PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Nov. 6 [TNSgrants-NSF] -- Brown University issued the following news release: * * * - Researchers at Brown will build quantum mechanical magnetic camera to image magnetic fields, which could help in better understanding and manipulating quantum materials. * * * A team of Brown University researchers will use a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to build a quantum mechanical magnetic camera, which will take snapshots of weak magnetic fields emanati more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Nov. 8 -- Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Neronha issued the following news release: Attorney General Peter F. Neronha announced that Bridget Morisseau (age 49), formerly of Cumberland, pleaded nolo contendere in Providence County Superior Court today to one count of embezzlement. Superior Court Magistrate Richard D. Raspallo sentenced Morisseau to three years of probation and ordered $9,434 in restitution payments to be paid by November 15, 2019. Had the case more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Nov. 6 [TNSgrants-NSF] -- Brown University issued the following news release: * * * - Leveraging expertise across engineering, chemistry and more, Brown physicists are leading four new federally funded research projects in quantum science. * * * By harnessing the often-strange behavior of matter at the tiniest scales, quantum technologies could open the door to ultra-fast computers, new kinds of sensors, uncrackable information security and other revolutionary techn more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Nov. 8 [TNSmedicalresearch-Molecular Cancer Therapeutics journal] -- Brown University issued the following news release: * * * - A Warren Alpert Medical School and Rhode Island Hospital cancer physician collaborates with molecular researcher to study use of nanotechnology to deliver medicine inside cancer cells. * * * Researchers from Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital have employed nanotechnology to identify a potentially groundbreaking treatment for chondr more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Nov. 5 [TNSbiologyresearch-Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal] -- Brown University issued the following news release: * * * - New research analyzing the diets and microbiomes of 33 large-herbivore species in Kenya yields surprising findings about the interplay between animal evolution, behavior and the gut microbiome. * * * In recent years, the field of microbiome research has grown rapidly, providing newfound knowledge -- and newfound questions more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Nov. 7 [TNSgrants] -- Brown University issued the following news release: * * * - Physics professor Brad Marston is part of an international project supported by a $4 million grant from the Simons Foundation to study turbulence, one of the great unsolved problems of classical physics. * * * A Brown University physicist will be part of an international team of researchers taking a new look at an old problem in physics: turbulence. Despite the fact that turbulent fl more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Nov. 4 [TNSgrants-NSF] -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: * * * - The project, led by a Dartmouth professor, will be funded by a $3M NSF grant * * * Freshwater lakes and ponds provide many ecological benefits, such as drinking water and food, but they are increasingly being threatened by harmful algae. The cyanobacteria blooms, also known as blue-green algae, affect water quality and pose a risk to human health through toxins that can damage more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Nov. 6 -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: * * * - Test plot finds saffron yields twice as much spice as top producing region * * * Saffron is the world's most expensive spice, selling for about $5,000 per pound at wholesale rates, and 90 percent of the global saffron harvest comes from Iran. But University of Rhode Island agriculture researchers have found that Ocean State farms have the potential to get a share of the market as demand for sa more PR