FORT COLLINS, Colorado, Aug. 6 (TNSGra) -- Colorado State University issued the following news release: Scientists have long studied properties of algae in hopes that it could someday act as a substitute for petroleum-derived vehicle and jet fuels and contribute to global food production with its significant protein component. Now a Colorado State University team will develop ways to grow algae crops faster. The U.S. Department of Energy selected CSU engineers and biologists for a $3.2 millio  more

LIVERMORE, California, Aug. 7 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news release: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) hosted an in-person orientation meeting recently for members of the National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) Test Site Verification Team (TSVT). TSVT is sponsored by NNSA's Office of Nuclear Verification (ONV) Nuclear Compliance Verification (NCV) Program. The TSVT is led by Kim Knight from LLNL and Emi  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 -- 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: D. Gutowski, Resident Inspector SUBJECT: Los Alamos Activity Report for Week Ending July 16, 2021 Emergency Management: On Monday, a 4.2 magnitude earthquake and several smaller events occurred approximately 50 km northwest of the laboratory. Onsite personnel felt the even  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory issued the following news release: Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI) and Community College Internships (CCI) students at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and other national laboratories are taking part in a crucial program that will shape their future careers and give them skills that will help them solve the critical scientific challenges t  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 (TNSCapV) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory issued the following news release on Aug. 2, 2021: All seventeen U.S. national laboratories and many prominent publishers, journals, and other organizations in scientific publishing announced today the beginning of a partnership to support name change requests from researchers on past published papers. The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) is among the laboratories partnering with publis  more

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Aug. 5 (TNSRes) -- Texas A&M University's College of Engineering issued the following news: Dr. Dinakar Sagapuram from the Wm Michael Barnes '64 Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Texas A&M University, and Dr. Osman El-Atwani and Dr. Yongqiang Wang from the Materials Science at Radiation and Dynamics Extremes Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), are using new metal manufacturing techniques to create stronger materials that have a higher capaci  more