LANL: National Labs Collaborate To Shape Development Of Next-Generation Supercomputers
LANL News:
LOS ALAMOS and BERKELEY – Three of the Department of Energy’s leading national laboratories are working together to solve some of the world’s most challenging problems by ensuring that the nation’s scientific community has access to leading edge computing systems to carry out their research.
Los Alamos, Lawrence Berkeley and Sandia national laboratories have formed the Alliance for Application Performance at Extreme Scale (APEX) to focus on the design, acquisition and deployment of future advanced technology high performance computing Read More
Officials Sign MOA Establishing Manhattan Project National Historical Park
ECA Treasurer and Los Alamos County Council Chair Kristin Henderson
ECA News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Moniz and U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) Secretary Jewell are holding a ceremony today to sign the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) officially establishing the Manhattan Project National Historical Park in Washington, D.C.
Energy Communities Alliance (ECA) and its member communities have worked for almost 10 years to see the creation of Manhattan Project National Historical Park. Leaders of the communities that will host the Park will Read More
Veterans Reclaim Nov. 11 As Armistice Day
Veterans For Peace News:In their recent statement concerning Nov. 11, celebrated
Udall On National Native American Heritage Month
U.S. SENATE News:Interior, Energy Departments To Sign Agreement Establishing Manhattan Project National Historical Park
U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz
DEPT. OF INTERIOR News:
WAHINGTON, D.C. – Tuesday, Nov. 10, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz will sign a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) at the Department of the Interior South Building Auditorium, to establish the Manhattan Project National Historical Park.
The park will have three locations: Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, Tenn. and Hanford, Wash. National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis will attend the ceremony along with Senators Martin Heinrich, Lamar Alexander and Maria Cantwell, who Read More
Udall On Decision To Reject The Keystone Pipeline
U.S. Sen. Tom UdallLos Alamos Staff Member Michele DeCroix Honored With Department Of Homeland Security Secretary’s Award
LANL scientist Michele DeCroix. Courtesy/LANL Michele DeCroix of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Nuclear Engineering and Nonproliferation division (NEN-5) was recently awarded the Department of Homeland Security Secretary’s Award for Excellence at a special ceremony in Washington, D.C.
LANL: Molecular Clocks Control Mutation Rate In Human Cells
In research reported in the journal Nature Genetics, two clock-like mutational processes have been found in human cells and the rates at which the two clocks tick in different human cell types have been determined. Image courtesy Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. Courtesy/LANL
LANL News:
- Cancer and ageing could be predetermined by the speed of molecular clocks
CAMBRIDGE, UK, and LOS ALAMOS—Every cell in the human body contains a copy of the human genome. Through the course of a lifetime all cells are thought to acquire mutations in their genomes.
Some of the mutational processes generating Read More
VFW Hosts Veterans Day Ceremony 11 a.m. Nov. 11
VFW News:
VFW Post 8874 is hosting this year’s Veterans Day ceremony at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 11, in front of Fuller Lodge (grassy area, by flag pole).
This year’s event is unique in that the VFW has joined with Los Alamos County to celebrate both Veterans Day and the signing of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park. The County’s ceremony is scheduled for 10 a.m. in front of the Los Alamos Youth Center building at 20th and Central Avenue.
Lunch furnished by numerous Veterans and Fraternal organization and catered by Smokin’ Bear BBQ will follow the 11 a.m. Veterans Day ceremony Read More
LAPS: November Is Native American Heritage Month
Courtesy/LAPS
November is Native American Heritage Month – a time to celebrate rich and diverse cultures, traditions and histories and to acknowledge the important contributions of Native people.
Native American Heritage Month is also an opportune time to educate the general public about tribes, to raise a general awareness about the unique challenges Native people have faced both historically and in the present, and the ways in which tribal citizens have worked to conquer these challenges (click Read More
