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LANL: ‘Green’ Quantum-Dot Solar Cells Exploit Defects

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Scanning electron microscope image of electrodes infiltrated with quantum dots, left, and the corresponding distributions of copper, indium, zinc, and selenium across the film thickness. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • Quantum-dot approach shows promise for a new type of toxic-element-free, inexpensive, defect-tolerant solar cells

Novel quantum dot solar cells developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory match the efficiency of existing quantum-dot based devices, but without lead or other toxic elements that most solar cells of this type rely on. 

“This quantum-dot approach shows great Read More

Albuquerque FBI Division Holds Twitter Chat To Alert Public About COVID-19 Scams And Frauds

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FBI News:

The Albuquerque FBI Division hosted an hour-long live Twitter chat focused on coronavirus-related scams and frauds Friday, providing information to arm the public against criminals trying to cash in on the fear and uncertainty surrounding the pandemic crisis.

FBI special agents answered questions ranging from how to identify fraud and scam websites to ways to protect minors.

“The FBI will not tolerate criminals trying to take advantage of people at their most vulnerable during this pandemic,” said Special Agent in Charge James Langenberg of the Albuquerque FBI Division. “Together Read More

AGU: New Proof Of Watery Plumes On Jupiter’s Moon Europa

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The new study is based on data collected by Galileo during a flyby of Europa in 2000. The image comprises data acquired by the Galileo Solid-State Imaging (SSI) experiment on the spacecraft’s first and fourteenth orbits through the Jupiter system, in 1995 and 1998, respectively, and was recently re-processed in 2014. The image scale is 1.6 km/pixel, and the north pole of the moon is to the right. Courtesy/NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute

AGU News:

Jupiter’s moon Europa is a fascinating world. On its surface, the moon appears to be scratched and scored with reddish-brown scars, which rake across Read More

LANL: El Niño–Linked Decreases In Soil Moisture Could Trigger Massive Tropical-Plant Die Offs

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Figure 6: In the Los Alamos National Laboratory team’s analysis of soil moisture changes during ‘Super El Niño’ events in 1982-83, 1997-98 and 2015-16, cell colors indicate the magnitude of change shown in the corresponding histograms. More consistent strong decreases relative to normal for these seasons are typical for red cells and more consistent strong increases relative to normal for these seasons are typical for green cells. The top map shows October to December and the bottom map shows January to March. Courtesy/LANL

 

LANL News:

  • New insights could help farmers, water managers
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‘They Changed the World: People of the Manhattan Project’ Wins Silver Award In National Book Competition

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In May 2019 author aj Melnick missed the signing for her book, ‘They Changed the World: People of the Manhattan Project’, due to illness. Pajarito Press publishers Nancy Bartlit and Mark Rayburn signed books for her at the Bradbury Science  Museum.  The book just won a Silver Award in a national competition. Photo by Bonnie Gordon/ladailypost.com

By NANCY BARTLIT
Pajarito Press LLC

We are excited to let you know that aj Melnick’s book, They Changed the World: People of the Manhattan Project—redesigned and published last year by Pajarito Press LLC (owners, Nancy Bartlit and Mark Rayburn)—is Read More

NIST Helps Expand Genome Sequencing Of Marine Mammals

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The bearded seal genome has been sequenced by the scientific consortium known as the DNA Zoo, thanks to a tissue sample supplied by NIST’s Biorepository in Charleston, SC. Courtesy/Allan Hopkins, Creative Commons

NIST News:

Researchers will soon have access to the full genomic sequences for 23 marine mammal species preserved by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), thanks to an ongoing collaboration between NIST and a scientific consortium called the DNA Zoo.

The specimens come from a longstanding project known as the National Marine Mammal Tissue Bank (NMMTB) Read More

Los Alamos National Laboratory: Battling COVID-19 With Expertise, Technology And Materials

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

LANL News:

  • A multidisciplinary effort

Los Alamos National Laboratory, like many of the Department of Energy national laboratories, is drawing on its rich history in the biological sciences to actively engage in the national effort to study, understand, and answer important questions about the COVID-19 outbreak.

Areas covered include disease detection and diagnostics, epidemic modeling, disease prediction and forecasting, decision support, data collection and integration, and medical Read More

AGU: New Study Predicts Doubling Of United States Population Exposed To Extreme Climate Events By 2050

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The map displays projected changes in human exposure to extreme climate events at a 1-kilometer (0.6-mile) scale from 2010 to 2050, which range from minor decreases in rural and suburban areas to moderate and major increases in densely populated urban centers. Courtesy/Adam Malin/ORNL, DOE

AGU News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — By 2050, the United States will likely be exposed to a larger number of extreme climate events, including longer droughts, more intense floods, and more frequent waves of extremely hot days and warm nights, which can lead to greater risks for human health, ecosystem stability Read More

LANL And Texas A&M University System NLO Partner To Make Large Data Sets Easier To Handle

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The LANL and NLO collaboration focuses on exploiting potential upcoming key-value flash devices to enable much more rapid analysis and insights of large data sets. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

The Texas A&M University System National Laboratories Office (NLO) and Los Alamos National Laboratory have formed a collaborative research effort to make extremely large data sets indexable and more easily searchable.

“We are excited to be partnering with our colleagues at Texas A&M on this important and potentially game changing research. This collaboration leverages extreme strengths Read More