BOULDER, Colorado, March 15 -- The Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences issued the following news: * * * Cooking emissions rival fossil fuels as an ozone pollution source in Los Angeles NOAA, CIRES, and partner scientists incorporate cooking emissions into air quality model A close-up of someone cooking a piece of meat on a skillet As the adoption of cleaner-burning engines and electric vehicles drives fossil fuel emissions lower, scientists have discovered that a su  more

LAUREL, Maryland, March 15 [Category: Science] -- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory posted the following news release: * * * EZIE Launches on Mission to Study Earth's Electrojets Under the nighttime California sky, NASA's Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer (EZIE) launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, taking off at 11:43 p.m. PDT on March 14 from Vandenberg Space Force Base near Santa Barbara, California. The EZIE mission's trio of small satellites will fly in a pea  more

SINGAPORE, March 16 -- Nanyang Technological University issued the following news: * * * Alumnus Tan Lip-Bu takes on new role as CEO of Intel Corporation NTU alumnus Tan Lip-Bu has been appointed the new Chief Executive Officer of Intel Corporation. A highly accomplished technology leader, he has outlined his determination to drive the turnaround of one of the world's largest chipmakers, making headlines internationally. Tan Lip-Bu has made international headlines with his appointment as the  more

SINGAPORE, March 16 -- Nanyang Technological University issued the following news: * * * New technique manipulates water waves to precisely control floating objects Where there is water, there are waves. But what if you could bend water waves to your will to move floating objects? NTU Singapore co-led a team of international researchers who achieved this with physics. The scientists developed a technique to merge waves they created in a water tank. Combining the waves produced complex patte  more

WASHINGTON, March 15 -- NASA issued the following news release: * * * NASA's EZIE Launches on Mission to Study Earth's Electrojets Under the nighttime California sky, NASA's EZIE (Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer) mission launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 11:43 p.m. PDT on March 14.  Taking off from Vandenberg Space Force Base near Santa Barbara, the EZIE mission's trio of small satellites will fly in a pearls-on-a-string configuration approximately 260 to 370 miles above Earth'  more

BAYREUTH, Germany, March 16 -- The University of Bayreuth issued the following news release: * * * Silver Medal for Young Physicists from the University of Bayreuth's Student Research Center A team from the TAO Student Research Centre (SFZ) at the University of Bayreuth has won the silver medal at the German Young Physicists' Tournament (GYPT). Benjamin Graf from Hochfranken-Gymnasium in Naila, Elisa Schops from Munchberg Gymnasium, and Daniil Schulgin from Graf-Munster Gymnasium in Bayreuth   more

LONDON, England, March 16 -- The University College London issued the following news: * * * Phosphorene nanoribbons show their potential for revolutionising electronics Tiny, individual, flexible ribbons of crystalline phosphorus discovered by UCL researchers in 2019 exhibit magnetic and semiconducting properties at room temperature, opening new possibilities for next-generation electronics, finds a new study involving members of the same team. The findings, published in the journal Nature,   more

BRISTOL, England, March 16 -- The University of Bristol issued the following news release: * * * 'Extraordinary' academics win pound sterling40,000 to turn groundbreaking research into ventures An invention improving microscopes to battle diseases like cancer and a tool ensuring financial AI models are unbiased are ideas that have won pound sterling20,000 for their female founders. Ten exceptional female academics at the University of Bristol had just 5 minutes each to pitch for the pound st  more

BAVARIA, Germany, March 16 -- The Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat issued the following news: * * * Quantum mechanics: hypercomplex, or "just" complex? Today, physicists are still asking themselves whether quantum mechanics needs hypercomplex numbers. FAU researchers Ece Ipek Saruhan, Prof. Dr. Joachim von Zanthier and Dr. Marc Oliver Pleinert have been investigating this question in their research. Exactly 100 years ago, Werner Heisenberg, Max Born and Pascual Jordan formulated quantum mecha  more

BAVARIA, Germany, March 16 -- The Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat issued the following news: * * * Quantum physics: Where quantum theory and the theory of relativity meet Physicist at FAU is dedicated to one of the most important questions in physics. Physics has a problem - their key models of quantum theory and the theory of relativity do not fit together. Now, the German Research Foundation is funding physicist Dr. Wolfgang Wieland from Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg (F  more

COVENTRY, England, March 15 -- The University of Warwick issued the following news release: * * * Exciting moments on the edge - unique properties confirmed in phosphorene nanoribbons An international research collaboration, including The University of Warwick, The University of Cambridge and UCL, has demonstrated that 'wonder material' phosphorene nanoribbons (PNRs) exhibit both magnetic and electronic properties at room temperature, establishing them as a unique class of low-dimensional mat  more

WURZBURG, Germany, March 16 -- The University of Wurzburg issued the following news release: * * * Evidence of a new phenomenon: Quantum Tornadoes in Momentum Space A team of researchers from Wurzburg has for the first time experimentally demonstrated a quantum tornado. Electrons form vortices in the momentum space of the quantum semi-metal tantalum arsenide. Scientists have long known that electrons can form vortices in quantum materials. What's new is the proof that these tiny particles c  more