WASHINGTON, June 5 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: * * * Ahead of World Ocean Day, Whitehouse and Murkowski Reintroduce Bipartisan Legislation to Ban Commercial Octopus Farming * Washington, DC - U.S. Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), founders and co-chairs of the bipartisan Senate Oceans Caucus, reintroduced the Opposing the Cultivation and Trade of Octopus Produced through Unethical Strategies (OCTOPUS) Act in advan more PR

WASHINGTON, June 6 -- The American Action Forum issued the following research: * * * Vaccine Protection and Productivity: The Economic Value of Vaccines By Michael Baker Executive Summary * The creation, development, and deployment of vaccines - a U.S. federal priority since the 1960s - has been one of the greatest health care achievements in the world. * Routine childhood immunizations in the United States from 1994-2023 are estimated to have prevented around 508 million cases of illness, more PR

ROLLA, Missouri, June 5 -- Missouri University of Science and Technology issued the following news: * * * Big data: S&T researcher paving new paths for more efficient transfers By Greg Edwards When long-haul truckers hit the road with their freight, they often rely on GPS to help them find the best possible routes and adjust in real time. So why can't the online systems for transferring large datasets, which typically rely on predetermined settings and don't adjust in real time, take a simil more PR

ST. CATHERINES, Ontario, June 5 -- Brock University issued the following news: * * * Brock takes top spot in Canadian university sport management research By Thuy Dam Brock has ranked first in Canada for university sport management research contributions for the third consecutive year. The annual assessment by the University of North Texas' Sports Innovation Project also rated Brock sixth overall among 69 universities around the world. Evaluations are based on the number of scholarly pape more PR

WASHINGTON, June 6 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis posted the following commentary on June 5, 2025: * * * Russia Advances (and Retreats) in the South Caucasus The Kremlin has reason to hope it can restore its waning influence in the South Caucasus. But as ever in this region, it is one step forward and one step back. By Emil Avdaliani Russia's step forward comes in Armenia, where recent developments will have put a smile on the faces of Kremlin officials. The country had been sl more PR

WASHINGTON, June 6 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis posted the following commentary: * * * Unlock Data Flows Within Europe Data localization edicts are fracturing the global Internet - and splintering the European Union's digital single market. By Anda Bologa Europeans built their single market so that bytes could travel from Lisbon to Tallinn as freely as trucks cross the mountainous Brenner Pass from Austria to Italy. Officially, the goal is intact: the Free-Flow-of-Non-Personal more PR

LOS ANGELES, California, June 5 [Category: BizHospital] -- Cedars-Sinai, a nonprofit academic healthcare organization, posted the following news: * * * Children Affected by Wildfires Navigate New Disruption: Summer * It was a sunny day in L.A.-- typical, aside from unusually strong winds--and Eugene Kim, MD, surgeon-in-chief at Cedars-Sinai Guerin Children's, was seeing patients when he got a text message from his daughter's school. Eugene Kim, MD The tone was urgent: "Please pick up you more PR

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin, June 5 -- Marquette University issued the following news release: * * * Emplify Health by Bellin, Marquette University Announce Groundbreaking Mental Health Education Partnership Resch Foundation-funded initiative aims to address provider shortage * GREEN BAY -Emplify Health by Bellin and Marquette University are proud to announce the launch of the Resch Mental Health Initiative, a groundbreaking seven-year pilot program aimed at addressing the critical shortage of men more PR

POTSDAM, Germany, June 6 (TNSrpt) -- The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research issued the following news release: * * * Encouraging findings on public acceptance of global climate policy 05.06.2025 - Even though the topic seems to have slipped down the political agenda, comprehensive measures to combat global heating enjoy widespread public support around the world. A study co-authored by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and published in the renowned journal Nat more PR

JACKSON, Tennessee, June 5 -- Union University issued the following news release: * * * Faculty cohorts foster research and community in Union mentoring program JACKSON, Tenn. -- June 5, 2025 -- Eleven Union University senior faculty members concluded their year-long peer mentoring program entitled "Remembering the Call: Innovative Approaches to Collegial Mentoring." The program used mentoring cohorts to stimulate research conversations and renew investment in excellent Christ-centered highe more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, June 6 -- The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics issued the following news release: * * * Key Building Block for Life Discovered in Planet-Forming Disk CfA astronomers have helped discover rare types of methanol, a building block required for life as we know it to form. * Cambridge, MA - Astronomers have found a rare form of methanol, a type of alcohol, in a planet-forming disk, providing a critical step in understanding how life beyond Earth may form. Thi more PR

