WURZBURG, Germany, July 29 -- The University of Wurzburg issued the following news release: * * * A small mutation, a big impact: New findings on rare heart diseases * Cardiomyopathies are a group of mostly hereditary, rare heart diseases in which the structure of the heart muscle tissue is impaired. This limits the heart's pumping capacity, leading to shortness of breath, reduced physical capacity and other typical symptoms of heart failure. In some affected individuals, the RBM20 protein is mutated; they are currently treated in the same more PR

UPTON, New York, July 30 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy Brookhaven National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * A Successful, Sustainable Catalyst for Ethanol Dehydrogenation Brookhaven researchers and their U.S. and international collaborators crafted a novel, three-metal catalysis approach to convert ethanol to a critical chemical feedstock - Ethanol is an alcohol used in a huge number of industrial and household applications. When dehydrogenated -- in this case, stripped of some of its hydrogen atoms -- it yie more PR

CAMBRIDGE, Massachussetts, July 23 -- Education Next, an academic journal and magazine that says it focuses on K-12 education policy, reform, and research, posted the following commentary by Liz Cohen, vice president of policy at 50CAN: * * * Do Students Still Need to Learn Calculus? A new book says no. Here's why that's wrong. - In his new book Aftermath, Ted Dintersmith joins a growing chorus of policy wonks, researchers, and advocates who say that the age of calculus is behind us and that future math education should focus entirely on s more PR

EDINBURGH, Scotland, July 29 (TNSjou) -- Heriot-Watt University issued the following news: * * * Ancient Hebridean salt marsh reveals 2,500 years of sea-level change Scientists searching for evidence of one of Europe's most dramatic prehistoric tsunamis have instead uncovered one of the longest continuous records of sea-level change found in northwest Scotland. - Heriot-Watt and University of Dundee researchers investigating a salt marsh on the Isle of Lewis had hoped to find deposits left by the Storegga tsunami, a massive wave triggered  more PR

EAST LANSING, Michigan, July 28 -- Michigan State University posted the following news: * * * How supermassive black holes feed themselves * Astronomers are closer to solving the mystery of how supermassive black holes feed themselves thanks to new images from the James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST. The images provide the clearest view ever seen of gaseous filaments connecting a galaxy's hot atmosphere to the rotating disk of gas that feeds its central supermassive black hole. Michigan State University helped an international team, led  more PR

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, July 29 [Category: Business] -- Southwest Research Institute posted the following news release: * * * NASA's Juno takes the subsurface temperature of Jupiter's fiery moon * July 29, 2026 -NASA's Juno mission has made the first direct measurements of the temperature below the surface of Jupiter's moon Io, which reveal significant heating in the upper few feet of the most volcanically active world in the solar system. These findings, derived from data collected by Juno's Microwave Radiometer (MWR) during two close flybys, more PR

WESTERVILLE, Ohio, July 30 -- The National Ground Water Association issued the following news release: * * * New research points to groundwater as tool for cooling data centers As artificial intelligence and cloud computing drive an unprecedented surge in electricity demand, a new study published NGWA's journal Groundwater(R) points to groundwater as a solution to data center cooling. The Issue Paper, "Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage: Groundwater for Efficient Data Center Cooling in the United States," was authored by Upasana Pandey, Andrew  more PR

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, July 29 -- Vanderbilt University School of Engineering posted the following news: * * * Renowned scholar Pratim Biswas named to lead Vanderbilt Engineering initiatives at West Palm Beach campus * Pratim Biswas, a leading academic leader, member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a renowned aerosol scientist whose work has applications in energy and environmental nanotechnology, solar energy, air quality, medicine, and numerous other fields, has been named the inaugural Executive Director of the Institute for E more PR

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, July 28 -- The University of New Mexico posted the following news: * * * School of Law among top leaders in the nation for Environmental Law * The National Jurist's PreLaw Magazine recently released the rankings for the top schools in environmental law. The UNM School of Law's Natural Resources and Environmental Law (NREL) Program has earned an A+ rating this spring. The School of Law is one of only 16 schools nationally to receive this grade in environmental law. "The University of New Mexico School of Law is prou more PR

KONGENS LYNGBY, Denmark, July 29 -- The Technical University of Denmark posted the following news: * * * The length of your upper leg could help detect diabetes * A new home test can detect type 2 diabetes or prediabetes with high accuracy. The test has been developed using artificial intelligence and large amounts of health data - and surprisingly, one of the steps involves measuring the length of your thigh. According to The Danish Diabetes Association, around 100,000 Danes are unaware that they have type 2 diabetes, and approximately ha more PR

FRANKLIN LAKES, New Jersey, July 30 -- Children's Health Defense, an organization that says it restores and protects the health of children by eliminating exposures to environmental toxins, issued the following news: * * * Trump Bans Most But Not All 'Dangerous Gain-of-Function Research' The Trump administration on Tuesday released a policy to end high-risk life sciences research, including a ban on federal support for "dangerous gain-of-function research." "Potentially" dangerous gain-of-function research will be allowed under more stringen more PR

NORWICH, England, July 29 (TNSjou) -- The University of East Anglia issued the following news: * * * Inequalities grow in cities as heat and daylight patterns transform urban life Changing patterns of heat and daylight in urban environments are creating growing inequalities, with climate-related shifts reshaping daily life and disproportionately affecting vulnerable communities. Researchers from the University of East Anglia have examined how elemental conditions such as rising temperatures and changing daylight experiences influence the wa more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, July 30 (TNSjou) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news: * * * Rock-eating fungi flourish deep below our feet U-M researchers discover an entire world of fungi nearly a third of a mile underground - Hundreds of feet below Earth's surface, rocks and water teem with fungi and support complex ecosystems of tiny organisms, according to a University of Michigan study, which finds that fungi are far more abundant deep below ground than researchers previously thought. The study, led by U-M doctoral candidate more PR