Science

Los Alamos High School Graduate Rachel Robey Receives Prestigious U.S. Department Of Energy CSGF Fellowship

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2013 LAHS Graduate Rachel Robey

EDUCATION News:

AMES, Iowa – A U.S. Department of Energy fellowship is supporting a former Los Alamos High School student’s graduate studies at the University of Colorado Boulder this fall.

Rachel Robey, a former Los Alamos resident, is among the 5 percent of applicants chosen for the DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship (DOE CSGF).

Robey, a 2013 Los Alamos graduate, is pursuing a doctoral degree in Applied Mathematics.

The fellowship, administered by the Krell Institute of Ames, Iowa, is supported by the DOE’s Office of Science and the National Nuclear Read More

NNSA Administrator Gordon-Hagerty Visits Oak Ridge To Celebrate NNSA’s 20th Anniversary; Meet Essential Workforce 

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Before entering any Y-12 building, NNSA Administrator Lisa E. Gordon-Hagerty followed the site’s COVID-19 procedures, including a temperature check.Courtesy/NNSA

tering any Y-12 building, NNSA Administrator Lisa E. Gordon-Hagerty followed the site’s COVID-19 procedures, including a temperature check.Y-12 Principal Investigator Felicia Rutland shows the NNSA Administrator items used in the Test and Demonstration Facility. Courtesy/NNSA

NNSA News:

WASHINGTON – National Nuclear Security Administration Administrator Lisa E. Gordon-Hagerty continued her tour Read More

Mason, Mitchell, Scrase: Collaborating To Beat COVID-19

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LANL Director Dr. Thom Mason

By Dr. Thom Mason, Dr. Jason Mitchell and Dr. David R. Scrase

As COVID-19 began to spread throughout the United States, New Mexico’s public health agencies, national laboratories and health care organizations were already strategizing ways to effectively stem the spread when it reached our state.

These collaborators – along with every New Mexican who followed their guidance by wearing face masks, practicing social distance and minimizing outings – have helped New Mexico’s cases remain low when neighboring states have experienced significant outbreaks.

These Read More

Los Alamos Faith And Science Forum Hosts Online Visit And Lecture By Prof. Elaine Howard Ecklund Of Rice University

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Elaine Howard Ecklund

LAFS News:

The Los Alamos Faith and Science Forum is honored to host an online visit and lecture by author, researcher and professor Elaine Howard Ecklund of Rice University, Tuesday Sept. 8.

Prof. Ecklund will speak on the topic “What Scientists think about Religion and the Common Values that Bring Science and Faith Communities Together”. Prof. Ecklund will answer questions from the audience after the lecture.

The lecture will take place via Zoom at 6 p.m. Mountain Daylight Saving Time (7 p.m. Central Daylight-Saving Time).

Register to attend the Zoom lecture at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYrfuGtpzwjGNQKWcCwjUSTyxVQ-Hvol8nD Read More

NuScale Power: Small Modular Reactor To Receive U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Design Approval

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NUSCALE POWER News:

PORTLAND, Ore. — NuScale Power announced Friday that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) completed Phase 6 review—the last and final phase—of the Design Certification Application (DCA) for the company’s small modular reactor (SMR) with the issuance of the Final Safety Evaluation Report (FSER).

The FSER represents completion of the technical review and approval of the NuScale SMR design. With this final phase of NuScale’s DCA now complete, customers can proceed with plans to develop NuScale power plants with the understanding that the NRC has approved the Read More

AFRL And University Of Alaska Fairbanks Sign Strategic Education Partnership Agreement

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An AFRL Space Vehicles Directorate student intern performs a space experiment. Courtesy/AFRL

KAFB News:

KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE — The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Directed Energy and Space Vehicles Directorates in Albuquerque, New Mexico and the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) are pleased to announce they have signed a five-year Education Partnership Agreement (EPA) that will enable scientific collaboration between AFRL and UAF.

“I am delighted to sign this partnership agreement with a great educational institution,” said Dr. Kelly Hammett the director of the Directed Read More

UA: Breast Cancer Therapy Associated With Reduced Risk Of Neurodegenerative Disease In Women

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UA News:

TUCSON, Ariz. — Findings from an investigative study at the Center for Innovation in Brain Science at the University of Arizona Health Sciences have shown that, for women with breast cancer, exposure to hormone-modulating therapies was associated with a significant decrease in the number of women who received a diagnosis of neurodegenerative disease – more specifically Alzheimer’s disease.

The center’s investigation, which was published in JAMA Network Open this past spring, surveyed medical insurance claims from private-payer and Medicare data to identify premenopausal, Read More

New Mexico Company Fiore Industries Wins Space Contract

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Fiore Industries CEO/Founder Bill Miera at Spaceport America during a Virgin Galactic event. Courtesy/Fiore Industries

FIORE INDUSTRIES News:

SANTA FE — A New Mexico company with operational ties to Spaceport America has been awarded a major contract at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Cabinet Secretary Alicia J. Keyes announced Thursday.

Fiore Industries Inc. has secured the 10-year contract from JPL in Pasadena, CA. to provide campus-wide security and fire protection services. The newly awarded contract provides JPL with critical life safety support for all campus personnel Read More

LANL Computer Scientists Develop New Artificial Intelligence System To Foil Illicit Cryptocurrency Mining

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Artificial intelligence may be key to catching cryptocurrency miners in the act of stealing computing power to mine for Bitcoins and other block chain currencies. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Los Alamos National Laboratory computer scientists have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) system that may be able to identify malicious codes that hijack supercomputers to mine for cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin and Monero.

“Based on recent computer break-ins in Europe and elsewhere, this type of software watchdog will soon be crucial to prevent cryptocurrency miners from hacking into Read More

LANL: Searching Mars For Signatures Of Life

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Mars Technica is a new, limited-series podcast where experts talk about the science behind the Mars Perseverance mission. Courtesy/NASA/JPL-Caltech/Arizona State University

LANL News:

Today, Mars is an arid, dusty, and frigid landscape with an average temperature of minus 80 degrees Fahrenheit—inhospitable to life as we know it.

But it wasn’t always that way. NASA’s Perseverance rover is headed straight for a spot scientists believe was an ancient river delta billions of years ago to search for signs that life once existed on the Red Planet.

A new episode of the podcast Mars Technica will Read More