TUCSON, Arizona, April 29 -- Tucson Electric Power issued the following news release: * * * Flawed Energy Study Delivers False Promises to City of Tucson In Brief * The initial draft of an energy study conducted for the City of Tucson is compromised by flawed assumptions about how much time and money would be needed to form a municipal utility. * The study ignores factors that would increase Tucson's energy costs, reduce reliability and drive a city-run utility's rates higher in the future   more

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, April 28 -- Rutgers University issued the following news: * * * A Vast Molecular Cloud, Long Invisible, Is Discovered Near Solar System By Kitta MacPherson The detection of the celestial body by a Rutgers-led team could redefine understanding of interstellar medium An international team of scientists led by a Rutgers University-New Brunswick astrophysicist has discovered a potentially star-forming cloud that is one of the largest single structures in the sky and a  more

TUCSON, Arizona, April 29 -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release: * * * $2M gift establishes endowed chair to support consciousness studies The University of Arizona will establish the Thomas G. Bever and Stuart R. Hameroff Chair in Consciousness Studies in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences with a $2 million gift commitment from Eugene Jhong, a retired Google software developer. "I'm honored to support this initiative recognizing Tom Bever for his foundati  more