SANTA CRUZ, California, Dec. 2 -- The University of California Santa Cruz campus issued the following news: * * * 'Super-Jupiter' exoplanet has markedly different atmosphere than our gas giant, new study finds * Key takeaways * James Webb Space Telescope observations reveal that the atmosphere of a brown dwarf classified as a "super-Jupiter" is far more chaotic than that of our own gas giantchallenging popular assumptions. * This study focused on the exoplanet VHS 1256b, in the constellati more PR

NEW YORK, Dec. 2 [Category: Media] -- PEN America, an organization that says it stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect free expression, posted the following news release: * * * 2026 Literary Gala Honorees Announced: Novelist and Essayist Ann Patchett and Oscar-Nominated Film Producer Jason Blum * (NEW YORK)PEN America will honor bestselling and prize-winning novelist and essayist Ann Patchett ( Bel Canto, The Dutch House ) with the PEN/Audible Literary Service A more PR

ITHACA, New York, Dec. 2 -- Cornell University posted the following news: * * * A cleaner, less toxic way of making a staple chemical * Cornell scientists have discovered a potentially transformative approach to manufacturing one of the world's most widely used chemicals - hydrogen peroxide - using nothing more than sunlight, water and air. The research published Nov. 29 in the journal Nature Communications. "Currently, hydrogen peroxide is made through the anthraquinone process, which r more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (TNSLrpt) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following report (No. R48538) on Nov. 26, 2025, entitled "Advanced Lithium-Ion Energy Storage Battery Manufacturing in the U.S." by Michael Alan Havlin, industrial organization and business analyst. Here are excerpts: * * * SUMMARY Due to increases in demand for electric vehicles (EVs), renewable energies, and a wide range of consumer goods, the demand for energy storage batteries has increased considerably from 20 more PR

LOGAN, Utah, Dec. 2 -- Utah State University issued the following news: * * * Aggie-Feed: USU Researchers Introduce Healthier Alternative to Antibiotics in Livestock Production * LOGAN, Utah Humans and farm animals share a common affliction: Inflammation. "Inflammation, wherever it occurs in your body, is your immune system's response to a host of factors, including injury or infection," says Utah State University chemist Cheng-Wei "Tom" Chang. "It may be minor and temporary, but chronic i more PR

BAYREUTH, Germany, Dec. 2 -- The University of Bayreuth issued the following news release: * * * Bayreuth research on Muslim life in Latin America and the Caribbean receives funding The German Research Foundation (DFG) and the British Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) are funding a new German-British research project by Dr. Ken Chitwood (University of Bayreuth) and Dr Kholoud Al-Ajarma (University of Edinburgh). Their project, "The Global Landscapes of Muslim Lives: Latin American a more PR

BINGHAMTON, New York, Dec. 3 (TNSjou) -- Binghamton University issued the following news: * * * Research explores the Indigenous origins of the hammock Quickly adopted by European colonists, hammocks also had cultural meaning, according to Binghamton Professor John Kuhn By Jennifer Micale When you're swaying in a beachside hammock on a lazy summer day, take a moment to thank the Indigenous cultures that invented it. Native to South America and the Caribbean, hammocks were traditionally wov more PR

JACKSONVILLE, Florida, Dec. 3 -- The University of North Florida issued the following news: * * * Breaking Records, Building Dreams: UNF's Year of Impact and Innovation University of North Florida faculty and staff have spent the last few years strengthening partnerships across campus and within the community, while enhancing the student experience. Those efforts culminated in a historic year of growth and achievement at UNF, marked by record enrollment, unprecedented fundraising and ground more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 -- The Capital Research Center posted the following commentary on Dec. 2, 2025: * * * The Skillman Foundation's fixation on funding racial grievance and the education blob One of America's worst performing school districts needs outside-the-box solutions. But a big foundation with the resources to deliver reform is subsidizing the status quo. By Tom Gantert Only in the world of DEI can a black woman make nearly $600,000 annually while serving a destitute city, dress up in more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis posted the following commentary on Dec. 2, 2025: * * * The Fragility of the Deal: Why Details Matter in Ukraine's Endgames Peace deals are an endpoint, but they are also the starting point for what comes next. Ukraine must take great care in what it agrees to. By Andrew R. Novo The Greek diplomat, Evangelos Averoff, once remarked that "there is no such word as 'never' in human affairs." A 40-year veteran of international politics more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis posted the following commentary on Dec. 1, 2025: * * * A Rebirth in Flame: Ukraine's Beleaguered Energy System Russia's relentless assault on Ukraine's energy infrastructure and a crisis of governance promise a cold winter. But there is hope ahead. By Kateryna Odarchenko The Kremlin's forces have been striking Ukraine's energy generation and distribution facilities almost daily. Attacks on November 25 alone left more than 40,000  more PR

