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LANL: New Technique Removes Barrier To Development Of Biofuel Cells With Efficient Performance

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Gold nanoclusters (~1 nm) are efficient mediators of electron transfer between co-self-assembled enzymes and carbon nanotubes in an enzyme fuel cell.  The efficient electron transfer from this quantized nano material minimizes the energy waste and improves the kinetics of the oxygen reduction reaction, toward a more efficient fuel cell cycle. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • Los Alamos Explores Hybrid Ultrasmall Gold Nanocluster For Enzymatic Fuel Cells

With fossil-fuel sources dwindling, better biofuel cell design is a strong candidate in the energy field.

In research published Read More

NIST Team Breaks Record For Quantum Teleportation

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Image by K. Irvine/NIST

NIST News:

BOULDER, Colo.—Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have “teleported” or transferred quantum information carried in light particles over 100 kilometers (km) of optical fiber, four times farther than the previous record. 

The experiment confirmed that quantum communication is feasible over long distances in fiber. Other research groups have teleported quantum information over longer distances in free space, but the ability to do so over conventional fiber-optic lines offers more flexibility for network Read More

Los Alamos Historical Society Hosts Reception For Nobel Laureate/Manhattan Project Theorist Roy Glauber

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Nobel Laureate Professor Roy Glauber. Photo by Markus Pössel/wikipedia

HISTORICAL SOCIETY News:

The Los Alamos Historical Society opens its 2015-2016 lecture series, “70 Years Since World War II”, with Nobel Laureate and Manhattan Project theorist, Professor Roy Glauber.

The public is invited to a special reception for Dr. Glauber at 7:30 p.m., Sept. 29 at Fuller Lodge.

Dr. Glauber is in New Mexico visiting the University of New Mexico and giving a director’s colloquium at Los Alamos National Laboratory on the afternoon of Sept. 29. The director’s colloquium is open only to Read More

DOE National Cleanup Workshop Sept. 29-30

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DOE News:

Washington, D.C. – Tuesday and Wednesday, Sept. 29-30, the Department of Energy (DOE), in cooperation with the Energy Communities Alliance (ECA) and Energy Facility Contractors Group (EFCOG), will hold the first DOE National Cleanup Workshop at the Key Bridge Marriott in Arlington, VA.

The workshop brings together senior DOE executives, officials from DOE sites, industry executives, local government officials, and other stakeholders. Topics will include major cleanup successes planned for the next two years, contract and project management improvement, efforts to develop Read More

NNSA Removes U.S.-Origin HEU From Jamaica, Makes Caribbean HEU Free

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Anne Harrington

NNSA News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) has removed approximately 1 kilogram of U.S.-Origin highly enriched uranium (HEU) from Jamaica’s “Safe Low-Power Kritical Experiment” (SLOWPOKE) research reactor and returned the material to the United States, making the Caribbean region completely free of HEU.  

“Cooperating with Jamaica and Canada in completing this HEU removal is an outstanding example of how regional cooperation can support global efforts to minimize the civilian use of HEU, while Read More

Preparing For Your Future In A STEM Career

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SFCC News:

Santa Fe Community College is hosting a free College Student STEM Workshop: Preparing For Your Future in a STEM Career, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26 in the Jemez Rooms at SFCC, 6401 Richards Ave.

More than 100 students, researchers and scientists from New Mexico’scolleges, national laboratories and science businesses will attend Preparing For Your Future in a STEM Career: Bringing Together Students, Research Professionals and the Science Industry to Shape the Next Generation of New Mexico’s STEM Workforce.

Undergraduate and graduate students studying biomedical science, Read More

Girls Expand Horizons With Cool Science

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‘When I grow up I want to be a forensic scientist. I want to go to College at Penn State,’ said Jenny Kilde, 12, of Los Alamos Middle School. She was taking part in the Physics of Toys workshop, led by Ruth Howes and Nancy Watson Saturday at the Santa Fe Community College. Photo by Roger Snodgrass/ladailypost.com

These girls are not learning ‘What’s the matter?’ but rather, ‘What matter is,’ and (the title of their workshop) ‘Why Empty Matters,’ taught by Kateryna Artyushkova and Linnea Ista, a chemist and a microbiologist at the University of New Mexico. They’re finding out about vacuums, gravity, Read More

Energy Department Announces $102 Million To Tackle Solar Challenges, Expand Access To Clean Electricity

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DOE News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. ― Building on President Obama’s Climate Action Plan to cut climate-changing carbon pollution and continue building a clean energy economy in the United States, the Energy Department announced more than $102 million in new projects and available funding to support American leadership in clean energy innovation.
 
More than $52 million will support 22 new projects in partnership with companies, non-profit organizations, universities, and national laboratories that aim to make solar energy more affordable and accessible across the
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United Way Kicks Off Annual Campaign

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UWNNM Executive Director Kristy Ortega, left, with UWNNM board member Cathe McClard of LANB, which has contributed more than $1 million to the community through United Way over the years. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

From left, this year’s United Way Campaign Chair Los Alamos Fire Chief Troy Hughes, SOC General Manager Jack Killeen and UWNNM Executive Director Kristy Ortega at Wednesday’s annual campaign kickoff at Ashley Pond Park. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Staff Report

United Way of Northern New Mexico hosted its annual campaign kickoff event Read More

LANL Looks To Community For Next Generation Workforce

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Laboratory Director Charlie McMillan talks with Los Alamos County Council Chair Kristin Henderson at Wednesday’s Community Leaders Breakfast at Ohkay Owingeh Conference Center. Courtesy/LANL

 

By ROGER SNODGRASS
Los Alamos Daily Post

Ohkay Owingeh – An implicit theme of a community breakfast meeting at the pueblo conference center Wednesday had to do with work, workers and the variables that make employment attractive and possible at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

 Current concerns include the federal budget, the pace of laboratory projects and priorities, the Read More