WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 -- House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-Louisiana, issued the following news release: * * * Committee Cliff Notes: Weekly Recap - Week of February 10, 2025 Here's a recap of key moments from House Republican committees during the week: Agriculture On Tuesday, February 11, the Committee on Agriculture held a full committee hearing called "Examining the Economic Crisis in Farm Country." America's farmers have been struggling under the weight of low commodity prices,   more

ARGONNE, Illinois, Feb. 12 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * From photons to protons: Argonne team makes breakthrough in high-energy particle detection Beam tests demonstrate high-energy particle detection with superconducting nanowires Argonne physicists have adapted superconducting nanowire photon detectors to be sensitive and precise high-energy particle detectors. Particle detectors play a crucial role in our understa  more

LA GRANGE PARK, Illinois, Feb. 15 -- The American Nuclear Society issued the following news: * * * Neutron Vision at Los Alamos: Exploring the Frontiers of Nuclear Materials Science In materials science, understanding the unseen--how materials behave internally under real-world conditions--has always been key to developing new materials and accelerating innovative technologies to market. Moreover, the tools that allow us to see into this invisible world of materials have often been game-chang  more