Physics Tipoffs from TNS
Advanced Materials Journal Issues Research Articles in July 18, 2024 Edition
HOBOKEN, New Jersey, July 19 -- Advanced Materials, a journal that says it publishes reviews, progress reports, communications and research news at the cutting edge of the chemistry and physics of functional materials, published research articles on the following topics in its July 18, 2024, edition (Vol. 36, Issue 29).
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Cover Picture:
* Catheter-Directed Ionic Liquid Embolic Agent for Rapid Portal Vein Embolization, Segmentectomy, and Bile Duct Ablation (Adv. Mater.
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BLAST Off: W&M Launches Passion for STEM in Virginia High School Students
WILLIAMSBURG, Virginia, July 19 -- William and Mary issued the following news:
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Ninth and tenth grade students sampled a variety of hands-on STEM activities during their four-day stay.
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By Laura Grove
A group of high school students leans forward in anticipation as William & Mary Professor of Physics Irina Novikova lowers a balloon into the horizontal path of a bright green laser beam. When the yellow balloon doesn't pop like its red predecessor, an animated discussion ensues.
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First plasma marks major milestone in UW-Madison fusion energy research
MADISON, Wisconsin, July 18 -- The University of Wisconsin Madison campus issued the following news:
Elliot Claveau, honorary fellow in the Department of Physics and experimental scientist at Realta Fusion, raises his hands in celebration of achieving a plasma from the control room at the Wisconsin HTS Axisymmetric Mirror Project (WHAM) experiment being conducted at the Wisconsin Plasma Physics Laboratory in Stoughton on July 16, 2024. Photo: Bryce Richter
STOUGHTON, Wis. A fusion device at th
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Graduate Students Present Everhart Lectures on Gravitational Memory and Genome Defense
PASADENA, California, July 18 -- The California Institute of Technology issued the following news:
At the end of the academic year, recent doctoral graduates Keefe Mitman (PhD '24) and Peiwei Chen (PhD '24) presented Everhart Lectures about their research to the Caltech community.
Hosted by Caltech's Graduate Student Council (GSC) in collaboration with the Graduate Studies Office, the Everhart Lectures highlight outstanding graduate students for their research accomplishments and ability to co
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Growth Control of Microscopic Bipeds With Magnetic Loops
BAYREUTH, Germany, July 19 (TNSres) -- The University of Bayreuth issued the following news release:
Researchers at the University of Bayreuth have developed a new method for controlling the growth of physical micro-runners. The research results have now been published in the renowned journal "Nature Communications".
What for?
The Bayreuth researchers used an external magnetic field to assemble paramagnetic colloidal spheres - i.e. only magnetic due to external influences - into rods of a cer
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IBM Intends to Partner With Fermilab's SQMS Center to Advance Critical Quantum Information Science Initiatives
ARMONK, New York, July 19 -- IBM issued the following news release:
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IBM plans to join Fermilab's SQMS Center to further accelerate critical technologies and applications of superconducting quantum systems and expand quantum workforce development programs.
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The addition of IBM (NYSE: IBM) as a new partner in the Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center, a DOE National Quantum Information Science Research Center, hosted by Fermilab, has been approved by the U.S. Departme
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IBM Intends to Partner With Fermilab's SQMS Center to Advance Critical Quantum Information Science Initiatives
WASHINGTON, July 19 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory issued the following news release:
The addition of IBM as a new partner in the Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center, a DOE National Quantum Information Science Research Center, hosted by Fermilab, has been approved by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, Science Programs. As a major national and international research center, SQMS is dedicated to advancing critical q
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Jefferson National Accelerator Facility Jefferson Lab: Chasing and Counting Mesons
NEWPORT NEWS, Virginia, July 19 -- The Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility Jefferson Lab issued the following news release:
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Karthik Suresh earns the 2023 JSA Thesis Prize for his analysis of the neutral b1 meson at GlueX
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A doctoral dissertation on meson decay in the ongoing GlueX Collaboration at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has just earned the prestigious 2023 Jefferson Science Associates (JSA) Thesis Prize.
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Journal of Differential Geometry Issues Research Articles in July 2024 Edition
DURHAM, North Carolina, July 19 -- The Journal of Differential Geometry, a journal that says it features differential geometry and subjects such as differential equations, mathematical physics, algebraic geometry and geometric topology from the Lehigh University, published research articles on the following topics in its July 2024 edition (Vol. 127, No. 3):
Articles:
* On the embedding complexity of Liouville manifolds
* Green's functions and complex Monge-Ampere equations
* Generalized Dona
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Journal of Lightwave Technology Issues Research Articles in July 1, 2024 Edition
WASHINGTON, July 19 -- The Journal of Lightwave Technology, a journal that says it features fiber and cable technologies, active and passive guided-wave components, integrated optics and optoelectronics, systems and subsystems, networks and switching from the Optica, published research articles on the following topics in its July 1, 2024, edition (Vol. 42, Issue 13):
* Distortion-Aware Phase Retrieval Receiver for Carrierless High-Order QAM Transmission
* Highly Security 7-Core 16 WDM OCDM Tra
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Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters Issues Research Articles in July 18, 2024 Edition
WASHINGTON, July 19 -- The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, a peer-reviewed journal from the American Chemical Society that says it advances in physical chemistry, chemical physics and materials science, published research articles on the following topics in its July 18, 2024, edition (Vol. 15, Issue 28):
Perspectives:
* Coarse-Grained Modeling of Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation in Cells: Challenges and Opportunities
Physical Insights into Quantum Phenomena and Function:
* Toward Accura
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Machine Learning Unlocks Secrets to Advanced Alloys
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, July 19 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news:
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An MIT team uses computer models to measure atomic patterns in metals, essential for designing custom materials for use in aerospace, biomedicine, electronics, and more.
