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Los Alamos Daily Post
Los Alamos National Laboratory Team Cracks The Code On Bane Of Quantum Machine Learning Algorithms
“Understanding the problem of barren plateaus was regarded as the key to unlocking quantum machine learning, and our team has worked on this for five years,” said Marco Cerezo, the Los Alamos team’s lead scientist.
Carol Clark | September 02, 2024
The Cool Down
Study shows alarming trend of mass mosquito spread among humid states: 'The pathogens would probably be there as well'
LANL scientist Andrew Bartlow told SourceNM that "as mosquitoes move into areas based on the right climate conditions and habitats," it won't be long until "the pathogens would probably be there as well."
Leo Collis | September 02, 2024
Los Alamos Daily Post
J. Robert Oppenheimer: Rare View Of LANL’s First Director
Alan B. Carr, a distinguished historian from LANL, will connect via Zoom to lead this presentation. He will provide insights into Oppenheimer’s life through an array of primary source materials, including rarely seen photographs, audio recordings, video footage, and documents from LANL’s National Security Research Center, many of which have never before been shared with the public.
Carol Clark | August 29, 2024
Smart Energy International
Los Alamos and Georgia Tech scientists to research AI for next-gen power grid
Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Georgia Institute of Technology are partnering on research and education on AI tools for the next-generation power grid.
Jonathan Spencer Jones | August 28, 2024
The Quantum Insider
Los Alamos National Lab Researchers Find A Path Across The Barren Plateau
“Understanding the problem of barren plateaus was regarded as the key to unlocking quantum machine learning, and our team has worked on this for five years,” said Marco Cerezo, the Los Alamos team’s lead scientist.
Matt Swayne | August 28, 2024
Los Alamos Daily Post
Los Alamos National Laboratory Teams With Georgia Institute Of Technology For AI Energy-Grid Research
A new agreement between Los Alamos National Laboratory and the National Science Foundation’s Artificial Intelligence Institute for Advances in Optimization, or AI4OPT, at Georgia Institute of Technology will drive research in applied artificial intelligence and engage students and other professionals in the future of the burgeoning field.
August 24, 2024
Los Alamos Daily Post
Delving Into The Legacy Of J. Robert Oppenheimer: An Evening With Nicholas Lewis, Historian At Los Alamos National Laboratory Aug. 22 At SALA
As part of the ongoing Oppenheimer Festival 2024, the SALA Event Center will present an enlightening evening with Nicholas Lewis, Historian at Los Alamos National Laboratory, who will explore the lasting impact of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the visionary mind behind the atomic bomb.
August 20, 2024
KRQE
Navajo Tech students work alongside Los Alamos National Lab scientists
A new fellowship at Navajo Technical University is giving students to work alongside Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists on how hydrogen fuel cells work. “Here at Navajo Tech, there are seven of us that are currently working with Los Alamos and each of us plays a different part in the project,” said Jonathan Chinana, NTU student.
Jordan Honeycutt | August 19, 2024
Los Alamos Reporter
Camp Creates Career Pathways As LANL Volunteers Mentor Students From Across New Mexico
The two weeks included tours of facilities at the Laboratory, including the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) and the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory.
August 17, 2024
Los Alamos Reporter
LANL Projects Win 8 R&D 100 Awards, The ‘Oscars of Innovation’
Eight Los Alamos National Laboratory-led technologies won R&D 100 Awards, including three special recognition awards for corporate social responsibility, market disruptor and green technology. Often called the “Oscars of Innovation,” these awards recognize technologies for their ingenuity and potential impact.
August 17, 2024
Mirage News
Breakthrough in Affordable, Efficient Green Hydrogen Production
The findings were published online in ACS Energy Letters on June 2, 2024. This research was a collaborative effort with Dr. Yu Seung Kim and his team at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in Los Alamos, New Mexico and Professor Shannon Boettcher at the University of California, Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California, United States, with support from the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF).
August 13, 2024
3Printer.com
New open source code improves safety and performance of manufactured parts
A new open-source code developed by researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory accurately simulates the performance of manufactured parts, taking into account microstructure, to make them stronger, safer and more efficient.
Lucia Gartner | August 13, 2024
Water Online
Postfire Debris Flows May Become Predictable, Thanks To A New Study
New research from a team at Los Alamos National Laboratory is improving landslide prediction capabilities, making simulations faster and more accurate, which in turn will improve safety for communities that are at risk of their infrastructure being washed away.
August 12, 2024
Los Alamos Reporter
LANL: ‘No Homies Left Behind’ For These Los Alamos Carpoolers
Dominguez, Harris, Marrs and Peña are veteran carpoolers, having discovered years ago the benefits of a shared commute…But the Lab’s Parking and Transportation Services team recently sweetened the deal even more—giving carpools with at least three members special access to prime parking in the busiest lots on-site.
August 12, 2024
Phys.org
New model framework aims to predict postfire debris flow behavior before a fire occurs
New research from a team at Los Alamos National Laboratory is improving landslide prediction capabilities, making simulations faster and more accurate, which in turn will improve safety for communities that are at risk of their infrastructure being washed away.
August 12, 2024
Los Alamos Daily Post
Independent Analysis Calculates Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Economic Contribution To State At $3.7 Billion
A joint analysis recently released by two New Mexico academics determined that Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) contributes more than $3.7 billion to the state and regional economies.
August 10, 2024
Phys.org
Novel X-ray imaging technique resolves fusion-related nanofoams in 3D
"This type of 3D volume technique at a free-electron laser is a first-of-its-kind measurement," said Adra Carr, research scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory and lead author of the work published in Nano Letters on August 1.
Chris Patrick | August 08, 2024
Phys.org
Alaskan land eroding faster due to climate change
A new study out of The University of Texas at Arlington shows that frozen land in Alaska is eroding faster than it can be replaced due to climate change. "In the Northern Hemisphere, much of the ground is permafrost, meaning it is frozen year-round.”
Katherine Egan Bennett | August 07, 2024
Los Alamos Daily Post
LANL’s National Security Science Magazine Summer 2024: The New Mexico Issue Focuses on State
This issue of National Security Science focuses on the state—New Mexico—where Los Alamos National Laboratory is located. You’ll read about the Laboratory’s work and partnerships that span the Land of Enchantment—from clean-energy efforts in the Four Corners area to transuranic waste storage near Carlsbad.
August 06, 2024
Los Alamos Reporter
LANL And SK Hynix To Demonstrate New Object Computational Storage System
At the upcoming Flash Memory Summit, Los Alamos National Laboratory and SK hynix, an AI memory provider, will demonstrate a novel Object Computational Storage (OCS) system being used with real scientific data analysis that employs Paraview/Visualization Tool Kit (VTK), a broadly adopted scientific visualization software stack.
August 06, 2024
Los Alamos Daily Post
LANL: New Open-Source Code ‘Fierro’ Improves Safety and Performance Of Manufactured Parts
A new open-source code developed by researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) accurately simulates the performance of manufactured parts accounting for the microstructure to make them stronger, safer, and better-performing.
August 06, 2024
Los Alamos Daily Post
Los Alamos National Laboratory: New Papers On Studies Of Innovative Energy Sources For Intermountain West
Two new papers, both authored by Mohamed Mehana of the Earth and Environmental Sciences division at Los Alamos National Laboratory, explore the feasibility of well retrofitting and clean hydrogen production from fossil fuels.
August 04, 2024
Santa Fe New Mexican
LANL's unsung second leader still made headlines in 'The New Mexican'
J. Robert Oppenheimer’s reflection on the Bhagavad Gita following the detonation of the world’s first nuclear bomb at the Trinity Site in New Mexico has gone down in history. Norris Bradbury’s reaction was more prosaic. “He said, ‘I was just damn pleased that it worked,’ ” said Los Alamos National Laboratory senior historian Alan Carr.
Carina Julig | August 04, 2024
Santa Fe New Mexican
Building a better trap for the elusive neutrino
First detected by Los Alamos researchers in 1956, tiny particles called neutrinos are everywhere. They are the products of exotic phenomena such as solar fusion, and even ordinary occurrences such as the natural radioactivity of the potassium in bananas. Once produced, these ghostly particles almost never interact with other matter.
Sowjanya Gollapinni | August 04, 2024
New York Times
The Mosquitoes Are Out. Here’s What to Know About West Nile Virus
Outbreaks of West Nile virus disease may become more frequent with climate change, said Morgan Gorris, a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory who studies the effects of climate on the spread of pathogens.
Priyanka Runwal | August 01, 2024
Tech Xplore
Open-source code boosts safety and performance of parts
A new open-source code developed by researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory accurately simulates the performance of manufactured parts accounting for the microstructure to make them stronger, safer, and better-performing.
July 31, 2024
KOB4
How LANL is using AI and drones to find orphaned oil and gas wells
Scientists at Los Alamos National Lab are leading the charge to find orphaned oil and gas wells in the U.S., including in New Mexico.
Jonathan Fjeld | July 31, 2024
Los Alamos Reporter
LANL Accelerates Americium Production To Reduce Foreign Dependence
Los Alamos National Laboratory is converting part of the waste stream from plutonium purification into a steady, sustainable supply of the coveted element americium, which is used for medical research, smoke detectors and more. This makes Los Alamos the nation’s sole supplier—reducing dependence on other countries.
July 30, 2024
Mirage
Los Alamos Explores New Energy for Intermountain West
Two new papers, both authored by Mohamed Mehana of the Earth and Environmental Sciences division at Los Alamos National Laboratory, explore the feasibility of well retrofitting and clean hydrogen production from fossil fuels.
July 30, 2024
KRQE
Los Alamos National Laboratory is utilizing drones and artificial intelligence to track down and cap wells
Oil and gas wells abandoned by companies spanning centuries pose a risk to the environment. That's why the department of energy and the los alamos national laboratory are utilizing drones and artificial intelligence to track down and cap those wells before they pollute the air and contaminate groundwater.
July 30, 2024
H2 Tech
Machine learning advances the clean-energy economy
Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists are developing powerful machine learning models—an application of artificial intelligence—to simulate underground H2 storage operations under various cushion gas scenarios. This will play a vital role in the low-carbon economy of the future.
July 25, 2024
Los Alamos Reporter
LANL: Machine Learning Advances The Clean-Energy Economy
Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists are developing powerful machine learning models — an application of artificial intelligence — to simulate underground hydrogen storage operations under various cushion gas scenarios. This will play a vital role in the low-carbon economy of the future.
July 24, 2024
Tech Xplore
Scientists use machine learning to explore effects of cushion gases on underground hydrogen storage
Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists are developing powerful machine learning models—an application of artificial intelligence—to simulate underground hydrogen storage operations under various cushion gas scenarios.
July 23, 2024
Nextgov
Los Alamos charts a new path on AI research with Venado launch
Researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory are poised to leverage new artificial intelligence technologies across scientific domains that impact national security research through the deployment of internal large language models and sophisticated data processors, a preview for the future of research in state-run laboratories.
Alexandra Kelley | July 22, 2024
Los Alamos Daily Post
Machinists Go From Apprentice To Expert Through Hands-On Training At Los Alamos National Laboratory
The apprentice program has been around for decades, but was recently revamped and reinvigorated to attract, train and retain more machinists like Galindo as the lab broadens its mission and workload.
Carol Clark | July 21, 2024
Los Alamos Reporter
LANL Celebrates Intersection Of Science, Creativity And Community With ScienceFest Technology Showcase Day
A New Mexico Clean Energy Transition Roundtable: Emerging Technologies Pathways to Commercialization drew a large crowd Monday morning at Fuller Lodge.
