ARLINGTON, Virginia, Dec. 12 [Category: National Defense] -- The Air and Space Forces Association issued the following news release: Alan Williams, the winner of AFA Chapter 407's Teacher of the Year award in 2022, organized the second annual rocket launch competition for high schoolers in Louisville, Ky., on April 18, 2024. The event was held at Atherton High School in Louisville, where Williams is the head physics teacher. Ten teams representing three Louisville high schools showed off their   more

BINGHAMTON, New York, Dec. 13 (TNSres) -- Binghamton University issued the following news: * * * Research, education will be key elements of collaboration * * * WMG, at The University of Warwick in the U.K., and Binghamton University have entered an agreement to explore collaboration in the fields of science, technology and education with the aim of fueling vital battery manufacturing capability in both countries. The new five-year memorandum of understanding sets the foundation to encourage  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released the following public communication dated Nov. 27, 2024, from the Colorado School of Mines. Here are excerpts: * * * Response to Request for Information on "Use of Advanced and Emerging Technologies for Quantification of Annual Facility Methane Emissions Under the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program" From: William Daniels PhD Candidate Colorado School of Mines wdaniels@mines.edu * Philip Waggoner Senior Research S  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Dec. 13 -- The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics issued the following news release: * * * CfA has entered into an MOU with NSF NRAO on the Black Hole Explorer (BHEX), a project which would increase the capabilities of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) by launching it into space. * * * A new agreement between the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) and the U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NSF NRAO) will  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Dec. 9 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * The team's detection method, which identified 138 space rocks ranging from bus- to stadium-sized, could aid in tracking potential asteroid impactors. * * * By Jennifer Chu, MIT NewsThe asteroid that extinguished the dinosaurs is estimated to have been about 10 kilometers across. That's about as wide as Brooklyn, New York. Such a massive impactor is predicted to hit Earth ra  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Dec. 12 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news on Dec. 10, 2024: * * * Chronic diseases like diabetes are prevalent, costly, and challenging to treat. A common denominator driving them may be a promising new therapeutic target. * * * By Greta Friar, Whitehead Institute Chronic diseases like Type 2 diabetes and inflammatory disorders have a huge impact on humanity. They are a leading cause of disease burden and deaths around   more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Dec. 9 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Longtime MIT faculty member used X-ray astronomy to study neutron stars and black holes and led the All-Sky Monitor instrument on NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer. * * * By Sandi Miller, Department of Physics MIT Professor Emeritus Hale Van Dorn Bradt PhD '61 of Peabody, Massachusetts, formerly of Salem and Belmont, beloved husband of Dorothy A. (Haughey) Bradt, passed a  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Dec. 12 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Driven to solve hard problems, Associate Professor Zachary Hartwig is advancing a new approach to commercial fusion energy. * * * By Zach Winn, MIT News If you're looking for hard problems, building a nuclear fusion power plant is a pretty good place to start. Fusion -- the process that powers the sun -- has proven to be a difficult thing to recreate here on Earth despite  more

HOUSTON, Texas, Dec. 12 -- Rice University issued the following news release: Physicists have long theorized the existence of a unique state of matter known as a quantum spin liquid. In this state, magnetic particles do not settle into an orderly pattern, even at absolute zero temperature. Instead, they remain in a constantly fluctuating, entangled state. This unusual behavior is governed by complex quantum rules, leading to emergent properties that resemble fundamental aspects of our universe   more

LA JOLLA, California, Dec. 13 -- The University of California San Diego campus issued the following news: * * * The Atmospheric River Reconnaissance program flies into storms to improve forecasts with the help of AI * * * This year's rainy season is underway, which means atmospheric rivers are set to dump rain and snow across California and the Pacific Northwest. It also means that specially outfitted aircraft are standing by to fly out to sea into the heart of those brewing storms to improv  more

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 12 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Illinois. *** System and Method for Graph-Based Resource Allocation Using Neural Networks ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, Dec. 10 -- SALESFORCE, INC., San Francisco, California has been assigned a patent (No. US 12165053 B2, initially filed Nov. 17, 2020) developed by four inventors Govardana Sachithanandam Ramachandran, Palo Alto, California; Ivan Brugere, Palo Alto, California; Lav Varshney, Champaign, Illinois; a  more

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 12 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Utah. *** Methods of Surface Functionalization of Zirconia-Toughened Alumina With Silicon Nitride ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, Dec. 10 -- SINTX TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Salt Lake City, Utah has been assigned a patent (No. US 12162807 B2, initially filed June 11, 2020) developed by three inventors Bryan J. McEntire, Salt Lake City, Utah; Bhajanjit Singh Bal, Salt Lake City, Utah; and Ryan M. Bock, Salt Lake City, Utah,  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 -- The U.S. Department of Interior Geological Survey has issued a notice for funding opportunity involving Partner with Great Basin Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit. * * * Description: The US Geological Survey is offering a funding opportunity to a CESU partner for research on numerical modeling of Bear River Bay (BRB) outflow to Gilbert Bay of Great Salt Lake (GSL). The CESU partner will 1) develop a three-dimensional (3D) hydrodynamic model that solves the 3D Navier-Sto  more