WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 -- JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY, Laurel, Maryland, won a federal contract award for $20,462,886 from the NASA, Greenbelt, Maryland, for space weather next l1 series suprathermal ion sensor (stis). Contract Award Number: 80GSFC25CA026; ueiSAM: C1HBCJ9RMBV3; NAICS Code: 336414; Product Service Code (PSC): 1675; Solicitation Number: 80GSFC25CA026  more

BRISTOL, England, Jan. 18 -- The Journal of Physics-Condensed Matter, a peer-reviewed journal that says it covers physics of applications and devices, published research articles on the following topics in its Feb. 10, 2025, edition (Vol. 37, No. 6). Here are excerpts of the topics: * * * Topical Review * Interface phonon transport in nanomaterials: numerical methods and modulation strategies Papers - Soft matter, biophysics and liquids * Fluids with power-law repulsion: Hyperuniformity a  more

BRISTOL, England, Jan. 18 -- The Journal of Physics-Condensed Matter, a peer-reviewed journal that says it covers physics of applications and devices, published research articles on the following topics in its Feb. 17, 2025, edition (Vol. 37, No. 7). Here are excerpts of the topics: * * * Topical Reviews * Lattice reconstruction in twisted bilayer graphene * Introduction to machine learning potentials for atomistic simulations * The Fock-space landscape of many-body localisation Papers -  more

BRISTOL, England, Jan. 18 -- The Journal of Physics-Condensed Matter, a peer-reviewed journal that says it covers physics of applications and devices, published research articles on the following topics in its Feb. 24, 2025, edition (Vol. 37, No. 8). Here are excerpts of the topics: * * * Topical Reviews * Why hyperdensity functionals describe any equilibrium observable * Many-body physics of ultracold alkaline-earth atoms with SU(N)-symmetric interactions Papers - Nanostructures and nano  more

BRISTOL, England, Jan. 18 -- The Journal of Physics-Condensed Matter, a peer-reviewed journal that says it covers physics of applications and devices, published research articles on the following topics in its Feb. 3, 2025, edition (Vol. 37, No. 1). Here are excerpts of the topics: * * * Topical Reviews * Layered nanoarchitectonics for condensed hard matter, soft matter, and living matter * Valley manipulation by external fields in two-dimensional materials and their hybrid systems Papers   more

BRISTOL, England, Jan. 18 -- The Journal of Physics-Condensed Matter, a peer-reviewed journal that says it covers physics of applications and devices, published research articles on the following topics in its Jan. 13, 2025, edition (Vol. 37, No. 2). Here are excerpts of the topics: * * * Topical Reviews * Kinetic energy driven two-sublattice double-exchange: a general mechanism of magnetic exchange in transition metal compounds * Computational electron-phonon superconductivity: from theore  more

BRISTOL, England, Jan. 18 -- The Journal of Physics-Condensed Matter, a peer-reviewed journal that says it covers physics of applications and devices, published research articles on the following topics in its Jan. 20, 2025, edition (Vol. 37, No. 3). Here are excerpts of the topics: * * * Papers - Structure, dynamics and phase transitions * What can we learn from the experiment of electrostatic conveyor belt for excitons? - Electronic structure * Tight-binding model of Pt-based jacutingai  more

BRISTOL, England, Jan. 18 -- The Journal of Physics-Condensed Matter, a peer-reviewed journal that says it covers physics of applications and devices, published research articles on the following topics in its Jan. 27, 2025, edition (Vol. 37, No. 4). Here are excerpts of the topics: * * * Topical Review * Geometry, anomaly, topology, and transport in Weyl fermions Papers - Soft matter, biophysics and liquids * Topological and site disorder in boron nitride networks - Nanostructures and n  more

LONDON, England, Jan. 18 -- 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 Jan. 21, 2025, edition (Vol. 27, Issue 3). Here are excerpts of the topics: * * * Review Article * Stable organic radicals - a material platform for developing molecular quantum technologies Communication * Conformational e  more

HOBOKEN, New Jersey, Jan. 17 -- Plasma Processes and Polymers, a peer-reviewed journal that says it covers fundamental and applied research in materials science, physics, chemistry and engineering in the area of plasma sources and plasma-based treatments, published research articles on the following topics in its January 2025 special issue (Vol. 22, Issue 1) entitled Plasma and Liquids - Fundamentals and Applications. Here are excerpts of the topics: * * * GUEST EDITORIAL * Special Issue: P  more

LAUREL, Maryland, Jan. 18 (TNSres) -- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory issued the following news release: The neighborhood of orbits around the Moon, called cislunar space, continues to grow in importance -- both scientifically and for national security purposes. In December, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, hosted its annual Cislunar Security Conference, bringing together leaders in government, academia, industry and other organiza  more