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AGU: Martian Salts Must Touch Ice to Make Liquid Water

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Mars Atmospheric Chamber at the Space Research Building, University of Michigan. Courtesy/AGU

AGU News:

Researchers from the American Geophysical Union (AGU), partnering with the University of Michigan, have shown in chambers that mimic Mars’ conditions, that small amounts of liquid water could form on the planet despite its below-freezing temperatures.

Liquid water is an essential ingredient for life as we know it. Mars is one of the very few places in the solar system where scientists have seen promising signs of it – in gullies down crater rims, in instrument readings and in Phoenix spacecraft Read More

Public Meeting to Discuss NPDES Stormwater Individual Permit at 5:30 p.m. Today

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LANL News:

A public meeting will be held 5:30-7:30 p.m., Tuesday, July 8, at the Cities of Gold Conference Center, 10 Cities of Gold Road in Pojoaque to discuss the bi-annual update on the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Storm Water Individual Permit.

The agenda is as follows:

  • 5:30 p.m. Poster Session
  • 5:50 p.m. Welcome
  • 6:00 p.m. Flood Event Mitigations
  • 6:20 p.m. Canyon Gage Network
  • 6:40 p.m. Permit Renewal
  • 7:10 p.m. Communities for Clean Water
  • 7:30 p.m. Wrap-up

The Individual Permit authorizes the discharge of storm water associated with industrial activities at

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LANL Foundation’s Susan Herrera Receives Luminaria Award

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Susan Herrera

NMCF News:

New Mexico Community Foundation (NMCF) has announced its 2014 Luminaria Awards, a proud NMCF tradition paying tribute to outstanding individuals from throughout the state who make a profound difference in their communities.

Luminarias are selected because they motivate, inspire and support the dreams of others, promote diversity and equity, and build community strength through their leadership and vision while embodying the values of NMCF.

Seven awards will be presented at the NMCF 2014 Luminaria Galaon Nov. 1, at La Fonda on the Plaza in Santa Fe.

Among this year’s Read More

CYFD Awards $517,500 Grant to First Born® Los Alamos

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LANLF News:

First Born® Los Alamos has been awarded a $517,500 grant from the New Mexico Children Youth and Families Department to resume providing support for families having their first child.

CYFD will award $172,500 a year over five years to serve 58 families each year. First Born Los Alamos, which opened in 2008, had been closed for two years due to lack of funding. A project of the Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation, home visitors provide free support for first-time parents from pregnancy until a child is three years old. Participants in 13 other state programs range from professional Read More

Seeing Your True Colors: Standards for Hyperspectral Imaging

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NIST researchers are gathering skin reflectance data to establish the variation found in human tissue in order to develop reference standards for hyperspectral imaging applications. The top image shows skin as normally viewed. At bottom are the same images with enhanced contrast in false color to show the variability between subjects. Allen Cooksey/NIST

NIST News:

Today, doctors who really want to see if a wound is healing have to do a biopsy or some other invasive technique that, besides injuring an already injured patient, can really only offer information about a small area.

But a technology Read More

Energy Communities Alliance Meets With Moniz

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From left, Aiken County Council Chairman Ronnie Young, Oak Ridge City Manager Mark Watson, Los Alamos County Councilor Fran Berting, Oak Ridge Mayor Tom Beehan, ECA Executive Director Seth Kirshenberg, DOE Secretary Ernest Moniz, Aiken County Councilor Chuck Smith, Kennewick Mayor Steve Young, SRSCRO Executive Director Rick McLeod, Los Alamos County Deputy Administrator Brian Bosshardt and ECA Deputy Executive Director Allison Finelli. Courtesy photo

DOE News:

The Energy Communities Alliance (ECA) Executive Board met with Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz June 23, to highlight the Read More

DOE Makes $4 Billion in Loan Guarantees Available for Energy Projects

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DOE News:

Washington D.C. — In support of the President’s Climate Action Plan, the Department of Energy has issued a loan guarantee solicitation, making as much as $4 billion in loan guarantees available for innovative renewable energy and energy efficiency projects located in the U.S. that avoid, reduce or sequester greenhouse gases.

This solicitation represents the next step in DOE’s commitment to support the deployment of innovative, clean energy technologies at commercial scale in the U.S. 

“As the President emphasized in his Climate Action Plan, it is critical that we Read More

LANL: Ribosome Research in Atomic Detail Offers Potential Insights into Cancer, Anemia, Alzheimer’s

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The newly discovered rolling movement shown in (A) three-dimensional cryo-electron microscopy image of ribosome, and (B) computer-generated atomic-resolution model of the human ribosome consistent with microscopy. A). Arrows indicate the direction of movement during transition between the two different states. B). Ribbons represent backbone of RNA and protein molecules within the ribosome. Color bar indicates the amount of motion during rolling. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • New movement during decoding occurs in humans, not in bacteria

A groundbreaking study of the human ribosome Read More

SFI Seminar: Compositional Complexity in Genomic Patterns and Classification

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Somdatta Sinha

SFI News:

The Santa Fe Institute (SFI) will host a seminar with Somdatta Sinha of the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) in Mohali, India.

The seminar is scheduled for 12:15 p.m., Monday, July 7, in the Collins Conference Room at the Santa Fe Institute.

Abstract: Genomes are made of sequences of four nucleotides, A, T, C, and G. Several processes such as mutation, transposition, recombination, translocation, and excision introduce variations in these sequences, which then become the substrates of selection and consequent evolution. Yet different Read More

LANL Foundation Expands Educational Outreach Small Grants Program

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LANLF News:

The Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Foundation has expanded its Educational Outreach Small Grants program to include school district and nonprofit projects outside of STEM (science, technology, engineering and math).

Grants of up to $1,500 are available monthly to support public schools and nonprofits working in education in Los Alamos, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Sandoval, Santa Fe and Taos counties. Nonprofit focus should be on teacher professional development, curriculum enhancement and support for classroom instruction and student learning.

Other changes Read More