Science

Los Alamos Robotics Team To World Championships!

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Team 4153, known as Project Y, with their robot at a recent competition. Courtesy photo
 
 
By BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post
bjgordon@ladailypost.com

Los Alamos Robotics Team 4153, known as Project Y is headed for the World Campionships in Houston, Texas.

“Our team has met the challenges and rigors of the competition, head-on,” team member Max Pasulka said. “We were a finalist at the El Paso competition of more than 50 teams, and made it to quarterfinals at the Amarillo meet. Along with being rewarded the Industrial Design award Read More

LANL: Waste Shipment Successfully Completed At WIPP

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Transuranic waste barrels are loaded for transport to WIPP, the first TRU waste loading operations in five years at the Laboratory’s RANT facility. Courtesy/LANL
 
Transuranic Package Transporter Model 2 (TRUPACT-II) containers are readied for transport to WIPP from the Laboratory’s RANT facility April 10. Courtesy/LANL
 
LANL News:
 
The first shipment of Transuranic (TRU) waste from the newly reopened Radioactive Assay Nondestructive Testing (RANT) facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory has been successfully delivered to the Waste Isolation
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Teens Take Over Bradbury Museum 5-7 p.m. Today!

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The Bradbury Science Museum Association Teen Advisory Board gathers to organize Teens Take Over The Bradbury night set for5-7 p.m. today! Front row from left, Sam Cirigliano, Victor Popa-Simil, Emily Holmes, Eleanor Henderson, Natalie Aulwes, Neha Sadasivan and not pictured Ogden Berry, Elizabeth Frost, Elijah Pelofske and Sonya Svyatskaya. Back row from left, Filippo Delzanno, Jamie Cull-Host, Steven Bullock and Noah Lyons. Courtesy photo Read More

Scientists Find Evidence Mercury Has Solid Inner Core

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An illustration of Mercury’s interior based on new research that shows the planet has a solid inner core. Courtesy/Antonio Genova.
 
An artist’s concept of the interiors of Earth, Mars and Earth’s moon. New research shows Mercury has a solid inner core like Earth does. Courtesy/NASA/JPL-Caltech
 
AGU News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Scientists have long known that Earth and Mercury have metallic cores.
 
Like Earth, Mercury’s outer core is composed of liquid metal, but there have only been hints that Mercury’s innermost core is solid. Now, in a new study, scientists report
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AGU: Warm Autumn Winds Could Strain Antarctica’s Larsen C Ice Shelf

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This satellite image from March 3, 2016 shows unusual late summer/early fall melting on the Larsen C ice shelf. New research finds the additional melting is due in part to warm, dry air currents called foehn winds that originate in the Antarctic Peninsula’s central mountain range and discusses the compounding effects of these late-season melt events on the snowpack. Courtesy/NASA Earth Observatory/Lauren Dauphin

This photograph shows a cloud-clearing, induced by foehn winds, on the lee side of mountains on the Antarctic Peninsula. The photo was acquired during NASA’s Operation Read More

Teens Take Over The Bradbury Friday Night!

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The Bradbury Science Museum at 1350 Central Ave. Courtesy photo

BSMA Teen Advisory Board News:

The first ever Teen Night is happening at the Bradbury Science Museum, 5-7 p.m. Friday, April 19.

Created by the Bradbury Science Museum Association (BSMA) Teen Advisory Board, the event will have free food (catered by Sirphey!), a Bill Nye screening, remote control robots from the local FTC team (the Hawks), trivia and more. All high schoolers are welcome.

The BSMA Teen Advisory Board was created this year by Los Alamos High School junior Eleanor Henderson for her Girl Scout Gold Award project. She Read More

LANL: New First-Of-Its-Kind Model Accurately Predicts Harmful Space Weather

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An artist’s rendering of the Van Allen radiation belts surrounding Earth. The purple, concentric shells represent the inner and outer belts. They completely encircle Earth, but have been cut away in this image to show detail. Courtesy/NASA’s Conceptual Image Lab/Walt Feimer
 
LANL News:
 
A new, first-of-its-kind space weather model reliably predicts space storms of high-energy particles that are harmful to many satellites and spacecraft orbiting in the Earth’s outer radiation belt.
 
A paper recently published in the journal Space Weather details how the model can accurately
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Science On Tap With Dr. Sven Vogel April 15

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Dr. Sven Vogel will discuss the Ram’s Horn wire gold specimen and DAHRT capabilities at the Lab at Science On Tap at 5:30 p.m. Monday, April 15 at UnQuarked Wine Room. Courtesy photo
 
SCIENCE News:
 
Join the Bradbury Science Museum and the Los Alamos Creative District for Science On Tap at 5:30 p.m. Monday, April 15 at UnQuarked Wine Room.
 
This On Tap will feature a conservation conversation with Dr. Sven Vogel about the Ram’s Horn wire gold specimen and DAHRT capabilities at the Lab.
 
Recently, researchers at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE
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Judges Needed For Int’l. Science & Engineering Fair

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A scene from a previous International Science and Engineering Fair. Courtesy photo
 
ISEF News:
 
Judges are being sought for the International Science and Engineering Fair May 12-17 in Phoenix, Ariz.
 
Judges are needed for all categories, but they are desperately needed in Energy: Chemical, Energy: Physical Plant Sciences, Microbiology, Computational Biology & Bioinformatics, Environmental Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Animal Sciences.
 
Descriptions of all of the categories can be found here.

Two useful flyers with information on judging. One

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Heinrich Questions Top Air Force Leadership About Artificial Intelligence Workforce Needs

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U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich
 
U.S. SENATE News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. ― In a hearing before the Senate Committee on Armed Services April 5, U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) questioned U.S. Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson and Chief of Staff of the Air Force General David L. Goldfein about how the Air Force, and the Department of Defense as a whole, is working to address the growing workforce needs as the military implements Artificial Intelligence (AI) initiatives.
 
Heinrich is focused on helping the military recruit more computer scientists and establishing digital
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