NEW YORK, Feb. 27 -- MetLife, a provider of insurance, annuities and employee benefit programs, issued the following news release: * * * Christian Mumenthaler Named to MetLife's Board of Directors NEW YORK, FEBRUARY 26, 2025 -- MetLife, Inc. (NYSE: MET) today announced that Christian Mumenthaler has been elected to its board of directors, effective May 1, 2025. Mumenthaler led Swiss Re as Group Chief Executive Officer for eight years until June 2024 and was a member of the Group Executive Co  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 (TNSFR) -- The U.S. Department of Commerce has approved duty-free entry for multiple scientific instruments imported by universities across the country, citing the lack of equivalent alternatives manufactured domestically. The decision, made under Section 6(c) of the Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Materials Importation Act of 1966, applies to advanced research equipment intended for use in high-pressure material studies, quantum mechanics, isotope analysis, and astro  more

ST. PETERSBURG, Florida, Feb. 27 -- Eckerd College issued the following news: * * * Eckerd College offers new London study abroad opportunity in August By Madison DeVore '25 Going elbow to elbow with people in the London marketplace and gaining a sense of the business community are now being filtered into one Eckerd College study abroad course in August. Discover England: History, Business and Culture will be led by Bob Jozkowski, assistant professor of finance within the International Busi  more

ITHACA, New York, Feb. 26 -- Cornell University posted the following news: * * * From slime molds to corporations, traveling networks chart a new path You can learn a lot from a little slime mold. For Nate Cira, assistant professor of biomedical engineering in Cornell Engineering, the tiny eukaryotic organism provided inspiration for modeling "traveling networks" - connected systems that move by rearranging their structure. Understanding these networks could help explain the structures an  more

TALLAHASSEE, Florida, Feb. 27 -- Florida State University issued the following news: * * * FSU chemist elected to prestigious society for advancing magnetic resonance, supporting next generation of scientists By: McKenzie Harris A Florida State University faculty member has been elected to a prestigious scientific organization for his innovation in magnetic resonance, a scientific phenomenon known to many for its role in enabling magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI -- the non-invasive proced  more

WEST LAFAYETTE, Indiana, Feb. 27 -- Purdue University issued the following news release: * * * Materials developed at Purdue University incorporated into new Microsoft Quantum qubit platform WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Microsoft Quantum published an article in Nature on Feb. 19 detailing recent advances in the measurement of quantum devices that will be needed to realize a topological quantum computer. Among the authors are Microsoft scientists and engineers who conduct research at Microsoft Quan  more

PASADENA, California, Feb. 26 -- The California Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * Multiplexing Entanglement in a Quantum Network Laying the groundwork for quantum communication systems of the future, engineers at Caltech have demonstrated the successful operation of a quantum network of two nodes, each containing multiple quantum bits, or qubits--the fundamental information-storing building blocks of quantum computers. To achieve this, the researchers developed a new   more

HOUSTON, Texas, Feb. 26 -- Rice University posted the following news release: * * * New method developed to dramatically enhance bioelectronic sensors Rice University graduate student Ravindra Saxena shows a lithographically patterned OECT device used for measurement with enzymatic and microbial fuel cells. In a breakthrough that could transform bioelectronic sensing, an interdisciplinary team of researchers at Rice University has developed a new method to dramatically enhance the sensitivi  more

SWINDON, England, Feb. 26 [Category: Business] (TNSres) -- The UK Research and Innovation posted the following news: * * * PS10 million investment in new space facilities in Scotland 26 February 2025 New lab spaces will be constructed at the UK Astronomy Technology Centre (UK ATC) to facilitate a major European Space Agency (ESA) mission. The laboratory, funded by the UK government's investments in ESA, will be used to assemble the optical benches for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenn  more

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, Feb. 26 -- Pennsylvania State University posted the following news: * * * Q&A: Will Microsoft's quantum 'breakthrough' revolutionize computing? UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- More than 30 years ago, Penn State physicist Jainendra Jain pioneered the theory of a new state of matter called the fractional quantum Hall effect, whose discoverers were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1998. Jain described it as a liquid of certain strange particles that he called composit  more

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Feb. 27 -- Texas A&M University's College of Engineering issued the following news: * * * AI for Aggieland The Texas A&M University System has purchased an AI supercomputer, which will enable increased speed and complexity in research. By Amanda Norvelle An AI supercomputer is coming to campus. The Texas A&M University System has purchased multiple NVIDIA DGX SuperPODs for $45 million. This initial investment will triple the university's supercomputing capacity, powe  more

