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Los Alamos Historical Museum Move; Continuing Tours

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HISTORICAL MUSEUM News:

In preparation for renovations beginning in January 2016, the Los Alamos Historical Museum has moved to its new temporary location at 475 20th St., next to the new Teen Center.

The Museum is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. As part of the transition, the Museum Shop will be offering 20 percent off select items through Oct. 31.

The Museum also is continuing its guided walking tours into the winter months (weather permitting). Mondays at 11 a.m., docents will lead hour-long walking tours of the historic district, including Read More

DOE/DOD To Hold Semi-annual Public Meeting

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KAFB News:

KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE – The Department of Energy and Department of Defense will hold its semi-annual public meeting at 5:30 p.m., today at the Cesar Chavez Community Center at 7505 Kathryn St. off Louisiana Blvd.,in Albuquerque.

For more information, call the Kirtland Air Force Base Public Affairs Office at 505.846.5991. Read More

Bradbury Science Museum Hosts High Tech Halloween Oct. 30

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LANL’s Bradbury Science Museum’s High Tech Halloween is 4-6:30 p.m., Friday at 15th and Central. Courtesy/LANL

BSM News:

  • It’s Spooktacular!

Prepare to be amazed and delighted when you stop by Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Bradbury Science Museum’s annual High Tech Halloween, 4-6:30 p.m. Friday (Oct. 30). High Tech Halloween is held in conjunction with Trick-or-Trick on Main Street in downtown Los Alamos.

Attendees can observe demonstrations of a vacuum chamber, a simulated chain reaction and a show involving lights and optics.

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LANL: Researchers Create Nanoscale, Multidimensional Artificial Magnet

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Researchers have created a nanoscale, artificial magnet by arranging an array of magnetic nano-islands along a geometry that is not found in natural magnets. As temperature is reduced, magnetic nanoislands (in blue) reach a one-dimensional static, ordered state, while those in red keep flipping thermally. The material decomposes into an alternation of ordered/disordered stripes. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • Tiny magnets could work in sensors, information encoding

Scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory, in collaboration with a group at the University of Illinois Read More

WGN’s ‘Manhattan’ Viewing & Discussion On Tuesdays

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At left, a photo of the Historic Tech Area. The covered overpasses were built across what is now Trinity Drive, so that scientists could cross over from one building to the other without having to exit and then reinter the secure areas. At right, a photo of the Manhattan series set as seen on TV. Courtesy/LAHS

HISTORICAL SOCIETY News:

The season premiere for WGN’s Manhattan was Oct. 13. The Los Alamos Historical Society continues to hold weekly viewing parties for the show’s second season.

Join Historical Society members at 7 p.m., Tuesdays at Time Out Pizzeria on Central Avenue in Los Alamos, Read More

Public Talk: ‘Delivering Little Boy’ By Grandson Of Manhattan Project Physician Oct. 27

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Little Boy. Courtesy/wikipedia

 

By ROGER SNODGRASS
Los Alamos Daily Post

Jim Nolan, a professor of sociology at Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., didn’t know much about his grandfather, James F. Nolan, a physician with training in radiology who played a unique role in the early history of the atomic bomb at Los Alamos.

James L. Nolan, Jr., Professor of Sociology, Williams College

The younger Nolan had a general idea that his father had moved to Los Alamos at an early age but no detailed knowledge about his grandfather. Very few details, that is, until three years ago, when his father Read More

NNSA Awards Over $11 Million to Accelerate Development Of Domestic Mo-99 In U.S. Without Use Of Highly Enriched Uranium

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Workers prepare a low-enriched uranium machine for the production of Molybdenum-99 (Mo-99). Courtesy/NNSA

NNSA News:

 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) announced Thursday it has awarded more than $11 million in additional funding to its cooperative agreement partners, SHINE Medical Technologies and NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes, to accelerate the establishment of new, domestic sources of the medical isotope molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) produced without the use of proliferation-sensitive highly enriched Read More

SFI: ‘The Evolution Of Experience’ Oct. 27

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Peter Godfrey-Smith
City University of New York and University of Sydney 
 
SFI News:
 
The Santa Fe Institute (SFI) is hosting “The Evolution of Experience” at 3:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 27 at Noyce Conference Room in Santa Fe.
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Abstract: I’ll attempt to make progress on the problem of the evolutionary origins of subjective experience, drawing on recent ideas about animal phylogeny, the Ediacaran/Cambrian transition, early nervous systems, and the relation between experience and cognition.
 
SFI Host: Eric Libby
 
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LANL Team Receives NNSA Administration Awards For Exceptional Work

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LANL News:

WASHINGTON, D.C.—In a ceremony last week, National Nuclear Security Administrator Lt. Gen. (retired) Frank G. Klotz presented five Los Alamos National Laboratory members awards for their exceptional work in a large-scale, on-site field exercise held in Jordan to evaluate progress in the development of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty.

At the Oct. 14 ceremony, General Klotz presented LANL team leader Ward Hawkins with the Silver Award for Distinguished Service, and team members Richard Kelley, Emily Schultz-Fellenz, Aviva Sussman and Kenneth Wohletz  Read More

Rings of Fire: New Explosives Provide Enhanced Safety, High Energy

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Explosives chemist David Chavez weighs a small amount of tetrazine, an explosives precursor. Chavez has synthesized two new explosives molecules that promise high-energy with enhanced safety. Courtesy/LANL

A small amount of explosive material is subjected to shock wave with a striker plate to induce detonation. An explosive material’s insensitivity — it’s resistance to accidental or unintended detonation — is one set of data measured using this type of test. Photo by Daniel Preston/LANL

LANL News:

Los Alamos National Laboratory explosives chemist David Chavez has synthesized Read More