July 20, 2024
Los Alamos Reporter
LANL: Los Alamos Researchers Look For Feedback On Geothermal Clean Energy Testbed Scoping Study
Los Alamos National Laboratory recently funded a series of scoping studies to explore the possibility of leveraging local facilities, infrastructure and resources to test clean-energy technologies.
July 19, 2024
R&D World
Los Alamos National Laboratory and OpenAI to test genAI-based biological threats
Los Alamos National Laboratory and OpenAI are joining forces to conduct the world’s first real-world evaluation of AI’s potential role in biological threats. The partnership between OpenAI and Los Alamos goes beyond previous text-based assessments of AI in biological contexts.
Brian Buntz | July 18, 2024
Los Alamos Daily Post
LANL: Future Climate Change Will Impact Opportunities For Prescribed Fires
Severe wildfires increase with a decrease in prescribed burns—but new research shows that in some places across the United States there may be fewer opportunities to safely burn in the future.
Carol Clark | July 16, 2024
Los Alamos Daily Post
Los Alamos Researchers Look For Feedback On The Geothermal Clean Energy Testbed Scoping Study
The studies will help inform the Laboratory’s decarbonization strategy and position researchers to compete for future funding opportunities focused on scaling up the deployment of energy technologies.
Carol Clark | July 15, 2024
Etcentric
OpenAI Teams with Los Alamos for Frontier Model Research
OpenAI has partnered with the Los Alamos National Laboratory to study the ways artificial intelligence frontier models can assist with scientific research in an active lab environment.
Paula Parisi | July 15, 2024
Santa Fe New Mexican
Los Alamos National Laboratory, OpenAI partner to study AI in lab settings
Now, the two sides have made their partnership official, announcing last week in separate news releases they plan to conduct an evaluation study on how AI can be used in laboratory settings. While the partnership is starting more broadly in that area, the plan is to ultimately look at how biological threats can be created using such technology.
Matthew Narvaiz | July 15, 2024
Albuquerque Journal
Five things to know about the Trinity Test
The Trinity Test was the first nuclear explosion in history. On July 16, 1945, Los Alamos scientists set off the first atomic bomb in New Mexico’s desert.
Cathy Cook | July 14, 2024
Enterprise AI
LANL and OpenAI Partner to Advance AI Safety in Biological Threat Assessments
Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) are working with OpenAI on an evaluation study to bolster artificial intelligence safety. The upcoming evaluation will be the first of its kind and contribute to state-of-the-art research on AI biosecurity evaluations.
July 12, 2024
Los Alamos Reporter
LANL: Monarchs Get The Royal Treatment With Pollinator Havens
Laboratory biologists identified the area as a critical monarch butterfly habitat in 2019. Since milkweed is the only plant on which the monarch lays eggs, and because the butterfly is a candidate for the Endangered Species Act, these Los Alamos biologists created a plan for managing that area’s vegetation.
July 12, 2024
Los Alamos Reporter
LANL: New Study Finds A Way To Improve Seismic Monitoring For Geologic Carbon Storage
Research from Los Alamos National Laboratory shows that a new rock physics model will provide more comprehensive and actionable data about how carbon dioxide changes rock properties throughout geologic storage sites, which will make monitoring for geologic carbon storage more reliable.
July 12, 2024
MSN
OpenAI partners with Los Alamos to test AI’s value for lab work
The Microsoft-backed start-up said it is working with Los Alamos to evaluate how its latest AI model, GPT-4o, can be used to support and troubleshoot lab tasks.
July 11, 2024
The Verge
Here’s how OpenAI will determine how powerful its AI systems are
OpenAI has created an internal scale to track the progress its large language models are making toward artificial general intelligence, or AI with human-like intelligence, a spokesperson told Bloomberg.
Kylie Robison | July 11, 2024
Phys.org
Rock physics model enhances seismic monitoring for carbon storage
Research from Los Alamos National Laboratory shows that a new rock physics model will provide more comprehensive and actionable data about how carbon dioxide changes rock properties throughout geologic storage sites, which will make monitoring for geologic carbon storage more reliable.
July 11, 2024
ExecutiveGov
Los Alamos National Laboratory, OpenAI Partner to Assess Biosecurity Risks Involving Artificial Intelligence
Commenting on the partnership, Erick LeBrun, research scientist at Los Alamos noted that “measuring and understanding any potential dangers or misuse of advanced AI related to biological threats remain largely unexplored.”
Jerry Peterson | July 11, 2024
Los Alamos Reporter
Join LANL Experts And New Mexico Entrepreneurs At Technology Showcase Days, Part Of ScienceFest 2024
Both sessions include deep-tech presentations and roundtable conversations with Lab experts, area entrepreneurs, investors and government leaders.
July 10, 2024
Gizmodo
OpenAI Partners With Los Alamos Lab to Save Us From AI
OpenAI is partnering with Los Alamos National Laboratory to study how artificial intelligence can be used to fight against biological threats that could be created by non-experts using AI tools, according to announcements Wednesday by both organizations.
Matt Novak | July 10, 2024
Yahoo!Finance
OpenAI Partners With Los Alamos to Test AI’s Value for Lab Work
OpenAI is teaming up with Los Alamos National Laboratory, best known for developing the world’s first atomic bomb, to study the opportunities and risks for using artificial intelligence systems to assist with scientific research.
Evan Gorelick | July 10, 2024
Axios
Exclusive: OpenAI partners with Los Alamos to study AI in the lab
OpenAI and Los Alamos National Laboratory are collaborating to study the benefits and risks of using generative AI in an active laboratory, according to details shared first with Axios.
Ina Fried | July 10, 2024
Newsweek
Sam Altman's OpenAI Partners With Oppenheimer's Nuclear Research Lab
OpenAI has announced a first-of-its-kind partnership with one of the U.S.'s leading national laboratories to study how artificial intelligence can be used safely in an active lab setting.
Monica Sager | July 10, 2024
Los Alamos Reporter
LANL: Restoring The Efficacy Of COVID Therapeutics
Los Alamos scientists have an established capability to develop high-affinity antibody fragments using yeast cells. This capability allows scientists to create a library of antibodies, each displayed on a yeast cell, that enables high-throughput screening to rapidly identify the antibodies that bind with the highest affinity and specificity to a target of interest.
July 09, 2024
Los Alamos Daily Post
Meet ‘Robot Dog’ At Los Alamos Nature Center During PEEC’s Wednesday Summer Family Evening July 10
The community is invited to join a LANL mechanical engineer to observe and drive a “robot dog”, gaining insights into Boston Dynamics robots, which are designed for repetitive or dangerous tasks.
Carol Clark | July 08, 2024
The Michigan Daily
U-M researchers to collaborate with Los Alamos National Laboratory
A $15 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory will allow a team of University of Michigan faculty and students to collaborate with the laboratory in computational science research over the next five years.
Amanda Venclovaite-Pirani | July 08, 2024
Planetizen
Predicting Toxic Algae Blooms with AI Modeling
According to the Los Alamos Reporter, scientists from the Los Alamos National Laboratory plan to use artificial intelligence modeling to forecast toxic algal blooms, which “fueled by climate change and rising water temperatures … have grown in intensity and frequency” and “have now been reported in all 50 U.S. states.”
Mary Hammon | July 07, 2024
Los Alamos Reporter
LANL: Raymond Newell Named Los Alamos’ Battelle Inventor of the Year For Quantum Research Applied To Cryptosystems
Raymond Newell, a research scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, was recently named Battelle’s Inventor of the Year for Los Alamos…Newell’s recognition stems in large part from his development of the Quantum Random Number Generator, a device that generates random numbers from quantum fluctuations in the intensity of an optical source.
July 05, 2024
Los Alamos Reporter
LANL: Future Climate Change Will Impact Opportunities For Prescribed Fires
“Prescribed fires are an important management tool for fuel loads, fire risk, and ecosystem health,” said Los Alamos Earth and Environmental Sciences Division Scientist Alex Jonko, the corresponding author of a new paper in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science about climate projections that are expected to affect the number of available windows to conduct prescribed burns.
July 05, 2024
KOB4
LANL introduces new artificial intelligence council
“The AI council is comprised of a very diverse set of people with different perspectives and different skills from across the laboratory,” said Pruet. “It was stood up because as we’re trying to make the decisions we need to make for this new AI era, we need very complicated set of institutional investments.
Adrian Rivas | July 02, 2024
Albuquerque Journal
Machinists go from apprentice to expert through hands-on training
When Alex Galindo emerged from the Machinist Apprentice Program at Los Alamos National Laboratory, he couldn’t have known the unique opportunities that lie ahead. Galindo graduated from the program in mid-2022. The program trains new machinists in basic and advanced technology through hands-on apprenticeship instruction with veteran machinists and is a model for other organizations interested in growing a skilled employee base.
July 01, 2024
Phys.org
Climate projections show fewer opportunities for prescribed fires
Severe wildfires increase with a decrease in prescribed burns—but new research shows that in some places across the United States there may be fewer opportunities to safely burn in the future.
July 01, 2024
Physics Today
Indigenous women thrive in Los Alamos internships
Indigenous women in STEM “are the minority of minorities,” says Cesar Da Silva. (According to data from the Department of Education, Indigenous women earned 0.2% of bachelor’s degrees in the physical sciences in 2021. He and fellow Los Alamos physicist Astrid Morreale proposed the program in 2021 in response to a call by the Department of Energy to increase participation by groups historically underrepresented in science.
July 01, 2024
Los Alamos Daily Post
Los Alamos AI Takes Big Step In Predicting Earthquakes
A team at Los Alamos National Laboratory used machine learning — an application of artificial intelligence — to detect the hidden signals that precede an earthquake. The findings at the Kīlauea volcano in Hawaii are part of a yearslong research effort pioneered at Los Alamos, and this latest study represents the first time scientists were able to detect these warning signals in a stick-slip fault, the kind that can generate massive destruction.
Carol Clark | June 28, 2024
Phys.org
Researchers develop novel atom-thin material heat test
Advanced materials, including two-dimensional or "atomically thin" materials just a few atoms thick, are essential for the future of microelectronics technology. Now a team at Los Alamos National Laboratory has developed a way to directly measure such materials' thermal expansion coefficient, the rate at which the material expands as it heats.
June 28, 2024
Mirage
Los Alamos Lab Develops Novel Atom-Thin Material Heat Test
Advanced materials, including two-dimensional or "atomically thin" materials just a few atoms thick, are essential for the future of microelectronics technology. Now a team at Los Alamos National Laboratory has developed a way to directly measure such materials' thermal expansion coefficient, the rate at which the material expands as it heats.
June 28, 2024
R&D World
Atomic-scale Los Alamos National Lab breakthrough could lead to cooler, faster electronics
Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a technique to measure how extremely thin materials expand when heated. This ability to gauge the thermal expansion coefficient could address a key challenge in microelectronics.
Brian Buntz | June 27, 2024
The Atlantic
Whatever Happened to ‘the Big One’?
Paleoseismologists expect big ones to occur there every 150 to 200 years, Greg Beroza, a Stanford professor and a co-director of the Southern California Earthquake Center, told me: “We’re overdue.”
Ross Andersen | June 27, 2024
Phys.org
Modeling software reveals patterns in continuous seismic waveforms during series of stick-slip, magnitude-5 earthquakes
A team at Los Alamos National Laboratory has used machine learning—an application of artificial intelligence—to detect the hidden signals that precede an earthquake. The findings at the Kīlauea volcano in Hawaii are part of a years-long research effort pioneered at Los Alamos, and this latest study represents the first time scientists were able to detect these warning signals in a stick-slip fault, the kind that can generate massive destruction.
