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LANL: Mudundi R. Raju Receives Padma Shri Award

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President of India Pranab Mukherjee presents the Padma Shri award to former Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist Mudundi Raju. Courtesy/M. Raju

Mudundi Raju and his wife M. Subhadra Devi Raju met recently for lunch with John Hopkins at the Blue WIndow Bistro in downtown Los Alamos. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

LANL News:

Mudundi R. Raju Receives Padma Shri Award

  • Los Alamos retiree brings medical advances to poor of India

The government of India honored former Los Alamos scientist and Laboratory Fellow Mudundi Raju with a Padma Shri award this year for his distinguished service Read More

Open House at Bradbury Science Museum July 26 for New Mexico Consortium’s Biofuel Exhibit

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NMC’s Los Alamos greenhouse where algae for biofuels is researched. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

BSM News:

An open house event featuring New Mexico Consortium’s (NMC) Biofuel Exhibit is scheduled 5-8 p.m. Friday, July 26, with a brief presentation at 6 p.m. by Bioscience Division Leader Dr. Jose Olivares. Light refreshments will be served.

“Algae to Biofuels: Squeezing Power from Pond Scum” is brainchild of Dr. Olivares of Los Alamos National Laboratory and Dr. Richard Sayre of NMC and LANL. The exhibits highlight the work of the Read More

Letter to the Editor: Protest Against Slanted Reporting of Nuclear Weapons Issues

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Protest Against Slanted Reporting of Nuclear Weapons Issues
By PHILIP KUNSBERG
Los Alamos

This is a protest against the consistently slanted reporting of the Los Alamos Monitor on nuclear weapons issues. It appears that the Monitor takes pleasure in attacking the foundation of this town’s existence and deriding its proud history of supporting the nation’s defense. I am open to balanced criticism and, although I do not agree, I can respect intelligent advocacy of the abolition of nuclear weapons. However, I am disgusted by the extensive quoting of anti-nuclear ideologues who are treated Read More

Study Explains Acceleration of Greenland’s Inland Ice

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Greenland glaciers. Courtesy/AGU

AGU News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Surface meltwater draining through cracks in an ice sheet can warm the sheet from the inside, softening the ice and letting it flow faster, a new study finds.

During the last decade, researchers have captured compelling evidence of accelerating ice flow at terminal regions, or “snouts,” of Greenland glaciers as they flow into the ocean along the western coast. Now, the new research shows that the interior regions are also flowing much faster than they were in the winter of 2000-2001, and the study authors propose a reason for the Read More

NNSA Conducts I-RAPTER Training in Kazakhstan

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Joseph J. Krol Jr., NNSA Associate Administrator for Emergency Operations. Courtesy/NNSA

NNSA News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) last week conducted an International Radiological Assistance Program Training for Emergency Response (I-RAPTER) training in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

The training, held at the Institute of Nuclear Physics in Almaty, included using radiation detection equipment to locate hidden radioactive sources during a practical exercise. At the conclusion of the course, international first responders were able to appropriately Read More

LANL: New, Stricter Pajarito Road Access Rules Go Into Effect Aug. 12

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Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

New, Stricter Pajarito Road Access Rules Go Into Effect Aug. 12

  • No more “vouching” for family members

Los Alamos National Laboratory, at the direction of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Los Alamos Field Office, will restrict access on Pajarito Road to only Laboratory badge holders effective Monday, Aug. 12.

This means that Laboratory personnel and subcontractors will no longer be able to “vouch” for non-Laboratory personnel such as family members.

“Our Laboratory and security access procedures are continually reviewed and updated Read More

LANL: Enabling Time Travel for the Scholarly Web

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Herbert Van de Sompel, a LANL information scientist, describes the information pathway involved in preventing ‘reference rot’ in scientific material linked to the web. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Enabling Time Travel for the Scholarly Web

  • Banishing the dreaded Internet search where 30 percent of research paper hyperlinks fail to connect

An international team of information scientists has begun a two-year study to investigate how web links in scientific and other academic articles fail to lead to the resources being referenced.

This is the focus of the Hiberlink project in Read More

SFI Colloquium With Glenn Loury Thursday

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Glenn Loury. Courtesy photo

SFI News:

Glenn Loury of the Brown University Department of Economics will present “A Theory of Collective Reputations with Endogenous Identity’ at the next Santa Fe Institute (SFI) Colloquium at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, July 18 in the Noyce Conference Room at SFI. The event is free and open to all.

In his abstract, Loury writes:

“We explore a formal economic model of “collective reputations” — i.e., of the rational formation by external observers of beliefs about the unobserved traits of varied population aggregates. This phenomenon (sometimes referred Read More

Distorted GPS Signals Reveal Hurricane Wind Speeds

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An Air Force pilot performs a pre-flight inspection of a ‘Hurricane Hunter’ aircraft. Similar aircraft have begun measuring GPS signals bouncing off the ocean surface to determine wind speed. Photo by Manuel Martinez

AGU News:

WASHINGTON, D.C.—By pinpointing locations on Earth from space, GPS systems have long shown drivers the shortest route home and guided airline pilots across oceans. Now, by figuring out how messed up GPS satellite signals get when bouncing around in a storm, researchers have found a way to do something completely different with GPS: measure and map the Read More