SANTA CRUZ, California, Feb. 5 -- The University of California Santa Cruz campus issued the following news: * * * Biochemists establish new method for identifying pharmaceutical candidates faster * Key takeaways * Researchers at UC Santa Cruz developed a faster way to screen enzyme variants, helping scientists identify promising drug-making molecules much earlier and easing a major bottleneck in biocatalysis that has slowed pharmaceutical discovery for decades. * The new method enhance 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

EAST LANSING, Michigan, Feb. 5 -- Michigan State University posted the following news: * * * Charter schools lead to similar improvements in outcomes for students with and without disabilities * Students with disabilities account for almost 15% of the K-12 student population in the United States. Yet they are often underrepresented in charter schools, which are publicly funded schools open to all students. While there are discussions about what type of school environment best supports these  more PR

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Feb. 5 -- The University of New Mexico posted the following news: * * * Computer science undergraduate receives honorable mention for national research award * Adrian Faust, a senior in the Department of Computer Science, has received an honorable mention for the Computing Research Association (CRA) Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award. The highly competitive award -sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory -recognize more PR

EVANSTON, Illinois, Feb. 4 -- Northwestern University posted the following news release: * * * Dream engineering can help solve 'puzzling' questions * EVANSTON, Ill. -- We've all heard the best approach to solve a problem is to "sleep on it." It turns out there may be more truth to this adage than previously thought. While stories abound of eureka moments surfacing from dreams, scientific evidence has remained elusive, due to the challenge of systematically manipulating dreams. A new study  more PR

PASADENA, California, Feb. 5 -- The California Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * Economics Puzzle Leads to a New Understanding of a Fundamental Law of Physics * Right now, molecules in the air are moving around you in chaotic and unpredictable ways. To make sense of such systems, physicists use a law known as the Boltzmann distribution, which, rather than describe exactly where each particle is, describes the chance of finding the system in any of its possible states.  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

DALLAS, Texas, Feb. 4 -- The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center posted the following news release: * * * Experimental pill dramatically reduces 'bad' cholesterol * DALLAS - Feb. 04, 2026 - An experimental pill called enlicitide slashed levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, commonly known as "bad" cholesterol, by up to 60%, a new phase three clinical trial published in The New England Journal of Medicine showed. If approved by the Food and Drug Administration, this more PR

KONGENS LYNGBY, Denmark, Feb. 4 -- The Technical University of Denmark posted the following news: * * * Gentle implant can illuminate, listen, and deliver medication to the brain * Peter Aagaard Brixen Researchers from DTU, the University of Copenhagen, University College London, and other institutions have developed a long, needle-thin brain electrode with channels - a so-called microfluidic Axialtrode (mAxialtrode), named for its ability to distribute functional interfaces along the leng 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

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, Feb. 5 -- The University of Alabama issued the following news: * * * Links between gut dysfunction and the eye may reveal therapeutic strategies for individuals with diabetic retinopathy * Research published in the journal Gut suggests that nutraceutical strategies restoring tryptophan metabolism and IPA levels may serve as both biomarkers and therapeutic approaches for diabetic retinopathy. Diabetic retinopathy is a common condition caused by diabetes in which blood ves more PR

DALLAS, Texas, Feb. 5 [Category: Health Care] -- The American Heart Association posted the following news release: * * * New medication may reduce chances of a second clot-caused stroke without bleeding risk * Research Highlights: * When added to standard blood-thinning medications such as aspirin, the new anti-clotting medication asundexian reduced the risk of a second stroke by reducing the formation of blood clots without increasing the risk of bleeding. * This is the first complete more PR

SMITHFIELD, Rhode Island, Feb. 5 -- Bryant University issued the following news: * * * New names mark outstanding growth, outcomes for Bryant's College of Health and Behavioral Sciences and College of Humanities and Social Sciences * Smithfield, RI-Bryant University's School of Health and Behavioral Sciences has been elevated to the College of Health and Behavioral Sciences, renamed accordingly to reflect its tremendous growth and powerful impact in bolstering the region's health care system more PR

PERTH, Australia, Feb. 5 -- Curtin University issued the following news release: * * * New study warns huge areas of Australia are vulnerable to tree-killing beetle * A new Curtin University study warns that large parts of Australia, including major cities and farming regions, could be highly vulnerable to a fast-spreading invasive beetle, already causing severe damage across the Perth metropolitan area. The study looked at the full life cycle of the polyphagous shot hole borer (PSHB), a t more PR

ITHACA, New York, Feb. 5 -- Cornell University posted the following news: * * * People use enjoyment, not time spent, to measure goal progress * It stands to reason that the longer or more diligently you work at something, the better you get at it. But researchers from the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business found that consumers don't necessarily see it that way. In nine studies, the research team - co-authored by Kaitlin Woolley '12, professor of marketing at the Samuel Curtis Johnson  more PR

LONDON, England, Feb. 5 [Category: BizMedia] -- Taylor and Francis Group, a publishing company, posted the following news release: * * * ResearchGate and Taylor & Francis expand strategic Journal Home partnership ResearchGate, the professional network for researchers, and Taylor & Francis, a world-renowned academic publisher, today announced a further two-year expansion of their strategic Journal Home partnership. The renewed agreement now covers 800 journals across the Taylor & Francis portf more PR

LONDON, England, Feb. 6 -- Taylor and Francis Group issued the following news on Feb. 5, 2026: * * * ResearchGate and Taylor & Francis expand strategic Journal Home partnership Two-year agreement now covers 800 journals, including Community Engagement Upgrade and Open Access Agreement Upgrade for all titles * ResearchGate, the professional network for researchers, and Taylor & Francis, a world-renowned academic publisher, today announced a further two-year expansion of their strategic Journ more PR

PANAMA CITY, Panama, Feb. 6 (TNSjou) -- The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute issued the following news: * * * Ants in the spotlight The hidden gaps in Neotropical ant behavior research By Vanessa Crooks A recent study from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) reveals that, despite their outsized ecological impact, the diversity of ants in the American tropics and their behavior remain understudied. There are more than 3,400 known species of ants in the American tropics more PR

DALLAS, Texas, Feb. 5 -- The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center posted the following news release: * * * Study identifies why some breast cancers evade treatment * DALLAS - Feb. 05, 2026 - Up to 20% of hormone receptor-positive breast cancers don't respond to antiestrogen therapies. A study led by researchers at UT Southwestern, published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation, suggests that a protein secreted by immune cells within these tumors causes them to grow even in the more PR

AUBURN, Alabama, Feb. 5 (TNSjou) -- Auburn University issued the following news: * * * Tiny Steps, Big Discovery: Auburn materials engineers make high-profile breakthrough in nanophotonics By Jeremy Henderson The National Science Foundation (NSF) continues to back the nation's elite materials engineering programs as they plumb the depths of polaritons for nanoscale novelties that could support transformative technologies. Polaritons, quasiparticles which combine light and matter, are central more PR

MACAU, China, Feb. 5 -- The University of Macau posted the following news: * * * UM research reveals new mechanism of immune evasion in triple-negative breast cancer * A research team led by Kathy Qian Luo, professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) at the University of Macau (UM), has uncovered a new mechanism that enables triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) to evade attacks from the immune system. The study shows that TNBC cells resist natural killer (NK) cell-mediated killing thro 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