LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, July 29 -- Rep. Bill Foster, D-Illinois, issued the following news release: This week, Congressman Bill Foster (D-IL) and U.S. House of Representatives Assistant Speaker Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) will lead a bipartisan congressional delegation on a tour of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, and White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Foster and Lujan will be joined by Congresswoman Deb Haaland (D-N.M.), Congresswoman Xochitl Torres Small (D-N  more

NEWPORT NEWS, Virginia, July 30 -- The Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility Jefferson Lab issued the following news release: * * * - Kurtis Bartlett won the 2018 JSA Thesis Prize for making measurements that helped determine the weak charge of the proton * * * Nuclear physicists successfully measured the weak charge of the proton by shooting electrons at a cold liquid hydrogen target in an experiment carried out at the Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Fa  more

LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, July 31 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * - Minor shocks presaged impending main shocks days to weeks before the big event * * * New research mining data from a catalog of more than 1.8 million southern California earthquakes found that nearly three-fourths of the time, foreshocks signalled a quake's readiness to strike from days to weeks before the mainshock hit, a revelation that could advance   more

WASHINGTON, July 29 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * - Research could one day enable accurately predicting earthquakes * * * Numerical simulations have pinpointed the source of acoustic signals emitted by stressed faults in laboratory earthquake machines. The work further unpacks the physics driving geologic faults, knowledge that could one day enable accurately predicting earthquakes. "Previous machine-learning studi  more

LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, July 29 -- Rep. Ben Ray Lujan, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: This week, Congressman Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.), the U.S. House Assistant Speaker, and Congressman Bill Foster (D-IL) will lead a bipartisan congressional delegation on a tour of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, and White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Lujan and Foster will be joined by Congresswoman Deb Haaland (D-N.M.), Congresswoman Xochitl Torres Small (  more

LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, July 31 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * - A new algorithm will allow quantum computers to investigate how the classical world we experience emerges from the quantum world * * * Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have developed a new quantum computing algorithm that offers a clearer understanding of the quantum-to-classical transition, which could help model systems on the cusp of quantum  more

LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, July 29 -- Rep. Debra Haaland, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: This week, Congressman Bill Foster (D-IL) and U.S. House of Representatives Assistant Speaker Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) will lead a bipartisan congressional delegation on a tour of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, and White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Foster and Lujan will be joined by Congresswoman Deb Haaland (D-N.M.), Congresswoman Xochitl Torres Small   more

ARGONNE, Illinois, July 31 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory issued the following news release: Six Argonne Scientists Named Distinguished Fellows. Six leading researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have received international recognition in being named as Argonne Distinguished Fellows. Esen Ercan Alp, Salman Habib, Robert Hill, Christopher Johnson, Stephen Pratt and Valerie Taylor have all received this exemplary recogn  more

MENLO PARK, California, Aug. 1 -- The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * - The SLAC scientists will each receive $2.5 million for their research on fusion energy and advanced radiofrequency technology. * * * Arianna Gleason and Diana Gamzina, staff scientists at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, will receive prestigious Early Career Research Program awards for studies in fusion energy and the development of next-genera  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, July 29 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Two researchers from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have received a 2019 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, or PECASE. David Cullen, of ORNL's Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, and Kate Page, of ORNL's Neutron Scattering Division, are among the more than 300 researchers and engineers from around the nation   more

OAK RIDGE, Tenn., July 29 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Two researchers from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have received a 2019 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, or PECASE. David Cullen, of ORNL's Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, and Kate Page, of ORNL's Neutron Scattering Division, are among the more than 300 researchers and engineers from around the nation to b  more

LOS ANGELES, California, July 29 [TNSscienceresearch] -- The University of California's Los Angeles Campus (UCLA) issued the following news release: * * * - State-funded initiative will provide officials with scientific basis for confronting climate change * * * UCLA scientists are leading a $10 million project to help California officials make ecologically wise decisions as the state continues to confront the effects of climate change. The California Conservation Genomics Project, which is  more