June 25, 2024
Phys.org
Modeling software reveals patterns in continuous seismic waveforms during series of stick-slip, magnitude-5 earthquakes
A team at Los Alamos National Laboratory has used machine learning—an application of artificial intelligence—to detect the hidden signals that precede an earthquake. The findings at the Kīlauea volcano in Hawaii are part of a years-long research effort pioneered at Los Alamos, and this latest study represents the first time scientists were able to detect these warning signals in a stick-slip fault, the kind that can generate massive destruction.
June 25, 2024
Billionaire
The Question of Life on Mars
Are we alone? It’s a question asked from the beginning of humanity. As curious beings, we want to know how life develops, where life comes from. It’s hard to answer these questions because we only have one example of life, here on Earth. But we can use Mars to test hypotheses to answer questions about ourselves. This is the opinion of Nina Lanza, team lead for space and planetary exploration in space and remote sensing (ISR- 2) at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Daniel Nash | June 25, 2024
Los Alamos Reporter
LANL Finds Range Of Possibilities For Quantum Computing In DARPA Program
“Quantum computing has the potential to transform the modeling and simulation capabilities that are the backbone of our scientific and national security missions at the Laboratory,” said Carleton Coffrin, senior scientist at Los Alamos and a co-author on the report.
June 21, 2024
Santa Fe New Mexican
New technology will reduce waste sent to WIPP
Radioactive waste is the byproduct of work in a range of industries. From medicine and certain types of scientific research, to nuclear power generation and mining, the use of nuclear material provides essential energy sources and life-saving diagnostics.
Rami Batrice | June 21, 2024
Los Alamos Reporter
LANL: Seeds Of Today’s Supercomputers Planted 80 Years Ago
Earlier this spring, Los Alamos National Laboratory brought online its newest supercomputer, Venado…It might surprise people to know that the seeds of this warp-speed computing power were planted back in the Manhattan Project by a Polish-American mathematician named Stanislaw Ulam.
June 21, 2024
Phys.org
AI can help forecast toxic 'blue-green tides'
A team of Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists plan to use artificial intelligence modeling to forecast, and better understand, a growing threat to water caused by toxic algal blooms. Fueled by climate change and rising water temperatures, these harmful algal blooms, or HABs, have grown in intensity and frequency. They have now been reported in all 50 U.S. states.
Nick Njegomir | June 20, 2024
HPC Wire
LANL Finds Range of Possibilities for Quantum Computing in DARPA Program
A new report from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) describes the range of groundbreaking applications that quantum computing may realize at the Laboratory… Quantum computing has the potential to transform the modeling and simulation capabilities that are the backbone of our scientific and national security missions at the Laboratory.
June 20, 2024
Los Alamos Reporter
PEEC: Learn About The Butterflies Of The Pajarito Plateau Saturday, June 22
Simone Lord, an Environmental Professional at Los Alamos National Laboratory, will share her passion and expertise in wildlife conservation. Learn about local butterfly species, their behaviors, and habitats in a simple, easy-to-understand manner.
June 18, 2024
Santa Fe New Mexican
DOE gives joint Sandia, LANL projects $7.4 million for clean energy research
The new technology being commercialized out of the DOE National Laboratories is essential to meeting the Biden Administration's climate goals, including lowering energy costs and achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
Scott Wyland | June 17, 2024
Physics Magazine
Adding Certainty to Plutonium’s Fission Yield
A team of researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California have taken a step toward reducing…uncertainty by measuring the energy spectrum of neutrons emitted after the neutron-induced fission of plutonium-240. These measurements provide vital information about the neutrons that are available for further reactions.
Rachel Berkowitz | June 13, 2024
NBC News
Neutrino hunting: Universe's invisible messengers
Neutrinos are so small, we didn’t discover them until the 1970s. If they are basically invisible, how do we study them?
June 12, 2024
Physics Magazine
Extending the Kibble-Zurek Mechanism
Now Zurek and Fumika Suzuki—both of Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico—have extended the 1985 analysis to accommodate first-order, abrupt transitions as well. The extension portends the exploration of diverse and exotic phenomena in materials science, high-energy physics, and cosmology.
Charles Day | June 11, 2024
Mirage
New Metamaterial Detects Sequence of External Actions
Researchers from Tel Aviv University and Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a novel mechanical metamaterial that remembers the order of actions performed on it, much like a computer following a sequence of instructions.
June 05, 2024
Tech Briefs
Innovative AI Approach Makes the Most of Sparse Sensor Data
An innovation in using natural language models brings artificial intelligence to field deployable sensors, including drones. Los Alamos National Laboratory is exploring the AI technology for locating and characterizing orphaned oil and gas wells that emit climate-warming methane.
June 01, 2024
Los Alamos Reporter
Early Childhood Education Department: LANL Increases Child Care Capacity Through Public-Private Partnership
In recent years, LANL undertook a big hiring push. Consequently, more employees than ever are claiming young children as dependents on their insurance, according to LANL.
May 26, 2024
Los Alamos Reporter
LANL Scientist Wojciech Hubert Zurek Elected To National Academy Of Sciences
Over his career, including a long tenure in the Theoretical division at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Zurek worked on diverse subjects, including astrophysics and the physics of information. He is, above all, an internationally recognized authority on the foundations of quantum theory and on the dynamics of both classical and quantum phase transitions.
May 24, 2024
Tech and Science Post
Artificial nanomagnets inspire mechanical system with memory capability
An international research team including Los Alamos National Laboratory and Tel Aviv University has developed a unique, mechanical metamaterial that, like a computer following instructions, can remember the order of actions performed on it.
May 23, 2024
Santa Fe New Mexican
'A lot of science': Elon Musk takes private tour of Los Alamos National Laboratory
A day before expounding on a global stage his fears about artificial intelligence — at least where the competition is concerned — Elon Musk got a peek at AI development at one of the most advanced research facilities in the country: Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Gabrielle Porter | May 23, 2024
HPC Wire
Los Alamos Achieves Yottabyte-Scale Data Compression in Neutron Transport Equations
Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a tensor network approach that solves real-world neutron transport equations.
May 22, 2024
KOB4
LANL study looks at climate change impact on mosquitoes
A study from Los Alamos National Laboratory looked at the impact of climate change on mosquitoes and where they could live in the coming years and decades. Several different types are likely going to expand their geographical range. Unlike with cicadas, this is a surge that won’t miss New Mexico, based on the study.
May 21, 2024
Phys.org
New crystal production method could enhance quantum computers and electronics
Theorists have predicted that bismuth contains special electronic states allowing it to become magnetic when electricity flows through it—something essential for quantum electronic devices based on the magnetic spin of electrons. One of the hidden behaviors observed by the team is so-called quantum oscillations originating from the surfaces of the crystals.
May 21, 2024
Mirage
Los Alamos Lab Develops Superior Neutrino Trap
The Los Alamos team will analyze particle interactions with the argon nucleus in ProtoDUNE to learn how particles such as neutrons and protons propagate in liquid argon.
May 21, 2024
KUNM
Climate change might prompt more mosquitoes to move into New Mexico
Climate change is having an impact on where many creatures live, including mosquitoes. That’s according to a new study from Los Alamos National Laboratory. The pesky insects are likely to become more common in New Mexico, just like a lot of the rest of the continent.
Megan Myscofski | May 20, 2024
Santa Fe New Mexican
Public trails on Los Alamos National Laboratory land offer access to scenic landscapes
Los Alamos National Laboratory occupies nearly 40 square miles of Department of Energy-owned land, the majority of which is accessible only to lab employees. But, as many nonlocals are surprised to learn, there are thousands of acres of DOE land and a few dozen miles of LANL-managed trails that are open to everyone.
Matt Dahlseid | May 19, 2024
Techiexpert
Machine Learning Reveals Path to Combat Pathogen Adaptability
Pathogens are similar to bacteria as they are clever enough to adopt and this makes hard to fight them off with antibiotics. However, Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have come up with a new way to tackle the problem. They are using machine learning to combat pathogens.
Sunil Sonkar | May 17, 2024
KRQE
Los Alamos National Laboratory stopped by Tony E. Quintana elementary school in Espanola... and they brought along a special robot friend
The robotics team introduced the students to 'spot' the robotic dog. some kids even got to try their hand at controlling spot around the gym.
May 17, 2024
Mirage
J. Patrick Fitch Named Deputy Lab Director for Science & Tech
J. Patrick "Pat" Fitch has been selected as the next deputy Laboratory director for Science, Technology, and Engineering (DDSTE) at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). He replaces John Sarrao who left LANL late last year to be the director of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, and Mark Chadwick, who has served as the interim DDSTE since Sarrao's departure.
May 17, 2024
Mirage
Los Alamos' New Tech Promises Clean Energy, Potable Water
A new technology developed by Los Alamos National Laboratory called supercritical water desalinization and oxidation can turn this challenge into an opportunity.
May 15, 2024
MyScience.org
$15M to fund U-M, Los Alamos National Laboratory collaboration
With a new five-year, $15 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory, the University of Michigan will partner with the New Mexico-based laboratory to develop advanced computing technologies-including artificial intelligence and increasingly sophisticated modeling techniques-to address critical challenges.
May 15, 2024
Phys.org
Machine learning model uncovers new drug design opportunities
A research team led by Los Alamos National Laboratory has used machine learning, an application of artificial intelligence, to identify molecular properties that could guide the discovery of new types of antibiotics, especially among pathogens deemed critical by the World Health Organization due to their high bacterial resistance.
May 14, 2024
The Science Times
Manganese-Rich Sandstones Indicate Earth-Like Environment Likely Existed on Ancient Mars
Researchers using NASA's Curiosity rover have found strong evidence that ancient Mars may have had an ecosystem similar to Earth. Since August 2012, the rover has been exploring Gale Crater. During this mission, significant amounts of manganese were discovered in the rocks on the lake bed. This discovery indicates that early Mars and Earth were similar in that the sediments were deposited in a river, delta, or near the shores of an old lake.
Austin Jay | May 14, 2024
Phys.org
Global warming may boost mosquito habitats, study finds
A research team at Los Alamos National Laboratory is using computer models to simulate how climate change could expand the geographical range in which mosquitoes live, which may cause an increase in mosquito-borne illness. The study was recently published in the Journal of Climate Change and Health.
May 08, 2024
Live Science
Mars may have been more Earth-like than we thought, discovery of oxygen-rich rocks reveals
Newfound rocks on Mars suggest the planet may have once sported an oxygen-rich atmosphere, making it more Earth-like and hospitable to life than previously thought.
Sharmila Kuthunur | May 06, 2024
KRQE
LANL scientists say they've discovered potentially Earth-like environments on ancient Mars
Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory say they've discovered Earth-like environments on ancient Mars.
Jordan Honeycutt | May 06, 2024
Albuquerque Journal
LANL ramps up americium production
Los Alamos National Laboratory is converting part of the waste stream from plutonium purification into a steady, sustainable supply of the coveted element americium, which is used for medical research, smoke detectors and more.
May 06, 2024
SciTech Daily
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Uncovers Signs of an Earth-Like Environment on Ancient Mars
“It is difficult for manganese oxide to form on the surface of Mars, so we didn’t expect to find it in such high concentrations in a shoreline deposit,” said Patrick Gasda, of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Space Science and Applications group and lead author on the study.
