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New Mexico Attorney General’s Office Provides Good Government Training To Ukrainian Officials

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Ukrainian Delegation meets with Director Tania Maestas of the Open Government Division of the Office of the NM Attorney General. Courtesy photo
 
STATE News:
 
SANTA FE ― The Open Government Division of the New Mexico Office of the Attorney General provided ethics and good government training Feb. 25 to Ukrainian government and legal officials.
 
The officials are in New Mexico in conjunction with the Santa Fe Council on International Relations and the training was provided at the Santa Fe Office of the Attorney General location.
 
The following officials took
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Los Alamos ‘Cube Sat’ Team Wins Secretary’s Award

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Some members of the Prometheus Team at a ceremony at Los Alamos National Laboratory this past Monday. The team received the Secretary of Energy Achievement Award for their exceptional work in developing a “cube sat” constellation for U.S. Special Operations Command. Courtesy/LANL

 

LANL News:
 
More than 60 Los Alamos National Laboratory staff instrumental in the success of the Prometheus project were honored Monday with the Secretary of Energy Achievement Award at a special ceremony in Los Alamos.
 
Prometheus is the name of the cube satellite
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On The Brink Of An Oscar!

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Academy Award nominee Drew Goddard of Los Alamos with his wife Caroline Williams Goddard at a recent awards gala in California. Courtesy photo

 

By CAROL A. CLARK
Los Alamos Daily Post
  • Academy Award Nominee Drew Goddard Of Los Alamos Prepares For Big Night

The world learned at 5:30 a.m., Jan. 18 that Drew Goddard of Los Alamos is nominated for an Academy Award.

His parents Dr. Laurence and Colleen Goddard were live streaming the show announcing the nominees at their home in Los Alamos.

“I just remember starting to scream and then we talked to Drew … he and his wife and daughters were all

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LANL: Analyzing Genetic Tree Sheds New Light On Disease Outbreaks

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Using computational techniques, scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory are working to more clearly understand how diseases such as HIV are spread. In this image, arrows indicate actual transmission; red and blue persons are sampled, and the grey outline person is an unsampled link discovered in the computer analysis of the phylogenetic trees of the disease agents. Image courtesy Los Alamos National Laboratory. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • Computational modeling fills in potential gaps in transmission chains

Scientists have a new tool for unraveling the mysteries of how diseases Read More

Crackdown On Poachers In Antarctica Continues

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Adelie penguins on an iceberg in Antarctica. Courtesy/Creative Commons
 
SSG News:
 
The crackdown on poachers in the Southern Ocean continues with news that authorities in Senegal, West Africa, have detained the internationally wanted toothfish poaching vessel, Kunlun.
 
Reports allege that the Kunlun had previously falsified its registry, claiming Indonesia as its flag state. This allowed the vessel to be detained in Senegal on formalities regarding its certification and flag status. Out of the six known toothfish poaching vessels, which
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United Church Of Los Alamos Hosts Auctions March 6

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Courtesy photo
 
UCLA News:
 
The United Church of Los Alamos on Canyon Road will host a silent auction at 2 p.m., and a live auction at 3 p.m., March 6, to send 45 campers to Mexico during spring break to build homes for the poor.
 
UCLA along with the Universalist Unitarian Church hope to raise $16,000 to fee the campers and buy the supplies to build two to three homes during the week. Items include horsehair pottery, Disney collectibles, old fashioned sewing machines, gift certificates and more.
 
Items can still be donated by calling
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Greyson Venhaus Spends Spring Break Helping Others

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After day one, the week gets easier for workers spending their spring break on a life changing trip in Mexico. The members mix concrete by hand to demonstrate fancy tools are not needed to have a great outcome. Courtesy photo
 
UCLA News:
 
Greyson Venhaus is one of many youth spending his spring break in the service of others.
 
Venhaus, a LAHS senior will be taking his fourth annual trip to build homes for the poor in a joint effort between the United Church of Los Alamos and the Unitarian Universalist Church. The duo of destiny are hoping for your support
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LANL: Study Finds Surprising Variability In Shape Of Van Allen Belts

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1. The traditional idea of the radiation belts includes a larger, more dynamic outer belt and a smaller, more stable inner belt with an empty slot region separating the two. However, a new study based on data from NASA’s Van Allen Probes shows that all three regions—the inner belt, slot region, and outer belt—can appear differently depending on the energy of electrons considered and general conditions in the magnetosphere. 2. At the highest electron energies measured—above 1 MeV—researchers saw electrons in the outer belt only. 3. The radiation belts look much different at the lowest electron Read More

ESA/Hubble: First Detection Of Super-Earth Atmosphere

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ESA News:
 
For the first time astronomers were able to analyze the atmosphere of an exoplanet in the class known as super-Earths.
 
Using data gathered with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and new analysis techniques, the exoplanet 55 Cancri e is revealed to have a dry atmosphere without any indications of water vapor. The results, to be published in the Astrophysical Journal, indicate that the atmosphere consists mainly of hydrogen and helium.
 
The international team, led by scientists from University College London (UCL) in the UK, took observations of the nearby exoplanet
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Fossil Analysis Pushes Back Human Split From Other Primates By Two Million Years

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Team analysis of these 8-million-year-old Chororapithecus teeth fossils provided insights into the human-gorilla evolutionary split. Photo by Gen Suwa

LANL News:

  • Nature paper places human evolution in Africa, not Eurasia

A paper in the latest issue of the journal Nature suggests a common ancestor of apes and humans, Chororapithecus abyssinicus, evolved in Africa, not Eurasia, two million years earlier than previously thought.

“Our new research supports early divergence: 10 million years ago for the human-gorilla split and 8 million years ago for our split from chimpanzees,” said Los Read More