RIVERSIDE, California, Feb. 1 -- The University of California Riverside campus issued the following news: * * * Building the Library of the Future A former UCR chancellor and his wife establish a fund to support the acquisition of print and digital resources at the university's science library. Raymond L. Orbach's career path was driven by curiosity. "All my life I have been interested in how things work," UC Riverside's eighth chancellor said. "Science has given me that opportunity, not onl  more

BEIJING, China, Feb. 6 -- Chinese Physics B, a peer-reviewed journal from the Chinese Physical Society that says it covers the developments and achievements in all branches of physics, published research articles on the following topics in its January 2025 edition (Vol. 34, No. 1). Here are excerpts of the topics: * * * Special Topic - Moire physics in two-dimensional materials * Manipulating optical and electronic properties through interfacial ferroelectricity * Valley-selective manipulat  more

FROSTBURG, Maryland, Feb. 6 -- Frostburg State University issued the following news: * * * Frostburg State University to Host 2025 STEM Summit in June Frostburg State University will host the 2025 STEM Summit on campus June 17-20. Students from Allegany, Garrett, Mineral, Bedford and Somerset Counties who will enter grades 9-11 in fall 2025 can be nominated by their school's STEM teachers for the opportunity to attend. This immersive four-day, three-night problem solving endeavor employs ins  more

BIRMINGHAM, England, Feb. 6 -- The University of Birmingham issued the following news: * * * Graide wins major contract with University of Birmingham following competitive public tender The spin-out has signed a three-year contract with the University to support their mission of delivering high-quality learning experiences. Graide, a leading provider of AI-powered assessment and feedback solutions, was founded in 2021 by former students Robert Stanyon, Manjinder Kainth and George Bartlett, p  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, Feb. 5 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news: * * * Heard on Campus: Lukas Muechler on quantum materials UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- "Quantum materials has emerged as a field recently as current devices are approaching their quantum limit," said Lukas Muechler, assistant professor of chemistry and physics at Penn State. Muechler recently spoke at Ashtekar Frontiers of Science, an annual public lecture series held by the Penn State Eberly College  more

NEW YORK, Feb. 6 -- Columbia University issued the following news: * * * How Can Robots Improve Our Waterways? Cody O'Ferrall worked as a fisherman in Alaska before studying here. Now he's building a boat to clear urban ponds of algae. Cody O'Ferrall first discovered an interest in engineering while studying at St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where students follow a curriculum focused on the Great Books. There, he developed an interest in physics and the ways that we use math to   more

COLLEGE PARK, Maryland, Feb. 6 -- The American Institute of Physics issued the following news release: * * * Inaugural Marian Rose Research Scholarship Awarded to Brianna Hauke Wyoming University master's student awarded $15,000 grant for her outstanding initiative and passion for environmental research WASHINGTON, Feb. 5, 2025 - Brianna Hauke has been awarded the inaugural Marian H. Rose Research Scholarship from the Society of Physics Students (SPS), an organization of the American Instit  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Feb. 5 -- The Journal of Physical Oceanography, a peer-reviewed journal that says it features physics of the ocean and to processes operating at its boundaries from the American Meteorological Society, published research articles on the following topics in its February 2025 edition (Vol. 55, Issue 2): * Frontal Maintenance in Submesoscale Flows * Impact of Downwelling Favorable Winds on Eddy Formation in the West Greenland Current * On the Spreading of Glacial Meltwater  more

CAMDEN, New Jersey, Feb. 5 [Category: BizWater] -- American Water, a water and wastewater company, posted the following news release: * * * Kentucky American Water Salutes the 2025 Science Fair Participants and Winners Lexington, KY., (Feb. 5, 2025) - A total of 580 Fayette County public, private and home-schooled students in grades four through 12 participated in the 40th annual Kentucky American Water Science Fair coordinated by Fayette County Public Schools at Frederick Douglass High Schoo  more

HOBOKEN, New Jersey, Feb. 6 -- Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, a peer-reviewed journal that says it features chemistry, physical chemistry and physics of polymers to polymers in materials science, published research articles on the following topics in its January 2025 edition (Vol. 226, Issue 2): Review * Ionic Thermoelectric Materials Based on the Thermodiffusion Effect: Mechanism, Advancements, and Applications Research Article * Flexible Strain Sensor Based on a Dual Crosslinked Net  more

