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Milestone Reached: Waste Shipment Leaves Los Alamos National Laboratory
June 2 — Los Alamos National Laboratory officials today announced the departure of the Laboratory’s first shipment of a special type of radioactive waste destined for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, New Mexico.
Solar and Nuclear Energy Expertise to be Enhanced by Research Centers
May 12 — Solar- and nuclear-energy technology advancements from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) could help the nation in its quest to capture viable sources of alternative energy, thanks to funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science.
Los Alamos Researchers Create 'Map of Science'
March 11 — Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have produced the world's first Map of Science—a high-resolution graphic depiction of the virtual trails scientists leave behind when they retrieve information from online services.
Search for Earth-like Planets includes LANL Star Analysis
March 6 — The Kepler space telescope is set to launch today from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at about 8:50 p.m. MST, and a group of scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory will be watching with keen interest.
Research Highlights Potential for Improved Solar Cells
February 10 — A team of Los Alamos researchers led by Victor Klimov has shown that carrier multiplication—when a photon creates multiple electrons—is a real phenomenon in tiny semiconductor crystals and not a false observation born of extraneous effects that mimic carrier multiplication.
Los Alamos notifies employees, visitors of possible beryllium exposure
January 28 — The Laboratory is notifying approximately 1,890 current and former employees and authorized visitors of potential exposure to beryllium based on recently discovered beryllium contamination at one of the Lab's technical areas.
Los Alamos Observatory Fingers Cosmic Ray 'Hot Spots'
November 24 — A Laboratory cosmic-ray observatory has seen for the first time two distinct hot spots that appear to be bombarding Earth with an excess of cosmic rays.
Laboratory Begins Environmental Sampling in Townsite
September 25 — Environmental sampling, conducted on behalf of Los Alamos National Laboratory in the town of Los Alamos near upper Los Alamos Canyon, has begun.
Los Alamos Shares Nano 50 Award for Directed Assembly
September 3 — A team of scientists has discovered a more efficient way of fusing charge-carrying electrical contacts to tiny “nanowires” of silicon to create the nanotechnology at the heart of potential future advances in modern electronics, sensing, and energy collection.
Magnetism and Superconductivity Observed to Exist in Harmony
August 28 — Physicists at the Laboratory, along with colleagues at institutions in Switzerland and Canada, have observed, for the first time in a single exotic phase, a situation where magnetism and superconductivity are necessary for each other's existence.
Approaches to renewable energy storage focus of Frontiers in Science talk
August 21 — The science of renewable energy storage and how nanotechnology can benefit that science is the subject of the Laboratory’s next Frontiers in Science Lecture beginning August 26.
Lab Scientists Shed Light on Heavy Electrons, Suggest New View of Superconductivity
July 30 — Scientists from the Laboratory, the University of California, Irvine, and the University of California, Davis have proposed a new characterization for the bizarre behavior of certain super-cooled materials.
Ancient Galactic Magnetic Fields Stronger than Expected
July 23 — Mining the far reaches of the universe for clues about its past, a team of scientists including Philipp Kronberg of the Laboratory has proposed that magnetic fields of ancient galaxies like ours were just as strong as those existing today, prompting a rethinking of how our galaxy and others may have formed.
Lab Partners with Local Company to Market Protein Technology
July 14 — Scientists who study how proteins assemble and fold into distinct shapes may soon see shape-shifting in the very methods they use, thanks to a partnership between Los Alamos National Laboratory and Theranostech Inc., an Albuquerque-based biotechnology company.
Electronic Structure of Superconductivity Refined
July 10 — A team of physicists, including Neil Harrison and Charles Mielke from Los Alamos National Laboratory, propose a new model that expands on a little understood aspect of the electronic structure in high-temperature superconductors.
Astronomy Days lectures begin July 8 at Bradbury Science Museum
July 2 — A series of six evening lectures that focus on astronomy and the space sciences begins Tuesday, July 8, at Los Alamos Laboratory's Bradbury Science Museum.
Roadrunner supercomputer puts research at a new scale
June 12 — Less than a week after Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Roadrunner supercomputer began operating at world-record petaflop/s data-processing speeds, Los Alamos researchers are already using the computer to mimic extremely complex neurological processes.
Turning fungus into fuel
May 4 — A spidery fungus with a voracious appetite for military uniforms and canvas tents could hold the key to improvements in the production of biofuels, a team of government, academic and industry researchers has announced.
Supercomputing Challenge April 21-22
April 17 — More than 250 New Mexico middle- and high-school students will be at LANL next Monday and Tuesday (April 21-22) for judging and awards in the 18th annual New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge.
Los Alamos Technology to be Featured on CSI: NY
March 27 — A state-of-the-art, multipurpose sampling device developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory will be used in an episode of Crime Scene Investigation-New York (CSI: NY) scheduled to air at 9 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time April 2 on CBS.
Los Alamos Technologies Help Scientists Detect, Record & Interpret 'Monster' Burst of Gamma Rays
March 21 — On the ground and in space, Los Alamos National Laboratory’s science tools provided early information on the first gamma ray burst so powerful that it could be seen with the naked eye. The burst was detected March 19 by NASA's Swift satellite, thanks to software on Swift’s Burst Alert Telescope, which was the first instrument to detect the sudden rise in gamma rays.
Language of a fly proves surprising
March 10 — A group of researchers has developed a novel way to view the world through the eyes of a common fly and partially decode the insect's reactions to changes in the world around it.
Saturn's Moon Rhea Sports a Dusty Halo
March 6 — Who'd have guessed that Saturn has its own moon-sized vacuum cleaners, circling the ringed planet and sucking up electrons from the plasma at the orbit of the icy moons. Or that one of Saturn's moons has its very own vacuum in the form of a hitherto-unknown dust halo, not quite visible as a ring, around the midsection of Rhea, discovered by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Cassini is carrying among its instruments a pair of ion-mass and ion-beam spectrometers built by Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Synthetic Fuel Concept to Steal CO2 From Air
February 12 — Los Alamos National Laboratory has developed a low-risk, transformational concept, called Green Freedom™, for large-scale production of carbon-neutral, sulfur-free fuels and organic chemicals from air and water.
Laboratory Disputes Citizens' Lawsuit
February 7 — Los Alamos National Laboratory officials today expressed surprise to a lawsuit alleging noncompliance with the federal Clean Water Act filed today by citizens groups against Los Alamos National Security LLC and the U.S. Department of Energy.
Los Alamos National Laboratory to Begin DARHT 2 Operations
January 29 — The Dual Axis Radiographic Hydrodynamic Test (DARHT) facility has officially become "dual" with authorization to begin full power operations of Axis 2, adding both new capability and higher energy to the unique accelerator facility.
Earthquake 'Memory' Could Spur Aftershocks
January 3 — Using a novel device that simulates earthquakes in a laboratory setting, a Los Alamos researcher and his colleagues have shown that seismic waves - the sounds radiated from earthquakes - can induce earthquake aftershocks, often long after a quake has subsided.
Science Satellites Scour Skies for Santa
December 20 — International audiences (young and young-at-heart) will be closely eyeing the Santa-tracking satellite technology of Los Alamos National Laboratory in the coming week.
The Quest for a New Class of Superconductors
December 20 — Fifty years after the Nobel-prize winning explanation of how superconductors work, a research team from Los Alamos National Laboratory, the University of Edinburgh, and Cambridge University are suggesting another mechanism for the still-mysterious phenomenon.
Collaboration Yields 'The Right Glasses' for Observing Mystery Behavior in Electrons
December 13 — In collaboration with the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies at Los Alamos, an international team of researchers has, for the first time, viewed on a nanoscale the formation of mysterious metallic puddles that facilitate the transition of an electrically insulating material into an electrically conducting one.
A One-Two Punch That Makes You See Stars
November 15 — A Los Alamos National Laboratory astrophysicist and his colleagues have discovered that a superbright supernova observed last year might have exhibited an unusual one-two punch.
Immunodeficiency Virus More Prolific than Previously Thought
November 13 — A Los Alamos National Laboratory mathematical model has helped an international research team understand for the first time the number of offspring produced by a single Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV), the first-cousin of the virus that causes AIDS in humans.
ASPECT plane deploys to Southern California wildfires
October 26 — At 6:30 (Mountain Daylight Time) Thursday morning, the ASPECT plane – a one-of-a-kind emergency response tool operated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and supported by Los Alamos National Laboratory – deployed to the wildfires of Southern California.
Plethora of Papers Proves Crashed Mission a Success
October 23 — Despite a resounding crunch into the Utah desert floor in 2004, scientists have mined a treasure trove of data from the Genesis mission.
Cancer Treatment Gets Software Boost
October 16 — Nearly a million cancer patients will undergo radiation therapy this year in the United States, and now a new software application, Acuros®, based on the Los Alamos National Laboratory-developed Attila® radiation-modeling software, will enable physicians to focus their beams more precisely on specific tumor sites.
Grand Plans for a Dawn Launch
September 25 — NASA's Dawn mission, ready for launch Thursday from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carries an instrument ready to determine the elemental composition of the asteroid belt.
Facility upgrades will facilitate repackaging and shipment of 'hotter' waste from Los Alamos to WIPP
September 20 — Los Alamos National Laboratory has completed much-anticipated upgrades to its transuranic waste repackaging facility.
Test of Through-The-Earth Communication System Exceeds Expectations
August 6 — Rigorous testing at the Lake Lynn Experimental Mine last month proved the viability of Vital Alert Technologies' system,Through-The-Earth Communication system, for emergency warning, evacuation, and rescue communications.
Understanding Killer Electrons in Space
July 10 — Settling a long-standing scientific debate, Los Alamos scientists have demonstrated conclusively how electromagnetic waves accelerate ordinary electrons in the belts of radiation outside Earth's atmosphere to a state where they become "killer electrons," particles that are hazardous to satellites, spacecraft, and astronauts.
Local company gets Laboratory environmental remediation contract
June 27 — Accelerated Remediation Company, a local small business with offices in Los Alamos, received a contract from Los Alamos National Laboratory to begin remediation of an historic waste site known as Material Disposal Area B.
Mars Rover Laser Tool Ready for Testing
June 21 — Mars mission Job One: Get there. Job Two: Find rocks and zap them with your laser tool.
Laboratory Sponsors Science Weekend in Albuquerque
June 20 — Los Alamos National Laboratory is sponsoring a one-day science carnival on Saturday, June 23, at the Albuquerque Convention Center.
Scientists Model Hepatitis C Virus
May 24 — One of the most common life-threatening viral infections in the United States today is hepatitis C virus (HCV). The standard treatment is successful in only about 50 percent of treated HCV chronic patients, with no effective alternative treatment for those who fail to clear the virus.
Frontiers in Science Lecture Series Mixes it Up
May 17 — Robert Ecke, a Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist, will discuss “The Turbulent World: How Nature Mixes Things Up” at a Frontiers in Science Public Lecture Series, beginning Monday (May 21).
Tracking a deadly bacillus
May 17 — Recently, Los Alamos scientists devised an improved method for distinguishing Bacillus anthracis (the bacterial cause of anthrax) from its close cousins Bacillus cereus.
Solar Wind Slowed by Helium, Researchers Suggest
May 16 — Like a sea anchor slacking the pace of a wind-driven ship, helium may be the drag that slows the solar wind in its million-mile-per-hour rush across the cosmos.
Genome Institute Reaches Milestone with a Mighty Microbe
May 8 — Los Alamos scientists working as part of the Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute (JGI) recently finished the genetic code of Shewanella baltica OS185 as its 100th genomic sequence.
Los Alamos Recovery Team Sets New Record
May 7 — With the delivery of a batch of radioactive pellets from a company in California, a Los Alamos team has now recovered 15,000 unused or unwanted radioactive sources.
Laboratory installing 'sentinel well'
May 3 — The Laboratory has taken the next step toward protecting Los Alamos drinking water from byproducts of a chromium-based corrosion inhibitor that was discharged into the environment more than three decades ago.