STANFORD, California, June 6 -- The House Homeland Security Committee released the following testimony by H.R. McMaster, a senior fellow in the Hoover Institution of Stanford University, from a May 28, 2025, field hearing entitled "Innovation Nation: Leveraging Technology to Secure Cyberspace and Streamline Compliance": * * * This committee's work to understand U.S. cybersecurity posture and develop solutions to improve critical infrastructure resilience, foster technological innovation, and h more PR

NEW YORK, June 5 [Category: BizHospital] -- NYU Langone Health, an academic medical center affiliated with New York University, posted the following news release: * * * Inherited Genetic Differences in Cell Energy Centers Predict Resistance to Therapy for Deadly Skin Cancer * R esults from a new study help resolve the decade-long mystery of why many patients with the deadliest form of skin cancer do not respond to the latest cancer treatments. Specifically, researchers found patients with me more PR

BONN, Germany, June 4 (TNSLrpt) -- IZA - Institute of Labor Economics issued the following discussion paper (No. 17841) in April 2025 by C. Monica Capra and Thomas J. Kniesner entitled "Daniel Kahneman's Underappreciated Last Published Paper: Empirical Implications for Benefit-Cost Analysis and a Chat Session Discussion with Bots." The late Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman's final published paper is proving to be a significantly underappreciated contribution to our understanding of the relations more PR

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, June 6 -- The Nevada Democratic Party posted the following news release: * * * Lombardo Vetoes Bill To Protect Vulnerable Nevadans From Unfair Rent Hikes After Majority Say Housing Is Unaffordable * "[R]enters and lower-income voters are worried about being locked out of home ownership forever." - Las Vegas Review-Journal After a recent survey found that more than 80% of Nevadans believe housing in Nevada is unaffordable under Joe Lombardo, he vetoed AB280, a bill that w more PR

NEW YORK, June 5 -- The Manhattan Institute issued the following excerpts of a commentary on June 4, 2025, to Bloomberg Opinion: * * * Both Parties Need to Face Fiscal Reality By Allison Schrager Republicans need to accept tax increases. Democrats need to accept limits on the welfare state. America's holiday from history is over: Debt matters again. It is not just that the national debt is so big it cannot be ignored. It's that the end of the era of near-zero interest rates means it now co more PR

NEW YORK, June 5 -- The Manhattan Institute issued the following excerpts of a commentary on June 3, 2025, to the Wall Street Journal: * * * Why Democrats Are Losing Minority Voters By Jason L. Riley Blacks and Latinos have the same priorities as everyone else--schools, jobs and public safety. Liberals seldom turn to this column for political advice. They do, however, seem to trust the New York Times, so maybe they caught the Gray Lady's recent analysis of why the Democratic Party is in the more PR

LEIPZIG, Germany, June 5 -- The Max Planck Institute for Chemistry issued the following news release: * * * How the Amazon rainforest reaches for the clouds New study highlights Amazon's critical role in the Earth's climate system, revealing that land-use changes and accelerating deforestation reduce biogenic trace gas emissions and impact atmospheric chemistry up to 12 km altitude. The Amazon rainforest is the largest source of biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) to the atmosphere w more PR

WASHINGTON, June 6 -- The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations released the following testimony by McCullough Foundation President Peter A. McCullough from a May 21, 2025, hearing entitled "The Corruption of Science and Federal Health Agencies: How Health Officials Downplayed and Hid Myocarditis and Other Adverse Events Associated With the COVID-19 Vaccines": * * * Chairman Johnson, Ranking Member Blumenthal, members of the subcommittee, it more PR

ATLANTA, Georgia, June 5 -- Mercer University issued the following news: * * * Goldwater Scholar's research could help make autonomous driving safer By Jennifer Falk Mercer University student Wesley Kinney was only a freshman when a professor noticed that he didn't seem challenged in her sophomore-level engineering class. "He quickly stood out not just for being ahead academically but because he had such a clever and creative way of thinking through problems," said Dr. Makhin Thitsa, assoc more PR

