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Los Alamos Office of Science Awards and News
High-impact scientific publications are one of the key outputs from the fundamental research we carry out in support of our Office of Science research programs. The exemplary work produced by our research staff also garners key societal awards. The links below provide access both to noteworthy recent awards as well as summaries of newsworthy scientific publications.
Awards
- Hoffman wins DOE Early Career Research Award
- Bruce Carlsten wins prestigious Wilson Prize
- 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
Advanced Scientific Computing Research
Biological and Environmental Research
- Probing wet fire smoke in clouds: Can water intensify the Earth's warming?
- Advanced Capabilities for Representing Waves with Earth System Models, a Key Process in coastal Storm Surge Impacts
- Up to 15 inches of sea-level rise from ice sheets by 2100 predicted by international modeling collaboration
- The Traits of Microbes Matter in Microbial Carbon Cycling and Storage
- Studies find less impact from wildfire smoke on climate
- El Niño-linked decreases in soil moisture could trigger massive tropical-plant die offs
- Expedition drifts in the Arctic ice to study climate
- Unraveling the mysteries of the tiniest living things
- Drought impact study shows new issues for plants and carbon dioxide
- Microbes are metabolic specialists
- Hunt is over for one of the 'Top 50 Most-Wanted Fungi"
- Insight into enzyme's 3D structure could cut biofuel costs
- Neutrons used to study model vascular systems
- 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
- 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
- As Forests Disappear, Examining the Mechanisms of Their Death
Basic Energy Sciences
- Lighting the Way for Nanotube Innovation
- Advancing Understanding of Heavy Elements at the Edge of the Periodic Table
- Uranium compound achieves record anomalous Nernst conductivity
- New class of versatile, high-performance quantum dots primed for medical imaging, quantum computing
- Lack of symmetry in qubits can't fix errors in quantum computing, but might explain matter/antimatter imbalance
- The quantum butterfly non-effect
- Simulating quantum 'time travel' disproves butterfly effect in quantum realm
- Machine learning unearths signature of slow-slip quake origins in seismic data
- Quantum time travel doesn't follow Back to the Future rules
- Quantum dot solar cells get greener
- Efficient, "green" quantum-dot solar cells exploit defects
- Improved Catalyst Branches Out and Out-Performs
- No Strain, No Gain! Breakthrough in 2D Material that Produces Single Photons
- Machine fault
- Novel approach lets scientists draw superconducting patterns
- Opening access to explore the synthetic chemistry of neptunium
- Artificial intelligence takes on earthquake prediction
- 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
- Los Alamos Offers New Insights Into Radiation Damage Evolution
- 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
- An ordered nanomaterial from bulk processing
Fusion Energy Sciences
- 3D simulations improve understanding of energetic-particle radiation and help protect space assets
- 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.
High Energy Physics
- HAWC Gamma Ray Observatory discovers origin of highest-energy cosmic rays in the galaxy
- Los Alamos scientist find a way to quickly test rust on graphene-protected cars, planes, ships
- Hidden neutrino particles may be a link to the dark sector
- Evgenya Simakov: Then and Now / 2010 Early Career Award Winner
- Building better electron sources with graphene
- Astrophysics Signal Does What the LHC Cannot: Constrain Quantum Gravity and String Theory
- Galactic gamma-ray sources reveal birthplaces of high-energy particles
- How do you make the world's most powerful neutrino beam?
- Using quantum computers to test the fundamentals of physics
- How HAWC landed in Mexico
- Quantum computers to clarify the connection between the quantum and classical worlds
- 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
- HAWC telescope’s first sky map shows flickering black holes
- 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
Nuclear Physics
- Neutron measured with greatest-ever precision
- How Large are Neutron Stars?
- Tsuyoshi Tajima: Then and Now / 2010 Early Career Award Winners
- Magnetic levitation of ultracold neutrons yields new measurement of the neutron lifetime
- Demonstrating Strong Electric Fields in Liquid Helium for Tests of Matter-Antimatter Symmetry
Isotope Program
- Combating drug resistant infections with radioisotopes
- New Imaging Isotope Meets Promising Therapy Isotopes
- Harnessing the Power of Uranium to Treat Disease
- Ordinary people, extraordinary times
- The paradox of using radionuclides to treat disease
- Tri-Lab effort ramps up to actinium-225 production to support clinical trials
- Thorium: A source of multiple medical isotopes
- Targeted radioactive treatment offers promise in cancer treatment
- New approach yields high-purity radium for medical applications
