GREENVILLE, Tennessee, April 19 -- Tusculum University posted the following news: * * * Four Tusculum University students honored for exceptional writing in annual competition judged by award-winning author * GREENEVILLE - Tusculum University students have been honored for excellence in writing by an award-winning author who was impressed by the caliber of the entries she judged. Award winners in the front row are, left to right, Austin Reed, JP Campione, Kiersten Paxton and BriAnna Higgins. In the back row are Raquel Vasquez Gilliland,  more PR

RALEIGH, North Carolina, April 16 (TNSjou) -- North Carolina State University issued the following news release: * * * How a New Technique Will Help Us Mine Rare-Earth Metals...With Plants Researchers have developed a technique for detecting and measuring the concentration of many rare-earth elements in plants, without destroying the plant. The technique can be used to optimize "plant mining" efforts, in which plants take up and concentrate these critical materials so that they can be harvested for practical use. "Rare-earth metals are esse more PR

BERKELEY, California, April 13 (TNSjou) -- The University of California Berkeley campus issued the following news release: * * * Sunbirds suck, scientists find. Hummingbirds don't. Two unrelated groups of nectar eaters, hummingbirds and sunbirds, evolved different techniques to slurp the sweet liquid from flowers. The tongue suctioning employed by sunbirds is unique among vertebrates. By Robert Sanders While we often think of hummingbirds as sucking nectar from flowers, they're not sucking the way we suction juice through a straw -- they'r more PR