CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, May 13 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * "I have yet to meet a professor that cares more for their students" * Since joining the faculty of MIT's Department of Political Science in 2012, F. Daniel Hidalgo, known to many as "Danny," has built a reputation as both a meticulous quantitative scholar and one of the department's most generous and steadfast mentors. A member of the 2025-27 Committed to Caring cohort, Hidalgo is  more

WASHINGTON, May 14 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis issued the following commentary on May 13, 2026, by senior fellow David M. Cattler: * * * It's Time the West Martialed its Economic Battalions The days when military strategy and economic policy were largely separated have passed. They must be made to walk in lockstep. * For years, Western governments treated economic security as a supporting function of national security; it was important, but secondary. Defense ministries focus  more

WASHINGTON, May 15 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis issued the following commentary on May 14, 2026, by Alicia Chavy, vice president at Beacon Global Strategies, a national security fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and a board member of the Defense Entrepreneurs Forum: * * * The Quantum Horse Race is Underway, With No Clear Favorite Quantum computing is often discussed as if it were a single technology charging toward a single finish line. In reality, it resemble  more

BROOKINGS, South Dakota, May 14 -- South Dakota State University posted the following news: * * * How did the ethanol boom of the 2000s impact farm values in the Midwest? * A new study from South Dakota State University's Ness School of Management and Economics found that farmland values rose by 44% after changes to U.S. energy policies sparked the ethanol industry's initial boom. The U.S. ethanol industry experienced its first major "boom" in the early 2000s, thanks to changes in U.S. ene  more

LA JOLLA, California, May 14 -- The University of California San Diego campus posted the following news: * * * MBA Students Take On Real Consulting Work at the Rady School * There is a moment, somewhere around the second or third week of the Rady Action Project, when students stop treating it like a class. The kickoff meeting is over, the scope has been defined, and the first weekly status report is due - this time going to a real client: a senior executive at a local biotech company, or a s  more

SINGAPORE, May 14 -- Nanyang Technological University posted the following news: * * * Near-invisible ultrathin solar cells that could turn windows into power generators * Imagine a car whose windows and sunroof can help top up its battery while parked under the sun, or a pair of smart glasses whose lenses can harvest light to power built-in electronics. Such applications could become more feasible with a new type of ultrathin transparent solar cell developed by scientists from Nanyang Tec  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, May 15 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education issued the following news: * * * ORISE Health Studies helping to resolve the "radiation risk debate" A recent article in Science, one of the world's most influential scientific journals, has reignited a long-running debate in radiation science: How much radiation protection is enough? The article, titled "Resolving the Radiation Risk Debate [science.org] (https://www.science  more

WALLDORF, Germany, May 14 -- SAP, an enterprise applications software company, issued the following news: * * * SAP Unveils the Autonomous Enterprise The company introduces a unified SAP Business AI Platform, deepening partnerships with Anthropic, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft, NVIDIA and Palantir * ORLANDO -- At SAP Sapphire in 2026, SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) introduced the Autonomous Enterprise to help enhance the world's most critical business workflows, so that humans and AI wor  more

PLYMOUTH, England, May 14 -- The University of Plymouth posted the following news: * * * Study provides detailed assessment of shifts in toxin-producing phytoplankton abundance * Researchers in the UK have shown how the distributions of two phytoplankton groups - known to produce natural toxins that can halt shellfish harvesting - have changed in the North East Atlantic over the last six decades. Phytoplankton are single-celled microscopic algae that play an important role in the marine ec  more

BRISBANE, Australia, May 15 -- The University of Queensland posted the following news: * * * Targeted therapeutics show promise in fighting off drug-resistant bacteria * Key points * Mitochondrial fission is a critical process in which mitochondria within cells split into smaller units to help the body to fight off invading bacteria. * Some bacteria have evolved strategies to stop activation of mitochondrial fission, allowing infections to persist. * Researchers found an experimenta  more

LONDON, England, May 15 (TNSjou) -- The University College London posted the following news: * * * Coal pollution is cutting solar power output Pollution from coal-fired power plants is significantly reducing the energy output of solar photovoltaic (solar PV) installations, particularly where these are expanding side by side, according to new research led by UCL and the University of Oxford. The new study, published in the journal Nature Sustainability, mapped and assessed more than 140,000   more

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, May 15 (TNSjou) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news: * * * Not just an energy drink: National study finds kratom use is rising More than 5 million people in the U.S. have used kratom in their lifetime, including more than 100,000 children ages 12-17 * A national study of kratom use in the U.S. found rising popularity among young adults, and it is linked to addiction and mental health issues, according to new research from the University of Michigan a  more