Now Thanos Stamatopoulos at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and colleagues have tested the validity of that extrapolation. Taking energy-resolved measurements of 88Zr’s neutron-capture cross section over a broad energy range, the team derived a thermal-neutron-capture cross section roughly in line with the surprise result from 2019, but the resonance integral turned out to be nearly 200 times smaller.

A consortium led by Los Alamos National Laboratory received pre-approval from Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace for its Project GeoForce. The LANL said Monday the Project GeoForce is now primed for rapid deployment on U.S. military bases. The national laboratory collaborated with Anthem Energy Partners, New Era Advisors, Homestead Resources, Texas A&M University and Power Planet on the project, which is intended to deliver readily available geothermal energy services to the government.

The Los Alamos National Laboratory has introduced the "Spacecraft Speedometer," a novel technology for tracking satellites in low Earth orbit. This compact, resource-efficient device can precisely measure a satellite's speed as it orbits the planet. Researchers believe it could also serve as a tracking solution for deep-space missions.

Scientists at America's Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico say they have developed a Spacecraft Speedometer that satellites can use in orbit to ideally avoid orbital collisions.

A team at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has developed a technology to rapidly and accurately assess dimensional errors in the manufacturing process in a way that will improve component performance and safety, reduce rework and scrap and save production time and costs — from small machine shops to large manufacturing facilities.

Workers at the facility build what are known as targets: tiny devices that can help answer questions about plasma physics. The targets are heated with lasers, allowing physicists to isolate information that can be applied to nuclear stockpile stewardship, fusion energy or astrophysics. Take a supernova: A physicist interested in isolating a part of the reaction would come to Schmidt’s team, who would then design and manufacture a target based on the specifications.

Xuan-Min Shao and his engineering team at Los Alamos National Laboratory may not literally be trying to capture lightning in a bottle, but what they’re doing is not far from that. Shao and his team of researchers have published a paper on the origins of lightning in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, a scientific publication that aims to advance and improve the understanding of atmospheric properties and processes.

This work is the result of a collaboration involving scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory and the French Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie, supported by NASA and the Centre National d’Études Spatiales in France.

Xuan-Min Shao of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Electromagnetic Sciences and Cognitive Space Applications group hypothesized in a paper published nearly five years ago that high-energy particles from space play a key role in the formation of lightning.

Lightning can produce optical and radio frequency signals that resemble those from a nuclear explosion. Los Alamos National Laboratory studies lightning to determine whether the signals are the result of a nuclear event or lightning.