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LANL: Research Unravels Mysteries Of Lightning’s Origins

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Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory are studying the origins of lightning. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory have discovered that cosmic-ray showers seem to play a pivotal role in triggering lightning flashes; the research was published in the journal JGR Atmospheres.

“Scientists still don’t fully understand how lightning starts in thunderstorms,” said Xuan-Min Shao, of Los Alamos’ Electromagnetic Sciences and Cognitive Space Applications group and lead author of the new study. “Using our 3D radio frequency mapping and polarization Read More

New Documents Added To Electronic Public Reading Room

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LANL News:

Per regulatory requirements, this e-mail is to notify you that the following documents have been added to the Los Alamos National Laboratory Electronic Reading Room.

The document(s) have been submitted to fulfill one or more requirements of the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

 

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LANL: What Your Breath Says About Your Health

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Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

In 1958, the invention of the modern “breathalyzer” provided a rapid, non-invasive way to estimate a person’s blood alcohol content by detecting ethanol in their breath. Since then, scientists have explored the use of breath to detect other things, such as cancer, diabetes, or infections—including COVID-19. To improve breath-based detection, scientists at Los Alamos are cataloguing the molecules found in healthy human breath to determine a baseline chemical profile.

Human breath comprises nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon dioxide, but it also includes organic Read More

Samizdat Bookstore & Teahouse Author Talk: Jeff Colvin

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COMMUNITY News:

Samizdat Bookstore & Teahouse is hosting Jeff Colvin, author of Avoiding Apocalypse: How Science and Scientists Ended the Cold War, for an author talk 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 18 at Fuller Lodge.

There will be tea before the talk and a book signing afterwards.

Avoiding Apocalypse tells the little-known story of the worldwide scientists’ boycott of the Soviet Union that set in motion an astonishing sequence of events.

Starting simultaneously with the rise to power of an obscure Soviet bureaucrat named Mikhail Gorbachev, the scientists’ boycott led to the end not only of the Read More

Northern New Mexico Youth Fund Launches To Support Underserved Youth; Strengthen Career Pathways

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LANL Foundation News:

ESPAÑOLA — The Northern New Mexico Pathways to Opportunity Strategy Table has announced a groundbreaking new initiative to support organizations serving young people in Northern New Mexico – The Northern New Mexico Youth Fund. 

The first pooled fund of its kind in the region, the Youth Fund brings together philanthropic, state, tribal, and federal funding to support innovative Career Technical Education (CTE) and Work-Based Learning (WBL) projects for youth ages 13 to 29 so they have the connections, confidence, and opportunities they need to succeed. The Read More

LANL Individual Permit Public Meeting March 5

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N3B News:

The Department of Energy Environmental Management Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) and its cleanup contractor, Newport News Nuclear BWXT Los Alamos (N3B), will host an annual meeting to report on the status of the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Individual Permit.

The meeting will be held at the Cities of Gold in Santa Fe (Pojoaque), 2-4 p.m. MST, Wednesday, March 5, as well as virtually on Microsoft Teams.

Additional details including login information for the virtual meeting are available here.

The Individual Permit authorizes the discharge of storm water from LANL sites Read More

Nationwide Recovery Of Radioactive Devices By Los Alamos National Laboratory Hits Major Milestone … 100th Shipment

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Last October, the Lab’s Mobile Loading Source Recovery Team and Off-Site Source Recovery Program managed the removal and shipment of a high-activity radioactive device, from Philadelphia, pictured above. The truck departed the facility at 1:18 a.m. to minimize impacts to city roadways. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • Partnership helps mitigate risk of terrorist attacks using a “dirty bomb”

Two Los Alamos National Laboratory teams that travel nationwide recovering potentially harmful radioactive material from devices at hospitals, universities, and research facilities completed a momentous Read More

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright Makes First Visit To Los Alamos National Laboratory … Calls It America’s ‘National Security Brain Trust’

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DOE Secretary Chris Wright is escorted into one of the lab’s facilities by Deputy Director for Weapons Bob Webster and Laboratory Staff Director Frances Chadwick. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • Site tour covered Weapons, AI, Supercomputing and more

DOE Secretary Chris Wright is escorted into one of the lab’s facilities by Deputy Director for Weapons Bob Webster and Laboratory Staff Director Frances Chadwick.

During his inaugural visit to Los Alamos National Laboratory on Feb. 24, U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright told staff and leadership his administration believes Los Alamos is the nation’s Read More

Sonic Talk On Nuclearism And Atomic History At New Mexico History Museum Wednesday March 12 In Santa Fe

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Sean J. Patrick Carney

NMHM News:

The community is invited to join the New Mexico History Museum (NMHM) for a special presentation by writer and visual artist Sean J. Patrick Carney based on his podcast, Time Zero, which looks at nuclear history and the cultural architecture of postwar America.

What: From the first nuclear detonation in New Mexico’s Tularosa Basin in 1945, through decades of mutually assured destruction, to science-fiction-like visions of atomic energy powering advanced artificial intelligence platforms, to radioactive half-lives numbering tens of thousands of years, Read More

LANL: Have You Seen These Manhattan Project Artifacts?

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Left: Original Manhattan Project-era safe from 1946; Right: Safe from TA-53 retrieved by Site Cleanup Program workers in 2022. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Los Alamos National Laboratory is looking for a few objects that may be lying around in family heirloom collections.

Manhattan Project National Historical Park is on the hunt for specific Manhattan Project-era artifacts that community members may have in their possession. These items will allow the park team and Bradbury Science Museum to build out specific exhibits so visitors can better understand the secret work that went into creating Read More