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LANL News Roundup For Week Of Oct. 3, 2022

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Microgravity in space reveals hidden microbes:

A mission on board the Space X Crew 5 rocket is aimed at helping explain how the human gut’s microbiome changes while astronauts are in space. The goal is to better prepare humans to stay healthy during space travel. The experiment, launched into space Oct. 5 after a hurricane delay, is the second of its kind in a study of how microgravity affects the human microbiome. Read the full article here. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) shares a compilation of news stories for the week of Oct. 3, 2022.

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Museum Shares Sweet History & Science Behind Chocolate

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Learn the difference between milk, dark, white and ruby chocolate and talk to local chocolatiers beginning Oct. 15 at the NMMNHS at 1801 Mountain Road NW in Albuquerque. Courtesy/NMMNHS

NMMNHS News:

Starting Oct. 15, the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science (NMMNHS) is introducing a new way for visitors of all ages to sink their teeth into the history and science behind chocolate.

NMMNHS will be hosting Sweet Saturdays, family-friendly days at the Museum where visitors can explore the wonderful world of chocolate, as a complement to its Chocolate: The Exhibition exhibit.

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Local Metric System Advocate Pays Tribute To TV Shows

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Linda Anderman

STAFF REPORT

Almost 40 years ago, the U.S. Metric Board’s funding was pulled under the Reagan administration. In 1975, the metric system legislation failed and later the Government Accountability Office reported that basically implementing the metric system wasn’t necessary but voluntary.

So, people moved on. However, there are public figures and individuals who are working to keep the need for the metric system in people’s awareness. Los Alamos resident Linda Anderman is one of those individuals.

She has worked for 10 years to get a discussion at the federal level going Read More

Hear Talk On Reintroduction Of Native Fish To Bandelier

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Bandelier’s international intern Erwin Lopez Osorio will discuss Oct. 12 the types of native fish originally found within the area, the factors that limited or completely eradicated populations, and the measures currently being taken to reintroduce endangered fish populations back into Bandelier National Monument. Courtesy/PEEC

PEEC News:

Please join PEEC at the Los Alamos Nature Center from the comfort of your couch 6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 12 for a talk with Bandelier’s international intern Erwin Lopez Osorio.

Bandelier’s native fish population has been severely impacted by several Read More

LANL News Roundup For Week Of Sept. 26, 2022

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SCIENCE: How U.S. nuclear testing moratorium launched a supercomputing revolution

Thirty years ago, Sept. 23, 1992, the United States conducted its 1,054th—and last—nuclear weapons test. No longer testing nuclear weapons ushered in a revolution in high-performance computing that has wide-ranging impacts on national and global security that few are aware of. The need to maintain our nuclear weapons in the absence of testing drove an unprecedented requirement for increased scientific computing power. Read the full article here. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

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Free Launch Pad Lecture Introduces New Worlds

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Using hundreds of hours of observations from the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes, an international team of astronomers investigated a sample of 25 exoplanets, out of the 5,000+ identified by NASA. The team was able to identify some clear trends and correlations between the exoplanets’ atmospheric constitutions and observed behavior. Courtesy/ESA

NMMSH News:

The monthly Launch Pad Lecture at the Museum of Space History scheduled for 9 a.m. Friday, Oct. 7 will feature Museum Outreach Coordinator Tony Gondola.

His topic will be “Exoplanets: We are Not Alone”, and will highlight the amazing Read More

Studying Vampire Bats To Predict The Next Pandemic

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Courtesy/Virginia Tech

VIRGINIA TECH News:

In June, Virginia Tech Assistant Professor Luis Escobar led a team of students into the Andes Mountains and lowlands of Colombia to understand how vampire bats can help predict and prevent the next big epidemic.

Escobar is an expert in assessing how diseases respond to climate and landscape change in the College of Natural Resources and Environment’s Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation. With a $358,000 grant from the National Science Foundation and support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), his latest project Read More

Learn About Earth Below And Skies Above With NMOP

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View near 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 us for an NMOP special event: Plants and Sky!, 10 a.m. Sunday, Oct. 2. During this plants and sky-themed day at Los Luceros Historic Read More

DOD’s Largest Telescope AEOS Receives Mirror Recoat

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Workers strip and wash the Advanced Electro-Optical System’s primary mirror at the Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing site, Maui, Hawaii, in preparation for its mirror recoat. AMOS is part of the AFRL, and the AEOS telescope supports the U.S. Space Force with the nation’s space domain mission to operate freely in space. Courtesy/Boeing

The 3.6-meter, 75-ton Advanced Electro-Optical System, or AEOS. telescope, shown with the mirror recoat team, is the largest optical telescope in the Department of Defense. The mirror received its second recoat since the installation of AEOS at the Read More

Fact Of The Day: Who Was The World’s First Computer Programmer?

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Courtesy/Interesting Facts

Interesting Facts:

The famous poet Lord Byron once wrote of his daughter Ada that he hoped “the gods have made her anything save poetical — it is enough to have one such fool in the family.”

He got his wish. Instead, Ada Lovelace followed a path many considered impossible for a woman in the early 19th century. Encouraged by her mother, Lady Byron, Lovelace developed a passion for mathematics at a young age. In 1833, a 17-year-old Lovelace met British mathematician Charles Babbage at a party, and he told her about a calculating machine he’d created called the Difference Read More