CHICAGO, Illinois, Oct. 24 -- The University of Chicago issued the following news on Oct. 23, 2025: * * * 2025 Chicago Quantum Summit convenes global leaders to shape bold quantum future Now in its eighth year, event is one of the leading top-level gatherings in the world focused on integrating a full-spectrum quantum ecosystem * When hundreds convene on Nov. 3-4 for the 2025 Chicago Quantum Summit, they will hear from the quantum researchers advancing cutting-edge discoveries and the innov more PR

TALLAHASSEE, Florida, Oct. 24 -- Florida State University issued the following news: * * * FSU physicist elected American Physical Society Fellow By Kendall Cooper A Florida State University physicist has been designated a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in honor of his cutting-edge contributions to the fundamental understanding of the universe. Professor of Physics Fernando Febres Cordero was recognized by APS for his work in high-energy theoretical physics, which has helped more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 -- George Washington University posted the following news: * * * Media Tip Sheet: GW Expert on why the AWS Outage was Predictable * WASHINGTON (October 23, 2025) - Amazon Web Services' major outage this week disrupted hundreds of sites after an API update in its Virginia data center. This outage is an example of what happens when even weakly connected systems begin to fail in sync, according to Neil Johnson, a physics professor at the George Washington University. Profe more PR

OXFORD, Ohio, Oct. 24 -- Miami University issued the following Q&A on Oct. 23, 2025, by Susan Meikle with Qihou Zhou, professor of electrical and computing engineering: * * * Miami space physicist: Five years after the collapse of Puerto Rico's famed Arecibo Observatory telescope, world-class research continues Qihou Zhou recently received more than $707,000 from the NSF to revitalize the Arecibo radar data; will help to enable future discoveries, resolve old mysteries * Five years after th more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Oct. 24 -- Yale University issued the following news release: * * * Pushing boundaries: Yale-affiliated projects are winners in climate solutions/AI challenge A global competition to combine AI with climate solutions has named two Yale-related projects among its winning ideas. * A pair of projects that are leveraging Yale research to address the global climate threat -- a game-changing forecasting system for marine carbon dioxide removal strategies and a new approach more PR

SOUTH ORANGE, New Jersey, Oct. 24 -- Seton Hall University issued the following news: * * * Peter Morse and M.S. in Applied Physics and Engineering: Shaping the Future of STEM Innovation By Flora Qiyue Wu Peter Morse, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, has recently contributed to the global scientific community. He co-authored a chapter in the Royal Society of Chemistry's book Packing Problems in Soft Matter Physics: Fundamentals and Applications. This more PR

IRVINE, California, Oct. 24 (TNSjou) -- The University of California Irvine campus issued the following news release: * * * UC Irvine astronomers discover nearby exoplanet in habitable zone The team found that the surface may have liquid water on its surface - a necessary ingredient for life * The work identifies an ideal target planet for the in-development Thirty Meter Telescope. * The planet in question may be rocky like Earth and a few times more massive. * NASA and National Science Fo more PR

CHICAGO, Illinois, Oct. 24 (TNSjou) -- The University of Chicago issued the following news: * * * UChicago scientists create novel, ultrathin material to make transistors Molecule and semiconductor combination could open new avenues for technology, discovery By Louise Lerner The ability to make a very miniature on/off switch changed the world. These tiny switches, known as transistors, make up the basis of all modern computing--they drive your cell phones, your bank transactions, your TV a more PR

BLACKSBURG, Virginia, Oct. 24 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: * * * Quantum center levels up, generating new research, grants, space By Kelly Izlar Have you heard about the dentist who decided to become a quantum physicist? That's not a joke. He's a Virginia Tech graduate student named Hisham Amer. Seven years ago, he was a practicing oral surgeon and faculty member in dental medicine at Cairo University in Egypt. When he decided to start over again in physics, his dismayed fa more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Oct. 23 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * With a new molecule-based method, physicists peer inside an atom's nucleus * Physicists at MIT have developed a new way to probe inside an atom's nucleus, using the atom's own electrons as "messengers" within a molecule. In a study appearing today in the journal Science, the physicists precisely measured the energy of electrons whizzing around a radium atom that had been paired w more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Oct. 24 (TNSjou) -- Yale University issued the following news release: * * * Search for a rare physics event gets some noise cancelling headphones The international CUORE experiment, which includes Yale physicists, releases its biggest dataset yet as it hunts for a rare nuclear particle decay. * Deep under a mountain in Italy, researchers continue to push the boundaries of science with an experiment that could rewrite the Standard Model of Particle Physics. Their ex more PR