ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Dec. 2 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release: * * * - Former Sandia executive returns to lead the nation's largest lab * * * Dr. James S. Peery has been named the next Director of Sandia National Laboratories, the country's largest National Laboratory. Peery, who began his career at the Labs in 1990, succeeds Dr. Stephen Younger, who is retiring at the end of 2019. Peery becomes the 16th Laboratories Direct  more

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 2 -- The University of Texas issued the following news release: The University of Texas at Austin has named Claudia Mora the next dean of the Jackson School of Geosciences. Her appointment will begin February 1, 2020. Dean-designate Mora comes to UT Austin from Los Alamos National Laboratory, where she serves as the deputy division leader of the Chemistry Division. In this role, she helps lead five diverse technical groups conducting research and development in actinide che  more

ARGONNE, Illinois, Dec. 3 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory issued the following news release: The concentration of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere is steadily increasing, and many scientists believe that it is causing impacts in our environment. Recently, scientists have sought ways to recapture some of the carbon in the atmosphere and potentially turn it into usable fuel -- which would be a holy grail for sustainable energy production. In a recent study from the  more