TALLAHASSEE, Florida, Sept. 13 (TNSjou) -- Florida State University issued the following news: A study by a Florida State University researcher finds that temperatures in forest canopies are higher than previous estimates, threatening forests' vital role in mitigating global warming. Stephanie Pau, an associate professor in the Department of Geography, was part of a team whose study was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Pau said leaves have optimal temperatures a  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 -- 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: A. Boussouf and D. Gutowski, Resident Inspectors SUBJECT: Los Alamos Activity Report for Week Ending August 26, 2022 DNFSB Staff Activity: A. Boussouf provided support to the acting resident inspector at Pantex. Transuranic Waste Facility (TWF): Last Thursday, there was  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: Los Alamos National Laboratory's Roberta Beal, a member of the Engineering Team for ChemCam, the laser instrument aboard the Mars Curiosity rover, understands the importance of empathy. "If you're not feeling well or your pet is sick, Roberta's on it," says Margie Root, who works with Beal on the ChemCam Engineering Team. "I lost two cats within a few weeks and Roberta organized th  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: A team at Los Alamos National Laboratory has developed a novel approach for comparing neural networks that looks within the "black box" of artificial intelligence to help researchers understand neural network behavior. Neural networks recognize patterns in datasets; they are used everywhere in society, in applications such as virtual assistants, facial recognition systems a  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: Matthew Brand of the Laboratorys' Space Data Science and Systems group moved to Los Alamos from his hometown of New York, all to do work on Mars. Even before he graduated from the Stevens Institute of Technology in 2021, Brand knew he wanted to design and operate spacecraft. The Lab offered exactly that opportunity with a spot as an engineer on the Lab's SuperCam team. Sup  more

SANTA FE, New Mexico, Sept. 14 -- Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release on Sept. 12, 2022: Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Monday announced that the Public Education Department has completed an overhaul of reporting requirements, trimming 34% from administrative work required of school districts and charter schools across New Mexico and cutting teacher paperwork by 41%. This fulfills an executive order issued May 23 by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham to reduce  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, Sept. 15 (TNSawa) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Though Scott Stewart recently received an Early Career Award from the Institute of Nuclear Material Management, he is regarded as a seasoned professional in the nuclear field with over 10 years of experience. Recognizing the importance of bringing new ideas to the field, Stewart seeks to attract the next generation of nuclear scientists and engineers by mak  more

HOUSTON, Texas, Sept. 16 (TNSjou) -- Rice University issued the following news release: * * * Design principle could guide search for metals with immutable quantum states * * * U.S. and European physicists have demonstrated a new method for predicting whether metallic compounds are likely to host topological states that arise from strong electron interactions. Physicists from Rice University, leading the research and collaborating with physicists from Stony Brook University, Austria's Vienn  more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Sept. 13 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release: An ultrathin invention could make future computing, sensing and encryption technologies remarkably smaller and more powerful by helping scientists control a strange but useful phenomenon of quantum mechanics, according to new research recently published in the journal Science. Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories and the Max Planck Institute for th  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: Jacob Spendelow, a materials scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, has received an Electrochemical Society Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship for projects in green energy technology. Spendelow, whose research investigates electrochemical energy technologies including fuel cells and electrolyzers, is one of four fellows named this year. The fellowship supports early career   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 (TNSper) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: Dave Funk, currently the senior director of the Advanced Sources and Detectors Project Office at Los Alamos National Laboratory, is retiring after more than 30 years at the Lab to embark on a new opportunity at Nevada National Security Site. There, beginning in early November, Funk will serve as the vice president of the Enhanced Capabilities for Subcritical Experiments po  more