WASHINGTON, June 5 -- NASA issued the following news on June 4, 2025: * * * 3 Black Holes Caught Eating Massive Stars in NASA Data By Elizabeth Landau Black holes are invisible to us unless they interact with something else. Some continuously eat gas and dust, and appear to glow brightly over time as matter falls in. But other black holes secretly lie in wait for years until a star comes close enough to snack on. A new study using space and ground-based data from NASA, ESA (European Space A more PR

TUSTIN, California, June 5 -- The California Policy Center, an organization that says it focuses on education reform, workplace freedom, government transparency and governance, issued the following commentary on June 4, 2025: * * * California's Indispensable Heavy Oil By Edward Ring, Director, Water and Energy Policy The moral argument for resuming oil drilling in California is simple: the state still relies on petroleum for fifty percent of its annual energy inputs, and until we can overcom more PR

WASHINGTON, June 5 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis posted the following commentary on June 4, 2025: * * * The Booming China-Russia Drone Alliance The Russia-China axis is expanding as engineers from both sides work side-by-side to produce lethal drone technology. By David Kirichenko When beleaguered Ukrainian soldiers hear the telltale whine of drones above their emplacements this summer, the camera footage of their struggle is very likely to end up in the hands of Russo-Chinese  more PR

WASHINGTON, June 5 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis posted the following commentary on June 4, 2025: * * * Stormy Clouds: The Transatlantic Tussle Over Cloud Computing It's the key tech battleground, dominated by US firms. Europe is worried. By William Echikson Cloud computing represents a key digital frontier. The technology stores and distributes data from giant data centers, requiring gigantic capital investments. In return, it unlocks giant efficiencies, lowers IT costs, and p more PR

WASHINGTON, June 4 -- Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: * * * Duckworth, Warren, Blunt Rochester Condemn RFK for Making it Harder for Pregnant Women and Children to Receive COVID-19 Vaccines, Putting Their Health at Risk * June 04, 2025 [WASHINGTON, D.C.] - U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), joined by U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE), today condemned U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert more PR

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, June 5 -- EBSCO Information Services, a subsidiary of EBSCO Industries, issued the following news release: * * * EBSCO Information Services Continues to Grow Magazine Archive Collection with Release of The Hockey News Magazine Archive New Archive Provides Comprehensive Insights into Hockey Industry from Top-Selling Sport's Journal * IPSWICH, Mass. -- June 3, 2025 -- EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) continues to expand its magazine archive collection with the release  more PR

LA JOLLA, California, June 5 (TNSrpt) -- The Scripps Research Institute issued the following news: * * * FDA approves ENCELTO, a first-of-its-kind eye implant that slows vision loss in rare eye disease Cell-based therapy with roots at Scripps Research offers new hope for patients with macular telangiectasia type 2. * For people diagnosed with macular telangiectasia type 2 (MacTel)--a rare and slowly progressing retinal disease--there have been no FDA-approved (or other) treatments to slow o more PR

WASHINGTON, June 5 -- NANASA issued the following news on June 4, 2025: * * * Galaxy Clusters on Course to Crash Again, NASA's Chandra Finds By Lee Mohon New observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes have captured a rare cosmic event: two galaxy clusters have collided and are now poised to head back for another swipe at each other. Galaxy clusters are some of the largest structures in the Universe. Held together by gravity, they are monster-sized collections of more PR

WASHINGTON, June 5 -- The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Global Team Tracks Unusual Objects in Milky Way Galaxy By Connie Braesch, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Corporate Communications Researchers from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) were part of a global effort to track newly discovered unusual bursts of radio emission from an object within the Milky Way galaxy. Information from telescopes in Australia, India, South Africa, and the United States w more PR

WASHINGTON, June 4 -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued the following news: * * * Harmful Algal Blooms Linked to Deaths of Northern Fur Seals in the Southeast Bering Sea * New research establishes the first known link between the neurotoxin saxitoxin, accumulated during harmful algal blooms, and deaths of northern fur seals in the southeast Bering Sea. The study was published in the journal Marine Mammal Science. In the study, researchers collected and analyzed dat more PR

