COLLEGE PARK, Maryland, Nov. 26 -- Applied Physics Letters, a peer-reviewed journal from the American Institute of Physics, published research articles on the following topics in its Nov. 18, 2024, edition (Vol. 125, Issue 21): PHOTONICS AND OPTOELECTRONICS * Nanoring Tamm cavity in the telecommunications O band * Mid-infrared characterization of NbTiN superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors on silicon-on-insulator * Long-range propagation of Bloch surface wave polaritons in ZnO *   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 -- Biomedical Optics Express, a peer-reviewed journal from Optica that says it features optics, photonics and optical imaging in the life sciences, published research articles on the following topics in its Nov. 1, 2024, edition (Vol. 15, Issue 11): Research Articles - Diffuse and Fluorescence Tomography * Diffuse correlation tomography: a technique to characterize tissue blood flow abnormalities in benign and malignant breast lesions - Endoscopy and Fiber Optics * Virtu  more

LAUREL, Maryland, Nov. 27 (TNSres) -- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory issued the following news release: By leveraging cutting-edge additive manufacturing techniques and shape memory alloys, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, have created an antenna that can change its shape based on its temperature. This technology -- described in a recent online publication in ACS Applied Engineering Materials and which will be featur  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 -- 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 Nov. 21, 2024, edition (Vol. 15, Issue 46): Physical Insights into Materials and Molecular Properties * Cooperative and Local Molecular Motion of High-Density Water in Glycerol Aqueous Solutions * Short-Range Coulomb Interaction  more

LIVERMORE, California, Nov. 27 -- The U.S. Department of Energy Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news: It's been 45 years since the first emergency phone call from the Department of Energy came into Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) to activate a new atmospheric modeling center that predicts the effects of hazardous plumes. Listen on Apple or Spotify. An accident had occurred at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania on March 28, 1979,   more

SOUTHFIELD, Michigan, Nov. 27 (TNSres) -- Lawrence Technological University issued the following news: According to new data from some of the world's leading particle accelerators, something strange is going on with subatomic particles. And a professor of physics at Lawrence Technological University has published an academic paper pointing it out. The paper from LTU associate professor Bhubanjyoti Bhattacharya was published Nov. 21 in the highly regarded physics academic journal Physical Revi  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 -- The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory issued the following news release: By Mary E. Hamisevicz, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Corporate Communications Seven U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) researchers were named Laboratory-University Collaboration Initiative (LUCI) fellows for the class of 2025 in a Defense Department (DoD) announcement Nov. 18. LUCI fellowships engage prominent university researchers and their students, immerse them in the DoD research environment,   more

HOUSTON, Texas, Nov. 26 -- Rice University issued the following news release: A team of researchers led by Anna-Karin Gustavsson at Rice University has developed an innovative imaging platform that promises to improve our understanding of cellular structures at the nanoscale. This platform, called soTILT3D for single-objective tilted light sheet with 3D point spread functions (PSFs), offers significant advancements in super-resolution microscopy, enabling fast and precise 3D imaging of multip  more

LONDON, England, Nov. 25 -- Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, a peer-reviewed journal from the Royal Society of Chemistry that says it features physical chemistry, chemical physics and biophysical chemistry, published research articles on the following topics in its Dec. 7, 2024, edition (Vol. 26, Issue 45): Review Article * Synthesis and modification of boron nitride nanomaterials for gas sensors: from theory to application Communication * Direct capture of the alanine ghost in alanine-d  more

BRISTOL, England, Nov. 27 -- Physiological Measurement, a peer-reviewed journal from the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine that says it features applied physiology in illness and health, published research articles on the following topics in its October 2024 edition (Vol. 45, No. 10): Topical Review * Survey on portable sensing technologies for the radial artery characterization Papers * Examination of sex differences in fatigability and neuromuscular responses during continuo  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 -- Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, issued the following news release: TEXAS Representative Chip Roy (TX-21) was proud to announce the winner of the 2024 Congressional App Challenge (CAC) in Texas' 21st Congressional District. The 1st place winners are Mr. Keshav Singh and Mr. Ty Fonseca of Bulverde, Texas, with their app, "Semiflow". Mr. Singh and Mr. Fonseca are 11th graders at Hill Country College Preparatory High School of Comal ISD. "Semiflow" is a simulator app that helps stud  more

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, Nov. 26 -- SEMILAB SEMICONDUCTOR PHYSICS LABORATORY CO., LTD., Budapest, Hungary has been assigned a patent (No. US 12154833 B2, initially filed June 21, 2024) developed by five inventors Marshall D. Wilson, Tampa, Florida; Jacek Lagowski, Tampa, Florida; Carlos Almeida, Tampa, Florida; Bret Schrayer, Tampa, Florida; and Alexandre Savtchouk, Tampa, Florida, for "Semiconductor doping characterization method using photoneutralization time constant of corona surface charge."  more

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, Nov. 27 (TNSres) -- SETI Institute, a research and education organization whose mission is to lead humanity's quest to understand the origins and prevalence of life and intelligence in the Universe, issued the following news release: Dr. Sofia Sheikh from the SETI Institute led a study that sheds new light on how pulsar signals--the spinning remnants of massive stars--distort as they travel through space. This study, published in The Astrophysical Journal, was perform  more

LA JOLLA, California, Nov. 27 -- The University of California San Diego campus issued the following news: Eddy Keming Chen, associate professor of philosophy at the University of California San Diego School of Arts and Humanities, has been awarded a $325,000 grant to explore the nature of quantum foundations. He will explore big questions about the smallest parts of our universe, like whether atoms and particles can exist simultaneously in different states within the physical realm. Chen's awa  more

LONDON, England, Nov. 27 (TNSres) -- The University College London issued the following news: An international team including UCL researchers have received Euros3 million from the European Union to complete a conceptual study of a telescope that could become operational in Chile after 2040. The consortium aims to propose the Wide Field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST) as a candidate project to become the next major observatory infrastructure of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) after the c  more

HELSINKI, Finland, Nov. 26 (TNSres) -- The University of Helsinki issued the following news release: Tommi Tenkanen, a doctoral alum of the University of Helsinki, has in his career studied dark matter, without which there would be no human beings. According to him, doctoral education prepares doctoral researchers effectively for the challenges of professional life. Dark matter sounds like something conceived by a poet. In reality, the quantity of dark matter exceeds fivefold that of ordinary   more

WOLLONGONG, Australia, Nov. 27 (TNSres) -- The University of Wollongong issued the following news release: * * * Funding win for project that places UOW at the forefront of medical innovation * * * A University of Wollongong (UOW) project that aims to improve diagnosis and treatment for cancer patients by transforming medical imaging and radiotherapy has been awarded funding through the Australian Government's Critical Technologies Challenge Program. The project, known as LANTERN, is led by  more

LARAMIE, Wyoming, Nov. 26 -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: NGC 602 is a young star cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud (one of our satellite galaxies), where astronomers using @NASAWebb have found candidates for the first brown dwarf stars outside of our galaxy. Learn more about brown dwarfs during the program "Stellar Graveyard" Friday, Dec. 13, at 7 p.m. in the University of Wyoming Harry C. Vaughan Planetarium. (NASA James Webb Space Telescope Photo) An an  more