WASHINGTON, March 31 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has released the following public communication dated March 17, 2025, from Applied Intuition, Mountain View, California: * * * To: Katherine L. Chasins Rulemaking Office of Automation Safety National Highway Traffic Safety Administration U.S. Department of Transportation 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE Washington, DC 20590 Re: Docket No. NHTSA-2024-0100 "Automated Driving Systems-Equipp  more

WASHINGTON, March 28 -- The Carnegie Institution for Science issued the following news on March 27, 2025: Small star, mighty flares: A new view of Proxima Centauri Our nearest stellar neighbor, Proxima Centauri, is known for its frequent and intense flares. Carnegie Science astronomer Alycia Weinberger helped reveal new details about these energetic bursts and what they mean for the habitability of planets in its system. Washington, DC--Talk about a noisy neighbor! Recent research about Prox  more

BRISTOL, England, March 30 -- The University of Bristol issued the following news release: * * * UK and Japan scientists set to supercharge semiconductor microchip technologies in the race to reach Net Zero Charging electric cars in faster than five minutes and making the national energy grid much more efficient could be a step closer to reality thanks to a unique new partnership on track to revolutionise semiconductor microchip technologies. Top experts from the University of Bristol, in th  more

EXETER, England, March 30 -- The University of Exeter issued the following news: * * * Radical study of medieval warhorses set to be unveiled in new book The most comprehensive study of medieval warhorses ever undertaken will be released in the form of a radical new book this week. Based upon extensive archaeological and historical research, including the study of bones and DNA, armour and art, Medieval Warhorse: Equestrian Landscapes, Material Culture and Zooarchaeology in Britain, AD800-15  more

EXETER, England, March 30 -- The University of Exeter issued the following news: * * * Scientists Achieve Breakthrough in Harnessing Heat to Control Magnetism in 2D Materials Pioneering new research could help unlock exciting new potential to create ultrafast, laser-driven storage devices. Groundbreaking research, led by experts from the University of Exeter, would revolutionize the field of data storage, through the development of laser-driven magnetic domain memories. The new research is   more

MONTREAL, Quebec, March 30 -- The University of Montreal issued the following news release: * * * 'I've always been fascinated by the sky' Honoured today with the 2025 Killam Prize in Natural Sciences, UdeM astrophysicist Rene Doyon looks back on his lifelong love of seeing what's out there, beyond Earth and the Solar System. Growing up in small-town Quebec in the 1960s and '70s, the fifth of six children born to a school principal and his homemaker wife, Rene Doyon had a solitary pastime: h  more