ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Sept. 17 -- The city of Albuquerque issued the following news: * * * Company to build salt production, two fuel development lab facilities * * * Kairos Power LLC, a mission-driven clean energy technology, engineering, and manufacturing company, is expanding its operations in New Mexico to build three facilities and create 100 jobs. Kairos Power is headquartered in Alameda, California and initially expanded to Albuquerque's Mesa del Sol community in 2019 for its rese  more

LA GRANGE PARK, Illinois, Sept. 17 -- The American Nuclear Society issued the following news: The American Nuclear Society recently selected two of its members to serve as the 2025 Glenn T. Seaborg Congressional Science and Engineering Fellows. The 2025 Congressional Fellows, Jacob Christensen and Mike Woosley, will help the Society fulfill its strategic goal of enhancing nuclear policy by working in the halls of Congress, either in a congressional member's personal office or with a committee,   more

AMES, Iowa, Sept. 20 -- The U.S. Department of Energy Ames National Laboratory issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Energy's Ames National Laboratory will launch a new research effort, the ML-Accelerated Materials Discovery Center, to drive the discovery and design of complex magnetic and superconducting materials for energy and technology applications. Materials discovery and design is often a first and fundamental step in developing a new technology. The materials that h  more

BERKELEY, California, Sept. 21 -- The University of California issued the following news release on Sept. 19, 2024: The University of California Board of Regents today approved the appointment of Dr. June Yu as the next vice president of UC National Laboratories (UCNL). An accomplished physicist and a seasoned University leader, Yu spent much of her career in various roles at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and UCNL. She has been serving as interim vice president during the se  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Findings from Manhattan Project work at Los Alamos National Lab give insight into average wartime worker * * * Los Alamos National Laboratory archaeologists recently found nearly 500 unrecorded artifacts at a historic site where non-nuclear parts for Little Boy and Thin Man, the gun-style bombs built as part of the Manhattan Project, were tested during World War II. Combin  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * Plant trait assemblages and the FATES-HYDRO model are key to understanding fate of many tropical plants * * * Hydraulic failure in tropical environments is expected to increase, according to new research published in New Phytologist. As weather patterns change and temperatures rise, plants will need to adapt in order to survive. Hydraulic failure occurs when more w  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Sept. 17 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news: * * * With the help of MIT's online resources, Doga Kurkcuoglu, now a staff scientist at Fermilab, was able to pursue his passion for physics. * * * By Lauren Rebecca Thacker, MIT Open Learning From a young age, Doga Kurkcuoglu heard his father, a math teacher, say that learning should be about understanding and real-world applications rather than memorization. But it wasn't   more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 -- Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release: NORTH KINGSTOWN In recognition of its historic contributions to the war effort during World War II and continued patriotism, the Town of North Kingstown is being honored by the U.S. National Park Service (NPS) with the prestigious designation of being named an American World War II Heritage City. The American World War II Heritage Cities program honors the contributions of towns, cities, counties and the  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory issued the following article: * * * A formula explains challenges in quantum machine learning * * * By Maren Disney, PNNL The term "barren plateaus" suggests an empty, deserted, and flat landscape. This term is used in quantum computing to describe a phenomenon where a class of tunable quantum models exhibit a vast and barren landscape of appropriate models for a given problem. The barren   more