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Robot Electrocutes Invasive Lionfish In Coral Reefs

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RISE News:
 
A US non-profit company has designed an innovative method of controlling the spread of lionfish threatening to devastate fish stocks and coral reef ecosystems in warmer ocean waters.

Robots In Service of the Environment (RISE) joined deep ocean research charity, Nekton, on its maiden voyage in the North Atlantic to test a prototype being developed to operate remotely in deep water to locate and deliver a fatal electric shock to the invasive species.

Nekton’s research vessel was off the Bermudian coast conducting the XL Catlin Deep Ocean

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AGU: Climate Change Could Cause Major Decline In Antarctic Krill Habitat By 2100

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AGU News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Antarctic krill, small crustaceans key to the Antarctic marine food web, could lose most of their habitat by the year 2100, according to a new study published online in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).
 
Researchers combined climate simulations with a krill growth model to find that changes in water temperature and sea ice in Antarctic waters could shrink krill habitat by as much as 80 percent by the end of the century, potentially causing a decline in krill that could ripple throughout the entire
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Isotope Research Opens Possibilities For Cancer Treatment

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The triumphant research team during the acquisition of the first actinium X-ray Absorption Fine Structure analysis (on the screen). From left, Thomas Hostetler (SSRL), Chantal Stieber (former Los Alamos), Maryline Ferrier (Los Alamos), Juan Lezama Pacheco (Stanford) and Stosh Kozimor (Los Alamos). Courtesy photo
 

LANL News:

  • Computer models supporting spectroscopy unlock behavior of actinium-225

A new study at Los Alamos National Laboratory and in collaboration with Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource greatly improves scientists’ understanding of the element Read More

A Mountaineer’s Story: Temples, Tigers, & Tak-Taks

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Join Melissa Bartlett Aug. 23 as she reveals her unique experiences in Thailand. Courtesy photo
 
PEEC News:
 
Los Alamos Mountaineers host a presentation Tuesday, Aug. 23 by adventurer Melissa Bartlett detail her month-long trek through Thailand.
 
The Los Alamos Mountaineers meeting will start at 7 p.m. and cover information about upcoming outings and Bartlett’s talk begins at 7:30 p.m. at the Los Alamos Nature Center.
 
In 2015, Bartlett hopped on a bus in Southeast Asia. Determined to cover the
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Rotary Interact Students From Los Alamos High School Welcome Exchange Student Ida Mattila From Finland

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Rotary Interact students from Los Alamos High School welcome the Rotary Club of Los Alamos’s new exchange student, Ida Mattila, second from right, from Finland. From left, Mikayla Hanawalt, Interact Club President Faith Koh, Mattila and 2016 graduate Leslie Thalmann. Koh and Thalmann both traveled abroad in 2014-15 as Rotary Youth Exchange students to France and Belgium, respectively. To learn more about Rotary Youth Programs, contact Club President Rob Metcalf at 670.8336. Photo by Rob Metcalf Read More

Los Alamos Kiwanis Keeps Project Eliminate Promise

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Don Casperson, center, spoke at Los Alamos Kiwanis recently, updating the club on the organization’s national and regional conventions and on Project Eliminate, a campaign to wipe out maternal and neonatal tetanus worldwide. He is shown holding a t-shirt from the regional convention in Albuquerque. At left is Cheryl Pongratz, who presented him with a Secundino Sandoval print—a gift from the club. At right is Los Alamos Kiwanis President Lisa Wismer, who holds a plaque saying that the club’s donations have saved the lives of 20,800 babies. Photo by Morrie Pongratz
 
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NASA’s Kepler Mission Verifies 1,284 New Planets

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This artist’s concept depicts select planetary discoveries made to date by NASA’s Kepler space telescope. Image by W. Stenzel/NASA

NASA News:

NASA’s Kepler mission has verified 1,284 new planets – the single largest finding of planets to date.

“This announcement more than doubles the number of confirmed planets from Kepler,” said Ellen Stofan, chief scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. “This gives us hope that somewhere out there, around a star much like ours, we can eventually discover another Earth.”

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NASA Mars Rover Can Choose Laser Targets On Its Own

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NASA News:
 
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity is now selecting rock targets for its laser spectrometer―the first time autonomous target selection is available for an instrument of this kind on any robotic planetary mission.

Using software developed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, Curiosity is now frequently choosing multiple targets per week for a laser and a telescopic camera that are parts of the rover’s Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument. Most ChemCam targets are still selected by scientists discussing rocks or soil seen in images the rover has sent

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Sack Cloth And Ashes Memorial At Pond Aug. 6

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John Dear, speaking to protesters in 2014, is scheduled to attend this year’s Sack Cloth and Ashes Memorial Saturday, Aug. 6 at Ashley Pond Park in Los Alamos. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com 

Pax Christi New Mexico is hosting its annual Sack Cloth and Ashes Memorial Saturday, Aug. 6 in Los Alamos. Individuals such as this fellow meditating at the pond in 2014, will gather to commemorate the 71st anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

 

CCNS News:
 
To commemorate the 71st anniversary of the U.S.
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Mars Rover’s Laser Can Now Target Rocks All By Itself

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NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover autonomously selects some targets for the laser and telescopic camera of its ChemCam instrument. For example, on-board software analyzed the Navcam image at left, chose the target indicated with a yellow dot, and pointed ChemCam for laser shots and the image at right. Courtesy NASA
 

LANL News:

New software is enabling ChemCam, the laser spectrometer on NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover, to select rock targets autonomously—the first time autonomous target selection is available for an instrument of this kind on any robotic planetary mission. Developed jointly Read More