Scientists discover vast intergalactic plasma cloud
April 19 — A team of researchers have discovered a new giant in the heavens, a giant in the form of a previously undetected cloud of intergalactic plasma that stretches more than 6 million light years across.
Sue Stiger to manage environmental cleanup at Los Alamos National Laboratory
April 19 — Sue Stiger has been named associate director for environmental programs at Los Alamos National Laboratory, announced Laboratory Director Michael Anastasio.
Scientists discover the roots of the fast pace of life in big cities
April 16 — Humanity has crossed a historic threshold where a majority of people worldwide now live in cities. Yet, even as the debate on how humans impact the natural environment grows, urbanization and its consequences remains poorly understood.
Los Alamos scientists take genome science to the streets
April 13 — Late last year, the Los Alamos arm of the Joint Genome Institute organized an outreach team dedicated to taking genome science activities to students in Northern New Mexico. This spring, the team created presentations about genome sequencing as well as hands-on activities for junior high and high school students.
GRaND science instrument moves closer to launch from Cape
April 10 — A mission back in time is nearing the launch pad minute by minute. The Dawn spacecraft, NASA’s mission into the heart of the asteroid belt, arrived at Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Florida, today for final processing and launch operations.
Scientists develop ecological early warning device
April 9 — Working with collaborators from around the globe, scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a method for constantly measuring climate change impacts at ecosystem scales using the stable isotope composition of atmospheric CO2 in plants.
Risky business highlighted in symposium
March 21 — Los Alamos National Laboratory is hosting its second annual symposium on “Risk Analysis in Homeland Security and Defense: Theory and Application,” March 26-28 at the La Fonda Hotel on the Plaza in Santa Fe.
Contemplating the far away future of computing
March 20 — An unprecedented and multidisciplinary group of world-renowned scientists will gather this week in Santa Fe looking far into the future for the most promising ideas about what computers and computing may be like many decades from now.
A more complex HIV family tree discovered
March 15 — Adding another component into an already complicated effort to identify weaknesses within HIV, a team of Los Alamos scientists discovered that HIV variation in the human population is driven by more than a person's immune response.
'Software glasses' clarify view of lunar thorium
March 15 — Using a novel approach to data analysis, a sharper pair of “software glasses,” scientists are taking a closer look at spectroscopic Moon images to better understand how that body was formed.
Scientists develop new terahertz material
March 14 — Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have created a device for manipulating terahertz (THz) radiation. The device could be the basis for novel electronics and photonics applications ranging from new imaging methods to advanced communication technologies.
Newest radiation detectors in development
March 12 — Development and commercialization of a new generation of multiplicity shift registers - devices used to better detect plutonium and other radioactive materials - are now underway.
NNSA satellite launched on Atlas-5 rocket
March 9 — A small-but-smart satellite experiment, the Cibola Flight Experiment (CFE) developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory for the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), launched at 10:10 p.m. EST last night aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas-5 rocket and was successfully placed in orbit 350 miles above Earth.
Director announces management change
March 6 — In a message to Los Alamos National Laboratory employees, Director Mike Anastasio announced that he has reluctantly accepted a request from Andy Phelps, Associate Director for Environmental Programs, to be reassigned to other duties.
Storms and society: where things go wrong
February 26 — Tying images of a powerful ice storm to scenes of downed power lines and darkened homes does not take a great leap of imagination - but the science of their interrelationships is more complex.
Radioactive liquid waste treatment facility upgrades completed
February 26 — Los Alamos National Laboratory has completed refurbishments to its high-level Radioactive Liquid Waste Treatment Facility waste tanks and collection system at Technical Area-50.
Laboratory sponsors Santa Fe Neural Computation conference
February 16 — Understanding the computational power of the brain is the focus of a conference in Santa Fe next week sponsored by Los Alamos National Laboratory's Center for Nonlinear Studies and the New Mexico Institute for Advanced Studies (NMIAS).
Los Alamos National Laboratory deploys climate station in Germany
February 13 — From the tropical islands of the Western Pacific to the lush forests of Southwest Germany, Los Alamos National Laboratory is taking global climate research by storm as an integral player in the U.S. Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program (ARM).
Los Alamos scientists announce quantum cryptography advance
December 21 — Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder have demonstrated unconditionally secure quantum key distribution (QKD) over a record-setting 107 kilometers of optical fiber.
Avian influenza subject of Frontiers in Science talk
December 4 — Los Alamos National Laboratory has uniquely capable scientists eyeing the coming risk of a pandemic flu, and several of them have agreed to serve on a panel for the first of an upcoming Frontiers in Science lecture.
Nine Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists honored as American Physical Society Fellows
December 1 — Nine Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists were selected as Fellows of the American Physical Society (APS).
Detecting explosives with honeybees
November 27 — Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a method for training the common honey bee to detect the explosives used in bombs.
Bradbury Science Museum talk 'shakes things up'
November 21 — Los Alamos National Laboratory researcher Emily Schultz will talk about earthquake hazards during a presentation November 27 at the Laboratory's Bradbury Science Museum.
Learning the magnetic ropes
November 16 — At the Sun's edge, in a region called the heliosphere, magnetic fields and electrical currents align and twist themselves in massive three-dimensional structures called "magnetic flux ropes."
Sudbury Neutrino Observatory wins first Polanyi Award
November 15 — Scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory are part of an international collaboration of researchers at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) receiving the inaugural John C. Polanyi Award for its groundbreaking research on neutrinos.
Biosafety committee to hold meeting November 14
November 13 — Los Alamos National Laboratory's Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) will hold its quarterly meeting starting at 10 a.m. Tuesday, November 14.
One-of-a-kind magnet open for science
October 24 — The world's most powerful pulsed, nondestructive magnet is now ready to explore the frontiers of high magnetic field science - after 10 years of research, major instrument development, and construction.
New computer model to track contaminants
October 17 — A powerful new massively parallel computer model for studying subsurface processes in the Earth will be developed by a team of Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists.
Los Alamos licenses avian flu modeling and simulation software
October 12 — Santa Fe-based CIVA (The Company for Information Visualization and Analysis) signed an agreement to license Los Alamos National Laboratory's epidemiological modeling and simulation system, called EpiCast.
Less expensive fuel cell may be possible
October 3 — Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a new class of hydrogen fuel-cell catalysts that exhibit promising activity and stability.
Los Alamos scientist to speak about optical refrigeration
September 18 — Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist Richard Epstein will describe the unusual and counterintuitive practice of using lasers to cool certain materials at a "Frontiers in Science" series lecture in Albuquerque.
Supercomputing satellite hits the road
August 31 — A satellite smaller than an armchair is departing Los Alamos National Laboratory this week, heading for a last phase of testing before its December launch.
Laboratory sets high magnetic field records
August 31 — Scientists at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory's Pulsed Field Facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory have set a pair of world records.
Plasma assisted engines fuel efficient, cleaner
August 29 — Gasoline, diesel, and turbine engines could soon burn cleaner or be more fuel efficient through the application of Plasma Assisted Combustion, a technology originated and developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and now poised to enter the marketplace.
Los Alamos National Laboratory's hurricane response wins medal
August 24 — The Environmental Protection Agency this week recognized members of the Los Alamos National Laboratory Integrated Reachback Center.
Los Alamos partners with CNT Technologies to commercialize SuperThread(tm) carbon-nanotube fiber
August 21 — Los Alamos National Laboratory has licensed its carbon nanotube technology to a new commercial partner, Seattle-based CNT Technologies Inc. (CNT Tech).
Seeing the unseen universe
July 31 — A new method for incorporating astronomical observational data into computer simulations promises to be a significant advance in enabling future cosmological surveys aimed at understanding dark energy and dark matter.
Making a safer bang for the buck - Los Alamos Research Team Identifies Replacements for Mercury and Lead in Primary Explosives
June 30 — Four ground-breaking families of environmentally friendly primary explosives under development at Los Alamos National Laboratory are featured this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Astronomy Days kicks off Tuesday at Bradbury Science Museum
June 16 — The Bradbury Science Museum's ninth annual Astronomy Day lectures begin on Tuesday (June 20).
Biosafety committee to hold meeting June 13
June 8 — Los Alamos National Laboratory's Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) will hold its quarterly meeting starting at 10 a.m. Tuesday, June 13.
Scientists predict pulsar starquakes
June 5 — Scientists have discovered how to predict earthquake-like events in pulsars, the dense remains of exploded stars.
Raiders of the lost dimension
June 1 — A team of scientists working at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory's Pulsed Field Facility at Los Alamos has uncovered an intriguing phenomenon while studying magnetic waves in barium copper silicate.
Anthrax relatives non-friendly but non-lethal
May 10 — A Los Alamos National Laboratory team working as part of the U. S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute has explored the genomes of non-lethal bacteria closely related to the cause of anthrax, Bacillus anthracis.
Space-based supercomputer in design at Los Alamos
April 26 — Los Alamos National Laboratory today announced funding of a new space payload which dramatically increases on-orbit computational capabilities.
Mathematical code for inverses wins top prize for Manzano High student team at Los Alamos Supercomputing Challenge
April 25 — A pair of budding mathematicians from Albuquerque Manzano High School who wrote mathematical codes typical of those used in cryptography and mathematical error correction captured the top prize in the New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge.
Avian flu modeled on supercomputer, explores vaccine and isolation options for thwarting a pandemic
April 3 — Using supercomputers to respond to a potential national health emergency, scientists have developed a simulation model that makes stark predictions about the possible future course of an avian influenza pandemic, given today’s environment of world-wide connectivity.
Scientists observe solitary vibrations in uranium
March 30 — Los Alamos scientists, working with collaborators from around the world, recently observed experimental evidence of solitary vibrations (solitons) in a solid.
Laboratory receives latest data on chromium in regional aquifer
March 17 — Los Alamos National Laboratory has just completed a comprehensive groundwater sampling effort to test for levels of chromium in the groundwater.
Cassini measures geysers of Saturn's moon Enceladus
March 10 — Cassini data obtained during a close flyby of the Saturn moon Enceladus support an observation that large amounts of water are spewing into space from the tiny moon's surface.
Research reveals hidden magnetism in superconductivity
March 7 — While studying a compound made of the elements cerium- rhodium-indium, researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have discovered that a magnetic state can coexist with superconductivity in a specific temperature and pressure range.
New gallium nitride film method beats the heat
February 21 — A team of Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have developed a method for growing crystalline gallium nitride films at lower temperatures than industry standards.
Los Alamos, LSU Hurricane Center, join forces
February 13 — Understanding hurricanes and their effects is a specialty for the Louisiana State University's Hurricane Center, and now they will have an additional set of tools and scientific expertise with which to work.
New technologies enhance quantum cryptography
February 2 — A team of Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists, in collaboration with researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colo., and Albion College, in Albion, Mich., have achieved quantum key distribution (QKD) at telecommunications industry wavelengths in a 50-kilometer (31 mile) optical fiber.
The little beam that could: Laser-driven ion beams offer multiple uses
January 31 — Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Nevada, Reno, Ludwig-Maximilian-University in Germany, and the Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics in Germany, have developed a new method for using a laser beam to accelerate ions.
Tiny crystals promise big benefits for solar technologies
January 4 — Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have discovered that a phenomenon called carrier multiplication, in which semiconductor nanocrystals respond to photons by producing multiple electrons, is applicable to a broader array of materials that previously thought.
High energy gamma rays may emanate in the Milky Way
December 14 — Los Alamos scientists have evidence from the Laboratory's Milagro telescope that TeV (one trillion electron volts) gamma rays, the most energetic form of electromagnetic radiation known, can originate in the plane of the Milky Way galaxy.
Fault expansions on Pajarito Plateau subject of talk Wednesday at Bradbury Science Museum
December 2 — A Los Alamos National Laboratory technical staff member will talk about fault expansions on the Pajarito Plateau of the Rio Grande rift in north central New Mexico at a talk Dec. 7 in the Bradbury Science Museum.
