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LANL: Public Lectures Explore Powering Space Missions On Mars Begin April 2

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Artist’s illustration of the umbrella-like heat radiators of four Kilopower nuclear reactors casting shadows on the Martian surface. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • Patrick McClure and David Poston will discuss their Kilopower nuclear reactor project during three Frontiers in Science lectures

Artist’s illustration of the umbrella-like heat radiators of four Kilopower nuclear reactors casting shadows on the Martian surface.

Los Alamos nuclear scientists Patrick McClure and David Poston will discuss the small nuclear reactor developed at the Laboratory to power missions Read More

LANL: Self-assembling, Tunable Interfaces Found In Quantum Materials

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Marc Janoschek, left, and David Fobes discuss features of quantum materials. Courtesy/lanl

LANL News:

A potential revolution in device engineering could be underway, thanks to the discovery of functional electronic interfaces in quantum materials that can self-assemble spontaneously.

“This illustrates that if we can learn to control and exploit the remarkable properties at the interfaces of quantum materials, this will likely result in a new generation of devices beyond our current imagination,” said Marc Janoschek, a physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory who, with David Fobes, Read More

AGU: Arctic Sea Ice Becoming A Spring Hazard For North Atlantic Ships

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A crab fishing boat trapped in the multiyear sea ice off the Newfoundland coast. Courtesy/David G. Barber
 
AGU News:
 
WASHINGTON D.C. — More Arctic sea ice is entering the North Atlantic Ocean than before, making it increasingly dangerous for ships to navigate those waters in late spring, according to new research.
 
The new research finds ocean passages typically plugged with ice in the winter and spring are opening up. Sea ice normally locked in the Arctic then can flow freely through these passages southward to routes used by shipping, fishing and ferry boats.
 
The
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Trinity On The Hill Mission Team Returns From Juárez

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Trinity on the Hill team members and the homeowner in front of the newly built home in Juarez, Mexico. Back row from left, Fr. Christopher Adams, Derek Selvage, Julie Bulthuis, George Marsden, John Bulthius and Chandra Marsden. Front row from left, Lynn Finnegan, Alina Bulthuis, Lizandra Miranda Gonzales with her children Hania, Kevin and Sophia and Mandie Gehring. Courtesy photo
 
Craft outreach project in the colonia. Photo by Lynn Finnegan
 
By LYNN FINNEGAN
Trinity on the Hill

As the United Church leaves for its Spring Break mission trip to Mexico, another church in town is regrouping

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AGU: August 2017 SpaceX Rocket Launch Created Large Circular Shock Wave

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AGU News:
 
The unusual trajectory the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took when delivering a Taiwanese satellite into orbit last August created an atmospheric shock wave four times bigger than the area of California, a new study finds.
 
All rocket launches create shock waves, which are atmospheric disturbances traveling faster than the speed of sound. They can’t be seen by human eyes but can be detected by GPS receivers monitoring the atmosphere and space.
 
Most rocket-induced shock waves are V-shaped when viewed from space because rockets tend to follow a curved trajectory
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Griggs: ‘The Case Of The Purloined Pooch’ And Other Animals Along The Way

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Pecos, a 13-year-old Red Merle Aussie was dognapped and later rescued and returned to his owner. Courtesy photo

Six adorable white bundles of Samoyed fur, already showing their individual characters. Courtesy photo

By DAVID GRIGGS
Foreign Correspondent
Los Alamos Daily Post
 
While in New Mexico, I received an early morning telephone call from Crystal, an old friend who was living in Bend, Ore. She was moving to a farm nearer to the ocean, and wondered if I would like to help her drive a truck and unpack her studio.
 
So, in late summer with wildfires burning all over the Northwest, I found
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World Futures: Education, Training, Learning And Knowledge: Part Three

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ANDY ANDEWS
Los Alamos World Futures Institute

Returning to the bubble model discussed last week, a mother or father bubble is at the stove heating a pot of water to boiling. The child bubble reaches for the stove and is stopped by the parent bubble who explains the following.

“I just put one liter, one thousand cubic centimeters, of water into the pot at a temperature on 3.98 degrees Celsius, equivalent to 277.13 degrees Kelvin or 39.164 degrees Fahrenheit and I want to raise the temperature of the water to 100 degrees on the centigrade scale. One milliliter of water, one cubic centimeter, requires Read More

LANL Archives Preserve History

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From left, LANL Historian Alan Carr, Deputy Group Leader for the Records Management Group Christopher C’de Baca and Los Alamos County Council Chair David Izraelevitz during a recent meeting at the Los Alamos Daily Post at which Carr and C’de Baca discussed the Archives at LANL. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

A sampling of spy-related documents preserved in the Archives at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

 
By CAROL A. CLARK
Los Alamos Daily Post

A treasure trove of historical documents and data Read More

‘Kremlinologist’ At Fuller Lodge Thursday March 29

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LIBRARY News

A new book, “The Kremlinologist” by Jenny Thompson and Sherry Thompson will be the topic for the March Authors Speak lecture at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 29 at Fuller Lodge.

The authors are the daughters of the subject of this biography, “The Kremlinologist – Llewellyn E. Thompson, America’s Man in Cold War Moscow,” and spent eight years of their childhood in Moscow. Published by Johns Hopkins University Press, the book traces the life of their father from boyhood in rural Colorado and New Mexico to U.S. ambassador to the USSR to presidential advisor on Soviet affairs. The Read More

Los Alamos Rotary Hosts Russian Friendship Exchange

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Rotary Russian Friendship Exchange guests, Los Alamos Club President-elect Vincent Chiravalle, right, and local Rotarians gather for a lunch meeting Tuesday at Cottonwood on the Greens. Photo by Mary Beth Maassen
 
Rotary Russian Friendship Exchange guest Denis Ivanov, left, exchanges friendship banners with Club President-elect Vincent Chiravalle at Tuesday’s meeting at Cottonwood on the Greens. Photo by Mary Beth Maassen
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