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Employee holiday gift drive raises $58,000 and buys more than 2,500 gifts
Presents to be distributed by local nonprofits in Mora, Rio Arriba, Sandoval, San Miguel, Santa Fe, and Taos Counties - 12/23/20
‘Garbage to Gas: Using Biodigesters to Create Energy’ wins 2020 New Mexico Governor’s STEM Challenge
Student scientists at Santa Fe’s Monte del Sol Charter School earn $4,500 prize, impress Laboratory judges - 12/22/20
Los Alamos study hopes to characterize and optimize ventilator treatment for COVID-19
Scientists and engineers use computer modeling and experimental fluid mechanics to understand how tiny aerosol particles, when pulsed into the lung, may break up disease-related mucus and improve gas exchange - 12/21/20
Multi-messenger astronomy offers new estimates of the size of neutron stars and the rate of the universe’s expansion
Study finds neutron stars are typically about 11.75 kilometers in radius, and provides a novel calculation of the Hubble constant - 12/21/20
New diagnostic isotope to enhance targeted alpha therapy for cancer
Team brings a new tool for alpha therapy by developing a paired isotope option for PET scans - 12/16/20
AI reveals first direct observation of rupture propagation during slow quakes
Deep-learning approach extracts data from ‘noisy’ images to reveal how ground deforms during seismic event - 12/9/20
Breakthrough material makes pathway to hydrogen use for fuel cells under hot, dry conditions
Innovative proton conductor developed to be effective at high temperatures - 12/7/20
AAAS and Los Alamos announce 2020 Fellows
Distinguished researchers honored for their contributions - 11/24/20
Novel chemical process a first step to making nuclear fuel with fire
A new "combustion synthesis" process recently established for lanthanide metals could be a guide for the production of safe, sustainable nuclear fuels - 11/24/20
DisrupTECH features superior plastics recycling, smart software, predictive mapping
Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists pitch their research to investors as part of the Lab’s tech-transfer mission - 11/23/20
Los Alamos announces details of new computational storage deployment
The new file system leverages advanced technology based on emerging NVMe standards including Eideticom’s NoLoad technology on an NVMe computational storage processor (CSP) in a dense storage enclosure based on Marvell’s NVMe Ethernet bridging technology, and NVMe fabric connectivity provided by Mellanox ConnectX-6 technology - 11/16/20
Study reveals how to improve natural gas production in shale
Molecular-dynamics simulations and high-pressure small-angle neutron scattering help team discover optimal methane-releasing pressure range - 11/12/20
The Secret City: Project Y mobile app is back
Explore Los Alamos as it was during the Manhattan Project with this app from Los Alamos National Laboratory - 11/12/20
Rare ‘superbolt’ flashes found to be 1,000 times brighter than normal lightning
Two new Los Alamos National Lab studies show, when it comes to extreme lightning, size and polarity matter - 11/12/20
Laboratory and NMSU sign agreement for joint appointments
Staff-and-faculty exchange will build bottom-up collaborations and workforce pipeline - 11/10/20
Los Alamos works to make better, more recyclable plastics with new BOTTLE consortium
New Department of Energy program builds on strengths of multiple laboratories - 11/9/20
Fallen trees become firewood for local pueblos
Mitigation project stokes kiva fireplaces and woodstoves in the region - 11/9/20
New Los Alamos spin-off aims to put nuclear reactors in space
The Laboratory has signed an agreement to license the “Kilopower” space reactor technology to Space Nuclear Power Corporation (SpaceNukes) - 11/2/20
New mentor-protégé program between Triad National Security and Pueblo Alliance, LLC grooms Native businesses for successful contracting
Pueblo businesses will be mentored in landing contracts with LANL and other U.S. DOE entities. - 10/29/20
Scientists find a way to quickly test rust on graphene-protected cars, planes, ships
Journal reports on graphene’s novel gas permeation property - 10/29/20
