SACRAMENTO, California, Aug. 6 -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued the following news release: OAKLAND - Co-leading a multistate coalition of 14 attorneys general, California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a motion to intervene in the U.S. District Court for North Dakota to defend the U.S. Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ)'s revised regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the nation's bedrock environmental law. The CEQ's rule, finalized on May 1  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 -- Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, D-Delaware, issued the following news release on Aug. 5, 2024: WILMINGTON, Del. - Today, U.S. Representative Lisa Blunt Rochester, as well as U.S. Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons (all D-Del.), announced three federal grants awarded to the Delaware Agricultural Museum, the Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, and the Delaware Museum of Nature and Science. The grants, awarded through the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Inspire! Gran  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 -- Sen. Thomas Carper, D-Delaware, issued the following news release on Aug. 5, 2024: Today, U.S. Senators Tom Carper and Chris Coons, as well as U.S. Representative Lisa Blunt Rochester (all D-Del.), announced three federal grants awarded to the Delaware Agricultural Museum, the Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, and the Delaware Museum of Nature and Science. The grants, awarded through the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Inspire! Grants for Small Museums progr  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 -- Rep. John P. Sarbanes, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: Today, Congressman John Sarbanes (MD-03) and U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen, along with U.S. Senator Ben Cardin and Congressmen Jamie Raskin and David Trone (all D-Md.), urged PJM Interconnection, LLC (PJM), the grid operator responsible for coordinating electricity transmission in the region, to consider strategies that would limit the duration of the "reliability must-run" agreement (RMR) that is keepin  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: Delays burden nearby communities with continued pollution and may result in higher energy bills for Maryland consumers Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen and Congressman John Sarbanes, along with U.S. Senator Ben Cardin and Congressmen Jamie Raskin and David Trone (all D-Md.), urged PJM Interconnection, LLC (PJM), the grid operator responsible for coordinating electricity transmission in the region, t  more

OXFORD, England, Aug. 6 -- National Science Review, a peer-reviewed journal that says it features natural sciences, physics and mathematics, chemistry, life, earth, materials and information sciences, published research articles on the following topics in its July 2024 edition (Vol. 11, Issue 7): Special Topic: Challenges to Achieving Room Temperature Superconductivity in Superhydrides under Pressure PERSPECTIVE: * PHYSICS - Are hydrides under high-pressure-high-temperature superconductors?   more

SYDNEY, Australia, Aug. 6 (TNSres) -- The University of New South Wales issued the following news: By Neil Martin Researchers at UNSW Sydney have developed a zero emissions system using a solar panel that turns nitrate wastewater into ammonium nitrate for use in fertilisation. Engineers from UNSW Sydney have converted a traditional silicon solar panel into a device that produces ammonia in a significantly more environmentally friendly way. Ammonia is essential for producing fertilisers that   more

COLLEGE PARK, Maryland, Aug. 6 -- Physics Today, a peer-reviewed journal from the American Institute of Physics, published research articles on the following topics in its Aug. 1, 2024, edition (Vol. 77, Issue 8): Search and Discovery: * Five-molecule water clusters have liquid-like properties * How to make a midsize black hole Updates: * Levitating beads reveal radioactivity * Long-necked single-celled predator has mastered an unusual origami fold * Rapidly strained metals strengthen whe  more

OXFORD, England, Aug. 6 -- Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, a peer-reviewed journal that says it features biological, medical, physical, social and political sciences, published research articles on the following topics in its July 2024 edition (Vol. 3, Issue 7): Review: * Recent advances in drug delivery applications of aqueous two-phase systems Brief Reports: * DNA-encoded probe-based assay for profiling plant kinase activities * Estimating the human bottleneck for conta  more

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama, Aug. 6 -- The University of Alabama issued the following news: By Russ Nelson Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) has won a $750,000 Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) award to support STROBE-X, a planned $1 billion probe-class NASA observatory that aims to unlock the secrets of some of the most extreme conditions in the universe. The researcher will be collaborating with an international team of scientists,   more