WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 -- The Food and Water Watch issued the following news release: More than 150 advocacy groups signed a letter sent to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan today, calling on the agency to halt the injection of carbon dioxide into existing underground well sites and reject approval of new injection wells. The letter comes on the heels of multiple leaks discovered at the country's first commercial underground carbon capture and storage (CCS) facility. The letter was facilitated by the environmental  more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 (TNSres) -- The American Geophysical Union issued the following news release: * * * Pressure for climate intervention may gain momentum as world heats up * * * As interest grows in geoengineering as a strategy for tackling global warming, the world's largest association of Earth and space scientists today launched an ethical framework as a guide to responsible decision-making and inclusive dialogue. The report, facilitated by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and advised by a global panel of experts, says any researc more PR

CANBERRA, Australia, Oct. 23 -- The Australian Academy of Science issued the following news release: The Pacific Islands is the only region in the world that does not have its own learned academy and a local collective voice for science, despite the region experiencing profound impacts due to climate change. That changes from today, thanks to the launch of the Pacific Academy of Sciences and the election of 12 eminent scholars as Foundation Fellows, who will provide a strong voice for science in the region. The Australian Academy of Science  more PR

PARIS, France, Oct. 23 -- The International Science Council issued the following news: The Prime Minister of Samoa Hon. Fiame Dr Naomi Mata'afa is set to officially launch the Pacific Academy of Sciences (the Academy) and welcome its Foundation Fellows at an official side-event at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Samoa. The Academy promotes the study and application of the natural and social sciences, the humanities, indigenous knowledge, and technology for the benefit of the Pacific Islands region and beyond. Foundation Fello more PR

LAUREL, Maryland, Oct. 23 (TNSres) -- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory issued the following news release: Space weather is a double-edged sword: It's capable of delivering majestic phenomena like the auroras near Earth's poles, but it can also have more alarming consequences with significant national security implications. In 2014, for example, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, discovered that plasma bubbles connected to space weather partly contributed to communicati more PR

MUNICH, Germany, Oct. 21 [Category: Science] (TNSres) -- The Max Planck Society issued the following news: Approximately 400 times in a woman's life, a mature egg makes the "leap." It is released into the fallopian tube, ready for fertilization by the sperm. Researchers led by Melina Schuh, Christopher Thomas, and Tabea Lilian Marx from the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences have now succeeded in visualizing the entire process of ovulation in mouse follicles in real-time. The new live imaging method developed by the team allow more PR

MUNICH, Germany, Oct. 21 [Category: Science] (TNSres) -- The Max Planck Society issued the following news: Psychopathic people have great difficulty or are even unable to show empathy and regulate their emotions. According to a new study by Matthias Burghart, a Max Planck researcher in Freiburg, this could be because these people suffer from alexithymia, also known as emotional blindness. The term alexithymia is an amalgam of the Greek prefix a (without) and the words lexis (reading) and thymos (emotion). It refers to the inability of a perso more PR

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, Oct. 23 -- SETI Institute, a research and education organization whose mission is to lead humanity's quest to understand the origins and prevalence of life and intelligence in the Universe, issued the following news release: The SETI Artist in Residency (AIR) program announced Algorithmic Imaginings, a new residency that explores how AI technologies affect science and society. The residency focuses on creative research topics such as imaginary life, human-AI collaboration, AI futures, posthumanism, AI and consciousne more PR

NEW YORK, Oct. 23 -- The Space and Satellite Professionals International issued the following news release: Last night at the Future Leaders Celebration in Silicon Valley, Space & Satellite Professionals International (SSPI) presented the 2024 Promise Awards to Mackenzie Mason of Boeing, Paige Webster of ATLAS Space Operations and Bradley Williams of NASA. The Promise Awards honor the three top-ranked members of the annual "20 Under 35" list of space & satellite employees and entrepreneurs age 35 and under who have demonstrated outstanding ach more PR

MUNICH, Germany, Oct. 22 [Category: Science] (TNSres) -- The Max Planck Society issued the following news: One way the 'male hormone' testosterone works is by binding to the androgen receptor. Researchers at the Technical University Munich and the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence have succeeded in breeding chickens without the androgen receptor for the first time. This allowed them to study how androgen signaling affects development and appearance: animals of both sexes are infertile. In addition, some but not all outer physica more PR