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Jarad Saia. Courtesy photo

SFI News:

The Santa Fe Institute will present a seminar titled “Truth, Lies and Randomness” by presenter Jarad Saia from the University of New Mexico at 12:15 p.m. Friday, July 26 in the Collins Conference Room at SFI.

SFI is at 1399 Hyde Park Road in Santa Fe. The talk is free and open to the public

Random bits are used in algorithms to: break symmetry and deadlock, ensure load-balancing, find a representative sample, maximize utility, and foil an adversary.  Unfortunately, true randomness is difficult to guarantee, especially in a decentralized setting where Read More

Staff Report

LANL Retiree Cheryl Rofer will speak on “Win-Win Nonproliferation Solutions for Expanding Nuclear Power.”

The talk will be given at an open meeting of the Los Alamos Committee on Arms Control and International Security at 7 p.m. Wednesday, July 31, in the Lounge at the Education Building of United Church, 2525 Canyon Road in Los Alamos.

Nuclear power is expected to expand in response to increasing need for electricity and decreasing carbon emissions. The danger of proliferation of nuclear weapons can expand in parallel.

Those involved in nuclear power often see nonproliferation Read More

The Edmond, Okla. hazardous materials team competing in the 2012 Hazmat Challenge. Courtesy/LANL

LANL Sponsors 17th Annual Hazmat Challenge

• Competition tests skills of hazardous materials response teams from three states

Twelve hazardous materials response teams from New Mexico, Missouri and Oklahoma will test their skills at the 17th annual Hazmat Challenge July 30 through Aug. 2 at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

“The challenge provides hazardous materials responders the opportunity to test their skills, network with other response agencies, and learn new techniques through Read More

A 230-foot long concrete tunnel leading to a now declassified top-secret super-secure vault near LANL. Print Screen Photo

LANL News:

Top-Secret Super-Secure Vault Declassified

• Cold War nuclear weapons storage facility video now available

Down a remote canyon near Los Alamos National Laboratory lies a facility known as the “Tunnel Vault,” once one of the most secret and secure locations in the United States, it’s the original post-WWII nuclear stockpile storage area.

Located in Los Alamos Canyon at Technical Area 41, the Tunnel Vault was built between 1948 and 1949. The facility has a formidable Read More

What if you could power your life using pond scum? Los Alamos researchers are working to make this a reality. Courtesy/LANL

Big possibilities with tiny science! Nanotechnology scientists at Los Alamos study how to design and create structures and materials from nanoparticles. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Bradbury Science Museum is opening two new exhibits Friday, July 26 as part of the Laboratory’s 70th Anniversary celebration.

One is a nanotechnology exhibit featuring the Laboratory’s Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT) and the other Read More

Astronaut Alan L. Bean, Lunar Module pilot for the Apollo 12 lunar landing mission, holds a Special Environmental Sample Container filled with lunar soil collected during the extravehicular activity (EVA) in which Astronauts Charles Conrad Jr., commander, and Bean participated. Connrad, who took this picture, is reflected in the helmet visor of the Lunar Module pilot. Courtesy/NASA

NASA News:

Over the past half century, NASA plucked pieces of the sky and brought them down to Earth. Samples range from lunar rocks scooped up by Apollo astronauts to interstellar dust particles trapped by Read More