FULLERTON, California, March 18 (TNSjou) -- California State University Fullerton campus issued the following news release: * * * Faculty-Student Research Published in Nature Reviews Physics * * * A new study by chemistry graduate student Kody Acosta and his research mentor Allyson Fry-Petit describes how to use neutron spectrometers at national laboratories in the United States and United Kingdom to better understand and measure vibrations of solids. "By studying vibrations of solids, we c  more

WASHINGTON, March 14 -- 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 24, 2023 Staff Activity: D. Brown, M. Dunlevy, and P. Migliorini were on site to start their review of the enhanced chemical compatibility evaluation process for tra  more

WASHINGTON, March 17 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following agency statement on March 16, 2023: * * * Without plants, we'd have no air to breathe or food to eat, yet plant science lingers in the shadowy wings while other fields take center stage. With the goal of shining the spotlight on plants, a new study presents the field's top 100 most pressing questions for research to address the greatest challenges facing humanity. "The study hi  more

WASHINGTON, March 18 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news on March 17, 2023: In an effort to mitigate accidental detonations of stored explosives, a multidisciplinary team of Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists developed a way to create "switchable" high explosives that won't detonate unless activated by being filled with an inert fluid, such as water. Their findings were published today in Physical Review Letters. "A system  more

WASHINGTON, March 18 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: Research using a quantum computer as the physical platform for quantum experiments has found a way to design and characterize tailor-made magnetic objects using quantum bits, or qubits. That opens up a new approach to develop new materials and robust quantum computing. "With the help of a quantum annealer, we demonstrated a new way to pattern magnetic states," said Alejand  more

EAST LANSING, Michigan, March 17 (TNSres) -- Michigan State University issued the following news: * * * With a new Department of Energy computing grant, an MSU-led research team will study galaxies like never before * * * Michigan State University is leading pioneering research on the world's fastest supercomputer, thanks to a new grant from the U.S. Department of Energy. The DOE has awarded an MSU-led team 1.3 million node hours of computation time on the Frontier supercomputer (Frontier i  more

SANTA FE, New Mexico, March 16 -- The New Mexico Department of Economic Development issued the following news release: The Job Training Incentive Program (JTIP), an initiative of the New Mexico Economic Development Department (EDD), has approved funding in March 2023 for up to 145 trainees with a total potential award of over $1.5 million, announced EDD Cabinet Secretary Alicia J. Keyes. Allocated JTIP funds are paid after all employee training is complete. The program encourages companies to   more

WASHINGTON, March 17 -- NASA issued the following news release: NASA is awarding more than $3.8 million to 21 museums, science centers, and other informal education institutions for projects designed to bring the excitement of space science to communities across the nation and broaden student participation in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). Projects were selected for NASA's Teams Engaging Affiliated Museums and Informal Institutions (TEAM II) program and TEAM II Commu  more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, March 14 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release: Nuclear reactions are fast. Really fast. Faster than billionths of a second. Your best shot at catching one is with a high-speed X-ray camera that can only be obtained from the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories. But these cameras could soon become more widely available. Sandia has partnered with Albuquerque-based startup Advanced hCMOS Systems (  more

WASHINGTON, March 14 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: Seagate Technology Holdings plc (NASDAQ: STX) and Seagate Federal, Inc. (dba. Seagate Government Solutions) and Los Alamos National Laboratory signed a cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) to jointly explore developing efficient computing near storage, especially in settings where erasure encoding is needed for data protection. This overarching goal is to improve t  more