LAWRENCE, Kansas, Jan. 16 -- The University of Kansas posted the following news: * * * KU nominates 5 students for Goldwater Scholarship * LAWRENCE -Five University of Kansas students who have been actively involved in undergraduate research during their university careers are competing for Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships, regarded as the premier undergraduate award to encourage excellence in science, engineering and mathematics. The students' applications are coordinated by the Center for  more

MENLO PARK, California, Jan. 16 -- The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * SLAC-Stanford team develops a better method to create superlattices with a twist * By Emily Ayshford Subscribe to SLAC Breaking News (external link) Key takeaways: * Stanford Chemistry Professor Fang Liu developed a new method to create moire superlattices made of stacked 2D materials on much larger scales than possible before. * These twisted materials have previous  more

PANAMA CITY, Panama, Jan. 17 -- The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute issued the following news: * * * Acoustic Mirroring Can a bat catch prey on a mirror? A bat's expert foraging skills revealed using a robot Researchers demonstrate the first plausible mechanism for the acoustic mirroring effect in tropical bats By Benjamin Marcus Scientists built a robot to help explain how a tropical bat spots insects perched on leaves using echolocation, a highly sophisticated behavior that requi  more