HOUSTON, Texas, March 7 -- Rice University posted the following news release: * * * Angel Marti honored with Robert Holland Jr. Award Rice University chemist Angel Marti has been named a recipient of the Research Corporation for Science Advancement's (RCSA) Robert Holland Jr. Award, which honors outstanding contributions to research, leadership and mentorship in the sciences. The award, which includes a $5,000 cash prize, commemorates the late Robert Holland Jr., an engineer and corporate exe  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 8 -- Boston University issued the following news: * * * Could Severance Ever Happen in Real Life? In the wildly popular show, people undergo a procedure that "severs" their memories between work and home. Possible? BU neuroscientist Steve Ramirez's answer By Molly Callahan In the world of Severance, things are getting interesting. As the highly anticipated second season of the Apple TV+ show--which recently eclipsed Ted Lasso as the streamer's most-watched prog  more

WASHINGTON, March 8 -- The Carnegie Institution for Science issued the following news: * * * Women Pioneers of the Desert Laboratory This Women's History Month, we highlight the lives of three women who, despite barriers, contributed to the work of Carnegie's Desert Laboratory. In 1903, just one year after Carnegie Science's founding, the Desert Laboratory was established on Tumamoc Hill outside Tucson, Arizona. This boundary pushing, interdisciplinary facility was devoted to the study of de  more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- NASA issued the following news release: * * * Cosmic Mapmaker: NASA's SPHEREx Space Telescope Ready to Launch Ahead of launch, NASA's SPHEREx is enclosed in a payload fairing at Vandenberg Space Force Base on March 2. The observatory is stacked atop the four small satellites that make up the agency's PUNCH mission. NASA/BAE Systems/Benjamin Fry NASA's latest space observatory is targeting a March 8 liftoff, and the agency's PUNCH heliophysics mission is sharing a ri  more

PASADENA, California, March 7 (TNSres) -- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Cosmic Mapmaker: NASA's SPHEREx Space Telescope Ready to Launch In a little over a day, NASA's SPHEREx space telescope is slated to launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The observatory will map the entire celestial sky four times in two years, creating a 3D map of over 450 million galaxies. In doing so, the mission will provide insight int  more

EINDHOVEN, The Netherlands, March 8 -- Eindhoven University of Technology issued the following news: * * * Margriet van der Heijden joins the KHMW, the eldest 'scholarly society' in the Netherlands Professor of Science Communication Margriet van der Heijden has recently been appointed a member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW). The KHMW is the eldest 'scholarly society' in the Netherlands and aims to promote the sciences in its broadest sense. "I hope to contribu  more

MUNICH, Germany, March 8 -- The Max Planck Society issued the following news: * * * German Federal President Steinmeier visits threatened telescope site in Chile Frank-Walter Steinmeier and a delegation visit some of the largest astronomical observatories threatened by a planned industrial plant on the Chilean coast Federal President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, accompanied by a delegation including Reinhard Genzel, Nobel Prize winner and Director of the Max Planck Institute for Extr  more

LONDON, England, March 8 -- Imperial College-London issued the following news: * * * How metamaterials bend reality: from earthquake shields to lab-grown black holes By Jacklin Kwan Sir John Pendry's lecture showed how engineered materials make sci-fi real, from invisibility cloaks to microscopes revealing the nanoscopic world. Sir John Pendry is a Professor of Theoretical Solid-State Physics at the Department of Physics. As part of Imperial College London's annual Frontiers in Natural Scie  more

LANCASTER, England, March 8 -- Lancaster University issued the following news: * * * Next generation computers modelled on the human brain Lancaster University is leading a pound sterling2.1M project with Cambridge and Durham which aims to revolutionise the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and computing. The Memristive Organometallic Devices formed from Self-Assembled Multilayers (MemOD) programme brings together world leading experts in molecular scale electronics, chemical synthesis,   more

POTSDAM, Germany, March 4 -- The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research issued the following news release: * * * Leonie Wenz: Professor of Environmental Economics at the TU Berlin Leonie Wenz has been appointed Professor of Environmental Economics at Technische Universitat (TU) Berlin with effect from 1 March 2025. The new position is a joint appointment with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), where the scientist is deputy head of the research department 'Complexi  more

OTTAWA, Ontario, March 8 -- The Canadian Department of Justice announced the following judicial appointment: * * * Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada announces judicial appointments in the province of Quebec The Honourable Arif Virani, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, today announced the following appointments under the judicial application process established in 2016. This process emphasizes transparency, merit, and the diversity of the Canadian population,  more

WEST LAFAYETTE, Indiana, March 8 -- Purdue University issued the following news release: * * * Purdue Innovates funds advances in ag biotechnology, cancer treatments and fiber optics 3 Purdue researchers received $125,000 in latest round of Trask Innovation Fund awards WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Purdue University researchers in the College of Pharmacy and College of Science have received $124,984 from the Trask Innovation Fund to develop Purdue-owned intellectual property for commercial use.   more

LONDON, England, March 8 -- Queen Mary University of London issued the following news: * * * The quest for room-temperature superconductors In a new development that could help redefine the future of technology, a team of physicists has uncovered a fundamental insight into the upper limit of superconducting temperature. This discovery, accepted for publication in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, suggests that room-temperature superconductivity - long considered the "holy grail" of cond  more

TUCSON, Arizona, March 8 -- Research Corporation for Science Advancement issued the following news: * * * Senior Scientists Receive RCSA's 2025 Holland Awards Three senior scientists with exemplary records in research, leadership, and mentoring will join the Cottrell Scholar community as recipients of Research Corporation for Science Advancement's Robert Holland Jr. Award. The awards, which come with a $5,000 cash prize, honor the late Robert Holland Jr., an engineer and corporate executive w  more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Rep. Rep. Robert E. Latta, R-Ohio, chair of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy, issued the following news release on March 6, 2025: * * * Subcommittee on Energy Holds Hearing on Energy Demand and Grid Reliability WASHINGTON, D.C. - Yesterday, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy held a hearing titled Scaling for Growth: Meeting Demand for Reliable, Affordable Electricity. "In the coming years, it's critical we produce the   more

MUNICH, Germany, March 8 -- The Technical University of Munich issued the following news: * * * New method significantly reduces AI energy consumption The enormous computing resources needed to train neural networks for artificial intelligence (AI) result in massive power consumption. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed a method that is 100 times faster and therefore much more energy efficient. Instead of taking an iterative approach, the parameters are comp  more

WASHINGTON, March 4 -- The Carnegie Institution for Science issued the following news: * * * The Top 10 Space Talks & Activities You Can't Miss at SXSW 2025 SXSW isn't just about music and tech--it's a launchpad for the future of space exploration. Here are ten astronomy sessions you won't want to miss. From telescopes redefining the cosmos to space robotics, lunar living, and AI-powered astronomy, this year's SXSW lineup is packed with mind-expanding sessions for astronomy lovers, sci-fi en  more

BAVARIA, Germany, March 8 -- The Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat issued the following news: * * * Jugend Forscht competition: Young scientists present their projects Regional competition Jugend forscht 2025 at FAU Jugend forscht celebrated its 60th anniversary. As was the case last year, the regional competition was held at Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg (FAU). Young researchers from Middle Franconia were welcomed by the FAU Department of Physics to present their projects   more

COVENTRY, England, March 8 -- The University of Warwick issued the following news release: * * * The power of confinement: How tiny nanotubes can squeeze new materials into being An international research project, led by The University of Warwick and University of Lille, has used nanotube compression to transform the underlying chemistry and physics of a compound, creating a promising new one-dimensional material. In this study published in JACSLink opens in a new window, a large cluster-bas  more