BINGHAMTON, New York, April 23 (TNSjou) -- Binghamton University issued the following news: * * * Lasers turn ordinary parchment paper into high-performance electronic circuits Researchers create a platform for biodegradable, fully integrated circuits -- no silicon, no toxic metals, no clean room required * What if the next generation of disposable electronics -- the sensors in your food packaging, the diagnostic strips in a medical clinic, the environmental monitors scattered across a farm  more

SAN JOSE, California, April 23 [Category: BizComputer Technology] -- Cadence Design Systems, a provider of electronic design automation and semiconductor intellectual property, issued the following news release on April 22, 2026: * * * Cadence Collaborates with TSMC to Accelerate Design of Next-Generation AI Silicon Expanding partnership enables Cadence's Design for AI and AI for Design strategy across TSMC's N3, N2, A16 and A14 process nodes * Developing "agent ready" digital and analog flo  more

LEIPZIG, Germany, April 23 -- The Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research issued the following news release: * * * Efficient degradation of short-chain PFAS UFZ team develops new method to remove perfluorobutanoic acid from water * Short-chain perfluorinated and polyfluorinated alkyl compounds (PFAS) such as perfluorobutanoic acid (PFBA) are increasingly entering the environment via various pathways and contaminating groundwater and drinking water. Because PFAS are highly mobile, removi  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, April 22 -- The University of Nebraska posted the following news: * * * Husker scientists name novel microorganism after Nebraska * To the untrained eye, the cells of a newly discovered microorganism look larger than they are. That size is an illusion created by a unique growth trajectory: When cultured on rich medium, the individual cells twist around each other, and then those structures twist again, forming thick, rope-like structures that microbiologists call aggrega  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, April 22 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Particle thought to break physics followed rules all along * UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -A tiny discrepancy in particle physics has loomed for decades as an exciting possible crack in one of science's most successful theories, hinting at unknown forces or quantum objects. Now, an international team led by a Penn State physicist has published the most precise study yet to reveal the discrepancy  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, April 22 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * Plants can sense the sound of rain, a new study finds * The next time you find yourself lulled by the patter of rain outside your window, think how that same sprinkle might sound if you were a tiny seed planted directly below a free-falling droplet. Would you still be similarly soothed? In fact, MIT engineers have found the opposite to be the case: Some seeds may come alive to t  more

WASHINGTON, April 21 -- Rep. Jake Auchincloss, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: * * * RELEASE: Congressman Auchincloss questions Secretary Kennedy on FDA whistleblower disclosures, White House fast-tracking of psychedelics * Contact: Georgina.Burros@mail.house.gov (Auchincloss) WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Congressman Jake Auchincloss (D, MA-04) questioned Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at a House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee hearing ab  more

WASHINGTON, April 23 -- The House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations released the following testimony by Jason Owen-Smith, executive director of the University of Michigan Institute for Research on Innovation and Science, from an April 15, 2026, hearing entitled "Fraud Prevention: Understanding Fraud in Federally Funded Programs Run by the States": * * * Chairman McCormick, Ranking Member Sykes, Distinguished Committee Members, thank you for inviting me here   more

MONTREAL, Quebec, April 22 (TNSjou) -- The University of Montreal issued the following news: * * * Confirmed: ultrasound neuromodulation helps manage pain The technique is an innovative alternative because it uses energy in a non-invasive way to target deeper regions of the brain with greater precision. By Jeff Heinrich A new non-invasive neurostimulation technique capable of reaching deep regions of the brain has been used to elucidate the brain's pain mechanisms, with promising clinical   more