HOBOKEN, New Jersey, Dec. 3 -- Stevens Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Corporate Social Responsibility Acts as an Insurance Policy When Companies Cut Jobs and Benefits During the Times of Crisis Employees tend to fault organizations that don't support charitable or environmental courses -- and forgive them if they do * From shifting economic policy to disrupted supply chains, there seems to be no lack of challenges for businesses nowadays. Rising inflation, shifting more PR

NORTHRIDGE, California, Dec. 3 -- California State University Northridge (CSUN) issued the following news release: * * * CSUN Prof's Work Leads to Discovery of Oldest Shell Ornament Workshop in Western Europe The small shells found by researchers that include California State University, Northridge anthropologist Helene Rougier at La Roche-a-Pierrot, a prehistoric archaeological site in Saint-Cesaire, France, date back more than 42,000 years, providing evidence of the oldest workshops for the more PR

TALLAHASSEE, Florida, Dec. 2 -- Florida State University issued the following news: * * * Faculty and Staff Briefs November 2025 * Florida State University's distinguished faculty are central to the mission of the university. Faculty excellence in scholarship, research, and creative activity is critical to the quality of student learning and makes a difference in the lives of others. Throughout the year, honors and recognitions are awarded to individual faculty and staff members across cam more PR

WEST LAFAYETTE, Indiana, Dec. 1 -- Purdue University issued the following news release: * * * Findings suggest red planet was warmer, wetter millions of years ago Rocks that stood out as light-colored dots on the reddish-orange surface of Mars now are the latest evidence that areas of the small planet may have once supported wet oases with humid climates and heavy rainfall comparable to tropical climates on Earth. The rocks discovered by NASA's Perseverance Mars rover are white, aluminum-ri more PR

LONDON, England, Dec. 3 -- FIGO-The International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics issued the following news: * * * Global shift towards imaging for endometriosis diagnosis highlighted in new IJGO study A new study led by members of the FIGO Committee on Reproductive Medicine, Endocrinology and Infertility (REI), now published in the International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics (IJGO), shows a significant global move towards using non-invasive imaging, particularly specialist ultra more PR

OXFORD, Ohio, Dec. 2 -- Miami University posted the following news: * * * Headline Highlights: Miami and Miamians in the news in November * Check out our weekly Miami Media Highlights on the Miami University News website. PBS-WCML, Ch. 14, Nov. 30: Great Lakes Now * Matthew Smith, visiting associate professor of History, was interviewed for the PBS program Great Lakes Now. Smith discusses the history of the Erie Canal as a follow-up to his article recently published by The Conversation more PR

MANHATTAN, Kansas, Dec. 3 -- Kansas State University issued the following news: * * * K-State Libraries launches Express Delivery for rapid access to current journal articles K-State Libraries has introduced Express Delivery from Article Galaxy Scholar, a new service that provides rapid access to current journal articles not available through existing database and journal subscriptions. With Express Delivery, students, faculty and staff can often receive select articles within minutes. Expre more PR

BALTIMORE, Maryland, Dec. 3 -- Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown issued the following news release: * * * Attorney General Brown Opposes Trump's Latest Effort to Funnel Americans' Personal, Sensitive Information into Mass Surveillance Machine Attorney General Anthony G. Brown joined a coalition of 18 attorneys general in opposing the Trump administration's expansion of the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program to include the information of U.S. born citizens w more PR

ATLANTA, Georgia, Dec. 2 -- Mercer University issued the following news wrap up: * * * Faculty and Staff Notables | December 2025 * College of Education Dr. Karyn Allee, associate professor of elementary education, and Ph.D. graduate Stephanie Moore, co-presented the session "Play as a bridge: Supporting multilingual learners through inquiry-driven, play-based learning" at the 2025 Georgia Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Conference in Athens on Oct. 30. Dr. Allee, with c more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 [Category: Medical] -- Optica, formerly the Optical Society, posted the following news release: * * * Miniature microscope captures real-time voltage signals in awake animals. * Device could expand understanding of neural activity, leading to new treatments for neurological and neurodegenerative disorders  WASHINGTON Researchers have built a tiny, lightweight microscope that captures neuron activity with unprecedented speed that can be used in freely moving animals. The  more PR

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (TNSjou) -- The Georgetown University Medical Center issued the following news: * * * New Study Supports the Value of Medical Humanities in Illuminating the Root Causes of Health Care Disparities in Washington, D.C. A new study analyzing dozens of published papers over five decades focusing on health care disparities in Washington, D.C., found that those that employed medical humanities approaches identified crucial barriers and opportunities for intervention that quantitat more PR

NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, England, Dec. 2 (TNSjou) -- Newcastle University issued the following news: * * * Exposing the hidden carbon cost of potash imports into Brazil Brazil's potash imports carry higher carbon footprints than models predict, Newcastle research finds. * The Newcastle University-led study, The true carbon costs of supplying potassium fertilizer to Brazilian agriculture, has produced the first comprehensive estimate of greenhouse gas ("GHG") emissions from conventional potash ( more PR

NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, England, Dec. 3 -- Northumbria University issued the following news release: * * * Northumbria researchers secure four prestigious early career fellowships Four Northumbria University researchers have been awarded highly competitive fellowships to pursue groundbreaking research projects spanning the humanities, engineering, and social sciences. The awards - three Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships and one British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship - are designed to s more PR

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 3 (TNSjou) -- Ohio State University issued the following news: * * * Why undisturbed sleep is important to brain injury recovery In mice with TBI, disrupted sleep linked to reduced REM, more fatigue * A new study highlights how important uninterrupted sleep is to recovery after a traumatic brain injury, finding that fragmented sleep in injured mice is linked to a loss of rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep and increased fatigue. Specifically, the research shows that fragmen more PR

PRINCETON, New Jersey, Dec. 2 -- Princeton University School of Public and International Affairs issued the following news: * * * India, 'a Troubled Giant,' the Subject of New Faculty Book * Home to nearly 1.5 billion people, India is the world's largest democracy - for now. According to the Journal of Democracy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "government has engaged in what is, by some accounts, a wholesale dismantling of democratic institutions, norms, and practices." "At a time when aut more PR

PHOENIX, Arizona, Dec. 2 [Category: ThinkTank] -- The Goldwater Institute posted the following news: * * * Radical Activists Hijacked a Top Political Science Journal--with Far-Reaching Consequences * A new Goldwater report reveals discrimination and ideological bias at the American Political Science Review. A leading political science journal abandoned merit-based scholarship in favor of race- and sex-based discrimination, according to a new Goldwater Institute analysis of the American Po more PR

ITHACA, New York, Dec. 2 -- Cornell University posted the following news: * * * Revolutionizing engineering education: The rise of a new research pillar * In 2021, an unexpected email landed in Allison Godwin 's inbox inquiring about her interest in a new position. She wasn't actively looking for a professional change, and she might not have read it at all had she not been on sabbatical with more time for such things than usual. A tenured faculty member at Purdue University, Godwin had est more PR

BUFFALO, New York, Dec. 2 [Category: BizHospital] -- The Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center posted the following news release: * * * Roswell Park-Led Clinical Trial Paves Way for FDA Approval of Targeted Drug for Aggressive Leukemia * BUFFALO, N.Y. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a new drug to treat an aggressive form of leukemia, based on the results of a clinical trial co-led by Eunice Wang, MD, Chief of Leukemia at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center. The F more PR

RIVERSIDE, California, Dec. 2 -- The University of California Riverside campus issued the following news: * * * Shopping for two is stressful * For many of us, any kind of shopping is stressful enough. The anxiety, however, really kicks in when you must purchase something you're going to share with another person. Such are the findings of a UC Riverside School of Business study published in the Journal of Marketing Research that compared consumer anxiety levels stemming from different shop more PR

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Dec. 3 (TNSjou) -- Southern Connecticut State University issued the following news: * * * Dr. Isabel Logan Recognized for Police Social Work Model Dr. Isabel Logan, associate professor in the Department of Social Work at Southern Connecticut State University, has been honored with the Conceptual Article of the Year award by the Journal of Social Work Education. The award recognizes her team's groundbreaking work on the SWLE Project Integrative Model on Police Social Wo more PR

BUFFALO, New York, Dec. 2 -- The University at Buffalo (State University of New York) posted the following news release: * * * Tracking forever chemicals across food web shows not all isomers are distributed equally * A crested comorant catching a fish. A double-crested cormorant feeds near the shores of Lake Huron in Ontario, Canada. A University at Buffalo study anayzled these birds' egg yolks for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Samples from water, fish, and bird eggs demon more PR

ORLANDO, Florida, Dec. 2 -- The University of Central Florida posted the following news: * * * UCF Researcher Creates Novel Sensors for Smartphone-Based Health Monitoring * Professor Debashis Chanda (right), working with researchers including physics doctoral student Mahdi Soudi (left), created a smartphone-based biosensor to improve infectious disease detection. The platform provides a faster, more affordable option for communities with limited access to traditional diagnostics. Early dia more PR

ORLANDO, Florida, Dec. 2 -- The University of Central Florida posted the following news: * * * UCF Study Explores Formation of Spider-Like Features on Jupiter's Moon Europa and Potential for Life * From Europa to other icy moons, scientists are studying how surface features form and what they might reveal about the potential for life. In a new study published in The Planetary Science Journal, researchers from UCF, NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) and other institutions explored a unique, sp more PR

