ST. CATHERINES, Ontario, June 4 (TNSres) -- Brock University issued the following news: By Cathy Majtenyi Jianbo Gao envisions a future where solar power generates through film thinner than a hair -- and his team is working to make this a reality. Integrated onto the tops of cars, windows and many other surfaces, the film's wires would plug into, and juice up, cellphones, tablets, vehicles and anything else needing power. It's new solar panel technology Gao and his international research tea  more

CORNING, New York, June 5 -- Corning, a manufacturer of glass, ceramics and related materials, issued the following news release on June 4, 2024: Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) today announced the launch of Corning(R) Gorilla(R) Glass 7i, a new cover glass engineered to deliver improved durability for intermediate and value-segment mobile devices. Gorilla Glass 7i broadens Corning's renowned tough cover glass portfolio, offering better drop and scratch performance compared to competitive lithi  more

ARGONNE, Illinois, June 4 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory issued the following news release on June 3, 2024: * * * Fuzzy signals from qubits embedded in diamond get a clear-cut explanation * * * They say that one can miss the forest for the trees. But it's often worth taking a closer look at the trees to make sense of the dense, brambly whole. That's what a Stanford University group did to tackle a thorny quantum-information problem in diamond. A sta  more

WASHINGTON, June 5 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory issued the following news release: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced Jim Kerby as project director for Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility for the Deep Underground Neutrino (LBNF/DUNE U.S.) He will be responsible for managing all aspects of the project in the U.S. as Fermilab leads the execution of the largest international DOE project ever hosted on U.S. soil. Kerby holds over 30 years of eng  more

LONDON, England, June 5 -- 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 June 7, 2024, edition (Vol. 15, Issue 11): * Breakfast skipping and risk of all-cause, cardiovascular and cancer mortality among adults: a  more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, June 5 -- American Board of Internal Medicine issued the following news release: Following an extensive six-month national search, the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Board of Directors has unanimously selected Furman S. McDonald, MD, MPH, to lead the organization. Dr. McDonald will serve as President and Chief Executive Officer of both ABIM and the ABIM Foundation, effective September 1. Dr. McDonald, board certified in internal medicine, has practiced  more

ATLANTA, Georgia, June 5 (TNSres) -- Georgia Institute of Technology issued the following news: Knitting, the age-old craft of looping and stitching natural fibers into fabrics, has received renewed attention for its potential applications in advanced manufacturing. Far beyond their use for garments, knitted textiles are ideal for designing and fabricating emerging technologies like wearable electronics or soft robotics -- structures that need to move and bend. Knitting transforms one-dimensi  more

LAUREL, Maryland, June 5 -- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory issued the following news release: In a show of how far the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency's (DARPA) Air Combat Evolution (ACE) program has come in its goal of integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into combat scenarios -- and increasing trust in this level of autonomy -- Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall gamely strapped into the cockpit of an AI-piloted F-16 fighter jet and prepared for take  more

LAUREL, Maryland, June 5 -- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory issued the following news release: Each year, the Johns Hopkins Diversity Leadership Council announces its Diversity Recognition Awards, recognizing individuals and groups across all divisions of the university for their efforts to make their workplaces more inclusive. This year, four awards -- two individual and two group -- went to recipients from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, M  more

BRISTOL, England, June 5 -- The Journal of Physics-Condensed Matter, a journal that says it covers physics of applications and devices, published research articles on the following topics in its July 3, 2024, edition (Vol. 36, No. 26): Letter: * Topological phase transitions with zero indirect band gaps Topical Review: * Polyaniline-graphene based composites electrode materials in supercapacitor: synthesis, performance and prospects Papers: - Soft matter, biophysics and liquids * Topologi  more

