ARGONNE, Illinois, July 3 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * - Morman honored for critical contributions to nuclear safety. * * * Jim Morman has been elected a fellow of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) -- the highest grade of membership that the society offers. ANS selected Morman, a scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, in recognition of his outstanding scientific and professio  more

PASADENA, California, July 2 -- NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news: Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, have installed the SuperCam Mast Unit onto the Mars 2020 rover. The instrument's camera, laser and spectrometers can identify the chemical and mineral makeup of targets as small as a pencil point from a distance of more than 20 feet (6 meters). SuperCam is a next-generation version of the ChemCam instrument operating on NASA's Curios  more

LIVERMORE, California, July 3 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news release: Three years after embarking upon a rigorous evaluation of a pool of more than 400 candidates, researchers with the Co-Optimization of Fuels & Engines (Co-Optima) initiative have identified six blendstocks from two chemical families that exhibit the greatest potential to dramatically increase efficiency when combined with petroleum-based fuels in boosted (or   more

WASHINGTON, July 2 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * - Machine learning allows quantum mechanics to be efficiently applied to molecular simulations for drug development, detonation physics and more * * * New work from Los Alamos National Laboratory, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Florida is showing that artificial neural nets can be trained to encode quantum mechanical laws to desc  more

WASHINGTON, July 2 -- The White House issued the following news release: Today, President Donald J. Trump announced the recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The PECASE is the highest honor bestowed by the United States Government to outstanding scientists and engineers who are beginning their independent research careers and who show exceptional promise for leadership in science and technology. Established in 1996, the PECASE acknowledges the  more