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LANL: High-energy Physics Detector MicroBooNE Sees First Accelerator-born Neutrinos

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An accelerator-born neutrino candidate, spotted with the MicroBooNE detector. Courtesy/Fermilab

LANL News:

  • Los Alamos collaboration on target, beamline, aids detection of “ghost particles”

MicroBooNE, a neutrino detector saw its first neutrinos, known as the ghost particles, Oct. 15 in a multi-laboratory experiment at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, near Chicago.

“This is a great day for MicroBooNE, and it brings us closer to addressing the question of sterile neutrinos and short-baseline neutrino oscillations,” said Los Alamos National Laboratory staff member Richard Read More

‘Challenging Science’ Is Now Free For All

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SCIENCE News:

Joel M. Williams is releasing his book “Challenging Science” as a free, down-loadable, pdf file.

The book covers many of his thoughts and research papers in chemistry and physics from the time of his retirement from Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1993 to its publication in 2005.

Click here to visit his website where many of the topics in the book are updated and where a link to download the 18Mb pdf file of the full-copy of the book for free is provided. Read More

SFI: 2016 Short Course Jan. 5-7

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SFI News:
 
The Santa Fe Institute (SFI) is hosting a 2016 short course “Exploring Complexity in Social Systems and Economics” Tuesday – Thursday, Jan. 5-7 at Santa Fe Institute.
 
Social systems are intrinsically complex, whether they are groups of interacting ants, humans, companies, cities, or societies.
 
How do such systems organize themselves to produce sophisticated collective behavior? How do they adapt and learn in the face of changing circumstances?
 
How does group cooperation emerge from social yet selfish individuals, and how can
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Feds Deny NM Drivers Licenses Extension

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BY ROGER SNODGRASS
Los Alamos Daily Post

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security informed New Mexico this week that the state will not be granted an additional extension of time to comply with federal driver’s license standards under the Real ID Act passed by Congress in 2005.

A letter on behalf of DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson to Demisia Padilla, Secretary of the New Mexico Taxation and Revenue Department finds that “New Mexico has not provided adequate justification for continued noncompliance with the REAL ID standards that would warrant granting your request for another extension.” Read More

Halloween Skies To Include Dead Comet Flyby

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This image, bearing an eerie resemblance to a skull, of asteroid 2015 TB145, a dead comet, was generated using radar data collected by the National Science Foundation’s 1,000-foot (305-meter) Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. The radar image was taken Oct. 30, 2015, and the image resolution is 25 feet (7.5 meters) per pixel. Courtesy/NAIC-Arecibo/NSF

JPL News:

The large space rock that will zip past Earth this Halloween is most likely a dead comet that, fittingly, bears an eerie resemblance to a skull.

Scientists observing asteroid 2015 TB145 with NASA’s Infrared Telescope Read More

Hitching A Ride On The Pumpkin Bus … Historic New Mexico CubeSat Ready For Low-Earth Orbit

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Nothing like having some extra space when you are making a miniature satellite at home. Steve Suddarth walks through the hangar at his house in the Sandia Airpark in Edgewood. The airplane is used in the family aerial imaging business. Courtesy photo

Mat Ebersviller, left, CEO of InFocus, and Dan Cooper, an optical engineer from Dialogic Imaging Concepts in Los Alamos, discuss camera calibration, while Andrew Kalman, (foreground) CEO of Pumpkin, Inc. prepares an integration test station. Courtesy photo

 

By ROGER SNODGRASS
Los Alamos Daily Post

A small crew of space entrepreneurs working Read More

Udall Votes For Bipartisan Budget Agreement

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U.S. Sen. Tom Udall
 
U.S. SENATE News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Early this morning, U.S. Sen. Tom Udall voted to approve a bipartisan budget agreement. The plan passed the Senate 64-35 and now heads to the president for his signature.
Udall released the following statement: 
 
“New Mexico’s labs, military bases, and especially working families deserve certainty that the government will remain open for business. And we also must have relief from devastating sequestration budget cuts that have affected everything from military readiness to child care assistance,
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Philanthropy Tops United Way Board Event

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Special guest speaker Craig Leasure of Los Alamos talks about the importance of giving during Friday’s Celebration of Philanthropy hosted by the United Way of Northern New Mexico Board of Directors at Historic Los Luceros in Velarde. This is the first annual event in which board members cover all costs so 100 percent of the funds raised can go directly to helping people in need. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

UWNNM Board President Stephen Boerigter addresses the crowd at Friday’s special Board event. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Guests gather from Los Alamos, across Read More

LANL: Novel Targeted Therapy For Stomach Cancer

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New research at LANL and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute shows a molecular fingerprint in stomach cancer that shows it can be treated with platinum drugs and/or molecular inhibitors known as PARP. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Therapy has potential to save lives of thousands of cancer patients each year

New research from a multidisciplinary team shows that a molecular fingerprint, termed “signature 3,” is found in stomach cancer, opening the door to potential treatment with therapies such as platinum drugs.

This finding has the potential to save thousand of lives a year by delivering a more Read More

Udall To Highlight Importance Of NM’s National Labs

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SENATE News:
 
WASHINGTON ― Today, U.S. Sen. Tom Udall attended two hearings important to New Mexico. 
 
This morning, Udall will attended a Commerce Committee hearing to discuss the importance of protecting net neutrality and expanding broadband Internet to improve New Mexicans’ access to online health care services and economic and learning opportunities.
 
This afternoon, Udall attended a hearing of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development about the future of the national laboratories.
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