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‘Friday Night at the Museum’ Returns with Robotics Night Aug. 23
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LANL News:
Employees and the public can see and drive a variety of different robots at Robotics Night 5-8 p.m. Friday, Aug. 23 at the Bradbury Science Museum.
Robots from the Laboratory’s Hazardous Devices Team, the FIRST Robotics Leagues, UNM, Los Alamos, the Los Alamos Police Department and other local enthusiasts will be at the museum.
Demonstrations will include the Laboratory’s robots each weighing in at more than 500 pounds and the Los Alamos Police Department’s Bomb Squad robot. UNM-LA’s robotics program also will have many of their student-built bots on display with Read More
Micah Jay Andersen Awarded Purple Heart
LAHS graduate First Lt. Micah Jay Andersen receives the Purple Heart. Courtesy photo
Staff Report
First Lieutenant Micah Jay Andersen received the Purple Heart Aug. 13 from 4-star General Daniel B. Allyn, Commanding General U.S. Army Forces Command.
The Los Alamos High School graduate was serving as an Armor Officer in Afghanistan June 1 and suffered severe combat injuries when an improvised explosive device detonated while he was conducting a combined dismounted patrol.
The Purple Heart award ceremony was attended by members of his family including his father Skip Andersen who works at Read More
Postwar Conflicts, Bradbury’s Legacy to be Discussed at Bradbury Science Museum Aug. 21
LANL News:
Concluding his two-part lecture series about Norris Bradbury, Los Alamos National Laboratory historian Alan Carr will discuss the leadership of the Lab during the Cold War and the unique legacy that Bradbury left in Los Alamos during a “brown bag” lecture Aug. 21 at the Bradbury Science Museum.
The talk is at noon and employees and the public and welcome to bring their lunch.
“The Life, the Times, and the Laboratory of Norris E. Bradbury,” will review the final decade of Bradbury’s time as Los Alamos’ second
LANL’s 1663 Magazine Now Available
LANL news:
The New Issue of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s 1663 Magazine is Now Available
In this issue:
- Early detection and diagnosis for biothreats, whether natural or human-made
- Energy storage technology for keeping solar- and wind-derived power on tap
- Monitoring the structural health of high-end infrastructure with remote sensors
- Nuclear fission power source to enable more science on future spacecraft…
- and more
Click here to get your science and technology fix from Los Alamos! Read More
LANL Scholarship Drive Sets Record
LANL news:
This year’s Los Alamos National Laboratory Employees’ Scholarship Fund broke past fundraising records, raising a total of $563,827.
Of that, 601 LANL employees, visiting scientists and friends of the Lab contributed $313,000. Los Alamos National Security, LLC. provided a $250,000 match.
Nan Sauer, Associate Director for Chemistry, Life and Earth Science at the Lab and chair of the campaign, said this exceeded the Scholarship Advisory Committees’ goal of $300,000 from employees. Laboratory employees contributed $273,300 to the campaign last year.
Scholarship awards went Read More
LANL Scientists Show Muon Imaging May Offer Hope of Assessing Damaged Reactor Cores
LANL News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. ─ Critical to the recovery efforts following the devastating effects of the 2011 tsunami on Japan’s Fukushima reactor is the ability to assess damage within the reactor’s core.
A study in the journal AIP Advances by a team of scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) shows that muon imaging may offer the best hope of assessing damage to the reactor cores and locating the melted fuel.
Muon imaging, which utilizes naturally occurring muons created in the atmosphere by cosmic rays to image dense objects, should solve the problem of determining Read More
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