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Heinrich, Portman: Artificial Intelligence Bills To Boost AI-Ready National Security Personnel, Increase Transparency

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U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich

U.S. SENATE News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio), the co-founders of the Senate Artificial Intelligence Caucus, are announcing two bipartisan pieces of legislation to strengthen the U.S. government’s artificial intelligence (AI) readiness, support long-term investments in AI ethics and safety research, as well as increase governmental AI transparency.

Senators Heinrich and Portman will be introducing the bipartisan Artificial Intelligence Capabilities and Transparency (AICT) Act. The AICT Act would Read More

Rotary Features Sgt. Major (ret.) Gavin McIlvenna Speaking On 100th Anniversary Of Tomb Of The Unknown Soldier

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Sentinels from the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard) stand guard and conduct the changing of the guard , May 6, 2021 at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. Courtesy/Arlington National Cemetery

By LINDA HULL
Vice President
Rotary Club of Los Alamos

“Here rests in honored glory an American soldier known but to God” … so reads the inscription on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C.

It was retired Army Sgt. Major Gavin McIlvenna, founder and 11th president of the Society Read More

AGU: New Study Pinpoints Source Of largest Recorded Mediterranean Earthquake In AD 365

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This map shows the modeled wave heights of the tsunamis on the coasts in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, which were triggered by the earthquake July 21, 365. Courtesy/Richard Ott

AGU News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The morning of 21 July, AD 365, the Eastern Mediterranean was shaken by an earthquake that is generally believed to be the strongest recorded earthquake in the Mediterranean.

It probably originated around Crete, Greece, and was followed by a tsunami that hit the Mediterranean coastlines causing many deaths. In Alexandria, tsunami devastation was so severe that the day of the event was commemorated Read More

Skolnik: Enhancing The Health Of Girls And Women Globally

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By RICHARD SKOLNIK
Los Alamos

The good news is that the health of girls and women has improved in the last two decades. Young girls die at lower rates than earlier. They also die less often of pneumonia, diarrhea, measles and malaria. Women die less of pregnancy-related causes and malaria, among other things, and, until COVID, were living longer than ever before.

Yet, there remains a large unfinished agenda of needed improvements in the health of girls and women globally. Around 2.5 million under five girls still die every year, overwhelmingly of preventable causes, such as birth asphyxia, pneumonia, Read More

New Mexico Makes Top Economic Development Projects List

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The Netflix expansion in Albuquerque has made the most recent list of top 20 deals. Courtesy/NMEDD

NMEDD News:

…Netflix studio expansion named one of the most impactful projects

ALBUQUERQUE – The New Mexico Economic Development Department (NMEDD) has announced that The State Of New Mexico and the City of Albuquerque have been recognized for closing one of the most impactful economic development projects of 2021. 

Site Selection, an international publication of business expansion and economic development, annually recognizes the Top 20 Deals in North America.

The Netflix expansion Read More

Catch Of The Week: Ransomware Shuts Down U.S. Pipeline

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By BECKY RUTHERFORD
Los Alamos

Colonial Pipeline, one of the top U.S. fuel pipeline operators, shut down its entire network, affecting the pipeline that supplies nearly half of the U.S. East Coast’s fuel supply after a cyber-attack involving ransomware.

Just how bad is this? Well, Memorial Day and the summer driving season are coming up in a matter of weeks. So depending on how long this shutdown lasts, it could cause prices to spike at gasoline pumps ahead of the peak summer driving season.

2.5 million barrels of gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, and other refined products are transported through Read More

Author Elaine Pinkerton Enters Publishing Contract With Pajarito Press

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Elaine Pinkerton, author (seated) holding the first cover of her book from 2002, Nancy Bartlit, Pajarito Press co-owner, speaker, historian, and Mark Rayburn, Pajarito Press co-owner, art director, and designer. Courtesy/Pajarito Press

PAJARITO PRESS News:

Elaine Pinkerton, author of ‘From Calcutta with Love—The World War II Letters of Richard and Reva Beard’, has entered into a publishing contract with eight-time award-winning Pajarito Press LLC, of Los Alamos.

First published in 2002, ‘From Calcutta with Love’ will be redesigned, rebound, and marketed in outlets in the United States Read More

LANL: Antarctica Remains The Wild Card For Sea-Level Rise Estimates Through 2100

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The front of Getz Ice Shelf, Antarctica. Courtesy/Jeremy Harbeck, NASA Icebridge

LANL News:

A massive collaborative research project covered in the journal Nature this week offers projections to the year 2100 of future sea-level rise from all sources of land ice, offering the most complete projections created to date.

“This work synthesizes improvements over the last decade in climate models, ice sheet and glacier models, and estimates of future greenhouse gas emissions,” Stephen Price said, one of the Los Alamos scientists on the project. “More than 85 researchers from various disciplines, Read More

LANL: Using Cosmic-Ray Neutron Bursts To Understand Gamma-Ray Bursts From Lightning … An ‘Accidental Discovery’ Confirms What Simulations Show

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A lightning mapper at the HAWC Cosmic Ray Observatory in Mexico unexpectedly observed that gamma rays produce more neutrons than previously known. Photo by Jordan Goodman, HAWC Collaboration (NSF.gov)

LANL News:

Analysis of data from a lightning mapper and a small, hand-held radiation detector has unexpectedly shed light on what a gamma-ray burst from lightning might look like – by observing neutrons generated from soil by very large cosmic-ray showers.

The work took place at the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Cosmic Ray Observatory in Mexico.

“This was an accidental discovery,” Read More

International Space Hall Of Fame Mourns Michael Collins

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July 24, 1969, aboard the USS a happy President Richard M. Nixon laughs with astronauts, from left, Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin as they exchange greetings through the window of the Mobile Quarantine Facility. Courtesy/Bettmann/CORBIS

NASA Astronaut Michael Collins. Courtesy/ NASA

NMMSH News:

ALAMOGORDO — Apollo 11 Command Module Pilot Michael Collins passed away today, April 28, 2021, at the age of 90.

Collins was inducted into the International Space Hall of Fame at the New Mexico Museum of Space History in 1977.

The New Mexico Museum of Space History, International Read More