TUCSON, Arizona, March 16 -- The University of Arizona posted the following news release: * * * A galaxy next door is transforming, and astronomers can see it happening * The Small Magellanic Cloud, or the SMC, is one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors - a small, gas-rich galaxy visible to the naked eye from the southern hemisphere, bound to our galaxy by gravity, alongside its companion, the Large Magellanic Cloud, or the LMC. All three galaxies have been interacting for hundreds more PR

WASHINGTON, March 17 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis issued the following commentary on March 16, 2026, by Emily Otto, fellow with the Tech Policy Program and Transatlantic Defense and Security Program: * * * Shamoon Strikes Stryker: Iran Wields Wiper Attacks As war rages in the Middle East, Iranian hackers are stepping up cyber-attacks. * The target was US medical technology company Stryker, which makes surgical and imaging equipment, defibrillators, hospital beds, joint-replac more PR

WASHINGTON, March 17 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis posted the following commentary on March 16, 2026, by Miro Sedlak, associate research fellow at the Institute for Central Europe: * * * Cold War: Moscow Targets Europe's Communal Heating Russia is using hackers and saboteurs to target Europe's municipal heating systems. Their war isn't confined to Ukraine. * A combined heat and power (CHP) plant serving nearly half a million Poles was targeted in a cyberattack in December. The  more PR

WASHINGTON, March 17 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis posted the following commentary on March 16, 2026, by Maciej Filip Bukowski, head of the Energy and Resilience Program at the Casimir Pulaski Foundation in Warsaw, Poland: * * * Mass Evacuations Across Europe? Work Is Underway Northern Europe is preparing for something thought to belong to history: how to evacuate huge numbers of people in wartime. * The map looks familiar: Baltic ports, Nordic railways, highways threading thro more PR

WASHINGTON, March 16 [Category: Energy] -- The Institute for Energy Research posted the following commentary: * * * China Is Affected by the Iran Conflict in Multiple Ways * Key Takeaways 1 The conflict in Iran is affecting most parts of the world, but few as much as China. 2 While the United States reduced its dependence on Middle Eastern oil by increasing domestic production, China has increased its imports from the region, particularly from Iran. 3 China has been purchasing 90% of Iran more PR

ARGONNE, Illinois, March 17 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy Argonne National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * Inverse design: A new pathway to custom functional polymers What if you could dream up a new material and let artificial intelligence and robotics do the rest? * Autonomous workflow combines artificial intelligence, machine learning and robotics to rapidly create polymers with precise, customizable properties. At a potluck, you ate the best chocolate ch more PR

ARGONNE, Illinois, March 17 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy Argonne National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * Nanodiamonds and beyond: designing carbon materials with artificial intelligence at exascale Argonne scientists discover how extreme conditions shape carbon into advanced materials for medicine, energy and defense Argonne researchers use supercomputers and artificial intelligence to predict how carbon transforms under extreme heat and pressure, paving the more PR

CHAMPAIGN, Illinois, March 16 -- The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus issued the following news: * * * Engineered yeast gives the U.S. a green edge in the critical minerals market * CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -There is a new, U.S.-based, environmentally friendly method for mining rare-earth elements used in consumer electronics, clean energy, defense and biomedical imaging. By using oxalic acid made by sugar-eating engineered yeast, the new technique can extract almost all the rare-earth  more PR

EAST LANSING, Michigan, March 16 -- Michigan State University posted the following news: * * * New research introduces method to better predict US cropland nitrous oxide emissions * A team of Michigan State University researchers has developed a groundbreaking machine learning system capable of predicting nitrous oxide emissions from U.S. croplands with unprecedented accuracy, a finding with valuable implications for national greenhouse gas accounting and mitigation. The study was publishe more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 16 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * New sensor sniffs out pneumonia on a patient's breath * Diagnosing some diseases could be as easy as breathing into a tube. MIT engineers have developed a test to detect disease-related compounds in a patient's breath. The new test could provide a faster way to diagnose pneumonia and other lung conditions. Rather than sit for a chest X-ray or wait hours for a lab result, a patient more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 16 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * Ocean bacteria team up to break down biodegradable plastic * Biodegradable plastics could help alleviate the plastic waste crisis that is polluting the environment and harming our health. But how long plastics take to degrade and how environmental bacteria work together to break them down is still largely unknown. Understanding how plastics are broken down by microbes could help more PR

WASHINGTON, March 16 [Category: Energy] -- The Institute for Energy Research posted the following commentary: * * * Saudi Arabia Moves to Fill Its East-West Pipeline to Capacity, Adding Oil Supply to Markets * Key Takeaways 1 The impact of the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz is being offset by two east-west pipelines. 2 Saudi Aramco is ramping up its pipeline system to the Red Sea from 2.8 million barrels per day to about seven million barrels per day. 3 The U.A.E. has a 1.8 mil more PR

WASHINGTON, March 16 [Category: Energy] -- The Institute for Energy Research posted the following commentary: * * * U.S. Will Release 172 Million Barrels of Oil From the Strategic Petroleum Reserve * Key Takeaways 1 Member states of the IEA have agreed to release 400 million barrels of strategic reserves in the wake of Iran's closure and mining of the Strait of Hormuz. 2 The U.S. share will be 172 million barrels over four months, beginning next week in conjunction with other members. 3 T more PR

STORRS, Connecticut, March 16 -- The University of Connecticut posted the following news: * * * UConn Helps Sea Scallop Communities Adapt to Ocean Warming * In the coastal waters stretching from Maine to Virginia, Atlantic sea scallops rival lobster as the top shellfish caught in the wild. This delectable mollusk supports one of the most valuable fisheries in the U.S., generating $360 million in revenue annually, and making the U.S. a global leader in wild scallop fishing. A combination of more PR