SAN FRANCISCO, California, April 19 -- The California Academy of Sciences issued the following news release on April 18, 2024: The California Academy of Sciences is pleased to announce that Curator of Geology Peter Roopnarine, PhD, and Morrison Planetarium Senior Director Ryan Wyatt have been elected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS [https://www.aaas.org/fellows]). This honor recognizes Roopnarine and Wyatt's achievements across disciplines, ranging fr  more

WASHINGTON, April 19 -- The Center for Science in the Public Interest issued the following statement on April 18, 2024: * * * Illinois has taken a critical step toward protecting consumers from unsafe food additives with today's bipartisan passage of the Illinois Food Safety Act, SB2637, out of the state Senate. This bill will ban the use of four unsafe and unnecessary additives--brominated vegetable oil (BVO), potassium bromate, propylparaben, and Red 3--from foods sold in the state starting   more

COLD SPRING HARBOR, New York, April 19 -- The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory issued the following news on April 18, 2024: Ever wonder why a zebra has stripes? This question might've inspired a young Benjamin Cowley to get into science in the first place. Today, he's an assistant professor at Cold Spring Harbor (CSHL) investigating how the brain's visual system works. That's a tall order, as the human brain contains about 100 billion neurons. So, Cowley starts someplace smaller--in the mind of th  more

WASHINGTON, April 18 (TNSres) -- The Food and Water Watch issued the following fact sheet on March 19, 2024: Here are excerpts: * * * CO2 Fracking: A Recipe for Disaster Nearly ten years after New York State's historic ban on hydraulic fracking, a recently formed out-of-state company seeks to exploit vulnerabilities in the law/a to launch a dangerous, bizarre, and far-reaching plan to frack with liquid carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Southern Tier region. The technology has many of the same clim  more

WASHINGTON, April 19 -- The Food and Water Watch issued the following news release: Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Representative Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) have re-introduced the Future of Water Act to amend the Commodity Exchange Act to prohibit the trading of water and water rights in commodity futures contracts. Under current law, water prices are vulnerable to manipulation and speculation from futures markets. Without limitations on these markets, passive investors are incentivized to p  more

LAUREL, Maryland, April 19 -- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory issued the following news release: Epidemiology researchers are harnessing tools developed by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, to untangle the origins of the 2020 Ebola virus disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). A recent article (https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(23)00259-8/fulltext) in The Lancet Microbe explores how a  more

LEIPZIG, Germany, April 19 -- The Max Planck Institute for Chemistry issued the following news release: Aerosol researcher Yafang Cheng from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (MPIC) in Mainz has been elected as a 2023 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for her exceptional work in Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences. The AAAS recognizes Prof. Cheng for her transformative contributions and fundamental advances in understanding atmospheric aerosols and   more

WASHINGTON, April 19 -- The Universities Space Research Association issued the following news release on April 18, 2024: Universities Space Research Association today announced a strategic collaboration involving the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley to launch a generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) lab for science and engineering. The lab will explore the short- and long-term benefits of new GenAI technologies related to Earth sci  more