LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, Jan. 15 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news release on Jan. 14: * * * - Researchers reach a critical milestone on the path to versatile colloidal quantum dot laser diodes by successfully demonstrating a quantum dot LED that also operates as an optically pumped laser * * * Los Alamos scientists have incorporated meticulously engineered colloidal quantum dots into a new type of light emitting diodes (LEDs) containi  more

LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, Jan. 15 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news release: * * * - Researchers with the joint US-Mexico-European HAWC Observatory have identified a host of galactic sources of super-high-energy gamma rays * * * Nine sources of extremely high-energy gamma rays comprise a new catalog compiled by researchers with the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Gamma-Ray Observatory. All produce gamma rays with energies over 56 t  more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, Jan. 15 -- The Los Alamos Study Group issued the following news release on Jan. 14: * * * - Press conference and demonstration at noon Wednesday, January 15, Santa Fe City Hall * * * At noon tomorrow, January 15, at the Santa Fe City Hall (map), the Los Alamos Study Group will be holding a press conference and demonstration regarding the City's Midtown District project. We have chosen tomorrow because it is the day on which the City has said it may announce the fina  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 -- The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, a part of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, issued the following news release on Jan. 15: The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, announced today the launch of the Molecular Information Storage (MIST) program. MIST is a multi-year research effort to develop next-generation data storage technologies that can scale into   more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 -- Sen. Tom Udall, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) welcomed the acquisition of the Sulphur Springs property into the Valles Caldera National Preserve. The property contains unique volcanic features such as steaming mud-pots, volcanic fumaroles, and sulphuric-acid hot springs that are rarely found across the world. "Valles Caldera is an awe-inspiring example of our treasured public lands and an i  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 -- Sen. Tom Udall, D-New Mexico, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), and U.S. Representatives Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.), Deb Haaland (D-N.M.), and Xochitl Torres Small (D-N.M.), commended findings from a 2019 economic-impact analysis released Wednesday, which found that Sandia National Laboratories is responsible for creating 1,100 new jobs while contributing $509 million to New Mexico businesses and $96.6 million in  more

HOUSTON, Texas, Jan. 17 [TNSscientificresearch] -- Rice University issued the following news release: * * * - Physicists provide direct evidence of entanglement's role in quantum criticality * * * In a new study, U.S. and Austrian physicists have observed quantum entanglement among "billions of billions" of flowing electrons in a quantum critical material. The research, which appears this week in Science, examined the electronic and magnetic behavior of a "strange metal" compound of ytterbi  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory issued the following news release: Researchers led by C.S. Chang of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have been awarded major supercomputer time to address key issues for ITER, the international experiment under construction in France to demonstrate the practicality of fusion energy. The award, from the DOE's Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theor  more

AMHERST, Massachusetts, Jan. 16 -- The University of Massachusetts Amherst campus issued the following news: Panayotis "Panos" Kevrekidis, Distinguished University Professor and professor of mathematics and statistics, recently was named a member of the 2020 Class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) for "contributions in applied mathematics, especially in the theory and applications of nonlinear waves." He is one of just 52 mathematical scientists from around the world to be r  more