SYRACUSE, New York, Sept. 12 -- Syracuse University posted the following news: * * * Celebrating a Decade of Gravitational Waves * Illustration of the first gravitational wave event observed by LIGO in 2015. The detected wave forms from LIGO Hanford (orange) and LIGO Livingston (blue) are superimposed beneath illustrations of the merging black holes. (Photo courtesy of Aurore Simmonet, Sonoma State University Ten years ago, a faint ripple in the fabric of space-time forever changed our und more PR

NEW YORK, Sept. 12 -- Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory issued the following news: * * * Scientists Respond to the Planned Termination of the Only U.S. Antarctic Research Vessel By Emily Cohen In a signed letter, 170 researchers, including 10 from Columbia University, urged Congress and National Science Foundation to continue the operation of the Nathaniel B. Palmer. On July 28, 170 researchers sent a letter to the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Congress after NS more PR

ITHACA, New York, Sept. 12 -- Cornell University posted the following news: * * * Cornell-led space tech startup acquired by Pasteur Labs * FOSAI, an aerospace and defense technology company led by Gregory Falco '10, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Cornell, has been acquired by Pasteur Labs, a developer of artificial intelligence-driven physics simulation tools which was founded by Alexander Lavin '12. Falco, who is also a faculty member in Cornell's Systems  more PR

EVANSTON, Illinois, Sept. 12 -- Northwestern University posted the following news release: * * * Gravitational-wave detection verifies Stephen Hawking's theorem * * * Northwestern scientists have made key contributions to every major gravitational-wave milestone * * After a decade of upgrades, the observatory received its clearest gravitational-wave signal to date * * Signal verifies Hawking's black-hole area theorem, stating the total surface areas of black holes cannot decrease EV more PR

COLUMBIA, Missouri, Sept. 13 (TNSjou) -- The University of Missouri issued the following news release: * * * Hear that? Mizzou researchers are 'listening' to molecules in supersonic conditions Mizzou's Arthur Suits used a laser to hear the vibrations of extremely cold molecules moving faster than the speed of sound. * What happens when you hurl molecules faster than sound through a vacuum chamber nearly as cold as space itself? At the University of Missouri, researchers are finding out -- a more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 -- George Washington University posted the following news: * * * Media Tip Sheet: Signs of Life Found in Mars Rocks * WASHINGTON (September 12, 2025) - NASA's Perseverance rover discovered minerals in a Martian rock that are often linked to microbial activity on Earth. The findings raise the possibility that life may have existed on Mars. Scientists identified vivianite ("poppy seeds") and greigite ("leopard spots") in the rock. While NASA officials caution the results a more PR

CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee, Sept. 13 -- The University of Tennessee Chattanooga Campus issued the following news: * * * NSF awards $1.33 million to UTC-led effort to protect nation's power grid The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga has been awarded a $1.33 million planning grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a blueprint for a QuantumGrid Innovation Hub in Chattanooga, a collaborative testbed where researchers, utilities, startups and industry partners will develo more PR

PASADENA, California, Sept. 12 -- The California Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * Uniting the Light Spectrum on a Chip * Focused laser-like light that covers a wide range of frequencies is highly desirable for many scientific studies and for many applications, for instance quality control of manufacturing semiconductor electronic chips. But creating such broadband and coherent light has been difficult to achieve with anything but bulky energy-hungry tabletop devices.  more PR

ARLINGTON, Texas, Sept. 13 -- The University of Texas Arlington campus issued the following news release: * * * UTA student tops field in national research contest Mechanical engineering student wins ASC's Doctoral Research Impact Competition * Partha Pratim Das, a mechanical engineering doctoral student at The University of Texas at Arlington, was selected as the winner of the American Society for Composites' 2025 Four-Minute Doctoral Research Impact Competition. Competitors were first as more PR

BLACKSBURG, Virginia, Sept. 13 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: * * * Guoliang 'Greg' Liu awarded faculty fellowship By Anne Kroemer Hoffman Guoliang "Greg" Liu, professor of chemistry in the College of Science, has been honored with appointment as the Leo and Melva Harris Faculty Fellow by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors. The L.C. Hassinger Senior Faculty Fellowship in Nanoscience was established to support outstanding scholarship in the field of nanoscience. The donor, Wil more PR