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Seeing or guessing? Los Alamos method helps expose hallucinations in vision-language AI

The Prelim Attention Score system enhances vision-language model safety and trustworthiness

Los Alamos helps fire up interplanetary space missions

Work is helping to power exploration into the cosmos

Paving the way for an energy resilient future

Laboratory employees donate 450,000 meals across 9 New Mexico counties

Annual drive fights food insecurity through donated dollars, food and time

Los Alamos National Laboratory sends mass spectrometer to International Space Station

AIMSS will advance national space security and support scientific discovery

Data-driven modeling captures particle motion in turbulence

Machine learning model tackles challenging open physics problem

Los Alamos scientists team up to advance the Lab’s AI mission

Dozens of project members collaborated in a winter hackathon

Energy Department Launches ‘Genesis Mission’ to Transform American Science and Innovation Through the AI Computing Revolution

President Trump today issued an Executive Order to launch the Genesis Mission, a historic national effort led by the Department of Energy.

New diffusion modeling approach developed for scientific workflow applications

Discrete spatial diffusion models data while obeying scientific principles

New approach detects adversarial attacks in multimodal AI systems

Topological signatures key to revealing attacks, identifying origins of threats

Los Alamos contributes to unprecedented dataset to train AI models

Meta leads molecular simulations dataset effort using Lab software and tools

Laboratory researchers converge to test and train scientific AI models

1000 Scientist AI Jam Session brings scientists together with leading-edge AI tools

Cristian Pantea named Los Alamos’ Battelle Inventor of the Year

Pantea’s work reflects deep scientific insight, practical engineering and a sustained dedication to innovation

Feynman Center’s Kathleen McDonald, Marc Witkowski receive awards from Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer

Los Alamos National Laboratory experts recognized for advancing hydrogen fuel cell technology and tech-transfer leadership

Los Alamos scientists earn American Physical Society recognition

Hill named fellow; Fryer and Morris receive honors

4 Los Alamos researchers receive Laboratory Fellows’ Prizes

Simakov recognized for research; Biss, Gollapinni, Vermeulen for leadership

8 Los Alamos researchers named 2025 Laboratory Fellows

Los Alamos technologies that ‘transform groundbreaking research’ win R&D 100 Awards

Winning innovations put real-world tools into hands of policymakers, industry

Laboratory employees donate 450,000 meals across 9 New Mexico counties

Annual drive fights food insecurity through donated dollars, food and time

Your Manhattan Project road trip

This day trip from Santa Fe leads you to history in Los Alamos

Lottery opens June 1 for Manhattan Project National Historical Park tours

Visits take place Oct. 13-15

Los Alamos strengthens safety through partnership and realistic training

Community collaboration provides invaluable experience

4 ways Los Alamos National Laboratory focuses on site stewardship

Operations experts take stock of earth, air, fire and water across the Lab

6 ways New Mexico colleges connect you with Lab careers — even if you’re not a scientist

Look for these programs in Española, Las Vegas, Los Alamos and Santa Fe

Los Alamos forms quantum computing-focused research center

Facility unites Laboratory’s quantum computing efforts under one roof

Quantum computers tackle a century‑old math puzzle

A Los Alamos scientist has shown that quantum algorithms can be used to factor group representations — a problem central to particle physics and many other fields — that was thought to be infeasible for computers at any practical scale

Los Alamos team finds a new path toward quantum machine learning

Gaussian had until now escaped use in the quantum computing realm

Understanding quantum computing's most troubling problem

In new paper, Los Alamos scientists collect and review years of work on barren plateaus, a mathematical dead end that has plagued variational quantum computing

A new problem that only quantum computing can solve

A recent paper introduced a quantum algorithm to simulate optical networks, proving that only a quantum computer can solve such a complex problem

Venado's yearlong voyage powers vital AI science

Part four: AI prediction can improve energy grid resiliency and protect against disruptions

Paving the way for an energy resilient future

A Los Alamos partnership seeks to expand the reach of hydrogen fuel cell technology

The Laboratory and Advent Technologies are developing Ion Pair Membrane Electrode Assemblies to operate in a wider array of applications for hydrogen fuel cells

Accelerator could produce commercial tritium for fusion from nuclear waste

Domestic supply of tritium could provide economic and efficiency advantages

New quantum dot advancements hold promise for solar energy and photochemistry

Los Alamos researchers have made a breakthrough in quantum dot technology, significantly raising this technology’s ability to convert light into energy or chemical products

Los Alamos National Laboratory technology approved for US military marketplace website

The partnership will allow the US Air Force to utilize cutting-edge geothermal energy

Photos reveal life at the Lab during the Manhattan Project

Michnovicz's work provides a new perspective on Los Alamos

Sign up now for your chance to tour Manhattan Project National Historical Park

Registration lottery closes Monday, Sept. 2, for tours Oct. 22-24

Seeds of today’s supercomputers planted 80 years ago

Stanislaw Ulam joined the Manhattan Project in 1944 and pioneered early computing efforts

May 1: Register to tour 'behind the fence' at Manhattan Project National Historical Park

Seeing or guessing? Los Alamos method helps expose hallucinations in vision-language AI

The Prelim Attention Score system enhances vision-language model safety and trustworthiness

Data-driven modeling captures particle motion in turbulence

Machine learning model tackles challenging open physics problem

Scientists map the shape of RNA that can shut down genes

Understanding the ‘dark matter of the genome’ could help develop therapeutic medical advances

NASA’s Curiosity Rover finds more evidence of ancient lakes on Mars

The findings shed new light on the potential for past life

Los Alamos leads research in versatile quantum computing

Innovative experiments demonstrate valuable capabilities for quantum annealing machines

Meet URSA: The AI agent transforming how science gets done

AI framework is built to bring AI into the heart of scientific discovery

Los Alamos helps fire up interplanetary space missions

Work is helping to power exploration into the cosmos

Los Alamos National Laboratory sends mass spectrometer to International Space Station

AIMSS will advance national space security and support scientific discovery

New technology will help satellites avoid collisions in space

Postage stamp-sized “license plates” can help track and protect satellites in low Earth orbit

Los Alamos’ Solar Wind Experiment is sixth instrument integrated into NASA’s IMAP Spacecraft

Asteroid-sample return mission enables researchers to conduct largest geophysical observation campaign of its kind

OSIRIS-REx project has impacts in space, on the ground

New findings point to an Earth-like environment on ancient Mars

Manganese-rich sandstones indicate there were once habitable conditions in the Gale Crater

Los Alamos conducts rocket launch to test new concepts

Researchers work with multiple partners to reach new heights in high-cadence, low-cost experiments

Nuclear Weapons Council commemorates pit production milestone

Visit to Los Alamos National Lab highlights commitment to deterrence

Los Alamos conducts first critical experiment using high assay low enriched uranium in decades

Los Alamos team develops ‘game-changing’ approach to explosives testing

More modern method a fundamental leap forward in safety

Diamond-stamping the first plutonium pit: Lab Director Thom Mason's statement

New machine to enhance understanding of nuclear weapons’ behavior

Game-changing Scorpius accelerator will be instrumental in maintaining the nuclear stockpile