ARGONNE, Illinois, July 29 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory issued the following news release: The final Office of Science Summer Internship Virtual Lecture Series seminar gave students across the many national laboratories a front-row seat to the groundbreaking work underway in response to COVID-19. As a final milestone in their summer internships, students participating in the 2020 Office of Science Summer Internship Virtual Lecture Series attended a final semin  more

LIVERMORE, California, July 28 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news release: The search for the next director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is underway, Charlene Zettel, University of California (UC) regent and chair of Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (LLNS) announced. LLNS operates the Laboratory for the Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA). As agreed to by the LLNS   more

LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, July 28 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news release: When NASA's Perseverance rover launches from Florida on its way to Mars, it will carry aboard what is likely the most versatile instrument ever made to better understand the Red Planet's past habitability. "SuperCam is often referred to as the 'Swiss Army Knife' of instruments because it's a multipurpose tool in a small package," said Roger Wiens, the lead scient  more

LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, July 28 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news release: Ning Xu of the Actinide Analytical Chemistry group at Los Alamos has been selected as a member of the 2020 class of Fellows of the American Chemical Society (ACS). Xu is being recognized for her sustained contributions to actinide analytical chemistry in support of national nuclear defense, technical nuclear forensics, nuclear material safeguards and deep space ex  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

SANTA FE, New Mexico, Aug. 1 -- Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Friday announced the membership of the Governor's Council for Racial Justice, an advisory group tasked with counseling the administration and monitoring state institutions, holding them accountable for taking action to end systemic racism and ensure that all persons receive fair and equal treatment and opportunities. The governor announced her intent to c  more

HOLLAND, Michigan, July 29 -- Hope College issued the following news release: The Hope College Board of Trustees has appointed four new members. Newly elected are the Rev. Eddy Aleman of Grand Rapids; Dr. Llena Chavis of Holland; the Rev. Michael Pitsenberger of Rock Valley, Iowa; and Bishop Eugene Taylor Sutton of Baltimore, Maryland. Aleman, Pitsenberger and Sutton have been elected to three-year terms, while Chavis is serving a four-year term as a faculty representative. The terms became ef  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, July 30 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: After its long journey to Mars beginning this summer, NASA's Perseverance rover will be powered across the planet's surface in part by plutonium produced at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. "Mars 2020 will be the first NASA mission that uses ORNL-produced plutonium-238," said Alan Icenhour, associate laboratory director for nuclear science a  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 -- Rep. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: U.S. House Assistant Speaker Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) celebrated the passage of the "Minibus II" appropriations package in the House of Representatives. The package includes the following Fiscal Year 2021 appropriations bills: Defense; Commerce-Justice-Science; Energy and Water Development; Financial Services and General Government; Labor-HHS-Education, and Transportation-HUD. Assistant Speaker Lujan secur  more

LA JOLLA, California, July 30 -- The University of California San Diego campus issued the following news: Nanoengineers at UC San Diego developed a new method to fabricate perovskites as single-crystal thin films, which are more efficient for use in solar cells and optical devices than the current state-of-the-art polycrystalline forms of the material. Their fabrication method--which uses standard semiconductor fabrication processes--results in flexible single-crystal perovskite films with con  more

HONOLULU, Hawaii, July 31 -- The University of Hawaii issued the following news release: Perseverance, the most sophisticated rover NASA has ever sent to Mars, will launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. on July 30. Since being selected for the NASA instrument teams in 2014, three University of Hawai'i at Manoa scientists have been hard at work to develop, test and refine scientific instruments to search for clues about past life on Mars. Built at NASA's Jet Propulsion  more

LAFAYETTE, Louisiana, July 29 -- The University of Louisiana's Lafayette Campus issued the following news story: Research emerging from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette's Tuscaloosa Marine Shale Laboratory is earning accolades. A paper written and presented by Cristina Ruse and Jamal Ahmadov won second place in the Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts' International Student Paper Competition held in June. Ruse and Ahmadov are pursuing graduate degrees in petroleum engineeri  more