Science

LAMS Robotics Club 2018 Summary Reflection

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John Teague and fellow team member Teryn Bingham, from Los Alamos Middle School robotics club, register and check-in their robot for official approval to compete. Photo by T.J. Bonzon
 
LAMS Robotics Club 2018 summary reflection
Started by Mr. T.J. Bonzon,
Robotics Club sponsor/coach 2017-2018
 
When our LAMS Hawk 7th Squadron mini-sumobot team scored their first point, they were jazzed and eager to try again. So they grabbed their sumobot, jumped up and ran back in the line-up (next-up dock) to await another competition round. Such was some of the positive experience for Los Alamos
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The Science Of Art … And The Art Of Science … At Los Alamos Makers

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Sue Bombardt teaching a glass fusion class to students from the PAC 8 after school program. Students visited Los Alamos Makers to work on a PSA video. Courtesy/Los Alamos Makers
 
A custom glass dish and a dichroic-glass pendant made by a participant during the previous beginners glass fusion class at Los Alamos Makers. Courtesy/Los Alamos Makers
 
By Los Alamos Makers

One doesn’t have to choose between Art and Science. Although Los Alamos Makers at 3540 Orange St., Suite LV1, is driven by Science and Technology, it is a place where technology geeks and novices let loose and get

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LAHS Sophomore Lillian Petersen Wins First Place In Category At 2018 International Science Fair

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Scene from the International Science and Engineering Fair at which LAHS sophomore Lillian Petersen takes top award in her category. Courtesy photo

LAHS sophomore Lillian Petersen takes top award in her category at the International Science and Engineering Fair. Courtesy/Mark Petersen

LAPS News:

Los Alamos High School sophomore Lillian Petersen took the top award in her category Friday, May 18 at the International Science and Engineering Fair in Pittsburgh, PA.

Petersen’s project, “Predicting Food Shortages in Africa from Satellite Imagery,” won her the top placement in the Earth and Read More

State Economic Development Department: $250,000 To Assist Small Science & Technology Companies

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EDD Secretary Matt Geisel
 
EDD News:
 
SANTA FE ― Economic Development Secretary Matt Geisel announced Thursday that three New Mexico companies will receive New Mexico Small Business Innovation Research (NMSBIR) Matching Grants to help their businesses grow.
 
The NMSBIR program is designed to support science and technology companies by assisting them in business development, technology commercialization and entry to market.  
 
“Since 2011, we’ve cut taxes and created a business-friendly environment in New Mexico to help our homegrown companies
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Science On Tap: Building Tiny Structures – Two Photons At A Time

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Los Alamos Creative District News:

The next Science On Tap meets 5:30-7 p.m. May 21 at UnQuarked -The Wine room, 145 Central Park Square in Los Alamos.

Matthew Herman, of the Lab’s Engineered Materials group, will talk about “two-photon polymerization,” a form of 3-D printing, where an object is built within a chemically photo-reactive material using ultrashort laser pulses. Building an object, only a couple of photons at a time, means items can be constructed with fine detail.

Items manufactured this way could benefit everything from high-energy physics to the production of tiny scaffolding Read More

AGU: Triennial Earth-Sun Summit – Onsite Information; Potentially Newsworthy Presentations

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A solar prominence captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) in August 2012. Courtesy NASA/SDO/AIA/Goddard Space Flight Center
 
AGU News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The American Geophysical Union’s Space Physics and Aeronomy Section (AGU/SPA) and the American Astronomical Society’s Solar Physics Division (AAS/SPD) will meet next week for the second Triennial Earth-Sun Summit (TESS), which runs 20-24 May 2018 at the Lansdowne Resort and Spain Leesburg, Virginia.
 
Included in this advisory:
  1. About the meeting and scientific program
  2. Press registration
  3. Press room
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AGU: Sounds Of Melting Glaciers Could Reveal Shrinkage Speed

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This recording captures 30 seconds of underwater sound produced by the melting of Hans Glacier in Hornsund fjord, pictured here. Recordings can be heard here. Courtesy/Oskar Glowacki
 
This recording captures thirty seconds of underwater sound produced by an iceberg in close proximity to the underwater microphone. Recordings can be heard here. Courtesy/Oskar Glowacki
 
AGU News:
 
Scientists could potentially use the racket made by melting glaciers to estimate how fast they are disappearing, according to a new study of audio recordings captured in the waters of an Arctic
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LANL: Mapping Body’s Battle With Ebola And Zika

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Computer models are providing valuable insight to the structure and function of both Ebola and Zika viruses as they invade the host’s cells. Side view, left, and top view of the Ebola Virus fusion end-state in a molecular dynamics computer model. Courtesy/LANL

 

LANL News:

 

The viruses that cause Ebola and Zika, daunting diseases that inspire concern at every outbreak, share a strong similarity in how they first infiltrate a host’s cells. Through the computer modeling capabilities of Los Alamos National Laboratory, the molecular calisthenics involved in invading a cell are visually Read More

Los Alamos Faith And Science Forum: 2018 Summer Series Begins Wednesday June 6

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The Los Alamos Faith and Science Forum summer series begins June 6 with the topic, ‘Why discuss Evolution?’ Courtesy/LAF&SF

LAF&SF News:

Purposeful Evolution?

One of the main stumbling blocks about evolution, for people of faith, is that it is portrayed as totally random and without direction. They ask—where in this is the Creator’s purpose?

Actually, however, recent research in evolutionary biology increasingly allows for the possibility that evolution is not always so random. Rather, it may respond to constraints that seem to direct it, perhaps in “purposeful” Read More

Wallace: Plutonium Decision Big Vote Of Confidence For Los Alamos National Laboratory

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LANL Director Dr. Terry Wallace
 
By MAIRE O’NEILL
Los Alamos Daily Post
maire@ladailypost.com

Los Alamos National Laboratory Director Dr. Terry Wallace told Lab staff today in an internal memo obtained by the Los Alamos Daily Post that the National Nuclear Safety Administration (NNSA) has given the Lab “a big vote of confidence”.

“They are investing an additional $3 billion in new mission space, which includes people, infrastructure and equipment. This is a significant opportunity to continue contributing to the nation’s security by drawing on our unique expertise in plutonium Read More