BAYREUTH, Germany, Feb. 22 -- The University of Bayreuth issued the following news release: * * * Invisibility Cloak for Magnetic Obstacles Researchers at the University of Bayreuth have developed a method that makes objects on a magnetic field invisible within a particle stream. Until now, this so-called cloaking had only been studied for waves such as light or sound. They report their results in Nature Communications. What for? Making objects invisible is no longer a purely fictional ide  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 -- NASA issued the following news release: * * * NASA Awards Planetary Defense Space Telescope Launch Services Contract Credit: NASA NASA has selected SpaceX of Starbase, Texas, to provide launch services for the Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor mission, which will detect and observe asteroids and comets that could potentially pose an impact threat to Earth. The firm fixed price launch service task order is being awarded under the indefinite delivery/indefinite quantit  more

MENLO PARK, California, Feb. 22 -- The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * Solving the case of the missing platinum SSRL scientists have figured out how platinum electrodes dissolve, potentially paving the way for renewable energy improvements. For nearly two decades, scientists have tried to understand how negatively polarized platinum electrodes corrode, a costly mystery that plagues water electrolyzers, a promising energy technology for making hyd  more

BLOOMINGTON, Indiana, Feb. 21 -- Indiana University issued the following news release: * * * Trustees approve new biosciences degrees to strengthen IU's and state's impact in life sciences INDIANAPOLIS -- Indiana University continues to build on recent investments in biosciences by creating three new related degrees at IU Indianapolis, which were approved by the Board of Trustees at its Feb. 20 meeting, along with three other new degrees. The new biosciences degrees are a part of IU's $250 m  more

PASADENA, California, Feb. 21 -- The California Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * What Hundreds of Millions of Galaxies Can Teach Us About the Big Bang Soon, a new cone-shaped spacecraft will launch into space on a mission to chart the skies like never before. Called SPHEREx (for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer), the NASA mission will provide a unique all-sky 3D map of hundreds of millions of galaxies in our un  more