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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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