‘Voices of the Manhattan Project’ Website Launched
Manhattan Project Insignia. Courtesy/Atomic Heritage Foundation
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Arno Roensch, a glass
Shrinking Horizons: Help Preserve Indigenous Human Societies in SFI’s First Crowdfunding Campaign
SFI News:
Working with the SciFund Challenge, SFI has joined other scientists and science research centers in this emerging, social-networked way to generate financial backing for critical scientific research. The campaign runs through Dec. 15.
For SFI’s first cowdfunding campaign we are highlighting SFI Postdoctoral Fellow Marcus Hamilton and his collaborators at the University of Missouri, who are seeking better ways to understand how to preserve the rainforest land on which indigenous human groups depend.
Visit the SFI campaign page here.
There are an estimated 100 uncontacted
Clouds Could Explain How Snowball Earth Thawed Out
Giant snowball created by Oxford students. Courtesy photo
AGU News:
Glaciation events during the Neoproterozoic (524-to-1,000 million years ago) and Paleoproterozoic (1,600-to-2,500 million years ago) periods – events that
spawned ice ages that persisted for millions of years at a time – may have seen glacier ice encircle the planet in a frosty planetary configuration known as a
Snowball Earth.
Whether the planet could have existed in such a state, however, is a matter of considerable debate.
An elevated planetary albedo, caused by the planet being covered in reflective Read More
First Controllable Atom SQUID
Researcher Kevin Wright checks part of the experimental apparatus. Courtesy/NIST
NIST News:
Scientists have created the first controllable atomic circuit that functions analogously to a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) and allows operators to select a particular quantum state of the system at will.
By manipulating atoms in a superfluid ring thinner than a human hair the investigators were able for the first time to measure rotation-induced discrete quantized changes in the atoms’ state, thereby providing a proof-of-principle design for an “atomtronic” inertial Read More
Column: Insecurity with LANL Security Project
ON THE MESA FACING NORTH
OBITUARY: THOMAS ILG Sept. 9, 1958 – Nov. 2, 2012
THOMAS ILG
Thomas Ilg of Los Alamos, N.M., passed away unexpectedly Friday Nov. 2, 2012. He died while perusing his passion of photographing the ruins of the Jemez Mountains.
He was born Sept. 30, 1958 in Suffern, N.Y. He was graduated from Northeastern University in Boston, Mass. in 1980 with an engineering degree.
He lived in the town of White Rock, with his wife Wendy, the love of his life for 17 years.
Tom was employed at Los Alamos National Laboratory for more than 20 years where he worked as a mechanical engineer.
He was an avid and accomplished photographer; he loved hiking, hockey, target shooting, Read More
Contractors Hear New LANL Cost Model Details
LANL Budget Officer K. Aaron Menefee explains the new LANL budgeting formula to LANL contractors attending a Nov. 1 Chamber Business Breakfast at UNM-LA. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon
By Bonnie J. Gordon
Los Alamos National Laboratory has adopted a new cost model for Fiscal Year 2013 and LANL contractors have expressed concern about the consequences the new model may have on their businesses.
The Los Chamber of Commerce organized a special Chamber Breakfast for LANL officials and contractors Nov. 1 at UNM-LA.
LANL Budget Officer K. Aaron Menefee gave a presentation designed to show why LANL has Read More
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