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Advanced Scientific Computing
Awards
- Los Alamos honors three for research, leadership with Fellows Prizes
- Laboratory lands 2018 DOE Energy Frontier Research Center
- Top young Los Alamos researchers honored with DOE Early Career Awards
- Seven Los Alamos scientists, including 5 sponsored by the DOE Office of Science [Htoon (BES), Kawano (NP), Lewellen (HEP), Trugman (BES), Zapf (BES)], honored by American Physical Society as APS Fellows
- Carlsten, Nguyen and Sheffield win Free-Electron Laser Prize
- David L. Clark selected for 2017 Glenn T. Seaborg Award for Nuclear Chemistry
- Ten Los Alamos scientists, including four sponsored by the DOE Office of Science, honored by American Physical Society
- Los Alamos scientist Christopher Lee to receive DOE Office of Science Early Career Award
- Laboratory Chemist selected as the 2015 recipient of the F. Albert Cotton Award in Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry.
- Laboratory FES PI selected as Fellow by the APS Division of Plasmas Physics
- Laboratory researcher Joel Rowland to receive 2014 DOE Early Career Award
- Los Alamos Physicist Honored with 2013 E.O. Lawrence Award in Condensed Matter and Materials Sciences
- Neutron reactions and climate uncertainties earn Los Alamos scientists DOE Early Career awards
Biological Sciences
Chemical Science & Radioisotopes
- Opening access to explore the synthetic chemistry of neptunium
- New approach yields high-purity radium for medical applications
- Targeted radioactive treatment offers promise in cancer treatment
- Isotope research opens new possibilities for cancer treatment
- Silicon-32 is an Important Radiotracer in Assessing Global Climate Models
- Growing the Tool Box for Medical Imaging: The Selenium-72/Arsenic-72 Generator
- A Production Breakthrough . . . and a Priceless Benefit
- A Major Advance in Understanding Plutonium
- Progress on Production of Alpha-emitting Radioisotopes for Cancer Therapy
Climate & Environmental Science
- Melting ice may change shape of Arctic river deltas
- Polar convergences
- Simulating ice at the bottom of the world: Modeling the Antarctic ice sheets
- User Executive Committee Profile: Aerosols advocate
- Rapid lake draining on ice sheets changes how water moves in unexpected ways
- Arctic ice model upgrade to benefit polar research, industry and military
- Arctic greening thaws permafrost, boosts runoff
- New approach to extracting fossil fuels has benefits
- Community-driven sea ice modeling with CICE Consortium
- New high-resolution exascale Earth-modeling system announced for energy
- Modeling deep water three-dimensional upwelling pathways in the Southern Ocean
- ARM Successfully Completes Challenging Antarctic Atmospheric Study
- Understanding Ice Loss in Earth's Coldest Regions
- Rapid ice-wedge melting accelerates permafrost decline
- Scientists study glaciers in McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica
- Scientists Study Clouds’ Impact on West Antarctic Ice Melt
- Study forecasts disappearance of conifers due to climate change
- Larger trees suffer most during drought in forests worldwide
- Study reveals urban smoke absorbs sunlight, exacerbating climate warming
- Analyzing ocean mixing reveals insight on climate
- Next Generation Ecosystem Experiments in the Tropics will couple field research with predictive computer models.
- Simulating Complex Sea Ice–Salt Water Interactions
- Desert Scientists Turn to Rainforest for Climate Answers
- Meltwater effects on flow of Greenland’s ice sheet less severe for sea level rise than earlier feared
- Impacts of Climate Change on Photosynthetic Microbes in Arid Ecosystems
- Wildfires may contribute more to global warming than previously predicted
- As Forests Disappear, Examining the Mechanisms of Their Death
Fusion Energy Sciences
- New reactor-liner alloy material offers strength, resilience
- Magnetic configuration effects on the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator
- Scientists have overestimated meteor sizes
- International team turns on world’s largest stellarator with innovative new imaging systems designed at Los Alamos
- Laboratory fusion researchers use Titan supercomputer to burst helium bubbles.
