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LANL, NNSA Honor 75th Anniversary Of Trinity Test

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NNSA Administrator Lisa Gordon-Haggerty addresses media at a press event Thursday at the historic V-Site at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Courtesy/LANL

NNSA Administrator Lisa Gordon-Hagerty views artifacts from the Manhattan Project at the historic V-Site at LANL along with Director Thom Mason, center, and Rep. Ben Ray Luján. V-Site consisted of a cluster of wooden buildings built in January 1944 as a high explosives handling and assembly facility. Courtesy/LANL

By KIRSTEN LASKEY
Los Alamos Daily Post
kirsten@ladailypost.com

To mark the 75th anniversary of the testing of the nuclear Read More

AGU: Reduction In Commercial Flights Due To COVID-19 Leading To Less Accurate Weather Forecasts

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A commercial airplane on a runway. Courtesy/Bilal EL-Daou from Pixabay

AGU News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Weather forecasts have become less accurate during the COVID-19 pandemic due to the reduction in commercial flights, according to new research.

A new study in AGU’s journal Geophysical Research Letters finds the world lost 50-75 percent of its aircraft weather observations between March and May of this year, when many flights were grounded due to the pandemic.

Aircraft typically inform weather forecasts by recording information about air temperature, relative humidity, air pressure Read More

LANL: Atomtronic Device Could Probe Boundary Between Quantum, Everyday Worlds

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A schematic of an atomtronic SQUID shows semicircular traps that separate clouds of atoms, which quantum mechanically interfere when the device is rotated. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

A new device that relies on flowing clouds of ultracold atoms promises potential tests of the intersection between the weirdness of the quantum world and the familiarity of the macroscopic world experienced every day.

The atomtronic Superconducting QUantum Interference Device (SQUID) also is potentially useful for ultrasensitive rotation measurements and as a component in quantum computers.

“In a conventional Read More

NNSA: Commemorating 75 Years Since The ‘Trinity’ Test Introduced The Atomic Age

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Trinity Test 75th Anniversary Video (with introduction by John Sarrao, Los Alamos National Laboratory Deputy Director of Science, Technology, and Engineering). Courtesy/NNSA

NNSA News:

  • NNSA Administrator visits test’s New Mexico birthplace to mark the occasion

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) recognized the 75th anniversary of the dawn of the atomic age, which began July 16, 1945, with the “Trinity” test, the world’s first nuclear detonation.

A commemoration of the historic implosion took place today, July 16, Read More

LANL Vs. COVID-19: Battling Virus On Three Fronts

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National Security Sciences Building at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Courtesy/LANL

Kelly Beierschmitt

By BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post
bjgordon@ladailypost.com

It is common knowledge that Los Alamos National Laboratory is using science to fight COVID-19.

Its struggles to maintain a safe working environment for its staff and its efforts to help fellow New Mexicans cope with the impacts of the virus are less well known.

Safe Operations at LANL

LANL Deputy Director of Operations Kelly Beierschmitt spoke to the Los Alamos business community about LANL’s actions to protect its Read More

Art Exhibitions Examine Atomic Legacies As 75th Anniversary Of First Nuclear Detonation Approaches

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Art by Mary Kavanagh. Courtesy/University of Lethbridge

Professor and artist Mary Kavanagh. Courtesy/University of Lethbridge

University of Lethbridge News:

University of Lethbridge (Alberta, Canada) professor and artist Mary Kavanagh explores the atomic bomb and its legacies in a series of art exhibitions presented across Canada and the United States: the multi-faceted Daughters of Uranium and Trinity3, a two-channel video project.

Trinity Site in New Mexico anchors the exhibitions which build connections between nuclear technologies and their lived effects, the nuclear site Read More

Space Exploration Moves From Sci-Fi Novel To Reality

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Astronomer Rick Wallace hosted a virtual presentation on manned space exploration, as a part of ScienceFest, which concluded Sunday. Courtesy/PEEC

By KIRSTEN LASKEY
Los Alamos Daily Post
kirsten@ladailypost.com

Space tourism and colonization seems like the stuff of science fiction, but as retired Los Alamos National Laboratory employee Rick Wallace explained Friday night, it is quickly becoming a reality.

Wallace hosted a virtual presentation titled, The Future of Manned Space Exploration, as a part of ScienceFest, which concluded Sunday.

His presentation touched on space exploration’s Read More

Northern New Mexico College Issues Statement Of Support For International Students

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By RICHARD J. BAILEY JR., Ph.D.
President
Northern New Mexico College

As you may be aware, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) recently announced that international students on M-1 and F-1 visas may not remain in the United States if they are attending a college or university that will operate fully online for the Fall semester.

Northern joins with other institutions in New Mexico and nationwide in disapproval of this decision, which harms our international students and our College and local community. Northern joined our colleagues in the Council of University Presidents Read More

Two Los Alamos Students Awarded Scholarships To Attend United World College-USA International High School

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United World College-USA on State Rte 65 in Montezuma, near Las Vegas, N.M. Courtesy/Dan Rose

EDUCATION News:

MONTEZUMA – Los Alamos High School students Andrey Pavlenko and Grace Xie have received scholarships to continue their high school education at the United World College-USA in Montezuma.

Andrey Pavlenko

The son of Vitaly Pavlenko and Yulia Shevchenko of Los Alamos, Pavlenko recently completed his junior year.

 

 

 

 

Grace Xie

Xie is the daughter of Gary Xie and Amy Huiwen Hsu and recently completed her sophomore year.

They were among 60 U.S. students selected for the Read More