Physics Tipoffs from TNS
Astrophysicist Gioia Rau Explores Cosmic 'Time Machines'
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 -- NASA issued the following news release:
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Astrophysicist Gioia Rau Explores Cosmic 'Time Machines'
To shape NASA's path of exploration forward, Dr. Gioia Rau unravels stars and worlds beyond our solar system.
Name : Dr. Gioia Rau
Title : Astrophysicist
Organization : Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics Laboratory, Astrophysics Division, Science Mission Directorate (Code 667)
Dr. Gioia Rau is an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenb
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Bethany Theiling: Researching Oceans on Earth and Beyond
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 -- NASA issued the following news release:
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Bethany Theiling: Researching Oceans on Earth and Beyond
Bethany Theiling is a planetary research scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Name : Bethany Theiling
Formal Job Classification : Planetary research scientist
Organization : Planetary Environment Laboratory, Science Directorate (Code 699)
Bethany Theiling is a planetary research scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Cente
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Euclid Space Telescope Discovers Stunning Einstein Ring
OLD ELVET, England, Feb. 11 -- Durham University issued the following news:
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Euclid space telescope discovers stunning Einstein Ring
An international space mission currently mapping the dark Universe has discovered a rare 'Einstein Ring' in a galaxy not far away.
Experts from our Department of Physics are part of the European Space Agency's (ESA) Euclid space telescope project, which is mapping out the structure of the Universe across more than a third of the sky.
Scientists analysing
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Gordon Chin Explores the Universe Through Physics and Art
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 -- NASA issued the following news release:
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Gordon Chin Explores the Universe Through Physics and Art
A planetary scientist, Gordon Chin also dabbles in watercolors, drawings and mix media artworks in his spare time while surrounded by a ceramic and studio art glass collection.
In 2017, Dr. Gordon Chin appeared on national television to speak about the total solar eclipse.
Credits: Courtesy of Gordon Chin
Name : Gordon Chin
Formal Job Classification : Planetar
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Great Minds in Genetics, Diet, Environment Discuss Metabolism's Impact on Cancer, Health
MIAMI, Florida, Feb. 11 -- The University of Miami Miller School of Medicine issued the following news:
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Great Minds in Genetics, Diet, Environment Discuss Metabolism's Impact on Cancer, Health
By Lisette Hilton
Desai Sethi Urology Institute's Miami Symposium on Human Metabolism fuels research collaborations on metabolic processes that govern health and disease, from longevity to cancer.
Researchers from around the world shared current knowledge and discoveries about how genetics, diet
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Innovative Target Design Leads to Surprising Discovery in Laser-Plasma Acceleration
MENLO PARK, California, Feb. 11 -- The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory issued the following news release:
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Innovative target design leads to surprising discovery in laser-plasma acceleration
SLAC researchers studying laser-driven proton acceleration introduced a self-replenishing water sheet target to address the inefficiency of replacing targets after each laser pulse. The new target had an unanticipated side effect, resulting in a naturally focused, more tightly aligned proton bea
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Jeremy Schnittman: Looking Into the Mystery of Black Holes
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 -- NASA issued the following news release:
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Jeremy Schnittman: Looking Into the Mystery of Black Holes
Astrophysicist Jeremy Schnittman hopes to have one of his theories about black holes proven someday.
u0022The really interesting thing to me is how time theoretically acts strangely around black holes. According to Albert Einstein's theory of gravity, black holes change the flow of time,u0022 said Jeremy Schnittman, Goddard research astrophysicist. u0022So much of
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Jesse Walsh: Possibility at the Cutting Edge of Flight
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 -- NASA issued the following news release:
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Jesse Walsh: Possibility at the Cutting Edge of Flight
Jesse Walsh helps to bring people together in his work with project formulation management. "I try to build trust between team members by understanding everyone's incentives and making sure all team members understand the different incentives," he said. "We may have different angles of approach, but we all have the same goal."
Credits: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Cente
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John Moisan Studies the Ocean Through the 'Eyes' of AI
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 -- NASA issued the following news release:
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John Moisan Studies the Ocean Through the 'Eyes' of AI
"I do evolutionary programming," said NASA Goddard oceanographer Dr. John Moisan. "I see a lot of possibility in using evolutionary programming to solve many large problems we are trying to solve. How did life start and evolve? Can these processes be used to evolve intelligence or sentience?"
Courtesy of John Moisan
Name : John Moisan
Formal Job Classification : Re
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Johns Hopkins APL Program Helps Nation Protect Critical Assets in Space
LAUREL, Maryland, Feb. 10 [Category: Science] -- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory posted the following news release:
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Johns Hopkins APL Program Helps Nation Protect Critical Assets in Space
A digital engineering program developed by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, is helping U.S. space agencies protect satellites and other systems vital to national security.