WEST LONG BRANCH, New Jersey, June 6 (TNSjou) -- Monmouth University issued the following news: * * * Profs. Walden and Khan Examine Graduate Student Reading Habits in New Study Patrick R. Walden, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, associate professor and chair of the Department of Speech-Language Pathology at Monmouth University, and Brittany Khan, M.S., CCC-SLP, director of the Center for Speech and Language Disorders at Monmouth University, have co-authored a peer-reviewed study exploring how graduate studen more PR

WASHINGTON, June 5 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news: * * * New Behavioral Health Training Program Helps Keep Warfighters on the Battlefield * Last month, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth paused in front of a ballroom of service members and industry leaders at Special Operations Forces Week in Tampa, Florida, and reminded them people matter more than equipment. That stance underpins the Defense Department's sweeping readiness push, and nowhere is that more apparent  more PR

WASHINGTON, June 5 -- Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: * * * New Grassley Report Shows Biden DOJ Sent Taxpayer-Funded Grants to Soros-Backed, Soft-on-Crime NGOs * WASHINGTON - Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today released a Majority staff report exposing the disastrous consequences of the Biden Department of Justice's (DOJ) grants to two non-governmental organizations (NGOs) - the Soros-backed Vera Institute of Justice and Impa more PR

WASHINGTON, June 6 (TNSrep) -- Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following news release on June 5, 2025: * * * New Grassley Report Shows Biden DOJ Sent Taxpayer-Funded Grants to Soros-Backed, Soft-on-Crime NGOs The Biden administration doled out millions to promote progressive policies in District Attorney offices and push transgender housing in prisons * WASHINGTON - Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today re more PR

SOUTH BEND, Indiana, June 5 (TNSjou) -- The University of Notre Dame Law School issued the following news: * * * Notre Dame J.S.D. Graduate Khawla Wakkaf Champions Refugee Rights Through Groundbreaking Reparations Research By Alex Henry Khawla Wakkaf recently completed her Doctor of Juridical Science (J.S.D.) at Notre Dame Law School and leaves behind a legacy of scholarship and service centered on some of the most urgent challenges in international human rights law. Through her dissertation more PR

SOUTH BEND, Indiana, June 5 -- The University of Notre Dame Law School issued the following news: * * * Notre Dame Law School Global Human Rights Clinic announces winners of 2025 Global Human Rights Practice Writing Competition In Spring 2025, the Global Human Rights Clinic launched the inaugural Global Human Rights Practice Writing Competition to recognize outstanding student scholarship on the practice of international human rights law. Open to J.D., LL.M., and J.S.D. students, the competit more PR

WASHINGTON, June 6 -- The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations released the following testimony by OB/GYN James A. Thorp from a May 21, 2025, hearing entitled "The Corruption of Science and Federal Health Agencies: How Health Officials Downplayed and Hid Myocarditis and Other Adverse Events Associated With the COVID-19 Vaccines": * * * It is difficult to conceive of a more egregious breach of medical ethics by the government-controlled, med more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, June 5 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Physicists observe a new form of magnetism for the first time * MIT physicists have demonstrated a new form of magnetism that could one day be harnessed to build faster, denser, and less power-hungry "spintronic" memory chips. The new magnetic state is a mash-up of two main forms of magnetism: the ferromagnetism of everyday fridge magnets and compass needles, and antiferromagnetis more PR

PRINCETON, New Jersey, June 6 (TNSjou) -- Princeton University School of Public and International Affairs issued the following news: * * * Research Record: When Do 'Side Payments' Between Countries Generate Positive Results? By Tom Durso Princeton SPIA's Research Record series highlights the vast scholarly achievements of our faculty members, whose expertise extends beyond the classroom and into everyday life. If you'd like your work considered for future editions of Research Record, click more PR

WASHINGTON, June 6 -- Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Maryland, ranking member of the of the House Judiciary Committee, issued the following news release: * * * Ranking Member Raskin Notifies Secretary Hegseth He's Violating Constitution and Federal Law By Taking $400 Million Jetliner Present From Qatar Without Obtaining Congressional Consent Raskin Tells Hegseth of His Obligation to Either Immediately Seek Approval from Congress Or Return "Bribe Force One" to the Qatari Government * Washington, D.C.  more PR