May 04, 2024
KOB4
LANL scientists discover more evidence of past Earth-like environments on Mars
Scientists at Los Alamos National Labs say they discovered Earth-like environments on Mars. The Curiosity Rover has been exploring the surface of Mars since 2015 when it landed in the Gale Crater along the planet’s equator.
Spencer Schacht | May 04, 2024
Space.com
Long ago, a lake on Mars might have been sprawling with microbes
"The Gale lake environment, as revealed by these ancient rocks, gives us a window into a habitable environment that looks surprisingly similar to places on Earth today," said Los Alamos' Nina Lanza, who is the Principal Investigator for ChemCam.
Keith Cooper | May 03, 2024
Newsweek
Ancient Mars 'Surprisingly' Like Earth, NASA Rover Reveals
Using the ChemCam instrument on NASA's Curiosity rover, research teams from the Los Alamos National Laboratory's Space Science in New Mexico, and Applications group, made a strange discovery in the lakebed rocks of the red planet's Gale Crater. This crater is likely part of a dry lake, and is estimated to be around 3.5 to 3.8 billion years old.
Robyn White | May 02, 2024
Sci News
Manganese-Rich Sandstones Point to Earth-Like Environment on Ancient Mars
In May 2017, NASA’s Curiosity rover observed higher than usual amounts of manganese in the lakebed rocks within Gale crater, Mars. These sedimentary rocks have larger grain sizes than what is typical for the lakebed rocks in the crater. This may indicate that the original sediments were formed in a river, delta, or near the shoreline in the ancient lake.
May 02, 2024
Robotics & Machine Learning Daily News
Studies from Los Alamos National Laboratory Describe New Findings in Machine Learning
Research drawing on the quantum "anti-butterfly effect" solves a longstanding experimental problem in physics and establishes a method for benchmarking the performance of quantum computers. 
May 02, 2024
Phys.org
New findings point to an Earth-like environment on ancient Mars
A research team using the ChemCam instrument onboard NASA's Curiosity rover discovered higher-than-usual amounts of manganese in lakebed rocks within Gale Crater on Mars, which indicates that the sediments were formed in a river, delta, or near the shoreline of an ancient lake.
May 01, 2024
Los Alamos Reporter
LANL: New Findings Point To An Earth-Like Environment On Ancient Mars
A research team using the ChemCam instrument onboard NASA’s Curiosity rover discovered higher-than-usual amounts of manganese in lakebed rocks within Gale Crater on Mars, which indicates that the sediments were formed in a river, delta, or near the shoreline of an ancient lake.
May 01, 2024
Santa Fe New Mexican
Rover with LANL camera finds evidence of 'Earth-like environment' on Mars
The rover has detected unusually large amounts of manganese in rock deposits in an ancient lakebed amid the red planet’s Gale Crater, using a special high-tech camera that Los Alamos National Laboratory helped develop.
Scott Wyland | May 01, 2024
Santa Fe New Mexican
A new Los Alamos tech could give us clean energy and drinkable water
Every day, more than 50 billion barrels of water are generated during oil and gas extraction from more than 900,000 wells. The makeup of this byproduct water — also referred to as “produced” water — is highly variable: Each stream of water contains a unique salinity and mix of impurities, including organics, heavy metals, particulates and radionuclides.
Prashant Sharan | April 28, 2024
Los Alamos Reporter
LANL: 169-Year-Old Tree On Laboratory Property Gets Help
All three trees will benefit from the erosion control measures. Through the team’s efforts to steward the land through wildland fire mitigation, they enhance resiliency and save an historic section of the Lab’s forest.
April 26, 2024
Los Alamos Daily Post
LANL Food Drive Provides 289,000 Meals To Help Combat Food Insecurity Across Northern New Mexico
Employees from Los Alamos National Laboratory joined forces with The Food Depot to combat food insecurity across Northern New Mexico, donating $70,738 as well as 7,509 pounds of food. That works out to 289,000 meals for people facing food insecurity in the counties of Colfax, Harding, Los Alamos, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Taos and Union.
Carol Clark | April 24, 2024
Network World
Nvidia supercomputers: new collegiate, research systems come online
Nvidia-powered supercomputers are starting to make their presence felt in the research sector, starting with Venado at the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory. Venado is built by Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s Cray EX supercomputer division and has a total of 2,560 direct, liquid-cooled Grace Hopper Superchips.
Andy Patrizio | April 24, 2024
Albuquerque Business First
LANL partners with Nvidia, Hewlett Packard Enterprise to install new AI-boosting supercomputer
A four-year collaboration between Los Alamos National Laboratory, chip giant Nvidia and Hewlett Packard Enterprise resulted this week in the unveiling of a new lab high-performance computing system.
Jacob Maranda | April 18, 2024
Data Center Dynamics
Los Alamos Lab launches Venado supercomputer, reportedly capable of 10 AI exaflops
The Venado supercomputer has been launched at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). The HPE Cray EX supercomputer will be housed at the Laboratory’s Nicholas C. Metropolis Center for Modeling and Simulation in Los Alamos, New Mexico.
Charlotte Truman | April 16, 2024
The Register
Los Alamos Lab powers up Nvidia-laden Venado supercomputer
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has flipped the switch on its Venado supercomputer – a machine capable of bringing ten exaFLOPS of performance to bear on AI workloads for the Department of Energy.
Tobias Mann | April 16, 2024
Santa Fe New Mexican
LANL unveils new supercomputer to advance use of AI
Los Alamos National Laboratory on Monday unveiled its newest supercomputer, which officials say will accelerate how they integrate artificial intelligence into both national security work and scientific research.
Scott Wyland | April 15, 2024
Next Gov
Los Alamos National Lab unveils new supercomputer primed for AI
The Los Alamos National Laboratory cut the ribbon on a new supercomputer on Monday that will focus on incorporating artificial intelligence and machine learning systems to further technological applications for both national security and fundamental scientific research.
Alexandra Kelley | April 15, 2024
Los Alamos Reporter
LANL: Venado Installation Opens The Door For AI Applications At Los Alamos
In a collaboration that helps advance its national security and basic science missions, Los Alamos National Laboratory with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and NVIDIA have come together on the design and installation of Venado, the Lab’s newest supercomputer.
April 15, 2024
Inside HPC
Los Alamos Announces Nvidia-HPE AI Supercomputer ‘Venado’
Los Alamos National Laboratory with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Nvidia have combined on the design and installation of Venado (pictured here), the lab’s newest supercomputer.
April 15, 2024
The Next Platform
Los Alamos Pushes The Memory Wall With “Venado” Supercomputer
Today is the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the “Venado” supercomputer, which was hinted at back in April 2021 when Nvidia announced its plans for its first datacenter-class Arm server CPU and which was talked about in some detail – but not really enough to suit our taste for speeds and feeds – back in May 2022 by the folks at Los Alamos National Laboratory where Venado is situated.
Timothy Prickett Morgan | April 15, 2024
Albuquerque Journal
Los Alamos unveils new supercomputer
The new HPE Cray EX supercomputer was unveiled to representatives of the Department of Energy, the National Nuclear Security Administration, co-designers Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Nvidia, the maker of its GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips . Those superchips promise to outperform past chip technology by executing millions more instructions per second with lower power consumption.
John Leacock | April 15, 2024
Santa Fe New Mexican
LANL helping build machine to research plutonium criticality in nuclear weapons
Los Alamos National Laboratory teams are assembling components for a giant, high-tech machine that researchers say will give them a much more detailed look at what happens as a nuclear device approaches criticality — a self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction that releases high amounts of heat and radiation.
Scott Wyland | April 14, 2024
Santa Fe New Mexican
Why we need supercomputers — and electricity
It will be one of the first two supercomputers worldwide to integrate powerful superchips that use AI technology to accelerate computing speeds. These superchips can execute millions more instructions per second, usually at lower cost and power consumption, than preceding chip technology.
Thom Mason | April 14, 2024
KRQE
Los Alamos National Laboratory announces registration date for ‘behind the fence’ tours
Los Alamos National Laboratory announced the date people can sign up for the free “behind the fence” tours of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park in Los Alamos. The exclusive, four-hour tours take participants inside Pond Cabin, where physicist Emilio Segrè’s team made the pivotal discovery that the Thin Man plutonium bomb design would not work.
Fallon Fischer | April 12, 2024
Santa Fe New Mexican
LANL director to host online community forum Wednesday
Los Alamos National Laboratory Director Thom Mason will host a virtual town hall Wednesday evening, hoping to gauge questions from community members and give a brief update on the lab.
Matthew Narvaiz | April 01, 2024
Los Alamos Reporter
LANL: New Machine To Enhance Understanding Of Nuclear Weapons’ Behavior
On March 7, assembly began at Los Alamos National Laboratory on a groundbreaking machine that will allow scientists to use real plutonium in experiments while studying the conditions immediately before the nuclear phase of a weapon’s functioning.
March 31, 2024
Los Alamos Reporter
LANL: ‘SAFE’ Technology Protects Data From Theft And Accidental Distribution
A new technology created by researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory will improve data safety in several areas ranging from treaty verification to medical services. The project, called the Secure, Automatic, Failsafe Eraser (SAFE), is able to erase the memory of devices and prevent data disclosures.
March 29, 2024
Los Alamos Reporter
LANL: Waste Decontamination System Offers Far-Reaching Benefits
The system generates a decontamination solution that dissolves radioactive contamination bound to a surface and carries it away with a flowing solution back to an attached internal reservoir.
March 29, 2024
Mirage
Advanced Machine Boosts Nuclear Weapons Behavior Analysis
On March 7, assembly began at Los Alamos National Laboratory on a groundbreaking machine that will allow scientists to use real plutonium in experiments while studying the conditions immediately before the nuclear phase of a weapon's functioning.
March 28, 2024
Los Alamos Daily Post
Los Alamos National Laboratory Team Is Developing Technology To Provide Fast, In-Field Actinide Measurements
A research team at Los Alamos National Laboratory is developing a new technology called the Non-destructive Alpha Spectrometer, or NDAlpha, which is the first field-deployable alpha spectrometer that is capable of “point and shoot” measurements of nuclear material or contaminated surfaces.
Chris Clark | March 24, 2024
Santa Fe New Mexican
Can plant science save the world?
In a greenhouse on a narrow mesa top at Los Alamos National Laboratory, I’m working with a research team studying the role of the soil microbiome in how maize grows and tolerates drought.
Sanna Savanto | March 24, 2024
Los Alamos Reporter
LANL: Artificial Intelligence Helps Explore Chemistry Frontiers
A team led by Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers has developed machine learning interatomic potentials that predict molecular energies and forces acting on atoms, enabling simulations that save time and expense compared with existing computational methods.
March 24, 2024
Mirage
AI Advances Exploration of Chemistry Frontiers
A team led by Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers has developed machine learning interatomic potentials that predict molecular energies and forces acting on atoms, enabling simulations that save time and expense compared with existing computational methods.
March 21, 2024
Los Alamos Reporter
LANL: New Technology Can Provide Fast, In-Field Actinide Measurements
A research team at Los Alamos National Laboratory is developing a new technology called the Non-destructive Alpha Spectrometer, or NDAlpha, which is the first field-deployable alpha spectrometer that is capable of “point and shoot” measurements of nuclear material or contaminated surfaces.
March 20, 2024
Phys.org
New tech monitors local space weather and provides real-time data
Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers have developed the Compact Space Plasma Analyzer, a small and cost-efficient space sensor capable of measuring space weather, which will help protect technology in orbit.
