‘The Alexa of chemistry’: NSF puts VCU and partners on fast track to build open network

D. Tyler McQuade, Ph.D. , a professor in the Virginia Commonwealth University College of Engineering , is principal investigator of a multi-university project seeking to use artificial intelligence to help scientists come up with the perfect molecule for everything from…

Story tips from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, September 2019

Computing–Assessing veteran suicide risk In collaboration with the Department of Veterans Affairs, a team at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has expanded a VA-developed predictive computing model to identify veterans at risk of suicide and sped it up to run 300…

$1.75 million X-ray tool is first of its kind in the US

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. — Binghamton University, State University of New York will acquire a sophisticated new X-ray tool useful in materials research and R&D for electronics. The $1.75 million system — the third of its kind in the world and the…

Rewriting the periodic table at high pressure

The periodic table has been a vital foundational tool for material research since it was first created 150 years ago. Now, Martin Rahm from Chalmers University of Technology presents a new article which adds an entirely new dimension to the…