HOUSTON, Texas, April 5 -- Rice University issued the following news release: Rice University graduate student Han Wu conducting an angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy experiment in Rice's Quantum Materials Spectroscopy Laboratory. Photo by Gustavo Raskosky/Rice University.By Jade Boyd Special Rice News Rice University physicists have discovered a phase-changing quantum material -- and a method for finding more like it -- that could potentially be used to create flash like memory capabl  more

LIVERMORE, California, April 4 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news: Raspberry Simpson, a Lawrence Fellow in Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's (LLNL) National Ignition Facility and Photon Science (NIF&PS) Directorate, has been named a National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Kavli Fellow. As a new Kavli fellow, Simpson participated recently in the annual NAS Kavli Frontiers of Science symposium in Irvine, California. NAS   more

WASHINGTON, April 3 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board's Resident Inspector in Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following weekly report on April 2, 2024: * * * TO: Timothy J. Dwyer, Technical Director FROM: D. Gutowski, Resident Inspector SUBJECT: Los Alamos Activity Report for the Week Ending March 15, 2024 Plutonium Facility-Operations: Last Thursday, workers accidentally placed a piece of equipment that had been removed from a laboratory room on the pressure plate fo  more

LAS CRUCES, New Mexico, April 6 -- New Mexico State University issued the following news release: New Mexico State University Cooperative Extension Service will host a Small Acreage Stewardship and Homesteading Skills workshop series from April to October. The free workshops will be held at 6 p.m. Thursdays and 9 a.m. Saturdays at NMSU's Sustainable Agriculture Science Center at Alcalde, 371 Country Road 40, Alcalde, New Mexico. Staff from the Santa Fe, Taos, Los Alamos and Rio Arriba County E  more

AIKEN, South Carolina, April 3 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River Site issued the following news release on April 2, 2024: The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) welcomed Michael Mikolanis as manager of the NNSA Savannah River Field Office today, where he leads a team of approximately 50 federal employees and a contract workforce of over 5,000 people in managing and operating contracts with an annual budget of $2.9 billion. NNSA activities at the Savannah River Site   more