ITHACA, New York, Oct. 6 (TNSRes) -- Cornell University issued the following news: As the climate warms, disease-transmitting mosquitoes are invading the last strongholds for native birds in Hawaii's upper elevation forests, which were once too cool for mosquito or malaria development. On the island of Kaua'i, six native bird species recently experienced collapses coinciding with a sharp increase in mosquitoes and malaria. Moreover, eight of the 23 U.S. species declared officially extinct on Se more PR

ITHACA, New York, Oct. 6 (TNSJou) -- Cornell University issued the following news: By Blaine Friedlander Considered an ultra-hot Jupiter - a place where iron gets vaporized, condenses on the night side and then falls from the sky like rain - the fiery, inferno-like WASP-76b exoplanet may be even more sizzling than scientists had realized. An international team, led by researchers at Cornell, University of Toronto and Queen's University Belfast, reports the discovery of ionized calcium on the more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Oct. 9 -- Gov. David Ige, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release on Oct. 8, 2021: Gov. David Ige today announced five judicial appointments to fill vacancies on the Circuit Court of the First Circuit (Oahu), Circuit Court of the Second Circuit (Maui), and Circuit Court of the Third Circuit (Hawaii - Kona). The five appointees were each chosen from five lists of nominees submitted to the governor on Sept. 13, by the state Judicial Selection Commission. CIRCUIT COURT OF TH more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Oct. 4 -- Gov. David Ige, D-Hawaii, issued the following news release: Gov. David Ige issued the latest Emergency Proclamation Related to the State's COVID-19 DELTA Response, keeping in place the Safe Travels program and statewide mask mandates. There are also no changes to the EP provision which allows for the extension of expirations for driver's licenses and instructional permits that expired during the emergency period. This proclamation also: * Clarifies that employers more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Oct. 5 (TNSRes) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: If only 60% of University of Hawaii students at all 10 campuses were fully vaccinated, it is estimated an additional 3,000 cumulative COVID-19 cases could have been detected in Honolulu County over a six-week period (August 10-September 30), according to a compartmental mathematical model developed specifically for the State of Hawaii. This is one of several findings from a study by UH Manoa's Depar more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Oct. 9 (TNSJou) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: A University of Hawaii at Hilo physics professor led a team of scientists that recently solved the mystery of the light from a single galaxy being split into multiple distorted images, something that had puzzled astronomers for many years. Dr. Richard Griffiths, affiliate professor of physics and astronomy at UH Hilo, and professor emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University, and his team discovered tha more PR

HONOLULU, Hawaii, Oct. 9 (TNSRes) -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: 3,200 miles beneath Earth's surface lies the inner core, a ball-shaped mass of mostly iron that is responsible for Earth's magnetic field. According to NASA, this field acts like a protective shield around the planet, repelling and trapping charged particles from the Sun. In the 1950's, researchers suggested the inner core was solid, in contrast to the liquid metal region surrounding it. New researc more PR