NEW YORK, March 12 -- The Association for Computing Machinery issued the following news release: The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) announced four high school students were selected from among a pool of graduating high school seniors throughout the U.S. for the Cutler-Bell Prize. Eligible students applied for the award by submitting a project/artifact that engages modern technology and computer science. A panel of judges selected t  more

LIVERMORE, California, March 13 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news release: At its peak, a NIF inertial confinement fusion (ICF) implosion lasts about 100 trillionths of a second. The imploded fuel is a hundred millionths of a meter in diameter and as much as eight times denser than lead. The center of the imploded capsule is a few times hotter than the core of the sun. Developing a clear understanding of exactly what's happening  more

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, March 10 -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release on March 9: Though fuel cell technology has been studied by researchers worldwide for the past 150 years, LSU Chemical Engineering Assistant Professor Chris Arges is about to change the landscape of renewable energy. He recently received a $500,000, two-year grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to optimize materials manufacturing for fuel cells--environmentally friendly power sources, as they on  more

WASHINGTON, March 11 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration issued the following news release: The Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) has posted for public comment a draft Supplement Analysis to the 2008 Site-wide Environmental Impact Statement (SWEIS) for Continued Operations of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). The document examines whether the environmental impacts associated with expanded plutonium pit product  more

AUSTIN, Texas, March 11 [TNSmedicalresearch] -- The University of Texas issued the following news release on March 10: Texans who are college-educated, live in suburban or urban areas, have higher median incomes and are ethnically white are less likely to vaccinate their children, according to analysis by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin. The findings could help public health officials identify pockets of low vaccination rates where communities within the state are at higher ris  more

PULLMAN, Washington, March 10 [TNSenergyresearch] -- Washington State University issued the following news release on March 9: A breakthrough into splitting water into its parts could help make renewable energy pay off, even when the sun isn't shining and the wind isn't blowing. Using solar and wind power when it is available for water splitting, a process that uses electricity to split H2O into hydrogen and oxygen, offers a way to store energy in the form of hydrogen fuel. Currently the most  more