Talk at Laboratory's Bradbury Science Museum Tuesday on Cerro Grande Fire impacts to vegetation, elk population
December 1 — Los Alamos National Laboratory technical staff member Susan Rupp will speak about the effects of the 2000 Cerro Grande Fire on elk and vegetation in Bandelier National Monument at a talk Tuesday (Dec. 6) in the Bradbury Science Museum.
Los Alamos-led team to sequence entire NT biological database on greengene distributed supercomputer
November 18 — Award-winning Los Alamos National Laboratory-developed software is helping researchers here and elsewhere better understand a database of biological information and enable a plethora of biological studies from organism "barcoding" to gene function and evolution.
Math contest encourages students to Go Figure
November 15 — Budding mathematicians are invited to compete in Los Alamos National Laboratory's seventh annual Go Figure Mathematical Challenge Saturday (Nov. 19) in Santa Fe, Los Alamos and Española.
Journey to inside the sun: talk Tuesday at Bradbury Science Museum
November 9 — That bright shining star in the sky, the sun, vibrates like a giant bell with its acoustic modes measured to develop general notions of its interior structure with a high degree of precision.
Los Alamos tracks influenza genetic codes
November 4 — In the same way that the FBI archives the fingerprints of criminals nationwide, Los Alamos National Laboratory archives the genetic codes for influenza strains worldwide.
Bradbury Science Museum talk focuses on getting people to Mars
November 4 — Los Alamos National Laboratory technical staff member Elizabeth (Betsy) Cantwell will talk about some of the critical risks for ambitious manned flights beyond Earth's low orbit in a talk Nov. 9 at Los Alamos' Bradbury Science Museum.
Los Alamos, UC, Santa Cruz to form partnership for scientific data management
November 1 — The University of California, Santa Cruz and Los Alamos National Laboratory have agreed to establish a new collaborative institute for research and education in the area of scientific data management.
Largest computational biology simulation mimics life's most essential nanomachine
October 19 — Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have set a new world's record by performing the first million-atom computer simulation in biology. Using the "Q Machine" supercomputer, Los Alamos computer scientists have created a molecular simulation of the cell's protein-making structure, the ribosome.
Drought, heat and bark beetles a deadly trio
October 11 — Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory, working in collaboration with scientists from the University of Arizona, Northern Arizona University, the U. S. Geological Survey, and four additional universities, believe that severe drought, coupled with high temperatures and a bark beetle coup de grace, was the cause of death for millions of piñon pines throughout the American Southwest.
Bradbury Science Museum talk focuses on getting people to Mars
September 6 — Los Alamos National Laboratory technical staff member Elizabeth (Betsy) Cantwell will talk about some of the critical risks for ambitious manned flights beyond Earth's low orbit in a talk Sept. 13 at Los Alamos' Bradbury Science Museum. The talk begins at noon and is free and open to the public.
Los Alamos scientist to speak on gamma ray bursts
September 2 — A few times a day a special type of massive star transforms itself into a black hole, simultaneously collapsing and ejecting material in a jet that moves very close to the speed of light. During their fleeting existence, these jets flood much of the universe with an enormous burst of gamma rays.
Bioforensics Analysis Research and Development Center created at Los Alamos
August 29 — In October 2001, "anthrax- letters" laden with B. anthracis bacteria spores appeared in various locations around the nation. To help authorities trace the source of the deadly letters, bioforensic analysts, Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists among them, worked diligently to pinpoint the specific strain of bacteria used.
Using computers and DNA to count bacteria, measure effects of metal toxicity in soil
August 26 — Don't call them the Dirt Doctors, or Sultans of Soil, they're just clever Lab guys. A team from Los Alamos National Laboratory has a paper in this week's Science Magazine with a new way to count bugs in dirt. Bacteria, that is, in the highly complex world beneath our feet.
Sealed sources leave the Hill, destined for WIPP
August 17 — In the first shipment since May 2003, fourteen 55-gallon drums of radioactive sealed sources were shipped from storage at Los Alamos National Laboratory to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) on Thursday, July 28.
Who goes there . . . Species flourishing is feather in Lab cap
July 28 — For the first time since the Cerro Grande Fire, Laboratory ecologists have spotted three Mexican Spotted Owl chicks on Laboratory property. The Mexican spotted owl (Strix occidentalis lucida) was listed as a threatened species in 1993.
Two Laboratory technologies receive nanoscience awards
July 21 — Two technologies developed by University of California scientists working at Los Alamos National Laboratory have been named winners in the 2005 Nano 50(tm) Award competition by Nanotech Briefs, a digital publication from the publishers of NASA Tech Briefs.
Math summer school may help with information overload
July 15 — A small band of mathematicians are working on life rafts and flotation devices that just may help the millions who are drowning in the stormy seas of too much information.
Los Alamos to host international accelerator conference
July 11 — Los Alamos National Laboratory will host an international conference on particle accelerator technology that could draw up to 1,500 scientists and engineers from all over the world.
Los Alamos to host Mars talk
July 11 — Members of the media are invited to a talk on Mars exploration at Los Alamos National Laboratory, beginning at 9:30-10:30 a.m. Wednesday (July 13).
Innovative protein-analysis center funded at Los Alamos
July 11 — The Bioscience Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory has a new center dedicated to the study of the molecular machines in our cells -- proteins. Because proteins are integral to most cell functions, as well as to cell-cell communication, they are a valuable component in medical research.
Los Alamos executes successful hydrotest for W76 maintenance
June 30 — Staff from Los Alamos National Laboratory's Dynamic Experimentation Division, supported by hundreds of scientists, engineers, technicians and others from many Laboratory divisions, have successfully executed a major stockpile stewardship experiment.
Los Alamos experts' book explores advances in reconfigurable computing
June 22 — The field of computing has been transformed by the concept of widgets called Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), integrated circuits combining logic and memory, that can process digital information.
Scientists put the squeeze on electron spins
June 15 — University of California scientists working at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a novel method for controlling and measuring electron spins in semiconductor crystals of GaAs (gallium arsenide). The work suggests an alternative--and perhaps even superior--method of spin manipulation for future generations of "semiconductor spintronic" devices.
Robotic telescope discovery sheds new light on gamma-ray bursts
May 18 — A new type of light was detected from a recent gamma-ray burst, as discovered by Los Alamos National Laboratory and NASA scientists using both burst-detection satellites and a Los Alamos-based robotic telescope.
UC San Diego and Los Alamos National Laboratory establish engineering institute
May 18 — The University of California, San Diego and Los Alamos National Laboratory have forged a partnership for education, research and technology advancement that builds on a research-focused education initiative with the UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering.
Scientists develop novel multi-color light-emitting diodes
May 17 — A team of University of California scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed the first completely inorganic, multi-color light-emitting diodes (LEDs) based on colloidal quantum dots encapsulated in a gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductor.
Talk on reducing the global nuclear threat May 17 at Laboratory's Bradbury Science Museum
May 13 — Reducing the global nuclear threat is the subject of a talk May 17 by Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist Sara Scott. The talk is at noon in the Bradbury Science Museum downtown and is free and open to the public.
Laboratory to provide technical assistance to Valles Caldera National Preserve
May 10 — Los Alamos National Laboratory will provide technical expertise to assist the Valles Caldera National Preserve with environmental and geological research that will lead to a greater understanding of the Preserve.
Cancer study earns top honors for ABQ Academy's Baca, Shah at Los Alamos Supercomputing Challenge
April 26 — A pair of budding computer geniuses from Albuquerque Academy who designed software to probe how cancer develops captured the top prize Tuesday during awards ceremonies for the New Mexico High School Adventures in Supercomputing Challenge held at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Nuclear physics for stockpile stewardship focus of talk April 26 at Laboratory's Bradbury Science Museum
April 21 — Nuclear physics for stockpile stewardship and homeland security is the subject of a talk April 26 by Los Alamos National Laboratory physicist Anna Hayes. The talk is at noon in the Bradbury Science Museum downtown and is free and open to the public.
Adventures in Supercomputing Challenge awards at Los Alamos on April 26
April 20 — More than 120 New Mexico high-school students will be at Los Alamos National Laboratory Monday and Tuesday (April 25-26) for judging and awards in the 15th annual New Mexico Adventures in Supercomputing Challenge Expo.
Scientists propose new method for studying ion channel kinetics
April 18 — Scientists working at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a new method for the study of ion channel gating kinetics.
Scientists model physics of stellar burning
April 14 — A University of California scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory working with astronomers from around the world recently validated a computer model that predicts the rebirth and stellar burning and mixing processes of evolved stars.
Study uncovers bacteria's worst enemy
April 14 — University of California scientists working at Los Alamos National Laboratory have found that the successful use of bacteria to remediate environmental contamination from nuclear waste and processing activities may depend more upon how resistant the bacteria are to chemicals than to how tolerant they are to radioactivity.
Airborne Los Alamos instruments test for toxins from fires
April 12 — A unique hazard-detecting plane, supported by scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory and operated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, was on duty to warn first responders and residents with information about potential chemical hazards during a recent Houston oil refinery disaster.
Los Alamos developing new eclipse-based tools for high-performance parallel computers
April 12 — Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Eclipse Foundation today announced the Parallel Tools Platform Project, a new Eclipse Technology project aimed at creating better open source software tools for parallel computers.
Los Alamos helps Texas schools remove radioactive gammators
April 12 — Crews hired by the state of Texas and advised by Los Alamos National Laboratory have recovered three large radioactive sources from high schools in San Antonio, the latest success in the Laboratory's nationwide effort for the National Nuclear Security Administration's program to reduce security and other risks associated with radioactive material.
Successful Los Alamos experiment supports weapon maintenance
April 4 — Using the world's most powerful flash X-ray machine, Los Alamos National Laboratory on Friday successfully detonated and captured a high-resolution X-ray image of a mock-up of imploding nuclear weapon components.
Researchers bridge superconductivity gap
March 31 — University of California scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory working with a researcher from Chonnam National University in South Korea have found that magnetic fluctuations appear to be responsible for superconductivity in a compound called plutonium-cobalt-pentagallium (PuCoGa5).
Researchers develop fingerprint detection technology
March 21 — University of California scientists working at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a novel method for detecting fingerprints based on the chemical elements present in fingerprint residue. Known as micro-X-ray fluorescence, or MXRF, the technique has the potential to help expand the use of fingerprinting as a forensic investigation tool.
Snow brings green machining to Laboratory
March 16 — University of California scientists working at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a novel machining technique that uses a jet of solid carbon dioxide (CO2) to cool/lubricate the surface of metal parts and remove the cut material during machining. Called Snow-Machining, the process could someday eliminate the use of oil-based or synthetic chemical fluids for metal cutting and metal parts cleaning in industry.
Los Alamos and UNM begin medical isotope collaboration
March 7 — Los Alamos National Laboratory Director Pete Nanos will participate in a signing ceremony with representatives from the state of New Mexico, including Governor Bill Richardson, and the University of New Mexico, including UNM President Louis Caldera, to establish the New Mexico Center for Isotopes in Medicine (NMCIM), a partnership between the Laboratory and the UNM Health Sciences Center College of Pharmacy.
Wallace named Strategic Research Directorate leader
March 4 — With the interim approval of the University of California Regents, Los Alamos National Laboratory's Earth and Environmental Sciences (EES) division leader Terry Wallace has been named Associate Director of Strategic Research (ADSR).
Los Alamos muon detector could thwart nuclear smugglers
February 19 — Trillions of cosmic rays that constantly bombard Earth could help catch smugglers trying to bring nuclear weapons or materials into the United States.
Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of New Mexico collaborate on tech-transfer education
January 18 — Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of New Mexico have created a program in UNM's Center on Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CEI) that will give graduate students the opportunity to assist in the transfer of technologies from the Laboratory to the private sector.
Scientists develop split green for tagging protein
January 3 — University of California scientists working at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a new protein tagging and detection system based on a process for "splitting" a green fluorescent protein.
