NOTRE DAME, Indiana, Sept. 3 -- The University of Notre Dame posted the following news: * * * How new moms cope with stressful news may matter more than the news itself, study finds * The everchanging social, political, and economic landscape in many countries has become more tenuous and intense in recent years. Respondents in a 2026 report from the World Economic Forum indicated a prevailing mood of uncertainty, with 50 percent of them anticipating a turbulent or stormy outlook on life over the next two years. This negative perception swel more PR

BEDFORD PARK, Australia, Sept. 3 -- Flinders University posted the following news: * * * Key differences in bowel cancer before 50 * One of Australia's largest real world studies of younger adults with advanced bowel cancer has identified important differences between cancers diagnosed before and after the age of 50, which could help doctors tailor treatments for younger adults more effectively. The new study, led by Flinders University and Flinders Medical Centre, and published in the prestigious Medical Journal of Australia, analysed dat more PR

LAWRENCE, Kansas, Sept. 2 - The University of Kansas School of Law posted the following news: * * * KU law professor traces legal history of the kiss * LAWRENCE -Is a kiss just a kiss? Or is it a sign of love, affection, a biological urge, contract or even an assault? Law, history, evolution and anthropology show that it can be all those things. A University of Kansas law professor has published an analysis examining the legal history of the kiss, tracing how views of one of the seemingly most basic of human behaviors are not universal, es more PR

RALEIGH, North Carolina, Sept. 4 (TNSjou) -- North Carolina State University issued the following news release: * * * Study Shows Microbes - Dead or Alive - Can Be Early Measures of Soil Health Researchers have demonstrated a series of biological tests that could serve as "proxies" for measuring how different regenerative agriculture practices could improve soil carbon - years before it would be possible to measure the carbon directly. The technique offers new insights into how effective various regenerative practices are at improving soil h more PR

BRISBANE, Australia, Sept. 3 (TNSjou) -- The Queensland University of Technology issued the following news: * * * Dolphin-feeding tourism contributes to predicted dolphin decline Feeding wild dolphins is among the causes of a predicted radical decline in a bottlenose dolphin population off Bunbury, Western Australia, a QUT-led international research team has found. * Study of humans feeding bottlenose dolphins in Bunbury, WA found that the practice doubles the probability of extinction of this population over the next 100 years. * Humans more PR

KYOTO, Japan, Sept. 3 -- Ritsumeikan University posted the following news: * * * Sulfur-Reducing Mechanism of Bacterial Selenoprotein Discovered * Bacterial enzyme uses a unique selenium-sulfur-heme catalytic center to reduce polysulfides during elemental sulfur respiration Geobacter sulfurreducens derives energy from elemental sulfur, but the molecular mechanism has remained unknown. Researchers at Ritsumeikan University identified MccSep, a novel selenium-containing multiheme enzyme that functions as a polysulfide reductase. Through ge more PR

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia, Sept. 3 -- University of Virginia Health posted the following news release: * * * Targeting Calcium Could Improve Outcomes for Deadly Brain Cancer, Discovery Suggests * University of Virginia Comprehensive Cancer Center scientists have uncovered a crucial role for calcium channels in glioblastoma, the most common and deadliest brain cancer, suggesting that an existing calcium-blocking drug could improve patient outcomes. UVA's Roger Abounader, MD, PhD, and colleagues found that calcium-transporting channels in tu more PR

WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 [Category: Health Care] -- Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine posted the following news release: * * * The Body Doesn't Just Absorb a Plant-Based Diet--It Adapts to One, New Review Finds * WASHINGTON, DC -A new peer-reviewed review published in the journal Biology argues that much of the debate over whether plant-based diets deliver enough iron, protein, creatine, and other nutrients rests on a flawed assumption: that eating less of something automatically means the body has less of it available. Drawing on hu more PR

BETHESDA, Maryland, Sept. 4 -- The Wildlife Society, a wildlife conservation organization, posted the following news: * * * TWS announces 2026 Wildlife Publications Awards Awards include best authored and edited books as well as journal articles - The research that has won TWS' 2026 publication awards includes work on the responses of grizzly bears to low-level recreation, the management of black-tailed deer and how birds alter their flight due to artificial light at night. The awards recognize excellence in scientific literature focused  more PR

NORWICH, England, Sept. 4 (TNSjou) -- The University of East Anglia issued the following news: * * * Scientists uncover shared biology behind profound fatigue in five major illnesses A shared biological secret that helps explain chronic exhaustion in conditions including long Covid and PTSD has been discovered by researchers at the University of East Anglia and Oxford BioDynamics. A new paper published today in the Journal of Translational Medicine reveals striking biological similarities between five major illnesses which until now have la more PR

MANCHESTER, England, Sept. 4 (TNSjou) -- The University of Manchester issued the following news release: * * * Lab-grown tumours could speed up cancer cures * Sophisticated lab-grown tumours could help fast-track the search for new cancer treatments while reducing reliance on animal testing. * The models recreate key features of tumours in the lab, offering a potentially quicker way to study how cancers grow and spread. - A review by University of Manchester scientists says sophisticated lab-grown tumours could help fast-track the search  more PR

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, Sept. 4 (TNSjou) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news: * * * Pigment found in beets helped plants adapt to harsh environments The pigments that give beets their red color may have helped a major group of flowering plants repeatedly adapt to dry environments, setting the stage for the evolution of traits that allowed plants to adapt to some of the harshest environments on Earth, according to a University of Michigan study. The pigment, called betalain, is only produced by species in the flowering plant more PR

SCRANTON, Pennsylvania, Sept. 4 -- The University of Scranton issued the following news: * * * University of Scranton Welcomes New Faculty Members Ahead of the 2026-27 academic year, the University appointed new, full-time faculty members. - The University of Scranton has appointed 20 new, full-time faculty members for the 2026-27 academic year. * Michele Boland, previously a lecturer and faculty specialist in the Nursing Program at the University, was named an instructor in the Department of Nursing. A certified academic clinical nurse  more PR

BOULDER, Colorado, Sept. 2 -- The University of Colorado Boulder campus posted the following news: * * * Why some stroke patients fare better than others * A clot forms. Blood flow to the brain is blocked. Starved of oxygen, neurons begin to die. This scenario, known as an ischemic stroke, plays out in roughly 21,000 people worldwide each day, threatening long-term disability or even death. In recent years, clot-busting drugs and mechanical tools for removing them have revolutionized care. Yet, even with the clot gone and the vessel clear more PR

ITHACA, New York, Sept. 3 -- Cornell University posted the following news: * * * Wrinkled or smooth? Cell growth mechanics determine shape of plant organs * When inner and outer cell layers of sepals - the leaf-like plant organs that cover and protect the flower bud before it opens - all grow upward, the organs stay smooth and uniformly stiff, which is optimal for the plant, according to a new study. The study, published Sept. 1 in the journal Current Biology, compared a wild type Arabidopsis plant with a mutant one that grew with wrinkled more PR