BOZEMAN, Montana, Sept. 22 (TNSOps) -- Montana State University issued the following news release: Thanks to the Montana Space Grant Consortium, Montana State University students can take part in NASA internships without leaving the state, and this summer, senior Sam Riebling became the first technology education student to join the cohort. Riebling, originally from Colorado, hadn't intended to pursue the BOREALIS internship, but after taking courses from Montana Space Grant Consortium flight   more

PASADENA, California, Sept. 24 -- NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news: Scientists tap into an array of imagers aboard the six-wheeled explorer to get a big picture of the Red Planet. NASA's Perseverance rover has been exploring Jezero Crater for more than 217 Earth days (211 Martian days, or sols), and the dusty rocks there are beginning to tell their story - about a volatile young Mars flowing with lava and water. That story, stretching billions of years into the past,  more

LIVERMORE, California, Sept. 21 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news release: High explosive (HE) research, development, test and evaluation work at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) continues to meet the needs of the nation on behalf of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). One specific effort is the HE pressing capability, which is a critical component of the LLNL's national security mission. The scope  more

LIVERMORE, California, Sept. 25 (TNSJou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news release: Imagine having a balloon between both hands and trying to squeeze it with the same force on all sides so that it uniformly shrinks down. However, if you push on one side harder than the other the balloon won't compress uniformly and will, in fact, move away from the hand that is pushing harder. The same thing happens when the drive pushing on an   more

LIVERMORE, California, Sept. 22 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news release: The Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration's (DOE/NNSA's) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) announced the awarding of a subcontract to Dell Technologies for additional supercomputing systems to support NNSA's nuclear deterrent mission. In partnership with Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and Sandia National Labora  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 -- 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 September 3, 2021 Area G: On Wednesday, Environmental Management Field Office and Headquarters personnel conditionally approved four Justifications for Continued Operations including the   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) awarded $7 million for workforce development and training supporting plutonium pit production to minority-serving educational institutions in New Mexico and South Carolina. NNSA provided $3.5 million for partnerships in each state to be distributed among selected institutions, inclu  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration issued the following news release: The second Commodity Technology Systems contract (CTS-2) will provide more than 40 petaFLOPs of expanded computing capacity delivered to the NNSA Laboratories. The Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration's (DOE/NNSA's) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) announced the awarding of a subcontract to Dell Technologies for additional s  more

LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, Sept. 22 -- The National Park Service Bandelier National Monument issued the following news release on Sept. 21, 2021: Often just known as NPLD, National Public Lands Day was established in 1994 and is traditionally known as the nation's largest single-day volunteer effort for public lands. NPLD celebrates the connection between people and green space in their community, inspires environmental stewardship, and encourages use of open space for education, recreation, and h  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 24 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: A scientist at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory is being honored for his scientific achievements with a Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Conference, or HENAAC, award given by Great Minds in STEM, a nonprofit organization that focuses on STEM education awareness programs in underserved communities. Diego Del-Castillo-Negrete, a d  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 -- The White House issued the following news release on Sept. 22, 2021: President Biden announced 30 of America's most distinguished leaders in science and technology as members of his President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). A direct descendant of the scientific advisory committee established by President Eisenhower in 1957 in the weeks after the launch of Sputnik, PCAST is the sole body of external advisors charged with making science, technology  more