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PEEC: ‘Search For Sun Siblings’ Talk 7 p.m. Today

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PEEC News:
 
Stars like the Sun almost never form in isolation. Usually, star formation takes place in large clusters, creating many sibling stars in batches that slowly disperse over time. Join Erica Fogerty at 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 3 at the Los Alamos Nature Center’s planetarium to learn about the search for the Sun’s long-lost relatives and their most likely location.

Erica Fogerty

Fogerty is a computational astrophysicist in the Center for Theoretical Astrophysics at Los Alamos National Laboratory. A native of Philadelphia, she is enjoying the change in surroundings Read More

NIST: Flying Drones Compete In Unprecedented Feat

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The EndureAir drone hovers with its payload. Courtesy/Fredericksburg Area RC Club
 
NIST News:
 
Whether it’s the effort to redefine the kilogram or researching the Harry Potter realm of quantum mechanics where things can somehow be in two or more places at one time, quite a bit of the science carried out at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) can be hard for the average person on the street to understand or relate to.
 
But at the Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Flight and Payload Challenge, which NIST held May 21-24, the question being explored was as simple
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U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich Secures Major Wins For New Mexico In Annual National Defense Spending Bill

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U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich

From the Office of U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich:

  • National Defense Authorization Act heads to President’s desk for signature

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, announced provisions he secured in the fiscal year 2019 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that support New Mexico’s men and women in uniform, military installations, national laboratories, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), and job-creating initiatives throughout the state. The bill includes an amendment sponsored Read More

Wallace And Five Former LANL Directors Participate In Panel To Wrap Up 75th Anniversary Celebration

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Los Alamos National Laboratory Director Terry Wallace, right, and former directors, from left, Donald Kerr, John Browne, Robert Kuckuck, Michael Anastasio and Charlie McMillan, answer questions from panel moderator Ellen Tauscher during Tuesday’s event celebrating 75 years of LANL leadership. Courtesy/LANL

LANL Director Terry Wallace recalls his best memories of LANL including the 1960s and 70s when he was growing up in the Los Alamos community. Courtesy/LANL

 

By MAIRE O’NEILL
Los Alamos Daily Post
maire@ladailypost.com

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LANL: Computer Simulations Predict Spread Of HIV

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Thomas Leitner, computational biologist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Courtesy photo
 
Principal decay of paraphyletic signal. Courtesy photo
 
LANL News:
 
In a recently published study in the journal Nature Microbiology, researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory show that computer simulations can accurately predict the transmission of HIV across populations, which could aid in preventing the disease.
 
The simulations were consistent with actual DNA data obtained from a global public HIV database, developed and maintained by Los Alamos. The archive
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AGU: Researchers Find Glaciers In East Antarctica Also Imperiled By Climate Change

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In this WorldView-2 satellite image of Totten Glacier’s front – acquired Oct. 11, 2015 – ice flows from left to right. The heavily crevassed surface of the floating part of Totten is visible on the left, with larger undulations in topography associated with bottom crevasses. The dark area in front of the glacier is open water, and on the right is thin and packed sea ice. Courtesy/DigitalGlobe Inc.

 

AGU News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A team of scientists has found evidence of significant mass loss in East Antarctica’s Totten and Moscow University glaciers, which, if they fully collapsed,
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NNMCAB Members Hear Report On LANL Aggregate Area Investigation And Remediation Projects

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Brenda Bowlby, N3B Los Alamos project manager for the aggregate area soils remediation program addresses the NNMCAB July 25 at SFCC. Photo by Maire O’Neill/ladailypost.com
 
By MAIRE O’NEILL
Los Alamos Daily Post

During its July 25 meeting at Santa Fe Community College, Northern New Mexico Citizens’ Advisory Board members heard from Brenda Bowlby, N3B Los Alamos project manager for the Aggregate Area Soils Remediation Program at Los Alamos National Laboratory on a total of 28 aggregate areas on site that were contaminated over time with past historic Read More

Solar Flares Disrupt Radio Communications During September Atlantic Hurricane Relief Effort

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Hurricanes Katia, Irma and Jose lined up in the Atlantic Sept. 6, 2017 in an image captured by the Suomi NPP weather satellite. Courtesy/NASA

The Sun erupted in class X-9.3 and x-2.2 flares Sept. 6, 2017, visible to NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory in extreme ultraviolet (171 angstrom wavelength) light. Courtesy/NASA/GSFC/SDO

AGU News:

 
WASHINGTON, D.C. — An unlucky coincidence of space and Earth weather in early September 2017 caused radio blackouts for hours during critical hurricane emergency response efforts, according to a new study in Space Weather, a journal of the American
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N3B Los Alamos Official Tells NNMCAB Clean-Up Of Material Disposal Areas Won’t Be Quick

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EM-LA Deputy Designated Federal Officer Lee Bishop, left, chats with N3B Los Alamos RCRA Remediation Program Director Erich Evered prior to Evered’s presentation. Photo by Maire O’Neill/ladailypost.com

NNMCAB member Robert Hull of Los Alamos Technical Associates, Inc., left, listens to presentations during the July 25 meeting at Santa Fe Community College. Photo by Maire O’Neill/ladailypost.com

EM-LA Deputy Designated Federal Officer Lee Bishop, right, speaks with N3B’s Kristin Henderson, left, and Alison Scott Majure during the networking break at Read More

AGU: Researchers Develop Model For Predicting Landslides Caused By Earthquakes

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A seismically-induced landslide in El Salvador in 2001. Courtesy/USGS
 
AGU News:
 
The 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan, China killed tens of thousands of people and left millions homeless. Approximately 20,000 deaths — nearly 30 percent of the total — resulted not from the ground shaking itself but from landslides the quake triggered.
 
A new model developed by researchers at Indiana University can help experts address such risks by estimating the likelihood of landslides that will be caused by earthquakes anywhere in the world. The estimates can be available within
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