WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis issued the following commentary on Feb. 5, 2026: * * * How Crypto Funds Russia's War Russia's use of cryptocurrency to bypass sanctions has exposed a gap in the international community's attempts to throttle Moscow's war machine. By Sergiy Makogon The emergence of the A7A5 stablecoin represents a transformative shift in global financial evasion. Until now, the international community has relied on the dominance of the US dollar more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis issued the following commentary on Feb. 5, 2026: * * * A Quick Note on Orbiting Data Centers They don't yet make business sense, but space and satellites are an increasingly important part of digital transformation and US-China competition. By James Lewis The very successful SpaceX and the somewhat less successful xAI have announced plans to merge and create on-orbit data centers. This is probably some financial machination conne more PR

MARINA DEL REY, California, Feb. 6 -- The University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute, a component of the Viterbi School of Engineering, issued the following news: * * * The End of Academic Writer's Block? This Tool by USC Scientists Writes Research Papers in Under an Hour USC researcher launches GRAIL just one day after OpenAI's competing platform, promising to turn rough notes into submission-ready papers in under an hour By Magali Gruet For every research paper that  more PR

WURZBURG, Germany, Feb. 5 -- The University of Wurzburg issued the following news release: * * * How superconductivity arises: New insights from moire materials * How exactly unconventional superconductivity arises is one of the central questions of modern solid-state physics. A new study published in the scientific journal Nature provides crucial insights into this question. For the first time, an international research team was able to demonstrate a direct microscopic connection between  more PR

MUNICH, Germany, Feb. 6 -- ifo Institute issued the following news release: * * * Companies in Germany Give Poor Grades for Government's Economic Policy Companies in Germany give the government's economic policy a bad report card. On average, the companies awarded a grade1 of 4.2, according to an ifo Institute survey. The criticism covers all policy areas and is voiced by all sectors alike; positive assessments are rare. "Companies currently see hardly any progress on key economic policy issu more PR

LONDON, England, Feb. 5 -- SOAS, University of London issued the following "In the Media" news: * * * SOAS in the Media: February 2026 A roundup of SOAS experts and research featured in the media this week. * * * What the UK's China diplomacy signals next * Professor Steve Tsang was interviewed and featured across BBC Radio 5 Live, Al Jazeera, DW China and Channel 4 News on the UK Prime Minister's recent visit to China, alongside wider coverage including BBC News, Channel News Asia and MSN more PR

MONTREAL, Quebec, Feb. 5 (TNSjou) -- The University of Montreal issued the following news: * * * Saving sunny days for a rainy day: a new molecule for storing green energy An UdeM-led research team has developed an organic molecule that stores renewable energy with record stability, paving the way for more sustainable flow batteries. By Martin LaSalle What if the energy produced by wind turbines on a beautiful summer day could be stored until January to heat homes in the dead of winter? It  more PR

LIVERMORE, California, Feb. 6 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * When lasers cross: LLNL finds a brighter way to measure plasma Measuring conditions in volatile clouds of superheated gases known as plasmas are central to pursuing greater scientific understanding of how stars, nuclear detonations and fusion energy work. For decades, scientists have relied on a technique called Thomson scattering, which uses a single more PR