WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Parker Solar Probe science and engineering team, a collaboration of scientists from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), NASA, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), and more than 40 other partner organizations, received the 2024 Robert J. Collier Trophy, awarded by the National Aeronautic Association (NAA), on June 12.

Recently, to address this issue, the research group led by Qian Xiang from the Division of Intelligent Instruments and Equipment at Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School proposed a flexible electret tactile feedback actuator based on multi-layer variable stiffness polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) elastomers.

Researchers with the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture studying the effects of the enormous amount of water and sediment left on agricultural land in the wake of Hurricane Helene flooding have won a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to continue their work and share their findings with farmers impacted by the widespread agricultural damage.

The USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) awarded the grant of $275,000 to principal investigator and assistant professor Eminé Fidan and professor Shawn Hawkins, of the UT Department of Biosystems Engineering and Soil Science, and Annette Engel, an esteemed Jones professor of Aqueous Geochemistry in the UT Knoxville Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.

While the majority of Midwestern farmers rotate corn and soybeans, commodity prices and corn yield advantages compel some to plant corn year after year. Although research on the benefits of corn-soybean rotation goes back decades, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign scientists are addressing holistic questions about crop yield, environmental impacts, and economic returns under various crop rotation scenarios. 

SAN ANTONIO — June 23, 2025 — Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has developed new methods for evaluating the performance and efficiency of fuel cell technology in hydrogen-powered vehicles without the need for test tracks or dynamometers.

Sandia National Laboratories and Central New Mexico Community College are partnering to create a training program for quantum technicians. 

Researchers at Rice and collaborators at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Technology, Sydney report the first demonstration of low noise, room-temperature quantum emitters in h-BN made through a scalable growth technique.