SANTA CRUZ, California, May 22 -- The University of California Santa Cruz campus issued the following news: * * * Astronomers clarify exoplanet atmospheres with new cloud-detection technique Key takeaways * Using the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers found that a planet 700 light-years away has a daily cycle where mineral clouds form in the cool morning and completely evaporate by the scorching evening. * Instead of blurring the cloudy and clear sides of the planet together like o  more

SYDNEY, Australia, May 22 -- The University of New South Wales posted the following news: * * * Backing Australia's priorities: UNSW projects awarded $9.1m in ARC grants The funding will support 16 UNSW-led research partnerships tackling some of the nation's most pressing challenges. UNSW Sydney has been awarded more than $9.1 million from the Australian Research Council (ARC) to support collaborative research projects spanning biosecurity, sustainable farming, disaster resilience and quantu  more

ALBANY, New York, May 22 -- The State University of New York Polytechnic Institute issued the following news: * * * Driving Discovery at SUNY Poly: How Dr. Tabiri Asumadu and GCAMM Are Advancing Biomedical Research At SUNY Polytechnic Institute's (SUNY Poly) Global Center for Advanced Materials and Manufacturing (GCAMM), researchers are exploring how advanced materials, machine learning, and biomedical engineering can solve some of society's most pressing challenges, from safer implants to im  more

WASHINGTON, May 22 (TNSLrpt) -- Argonne National Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory issued 'Hydropower Value Drivers' in July 2023, authored by Todd Levin, Abhishek Somani, Konstantinos Oikonomou, Sohom Datta, Nader Samaan, Siby Plathottam, Zhi Zhou, Matthew Mahalik, Thomas Veselka, Quentin Ploussard, Jonghwan Kwon, Haolin Yang, Allison M. Campbell, Wiwin Hartini, Gregory Stark, and Greg Brinkman; the report carries the numbers ANL-231  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, May 22 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * MIT students study plasma physics beneath Alaska's aurora * For many graduate students, waking up at noon after a 4 a.m. bedtime is a sign of a night well spent. For a group of MIT students, it was simply the start of their workday -timed not to the sun, but to the aurora. Their goal was simple: to study plasma phenomena using the aurora borealis as a natural laboratory. The proce  more

LOGAN, Utah, May 22 -- Utah State University issued the following news: * * * NASA's Atmospheric Waves Experiment Completes On-Orbit Data Collection Utah State University's Space Dynamics Laboratory and USU's Department of Physics have announced NASA's Atmospheric Waves Experiment has completed the on-orbit data collection phase of its mission. The mission will continue with processing and analyzing images collected during the 30-month on-orbit phase. At 17:04 Coordinated Universal Time on M  more

WASHINGTON, May 22 (TNSLrpt) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following In Focus white paper (No. IF12125) by Asian trade and finance specialist Karen M. Sutter. Here are excerpts: * * * Section 301 and China: The U.S.-China Phase One Trade Deal On January 15, 2020, then-President Donald J. Trump signed a trade agreement with then-Vice Premier Liu He of the People's Republic of China (PRC, or China). The agreement sought to resolve some long-standing complaints by U.S. govern  more