DALLAS, Texas, July 30 -- The Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas, a district bank in the Federal Home Loan Bank System, issued the following news release: Southwest Capital Bank, Community 1st Bank Las Vegas (Community 1st Bank) and the Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas (FHLB Dallas) have provided $33,000 in Partnership Grant Program (PGP) funds to help a nonprofit foundation in Las Vegas, New Mexico, market the city to tourists. PGP grants help qualified nonprofit organizations fund a variety of  more

LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, July 30 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news release: A multi-institution team has used positron beams to probe the nature of radiation effects, providing new insight into how damage is produced in iron films. This exploration can improve the safety of materials used in nuclear reactors and other radiation environments. "Positrons do not damage the material and they can reveal defects involving single atoms at very   more

LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, July 30 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news release: Using a quantum computer to simulate time travel, researchers have demonstrated that, in the quantum realm, there is no "butterfly effect." In the research, information--qubits, or quantum bits--"time travel" into the simulated past. One of them is then strongly damaged, like stepping on a butterfly, metaphorically speaking. Surprisingly, when all qubits return to  more

LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, July 30 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news release: Could Jezero Crater hold the keys to unlocking an ancient and hidden past when life might have existed on the Martian surface? As NASA's Perseverance rover takes off for its mission to Mars--scheduled to launch tomorrow--scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory take you on board the spacecraft to learn more about some of its incredible exploratory technology  more

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan, July 30 -- The U.S. Embassy in Turkmenistan issued the following news release: On July 25 the cities of Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, and Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the United States celebrated 30 years of mutually beneficial partnership as Sister Cities. On July 25, 1990, Mayor Louis Saavedra of Albuquerque and Mayor Amangeldi Bayramov of Ashgabat signed the Sister Cities Protocol. Since then, the people of the two cities have participated in many exchanges to promote infor  more