ALFRED, New York, Aug. 26 -- Alfred University issued the following news release: One current and three emeriti members of the glass science faculty represented Alfred University at three recent prestigious conferences on glass held in the United Kingdom. Alfred University graduate students and alumni were also among those making presentations at the conferences. The event--a joint conference of the Annual Conference of the Society of Glass 2024, the 15th International Conference on the Struct  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following Insight white paper (No. R43838) on Aug. 28, 2024, entitled "Great Power Competition - Implications for Defense - Issues for Congress:" (Continued From Part 1 of 3) * * * Overview of Implications for Defense The emergence of GPC has profoundly changed the conversation about U.S. defense issues from what it was during the post-Cold War era: Counterterrorist operations and U.S. military operations in the Middle Eas  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 -- The U.S. Department of Energy issued the following news: * * * Funding will Support Six Projects to Help Bring Geothermal Power to Millions of U.S. Homes and Reduce Industrial Emissions * * * Building on President Biden and Vice President Harris's Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the selection of six projects that will receive up to $31 million to advance geothermal energy throughout the country. The projects will impr  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Barren plateaus have long plagued progress in the field of variational quantum computing, but their understanding has been limited -- until now * * * Quantum computers are still a nascent technology, but researchers are busy building complex machine learning algorithms to test the capabilities of quantum learning. Sometimes, however, their algorithms hit a mysteriou  more