Breakthrough quantum-dot transistors create a flexible alternative to conventional electronics
Quantum dot logic circuits provide the long-sought building blocks for innovative devices, including printable electronics, flexible displays, and medical diagnostics - 10/29/20
Sensors driven by machine learning sniff-out gas leaks fast
ALFaLDS works on large oil and gas infrastructure, can help cut methane emissions by 90% - 10/28/20
Study reveals robust performance in aged detonator explosive
PETN explosive is used extensively in commercial detonators and in the nuclear stockpile - 10/28/20
Los Alamos National Laboratory named a top employer by Latina Style
Surveyed readers ranked top 50 companies for Latina training, mentorship, retention and promotion - 10/22/20
Los Alamos National Laboratory brings next-generation HPC to the fight against COVID-19
New capabilities will give scientists substantially higher supercomputing performance, further enabling critical research ranging from therapeutics design to modeling viral spread - 10/20/20
Six physicists elected 2020 Fellows of the American Physical Society
APS Fellowship recognizes outstanding contributions to science, technology, teaching, or service - 10/14/20
Evelyn Mullen named American Nuclear Society Fellow
Mullen was named a fellow for her leadership in nuclear national security and ensuring the nation’s experimental capability in nuclear criticality - 10/13/20
Seven Los Alamos scientists and engineers honored as 2020 Laboratory Fellows
Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Christopher Fontes, Vania Jordanova, Thomas Leitner, John Lestone, Joseph Martz and Ralph Menikoff - 10/12/20
Los Alamos to lead fuel cell consortia
Lab seeks to drive advances in resilient energy projects - 10/8/20
Sarkar honored for theory of self-replicating materials
American Physical Society presents the Irwin Oppenheim award for early-career scientists - 10/7/20
Los Alamos, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and NVIDIA partner to speed up scientific computing
New developments will include innovative high-performance computing (HPC) technology efforts to advance greater performance efficiency, workflow efficiency and analytics - 10/6/20
Eight Los Alamos projects win R&D 100 Awards
“Oscars of Invention” honor the best innovations of the past year - 10/5/20
Top students tapped for Los Alamos science experience
Graduate program from DOE prepares students for STEM careers - 10/5/20
New algorithm could unleash the power of quantum computers
Fast-forwarding quantum calculations skips past the time limits imposed by decoherence, which plagues today’s machines - 10/5/20
Los Alamos announces details of new Crossroads supercomputer
Next–gen supercomputer will support predictive weapons research and calculations - 9/30/20
Nathan Moody to share in 2021 IEEE particle accelerator award
Moody was cited for “deep and broad contributions to accelerator science and technology, especially multi-disciplinary photocathode science” - 9/24/20
Phil Tubesing awarded 2020 Global Security Medal
Recognizes the exceptional achievements of active or recently retired employees who have made significant contributions to the Laboratory’s global security mission. - 9/21/20
Up to 15 inches of sea-level rise from ice sheets by 2100
Los Alamos National Laboratory and institutions from across the world conducted the most advanced prediction to date for how global warming will melt polar ice sheets and impact sea-level rise - 9/17/20
What it takes to shoot a laser on Mars
On a new podcast, team members who direct the laser-shooting tool on the Mars Curiosity rover talk about how they got there - 9/16/20
Free remote-learning resources at New Mexico STEAM Hub
Fall semester 2020 just got easier with www.nmsteamhub.com, a collaboration between public and private partners - 9/15/20
New grant funds best practices in teacher training
Students from New Mexico Highlands University embark on paid, 10-month residencies in Albuquerque, Bernalillo, Pojoaque Valley, and Santa Fe public school districts - 9/9/20
Borup named Electrochemical Society Fellow
Team leader’s Los Alamos and UNM roles have advanced fuel cell technology - 9/8/20
What could desert rocks tell us about life on Mars?
