HOUSTON, Texas, July 13 (TNSres) -- The Baylor College of Medicine issued the following news: A team led by scientists from Baylor College of Medicine, University of Copenhagen, and Centre Nacional d'Analisi Genomica and Centre for Genomic Regulation report discovering fossils of ancient chromosomes in the remains of a woolly mammoth that died 52,000 years ago. The fossils preserve the structure of the ancient chromosomes down to the nanometer scale - billionths of a meter. The discovery is fea  more

ATLANTA, Georgia, July 13 -- The Carter Center issued the following news release: * * * The Center provides state-of-the-art training to fellows on ethical and effective mental health reporting and provides access to mentors and mental health experts * * * The Carter Center has named nine U.S. recipients of the 2024-2025 Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism. The 2024-25 cohort includes award-winning freelancers, staff reporters, and annual awardees of two sponsored fello  more

LONDON, England, July 13 (TNSres) -- The University College London issued the following news: * * * An action-packed programme of free interactive events for the whole family will showcase how UCL engineers are creating the future, in fields such as artificial intelligence, space exploration, robotics and medicine. * * * Launching on UN World Youth Skills Day, the first UCL Festival of Engineering will run from 15-20 July 2024 at sites across several London boroughs, from the main UCL campus  more

WASHINGTON, July 14 -- INDUSTRIAL PHYSICS, New Castle, Delaware, won a federal contract award for $28,060 from the U.S. Air Force, Tinker, Oklahoma, for other measuring and controlling device manufacturing. The document states, about the contract: tensile tester upgrade. Contract Award Number: FA813924P0025; ueiSAM: PS8EWNGVFWW5; NAICS Code: 334519; Product Service Code (PSC): 6640; Solicitation Number: FA813924P0025  more

BRISTOL, England, July 13 (TNSres) -- The University of Bristol issued the following news release on July 12, 2024: An international team of researchers led by the University of Bristol has shed light on Earth's earliest ecosystem, showing that within a few hundred million years of planetary formation, life on Earth was already flourishing. Everything alive today derives from a single common ancestor known affectionately as LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor). LUCA is the hypothesized commo  more

LONDON, England, July 13 -- Nonlinearity, a peer-reviewed journal from the London Mathematical Society that says it features physics, mathematics and engineering through to biological sciences, published research articles on the following topics in its August 2024 edition (Vol. 37, No. 8): Papers: * Dynamics of a two-patch logistic model with diffusion and time delay * Well-posedness of the periodic dispersion-generalized Benjamin-Ono equation in the weakly dispersive regime * Scattering of   more

SANTA MONICA, California, July 13 (TNSres) -- Rand issued the following commentary on July 12, 2024: * * * Rethinking Priorities in Quantum Computing By Nicolas M. Robles The emergence of quantum computing suggests limitless possibilities in chemistry, material science, simulations to predict outcomes, and other areas, but, first, research on quantum algorithms must be prioritized to understand the feasibility, generality, and advantages of quantum computing over classical computing. Even if  more

BUFFALO, New York, July 13 (TNSres) -- The University at Buffalo (State University of New York) issued the following news release: * * * Scientists find that biomolecular condensates' aging are determined by their amino acid sequence * * * Droplets of proteins, tied to an increasing number of cellular processes and human diseases, are known for their liquid-like ability to flow, exchange material and dissolve as needed. Yet these droplets, known as biomolecular condensates, are something a  more

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, July 13 (TNSres) -- The University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences issued the following news: * * * Colin Twomey of the Data Driven Discovery Initiative applied a large language model to create a color-coded, interactive map of publications from current SAS faculty. * * * When Colin Twomey became interim executive director of the Data Driven Discovery Initiative (DDDI) last summer, he says, his background in behavioral ecology meant that he had a good   more