WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 -- The American Institute of Physics issued the following news release: The Kincade Fire has been burning through Sonoma County, California, displacing people from their homes and leaving destruction in its wake. It is a stark reminder of the increasingly pressing need for a better understanding of how fires begin and spread. This is where Rodman Linn and his research come in. He develops and uses computational models of the coupled interaction between the wildfires and sur  more

ARGONNE, Illinois, Nov. 14 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory issued the following news release: A newly discovered phenomenon in a flexible semiconductor could affect its promise for electronic devices. Two-dimensional materials -- those either only an atom or layer thick -- display a number of interesting properties and could form the foundation for a range of new devices. One of these materials, molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), has shown an unusual flexibility that c  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Nov. 12 -- The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics issued the following news release: Scientific data taken by the Parker Solar Probe are set to be released to the public on Nov 12. The data files being released contain measurements that were taken closer to the Sun than ever before. These unprecedented data promise to revolutionize our understanding of how the solar corona and solar wind work. The Parker Solar Probe is a robotic NASA spacecraft that launched   more