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Bathtub Row Press Releases New Book On US-Russian Lab-To-Lab Cooperation

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Dr. Siegfried Hecker

BOOK RELEASE News:

Join the Los Alamos Historical Society, Dr. Siegfried Hecker and contributing authors for the release of Doomed to Cooperate 7-9 p.m., June 28 in Fuller Lodge.

This new title from Bathtub Row Press presents the story of the US-Russian lab-to-lab cooperation that spanned more than two decades.

Doomed to Cooperate: How American and Russian Scientists Joined Forces to Avert Some of the Greatest Post–Cold War Nuclear Dangers tells the remarkable story of nuclear scientists from two former enemy nations, the United States and Russia, who reached across Read More

IRS Reminds Taxpayers To Report Foreign Accounts

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IRS Commissioner John Koskinen

IRS News:

PHOENIX – The Internal Revenue Service is reminding taxpayers who have one or more bank or financial accounts located outside the United States, or signature authority over such accounts that they may need to file an FBAR by Thursday, June 30.

By law, many U.S. taxpayers with foreign accounts exceeding certain thresholds must file Form 114, Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts, known as the “FBAR.” It is filed electronically with the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCen).

“Robust growth in FBAR filings Read More

Genomics Conference Started When Human Genome Sequencing Finished

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The 11th Annual Sequencing, Finishing, Analysis in the Future Meeting June 1-3 had more than 300 people in attendance, a capacity audience in the ballroom at the La Fonda on the Plaza in Santa Fe. Photo by Roger Snodgrass/ladailypost.com

 

By ROGER SNODGRASS
Los Alamos Daily Post

An annual conference of researchers, technologists and funders in the soaring field of genomics held its 11th event June 1-3 in Santa Fe. The conference has grown from about 70 people when it began in 2006 to more than 300 this year.

Chris Detter, founder and chairman of the organizing committee of the 11th Annual Read More

NASA: Largest Planet Discovered To Orbit Two Suns

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Artist’s impression of the simultaneous stellar eclipse and planetary transit events on Kepler-1647. Courtesy/Lynette Cook
 
NASA News:
 
If you cast your eyes toward the constellation Cygnus, you’ll be looking in the direction of the largest planet yet discovered around a double-star system.
 
It’s too faint to see with the naked eye, but a team led by astronomers from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and San Diego State University (SDSU) in California, used NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope to identify the new planet,
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Beautiful Instance Of Stellar Ornamentation

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The glowing gas cloud LHA 120-N55 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Courtesy photo
 
ESO News:
 
In this image from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), light from blazing blue stars energizes the gas left over from the stars’ recent formation. The result is a strikingly colorful emission nebula, called LHA 120-N55, in which the stars are adorned with a mantle of glowing gas. Astronomers study these beautiful displays to learn about the conditions in places where new stars develop.

LHA 120-N55, or N55 as it is usually known, is a glowing gas cloud (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emission_nebula

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CBP Seizes 14 Rolls Of Contraband Bologna

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Fourteen rolls of Mexican bologna found in vehicle. Courtesy/CBP

BORDER PATROL News:

EL PASO — U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office of Field Operations Agriculture Specialists working at the El Paso, Texas area port of entry Thursday seized 14 rolls of Mexican bologna.

Bologna is a prohibited product because it is made from pork and has the potential for introducing foreign animal diseases to the U.S. pork industry.

The seizure was made at approximately 9 a.m. at the Bridge of the Americas international crossing after a 2007 Chevrolet Silverado with New Mexico license plates

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Graduating Seniors Leave On 14-Day European Tour

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Los Alamos High School graduating seniors left town with their teacher Lynn Ovaska at 2:45 a.m. Wednesday, flew to Atlanta and are now on their flight to Madrid. The group will spend 14 days touring Spain, France and Italy. Trip highlights include Madrid, Barcelona, Carcassonne, Provence, Avignon and the Roman Ruins in France, Nice, Pisa, Florence, Assisi, Rome, Pompeii, and Capri. The young travelers are most excited to visit the Prado museum (since the Louvre is closed in Paris), Sagrada Familia, Roman ruins in southern France, experience European championship football excitement, culture Read More

Chicken Little And The Sitting Ducks: On The Question Of Planetary Defense

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In 2014, the spectacular Comet Ison grazed the sun and disappeared. Courtesy/Hubble Space Telescope

 

By ROGER SNODGRASS
LOS ALAMOS DAILY POST

Glen Wurden, LANL plasma physicist, has conceived an insurance policy for planetary defense. Courtesy/LANL

Glen Wurden, a plasma physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. has an idea about how the world could end: he thinks there is agood chance it maybe more with a bang, than a whimper.

Also an amateur astronomer, Wurdenis especially focused onasteroids and comets, random missiles whizzing around the solar system and occasionally colliding Read More

Black Boxes And The Cloud

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Professor David Stupples, City’s Professor of Electronic and Radio Systems, says the time has come for the flight data recorder (FDR) and the cockpit data recorder (CDR) – the black box found on aircraft – to be stored in the cloud. The usually orange-coloured flight recorder is an electronic recording device used in the event of an aviation accident (or incident) investigation. Courtesy/city.ac.uk

Professor David Stupples of Electronic and Radio Systems at City University of London says the time has come for the flight data recorder and the cockpit data recorder – Read More

Heinrich Backs Legislation To Protect U.S. Electric Grid From Cyberattacks

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U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich

From the Office of Sen. Martin Heinrich:

“Cybersecurity is one of the most serious economic and national security challenges we face as a nation.” – U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) joined U.S. Senators Angus King (I-Maine), Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Susan Collins (R-Maine), all members of the Senate Intelligence Committee, to introduce The Securing Energy Infrastructure Act of 2016, a bill to protect critical U.S. energy infrastructure from potentially catastrophic cyberattacks.

The legislation would examine Read More