The APL-developed modeling, simulation and analysis tool leverages
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Joshua Abel: Delivering Roman's Optical Telescope Assembly On Time, On Target
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 -- NASA issued the following news release:
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Joshua Abel: Delivering Roman's Optical Telescope Assembly On Time, On Target
Joshua Abel's job as lead systems engineer for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's Optical Telescope Assembly is "to deliver the assembly to the Roman observatory on time, within budget, and meeting all the technical requirements."
Joshua Abel's job as lead systems engineer for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's Optical Telescope Assembl
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Joshua Schlieder: Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 -- NASA issued the following news release:
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Joshua Schlieder: Feet on the Ground, Head in the Stars
Goddard astrophysicist Dr. Joshua Schlieder supports NASA's Roman Space Telescope and Swift Observatory with creativity, community, and curiosity.
Name : Joshua Schlieder
Title : Wide Field Instrument Scientist for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope and Operations Project Scientist for the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory
Formal Job Classification : Research Astr
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Kyle Helson Finds EXCITE-ment in Exoplanet Exploration
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 -- NASA issued the following news release:
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Kyle Helson Finds EXCITE-ment in Exoplanet Exploration
Almost a decade ago, then-grad student Kyle Helson contributed to early paperwork for NASA's EXCITE mission. As a scientist at Goddard, Helson helped make this balloon-based telescope a reality: EXCITE launched successfully on Aug. 31.
Name: Kyle Helson
Title: Assistant Research Scientist
Organization: Observational Cosmology Lab (Code 665), via UMBC and the GEST
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Lynn Bassford Prioritizes Learning as a Hubble Mission Manager
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 -- NASA issued the following news release:
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Lynn Bassford Prioritizes Learning as a Hubble Mission Manager
Lynn Bassford levels decades of experience and a desire for self-growth as she helps lead Hubble's Mission Operations team.
Name : Lynn Bassford
Title : Hubble Space Telescope Mission Flight Operations Manager
Formal Job Classification : Multifunctional Engineering and Science Manager
Organization : Astrophysics Project Division, Hubble Space Telescope Op
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Mammal-like tails most promising for acrobatic robots
ANN ARBOR, Michigan, Feb. 10 -- The University of Michigan posted the following news:
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Mammal-like tails most promising for acrobatic robots
Roboticists have preferred the simplicity of lizard-like tails, but mammal-style tails may be both lighter and higher performance for turning a robot's body in space
Study: Jointed tails enhance control of three-dimensional body rotation (DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2024.0355)
While exploring how best to design robots that use tails to reorient their bod
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Mark SubbaRao Brings Data to Life Through Art
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 -- NASA issued the following news release:
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Mark SubbaRao Brings Data to Life Through Art
"Data visualization has recently exploded as a communication tool," said Mark SubbaRao, information technology specialist and lead for NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio. "As data becomes bigger and more complex, visualization becomes an even more important tool for understanding that data."
Rachel Connolly / Courtesy of Mark SubbaRao
Name : Mark SubbaRao
Title : Lead,
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Meloe Kacenelenbogen Eyes the Future of Air Quality, Climate Research
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 -- NASA issued the following news release:
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Meloe Kacenelenbogen Eyes the Future of Air Quality, Climate Research
A mentor of research scientist Meloe Kacenelenbogen once shared a sentiment from French author Andre Gide: "You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore." Kacenelenbogen pushes beyond her comfort zone to explore the unknown.
Name : Meloe S. Kacenelenbogen
Formal Job Classification : Research scientist
Organi
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NASA Engineer Earns Goddard Innovation Award for Sun-studying Photon Sieves
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 -- NASA issued the following news release:
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NASA Engineer Earns Goddard Innovation Award for Sun-studying Photon Sieves
Goddard Engineer Kevin Denis receives innovation award for photon sieves.
Goddard's Office of the Chief Technologist named engineer Steven Denis as the FY23 Internal Research and Development (IRAD) Innovator of the Year, an honor the office bestows annually on individuals who demonstrate the best in innovation.
Kevin Denis
Credit: NASA / Christ
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NASA Engineers Push Limits of Physics to Focus Light
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 -- NASA issued the following news release:
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NASA Engineers Push Limits of Physics to Focus Light
Photon sieves focus extreme ultraviolet light and can enable Sun science.
A pair of precision-orbiting small satellites will attempt to capture the first views ever of small-scale features near the surface of the Sun that scientists believe drive the heating and acceleration of solar wind.
