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Tipoffs for Santa Fe, New Mexico (Los Alamos) Newsletter for Sunday November 14, 2021 ( 3 items )  

National Nuclear Security Administration: U.S. Nuclear Security Agency Expands Minority Serving Institution Partnership Program in Effort to Strengthen Its Workforce
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration issued the following news release: The Minority Serving Institution Partnership Program (MSIPP) of the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) has awarded nine new grants totaling $38.8 million to build more partnerships with Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs), leverage untapped students, and expand its talent pipeline. The program now has a total of 24 acti  more

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory: Researchers Recreate Deep-Earth Conditions to See How Iron Copes With Extreme Stress
MENLO PARK, California, Nov. 12 (TNSJou) -- The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory issued the following news release: Far below you lies a sphere of solid iron and nickel about as wide as the broadest part of Texas: the Earth's inner core. The metal at the inner core is under pressure about 360 million times higher than we experience in our everyday lives and temperatures approximately as hot as the Sun's surface. Earth's planetary core is thankfully intact. But in space, similar cores can c  more

Tennessee Technological University Physics Students Involved in Published Research on Neutron Life
COOKEVILLE, Tennessee, Nov. 9 (TNSJou) -- Tennessee Technological University issued the following news release: A group of Tennessee Tech students and their professor are part of a collaboration of institutions researching how the universe works by focusing on the lifetime of one of its smallest particles. This group's most recent research on the lifetime of a free neutron has been published in the journal Physical Review Letters. The opportunity to be a part of cutting edge research is a hall  more