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By Poornima Apte, Department of Materials Science and Engineering
The concept of short-range order (SRO) -- the arrangement of atoms over small distances -- in metallic alloys has been underexplored
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New UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships Announced
LIVERPOOL, England, July 19 (TNSres) -- The University of Liverpool issued the following news release:
Two University of Liverpool researchers have been awarded coveted Future Leaders Fellowships to support their research.
A highly competitive scheme, the UKRI Future Leadership Fellowship (FLF) programme allows early career researchers to develop and tackle ambitious, challenging and important research questions.
PREdicting biological Carbon in the Ocean Globally
Under his Future Leaders Fel
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OptoGPT for improving solar cells, smart windows, telescopes and more
ANN ARBOR, Michigan, July 18 -- The University of Michigan issued the following news:
Taking advantage of the transformer neural networks that power large language models, engineers can get recipes for materials with the optical properties they need
OptoGPT is featured on the Opto-Electronic Advances journal cover for the July 2024 issue. Image credit: Opto-Electronic Advances.
Study: OptoGPT: A foundation model for inverse design in optical multilayer thin film structures (DOI: 10.29026/oea.
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Researcher Hopes to Unlock Method for Early Detection of Alzheimer's Disease
BATHURST, Australia, July 19 (TNSres) -- The Charles Sturt University issued the following news:
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* A Charles Sturt University researcher is investigating a potential method of early detection of Alzheimer's Disease
* Fifty patients have volunteered to undergo Medical Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans as part of the research
* The research is being conducted in Wagga Wagga over two years
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A Charles Sturt researcher is investigating the use of Medical Resonance Imaging (MRI) as a tool
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Rice researchers unveil secrets behind viral precision
HOUSTON, Texas, July 18 -- Rice University issued the following news release:
New research from Rice University scientists is shedding light on how viruses ensure their survival by precisely timing the release of new viruses. The discovery offers a new theoretical framework for understanding these dynamic biological phenomena.
The researchers proposed that randomly determined coupling between these biophysical and biochemical processes leads to noise cancellation, enabling precise timing. Imag
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Rice's Emilia Morosan awarded prestigious Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship
HOUSTON, Texas, July 18 -- Rice University issued the following news release:
Rice University's Emilia Morosan has been selected as one of 11 scientists and engineers for the 2024 Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship (VBFF) to support her work on correlated topological materials. The fellowship is the Department of Defense's (DoD) most prestigious single-investigator award and supports groundbreaking basic research with the potential to transform various fields.
Emilia Morosan has been selecte
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Stochastics Elite Meets in Bochum
BOCHUM, Germany, July 19 (TNSres) -- The University in Bochum issued the following news release:
In August, 900 participants will be attending the "Bernoulli-IMS World Congress in Probability and Statistics" on the campus of Ruhr University Bochum.
Bochum rarely hosts so many international celebrities: As many as 900 participants from all over the world have registered for the World Congress on Stochastics. The conference is organized by the scholarly society "Institute of Mathematical Statist
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UCL Researchers Among Latest Round of UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships
LONDON, England, July 19 (TNSres) -- The University College London issued the following news:
Three UCL researchers have won a significant funding boost in the latest round of UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships, acknowledging the pioneering nature of their work.
A total of 68 researchers across many of the UK's leading universities will benefit from a funding package of pound sterling104 million that will facilitate research into some of the most pressing global issues.
UKRI's Future Leaders Fel
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UEA Sees Improvements Across All Areas in National Student Survey Results
NORWICH, England, July 18 (TNSres) -- The University of East Anglia issued the following news:
The University of East Anglia (UEA) has seen improvements across all seven areas of the 2024 National Student Survey (NSS) results.
The NSS is commissioned annually by the Office for Students (OfS), and invites final-year undergraduates to provide feedback on their experience of the University, including their views on academic support, the student voice and learning opportunities. It is the biggest
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University of Groningen: Veni-Grants for Ten Researchers
GRONINGEN, The Netherlands, July 19 (TNSres) -- The University of Groningen issued the following news:
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded a Veni grant of up to Euros320,000 each to ten researchers of the University of Groningen and the UMCG: Ariane Gayout, Kira Tiedge, Michelle Bruijn, Kostia Gorobets, Arpan Rijal, Amaury de Vicq de Cumptich, Lars de Wildt, Merel Semeijn, Tycho Dekkers and Valerie Wiersma. The Veni grants are designed for outstanding researchers who have recently gain
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Ushering in a Brilliant Future at the Advanced Photon Source
ARGONNE, Illinois, July 19 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory issued the following news release on July 17, 2024:
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Elected officials, Department of Energy leaders and other luminaries joined Argonne today to dedicate the upgraded APS
The revamped facility is a strong investment in the future of science and innovation.
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On a bright day in July, a crowd of hundreds gathered at the site of the Advanced Photon Source (APS) in Lemont, Illinois to we
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