MADISON, Wisconsin, July 29 -- The University of Wisconsin Madison campus issued the following news: People with Parkinson's disease are receiving a new treatment in a clinical trial started after University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists demonstrated the safety and feasibility of the therapeutic delivery method in a study of non-human primates. Parkinson's disease damages neurons in the brain that produce dopamine, a brain chemical that transmits signals between nerve cells. The disrupted si  more

LOS ANGELES, California, July 30 (TNSres) -- The University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering issued the following news: * * * New research from USC Kanso Bioinspired Motion Lab proposes a radical new perspective on the cilia-powered fluid pumps that keep us alive. * * * By Matilda Bathurst The history of science is a series of paradigm shifts - conventional theories debunked and replaced by new discoveries. Kanso Bioinspired Motion Lab at USC Viterbi School of Engineerin  more

LEEDS, England, July 30 -- Foresight, a peer-reviewed journal that says it provides a framework and set of techniques that allow for understanding trends and drivers shaping the world, published research articles on the following topics in its Vol. 26, Issue 3 edition: * Exploring access-based consumption in last-mile logistics: a customer foresight study * Whistleblowing and interpretation, addressing organizational challenges: a conceptual reflection from Nigeria * Integration of quantum ph  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- The Journal of Experimental Psychology-Human Perception and Performance, a peer-reviewed journal from the American Psychological Association, published research articles on the following topics in its August 2024 edition (Vol. 50, Issue 8): * "Leap before you look": Conditions that suppress explicit, knowledge-based learning during visuomotor adaptation. * Why are some individuals better at using negative attentional templates to suppress distractors? Exploration of inte  more

BATH, England, July 30 (TNSres) -- The University of Bath issued the following news release: A new generation of specialty optical fibres has been developed by physicists at the University of Bath to cope with the challenges of data transfer expected to arise in the future age of quantum computing. Quantum technologies promise to provide unparalleled computational power, allowing us to solve complex logical problems, develop new medicines and provide unbreakable cryptographic techniques for se  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, July 30 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: NETL and project partner Cerebras are advancing high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI)-physics model coupling that can greatly reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions associated with energy research projects by as much as 30%. "Science and engineering applications of national importance will require increasingly capable   more

LONDON, England, July 30 (TNSres) -- Queen Mary University of London issued the following news: * * * Sci-fi spaceships could create bursts within the range of future detectors * * * Imagine a spaceship driven not by engines, but by compressing the spacetime in front of it. That's the realm of science fiction, right? Well, not entirely. Physicists have been exploring the theoretical possibility of "warp drives" for decades, and a new study published in the Open Journal of Astrophysics takes   more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, July 29 -- Vanderbilt University issued the following news: The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health has renewed a five-year grant through the NIH's flagship T32 institutional training grant program. T32 grants provide funding to support students and postdoctoral trainees working in focused areas of research that advance the NIH mission. The training plan and track record of each T32 program is evaluated ever  more

SANTA CLARA, California, July 30 -- NVIDIA, a designer of graphics processing units for the gaming, cryptocurrency and professional markets, issued the following news release: * * * New Services Accelerate Universal Scene Description-Based Workflows and Development of Industrial Digital Twins and Robotics * * * SIGGRAPH -- NVIDIA today announced major advancements to Universal Scene Description, or OpenUSD, that will expand adoption of the universal 3D data interchange framework to robotics,  more

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, July 30 (TNSres) -- Texas A&M University's College of Engineering issued the following news: * * * Texas A&M doctoral student and the Rhisotope Project team up to use radioisotopes to protect endangered rhinos from poachers. * * * By Julianne Hodges Thanks to a collaboration between Texas A&M University, University of Witwatersrand, Colorado State University, and other collaborators, the Rhisotope Project, a South African organization dedicated to rhinoceros protecti  more

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, July 29 -- The University of Michigan issued the following news: S-shaped bends in the sun's magnetic field don't form at the sun's surface, like some scientists thought, and can't directly heat the sun's corona As Parker Solar Probe files around the sun, it finds abrupt reversals in the direction of the sun's magnetic fields. These S-shaped bends in the sun's magnetic field are very common in the solar wind close to the sun, but are absent inside the corona. Image credit:  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, July 29 -- Vanderbilt University issued the following news: Professor of Mechanical Engineering Deyu Li has been awarded an inaugural National Science Foundation TRAILBLAZER Engineering Impact Award to extend Max Planck's theory of thermal radiation from equilibrium thermal sources to a regime where non-equilibrium energy carriers can lead to significantly enhanced radiative heat dissipation. The resulting super-efficient radiative cooling approaches could revolutionize a  more

COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 30 (TNSres) -- Ohio State University issued the following news: * * * National study: Incentives needed to encourage work on society's big problems * * * Scientists agree that solving some of society's greatest challenges in biomedicine such as food sustainability, aging and disease treatment will need researchers from a variety of scientific fields working together. But a new study finds that the young scientists who most embrace interdisciplinary research face "career  more