21-Nov-2024 A new era for batteries: Argonne leads $50 million sodium-ion innovation push DOE/Argonne National Laboratory A consortium of 13 national laboratories and universities aims to develop high-energy, long-lasting sodium-ion batteries that are made from inexpensive, abundant materials and reduce U.S. reliance on critical elements used in electric-vehicle batteries.
21-Nov-2024 FDA approves zanidatamab for biliary tract cancers with high HER2 levels Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Learn more about a new treatment for biliary tract cancers with high levels of HER2. The drug zanidatamab has been approved by the FDA, thanks to a clinical trial co-led by MSK.
21-Nov-2024 Mini smart city drives design of safer automated transportation Cornell University Cornell University engineers have created a 20-by-20-foot “smart” city shrunk to 1:25 scale. Its fleet of custom-built cars, drones, cameras and virtual reality technology are helping researchers design a better – and safer – future for transportation.
21-Nov-2024 Data collector on the seafloor Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR) 21 November 2024/Kiel. One of the oldest marine time series stations in the world is located in Eckernförde Bay, just under two kilometres off the coast: Boknis Eck. Since 1957, data on the state of the Baltic Sea have been collected regularly from a ship and, since 2016, also from an underwater observatory on the seafloor. After the device disappeared in 2019, the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel today launched a new, modernised measuring node with the research vessel ALKOR. The underwater station will soon resume providing continuous data on key environmental parameters such as temperature, salinity and currents.
21-Nov-2024 CATA-Earth, university education to tackle climate change and the global environmental crisis in Southeast Asia Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) Its aim is to create greater capacity for developing and delivering planetary health education that is co-created with communities in climate-vulnerable regions in Asia
21-Nov-2024 NPS atomic fountain for research in quantum sensing nears completion of first phase Naval Postgraduate School Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) physicists are on track to bring the institution’s new atomic fountain online in 2025, enabling advanced quantum sensing experimentation in support of precision navigation and timekeeping.
21-Nov-2024 Will your FB page and Google photos outlive you? New CU Boulder clinic helps preserve digital life after death University of Colorado at Boulder The new pro-bono, student-run Digital Legacy Clinic at the University of Colorado Boulder helps people plan what will happen to their digital life after they die or manage the digital heirlooms of lost loved ones. Funder U.S. National Science Foundation
21-Nov-2024 INL hosts forensics training for Ukraine to deter nuclear threats DOE/Idaho National Laboratory It’s a long way from the Donbas region of Ukraine to Idaho, but Ukrainian officials recently made the trip to learn about collecting evidence after a nuclear attack.
20-Nov-2024 SLAC celebrates 50 years of Nobel-winning discovery in particle physics DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory In 1974, the independent discovery of the J/psi particle at SLAC and Brookhaven National Laboratory rocked the physics world, and entire textbooks had to be rewritten. Earlier this month, SLAC hosted a symposium to celebrate the milestone.
20-Nov-2024 Born 24 years ago at RPI, Tahira Reid Smith’s ‘jump dreams’ are in full swing Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Tahira Reid Smith invented the automatic double Dutch machine as a student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the early 2000s. Now more than two decades later, she is bringing her invention to market. Reid Smith hopes to see more women and people of color become inventors and, like her, draw on their lived experience in their work.