Living microbes formed rock varnish in the desert Southwest. A new podcast considers whether they play the same role on Mars. - 9/3/20
Carol Burns receives ACS Francis P. Garvan‒John M. Olin Medal
Chemist honored for national security science, mentoring, inspirational roles - 9/2/20
Up in smoke: the story of the Medio Fire
Los Alamos National Laboratory’s real-time study of soot, the varieties of smoke, and other airborne particles will help determine future air-quality alerts - 9/1/20
Los Alamos takes new HPE Apollo 80 System on a test drive
HPE’s new offering, using Fujitsu A64FX Arm processors, could improve high performance computing mission applications - 9/1/20
Los Alamos and Sandia national labs bridge R&D gap for New Mexico businesses
Statements of Intent due September 3, 2020 - 8/28/20
Life after landing on Mars
A new podcast episode talks about a day-in-the-life of the Perseverance rover on the Red Planet - 8/27/20
Searching Mars for signatures of life
What will the new Mars rover look for to determine if life ever existed there? A new podcast episode takes a look. - 8/20/20
Foiling illicit cryptocurrency mining with artificial intelligence
A new artificial intelligence algorithm is designed to detect cryptocurrency miners in the act of stealing computing power from research supercomputers - 8/20/20
New Mexicans invited to virtual job fair
More than 600 positions with the National Nuclear Security Administration open at Los Alamos and Sandia National laboratories, and others - 8/20/20
Lab and PMI win three Small Business Awards from DOE
Los Alamos National Laboratory increased procurement with New Mexico small businesses to $289 million in FY 2019 - 8/19/20
Machine learning unearths signature of slow-slip quake origins in seismic data
Results provide insight into fundamental earthquake physics and suggest slow-slip earth rupture might be predictable - 8/18/20
Deniece Korzekwa named LANL Senior Fellow
World-recognized expert in actinide casting recognized for outstanding leadership and seminal contributions to nuclear weapons manufacturing science - 8/18/20
Podcast explains how plutonium powers Mars exploration
Mars Technica gives listeners the low-down on how nuclear batteries help drive space exploration - 8/13/20
Simulating crash into asteroid reveals its heavy metal psyche
New study of biggest Main Belt asteroid, Psyche, finds it might be remnant of a planet that never fully formed - 8/10/20
New one-year course prepares Questa students
Initiative is a successful collaboration among LANL, Questa Independent School District, the New Mexico Building and Construction Trades Council, UA 412 Local Plumbers & Pipefitters, the Questa Economic Development Fund and UNM-Taos - 8/10/20
'Tour" SuperCam on the new Mars rover
Mars Technica podcast gives listeners a virtual peek inside the most versatile instrument aboard the Perseverance rover - 8/6/20
Nondestructive positron beams probe damage, support safety advances
Positron annihilation spectroscopy and transmission electron microscopy reveal new insights into radiation damage processes - 7/29/20
Was there life on Mars? New podcast explores instruments aboard Mars rover
Mars Technica podcast launches alongside Perseverance rover - 7/29/20
Simulating quantum ‘time travel’ disproves butterfly effect in quantum realm
Evolving quantum processes backwards on a quantum computer to damage information in the simulated past causes little change when returned to the ‘present’ - 7/28/20
Ning Xu selected Fellow of the American Chemical Society
Xu is being recognized for her sustained contributions to actinide analytical chemistry - 7/27/20
New Mars rover tool will zap rocks to investigate planet’s past habitability
Developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory, SuperCam will examine the chemistry and mineralogy of rocks on Mars - 7/27/20
Artifacts from the Manhattan Project era
For the 75th Anniversary of the Trinity Test, National Nuclear Administrator Lisa Gordon-Hagerty visited Los Alamos National Laboratory to see some of the historic sites of the Manhattan Project. During the visit, the Administrator was shown some of the artifacts from the Manhattan Project era - 7/16/20
Atomtronic device could probe boundary between quantum, everyday worlds
Clouds of supercooled atoms offer highly sensitive rotation sensors and tests of quantum mechanics - 7/16/20
Study finds less impact from wildfire smoke on climate
Observations suggest smaller warming effects of brown carbon than published model assessments - 7/9/20
Shock-dissipating fractal cubes could forge high-tech armor
Additively manufactured fractal structures with closely spaced voids dissipate shockwaves five times better than solid cubes - 7/7/20
Newer variant of COVID-19–causing virus dominates global infections
Virus with D614G change in Spike out-competes original strain, but may not make patients sicker - 7/1/20
Virtual Summer Physics Camp for Young Women
2020 campers hail from New Mexico communities of Acalde, Chimayó, Española, Los Alamos, Santa Cruz, Santa Fe and White Rock - 7/1/20
Building better electron sources with graphene
Graphene substrates can be reused repeatedly for photocathodes that emit high-brightness electron beams in electron microscopes and accelerators - 6/30/20
