WASHINGTON, June 21 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Los Alamos scientists seek to build computer models for predicting harmful cyanobacterial bloom events * * * A team of Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists plan to use artificial intelligence modeling to forecast, and better understand, a growing threat to water caused by toxic algal blooms. Fueled by climate change and rising water temperatures, these harmful   more

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

ARGONNE, Illinois, June 13 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * The lab and University Mohammed VI Polytechnic agree to exchange research, scientists and ideas * * * Argonne and University Mohammed VI Polytechnic, a research-focused Moroccan university, will be developing mechanisms and processes to promote collaborative efforts on green energy technology, high-performance computing and the water-energy nexus. The U  more

NOVELTY, Ohio, June 21 (TNSres) -- ASM International posted the following news from Los Alamos National Laboratory and Tel Aviv University: Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory, N. M., and Tel Aviv University, Israel, have achieved a breakthrough in material science with the creation of "Chaco," a revolutionary metamaterial named after the historical site Chaco Canyon in New Mexico. The study has been published in Nature Communications. Unlike ordinary materials, which respond uniforml  more

WASHINGTON, June 21 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency issued the following news on June 20, 2024: * * * Teams share research results identifying what size quantum computer would be needed for specific tasks * * * Amid efforts to explore quantum computers' transformative potential, one foundational element remains missing from the discussion about quantum: What are the benchmarks that predict whether tomorrow's quantum computers will be tru  more

WASHINGTON, June 21 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * New report highlights quantum applications for national laboratories * * * A new report from Los Alamos National Laboratory describes the range of groundbreaking applications that quantum computing may realize at the Laboratory. In support of the Quantum Benchmarking program at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the "Potential Applications of Qua  more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, June 10 -- The Los Alamos Study Group issued the following news release: This past Friday (June 7), senior White House Aide Pranay Vaddi announced that "absent a change" in the nuclear strategies of Russia and China, the U.S. may adopt "a more competitive approach" to nuclear weapons policy, including expanding the U.S. nuclear arsenal. (See: "Biden aide raises possible increased deployments of U.S. strategic nuclear weapons," Jonathan Landay, Reuters; "U.S. Considers E  more

WASHINGTON, June 19 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Prediction of defect density has applications for dense matter physics and other sciences * * * In a paper recently published in Physical Review Letters, Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers offer a new theory that predicts defect density across a variety of phase transitions. The research opens new routes for the exploration of defect formation in fields such  more

ROLLA, Missouri, June 18 (TNSres) -- Missouri University of Science and Technology issued the following news: By Greg Edwards A researcher with expertise in applying artificial intelligence to the world of nuclear engineering will join the Missouri S&T faculty as an associate professor beginning this fall. "Missouri S&T will be a natural fit for me as I continue to use machine learning as a tool to characterize radiation defects in nuclear materials and how this affects their physical and mec  more

WASHINGTON, June 22 (TNSres) -- The Department of Energy's Office of Science Atmospheric Radiation Measurement facility issued the following news: * * * Scientific investigations, data analysis, and model improvements follow the June 2023 end of a Colorado field campaign on mountain hydrology * * * One winter day in early 2023, William "Will" Rudisill, a hydrologist and postdoctoral researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) in California, joined a few friends for some backco  more

WASHINGTON, June 21 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news on June 20, 2024: Earlier this spring, Los Alamos National Laboratory brought online its newest supercomputer, Venado. While not the world's fastest supercomputer, Venado holds the distinction of being one of just two worldwide to integrate powerful superchips that use AI technology to accelerate computing speeds, usually at lower cost and power consumption, than earlier chip technolo  more

ARGONNE, Illinois, June 18 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * Insights could help foster electric vehicle batteries with longer driving range and lower cost * * * Scientists have discovered the culprit behind the performance fade in nickel-rich cathodes for lithium-ion batteries. The team's new analysis method was key to the discovery. The first generation of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles has been a   more