Scientists "PAD" their way to new metal-oxide film technology
December 14 — University of California scientists working with a researcher from Washington State University at Los Alamos National Laboratory's Superconductivity Technology Center have developed a novel method for creating high performance, inorganic metal-oxide films using polymer-assisted deposition, or PAD. The breakthrough could pave the way for a greater use of metal-oxide films into the electronics manufacturing industry.
Los Alamos quantum cryptography team is co-winner of prestigious European research prize
December 7 — Los Alamos researchers and other members of a multi-nation collaboration that is developing a revolutionary technology for information security have captured half of the European Union's Descartes Prize for Research.
Scientists explore atomic mysteries of ancient pigment
November 18 — University of California scientists from the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Pulsed Field Facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory, working with colleagues from Tokyo Metropolitan University, the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina, the National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics in Estonia, the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida and the University of Tokyo, have discovered an ideal candidate for Bose-Einstein condensation in the ancient Chinese pigment, Han Purple.
ChevronTexaco and Los Alamos National Laboratory to establish an alliance for advanced energy solutions
November 18 — Los Alamos National Laboratory, operated by the University of California, and ChevronTexaco Corporation today announced plans to establish an alliance to develop a range of mutually beneficial technologies. This alliance will assist Los Alamos in its Department of Energy mission to advance the national, economic and energy security of the United States and to promote scientific and technological innovation in support of that mission.
Los Alamos software key to new Swift satellite mission
November 16 — "Swift," a new NASA satellite, will head for the heavens Nov. 17, designed to detect gamma-ray bursts and whip around to catch them in the act. And the trigger software that makes the flying observatory smart enough to do this comes from the Space Science team at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Los Alamos computers map hurricane utility impacts
November 10 — Predicting with uncanny accuracy the effects of recent hurricanes, Los Alamos National Laboratory computer models are helping the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Assurance, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and other organizations plan for future disasters. For those in the paths of hurricane devastation, tools such as the Los Alamos infrastructure models could mean their lights and gas return to service hours or even days more rapidly.
New climate education resource for teachers, students is online
November 8 — Students, teachers, parents and the general public can access information about climate, weather and atmospheric science online through a program offered by Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Department of Energy.
Los Alamos wizardry to aid new Mars science laboratory
December 22 — Having analyzed Mars from afar via orbiting satellite, Los Alamos National Laboratory instruments will next be on their way to get out and play in the Martian dirt. Two of the eight instruments aboard NASA's planned Mars Science Laboratory rover, scheduled for launch in 2009, include Los Alamos technology.
Math contest encourages students to Go Figure
October 25 — Budding mathematicians are invited to compete in Los Alamos National Laboratory's sixth annual Go Figure Mathematical Challenge Oct. 30 in Santa Fe, Los Alamos and Española.
Backgrounder: Los Alamos studies nerve activity to improve artificial retina
October 14 — Los Alamos National Laboratory is supporting the Department of Energy's artificial retina project by developing better ways to visualize and interpret the patterns of neural activity that result when the retina is stimulated. Employing new and existing techniques, a team from Los Alamos' Biological and Quantum Physics Group has produced movies of the dynamic responses that characterize the function of the ganglion cells that make up the optic nerve.
New NASA IBEX mission to carry Los Alamos instrument
January 28 — A new NASA mission, IBEX, will probe the very edge of the solar system, capturing the quiet hum of a vast, distant shock wave. One of its two instruments is a compact Los Alamos device called the High Energy Neutral Atom Imager.
Los Alamos instrument yields new knowledge of Saturn's rings
October 13 — University of California scientists working at Los Alamos National Laboratory have begun to analyze data from an instrument aboard the joint U.S.-European spacecraft Cassini. Although Cassini has only been orbiting the planet Saturn since July 1, data from the Cassini Plasma Spectrometer (CAPS) has already begun to provide new information about the curious nature of Saturn's space environment.
Telling a salty tale of martian water
October 7 — University of California scientists working at Los Alamos National Laboratory, along with a scientist from Indiana University have devised a method for determining whether sulfate salts can account for evidence of water on Mars. The work could pave the way to a better understanding of the martian environment and the history of water on Mars.
A traveling-wave engine to power deep space travel
September 16 — A University of California scientist working at Los Alamos National Laboratory and researchers from Northrop Grumman Space Technology have developed a novel method for generating electrical power for deep-space travel using sound waves. The traveling-wave thermoacoustic electric generator has the potential to power space probes to the furthest reaches of the Universe.
Beason takes top threat reduction post at Los Alamos
January 27 — Los Alamos National Laboratory Director Peter G. Nanos this week announced the selection of J. Douglas Beason as associate director for Threat Reduction. Beason's appointment was approved by the University of California Board of Regents Jan. 20 and became effective Jan. 24.
Optical fibers and a theory of things that go bump in the light
September 14 — University of California scientists working at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a theory describing light pulse dynamics in optical fibers that explains how an interplay of noise, line imperfections and pulse collisions lead to the deterioration of information in optical fiber lines. The theory will help to enhance the performance necessary for high-speed optical communication systems like video on demand and ultra-broadband Internet, and the research has helped establish a new field of inquiry -- the statistical physics of optical communications.
Laboratory grows world record length carbon nanotube
September 13 — University of California scientists working at Los Alamos National Laboratory in collaboration with chemists from Duke University have recently grown a world record-length four-centimeter-long, single-wall carbon nanotube.
Nanotechnology leads to discovery of super superconductors
September 9 — University of California scientists working at Los Alamos National Laboratory with a researcher from the University of Cambridge have demonstrated a simple and industrially scaleable method for improving the current densities of superconducting coated conductors in magnetic field environments. The discovery has the potential to increase the already impressive carrying capacity of superconducting wires and tapes by as much as 200 to 500 percent in certain uses, like motors and generators, where high magnetic fields diminish current densities.
Exploring the noisy nature of atoms
September 2 — University of California scientists working at Los Alamos National Laboratory have demonstrated a way to use the random fluctuations that exist naturally in all magnetic systems to perform magnetic resonance studies without disturbing the system's natural state.
Laboratory advances the art and science of aerogels
August 25 — University of California scientists working at Los Alamos National Laboratory have recently demonstrated a novel method for chemically modifying and enhancing silica-based aerogels without sacrificing the aerogels unique properties. Aerogels are low-density, transparent materials used in a wide range of applications, including thermal insulation, porous separation media, inertial confinement fusion experiments and cometary dust capture agents.
Detecting the spin of a single electron
August 10 — University of California scientists working at Los Alamos National Laboratory and at the University of California, Los Angeles have demonstrated the ability to detect the spin of a single electron in a standard silicon transistor. The advance could help facilitate the direct, rather than theoretical, study of the physics of electron spin decoherence, which is a critical step toward manipulating and monitoring the spin of a single electron.
Mapping the Evolution of a Virus
July 16 — A University of California scientist working at Los Alamos National Laboratory with collaborators from the University of Cambridge (England) and the World Health Organization National Influenza Center at Erasmus Medical Center, (Rotterdam, Netherlands) have developed a computer modeling method for mapping the evolution of the influenza virus. The method could soon help medical researchers worldwide develop a better understanding of certain mutations in influenza and other viruses that allow diseases to dodge the human immune system.
Los Alamos pressure process makes pure zirconium glass
July 15 — Zirconium may not be a girl's best friend, but by squeezing the metal with roughly the same pressure needed to make diamonds, scientists at the University of California's Los Alamos National Laboratory made a pure glass that may prove nearly as valuable as real diamonds.
Los Alamos computers probe how giant planets formed
July 13 — Nearly five billion years ago, the giant gaseous planets Jupiter and Saturn formed, apparently in radically different ways.
Laboratory Captures Five R&D 100 Awards
July 6 — Scientists at the University of California's Los Alamos National Laboratory have captured five of R&D Magazine's 2004 R&D 100 Awards. The latest winners bring the Laboratory's total to 83 awards over the past 17 years. The projects recognized this year span a diverse range of scientific and technical areas - from innovative imaging techniques and advances in computing to revolutionary new materials. This year, Los Alamos was tied with its sister laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, for the largest number of awards received by a Department of Energy laboratory.
Scientists study carbon exchange in Valles Caldera grasslands
June 30 — Over the past nine months, University of California scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have been working as part of the AmeriFlux carbon exchange research project with researchers from the Valles Caldera National Preserve (VCNP) and Colorado State University using sophisticated eddy monitors--monitors that detect minute changes in wind flow--to study carbon dioxide flow variations and grassland carbon cycle dynamics in a small section of the Valles Caldera. From these wind and moisture eddy current studies, the team hopes to help climate scientists and policy makers around the world gain a better understanding of the surprisingly complicated role that grasslands play in ecosystem carbon exchange.
The Space Simulator - Modeling the universe on a budget
June 22 — For the past several years, a team of University of California astrophysicists working at Los Alamos National Laboratory have been using a cluster of roughly 300 computer processors to model some of the most intriguing aspects of the Universe. Called the Space Simulator, this de facto supercomputer has not only proven itself to be one of the fastest supercomputers in the world, but has also demonstrated that modeling and simulation of complex phenomena, from supernovae to cosmology, can be done on a fairly economical basis.
Scientists demonstrate quantum teleportation with atoms
June 17 — Researchers at the University of Innsbruck in Austria, in collaboration with a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, announced today the first demonstration of the teleportation of a quantum state from one trapped atom to another located 8 microns -- slightly less than a thousandth of an inch -- away.
Pumping energy to nanocrystals from a quantum well
June 10 — University of California scientists working at Los Alamos National Laboratory with a colleague from Sandia National Laboratories have developed a new method for exciting light emission from nanocrystal quantum dots.
Scientists provide new understanding of manganites
June 3 — University of California researchers working at Los Alamos National Laboratory recently unveiled a new theory explaining the strange coexistence of metallic and insulating phases in the crystals of a mineral called perovskite manganite.
Laboratory creates hydrogen and fuel cell research institute
May 19 — Building on more than 25 years experience in the area of fuel cells, Los Alamos National Laboratory announced today the creation of the Institute for Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Research (IHFCR) to better address technical issues and provide solutions for enabling key aspects of the hydrogen economy and broadening the use of fuel cells
Scientists model the dynamics of DNA transcription
May 18 — In a collaboration with colleagues at Harvard Medical School, University of California researchers working at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a model and diagnostic tools to simulate the dynamics of DNA.
Scientists model disease outbreaks in urban social networks
May 13 — University of California researchers working at Los Alamos National Laboratory with colleagues at the University of Maryland and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a method for modeling disease outbreaks in realistic urban social networks.
Scientists explore complexities of sea ice from high desert venue
May 10 — For nearly a decade, University of California researchers working at Los Alamos National Laboratory have been upgrading and fine-tuning a sea ice modeling program created at the Laboratory.
Los Alamos helps industry by simulating circuit failures from cosmic rays
May 6 — Life today runs more and more on circuits. Electrons racing through increasingly tiny transistors now control our airplanes, deposit money in our checking accounts and keep our houses warm.
Researchers untangle complex network systems
May 5 — By exploring the tangled nature of complex network systems, researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of Houston may have found a way to help scientists and engineers better understand dynamic processes on complex networks, such as the spread of infectious diseases, cascading massive electrical power failures, sources of vehicle traffic congestion on metropolitan roadways and information flow on the Internet. "
NIH chooses Los Alamos to model urban epidemics
May 4 — An emergency room physician sees a patient with a high fever and a trace of a rash and admits her to the hospital. The next morning, three more patients with similar symptoms come in, then more until lab tests confirm the initial hunch: an outbreak of smallpox has begun. How to keep the outbreak from becoming an epidemic, and recommending the best responses to public health officials, could be revealed through computer simulations under development at the University of California's Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Ultra-cold neutron source at Los Alamos confirmed as world's most intense
May 3 — Some slow, cold visitors stopped by Los Alamos National Laboratory last week, and their arrival could prove a godsend to physicists seeking a better theory of everything.
Squeezing more juice out of solar panels
April 28 — University of California scientists working at Los Alamos National Laboratory have experimentally demonstrated a phenomenon in which semiconductor nanocrystals respond to photons by producing multiple electrons. The innovation has potential applications in a new generation of solar cells that would produce as much as 35 percent more electrical output than current solar cells.
