LONDON, England, Aug. 24 (TNSres) -- City St George's, University of London issued the following news: * * * City St George's sociologist explains how online disinformation, the cost-of-living crisis and nationalism fuelled the riots following Southport tragedy. * * * By Eve Lacroix On Monday 29 July 2024, a 17-year old teen brought a knife to a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport and murdered three girls, injuring ten more children and parents. Within two hours, a social media po more PR

CLARKSVILLE, Tennessee, Aug. 19 (TNSres) -- Austin Peay State University issued the following news: By Colby Wilson International experience has become a valuable asset for college students like Josh Rye, a senior engineering physics major at Austin Peay State University (APSU). His summer research trip to Rennes, France, offered more than just academic experience--it provided a glimpse into potential career paths, European culture, and personal growth opportunities. Rye spent seven weeks in  more PR

LONDON, England, Aug. 24 (TNSres) -- City St George's, University of London issued the following news: * * * Bayes Reader scoops annual prize for research into power asymmetries in supply chain networks. * * * By Hamish Armstrong Dr Canan Kocabasoglu-Hillmer, Reader in Operations and Supply Chain Management at Bayes Business School (formerly Cass) has been awarded the prestigious Chris Voss Best Paper Award at the EurOMA 2024 annual conference in Barcelona. Dr Kocabasoglu-Hillmer's researc more PR

CHICAGO, Illinois, Aug. 24 (TNSres) -- The University of Chicago issued the following news: * * * Fermilab-led Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment will tell us about the universe and how it works * * * State and federal leaders descended one mile underground in South Dakota to celebrate the next phase of the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility/Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment--an international project to study mysterious particles known as neutrinos, to address some of the biggest questions more PR

SOUTHAMPTON, England, Aug. 24 (TNSres) -- The University of Southampton issued the following news: New research reveals how short bursts of daily mindfulness can boost wellbeing, combat depression and anxiety, and inspire healthier lifestyle choices. In a new study published in the British Journal of Health Psychology , researchers from the Universities of Southampton and Bath have unveiled how just ten minutes of daily mindfulness practice can improve wellbeing, ease depression and anxiety, a more PR

LIVERPOOL, England, Aug. 24 (TNSres) -- The University of Liverpool issued the following news release: The University of Liverpool is delighted to welcome the international best-selling author, Sarah Perry, to campus for the Liverpool Literary Festival this autumn. On Friday 4 October at 7pm Sarah will discuss her latest novel, Enlightenment. Longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize and recently serialised as BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime, Enlightenment is a mysterious story of unrequited love, f more PR

LUND, Sweden, Aug. 24 (TNSres) -- Lund University issued the following news release: The income and education levels of a child's environment determine their relationship to nature, not whether they live in a city or the countryside. This is the finding of a new study conducted by researchers at Lund University, Sweden. The results run counter to the assumption that growing up in the countryside automatically increases our connection to nature, and yet the study also shows that nature close to  more PR

MACAU, China, Aug. 24 (TNSres) -- The University of Macau issued the following news release: The State Key Laboratory of Internet of Things for Smart City (SKL-IOTSC) of the University of Macau (UM) held the 4th Macao International Conference on Smart City Technologies. Themed 'Powering Resilient and Sustainable Cities: Innovations in AIOT', this year's conference brought together more than 100 experts and scholars from home and abroad to explore key strategies, cutting-edge interdisciplinary t more PR

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, Aug. 21 (TNSres) -- Rutgers University issued the following news: * * * Rutgers Health partners in National Institutes of Health effort to characterize long-term effects of the virus on young patients * * * The kids were correct all along. In the most comprehensive national study since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, a team of researchers that includes a Rutgers-organized consortium of pediatric sites has concluded that long COVID symptoms in children are tang more PR

CHAPEL HILL, North Carolina, Aug. 24 (TNSres) -- The University of North Carolina School of Medicine issued the following news release: * * * A new study led by Elise Hickman, PhD, and Ilona Jaspers, PhD, director of the UNC Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma, and Lung Biology at the UNC School of Medicine, suggests that e-cigarette and cigarette use changes the microbiome in the nose and makes users more susceptible to respiratory diseases and infections. * * * The nose plays more r more PR

BERLIN, Germany, Aug. 24 (TNSres) -- Charite - Berlin University Medicine issued the following news release: How effective medications are depends on various factors, including the time of day when they are administered. Why? Because our bodies don't always function exactly the same. Instead, they follow the cycle set by their internal clock, otherwise known as circadian rhythm. But since each person's circadian rhythm is different and depends on a number of different factors, it is difficult t more PR

GREATER MANCHESTER, England, Aug. 24 (TNSres) -- The University of Salford issued the following news: * * * On July 6th 1924, in the operating room of neurosurgeon Nikolai Guleke, scientist Hans Berger made the first recording of spontaneous electrical activity from the human brain, heralded as the first electroencephalography (EEG) recording. Since that landmark discovery, scientists around the world have used EEG to transform how we understand the human brain. This includes diagnosis of con more PR

STANFORD, California, Aug. 19 (TNSres) -- Stanford University issued the following news release: * * * Heat waves, droughts, and fires place growing stress on the West's electric grid. Stanford research suggests that more integrated management of electricity resources across the region could significantly reduce the risk of power outages and accelerate the transition to clean energy. In brief * Extreme weather is leading to more frequent power grid strain and electricity outages. * There ar more PR

