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Near-Earth asteroid data helps probe possible fifth force of the universe Image

Near-Earth asteroid data helps probe possible fifth force of the universe

New weapons exhibit opens at the Bradbury Science Museum in Los Alamos Image

New weapons exhibit opens at the Bradbury Science Museum in Los Alamos

Allison Aiken will lead ARM mobile deployment and atmospheric research campaign Image

Allison Aiken will lead ARM mobile deployment and atmospheric research campaign

Diamond-stamping the first plutonium pit: Lab Director Thom Mason's statement Image

Diamond-stamping the first plutonium pit: Lab Director Thom Mason's statement

NNSA completes and diamond-stamps first plutonium pit for W87-1 warhead Image

NNSA completes and diamond-stamps first plutonium pit for W87-1 warhead

New lab at LANSCE contributes to neutrino research Image

New lab at LANSCE contributes to neutrino research

Alan Bishop and Brad Meyer win the Los Alamos Medal Image

Alan Bishop and Brad Meyer win the Los Alamos Medal

Climate Science Stories

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Allison Aiken will lead ARM mobile deployment and atmospheric research campaign Image

Allison Aiken will lead ARM mobile deployment and atmospheric research campaign

New research shows hydraulic failure in the tropics is expected to increase Image

New research shows hydraulic failure in the tropics is expected to increase

Postfire debris flows may become predictable, thanks to a new study Image

Postfire debris flows may become predictable, thanks to a new study

Los Alamos studies innovative energy sources for the Intermountain West Image

Los Alamos studies innovative energy sources for the Intermountain West

New study finds a way to improve seismic monitoring for geologic carbon storage Image

New study finds a way to improve seismic monitoring for geologic carbon storage

Future climate change will impact opportunities for prescribed fires Image

Future climate change will impact opportunities for prescribed fires

Los Alamos AI takes a big step forward in predicting earthquakes Image

Los Alamos AI takes a big step forward in predicting earthquakes

Awards and Recognitions Stories

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Alan Bishop and Brad Meyer win the Los Alamos Medal Image

Alan Bishop and Brad Meyer win the Los Alamos Medal

Hollingsworth selected as fellow of the American Chemical Society Image

Hollingsworth selected as fellow of the American Chemical Society

Los Alamos projects win 8 R&D 100 Awards, the ‘Oscars of Innovation’ Image

Los Alamos projects win 8 R&D 100 Awards, the ‘Oscars of Innovation’

Newell named Los Alamos’ Battelle Inventor of the Year Image

Newell named Los Alamos’ Battelle Inventor of the Year

Laboratory scientist elected to the National Academy of Sciences Image

Laboratory scientist elected to the National Academy of Sciences

Laboratory scientist honored with APS fellowship Image

Laboratory scientist honored with APS fellowship

2023 winners of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s medals demonstrate steadfast commitment Image

2023 winners of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s medals demonstrate steadfast commitment

Los Alamos researcher named American Geophysical Union fellow Image

Los Alamos researcher named American Geophysical Union fellow

Community Stories

New weapons exhibit opens at the Bradbury Science Museum in Los Alamos Image

New weapons exhibit opens at the Bradbury Science Museum in Los Alamos

Los Alamos National Laboratory, NNSA and Northern New Mexico College establish new Center for Information Technology and Cybersecurity Image

Los Alamos National Laboratory, NNSA and Northern New Mexico College establish new Center for Information Technology and Cybersecurity

Los Alamos National Laboratory employees raise more than $36K for back-to-school basics Image

Los Alamos National Laboratory employees raise more than $36K for back-to-school basics

Sign up now for your chance to tour Manhattan Project National Historical Park Image

Sign up now for your chance to tour Manhattan Project National Historical Park

Healthy competition Image

Healthy competition

Camp creates career pathways Image

Camp creates career pathways

New independent analysis calculates Los Alamos National Laboratory’s economic contribution to state at $3.7 billion Image

New independent analysis calculates Los Alamos National Laboratory’s economic contribution to state at $3.7 billion

Machinists go from apprentice to expert through hands-on training Image

Machinists go from apprentice to expert through hands-on training

Computing Stories

Students get quantum computing mentorship and research experience Image

Students get quantum computing mentorship and research experience

Los Alamos team cracks the code on the bane of quantum machine learning algorithms Image

Los Alamos team cracks the code on the bane of quantum machine learning algorithms

Los Alamos and SK hynix to demonstrate new Object Computational Storage system Image

