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LANL Virus Expert Gave Early Warning On Zika

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ZIKA MAP Source: Created by Congressional Research Service from Pan American Health Organization and Centers for Disease Control maps of Zika cases at https:////www.paho.org and https:////www.cdc.gov/zika/geo/index.html, accessed Jan. 2, 2016.  Courtesy photo
 
BY ROGER SNODGRASS
Los Alamos Daily Post

LANL researcher Brian Foley has worked in bioinformatics since 1984. He has spent 20 years in HIV research at Los Alamos National Laboratory and has published 98 papers currently listed on Research Gate, the science networking site

LANL Microbiologist Brian Foley

A specialist Read More

Gravitational Waves Found, Black-hole Models Led Way

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A simulation of two merging black holes, creating gravitational waves. Courtesy/LIGO

LANL News:

  • Supercomputer models predicted, instruments detected, Einstein was right

Gravitational waves were predicted by Einstein’s theory of general relativity in 1916, and now, almost exactly 100 years later, the faint ripples across space-time have been found. The advanced Laser Interferometric Gravitational-wave Observatory (aLIGO) has achieved the first direct measurement.  

“We already have indirect evidence of gravitational wave emission from binary pulsars like the Hulse-Taylor Read More

A Global Look At Women And Cardiovascular Disease

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By LORI COFFELT, RN
LAMC Emergency Room Director

The World Heart Federation and the World Health Organization tells us that cardiovascular disease (CVD) – heart disease and stroke – is the biggest killer of women globally, killing more women than all cancers, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and malaria combined. Here are a few remarkable statistics:

Heart disease and stroke cause 8.6 million deaths among women annually– a third of all deaths in women worldwide. Of this:  3.4 million women die of ischemic heart disease; 3 million women die from stroke each year; the remainder 2.2 million Read More

Humanists Around The World Celebrate Darwin Day

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AHA News:

Washington, D.C.—Friday Humanists around the world will celebrate Darwin Day, a commemoration of the birthday of naturalist Charles Darwin and the achievements of modern scientists.

“Charles Darwin and his spirit of scientific curiosity have inspired generations of scientists,” said Roy Speckahrdt, executive director of the American Humanist Association (AHA). “Darwin Day is an opportunity to recognize scientists’ discoveries and innovations that have advanced our knowledge and human progress.”

Since 2011, the American Humanist Association has worked closely with Read More

‘Sacred Realm: Blessings And Good Fortune Across Asia’

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Detail of Barong mask by Ida Bagus Anom Suryawan (2015), Bali, Indonesia. Photo by Blair Clark
 
MIFA News:
 
SANTA FE — Santa Fe is the perfect city for the soon-to-open exhibition Sacred Realm: Blessings and Good Fortune across Asia. 
 
The City of Holy Faith could just as easily be called the City of Many Faiths. From the Natives who considered it a spiritually abundant place, to the Catholics arriving here before the Pilgrim’s, to today’s large communities of Sikhs, Buddhists, and New Age practitioners.
 
Sacred Realm runs
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Lecture: ‘Hydrogen – The Silver Bullet’ Saturday

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Roy M. Moore
 
COMMUNITY News:
 
The public is invited to attend a lecture on hydrogen energy, with speaker Roy M. Moore, 2-3:15 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 6, in the three upstairs meeting rooms of the Mesa Public Library in Los Alamos.
 
Moore will discuss the basics on how hyrdrogen energy works; how many forms of energy can be converted into hydrogen; as well as the political and environmental implications of the necessity for hydrogen energy to be implemented world-wide.
 
The public is welcome to film or photograph this event.
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Presentation: Skiing The High Road Across The Alps

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Skiing up the Col des Roux (2,804 m) as the sun rises. Courtesy photo
 
Cappuccino break at the Dix Hut. Courtesy photo
 

LA MOUNTAINERS News:

The Los Alamos Mountaineers invite the public to an exciting presentation by life-long skier Rob Suminsby of Albuquerque at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 17 at the Los Alamos Nature Center.

The Mountaineers meeting begins at 7 p.m. with social time and reports of recent and upcoming trips followed about 30 minutes later with the program.

Suminsby is a retired US Air Force officer who said he was privileged to spend his last few years of active duty in Read More

Consortium Led By UC Berkeley Awarded $25M NNSA Grant For Nuclear Science And Security Research

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DOE News:
 
WASHINGTON D.C. ― The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) announced a grant award of $25 million to a University of California, Berkeley-led consortium of eight universities for research and development (R&D) in nuclear science and security. 
 
This long-term investment will support the consortium at $5 million per year for five years. The grant, awarded for the second time to the Berkeley-led consortium, followed announcement of a funding opportunity issued in May 2015.
 
The other consortium
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Moon Was Produced By Head-on Collision Between Earth And A Forming Planet

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Paul Warren, Edward Young (holding sample of a rock from the moon) and Issaku Kohl. Photo by Christelle Snow/UCLA

UCLA News:

  • UCLA-led research reconstructs massive crash, which took place 4.5 billion years ago

The moon was formed by a violent, head-on collision between the early Earth and a “planetary embryo” called Theia approximately 100 million years after the Earth formed, UCLA geochemists and colleagues report.

Scientists had already known about this high-speed crash, which occurred almost 4.5 billion years ago, but many thought the Earth collided with Theia (pronounced THAY-eh) Read More

Advanced Algorithms Used To Identify Six Botnets

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Prof. Bracha Shapira

HSNW News:

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) cyber security researchers have discovered and traced approximately six “botnets” by analyzing data collected from past cyberattacks. Botnets are networks of malicious, remotely updatable code that covertly lurk on infected computers.

Using botnets, which until now were largely untraceable, hackers and cyber criminals can carry out powerful attacks, spread viruses, generate spam, and commit other types of online crime.

Prof. Lior Rokach

American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Read More