Science: Southwest New Mexico ruins reveal ancient macaw breeding site

‘A scarlet macaw grave at the Old Town Ruin at the ancient Mimbres site in Southwest New Mexico. As the tight beam of the scanning electron microscope focused on a tiny fragment of an ancient eggshell, I immediately saw that one of the inner shell’s layers had been partially reabsorbed. This exciting news, which I shared with my research team, meant the egg was fertilized and developing its potential chick, a young scarlet macaw, some 900 years ago. But this discovery led to a pressing question: How did this happen, given that the bird is not native to Southwest New Mexico?’ Read the full article here. Courtesy/LANL  

LANL News:

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) shares a compilation of news stories for the week of Aug. 28, 2023.

Projects build research capacity and pipeline for regional institutions

Los Alamos National Laboratory is partnering with five different institutions from New Mexico and beyond to expand research capacity at those institutions and bring more undergraduate and graduate students into research. Read the full article here. Courtesy/LANL 

Operations: Welcome to Crossroads

Working in the Lab’s Strategic Computing Complex subfloor during the delivery and installation of Crossroads. In the first week of June, a caravan of tractor trailers brought the components needed to begin the installation of Crossroads — the Los Alamos National Laboratory’s newest supercomputer — to the Strategic Computing Complex (SCC). Roughly two weeks later, with the last six compute cabinets and associated water-cooling units having arrived, all the hardware necessary for the assembly and installation of the system was in place. Read the full article here. Courtesy/LANL