MUNICH, Germany, Aug. 24 (TNSres) -- The Technical University of Munich issued the following news: The Munich Cluster for the Future of Mobility in Metropolitan Regions (MCube) can continue its innovative research for at least another three years. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has deemed the first phase of the cluster led by the Technical University of Munich (TUM) a success. It will fund a second funding period with around 15 million euros. The BMBF announced this based more PR

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Aug. 20 (TNSres) -- Texas A&M University School of Public Health issued the following news: * * * Study finds cost benefits--but at a possible risk to quality * * * Large hospital systems control eight out of 10 hospital beds in the United States--and they continue to grow--but little has been known until now about how system ownership affects hospital operations. To learn more, Benjamin Ukert, PhD, and Elena Andreyeva, PhD, both with the Texas A&M University School  more PR

TORONTO, Ontario, Aug. 24 (TNSres) -- The University of Toronto issued the following news: * * * The immune cells, known as primitive microphages, were found to enhance heart tissue function and vessel stability * * * By Qin Dai Researchers at the University of Toronto have discovered a novel method for incorporating primitive microphages - crucial immune cells - into heart-on-a-chip technology, in a potentially transformative step forward in drug testing and heart disease modeling. In a s more PR

LONDON, England, Aug. 24 (TNSres) -- The University College London issued the following news: * * * Gaussion, a UCL spinout that has developed new technology to allow ultrafast and safe battery charging, has won pound sterling9.4 million funding. * * * Founded by Dr Thomas Heenan (UCL Chemical Engineering) and Dr Chun Tan (UCL Mechanical Engineering) at the UCL Electrochemical Innovation Lab (EIL) in 2017, Gaussion has developed a novel solution that radically enhances the battery performanc more PR

LONDON, England, Aug. 24 (TNSres) -- The University College London issued the following news: The anti-obesity medication semaglutide may help to prevent heart attacks and other major adverse cardiac events among overweight people who have cardiovascular disease, whether or not they also have heart failure, according to a new study led by UCL's Professor John Deanfield. The results follow previous research* from the same international team finding that weekly injections of semaglutide were lin more PR

BAYREUTH, Germany, Aug. 24 (TNSres) -- The University of Bayreuth issued the following news release: An international team of researchers - including some from Bayreuth - has investigated the effects of deforestation in the rainforest. Their findings - which have now been published in the journal "Nature Communications": Deforestation is putting tropical mountain rainforests under pressure and exacerbating climate change. The mountain forests in Africa are under significant stress due to incre more PR

KOLN, Germany, Aug. 24 (TNSres) -- The University of Cologne issued the following news release on Aug. 23, 2024: * * * New AI-based digital platform enables extremely fast and accurate analysis of tissue sections from lung cancer patients / publication in 'Cell Reports Medicine' * * * A team of researchers from the University of Cologne's Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, led by Dr Yuri Tolkach and Professor Dr Reinhard Buttner, has created a digital pathology platform bas more PR

PORTSMOUTH, England, Aug. 24 (TNSres) -- The University of Portsmouth issued the following news: * * * A citizen science project has already identified 20 new astronomical discoveries. * * * A citizen science project, which invites members of the public to take part in identifying cosmic explosions, has already identified 20 new astronomical discoveries. Over 2,000 volunteers across 105 different countries have worked on 600,000 classifications over a six-month period. The project 'Kilonov more PR

SOUTHAMPTON, England, Aug. 24 (TNSres) -- The University of Southampton issued the following news: When former royalty protection officer Allan Peters was diagnosed with terminal stage 4b cancer, he set to work putting his affairs in order and arranging his own funeral. He even received a letter of condolence from his former employer, the newly crowned King Charles. Two years later and now totally cancer free, Allan was one of the first patients to receive a revolutionary therapy, called CAR ( more PR

WURZBURG, Germany, Aug. 24 (TNSres) -- The University of Wurzburg issued the following news release: Chlamydiae are sexually transmitted pathogens that can apparently survive in the human gut for a long time. Researchers from Wurzburg and Berlin report this in the journal PLOS Pathogens. People who are infected with chlamydia can transmit these bacteria to other people during unprotected sex. The pathogens usually cause no or only mild symptoms at first, such as itching in the vagina, penis or more PR

WURZBURG, Germany, Aug. 24 (TNSres) -- The University of Wurzburg issued the following news release: * * * Superconductivity theory proposed by Wurzburg physics team validated in international experiment: Cooper pairs display wave-like distribution in Kagome metals, enabling new technological applications like superconducting diodes. * * * For about fifteen years, Kagome materials with their star-shaped structure reminiscent of a Japanese basketry pattern have captivated global research. Onl more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Aug. 23 (TNSres) -- Yale University issued the following Q&A on Aug. 22, 2024, with Sarbani Basu, professor of astronomy in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences: * * * Any day now, we'll be able to see the result of an explosion in space nearly 3,000 light-years from Earth. * * * By Jim Shelton This year, fireworks season is continuing deep into summer. The big, upcoming highlight is a single explosion, a nova in space that will be so bright it will be visible in the ni more PR