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Virtual Los Alamos ScienceFest 2020 Starts Today!

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ScienceFest News:

Virtual Los Alamos ScienceFest 2020 starts today.

  • Interactive Virtual Demos, Discussions, Lectures & More!

There are several ways to join as an attendee:​

1. Via the Mobile App – Download the Whova app for free, sign up for a free account. You’ll receive an access code and link by email for you to login via the Desktop Web App directly, if you later choose to use that platform instead of the mobile app.​

2. Use the Desktop Web App. Want to login from your computer? Plan ahead and register for ScienceFest here.* Then today, July 7 (ScienceFest Kickoff), login Read More

LANL: ‘Project Trinity: The Myth, The Legend, The Legacy’

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LANL Historian Alan Carr

LANL News:

July 16 marks the 75th anniversary of the Trinity Test and the dawn of the Atomic Age.

Join Los Alamos National Laboratory Historian Alan Carr for a virtual talk “Project Trinity: The Myth, The Legend, The Legacy”, 7-8:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 8, as part of Los Alamos ScienceFest.

Discover the stories of selecting and preparing the site, the experiments leading up to the test, its lasting legacy, and why the site was named Trinity. Registration is required. Please register for the talk here.

The talk is brought to you by The Manhattan Project National Historical Read More

Tech-Trek-In-A-Box: Taking STEM Camp Across New Mexico

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A student unpacking her Tech-Trek-in-a-Box for this year’s STEM Camp. Courtesy/AAUW

AAUW News:

Sixty 7th grade girls from across the state were selected in April to attend the American Association of University Women’s (AAUW) STEM camp at New Mexico Tech.

This was to be the seventh year that AAUW in New Mexico ran Tech Trek NM to nurture girls’ interests in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). So when COVID-19 made holding camp impossible, AAUW decided to try a new approach: take (literally mail) the camp to the girls. Thus was born Tech-Trek-in-a-Box.

Tech Trek is usually a week-long Read More

ScienceFest Launches Virtual Sci-Fi Costume Contest

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Los Alamos Creative District News:

This year Los Alamos ScienceFest is holding a virtual science fiction costume contest July 7-12 in honor of the theme, “20/20 Eyes On the Future”.

All sci-fi fans are encouraged to dress up as their favorite character and share a photo online using the hashtags, #LosAlamosScienceFest2020 and #SciFiLosAlamos.

Just be sure to: 

  1. Dress up as your favorite sci-fi character;
  2. Post a photo or fun video of you and your costume on either Facebook or Instagram using #LosAlamosScienceFest2020 and #SciFiLosAlamos; and
  3. Make sure your social media post is made before
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LANL: Newer Variant Of COVID-19–Causing Virus Dominates Global Infections

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This chart tells the essential story of how the pandemic has shifted over time from orange (the original D type of the virus) to blue (the now-widespread G form, D614G). Courtesy/LANL

Chart: ARS-CoV-2 Spike. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • Virus with D614G change in Spike out-competes original strain, but may not make patients sicker

Research out today in the journal Cell shows that a specific change in the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus virus genome, previously associated with increased viral transmission and the spread of COVID-19, is more infectious in cell culture.

The variant in question, D614G, Read More

LANL: Building Better Electron Sources With Graphene

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An added layer of graphene allows photocathode substrates to be cleaned and reused repeatedly in place inside electron microscopes and accelerators. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Photocathodes that produce electron beams for electron microscopes and advanced accelerators can be refreshed and rebuilt repeatedly without opening the devices that rely on them, provided the electron emitting materials are deposited on single-atom-thick layers of carbon known as graphene, according to a new study published in the journal Applied Physics Letters.

“The machines that rely on these electron Read More

Night With A Nerd: Virtual Bingo – Periodic Table July 9

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BSMA News:

The community is invited to join a virtual bingo game 6-7:30 p.m. Thursday, July 9 that has STEM topics rather than numbers in the squares.

For the periodic table – the squares have symbols and someone calls the word. Players match to the symbols on their card. For example, if the word called is “sodium” then players look for “Na”.

Everyone is invited to play. RSVP to the event to get a link to a bingo card emailed the day of the event. 

Multiple players in the same household should register individually.To register, click here.

Winners receive a gift certificate to the Gadgets store inside Read More

Thomas Bowles Of Los Alamos Honored With Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award In Nuclear Physics

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Dr. Thomas J. Bowles of Los Alamos has been endorsed by Marquis Who’s Who as a leader in the field of nuclear physics. Courtesy photo

COMMUNITY News:

Marquis Who’s Who, the world’s premier publisher of biographical profiles, has presented Thomas J. Bowles, PhD, of Los Alamos with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award.

An accomplished listee, Dr. Bowles celebrates many years’ experience in his professional network, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes he has accrued in his field.

As in all Marquis Who’s Who biographical Read More

Han: We May Finish COVID-19 Pandemic With Less Fatality This Summer By Raising Curve

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Proposal on how to avoid fall resurgence of the COVID-19 health crisis. Chart courtesy of Dr. Cliff Han

By DR. CLIFF HAN
Los Alamos

With all the talk of flattening the coronavirus pandemic curve of infections, we can also ask the question another way: When should we raise the curve?

This accompanying chart is one we’re all used to by now: showing the number of newly infected people during the course of a pandemic. The CDC is currently trying to flatten the curve with preventive measures so that the pandemic will not overwhelm the healthcare system. But, if the priority is saving lives, then actually Read More

Impossible Foods CEO And Stem Advocate/Miss America 2020 Join Event Line-up For Virtual Los Alamos ScienceFest

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Stem advocate and Miss America 2020 Miss Camille Schrier will host a live demo and Q&A during this year’s Los Alamos ScienceFest Discovery Day. Courtesy/Los Alamos MainStreet

Stem advocate and Miss America 2020 Miss Camille Schrier doing science as a child. Courtesy/Los Alamos MainStreet

Los Alamos MainStreet News:

Los Alamos ScienceFest 20/20: Eyes On The Future, is going virtual this year, July 7-12, with events highlighting topics such as the future of cybersecurity, energy, and new camera and drone technologies.

Other special segments include discussions on the future of agriculture Read More