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South Korea joins Horizon Europe
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol (center) and EU leaders announced a research funding deal.
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South Korea will participate in the €95.5 billion ($104 billion) Horizon Europe R&D program, the first East Asian country to do so, the European Commission announced last week. South Korean scientists will compete for grants on an equal footing with their European counterparts; in return, South Korea will contribute an as-yet-undisclosed amount to the 7-year program, which expires in 20...
Source: ScienceNOW - March 28, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
Department of Energy ’s science chief announces her unexpected departure
After 22 months on the job, Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, director of the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Science, is stepping down. Yesterday Berhe sent a letter to the office’s 815 employees saying her last day would be 28 March. With a budget of $8.2 billion, the office is the United States’s single largest funder of the physical sciences.
Berhe, who was born in Eritrea and is the first person of color to direct the office, says in her letter that the job has been “the honor of my lifetime” and that she’s leaving with “pride in what we have accomplished, and a heavy heart filled with profound sadn...
Source: ScienceNOW - March 15, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
‘Doing something for the real world’: how 1,000 UK schoolkids helped crack a crystals conundrum
When citizen science in school labs ended up in a particle accelerator, the results advanced our understanding of how crystals form – with a positive impact on the future of medicine, materials science and moreGry Christensen was a 15-year-old year 11 student when she took part in a “citizen science” project to understand how the different crystals in mussel shells form. But unlike most school experiments, the samples that she and her 1,000 fellow secondary school pupils prepared were then blasted by scientists in a particle accelerator using X-rays 10bn times brighter than the sun.“It was a bit of an eye opener,...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - March 2, 2024 Category: Science Authors: Anna Demming Tags: Chemistry Science Medical research Schools Education Source Type: news
Shankland departs CNET after 25 years
Stephen Shankland, who has worked at tech news site CNET since October 1998, is leaving the publication. He has been writing about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, drones, browsers, 3D printing, USB, and new computing technology in…#stephenshankland #cnet #quantum #usb #google #linux #losalamosmonitor #harvarduniversity (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 1, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Organic chemistry research transformed: The convergence of automation and AI reshapes scientific exploration
Recently, National Science Open magazine published online a review article led by Professor Fanyang Mo (School of Materials Science and Engineering, Peking University) and Professor Yuntian Chen (Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo). The research team proposed a significant shift towards automation and artificial intelligence (AI) in organic chemistry over the past decade. (Source: World Pharma News)
Source: World Pharma News - December 27, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Featured Research Research and Development Source Type: news
‘Graphene will change the world’: the boss using the ‘supermaterial’ in the global microchip war
Simon Thomas knew the periodic table by heart at six. Now the Cambridge firm ’s co-founder is putting his scientific brain behind graphene’s power to help us compete with ChinaThe first thing visitors to Paragraf ’s lab, in the Cambridgeshire village of Somersham, are shown is a thin disc made of synthetic sapphire with a piece of graphene taped on to it. This was the first graphene product the company made, and it quickly evolved to a small wafer of 64 tiny graphene devices arranged in a grid. These days, the company produces six-inch wafers that hold 9,000 chips.Graphene, a 2D form of carbon, with the atoms arrange...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - December 19, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Julia Kollewe Tags: Manufacturing sector Materials science Technology sector Technology startups Business Physics Source Type: news
Science ’s 2023 Breakthrough of the Year: Weight loss drugs with a real shot at fighting obesity
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Obesity plays out as a private struggle and a public health crisis. In the United States, about 70% of adults are affected by excess weight, and in Europe that number is more than half. The stigma against fat can be crushing; its risks, life-threatening. Defined as a body mass index of at least 30, obesity is thought to power type 2 diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, fatty liver disease, and certain cancers.
Yet drug treatments...
