Science & Technology

FSU researchers collaborate with business to develop next-generation superconducting cables

Published: May 24, 2022 | 10:27 am | Posted in: Science & Technology

An image of the Conductor on Round Core cable that was incorporated into the power cable system developed by researchers with the Center for Advanced Power Systems and Advanced Conductor Technologies. (Courtesy of Advanced Conductor Technologies)

Researchers at Florida State University’s Center for Advanced Power Systems (CAPS), in collaboration with Colorado-based Advanced Conductor Technologies, have demonstrated a new, ready-to-use superconducting cable system — an improvement to superconductor technology that drives the development of technologies such as all-electric ships or airplanes. In a paper published in Superconductor Science and Technology, the researchers […]

FSU statistician named fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics

Published: May 23, 2022 | 9:15 am | Posted in: Science & Technology, University News

A Florida State University statistician has been named a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), one of the most esteemed designations in the field. Anuj Srivastava, a distinguished research professor in the Department of Statistics, has been elected as a 2022 IMS Fellow, joining a class of 39 other researchers from around the […]

FSU Libraries spotlights a year of ‘Diverse Voices in STEM’

Published: May 17, 2022 | 3:25 pm | Posted in: Science & Technology

More than 160 undergraduate students participated during the 2021-2022 academic year in dialogues and met with professionals from science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) occupations as part of Florida State University Libraries’ Diverse Voices in STEM Speaker Series. The series calls attention to challenges of underrepresented groups in STEM as they progress through their academic […]

Remote sensing research improves hurricane response

Published: May 13, 2022 | 10:05 am | Posted in: Science & Technology

Aerial views in Florida before and after Hurricane Michael. (Courtesy of NOAA)

Safe and uninterrupted road travel is crucial in the aftermath of storms so that people can access medical treatment, downed power lines can be removed and communities can begin a return to normalcy. Researchers with the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering’s Resilient Infrastructure and Disaster Response (RIDER) Center are investigating better ways to predict where road-clogging […]

Florida State hosts international experts, researchers at Kenneth A. Taylor Symposium on Cryo-EM and Muscle Biology

Published: May 13, 2022 | 9:31 am | Posted in: Science & Technology

Kenneth A. Taylor and doctoral student, Hamidreza Rahmani. (FSU Photography Services)

Florida State University’s Institute of Molecular Biophysics is bringing together a set of international experts to share scientific ideas about cryoelectron microscopy, or cryo-EM, and molecular mechanisms of various biological processes on May 13-14 during the Kenneth A. Taylor Symposium on Cryo-EM and Muscle Biology. More than a dozen scientists from institutions across the U.S. […]

European Geosciences Union names FSU assistant professor Outstanding Early Career Scientist

Published: May 12, 2022 | 9:53 am | Posted in: Science & Technology

Richard Bono, an assistant professor in the Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science.

A Florida State University faculty member has been named a 2022 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist by the European Geosciences Union (EGU). Richard Bono, an assistant professor in the Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, received the award in the EGU’s Earth magnetism and rock physics division. “Richard is a fantastic example of a […]

Research with a peel: FSU study on banana browning could help tackle food waste

Published: May 11, 2022 | 11:49 am | Posted in: Science & Technology

An image from the research showing the progression of browning on a banana over five days. (Oliver Steinbock/Florida State University)

New research from Florida State University won’t only help you nail the timing for your banana bread — it could also help reduce millions of tons of food waste from the widely cultivated fruit. A team of FSU researchers investigated the formation and spread of brown spots on bananas, a striking case of biological pattern […]

FSU researchers use AI to prompt older adults’ participation in research

Published: May 10, 2022 | 2:23 pm | Posted in: Science & Technology

In a new study, Florida State University researchers explore the challenges of recruiting and retaining older adults to participate in research. The study also marks the first step of a broad, interdisciplinary FSU effort to increasingly use artificial intelligence in research. In the study, published in The Gerontologist, Associate Professor of Sociology Dawn Carr identified core […]

FSU neuroscientist awarded $1.8M NIH grant to study brain’s influence on eating habits

Published: May 9, 2022 | 1:47 pm | Posted in: Science & Technology

Roberto Vincis, an assistant professor of Biological Science and Neuroscience. (Florida State University)

A researcher in Florida State University’s Program in Neuroscience has received a $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to investigate how the brain encodes information about food and how this information affects an individual’s overall eating habits and food choices. Roberto Vincis, an assistant professor of Biological Science and Neuroscience, will lead […]

FSU astrophysicist chosen for key role in international science collaboration mapping remnant light from the Big Bang

Published: May 4, 2022 | 1:32 pm | Posted in: Science & Technology

A Florida State University cosmologist has been selected to co-lead a Department of Energy and National Science Foundation project investigating the faint leftover radiation from the Big Bang known as the cosmic microwave background, or CMB. FSU Associate Professor of Physics Kevin Huffenberger and University of Chicago Associate Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics Jeff McMahon […]

Building a better quantum bit: New qubit breakthrough could transform quantum computing

Published: May 4, 2022 | 11:37 am | Posted in: Science & Technology

An illustration of the qubit platform made of a single electron on solid neon. Researchers froze neon gas into a solid at very low temperatures, sprayed electrons from a light bulb onto the solid and trapped a single electron there to create a qubit. (Courtesy of Dafei Jin/Argonne National Laboratory)

You are no doubt viewing this article on a digital device whose basic unit of information is the bit, either 0 or 1. Scientists worldwide are racing to develop a new kind of computer based on the use of quantum bits, or qubits, which can simultaneously be 0 and 1 and could one day solve […]

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