WAYNE, New Jersey, Sept. 26 -- William Paterson University issued the following news release: Artificial intelligence: Is it the beginning or the end? This is the question that will be discussed in this year's "Contexts" conference, hosted annually by William Paterson University's College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. The day-long, multidisciplinary conference, now in its 12th year, takes place Thursday, October 26 in the University Commons Ballrooms. The schedule is as follows: 9  more

ATHENS, West Virginia, Sept. 27 -- Concord University issued the following news release: Concord University has been accepted as an institutional member of the COHERENT Collaboration at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Dr. Tulasi Subedi, a physicist in Concord's Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, will work with data from the Spallation Neutron Source which is funded from the U.S. Department of Energy. Concord University is one of only three undergraduate institutions in the intern  more

CINCINNATI, Ohio, Sept. 29 -- The Department of Energy's Office of Environmental Management issued the following news release on Sept. 28, 2023: Today, the Department of Energy (DOE) awarded nearly $54 million in non-competitive financial assistance grants and cooperative agreements. The grants and agreements cover a broad range of key activities supporting the Office of Environmental Management (EM) cleanup program, from emergency response and regulatory oversight to lessons learned and stakeh  more

LEIPZIG, Germany, Sept. 29 -- The Albuquerque Regional Economic Alliance issued the following news on Sept. 28, 2023: Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, Mayor Tim Keller, and mtex Antenna Technology USA announced today that the antenna and telescope technology company will open a facility in Albuquerque to fulfill obligations to North American customers, including the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, MA. Wiesbaden-based mtex host  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 27 -- Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) welcomed up to $24 million from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) -- funded through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law -- to advance the development of long-duration energy storage technologies, improve grid resiliency, lower costs, and accelerate the transition to a clean energy future. ReJoule, a second-life battery diagnostics and reuse company located in Sant  more

BASEL, Switzerland, Sept. 26 -- Minerals, an open access journal that says it covers mineralogy, economic mineral resources, mineral exploration, innovative mining techniques and advances in mineral processing, published research articles on the following topics in its September 2023 edition (Vol. 13, Issue 9): * A Green Cyclic Leaching Process for Low-Grade Pyrolusite via a Recyclable Fe(II) Reductant * A Review of the Mineralogy, Petrography, and Geochemistry of Serpentinite from Calabria Re  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards issued the following letter report: * * * To: Chair Christopher T. Hanson, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001 SUBJECT: REVIEW OF REGULATORY GUIDE 1.183, REVISION 1, "ALTERNATIVE RADIOLOGICAL SOURCE TERMS FOR EVALUATING DESIGN BASIS ACCIDENTS AT NUCLEAR POWER REACTORS" Dear Chair Hanson: During the 708th meeting of the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS)  more

STILLWATER, Oklahoma, Sept. 27 (TNSres) -- Oklahoma State University issued the following news: * * * Probe returns to Earth with samples from Bennu Asteroid * * * As NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft completed its 1.2-billion-mile journey home and sent its sample return capsule back to Earth, a team of Oklahoma State University researchers was waiting and listening. The group, led by Drs. Jamey Jacob and Brian Elbing, is studying and classifying different sources of infrasound -- which are soun  more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Sept. 26 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release: In the high desert of Nevada, Elizabeth Silber watched NASA's Sample Return Capsule from OSIRIS-REx descend into Earth's atmosphere on Sunday, but unlike most scientists, she wasn't there for the asteroid rocks. Silber, a physicist at Sandia National Laboratories, is working with researchers from Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories, the Defense T  more