HANOVER, New Hampshire, March 18 -- Dartmouth College issued the following news: * * * How Black Holes Could Nurture Life By Kim Martineau A surprising new study co-led by Dartmouth alumni and professor Ryan Hickox shows how radiation from black holes could have a nurturing effect on life. At the center of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, sits a supermassive black hole. Interstellar gas periodically falls into the orbit of these bottomless pits, switching the black hole int  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 18 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news on March 17, 2025: * * * Dive into the "almost magical" potential of photonic crystals In MIT's 2025 Killian Lecture, physicist John Joannopoulos recounts highlights from a career at the vanguard of photonics research and innovation. By Jennifer Chu, MIT News When you're challenging a century-old assumption, you're bound to meet a bit of resistance. That's exactly what John Joannopoulo  more

PASADENA, California, March 17 (TNSres) -- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news: * * * NASA's EZIE Launches on Mission to Study Earth's Electrojets Under the nighttime California sky, NASA's EZIE (Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer) mission launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 11:43 p.m. PDT on March 14. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Vandenberg Space Force Base, carrying NASA's EZIE spacecraft into orbit. Credit: SpaceX Taking off from Vandenberg Spa  more

MENLO PARK, California, March 18 -- The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * A Goldilocks promoter for a silver catalyst Nickel dopants could improve sustainable production of ethylene oxide, a chemical widely used in industrial manufacturing. Plastics, textiles, detergents, adhesives and antifreeze all have something in common: They were made using ethylene oxide. This colorless gas, a chemical building block in the industrial production of many mate  more