PASADENA, California, Oct. 29 -- The California Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * A Unit-Free Shortcut to Better Science * Machine learning models are designed to take in data, to find patterns or relationships within those data, and to use what they have learned to make predictions or to create new content. The quality of those outputs depends not only on the details of a model's inner workings but also, crucially, on the information that is fed into the model. Some m more PR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 -- The American College of Cardiology posted the following news release: * * * AI ECG Better Detects Severe Heart Attacks in Emergency Setting AI-based ECG interpretation detected more STEMIs and had fewer false positives * Using artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze electrocardiograms (ECG) improved detection of severe heart attacks, including those that presented with unconventional symptoms, or atypical ECG patterns, and reduced false positives, according to a study more PR

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, Oct. 29 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Amid renewable-energy boom, study explores options for electricity market * UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Renewable energy sources like wind and solar generation now account for over 20% of electricity in the U.S. and keep growing after large-scale production more than doubled since 2000. Still, high-profile power failures illustrate persistent challenges from the lack of available capacity to pro more PR

SOCORRO, New Mexico, Oct. 23 (TNSjou) -- New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology issued the following news: * * * Dino Discovery: NM Tech Geologist Helps Uncover New Findings about the Last Dinosaurs in New Mexico By Katie E. Ismael Very near the time of their ultimate extinction, dinosaurs were more diverse than scientists previously believed and actually a thriving species, according to new research published today in the journal Science. Matthew Heizler, a New Mexico Tech emeritus  more PR

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, Oct. 29 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Good vibrations: Ceramic material harvests electricity from waste energy * UNIVERISITY PARK, Pa. There's a lion's share of potential energy in the vibrations produced by footsteps on dance floors, exercise machines in the gym, or the engines of cars, planes or construction equipment. Some tech companies have already begun to harvest electricity from waste vibrations to power lights and re more PR

MUNICH, Germany, Oct. 29 -- The Max Planck Society issued the following news on Oct. 27, 2025: * * * Preparing for Mars Samples on Earth The Mars rover Perseverance has collected numerous samples that are to be sent to Earth. Current studies are preparing for the future handling of this material. To the point * New report: An international team of researchers has published a report on how Mars samples should be handled from a scientific point of view when they arrive on Earth. * Gottingen  more PR

EVANSTON, Illinois, Oct. 29 -- Northwestern University posted the following news release: * * * New nanomedicine wipes out leukemia in animal study * * Link to: Northwestern Now Story * EMBARGOED UNTIL 10 A.M. EDT (U.S.) ON WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2025 * Scientists reengineered chemo drug into spherical nucleic acids (SNAs), a globular form of DNA * * Team tested the repackaged therapy on an animal model of acute myeloid leukemia, a fast-moving blood cancer * * SNAs easily entere more PR

DALLAS, Texas, Oct. 28 -- The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center issued the following news release: * * * Online discrimination fuels drinking by Hispanic college students * DALLAS - Oct. 28, 2025 - Hispanic college students who encounter racial or ethnic discrimination on social media are more likely to turn to alcohol as a coping mechanism, according to a study led by a UT Southwestern Medical Center researcher. Nearly 90% of Hispanic students surveyed reported experiencing  more PR

ROCHESTER, New York, Oct. 30 (TNSjou) -- Rochester Institute of Technology issued the following news release: * * * RIT research reveals new details in the Red Spider Nebula New images of the cosmic object published in 'The Astrophysical Journal' and featured as ESA's Webb picture of the month * A creepy, crawly object in the middle of the Milky Way can now be seen clearer than ever thanks to work by RIT scientists. The Red Spider Nebula, catalogued as NGC 6537 and named for its distinct s more PR

DALLAS, Texas, Oct. 29 [Category: Health Care] -- The American Heart Association posted the following news release: * * * Some acute and chronic viral infections may increase the risk of cardiovascular disease Research Highlights: * A review of 155 scientific studies found influenza and COVID infections raised the risk of heart attack or stroke as much as three-to five-fold in the weeks following the initial infection. * Viruses that linger in the body, such as HIV, hepatitis C and varicell more PR

CHEVY CHASE, Maryland, Oct. 29 [Category: Health Care] -- The American Society of Addiction Medicine posted the following news release: * * * The ASAM Weekly for October 28th, 2025 * ASAM will undergo a planned system freeze from Monday, November 3, through Monday, November 10, to implement a new Association Management System (AMS). To minimize disruption, please complete any time-sensitive tasks before November 3. Explore System Freeze FAQ This Week in the ASAM Weekly Opioid overdose de more PR

SAN FRANCISCO, California, Oct. 30 -- The University of California's Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center issued the following news: * * * UCSF Radiation Oncologists Featured at Radiation Oncology Conference By Melinda Krigel UC San Francisco researchers and clinicians presented innovative research and treatment strategies at the American Society of Radiation Oncology's 2025 Annual Meeting in San Francisco, which ran from Sept. 27 to Oct. 1. The 67th ASTRO annual meeting was cente more PR

TAMPA, Florida, Oct. 30 -- The University of South Florida issued the following news: * * * AI and citizen science reveal potential first detection of invasive malaria mosquito in Madagascar By John Dudley, University Communications and Marketing Researchers from the University of South Florida have used artificial intelligence and citizen science to identify what may be the first specimen of Anopheles stephensi -- an invasive and deadly malaria-carrying mosquito -- ever detected in Madagasc more PR

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, Oct. 30 -- The American Academy of Neurology issued the following news release: * * * Veterans with epilepsy after traumatic brain injury may have higher mortality rates Military veterans who develop epilepsy after a traumatic brain injury may have a higher mortality rate in the following years than veterans who develop epilepsy with no previous traumatic brain injury, according to a study published on October 29, 2025, in Neurology, the medical journal of the American more PR

COVENTRY, England, Oct. 29 (TNSjou) -- The University of Warwick issued the following news release: * * * Warwick researcher improves century-old equation to predict movement of dangerous air pollutants A new method developed at the University of Warwick offers the first simple and predictive way to calculate how irregularly shaped nanoparticles -- a dangerous class of airborne pollutant -- move through air. Every day, we breathe in millions of microscopic particles, including soot, dust, po more PR

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, Oct. 30 -- The American Academy of Neurology issued the following news release: * * * Who is more likely to lose vision due to high brain pressure? If untreated, a disorder of high brain pressure called idiopathic intracranial hypertension can lead to vision loss. But this disorder can develop without noticeable symptoms, making it hard to catch. A new study looks at how these vision problems develop and proposes a way to predict who will develop issues. The study is p more PR

NEW YORK, Oct. 29 [Category: BizMedia] -- Dow Jones, a provider of news and business information, issued the following news release: * * * WSJ. Magazine Announces Honorees for 15th Annual Innovator Awards * The luxury lifestyle magazine's Innovator Awards honor the year's groundbreaking talents and industry-movers in music, beauty, film, fashion, design, entertainment and philanthropy in science. New York, NY [October 29, 2025] - WSJ. Magazine announced the honorees for its 15th annual Inn more PR