March 20, 2024
Science X
New tech enables quick on-site actinide measurements
A research team at Los Alamos National Laboratory is developing a new technology called the Non-destructive Alpha Spectrometer, or NDAlpha, which is the first field-deployable alpha spectrometer that is capable of "point and shoot" measurements of nuclear material or contaminated surfaces.
Nick Njegomir | March 18, 2024
Los Alamos Reporter
New Mexico Students Invited To Apply For Free Two-Week Summer Physics Camp For Young Women 2024
The experience includes hands-on activities, demonstrations, a tour of Los Alamos National Laboratory, talks and a multiday hands-on engineering project.
March 14, 2024
Go Photonics
LANL Team Reveals Breakthrough Chiral Quantum Light Source with Two Different Atomically Thin Materials
A team of researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory have realized a chiral quantum light source by stacking two different atomically thin materials. This new approach to quantum light emitters generates a stream of circularly polarized single photons, or particles of light, that may be useful for a range of quantum information and communication applications.
March 14, 2024
Science Daily
AI for astrophysics: Algorithms help chart the origins of heavy elements
Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists are front and center in using machine learning algorithms (an application of artificial intelligence) to successfully model the atomic masses of the entire nuclide chart -- the combination of all possible protons and neutrons that defines elements and their isotopes.
March 13, 2024
Mirage
AI Aids in Tracing Origins of Heavy Elements in Space
Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists are front and center in using machine learning algorithms (an application of artificial intelligence) to successfully model the atomic masses of the entire nuclide chart - the combination of all possible protons and neutrons that defines elements and their isotopes.
March 13, 2024
Phys.org
AI for astrophysics: Algorithms help chart the origins of heavy elements
Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists are front and center in using machine learning algorithms (an application of artificial intelligence) to successfully model the atomic masses of the entire nuclide chart—the combination of all possible protons and neutrons that defines elements and their isotopes.
March 13, 2024
Science
‘Smart’ fiber-optic cables on the sea floor will detect earthquakes, tsunamis, and global warming
For a 10% to 20% increase in cost, they say, companies could squeeze three simple sensors—for seafloor motion, water pressure, and temperature—into the cables’ repeaters, widened sections that amplify the optical signal every 70 kilometers or so. Until recently, it’s been hard to get operators to install them, says Charlotte Rowe, a geophysicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Paul Voosen | March 13, 2024
Albuquerque Journal
Los Alamos recycling of major electrical devices spares the environment
A Los Alamos National Laboratory project is pushing the limits of recycling, especially with hard-to-scrap items. A project recently rounded up more than 100 legacy electrical devices no longer in use — all of which contained oil and some that contained the now-banned chemical compound known as polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs.
Jean Leacock | March 13, 2024
KOB 4
Partnership encourages Indigenous women to study nuclear physics
“We’re seeing more women in STEM fields. Currently, however, when you add the Indigenous component there are far less Indigenous women and I think that is a problem that I love the lab as far as wanting to fix that,” Saltclah said.
Adrian Rivas | March 12, 2024
WBEZ Chicago
'Oppenheimer' is winning awards. Here's the science behind the atomic bomb
Coming down from the buzz of the Oscars, we're taking a look at Christopher Nolan's award-winning film 'Oppenheimer.' It chronicles the life and legacy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the first director of Los Alamos National Laboratory and the so-called "Father of the Atomic Bomb." The movie does not shy away from science — and neither do we. We talked to current scientists at Los Alamos about the past and present science of nuclear weapons like the atomic bomb.
Berly McCoy, Rebecca Ramirez, Regina G. Barber | March 11, 2024
Architectural Digest
Here’s What Oscar Winner Oppenheimer’s Los Alamos Actually Looked Like
Though the movie spans 45 years of the theoretical physicist’s life, the meat of the film unfolds at the aforementioned Los Alamos National Laboratory. The site was established in 1943 by the US government—after forcibly displacing the Hispanic and indigenous populations that lived on that land and commandeering the Los Alamos Ranch School—as a locale to develop the atomic bomb in secret.
Rachel Davies | March 11, 2024
Phys.org
Materials research explores design rules and synthesis of quantum memory candidates
Riedel was able to identify new Eu compound candidates, and further, he was able to synthesize the top suggestion from the list, the double perovskite halide Cs2NaEuF6...Zachary Riedel is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Amber Rose | March 11, 2024
Los Alamos Daily Post
LANL Team Works To Protect Water Quality
The laboratory proactively monitors potential contaminants in stormwater, surface water and groundwater that could make their way to the river.
Carol A. Clark | March 08, 2024
Los Alamos Daily Post
N3B Performs Robust Sampling, Monitoring To Drive Legacy Waste Cleanup At Los Alamos National Laboratory
Newport News Nuclear BWXT Los Alamos (N3B) crews collected more than 8,670 soil, sediment, surface water and groundwater samples in 2023. Results from the samples gathered help guide legacy waste cleanup at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).
Carol A. Clark | March 05, 2024
Los Alamos Reporter
LANL: Correcting An Old Space-Physics Error For Safer Satellites
Correcting 50-year-old errors in the math used to understand how electromagnetic waves scatter electrons trapped in Earth’s magnetic fields will lead to better protection for technology in space.
March 05, 2024
Inside Big Data
Hammerspace Unveils the Fastest File System in the World for Training Enterprise AI Models at Scale
There is a rapidly growing need for a distributed and parallel data storage architecture that covers this broad space so that sites don’t face the inefficiencies of supporting many different solutions,” said Gary Grider, High Performance Computing Division Leader at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
March 04, 2024
Phys.org
Fixing space-physics mistake enhances satellite safety
The discovery of these errors will help scientists improve their models of artificial radiation belts produced by high-altitude nuclear explosions and how an event like that would impact our space technology," said Greg Cunningham, a space scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
March 04, 2024
Santa Fe New Mexican
Team at Los Alamos lab works to protect water quality
Los Alamos National Laboratory sits perched atop the Pajarito Plateau, a vast volcanic rise cut deep by canyons carved by water over millennia. These same canyons funnel water from the mesa tops to the Rio Grande below. Because of this, the laboratory proactively monitors potential contaminants in stormwater, surface water and groundwater that could make their way to the river.
Steve Story | March 03, 2024
The Business Times
Los Alamos sees tourism boost as Oppenheimer fame grows
“Oppenheimer was renowned for his martinis and for being a very accommodating host. A lot of history happened just in these rooms,” said Los Alamos National Laboratory historian Nic Lewis.
March 02, 2024
Live Science
What's the fastest thing on Earth?
Research drawing on the quantum "anti-butterfly effect" solves a longstanding experimental problem in physics and establishes a method for benchmarking the performance of quantum computers. 
Laurel Hamers | March 02, 2024
Los Alamos Daily Post
LANL: Recycling Old Electrical Devices Minimizes Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Eco-Footprint
In a project that rounded up more than 100 of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s legacy electrical devices no longer in use...one non-negotiable prevailed. The devices must be recycled, rather than buried in a landfill, which is what LANL project owners told interested bidders.
Carol A. Clark | March 01, 2024
Los Alamos Daily Post
Officials Cut Ribbon On Bilingual Montessori School Los Alamos Campus
Triad National Security LLC announced in May that it negotiated an operating agreement with Bilingual Montessori School to provide childcare options for Los Alamos National Laboratory employees and others in the region.
Carol A. Clark | February 29, 2024
Mirage
Los Alamos Lab Cuts Eco-Footprint with Device Recycling
In a project that rounded up more than 100 of Los Alamos National Laboratory's legacy electrical devices no longer in use - all of which contained oil and some that contained the now-banned chemical compound known as polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs - one non-negotiable prevailed.
February 29, 2024
Los Alamos Daily Post
Meet The Bradbury’s New Director! … Patrick Moore!
The Bradbury Science Museum has announced that Patrick Moore — a native of Los Alamos with several decades of public history experience, who has led at historic sites throughout New Mexico — will join the Bradbury in March as director.
Carol A. Clark | February 27, 2024
Scientific American
This Flower Refrigerates Itself to Survive Scorching Summers
Sanna Sevanto, a physicist and plant physiologist at Los Alamos National Laboratory who studies how plants respond to environmental stress, says that Herrera’s finding is exciting and could confirm a risky plant survival strategy that has, until now, only been theorized.
Elizabeth Anne Brown | February 27, 2024
Next Big Future
Los Alamos AI Identifies 29 Times More Types of Malware
Los Alamos National Laboratory is using artificial intelligence to address several critical shortcomings in large-scale malware analysis, making significant advancements in the classification of Microsoft Windows malware and paving the way for enhanced cybersecurity measures.
Brian Wang | February 27, 2024
KRQE
LANL expands program that engages Indigenous women in physics
Women’s History Month is days away and Los Alamos National Laboratory’s partnership with two universities is paving a new path for indigenous women studying physics.
Jordan Honeycutt | February 27, 2024
New York Post
Inside the Los Alamos secret town where scientists built the atomic bomb — which you can visit today
Oppenheimer needed a more low-key place than New York to develop the weapons and test them. Enter the Los Alamos National Laboratory. This site can all be traced back to Nov. 16, 1942, when Oppenheimer and his colleagues toured the vicinity of the Los Alamos Ranch School.
Mary K. Jacob | February 22, 2024
CleanTechnica
Using AI To Develop Enhanced Cybersecurity
A research team at Los Alamos National Laboratory is using artificial intelligence to address several critical shortcomings in large-scale malware analysis, making significant advancements in the classification of Microsoft Windows malware and paving the way for enhanced cybersecurity measures. Using their approach, the team set a new world record in classifying malware families.
February 20, 2024
Los Alamos Reporter
LANL: Biologists Use Audio Files To Study Declining Jay Bird Population Impacts
Biologists from Los Alamos National Laboratory have been collecting birdsong audio files from the pale blue, long-billed bird that relies heavily on piñon-juniper woodlands, a prevalent habitat on Lab property.
February 17, 2024
KOB4
Report: How LANL fuels economic growth in New Mexico
According to a 2023 economic report, LANL employed close to 16,000 workers. The report shows more than 1,400 union employees make up 9% of the laboratory workforce. More than 200 LANL projects served about 212 small businesses, and the lab spent about $930 million on goods and services from New Mexico-based businesses.
February 16, 2024
KRQE News
Report: LANL spent $930M on goods and services from New Mexico businesses
Los Alamos National Laboratory released its 2023 economic impact report which shows the lab spent $930 million on goods and services from New Mexico businesses with $615 million of that spent with small businesses.
Jordan Honeycutt | February 15, 2024
Mirage
Indigenous Women Make Mark in Physics Field
Now in its third year, the "Engaging Indigenous Women in Nuclear Physics" program has grown to include four Fort Lewis College students, Saltclah among them, with Los Alamos National Laboratory partnering to provide mentorship and research with cutting-edge experiments.
February 15, 2024
Scientific American
This Potential Cancer Treatment Requires Modern Alchemy
In a part of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) that some call the Mesa, a beam of protons shoots down a mile-long tunnel through the New Mexico landscape. The particles are moving so fast that if they weren’t confined within the structure, they could circle the Earth 2.5 times in a second.
Sarah Scoles | February 13, 2024
New Mexico Inno
Los Alamos National Laboratory names fellows for 2-year tech development program
Los Alamos National Laboratory launched the first cohort of its Lab-Embedded Entrepreneur Program, called New Mexico LEEP, in 2022. The program aims to accelerate the development of deep-tech startups and their technologies, which typically require more intensive building and testing before the concepts behind the companies are ready for commercial application.
