Starmer/Upper Pajarito Canyon Aggregate Area Progress Report Added To LANL Electronic Public Reading Room
LANL News:
Per regulatory requirements, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) announces new documents have been added to the Los Alamos Legacy Cleanup Contract Electronic Public Reading Room.
All legacy cleanup documents required to be posted after April 30, 2018, are available on the site linked above.
For legacy cleanup documents that were posted prior to April 30, 2018, please visit the LANL electronic public reading room:
- Approval, Interim Facility-Wide Groundwater Monitoring Plan for The 2024 Monitoring Year, October 2023-September 2024, Revision 1 (Link)
- Review, Starmer/Upper
LAHS Sports Lit Students Hear Details On Manhattan Project
Los Alamos High School (LAHS) teacher Lori Thompson invited Mel Strong, one of Bradbury Science Museum’s informal science educators, to speak to her Sports Liturature students about the Manhattan Project. Strong arrived Nov. 3 in the Science on Wheels van with materials for his presentation. He led the students through hands-on activities inside their classroom. Photo by Nate Limback/ladailypost.com
Bradbury Science Museum’s informal science educator Mel Strong speaking Nov. 3 about the Manhattan Project to LAHS teacher Lori Thompson’s Sports Lit students during a Science on Wheels Read More
LANL: Podcast – The Historical Accuracy Of The Oppenheimer Film According To A Historian
LANL News:
It has been around four months since the film Oppenheimer released in theatres, creating a buzz in the public and grossing nearly a billion dollars worldwide.
After the war, Oppenheimer was a world famous scientist that people recognized. Over time, that celebrity status faded and even a year ago, Oppenheimer wasn’t majorly known in the world but has now once again become a recognizable name to the average person.
The film, based on the Pulitzer Prize winning biography of Oppenheimer, American Prometheus, peeled back many layers of Oppenheimer’s life and complex legacy.
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LANL Periodic Table Talk With Roxana Bujack Nov. 13
LANL staff scientist Roxana Bujack
LANL News:
At this month’s Periodic Table program, Roxana Bujack discusses Los Alamos National Lboratory’s work to develop algorithms to improve the color maps used in data visualizations, making them easy to understand and interpret. These visualizations help scientists and researchers make sense of vast amounts of data that might otherwise obscure their findings.
Bujack will also discuss her recent research determining an accurate mathematical model of color perception—and how her team recently proved that Erwin Schrödinger’s theory – yes, that Read More
Cleared Trees At Los Alamos National Laboratory Go To Provide Winter Heat For Pueblo Neighbors
Timber cleared during wildfire mitigation efforts at LANL go to tribal members to heat homes. Courtesy/LANL
LANL News:
Woodstoves and kiva fireplaces are warming up this winter, thanks to free firewood cleared from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Recently, tribal members from the neighboring Accord Pueblos of San Ildefonso, Santa Clara, Cochiti and Jemez collected hundreds of cords of firewood from Laboratory property, repurposing timber that was cleared during on-site wildfire mitigation efforts this year.
Every year since 2019, the Emergency Management Division has been Read More
Los Alamos Basks In Limelight From ‘Oppenheimer’ Movie
Visitors seize the chance to take a photo with Oppie and Groves near Fuller Lodge. Courtesy/LAC
BY KIRSTEN LASKEY
Los Alamos Daily Post
kirsten@ladailypost.com
The relationship between Los Alamos and Hollywood for the film, Oppenheimer, can only be described as symbiotic. Hollywood reaped commercial and critical acclaim for its depiction of the town’s origins and arguably its most famous resident while Los Alamos successfully capitalized on the massive, worldwide attention it received.
In short, filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s 2023 film has made both entities sparkle in the limelight. Read More
LANL: Pinpointing HIV Immune Response & More
Science: Pinpointing HIV Immune Response
New research combining computer modeling and experiments with macaques shows the body’s immune system helps control human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections largely by suppressing viral production in already infected cells while also killing viral infected cells, but only within a narrow time window at the start of a cell’s infection. Read the full article here. Courtesy/LANL
LANL News:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) shares a compilation of news stories for the week of Oct. 30, 2023.
Community: From canyons to mesa tops, explore Read More
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