ITHACA, New York, March 11 (TNSRes) -- Cornell University issued the following news: As the COVID-19 pandemic enters its second year, scientists are urgently investigating ways to detect signs of the SARS-CoV-2 virus before an outbreak emerges. Now, supported by a multi-institutional grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) Program, researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine and the University of Miami will study ways to use wastewater as an earl  more

WASHINGTON, March 11 -- The U.S. Department of Energy issued the following news: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced plans to provide $30 million for Quantum Information Science (QIS) research that helps scientists understand how nature works on an extremely small scale--100,000 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair. QIS can help our nation solve some of the most pressing and complex challenges of the 21st century, from climate change to national security. Watch this  more

NEW YORK, March 13 -- The Environmental Defense Fund issued the following fact sheet entitled "Vote YES on S.B. 8": Now more than ever, New Mexicans understand the importance of protecting our health, air, and climate. Antiquated state laws prevent the Environmental Improvement Board and local air quality boards from adopting regulations under Air Quality Control Act and the Hazardous Waste Act that are stronger than the federal regulations. Senate Bill 8 would allow these entities to adopt re  more

PASADENA, California, March 11 -- NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news: Data from the powerful science tool includes sounds of its laser zapping a rock in order to test what it's made of. The first readings from the SuperCam instrument aboard NASA's Perseverance rover have arrived on Earth. SuperCam was developed jointly by the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico and a consortium of French research laboratories under the auspices of the Centre National d'E  more

LIVERMORE, California, March 11 (TNSJou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news release: Researchers have shown how applying pressure to a specific thermoelectric material, TiNiSn, increases its efficiency and leads to a structural phase transition. Thermoelectric materials are materials that can provide energy without the need for mechanical parts by converting heat energy into electrical energy. Thus, research aimed at these materia  more

LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, March 10 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news release on March 8, 2021: Los Alamos National Laboratory is strengthening its presence in Santa Fe with the signing of a 10-year-lease of two adjacent office properties totaling 77,856 square feet of space at the corner of Pacheco Street and St. Michael's Drive. The new location offers meeting rooms, permanent offices, and co-working space for roughly 500 employees in the  more

LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, March 12 (TNSJou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news release on March 11, 2021: A long-time question in astrophysics appears to finally be answered, thanks to a collection of large, high-tech water tanks on a mountainside in Mexico. The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) data shows that the highest-energy cosmic rays come not from supernovae, but from star clusters. "The origin of the highest-energy cosmic rays   more

LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, March 12 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news release: Making sense of vast streams of big data is getting easier, thanks to an artificial-intelligence tool developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory. SmartTensors sifts through millions of millions of bytes of diverse data to find the hidden features that matter, with significant implications from health care to national security, climate modeling to text mining, an  more

LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, March 12 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news release: Improved options for cancer treatment are on the way, thanks to a new system developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory for producing alpha-emitting medical radioisotopes intended to target and overpower diseased tissue while sparing the healthy tissue around it. "The new system is based on a uranium-230/thorium-226 pairing, where the thorium-226 is supplied in  more

LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, March 10 (TNSJou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news release: Analysis of results from an experiment called MiniBooNE at Fermilab has provided yet more evidence that particles called "sterile neutrinos" could indeed exist, supporting results from a 1990s Los Alamos National Laboratory experiment that indicated an update to the Standard Model of physics might be in order. "We believe that this paper vindicates the   more

LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, March 12 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news release: Following the successful landing of NASA's Perseverance rover in Jezero Crater on Mars, the SuperCam operational teams at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the French National Centre for Space Studies (CNES) received the first results showing that SuperCam is in good health and giving its first impressions of the crater. "It's amazing to see SuperCam working so  more

SANTA FE, New Mexico, March 13 -- The New Mexico Department of Economic Development issued the following news release: Build with Robots, an Albuquerque company that is designing and manufacturing smart robots to disinfect and sanitize large areas, such as schools and airports, has been awarded a State of New Mexico economic development grant to expand its workforce and ramp up production, Cabinet Secretary Alicia J. Keyes announced today. Build with Robots has plans to move into new headquart  more

WASHINGTON, March 9 -- Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, is inviting U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm to visit New Mexico to see first-hand the important national security work at Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories and to learn about the state's diverse and robust energy industries. During Secretary Granholm's confirmation hear  more