OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, June 17 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Close on the heels of its fourth summer school, the Quantum Science Center, or QSC, hosted its second in-person all-hands meeting in early May. Located less than an hour away from Los Alamos National Laboratory, one of the QSC's founding institutions, the Eldorado Hotel in Santa Fe, New Mexico hosted about half of the center's total membership. More than 150 scienti  more

SANTA FE, New Mexico, June 18 -- New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez issued the following statement on June 17, 2024: * * * Background: This morning U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy issued a call to require a warning label "stating that social media is associated with significant mental health harms for adolescents." Today's action comes on the heels of the Surgeon General's 2023 Social Media and Youth Mental Health Advisory that highlighted the connection between prolonged use of soc  more

SANTA FE, New Mexico, June 18 (TNSres) -- The New Mexico Department of Tourism issued the following news release: According to an advertising effectiveness study commissioned by the New Mexico Tourism Department (NMTD), the first New Mexico True advertising campaign in the San Francisco market influenced 19,700 trips to New Mexico and generated an estimated $34.3 million in visitor spending. The report also estimated that the average spending per trip to New Mexico from the San Francisco equat  more

WASHINGTON, June 18 -- The National Republican Congressional Committee issued the following news: In case you missed it, the Santa Fe New Mexican covered vulnerable Gabe Vasquez's weak re-election chances as he battles scandal after scandal. From Vasquez's decades-long trouble with the law to calling a colleague the n-word to calling to defund the police, one thing is clear: Vasquez has a lot of explaining to do. Read more from the Santa Fe New Mexican here or see excerpts below: * * * Vasq  more

SANTA FE, New Mexico, June 18 (TNSres) -- Santa Fe Institute issued the following news release: Times of crises often call for strong and rapid action, but in polarized societies, strong top-down policies can backfire. In a paper published on June 17, 2024, in Environmental Research Letters, SFI Applied Complexity Fellow Saverio Perri, SFI Science Board Fellow Simon Levin (Princeton University), and colleagues present a conceptual model of how these dynamics could play out in efforts to decarb  more