WASHINGTON, June 2 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: * * * Justice Department Requires Keysight to Divest Assets to Proceed with Spirent Acquisition * The Justice Department's Antitrust Division announced today that it will require Keysight Technologies Inc. (Keysight) to divest Spirent Communications plc.'s (Spirent) high-speed ethernet testing, network security testing, and RF channel emulation businesses to resolve antitrust concerns arising from their p  more

LIVERMORE, California, June 2 -- The U.S. Department of Energy Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news: * * * LLNL researchers use AI to look for potential ALS treatments * Potential treatments for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and other neurodegenerative diseases may already be out there in the form of drugs prescribed for other conditions. A team of researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Stanford University and the University of Calif  more

WASHINGTON, May 29 -- NASA issued the following news: * * * NASA Tech Gives Treadmill Users a 'Boost' By Mike DiCicco, Science Writer Creators of the original antigravity treadmill continue to advance technology with new company. The antigravity treadmill, which has benefits in space and on Earth, was pioneered by Robert Whalen at NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, California, in the 1980s and '90s. Whalen built a system that placed a pressurized bulb over the user's upper bo  more

WASHINGTON, May 29 -- NASA issued the following news: * * * NASA Tests New Ways to Stick the Landing in Challenging Terrain By Loura Hall Advancing new hazard detection and precision landing technologies to help future space missions successfully achieve safe and soft landings is a critical area of space research and development, particularly for future crewed missions. To support this, NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) is pursuing a regular cadence of flight testing on a va  more

WASHINGTON, May 29 -- NASA issued the following news: NASA's MAVEN Makes First Observation of Atmospheric Sputtering at Mars After a decade of searching, NASA's MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere Volatile Evolution) mission has, for the first time, reported a direct observation of an elusive atmospheric escape process called sputtering that could help answer longstanding questions about the history of water loss on Mars. By Willow Reed, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado  more

WASHINGTON, June 3 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service issued the following news release: * * * USDA Trade Mission to Expand Agricultural Exports in Peru WASHINGTON, June 2, 2025 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture will lead a high-impact trade mission to Lima, Peru from June 9 -12 aimed at expanding market access and boosting U.S. agricultural exports to address the $3.66 billion trade deficit with Peru. The delegation includes more than 50 agribusinesses,   more