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Experts At biodiversity Conference Call For Linking Human And Livestock Health With Ecosystems

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The Monteverde Cloud Forest in Costa Rica. Photo by Jodi Crisp

Global Landscapes Forum News:

  • Addressing the wild meat trade and restoring landscapes, key to preventing the next pandemic

BONN Germany — Dr. Peter Daszak, Sir Robert Watson, Elizabeth Mrema and more than 250 other experts at the Global Landscapes Forum Digital Biodiversity Conference ‘One World, One Health’ Oct. 28-29, called for integrating biodiversity and landscape perspectives into efforts to prevent future outbreaks of zoonoses – diseases of animal origin such as COVID-19, SARS, Ebola and HIV.

The event, joined by 5,000 Read More

Sen. Tom Udall Presses CEOs Of Twitter, Facebook, Alphabet, Inc. On Commitment To Preventing Foreign Interference And Disinformation In U.S. Elections

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U.S. Sen. Tom Udall

U.S. SENATE News: 

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.), member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, questioned Chief Executive Officers of Twitter, Facebook, and Alphabet, Inc. (Google) Wednesday on the role and responsibility of their platforms to protect American users from foreign interference and disinformation campaigns.

VIDEO LINK: Udall’s questions can be found at 3:00:54 here.

“The U.S. Intelligence community has found that the Russian government is intent on election interference in the United States. They did it Read More

AFNWC Team Supports ICBM Test Launch

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An Air Force Global Strike Command unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launches during an operational test at 12:27 a.m. Pacific Time, Oct. 29, 2020, at Vandenberg AFB. Photo/Michael Peterson-USAF

AFNWC News:

KIRTLAND AFB — A team of Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center experts supported the recent launch of an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile to verify its accuracy and reliability, providing valuable data to ensure this safe, secure, effective nuclear deterrent is ready every day to defend the United States and its allies.

An unarmed LGM-30G Minuteman III Read More

Jellies Transfer Large Amount Of Carbon To Deep Ocean

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The role of jellies (like these in the Pacific waters of Dakit-Dakit Island, Philippines) in ocean carbon cycling has been overlooked. Credit: Klaus Stiefel/Flickr, CC-BY-NC-2.0

AGU News:

New research suggests jellies play a more valuable role in food webs and carbon storage than scientists previously thought.

A new study in the AGU journal Global Biogeochemical Cycles estimates how much carbon gelatinous sea creatures store in their bodies and where that carbon goes.

The results show that 3.7–6.8 billion metric tons of organic carbon can be traced back to jellies each year, an amount on Read More

World’s First Rubik’s Cube Completion On Unicycle

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Thaddeus Krueger is the first person to solve a Rubik’s Cube while juggling and riding a unicycle. Courtesy photo

WORLD News:

CEDARVILLE, Ohio — Solving Rubik’s Cubes is no small matter for Cedarville University brothers Thaddeus and Ivan Krueger, from Beavercreek, Ohio. Sometimes it includes a unicycle and juggling balls. At other times, it’s quite a feat. Or is that feet?

VIDEO:

World’s First Juggling Rubik’s Cube Solve on a Unicycle

It all started when their older brother, Sawyer, began solving Rubik’s Cubes as a teenager. Their cousin quickly joined the fun, which inspired Read More

Los Alamos National Laboratory Brings Next-Generation HPC In Fight To Stop Spread Of COVID-19

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Chicoma high-performance computing platform to support the nation’s response to COVID-19. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Los Alamos National Laboratory has completed the installation of a next-generation high-performance computing platform, with aim to enhance its ongoing R&D efforts in support of the nation’s response to COVID-19.

Named Chicoma, the new platform is poised to demonstrate Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s new HPE Cray EX supercomputer architecture for solving complex scientific problems.

“As extensive social and economic impacts from COVID-19 continue to grip Read More

Rotary Club Of Los Alamos: Former Intelligence Analyst Bob Hull Discusses Russian Interference In US Elections

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Bob Hull

By LINDA HULL
Vice President
Rotary Club of Los Alamos

“An America divided is a Russia empowered.” –Bob Hull

Former intelligence analyst Bob Hull spoke during the Oct. 13 meeting of the Rotary Club of Los Alamos about Russian interference in U.S. elections.

Citing non-classified documents, Hull explained that the Internet Research Agency, a Russian organization housed in St. Petersburg, Russia has been using cyber-espionage to obtain adverse information about political adversaries for years.

Individuals known as “trolls” are hired at high wages to create “fake blogs and online Read More

NNSA And Atomic Energy Of Canada Sign Memorandum Of Understanding On Safeguards And Nonproliferation

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NNSA News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States and Canada have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to enable more effective collaboration in the areas of nuclear safety and security.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and the Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) today signed an MOU for Cooperation and Exchange of Information in Nuclear Security, Safeguards, and Nonproliferation Matters.

“Accomplishments like these are important to celebrate, especially when travel and face-to-face engagements are not possible during the COVID-19 Read More

Planet Mars Viewed From White Rock

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If you look to the skies – Mars rises in the east at sunset, is at its highest at midnight, and sets in the west at sunrise. Pictured here is the planet Mars about 6:15 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 14, in the western skies viewed from White Rock. Mars is a fiery red and very wonderful sight all night long. Photo by Nancy Ann Hibbs

NASA’s diagram of Mars opposition shows the Sun, the Earth and Mars lining up every two years. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Stargazers perk up — Mars is getting big and bright the coming week, as the sun, Earth and Mars line up close to a new moon on the night of Oct. 13.  Read More

Six Los Alamos National Laboratory Physicists Elected 2020 Fellows Of The American Physical Society

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Six LANL physicists elected American Physical Society Fellows, top row from lef, Luis Chacon, Andrea Favalli and Ralph Menikoff. Bottom row from left, Andrea Palounek, Nicolai Sinitsyn and Blas Uberuaga. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Six Los Alamos National Laboratory physicists have been elected Fellows of the American Physical Society this year. The Lab’s 2020 APS Fellows are Luis Chacon, Andrea Favalli, Ralph Menikoff, Andrea Palounek, Nikolai Sinitsyn, and Blas Uberuaga.

“I’m pleased to see six members of our technical staff recognized through their election as Fellows of the American Read More