CAMBRIDGE, England, April 22 (TNSjou) -- The British Antarctic Survey issued the following news release: * * * Not all icebergs are equal - and that matters for the climate, new study finds As the world's largest and most famous icebergs break up and melt in Antarctica, new research shows what impact they have on the ocean and its ecosystems. * A new study, led by scientists from British Antarctic Survey (BAS), compared the first water samples from the famous giant icebergs A23a and A76a as they travelled north through Antarctic waters. Th more PR

BIRMINGHAM, England, April 21 -- The University of Nottingham issued the following news release: * * * How primitive plants evolved to survive Earth's most catastrophic extinction event * Earth responded to its most severe past warming event by evolving a new and bizarre type of photosynthesis that allowed a group of primitive plants to survive. Researchers from the University of Nottingham are part of a study led by the University of Leeds that has revealed how lycophytes - a type of ancient plant - not only survived a mass extinction 25 more PR

BRISTOL, England, April 21 -- The University of Bristol issued the following news release: * * * Lack of robust regulation and information about contaminated industrial sites in India poses public health risk demanding urgent reform, study claims * The study, led by the University of Bristol, calls for the introduction of a more effective and joined-up policy framework, including stricter monitoring, to help manage polluted sites and make them safer. Lead author environmental scientist Dr Jagannath Biswakarma, from the University of Brist more PR

BEAUMONT, Texas, April 22 (TNSjou) -- Lamar University issued the following news: * * * Music professor publishes article, shares teaching strategies nationwide By April Thompson Dr. Jennifer Iles, a music faculty member at Lamar University, is advancing conversations in music education through a recent national publication and a series of invited presentations and performances. Iles published her article, "Making the Most of Every Minute: Developing Consistency and Focus for Musical Growth," in The Clarinet, the peer-reviewed journal of t more PR

PERTH, Australia, April 21 (TNSjou) -- Murdoch University posted the following news: * * * Why do some people act on climate change while others stay silent? * While millions of people care deeply about the environment, only a fraction take action on climate change. New research has uncovered the psychological reasons why some people get involved while others don't. "The public conversation around climate activism, especially radical activism, tends to be pretty reductive," said lead author on the study, Dr Susilo Wibisono, Lecturer in th more PR

WASHINGTON, April 21 [Category: Health Care] -- Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine posted the following news release: * * * Physicians Committee Has Given Grants to Farmers Who Are Growing Health-Promoting Fruits and Veggies While Phasing Out Animal Agriculture * The Physicians Committee, a nonprofit public health advocacy organization with 17,000 doctor members, has given grants to assist farmers who are growing health-promoting foods like leafy greens and berries while phasing out animal agriculture. Launched in November 2024,  more PR

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, April 21 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Postmenopausal white women with genetic risk regain weight two times faster * UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -In a new study of women in post-menopause, white women with higher genetic risk of obesity regained weight about two times faster than white women whose genetic risk was lower. Black women in the study regained weight at a similar rate, regardless of their genetic risk. Harold Lee, assistant professor of biobehavioral health at Penn Sta more PR

GUILFORD, England, April 21 -- The University of Surrey issued the following news release: * * * Recordings of local forest soundscapes help to improve wellbeing * Researchers from the University of Surrey and the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) investigated the impact different forest soundscapes have on the wellbeing of individuals.  Previous research in this area has uncovered positive associations between exposure to green areas, and natural soundscapes, on mental wellbeing. However, scientists do not fully  more PR

MONTREAL, Quebec, April 20 -- McGill University posted the following news release: * * * Researchers identify new jellyfish species in fossils near Quebec City * Researchers studying 450-million-year-old fossils discovered about 50 kilometres northeast of Quebec City have identified a new species of basal medusozoan: Paleocanna tentaculum, a soft-bodied, tube-shaped polyp with a ring of tentacles. Closely related to modern jellyfish, it is a rare discovery. Only a few other species in its subphylum have ever been described in the fossil rec more PR

HOBOKEN, New Jersey, April 22 (TNSjou) -- Stevens Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Scientists at Stevens Institute of Technology Reveal That Time Can Go Quantum in Ion Clock Experiments Physicists show that atomic clocks can probe time ticking both faster and slower simultaneously, revealing how time itself unfolds in quantum superposition * Few concepts in physics are as familiar, yet as enigmatic, as time. In Einstein's theory of relativity, time is not absolute: its passage depends on motion and gravity. But when more PR

LAWRENCE, Kansas, April 21 -- The University of Kansas posted the following news: * * * Study finds high school journalism leading the way in financial literacy, even if business isn't part of curriculum * LAWRENCE -Journalism classes usually are not paired with business lessons. While there have been calls for increasing business knowledge in journalism, research from the University of Kansas has found that high school journalists are learning business skills even though they are not a core part of the curriculum. To better understand ho more PR

LOS ANGELES, California, April 22 (TNSjou) -- The UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center issued the following news release: * * * Cellular neighborhoods inside tumors may predict which patients with melanoma benefit from combination immunotherapy UCLA-led study identifies immune patterns linked to response after anti-PD-1 treatment fails * A new UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center study suggests that the way immune cells are organized inside melanoma tumors may help researchers better understand which patients will ben more PR

BRISTOL, England, April 21 -- The University of Bristol issued the following news release: * * * A single stab wound kills at least two school-aged children every month * The research, published in Emergency Medicine and Frontiers in Sociology [20 April], reveal a concerning rise in knife-related fatalities among children under 17, from 21 deaths in 2019/20 to 36 in 2023/24, and highlight the social and environmental factors that put young people at risk. In the Emergency Medicine Journal study, researchers from Bristol Medical School exa more PR

LONDON, England, April 21 [Category: Arts/Cultural] -- The Museums Association posted the following news: * * * V&A censorship claim 'deeply worrying', says Index on Censorship * Reports that the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) censored a catalogue in response to demands from a Chinese printing company are "deeply worrying", according to the Index on Censorship. The non-profit organisation, which defends freedom of speech and expression in the UK, has responded to a news story in the Guardian last week showing that the museum agreed to del more PR

NOTRE DAME, Indiana, April 21 -- The University of Notre Dame posted the following news: * * * Why voting 'neither' could harm American democracy * If you were to ask democracy scholars what they consider the greatest threat to American democracy, you might assume it is voters who support undemocratic practices or policies. But the real answer may surprise you: These voters are not the main problem. According to a recent study from the University of Notre Dame, voters who are comfortable living in the middle -neither agreeing nor disagreei more PR