AALTO, Finland, Sept. 9 -- Aalto University issued the following news release: * * * Invisible triumph: how a Finnish invention powers modern microelectronics Atomic layer deposition (ALD), developed in Finland, is a semiconductor manufacturing method at the heart of modern technology, enabling ever-smaller computers, smartphones, and everyday devices. By Juuso Mantykivi Semiconductors are all around us - in computers, smartphones, vehicle control systems, and solar panels. They are materi more PR

DARWIN, Australia, Sept. 9 -- Charles Darwin University issued the following news: * * * New test flight facility lets drone operators test tech in extreme conditions A new drone test flight facility in the Northern Territory will give manufacturers the chance to test their technology in some of the most diverse terrain and extreme weather conditions in the world. The North Australia Centre for Autonomous Systems (NACAS), based out of Charles Darwin University (CDU), has launched its Airspa more PR

LONDON, England, Sept. 9 -- City St George's, University of London issued the following news: * * * Study suggests firms cluster together to navigate tight employment regulations Study reveals that company structures can lessen the impact of regulatory protection against dismissal for workers. * Groups of businesses lessen the impact of employment rights legislation by creating their own internal labour markets, new research from Bayes Business School suggests. Academics analysed the impac more PR

SYDNEY, Australia, Sept. 9 -- The University of New South Wales issued the following news: * * * Closing the genomics data gap in Indigenous Australians: UNSW project nets ARC funding It's hoped the project will help make blood transfusions safer and more effective for Indigenous Australians. UNSW Sydney Professor Maree Toombs has been awarded $1.59 million from the Australian Research Council (ARC) to address a 60-year research gap in blood group genetics among First Nations Australians. I more PR

PERTH, Australia, Sept. 9 (TNSrep) -- Curtin University issued the following news release: * * * New report reveals impact of reforms to make universities fairer The Australian Centre for Student Equity and Success (ACSES) has released its flagship annual report, Equity Insights 2025: Policy, Power, and Practice for a Fairer * Australian Tertiary Education System, bringing together 22 leading voices from across the higher education landscape to examine what has changed for student equity an more PR

EINDHOVEN, The Netherlands, Sept. 9 -- Eindhoven University of Technology issued the following news: * * * First in Europe: new heart valve via groin offers hope for patients without alternatives TU/e professor and physician Pim Tonino brings research and practice together with a new, less invasive surgical technique to place a heart valve. * The Catharina Hospital has a European first: the first placement of a new mitral valve through the groin. It creates patients who now have the prospec more PR

GOLD COAST, Australia, Sept. 9 (TNSjou) -- Griffith University issued the following news: * * * Wading through the noise: audio tool pinpoints river species When people think of nature sounds, they likely imagine birds singing at dawn or frogs calling after rain. But beneath the surface of our rivers is a whole soundscape that most of us have never even thought to listen to - until now. New research led by Griffith University has developed a publicly available tool to help scientists uncov more PR

MANCHESTER, England, Sept. 9 -- The University of Manchester issued the following news release: * * * Manchester expert wins Royal Society's highest honour for historian of science Professor Sadiah Qureshi, a leading historian at The University of Manchester, has been awarded the prestigious Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal and Lecture by the Royal Society in recognition of her internationally acclaimed research on science, race, empire and the history of extinction. The medal is the Society's h more PR

PERTH, Australia, Sept. 9 -- Murdoch University issued the following news: * * * Unprecedented $100m gift to transform veterinary research and education Murdoch University's iconic veterinary school will undergo a complete redevelopment thanks to an unprecedented $100 million gift. * The existing School will be replaced by a 9,600sqm state-of-the-art facility large enough to support a 50% increase in the number of vet students who can be trained in Western Australia. It will sit alongside B more PR

NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, England, Sept. 9 (TNSjou) -- Newcastle University issued the following news: * * * Food supply drives reproductive strategies in sharks, skates and rays Sharks, skates and rays adapt their growth and reproduction to changing food availability, a new study reveals. Led by Newcastle University, the study analysed how many young and how quickly a generation is replaced - known as reproductive output and generation turnover in 151 species of sharks, skates and rays. The resu more PR

LONDON, England, Sept. 9 -- The University of London - London School of Economics and Political Science issued the following news release: * * * Three LSE academics elected as Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences Professor Olivier Accominotti, Professor Leigh Gardner and Professor Eric Schneider are among 63 Fellows who have been elected to the Academy this autumn. The Academy of Social Sciences is the UK's national body for academics, practitioners and learned societies in the social s more PR

