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Peter Lyons Selected For Eisenhower Medal

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Peter B. Lyons

ANS News:

Peter B. Lyons, an American Nuclear Society (ANS) Fellow and member since 2003, is set to receive the Dwight D. Eisenhower Medal in a virtual award ceremony presentation Monday, June 8 during the 2020 ANS Virtual Annual Meeting.

Lyons is being recognized for his influential leadership in nuclear technology policy over five decades and for the vital role he played in the nuclear renaissance of the early 21st century.

A distinguished career:

During his career, Lyons worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory, as a commissioner of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and Read More

AGU: Ocean Uptake Of CO2 Could Drop As Carbon Emissions Are Cut

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In recent decades, the oceans have been soaking up greater and greater amounts of carbon dioxide each year. We can’t count on that trend to continue forever, says a new study. Courtesy/Caleb Jones/Unsplash

AGU News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Volcanic eruptions and human-caused changes to the atmosphere strongly influence the rate at which the ocean absorbs carbon dioxide, according to a new study published this week in the journal AGU Advances.

The ocean is so sensitive to changes such as declining greenhouse gas emissions that it immediately responds by taking up less carbon dioxide.

The authors Read More

Skolnik: Racial Injustice And Health Disparities

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By RICHARD SKOLNIK
Los Alamos

The death of George Floyd in Minneapolis last week reminds us of the extent to which racial injustice remains a central feature of American life. Closely related to this are America’s remarkable racial disparities in health.

Life expectancy at birth in the US varies with race, with African Americans, American Indians, and Alaska Natives having the shortest lives. In 2017, life expectancy was 4.5 years greater for a white male than for an African American male. It was 2.7 years greater for a white female than for an African American female. American Indians and Alaska Read More

VIDEO: Udall, Community Leaders Hold Virtual Roundtable On Restarting Census Collection In Southern New Mexico

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From the Office of U.S. Sen. Tom Udall:

SANTA FE — U.S. Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.) held a virtual roundtable with the Las Cruces Area Office of the U.S. Census Bureau and community leaders in eastern and southern New Mexico to announce the restarting of census collection efforts temporarily paused to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

The Las Cruces-based field Read More

Sheehey: Physical Distancing, Social Cohesion

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By PETE SHEEHEY
Los Alamos County Councilor

Rather than “social distancing” to stop the spread of the COVID-19 virus, we mostly need physical distancing and social cohesion.

Physical distancing: if everyone covers their mouth and nose, and keeps six feet or more apart in public spaces, that minimizes breathing each other’s exhaled particles, the main path of contagion for the virus.

Social cohesion: only by all of us observing safe practices, as we help each other and do our business locally, can we buy time for medical research to develop effective treatments and vaccines, allowing a safe Read More

History On Tap Online: Alan Carr Discusses The Fourth Spy

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Los Alamos Historical Society News:

Join the Los Alamos Historical Society for History on Tap online at 5:30 p.m. Monday, June 1.

LANL historian Alan Carr will lead a conversation about Oscar Seborer, recently discovered to have spied in Los Alamos during World War II.

History on Tap is free. Find the link to attend here.

In September 2019, historians John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr published an article unmasking Oscar Seborer as a wartime spy at Los Alamos. The FBI records Haynes and Klehr discovered left little doubt that Seborer was guilty of espionage, but they shed very little light on what Read More

NIST Team Builds Hybrid Quantum System By Entangling Molecule With Atom

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NIST physicist James Chin-wen Chou adjusts one of the laser beams used to manipulate an atom and a molecule in experiments that could help build hybrid quantum information systems. Courtesy/J. Burrus/NIST

NIST News:

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have boosted their control of the fundamental properties of molecules at the quantum level by linking or “entangling” an electrically charged atom and an electrically charged molecule, showcasing a way to build hybrid quantum information systems that could manipulate, store and transmit different Read More

AGU: How Climate Killed Great Barrier Reef Corals In 2016

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The final toll: more than half the coral in some parts of the Great Barrier Reef died in 2016. Courtesy/AGU

AGU News:

A squad of climate-related factors is responsible for the massive Australian coral bleaching event of 2016. If we’re counting culprits: it’s two by sea, one by land.

First, El Niño brought warmer water to the Coral Sea in 2016, threatening Australia’s Great Barrier Reef’s corals. Long-term global warming meant even more heat in the region, according to a new study. And in a final blow that year, a terrestrial heatwave swept over the coast, blanketing the reef system well into the Read More

LANL: New Technique Separates Industrial Noise From Natural Seismic Signals

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Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

For the first time, seismologists can characterize signals as a result of some industrial human activity on a continent-wide scale using cloud computing.

In two recently published papers in Seismological Research Letters, scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory demonstrate how previously characterized “noise” can now be viewed as a specific signal in a large geographical area thanks to an innovative approach to seismic data analyses.

“In the past, human-caused seismic signals as a result of industrial activities were viewed as ‘noise’ that polluted Read More

Los Alamos-Based UbiQD And Nanosys Partner To Improve Greenhouse Crop Yields

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Nanosys Facilities and Equipment Manager presents a sheet of UbiGro® greenhouse film that uses fluorescent quantum dots to help plants get more from the sun. Behind him stands an over 2,000 L quantum dot production reactor. Courtesy/Nanosys

BUSINESS News:

  • Advanced materials leaders boost crop grower profitability by leveraging ultra-high-definition TV supply chain to manufacture luminescent agricultural films

UbiQD, Inc., headquartered in Los Alamos, an advanced materials company powering product innovations in agriculture, clean energy, and security, and Nanosys, Inc., headquartered Read More