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Tipoffs for Santa Fe, New Mexico (Los Alamos) Newsletter for Sunday October 29, 2023 ( 9 items )  

ANU Partnership to Deliver Safe Innovations in Nuclear Science
CANBERRA, Australia, Oct. 26 -- The Australian National University issued the following news release: A new partnership between The Australian National University (ANU) and world-leading Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in the United States will deliver innovations in nuclear science and help steward the safe use of nuclear technologies across the globe. ANU leads the nation's premier nuclear physics research and training program and is helping advance Australia's sovereign nuclear capabi  more

Cornell Tech: Research Repository ArXiv Receives $10M
NEW YORK, Oct. 24 (TNSres) -- Cornell Tech issued the following news: Cornell Tech has announced a total of more than $10 million in gifts and grants from the Simons Foundation and the National Science Foundation, respectively, to support arXiv, a free distribution service and open-access archive for scholarly articles. The funding will allow the growing repository with more than 2 million articles to migrate to the cloud and modernize its code to ensure reliability, fault tolerance and access  more

DOE Argonne National Laboratory: Major Milestone Achieved in New Quantum Computing Architecture
ARGONNE, Illinois, Oct. 27 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory issued the following news release: Coherence stands as a pillar of effective communication, whether it is in writing, speaking or information processing. This principle extends to quantum bits, or qubits, the building blocks of quantum computing. A quantum computer could one day tackle previously insurmountable challenges in climate prediction, material design, drug discovery and more. A team led  more

Go8 Universities in Lockstep With Australia-US Alliance
AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY, Australia, Oct. 26 -- The Group of Eight Australia issued the following news release: The Group of Eight (Go8) is in lockstep with our major strategic partners, as outlined today in the Joint Leaders' Innovation Alliance statement issued by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and President Joe Biden. As Australia's powerhouse research universities, who conduct 70 per cent of Australia's university research and invest some $7.7 billion in R&D annually - or about a fift  more

Sandia National Laboratories: Rocks May Hold Key to Storing Intermittent Renewable Energy, Expanding Its Use
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Oct. 25 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release: Sandia National Laboratories is collaborating with New Mexico-based CSolPower LLC to develop an affordable method of storing energy from renewable sources. The primary goal of the partnership is to transition to zero-carbon solar and wind energy for generating electricity. "You need to have energy storage and dispatchable power when renewable energy is unavailable  more

SBA Economic Injury Disaster Loans Available to New Mexico Small Businesses
SACRAMENTO, California, Oct. 28 -- The Small Business Administration issued the following news release on Oct. 27, 2023: * * * Published on October 27, 2023 by Disaster Field Operations Center West * * * Small nonfarm businesses in 11 New Mexico counties are now eligible to apply for low interest federal disaster loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration, announced Director Jeffrey Lusk of SBA's Disaster Field Operations Center-West. These loans offset economic losses because of redu  more

U.S.-Australia Joint Leaders' Statement on Building Innovation Alliance
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 -- President Biden and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese issued the following joint statement on Oct. 25, 2023, on building an innovation alliance: * * * We, President Biden and Prime Minister Albanese, inaugurated a new era of U.S.-Australia strategic cooperation during the Prime Minister's Official Visit and State Dinner in Washington, D.C., today. Our nations are inseparably linked by our common democratic values and the three pillars of our alliance: defense,  more

Westinghouse Launches EVinci Microreactor Accelerator Hub
CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP, Pennsylvania, Oct. 25 -- Westinghouse Electric issued the following news release on Oct. 24, 2023: Westinghouse Electric Company today announced the launch of a new design and manufacturing facility near downtown Pittsburgh to accelerate commercialization of the eVinci(TM) microreactor. In June, Westinghouse established eVinci(TM) Technologies LLC as a separate business unit within the company to streamline all aspects of bringing the microreactor to the market. Located in   more

White House Fact Sheet: Delivering on the Next Generation of Innovation and Partnership With Australia
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 (TNSres) -- The White House issued the following fact sheet on Oct. 25, 2023: * * * Delivering on the Next Generation of Innovation and Partnership with Australia President Biden of the United States is welcoming Prime Minister Albanese of Australia on October 25, 2023 for an official visit and state dinner. The two leaders will reaffirm the strength of the U.S.-Australia alliance and the evolution of its reach beyond defense and security into a force for increased prospe  more