Jacobe Maranda | February 12, 2024
BNN
Unraveling the Legacy of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project
In the heart of Los Alamos, where the seeds of a new world order were sown over seven decades ago, a gathering of minds will convene to reflect upon the legacy of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project. The Los Alamos Historical Society, on February 13, will host a lecture by Dr. Siegfried Hecker, former director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Alan Carr, Senior Historian at the laboratory.
Waqas Arain | February 11, 2024
Phys.org
Harnessing light-powered nanoscale electrical currents to propel emerging technologies
But with the integrated circuits offering diminishing returns in terms of speed and adaptability, Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists are developing nanometer-scale light-based systems that could deliver breakthroughs for ultrafast microelectronics, room-temperature infrared detection (for example, night vision) and a wide variety of technological applications.
February 08, 2024
Los Alamos Reporter
Los Alamos National Laboratory Spent $930 Million with New Mexico Businesses, $1.8 Billion In Employee Salaries
Los Alamos National Laboratory has released its annual Economic Impact Report detailing spending during fiscal year 2023, which ended September 30. With an annual budget of $4 billion, the Laboratory is a major economic driver in the state.
February 04, 2024
Exchange Monitor
Thirty pits a year in 2028 at Los Alamos meets STRATCOM needs, commander says
The Los Alamos National Laboratory’s plan to produce 30 nuclear weapon cores annually by 2028 satisfies current military needs, the head of U.S. Strategic Command said here Friday.
Dan Leone | February 02, 2024
Phys.org
Experimentation explores defects and fluctuations in quantum devices
Experimental research conducted by a joint team from Los Alamos National Laboratory and D-Wave Quantum Systems examines the paradoxical role of fluctuations in inducing magnetic ordering on a network of qubits.
February 01, 2024
BNN
Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Economic Impact in New Mexico Detailed in 2023 Report
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico, with a commanding $4 billion annual budget, emerges as a significant economic propellant in the state, as revealed in its Economic Impact Report for fiscal year 2023. Serving as a major employment source and stimulating the local economy with procurement dollars and employee salaries, the laboratory has unequivocally underscored its commitment to bolstering local communities.
Israel Ojoko | February 01, 2024
Santa Fe New Mexican
Picturing science at summer camp
These students were visualizing results from complex wildfire computer simulations run on supercomputers at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The students learned and applied the same principles and tools of scientific visualization, color theory and complex wildfire dynamics that Los Alamos scientists use to research wildfire dynamics.
Divya Banesh | January 28, 2024
Los Alamos Reporter
LANL: Research Demonstrates Material’s Quantum Topological Potential
New research into topological phases of matter may spur advances in innovative quantum devices. As described in Nature Communications, a research team including Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists used a novel strain engineering approach to convert the material hafnium pentatelluride (HfTe5) to a strong topological insulator phase, increasing its bulk electrical resistance while lowering it at the surface, a key to unlocking its quantum potential.
January 26, 2024
Newsweek
Mystery of Mars' 'Burps' Could Aid Search for Life
Understanding Mars's methane variations has been highlighted by NASA's Curiosity team as the next key step towards figuring out where it comes from," John Ortiz, a graduate student at Los Alamos National Laboratory, said in a statement.
Pandora Dewan | January 25, 2024
HPC Wire
LANL Spearheads Innovative Research in Quantum Optoelectronics
New research into topological phases of matter may spur advances in innovative quantum devices. As described in Nature Communications, a research team including Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists used a novel strain engineering approach to convert the material hafnium pentatelluride (HfTe5) to a strong topological insulator phase, increasing its bulk electrical resistance while lowering it at the surface, a key to unlocking its quantum potential.
January 24, 2024
Los Alamos Reporter
LANL: Atmospheric Pressure Changes Could Be Driving Mars’ Elusive Methane Pulses
New research shows that atmospheric pressure fluctuations that pull gases up from underground could be responsible for releasing subsurface methane into Mars’ atmosphere; knowing when and where to look for methane can help the Curiosity rover search for signs of life.
January 24, 2024
KOAT
Rare footage shows glimpse into secret life of the Manhattan Project and Los Alamos
It was the 1940s in New Mexico, and many were wondering "what was going on up the hill?" Many also wondered what the hushed-up war mission was all about. "The Manhattan Project was history's most secret scientific effort," said Los Alamos National Labs historian Alan Carr.
Royale Da | January 23, 2024
Phys
Research reveals quantum topological potential in material
New experiments being conducted at the Los Alamos National High Magnetic Field Laboratory–Pulsed Field Facility subject HfTe5 to strain under ultra-high magnetic fields up to 65 Tesla.
January 22, 2024
Tech Crunch
This Week in AI: OpenAI finds a partner in higher ed
Los Alamos National Lab has a new approach they call Blackout Diffusion, which instead starts from a pure black image. Los Alamos gets a second mention...since they’re also working on a new AI model for estimating the decline of permafrost. Existing models for this have a low resolution, predicting permafrost levels in chunks about 1/3 of a square mile.
Kyle Wiggers, Devin Coldewey | January 20, 2024
Los Alamos Reporter
Triad National Security, LLC Earns ‘Very Good’ Rating, 89% Award Fee For FY2023 LANL Contract
Overall, Triad earned a Very Good (89 percent) rating for FY 2023, exceeding many of the objectives and key outcomes under the PEMP goals, generally meeting overall cost, schedule, and technical performance with accomplishments that greatly outweighed issues.
January 18, 2024
Phys
Improved mapping gives decision makers a new tool for protecting infrastructure as Arctic warms
New insights from artificial intelligence about permafrost coverage in the Arctic may soon give policymakers and land managers the high-resolution view they need to predict climate-change-driven threats to infrastructure such as oil pipelines, roads and national security facilities.
January 18, 2024
Mirage
Los Alamos Lab's AI Improves Permafrost Mapping
The Arctic is warming four times faster than the rest of the globe, and permafrost is a component of the Arctic that's changing really rapidly," said Evan Thaler, a Chick Keller Postdoctoral Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Thaler is corresponding author of a paper on an innovative application of AI to permafrost data published in the journal Earth and Space Science.
January 17, 2024
Santa Fe New Mexican
Program aims to help fill child care void for LANL, Los Alamos parents
The New Mexico Environment Department and the Department of Energy are getting three more months to work on reaching a new deal for legacy cleanup at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Margaret O’Hara | January 12, 2024
Los Alamos Daily Post
LANL: AI Breakthrough Creates Images From Nothing
A new, potentially revolutionary artificial intelligence framework called ‘Blackout Diffusion’ generates images from a completely empty picture, meaning that the machine-learning algorithm, unlike other generative diffusion models, does not require initiating a ‘random seed’ to get started.
Clara Clark | January 12, 2024
KRQE
New numbers reveal “Oppenheimer” impact on Los Alamos tourism
During filming, it was expected the blockbuster film about the Manhattan Project, “Oppenheimer,” was going to bring a lot of attention to Los Alamos. After dominating the box office and cleaning up at the Golden Globe Awards, we’re seeing just how much of an impact it is having on the area. “The interest is still very high,” said Todd Nickols, Executive Director of the Los Alamos Historical Society.
Annalisa Pardo | January 08, 2024
SciTech Daily
AI’s New Frontier: Turning Sparse Sensor Data Into Gold
January 07, 2024
Albuquerque Journal
Pitching in: Los Alamos employees donate $2.6 million
Los Alamos National Laboratory employees donated $2.6 million during the labs' 2023 Holiday Giving Campaign. The lab combined several drives and campaigns into one season effort.
January 01, 2024
Los Alamos Daily Post
LANL Shares 10 Milestones Of Community Connection In 2023
As 2023 comes to a close, Los Alamos National Laboratory looks back at some of the ways we connected with surrounding communities to be a force for good throughout the year. “We continue to be grateful for the support of our neighbors and the chance to work, live and grow as a community,” said Kathy Keith, director of the Laboratory’s Community Partnerships Office. “We look forward to finding more ways to support the region in 2024.”
Carol A. Clark | December 28, 2023
Los Alamos Reporter
Good Tidings We Bring: Los Alamos National Laboratory employees Raise $2.6 Million In Holiday Giving Campaign
Los Alamos National Laboratory employees rose to the challenge for the 2023 Holiday Giving Campaign, donating $2.6 million to make things a little brighter for communities in Northern New Mexico and beyond this holiday season.
December 21, 2023
New York Times
China Quietly Rebuilds Secretive Base for Nuclear Tests
Evidence points to China making preparations that would let it resume nuclear tests,” said Tong Zhao, a nuclear expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Siegfried S. Hecker, a former director of the Los Alamos weapons laboratory in New Mexico, described Lop Nur’s rebuilding as unusual. “The Russians and Americans have continued activity at their test sites,” he said, “but nothing like this.”
William J. Broad, Chris Buckley and Jonathan Corum | December 20, 2023
Santa Fe New Mexican
Los Alamos HIV databases support global battles with disease
Los Alamos National Laboratory, in addition to its more well-known fields of research, has had a long history of studying the vast diversity of genetic sequences of all kinds
Scott Wyland | December 17, 2023
Scienmag
Custom software speeds up, stabilizes high-profile ocean model
On the beach, ocean waves provide soothing white noise. But in scientific laboratories, they play a key role in weather forecasting and climate research. Along with the atmosphere, the ocean is typically one of the largest and most computationally demanding components of Earth system models like the Department of Energy's Energy Exascale Earth System Model, or E3SM.
December 14, 2023
Live Science
1st evidence of nuclear fission in stars hints at elements 'never produced on Earth'
An analysis of 42 ancient stars in the Milky Way reveals the first hints of nuclear fission in the cosmos, hinting at the existence of elements far heavier than anything found naturally on Earth.
Sharmila Kuthuner | December 14, 2023
Federal News Network
Los Alamos looks to the edge of complex data management challenges
Experts in the High Performance Computing division at Los Alamos National Laboratory are working at the edge of some of the biggest big data challenges in the world. The problems LANL works on are not run of the mill data analysis: Climate change and nuclear reactions are just some of the issues that scientists at the lab analyze using complex simulations and massive supercomputers. Gary Grider, the leader of the HPC division at Los Alamos, said the lab is designing computing systems for unsolved problems.
Justin Doubleday | December 13, 2023
Los Alamos Reporter
Falling for Oppenheimer
As the feature film Oppenheimer exits theaters and streams on TV screens everywhere, Los Alamos National Laboratory employees and citizens of Los Alamos wave goodbye to an autumn like they have never seen before.
Maire O'Neill | December 12, 2023
Mirage News
Excavated Dirt Reuse Saves $11M, Cuts 500K lbs of Carbon
Los Alamos National Laboratory has saved $11.7 million by processing and reusing soil already excavated on-site for new building foundations, roads, and utility and stormwater lines. "Cost savings to the Laboratory is only one of the benefits," said Jen Payne, chief operating officer for the Associate Lab Directorate for the Environment, Health, Safety and Quality.
December 12, 2023
Space Daily
First hints of nuclear fission in cosmos revealed by models, observations
The elements above iron on the periodic table are thought to be created in cataclysmic explosions like the merger of two neutron stars or in rare classes of supernovae. New research suggests fission may operate in the cosmos during the creation of the heavy elements.
