LONDON, England, March 25 -- Wellcome, a charitable foundation, posted the following news release: * * * High levels of carcinogen discovered in European gas supply * High levels of the carcinogen benzene have been discovered in the domestic gas supply for multiple Western European cities by US researchers. With low level gas leaks common in homes, "hazardous leaks are likely underreported in Europe" concluded a peer-reviewed paper by researchers at PSE Healthy Energy, an energy science an more PR

HAMILTON, Ontario, March 25 (TNSjou) -- McMaster University issued the following news: * * * Deadly bat fungus is more widespread in Western Canada than previously known, research suggests The findings have spurred a call for wider use of methods that detect the fungus that causes white-nose syndrome earlier and more accurately. By Michelle Donovan McMaster scientists have uncovered new evidence that the fungus causing white-nose syndrome, a deadly disease affecting bats, may be more widesp more PR

RALEIGH, North Carolina, March 25 (TNSjou) -- North Carolina State University issued the following news release: * * * Overconfident CEOs Are Less Likely to Delegate Responsibility - Particularly When It May Help the Most A new study finds overconfident CEOs are less likely to delegate responsibilities to underlings, particularly in settings that involve complex transactions - such as hammering out the details of high-stakes deals. "Organizations have only gotten more complex over time, ofte more PR

GENEVA, Switzerland, March 24 -- The United Nations World Health Organization posted the following news: * * * New WHO Guidance Helps Countries to Institutionalize Simulation Exercises to Strengthen Health Emergency Readiness * From pandemics to radiological threats, countries are better prepared when they move from ad-hoc drills to structured programs In an increasingly unpredictable world, emergencies are no longer rare events, they are recurring tests of national resilience. From pandem more PR

NEW YORK, March 25 [Category: BizMedia] -- Dow Jones, a provider of news and business information, posted the following news release: * * * Resilience as a Business Necessity: Navigating Conflict in the Middle East * The Middle East is at a geopolitical and economic crossroads. While market volatility and disruption have added new layers of complexity to regional operations, the demand for high-fidelity, actionable data has never been higher. For businesses and governments, the challenge is  more PR

BEIJING, China, March 19 (TNSjou) -- The Chinese Academy of Sciences posted the following news: * * * Study Reveals How Plants Balance Survival and Remediation in Contaminated Environments Editor: Zhang Nannan As industries develop, heavy metal pollution of the soil has become a serious environmental problem. Phytoremediation, the use of plants to clean up contaminated land, is increasingly recognized as an environmentally friendly solution for mitigating soil contamination. However, surviva more PR

ALBANY, New York, March 26 (TNSjou) -- SUNY University at Albany issued the following news: * * * Study Identifies Pollutant Exposure as Gap in Human Biology Research By Michael Parker Pollutants can harm human health and enter the body through the air people breathe, the water they drink and the food they eat. Yet even as evidence of widespread exposure has been found in populations around the world, researchers have not consistently accounted for these exposures in studies of human biology more PR

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, March 25 -- The University of New Mexico posted the following news: * * * A team of UNM researchers honored with 2026 ALA research award By Megan Borders An all-women team of six researchers, five from The University of New Mexico College of University Librarian and Learning Sciences and their colleague at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has received the 2026 Jesse H. Shera Award for distinguished published research from the American Library Association. Th more PR

WASHINGTON, March 25 -- The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Administrative State, Regulatory Reform and Antitrust released the following testimony by Tony Rice, senior director of trade policy for the U.S. Dairy Export Council and the National Milk Producers Federation, from a March 17, 2026, hearing entitled "Pier Pressure: Regulation and Competition in Maritime Shipping": * * * Chairman Fitzgerald, Ranking Member Nadler, and members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity to testi more PR

ATHENS, Georgia, March 26 (TNSjou) -- The University of Georgia issued the following news: * * * Frequent social media use could impact child development Adolescents who use social media may have weaker reading skills but higher processing speed By Sydney Barrilleaux Regular social media use across early adolescence is related to worse reading and vocabulary development over time, according to new research from the University of Georgia. The study found that adolescents who used social med more PR

MONTREAL, Quebec, March 25 (TNSjou) -- The University of Montreal issued the following news: * * * Do cycling desks drive students to the vending machine? By Beatrice St-Cyr-Leroux An UdeM research team finds that cycling while learning increases sugary drink consumption afterward. Cycling desks, which let users pedal while typing, are gaining traction as a way to increase daily physical activity and reduce the health risks associated with a sedentary lifestyle. In recent years, they have  more PR

COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 25 -- Ohio State University posted the following news: * * * Using 'imaginative' AI to survey past and future earthquake damage * Researchers have used artificial intelligence to develop a new tool for assessing earthquake damage, a leap that could ultimately help first responders in making critical rescue decisions, suggests a new study. The team's AI, called the LoRA-Enhanced Ground-view Generation (LEGG) diffusion model, is trained on real aerial drone images that  more PR

SOUTHAMPTON, England, March 25 -- The University of Southampton posted the following news: * * * Wildflower's potential to help tackle antibiotic resistance * Scientists have proven that a wildflower steeped in folklore for its medicinal powers has genuine healing qualities - and the potential to help combat antibiotic resistance. Tormentil, a yellow wildflower found in heath and boglands in the UK, Ireland and across Europe, can inhibit the growth of one of the world's most deadly pathoge more PR