BINGHAMTON, New York, Feb. 20 (TNSjou) -- Binghamton University issued the following news: * * * Special edition of Undergraduate Research Journal to focus on Human Rights The peer-reviewed research papers were produced by Professor Alexandra Moore's Source Project stream By Jennifer Micale In English Professor Alexandra Moore's Source Project stream in human rights, students take an interdisciplinary deep-dive into topics such as incarceration, Indigenous rights, terrorism, women's rights, more PR

SANTA CRUZ, California, Feb. 19 -- The University of California Santa Cruz campus issued the following news: * * * Brain organoids can be trained to solve a goal-directed task * * Researchers used brain organoids to solve the cart-pole balancing problem, showing they can process information in real time and learn to respond. * Coaching organoids to improve their performance increased success at the cart-pole problem from a 4.5% success rate for random training to a 46% success rate when usi more PR

DURHAM, North Carolina, Feb. 20 -- Duke University issued the following news: * * * How to Ensure Ocean Projects Are Fair A scorecard asseses how ocean projects and policies recognize relevant stakeholders and include them in decision-making * Let's say an energy company is developing an offshore wind farm near a small First Nations fishing village. How can this company ensure that it respects Indigenous rights? A flexible new tool called the Ocean Equity Index could help. It's a scorecard more PR

BOCA RATON, Florida, Feb. 20 (TNSjou) -- Florida Atlantic University, a component of the state university system in Florida, issued the following news: * * * Researchers Find New Bacteria in Stranded Florida Pygmy Sperm Whales Study Snapshot: Pygmy sperm whales are elusive, deep-diving marine mammals that are rarely observed alive, so much of what scientists know about them comes from stranded individuals - particularly along the southeastern U.S. In a new study published in the Journal of Wi more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Food and Drug Administration issued the following warning letter to Elanco Animal Health USA from the Center for Veterinary Medicine: * * * Recipient: Jeffrey Simmons, President and CEO, Elanco Animal Health USA, 2500 Innovation Way, Greenfield, IN 46140, United States Issuing Office: Center for Veterinary Medicine, United States Re: NADA 141-550 Pradalex(TM) (pradofloxacin injection) CMS #: 710613 WARNING LETTER Dear more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 (TNSjou) -- The American College of Cardiology posted the following news release: * * * First AHA/ACC acute pulmonary embolism guideline: prompt diagnosis and treatment are key A new clinical classification system to assess the severity of an acute pulmonary embolism, a condition in which a blood clot blocks the arteries in the lungs, and recommendations to guide treatment strategies are detailed in the new 2026 joint guideline from the American Heart Association and the A more PR

BOWLING GREEN, Kentucky, Feb. 19 -- Western Kentucky University posted the following news: * * * From Nervous to Published: Why You Should Submit to Zephyrus * Zephyrus is a great opportunity for students to get their work published during their undergraduate studies. WKU student Carly Fawcett's poetry was published in the 2024 and 2025 editions of Zephyrus. Fawcett is a senior English major concentrating in Creative Writing, minoring in Computer Science and Animation, and pursuing a certifi more PR

DALLAS, Texas, Feb. 19 -- The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center posted the following news release: * * * Gene variants help explain why food allergies run in families * DALLAS - Feb. 19, 2026 - People often remark that allergies run in their family, but the genetic causes have remained unclear. Previous food allergy genetic research has relied upon broad but surface-level methods called genome-wide association studies. Now, for the first time, a study at UT Southwestern Medic more PR

HEIDELBERG, Germany, Feb. 19 (TNSjou) -- Heidelberg University issued the following news release: * * * Machine Learning Helps Solve Central Problem of Quantum Chemistry Orbital-free approach enables precise, stable, and physically meaningful calculation of molecular energies and electron densities * By applying new methods of machine learning in quantum chemistry research, Heidelberg University scientists have made significant strides in computational chemistry. They achieved a major break more PR

HOKKAIDO, Japan, Feb. 19 (TNSjou) -- Hokkaido University issued the following news release: * * * Japanese pigmented rice contains unique beneficial fats Study of 56 japonica rice varieties finds black and green rice to be healthier choices * Rice feeds more than half of the world's population, yet we still only partly understand the nutrients it contains. More than 85% of the rice we eat is composed of starch, though it also contains some protein (around 10%), small amounts of fat (roughly more PR

NEW YORK, Feb. 20 -- Hunter College, a constituent college of the City University of New York, issued the following news: * * * Hunter Researcher Wins Education Policy Prize for Article Teaching English as a second language is a team sport! That's the basic finding of a Hunter researcher in an article that won this years' James E. Alatis Prize for Research on Language Planning and Policy in Educational Contexts. Assistant Education Professor Scott E. Grapin won The International Research Fo more PR

BETHESDA, Maryland, Feb. 20 (TNSjou) -- The National Eye Institute issued the following news: * * * NEI scientists develop "digital twin" of eye cells to understand and treat age-related macular degeneration Breakthrough modeling technology reveals how cells lose their organization in leading cause of vision loss. * National Eye Institute (NEI) researchers have developed a digital replica of crucial eye cells, providing a new tool for studying how the cells organize themselves when they are more PR