Scientists announce cosmic ray theory breakthrough
April 28 — University of California scientists working at Los Alamos National Laboratory have proposed a new theory to explain the movement of vast energy fields in giant radio galaxies (GRGs). The theory could be the basis for a whole new understanding of the ways in which cosmic rays -- and their signature radio waves -- propagate and travel through intergalactic space.
Los Alamos Supercomputing cluster software wins prize
April 28 — University of California researchers in Los Alamos National Laboratory's Advanced Computing Laboratory have been honored for their advances in connecting thousands of computers together to create clusters with much of the power of traditional supercomputers at a fraction of the cost.
Los Alamos part of new Center for Chemical Hydrogen Storage
April 27 — University of California scientists working at Los Alamos National Laboratory have joined with scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to create a new national Center for Chemical Hydrogen Storage. The new center is a step toward the development of a "hydrogen economy" -- an economy based not on the fossil fuels we use today, but on clean, abundant hydrogen fuels.
New Mexico students at Los Alamos National Laboratory April 26-27 for Adventures in Supercomputing Challenge
April 22 — More than 200 high-school students from throughout New Mexico will be at Los Alamos National Laboratory next Monday and Tuesday (April 26-27) for the 14th annual New Mexico Adventures in Supercomputing Challenge Expo and awards ceremony.
Hot dry rock goes supercritical
April 21 — By proposing a method for using carbon dioxide under high pressure to extract energy from geothermal reservoirs, a University of California scientist working at Los Alamos National Laboratory has put a new twist on a historic Laboratory project. The proposed invention has the potential to take global geothermal energy science in new and exciting directions.
Talk at Laboratory's Bradbury Science Museum Thursday on impacts of area's growing elk population
April 20 — The Rocky Mountain elk, a native to the Jemez Mountains, was thought to have disappeared early in the 20th century. All that changed around 1948, when the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish released several cows, calves and bulls back into the Jemez.
Superdiamonds? - Scientists discover superconductivity in diamond
April 1 — Scientists working at the Russian Academy of Sciences and Los Alamos National Laboratory announced today the discovery of superconductivity at ultracold temperatures in cubic diamond. The discovery offers the potential for a new generation of diamond-based device applications and even suggests that superconductivity in silicon or germanium, which also forms in the diamond structure, may be possible.
Desert varnish shines as environmental monitoring tool
March 31 — A University of California researcher working at Los Alamos National Laboratory, in collaboration with earth scientists from the University of Nevada and Eastern Washington University, has discovered that desert varnish may be an ideal passive environmental monitor for atmospherically-deposited heavy and potentially toxic metals, including radionuclides.
Is he here yet? Lab scientists keep tabs on Santa
December 23 — Los Alamos National Laboratory's Space Data Systems (ISR-3) is keeping an eye out for Santa. Beginning at 6 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 24, ISR-3 will track the jolly old elf on his whirlwind travels around the world and give hourly updates via its Web site at http://santa.lanl.gov on Santa's progress toward Northern New Mexico.
Plasma combustion technology could dramatically improve fuel efficiency
December 22 — Imagine a jet engine able to cleanly burn cheap, plentiful diesel fuel, or a car able to run on gasoline very efficiently and produce practically no emissions. Three Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers are imagining just these things and are embarking on a new experimental roadway that may someday arrive at this reality.
Los Alamos and business partner ZECA Corporation recognized by ScientificAmerican
December 3 — Los Alamos National Laboratory and ZECA Corp. have been recognized in Scientific American's December issue as providing one of the most significant "path-breaking developments that have taken place in recent months in laboratories, corporate suites and the halls of government," according to the article.
Lab featured as tech transfer role model
November 20 — Los Alamos National Laboratory has been recognized as a leader in technology transfer practices and regional economic development in a recently issued Department of Commerce report. The URL to access the report is http://www.technology.gov/reports.htm online.
Los Alamos radiation detector cited in technology awards
November 17 — A unique, handheld radiation detector developed by Los Alamos National Laboratory has been named a winner in both the "2003 InfoWorld 100" and IDG Computerworld's "Best Practices in Mobile & Wireless" Awards programs. The detector, called the CZT Spectrometer, detects both gamma rays and neutrons — signatures from nuclear materials that are of concern because of their potential for use by terrorists — and uses handhelds from palmOne Inc. for quick computer uploads.
Vast nitrogen reserves hidden beneath desert soils
November 7 — A University of California scientist working at Los Alamos National Laboratory in collaboration with researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, the University of Nevada, the University of Arkansas and Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nev., has recently found evidence that there may be significantly more amounts of nitrogen, in the form of nitrates, than previously estimated in desert landscapes. The discovery of these vast subsoil nitrate reservoirs could have implications for groundwater quality in arid/semi-arid environments worldwide, as mobilization of the nitrates could adversely affect drinking water supplies.
Media Advisory: Robots, scientists and Pueblo school kids
November 3 — Continuing its all-star annual series of robot-building workshops, scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory will bring the cold, hard, hand of science to bear in the classroom this week. Armed with a box of robot kits and a cumulative 100-plus years of professional experience, Los Alamos scientists will do a show-and-tell that should turn some heads at Jemez Valley Elementary School, Jemez Valley Middle School, San Diego Riverside School, Walatowa High and Jemez Valley High School.
Los Alamos part of team establishing baseline procedures for emergingfield of bioforensics
September 24 — Following the 2001 anthrax mail attacks it became clear to law enforcement and forensic scientists that high-quality procedures for the handling of bioagents used in alleged criminal activity were not standardized across the research labs that were asked to respond.
Nanoscale spectrometry probes the nanoplasmonics of gold
September 22 — In experiments using a device dubbed the "nanoscale flashlight," a team of Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have applied a new nanoscale spectroscopic technique to studies of the collective oscillations of electrons in individual gold nanoparticles and their assemblies. A deeper understanding of these oscillations and their interactions will not only provide a foundation for research in the new and emerging field of nanoplasmonics, but may have practical applications in the ultrasensitive detection of chemical and biological molecules.
Building a "nanoscale flashlight" to explore the nanoscale world
September 22 — In the nanoscale world, nanoparticles are measured in billionths of a meter, which often make them only a little bit larger than the size of atoms. Because these nanoparticles are typically smaller than the wavelengths of visible light––which varies from 700 nanometers for red light to 400 nanometers for violet light–– they are literally invisible to even the most powerful optical microscopes.
Backhaus named top young innovator by Technology Review magazine
September 15 — The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Technology Review magazine today announced that Los Alamos National Laboratory staff member Scott Backhaus is one of the world's 100 Top Young Innovators for 2003.
Los Alamos team develops rapid procedure for radioactivity in dirtybomb debris
September 10 —
One nightmare scenario: a terrorist dirty bomb is detonated in a major metropolitan area. Everyone's first question is "Who did it?"
One piece of the puzzle that would give law enforcement officials a head start in their search for potential suspects would be an accurate description of what radioactive materials are contained in the bomb debris. Standard isotope identification technology is relatively slow; the process can take 24 hours or more. Now a team of Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists has developed a new quick screening methodology to identify isotopes in dirty bomb debris, a procedure that can yield initial data in as few as six hours.
Los Alamos hosts Gamma-Ray Burst anniversary conference
September 8 — Scientists from around the world are convening this week to debate and share their latest research at the Gamma-Ray Burst 2003 Symposium in Santa Fe, September 9 – 12, 2003. Los Alamos National Laboratory is sponsoring the symposium, the largest of its type to date.
Laboratory licenses environmental monitor
September 4 — Los Alamos National Laboratory has licensed an environmental monitoring tool to Advanced Realtime Technologies (ART) LLC.
Los Alamos at work -- science and technology initiatives for counteringnuclear and radiological threats
September 5 — In an American Chemical Society presentation on Sunday, Sept. 7 Los Alamos staff member Tammy Taylor will talk about some of the latest work being done at Los Alamos in the area of nuclear and radiological threat mitigation.
Director announces newest Laboratory Fellows
August 26 — Los Alamos National Laboratory Director G. Peter Nanos has selected seven Los Alamos staff members as Laboratory Fellows, the Laboratory's highest scientific honor. The honor is given yearly to technical staff members who have sustained a high level of excellence in programs important to the Laboratory's mission, made important scientific discoveries that lead to widespread use, or been recognized as leaders in their fields both within and outside of the Laboratory.
Scientists explore complex nature of superconductivity
August 21 — Researchers from the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (NHMFL) at Los Alamos National Laboratory believe they have discovered evidence to support leading theories about the underlying mechanism of high-temperature superconductivity. Through research in high magnetic fields, they hope to have made one more step toward a complete understanding of this complex phenomenon.
Biggest cosmic explosions also may propel fastest objects in universe
August 13 — The most powerful explosions in the universe, gamma-ray bursts, may generate the most energetic particles in the universe, known as ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs), according to a new analysis of observations from NASA's Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory.The most powerful explosions in the universe, gamma-ray bursts, may generate the most energetic particles in the universe, known as ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs), according to a new analysis of observations from NASA's Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory.
Los Alamos releases new maps of Mars water
July 24 — new maps of likely sites of water on Mars showcase their association with geologic features such as Vallis Marineris, the largest canyon in the solar system.
Los Alamos captures eight R&D 100 Awards
July 9 — Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have captured eight of R&D Magazine's 2003 R&D 100 Awards, more than any other Department of Energy laboratory. The University of California managed National Laboratories, Los Alamos, Lawrence Berkeley and Lawrence Livermore combined for a total of 16 awards.
Southwestern Consortium pursues radio telescope project
June 11 — Working closely with Los Alamos National Laboratory as part of the Southwest Consortium, officials at the University of New Mexico announced today that they are leading the effort to propose a new low frequency radio astronomy observatory be built in a region covering New Mexico and Western Texas. The planned Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) radio telescope will be similar to the Very Large Array (VLA) telescope near Socorro, N.M. but will be more widely distributed across the region and will operate at longer wavelengths.
XMM-Newton satellite uncovers diffuse X-ray emission and the first accreting X-ray pulsar in Andromeda Galaxy
May 26 — In the most sensitive X-ray survey of our neighboring galaxy, Andromeda (M31), the X-ray Multi-Mirror satellite observatory (XMM-Newton) has uncovered hundreds of X-ray sources and provided new insights into the nature of the interstellar medium in the spiral arms of our own galaxy as well as those of Andromeda.
The weatherman of Mars
December 9 — Researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the University of Arizona Lunar Planetary Laboratory, Tucson, AZ, and Cornell University, Center for Radiophysics and Space Research, Ithaca, NY have discovered further evidence for the possible existence of a changing, and perhaps predictable, Martian climate.
GENESIS' first year a success
December 10 — As scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory begin analysis of first-year data from the solar wind probe GENESIS they have determined the spacecraft is working so well that they are considering possibilities for research beyond the planned 2004 mission completion date. Three of GENESIS' instruments were designed and built at Los Alamos.
Taos goes Lunar: hosts international science meeting
September 11 — The Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory is hosting an international gathering of lunar scientists in Taos, N.M. beginning Thursday. Los Alamos, who played a major role in the recent Lunar Prospector mission to the moon, together with the University of California Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Los Alamos' Center for Space Science and Exploration and the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, Texas, is organizing and hosting "The Moon Beyond 2002: Next Steps in Lunar Science and Exploration."
Beryllium's cellular assault
August 22 — chronic beryllium disease, baryllium carboxylates, american chemical society
Laboratory picks new Industrial Business Development leader
July 31 — Donna M. Smith has been selected as the new leader of Los Alamos National Laboratory's Industrial Business Development (IBD) Division.
Laboratory works on Romanian environmental site
July 18 — Researchers from the National Nuclear Security Administration's Los Alamos National Laboratory are collaborating with scientists from the Romanian Institute of Nuclear Research to assist the Romanian government in establishing an effective shallow-land disposal site for the disposition of low- and intermediate-level radioactive wastes. The proposed disposal site is located near the town of Cernavoda along the Danube River, in southeastern Romania.
