, assistant and associate professors are granted the right to award doctorates. In addition, everyone on the permanent academic staff will be allowed to use the title of professor and wear a gown on academic occasions. The cortege during MomenTUm might just be considerably larger next year. Because with Everyone Professor, every member of T  more

First Black Hole in a Triple Star System Found
PASADENA, California, Oct. 23 -- The California Institute of Technology issued the following news: Astrophysicists from Caltech and MIT report that they have observed for the first time a "black hole triple"--a system of three stars, one of which is a black hole. Prior to the discovery, this black hole was thought to have just one partner star not two. In this system, called V404 Cygni, the black hole is consuming a small star that is spiraling in very close and fast while a newfound third sta  more

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory: Science in Motion - ESnet and Jefferson Lab Achieve Coast-to-Coast Feed of Real-Time Data
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory issued the following news: By Bonnie Powell and Jenny Nuss The "Science in Motion" video series focuses on real approaches, technologies, and solutions that Berkeley Lab is using to solve complex challenges for science, people, and the planet. For the first time, scientists streamed raw physics data across the entire country in real time, at 100 Gbps, with no buffering or temporal storage. B  more

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory: Friction Stir Processing Gets a Boost From New Machine Learning Model
WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory issued the following article: * * * Physics-informed model helps improve precision and protect machinery * * * By Oliver Peckham Friction stir processing (FSP) runs a spinning tool along the surface of a material, using the heat generated by friction to transform the material microstructure--an approach that can help quickly and precisely engineer alloys for next-generation vehicles. Now,   more

PPPL's Expertise on Display at APS-DPP Annual Meeting
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory issued the following news: * * * PPPL leads the charge in fusion research, partnerships and education at the APS-DPP Annual Meeting in Atlanta * * * By Rachel Kremen With nearly 200 attendees, the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) brought energy to the 66th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics (APS-DPP) in Atlanta Oct.  more

Researchers use Summit to track down nuclear fission's elusive scission neutron
OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Oct. 23 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Nuclear fission when the nucleus of an atom splits in two, releasing energy may seem like a process that is fully understood. First discovered in 1939 and thoroughly studied ever since, fission is a constant factor in modern life, used in everything from nuclear medicine to power-generating nuclear reactors. However, it is a force of nature that still contains myster  more

Technical University of Denmark: Physicist Explorer of Datasets
KONGENS LYNGBY, Denmark, Oct. 24 (TNSres) -- The Technical University of Denmark issued the following news: How does a professor time and again end up behind eye-cathing discoveries that end up making headlines? Meet Sune Lehmann, a physicist that explores people's lives and behaviour through data from social media and statistics. You may never have heard of Sune Lehmann, but most likely you have heard of his research, as it often makes big headlines - both at home and abroad. Such as when, t  more

University of Portsmouth: James Webb Space Telescope Observations Confirm 20-Year-Old Galaxy Models
PORTSMOUTH, England, Oct. 24 (TNSres) -- The University of Portsmouth issued the following news: New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have confirmed a decades-old galaxy model, originally proposed by a University of Portsmouth Professor in 2005. The findings are published today in Nature Astronomy and they resolve a long-standing debate about the contribution of specific types of stars to distant galaxies' emissions, providing insight into galaxy formation and evolution  more

UW Planetarium Brings Back 'Liquid Sky' Music Shows During November
LARAMIE, Wyoming, Oct. 23 -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: This photo shows Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) over Laramie Oct. 13. Learn more about comets in the show "Leftovers!: Asteroids, Comets, Meteors and Rings" at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1, in the University of Wyoming Harry C. Vaughan Planetarium. (Max Gilbraith Photo) November marks the return of the popular "Liquid Sky" music-themed shows at the University of Wyoming Harry C. Vaughan Planetarium. "Thi  more