NEW YORK, July 3 -- Columbia University Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory issued the following commentary on July 2, 2025: * * * AI and Climate Justice: Balancing Risk With Opportunity As AI expands its global reach, how can we ensure its just and inclusive use when applied to climate science? By Marco Tedesco When we think of artificial intelligence (AI) and climate justice, we can imagine two stars in an orbital waltz; each with its own gravity, sometimes in harmony, while other times in t more PR

ROLLA, Missouri, July 4 -- Missouri University of Science and Technology issued the following news: * * * Missouri S&T symposium in Morocco focuses on sustainable energy for Africa By Greg Edwards Energy experts and researchers from around the world gathered in Marrakech, Morocco, this spring for Missouri S&T's 4th International Laufer Energy Symposium to discuss the future of sustainable energy and the challenges facing Africa and the globe. "Stable and affordable energy is not just a te more PR

ROLLA, Missouri, July 4 -- Missouri University of Science and Technology issued the following news: * * * Minteer awarded NSF grant to develop sustainable fuel technology By Kaitlin Brothers How can we turn carbon dioxide into fuel? Biomanufacturing might be the answer. Dr. Shelley D. Minteer, founding director of the Kummer Institute Center for Resource Sustainability and professor of chemistry; and Dr. Fateme Fayyazbakhsh, assistant professor of mechanical engineering; and the Arzeda Co more PR

NEW YORK, July 4 (TNSjou) -- Rockefeller University issued the following news: * * * Rockefeller team finds flawed data in recent study relevant to coronavirus antiviral development The COVID pandemic illustrated how urgently we need antiviral medications capable of treating coronavirus infections. To aid this effort, researchers quickly homed in on part of SARS-Cov-2's molecular structure known as the NiRAN domain--an enzyme region essential to viral replication that's common to many coronav more PR

STANFORD, California, July 4 -- Stanford University School of Medicine issued the following news: * * * Damage from smoke and respiratory viruses mitigated in mice via a common signaling pathway The hedgehog signaling pathway helps regenerate damaged tissue in the airways and pancreas. Activating it may protect tissue against smoke inhalation and prevent diabetes progression. By Krista Conger A rare cell in the lining of lungs is fundamental to the organwide response necessary to repair dam more PR

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, July 4 -- Vanderbilt University School of Engineering issued the following news: * * * Micro-robotics specialist receives NSF CAREER Award for research advancing magnetic miniature soft robots in precision medicine Xiaoguang Dong, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, has been awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Award that will support research on magnetic miniature soft robots for precision medicine that could facilitate early disease detection and tre more PR

ROCHESTER, New York, July 4 -- Rochester Institute of Technology issued the following news release: * * * Visiting student joins RIT robotics lab and gets 'dream' experience Aayush Kulkarni adds the sense of touch in robotic technology during internship * Robots that can sense and act through touch? That is what Aayush Kulkarni, an undergraduate visiting student, taught a robot to do during his internship at RIT. Kulkarni is participating in the International Visiting Research Student Prog more PR