Hidden X-ray population revealed in satellite survey, new 'dipper' in Andromeda Galaxy
June 4 — In the most-sensitive study ever of our neighbor galaxy, the X-ray Multi-Mirror satellite observatory (XMM-Newton) has uncovered a new population of X-ray sources. Examining new satellite data, an international team of scientists led by researchers at the United States Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory discovered more than 100 X-ray sources in the Andromeda galaxy.
New Supernova models take on third dimension
June 4 — Astrophysicists from Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, have created the first 3-D computer simulations of the spectacular explosion that marks the death of a massive star. Presented to the American Astronomical Society meeting in Albuquerque, N.M., today, the research by Michael Warren and Chris Fryer eliminates some of the doubts about earlier 2-D modeling and paves the way for rapid advances on other, more exotic questions about supernovae.
Soil's love affair with carbon viewed with millimeter resolution
May 29 — Promoting the love affair between farmlands and carbon while substantially reducing harmful carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could be facilitated through super-sharp analysis of tiny soil-core samples made possible by a portable, carbon-measuring laser system developed by a research team at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory
Hot polymer catches carbon dioxide better
May 29 — A new and economical technology for the separation and capture of carbon dioxide from industrial processes could lead to a significant reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions to the atmosphere. Scientists at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory are developing a new high-temperature polymer membrane to separate and capture carbon dioxide, preventing its escape into the atmosphere.
Mars Odyssey quenches researchers' thirst for water data
May 28 — Researchers with the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory have determined that Mars has enough water to sustain human exploratory missions.
New theory straightens out sun's curved magnetic fields
May 28 — A long-accepted model of the sun's magnetic fields holds that the fields radiate outwards from the sun into space in great curving arcs in the sun's equatorial regions and growing ever more radial at higher solar latitudes. That model has been proven only partly right by direct measurements of magnetic fields by the Ulysses solar orbiter and other spacecraft.
Los Alamos names new IGPP director
May 1 — Gerald L. Geernaert has been selected as the new director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory branch of the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, a multi-campus scientific research unit of the University of California.
Astronomers link X-ray flashes to gamma-ray bursts
April 23 — Astronomers announced today the discovery of what may be the lower-energy "poor relations" of cosmic gamma-ray bursts, the fantastically powerful explosions occurring daily in distant galaxies throughout the universe. If the relationship is confirmed by future observations, this potentially new breed of burst, called an X-ray flash, will provide key information to solve the decades-old puzzle of how these most powerful explosions in the universe are produced.
A nickel's worth of foil helps make antimatter
April 23 — Making antimatter that can't be seen and that otherwise might not exist, filtering it through a nickel's worth of aluminum foil and then capturing it in a "trap" without walls, has the attention of Los Alamos National Laboratory physicist Michael Holzscheiter. He speaks today at a joint international meeting of the American Physical Society and the American Astrological Society in Albuquerque, N.M.
Mars Odyssey's neutron spectrometer maps water-ice
March 1 — Scientists today unveiled maps that detail the location of hydrogen, that may indicate water-ice, just below Mars' surface. The maps are based on data from a neutron spectrometer built at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory and flown aboard NASA's Mars Odyssey now in orbit around the Red planet. The data are supported by simultaneous measurements made using the Mars Odyssey's gamma-ray spectrometer.
New herpes database goes on-line
February 14 — In an ongoing effort to aid in the search for cures and vaccines for sexually transmitted diseases, the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory released a publicly available Web database containing the Human herpesvirus 2 genomic sequence
Laboratory scientist receives prestigious nuclear physics award
January 3 — Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist, J. David Bowman has been awarded the Tom W. Bonner Prize in nuclear physics. Granted annually by the American Physical Society, the Bonner Prize is the top American nuclear physics award. This is the second time that a Los Alamos scientist has received this honor.
Deep space flight ends, but exploration continues
December 18 — NASAs Deep Space 1 carrying PEPE, or plasma experiment for planetary exploration, an instrument designed and built at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory, will be put to rest today after a successful event-filled mission in space.
Los Alamos instruments capturing the sun
December 4 — NASA's Genesis mission swings into full gear today as its instruments, three of which were designed and built by the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory, begin capturing particles from the sun.
Los Alamos announces technology commercialization awards
May 7 — Eight Northern New Mexico businesses have received awards from a $200,000 program aimed at facilitating the development and commercialization of promising new technologies.
Yule track Santa's progress with Laboratory web site
December 20 — With a little help from Los Alamos National Laboratory's Nonproliferation and International Security Division, children of all ages can track Santa Claus' trek from the North Pole around the world on Christmas Eve.
New facility will ensure steady supply of medical isotopes
September 11 — To ensure that U.S. researchers have a steady supply of medical isotopes, the U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory is building a new Isotope Production Facility to replace an existing facility. Construction of the $16.5 million IPF began in February, and the project should be completed in June 2002.
Laboratory's Greg Swift honored by Acoustical Society of America
August 14 — Physicist Greg Swift of the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory will receive the Silver Medal in Physical Acoustics from the Acoustical Society of America.
Director selects newest Laboratory Fellows
August 7 — Los Alamos National Laboratory Director John Browne has selected four Los Alamos researchers as Laboratory Fellows, the Laboratory's highest scientific honor.
Los Alamos spectrometers part of four-satellite Cluster II mission
August 4 — Imaging spectrometers developed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory are among the science tools aboard the new, four-satellite Cluster II mission.
Los Alamos announces technology commercialization awards
July 31 — Eight Northern New Mexico businesses have received a portion of more than $200,000 from a program designed to facilitate the development and commercialization of promising new technologies.
Los Alamos receives two R&D awards
July 24 — The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory has received two of R&D Magazine's R&D 100 Awards, bringing the Laboratory's total to 65 awards over the past 12 years.
Researchers find time in dusty polar ice
June 12 — Scientists at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory recently unveiled a direct radiometric dating method for determining the age of polar ice. Further development of the novel dating method could improve mankind's knowledge of glaciers and the terrestrial history of meteorites as well as improve the accuracy of paleoclimate records.
Center for Nonlinear Studies holds 20th annual conference
May 30 — Los Alamos National Laboratory's Center for Nonlinear Studies will hold its 20th Annual International Conference on June 5-8 at the J. Robert Oppenheimer Study Center on the Laboratory campus.
U.S. and Russian scientists develop process for making pure titanium medical implants
May 30 — Researchers at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory and Ufa State Aviation Technical University in Russia have developed a process for making strong, lightweight and corrosion-resistant medical implant material from pure titanium.
Green chemistry initiatives bearing fruit
March 24 — Recent initiatives by a consortium managed by the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory have helped increase education, awareness and funding in green chemistry research worldwide.
U.N. biological warfare expert will discuss monitoring of Iraq
March 24 — The head of the biological warfare discipline for the United Nations Special Commission charged with monitoring Iraq's disarmament compliance will deliver a Director's Colloquium at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory on Tuesday, March 28.
Laboratory appoints Research Park project leader
March 22 — The Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory has appointed Tony Beugelsdijk as its full-time project leader to coordinate the Laboratory's participation in the Los Alamos Research Park project.
Los Alamos announces agreement to develop second-generation superconductor tapes
March 17 — The Los Alamos National Laboratory announced today, in cooperation with Argonne National Laboratory, the signing of a cooperative research and development agreement with Intermagnetics General Corporation of Latham, New York. The 3-year, $2.5 million agreement will focus on coating technologies developed for producing second-generation high-temperature superconducting tape.
Garage-sized device saves millions on nuclear waste assay
March 6 — A Los Alamos National Laboratory device that measures radioactive wastes will save the U. S. Department of Energy and its subcontractors about $4 million a year when it is installed this month at DOE's Y-12 Plant at Oak Ridge, TN.
Los Alamos to offer small business technology subcontracts; conference set for March 7
March 3 — A Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory conference next week will help Northern New Mexico high-tech small businesses apply for technology maturation and commercialization subcontracts. The conference, sponsored by the Industrial Business Development's Technology Commercialization Office, is scheduled for 10 a.m. Tuesday, March 7, at the Los Alamos Inn.
Los Alamos awards innovators and entrepreneurs
March 2 — Researchers at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory who received patents or copyrights in the last year were honored at the Laboratory's Patent and Licensing Awards Ceremony last night. The ceremony also honored employees whose inventions generated license royalties and those who exhibited outstanding entrepreneurship.
Seven Laboratory researchers named APS Fellows
January 14 — Seven researchers at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory have been named Fellows of the American Physical Society (APS). This year, Los Alamos had more researchers inducted as APS Fellows than any institution in the world. The new Los Alamos APS Fellows are Greg Canavan, Alan Glasser, Terrance Goldman, Richard Hughes, Michael E. Jones, Albert Migliori and Seppo Penttila.
Taking pictures of the invisible tracking weather above the sky
December 17 — Using a technique called neutral atom imaging from a satellite high above the North Pole, researchers at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory are developing pictures of the magnetosphere, an invisible magnetic layer around the Earth. These pictures will be essential to a better understanding of the "weather" in space, where a blast of solar wind particles can knock out a multimillion-dollar satellite.
Taking pictures of the invisible: Tracking weather above the sky
December 17 — Using a technique called neutral atom imaging from a satellite high above the North Pole, researchers at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory are developing pictures of the magnetosphere, an invisible magnetic layer around the Earth. These pictures will be essential to a better understanding of the "weather" in space, where a blast of solar wind particles can knock out a multimillion-dollar satellite.
Study presents problem for geophysicists' understanding of plate tectonics
December 15 — Geophysicists may have to take another look at the mechanisms in plate tectonics due to a study by researchers from the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of California, Riverside.
Researchers develop novel luminescent biosensor
November 5 — Researchers at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a method of using certain polymers as luminescent sensors to detect and identify biological and chemical agents, almost instantaneously. The polymers fluoresce in the presence of these agents with the help of molecular intermediaries that bind to the biological and chemical agents' receptor sites.
Director selects newest Laboratory Fellows
November 1 — Los Alamos National Laboratory Director John Browne has named Aloysius Arko, Shiyi Chen, Shimshon Gottesfeld, Steve Lamoreaux, and Robert Weaver to the position of Laboratory Fellow, the Laboratory's highest scientific honor
Los Alamos' Jill Trewhella elected AAAS Fellow
October 27 — Jill Trewhella of the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
AAAS is a nonprofit professional society dedicated to the advancement of scientific and technological excellence across all disciplines, and to the public's understanding of science and technology. AAAS membership comprises more than 143,000 scientists, engineers, science educators, policymakers and other professionals worldwide. As a Fellow, Trewhella joins an elite group of about 10,000 of the nation's leading researchers.
Lab microdrilling technology can cut cost of oil exploration
October 20 — A microdrilling technology developed by the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory could fundamentally change the face of oil and gas exploration, a multi-billion-dollar a year global industry.
Sattelberger selected new Lab division director
October 8 — Al Sattelberger of the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory has been named director for Los Alamos' Chemical Science and Technology Division.
Laboratory licenses nanosponge technology
September 22 — The Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory has licensed a new method that could be used to purify home water supplies.
Pegasus II primed for parting shot
September 17 — Scientists at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory are preparing to pull the plug on the powerful Pegasus II pulsed-power capacitor bank, but not before they get one final shot from their trusted war horse.
Lab-designed Fuel Cell Tutorial available online
September 1 — Research at Los Alamos National Laboratory into fuel cells, a power source that combines hydrogen and oxygen to produce electricity, could lead to the commercialization of "green" vehicles. The Laboratory has produced a comprehensive tutorial on fuel cells, written and designed for high school and college students.
Making concrete stronger and tougher with bone-shaped wires
August 23 — Researchers at Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory have discovered that enlarging the ends of small wires mixed into concrete substantially increases the material's overall strength and toughness.
