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Compassionate Friends Candle Lighting 7 p.m. Sunday

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COMMUNITY News:

The Los Alamos Chapter of The Compassionate Friends will host a local participation in the Worldwide Candle Lighting at 7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 14 at the Ashley Pond bandstand. 

As candles are lit at 7 p.m. local time, hundreds of thousands of persons worldwide commemorate and honor the memory of all children gone too soon. Please join with us in creating faralitos to honor the children of Los Alamos lost to us through an early death.

Materials will be provided between 6:45 p.m. and 7 p.m. to create faralitos. The faralitos will be lit promptly at 7 p.m. and remain burning Read More

Accident Occurs At Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant

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STAFF REPORT

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk announced this morning that an accident has occurred at the Zaporizhye Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in south-east Ukraine.

Yatseniuk said in a news report that he was aware an accident had occurred at the Zaporizhye NPP. News agency Interfax Ukraine reports that the problem occurred at bloc No. 3 – a 1,000-megawatt reactor – and the resulting lack of output had worsened the power crisis in the country. Interfax added that the bloc was expected to come back on stream Dec. 5.

Ukraine is one of Europe’s largest energy Read More

Rotary Efforts Result In $145K To Fight Polio

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ROTARY News:

The Rotary Club of Los Alamos is among 39 Rotary clubs throughout Rotary District 5520, which includes New Mexico and west Texas, that recently raised awareness and money in support of Rotary International’s polio eradication effort.  

Friday Oct. 24, local members gathered at Los Alamos schools to share information about the drive to eliminate polio from the globe, to paint pinkies purple, and to accept Read More

Small Volcanic Eruptions Could Be Slowing Global Warming

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The Sarychev Peak Volcano, on Matua Island, erupted on June 12, 2009. New research shows that eruptions of this size may contribute more to the recent lull in global temperature increases than previously thought. Courtesy/NASA

AGU News:

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Small volcanic eruptions might eject more of an atmosphere-cooling gas into Earth’s upper atmosphere than previously thought, potentially contributing to the recent slowdown in global warming, according to a new study.

Scientists have long known that volcanoes can cool the atmosphere, mainly by means of sulfur dioxide gas that eruptions Read More

Los Alamos Impacts Highlands Of Guatemala

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At Tuesday’s meeting at the Manhattan Project, Rotarian Deborah Simon updates the local club on a project that provides clean water to rural villages in the highlands of Guatemala. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost

 

By KIRSTEN LASKEY
Los Alamos Daily Post

Sitting on top of a mesa with nothing but canyons surrounding it, Los Alamos can feel a little isolated from the world; but believe it or not, this small town impacts not only neighboring cities but also countries.

For instance, the local Rotary Club is helping to bring a positive impact in another secluded part of the world – Read More

LANL: Using Wikipedia To Forecast Diseases

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Scientist Sara Del Valle and her team observe findings from their research on disease patterns from analyzing Wikipedia articles. Courtesy/LANL 

LANL News:

  • Los Alamos research published in Public Library of Science

Scientists can now monitor and forecast diseases around the globe more effectively by analyzing views of Wikipedia articles, according to a team from Los Alamos National Laboratory.

“A global disease-forecasting system will improve the way we respond to epidemics,” scientist Sara Del Valle said. “In the same way we check the weather each morning, individuals and public Read More

Rosetta’s Philae Probe Lands On A Comet

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Rosetta’s deployment of Philae to land on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. Courtesy/ESA

Touchdown of Philae. Courtesy/ESA

ESA News:

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta mission has soft-landed its Philae probe on a comet, the first time in history that such an extraordinary feat has been achieved. Watch video here.

After a tense wait during the seven-hour descent to the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, the signal confirming the successful touchdown arrived on Earth at 16:03 GMT (17:03 CET). The confirmation was relayed via the Rosetta orbiter to Earth and picked Read More

International Scientific Society Reacts To L’Aquila Seismologists Acquittal

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Christine McEntee

AGU News:

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The following statement is attributable to Executive Director/CEO Christine McEntee of the American Geophysical Union (AGU):

“The October 2012 conviction of Italian scientists on manslaughter charges in connection with the L’Aquila earthquake was alarming to the worldwide scientific community, and today’s acquittal is an important step in sanctioning the role scientists play in advising governments and communicating the results of their research to the public. Scientists must be able to exchange data and information Read More

Udall Statement On President’s Net Neutrality Plan

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U.S. SENATE News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, U.S. Sen. Tom Udall, chairman of the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Subcommittee, welcomed the president’s support for a free and open Internet as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) prepares new net neutrality rules and issued the following statement:
 
“Net neutrality is about leveling the playing field, and I am encouraged that the president has joined the call for strong rules by the FCC to protect the open Internet. I am working in the Senate to encourage broadband
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Los Alamos Rotary Raises $13,000 For Matching Grant

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Los Alamos Rotarians Linda Hull, left, and Alison Pannell discuss a $13,000 matching grant during Tuesday’s meeting at the Manhattan Project. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com
 
By KIRSTEN LASKEY
Los Alamos Daily Post

The grant obtained by the Rotary Club of Los Alamos to support the education of Haitian children living in the Dominican Republic represents numerous things.

It is a testament of what teamwork and persistence can accomplish; it is proof that friendships can be forged over countries’ borders; and it is evidence that positive change in people’s lives Read More