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Comment on State Natural Hazard Mitigation Plan Through Aug.15

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DHSEM News:

The New Mexico Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management is in the process of updating the State Natural Hazard Mitigation Plan.

The Plan presents the State’s mitigation strategy for reducing the impact of natural disasters.

The State Natural Hazard Mitigation Plan includes the following sections: natural hazard profiles, risk assessment, vulnerability, capability and recommended mitigation actions. The Plan provides an overall strategy that can be used to guide natural hazard mitigation planning and project implementation throughout Read More

Visitors Experience Bradbury Science Museum

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Anna Cosimini checks out an exhibit Friday night at the Bradbury Science Museum in downtown Los Alamos. Cosimini is studying at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston and interning this summer at Santa Fe Clay. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Visitors file into the Bradbury Science Museum Friday night to attend the Pinocchio 2.0 demonstration. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Visitors of all ages experience hands-on exhibits at the Bradbury Science Museum. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

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Ping Pong Balls Simulate Neutrons in Chain Reaction at Bradbury Science Museum

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During ‘Downtown Friday Nights’ at the Bradbury Science Musesum Friday, Ian Aeby demonstrates his Pinocchio 2.0, a complex network of sensors and mechanics that uses ping pong balls to simulate what happens to neutrons in a chain reaction. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Audience member Aidan Monteith, 12, agrees to assist Aeby during the demonstration. Museum marketing coordinator Jessica Privitte, center, looks on. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Staff Report:

Audience members viewed “Pinocchio Reanimated!” during the Downtown Friday Night event Read More

Importance of Science Education to National Security will be Los Alamos Director’s Topic at TEDxABQ

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Charles McMillan

Importance of Science Education to National Security will be Los Alamos Director’s Topic at TEDxABQ 

  • Physicist Charles McMillan to provide unique perspective 

Los Alamos National Laboratory Director Charlie McMillan will be one of 17 speakers at this year’s TEDxABQ, event organizers announced this week. TEDxABQ, scheduled for Saturday, September 7 at Popejoy Hall, is an independently organized event in Albuquerque affiliated with the popular TED Talks series.

McMillan will discuss the linkage between early education in science, technology, Read More

‘Pinocchio Reanimated’ Friday Night at the Bradbury Science Museum

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Bradbury Science Musesum. Downtown Friday Nights is sponsored by the Los Alamos Creative District in coordination with local businesses and cultural organizations. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

“Pinocchio Reanimated!,” featuring a remake of a classic exhibit from the Bradbury Science Museum, takes center stage 5-8 p.m., Friday (July 12) at the museum downtown.

“Pinocchio Reanimated!” is the next Downtown Friday Night event at the Bradbury Science Museum and is free and open to all ages.

Created and donated by Ian Aeby, Pinocchio 2.0 is a complex network of sensors and Read More

Tinian Island Historian Presents Lecture

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LAHS News:

Tinian Island historian Don Farrell will present “Fat Man: The Peacemaker” at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 16 at Fuller Lodge.

His special lecture, part of the series of events commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and co-sponsored by the Los Alamos Historical Society, will deal specifically with the trials and tribulations faced by the Los Alamos team, under the code name Project Alberta, on the island of Tinian in the Pacific toward the end of World War II.

In the middle of the rainy season, the men attempted to complete scientific tests on the atomic Read More

LANL: Auto Industry Steel Project to Boost Efficiency, Safety

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Professor Emmanuel De Moor performing heat treatments of machined tensile specimens using molten salt to provide fast and controlled temperature changes to match the “Quench & Partitioning” processing requirements. Photos courtesy of Colorado School of Mines. Courtesy/LANL

Auto industry steel project to boost efficiency, safety

  • Los Alamos partners with Colorado School of Mines in $1.2 million clean-energy manufacturing project

Higher-strength, lighter-weight steels could be coming to a car near you in the near future as part of a U.S. Department of Energy advanced manufacturing Read More

Nine Area Businesses Receive $340,000 in LANS, LLC Venture Acceleration Funds

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Michael Ham and Molly Cernicek are co-founders of SportXast, LLC, a mobile app startup that enables fans, parents, athletes, and coaches to broadcast photos and video highlights from local sporting events. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Nine local businesses receive $340,000 in LANS, LLC Venture Acceleration Funds

  • Unmanned solar aircraft manufacturers, app developers among recipients

Los Alamos National Security, LLC (LANS) awarded $340,000 to nine local businesses this year to help them grow and develop in Northern New Mexico.

The grant awards are under the auspices of LANS’ Venture Acceleration Read More