ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, March 17 -- Rep. Melanie Stansbury, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (N.M.) and U.S. Representative Melanie Stansbury (N.M.-01) brought together Tribal and local leaders to showcase the growing momentum behind community-driven legislation to protect the Buffalo Tract. During the event, Senator Heinrich and Representative Stansbury called on the U.S. Department of Interior to withdraw the area from mineral development. An admi  more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, March 17 -- Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representative Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.) brought together Tribal and local leaders to showcase the growing momentum behind community-driven legislation to protect the Buffalo Tract. During the event, Senator Heinrich and Representative Stansbury called on the U.S. Department of Interior to withdraw the area from mineral development. An admin  more

WASHINGTON, March 21 -- The House Science, Space and Technology Committee issued the following testimony by Sean Jones, assistant director for the Math and Physical Sciences Directorate at the National Science Foundation, involving a hearing on March 8, 2023, entitled "Innovation Through Collaboration: The Department of Energy's Role in the U.S. Research Ecosystem": * * * Thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today to discuss the National Science Foundation's (NSF) partnerships wi  more

HOLLOMAN AFB, New Mexico, March 22 -- The U.S. Air Force Arnold Air Force Base issued the following news: By Jill Pickett, Arnold Engineering Development Complex Public Affairs Rocket sled testing is critical to bridging the gap between the laboratory and full-scale flight tests for weapon systems under development. Keeping those sleds moving is the focus of a joint effort within the Department of Defense, which operates three sled track organizations, one each at China Lake, California; Egli  more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, March 21 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release: The New Mexico Regional Science Bowl, sponsored by Sandia National Laboratories, brought together 14 high school teams from across the state as part of the Department of Energy's National Science Bowl competition. Los Alamos High School's "Team 1" emerged victorious. This comes just weeks after Los Alamos Middle School's "Team 2" won during the middle school comp  more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, March 22 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release: Pluma, LLC, has been nominated by Sandia National Laboratories as the Department of Energy's Protege of the Year as part of its Mentor-Protege Program. Pluma, a general construction business started in Albuquerque, is one of five businesses Sandia accepted into the program with the mission of helping them grow with the labs' guidance, knowledge, leadership and res  more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, March 21 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release: In a major breakthrough in the fields of nanophotonics and ultrafast optics, a Sandia National Laboratories research team has demonstrated the ability to dynamically steer light pulses from conventional, so-called incoherent light sources. This ability to control light using a semiconductor device could allow low-power, relatively inexpensive sources lik  more