Artificial brains may need sleep too
States that resemble sleep-like cycles in simulated neural networks quell the instability that comes with uninterrupted self-learning in artificial analogs of brains - 6/8/20
New job-training collaboration prepares Taos High School students for high-wage, building-trades jobs
Course prepares Taos High School students for high-wage, building-trades jobs with opportunities for apprenticeship and employment - 6/2/20
New technique separates industrial noise from natural seismic signals
A transformative, cloud-computing approach to analyzing data helps researchers better understand seismic activity - 5/19/20
Bradbury Science Museum launches online archives with Manhattan Project science and history
Images provide a glimpse of the workforce, technology and events that led to the development of the first atomic bombs at Los Alamos - 5/19/20
Efficient, “green” quantum-dot solar cells exploit defects
Quantum-dot approach shows promise for a new type of toxic-element-free, inexpensive, defect-tolerant solar cells - 5/18/20
El Niño–linked decreases in soil moisture could trigger massive tropical-plant die offs
New insights could help farmers, water managers in tropical regions prepare for impact on crops - 5/11/20
Texas A&M University and Laboratory partner to make large data sets easier to handle
It is an excellent demonstration of utilization of processing power near/on storage devices - 5/4/20
Self-powered X-Ray detector to revolutionize imaging for medicine, security and research
2-D perovskite thin films boost sensitivity 100-fold compared to conventional detectors, require no outside power source, and enable low-dose dental and medical images - 4/20/20
Los Alamos National Laboratory and Santa Fe Community College announce new program for machinists
Training prepares local students for high-wage jobs with opportunities for internships and potential employment - 4/16/20
South Africa’s National Integrated Cyberinfrastructure System joins Los Alamos’ Efficient Mission Centric Computing Consortium
The supercomputing center in South Africa is the first international partner to join the collaboration - 4/9/20
Triad National Security pledges $50,000 in emergency grants to local philanthropies
Funds go to The Food Depot, Los Alamos Community Foundation, Santa Fe Community Foundation, and Taos Community Foundation - 4/7/20
Employees donate more than $20,000 for hunger relief across Northern New Mexico
Triad National Security contributes an additional $10,000 - 4/2/20
High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory tests speed of light
Ultra-high energy gamma rays from the far reaches of the galaxy provide powerful proof that the predictions of relativity, including the constant speed of light, hold to the highest energy extremes yet probed - 3/30/20
Flat-panel technology could transform antennas, wireless and cell phone communications
Electronically controlled 2-D reflector promises improved microwave communications, beam steering without moving pieces, and one-way microwave mirrors - 3/20/20
New program helps New Mexico small businesses bring technology to market
Qualifying companies may receive up to $150,000 in technical assistance from Los Alamos or Sandia national laboratories for fostering projects from invention to commercialization - 3/16/20
Space weather model gives earlier warning of satellite-killing radiation storms
Two-day notice lets satellite operators take protective measures against energetic electrons - 3/2/20
Machine learning reveals earth tremor and slip occur continuously, not intermittently
Cascadia findings also apply to San Andreas Fault and other earthquake zones, suggesting universal underlying physics that could someday support quake forecasting - 2/26/20
Fifteen organizations join Los Alamos’ Efficient Mission Centric Computing Consortium in first year
Collaboration aims to improve overall efficiency of supercomputers - 1/28/20
Los Alamos high-performance computing veteran to chair SC22
Candace Culhane brings years of experience to the SC Conference - 1/27/20
Acetone plus light creates a green jet fuel additive
New product creates fuel from biomass, while improving engine performance - 1/23/20
LANL spent $396 million with NM business in 2019
Economic impact data shows gains in procurement contracts to small business, job creation, and economic development projects - 1/23/20
Galactic gamma-ray sources reveal birthplaces of high-energy particles
Researchers with the joint US-Mexico-European HAWC Observatory have identified a host of galactic sources of super-high-energy gamma rays - 1/14/20
Colloidal quantum dot laser diodes are just around the corner
Researchers reach a critical milestone on the path to versatile colloidal quantum dot laser diodes by successfully demonstrating a quantum dot LED that also operates as an optically pumped laser - 1/14/20
Lab joins IBM Q Network to explore quantum computing algorithms and education outreach
Using 53-qubit chip will help push quantum simulations past the limits of classical computing - 1/9/20
Scientists image heart RNA structure for the first time
Work could lead to new strategies in regenerative medicine for heart conditions - 1/9/20