Staff Writers | December 11, 2023
Los Alamos Reporter
LANL's Christopher Ticknor Honored With APS Fellowship For Theoretical And Computational Advances
Christopher Ticknor, physicist in Los Alamos National Laboratoryís Theoretical division, was recently selected as a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). Ticknor was nominated for the fellowship by the APS Topical Group on Few-Body Systems and Multiparticle Dynamics. The recognition cites Ticknor ìfor theoretical and computational advances in the properties of matter under extreme conditions, and for leadership in guiding new research in these fields.î
Maire O'Neill | December 10, 2023
Los Alamos Reporter
LANL's Jonathan Reynolds Uses A 3D Printer And Wiring Knowledge To Make Sure Toys Are Accessible For Children With Disabilities
For the second consecutive year, Jonathan Reynolds, a postdoctoral researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory, is doing his part for the Holiday Toy Drive by making adaptive toys to help ensure children and youth with disabilities can enjoy a toy they may not otherwise be able to play with.
Maire O'Neill | December 10, 2023
Los Alamos Daily Post
LANL: Collaboration With Navajo Technical University Supports Clean Hydrogen Careers
A newly expanded partnership between Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and Navajo Technical University is helping foster a STEM-adept workforce ready to contribute to a high-tech, clean energy future with a concentration on fuel cell technology and additive manufacturing.
Carol Clark | December 09, 2023
Los Alamos Daily Post
UNM-Los Alamos Community Internship Collaboration Program Is A Win-Win For Students And Employers
Entering the workforce can feel daunting, even armed with a college degree or a certificate in a specific trade. How does one compete with other applicants or get experience that employers may require? Itís not just newbies to the workforce that may feel overwhelmed; employers might also be scratching their heads; wondering how to attract people to apply for positions.
Carol Clark | December 07, 2023
SciTechDaily
Astrophysical Breakthrough: Incredibly Profound Evidence of Nuclear Fission Across the Cosmos
The elements above iron on the periodic table are thought to be created in cataclysmic explosions like the merger of two neutron stars or in rare classes of supernovae. New research suggests fission may operate in the cosmos during the creation of the heavy elements.
December 07, 2023
Los Alamos Daily Post
Los Alamos National Laboratory Releases Winter 2023: The Energy Issue Science Magazine
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) presents its National Security Science magazine, Winter 2023: The Energy Issue.
Carol Clark | December 06, 2023
IEEE Spectrum
This Neural Net Could Help Find Orphaned Wells
In the U.S., as many as three-quarters of a million oil and gas wells are orphaned, their locations and operators are unknown, and many are leaking climate-warming methane into the atmosphere. Weíve got to find them, but surveying the United States with airplanes and drones gives only limited coverage.
Rina Caballar | December 05, 2023
Santa Fe New Mexican
LANL develops AI method to help drones see better
A team of researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory aims to take data-gleaning drones to a new realm with the help of artificial intelligence. Drones and AI are two rapidly evolving technologies that when combined can collect and sift through a sea of data to form a more complete and accurate picture of whatís being probed.
Scott Wyland | December 02, 2023
Mirage News
Los Alamos Lab, Navajo Tech Uni Partner for Clean Hydrogen Jobs
A newly expanded partnership between Los Alamos National Laboratory and Navajo Technical University (NTU) is helping foster a STEM-adept workforce ready to contribute to a high-tech, clean energy future with a concentration on fuel cell technology and additive manufacturing.
November 30, 2023
New Mexico Inno
Los Alamos National Laboratory trialing artificial intelligence-backed screening systems by Boston company
Los Alamos National Laboratory recently started trialing a pair of high-tech security screening systems developed and sold by a Boston-area defense company as one of the East Coast firm's first customers.
Jacob Maranda | November 30, 2023
KOB News
LANL scientists help NASA with technology to explore boundary of solar system
New Mexico scientists are working with NASA on a project to map out the boundary between the solar system and the rest of the galaxy. NASA as well as others in the science community have come together to build a revolutionary spacecraft.
Adrian Rivas | November 28, 2023
Phys.org
Researchers improve magnets for computing
As demand rises for increased data storage and faster-performing computers, researchers are creating a new generation of materials to meet consumers' expectations. Alongside a team of scientists, including members of Los Alamos National Lab, Singamaneni has discovered that adding a low-cost organic materialóknown as tetrabutylammoniumóbetween the magnet's atomic layers allows the magnet to work in temperatures of up to 170 degrees Fahrenheit.
November 21, 2023
Santa Fe New Mexican
Teamwork saves young bear's life at Los Alamos National Laboratory
In our human-dominated world, weíre hard-pressed to find places where people havenít built on top of animalsí natural habitat. Itís why wildlife and humans sometimes rub elbows, and, unfortunately, the encounters arenít always harmonious.
Ty Horak | November 19, 2023
Phys.org
Three-pronged approach discerns qualities of quantum spin liquids
In 1973, physicist Phil Anderson hypothesized that the quantum spin liquid, or QSL, state existed on some triangular lattices, but he lacked the tools to delve deeper. Fifty years later, a team led by researchers associated with the Quantum Science Center headquartered at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has confirmed the presence of QSL behavior in a new material with this structure, KYbSe2.
November 16, 2023
Mirage News
Two Los Alamos Labs Receive Green Certifications
Two labs within Los Alamos National Laboratory have earned recognition for their sustainability-conscious culture: the Chain Lab in Genomics and Bioanalytics and the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies (CINT).
November 15, 2023
KRQE News
LANL podcast explores fact and fiction from the movie ëOppenheimerí
A new podcast episode from Los Alamos National Laboratory is delving into what is fact and fiction in the blockbuster film Oppenheimer. ìHeís such an important part of our history at the laboratory and rightfully so, he is in a sense the hero of Los Alamos. But just like the rest of us he was human, he had things that he struggled with.î
Jordan Honeycutt | November 15, 2023
Los Alamos Reporter
2023 Winners Of LANL's Medals Demonstrate Steadfast Commitment
The diverse group of 2023 winners of Los Alamos National Laboratoryís most prestigious medals in Community Relations, Operations and Global Security share one thing in common: their exceptional commitment.
Maire O'Neill | November 14, 2023
ExecutiveGov
LANL Leads Formation of Open-Source, Cloud-Native Community for Supercomputing Management
Los Alamos National Laboratory launched the Open, Composable, Heterogeneous, Adaptable, Management Infrastructure, a.k.a. OCHAMI, a virtual community to improve the management of complex and scalable computing environments.
Jamie Bennet | November 14, 2023
Washington Post
An Invisible Killer
Morgan Gorris, a staff scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, projected that as the climate warms, the fungus could spread across much of the western half of the country by the end of the century.
Joshua Partlow, Veronica Penney and Carolyn Van Houten | November 13, 2023
Mirage News
Los Alamos Lab Enhances AI for Optimal Sparse Sensor Data Use
An innovative approach to artificial intelligence (AI) enables reconstructing a broad field of data, such as overall ocean temperature, from a small number of field-deployable sensors using low-powered "edge" computing, with broad applications across industry, science and medicine.
November 13, 2023
Alaska Native News
Second NASA sounding rocket launches from Poker Flat Research Range
The second NASA sounding rocket of the season headed into Earthís upper atmosphere from Poker Flat Research Range shortly after midnight Thursday, carrying a payload of science instruments for the Beam-Plasma Interaction Experiment. The experimentís principal investigator is Geoff Reeves, chief scientist for the Intelligence and Space Research Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Rod Boyce | November 12, 2023
Santa Fe New Mexican
Northern N.M. Toy Drive is back and bigger
Organizers of the annual push to put meaningful Christmas gifts into the hands of Northern New Mexico's less fortunate children say this year's event has the potential to be the biggest in history, thanks in part to big-ticket partners like Los Alamos National Laboratory, Meow Wolf, the city of Santa Fe and EXIT Realty Advantage NM.
Phil Cassaus | November 11, 2023
Los Alamos Daily Post
Cleared Trees At Los Alamos National Laboratory Go To Provide Winter Heat For Pueblo Neighbors
Woodstoves and kiva fireplaces are warming up this winter, thanks to free firewood cleared from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Recently, tribal members from the neighboring Accord Pueblos of San Ildefonso, Santa Clara, Cochiti and Jemez collected hundreds of cords of firewood from Laboratory property, repurposing timber that was cleared during on-site wildfire mitigation efforts this year.
Carol Clark | November 10, 2023
Las Vegas Optic
LANL outlines opportunities for students at roundtable discussion
Ways in which the Los Alamos National Laboratory is shaping the next generation of scientists and engineers was one of the main topics during a roundtable event organized by the labís Community Partnerships Office at Luna Community College on Nov. 1.
Vanessa Maciel | November 09, 2023
Los Alamos Reporter
From Canyons To Mesatops, Explore 50 Miles Of Los Alamos National Lab-Managed Trails
With 32 trails on Los Alamos National Laboratory property that make up a combined length of nearly 50 miles, employees have abundant access to the outdoors. About 25 of those trails, which span around 36 miles, are also open to the public, primarily near the community of White Rock.
Maire O'Neill | November 04, 2023
Los Alamos Daily Post
LANL: Pinpointing HIV Immune Response
New research combining computer modeling and experiments with macaques shows the bodyís immune system helps control human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections largely by suppressing viral production in already infected cells while also killing viral infected cells, but only within a narrow time window at the start of a cellís infection.
Carol Clark | October 31, 2023
Popular Science
How this computer scientist is rethinking color theory
Trying to replicate that breadth and sensitivity to color on a computer monitor or printer is both a nightmare and a dream for technologists. And thatís exactly the problem that Roxana Bujack, a staff scientist on the Data Science at Scale Team at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, is trying to solve with computations.
Aaron Fernandez | October 31, 2023
Mirage News
Researchers capture six R&D 100 Awards
Sandia National Laboratories researchers took home six R&D 100 Awards, one joint award with Los Alamos National Laboratory and one special award for 2023 in the annual international technical competition that includes researchers from universities, corporations and government labs.
October 30, 2023
Los Alamos Daily Post
Highlights From Leadership Los Alamos Class Of 2024 Session #1: Community Organizations
Leadership Los Alamos, Class of 2024, held their first session Oct. 20, where they learned about various community organizations and local charities within Northern New Mexico. Guest speakers included Kathy Keith, Director of the LANL Community Programs Office.
Carol Clark | October 29, 2023
People
How a Nonprofit Flower Project Is Helping Black Men to Heal and Improve Their Mental Health
LANL project manager Robert Washington-Vaughns partnered with Chicago-based Planks and Pistils florist John Pendleton earlier this year to create the Black Men Flower Project. Funded primarily by donations, the nonprofit allows men of color to nominate others to receive bouquets as a way to improve mental health, express appreciation and combat toxic masculinity.
Joanne Fowler | October 27, 2023
Interesting Engineering
X-ray the nukes: How US plans nuclear safety in this underground lab
Three US national defense labs are engaged in the process of building a test site, one thousand feet under the ground in Albuquerque, New Mexico, that will send powerful X-rays and verify the reliability of the country's nuclear stockpile.
Ameya Paleja | October 27, 2023
Los Alamos Daily Post
LANL Shares Two Major Needs With County Council: Housing and Transportation
With Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) increasing its workforce, two major needs have come to light: housing and transportation. Just what exactly these needs are and how to best address them were the focus of a presentation by Associate Laboratory Director for Infrastructure and Capital Projects David Teter and Associate Laboratory Director for Operations Bret Simpkins during the Los Alamos County Council Oct. 17 meeting.
Carol Clark | October 26, 2023
Bioplastics News
A New Life for Nylon
Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) have developed biosensing technology that can help address the problem of plastic waste, specifically nylon-based waste such as textiles, carpets, tires, and fishing nets.