Lab cancels planned biodetector tests
July 8 — Planned tests involving the outdoor release of a common bacterium have been cancelled due to ongoing public concerns, Los Alamos National Laboratory officials announced today.
The tests are part of a program to develop better devices for prompt, accurate detection of biological agents that could be used in terrorist or battlefield attacks. Scientists will look for alternate sites to conduct airborne releases of bacteria as part of the detector development.
Laboratory captures seven R&D 100 awards
July 7 — Los Alamos National Laboratory has captured seven of the 1999 R&D 100 Awards. This is the highest number of awards for Los Alamos since 1990. These latest winners give the Laboratory a total of 63 awards won over the past 12 years.
Researchers give green light to protein folding
July 1 — Scientists at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory have discovered a new method called Rapid Protein Folding Assay (RPFA) for rapidly analyzing proteins.
Lab awards new contracts under Tech Maturation Program
June 15 — Los Alamos National Laboratory recently awarded $200,000 worth of new contracts to eight small, high-tech businesses in Northern New Mexico to help them further develop or commercialize their products.
Director's Postdoctoral Fellow Wins Prestigious Otto Hahn Award
June 2 — Konstantin Kladko of the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory has been awarded the prestigious Otto Hahn Medal for Young Scientists by the Max Planck Society of Germany.
Waste not want not -- an engine for the future
May 27 — Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a remarkably simple, energy-efficient engine with no moving parts. Greg Swift and Greg Swift have created a thermoacoustic Stirling heat engine.
Laboratory colloquium to feature pseudo-science investigator
May 20 — James Randi, a former magician turned science investigator, will present a Director's Colloquium in the Los Alamos National Laboratory Main Auditorium on Tuesday, May 25 at 1:10 p.m.
Polymer filtration offers mining pollution solution
May 4 — Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist have developed a novel technology capable of removing toxic metal contaminants from acidic mine runoff. The technology provides a potential remedy for some of the world's most challenging environmental problems.
Los Alamos geologist studies environment of prehistoric man
April 23 — A geologist from Los Alamos National Laboratory played a significant role in determining the geological setting of a new 2.5-million-year-old species of human ancestor discovered in the Afar Rift system of Ethiopia.
Aamodt appointed Laboratory liaison to DOE-Carlsbad
April 22 — Paul Aamodt was recently appointed to serve as a liaison between the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory and DOE's Carlsbad Area Office.
Laboratory sponsoring conference for regional, high-tech businesses
March 24 — The Technology Commercialization Office at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory is sponsoring a conference for regional high-tech businesses in Northern New Mexico interested in applying for Los Alamos assistance to further develop or commercialize their products.
Los Alamos researchers charge ahead in ultracapacitors
March 25 — Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed an ultracapacitor with the ability to deliver millions of discharge cycles. This development has the potential to impact nearly every domain of electrical energy use, from transportation to communications and computing.
Laser probes planetary surfaces
March 18 — Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a device that can analyze soils and rocks from a distance using a laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy technology.
Stopping killers dead in their tracks
March 16 — Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a method for neutralizing some of the world's most deadly killers -- chemical and biological warfare agents--using a newly developed Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Jet.
Laboratory researchers to receive award for work on fuel-cell technology
March 15 — Five researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory are among the 15 recipients of the 1998 Partnership for the Next Generation of Vehicles Award for their work on automotive fuel cell technology.
Fred Kocks elected to National Academy of Engineering
March 11 — Fred Kocks, Materials Science and Technology Division Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory, was recently elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering.
Frauenfelder named to Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
March 10 — Hans Frauenfelder, director of the Center for Nonlinear Studies at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory, was recently elected to the position of Foreign Member to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden.
Laboratory hosting marketing workshop
February 17 — The Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory is hosting the "Marketing Essentials for High-tech Ventures Workshop" from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Feb. 23 at the Hotel Loretto in Santa Fe.
Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers honored by the American Physical Society
February 16 — Los Alamos National Laboratory staff members Joseph Carlson, Chris Hammel, Patrick McGaughey, Robert Robinson and Harvey Rose, have been elected 1998 fellows of the American Physical Society.
Lab to provide electrical characterization for novel energy project
January 26 — The Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory will be providing special electrical characterization of components used in the first high temperature superconducting transformer installed in a U.S. electric utility network.
Proteins serve as models for understanding complex physical systems
January 23 — At the 1999 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science one of the presentations made by a Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist will discuss the bridge between biology and physics: using proteins and other biomolecules as models for studying complex physical systems.
Decoherence is our ticket out of the quantum world
January 24 — The world of quantum mechanics is exceedingly weird, one in which waves can act as if they were particles, particles can spontaneously pass from one side of a barrier to the other and gedanken cats can be simultaneously dead and alive
From cells to whales: universal scaling laws in biology
January 25 — Working with biologists James Brown of the University of New Mexico and Brian Enquist of the Santa Fe Institute, Los Alamos scientist Geoffrey West has put together a set of seemingly simple principles to form a theory that explains the universal scaling laws of biology
Lab names new Cyril Smith Scholars
January 20 — Davis Tonks, Fred Steinkruger, and Alexander Balatsky have been named Cyril Smith Scholars for the 1999 term at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory
Laboratory honors employees at first annual Patent and Licensing Awards ceremony
January 15 — Employees from the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory were honored for receiving patents, copyrights or licensing income from their technologies last fiscal year during Los Alamos' first annual Patent and Licensing Awards ceremony today.
Bone-shaped fibers increase strength of composite materials
January 12 — Researchers at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory have shown that enlarging the ends of short fibers used in composite materials simultaneously increases the overall toughness and strength of the material.
Los Alamos payload rides team RE/MAX global balloon flight
January 4 — As the Team RE/MAX Global Balloon Flight circles the globe in coming weeks it will carry a science payload designed by scientists at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory and NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center.
Lightning over oceans more plentiful than expected
December 9 — Storms over the oceans generate more lightning than previously realized, and researchers may be able to use this finding in studies of atmospheric energy distribution mechanisms linked to climate and weather effects.
Energy from the sun can be captured and redistributed globally through the latent heat carried in water vapor. Storm clouds with lightning tend to be more intense and provide a relatively greater release of latent heat through rainfall -- condensation of the water vapor. Remote tracking of such systems may tell researchers where substantial amounts of latent heat are being released over the ocean and thus better understand energy distribution through the atmosphere.
Los Alamos scientists develop novel toxin detector
November 10 — Researchers have stolen a page from Mother Nature to develop a technique for detecting the toxin that causes cholera. The technique should work equally well at detecting other protein-based toxins potentially used in biowarfare or terrorism and at detecting early signs of infection in clinical settings.
Los Alamos receives DOE grants for advanced biological research
October 29 — Four projects at Los Alamos National Laboratory have received Department of Energy grants for advanced research in biology.
The DOE, which announced the grants last week, is funding projects that will build on the wealth of information from the Human Genome Project and other research activities to solve complex biological problems.
Helping cities cope with disaster
October 22 — An earthquake rocks a large modern city, injuring hundreds of people, producing major structural damage, knocking out electrical power, breaking gas mains and causing an industrial plant to leak toxic chemicals. Collapsed bridges and buildings prevent emergency vehicles from reaching the injured, attending to dozens of small fires before they become big ones and carrying supplies to hospitals and rescue workers.
How do emergency responders and city officials cope with the situation? How do they deploy resources where they are most needed? How can they prepare in advance for such disasters, and what can they do to recover from them? Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers are working on a project to give city officials, regional planners, police and other agencies a tool to help them plan for and respond to disasters such as earthquakes.
Los Alamos instruments to prospect for water on the moon
December 30 — Three Los Alamos instruments on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Lunar Prospector, scheduled for a Jan. 5, 1998, launch, will look for water, map the location of valuable elements and gather data on events that release gases from below the surface of Earth's nearest neighbor.
First results from nonproliferation satellite expand knowledge of lightning, TIPPs
December 9 — Just three months after its launch, Los Alamos National Laboratory's FORTE satellite is detecting many thousands more radio bursts from lightning strikes and other phenomena than previously reported.
Los Alamos science instruments to fly on Cassini
October 8 — Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists led the development of two scientific sensors that will provide key measurements of the space environment around Saturn when the Cassini spacecraft reaches the ringed planet in 2004.
The two sensors are part of the Cassini Plasma Spectrometer, or CAPS, a microwave oven-sized unit that is one of 12 scientific instruments on the two-story-tall Cassini spacecraft. Cassini, a joint effort of the National Aeronautics and Space Agency and the European Space Agency, is scheduled for launch Oct. 13.
Los Alamos and Surrey Satellite contract for Cibola flight experiment platform
March 10 — Los Alamos National Laboratory and Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) announced today a contract agreement for development of an advanced satellite platform for ionospheric and lightning studies.
Los Alamos speaker at AAAS addresses pathogen detection for biodefense
February 10 — Saying that "in spite of the developments in both DNA technologies and antibody-based detection strategies, the reality today is that infections are not detected until people get sick," according to Los Alamos National Laboratory Bioscience Division Leader Jill Trewhella. Trewhella will speak at a proteomics seminar at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Seattle. The session, "Networking Proteins in Biology and Medicine," is scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 14.
Sir Arthur C. Clarke to address Los Alamos Space-Elevator conference
September 9 — Sir Arthur C. Clarke, world-renowned science fiction author, will address the Second Annual Space Elevator Conference held Sept. 12-15 in Santa Fe. The event is co-sponsored by Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Institute for Scientific Research Inc. (ISR).
New high-purity plutonium sources produced at Los Alamos
March 21 — For the first time since 1987, new high-purity plutonium sources for use as primary analytical chemistry standards have been produced at Los Alamos National Laboratory using a new extrusion method developed at the Laboratory.
Laboratory flips the mercury 'off' switch
March 21 — Mercury, that silvery liquid metal ubiquitous in switches, pressure gauges and thermometers, is an environmental bad-boy and toxic to humans through inhalation, skin contact and ingestion. It is easily spilled and can go unnoticed in aging lab equipment.
Cosmic particles find potential role in homeland security
March 20 — Fragments of cosmic rays could someday lead to the detection of smuggled nuclear materials, according to researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Laboratory honors Year 2002 innovators
February 28 — Outstanding work by researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory who received patents in 2002 has been honored with Laboratory Patent and Licensing Awards.
Los Alamos creates technology maturation fund
February 25 — Los Alamos National Laboratory has announced the first five awards in a new technology maturation funding program. The purpose of the funding is to give Laboratory inventions a boost in moving from the laboratory to the marketplace.
Los Alamos, Sandia National Laboratories to host Homeland Security workshop for state, local responders
February 18 — Los Alamos National Laboratory's Center for Homeland Security, in partnership with Sandia National Laboratories, is announcing a homeland security workshop for local, state and regional first responders.
Los Alamos makes first map of ice on Mars
February 15 — Lurking just beneath the surface of Mars is enough water to cover the entire planet ankle-deep, says Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist Bill Feldman.
Los Alamos Office of Science Program leader named
January 28 — B. Raymond Stults, former Associate Lab Director for Environmental and Energy Sciences at Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, has been named Office Director for the DOE Office of Science Programs at the Los Alamos.
Wonder of a solar eclipse discussed at Bradbury Science Museum talk Jan. 30
January 24 — A total eclipse of the sun isn't something that happens frequently. Last month, Los Alamos astrophysicist Stephen Becker traveled to Ceduna, South Australia to view such a phenomenon.
Laboratory hires new MST division director
January 21 — Former Los Alamos scientist Paul S. Follansbee has been selected as the new director of the Laboratory's Materials Science and Technology Division. Follansbee succeeds Ross Lemons, who resigned in October 2002 after serving as division director since 1993.
LSND strengthens evidence for neutrino oscillations
December 4 — A collaboration of university scientists and researchers working at Los Alamos National Laboratory has published the final paper from the Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector (LSND) experiment. The results, based on six years of data collection, strengthen previously published, but controversial LSND results and provide further evidence of neutrino oscillation and mass.
