WASHINGTON, May 19 [Category: Sociological] -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations posted the following news release: * * * CAIR Designates Johns Hopkins U. as 'Hostile Campus' for Targeting of Anti-Genocide Students The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today designated Johns Hopkins University (JHU) as a Hostile Campus for fostering a climate of fear, retaliation, and repression targeting students who spea  more

PASADENA, California, May 19 -- The California Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * Caltech Announces Eight Recipients of the 2025 National Brown Investigator Award Each investigator, recognized for curiosity-driven research in chemistry or physics, will receive up to $2 million over five years The Brown Institute for Basic Sciences at Caltech today announced the 2025 class of Brown Investigators. The cohort, the second to be selected through the Brown Institute for Basi  more

WASHINGTON, May 19 (TNSLrpt) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following report (No. R48097) on May 15, 2025, entitled "Energy and Water Development: FY2025 Appropriations" by energy policy specialist Mark Holt and natural resources policy specialist Anna E. Normand. Here are excerpts: * * * SUMMARY The Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies appropriations (E&W) bill funds civil works activities of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) in the Department of Defens  more

WASHINGTON, May 19 (TNSLrpt) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following report (No. R48097) on May 15, 2025, entitled "Energy and Water Development - FY2025 Appropriations:" (Continued from Part 2 of 4) * * * Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) Authorized in 1975 by the Energy Policy and Conservation Act (P.L. 94-163, as amended; 42 U.S.C. Sec.6201 et seq.), the SPR fulfills two statutory policy objectives: (1) reduce the economic impact of oil supply disruptions, and (2) carr  more

HOUSTON, Texas, May 19 -- Rice University posted the following news release: * * * Invisible currents at the edge: Rice research team shows how magnetic particles reveal a hidden rule of nature If you've ever watched a flock of birds move in perfect unison or seen ripples travel across a pond, you've witnessed nature's remarkable ability to coordinate motion. Recently, a team of scientists and engineers at Rice University discovered a similar phenomenon on a microscopic scale, where tiny magn  more

TALLAHASSEE, Florida, May 20 -- Florida State University issued the following news: * * * New path to quantum computing: FAMU-FSU College of Engineering research shows promise for trapped electron platforms By Bill Wellock Quantum computers hold the potential to revolutionize the possibilities for solving difficult computational problems that would take classical computers many years to resolve. But for those computers to meet their potential, they need working quantum bits, or qubits. The   more

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, May 19 -- The University of Michigan posted the following news: * * * Nimble dimples: Agile underwater vehicles inspired by golf balls A spherical prototype that can change its surface from smooth to dimpled cuts through drag and generates lift Drag study: Adaptive drag reduction of a sphere using smart morphable skin (DOI: 10.1017/flo.2025.7) Lift study: On the lift generation over a sphere using asymmetric roughness (DOI: 10.1063/5.0241948) Underwater or aerial v  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, May 19 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * Novel data streaming software chases light speed from accelerator to supercomputer Analyzing massive datasets from nuclear physics experiments can take hours or days to process, but researchers are working to radically reduce that time to mere seconds using special software being developed at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley and Oak Ridge national   more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, May 19 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * The sweet taste of a new idea Behavioral economist Sendhil Mullainathan has never forgotten the pleasure he felt the first time he tasted a delicious crisp, yet gooey Levain cookie. He compares the experience to when he encounters new ideas. "That hedonic pleasure is pretty much the same pleasure I get hearing a new idea, discovering a new way of looking at a situation, or thinking  more

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, May 19 -- The University of Michigan posted the following news: * * * The US has a new most powerful laser Hitting 2 petawatts, the NSF-funded ZEUS facility at U-M enables research that could improve medicine, national security, materials science and more The ZEUS laser facility at the University of Michigan has roughly doubled the peak power of any other laser in the U.S. with its first official experiment at 2 petawatts (2 quadrillion watts). At more than 100 times  more

TUCSON, Arizona, May 20 -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release: * * * U of A researchers developing world's first petahertz-speed phototransistor in ambient conditions By Logan Burtch-Buus What if ultrafast pulses of light could operate computers at speeds a million times faster than today's best processors? A team of scientists, including researchers from the University of Arizona, are working to make that possible. In a groundbreaking international effort, researc  more