Axel Barrett | October 26, 2023
KSFR
Los Alamos National Laboratory releases new documentary on J. Robert Oppenheimer
The new Los Alamos National Laboratory documentary ìJ. Robert Oppenheimer: Science, Mission and Legacyî is a love letter to father of the atomic bomb and a frank examination of his rise and fall. Itís also a justification for the nuclear weapons work that Los Alamos lab conducts today.
Mary Lou Cooper | October 24, 2023
Albuquerque Journal
Hires, Applause, ETC: Albuquerque Journal Business Briefcase
Three Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers have received Laboratory Fellowsí Prizes.
Elizabeth Tucker | October 23, 2023
New Mexico Inno
Los Alamos National Laboratory team hopes AI-backed technology can help detect breast cancer sooner
A two-person team at Los Alamos National Laboratory is pioneering an artificial intelligence-backed ultrasound technology that could help detect breast cancer much earlier.
Jacob Maranda | October 23, 2023
Scientific American
Mysterious Lightning ëSuperboltsí Can Be 1,000 Times as Strong as Ordinary Strikes
Every second, up to 100 lightning discharges occur around the world. But superbolts are much stronger and rarer, making up about one thousandth of 1 percent of all lightning strikes.
Lori Youmshajekian | October 23, 2023
Santa Fe New Mexican
Nuclear nature: Manhattan Project tour takes Los Alamos visitors off the beaten path
The old log cabin sitting in a meadow hardly looks like the site where a physicist once raced against the clock to develop an atomic bomb ó and where he learned the device he was exploring would not work. The physicist was Emilio Segre, and his failed device was a ìgun-typeî bomb that would shoot one piece of uranium into another to achieve fission and set off a blast.
Scott Wyland | October 20, 2023
Carlsbad Current Argus
New Mexico scientists see promise of hydrogen in energy strategy
Hydrogen can generate electricity, fuel long-haul trucks and airplanes, and store electricity, among other things. It could restore jobs lost to power plant closures and create new jobs. In fact, San Juan and McKinley counties are counting on it.
October 20, 2023
Los Alamos Reporter
LANL: Four Generations Of The Byers Family Have Worked At Laboratory
Growing up, now-retired Los Alamos National Laboratory research technologist Mark Byers enjoyed hearing his grandfather, Ellis Byers, reminisce about the 1940s in Los Alamos. Ellis was a machinist, building parts for the first atomic bombs.
Maire O'Neill | October 19, 2023
Los Alamos Reporter
LANL: Projects Use Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning To Propel Science
Projects that seek to deploy artificial intelligence and machine learning for science and energy have been bolstered by Department of Energy Office of Science funding in recent weeks. Three Los Alamos National Laboratory projects use the cutting-edge tools to improve the performance of accelerators, devices that charge particles to high speeds for research and development on a variety of subjects.
Maire O'Neill | October 19, 2023
Los Alamos Daily Post
Los Alamos National Laboratory Researcher Ruth Skoug Named 2023 American Geophysical Union Fellow
Ruth Skoug, of Los Alamos National Laboratoryís Space Science and Applications group, was named fellow by the American Geophysical Union (AGU); Skoug is among 63 new fellows this year.
Carol Clark | October 19, 2023
Los Alamos Reporter
LANLís Mike Petrowski Studies Human Error To Improve Safety
Mike Petrowski, who works in performance assurance at Los Alamos National Laboratory, wants to understand the ìwhyî behind our mistakes ó at least the ones with serious consequences.
Maire O'Neill | October 19, 2023
Mirage News
AI & Machine Learning Propel Science in Los Alamos Projects
Projects that seek to deploy artificial intelligence and machine learning for science and energy have been bolstered by Department of Energy Office of Science funding in recent weeks. Three Los Alamos National Laboratory projects use the cutting-edge tools to improve the performance of accelerators, devices that charge particles to high speeds for research and development on a variety of subjects.
October 18, 2023
Los Alamos Daily Post
Spine-tingling Science Is The Treat At The 2023 High-Tech Halloween Friday Oct. 27 At Bradbury Science Museum
The Bradbury Science Museum is offering something a little different this season with hands-on STEM education fun for the whole family at High-Tech Halloween, 4-6 p.m., on Friday, Oct. 27, at the museum at 1450 Central Ave.
Carol Clark | October 18, 2023
Albuquerque Journal
Hires, Applause, ETC: Albuquerque Journal Business Briefcase
Los Alamos National Laboratory has named the 2023 Fellows. They include Tariq Aslam, Rod Borup, William Daughton, Tess Lavezzi Light, Filip Ronning. Richard Van de Water, Hari Viswanathan, Ivan Vitev and Scott Watson.
Elizabeth Tucker | October 16, 2023
Los Alamos Daily Post
LANL: Hunga Volcano Eruption Sparks Most Intense Lightning Storm Ever Detected on Earth
Just beneath the surface of the south Pacific Ocean lies the Hunga volcano. Part of the Tonga archipelago and north of Tongaís main island Tongatapu, Hunga lies in a very active seismic zone and has erupted four times since 1988, most recently in 2022. The latest eruption caused a tsunami wave nearly 150 feet high that hit nearby uninhabited islands and waves over six feet tall that reached the coast of Peru.
Carol Clark | October 15, 2023
Popular Science
Climate change could help fungal diseases thrive
Back at the turn of the 21st century, Valley fever was an obscure fungal disease in the United States, with fewer than 3,000 reported cases per year, mostly in California and Arizona. Two decades later, cases of Valley fever are exploding, increasing more than sevenfold and expanding to other states.
Shreya Dasgupta | October 14, 2023
Los Alamos Daily Post
LANL Researchers Yu Seung Kim, Rodman Linn, Kirsten Taylor-McCabe Awarded 2023 Laboratory Fellowsí Prizes
Three Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) researchers have received 2023 Laboratory Fellowsí Prizes: Yu Seung Kim and Rodman Linn received the Fellowsí Prize for research and Kirsten Taylor-McCabe received the Fellowsí Prize for Leadership.
Carol Clark | October 13, 2023
HPC Wire
Los Alamos Partners with AirMettle for Efficient In-Storage Data Analysis
A partnership between Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and AirMettle offers a solution for efficiently analyzing highly dimensional data sets from large-scale simulation campaigns while protecting the stored data. Performing some parts of the analytics near data storage reduces the amount of data moved to perform the analysis ó reducing both the cost of analytics and the time-to-scientific-insight.
October 13, 2023
Space.com
Metal asteroid Psyche has a ridiculously high 'value.' But what does that even mean?
Psyche orbits the sun in the main asteroid belt, between Mars and Jupiter. Scientists think the asteroid could be an exposed metallic core of an ancient protoplanet.
Rebecca Sohn | October 12, 2023
KAGS
Los Alamos National Laboratory to sponsor Texas A&M engineering design competition
The Los Alamos National Laboratory will be sponsoring Aggies Invent, a 48-hour engineering design competition that challenges participating Texas A&M engineering students to put what they've learned to the test by coming up with practical solutions to issues and challenges facing the world today.
Matthew Gromala | October 11, 2023
Homeland Security News Wire
Chi-Nu Experiment Concludes with Data to Support Nuclear Security, Energy Reactors
The Chi-Nu project, a years-long experiment measuring the energy spectrum of neutrons emitted from neutron-induced fission, recently concluded the most detailed and extensive uncertainty analysis of the three major actinide elements ó uranium-238, uranium-235 and plutonium-239. The results of the Chi-Nu physics experiment at Los Alamos National Laboratory have contributed essential, never-before-observed data for enhancing nuclear security applications, understanding criticality safety and designing fast-neutron energy reactors.
October 09, 2023
Santa Fe New Mexican
Tracking fungal pathogens and disease beyond 'The Last of Us'
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization and others actively monitor fungal pathogens and clinical cases of disease. They have made it abundantly clear that these issues have been a concern for far longer than The Last of Us has been onscreen.
Aaron Robinson | October 08, 2023
Physics World
Nanoscale device produces a stream of chiral single photons
A new nanoscale device based on stacks of two-dimensional materials can not only generate a stream of single photons but can also control their chirality, or circular polarization, without the need for an applied magnetic field. Since manipulating a photonís polarization state is a way to encode information in it, the advance could be important for quantum technologies, according to the researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the US who developed it.
Isabelle Dume | October 06, 2023
National Geographic
The science of 'superbolts,' the world's strongest lightning strikes
Lightningís rattling cracks and surges of illuminated energy have long prompted puzzling scientific queries. And while many questions about these powerful flashes remain, a particularly significant mysteryóhow the planetsí brightest and strongest strikes occurówas recently answered.
Avery Schuyler Nunn | October 06, 2023
Los Alamos Reporter
LANL Director Thom Mason Is Keynote Speaker At Feynman Innovation Center Awards Ceremony
Los Alamos National Laboratory Director Thom Mason was the keynote speaker at the recent presentation of the Richard P. Feynman Innovation Prizes at SALA Event Center honoring tech-transfer achievements that are commercially ready in multiple areas. He called the work presented at the DisrupTECH sessions earlier in the day by innovators and entrepreneurs ìquite amazing stuffî that one way or another ties back to the Labís national security mission.
Maire O'Neill | October 04, 2023
RealClearScience
The Most Intense Lightning Storm Ever Observed by Science
Just beneath the surface of the south Pacific Ocean lies the Hunga volcano. Part of the Tonga archipelago and north of Tongaís main island Tongatapu, Hunga lies in a very active seismic zone and has erupted four times since 1988, most recently in 2022.
Sonja Behnke | October 04, 2023
Los Alamos Reporter
Nine Researchers Named 2023 Los Alamos National Laboratory Fellows
Nine researchers have been named 2023 Los Alamos National Laboratory Fellows: Tariq Aslam, Rod Borup, William Daughton, Tess Lavezzi Light, Filip Ronning, Richard Van de Water, Hari Viswanathan, Ivan Vitev and Scott Watson. ìThese researchers have made significant contributions to their respective fields, and it is an honor to recognize them as Laboratory Fellows,î said Laboratory Director Thom Mason. ìI congratulate them on the outstanding work they have done throughout their careers and thank them for playing pivotal roles in our mission and in the global scientific community.î
Maire O'Neill | October 03, 2023
KRQE News
New Mexico's national labs helped over 200 small businesses
Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories regularly work with local small businesses to boost technological expertise. The latest annual report shows the labs helped 239 small businesses in 2022. New Mexicoís federal labs participate in the New Mexico Small Business Assistance Program, which allows small businesses to get free help from the lab staff. The idea is to use the knowledge from the labs to support the community.
Curtis Segarra | October 02, 2023
Los Alamos Daily Post
LANL: Los Alamos Ranks As Top Employer Promoting Diversity & More
Los Alamos National Laboratory was selected as one of the "Top Companies for Latinas to Work for in the United States in 2022," by LATINA Style magazine. The Lab, which ranked 33rd out of 50, has appeared on this list for five consecutive years and is the only national laboratory honored. Two HOLA Employee Resource Group board members attended the LATINA Style awards gala in Washington, D.C.
Carol Clark | October 02, 2023
SciTechDaily
Chi-Nu Experimentís Final Insights: Pioneering Data for Nuclear Security & Reactor Design
The results of the Chi-Nu physics experiment at the Department of Energyís Los Alamos National Laboratory have contributed essential, never-before-observed data for enhancing nuclear security applications, understanding criticality safety, and designing fast-neutron energy reactors.
October 01, 2023

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