CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 26 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * "Near-misses" in particle accelerators can illuminate new physics, study finds * Particle accelerators reveal the heart of nuclear matter by smashing together atoms at close to the speed of light. The high-energy collisions produce a shower of subatomic fragments that scientists can then study to reconstruct the core building blocks of matter. An MIT-led team has now used the wo more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, March 27 -- The University of Michigan issued the following news: * * * 15 U-M faculty named as 2025 AAAS fellows Fifteen University of Michigan faculty members earned election to the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2025. The AAAS, the world's largest general scientific society, announced 449 members of the 2025 class, elected for their "efforts on behalf of the advancement of science, or its applications, are scientifically or socially distinguish more PR

WASHINGTON, March 26 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis issued the following commentary on March 25, 2026, by Anda Bologa, senior researcher in the Tech Policy Program: * * * China Is Wiring the Western Balkans Chinese roads, surveillance systems, and digital partnerships are complicating the Western Balkans' path into European Union membership. * It started with a highway connecting the Montenegrin cities of Bar and Boljare. China's Exim Bank gave a $944 million loan for the first  more PR

BOCHUM, Germany, March 26 -- The University in Bochum issued the following news release: * * * Copper Overload Kills Cancer Cells * A copper-based agent complex kills cancer cells in a novel way. It receives its activation signal through light. It could help where existing chemotherapy treatments reach their limits. Cuproptosis was discovered in 2022. It was a previously unknown type of cell death caused by an excess of copper. The research group led by Professor Johannes Karges at Ruhr Uni more PR

SAN FRANCISCO, California, March 27 (TNSrpt) -- Earthjustice issued the following news release: * * * Trump Administration's Border Plan Is A "Ticking Time Bomb" According to New Analysis Border wall and water buoys pose an inevitable and irreversible threat to human life, property, and the environment * Laredo, TX -- A new report by Mark R. Tompkins, PhD, and the Rio Grande International Study Center (RGISC), finds the border wall and buoys in Texas pose a threat to human life and property more PR

STORRS, Connecticut, March 26 -- The University of Connecticut posted the following news: * * * Four Faculty Members Elected to AAAS * Four University of Connecticut faculty members have been elected by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to its newest class of fellows. The AAAS is the world's largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals. The four are: * Emmanouil Anagnostou, the Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor i more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 26 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management issued the following news release: * * * From Simulation to Strategy: Climate Modeling Motivates Action at the Top * CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 26, 2026 -New research by MIT Sloan School of Management finds that global leaders who participate in facilitated engagements using an interactive climate policy simulator, En-ROADS, demonstrated a stronger understanding of climate solutions, felt  more PR

HEIDELBERG, Germany, March 26 (TNSjou) -- Heidelberg University issued the following news release: * * * ECHo Collaboration: Hunting for the Neutrino Mass with "Cool" Detectors New upper limit determined - Current research results are the basis for large-scale experiments to get closer to the mass of "ghost particles" * Their mass is extremely low, but how light are neutrinos really? A collaboration comprising German and international research groups has optimized its experiments to determi more PR

ARLINGTON, Virginia, March 26 [Category: Sociological] -- Americans for Prosperity posted the following news release: * * * ICYMI: It's Time to Fight for Freedom and Opportunity * In a recent op-ed published in the DC Journal, Kent Strang, Managing Director of Americans for Prosperity, argues that expanding economic freedom and reducing government barriers is essential to restoring opportunity and prosperity in the United States. The piece makes the case that empowering individuals, rather t more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 26 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * Implantable islet cells could control diabetes without insulin injections * Most diabetes patients must carefully monitor their blood sugar levels and inject insulin multiple times per day, to help keep their blood sugar from getting too high. As a possible alternative to those injections, MIT researchers are developing an implantable device that contains insulin-producing cells more PR

WEST LAFAYETTE, Indiana, March 26 -- Purdue University issued the following news release: * * * Limiting space junk's threat by predicting its mess in the Earth-moon neighborhood * * Info for journalists WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -Debris from moonbound spacecraft has left craters on the lunar surface since the U.S. Apollo missions. But the moon is not used to being surrounded by debris. With an expected resurgence in lunar missions in the coming years, such as the U.S. Artemis II test flight more PR

ITHACA, New York, March 26 -- Cornell University posted the following news: * * * Tiny bubbles, sound waves clean produce safely and effectively * A jacuzzi for washing your tomatoes might seem odd, but new research finds that a bubble bath with a constant acoustic sound in the water may be the best chemical-free, gentle method for cleaning agricultural produce and possibly medical instruments and semiconductors. The results were published March 25 in the journal Droplet. Agricultural pr more PR

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina, March 27 -- The University of North Carolina Charlotte campus issued the following news release: * * * Powering the future: Sukumar Kamalasadan receives 2026 Charlotte Distinguished Research Award UNC Charlotte has named Sukumar Kamalasadan, professor of electrical engineering, the recipient of the 2026 Charlotte Distinguished Research Award. Established in the late 1980s, this prestigious honor recognizes senior full time faculty members who demonstrate scholarly  more PR

WASHINGTON, March 27 -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, ranking member of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the following news release on March 26, 2026: * * * Warren Seeks Answers from Trump's Fed Chair Nominee Warsh on His Record Prioritizing Wall Street Over American Families "Your record as a Governor should disqualify you from a promotion, but President Donald Trump has vowed that 'anybody that disagrees with' him 'will never be the Fed Chairman' - a more PR