National Laboratory

DOE Secretary Showcases National Labs On Hill

by

DOE Secretary Ernest Moniz

DOE News:

  • Lab Day Demonstrations Highlight Labs’ Contribution to U.S. Competitiveness and Innovation

Washington, D.C. – Today, Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz joined Sen. Dick Durbin, D-IL and Sen. Jim Risch, R-ID for National Lab Day on the Hill.

The event highlighted several notable research projects from across the National Laboratory system. Senators Durbin and Risch also formally launched the Senate National Laboratory Caucus, which aims to increase awareness of the reach of the national labs as leaders in developing new breakthrough technologies and Read More

Lawsuit Against LANL And Former Emergency Operations Manager Tony Stanford Is Settled

by

Anthony ‘Tony’ Stanford
 
By CAROL A. CLARK
Los Alamos Daily Post

Attorney John Day told the Los Alamos Daily Post this evening that the suit he filed in First District Court last December on behalf of Erika and William Gorman against Los Alamos National Security, LLC, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Anthony “Tony” R. Stanford has been settled.

“We’ve reached an agreement and dropped the lawsuit,” Day said. “The parties agreed not to discuss the terms of the settlement but I can tell you that the Gormans are extremely happy and very

Read More

LANL: Collaboration Drives Achievement In Protein Structure Research

by

Thomas Terwilliger. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • Computational analysis key to structural understanding of molecular machine that targets viral DNA

When this week’s print issue of the journal Science comes out, a collective cheer will go up from New Mexico, Montana and even the Netherlands, thanks to the type of collaborative effort that is more and more the norm in these connected times.

Yes, the research was brilliant, and if we’re lucky, it will produce innovations in biology, medicine, biotechnology and agriculture. It could save lives, and it happened because this scientist talked with Read More

ScienceFest Mixes Learning With Fun

by

Young builders create sturctures in the Geodesic Dome Make-a-Thon Saturday at Ashley Pond Park during the final day of this year’s weeklong ScienceFest event. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
Youngsters participate in an experiment at the Krazy Science booth. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
Team Y High School Robotics group puts on a demonstration. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
ScienceFest crowd fills Ashley Pond Park. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
Girl Scout Troop 116 offered face painting at ScienceFest.
Read More

Bradbury Science Museum Hosts ScienceFest Events

by

The Bradbury Science Museum has hosted events all week long as part of the Los Alamos ScienceFest, which ends this evening. The audience listened Friday evening to a talk called, Hidden in Plain Sight: Augmented Reality. Augmented reality used to be ‘science fiction’, but it’s not fiction anymore. Imagine the ability to look at an object and, with augmented reality, open hidden information with special ‘eyes’ that let you see amazing things. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
 
Chick Keller has been on the forefront of climate change science, education
Read More

Los Alamos County Airport Hosts ‘Science of Flight’

by

Thomas Spickermann of the Experimental Aircraft Association is assisted by Mariam Tracy in demonstrating how airplane flight works during the Civil Air Patrol and EAA presentation of ‘The Science of Flight’ this morning at Los Alamos County Airport as part of ScienceFest. Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
Visitors check out personal aircraft and talk with pilots this morning at the Los Alamos County Airport. Some of the planes on display were built by their owners. Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
Civil Air Patrol cadets with their plane. Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
Read More

SFI: Data Request Adaptation to Protect Individual Privacy

by

Gabriela Barrantes

SFI News:

The next SFI Seminar is 12:15 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18 in the Collins Conference Room at the Santa Fe Institute in Santa Fe.

Gabriela Barrantes of the University of Costa Rica will speak on “Data Request Adaptation to Protect Individual Privacy.”

Abstract: The problem of preserving individual privacy while giving third parties access to large data sets has been an issue of concern for many years. The advent of big data and large-scale data breaches, however, have highlighted the need for new approaches to this problem. I will describe some of the individual Read More

WIPP: Waste Hoist Transformer Replacement Nearly Complete

by

WIPP has been disposing of legacy TRU waste since 1999, cleaning up 22 generator sites nationwide. Courtesy/WIPP

WIPP News:

Cleaning and soot removal activities on the waste hoist and associated components have been completed at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP).

One additional repair is necessary before the hoist can be powered, inspected and returned to service.

Employees are currently working to replace the electrical transformer necessary to operate the hoist. Crews began removal operations for the old transformer this week and will continue to work through the weekend to complete Read More

Halfway Through First Season of WGN’s Manhattan

by

Workers loading uranium slugs into the X-10 Reactor in Oak Ridge, Tenn. Photo public domain

LAHS News:

There was a great turnout for the Los Alamos Historical Society’s viewing of the seventh episode of WGN’s new series, Manhattan, a fictionalized look at life in Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project.

The episode was high in drama, but we found a lot of history to discuss! Every week the Society updates a bulletin board in the Museum to continue exploring questions and reactions as the 13-episode series continues. Previous episodes are discussed on this website, and on our Facebook Read More