Science

LAPS Foundation Facilitates $1,800 Donation To Robotics Team From Santa Fe Auto Park

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The LAHS Robotics FIRST Team 4153 poses with a t-shirt launching robot at the Ride & Drive event in Los Alamos. Courtesy/LAPSF

LAPSF News:

A perfect union that came together serendipitously last month has led to $1,800 being generously donated to the LAHS Robotics FIRST Team 4153 by the Santa Fe Auto Park. Los Alamos Public Schools Foundation executive director Laura Loy had just gotten off a phone call in which she learned the team had a shortage of funds to pay for travel to attend a competition in Denver, when a representative from the Santa Fe Auto Park called asking for help to facilitate Read More

NMTC 2018 Women In Technology Honors Prisca Tiasse Yoder And Caitlin Kontgis Of Los Alamos

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Prisca Tiasse Yoder, Ph.D, owner of The Community Lab, LLC

BUSINESS News:

New Mexico Technology Council (NMTC) will recognize eight women in multiple tech industries at its 2018 Women in Technology Celebration March 8 at the Sandia Casino.

Two of the eight honorees are from Los Alamos:

  • Prisca Tiasse Yoder, Ph.D, owner of The Community Lab, LLC; and
  • Applied Scientist Caitlin Kontgis of Descartes Labs.

They join women being recognized at this annual event from the fields of aeronautics to biotechnology and information technology in large organizations to startups.

All of the honorees have Read More

Chamisa Elementary Science Night At The Bradbury

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Wade Harrel from the Harrell House of Oddities in Santa Fe, brought his travelling collection of insects, spiders and all things creepy-crawly Monday to the Bradbury Science Museum for Chamisa Elementary School’s annual Science Night. Sponsored by the Chamisa PTO, Science Night provides an opportunity for students to learn about a variety of science and technology topics through interactive displays by a variety of community organizations and Museum staff. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
Students watch a demonstration. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
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ScienceFest 2018 Committee Seeking Festival Participants, Offering New ‘Impact Training’

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SCIENCE FEST News:
 
The ScienceFest 2018 Committee is currently seeking science and tech companies (with a fun demo or showcase of their work) to participate in Discovery Day (previously known as “Festival Day”) from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, July 14.
 
Award-winning Los Alamos ScienceFest Discovery Day is full of interactive activities, tours and exhibits to engage people of all ages in science. Festival producer Los Alamos MainStreet is partnering with businesses and organizations to present the festival at Los Alamos’ Ashley Pond. ScienceFest
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AGU: New Model Suggests Moon Formed Inside Vaporized Earth

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This sequence shows the early Moon emerging as Earth’s synestia shrinks. They are based on a NASA artistic rendering of a protoplanetary disk, which is being used to represent a synestia. Courtesy Sarah Stewart
 
By ANDY FELL
Communications Manager at UC Davis
 
A new explanation for the Moon’s origin has it forming inside the Earth when our planet was a seething, spinning cloud of vaporized rock, called a synestia. The new model led by researchers at the University of California, Davis and Harvard University resolves several problems in lunar formation and has been accepted
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Exascale Computers Set To Produce A Quintillion Of Calculations Per Second

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Exascale Computer Project Data and Visualization area lead Jim Ahrens is a 20-year veteran of National Alamos National Laboratory. Photo by Maire O’Neill/ladailypost.com

​Danny Perez came to Los Alamos National Laboratory 11 years ago as a postdoc and stayed. He is a member of the Exascale Atomistics for Accuracy, Length and Time project team. Photo by Maire O’Neill/ladailypost.com

 

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

When thinking about the fastest supercomputers available today solving problems at the petascale, a quadrillion Read More

Crowd Packs UnQuarked To Hear About ATHENA

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LANL scientist Jennifer Harris discusses the ATHENA project during Wednesday evening’s Science on Tap event at Unquarked in Central Park Square. Courtesy photo

A crowd packs Unquarked in Central Park Square Wendesday evening the hear about the ATHENA project underway at LANL. Courtesy photo

LANL’s ATHENA is designed to simulate organ systems such as liver, heart, lung and kidney. Courtesy photo

Creative District News:

Despite snowy weather conditions Wednesday night, more than 50 people attended the Science On Tap to hear Jennifer Harris talk about the ATHENA project Read More

LANL Researchers Discover Novel Exciton Interactions In Carbon Nanotubes

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Stephen Doorn, of Los Alamos National Laboratory, working on an instrument used for spectroscopic characterization of carbon nanotubes. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • In the study, a collaborative research team showed that Raman spectroscopy (a form of light scattering) can provide more extensive characterization of intertube excitons.

Nanotechnology researchers studying small bundles of carbon nanotubes have discovered an optical signature showing excitons bound to a single nanotube are accompanied by excitons tunneling across closely interacting nanotubes. That quantum tunneling Read More

SFI Public Lecture: Randomness Everywhere Feb. 27

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‘Cardsharps’ by Michelangelo Caravaggio. Courtesy/SFI

SFI News:

The Santa Fe Institute (SFI) presents a Community Event: Randomness Everywhere with Sid Redner at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 27 at The Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St. in Santa Fe.

Randomness underlies events that we encounter every day. From the ups and downs of stock prices to the likelihood of winning at gambling, understanding randomness can help us make sense of our experiences and resolve apparent paradoxes.

In the first community lecture of SFI’s 2018 series, Sid Redner Read More