CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 30 -- Case Western Reserve University issued the following news: * * * 17 undergraduate students represent CWRU at prestigious National Conference of Undergraduate Research Strong undergraduate research experiences are a cornerstone of a Case Western Reserve University education. The institution's recent record-breaking contingent at the National Conference of Undergraduate Research (NCUR) in Richmond, Virginia, demonstrated the power and reach of such opportunities.   more

SWINDON, England, April 29 [Category: Business] -- The UK Research and Innovation posted the following news: * * * Air pollution exposure in the womb linked to slower development Babies exposed to high amounts of air pollution in the womb show worse signs of language and motor skills at 18 months than those exposed to lower levels.  The King's College London study, funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC), is the first to investigate pollution exposure and development in Greater London.  more

SWINDON, England, April 29 [Category: Medical] -- The Medical Research Council, a part of UK Research and Innovation, posted the following news: * * * Air pollution exposure in the womb linked to slower development * Babies exposed to high amounts of air pollution in the womb show worse signs of language and motor skills at 18 months than those exposed to lower levels. The King's College London study, funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC), is the first to investigate pollution expos  more

SWARTHMORE, Pennsylvania, April 29 -- Swarthmore College posted the following news: * * * Alan Baker Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship for Philosophy * Professor of Philosophy Alan Baker was recently named in the 101st class of Guggenheim Fellows. Baker is one of 223 fellows this year and one of only three philosophers. The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation selected the fellows through a rigorous application and peer review process from a pool of nearly 5,000 applicants, based on appli  more

WASHINGTON, April 30 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis issued the following commentary on April 29, 2026, by President Anatoly Motkin and Regional Director Hanna Myshko, both of the StrategEast Center for a New Economy, and Jason Israel, senior fellow for the Defense Technology Initiative: * * * Blurred Borders: NATO Needs Answers to Hybrid Attacks An exercise testing NATO responses to hybrid attacks revealed a need for the West to be more nimble, and willing to mimic enemy tactics t  more

VICKSBURG, Mississippi, April 30 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center issued the following news story: * * * ERDC study reveals pathway to breakdown "forever chemicals" By Justus Reed, Public Affairs Specialist, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center A study on breaking down PFAS molecules conducted by two researchers from the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center's (ERDC) was recently published in a leading, peer-reviewed scientific jou  more

GOLD COAST, Australia, April 29 (TNSjou) -- Griffith University issued the following news: * * * Calls to improve drowning prevention efforts for portable pools A portable swimming pool can often be found in an Australian backyard, but new Griffith University research, conducted in partnership with UNSW Sydney, has discovered many parents and caregivers are unaware of safety requirements when it comes to portable pools, in particular legal obligations around fencing. Professor Kyra Hamilto  more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, April 29 [Category: BizHospital] -- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia issued the following news release: * * * Immune Cells Rewire Themselves to Keep Battling Tumors in Nutrient Poor Environments * Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Pathology and Laboratory Medicine researchers uncovered how killer T cells - called CD8+ T cells - keep fighting inside tumors, where nutrients are scarce and conditions are harsh. The team found that rather than simply powering dow  more

WASHINGTON, April 29 [Category: Energy] -- The Institute for Energy Research posted the following commentary: * * * The UAE Leaves OPEC * Key Takeaways 1 The United Arab Emirates will withdraw from OPEC and OPEC+ on May 1 and chart its own course with regard to oil production through the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company. 2 The UAE has been pursuing higher production, and has invested heavily to achieve a target of around five million barrels per day, but was only producing about 3.4 million   more

ITHACA, New York, April 29 -- Cornell University posted the following news: * * * Ph.D. student finds new flower in Finger Lakes forests * Justin Scholten '22 knows the plants growing on the forest floor around the Finger Lakes. There's the white baneberry, Actaea pachypoda. And the red baneberry, Actaea rubra. Both about 30-70 centimeters tall, herbaceous and extremely toxic to humans. But in 2023 as he hiked through Summer Hill State Forest, less than 30 miles northeast of Ithaca, he not  more

RICHMOND, Virginia, April 30 (TNSjou) -- Virginia Commonwealth University issued the following news: * * * Puerto Rico's forests recovered in unexpected ways post-Hurricane Maria, VCU research finds Biology professor Catherine Hulshof studies extreme environments, like Puerto Rico's forests, to find out how they may react as the climate changes. By Madeline Reinsel When Hurricane Maria made its ferocious landfall on the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico in September 2017, the loss extended beyo  more

NEW WILMINGTON, Pennsylvania, April 30 (TNSjou) -- Westminster College issued the following news: * * * New study by Westminster faculty highlights the power of mindfulness in nature A newly published study from Westminster College sheds light on how combining time in nature with mindfulness practices can meaningfully improve emotional well-being. The research, "Nature-Based Therapy: Exploring the Processes That Foster Change," was published online on April 11 in the journal Behavioral Scien  more

WASHINGTON, April 28 [Category: Medical] -- Optica, formerly the Optical Society, posted the following news release: * * * Tiny flexible lasers enable force sensing inside living cells Micro-lasers measure subtle forces in living systems for insights into development and cancer progression  * Researchers have developed tiny flexible lasers that can be used to measure forces inside living cells. The new lasers could help illuminate various biological processes, including those involved in e  more

UTRECHT, The Netherlands, April 29 -- Utrecht University posted the following news: * * * Where was your back yard millions of years ago? * An international team of earth scientists led by Utrecht professor Douwe van Hinsbergen has developed an online tool that allows you to see, for any given location on Earth, what latitude it occupied in the distant past, right back to the heyday of the supercontinent Pangaea 320 million years ago. The basis for this is the Utrecht Paleogeography Model, w  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, April 29 (TNSjou) -- Yale University issued the following news: * * * Modern lifestyles affect how the gut microbiome processes estrogen Industrialized lifestyles -- and feeding infants with formula -- may be changing the gut microbiome in ways that significantly increase estrogen recycling, potentially affecting people's health, a new Yale study finds. By Mike Cummings A new Yale-led study provides evidence that industrialized lifestyles are changing how people re  more