TALLAHASSEE, Florida, April 23 (TNSJou) -- Florida State University's National High Magnetic Field Laboratory issued the following news release: A recent series of experiments at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (National MagLab) at Los Alamos National Laboratory leveraged some of the nation's highest-powered nondestructive magnets to reveal an exotic new phase of matter at high magnetic fields. The experiments studied the unusual Kondo insulator ytterbium dodecaboride (or YbB12) and  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, April 24 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Berkeley National Laboratory scientist Ahmet Kusoglu. Kusoglu notes that heavy-duty vehicles make up a small fraction of the vehicle fleet in the United States and travel only 10% of the total annual vehicle miles driven. But, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, they contribute 23% of transportation emissions of greenhouse gases and account for almost   more

WASHINGTON, April 24 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board's Resident Inspector in Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following weekly report: MEMORANDUM FOR: Christopher J. Roscetti, Technical Director FROM: J.W. Plaue and D. Gutowski, Resident Inspectors SUBJECT: Los Alamos Activity Report for Week Ending April 2, 2021 Plutonium Facility-Conduct of Operations: On Wednesday, a worker adding water to the vault water baths jammed open the spring-closed fill valve and departed   more

LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, April 23 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news release: Los Alamos National Laboratory employees donated $41,723 to The Food Depot as part of their annual food drive last week, estimated to provide more than 166,000 meals to Northern New Mexicans facing food insecurity. Laboratory employees have also contributed 233 community service hours to the organization in the last 12 months. "In the past year, The Food Depot h  more

LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, April 20 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news release: Ellen Cerreta, the Los Alamos National Laboratory's division leader for Materials Science and Technology, has been named president of The Minerals, Metals, & Materials Society (TMS), a professional society for scientists and engineers in those fields. "TMS aspires to be the professional society where global materials, science, and engineering practitioners come   more

LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, April 23 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news release: A new machine-learning model that generates realistic seismic waveforms will reduce manual labor and improve earthquake detection, according to a study published recently in JGR Solid Earth. "To verify the efficacy of our generative model, we applied it to seismic field data collected in Oklahoma," said Youzuo Lin, a computational scientist in Los Alamos Nationa  more

LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, April 20 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news release: A new machine-learning program accurately identifies COVID-19-related conspiracy theories on social media and models how they evolved over time--a tool that could someday help public health officials combat misinformation online. "A lot of machine-learning studies related to misinformation on social media focus on identifying different kinds of conspiracy theori  more

LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, April 23 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news release: A device from Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers is not quite the Star Trek "tricorder" medical scanner, but it's a step in the right direction. The Portable EnGineered Analytic Sensor with aUtomated Sampling (PEGASUS) is a miniaturized waveguide-based optical sensor that can detect toxins, bacterial signatures, viral signatures, biothreats, white powders  more

LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, April 20 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news release: A recent series of experiments at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (National MagLab) at Los Alamos National Laboratory leveraged some of the nation's highest-powered nondestructive magnets to reveal an exotic new phase of matter at high magnetic fields. The experiments studied the unusual Kondo insulator ytterbium dodecaboride (or YbB12) and were the f  more

SANTA FE, New Mexico, April 21 -- The New Mexico Department of Economic Development issued the following news release: The Job Training Incentive Program (JTIP) board approved $2.8 million in funding to 15 companies to train and upskill a total of 575 employees, Cabinet Secretary Alicia J. Keyes announced. This tranche of companies approved at the April JTIP board meeting included three that have never applied for JTIP funding before, DeeDee's Finest Beef Jerky in Espanola and Pronto Signs and  more