‘New Mexico in Focus’ Tackles Future of National Labs
“New Mexico in Focus,” New Mexico PBS’ prime-time news magazine show covering the events, issues and people shaping life in New Mexico and the Southwest will take on an issue of special interest to Los Alamos this week.
One of the three topics to be discussed on the show is the Implications of a reduced nuclear stockpile and the future of New Mexico’s National Laboratories.
Does their mission need to change? How can the labs Influence that role?
The program will also focus on the latest New Mexico legislative efforts on education and water issues.
Hosted by Gene Grant, “New Mexico in Focus” Read More
Quantum Cryptography Put to Work for Electric Grid Security
The miniature transmitter communicates with a trusted authority to generate random cryptographic keys to encode and decode information. Courtesy/LANL
LANL News:
Recently, a Los Alamos National Laboratory quantum cryptography (QC) team successfully completed the first-ever demonstration of securing control data for electric grids using quantum cryptography.
The demonstration was performed in the electric grid test bed that is part of the Trustworthy Cyber Infrastructure for the Power Grid (TCIPG) project at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) that was set up under Read More
Scientist Will Discuss Naval Nuclear Terrorism
HIVE News:
Scientist Liviu Popa-Simil will present a talk on “Naval Nuclear Terrorism – Non-Conventional Nuclear Devices – Their Early Detection and Suppression” at a Brown Bag Lunch event today, Feb. 14 at The Hive, 134 N.M. 4 in White Rock.
The event is open to the public and free of charge. Lunch begins at 11:30 a.m. and the presentation starts at noon.
This is a subject of interest for homeland security and non-proliferation, bringing focus to the possibility of obtaining nuclear materials, types of non-conventional explosive devices, nuclear improvised explosive devices (IED), and the Read More
‘Slow Light’ Advance Could Speed Optical Computing, Telecommunications
Schematic of active optical control of terahertz waves in electromagnetically induced transparency metamaterials. Courtesy/LANL
LANL News:
- Metamaterials provide active control of slow-light devices
Wireless communications and optical computing could soon get a significant boost in speed, thanks to “slow light” and specialized metamaterials through which it travels.
Researchers have made the first demonstration of rapidly switching on and off “slow light” in specially designed materials at room temperature.
This work opens the possibility to design novel, chip-scale, ultrafast Read More
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Udall Meets With Secretary of Defense Nominee
U.S. Sen. Tom Udall meets with Defense Secretary nominee Chuck Hagel Feb. 11. Courtesy/Udall’s Office
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Column: A Sensible Organization Is Not A Perfect Organization – Part II
A Sensible Organization Is Not A Perfect Organization: Drawing Boundary, Yes; Generating Unlimited Rules, Not So Much – Part II
By Elena Yang
Let me try to recap and explain the third law of thermodynamics (maybe I should say regurgitate?): To drive all imperfections out of a system requires an infinite amount of work.
Scientists can remove thermal energy from a system and lower the temperature to close to zero absolute. However, the process is nonlinear in the sense that as the temperature drops, the effort required to remove the remaining thermal energy from the system increases. Read More
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