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An Evening With NNSA’s Dr. Brent Park Thursday July 30

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NATM News:

Join in at 6 p.m., 9 p.m., Thursday, July 30 for an evening with Dr. Brent Park, the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation.

Dr. Park, a nuclear physicist, with 30 years of experience at DOE National Laboratories, now leads NNSA’s efforts to prevent nuclear weapons proliferation and reduce the threat of nuclear and radiological terrorism around the world.

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LANL: Simulating Quantum ‘Time Travel’ Disproves Butterfly Effect In Quantum Realm

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In research by a team at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Alice prepares her qubit and applies the information scrambling unitary U to this and many other qubits altogether. Bob measures her qubit in any basis, flipping the qubit to the state not known to Alice. Alice still can reconstruct her information via a single decoding unitary U†. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • Evolving quantum processes backwards on a quantum computer to damage information in the simulated past causes little change when returned to the ‘present’

Using a quantum computer to simulate time travel, researchers have demonstrated Read More

Los Alamos National Laboratory: New Mars Rover Tool Will Zap Rocks To Investigate Planet’s Past Habitability

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The SuperCam instrument is attached to the Perseverance rover at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California in June 2019. Courtesy/NASA/JPL-Caltech

Roger Wiens leads the SuperCam team at Los Alamos National Laboratory. SuperCam is a tool that will go to Mars aboard NASA’s Perseverance rover to look for signs of past life on Mars. Courtesy/LANL 
LANL News:
  • Developed at LANL, SuperCam will examine the chemistry and mineralogy of rocks on Mars
When NASA’s Perseverance rover launches from Florida on its way to Mars, it will carry aboard what is likely the most versatile instrument ever made
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Strauss: Can We Predict The Expected Deaths From Covid-19 Three Weeks Ahead Of Time?

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By CHARLIE STRAUSS
Los Alamos

Editor’s note: This article was received Thursday, July 23.

Because deaths from Covid-19 do not begin to appear until about three weeks after the disease’s symptoms appear, the numbers of deaths lag behind the numbers of cases. For this reason, one can expect to see more deaths than have been reported so far.

Forecasting is a risky business, and a wrong forecast can cause problems either by being too scary or downplaying things too much. Not to mention the soothsayer risks embarrassing ridicule. Instead, this article is about how to think about constructing a forecast. Read More

NIST Pioneering Research On Disinfection Of Drinking Water

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A scientist places a water sample onto a custom-made platform. Each water sample contains microorganisms such as the parasite Giardia and adenoviruses, that can make humans sick. Courtesy/T. Larason/NIST

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NIST News:

While awaiting full access to their labs due to COVID-19 restrictions, scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have taken this rare opportunity to report the technical details of pioneering research they conducted on the disinfection of drinking water using ultraviolet (UV) light.

Back in 2012, the NIST scientists Read More

Heinrich Provisions For New Mexico Military Installations, National Laboratories, Artificial Intelligence Clear Senate

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U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich

U.S. SENATE News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Ranking Member of the Strategic Forces Subcommittee, and co-founder of the Senate Artificial Intelligence Caucus, voted Thursday for the fiscal year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).

The NDAA supports New Mexico’s men and women in uniform, military installations, national laboratories, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), Artificial Intelligence and job-creating initiatives throughout the state.

The bill passed the Read More

NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Enters ‘Selection Round’

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A select few algorithms, some of which fall into one of three mathematical ‘families’, are undergoing a final leg of review. Some will form the core of the first post-quantum cryptography standard. Courtesy/B. Hayes/NIST

NIST News:

The race to protect sensitive electronic information against the threat of quantum computers has entered the home stretch. 

After spending more than three years examining new approaches to encryption and data protection that could defeat an assault from a quantum computer, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has winnowed the 69 submissions Read More

EDD: Job Training Funds Support 120 New Trainees

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Fabric test and production pods at Green Theme Technologies. Courtesy/EDD

Integrated Passive Device Matching Network from 3D Glass Solutions. Courtesy/EDD

EDD News:

SANTA FE — Nine companies were awarded funding for a total of 120 new trainees during the July meeting of the Job Training Incentive Program (JTIP) Board, Economic Development Department (EDD) Cabinet Secretary Alicia J. Keyes announced Tuesday.

Five of the JTIP applications were for new funding and four were amendments to previously awarded amounts, due to high rate of job expansion. The average wage of trainees at the July Read More

House Science, Space, And Technology Subcommittee Hears Luján Legislation To Spur Innovation; Leverage National Labs

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U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján

From the Office of U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján:

NAMBÉ – Today, U.S. House Assistant Speaker Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) participated in a remote hearing of the House Science, Space, and Technology Subcommittee on Energy focused on the importance of promoting clean energy and building a strong and resilient economy.

The hearing considered three bills led by Luján to spur innovation and promote entrepreneurship and small business partnerships with National Laboratories.

“While all of us represent constituents, who are struggling to make ends meet, to pay rent, and provide for Read More

LANL, NNSA Honor 75th Anniversary Of Trinity Test

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NNSA Administrator Lisa Gordon-Haggerty addresses media at a press event Thursday at the historic V-Site at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Courtesy/LANL

NNSA Administrator Lisa Gordon-Hagerty views artifacts from the Manhattan Project at the historic V-Site at LANL along with Director Thom Mason, center, and Rep. Ben Ray Luján. V-Site consisted of a cluster of wooden buildings built in January 1944 as a high explosives handling and assembly facility. Courtesy/LANL

By KIRSTEN LASKEY
Los Alamos Daily Post
kirsten@ladailypost.com

To mark the 75th anniversary of the testing of the nuclear Read More