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Tipoffs for Santa Fe, New Mexico (Los Alamos) Newsletter for Sunday April 07, 2024 ( 5 items )  

Discovery points path to flash like memory for storing qubits
HOUSTON, Texas, April 5 -- Rice University issued the following news release: Rice University graduate student Han Wu conducting an angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy experiment in Rice's Quantum Materials Spectroscopy Laboratory. Photo by Gustavo Raskosky/Rice University.By Jade Boyd Special Rice News Rice University physicists have discovered a phase-changing quantum material -- and a method for finding more like it -- that could potentially be used to create flash like memory capabl  more

LLNL's Raspberry Simpson Named Kavli Fellow
LIVERMORE, California, April 4 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news: Raspberry Simpson, a Lawrence Fellow in Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's (LLNL) National Ignition Facility and Photon Science (NIF&PS) Directorate, has been named a National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Kavli Fellow. As a new Kavli fellow, Simpson participated recently in the annual NAS Kavli Frontiers of Science symposium in Irvine, California. NAS   more

Los Alamos Activity Report for the Week Ending March 15, 2024
WASHINGTON, April 3 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board's Resident Inspector in Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following weekly report on April 2, 2024: * * * TO: Timothy J. Dwyer, Technical Director FROM: D. Gutowski, Resident Inspector SUBJECT: Los Alamos Activity Report for the Week Ending March 15, 2024 Plutonium Facility-Operations: Last Thursday, workers accidentally placed a piece of equipment that had been removed from a laboratory room on the pressure plate fo  more

NMSU Extension to Host Small Acreage Stewardship and Homesteading Skills Workshop Series
LAS CRUCES, New Mexico, April 6 -- New Mexico State University issued the following news release: New Mexico State University Cooperative Extension Service will host a Small Acreage Stewardship and Homesteading Skills workshop series from April to October. The free workshops will be held at 6 p.m. Thursdays and 9 a.m. Saturdays at NMSU's Sustainable Agriculture Science Center at Alcalde, 371 Country Road 40, Alcalde, New Mexico. Staff from the Santa Fe, Taos, Los Alamos and Rio Arriba County E  more

Savannah River Site Welcomes New NNSA Field Office Manager
AIKEN, South Carolina, April 3 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River Site issued the following news release on April 2, 2024: The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) welcomed Michael Mikolanis as manager of the NNSA Savannah River Field Office today, where he leads a team of approximately 50 federal employees and a contract workforce of over 5,000 people in managing and operating contracts with an annual budget of $2.9 billion. NNSA activities at the Savannah River Site   more