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

SAN JOSE, California, March 17 [Category: BizComputer Technology] -- Cadence Design Systems, a provider of electronic design automation and semiconductor intellectual property, issued the following news release: * * * Cadence and NVIDIA Unveil Accelerated Engineering Solutions Purpose-Built for Agentic AI Chip and System Design New agentic integrated circuit (IC) and physical AI accelerated solutions enable engineers to solve previously impossible chip, system and AI factory challenges * To more PR

WASHINGTON, March 17 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis issued the following commentary on March 16, 2026, by senior fellow Mitzi Perdue and Amyn Jan, founder of A.J. Emtech LLC: * * * How to Make AI Tell the Truth As AI models increasingly talk to one another, it's critical to make sure the inputs are accurate. * Imagine the following: a dozen senior government officials are gathered around a wall-sized screen in Washington. Its background is matte black, and lines of green text sc 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 David Kirichenko, associate research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society: * * * The Heart of War: Ukraine's Key Battlefield System Ukraine's drones have stolen the limelight, but its Delta battlefield system is the beating heart of its warfighting capabilities. Western armies still have time to learn the lessons. * If you want to visualize Ukraine's Delta digital battle mana 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

GLASSBORO, New Jersey, March 17 (TNSxrep) -- Rowan University issued the following news: * * * CMSRU launches New Jersey's only PhD in cancer cell biology & genomics Cooper Medical School of Rowan University (CMSRU) has launched the PhD in Cancer Cell Biology & Genomics (CCBG), a new doctoral program designed to train the next generation of cancer researchers and accelerate discovery in one of medicine's most urgent fields. The program -- the only cancer biology PhD program in New Jersey --  more PR

PARIS, France, March 17 -- INRAE, a France National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment, issued the following news release: * * * Controlling the pinewood nematode: finding the best balance between cost and effectiveness The pinewood nematode is a devastating pest for pine forests in Asia and Europe. A new modelling study, produced by INRAE for the European HOMED project in collaboration with Wageningen University in the Netherlands and the University of Lisbon in Por more PR

LOS ANGELES, California, March 16 -- The University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering posted the following news: * * * For the First Time, Scientists Have Mapped the Genetics of How the Brain Ages, Region by Region * When Nicholas Kim was in eighth grade, his grandfather, the man who had taken him to basketball practice and taught him to tie his shoes, began to change. He developed Alzheimer's disease, and the roles of caregiver and child quietly reversed. Kim, whose paren 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

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, March 16 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Origin of lowest-density super-puff planet remains a hazy mystery * UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -A thick layer of haze around the ultra-low-density planet Kepler-51d likely obscures not only the strange planet's composition, but also its origin, according to a new study. A team led by Penn State researchers used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to take a deeper look at the "super-puff"  more PR

LA JOLLA, California, March 16 -- The University of California San Diego campus posted the following news: * * * Human-Made Chemicals Found Throughout Ocean Environments A new study found industrial chemicals even in remote locations and the open ocean * A new study analyzing more than 2,300 seawater samples from around the world has found that human-made chemicals -- from plastic additives and industrial lubricants to pharmaceuticals and pesticides -- are widespread in the marine environme 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

BLACKSBURG, Virginia, March 17 (TNSjou) -- Virginia Tech issued the following news: * * * New study links single-family rental housing to improved student achievement The surge in single-family home rentals from the 2009 Great Recession yielded higher educational outcomes for kids of all ages, a Virginia Tech researcher found. By Alex Kerstetter Single-family rental homes open up opportunities for students of all backgrounds to gain access to better schools. When a family moves across a s more PR