23+ hour, 12+ min ago   (178+ words) Building awareness for upcoming research and leveraging trends, these offerings were a staple of the science media landscape until rather recently. Today, immersive opportunities for reporters are rare, so we’re exploring some of the issues around hosting in-depth reporter briefings…...

11+ hour, 12+ min ago   (932+ words) A new book co-written by researchers at Binghamton University and the University of Rhode Island provides a framework for comparing human rights practices around the world and over time, and for developing theories about why some governments violate rights more…...

18+ hour, 47+ min ago   (166+ words) | Newswise Newswise Polarization metrology for linear birefringence Overview of mechanisms, measurement methods, and applications of linear birefringence in transparent anisotropic media. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 62405292 and 62405135; the Fundamental Research…...

23+ hour, 27+ min ago   (148+ words) Newswise — MRIs are among the most accurate imaging tests used to diagnose brain tumors, and ​MRI-based monitoring of tumors ​​guides​​​​ critical treatment decisions. The clinical standard for measuring tumors often relies on either subjective evaluation or simplified two-dimensional (2D) measurements. To…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (408+ words) | Newswise Newswise Researchers Use AI to Decode Key DNA Sequence in Gene Activation Machine learning unlocks identity of the ‘initiator’ and opens new predictions of DNA mutations that cause disease - Scientists have revealed the DNA sequence code of the “initiator,…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (545+ words) “A lot of machine learning is sort of a black box,” said Golowich. “You try out various things and sometimes things work and you don’t really understand why. I was driven to push harder at understanding why things happen the…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (290+ words) Deliverome aims to build the first large-scale, open-access atlas of the proteins that sit on the surface of different human cells and which of them can deliver cargo into those cells’ interiors. It will be especially valuable for researchers working…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (448+ words) Newswise — John Lajoie is a builder—not of buildings or everyday machines, but of detectors with a special purpose. A physicist at the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Lajoie has shaped his career around finding hard-to-solve…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (738+ words) During their time in CRI, memQ founders Manish Kumar Singh and Sean Sullivan worked at Argonne to advance technologies for scalable quantum networks. Members of CRI’s first cohort, including the co-founders Tyler Huggins and Justin Whiteley of what would become…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (534+ words) Researchers at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and the Florida State University-headquartered National High Magnetic Field Laboratory have designed new quantum computing architecture that uses magnetic levitation to smooth over design flaws in the intricate bits necessary to run a…...