HELSINKI, Finland, Feb. 6 -- The University of Helsinki issued the following news release: * * * Making an invisible electric wire: guiding electricity with sound Researchers from Spain, Finland and Canada have shown for the first time that electric sparks can be guided using ultrasonic waves. Electric sparks are used for welding, powering electronics, killing germs or for igniting the fuel in some car engines. Despite their usefulness, they are hard to control in open space, they split into  more

ALBANY, New York, Feb. 6 -- Gov. Kathy Hochul, D-New York, issued the following news release on Feb. 5, 2025: * * * SUNY Chancellor King, Old Westbury President Sams, and Campus Community Join for Groundbreaking on Long Island Part of SUNY's Sustainability Plan to Achieve Net-Zero SUNY-Wide Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Zero Waste * * * Governor Kathy Hochul today announced a $100.2 million New York State investment for the first major phase of a deep energy retrofit at SUNY Old Westbury. Th  more

COLLEGE PARK, Maryland, Feb. 6 -- Physical Review C, a peer-reviewed journal that says it covers nuclear physics from the American Physical Society, published research articles on the following topics in its January 2025 edition (Vol. 111, Issue 1). Here are excerpts of the topics: * * * HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES * Constraining theoretical corrections to Gamow-Teller transition rates ARTICLES - Nucleon-Nucleon Interaction, Few-Body Systems * Resonances and collisional properties of neutron-ric  more

COLLEGE PARK, Maryland, Feb. 6 -- Physical Review E, a peer-reviewed journal from the American Physical Society that says it covers statistical, nonlinear, biological and soft matter physics, published research articles on the following topics in its January 2025 edition (Vol. 111, Issue 1). Here are excerpts of the topics: * * * HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES * Thermal energy transport in laser-driven high x-ray conversion efficiency metallic silver nanowire foams * First-passage times to a fractal   more

NOTRE DAME, Indiana, Feb. 5 -- The University of Notre Dame issued the following news: * * * Physicist Laura Fields granted a Presidential Early Career Award Laura Fields, an associate professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Notre Dame, received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) for her research studying the properties of fundamental particles called neutrinos. Fields was among the nearly 400 researchers who were named   more

COLLEGE PARK, Maryland, Feb. 6 -- Physics Today, a peer-reviewed journal from the American Institute of Physics, published research articles on the following topics in its Feb. 1, 2025, edition (Vol. 78, Issue 2). Here are excerpts of the topics: * * * Search and Discovery * Gauge invariance applies to statistical mechanics too - Updates * The gradual, then sudden, demise of an East Antarctic ice shelf * Passive radiative cooling: Not such an off-the-wall idea * A hybrid surface controls  more

BRISTOL, England, Feb. 6 -- Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, a peer-reviewed journal that says it features the physics of hot, highly ionized plasmas, published research articles on the following topics in its February 2025 edition (Vol. 67, No. 2). Here are excerpts of the topics: * * * Topical Review * Cross-scale turbulence in space plasmas: old concepts, recent findings, and future challenges Papers * Simulation of plasma and neutral transport in PISCES-RF using SOLPS-ITER * Stab  more

BINGHAMTON, New York, Feb. 6 -- Binghamton University issued the following news: * * * Professor wins NSF CAREER Award for materials fabrication research By Katie Liu If you scratch a pencil on some paper, somewhere among the resulting scribbles, you may have created what's called a monolayer: a material that is about an atom thick. Stack that onto another similarly thin material, but one made of different atoms, and you would get a heterobilayer -- something physicists can twist and turn to  more

HOUSTON, Texas, Feb. 5 -- Rice University issued the following news release: * * * Rice computer science professor receives Secretary of Energy Achievement Award Secretary's Honor Awards with Secretary Jennifer Granholm on January 8, 2025 (Credit: DOE photographer, Donica Payne) By Clarissa Piatek Special to Rice News Rice University's John Mellor-Crummey was honored in January with a Secretary of Energy Achievement Award as a member of the leadership team of the Department of Energy'  more