Mars within Los Alamos' Neutron Spectrometer's reach
October 19 — A neutron spectrometer designed and built at the U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory is closing in on Mars aboard NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey.
Los Alamos selects new biological threat reduction program manager
October 4 — Gary Resnick has been named manager of the Biological Threat Reduction Program at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory. Los Alamos'program in Biological Threat Reduction aims to reduce the possible threat of biological agents from terrorist groups or third world countries.
Laboratory reaches settlement in tissue analysis case
October 3 — The plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit that involved a long-term tissue analysis program at Los Alamos National Laboratory have reached a settlement agreement with the University of California, which manages the Laboratory for the Department of Energy. The study, which used tissues from autopsies conducted primarily at Los Alamos Medical Center, began in 1959 and ended in 1980.
Laboratory's Atlas machine begins experimental work
September 27 — Scientists at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory performed the first liner implosion shot on the Atlas pulsed power facility recently. This successful experiment demonstrated that the Atlas facility is ready to support the Laboratory's research work relating to the certification of the nuclear weapons stockpile.
Scientists protect quantum information in a noiseless subsystem
September 14 — Theorists at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory, in collaboration with an experimental team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have realized a general and efficient method for protecting quantum information against noise. The demonstration paves the way for the development of novel means for storing delicate quantum information and should, in turn, further the evolution of quantum computers. Quantum computers promise greatly increased computational speeds useful for performing critical mathematical tasks, such as database searching and number factoring, and for simulating complex quantum systems.
Lab develops colorful beryllium detection technology
August 30 — Detecting beryllium on contaminated surfaces may become as simple as testing the acidity of a swimming pool, thanks to scientists at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Los Alamos researcher presents bright idea
August 27 — Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory are exploring methods for creating more electrically efficient organic light-emitting diodes -- technology that could be used to create energy-efficient panels of light for use in buildings or homes.
Los Alamos selects director for Earth and Environmental Sciences
August 21 — Associate Laboratory Director for Strategic and Supporting Research Tom Meyer has announced the appointment of Paul G. Weber as division director of the Earth and Environmental Sciences Division at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory, effective Aug. 27.
Regional teachers LASSO the stars
August 7 — Nearly two dozen teachers will blast off the new school year this fall using a curriculum they developed with the help of space scientists from the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Los Alamos instruments to capture the sun
July 23 — Three instruments designed and built by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory will help scientists understand the origin of the solar system.
High-temperature superconducting tape licensed
June 4 — The Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory has licensed patents and applications related to its technology for manufacturing high-temperature superconducting (HTS) tape to IGC-SuperPower of Latham, N.Y., a wholly owned subsidiary of Intermagnetics General Corp.
XMM-Newton discovers X-ray nova and unique, pulsating white dwarf in the Andromeda Galaxy
June 4 — In its first look at the Andromeda Galaxy, known as M31, the X-ray Multi-Mirror satellite observatory has revealed several unusual X-ray sources. In examining new satellite data, an international team of scientists, including researchers at the United States Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory, discovered an unusually bright spot created by an enormous X-ray nova outburst. Another mysterious object has been found as well: one of the "coolest" sources of the central region appears to be a luminous white dwarf with an extremely soft energy spectrum and the shortest X-ray pulsation period seen to date.
Bubble science benefits deep divers
May 30 — Studying the physics of bubble formation in the human body during deep, long duration diving has led a researcher at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory to discover a new system of dive tables that govern how deep and how long a diver may safely stay down.
Online periodic table wins 2001 Sci/Tech Web Award
May 16 — ScientificAmerican.com, part of Scientific American Magazine, has named a chemistry Web site at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory one of the top 50 best Web resources in science and technology.
Lab will hold bioscience information session in Santa Fe
April 6 — The Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory will hold a public poster session highlighting its research in biothreat reduction Tuesday at Santa Fe Community College. Scientists will be available to answer questions about their posters and research at the session, scheduled for 5 to 7 p.m.
Proven Los Alamos technology on trek to Mars
April 4 — A neutron spectrometer designed and built at the U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory is aboard NASA's Mars Odyssey set to launch Saturday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
Lab's Institutional Biosafety Committee to meet
April 2 — Los Alamos National Laboratory's Institutional Biosafety Committee will meet at 1:30 p.m. Thursday. The meeting, which is open to the public, will take place in the auditorium of the Health Research Laboratory, located next to Los Alamos Medical Center.
Lunar Prospector provides a world of data
March 12 — Los Alamos National Laboratory present their latest findings from NASA's Lunar Prospector mission at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston, Texas.
Laboratory researcher named AGU Fellow
March 5 — Michelle Thomsen, a scientist at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory, has been named a fellow of the American Geophysical Union, a selection based upon her pre-eminence in science.
Los Alamos develops technology to ease transition to HDTV
February 21 — Scientists at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a technology that could make the coming transition from current analog television to high-definition television a whole lot easier. The technology is a new transmission algorithm capable of compressing a HDTV data stream to the point where the HDTV and analog TV signals can be broadcast over the same channel.
Los Alamos scientists unravel the nature of knot
February 16 — Scientists at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory are watching simple knots untie themselves in order to gain a better understanding of how granular materials flow and how filamentary objects like DNA molecules tangle.
Lab requests environmental assessment on Bioscience facility
February 12 — The Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory has taken an important step in evaluating the possibility of adding additional capability for biological research.
Space Center at Los Alamos names Funsten as new leader
February 7 — Physicist Herb Funsten has been chosen as director of the Center for Space Science and Exploration at the U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Cleaner chipmaking method uses carbon dioxide fluid
February 7 — Scientists at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a new technology application that could all but eliminate the use of hazardous corrosives and the production of wastewater in the fabrication of integrated circuits, or chips, for computers.
Predicting El Niño: Lab researcher has some answers, more questions
January 17 — The Spanish term El Nino has been used for centuries by South American fishermen to describe the annual occurrence of warm, southward-flowing oceanic current waters off the coast of Ecuador and Peru around Christmas. El Niño, or the child, specifically refers to the Christ child.
Distinguished lecture speaker to talk about growing biological threat
January 12 — Al Zelicoff, senior scientist at Sandia National Laboratories and member of the U.S. Delegation to the Biological Weapons Convention will speak Wednesday at the Physics Building Auditorium as part of Los Alamos National Laboratory's Bioscience Division Distinguished Speaker Series.
Los Alamos tracking system helps flag route errors for WIPP trucks
January 11 —
A smart computer system developed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory can now provide an almost instant alarm signal when nuclear waste transport drivers waver off course. For waste-carrying trucks bound for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, this is a timely addition to their on-board shipment-tracking systems
Six Laboratory researchers named APS Fellows
January 10 — Six researchers at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory have been named Fellows of the American Physical Society. The new Los Alamos APS Fellows are Lev Bulaevskii, Paul Ginsparg, Beverly Hartline, Michael J. Leitch, Ferenc Mezei and Darryl Smith
Los Alamos scientists shed new light on quantum computation
January 4 — Scientists at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of Queensland's Centre for Quantum Computer Technology in Australia have made an advance in the quest for a functional quantum computer by exploiting currently existing technology in a novel and unexpected way.
Los Alamos Volcanologist: apply lessons from meteorology
December 15 — Reducing the danger posed by volcanoes will require volcanologists to integrate data from throughout volcanology to build predictive simulations and models, according to Greg Valentine, a volcanologist at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory. By effectively integrating geological, geochemical, geophysical, and remote-sensing data through the use of geographic information systems, or GIS, volcanologists will be able to create easy-to-understand visualizations of volcanoes.
Attack of the robot scientists
December 12 — Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory will bring the cold, hard, hand of science to bear in the classroom this week. Armed with a box of robot kits and a cumulative 100-plus years of professional experience, five Lab scientists will do a show-and-tell that should turn some heads Thursday among their third-grade audience at Jemez Valley Elementary School.
Claudia Lewis awarded Fulbright grant for study in Spain
December 4 — Claudia J. Lewis, a technical staff member in the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory's Geology and Geochemistry group has been awarded a second Fulbright grant to continue her study of the structural geology and tectonics of a particular area of the Spanish Pyrenees. The study will be done in collaboration with colleagues at Desert Research Institute, Las Vegas, Nev., and the Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain.
Laboratory co-hosts afternoon of entrepreneurship
November 21 — The Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory, in partnership with Office of Science and Technology of the New Mexico Economic Development Department and the Santa Fe Economic Development, Inc., will host a business seminar entitled "Cultivating Entrepreneurs: New Mexico's Cash Crop."
Susan Seestrom named new Physics Division director
November 21 — Susan Seestrom has been named director of the Physics Division at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory. Seestrom previously served as deputy group leader of the Neutron Science and Technology group and shared responsibilities as acting Physics Division Deputy Director with Edward Heighway.
Fusion in a pop can?
November 20 — Researchers at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory in Albuquerque, N.M., are investigating a way to create fusion energy in a cylinder roughly the size of a soda can.
Laboratory calls for 2001 Technology Commercialization proposals
November 16 — For the fourth year in a row, the Technology Commercialization Office at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory is offering north-central New Mexico high-tech companies the opportunity to apply for awards to help further the development and commercialization of their best technologies. Up to $200,000 in funding is available.
Scientists find quiet place in subspace
October 30 — Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory have taken another step forward in the quest for a quantum-based computer by demonstrating the existence of a physical state immune to certain types of information-corrupting "noise," which could otherwise disrupt computations based on quantum states. The research appears in a recent issue of the journal Science.
Los Alamos names science advisor for bio-threat and bioscience
October 27 — Scott Cram is the new science advisor for development of bioscience program opportunities at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory. In this role, Cram advises and supports both the Threat Reduction and Strategic and Supporting Research directorates.
Superhenc to save millions in Colorado
October 25 — Los Alamos National Laboratory's SuperHENC waste characterization tool has been delivered to the Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site (Rocky Flats) near Denver, Colorado.
Los Alamos shows path to 'nanocrystal quantum dot' lasers
October 11 — Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have demonstrated that nanoscale semiconductor particles called "nanocrystal quantum dots" offer the necessary performance for efficient emission of laser light. The research appears in the Oct. 13 issue of Science.
Los Alamos gamma ray burst work advances on satellite
October 6 — They burn as brightly as 100 million billion stars, flash randomly across the heavens, and were discovered more than 25 years ago here at the US Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory. Now, with tomorrow's launch of the High Energy Transient Explorer, gamma ray bursts (GRBs) will begin to reveal more of their secrets as the latest in detection equipment is lifted into orbit.
Los Alamos gains corporate partner for traffic simulation
October 4 — The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory is teaming with PricewaterhouseCoopers to take TRANSIMS, a remarkable traffic simulation software package developed at the Lab, and create products that can be deployed to metropolitan planning agencies nationwide.
Los Alamos unleashes GENIE on Cerro Grande destruction
July 25 — The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory is using a sophisticated image analysis technology to create high-resolution maps of the destruction caused by the Cerro Grande wildfire.
MTI satellite begins scientific work, maps Cerro Grande Fire damage
June 14 — With its orbital checkout phase complete, the Multispectral Thermal Imager satellite, MTI, is inaugurating the scientific-data development stage of its three-year mission by starting to provide pictures of the fire-ravaged Los Alamos area, among other cooperative U.S. sites.
Los Alamos instrument flies aboard IMAGE satellite
March 28 — When a Boeing Delta II rocket blasted skyward Saturday, among the items in its satellite payload was a device about the size of an overnight bag. Dubbed MENA, for Medium Energy Neutral Atom imager, the 10-pound sensor developed by Los Alamos National Laboratory will work with similar devices aboard the IMAGE satellite to provide the first global images of the major plasma regions and boundaries of the Earth's magnetosphere. These sensors also will study the reactions of these charged particle areas to the solar wind.
Los Alamos scientists make seven bit quantum leap
March 22 — Scientists at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory have made yet another experimental leap forward in the quest for a functional quantum computer capable of solving large mathematical problems or cracking secret codes faster than today's fastest supercomputers.
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