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Roger Wiens Guest Speaker At MOWW Annual Picnic July 20

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MOWW News:

The Military Order of World Wars (MOWW) monthly meeting is Tuesday, July 20 and is the organization’s annual picnic.

The meeting and picnic will be held in the Los Alamos County Sheriff’s Posse Lodge on North Mesa.

Dr. Roger Wiens is the guest speaker. Dr. Wiens is the leader of the SuperCam laser instrument on the Perseverance rover that landed on Mars in 2021.

This instrument has the rover’s highest resolution remote imager, a microphone, and infrared and laser techniques. His team includes French, Spanish, Italian, Danish, Canadian and US participation.

Dr. Wiens also is a co-investigator Read More

LANL: Emergent Magnetic Monopoles Isolated Using Quantum-Annealing Computer

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Researchers have used a D-Wave quantum-annealing computer as a testbed to examine the behavior of emergent magnetic  monopoles. Here, emergent magnetic monopoles traverse a lattice of qubits in a superconducting quantum annealer. Nonzero flux programmed around the boundary creates a trapped monopole in the degenerate ground state. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Using a D-Wave quantum-annealing computer as a testbed, scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) have shown that it is possible to isolate so-called emergent magnetic monopoles, a class of quasiparticles, creating Read More

PEEC: Explore The Current Status Of UFO Investigations At Astronomy Talk With Rick Wallace Friday July 16

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Join Rick Wallace at 7 p.m., Friday for a virtual astronomy talk about the status of UFO investigations. Learn more and register for this Zoom talk at peecnature.org/events/planetarium. Courtesy/PEEC

PEEC News:

Join Rick Wallace at 7 p.m., Friday, July 16 for a virtual astronomy talk hosted by the Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC).

In this presentation, Wallace will explore the current status of UFO investigations. The U.S. government is releasing a report this summer on the multi-year Pentagon study of “Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAPs).”

At this Zoom talk, Wallace Read More

LANL And Partners Secure $4.7 Million In DOE Funding

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The Terrestrial Energy-Efficient Long-Range Network (TERN) for Remote Monitoring of power transmission lines in real time was one of five Los Alamos projects to secure Department of Energy funds. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and private-sector partners have secured a total of $4.7 million in Technology Commercialization Funds from the Department of Energy (DOE) to accelerate bringing cutting-edge energy technologies and solutions to the marketplace.

“These partnerships are an example of what Los Alamos does best, fostering innovation in science Read More

LANL: Long-theorized Neutron-Clustering Effect In Nuclear Reactors Demonstrated For First Time

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LANL Reactor Operator Nicholas Thompson helps to set up the neutron clustering measurements at the Walthousen Reactor Critical Facility at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Schenectady, NY. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

For the first time, the long-theorized neutron-clustering effect in nuclear reactors has been demonstrated, which could improve reactor safety and create more accurate simulations, according to a new study recently published in the journal Nature Communications Physics.

“The neutron-clustering phenomenon had been theorized for years, but it had never been analyzed Read More

Morrie Pongratz: “Christology Without The ‘Fall’” Wednesday

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LAFSF News:

Los Alamos Faith and Science Forum (LAFSF) presents a talk by Morrie Pongratz “Christology without the ‘fall’ Do we need Adam and Eve? Impact on Jesus’ mission(s)”

Dr. Pongratz’s Zoom talk will be at 6:30 p.m., MDT, Wednesday, July 14.

Abstract: Science poses a number of challenges to the Genesis account of Adam and Eve. If there was no “fall”, then, contrary to Saint Anselm, Jesus’s mission was not to atone for Adam’s sin. Do we need Adam and Eve to understand Jesus? Did Jesus have to die? Why? What was/were Jesus’ mission(s)? Sacrifice, shepherd or pathfinder? Does good science reveal Read More

Virgin Galactic Unity 22 Flies To Edge Of Space And Back

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The first fully crewed rocket powered test flight flew to the edge of space this morning. Aboard #Unity22 are a team of two pilots and four mission specialists, including Sir Richard Branson. Watch Virgin Galactic Unity 22 Spaceflight Livestream here. Screenshot/LADP

Watch this morning’s Virgin Galactic Unity 22 Spaceflight Livestream here. Screenshot/LADP Read More

Los Alamos ScienceFest Continues With Electric Vehicle Show Saturday And Other Demos Through Sunday

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ScienceFest features an Electric Vehicle Show in the Mesa Public Library Overflow Parking Lot with a combination of electric cars and electric bikes, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. Courtesy photo 

Los Alamos MainStreet News:
Los Alamos ScienceFest is featuring a Science On Tap discussion at 5:30 p.m. today at Fuller Lodge with Jessica Kubicek-Sutherland, who will talk about how public health scientists learn from the behavior of the body’s immune system to help develop universal approaches to combat infectious disease.
Then at 7 p.m., at the Los Alamos Nature Center Planetarium, come out for 
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PEEC Celebrating 2021 ScienceFest Today And Saturday!

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PEEC is celebrating ScienceFest’s ‘Driven By Science’ theme with its annual Electric Vehicle Show Saturday in the Mesa Public Library overflow lot across from Ashley Pond Park. Courtesy/PEEC

PEEC News:

The Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC) is excited to join in the Los Alamos ScienceFest fun this year.

PEEC is partnering with the ScienceFest team, the Los Alamos Department of Public Utilities and Pajarito Astronomers to host a variety of events to celebrate today and Saturday.

Dark Sky Preservation

Friday, July 9 at 7 p.m., join PEEC for the first talk in the nature center’s Read More

Heinrich, AFRL, NewSpace NM Announce $11M Agreement To Advance New Mexico Space Industry And Innovation

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Sen. Martin Heinrich chats at event today in Albuquerque and announced  $11 million in funding to create a small satellite innovation hub in Albuquerque to support New Mexico space industry. Courtesy photo

From the Office of U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich:

ALBUQUERQUE – U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) announced today that NewSpace New Mexico’s launch of Unite & Ignite Space, a co-innovation hub to bring together resources, programming, and workspaces to support the growth of New Mexico’s space industry.

During his time on the Senate Armed Services Committee, Sen. Heinrich secured authorization Read More