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Los Alamos National Laboratory Technology Approved For US Military Marketplace Website

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LANL: Geothermal energy is reliable and cost-efficient. Courtesy/Dreamstime

LANL News:

  • The partnership will allow the US Air Force to utilize cutting-edge geothermal energy

Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace, a platform for technology assessed by the Department of Defense for use on U.S. military bases, recently announced that Project GeoForce is pre-approved and ready for deployment.

Los Alamos National Laboratory partnered with the other members of Project GeoForce including Anthem Energy Partners, New Era Advisors, Homestead Resources, Texas A&M University and Power Planet Read More

FBI Marks 75th Year Of ‘Ten Most Wanted Fugitives’ List

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FBI News;

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on March 14 marked the 75th anniversary of one of its most iconic crime-fighting tools, the “Ten Most Wanted Fugitives” list.

“The Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list is an invaluable investigative publicity tool the FBI has leveraged for 75 years to ensure the most odious criminals are brought to justice,” FBI Director Kash Patel said. “The capture rate of the subjects on the list demonstrates the enormous assistance the public provides as well as the FBI’s unwavering commitment to apprehending these criminals. The Ten Most Wanted Fugitives Read More

LANL: Research Unravels Mysteries Of Lightning’s Origins

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Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory are studying the origins of lightning. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory have discovered that cosmic-ray showers seem to play a pivotal role in triggering lightning flashes; the research was published in the journal JGR Atmospheres.

“Scientists still don’t fully understand how lightning starts in thunderstorms,” said Xuan-Min Shao, of Los Alamos’ Electromagnetic Sciences and Cognitive Space Applications group and lead author of the new study. “Using our 3D radio frequency mapping and polarization Read More

Samizdat Bookstore & Teahouse Author Talk: Jeff Colvin

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COMMUNITY News:

Samizdat Bookstore & Teahouse is hosting Jeff Colvin, author of Avoiding Apocalypse: How Science and Scientists Ended the Cold War, for an author talk 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 18 at Fuller Lodge.

There will be tea before the talk and a book signing afterwards.

Avoiding Apocalypse tells the little-known story of the worldwide scientists’ boycott of the Soviet Union that set in motion an astonishing sequence of events.

Starting simultaneously with the rise to power of an obscure Soviet bureaucrat named Mikhail Gorbachev, the scientists’ boycott led to the end not only of the Read More

Honoring Ancient And Classical Fine Arts: Enigmatic Figures From The Ancient Past

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An Ancient Indo-Gangetic Anthropomorphic Figure, Uttar Pradesh, India, circa 1700-1200 BC. Copper, 17 in. (43.18 cm.) high Provenance: A Private Collection, New York, NY, acquired in 2003. Courtesy/Carlton Rochell, New York.

ART News:

This remarkable anthropomorphic figure, originating from Uttar Pradesh, India, circa 1700–1200 BCE, exemplifies the artistic and cultural sophistication of the Copper Hoard Culture. Fashioned from unalloyed copper, the piece stands at 17 inches high and features a semi-circular head seamlessly connected to the shoulders, symmetrically scrolling Read More

Kiwanian Karin Church Shares Her Adventure In Namibia

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Leopard in Namibia. Photo by Karin Church

Warthog in Namibia. Photo by Karin Church

By BROOKE DAVIS
Kiwanis Club of Los Alamos

Local Kiwanian Karin Church treated the club to a presentation and slide show Feb. 18, detailing  her photography from the trip she took to Namibia with her son in January of last year.

She explained that the country is quite large, about 120 percent the size of Texas, with only major roads paved. After much research, they narrowed their scope of their travels to the sites and experiences they most wanted to include in their limited one-week adventure.

Church and her son Read More

2025 Los Alamos Film And Culture Festival Wraps Up

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Films onscreen at the 2025 LAFCF. Courtesy photo

Filmmaker Mario Ghabali, director of the Lebanese film, ‘Far From It’ during a Q&A with the audience at last weekend’s 2025 LAFCF. Courtesy photo

By BERNADETTE LAURITZEN 

A small group of resolute board members, sponsors, vendors and volunteers came together last weekend to give Los Alamos another signature event – the second annual Film and Cultural Festival (LAFCF).

Twenty short films, documentaries and features were viewed and winners were selected from both a national and international pool. LAFCF President Sandy Jones said she Read More

Twenty-nine Mexican Cartel Members Extradited To U.S. Including Rafael Caro Quintero Who Murdered DEA Agent Kiki Camerena In 1985

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Cartel boss Rafael Caro Quintero. 2016/FBI mugshot

White House News:

Thursday night, 29 Mexican Cartel members were extradited to the United States. President Trump directed the Department of Justice and the Department of State to make this happen, and Attorney General Bondi and Secretary of State Rubio worked to get it done.

The group of cartel members, who will soon arrive on American soil, includes one of the most evil cartel bosses in the world, Rafael Caro Quintero, who tortured and murdered DEA Agent Kiki Camerena in 1985.

The Trump Administration is declaring these “thugs” as terrorists, Read More

IFAM Welcomes Community-Based Art Practitioner, Anitha N Reddy, For (Sold-Out) Quilting Workshop & Pop-Up Sale

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Anitha N. Reddy. Courtesy photo

IFA News:

The International Folk Art Market is pleased to invite the community to the second in its Folk Art Connections Series, a rare and immersive experience: a hands-on quilting workshop and pop-up sale led by renowned textile historian and curator Anitha N. Reddy.

Folk Art Connections is a new year-round initiative that brings International Folk Art Market artists to Santa Fe for events at various times outside of July’s annual folk-art market. The series is produced by marketing director, Diego Munoz, who executed his first event in December 2024 and hopes Read More

Tales Of Our Times: EPA Warns Of Iran, China Waging Cyberwar On U.S. Water Facilities

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Tales Of Our Times
By JOHN BARTLIT
New Mexico Citizens
for Clean Air & Water

Ancient Persia had a place on history’s pathway that brought the technology and culture of acequias for water usage from the Middle East to Morocco to Moorish Spain and eventually to hundreds of villages in Northern New Mexico. An “acequia” is a ditch system of irrigation that works by gravity and to this day is still managed by its users. The name itself goes back thousands of years to the Arabic.

But aspects change. Modern Iran is pure trouble for the more recent water systems in our nation. To update us, the U.S. EPA offers Read More