BOSTON, Massachusetts, Aug. 15 -- Northeastern University issued the following news: * * * 3D printers could become more precise because of this Northeastern professor's research on water droplets By Cesareo Contreras Xiaoyu Tang and her team will soon begin the process of developing a new framework to better understand the fluid dynamics at play when droplets of water filled with particles are dropped into bodies of liquid. Inkjet printers have been around since the late 1980s, but they've  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Aug. 15 -- Northeastern University issued the following news: * * * Descendant of the only German officers who survived a plot to kill Hitler tells her family's fascinating story By Cody Mello-Klein Northeastern Hillel's Rabbi Sara Paasche-Orlow is descended from German resistance fighters, spies and post-war Nazi hunters whose stories of fighting against the Nazi regime impact her spiritual practice today. The plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler on July 20, 1944, had fa  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Aug. 14 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Study sheds light on graphite's lifespan in nuclear reactors * Graphite is a key structural component in some of the world's oldest nuclear reactors and many of the next-generation designs being built today. But it also condenses and swells in response to radiation -- and the mechanism behind those changes has proven difficult to study. Now, MIT researchers and collaborators have  more

AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 15 (TNSjou) -- The University of Texas issued the following news release: * * * Helping Others Shown To Slow Cognitive Decline AUSTIN, Texas -- In the latest evidence that meaningful social connections bolster health, a team from The University of Texas at Austin and University of Massachusetts Boston has found that frequent helping outside the home significantly slows cognitive decline in middle-age and older adults. The new study of more than 30,000 adults in the U.S. l  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Aug. 14 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Using generative AI, researchers design compounds that can kill drug-resistant bacteria * With help from artificial intelligence, MIT researchers have designed novel antibiotics that can combat two hard-to-treat infections: drug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae and multi-drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Using generative AI algorithms, the research team designed more th  more