MANCHESTER, England, Sept. 9 -- The University of Manchester issued the following news release: * * * Three Manchester experts become Academy of Social Sciences Fellows Three academics from The University of Manchester have been recognised as leading experts in their fields by being named as Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences. New Fellows are named in recognition of their excellence and impact, and their advancement of social sciences for the public good. Through leadership, research more PR

LONDON, England, Sept. 9 -- The University College London issued the following news: * * * UCL leads first-in-a-generation birth cohort study The first new UK-wide long-term scientific study of babies and child development in a quarter of a century will be led by researchers at the UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies. * Funded by the UKRI Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the ground-breaking Generation New Era study will follow the lives of more than 30,000 babies born in 2026, d more PR

MACAU, China, Sept. 9 -- The University of Macau issued the following news: * * * UM student team wins Grand Prize at World Robot Contest Li Haobo, a third-year student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Faculty of Science and Technology at the University of Macau (UM), led an interdisciplinary student team to compete in the 'MetaBCI Innovative Application Development' category at the World Robot Contest 2025--Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) Controlled Robot Contes more PR

BAYREUTH, Germany, Sept. 9 -- The University of Bayreuth issued the following news release: * * * New Android Security Flaw Enables Invisible Manipulation via Seemingly Harmless Apps Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Roth, Junior Professor of Cybersecurity at the University of Bayreuth, investigates vulnerabilities in mobile operating systems, websites, and firewalls. Together with researchers at TU Wien, he has now reported a new flaw in Android. A new attack technique known as TapTrap tricks Androi more PR

KUOPIO, Finland, Sept. 9 -- The University of Eastern Finland issued the following news: * * * Doctoral defence of Valentina Eremina, MSc, 16.9.2025: Probing light-matter interactions in hybrid nanomaterials: carbon nanotubes, perovskites, and 2D heterostructures The doctoral dissertation in the field of Physics will be examined at the Faculty of Science, Forestry and Technology, Joensuu campus. * What is the topic of your doctoral research? Why is it important to study the topic? My docto more PR

KUOPIO, Finland, Sept. 9 (TNSjou) -- The University of Eastern Finland issued the following news: * * * New perspective outlines how food-derived signals can modulate biological ageing Diet doesn't just fuel the body, it sends molecular signals that can slow down or speed up biological ageing, according to a new perspective in npj Aging (Nature Portfolio). The authors explain that biological age, a measure of functional health, can diverge sharply from chronological age and that targeted nutr more PR

GLASGOW, Scotland, Sept. 9 -- The University of Glasgow issued the following news: * * * Clyde Hydrogen powers ahead with Ecotricity investment Clyde Hydrogen, a University of Glasgow spinout, has secured strategic investment from green energy pioneer Ecotricity to fast-track development of its revolutionary hydrogen technology. The deal, which closes Clyde Hydrogen's Pre-Seed2 funding round, will see the company test its prototype energy storage system at one of Ecotricity's renewable energ more PR

GLASGOW, Scotland, Sept. 9 -- The University of Glasgow issued the following news: * * * New youth voters feel 'overwhelmingly unprepared' for voting THE UK'S new cohort of young voters feel overwhelmingly unprepared for voting in what they see as a confused and complex political system, a new poll by the John Smith Centre reveals. Two thirds of 16- and 17-year-olds said schools had not readied them to take part in elections. Of those who say they are unlikely to use their vote, three quarte more PR

HELSINKI, Finland, Sept. 9 -- The University of Helsinki issued the following news release: * * * Later Childbearing, Fewer Children, and Widening Inequality Postponing pregnancy reduces the total number of children and increases inequalities in maternal risk factors. * In Finland, the proportion of births among women aged over 35 has increased, in 2024 accounting for 27.7% of all births. This trend has important implications both at the societal level and for individuals. "If there is one more PR

HONG KONG, Sept. 9 (TNSrep) -- The University of Hong Kong issued the following news release: * * * A New In-Depth Report of AI Large Language Models: Hallucination Control HKU Business School today released the "Large Language Model (LLM) Hallucination Control Capability Evaluation Report." The Report describes the evaluation of selected AI LLMs regarding their ability to control "hallucinations." Hallucinations are when LLMs produce outputs that appear reasonable but are contradictory to fa more PR

LIVERPOOL, England, Sept. 9 -- The University of Liverpool issued the following news release: * * * SenseAI Vision Ltd secures first seed investment University of Liverpool spin-out SenseAI Vision Ltd, which is developing compressive sensing image processing technologies, has closed its first seed investment. This new investment will enable SenseAI to further develop its core compressive sensing technology and scale the roll-out of its software product to end-customers together with strategi more PR

