CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, June 2 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * 3 Questions: How to help students recognize potential bias in their AI datasets * Every year, thousands of students take courses that teach them how to deploy artificial intelligence models that can help doctors diagnose disease and determine appropriate treatments. However, many of these courses omit a key element: training students to detect flaws in the training data used to deve more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 2 -- Brown University posted the following news: * * * Air-quality monitoring underestimates toxic emissions to Salton Sea communities, study finds * PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] -- A newly published study finds that California's Salton Sea emits hydrogen sulfide, a toxic and foul-smelling gas, at rates that regularly exceed the state's air quality standards. The presence of these emissions in communities surrounding the Salton Sea are "vastly underestim more PR

WASHINGTON, June 3 [Category: Media] -- Pulitzer Center, an organization that say it combines journalism and engagement, posted the following news: * * * Announcing the 2025 Pulitzer Center Reporting Fellows By Jazmyn Gray, Pulitzer Center Staff The Pulitzer Center is excited to announce its 2025 cohort of 49 Reporting Fellows. Their projects address some of the most critical and underreported stories in today's world, including migration, global health, and climate solutions. "This year' more PR

WILMINGTON, Delaware, June 3 -- AstraZeneca, a biopharmaceutical company, issued the following news release: * * * Camizestrant reduced the risk of disease progression or death by 56% in patients with advanced HR-positive breast cancer with an emergent ESR1 tumor mutation in SERENA-6 Phase III trial First pivotal trial to demonstrate clinical value of monitoring circulating tumor DNA to detect and treat emerging resistance in 1st-line therapy ahead of disease progression in breast cancer Fir more PR

WASHINGTON, May 28 -- NASA issued the following news: * * * Eccentric 'Star' Defies Easy Explanation, NASA's Chandra Finds By Lee Mohon Scientists have discovered a star behaving like no other seen before, giving fresh clues about the origin of a new class of mysterious objects. As described in our press release, a team of astronomers combined data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the SKA [Square Kilometer Array] Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope on Wajarri Country in Australia to more PR

LOS ANGELES, California, June 3 -- The UCLA Health issued the following news release: * * * Emergency surgery costs disproportionately burden underrepresented racial and ethnic groups Converting just 10% of emergency procedures to planned surgeries could save $1.8 billion annually A new nationwide study reveals that Black, Hispanic, and Asian/Pacific Islander patients face significantly higher costs when undergoing emergency surgeries compared to white patients, with the financial burden of  more PR

ROLLA, Missouri, June 3 -- Missouri University of Science and Technology issued the following news: * * * Ethanol: clean fuel, stronger economy - insights with S&T experts By Kaitlin Brothers Ethanol has become a major part of America's energy landscape. It was first used in cars, and is now mixed into most gasoline sold in the U.S. This rise has been driven by environmental concerns, energy security and advances in technology. Today, ethanol helps reduce carbon emissions while creating job more PR

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, June 2 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * Exploring materials for fusion energy with ORNL's Yan-Ru Lin * As the focus on energy resiliency and competitiveness increases, the development of advanced materials for next-generation, commercial fusion reactors is gaining attention. A recent paper published in the journal Current Opinion in Solid State & Materials Science examines a promising candidate for more PR

TALLAHASSEE, Florida, June 3 (TNSjou) -- Florida State University issued the following news: * * * Tweet Tweet: Dinos and birds nested side by side in Arctic 73 million years ago By Kathleen Haughney Spring has sprung in the Arctic, and baby birds are making their way out into the world. Rewind 73 million years ago -- it was the same story. That research is the cover of this week's edition of the journal of Science. A multi-university team found that modern birds were nesting in the Arcti more PR

FAIRFAX, Virginia, June 3 (TNSjou) -- George Mason University issued the following research news: * * * Mason Korea undergrads publish research in international environmental journal An undergraduate student-led Mason Impact project at Mason Korea results in a co-authored article published in the peer-reviewed international journal Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. "Accessible water quality monitoring through hybrid human-machine colorimetric methods" stems from the Mason Impact projec more PR

WILMINGTON, Delaware, June 3 -- AstraZeneca, a biopharmaceutical company, issued the following news release: * * * IMFINZI (durvalumab) regimen reduced risk of progression, recurrence or death by 29% in early-stage gastric cancer vs. chemotherapy alone in MATTERHORN Phase III trial Two-thirds (67.4%) of patients treated with IMFINZI-based perioperative regimen remained event-free at two years First and only immunotherapy to demonstrate statistically significant event-free survival in a globa more PR

MUNICH, Germany, June 3 -- The Max Planck Society issued the following news: * * * Webb reveals the origin of the ultra-hot exoplanet WASP-121b The detection of atmospheric methane and silicon suggests that it originated in a region analogous to the Solar System's domain of gas and ice giants. To the point * Tracing the origin of an ultra-hot exoplanet: The chemical composition of WASP-121b suggests that it formed in a cool zone of its natal disc, comparable to the region of gas and ice gia more PR

RALEIGH, North Carolina, June 3 (TNSjou) -- North Carolina State University issued the following news release: * * * Study Finds Coastal Flooding More Frequent Than Previously Thought Flooding in coastal communities is happening far more often than previously thought, according to a new study from North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The study also found major flaws with the widely used approach of using marine water level data to capture instan more PR

WASHINGTON, June 3 -- NASA issued the following news on June 2, 2025: * * * Apocalypse When? Hubble Casts Doubt on Certainty of Galactic Collision As far back as 1912, astronomers realized that the Andromeda galaxy -- then thought to be only a nebula -- was headed our way. A century later, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope were able to measure the sideways motion of Andromeda and found it was so negligible that an eventual head-on collision with the Milky Way seemed almost certa more PR

COLD SPRING HARBOR, New York, June 2 [Category: Science] -- The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory posted the following news: * * * President's essay: We are science, and science is crucial * At Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), we deeply value our uniquely vibrant campus and culture. But we thrive because we are intensely engaged with the broad community of scientists across the United States and the world. By collaborating, educating, and sharing knowledge, we amplify our impact, enabling g more PR

STANFORD, California, June 3 (TNSjou) -- Stanford University Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies issued the following news: * * * Confronting the Challenge of Dementia Care: Lessons from South Korea A comprehensive review of rapidly aging South Korea's efforts to mitigate the social and economic costs of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, co-authored by Stanford health economist Karen Eggleston, provides insights for nations facing policy pressures of the demographic tr more PR

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, June 3 (TNSjou) -- The University of Utah Health issued the following news release: * * * Fruit Flies on Cocaine Could Reveal Better Therapies for Addiction For the first time, researchers have created genetically modified fruit flies that can become addicted to cocaine. The flies will self-administer cocaine if given the option. The new model could prove immensely valuable for the development of new therapies to prevent and treat cocaine use disorder, a growing and dead more PR

DALLAS, Texas, June 3 (TNSjou) -- The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center issued the following news release: * * * Guidelines target high cardiometabolic risk among South Asians UTSW faculty, global colleagues recommend early screening, nutrition advice, research improvements to reduce heart disease People of South Asian descent make up one-quarter of the world's population, but they account for 60% of cardiovascular disease cases. To help reduce the elevated risk of heart diseas more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, June 2 -- The University of Michigan posted the following news: * * * World's natural history collections ready to aid in pandemic preparedness * Study: Harnessing natural history collections for collaborative pandemic preparedness (DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biaf035) Across the world, natural history museums hold about 3 billion specimens of plants and animals in collections--and these collections may also contain information needed to prevent, prepare for, and respond to po more PR