Heliophysicist Dr. Doug Rabin at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt
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NASA Scientists & Historian Named AAAS 2022 Fellows
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 -- NASA issued the following news release:
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NASA Scientists & Historian Named AAAS 2022 Fellows
Four individuals with NASA affiliations have been named 2022 fellows by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in recognition of their scientifically and socially distinguished achievements in the scientific enterprise.
Election as a Fellow by the AAAS Council honors members whose efforts on behalf of the advancement of science or its applications
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OU Engineer Chairs International Biophotonics Conference He Founded 20 Years Ago
NORMAN, Oklahoma, Feb. 11 -- The University of Oklahoma issued the following news release:
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OU Engineer Chairs International Biophotonics Conference He Founded 20 Years Ago
NORMAN, OKLA. - Wei R. Chen, Ph.D., Stephenson Endowed Chair, Professor, and Interim Director of the Stephenson School of Biomedical Engineering, recently chaired an international conference, "Biophotonics and Immune Responses XX", at the Photonics West Symposium sponsored by the International Society for Optics and P
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Peyman Abbaszadeh: Hydrology and Hope for the Future
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 -- NASA issued the following news release:
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Peyman Abbaszadeh: Hydrology and Hope for the Future
Peyman Abbaszadeh works with researchers around the world to model and estimate the ways in which water flows above and below the surface of the Earth.
Dr. Peyman Abbaszadeh poses outside Princeton University, where he is a postdoctoral research associate in the department of civil and environmental engineering. Peyman's research area is computational hydrology and satel
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Rice-BCM research enables detection of hazardous chemicals in human placenta with unprecedented speed and precision
HOUSTON, Texas, Feb. 10 -- Rice University posted the following news release:
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Rice-BCM research enables detection of hazardous chemicals in human placenta with unprecedented speed and precision
Peter Nordlander (from left), Oara Neumann, Melissa Suter, Bhagavatula Moorthy, Ankit Patel and Naomi Halas (Photo by Jeff Fitlow/Rice University)
Rice University scientists and collaborators at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) have demonstrated a new method for detecting the presence of danger
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Scientists From the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Identify Heat-resistant Kelp Strain
WOODS HOLE, Massachusetts, Feb. 11 -- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution issued the following news release:
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Scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution identify heat-resistant kelp strain
A new strain of kelp can help support sustainable farming
Images and videos available for use can be found here.
Woods Hole, Mass (February 10, 2025) -- Like most aquatic vegetation, kelp is being negatively impacted by climate change. Warming ocean temperatures have led to shorter gro
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SEA-PHAGES Students Discover and Analyze Bacteriophages, Advancing Biomedical Research
WACO, Texas, Feb. 6 -- Baylor University issued the following news:
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SEA-PHAGES Students Discover and Analyze Bacteriophages, Advancing Biomedical Research
First-year biology students publish research discoveries in American Society for Microbiology journal
by Kelly Craine, Media & Public Relations
First-year biology students at Baylor University are making significant strides in biomedical research through the prestigious Science Education Alliance-Phages (SEA-PHAGES) program, an init
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Senate Foreign Relations Committee Issues Testimony From Center for Research Security & Integrity Founder Stoff (Part 1 of 2)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 -- The Senate Foreign Relations Committee released the following testimony by Jeffrey Stoff, founder of the Center for Research Security and Integrity, from a Jan. 30, 3035, hearing entitled "The Malign Influence of the People's Republic of China at Home and Abroad: Recommendations for Policy Makers":
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Chairman Risch, Ranking Member Shaheen, and distinguished Members of the Committee:
Thank you for the opportunity to testify today on this critically important topic. N
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Stephanie Getty: Exploring the Universe with Curiosity and Wonder
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 -- NASA issued the following news release:
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Stephanie Getty: Exploring the Universe with Curiosity and Wonder
Dr. Stephanie Getty, director of NASA Goddard's Solar System Exploration Division, talks about NASA's DAVINCI (Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging) mission with Dr. Kate Calvin, the agency's chief scientist.
Credits: Courtesy of Stephanie Getty
Name : Dr. Stephanie Getty
Title : Director of the Solar System Explorat
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Unlocking Safer Batteries: New Study Uncovers Key Insights Into Electrolyte Materials for All-Solid-State Batteries
ARGONNE, Illinois, Feb. 11 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory issued the following news release:
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Unlocking safer batteries: New study uncovers key insights into electrolyte materials for all-solid-state batteries
Possible applications include electric vehicles, laptops and pacemakers
A joint computational and experimental study examined how adding certain dopants to a solid electrolyte could improve its interaction with a lithium metal electrode. The result
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