CORVALLIS, Oregon, June 5 (TNSjou) -- Oregon State University issued the following news release: * * * New genetic delivery system targets lungs to treat cancer, cystic fibrosis PORTLAND, Ore. - Scientists have made a key breakthrough for treating respiratory diseases by developing a new drug delivery system that transports genetic therapies directly to the lungs, opening promising possibilities for patients with conditions like lung cancer and cystic fibrosis. The research, led by Gaurav Sa more PR

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, June 4 [Category: Health Care] -- The Fox Chase Cancer Center, a part of Temple University Health System, posted the following news: * * * Review Paper By Fox Chase Cancer Center Scientists Recounts History of DNA Amplification Research * Johnathan Whetstine, PhD, Director of the Cancer Epigenetics Institute (CEI) and Co-Leader of the Nuclear Dynamics and Cancer Research Program at Fox Chase PHILADELPHIA (June 4, 2025) -- The process of DNA amplification, the in more PR

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, June 5 (TNSjou) -- Rutgers University issued the following news: * * * Looking Deeply Into the Universe's Past, Scientists Detect Bursts of New Stars By Kitta MacPherson Prodigious star formation by special galaxies reveals the Milky Way's origin story Researchers led by a Rutgers University-New Brunswick astrophysicist, who looked deeply into space at a period known as "Cosmic Noon" about 2 billion to 3 billion years after the Big Bang, have found that a special  more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, June 4 -- The University of Michigan posted the following news: * * * The Great Lakes are in an extreme new era * Heat waves and cold spells are now more common on the Great Lakes, according to U-M research, with implications for the region's weather, economy and ecology Study: Climate change-induced amplification of extreme temperatures in large lakes (DOI: 10.1038/s43247-025-02341-x) Heat waves and cold spells are part of life on the Great Lakes. But new research f more PR

ALBANY, New York, June 5 (TNSjou) -- SUNY University at Albany issued the following news: * * * UAlbany Physicists Test Scientific Approach to UAP Research By Michael Parker The UAlbany team utilized the UFODAP system to track and analyze unidentified anomalous phenomena during its California experiments. ALBANY, N.Y. (June 4, 2025) -- A team of physicists from the University at Albany has proposed scientifically rigorous methods for documenting and analyzing Unidentified Anomalous Phenomen more PR

MANOA, Hawaii, June 5 -- The University of Hawaii Manoa campus issued the following news release: * * * UH astronomers discover biggest explosion since the Big Bang A team at the University of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy (IfA) has uncovered a dazzling new kind of cosmic explosion, more energetic than anything seen before. The team named these rare events "extreme nuclear transients" (ENTs), which occur when massive stars--at least three times the mass of our Sun--are shredded by supermas more PR

EXETER, England, June 4 (TNSjou) -- The University of Exeter issued the following news: * * * Origins of ultra-hot exoplanet WASP-121b revealed Researchers have used new clues from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to provide a fascinating insight into how the exoplanet WASP-121b formed. The fresh understanding surrounding its formation - published in leading journal Nature Astronomy- stem from the detection of multiple key molecules: water vapour, carbon monoxide, silicon monoxide, and  more PR

MANCHESTER, England, June 4 (TNSjou) -- The University of Manchester issued the following news release: * * * Scientists make first direct observation of the trapped waves that shook the world Researchers have used cutting-edge satellite technology to shed light on the global mystery of the unexplained seismic signals that "shook the Earth" for nine days. In September 2023, scientists observed a bizarre series of global seismic signals, which appeared every 90 seconds over nine days - and th more PR

YORK, England, June 4 -- York St John University issued the following news: * * * York St John academics secure funding to empower climate change researchers in Sub-Saharan Africa Dr Olalekan Adekola, Associate Professor in Geography, and Professor Alex Lo, Professor of Business and Sustainability at York St John University, have received funding from The British Academy to run workshops with early-career Sub-Saharan African climate researchers. They were successful in securing the maximum aw more PR