Science

EB&T Brings 183 Students To Bradbury Science Museum

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EJ Martinez Elementary teacher Alexandra Van Camp and students discuss a display at the Bradbury Science Museum recently during their EB&T Sponsored field trip. Courtesy/EB&T

Students from EJ Martinez Charter School examine an interactive display during their EB&T sponsored field trip recently to the Bradbury Science Museum. Courtesy/EB&T

BSMA News:

Enterprise Bank & Trust (EB&T), and the Bradbury Science Museum Association (BSMA), are in a partnership to provide bus transportation for students attending Title 1 schools in northern New Mexico, to visit Read More

Scenes From ‘Curie Me Away’ Matheatre

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The Bradbury Science Museum presented the internationally touring musical based on the science, life and discoveries of Marie Curie in its New Mexico premiere Friday evening at Fuller Lodge. From growing up in Russian occupied Poland, where the higher education of women was a punishable crime, to rocking the world as the first woman to win the Nobel Prize, Curie Me Away! is the radical story of a persistent woman who changed our understanding of the universe. The historically based narrative and original songs underscore core chemistry concepts including compounds and reactions, groupings Read More

NMEDD Awards 1st Round Of Science & Tech Start Up Grants

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iBeam Founder/President Vlad Matais takes National Academy of Sciences Board on a tour of his facility in Santa Fe. Courtesy/NMEDD

Petricor employee performs adjustments to the extruder on the X-BOT at the company facility in Clovis. Courtesy/NMEDD

NMEDD News:

SANTA FE – The New Mexico Economic Development Department (NMEDD) has awarded its first round of Business Start-Up Grants to five science and technology companies, Cabinet Secretary Alicia J. Keyes announced today.

The purpose of the grants is to recognize and assist early stage companies developing a unique product or service,

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PEEC Hosts Leap Day Celebration Friday And Saturday

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PEEC invites everyone to enjoy a showing of the full-dome film ‘Superpower Dogs’ at 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 29 at the Los Alamos Nature Center. Admission is $6 for adults and $4 for children. (Events in the planetarium are not recommended for kids under age 4.) Courtesy/PEEC

 

The community also is invited to join astronomer Galen Gisler 6-8:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 29 at the Los Alamos Nature Center for a Leap Day potluck followed by night sky viewing. This event is free to attend, but registration is required. Courtesy/PEEC

 PEEC News:

On this evening before leap day, join astronomer Galen Gisler in Read More

AGU: Wind Turbines Perturb Leeward Evening Temperatures

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Wind turbines at farm in Texas. Courtesy/Wikimedia Commons

AGU News:

Single wind turbines and large wind farms modify local scales of atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) turbulence through different mechanisms dependent on location within the wind farm.

These changes in turbulence scales would most likely have notable influence on surface fluxes and microclimate during the afternoon and early evening stability transition. Profiles of Richardson number, shear and buoyancy from 1‐Hz tall‐tower measurements in and near a wind farm in an agricultural landscape were used to quantify departures Read More

HSNW: How To Deflect An Asteroid

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MIT researchers have devised a framework for deciding which type of mission would be most successful in deflecting an incoming asteroid, taking into account an asteroid’s mass and momentum, its proximity to a gravitational keyhole, and the amount of warning time that scientists have of an impending collision. Photo collage by Christine Daniloff/MIT

HOMELAND SECURITY NEWS WIRE:

MIT researchers have devised a framework for deciding which type of mission would be most successful in deflecting an incoming asteroid.

Their decision method takes into account an asteroid’s mass and momentum,

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UNM-LA Library Celebrates Women Of Manhattan Project

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Chien-Shiung Wu worked on the Manhattan Project, where she helped develop the process for separating uranium into uranium-235 and uranium-238 isotopes by gaseous diffusion. Courtesy/UNM-LA

The display at the UNM-LA Library celebrates 293 women who worked on the Manhattan Project. Photo by Nancy Coombs/UNM-LA

UNM-LA News:

The UNM-Los Alamos (UNM-LA) Library is hosting an exhibit Feb. 17 to March 31, which celebrates women who supported the Manhattan Project, as scientists, support workers, wives and mothers living in Los Alamos.

“The Women of Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project” Read More

EB&T Sponsorship Takes 144 Students To Bradbury Museum

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BSM Educator Chelsea Redman assists students from Tony Quintana Elementary during field trip. Courtesy photo 

BSMA News:

The 2020 spring semester begins the 4th year that Enterprise Bank & Trust (EB&T), and the Bradbury Science Museum Association (BSMA), have been in a partnership to provide bus transportation for many Title 1 schools in northern New Mexico to visit the Bradbury Science Museum in Los Alamos.

Most recently, EB&T provided the bus transportation for 144 students from Mora Elementary School in Mora, Tony Quintana Elementary in Española, Atalaya Elementary in Read More

AGU: Researchers Get ‘Whale’s-Eye View’ Of Antarctic Sea Ice

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Cameras attached to the backs of Antarctic minke whales with suction cups. The footage shows scientists how these mysterious creatures feed and respond to different amounts of sea ice. Photo by Jacob Linsky/NMFS

AGU News:

SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Cameras attached to a rare species of Antarctic whale are giving scientists an unprecedented view of how the whales survive in their sea ice habitat, according to new research presented here at the Ocean Sciences Meeting 2020.

In a recent study, scientists attached tags to 30 Antarctic minke whales, a small and little-known species of baleen whale, to better Read More

PEEC: Discover Wonders Of Supernovas Friday

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Explore supernovas at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 21 in the Los Alamos Nature Center’s planetarium. Astronomer Rick Wallace will lead this discussion to explore these incredible stellar explosions. Courtesy/PEEC

The nature center also will play the full-dome film ‘Exploding Universe’ at 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 22. Courtesy/PEEC

PEEC News:

Explore supernovas at 7 p.m., Friday, Feb. 21 in the Los Alamos Nature Center’s planetarium. Astronomer Rick Wallace will investigate these incredible stellar explosions during this talk.

These amazing stellar destruction events form some of the strangest Read More