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Thursday, November 30, 2006 Bringing in the ‘Bee Team’Initially, the concept seems too incredible to be possible — train a common honeybee to physically respond to the distinctive smell of specific explosives, then develop a method for measuring or observing that response in order to use the bee’s reaction to the smell of explosives as a natural explosives detector. As incredible as it may seem, Laboratory scientists recently created such a detector under the Stealthy Insect Sensor Project.
Monthly premiums to go up on some insurance plans
Monthly premiums for legal, supplemental disability, and supplemental life insurance for active Los Alamos National Security employees are going up beginning January 1, 2007.
Open enrollment ends today
Los Alamos National Security active employees have until today to make changes to their health care coverage for 2007 during open enrollment.
Director updates work force on security
New administrative controls in classified computing and implementing additional measures of protection are just some of the security improvements the Laboratory has made in response to a recent security incident.
Let it snow!
While Wednesday's first measurable snowfall of the season is nice to look at and maybe even fun to walk in - as this Laboratory employee is doing behind the Administration Building - employees should be cautious when driving. supercomputing
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Roadrunner, a new hybrid computer moves at petaflop/s speed
World's highest magnetic fields help understand materials
Monte Carlo code predicts subatomic particle interactions 