ARGONNE, Illinois, June 4 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory issued the following news release on June 3, 2024: * * * Fuzzy signals from qubits embedded in diamond get a clear-cut explanation * * * They say that one can miss the forest for the trees. But it's often worth taking a closer look at the trees to make sense of the dense, brambly whole. That's what a Stanford University group did to tackle a thorny quantum-information problem in diamond. A sta  more

WASHINGTON, June 7 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board issued the following letter on (June 3, 2024): * * * The Honorable Jennifer Granholm, Secretary of Energy, US Department of Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20585-1000 Dear Secretary Granholm: The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (Board) has completed its review of maintenance practices for aboveground and underground electrical cable systems in the Department of Energy (DOE) defense nuclear complex.  more

WASHINGTON, June 8 -- The Joint Economic Committee released the following testimony by Jen Gaudioso, director of the Center for Computing Research at Sandia National Laboratories, from a hearing dated June 4, 2024, entitled "Artificial Intelligence and Its Potential to Fuel Economic Growth and Improve Governance": * * * Chairman Heinrich, Vice Chairman Schweikert, and distinguished members of the Committee, I want to thank you for the opportunity to testify today regarding artificial intellige  more

BRYN MAWR, Pennsylvania, May 30 -- Bryn Mawr College issued the following news: When author and journalist Jennet Conant '82 was researching the subject of her seventh book--legendary correspondent Maggie Higgins, who covered World War II and the Korean War--she couldn't help but see parallels between her subject's career and her own. "She was born in Asia, in Hong Kong," Conant says. "I was born in South Korea. And she was a 5-foot-8 blond misfit in the U.S. who was one of the few women in a   more