HOUSTON, Texas, Dec. 3 (TNSjou) -- The University of Houston issued the following news: * * * UH Engineers Making AI Faster, Reducing Power Consumption Team Invents New Thin Film Materials Based on Nobel Prize Winning Methods By Laurie Fickman, (713) 743-8454, lafickman@uh.edu Addressing the staggering power and energy demands of artificial intelligence, engineers at the University of Houston have developed a revolutionary new thin-film material that promises to make AI devices significantl more PR

BOCHUM, Germany, Dec. 2 (TNSjou) -- The University in Bochum issued the following news release: * * * The Minority Dilemma in Media Reports A cognitive principle leads to the frequent mention of minority group membership in media reports. Because news is often negative, this distorts public perceptions of minority groups. In media coverage, individuals' membership in minority groups, such as their country of origin, is often explicitly mentioned. In contrast, majority membership is usually n more PR

DAVIS, California, Dec. 3 (TNSjou) -- The University of California Davis issued the following news: * * * Rising Heat Leads to Minimal Losses for California Processing Tomatoes Researchers Analyzed Traffic, Temperatures and 1.4 Million Tomato Truckloads By Emily C. Dooley California's $1 billion processing tomato industry is highly efficient and likely will be able to withstand higher temperatures and traffic congestion with minimal postharvest losses, according to research conducted at the more PR

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Dec. 2 (TNSjou) -- The University of Copenhagen issued the following news: * * * Contraceptive pills may affect women's mental health The contraceptive pill has been hailed as one of the most revolutionary health technologies of the 20th century - a tool that gave women control over their fertility and paved the way for education and careers. But a new study suggests that this freedom may have come at a hidden cost: impaired mental health. Access to the contraceptive pil more PR

NORWICH, England, Dec. 2 (TNSjou) -- The University of East Anglia issued the following news: * * * Three-quarters of the world not getting enough Omega-3, research shows More than three-quarters of the global population aren't getting enough Omega-3, according to new research from UEA, Holland & Barrett and the University of Southampton. The collaborative review highlights that 76 per cent of people worldwide are not meeting recommended intakes of EPA and DHA, revealing a significant global more PR

SYDNEY, Australia, Dec. 3 (TNSjou) -- The University of New South Wales issued the following news: * * * Why flexible work alone isn't enough: preferences matter more than policy By Craig Donaldson New research shows that workers benefit from flexible work arrangements when employers align policies with individual preferences rather than uniform mandates. Employees leave employers when their work arrangements fail to match their preferences, says new research that tracked 482 workers over t more PR

ADELAIDE, Australia, Dec. 3 (TNSjou) -- The University of South Australia issued the following news release: * * * Long-term antidepressant use surges in Australia, sparking warnings of overprescribing Long-term antidepressant use in Australia has risen steadily over the past decade, with the largest increase seen in young people aged 10-24, where rates have more than doubled. The finding is from a new study undertaken by University of South Australia researchers, who analysed dispensing dat more PR

WINDSOR, Ontario, Dec. 2 -- University of Windsor issued the following news: * * * Doctoral study gives rise to guide for gym accessibility By Kate Hargreaves While the benefits of exercise on mental, physical and social well-being are widely known, accessing inclusive and functional spaces to engage in exercise can be a challenge for people with a disability. In her doctoral research, recent UWindsor Kinesiology graduate and Vanier scholar Dr. Fallon Mitchell (PhD '25) explored the acces more PR

UPPSALA, Sweden, Dec. 2 (TNSjou) -- Uppsala University issued the following news release: * * * Discovery of new marine sponges supports hypothesis on animal evolution A completely new order of marine sponges has been found by researchers at the Museum of Evolution, Uppsala University. The sponge order, named Vilesida, produces substances that could be used in drug development. The same substances support the hypothesis that sponges - and therefore animals - emerged 100 million years earlier  more PR

PULLMAN, Washington, Dec. 3 (TNSjou) -- Washington State University issued the following news release: * * * Study links childhood vaccination to lower risk of drug-resistant bacteria By Devin Rokyta, College of Veterinary Medicine Children in Guatemala who received a common vaccine that helps prevent pneumonia were less likely to carry antibiotic-resistant bacteria, according to a new study led by Washington State University researchers. The team examined whether rotavirus (RV) and pneumo more PR

LONDON, Canada, Dec. 2 (TNSjou) -- Western University issued the following news: * * * Do super-Jupiters look like Jupiter? Not necessarily, study shows Western and international collaborators discover important distinction with Webb images By Jeff Renaud Using images from the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb), an international research team including Western's Stanimir Metchev has discovered new answers to explain how some brown dwarfs form giant dust storms, contradicting previous assumpt more PR