A Reusable Chip for Particulate Matter Sensing | Newswise
[ad_1] Newswise — Fine airborne particles are especially challenging to monitor because particle size affects both how long they remain suspended in air and how deeply they can penetrate into the respiratory system. PM2.5 is of particular concern because of its association with adverse health effects. Existing techniques, including beta-ray absorption, gravimetric methods, and light-scattering […]
Teaching Neural Networks Where Errors Matter | Newswise
[ad_1] Newswise — This study introduces volume weighting physics-informed neural networks (VW-PINNs), a new framework that changes how residual errors are evaluated during training. By weighting the PDE residual according to the volume occupied by collocation points in the computational domain, the method avoids over-learning in regions where collocation points are densely sampled. A sufficient […]
DESI Completes Planned 3D Map of the Universe and Continues Exploring
[ad_1] BYLINE: Lauren Biron Newswise — Last night, the 5,000 fiber-optic eyes of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) swiveled onto a patch of sky near the Little Dipper. Roughly every 20 minutes, they locked on to distant pinpricks of light, gathering photons that had traveled toward Earth for billions of years. When the sun […]
Harrisburg University Students Design Oyster-Based Aquaculture System for Space Exploration | Newswise
[ad_1] Newswise — HARRISBURG, PA – The future of space exploration is currently hampered by humankind’s ability to sustainably provide nutrition, environmental control, and life support for long-duration human spaceflight. NASA’s Biology & Physical Sciences Division outlined these gaps in a 2024 report entitled, A New Era in Space: Ensuring the Future of Biological and Physical Sciences Research: A […]
UAlbany Atmospheric Scientist Contributes to International Study on Contrail Formation | Newswise
[ad_1] Newswise — ALBANY, N.Y. (April 14, 2026) — Fangqun Yu, a senior research faculty member at the University at Albany’s Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, has been studying the microphysics of contrail formation for more than two decades. Contrails, the thin white streaks often seen trailing behind airplanes, form through a complex process involving the mixing […]
KATRIN Narrows Down the Range of Neutrinos’ Mass
[ad_1] The Science Scientists have known about the existence of neutrinos – tiny fundamental particles that almost never interact with matter – for 95 years. Nobel Prize-winning work in 1998 showed that their mass is not zero. However, neutrinos’ exact mass is still unknown. The international KArlsruhe TRItium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment uses the process by which a […]
Scientists Commission Crucial Subsystem in Pioneering Particle Physics Experiment
[ad_1] Newswise — The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory made a major contribution to a high-profile experiment seeking to discover new physics. Hosted at DOE’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), the Mu2e (muon-to-electron conversion) experiment aims to observe an extremely rare process in particle physics. The experiment is a multiyear collaboration among more than 30 […]
FAMU-FSU College of Engineering Researchers Develop New Model for Predicting Noise Feedback Loops From Supersonic Jets | Newswise
[ad_1] The research could help develop methods for reducing intense noise that threatens aircraft and ground crews Newswise — Researchers from the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and the Florida Center for Advanced Aero-Propulsion, or FCAAP, are helping to solve a safety challenge in military aviation: the extreme noise generated by supersonic jets during takeoff and […]
Can Practical Superconductors Work Without Extreme Cooling?
[ad_1] Newswise — Scientists discovered how tiny changes in superhydride structure enable superconductivity at near room temperatures but extreme pressure — offering clues for designing more practical superconductors. Superconductors allow electricity to flow without resistance, meaning no energy is lost as heat. This property makes them useful for technologies such as MRI scanners, particle accelerators, magnetic-levitation trains […]
Did Impacts From Meteors Help Start Life on Earth? | Newswise
[ad_1] BYLINE: Kitta MacPherson Newswise — Meteor impacts may have helped spark life on Earth, creating hot, chemical-rich environments where the first living cells could take shape, according to research integrated by a recent Rutgers University graduate. “No one knows, from a scientific perspective, how life could have been formed from an early Earth that […]