PASADENA, California, Feb. 26 -- The California Institute of Technology posted the following news: * * * Two Caltech Professors Lead Missions About to Launch Back-to-Back into Space This month will see two Caltech-led NASA missions lift off into space, one right after the other. NASA's Lunar Trailblazer is slated to launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida no earlier than February 26, while NASA's SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and  more

LA JOLLA, California, Feb. 27 -- The University of California San Diego campus issued the following news: * * * Two UC San Diego Faculty Elected to National Academy of Inventors Massimiliano di Ventra and Lingyan Shi become senior members of the academy Two researchers from the University of California San Diego have been elected senior members of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) in recognition of their innovative work. Professor of Physics Massimiliano di Ventra and Associate Profes  more

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Oregon. *** Systems and Methods to Load a Tile Register Pair ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, Feb. 25 -- INTEL CORPORATION, Santa Clara, California has been assigned a patent (No. US 12236242 B2, initially filed March 20, 2023) developed by eleven inventors Raanan Sade, Kibutz Sarid, Israel; Simon Rubanovich, Haifa, Israel; Amit Gradstein, Binyamina, Israel; Zeev Sperber, Zichron Yackov, Israel; Alexander Heinecke, Sa  more

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Pennsylvania. *** Single-Use Disposable Set Connector ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, Feb. 25 -- BAYER HEALTHCARE LLC, Whippany, New Jersey has been assigned a patent (No. US 12233230 B2, initially filed Jan. 27, 2020) developed by eight inventors Richard Sokolov, Earlwood, Australia; Alison Ruth Von Moger, Carnegie, Australia; Benjamin James Cullen, Beecroft, Australia; Ernesto Hueso Monis, Glen Huntly, Australia; K  more

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama, Feb. 27 -- The University of Alabama issued the following news: * * * UAH breakthrough enables the measurement of local dark matter density using direct acceleration measurements for the first time Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, the Pei-Ling Chan Endowed Chair in the College of Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), and her team have pioneered the use of gravitational acceleration measurements of binary pulsars to help illuminate just how much dark matter the  more

MONTREAL, Quebec, Feb. 26 -- The University of Montreal issued the following news release on Feb. 25, 2025: * * * Today's forecast: partially cloudy skies on an "ultra-hot Neptune" Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers led by doctoral student Louis-Philippe Coulombe investigate the extreme weather patterns and atmospheric properties of LTT 9779 b. The exotic atmosphere of LTT 9779 b, a rare "ultra-hot Neptune," is coming to light thanks to observations via the James Webb Space Te  more

ARLINGTON, Texas, Feb. 27 -- The University of Texas Arlington campus issued the following news release: * * * Program's expansion boosts student research opportunities UTA undergraduate research program helps students present their work at academic conferences Aerospace engineering senior Philip Wilson attended an American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) conference. Rohit Raut, a senior physics major, presented his work at a nuclear research symposium, and senior biology ma  more

LOS ANGELES, California, Feb. 27 -- The University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering issued the following news: * * * USC at AAAI-25 USC researchers present their latest research at the 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-25), one of the world's leading artificial intelligence conferences This week, researchers from USC Viterbi--including the Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science, the Information Sciences Institute, the Ming Hsieh Department o  more

ROCK HILL, South Carolina, Feb. 27 -- Winthrop University issued the following news: * * * Princeton Professor Headlines Hornsby Lecture and Model UN Address HIGHLIGHTS * The title for the 6 p.m. lecture in Tillman Auditorium is "The Fall of the Machines: Beyond the Hype: Real-World Prospects and Public Skepticism of AI." * Spirling's talk will serve as this year's Hornsby Lecture and as the keynote address during the Winthrop Model United Nations program. ROCK HILL, SOUTH CAROLINA - Princ  more

BOWLING GREEN, Kentucky, Feb. 27 -- Western Kentucky University issued the following news: * * * WKU Physics & Astronomy awarded NASA KY EPSCor Research Grant A team of four members of Western Kentucky University's Department of Physics & Astronomy faculty, including Dr. Gordon Emslie, Dr. Ali Er, Dr. Ivan Novikov, and Dr. Gongbo Liang, were awarded a "Solar Activity and Space Weather" NASA KY EPSCoR Research Award of $900,000 for their work on "Hotter Than the Sun, More Powerful Than a Nucle  more