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Tipoffs for Santa Fe, New Mexico (Los Alamos) Newsletter for Sunday August 20, 2023 ( 6 items )  

Connecticut Wesleyan University: NEH Awards Grant For Collaborative Study "Engineering Safety Into U.S. Firearms - 1750-2010"
MIDDLETOWN, Connecticut, Aug. 19 (TNSres) -- Connecticut Wesleyan University issued the following news on Aug. 17, 2023: The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded a Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities grant to Jennifer Tucker, Professor of History at Wesleyan University, and Stephen Hargarten, Professor of Emergency Medicine at Medical College of Wisconsin, (MCW) and the senior policy and injury science advisor for the Comprehensive Injury  more

DOE Office of Legacy Management: Keeping Up With Change, One Digital Record at a Time
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 -- The Department of Energy's Office of Legacy Management issued the following news: For months, the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Legacy Management Records, Information, and Knowledge Management group has been wading through several pallets of boxes at the Morgantown Records Storage facility in Morgantown, West Virginia. Managing the LM records and information program, Giancarlo Deguia leads the mission to turn nearly century-old documents into easily accessible, re  more

FCC Media Bureau Issues Letter on Petition of Albuquerque Board of Education
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 -- The Federal Communications Commission's Media Bureau issued the following letter (Docket No. DA 23-721) on Aug. 18, 2023: * * * To: Albuquerque Board of Education c/o Ernest T. Sanchez, Esq., The Sanchez Law Firm PC, 1629 K Street NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20006 (sent by email to: ernestsanchez2348@gmail.com) In re: Gillian Sutton Station DKRSN(AM), Los Alamos, New Mexico Facility ID No. 49128 Application File No. BL-19990611AE FM Translator DK296GI, Los Alamos,   more

Los Alamos National Laboratory: New Fuel Cell Architecture Uses Nanowires to Deliver Durability
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Coaxial nanowire electrode design could benefit heavy-duty trucking * * * A promising, more durable fuel cell design could help transform heavy-duty trucking and other clean fuel cell applications. Consisting of nanowires that are less susceptible to corrosion than other designs, the innovative electrode - the heart of a polymer electrolyte-membrane fuel cell - coul  more

Los Alamos National Laboratory: Novel Hardware Approach Offers New Quantum-Computing Paradigm
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news on Aug. 15, 2023: * * * Using natural quantum interactions allows faster, more robust computation for Grover's algorithm and many others * * * A potentially game-changing theoretical approach to quantum computing hardware avoids much of the problematic complexity found in current quantum computers. The strategy implements an algorithm in natural quantum interactions to pro  more

Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Nuclear Engineer Uses Machine Learning on Weapons Testing Images to Understand Fallout
OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Aug. 16 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release on Aug. 15, 2023: Cody Lloyd became a nuclear engineer because of his interest in the Manhattan Project, the United States' mission to advance nuclear science to end World War II. As a research associate in nuclear forensics at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Lloyd now teaches computers to interpret data from imagery of nuclear weapo  more