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LANL Physicist Wojciech Żurek Honored In Poland

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LANL physicist Wojciech Żurek recently received two Doctor Honoris Causa honors in Kraków Poland. Courtesy photo

Prof. Wojciech Żurek accepts one of two Doctor Honoris Causa honors recently in Kraków Poland. Courtesy photo

Staff Report:

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) theoretical physicist Prof. Wojciech Żurek recently received two Doctor Honoris Causa honors.

AGH University of Science and Technology presented Żurek with his first Doctor Honoris Causa Oct. 22 in in Kraków Poland.

Jagiellonian University also presented Żurek with a Doctor Honoris Causa honor during an award Read More

Wreaths Across America Radio Provides Members Of Military & Families Opportunity To Share Holiday Greetings & Thanks

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WREATHS ACROSS AMERICA RADIO News:

COLUMBIA FALLS, ME — During this year’s season of hope and giving, Wreaths Across America Radio (WAAR) invites our troops from across the country and overseas, as well as their loved ones at home, to send a holiday greeting to one another in the form of an internet radio greeting.

They call this the “Remembrance Ring” program.

The “Remembrance Ring” provides American military families the opportunity to extend holiday greetings and thanks to service members and veterans through Wreaths Across America Radio.

Wreaths Across America Radio is a stream you Read More

Annual CROP Hunger Walk And Turkey Trot Nov. 21

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Scene from the 2019 Los Alamos CROP Hunger Walk and Turkey Trot on North Mesa. Photo by Cynthia Biddlecomb

Scene from the 2019 Los Alamos CROP Hunger Walk and Turkey Trot at the finish line. Photo by Cynthia Biddlecomb

By CYNTHIA BIDDLECOMB
Los Alamos CROP Hunger Walk and Turkey Trot

Sunday, Nov. 21, lots of community folks will be walking or running to end hunger.

This is the traditional time for the annual Los Alamos CROP Hunger Walk and Turkey Trot, which had to go “all virtual” last year. This year, both in-person and virtual options are available.

Funds raised through this annual event go to fight Read More

AGU: 1,000 Years Of Glacial Ice Reveal ‘Prosperity And Peril’

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Researchers’ ice core drilling camp on Colle Gnifetti in 2015. Two ice cores extracted from this area preserved a continuous one-thousand-year record of European climate and vegetation. Courtesy/Margit Schwikowski

AGU News:

WASHINGTON — Europe’s past prosperity and failure, driven by climate changes, has been revealed using thousand-year-old pollen, spores and charcoal particles fossilized in glacial ice.

This first analysis of microfossils preserved in European glaciers unveils earlier-than-expected evidence of air pollution and the roots of modern invasive species problems. Read More

Linnaeus University: Microbes May Have Lived Underground For More Than A Billion Years

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Microorganism-related calcite from a deep fracture in Swedish granite. This kind of mineral related biosignatures were used as one part of this new study to look for ancient habitable conditions at depth. Courtesy/Henrik Drake

Associate Professor Henrik Drake. Courtesy/LU

Linnaeus University News:

A study using the thermal history and biosignatures of the upper few kilometers of some of the oldest rocks on Earth place constraints on the evolutionary history of microbes in the deep biosphere.

The study, published in PNAS, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, show that the Read More

Students From 33 Countries And Pueblos Enrolled At LAPS

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The eight EL teachers serving all LAPS sites gather recently for a photo. Pictured back row from left, Julie Bulthuis of Aspen Elementary, Ellen Middleditch of Chamisa and Piñon, Rebecca Cabildo of LAOLA and Inna Bohn of Los Alamos Middle School. Front row from left, Michele Poulton of Barranca, Sherri Smith of Los Alamos High School, Jessie Dixon of Mountain and Miel Rim of Aspen and Barranca. Courtesy/LAPS

LAPS News:

Los Alamos Public Schools now has 170 students enrolled from 33 countries and pueblos, speaking 25 languages.

Students are enrolled in grades K through 12 at all elementary schools, Read More

LANL: New Results From MicroBooNE Provide Clues To Particle Physics Mystery

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MicroBooNE detector being lowered into the experimental facility at Fermilab. Courtesy/Fermilab

A look inside the MicroBooNE Time Projection Chamber detector. Courtesy/Fermilab

LANL News:

New results from a more-than-decade long physics experiment offer insight into unexplained electron-like events found in previous experiments. Results of the MicroBooNE experiment, while not confirming the existence of a proposed new particle, the sterile neutrino, provide a path forward to explore physics beyond the Standard Model, the theory of the fundamental forces of nature and elementary Read More

Gov. Lujan Grisham Schedule Of Public Events At COP26

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Gov. Lujan Grisham

From the Office of the Governor:

GLASGOW, Scotland — As the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) commences, the Office of New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is releasing her planned public appearances.

All appearances, locations and times are subject to change.  

Schedule of Appearances:

Interview with Environmental Defense Fund Energy Senior Vice President Mark Brownstein on methane reduction strategies

  • When: 9:30 – 10 a.m. (GMT), Nov. 1 (3:30-4 a.m. MDT)
  • Where: Methane Moment Pavillion
  • Livestream: The event will be livestreamed here.
  • Additional
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Kiwanis Aids Local Schools With African Library Project

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LAMS Builders Club officers sorting donated books collected for ALP at their school. Courtesy photo

A Kenyan student holds a book from a shipment in March 2020 that due to the pandemic just arrived. Courtesy photo

KIWANIS News:

Over the next two months, Kiwanis-sponsored service clubs (K-Kids, Builders Club and Key Club) at all Los Alamos schools will be conducting a massive drive to collect children’s books to make school libraries in Kenya, East Africa.

Students in Kenyan schools receive all their instruction in English. Supplementary reading books for practicing the use of the language Read More

LANL: Improved DOE Exascale Earth System Model Two Times Faster Than Previous Version

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High-resolution E3SM simulation over the Arctic showing surface ocean currents and temperatures (blue) and January sea-ice concentration (gray/white). Courtesy/Mark Petersen (LANL) and Francesca Samsel (UT Austin)

LANL News:

A new version of the Department of Energy’s Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) is two times faster than its earlier version released in 2018, allowing for more accurate and timely simulations of the changing climate.

“This version of E3SM is faster and more capable than the first,” Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) scientist Luke Van Roekel said, who Read More