Science

National Science Foundation Awards UbiQD Phase II SBIR Grant

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The UbiQD team taken at its September board of directors meeting a short walk from the quantum dot company’s headquarters in Los Alamos. Courtesy/UbiQD, Inc.

UbiQD team members measure the electrical output of a window prototype near the company’s headquarters in Los Alamos. Courtesy/UbiQD, Inc.

UbiQD News:

  • Funding will accelerate development of its quantum dot solar glass technology

UbiQD, Inc., a New Mexico-based nanotechnology development company, announced today that it was recently awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II grant by the National Science Foundation Read More

Café Scientifique New Mexico Partners With Los Alamos National Laboratory For Special Events

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Los Alamos National Laboratory. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Café Scientifique New Mexico is partnering with Los Alamos National Laboratory to host three special events for high school students in northern New Mexico to go behind the scenes and learn about the latest technology in emergency management careers.

This program is open to high school students in Los Alamos, Española, Pojoaque and Taos.

The Los Alamos event is March 13, the Española-Pojoaque event is March 21 and the Taos event is March 27.

Emergency response to major disasters requires the most advanced technology to protect the Read More

Uranium Processing Facility Achieves Key Milestone

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Uranium Processing Facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn. Courtesy/DOE/NNSA
 
NNSA News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. ― The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration’s (DOE/NNSA) Uranium Processing Facility (UPF) project continues to make timely progress with the recent completion of the Site Infrastructure and Services (SIS) subproject.
 
UPF will replace an early-Cold War plant with a modern, more efficient, and safer facility for conducting highly-enriched uranium operations at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tenn.
 
“Completing
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LANB Brings Students From El Camino Real Academy To Bradbury Science Museum

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El Camino Real Academy 5th graders visit to the Bradbury Science Musuem thanks to a generous transportation grant from Los Alamos National Bank. Photo by Linda Anderman/BSM

An El Camino Real Academy 5th grader at the Bradbury Museum during a field trip sponsored by LANB. Photo by Linda Anderman/BSM

 

BSMA News:
 
Twenty-five 5th graders from El Camino Real Academy enjoyed a field trip to the Bradbury Science Museum, thanks to a grant provided by Los Alamos National Bank, that pays for the student’s and teacher’s transportation to the museum.
 
Liddie Martinez,
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Frederick Reines Work At Hans Bethe House

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Robert Reines stands next to his father’s Nobel Prize medal in the Hans Bethe House. Photo by Todd Nickols
 
Frederick Reines/Courtesy photo
 
By HEATHER MCCLENAHAN
Los Alamos Historical Society
 
The only Nobel Prize won for work done at the laboratory in Los Alamos is justly on display in the Los Alamos History Museum’s Hans Bethe House.
 
The world’s top physics prize was awarded to Frederick Reines in 1995 for the discovery of the nuetrino, a subatomic particle produced by the decay of radioactive elements. They are called neutrinos because they are neutral—lacking
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Bradbury Science Museum Association Hosts LANL 75th Anniversary Merchandise Launch March 13

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The Bradbury Science Museum Association will rollout the merchandise March 13 to commemorate the Los Alamos National Laboratory’s 75th anniversary. Courtesy photo

BSMA News: 

 

The Bradbury Science Museum Association (BSMA) is the Laboratory’s vendor for official 75th Anniversary merchandise through a memorandum of understanding between the BSMA and the Laboratory.

As always, all proceeds from merchandise sales benefit Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education initiatives in the region.

The BSMA is planning a 75th Anniversary Read More

AGU: 2017 North American Wildfire Pollution Comparable To Moderate Volcanic Eruption

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Dense smoke clouds linger above Canada’s Lake Athabasca Aug. 14, 2017, around which several major fires raged. These fires burned so intensely that smoke drafted several miles high, straight into the stratosphere; an effect usually seen in moderate volcanic eruptions, rarely fires. Credit/NASA
 
AGU News:
 
Compare volcanoes to wildfires, and it’s no competition. In many cases, volcanoes are vastly more powerful, and their eruptions’ effects on climate are much more pronounced. But in August 2017, the tables turned.
 
The 2017 North American fire season was one of the most
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LANB Sponsors Visits To Bradbury Science Museum

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Bradbury Science Museum Educator Pam Dresher providing a science laboratory recently for students from Arroyos Del Norte Elementary School in Taos. Photo by Andre Trottier

Bradbury Science Museum Educator Mel Strong providing a science laboratory recently for students from Arroyos Del Norte Elementary School in Taos. Photo by Andre Trottier

BSMA News:

Bradbury Science Museum Educators Pam Dresher and Mel Strong recently provided a science laboratory for students from Arroyos Del Norte Elementary School in Taos.

The trip to the local museum was sponsored by Los Alamos National Bank under Read More

NIST Sharpens ‘Charpy’ Test To Make A More Precise Impact On Industrial Materials

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Courtesy photo
 
NIST News:
 
A decade before an iceberg shattered the hull plates of the Titanic and half a century before a plague of brittle fractures started sinking Liberty ships during World War II, scientists in the United States and France had devised a novel, and strikingly simple, method for measuring the way metal reacts to impact.
 
Today, that method, with some upgrades and refinements, remains the standard test used worldwide to judge the impact resistance of metals used in bridge construction, high-pressure boilers, ocean ships,
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