CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 27 (TNSres) -- Case Western Reserve University issued the following news release: * * * University leads national team advancing data-based research, experiential education * * * Case Western Reserve University has received a $14.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to launch a "Center of Excellence" focused on applying innovative approaches to enhancing manufacturing of materials with greater strength and  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: Just over 10 years ago, the space exploration community waited with bated breath through the "seven minutes of terror" as NASA's Mars Curiosity rover descended through the Martian atmosphere onto the planet's surface. The rover landed on Aug. 5, 2012, at the base of a mountain within the Gale Crater, which was chosen as a landing spot because of strong evidence that water once exi  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 (TNSjou) -- The Department of Energy's Office of Science Atmospheric Radiation Measurement facility issued the following news on Sept. 27, 2022: * * * Earth's polar regions still hold much to be discovered by atmospheric scientists, many of them aided by ARM This is the fifth article in the yearlong "ARM30" series of stories on the evolution of ARM-its data, sites, science missions, field campaigns, and people. * * * In the fall of 1928, the American Geographical Societ  more

LIVERMORE, California, Sept. 26 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news release on Sept. 26, 2022: The last nuclear test, code-named Divider, took place 30 years ago, on Sept. 23, 1992. That year, President Bush declared a temporary moratorium on nuclear testing, which became permanent in 1995, during the Clinton administration. This ending of the era of nuclear testing coincided with a Presidential announcement of the beginning of sto  more

LIVERMORE, California, Sept. 28 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news release on Sept. 27, 2022: The last nuclear test, code-named Divider, took place 30 years ago, on September 23, 1992. That year, President Bush declared a temporary moratorium on nuclear testing, which became permanent during the Clinton administration. This ending of the era of nuclear testing was also the beginning of stockpile stewardship. Leaders from the Depa  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 -- 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 September 9, 2022 Plutonium Facility-Infrastructure: Last Wednesday shortly after midnight, the ventilation in the Plutonium Facility experienced a loss of differential p  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: Rising sea levels from melting glaciers and ice sheets pose an increasing threat to coastal communities worldwide. A new analysis of high-resolution satellite observations takes a major step forward in assessing this risk by confirming theoretical predictions and computational models of sea-level changes used to forecast climate-change-driven impacts. "Using sea-surface-he  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: The opportunity to correct the work of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Erwin Schrodinger -- yes, that Schrodinger, of quantum cat fame -- comes once in a lifetime, so when my colleagues and I discovered he and others were wrong in their mathematical description of how people perceive color, we jumped on it. In my early-career research project, our scientific visualization team at Los  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, Sept. 29 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: The September 2022 edition of the RWFI E-Note Monthly, NETL's Regional Workforce Initiative (RWFI) newsletter, is now available and includes details on a range of grant funding and training opportunities. Key among these is a funding opportunity announcement (FOA) from the Office of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy (EERE) to create a new Clean Energy Manufa  more

DES MOINES, Iowa, Sept. 27 (TNSawa) -- The National Speech and Debate Association issued the following news release: The National Speech & Debate Association is proud to announce the winners of the 2021-2022 Speaking and Service Award, which recognizes students who have reached the maximum number of service points in the student Honor Society. From more than 140,000 members, only 184 students received this recognition. The National Speech & Debate Association's Honor Society recognizes student  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 28 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory issued the following news: Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have proposed the source of the sudden and puzzling collapse of heat that precedes disruptions that can damage doughnut-shaped tokamak fusion facilities. Coping with the source could overcome one of the most critical challenges that future fusion facilities will face and brin  more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Sept. 29 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release: Gray and white flecks skitter erratically on a computer screen. A towering microscope looms over a landscape of electronic and optical equipment. Inside the microscope, high-energy, accelerated ions bombard a flake of platinum thinner than a hair on a mosquito's back. Meanwhile, a team of scientists studies the seemingly chaotic display, searching for clu  more

LIVERMORE, California, Sept. 29 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news release on Sept. 28, 2022: The last nuclear test, code-named Divider, took place 30 years ago, on Sept. 23, 1992. That year, President Bush declared a temporary moratorium on nuclear testing, which became permanent during the Clinton administration. This ending of the era of nuclear testing was also the beginning of stockpile stewardship. Leaders from the Departme  more