WASHINGTON, March 6 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis issued the following commentary on March 4, 2026, by senior fellows Mathieu Boulegue, Alexander Crowther, Evgeny Roshchin and Sam Greene: * * * Russia, Europe, and the Iran War - CEPA Fellows Experts assess the consequences of the war on Iran. * Two things are clear from the Kremlin's response to the US-Israeli military campaign against its Iranian ally. The first is that Russia is worried, and the second is that it still enjoys more PR

WASHINGTON, March 6 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis posted the following commentary on March 5, 2026, by Valentin Weber, senior research associate at the German Council on Foreign Relations: * * * Chinese De-Risking: Europe Needs to Accelerate Europe is ripping out Chinese telephone equipment. But what about other dangerous Chinese tech? * After years of hesitation, Europe is finally getting serious about de-risking. A new proposal makes it mandatory to rip out Huawei and other d more PR

WASHINGTON, March 5 -- The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued the following transcript of an event on March 4, 2026, entitled "Would Regime Change Solve the Iran Challenge? State of Play". Event participants included Jon B. Alterman, Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy, Daniel Byman, director of Warfare, Irregular Threats, and Terrorism Program, Mona Yacoubian, director and senior adviser of the Middle East Program, and Will Todman, chief of staff at  more PR

WASHINGTON, March 5 -- George Washington University posted the following news: * * * GW Elliott School of International Affairs Welcomes Karen Elliott House * WASHINGTON (March 5, 2026) \- The Middle East Policy Forum at the GW Elliott School of International Affairs will host Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Karen Elliott House, for her discussion of her new book, The Man Who Would Be King: Mohammed Bin Salman and the Transformation of Saudi Arabia. With more than 40 years of experience cove more PR

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, March 5 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Making mini-lightning in a block of plastic * UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -Lightning formation and the conditions triggering it have long been shrouded in a cloud of mystery, but new research led by Penn State scientists is lifting the fog. Using mathematical calculations, the researchers discovered that lightning-like discharge doesn't require a storm cloud -it could be made inside everyday mat more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 5 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * New catalog more than doubles the number of gravitational-wave detections made by LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA observatories * When the densest objects in the universe collide and merge, the violence sets off ripples, in the form of gravitational waves, that reverberate across space and time, over hundreds of millions and even billions of years. By the time they pass through Earth, such  more PR

WASHINGTON, March 5 [Category: Medical] -- Optica, formerly the Optical Society, posted the following news release: * * * Photonic chips advance real-time learning in spiking neural systems * New approach enables fast, all-optical learning and decision making, paving the way for robots that learn on the go WASHINGTON -Researchers have developed photonic computing chips that overcome key limitations for a type of neural network known as a photonic spiking neural system. By enabling fast lear more PR