SACRAMENTO, California, May 21 -- The Small Business Administration issued the following news release on May 20, 2024: Francisco Sanchez Jr., associate administrator for the Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience at the Small Business Administration, today reminded small nonfarm businesses in 11 New Mexico counties of the June 20, 2024, deadline to apply for an SBA federal disaster loan for economic injury. These low-interest loans are to offset economic losses because of reduced revenues c  more

ARGONNE, Illinois, May 23 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * New catalyst transforms carbon dioxide from industrial emissions into commonly used chemicals * * * Lurking within the emissions from many industrial operations is an untapped resource -- carbon dioxide (CO2). A contributor of greenhouse gas and global warming, it could instead be captured and converted to value-added chemicals. In a collaborative projec  more

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, May 21 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory issued the following news release: With assistance from the Department of Energy's Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear (GAIN) voucher program, Idaho National Laboratory researchers are lending their expertise to two very different companies. In one corner is Dow, the giant plastics and chemicals manufacturer, that is exploring using microreactors to reduce carbon emissions. In the other corner, Cu  more

WASHINGTON, May 21 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: Theoretical physicist Wojciech Hubert Zurek (T-4) has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Election to the National Academy of Sciences recognizes past and continuing research excellence and is a pinnacle of scientific achievement. Over his career, including a long tenure in the Theoretical division at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Zurek worked on diverse subjects, incl  more

WASHINGTON, May 21 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * New detector technologies being tested to better understand elusive particle * * * First detected by Los Alamos researchers Frederick Reines and Clyde Cowan in a nuclear reactor in 1956, tiny particles dubbed neutrinos are so abundant they constantly pass through human bodies by the trillions. But despite decades of study, the neutrino's bizarre nature is still littl  more

WASHINGTON, May 22 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Innovative method solves gigantic partial differential equations with artificial intelligence methods * * * Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a tensor network approach that solves real-world neutron transport equations. As described in the Journal of Computational Physics, the approach achieved world-record compression of memory, on the yot  more

WASHINGTON, May 23 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Artificial nanomagnets inspire mechanical system with memory capability * * * An international research team including Los Alamos National Laboratory and Tel Aviv University has developed a unique, mechanical metamaterial that, like a computer following instructions, can remember the order of actions performed on it. Named Chaco, after the archeological site in north  more

IRVINE, California, May 22 (TNSres) -- The University of California Irvine campus issued the following news release: * * * UC Irvine researchers make ultra-thin bismuth material for flexible technologies * * * In a study published in Nature Materials, scientists from the University of California, Irvine describe a new method to make very thin crystals of the element bismuth - a process that may aid the manufacturing of cheap flexible electronics an everyday reality. "Bismuth has fascinated  more