ARGONNE, Illinois, May 27 -- The U.S. Department of Energy Argonne National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * Argonne launches first large-scale AI inference service for open science The ALCF Inference Service provides access to a broad range of large language models and foundation models for scientific research A key enabler for DOE's Genesis Mission, the service helps researchers accelerate the path from data to insight to discovery. - The U.S. Department of Energy's (D  more

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, May 26 -- TRIAD NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC, Los Alamos, New Mexico has been assigned a patent (No. US 12636618 B1, initially filed Feb. 17, 2023) developed by four inventors Rajinder Pal Singh, Los Alamos, New Mexico; JongGeun Seong, Los Alamos, New Mexico; Jeremy Charles Lewis, Los Alamos, New Mexico; and Kathryn A. Berchtold, Los Alamos, New Mexico, for "Asymmetric carbon molecular sieve hollow fiber membranes."  more

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, May 26 -- SPRITIUS TECHNOLOGIES, PBC, White Rock, New Mexico has been assigned a patent (No. US 12636638 B2, initially filed March 17, 2023) developed by five inventors Jose Manuel Tafoya, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Jon Rao, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Matthew Nicholson Lee, Los Alamos, New Mexico; Charles Frederick Cadieu, Burlingame, California; and Daniel Francis Opila, Bethesda, Maryland, for "Desorption apparatus."  more

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, May 26 -- TRIAD NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC, Los Alamos, New Mexico has been assigned a patent (No. US 12637396 B1, initially filed March 29, 2021) developed by three inventors Amanda Lynn Duque, Los Alamos, New Mexico; William Lee Perry, Los Alamos, New Mexico; and Bryce Tappan, Santa Fe, New Mexico, for "Explosives using thermally expandable microspheres in a solid matrix."  more

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, May 26 -- TRIAD NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC, Los Alamos, California has been assigned a patent (No. US 12639789 B2, initially filed Feb. 15, 2021) developed by five inventors Romain Jolivet, Cachan, France; Bertrand Rouet-Leduc, Los Alamos, New Mexico; Paul Johnson, South Santa Fe, New Mexico; Claudia Hulbert, Paris, France; and Manon Dalaison, Paris, France, for "Method for processing InSAR images to extract ground deformation signals."  more

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, May 26 -- LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC, Los Alamos, New Mexico has been assigned a patent (No. US 12638345 B1, initially filed Feb. 16, 2022) developed by six inventors Michael C. Hamel, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Jamin R. Pillars, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Christian L. Arrington, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Jesse J. Bland, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Stephen M. Carr, Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Mark P. Croce, Los Alamos, New Mexico, for "Microcalorimeter radiation detector a  more

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, May 26 -- TRIAD NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC, Los Alamos, New Mexico has been assigned a patent (No. US 12640276 B1, initially filed Feb. 9, 2023) developed by Lindsey Michal Gaspar, Los Alamos, New Mexico, and Robert Stowers Reid, Los Alamos, New Mexico, for "Nuclear reactor system arranged to inject material into heat pipes to suppress a fire."  more

STORRS, Connecticut, May 26 -- The University of Connecticut posted the following news: * * * School of Business, CLAS, and College of Engineering Host MIP 2026 Research Conference at UConn Stamford * UConn Stamford recently hosted a four-day, invitation-only research conference on mixed-integer programming, a major area of mathematical optimization, known as MIP 2026. The workshop brought leading academic researchers together with representatives from some of the world's top technology an  more

WASHINGTON, May 27 (TNSletter) -- Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, ranking member of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, issued the following letter to the departments of Energy and Defense: * * * Here is the text of the letter: April 14, 2026 The Honorable Chris Wright Secretary of Energy U.S. Department of Energy 1000 Independence Ave, SW Washington, DC 20585 * The Honorable Pete Hegseth Secretary of Defense U.S. Department of Defense 1000 Defense Penta  more

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in New Mexico. *** Asymmetric Carbon Molecular Sieve Hollow Fiber Membranes ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, May 26 -- TRIAD NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC, Los Alamos, New Mexico has been assigned a patent (No. US 12636618 B1, initially filed Feb. 17, 2023) developed by four inventors Rajinder Pal Singh, Los Alamos, New Mexico; JongGeun Seong, Los Alamos, New Mexico; Jeremy Charles Lewis, Los Alamos, New Mexico; and Kathryn A.   more

WASHINGTON, May 26 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency issued the following news release: * * * USDA Designates Multiple New Mexico Counties as Natural Disaster Areas * Utah This Secretarial natural disaster designation allows the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) to extend much-needed emergency credit to producers recovering from natural disasters through emergency loans. Emergency loans can be used to meet various recovery need  more