WASHINGTON, June 5 [Category: Sociological] -- The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws posted the following news release: * * * Review: Cannabis Preparations Reduce Symptoms in Patients With Anxiety-Related Disorders * Crawley, Australia: Cannabis-based treatments mitigate symptoms and promote quality-of-life improvements in patients suffering from anxiety-related disorders, according to the findings of a systematic review published in the journal Psychiatry Research. A  more PR

SYRACUSE, New York, June 5 -- Syracuse University posted the following news: * * * Rock Record Illuminates Oxygen History * Several key moments in Earth's history help us humans answer the question, "How did we get here?" These moments also shed light on the question, "Where are we going?," offering scientists deeper insight into how organisms adapt to physical and chemical changes in their environment. Among them is an extended evolutionary occurrence over 2 billion years ago, known as the  more PR

WASHINGTON, June 6 -- The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations released the following testimony by Aaron Siri, managing partner at Siri and Glimstad LLP, from a May 21, 2025, hearing entitled "The Corruption of Science and Federal Health Agencies: How Health Officials Downplayed and Hid Myocarditis and Other Adverse Events Associated With the COVID-19 Vaccines": * * * Dear Chairman Johnson, thank you for the invitation to testify before the more PR

WASHINGTON, June 6 (TNSjou) -- The Smithsonian Institution issued the following news release: * * * Smithsonian Research Reveals that Probiotics Slow Spread of Deadly Disease Decimating Caribbean Reefs Field Tests in Florida Identify Best Available Treatment to Combat Coral Disease Without Need for Antibiotics * Scientists with the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History have discovered that a bacterial probiotic helps slow the spread of stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) in a more PR

STANFORD, California, June 5 -- Stanford University Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies issued the following commentary on June 3, 2025, to the Journal of Democracy: * * * Is South Korea's New President Good for Democracy? South Koreans have elected Lee Jae-myung president. Will he be a pragmatic democratic reformer? Or will he continue the polarizing political warfare of recent South Korean leaders? By Gi-Wook Shin Lee Jae-myung of the Democratic Party won South Korea's June more PR

MIAMI, Florida, June 5 (TNSjou) -- The University of Miami Miller School of Medicine issued the following news: * * * How Do Ketones Affect Health and Disease? Zhipeng Wang, Ph.D., from Desai Sethi Urology Institute, is garnering global attention for research offering new insights into how ketogenic states affect cancer and aging. By Lisette Hilton Zhipeng Wang, Ph.D., assistant professor of urology at Desai Sethi Urology Institute (DSUI), part of the University of Miami Miller School of Me more PR

SCHENECTADY, New York, June 6 (TNSjou) -- Union College issued the following For the Record - Week of June 6, 2025, news wrap up: * * * Chris Whitehead, assistant professor of chemistry, published a research article entitled "From Kinetics to Molecular-Level Insights into Group 4 Metal Oxide Nanocrystal Synthesis" in the journal ACS Materials Au, an open access journal of the American Chemical Society. The article looks into the factors that affect the formation of titanium, zirconium, and haf more PR

TUCSON, Arizona, June 6 (TNSjou) -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release: * * * Masking, distancing and quarantines keep chimps safe from human disease, study shows By Kyle Mittan Long before COVID-19 forced most of the world behind masks and into isolation, viral diseases had been persistently jumping from humans to primate species, with drastic consequences. The problem became particularly stark on Dec. 31, 2016, when a viral outbreak was detected at a field site fo more PR

HOUSTON, Texas, June 6 (TNSjou) -- The University of Houston issued the following news: * * * University of Houston Scientists Recharge Battery Potential New Discovery Could Extend Battery Life, Change EV Landscape By Jonathan Adams Low-battery anxiety may soon be a little less stressful thanks to a recent discovery by researchers at the University of Houston. For decades, scientists have struggled to understand what, exactly, is happening inside a solid-state battery in real time, which h more PR

