WASHINGTON, March 2 -- The House Science, Space and Technology Committee issued the following testimony by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Director Kimberly Budil involving a hearing on Feb. 28, 2023, entitled "The United States, China, and the Fight for Global Leadership: Building a U.S. National Science and Technology Strategy": * * * As the Director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), I thank the Committee for the opportunity to testify and for the Committee's role in a  more

LIVERMORE, California, Feb. 27 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news release: Studying radioactive materials is notoriously difficult due to their radiation-induced toxicity and risk of contamination when handling. The cost of the radioactive isotopes used in research also is a major barrier, with some costing more than $10,000 per microgram. Certain radioisotopes also cannot be produced in sufficient quantity so it is simpl  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board's Resident Inspector in Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following weekly report: TO: Katherine R. Herrera, Acting Technical Director FROM: A. Boussouf and D. Gutowski, Resident Inspectors SUBJECT: Los Alamos Activity Report for the Week Ending February 10, 2023 Plutonium Facility-Infrastructure: Last Friday evening, as part of the on-going Facility Control System upgrade, facility personnel were working on a de-ener  more

SANTA FE, New Mexico, March 2 (TNSres) -- Santa Fe Institute issued the following news on Feb. 28, 2023: For a few days early in the summer of 1989, roughly 80 physicists, computer scientists, mathematicians, and curious others flocked to St. John's College in Santa Fe for what, in hindsight, was a foundational meeting on the physics of information. The workshop was hosted by the Santa Fe Institute, then just five years old, and brought together researchers who shared common convictions about  more

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, Feb. 28 (TNSjou) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release: * * * Simulations suggest this mechanism could provide a tenfold increase in frequency--likely hitting a peak power of 100 trillion watts in XUV * * * A laser pulse surfing in the wake of an electron beam pulse could get upshifted from visible to extreme ultraviolet light, simulations done at the University of Michigan have shown. The approach could enable more efficient generation of high  more

LOS ANGELES, California, March 4 (TNSjou) -- The University of Southern California issued the following news release on March 3, 2023: The largest known genetic study of prostate cancer in men of African descent has revealed nine new genetic variants that increase the risk of prostate cancer in the understudied population, including a genetic risk score linked to aggressive forms of the disease. The meta-analysis, led by researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, included data from 10   more