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Nature On Tap: Recent Discoveries In Astronomy Oct. 6

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PEEC News:

The community is invited to this week’s Nature on Tap to discuss the latest findings in astronomy. 

Local astronomers and astrophysicists Dr. Paul Arendt, Dr. Galen Gisler and Dr. Rick Wallace will provide an engaging discussion about black holes, NASA’s Juno probe, the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, the night sky, and upcoming planetarium shows 5:30-7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 6 at UnQuarked in Central Park Square.

Arendt received his PhD in physics at Ohio State University and now works in commercial manufacturing and the Applied Research & Development of Materials Read More

U.S. And Chinese Drug Enforcement Agencies Meet On Synthetic Opioid Efforts

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Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Acting Administrator Chuck Rosenberg
 
DEA News:
 
The heads of the national drug-control agencies for the United States and the People’s Republic of China met last week at DEA Headquarters in Arlington, Va., to discuss ways to stop the flow from China to the United States of deadly synthetic drugs. 
 
This meeting with Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Acting Administrator Chuck Rosenberg and Director General (DG) Hu Minglang from the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) of the Ministry of Public Security follows an announcement by
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Construction Of World’s Most Sensitive Dark Matter Detector Moves Forward

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Tomasz Biesiadzinski, left, and Jeremy Mock install a mini version of the future LZ dark matter detector at a test stand at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The white container is a prototype of the detector’s core, also known as a time projection chamber (TPC). For the dark matter hunt, LZ’s TPC will be filled with liquid xenon. Courtesy/ SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

LBNL News:

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory reports that the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ), a next-generation dark matter detector that will be at least 100 times more sensitive than its predecessor, has cleared another Read More

How B Reactor Worked And Its Mysterious Failure

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Physicist Enrico Fermi. Courtesy/AHC

ATOMIC HERITAGE FOUNDATION News:

On Sept. 26, 1944, the B Reactor, the world’s first full-scale plutonium reactor, started up at Hanford. The next day, it mysteriously shut down. “The reactor went dead, just plain dead! Everybody stood around and stared,” physicist Leona Woods Marshall recalled.

After working all night, scientists led by Enrico Fermi calculated that the problem was being caused by Xenon, an element produced during the nuclear reaction. Physicist John Wheeler had warned that Xenon and similar elements, which absorb Read More

Vintage Rolls-Royces Tour Los Alamos

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Fourteen vintage Rolls-Royce cars with owners from Europe toured Los Alamos Monday. The drivers stopped for lunch at Time Out Pizzeria on Central Avenue. Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com
 
Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com
 
Photo by Chris Clark/ladailypost.com
 
Staff Report
 
Fourteen vintage Rolls-Royce cars with owners from Europe toured Los Alamos Monday. The drivers stopped for lunch at Time Out Pizzeria at 1350 Central Ave., in downtown Los Alamos. 

History of the Rolls-Royce:

In 1884 Henry Royce started an electrical and mechanical business.

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Destructive Khapra Beetles Discovered In Household Goods Shipment From Saudi Arabia To Philadelphia

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The Khapra beetle (Trogoderma granarium), photographed by the US Department of Agriculture, originated in South Asia and is one of the world’s most destructive pests of grain products and seeds. It is considered one of the 100 worst invasive species in the world. Infestations are difficult to control because of the insect’s ability to survive without food for long periods, its preference for dry conditions and low-moisture food, and its resistance to many insecticides. There is a federal quarantine restricting the importation of rice into the U.S,. from countries with known infestations
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Presidential Proclamation: Death Of Shimon Peres

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Shimon Peres

From the Office of the President:

Shimon Peres, one of the last surviving members of Israel’s founding generation who during his long career served as the nation’s defense minister, minister of foreign affairs, prime minister and president has died at 93.

President Barack Obama has issued the following proclamation:

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION

As a mark of respect for the memory of Shimon Peres, former President and Prime Minister of Israel, I hereby order, by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States of America, Read More

Newman And Chathasaigh Perform In New Mexico

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Chris Newman and Máire Ní Chathasaigh. Courtesy/marieandchris.com
 
MUSIC News:
 
Chris Newman and Máire Ní Chathasaigh will be presented in concert at 7 p.m., Saturday Oct. 1, at Apple Mountain Music, Albuquerque. Admission is $20; for reservations call 505.237.2048 or go to www.applemtnmusic.com.
 
The celebrated partnership of Chris Newman, “one of the UK’s most staggering and influential acoustic guitarists” (fROOTS), with Máire Ní Chathasaigh, “the doyenne of Irish harpers” (Scotland on Sunday), is a breathtaking
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Deep Moonquakes Reveal Thickness Of Lunar Crust

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Photo of the Moon. Courtesy/NASA
 
LANL News:
 
Charlotte Rowe of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Geophysics group and collaborators from the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands have reported the first use of the seismic interferometry technique applied to study the internal structure of the Moon. The Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets published the research and featured it as an Editor’s Highlight.

During the NASA Apollo missions, astronauts installed seismometers on the near side of the Moon to record moonquakes.

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Secretary Moniz Announces Removal Of All Highly Enriched Uranium From Poland

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Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz

DOE News:

NNSA Helps Poland Become 31st Country Plus Taiwan to Be HEU-free 

VIENNA – At the 60th IAEA General Conference, U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz has announced that the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), in cooperation with Poland, the Russian Federation and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has successfully repatriated 61 kilograms of Russian-origin highly enriched uranium (HEU) from the Maria Research Reactor in Otwock-Swierk, Poland.

The shipment removes the last known HEU Read More