TUCSON, Arizona, Jan. 18 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection issued the following news release on Jan. 17, 2024: U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Field Operations, Area Port of Douglas officers arrested a 19-year-old male attempting to smuggle nearly 492,000 blue fentanyl pills into the United States. On Friday, January 12, 2024, officers at the Area Port of Douglas referred a 19-year-old United States Citizen male, for additional inspectio  more

NEW YORK, Jan. 18 (TNSres) -- Columbia University issued the following news: Columbia researchers analyzing images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have found that galaxies in the early universe are often flat and elongated, like breadsticks--and are rarely round, like balls of pizza dough. "Roughly 50 to 80% of the galaxies we studied appear to be flattened in two dimensions," explained Viraj Pandya, a NASA Hubble Fellow at Columbia University, and the lead author of a new paper slated t  more

TUCSON, Arizona, Jan. 17 (TNSres) -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release: * * * The center will advance research and conservation efforts, educate future conservation scientists and leaders and develop a broader understanding of the Earth's biosphere. * * * A $5 million gift from the Thomas Lovejoy Amazon Biodiversity Center will establish the Lovejoy Center for Bridging Biodiversity, Conservation Science, and Policy and the Thomas E. Lovejoy Endowed Chair in Biodiver  more

TUCSON, Arizona, Jan. 18 (TNSres) -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release: * * * In the same lab where University of Arizona scientists invented ways to decipher Earth's climate history in tree rings, associate professor Bryan Black is using a similar technique - but with tiny fish bones. * * * A giant tree in your backyard can reveal stories about Earth's past climate. The concentric rings in the trunk, besides indicating the age of the tree, also shed light on the co  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced the selection of 20 undergraduate and graduate students as the 2024 winners of the USDA Future Leaders in Agriculture program. The selected students hail from land-grant universities and Hispanic-serving institutions (HSI). "The Future Leaders Program is at the heart of our efforts to cultivate an agricultural workforce as diverse as America its  more