WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 -- The Center for American Progress issued the following report entitled "Fighting Coronavirus Misinformation and Disinformation". Here are excerpts of the report issued on Aug. 18 and co-authored by Erin Simpson, associate director of technology policy, and Adam Conner, vice president for technology policy: Overview Social media platforms must fundamentally rethink their products to reduce the health risks posed by disinformation and misinformation about the coronavirus cr  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 -- The Center for American Progress issued the following report on entitled "Fighting Coronavirus Misinformation and Disinformation". Here are excerpts of the report issued on Aug. 18 and co-authored by Erin Simpson, associate director of technology policy, and Adam Conner, vice president for technology policy: Overview Social media platforms must fundamentally rethink their products to reduce the health risks posed by disinformation and misinformation about the coronavirus  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news release: Deniece Korzekwa, of Los Alamos National Laboratory's Sigma Division, has been named Senior Fellow for outstanding leadership and seminal contributions to nuclear weapons manufacturing science, global security initiatives and international scientific exchanges involving plutonium and uranium. Korzekwa is a world recognized expert in actinide casting with significant technica  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory issued the following news release on Aug. 17: A new Physics Frontier Center at UC Berkeley, supported by the National Science Foundation, expands the reach and depth of existing capabilities on campus and at neighboring Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) in modeling one of the most violent events in the universe: the merger of neutron stars and its explosive aftermath. The Network for  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news release: Los Alamos National Laboratory computer scientists have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) system that may be able to identify malicious codes that hijack supercomputers to mine for cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin and Monero. "Based on recent computer break-ins in Europe and elsewhere, this type of software watchdog will soon be crucial to prevent cryptocurrency min  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news release: Los Alamos National Laboratory and contractor Performance Maintenance, Inc. are the winners of three U.S. Department of Energy Small Business Awards for FY 2019. The award winners include: * HUB Zone Small Business of the Year: Performance Maintenance, Inc., Espanola, NM * Facility Management Contractor Small Business Achievement of the Year: Triad National Security * La  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news release on Aug. 18: Combing through historical seismic data, researchers using a machine learning model have unearthed distinct statistical features marking the formative stage of slow-slip ruptures in the earth's crust months before tremor or GPS data detected a slip in the tectonic plates. Given the similarity between slow-slip events and classic earthquakes, these distinct signatur  more

SANTA FE, New Mexico, Aug. 20 -- The New Mexico Department of Economic Development issued the following news release on Aug. 19: The Job Training Incentive Program (JTIP) Board approved $2 million in support of 457 new jobs in New Mexico during its August 2020 meeting, Economic Development Department Cabinet Secretary Alicia J. Keyes announced today. Funds supported new jobs in Albuquerque, Truth or Consequences, Los Alamos, Corrales, and Santa Fe with hourly wages ranging from $13 to $65, or   more

IRVINE, California, Aug. 22 -- The University of California Irvine campus issued the following news release on Aug. 21: Physical evidence found in caves in Laos helps tell a story about a connection between the end of the Green Sahara - when once heavily vegetated Northern Africa became a hyper-arid landscape - and a previously unknown megadrought that crippled Southeast Asia 4,000 to 5,000 years ago. In a paper published today in Nature Communications, scientists at the University of Californ  more

LARAMIE, Wyoming, Aug. 20 -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: Work toward a commercial-scale geological carbon dioxide storage complex near Gillette will move to the next stage next week with a geophysical survey covering about nine square miles of rural land around the Dry Fork Station power plant. Seismic source "thumper" trucks will begin covering the area Monday, Aug. 24, generating vibrations using a metal plate that is pressed to the ground and shaken side to   more