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AGU: Coldest Place On Earth … Even Colder Than Scientists Thought

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Persistent winds shape the surface of East Antarctica’s snow into small dune forms called ‘sastrugi’. Courtesy/Ted Scambos, NSIDC/University of Colorado-Boulder
 
Blowing snow conditions at a camp site near Vostok Station in Antarctic summer. Courtesy/Ted Scambos, NSIDC/University of Colorado-Boulder
 
AGU News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Tiny valleys near the top of Antarctica’s ice sheet reach temperatures of nearly minus 100 degrees Celsius (minus 148 degrees Fahrenheit) in the winter, a new study finds.
 
The results could change scientists’ understanding of
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LANL: Exploring Carbon Nanotube Optics As Pathway For Quantum Information Processing

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Depiction of a carbon nanotube defect site generated by functionalization of a nanotube with a simple organic molecule. Altering the electronic structure at the defect enables room-temperature single photon emission at telecom wavelengths. Courtesy/LANL

 

LANL News:

 

Researchers at Los Alamos and partners in France and Germany are exploring the enhanced potential of carbon nanotubes as single-photon emitters for quantum information processing. Their analysis of progress in the field is published in this week’s edition of the journal Nature Materials.

 

“We Read More

World Nuke Count: 14,465 Bombs

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Courtesy/belvpo

HSNW News:

A new report finds that all the nuclear weapon-possessing states are developing new nuclear weapon systems and modernizing their existing systems.

Nine states—the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel, and North Korea—possess approximately 14,465 nuclear weapons. This marked a decrease from the approximately 14,935 nuclear weapons these states were estimated to possess at the beginning of 2017.

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) released June 18 the findings of SIPRI Yearbook Read More

World Futures: Statistics (And Probability) – Part One

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By ANDY ANDREWS
Los Alamos World
Futures Institute
 

In exploring the future of humanity and the world we must rely on the collection and analysis of statistical data and apply the inferences drawn to decision making, selecting what road we will take both collectively and individually.

In the previous series of columns about risks, rewards and responsibilities, we started with probability and concluded that often we cannot truly assess the probabilities in making personal decisions. Will he or she say yes or no when we ask her or him for a date? Yet in many fields of endeavor we are completely Read More

HSNW: Family Separation Conundrum

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Courtesy image
 
By Marilyn Haigh
Homeland Security News Wire
 
The attention of the nation has turned to Texas and its border with Mexico after the Trump administration enacted a policy that has resulted in undocumented children being separated from their parents.

Here’s what we know:

What’s happening at the border? The federal government announced an immigration policy of “zero tolerance,” which means all adults who cross the border illegally between official ports of entry will be criminally prosecuted. Since children can’t be sent to federal jail, kids who are detained Read More

NCSE Deputy Director Glenn Branch Explains How ‘Doubt And Denial As Challenges To, And In, Teaching Climate Change’ … Fuller Lodge 7 p.m. Today!

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EDUCATION News:

Glenn Branch, Deputy Director of the National Center for Science Education (NCSE), will be speaking at 7 p.m. today, June 22,  in Fuller Lodge.

Sponsored by the Coalition for Excellence in Science and Math Education (cese.org)

Scientists overwhelmingly agree about the occurrence, causes and consequences of climate change. But the public is not so sure. And science education is suffering as a result.

Reviewing recent controversies over the place of climate science in state science standards and summarizing the results of a recent rigorous Read More

House Speaker Brian Egolf On Child Separation Crisis

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House Speaker Brian Egolf

Democratic Party of New Mexico News:

Speaker of the House Brian Egolf (D-Santa Fe) has issued the following statement:

“Like many New Mexicans and Americans, I have watched in horror as the Trump Administration has implemented a new policy that forces cruel separations of children from their families at our southern border. There is simply no excuse for this policy, and there is no excuse for the flood of lies that has come from the highest positions in our federal government.

“The Trump Administration has caused irreparable harm to an unknown number of toddlers Read More

Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham Calls On New Mexico Governor To Cancel National Guard Border Deployment

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U.S. Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham

From the Office of U.S. Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham (NM-01) released the following statement after several Governors announced they were canceling the deployment of their National Guard Troops to the border:

“I call on Gov. Martinez to immediately recall the deployment of New Mexican National Guard troops to the border and stop providing resources to further President Trump’s inhumane immigration policies. Using New Mexico personnel and hard-earned taxpayer dollars to support an Administration that Read More

NNSA Conducts Rocket-Based Research In Hawaii With ‘HOT SHOT’

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Sample of an instrument-carrying rocket designed to take measurements and perform scientific experiments during its sub-orbital flight. Courtesy image

DOE/NNSA News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) and Sandia National Laboratories successfully launched a research rocket in May that carried a series of experiments designed to deepen scientific understanding and support the stewardship of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile.

This launch marks the first time NNSA has used scientific instrument-carrying rockets, Read More

U.S. Rep. Lujan Grisham, AG Balderas Jump Into Action Against Family Separation National Crisis

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U.S. Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham at the border Monday with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus to address the family separation policy for asylum seekers. Courtesy/DPNM

DPNM News:

The Democratic Party of New Mexico announced this morning that U.S. Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham, the Democratic nominee for governor of New Mexico, traveled to the border with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and took on the Trump Administration for its “inhumanity”.

Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham said Monday, “The family separation policy “is intended, unequivocally, not to just continue to punish asylum seekers Read More