Materials Science & Condensed Matter Physics
- Machine-learning competition boosts earthquake prediction capabilities
- New, smaller X-ray spectrometers developed
- Squeezed quantum dots produce more stable light
- More stable light comes from intentionally 'squashed' quantum dots
- Carbon nanotube optics poised to provide pathway to optical-based quantum cryptography and quantum computing
- Researchers discover novel exciton interactions in carbon nanotubes
- Self-healing damage at the atomic level
- Tweaking quantum dots powers-up double-pane solar windows
- Quantum dots amplify light with electrical pumping
- Chemical treatment improves quantum dot lasers
- Single-photon emitter has promise for quantum info-processing
- Superconductivity research reveals potential new state of matter
- Using nanotubes to create single photons for quantum communication
- Turning windows into solar panels
- Cooling, time in the dark preserve perovskite solar power
- Novel water-removal technique boosts performance of carbon nanomaterials
- Computer-simulated atomic motion answers real-world questions like “How do things break?”
- When Small Things Become a Big Deal – Tiny “match-head” wires act as built-in light concentrators, enhancing solar cell efficiency
- Los Alamos researchers uncover new origins of radiation-tolerant materials
- Ultrafast photodetectors allow direct observation of multiple electrons generated by a single photon
- Capture sunlight with your window
- Neutrons find “missing” magnetism of plutonium
- 20 Years of Quantum Dots at Los Alamos
- A potential Rosetta Stone of high temperature superconductivity
- Los Alamos Offers New Insights Into Radiation Damage Evolution
- Using magnetic fields to understand high-temperature superconductivity
- International Business Times selects Los Alamos luminescent solar concentrators as one of their "10 amazing tech innovations in 2014C
- Los Alamos develops new technique for growing high-efficiency perovskite solar cells
- Improving Quantum Dot Light Emitting Diodes: One Step Closer to Lighting Up Your Room
- Researchers have found a way to magnetize this material using light, an effect that persists for hours at a time
- World’s largest single crystal of gold verified at the Los Alamos National Laboratory Lujan Neutron Scattering Center
- Demonstration of large-area luminescent solar concentrators that use a new generation of specially engineered quantum dots
- An ordered nanomaterial from bulk processing
- Proton radiography is a new tool for imaging melting and solidification of metals
- Visualizing the Onset of “Heavy Electron” Superconductivity
- Record Power-conversion Efficiency from Quantum-dot Photovoltaics
- Brookhaven scientists use the Los Alamos National Laboratory Lujan Center in making strides toward uncovering the role of charge stripes" in superconductivity
- Nanocrystal Solar Cells Squeeze Extra Juice Out of Sunlight
Nuclear and Particle Physics
- Quantum computers to clarify the connection between the quantum and classical worlds
- Magnetic levitation of ultracold neutrons yields new measurement of the neutron lifetime
- The Large Hadron Collider
- LHCb discovers matter-antimatter asymmetry in charm quarks
- The plot thickens for a fourth neutrino
- Newly detected microquasar gamma-rays 'call for new ideas'
- State-of-the-art photocathodes grown on atomically thin layers of graphene
- Public lectures explore the impact of particle accelerators
- New elementary particle evidence found, 'sterile neutrino' long suspected
- Synopsis: A missing piece in the neutrinoless beta-decay puzzle
- MiniBooNE scientists demonstrate a new way to probe the nucleus with muon neutrinos
- Observatory in Mexico sheds light on origin of excess positrons in outer space
- Neutrino research takes giant leap forward
- Confessions of a Dark Matter Detective
- Demonstrating Strong Electric Fields in Liquid Helium for Tests of Matter-Antimatter Symmetry
- Laboratory physicist wins 2016 early-career award for isotope work
- HAWC telescope’s first sky map shows flickering black holes
- Los Alamos Lab's Isotopes Production Facility cancer research highlighted on NBC News
- High-energy physics detector MicroBooNE sees first accelerator-born neutrinos
- A Large-Area Detector for Fundamental Neutron Science
- Seeing Quarks and Gluons Through Jets and Silhouettes
- The Majorana Demonstrator turns on!
- An international team of astrophysicists has completed an advanced detector to map the most energetic phenomena in the universe.
- A team of scientists generated a giant cosmic simulation and now they're giving it away
- New gamma-ray observatory begins operations at Sierra Negra volcano in the state of Puebla, Mexico (pdf)
- HAWC Observatory captures first image
