PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, March 11 [Category: Medical] -- The American Association for Cancer Research posted the following news release: * * * Douglas Hanahan, PhD, FAACR, Honored with the 2025 Pezcoller Foundation-AACR International Award for Extraordinary Achievement in Cancer Research CHICAGO - The Pezcoller Foundation - American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) International Award for Extraordinary Achievement in Cancer Research will be presented to Douglas Hanahan, PhD, Fellow o  more

ITHACA, New York, March 11 -- Cornell University posted the following news: * * * Dynamic acoustics of hand clapping, elucidated In a scene toward the end of the 2006 film, "X-Men: The Last Stand," a character claps and sends a shock wave that knocks out an opposing army. Sunny Jung, professor of biological and environmental engineering in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, was intrigued. "It made me curious about how the wave propagates when we clap our hands," Jung said. Ju  more

ALFRED, New York, March 12 -- Alfred University issued the following news release: * * * Former director of Athens, Greece research institute to present 2025 Scholes Lecture at Alfred University Efstratios I. Kamitsos, researcher and former director of the Theoretical and Physical Chemistry Institute (TPCI), National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, Greece, will deliver the annual Scholes Lecture at Alfred University, on Thursday, April 3, at 11:20 a.m. in Holmes Auditorium, Harder Hall.  more

SOUTH BEND, Indiana, March 12 -- The University of Notre Dame's Law School issued the following news: * * * Notre Dame Law School's Global Lawyering Initiative expands to Brazil, forging partnerships with Insper, the Supreme Federal Court of Brazil, and Fundacao Getulio Vargas From March 10 to 14, a delegation from Notre Dame Law School will visit Sao Paulo, Brasilia, and Rio de Janeiro, starting Monday, March 10. Led by G. Marcus Cole, the Joseph A. Matson Dean of Notre Dame Law School, the   more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, March 12 -- The University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering issued the following news: * * * Improving Density Functional Theory One Flaw at Time Pitt researcher Karl Johnson and scholar Priyanka Bholanath Shukla collaborate to help strengthen an essential electron theory Density functional theory (DFT) is a cornerstone tool of modern physics, chemistry, and engineering used to explore the behavior of electrons. While essential in modeling systems with ma  more

WEST LAFAYETTE, Indiana, March 12 -- Purdue University issued the following news release: * * * Manfra appointed to lead Purdue's quantum institute Quantum computing expert Michael Manfra has been named director of the Purdue Quantum Science and Engineering Institute (PQSEI), effective March 1. He is the Bill and Dee O'Brien Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy, professor of electrical and computer engineering, and professor of materials engineering. "We are pleased to welcome Mi  more

ITHACA, New York, March 11 -- Cornell University posted the following news: * * * Rubin, barrier-breaking astronomer, graces a US quarter Vera Cooper Rubin, M.S. '51, a pathbreaking astronomer whose life's work included procuring the scientific evidence to prove the existence of dark matter, is being featured on the 2025 batch of the American Women Quarters Program. According to Cornell history expert Corey Ryan Earle '07, Rubin is believed to be the first Cornellian ever depicted on a circu  more

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, March 12 -- Rutgers University issued the following news: * * * Physics Professor Aims on Setting Science Right Reproducibility is a key quality of scientific research. By Kitta MacPherson At Rutgers, Vitaly Podzorov leads an effort to maintain research integrity worldwide For the past several years, Vitaly Podzorov, a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy in the Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences, voluntarily has worked as part of a research inte  more

CUPERTINO, California, March 12 -- Apple, a provider of consumer electronics, computer software and online services, posted the following news on March 11, 2025: * * * Six games come to Apple Arcade in April, including new Katamari and Space Invaders games Six fun games and exciting updates for Apple Arcade are launching over the next month, joining an award-winning catalog of over 200 games. On April 3, Katamari Damacy Rolling LIVE -- the Katamari franchise's first original game in nearly e  more

WASHINGTON, March 11 -- NASA issued the following news release: * * * Summary of Special Engage Session on "Remote Sensing and the Future of Earth Observations" Introduction On October 16, 2024, a special session of the NASA Goddard Engage series took place in the Goett Auditorium (Building 3) at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). The Engage series is intended to explain work at GSFC in an immersive and nontechnical setting. GSFC's Office of Communications, Earth Sciences Division,   more

WASHINGTON, March 11 -- NASA issued the following news release: * * * Team Preps to Study Dark Energy via Exploding Stars With NASA's Roman This video sparkles with synthetic supernovae from the OpenUniverse project, which simulates observations from NASA's upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. More than a million exploding stars flare into visibility and then slowly fade away. The true brightness of each transient event has been magnified by a factor of 10,000 for visibility, and no ba  more

TUCSON, Arizona, March 12 -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release: * * * With $2M in grants, U of A engineers push toward a quantum computing future By Alexandra Pere Quantum computing is considered the next generation of information technology, with the potential to revolutionize an array of fields, including machine learning, drug development, data storage, agriculture and cybersecurity. Using the principles of quantum mechanics will allow researchers to quickly sol  more