BOONE, North Carolina, April 25 -- Appalachian State University issued the following news: * * * $2 million grant funds scholarships, supports STEM education for over 50 App State students By Bret Yager BOONE, N.C. -- A nearly $2 million grant awarded to Appalachian State University by the National Science Foundation (NSF) will help put educational goals within reach for more than 50 Mountaineer students pursuing degrees in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math). Awarded through N  more

LAUREL, Maryland, April 24 [Category: Science] -- The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory posted the following news release: * * * Accelerating Qubit Testing With Cosmic Rays on Demand Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, have demonstrated a working capability that can radically accelerate the testing of qubits -- the quantum computing equivalent of bits -- accomplishing in a matter of minutes what has previously taken days or e  more

PASADENA, California, April 23 -- The California Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * Caltech Students Receive NSF Research Fellowships This year, in an especially tight competition, 21 Caltech undergraduates and 15 current and incoming graduate students have been awarded graduate research fellowships by the National Science Foundation (NSF). These three-year fellowships fund graduate study "to help ensure the quality, vitality, and strength of the scientific and engineeri  more

NEW YORK, April 25 -- Columbia University issued the following news: * * * Guggenheim Fellows, Women in Cancer Research Award, and More Honors From science to engineering, writing to philosophy, here are the Columbians who received awards recently. Columbia News produces a monthly newsletter (subscribe here!) and article series featuring a roundup of awards and milestones that Columbia faculty, staff, and students have received in recent days. In this edition, you'll find awards and mileston  more

WASHINGTON, April 25 -- The U.S. Department of Energy Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Scientists Develop Artificial Leaf That Uses Sunlight to Produce Valuable Chemicals Decades of research leads to self-contained solar panels that convert carbon dioxide into C2 products Key Takeaways * The Liquid Sunlight Alliance is a multi-institutional collaboration working to develop the tools needed to use energy from sunlight to produce liquid fuels. * Research  more

NEW YORK, April 24 [Category: BizMedia] -- NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast, posted the following news: * * * How Universal Studios Hollywood Creates Career Launching Pads for Aspirational Studio Tour Guides April 24, 2025 Hollywood, California...for most, it's a city in Southern California; for others, it's a mystifying, untouchable, elusive place where hopeful entertainment industry novices come to follow their dreams. While there are no easy answers in how to "make it in Hollywood"   more

MANCHESTER, England, April 24 -- The University of Manchester issued the following news release: * * * Manchester physicist among global researchers honoured with prestigious Breakthrough Prize Physicists from The University of Manchester are among global researchers part of CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) collaborations, who have been honoured with the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. The Breakthrough Prize - popularly known as the "Oscars of Science" - honours scientists   more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 24 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * Martina Solano Soto wants to solve the mysteries of the universe, and MIT Open Learning is part of her plan Martina Solano Soto is on a mission to pursue her passion for physics and, ultimately, to solve big problems. Since she was a kid, she has had a lot of questions: Why do animals exist? What are we doing here? Why don't we know more about the Big Bang? And she has been determi  more

WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina, April 24 -- Wake Forest University posted the following news: * * * Music + Gaming Creates Joy and Discovery In the video game Starfield, the player character joins a group of space explorers who travel across space to acquire mysterious artifacts. The music is technical, complex and difficult to play, and it is challenging to get the stars to align in a performance. "Something here is magical," Emmy award-winning composer Inon Zur told the Wake Forest Symphon  more

WASHINGTON, April 25 -- NASA issued the following news release: * * * NASA Marshall Fires Up Hybrid Rocket Motor to Prep for Moon Landings NASA's Artemis campaign will use human landing systems, provided by SpaceX and Blue Origin, to safely transport crew to and from the surface of the Moon, in preparation for future crewed missions to Mars. As the landers touch down and lift off from the Moon, rocket exhaust plumes will affect the top layer of lunar "soil," called regolith, on the Moon. When  more

PASADENA, California, April 24 -- The California Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * Quantum Sensors Tested for Next-Generation Particle Physics Experiments To learn more about the nature of matter, energy, space, and time, physicists smash high-energy particles together in large accelerator machines, creating sprays of millions of particles per second of a variety of masses and speeds. The collisions may also produce entirely new particles not predicted by the standard m  more

BRISBANE, Australia, April 24 -- The Queensland University of Technology issued the following news: * * * Crystal clear design for high-performance flexible thermoelectric semiconductor QUT researchers have identified a new material which could be used as a flexible semiconductor in wearable devices by using a technique that focuses on the manipulation of spaces between atoms in crystals. In a study published in the prestigious journal Nature Communication, the researchers used "vacancy engi  more

MENLO PARK, California, April 25 -- The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * Researchers use SLAC's synchrotron to monitor how one protein's evolution could affect transmission of avian flu to and between humans The new findings highlight the need for ongoing monitoring of H5N1's evolution in nature. In the game of evolution, viruses are among the most adaptable players, constantly changing in response to their environments. Researchers in immunology  more

LAWRENCE, Kansas, April 24 -- The University of Kansas issued the following news: * * * Three KU students named to prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program LAWRENCE -- Three University of Kansas students were recently named to the highly competitive National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program. The KU awardees: * Joseph Hand, physics & astronomy * Cecilia Paranjothi, chemistry * Jasmine Perea, environmental & water resources science The distinction provide  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, April 24 -- Vanderbilt University posted the following news: * * * Vanderbilt faculty honored for excellence in research and service; celebration rescheduled for Faculty Senate meeting Nashville's tumultuous spring weather upended plans for an in-person faculty assembly on April 3. Fortunately, those clouds came with a silver lining: Faculty will still have an opportunity to connect with colleagues and congratulate the spring award winners during the May 1 Faculty Senate  more

NEW YORK, April 25 -- The Whitney Museum of American Art issued the following news release on April 24, 2025: * * * The Whitney Will Host Public Program Set in the Museum's Virtual Landscape Exploring Intersections of Science and Art History Join artist Ashley Zelinskie and curator Christiane Paul for a conversation set in the virtual world of Twin Quasar, a digital work that was commissioned by the Whitney for artport. New York, April 23, 2025 -- The Whitney Museum of American Art will host  more