Science

Gadgets Museum Shop At Bradbury Launches Online Store

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Gadgets online store carries LANL and Manhattan Project National Historical Park (MPNHP) logo’d merchandise, including these BSM Soma Cubes, apparel, books, drink-ware, and other great gifts. Courtesy/BSMA

Sample of the vests now available for purchase through the Gadgets online store. Courtesy/BSMA

BSMA News:

The popular Gadgets Museum Shop inside the Bradbury Science Museum has launched an online store, offering e-gift cards, shipping and curbside pickup.

The Bradbury Science Museum Association (BSMA) is the official nonprofit partner of the science museum and opened the Gadgets Read More

Study In Astrophysical Journal Presents Gamma Ray Burst Theory Meets Observations: Birth Of New Standard Candles

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Fig. 1 The light curve of GRB 090510 with the regions of prompt emission, plateau and afterglow marked. Courtesy/SSI

Fig. 2 The 3D Fundamental Plane relation, shown by the grey zone, for the sample of GRBs that happen in a fast cooling regime with a wind environment. The three parameters are at the end of the flat part of the plateau, Ta, the maximum luminosity during the prompt emission and luminosity at the end of the plateau phase. Courtesy/SSI

Space Science Institute News:

A study presenting the most comprehensive analysis to date of Gamma-Ray Bursts(GRBs) detected by the Neil Gehrels Swift Read More

Neeper: Has Social Complexity Acquired AI?

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By DON NEEPER
Formerly of Los Alamos

Since the year 1900, the complexity of our society has increased by several-thousand-fold because our communications evolved from hand-delivered letters and telegrams to instant information by TV and internet.

Communication, however, does not necessarily imply intelligence. Slime molds and trees communicate to varying degrees by chemical signals, but we don’t regard them as “intelligent” species. Intelligence usually implies the ability to apply reason to new or trying situations.

We regard bears and cats as intelligent because they are capable Read More

Commercial Property Specialist Jyl DeHaven Joins EXIT Realty

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Commercial Property Specialist Jyl DeHaven in front of EXIT Realty Advantage NM Wednesday at 1615 Central Ave. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com

By CAROL A. CLARK
Los Alamos Daily Post
caclark@ladailypost.com

Jyl DeHaven has spent her career as a realtor specializing in commercial real estate and in July joined EXIT Realty Advantage NM at 1615 Central Ave.

“Oh my gosh I love working at EXIT … it’s so nice to be with people who love the town and know it well,” DeHaven said during a recent interview with the Los Alamos Daily Post. “I learn from them every single day.”

EXIT Realty Owner Lance Eaton Read More

UA Birmingham: Pro-Inflammatory Lipids Precede Type 1 Diabetes Onset In Mouse Model And Children

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A woman of Asian descent with diabetes holding a blood sugar monitor while her partner looks on. These lipids may act as a biomarker for Type 1 diabetes and offer a therapeutic target to prevent the disease. Courtesy/UAB

UAB News:

BIRMINGHAM, AL — Type 1 diabetes, or T1D, is an autoimmune disease in which the body’s immune cells — led by inflammatory macrophages — attack and destroy the beta cells of the pancreas that produce insulin.

Researchers have long tried to unravel the signaling that provokes this attack. One of the less-studied forms of signaling is inflammatory lipids. 

In a study published Read More

Novel Nanopillars Precisely Control Color, Intensity Of Light

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Illustration depicts a faithful reproduction of Johannes Vermeer’s ‘Girl With a Pearl Earring’ using millions of nanopillars that control both the color and intensity of incident light. Courtesy/T. Xu/Nanjing University

Left: Schematic for generating a full-color nanopainting image. Insets show a constituent titanium dioxide nanopillar and a scanning electron microscope image of the fabricated nanopillars. False color shading indicates the primary colors generated by the nanopillars. Scale bar: 500 nm. Right: Experimental color image of ‘Girl With a Pearl Earring’ generated Read More

New Mexico Congressional Delegation Applauds Space Exploration Grants To UNM, NMSU, Navajo Technical College

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NEW MEXICO DELEGATION News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representatives Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) and Xochitl Torres Small (D-N.M.) applaud nearly $2.3 million in combined awards from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to New Mexico universities for fellowships supporting minority and underrepresented students in STEM fields and innovative research for space exploration programs.

New Mexico State University (NMSU) and the University of New Mexico (UNM) have received funding Read More

Air Force Research Laboratory Tracks Sporadic E

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AFRL News:

KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE — Researchers at Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) in New Mexico, have discovered a new way to track and characterize a phenomenon called “Sporadic E” naturally occurring in the upper atmosphere, where large structures of dense plasma form.

These plasma structures, which occur at mid latitude locations around the world, disrupt radio frequency (RF) electromagnetic waves (or simply “radio waves”) and impact both DoD and civilian radio systems in positive and negative ways, depending on the application. 

“Previous methods to observe these structures Read More

New Mexico Delegation Hails Nearly $3 Million To UNM For Research Into Effects Of Climate Change In Southwest

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NEW MEXICO DELEGATION News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representatives Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) and Xochitl Torres Small (D-N.M.) applauded a nearly $3 million grant to the University of New Mexico (UNM) from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for research to understand historic climate changes in the arid Southwestern United States, and how the diverse communities in the region responded to shifts in climate and water availability.

The grant will support interdisciplinary research at UNM by investigating Read More