Science

New Mexico Awarded Grant To Help Small Businesses Cultivate The Global Marketplace

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Established in 2014 in Los Alamos, UBiQD’s first commercial product, UbiGro®, is a luminescent layer of light that uses fluorescence to create a more optimal greenhouse spectrum for crops. The film shifts the colors of sunlight to make plants grow faster and improves crop yield. Courtesy/EDD

Founded in 2012, Pajarito Powder is a leader in advanced catalyst and catalyst support development in rapidly accelerating clean/green hydrogen energy industries. The Albuquerque location serves as primary R&D and manufacturing operations for the international company. Courtesy/EDD

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Amateur Naturalist: The Mathematics Of Sunflowers

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A sunflower showing its central disk of small flowers called florets surrounded by a ring of large petal flowers. Courtesy photo

By ROBERT DRYJA
Los Alamos

Sunflowers of all sizes had been blooming during the summer but now have faded with the arrival of autumn.

Sunflowers are eye-catching in several ways. It is easy to think that a sunflower is one single flower, (see Picture 1). A central disk is surrounded by yellow petals, suggesting a single flower. But what are those small yellow patches on the central disk? A closer look shows that they are small flowers. The small flowers are called florets Read More

PEEC: Explore The Earth And Sky With NMOP Sunday!

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PEEC is hosting an earth and sky-themed day Sunday, Nov. 6 at Los Luceros Historic Site. Courtesy/PEEC

PEEC News:

Created by Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC) and Los Luceros Historic Site, the New Mexico Outdoor Pass (NMOP) is a FREE booklet included with FREE community events for families where everyone gets rewarded for spending time outside.

Participate in this activity and get a stamp for your New Mexico Outdoor Pass booklet. Fill your book with stamps and you’ll be rewarded with prizes.

Join PEEC for an NMOP special event: Earth and Sky!, 10 a.m.  Sunday, Nov. 6. During this Read More

Periodic Table For November & Other Events At Bradbury

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Join Eric Davis for another installment of the Periodic Table Nov. 21 at projectY cowork Los Alamos. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Join LANL for another installment of the Periodic Table: Brewing beer at the speed of sound with Eric Davis 5:30-7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 21 at projectY cowork Los Alamos in Central Park Square.

“Acoustic sensors offer a unique window into fermentation.”

Other events happening at the Bradbury Science Museum throughout November:

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Mars Mania Comes To NM Museum Of Natural History & Science With Life-Sized Replicas Of Mission Vehicles

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A photo of Perseverance from the surface of Mars. Perseverance and the Mars Ingenuity Helicopter will be on display at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science beginning Nov. 19. Courtesy/NASA

NMMNHS News:

ALBUQUERQUE — While NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover and Ingenuity Helicopter continue to explore the surface of the Red Planet, visitors to the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science (NMMNHS) will have a chance to explore life-sized replicas of the vehicles themselves beginning in November. 

As part of NASA’s “Roving With Perseverance” Roadshow, which brings Read More

First Friday Fractals Return To New Mexico Museum Of Natural History & Science Nov. 4

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Llive fractal shows return to the Museum beginning Friday, Nov. 4. Courtesy/NMMNHS

NMMNHS News:

The New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science (NMMNHS) has announced that live fractal shows on the first Friday of the month will be returning to the Museum after an absence of nearly three years, beginning Friday, Nov. 4. 

Fractals are never-ending, infinitely complex patterns that are self-similar across different scales. They are created by repeating a simple process over and over in an ongoing feedback loop.  

NMMNHS, in partnership with The Fractal Foundation, presents a pair of

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AFRL STEM Unit Receives DOD STARBASE’s Highest Award

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2nd Lt. Latofat Quick, a volunteer mentor from the Air Force Research Laboratory, assists a student during a rocket build at DOD STARBASE NM, at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, Sept. 8, 2022. The program was recently elevated to Level-III status, the highest level of accreditation. Courtesy/U.S. Air Force photo

Students from South Mountain Elementary School build a human circuit, with instructor, Spike, at the Air Force Research Laboratory’s STEM Academy instructor, during DOD STARBASE NM, at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, Sept. 15, 2022. The program was recently elevated Read More

Five LANL Researchers Receive Laboratory Fellows’ Prizes

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Top row from left, Tariq Aslam, Anemarie DeYoung and Juan Duque. Bottom row from left, Brian Jensen and Robert Steiner. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Five Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) researchers received Laboratory Fellows’ Prizes: Tariq Aslam received the Fellows’ Prize for Research, and Anemarie DeYoung, Juan Duque, Brian Jensen and Robert Steiner received the Fellows’ Prize for Leadership.

“I congratulate each of this year’s Fellows’ Prize recipients for their contributions to research and leadership,” said John Sarrao, deputy Laboratory director for Science, Technology Read More

Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Bette T. Korber Named Among Best Female Scientists In The World 2022 Ranking

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Bette T. Korber

SCIENCE News:

Los Alamos National Laboratory Fellow Bette T. Korber, a computational biologist has been named amonst the “Best Female Scientists in the World 2022 Ranking” by Research.com.

The fields of study Korber is best known for include gene, virus and DNA.

Her primary areas of study are Virology, Virus, Genetics, Immunology and Epitope. Her research integrates issues of Viral evolution and Antibody in her study of Virology. Her Virus research incorporates elements of Mutation and Gene. Read more about Korber here.

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Cornell Lab Of Ornithology: FeederWatcher Volunteers Are More Important Than Ever

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Many birds, like this House Finch, are attracted to berry bushes. Photo by Maria Stagliano, FeederWatch

Cornell Lab of Ornithology News:

ITHACA, N.Y. — Project FeederWatch is back with more ways to participate, more time to participate, and more ways to keep track of who is seeing what, where.

The expanded 36th season of FeederWatch begins Nov. 1 and ends April 30, 2023.

“As the newly released 2022 State of the Birds report found, bird populations in nearly every kind of habitat are still declining,” FeederWatch leader Emma Greig said. “It makes the wealth of data collected by FeederWatchers Read More