ARGONNE, Illinois, July 10 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory issued the following news release: By Joseph E. Harmon Argonne National Laboratory played a critical role in the discovery of a DNA-like twisted crystal structure created with a germanium sulfide nanowire. We see crystals all around us: snowflakes, ice cubes, table salt, gemstones, to name a few. Invisible to the naked eye, but of special interest to scientists, are crystalline "nanowires" -- wires with   more

WASHINGTON, July 10 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy issued the following news release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) announced $600,000 in federal funding for two projects that fall under the High Performance Computing for Materials (HPC4Mtls) program. The projects represent the first joint round of funding for the High Performance Computing for Energy Innovation (HPC4EI) initiative, the umbrella program for the HPC4Manufac  more

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, July 10 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory issued the following news: A team led by NETL and Carnegie Mellon University's Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation and consisting of experts from national laboratories, academia and private industry, have released a report summarizing information presented in a workshop called "Real-Time Decision-Making for the Subsurface." The report is available here. Several dozen technical  more

SANTA FE, New Mexico, July 9 -- The New Mexico Department of Economic Development issued the following news release: The State of New Mexico is pledging at least $4 million in economic development assistance to Pebble Labs USA Inc. to expand its Biosciences business in Los Alamos into a world-class research and development facility, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced Tuesday. Pebble Labs plans to expand to more than 230 full-time employees. The company is managing research on food and crop   more

LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, July 9 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news release: The University of New Mexico (UNM) and Los Alamos National Laboratory signed a landmark Institutional Agreement that provides staff from both institutions unprecedented access to collaborative research and allows for academic appointments for LANL staff and scientific staff appointments for UNM faculty. Laboratory staff can teach classes at UNM's main and branch ca  more