LIVERPOOL, England, Sept. 9 (TNSjou) -- The University of Liverpool issued the following news release: * * * Study reveals extreme air pollution in African schools due to cooking A large-scale study across schools in Rwanda and Kenya has found dangerously high levels of air pollution from biomass-fuelled cooking, raising serious health concerns for millions of children and staff across Sub-Saharan Africa. The research, led by the University of Liverpool, Kenya Medical Research Institute, and more PR

MANCHESTER, England, Sept. 9 (TNSjou) -- The University of Manchester issued the following news release: * * * Not white, not seen: study uncovers France's racial blind spot A groundbreaking new study from The University of Manchester has challenged traditional ideas of race and national identity in France, revealing how French citizens of Indian descent are navigating their identities in a society that often ignores them. The research, led by Manuela Latchoumaya from the University's Depart more PR

MANCHESTER, England, Sept. 9 (TNSjou) -- The University of Manchester issued the following news release: * * * New tool tackles unreliable research trials An international group of researchers has developed a new tool which can help identify problematic randomised controlled trials (RCTs), including fraudulent studies, where there are serious concerns about trustworthiness. The final version of the tool, called INSPECT-SR, is now published on the pre-print server medRxiV. It was developed more PR

MANCHESTER, England, Sept. 9 (TNSrpt) -- The University of Manchester issued the following news release: * * * Tyndall Centre at 25: UK must step up climate ambition, report warns The UK now uses less energy than almost anyone anticipated 20 years ago, but opportunities to act on this potential were largely missed, according to a new report published by the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at The University of Manchester today. 'Decarbonising the UK revisited: reflecting on 20 year more PR

SYDNEY, Australia, Sept. 9 (TNSrpt) -- The University of New South Wales issued the following news: * * * Stable housing and income key to building family support networks, new report Access to a 'village' to help raise a child is not equal and family circumstances can make or break the ability to sustain support networks, say UNSW researchers. A new report from Uniting NSW.ACT, in partnership with the UNSW Social Policy Research Centre, sheds light on the networks that help Australian famil more PR

BIRMINGHAM, England, Sept. 9 (TNSjou) -- The University of Nottingham issued the following news release: * * * Scientists discover why the flu is more deadly for older people Scientists have discovered why older people are more likely to suffer severely from the flu, and can now use their findings to address this risk. In a new study, which is published in PNAS, experts discovered that older people produce a glycosylated protein called apoplipoprotein D (ApoD), which is involved in lipid met more PR

BRISBANE, Australia, Sept. 9 (TNSjou) -- The University of Queensland issued the following news: * * * Sponge-like gold particles could upgrade ovarian cancer diagnostics Sponge-like gold particles could be used to triage women with suspected ovarian cancer more accurately than current diagnostic tools. Key points * Specially designed gold nanoparticles can be used to highlight ovarian cancer markers in samples of urine, saliva, or blood * The mesoporous gold structures act as tiny light  more PR

SOUTHAMPTON, England, Sept. 9 (TNSjou) -- The University of Southampton issued the following news: * * * Polar geoengineering ideas will not help and could harm, warn experts Five geoengineering approaches being considered for use in the Arctic and Antarctica are highly unlikely to help the polar regions, would harm ecosystems, face major geopolitical challenges, and most likely reduce our chances of reaching net zero by 2050. This is according to a new assessment by an international researc more PR

GUILFORD, England, Sept. 9 (TNSjou) -- The University of Surrey issued the following news release: * * * Zero burden technologies show that brighter days and cooler nights could improve sleep in dementia Implementing changes to indoor environments, such as cooler bedrooms at night and increasing the amount of bright light during the day, could significantly improve sleep for people living with dementia, according to a study led by the University of Surrey. The study, published in the journa more PR

COVENTRY, England, Sept. 9 (TNSjou) -- The University of Warwick issued the following news release: * * * Flying Lifesavers: Drones could soon respond to cardiac arrests In the UK there are more than 40,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) annually, but fewer than 10% of people survive. Early CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) and use of an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) to restart the heart can at least double the chance of survival. AEDs are safe for the public to use, even w more PR

KAMPALA, Uganda, Sept. 9 -- Makerere University issued the following news: * * * VectorCam Project; Makerere, Johns Hopkins, and MoH to Scale Up AI-Powered Malaria Surveillance across Uganda By Joseph Odoi In a significant step toward revolutionizing mosquito surveillance in Uganda, Dr. Peter Waiswa, Associate Professor of Health Policy Planning and Management at the School of Public Health, Makerere University has revealed that a new AI-driven mosquito surveillance project is set to be roll more PR