1663 | Issue Fall 2023

A conversation with outgoing Deputy Director John Sarrao on the Lab’s 80 years of science, technology, and engineering.

A team of Los Alamos chemists discovered a new way to purify plutonium—using light.

Rock coatings tantalize with whiffs of microbial life.

Greening the fertilizer industry with genetically modified bacteria and machine learning.

Changing young lives through boxing and putting numbers to the impact that Laboratory employees have on Northern New Mexico’s communities.

Powerful electromagnets are key to understanding advanced materials.

Physicist and Laboratory Fellow Bill Priedhorsky has worn many hats throughout his long and multifaceted career at Los Alamos.

Can climate modelers predict where and when the next food shortage will strike?

Crops are susceptible to disease, but new tools may help growers avoid future failure.

Understanding which microorganisms benefit our soil is critical to the future of plant productivity.