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Feb. 19 [Category: Business] -- Southwest Research Institute posted the following news release: * * * New research takes first step toward advance warnings of space weather * February 19, 2026 -New research by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and the National Science Foundation's National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF-NCAR) has developed a new tool providing a first step toward the ability to forecast space weather weeks in advance, instead of just hours. This a more PR

DALLAS, Texas, Feb. 19 -- Southern Methodist University issued the following news: * * * New study reveals significant detection gap for urban natural gas leaks * The complexities of urban environments-like variable winds off of tall buildings or surfaces-significantly impair the ability to detect natural gas leaks from underground pipelines, a new study shows. SMU researchers found that detection probability can be reduced by 16 percentage points for methane gas leaks from main pipelines  more PR

DEKALB, Illinois, Feb. 16 (TNSjou) -- Northern Illinois University issued the following commentary by inclusive teaching coordinator Linh Nguyen: * * * Beyond the loudest few: How to get quieter students to participate in your class I recall walking into a lecture hall and disappearing into the crowd in many of my undergraduate courses. Like any hopeful and determined first-generation student, I must succeed in this class to be closer to a degree that ultimately leads to a well-paid job. So,  more PR

PORTLAND, Oregon, Feb. 19 -- Oregon Health and Science University issued the following news: * * * OHSU-led panel: Exercise is essential for seniors in cancer treatment, who are cancer survivors * For cancer survivors older than 65, exercise is essential during treatment, throughout recovery and beyond, according to a consensus statement recently published in the journal Cancer. The work, led by Oregon Health & Science University physicians and professors, was part of a multidisciplinary p more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 -- Protect Our Care issued the following news: * * * MAHA Betrayal: To Appease Trump's Chemical Company Donors, RFK Jr. Flip-Flops - Touting Potentially Harmful Pesticide He Once Railed Against HHS Secretary Kennedy is facing accusations of hypocrisy and betrayal of the so-called MAHA movement today after unequivocally defending Donald Trump's late-night executive order invoking the Defense Production Act to bring back production of glyphosate, the key ingredient in Roundu more PR

WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 -- Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, issued the following news release: * * * Shaheen and Colleagues Question EPA's "Irrational" Decision Not to Value Health Effects When Calculating Impact of Pollutants, Demand Answers on Decision-Making Process * U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) joined Senate colleagues in a letter to Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin following the agency's irrational decision to no longer count health benefits more PR

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Feb. 19 -- Temple University posted the following news: * * * Temple University Press is "the city's publisher" * Since its founding in 1969, Temple University Press has been dedicated to publishing academic books on urban studies, building strong partnerships with many of Philadelphia's arts and cultural institutions and publishing open educational resources. Meant for academics, the general public and children, Temple Press books have wide appeal. In Temple Un more PR

BUFFALO, New York, Feb. 19 -- The University at Buffalo (State University of New York) posted the following news release: * * * UB researcher explores astrological speculation and capitalism in Gilded Age America * By Bert Gambini The idea of financial astrology might give pause to even the most daring investors, but astrological prediction did have a role in the culture of speculative capitalism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.  J.P. Morgan had a lifelong interest in astrologic more PR

LAFAYETTE, Louisiana, Feb. 20 (TNSjou) -- The University of Louisiana Lafayette campus issued the following news: * * * UL Lafayette researcher reveals first direct evidence of rare cosmic process in ancient stardust A University of Louisiana at Lafayette researcher has uncovered the first direct evidence of a rare chemical process deep inside an exploding massive star by analyzing ancient stardust billions of years older than our sun. The discovery, led by Dr. Ishita Pal in collaboration wi more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, Feb. 20 -- The University of Michigan issued the following news: * * * Medical and materials innovations of two women engineers recognized by Sony and Nature Two U-M engineers received this year's Sony Women in Technology Award with Nature for improving solar cells and medical tech for treating cancer and cognitive disease * Two of the three recipients of the second-ever Sony Women in Technology Award with Nature are from University of Michigan Engineering. The award "c more PR

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Feb. 20 (TNSjou) -- The University of Utah issued the following news release: * * * Physicists open door to future, hyper-efficient 'orbitronic' devices For the first time ever, researchers prove that atomic vibrations can transfer orbital angular momentum directly to electrons in a non-magnetic material, the most streamlined system yet in the exciting new field of 'orbitronics.' * To keep up with today's computing needs, researchers mine the quantum realm to find bett more PR

SEATTLE, Washington, Feb. 20 (TNSjou) -- The University of Washington School of Medicine posted the following news release: * * * Ketamine rapidly reverses fentanyl withdrawal symptoms A new, reliable strategy allows fentanyl users to start treatment without prolonged suffering. * Drug overdoses caused an estimated 73,000 U.S. deaths last year, with the synthetic opioid fentanyl causing the majority of fatal overdoses. Buprenorphine, a medication for treating opioid-use disorder, is effec more PR