ITHACA, New York, Nov. 22 (TNSper) -- Cornell University issued the following news: For nearly six decades, Cornell's Laboratory of Plasma Studies (LPS) has remained at the forefront of plasma science - a tradition its incoming director, Gennady Shvets, professor of applied and engineering physics, plans to continue while also broadening the lab's research capabilities. Shvets was selected as the lab's next director and will assume the leadership role on Jan. 1, 2023. His expanded vision for t  more

LIVERMORE, California, Nov. 23 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news release: The 2022 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC22) returned to Dallas as a large contingent of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) staff participated in sessions, panels, paper presentations and workshops centered around high performance computing (HPC). The world's largest conference of its  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board's Resident Inspector in Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following weekly report: TO: Christopher J. Roscetti, Technical Director FROM: A. Boussouf and D. Gutowski, Resident Inspectors SUBJECT: Los Alamos Activity Report for the Week Ending November 4, 2022 Staff Activity: Members of the Board's staff participated in a virtual briefing with the Board, DOE/NNSA Headquarters, and the Los Alamos Field Office to discuss   more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: Troy Semelsberger, a chemical engineer at Los Alamos National Laboratory, contributed this guest column to the Albuquerque Journal's Executive's Desk. The era of viable alternatives to fossil fuel-based transportation appears to be at hand. With the transportation sector the biggest contributor of greenhouse gases in the United States, California recently became the first of potent  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news on Nov. 23, 2022: Every year, November is recognized as Native American Heritage Month. This year, the National Security Research Center at Los Alamos National Laboratory honors the occasion with a look back at the incredible history of the Navajo Code Talkers -- a group of Native American servicemembers who used simple words and phrases from their unique tribal language to baffle Jap  more

WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 (TNSjou) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory issued the following web feature: What happens in an explosion? Where do the products of that explosion go following the blast? These questions are often difficult to solve. New rugged tracer particles, developed by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) researchers, can provide some answers. Beyond explosives, many industries may be interested in tracking particulates through harsh envi  more