Los Alamos National Laboratory

IN THIS ISSUE

Special Report

• Special Report: Los Alamos Versus the Virus
  When the pandemic hit, Los Alamos leapt into action

Articles

• Made by Microbes
  New plastics are needed to help the planet, and microbes can make them
• To the Ends of the Earth
  Traveling the world for climate science
• Cancer in the Crosshairs
  Making proton-based tumor imaging even better, while also inventing a new Lab capability
• Magnetostriction
  An advanced magnetic measurement reveals nonthermal thermal expansion
• Tabletop Beam Machine
  Multiple innovations converge to enable practical, portable particle accelerators

Spotlights

• Centrifuge Sentries
  Ultrasensitive sensors to verify uranium-enrichment activity
• Space Changes Everything
  Los Alamos is sending microbiome samples up, up, and away

In Their Own Words

• In Their Own Words: The Advantage of Uncertainty
  Advancing the art of quantum computing, and probing the edges of the quantum world