BROOKLYN, New York, May 14 -- Brooklyn Law School posted the following news: * * * Aaron Twerski: Celebrated Tort Scholar and Teacher of Indelible Lessons * Professor Aaron Twerski is one of five professors retiring after this spring semester. To share a memory of or to send greetings to Professor Twerski, please send an email to communications@brooklaw.edu. He would love to hear from his former students and colleagues. Professor Aaron Twerski is known among scholars and attorneys alike fo  more

WASHINGTON, May 14 -- The Center for European Policy Analysis issued the following commentary on May 13, 2026, by veteran foreign correspondent Michael Sheridan: * * * A Global G2? Xi-Trump Summit Spurs Europe-Japan Jitters Talks between the US and China will be anxiously observed by trading powers far from the summit venue. * There are two actors offstage -- the European Union and Japan -- watching the spectacle at the Temple of Heaven in Beijing as the leaders of America and China celebra  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

HANOVER, New Hampshire, May 15 -- Dartmouth College issued the following news: * * * Nina Pavcnik Named Inaugural Dean of Arts and Sciences The economist is committed to advancing liberal arts education and research excellence. Written by Bridget Campolettano President Sian Leah Beilock today announced the appointment of Nina Pavcnik as inaugural dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1--a significant step toward Dartmouth becoming the best undergraduate education within a   more

BARCELONA, Spain, May 14 -- The Autonomous University of Barcelona issued the following news: * * * Digital environments generate moderate levels of psychological overload among university students * An international study with over 3,700 university students, co-led by the UAB, reveals that digital tools produce a moderate level of psychological overload in students, although their psychological wellbeing has improved since the pandemic. The research also reveals that much data is missing on  more

LONDON, England, May 15 -- The Institute of Cancer Research issued the following news: * * * Childhood leukaemia and germs: research reveals the critical importance of timing New research has endorsed a long standing idea explaining why acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) - the most common cancer in children - appears abruptly in early life, often in otherwise healthy individuals, with no obvious environmental trigger. The new study, carried out by researchers at The Institute of Cancer Rese  more

OXFORD, Ohio, May 14 -- Miami University posted the following news: * * * Mike Crowder and Tom Poetter awarded the Benjamin Harrison Medallion * Miami University has honored two professors -Mike Crowder and Tom Poetter -with its most prestigious career faculty award, the Benjamin Harrison Medallion. The medallion is awarded annually for extraordinary and sustained contributions related to teaching, research, and service over the course of a career at the university. Crowder, associate pr  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

NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, England, May 14 (TNSjou) -- Newcastle University issued the following news: * * * Reversible glue technology goes electric A collaboration between electrical and chemical engineers at Newcastle University is responsible for a reversible glue that can change how we recycle electronic waste. The team has already demonstrated reversible adhesive technology with wide applicability in general packaging applications, but this new glue is electrically conductive. This means tha  more

WOODS HOLE, Massachusetts, May 14 [Category: Environment] -- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution issued the following news release: * * * Researchers help solve mystery of clockwork-like earthquake system deep beneath the Pacific * Deep beneath the eastern Pacific Ocean, about 1,000 miles off the coast of Ecuador, a fault line on the seafloor has been generating magnitude 6 earthquakes with almost clocklike regularity for at least three decades. The earthquakes strike every five to six year  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 14 (TNSjou) -- The University College London posted the following news: * * * 'Last titan': Southeast Asia's biggest dinosaur discovered A new type of long-necked plant-eating dinosaur - the largest ever found in Southeast Asia - has been revealed in a study led by researchers at UCL, Mahasarakham University, Suranaree University of Technology and Sirindhorn Museum in Thailand. The dinosaur, described in a new paper in the journal Scientific Reports, was identified from   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