LETHBRIDGE, Alberta, June 5 (TNSjou) -- The University of Lethbridge issued the following news: * * * Migratory songbirds found to have greater genetic diversity Songbirds who make the arduous flight from their nesting sites in northern boreal forests to warm, southern climates in the winter may be rewarded for their journey with greater genetic diversity, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution. The study was co-authored by researchers from the University more PR

FORT WORTH, Texas, June 6 (TNSjou) -- The University of North Texas Health Science Center issued the following news: * * * TCOM course linked to higher patient safety awareness knowledge and residency readiness By Steven Bartolotta The Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine at The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth is the first medical school in the country to require a patient safety course that prepares students for the Certified Professional in Patient Safety cre more PR

SEATTLE, Washington, June 6 (TNSjou) -- The University of Washington's School of Medicine issued the following news release: * * * U.S. school-shooting sites lagged in mental-health staffing Study: Counselors and psychologists were far below recommended levels and police officers were more prevalent at these schools. * Between 2017 and 2019, 180 U.S. schools that experienced shooting incidents had significantly lower rates of health-focused support staff such as nurses, psychologists and co more PR

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, June 5 -- The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School issued the following news: * * * Guardrails versus leashes: Finding a better way to regulate AI technology Penn Carey Law professor Cary Coglianese argues for a more flexible approach to keeping artificial intelligence safe. * With artificial intelligence evolving faster than human imagination, traditional avenues of regulation may not work as well as they have for other business sectors. To safely and e more PR

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, May 31 (TNSjou) -- The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center issued the following news release: * * * Immunotherapy Trial Informs Treatment of Advanced Skin Cancer In patients with an advanced type of skin cancer called cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC), those who received the combination of the immunotherapy drug avelumab and targeted agent cetuximab had almost four times longer median progression-free survival compared to patients who received avelumab alo more PR

LOGAN, Utah, June 6 (TNSjou) -- Utah State University issued the following news: * * * USU Researchers Develop Device to Study Early Stages of Age-Related Vision Loss By Madeline Buskirk Researchers at Utah State University are working to gain a deeper understanding of age-related macular degeneration, one of the leading causes of vision loss in older adults. Elizabeth Vargis, an associate professor in the Biological Engineering Department, and graduate researcher Chase Paterson have engine more PR

LARAMIE, Wyoming, June 6 -- The University of Wyoming posted the following news: * * * UW Researchers: Sharp-Tailed Grouse in South-Central Wyoming Potentially a Distinct Subspecies For decades, a population of grouse in south-central Wyoming and northwest Colorado has been identified as Columbian sharp-tailed grouse, the same subspecies that can be found in far western Wyoming near Jackson along with Idaho, northern Utah and parts of the Pacific Northwest. But new research led by University more PR

LONDON, Canada, June 5 (TNSjou) -- Western University issued the following news: * * * Western researchers show nostalgia's influence on grooving to music Nostalgia for songs like 'TiK ToK' and 'Call Me Maybe' get twenty-somethings up and dancing By Jeff Renaud Getting one's groove on, A.K.A. busting a move, is an age-old tradition that dates back more than 50,000 years to the time of Neanderthals and Cro-Magnon humans, who rhythmically writhed to drumming and even vocalizations. Many cont more PR

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, June 6 (TNSrep) -- 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: * * * WhaleSETI: Curious Humpback Whales Approach Humans and Blow Bubble "Smoke" Rings Newly documented behavior in a recently published paper by SETI Institute and UC Davis team members may offer insights into nonhuman intelligence--and more PR

WASHINGTON, June 5 -- Sen. Thom Tillis, R-North Carolina, issued the following news release: * * * WSJ Editorial Highlights Tillis Bill to End Predatory Litigation Funding Practices * WASHINGTON, D.C. - Yesterday, The Wall Street Journal published an editorial supporting the Tackling Predatory Litigation Funding Act, legislation introduced by Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) which would impose a new tax on profits earned by third-party entities that finance civil litigation and curb predatory prac more PR

TORONTO, Ontario, June 5 (TNSjou) -- York University issued the following news release: * * * New research finds specific learning strategies can enhance AI model effectiveness in hospitals If data used to train artificial intelligence models for medical applications, such as hospitals across the Greater Toronto Area, differs from the real-world data, it could lead to patient harm. A new study out today from York University found proactive, continual and transfer learning strategies for AI mo more PR