WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board's Resident Inspector in Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following weekly report for week ending July 19, 2024: * * * TO: Timothy J. Dwyer, Technical Director FROM: D. Gutowski, Resident Inspector SUBJECT: Los Alamos Activity Report for the Week Ending July 19, 2024 Area G-Safety Basis: Last Friday, N3B submitted a newly developed safety basis for Area G to the Environmental Management Field Office for review and app  more

SANTA FE, New Mexico, Aug. 10 (TNSres) -- Santa Fe Institute issued the following news release: In past years, elections in the U.S. have been marked by stories of long waiting lines at the voting polls. Add other barriers, like long commutes and inadequate transportation, and voting can become inaccessible. But these voting deserts are difficult to quantify. In a new paper in SIAM Review, SFI External Professor Mason Porter (UCLA) and his students applied topological data analysis, which giv  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 -- The Senate Indian Affairs Committee released the following testimony by Tracy Canard Goodluck, senior advisor to the assistant secretary of the Interior for Indian affairs, from a July 25, 2024, hearing on the Tribal Forest Protection Act Amendments Act (S. 4370) and the Ohkay Owingeh Rio Chama Water Rights Settlement Act of (S. 4505): * * * Chairman Schatz, Vice Chairman Murkowski, and Members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to present testimony on S. 43  more