UPTON, New York, Dec. 3 -- The U.S. Department of Energy Brookhaven National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * MicroBooNE Finds no Evidence for a Sterile Neutrino * Editor's note: The following news release about the search for evidence of sterile neutrinos by the MicroBooNE experiment was originally issued by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, where the MicroBooNE experiment is located. Scientists from DOE's Brookhaven National Lab  more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Dec. 3 -- The U.S. Department of Energy Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release: * * * Quantum computers get a boost from a tiny material tweak * ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. A small, counterintuitive tweak to advanced materials can improve how quantum computers hand off information inside their systems, making them more efficient, reliable and scalable. In a paper recently published in Advanced Electronic Materials, a team from Sandia National Laborato  more

NEW YORK, Dec. 3 -- Columbia University issued the following news: * * * Scientists Close the Door on a Leading Explanation for a Neutrino Mystery * An international collaboration of scientists working on the MicroBooNE experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Illinois announced that they have found no evidence for a fourth type of neutrino. The paper was published today in Nature. Earlier physics experiments saw neutrinos behaving i  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 -- The Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee issued a report (S.Rpt. 119-45) on the U.S. Research Protection Act (S. 769), which aims to amend the Research and Development, Competition and Innovation Act to clarify the definition of foreign country for purposes of malign foreign talent recruitment restriction. The report was advanced by Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, on July 22, 2025. Here are excerpts: * * * Purpose of the Bill The purpose of S. 769 is to amend   more

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 3 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in California. *** Solar Cell Array With Changeable String Length ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, Dec. 2 -- THE BOEING COMPANY, Arlington, Virginia has been assigned a patent (No. US 12490523 B2, initially filed Oct. 18, 2017) developed by Eric Rehder, Los Angeles, California, for "Solar cell array with changeable string length." *** Integer Ambiguity Search Space Reduction ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, Dec. 2 -- QUALCOMM IN  more

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 3 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in New Mexico. *** Hepatitis B Virus Vaccines ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, Dec. 2 -- TRIAD NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC, Los Alamos, New Mexico has been assigned a patent (No. US 12485168 B2, initially filed Aug. 28, 2020) developed by six inventors Eric Bruening, San Francisco, California; Janet Douglas, San Francisco, California; Emily Marshall, San Francisco, California; Karina Yusim, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Bette Korber,   more

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, Dec. 4 (TNSjou) -- The University of Michigan issued the following news: * * * MicroBooNE experiment finds no evidence for the long-sought 'sterile neutrino' There is less than a 5% chance that anomalies in earlier neutrino experiments can be explained by the existence of a single new particle * Scientists are closing the door on one explanation for a mystery that has plagued particle physics for decades. An international collaboration of scientists, which includes rese  more

SOCORRO, New Mexico, Dec. 4 (TNSjou) -- New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology issued the following news: * * * Valley Fever on the Rise: New Study Led by New Mexico Tech Detects Disease-Causing Fungus in New Mexico By Kimberley Clementi A new study has found that New Mexicans are likely among the most at-risk populations for Valley fever, which is caused by inhaling spores of a fungus that thrives in arid soils, with increased risk in drier, dustier parts of the state. The first sig  more