Los Alamos National Laboratory

IN THIS ISSUE

Articles

• A Thing of Beauty
  A major new instrument to see the world at the quark level.
• Ultrasound Goes Underground
  Using sound underground to see what can’t be seen
• Resource Revolutions
  Reducing, reusing, and recycling radioactive materials at the Lab
• Averting Orbital Apocalypse
  Innovative technology to reduce the threat from orbiting shrapnel
• Data Harvesting
  Los Alamos helps local farms adapt to changes in the growing season.

Spotlights

• Lasers Are Cool—and Cooling
  Breakthrough laser-driven cryocooler with no moving parts
• Security Through Signatures
  New technology to identify hazardous chemicals by their subtle atomic-level interactions

In Their Own Words

• Modeling Sea Ice with CICE
  Mathematical modeling and making music both create something new and beautiful from essentially nothing.