BERKELEY, California, March 19 -- The International Marine Mammal Project of Earth Island Institute issued the following news: * * * An Update on the Science of Cetaceans in Captivity Dr. Lori Marino, President and Founder of the Whale Sanctuary Project and an expert on the brains of whales and dolphins, along with several expert colleagues, recently posted a detailed article in the scientific journal PeerJ titled: "An Update on Captive Cetacean Welfare" (October 2025). Most activists agains more PR

BATHURST, Australia, March 18 -- The Charles Sturt University posted the following news: * * * Ancient 'syphilis-like' disease in Vietnam challenges long-held assumptions on congenital infection * The findings of a new study by a Charles Sturt University researcher and colleagues challenges a long-standing assumption used by scientists studying ancient disease. * A discovery by a Charles Sturt University researcher and colleagues has implications for one of the most enduring debates in me more PR

WASHINGTON, March 18 (TNSLrpt) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following report (No. R45951) on March 4, 2026, entitled "Apportionment and Redistricting Process for the U.S. House of Representatives:" (Continued from Part 1 of 2) * * * Redistricting Process/26 Congressional redistricting involves creating or redrawing geographic boundaries for U.S. House districts within a state. Redistricting procedures are largely determined by state law and vary across states, but states more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, March 19 (TNSjou) -- Michigan Medicine, the academic medical center of the University of Michigan, issued the following news release: * * * Complex connections among bipolar disorder, substance use and suicide How research, resilience and resources are breaking down stigma Author: Rachel Bresnahan More than a decade ago, Mark Ilgen, Ph.D., a Clinical Psychologist and Health Services Researcher at Michigan Medicine, set out to understand which psychiatric conditions hav more PR

HONG KONG, March 18 -- The University of Hong Kong issued the following news release: * * * HKU Engineers Designed and Fabricated Inch-scale Ultrahard Diamond Wafers with 200 GPa Hardness * A research team co-led by Professor Yang Lu from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Hong Kong (HKU), and Professor Chengming Li from the Institute for Advanced Materials and Technology at University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB), has successfully more PR

ROLLA, Missouri, March 18 -- Missouri University of Science and Technology posted the following news: * * * Missouri S&T students exhibit research to state legislators * Nine undergraduate students from Missouri University of Science and Technology traveled to Jefferson City on March 12 to participate in Undergraduate Research Day at the Missouri State Capitol. The event, which is designed to inform Missouri's lawmakers about research at Missouri universities, welcomes undergraduate studen more PR

BOCHUM, Germany, March 18 -- The University in Bochum issued the following news release: * * * More Anxiety When Religion is Lacking * The values of child-raising have changed over time. Religiosity in particular has decreased, taking from children a sense of community that can prevent anxiety disorders. Young people around the world are increasingly suffering from anxiety disorders. A team from the Mental Health Research and Treatment Center (FBZ) at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, has i more PR

MANCHESTER, England, March 18 -- The University of Manchester issued the following news release: * * * Musk's Twitter takeover highlights danger of owner-dominated social media platforms * Written by: Joe Stafford A new study has suggested that the transformation of Twitter into X under Elon Musk marks the rise of a new, illiberal regime of governing social media platforms, which can be controlled by one person and used to push their own political agenda. Alongside researchers from the WZB more PR

CORVALLIS, Oregon, March 17 -- Oregon State University posted the following news release: * * * New ice core studies expand histories of greenhouse gases and ocean temperature to 3 million years New analyses of ancient ice from Antarctica and the air contained inside it are extending the history of Earth's climate records and expanding researchers' understanding of how the planet has changed over the last 3 million years. The findings, published this week in two papers in the journal Nature, more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 18 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * New model predicts how mosquitoes will fly * A mosquito finds its target with the help of certain cues in its environment, such as a person's silhouette and the carbon dioxide they exhale. Now researchers at MIT and Georgia Tech have found that these visual and chemical cues help determine the insects' flight paths. The team has developed the first three-dimensional model of mos more PR

WASHINGTON, March 18 [Category: Science] -- The Center for Science in the Public Interest issued the following news release: * * * Now is the time to act on 32 FDA transparency reforms, experts say in JAMA * In a Viewpoint published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Irene Ulrich, senior policy scientist at Center for Science in the Public Interest, and CSPI President Dr. Peter G. Lurie identify persistent gaps in the agency's transparency practices, despite import more PR

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, March 18 -- The University of Copenhagen posted the following news: * * * Past intensive whaling threatens the future of bowhead whales * A unique collection of prehistoric bowhead whale bones, dating back 11,000 years, reveals a previously untold story of the relative impacts of humans on nature. The time series of ancient fossils show that commercial hunting of bowhead whales, which spanned 400 years and ceased less than a century ago in 1931, has left irreversible de more PR

CEDARVILLE, Ohio, March 18 -- Cedarville University posted the following news: * * * Professor's Research on Space Debris Informs Hands-on AI Education * by Cara Ramer, Student Public Relations Writer Earth's orbit is growing more crowded every year. Thousands of satellites, spent rocket bodies and fragments of debris now circle the planet at high speeds, creating risks for GPS systems, communications and future space missions. Space debris in Earth orbit creates growing risks for satell more PR

BEIJING, China, March 19 (TNSjou) -- The Chinese Academy of Sciences posted the following news: * * * Researchers Uncover How Coniferous Litter Enhances Long-Term Soil Carbon Stabilization Editor: Li Yali A research team from the South China Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has uncovered a new mechanism by which tree litter regulates soil carbon stabilization in subtropical forests. Their study shows that, contrary to the conventional view that high-quality litter contrib more PR

BROOKINGS, South Dakota, March 19 -- South Dakota State University issued the following news: * * * Revisiting the LA fires By Addison DeHaven Researchers in South Dakota State University's Geospatial Sciences Center of Excellence utilized satellite data to better understand how destructive wildfires swept through Los Angeles in January 2025. A severe drought, powerful Santa Ana winds and a not-fully-extinguished brushfire combined to create the most destructive wildfire in the history of  more PR

BEIJING, China, March 19 (TNSjou) -- The Chinese Academy of Sciences posted the following news: * * * Scientists Uncover Unique Water Release Mechanism in Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Editor: Li Yali A research team from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has conducted high-sensitivity radio observations of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS using the Tianma Telescope, marking the facility's first detection of an interstellar object. The study  more PR

AMHERST, Massachusetts, March 18 -- The University of Massachusetts posted the following news: * * * UMass Amherst Food Scientists Develop New Antimicrobial for Cleaning and Sanitizing Dry-Food Processing Equipment * Efforts to prevent pathogenic contaminations such as salmonella in dry food processing facilities will take a step forward through new research from the University of Massachusetts Amherst describing a novel chemical mixture for sanitation in low-moisture environments.Dry foods  more PR

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, March 19 -- The University of Pennsylvania issued the following news on March 18, 2026: * * * When bone behaves like a sponge Penn Engineers in the Tertuliano Lab have developed a nanoengineered 3D-printed scaffold for observing how cells feel force. * Bone may look solid, but at the scale of the cells that live inside it, it behaves more like a sponge. Every step, jump, or stretch compresses bone's porous structure, pushing fluid through microscopic channels an more PR

HOUSTON, Texas, March 19 -- The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston issued the following news: * * * New study shows Honor's HEROES program at UTHealth Houston may significantly improve quality of life By Jeannette Sanche The community-based opioid treatment program Honor's HEROES at UTHealth Houston may significantly improve treatment retention and quality of life for people with opioid use disorder, even among those facing major barriers such as homelessness, lack of insur more PR