Luján on President’s Visit to Argonne National Lab
U.S. CONGRESSIONAL News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – New Mexico Congressman Ben Ray Luján, a member of the Energy and Commerce Committee and Co-Chair of the Science and National Labs Caucus, released the following statement on President Obama’s visit to Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois.
“Over the past few years, the United States has made progress toward a cleaner energy future that is better for our economy, our environment, and our security. However, with gas prices continuing to squeeze families across the country and the growing impact of climate change, significant work remains to build Read More
Emergency Exercise Planned March 21 at LANL
LANL News:
Los Alamos National Laboratory is conducting an emergency-preparedness exercise Thursday, March 21 … it is only an exercise.
The Lab routinely conducts emergency exercises to test the preparedness of emergency response and other LANL personnel who would respond to an actual emergency.
The majority of the exercise is on LANL property and shouldn’t affect the public.
Signs will be placed outside the Los Alamos Medical Center alerting the public that an exercise is under way.
LANL employees in affected facilities will be notified before the exercise begins and when Read More
NIST: Through The Looking Glass
Futuristic touchscreen. Courtesy/NIST
NIST News:
In the 2012 movie, “The Avengers”, Tony Stark, aka Ironman, uses a 3-D hologram to manufacture weaponry.
And although many movie-goers thought this was pure fantasy, the scene’s similarity to next generation manufacturing is much closer than most of us imagine.
Both Apple and Samsung are battling for 3-D screen dominance, but Disney (yes, Walt Disney) announced last year that its research and development department created “swept frequency capacitive sensing” that makes virtually any material Read More
NeuroX: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Pop-Neuroscience
SFI News:
NeuroX: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Pop-Neuroscience sponsored by the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study at George Mason University is set for May 8-10 at Founders Hall on the GMU Arlington, Va., campus.
Perspectives and applications from neuroscience are increasingly being applied to work in other areas, spawning new, interdisciplinary fields of the name “neuroX” where X can be almost anything from ethics to marketing.
Tiny Subject, Big Fun With NanoDays at Bradbury Science Museum
Courtesy/LANL
LANL News:
The tiny, strange world of nanoscale science is a big subject at the Bradbury Science Museum these days, as the organization celebrates NanoDays 2013.
NanoDays is a national campaign, engaging people of all ages in learning about the emerging field of nanoscale science and engineering.
The Bradbury marks NanoDays 2013 with interactive demonstrations and activities on the museum floor on such apparently magical themes as a real-life invisibility cloak and metals with memory-all possible with nanoscience, the field of very, very tiny technology.
- When: March 25-28
SFI Seminar: Large-Scale Power Restoration
Pascal Van Hentenryck, NICTA
SFI News:
The Santa Fe Institute presents the seminar, Large-Scale Power Restoration, by Pascal Van Hentenryck.
The seminar is 12:15 p.m., Friday, March 22 in the Collins Conference Room at 1399 Hyde Park Road in Santa Fe.
Abstract: This talk considers how to restore a transmission system after significant disruptions.
It presents hybrid optimization models, combining mathematical programming, constraint programming, and local search, that scale to large transmission systems and reviews the underlying technology to achieve these results.
Experimental Read More
LANL: ChemCam Data Abundant at Planetary Conference
This image shows the ChemCam mast unit mounted on the Curiosity rover as it is being prepared in the clean room prior to the launch of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission. ChemCam fires a powerful laser that can sample Martian rocks and provide critical clues about the Red Planet’s habitability. Courtesy/LANL
LANL News:
- Laser instrument aboard Curiosity rover provides well over 40,000 shots so far
Members of the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover ChemCam team will present more than two dozen posters and talks next week during the 44th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference Read More
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