LANCASTER, England, Feb. 4 -- Lancaster University issued the following news: * * * A new approach to detecting Alzheimer's disease Research led by Lancaster University has revealed clear evidence that changes in the orchestration of brain oxygenation dynamics and neuronal function in Alzheimer's disease contribute to the neurodegeneration. The study "Neurovascular phase coherence is altered in Alzheimer's Disease" is published in Brain Communications. The lead author is Aneta Stefanovska wi  more

NEW YORK, Feb. 4 -- ACM/IMS Journal of Data Science, a peer-reviewed journal from the Association for Computing Machinery and Institute of Mathematical Statistics, published research articles on the following topics in its September 2024 edition (Vol. 1, Issue 3): * Anytime-valid off-policy Inference for Contextual Bandits * Physics-Informed Neural Operator for Learning Partial Differential Equations * The Necessity of Machine Learning Theory in Mitigating AI Risk The September 2024 edition   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 -- ACS Nano, a peer-reviewed journal from the American Chemical Society that says it covers nanoscience and nanotechnology at the interfaces of chemistry, biology, materials science, physics and engineering, published research articles on the following topics in its Jan. 14, 2025, edition (Vol. 19, Issue 1). Here are excerpts of the topics: * * * Reviews * Approaching Ideal Selectivity with Bioinspired and Biomimetic Membranes * Size Effects of Nanoenabled Agrochemicals   more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 -- ACS Nano, a peer-reviewed journal from the American Chemical Society that says it covers nanoscience and nanotechnology at the interfaces of chemistry, biology, materials science, physics and engineering, published research articles on the following topics in its Jan. 21, 2025, edition (Vol. 19, Issue 2). Here are excerpts of the topics: * * * Reviews * Opportunities in Bottlebrush Block Copolymers for Advanced Materials * Two-Dimensional Material-Based Nanofluidic De  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 -- ACS Nano, a peer-reviewed journal from the American Chemical Society that says it covers nanoscience and nanotechnology at the interfaces of chemistry, biology, materials science, physics and engineering, published research articles on the following topics in its Jan. 28, 2025, edition (Vol. 19, Issue 3). Here are excerpts of the topics: * * * Reviews * Inhalable Metal-Organic Frameworks: A Promising Delivery Platform for Pulmonary Diseases Treatment * Temperature-Dir  more

MEDFORD, Massachusetts, Feb. 4 -- Advanced Science, a peer-reviewed journal that covers fundamental and applied research in materials science, physics and chemistry, medical and life sciences, as well as engineering, published research articles on the following topics in its Jan. 20, 2025, edition (Vol. 12, Issue 3). Here are excerpts of the topics: * * * Review * Viral Live-Attenuated Vaccines (LAVs): Past and Future Directions * Advanced Piezoelectric Materials, Devices, and Systems for   more

MEDFORD, Massachusetts, Feb. 4 -- Advanced Science, a peer-reviewed journal that covers fundamental and applied research in materials science, physics and chemistry, medical and life sciences, as well as engineering, published research articles on the following topics in its Jan. 27, 2025, edition (Vol. 12, Issue 4). Here are excerpts of the topics: * * * Review * Microfluidic Nanoparticle Separation for Precision Medicine Research Article * Highly Tunable Moire Superlattice Potentials in  more

OTTAWA, Ontario, Feb. 4 -- The Canadian Journal of Physics, a peer-reviewed journal that says it features atomic and molecular physics, gases, fluid dynamics, plasmas, gravitation and string theory, biophysics, aeronomy and space physics and astrophysics, published research articles on the following topics in its February 2025 edition (Vol. 103, No. 2): * * * Bound States and Quantum Correlations -- in honour of A. Ravi P. Rau: Part II * * * * A, B, C of three-qubit entanglement: three vecto  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 -- The Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, a peer-reviewed journal that says it features solid Earth geophysics, petrology, geochemistry, mineralogy, tectonophysics, natural hazards and volcanology from the American Geophysical Union, published research articles on the following topics in its February 2025 edition (Vol. 130, Issue 2). Here are excerpts of the topics: * * * Research Article - Chemistry and Physics of Minerals and Rocks/Volcanology * Caprock Genesi  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Feb. 4 -- Monthly Weather Review, a peer-reviewed journal that says it features analysis and prediction of observed atmospheric circulations and physics from the American Meteorological Society, published research articles on the following topics in its February 2025 edition (Vol. 153, Issue 2): * Are Rapidly Intensifying Tropical Cyclones Associated with Unique Vortex and Convective Characteristics? * On the Intraseasonal Oceanic Processes Constrained by Data Assimilati  more

NEW YORK, Feb. 3 [Category: Sports] -- The National Basketball Association posted the following news release: * * * NBA Launchpad selects five companies focused on emerging technologies NEW YORK - The National Basketball Association (NBA) today announced the five companies that will make up the fourth cohort of NBA Launchpad, the league's initiative to source, evaluate, and pilot emerging technologies. The five companies were selected based on the NBA's goals of advancing the game, growing th  more

LAUREL, Maryland, Feb. 3 [Category: Science] -- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory posted the following news release: * * * New Study Suggests Trench-Like Features on Uranus' Moon Ariel May Be Windows to Its Interior An image taken by Voyager 2 of Ariel's surface displays a medial groove (marked by an arrow), which new research suggests is a spreading center where new surface material has been deposited. The image has been cropped and modified for emphasis. Credit: NASA  more

HOUSTON, Texas, Feb. 3 -- Rice University issued the following news release: * * * Rice computer scientists develop solutions for making AI models more efficient and customizable Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere -- from the chatbots we consult for customer support to tools predicting how diseases might spread. But the computing power and energy required to power modern AI models -- such as large language models (LLMs) -- can make them expensive, inaccessible and environmentally taxi  more

BLACKSBURG, Virginia, Feb. 3 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: * * * Rui Qiao named fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry Rui Qiao, Virginia Tech professor in mechanical engineering and researcher in mathematical modeling, has been named a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry for his work at the interface of chemistry and its applications to technologies such as electrical energy storage. The society is the largest organization in Europe for advancing the chemical sciences   more

LARAMIE, Wyoming, Feb. 3 -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: * * * UW to Host Speakers on Free Expression, Intellectual Freedom, Constructive Dialogue Three public lectures at the University of Wyoming this semester will promote free expression, intellectual freedom and constructive dialogue, starting later this month. "I'm pleased to support these important events," President Ed Seidel says. "They remind us of the importance of free expression and constructive d  more