Source: ScienceNOW - December 14, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
Google DeepMind AI Breakthrough Could Help Battery and Chip Development
Researchers at Google DeepMind have used artificial intelligence to predict the structures of more than 2 million new materials, in a breakthrough that could have wide-reaching benefits in sectors such as renewable energy and computing.
DeepMind published 381,000 of the 2.2 million crystal structures that it predicts to be most stable.
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The breakthrough increases the number of known stable materials by a factor of ten. Although the materials will still need to be synthesized and tested, steps which can take months or even years, the latest development is expected to...
Source: TIME: Science - November 29, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Will Henshall Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Forge Nano to Launch U.S Battery Manufacturing Business; North Carolina Gigafactory Planned for 2026
DENVER, Nov. 14, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Forge Nano, Inc., a leading materials science company that enables peak performance products through atomic-level surface engineering, today announced plans to launch a lithium-ion battery manufacturing business called Forge Battery. The newly formed…#denver #forgenano #forgebattery #raleigh #northcarolina #morrisville #atomicarmor #paullichty #batterybelt #jdig (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Scientists create world ’s most water-resistant surface
Finnish researchers make ‘liquid-like’ outer layer from silicon that could revolutionise household tasksScientists have created the most water-resistant surface in the world, a development which could banish household tasks and revolutionise industry.A research team in Finland, led by Robin Ras, from Aalto University, and aided by researchers from the University of Jyv äskylä, has developed a mechanism to make water droplets slip off surfaces with unprecedented efficacy.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - October 23, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Sammy Gecsoyler Tags: Materials science Physics World news Finland Chemistry Europe Source Type: news
Women leaders at six top research universities urge more diversity in semiconductor workforce
A push to rejuvenate the U.S. semiconductor industry won’t succeed without including more women and minorities in the workforce. That’s the rationale for a new academic consortium aimed at increasing diversity in microelectronics being launched by the women presidents and engineering deans at six prominent universities.
“This is personal for us,” say the founders of the Education group for Diversification and Growth in Engineering (
EDGE) Consortium
, which is holding a summit next week in Washington, D.C., to lay out a national strategy. “We have often been the ‘first’ women to occupy leaders...
Source: ScienceNOW - October 20, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
From Sci-Fi to Reality: Robotic Surgery's'Exciting' Time From Sci-Fi to Reality: Robotic Surgery's'Exciting' Time
Driving the technology forward are advances in materials science and AI, plus patient benefits like shorter recovery times and less pain.WebMD Health News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - September 26, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: General Surgery News Source Type: news
Robots Are Taking Over Your Surgery (and You Should Be Excited)
Driving the technology forward are advances in materials science and AI, plus patient benefits like shorter recovery times and less pain. (Source: WebMD Health)
Source: WebMD Health - September 26, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Birmingham launches new Dental and Biomaterials Testing Service
September 18, 2023: University of Birmingham Enterprise announces the launch of the Birmingham Dental and Biomaterials Testing Service (BiMaTs), to provide consultancy and a comprehensive materials testing service for dental and biomaterial manufacturers.
BiMaTs is co-founded by internationally recognised academic researchers Professor Josette Camilleri and Professor Will Palin. The consultancy element will be key to BiMaTs, which will offer a range of services to assess the mechanical and physical properties of materials and the biological properties of material-tissue interfaces, including developing protocols that ar...
Source: Dental Technology Blog - September 18, 2023 Category: Dentistry Source Type: news
News at a glance: Moon landing, museum thefts, and gardening for conservation
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Indian Moon lander begins search for ice
India last week put a spacecraft on the Moon, making it the fourth nation to perform the feat, after the United States, the Soviet Union, and China. The $75 million, robotic Chandrayaan-3 mission is the first to explore a region near the lunar south pole, which is thought to hold frozen water that could be used to support human explorers. The area also contains large impact craters, which could hold clues to the history of the Solar System. Hours after landing, the craft released a solar-powered, suitcase-size rover that will study soil compositi...
Source: ScienceNOW - August 31, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
