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LANL: How Countries Responded To COVID-19 Pandemic, Enlisting Machine Learning To Pick Perfect Vaccine & More

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Science: Research sheds light on how countries responded to the COVID-19 pandemic

A new paper by a team at Los Alamos National Laboratory is giving researchers new insight into how countries respond to systemic shocks such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Read the full article here. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) shares a compilation of news stories on how countries responded to the COVID-19 pandemic, enlisting machine learning to pick the perfect vaccine and more.

Enlisting machine learning to pick the perfect vaccine

In an op-ed that appeared Jan. 10 in the Santa Read More

LANL: Ultrasound Technology Helps Brew Better Beer

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LANL scientists have created an ultrasound approach, called UltraSep, to help improve beer filtration. It is safer than using high-speed centrifuges, certainly quieter and produces much less waste than the filtering process. Courtesy/LANL

By Chemical Engineer James Coons
Los Alamos National Laboratory

With the new year upon us, many beer lovers will be spreading the cheer at one of our great local brewpubs. As they hoist a tasty toast to new beginnings, not many revelers are likely to pause to ponder the effort that went into creating their brew.

The ancient craft of brewing has benefited Read More

In Its First Year Of Grantmaking The Encantado Foundation Awards More Than $440,000 To STEM Efforts

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The Encantado Foundation News:

SANTA FE – In its first year of grantmaking, The Encantado Foundation announced Monday that it awarded more than $440,000 to New Mexico nonprofit organizations through its 2022 Community Based Grant and Impact Grant Programs.

The recipients of these grants, which were selected from among applications received between April 2022 and November of 2022, represent a variety of STEM-oriented organizations, initiatives and events from Santa Fe, Bernalillo, Sandoval and Taos counties.

Through its two grantmaking programs, The Encantado Foundation strives Read More

January At Bradbury Science Museum

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Irene Qualters explains how HPC makes national security possible during her presentation at ‘Night with a Nerd’ 6-7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 12 at projectY cowork Los Alamos in Central Park Square. Courtesy/LANL 

LANL News: 

Below is a compilation of events at the Bradbury Science Museum for the month of January:

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LANL: SuperCam Records First Audio Of Martian Dust Devil

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Audio and visual data from the dust devil that passed over the Perseverance rover. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/CNRS/INTA-CSIC/Space Science Institute/ISAE-Supaer. Courtesy/LANL
LANL News: 
  • A 387-foot dust devil passed directly over the Perseverance rover 

Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory are part of a team that, for the first time, recorded the sound of a Martian dust devil; the results were published in Nature Communications.

“We were able to record, for the first time on Mars, the sound of a dust devil passing over the rover and sand grains impacting the structure

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Three Virginia Tech Researchers Team Up To Visualize Radiation With Virtual Reality

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Virginia Tech professors bring together their expertise and inventions to create a highly innovative technology for high-fidelity, real-time monitoring of nuclear power plant cores. Courtesy/Virginia Tech

VIRGINIA TECH News:

Three Virginia Tech professors from nuclear engineering, physics, and industrial engineering are bringing together their expertise and inventions to create a highly innovative technology for high-fidelity, real-time monitoring of nuclear power plant cores. 

The project would increase the safety and economy of nuclear reactors and has received funds Read More

AGU: Death Valley’s Ubehebe Crater Reveals Volcanic Hazard Areas Are Underestimated

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Death Valley’s Ubehebe Crater formed around 2100 years ago when magma and groundwater mixed and created enough steam pressure to erupt. The volcanic deposits there are well preserved and likely provide better information about the hazardous zones around similar eruptions. Courtesy/Felix’s Endless Journey via Openverse

AGU News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — When magma bubbles up toward Earth’s surface and meets groundwater, steam pressure builds, sometimes bursting into eruptions that spew currents of hot ash, potentially burning and asphyxiating people and burying nearby cities.

Take, for Read More

UCR: Decoding Secret Language Of Photosynthesis

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Basic inputs and outputs of the photosynthesis process. Courtesy/US Riverside

UCR News:

For decades, scientists have been stumped by the signals plants send themselves to initiate photosynthesis, the process of turning sunlight into sugars. University of Cailfornia at Riverside (UCR) researchers have now decoded those previously opaque signals.

For half a century botanists have known that the command center of a plant cell, the nucleus, sends instructions to other parts of the cell, compelling them to move forward with photosynthesis. These instructions come in the form of proteins, Read More

AGU: These Freeze-Drying Algae Can Awaken From Cryostasis, Could Help Spaceflights Go Farther

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The green algal species Hazenia broadyi was isolated from lakes on Antarctica’s James Ross Island. The cultures of freeze-drying algae from the McMurdo Dry Valleys are dominated by a species that is most closely related to Hazenia species. Courtesy/Linda Nedbalová

AGU News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valleys contain some of Earth’s coldest and driest deserts. The environment there is so extreme that the Dry Valleys have been used as Mars analogs to test prototype equipment for future Mars exploration.

To survive these harsh conditions, layers of algae and bacteria in the Read More