DURHAM, North Carolina, May 30 -- Duke Health issued the following news release: A team of scientists studying the origin of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that has caused the COVID-19 pandemic, found that it was especially well-suited to jump from animals to humans by shapeshifting as it gained the ability to infect human cells. Conducting a genetic analysis, researchers from Duke University, Los Alamos National Laboratory, the University of Texas at El Paso and New York University confirmed that the   more

SANTA FE, New Mexico, May 25 -- Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release on May 23: New Mexico state health officials on Saturday announced 175 additional positive tests for COVID-19. Per the state Department of Health, the most recent cases are: * 16 new cases in Bernalillo County * 1 new case in Chaves County * 1 new case in Curry County * 22 new cases in Dona Ana County * 2 new cases in Lea County * 44 new cases in McKinley County * 2 new cases in R  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, May 27 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: Over the last 10 years, the NETL-led National Risk Assessment Partnership (NRAP) has built industrial confidence and worked to accelerate the commercial deployment of large-scale geologic carbon storage (GCS), which will allow for the continued use of abundant fossil fuels in an environmentally responsible manner by safely and permanently storing carbon dioxide fr  more

RICHLAND, Washington, May 30 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory issued the following news release: Ongoing environmental changes are transforming forests worldwide, resulting in shorter and younger trees with broad impacts on global ecosystems, scientists say. In a global study published in the May 29 issue of Science magazine, researchers led by the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory found that rising temperatures and carbon  more

SANTA FE, New Mexico, May 28 -- Santa Fe Community College issued the following news release: Santa Fe Community College has opened registration for the fall semester. The fall semester begins Monday, August 24. Among the many fall program offerings, SFCC will launch a new massage therapy certificate program, as well as revitalized engineering machining technologies certificate. SFCC President Becky Rowley, Ph.D. said, "As the community suffers from both the health and economic impacts of the   more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, May 26 -- Sen. Edward J. Markey, D-Massachusetts, issued the following news release: After a report in the Washington Post revealed that senior Trump administration officials are actively considering breaking the near three-decade old U.S. moratorium on nuclear test explosions, Senator Edward J. Markey, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a long-time Congressional leader on nuclear arms control and nonproliferation issues, announced he would soon introd  more

WASHINGTON, May 28 -- The Nuclear Threat Initiative issued the following statement by Ernest J. Moniz, co-chair and chief executive officer, and Founder and Co-Chair, Sam Nunn: Reports that the Trump Administration has considered conducting the first U.S. nuclear test explosion in almost 30 years to create "negotiating leverage" with Russia and China to reach a new agreement on limiting nuclear arms are alarming. Although the administration has not spoken publicly on this matter, we feel compel  more

SWINDON, England, May 29 -- The UK Research and Innovation issued the following news release on May 28: The UK has added more than 20 Petaflops of high-performance computing capability to the global effort to address the coronavirus crisis by joining the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium. For perspective, a supercomputer with just eight petaflops can do a million calculations per person in the world per second. Together, the Consortium offers 50 times that. Supercomputers in the U  more