BEIJING, China, May 31 -- The Chinese Academy of Sciences issued the following news: There is an old saying in the biorefining industry that "You can make anything from lignin, except money." This bio-based compound is abundant and full of potential, but commercializing it remains a challenge. This may soon no longer be the case with an innovative approach by chemists from Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and their colleagues to harness lignin cond  more

CORNING, New York, May 31 -- Corning, a manufacturer of glass, ceramics and related materials, issued the following news release on May 30, 2024: Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW) announced today that it will launch its Corning(R) Gilbert (R) POLYLINKTM technology at the 2024 International Microwave Symposium. POLYLINK is the radio-frequency and microwave-connectivity industry's first gold-plated plastic microwave connector. Reduced manufacturing lead times, compatible interfaces, and strong per  more

WASHINGTON, May 31 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory issued the following news: Nearly 300 girls walked over the Aztec Center bridge to Montezuma Hall in the Conrad Prebys Aztec Student Union at San Diego State University and gathered for a day of inspiration, hands-on science, career advice and networking at the first Young Women's Conference (YWC) in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) West for the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton   more

WASHINGTON, May 31 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory issued the following news on May 30, 2024: * * * A Q&A with Hector Garcia Martin, a scientist merging biology with data-driven tools and robotics to accelerate the pipeline for medicines, eco-friendly materials, and biofuels * * * By Aliyah Kovner By modifying the genomes of plants and microorganisms, synthetic biologists can design biological systems that meet a specification, such as producing valu  more

WASHINGTON, May 31 -- George Washington University issued the following news: OpenAI said this week it caught accounts with well-known propaganda operations in Russia, China, Iran and Israel using its technology to try to influence political discourse around the world. According to The Washington Post, the groups used OpenAI's tech to write posts, translate them into various languages and build software that helped them automatically post to social media. Faculty experts at the George Washingt  more

SOUTH HADLEY, Massachusetts, May 31 -- Mount Holyoke College issued the following news: Nina Emery, associate professor of philosophy at Mount Holyoke College, has been awarded the inaugural Anthony J. Lisska Prize from the American Philosophical Association (APA). The Lisska Prize honors the legacy of Anthony J. Lisska (1940-2022), who taught at Denison University for 52 years. This prize is awarded in recognition of exemplary contributions to the scholarly mission of small liberal arts coll  more

DALLAS, Texas, May 31 (TNsres) -- The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center issued the following news release: When cancer cells metastasize, breaking away from the primary tumor and spreading to blood, tissue, or lymph nodes, the disease is at its most lethal. In 2021, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center used artificial intelligence and deep machine learning to analyze 1.7 million raw images of patient-derived tumor samples, pinpointing a key distinction between skin cancer  more

WASHINGTON, May 31 -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued the following event notification (No. 57135) involving Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit, Michigan: * * * Rep Org: Karmanos Cancer Institute Licensee: Karmanos Cancer Institute Region: 3 City: Detroit State: MI License #: 21-04127-06 Agreement: N NRC Notified By: Nagaraju Mogili HQ OPS Officer: Josue Ramirez Notification Date: 05/22/2024 Notification Time: 14:33 [ET] Event Date: 05/22/2024 Event Time: 09:30 [EDT] Last  more

WASHINGTON, May 31 -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued the following event notification (No. 57135) involving Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit, Michigan: * * * Rep Org: Karmanos Cancer Institute Licensee: Karmanos Cancer Institute Region: 3 City: Detroit State: MI License #: 21-04127-06 Agreement: N NRC Notified By: Nagaraju Mogili HQ OPS Officer: Josue Ramirez Notification Date: 05/22/2024 Notification Time: 14:33 [ET] Event Date: 05/22/2024 Event Time: 09:30 [EDT] Last  more

COLLEGE PARK, Maryland, June 1 -- Physical Review D, a journal that says it covers particles, fields, gravitation and cosmology from the American Physical Society, published research articles on the following topics in its May 1, 2024, edition (Vol. 109, Issue 9). Here are excerpts: HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES: * Measurement of nuclear effects in neutrino-argon interactions using generalized kinematic imbalance variables with the MicroBooNE detector * Double-virtual NNLO QCD corrections for five-pa  more

BRISTOL, England, June 1 -- Physics in Medicine and Biology, a peer-reviewed journal from the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine that says it features developments and applications of physics to medicine, physiology and biology, published research articles on the following topics in its June 7, 2024, edition (Vol. 69, No. 11). Here are excerpts: Topical Reviews: * Multi-organ segmentation: a progressive exploration of learning paradigms under scarce annotation * Meeting the det  more