WASHINGTON, June 4 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory issued the following article on June 3, 2024: * * * The new digital simulation approach could help optimize devices that transform carbon dioxide. * * * By Christina Nunez Some parts of the world have been so successful in making inexpensive renewable electricity that we occasionally have too much of it. One possible use for that low-cost energy: Converting carbon dioxide into fuel and other  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, June 5 -- Monthly Weather Review, a journal that says it features analysis and prediction of observed atmospheric circulations and physics from the American Meteorological Society, published research articles on the following topics in its June 2024 edition (Vol. 152, Issue 6): ARTICLES: * Mergers as the Maintenance Mechanism of Cutoff Lows: A Case Study over Europe in July 2021 * Data Assimilation Impact of GNSS RO Measurements from Cube Satellites on Arctic Weather Fo  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, June 5 -- Monthly Weather Review, a journal that says it features analysis and prediction of observed atmospheric circulations and physics from the American Meteorological Society, published research articles on the following topics in its May 2024 edition (Vol. 152, Issue 5): ARTICLES: * A Stochastic Statistical Model for U.S. Outbreak-Level Tornado Occurrence Based on the Large-Scale Environment * ST-TransNet: A Spatiotemporal Transformer Network for Uncertainty Estim  more

OTTAWA, Ontario, June 4 (TNSres) - The National Research Council Canada, an arm of the Canadian government, issued the following news release on June 3, 2024: Worldwide collaboration is required to advance scientific discoveries, the fundamental understanding of our universe, and to build cutting-edge instrumentation--especially in fields such as astronomy. The Government of Canada is committed to providing Canadian astronomers with the tools and opportunities needed to be at the forefront of s  more

MADISON, Wisconsin, June 4 -- The University of Wisconsin Madison campus issued the following news: NIH Secretary Dr. Monica Bertagnolli (left) discusses cancer therapeutics during a conversation with Human Oncology Professor Zach Morris. Photo: Bryce Richter As one of the nation's leading research institutions, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been at the forefront of countless medical breakthroughs. On Friday, May 31, National Institutes of Health Director Monica Bertagnolli got an up  more

WASHINGTON, June 4 -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued the following event notification (No. 57152) involving Westinghouse Electric Corp., Columbia, South Carolina: * * * Facility: Westinghouse Electric Corporation RX Type: Uranium Fuel Fabrication Comments: Leu Conversion (Uf6 To Uo2) Commercial Lwr Fuel Region: 2 City: Columbia State: SC County: Richland License #: SNM-1107 Docket: 07001151 NRC Notified By: Steve Subosits HQ OPS Officer: Josue Ramirez Notification Date: 0  more

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, June 4 -- MAGIC LEAP, INC., Plantation, Florida has been assigned a patent (No. US 12003953 B2, initially filed March 10, 2023) developed by seven inventors Colby Nelson Leider, Coral Gables, Florida; Justin Dan Mathew, Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Michael Z. Land, Mill Valley, California; Blaine Ivin Wood, Eagle Mountain, Utah; Jung-Suk Lee, Santa Clara, California; Anastasia Andreyevna Tajik, Fort Lauderdale, Florida; and Jean-Marc Jot, Aptos, California, for "Physics-based  more

WASHINGTON, June 4 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory issued the following news: Unraveling the behavior of plasma increasingly requires intensive computing resources. That's why plasma demands a calculated approach to computation. As the new head of computational sciences at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Shantenu Jha is excited to be at the helm of the Lab's computing efforts, fusing computer sci  more

MIAMI, Florida, June 5 -- The University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine issued the following news: By Emma Yasinski The University of Miami's Institute for Neural Engineering is graduating its first cohort of three master's students. The students worked on interdisciplinary projects alongside experts in neuroscience, engineering, computer science, rehabilitation and more across several of the university's colleges and departments. W. Dalton Dietrich, Ph.D., co-director of the Institute  more

ABERDEEN, Scotland, June 4 -- The University of Aberdeen issued the following news on June 3, 2024: The University of Aberdeen has joined a national campaign to highlight the value of English degrees. The #EnglishCreates campaign, running from June 3 to 7 demonstrates that far from a 'low-value degree', English degrees provide skills vital to today's growing markets in the creative and arts sectors, and language-based systems and industries like AI. Yet the popularity of some English literatur  more