WASHINGTON, May 21 -- ACS Nano, a journal from the American Chemical Society that says it covers nanoscience and nanotechnology at the interfaces of chemistry, biology, materials science, physics and engineering, published research articles on the following topics in its May 14, 2024, edition (Vol. 18, Issue 19): Perspectives: * Next-Generation Cardiac Interfacing Technologies Using Nanomaterial-Based Soft Bioelectronics Reviews: * Transition-Metal-Based Nanozymes: Synthesis, Mechanisms of  more

WASHINGTON, May 21 -- ACS Nano, a journal from the American Chemical Society that says it covers nanoscience and nanotechnology at the interfaces of chemistry, biology, materials science, physics and engineering, published research articles on the following topics in its May 7, 2024, edition (Vol. 18, Issue 18): Letters to the Editor: * Comment on "Engineered Selenium/Human Serum Albumin Nanoparticles for Efficient Targeted Treatment of Parkinson's Disease via Oral Gavage" * Reply to "Commen  more

WASHINGTON, May 21 -- Air Law for All Ltd., Boulder, Colorado, has issued a public comment to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The comment was written on May 16, 2024, and posted on May 17, 2024. The comment was signed by Steve Odendahl, Manager. The comment was on Docket No. EPA-R09-OAR-2023-0448. * * * To: Thomas Kelly Geographic Strategies and Modeling Section (AIR-2-2) U.S. EPA, Region 9 75 Hawthorne Street San Francisco, CA, 94105 Re: Docket ID No. EPA-R09-OAR-2023-0448 D  more

WASHINGTON, May 21 (TNSres) -- The Association for Psychological Science issued the following summaries on May 20, 2024: * * * Social Psychological Perspectives on Political Polarization: Insights and Implications for Climate Change (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17456916231186409) Jennifer Cole, Ash Gillis, Sander Van Der Linden, Mark Cohen, and Michael Vandenbergh Political polarization is a barrier to enacting policy solutions to global issues. Social psychology has a rich hist  more

LONDON, England, May 21 -- Food and Function, a peer-reviewed journal from the Royal Society of Chemistry that says it provides a unique venue for physicists, chemists, biochemists, nutritionists and other food scientists to publish work at the interface of the chemistry, physics and biology of food, published research articles on the following topics in its May 21, 2024, edition (Vol. 15, Issue 10): * Effects of a low FODMAP diet on the symptom management of patients with irritable bowel syndr  more

TRIESTE, Italy, May 20 (TNSres) -- The International School for Advanced Studies (Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati) issued the following news: * * * A new statistical analysis method developed at SISSA enables more effective differentiation of cause-and-effect relationships in ambiguous situations * * * Detecting cause-and-effect relationships is a crucial problem for all sciences; however, especially when dealing with complex systems that cannot be directly manipulated, suc  more

WASHINGTON, May 21 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: Theoretical physicist Wojciech Hubert Zurek (T-4) has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Election to the National Academy of Sciences recognizes past and continuing research excellence and is a pinnacle of scientific achievement. Over his career, including a long tenure in the Theoretical division at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Zurek worked on diverse subjects, incl  more

WASHINGTON, May 21 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * New detector technologies being tested to better understand elusive particle * * * First detected by Los Alamos researchers Frederick Reines and Clyde Cowan in a nuclear reactor in 1956, tiny particles dubbed neutrinos are so abundant they constantly pass through human bodies by the trillions. But despite decades of study, the neutrino's bizarre nature is still littl  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, May 21 (TNSres) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release: * * * The Bronstein Prize is awarded every two years to a leading postdoctoral scholar in loop quantum gravity, an area in theoretical physics that helps bridge general relativity with quantum mechanics to provide a deeper understanding of our universe and everything in it. LSU is one of the top three universities for loop quantum gravity research in the United States. * * * Beatriz Eliza  more

LAS CRUCES, New Mexico, May 21 (TNSres) -- New Mexico State University issued the following news release: Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Assistant Professor Qiong Liu, who joined the New Mexico State University College of Engineering faculty in January 2023, focuses her work on advancing fluid mechanics through novel research and development. Liu leads the Flow Lab team that works to expand the understanding of fluid mechanics in various engineering applications and develop  more

WASHINGTON, May 21 -- Optics Express, a peer-reviewed journal from the Optical Society that emphasizes scientific and technology innovations in all aspects of optics and photonics, published research articles on the following topics in its May 20, 2024 edition, (Vol. 32, Issue 11). Here are excerpts: * * * COMPUTATIONAL OPTICAL SENSING AND IMAGING 2023: - Fourier Optics, Image and Signal Processing * Tissue characterization using axicon probe-assisted common-path optical coherence tomograp  more

WASHINGTON, May 21 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory issued the following news: Emily Carter, senior strategic advisor and associate laboratory director for applied materials and sustainability sciences at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), has been elected a foreign member of Britain's Royal Society, a fellowship of the world's most eminent scientists. "I am deeply honored to join the Royal Society as  more

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, May 21 (TNSres) -- Rutgers University issued the following news: * * * Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and Rutgers-Newark are helping biology students gain valuable hands-on laboratory experience * * * When Andrew Solomon transferred to Rutgers University-Newark from Middlesex College two years ago, he had no idea that biophysics was his calling. But once he settled on the science major, an obstacle stood in his way: a dearth of research opportunities on campus.   more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, May 20 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news: Polarized light waves spin clockwise or counterclockwise as they travel, with one direction behaving differently than the other as it interacts with molecules. This directionality, called chirality or handedness, could provide a way to identify and sort specific molecules for use in biomedicine applications, but researchers have had limited control over the direction of the waves -- until now. Us  more

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, May 21 (TNSres) -- The University of Arkansas issued the following news: By Angelita Faller Stella "Ola" Mbila-Uma, a native of Abia State in Nigeria, was so fascinated with the research taking place at the Collaboration for Social Media and Online Behavioral Studies (COSMOS) Research Center at UA Little Rock that she knew she had to be a part of it. "I was really drawn to the research," Mbila-Uma said. "That is why I wanted to come here to study information science. I   more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, May 21 (TNSres) -- Yale University West campus issued the following news: By Jon Atherton Living systems are defined by a continuous flow of energy, which is essential for physical development, wound healing, and our immune response to diseases like cancer. But measuring the energy flow of a specific process, like force generation, is complicated by the more than 10,000 different kinds of molecular proteins interacting inside each of our cells. Scientists at Yale's S  more