HAIFA, Israel, Feb. 24 -- The Technion - Israel Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * A Double International Honor for the Technion: * We are proud to share that Prof. Debbie Lindell from the Technion's Faculty of Biology has received two prestigious international honors in 2026, recognizing her transformative contributions to marine microbial ecology and virology. Prof. Lindell has been named the 2026 recipient of the G. Evelyn Hutchinson Award by the Association for th more PR

PERTH, Australia, Feb. 25 -- Murdoch University posted the following news: * * * Artificial waterbodies can act as 'arks' for vulnerable freshwater mussels * Researchers at Murdoch University have found that artificial waterbodies could play a crucial role in slowing the decline of Carter's freshwater mussel (Westralunio carteri), a vulnerable species of freshwater mussel found only in southwestern Australia. Carter's freshwater mussel typically lives in freshwater rivers and lakes, and pl more PR

BOCA RATON, Florida, Feb. 25 (TNSjou) -- Florida Atlantic University, a component of the state university system in Florida, issued the following news: * * * Marine Plastic Pollution Alters Octopus Predator-Prey Encounters Study Snapshot: Plastics release thousands of chemicals into the ocean - including oleamide, an industrial lubricant, which is also naturally produced by many organisms. By mimicking natural signals, plastic-derived oleamide may quietly alter how marine life senses food and more PR

PASADENA, California, Feb. 24 -- The California Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * Just the Right Amount: Microbial Nutrients Drive Success and Failure of Antibiotics * Antibiotics are medical marvels that have transformed once deadly bacterial infections into manageable conditions. But with a rise in antibiotic resistance that renders existing treatments ineffective, new agents are urgently needed. Scientists at Caltech and Princeton University have now shed fresh ligh more PR

WURZBURG, Germany, Feb. 24 -- The University of Wurzburg issued the following news release: * * * Mate choice: How social trends influence mate diversity * Why are there often many different types of males in an animal group? According to the theory of evolution, only the "best" should have prevailed over time. A team from Julius-Maximilians-Universitat Wurzburg (JMU) has now set out to find an answer to this question. Scientists from the German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ) in Heidelberg an more PR

ITHACA, New York, Feb. 24 -- Cornell University posted the following news: * * * Online module helps students recognize, develop critical thinking * One of the purported benefits of a college education is the development of a person's ability to think critically - to be able to reason, to investigate and to approach information with skepticism. But are college students being taught critical thinking? If they are, are they aware of it? And do they - and their professors - even know what it  more PR

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Feb. 24 -- Temple University posted the following news: * * * New study indicates Lamin A/C loss drives replication stress in small cell lung cancer Christopher Schultz, an assistant professor of the Department of Cancer and Cellular Biology at Temple's Lewis Katz School of Medicine, served as the lead author on the paper, which was published this fall in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of  more PR

EVANSTON, Illinois, Feb. 24 -- Northwestern University posted the following news release: * * * Trashing cancer's 'undruggable' proteins * * 'Undruggable' cancer-driving proteins resist various treatments because drugs cannot bind to them * New Velcro-like polymer grabs proteins without needing a traditional binding pocket * Polymers also grab the cell's waste-disposal machinery, bringing it to the protein * Strategy worked in cellular cultures and animal models of cancer for two n more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, Feb. 25 (TNSjou) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news: * * * U-M Museum of Zoology collection makes wing evolution discovery possible It might be hard to tell by looking at songbirds visiting your backyard birdfeeder, but birdwatchers often notice that migratory birds tend to have "pointier" wings than birds that don't have to migrate. Like the pointed wings of an airplane, pointed wings in birds are thought to provide efficiency during flight. Univers more PR