NEW DELHI, India, Jan. 21 -- The Indian Institute of Technology Delhi issued the following news release: * * * Students given a preliminary exposure to research areas of fluid dynamics and oceanography Importance of the oceans in regulating global weather and climate discussed * * * The much-awaited lecture series "Sci-Tech Spins" for high school students at IIT Delhi marked its beginning for the year 2025 with the first lecture titled "Earth's Oceans: The Physics Behind Their Might" by Prof  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 -- Advanced Functional Materials, a peer-review journal produced in Weinheim, Germany, that says it reports on breakthrough research in all aspects of materials science, including nanotechnology, chemistry, physics and biology, published research articles on the following topics in its Jan. 22, 2025, edition (Vol. 35, Issue 4). Here are excerpts of the topics: * * * Review Article * Critical Challenges of Intravenous Nanomaterials Crossing the Blood-Brain Barrier: from Bl  more

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, Jan. 20 -- The University of Michigan issued the following news: * * * Getting the most out of cosmic maps Study: How Much Information Can Be Extracted from Galaxy Clustering at the Field Level? (DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.133.221006) Research led by the University of Michigan could help put cosmology on the inside track to reaching the full potential of telescopes and other instruments studying some of the universe's largest looming questions. The project showcased how  more

COLLEGE PARK, Maryland, Jan. 21 -- Physical Review Materials, a peer reviewed journal that says it features the prediction, synthesis, processing, structure, properties and modeling of a wide range of materials from the American Physical Society, published research articles on the following topics in its December 2024 edition (Vol. 8, Issue 12). Here are excerpts of the topics: * * * HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES * Origins of background signal effects in all-metallic non-local spin valves ARTICLES   more

MELVILLE, New York, Jan. 21 -- Physics of Plasmas, a peer-reviewed journal, published research articles on the following topics in its January 2025 edition (Vol. 32, Issue 1). Here are excerpts of the topics: * * * ARTICLES - Basic Plasma Phenomena, Waves, Instabilities * Feasibility of proton-boron fusion under non-thermonuclear steady-state conditions: Rider's constraint revisited * Longitudinal losses from a mirror trap: When neither kinetic nor collisional * The generation of whistle  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory issued the following news: Written by Rachel Kremen Their work represents the best of PPPL's efforts in experimental and theoretical physics The diversity of plasma research at the U.S. Department of Energy (https://www.energy.gov/)'s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) was readily apparent when the PPPL 2024 Distinguished Research Fellows were recently announced. Elena Belova and   more

MACAU, China, Jan. 21 (TNSjou) -- The University of Macau issued the following news release: A research team led by Sun Pengzhan, assistant professor in the Institute of Applied Physics and Materials Engineering (IAPME) at the University of Macau (UM), participated in the development of a novel two-dimensional proton-conducting material, angstrom-porous titania monolayer. This novel material, designed for hydrogen-based technologies such as fuel cells, offers high temperature resistance, high p  more