ARGONNE, Illinois, April 30 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory issued the following news release: Alzheimer's disease is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States, affecting one in 10 people over the age of 65. Scientists are engineering nanodevices to disrupt processes in the brain that lead to the disease. People who are affected by Alzheimer's disease have a specific type of plaque, made of self-assembled molecules called Beta-amyloid (ABeta) peptides  more

WASHINGTON, April 28 -- The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board's Resident Inspector in Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following weekly report: Memorandum For: Christopher J. Roscetti, Technical Director From: J.W. Plaue and D. Gutowski, Resident Inspectors Subject: Los Alamos Activity Report for Week Ending April 3, 2020 COVID-19 Impacts: The laboratory's operational posture remains similar to the end of last week (see 3/27/2020 report). Developments this week include: * On   more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, April 28 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories issued the following news release: A team of researchers led by Sandia National Laboratories have invented a first-of-its-kind software for scientists to create accurate digital representations of complex objects. The new software, VoroCrust, offers a novel way to create digital representations, called meshes, which are used by scientists in many disciplines that work with geometric models of all   more

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, May 1 -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release: A new algorithm could enable faster, less expensive detection of weapons-grade nuclear materials at borders, quickly differentiating between benign and illicit radiation signatures in the same cargo. The development is a collaboration among researchers at the University of Michigan, University of Illinois, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh, Scotland) and University of Edi  more