WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory issued the following news release on Aug. 7, 2023: The U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory hosted an event today to kick off the U.S. Quantum Information Science School, one of the largest federally sponsored education programs to help build a quantum-ready workforce. "The Quantum Information Science School is a unique program that will extend the amazing opportun  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 -- The House Science, Space and Technology Subcommittee on Energy issued the following testimony by Alexandra Hakala, a senior research physical scientist and acting senior fellow for geologic and environmental systems of the National Energy Technology Laboratory at the U.S. Department of Energy, involving a hearing on July 26, 2023, entitled "Unearthing Innovation: The Future of Subsurface Science and Technology in the United States": * * * Chairman Williams, Ranking Member  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board's Resident Inspector in Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following weekly report: TO: Timothy J. Dwyer, Acting Technical Director FROM: A. Boussouf and D. Gutowski, Resident Inspectors SUBJECT: Los Alamos Activity Report for the Week Ending July 21, 2023 Staff Activity: D. Brown was on site to observe personnel from the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant perform a generator site technical review on transuranic waste practic  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: Los Alamos National Laboratory and SK hynix will demonstrate recent enhancements to the ordered Key Value Store Computational Storage Device (KV-CSD) at the 2023 Flash Memory Summit. The project is a follow-on of a collaboration between Los Alamos' High Performance Computing division and SK hynix that debuted at the 2022 Flash Memory Summit. The secondary index functionality added to   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news on Aug. 9, 2023: * * * The Curiosity rover finds evidence of high frequency wet-dry cycling in the Gale Crater * * * New observations of mud cracks made by the Curiosity rover show that high-frequency, wet-dry cycling occurred in early Martian surface environments, indicating that the red planet may have once seen seasonal weather patterns or even flash floods. The research was pub  more

LAS CRUCES, New Mexico, Aug. 12 -- New Mexico State University issued the following news: Cory Windorff, assistant professor of inorganic chemistry at New Mexico State University, is one of 93 early career scientists across the country selected to receive a combined total of $135 million in research funding from the U.S. Department of Energy for a wide range of topics. The 2023 Early Career Research Program awardees represent 47 universities and 12 DOE national laboratories. Windorff's grant i  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory issued the following web feature: * * * The RAPTER project aims to prepare against future pandemics * * * By Sarah Wong From tackling homework challenges to drafting emails, people are discovering a vast array of applications for natural language processing tools like generative artificial intelligence (AI) engines. Now, researchers from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and Harv  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 -- The White House issued the following news release on Aug. 8, 2023: Today, President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. made additional disaster assistance available to the State of New Mexico by authorizing an increase in the level of Federal funding for Public Assistance projects undertaken in the New Mexico as a result of wildfires, straight-line winds, flooding, mudflows, and debris flows during the period of April 5 to July 23, 2022. Under the President's order today, Federal fund  more