Los Alamos and SK hynix to demonstrate new Object Computational Storage system

New open-source code improves safety and performance of manufactured parts Image

New open-source code improves safety and performance of manufactured parts

Machine learning advances the clean-energy economy Image

Machine learning advances the clean-energy economy

Seeds of today’s supercomputers planted 80 years ago Image

Seeds of today’s supercomputers planted 80 years ago

Why we need supercomputers — and electricity Image

Why we need supercomputers — and electricity

Venado installation opens the door for AI applications at Los Alamos Image

Venado installation opens the door for AI applications at Los Alamos

Energy Stories

Laboratory teams with Georgia Institute of Technology for AI energy-grid research Image

Laboratory teams with Georgia Institute of Technology for AI energy-grid research

Los Alamos researchers look for feedback on the Geothermal Clean Energy Testbed Scoping Study Image

Los Alamos researchers look for feedback on the Geothermal Clean Energy Testbed Scoping Study

This is not your grandparents’ power grid Image

This is not your grandparents’ power grid

Magnetic impurities turn quantum dots into emitters of free electrons Image

Magnetic impurities turn quantum dots into emitters of free electrons

Bioplastics point the way to an environmentally sustainable, green future Image

Bioplastics point the way to an environmentally sustainable, green future

New data-driven model could help the world meet clean-energy demands Image

New data-driven model could help the world meet clean-energy demands

Fusion materials research powered by new DOE funding Image

Fusion materials research powered by new DOE funding

Environmental Stewardship Stories

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Software application keeps public safer from potential airborne radiological releases Image

Software application keeps public safer from potential airborne radiological releases

Acid Canyon well within safe exposure ranges Image

Acid Canyon well within safe exposure ranges

Monarchs get the royal treatment with pollinator havens Image

Monarchs get the royal treatment with pollinator havens

AI can help forecast toxic “blue-green tides” Image

AI can help forecast toxic “blue-green tides”

Climate change could expand habitable environments for mosquitoes Image

Climate change could expand habitable environments for mosquitoes

169-year-old tree on Lab property gets help Image

169-year-old tree on Lab property gets help

Waste decontamination system offers far-reaching benefits Image

Waste decontamination system offers far-reaching benefits

Team at Los Alamos Lab works to protect water quality Image

Team at Los Alamos Lab works to protect water quality

Health Stories

Machine learning model identifies drug design possibilities Image

Machine learning model identifies drug design possibilities

Supercomputer simulation attacks problem of drug-resistant bacteria Image

Supercomputer simulation attacks problem of drug-resistant bacteria

Getting ahead of climate-driven epidemics Image

Getting ahead of climate-driven epidemics

Research examines key factors related to COVID-19 variant dynamics Image

Research examines key factors related to COVID-19 variant dynamics

New disease model pits zombies against clerics for clarity Image

New disease model pits zombies against clerics for clarity

Enlisting machine learning to pick the perfect vaccine Image

Enlisting machine learning to pick the perfect vaccine

Research sheds light on how countries responded to the COVID-19 pandemic Image

Research sheds light on how countries responded to the COVID-19 pandemic

The Lab Stories

Hundreds of artifacts provide a glimpse into the past Image

Hundreds of artifacts provide a glimpse into the past

J. Patrick Fitch selected as deputy Laboratory director for Science, Technology and Engineering Image

J. Patrick Fitch selected as deputy Laboratory director for Science, Technology and Engineering

Triad announces Jay Sures as new chair of the board Image

Triad announces Jay Sures as new chair of the board

Studying human error to improve safety Image

Studying human error to improve safety

Los Alamos ranks as a top employer promoting diversity Image

Los Alamos ranks as a top employer promoting diversity

Extra! Extra! Los Alamos National Lab employees share their favorite moments on the ‘Oppenheimer’ set Image

Extra! Extra! Los Alamos National Lab employees share their favorite moments on the ‘Oppenheimer’ set

Oppenheimer’s science beyond the Manhattan Project Image

Oppenheimer’s science beyond the Manhattan Project

Materials Stories

Unique ‘Chaco’ metamaterial detects order of external operations, mechanical memory Image

Unique ‘Chaco’ metamaterial detects order of external operations, mechanical memory

Harnessing light-powered nanoscale electrical currents to propel emerging technologies Image

Harnessing light-powered nanoscale electrical currents to propel emerging technologies

Research demonstrates material’s quantum topological potential Image

Research demonstrates material’s quantum topological potential

New quantum device generates single photons and encodes information Image

New quantum device generates single photons and encodes information

New fuel cell architecture uses nanowires to deliver durability Image

New fuel cell architecture uses nanowires to deliver durability

Approach for creating precision quantum defects enables quantum applications Image

Approach for creating precision quantum defects enables quantum applications

Digging deep into quantum materials Image

Digging deep into quantum materials

Operations Stories

Diamond-stamping the first plutonium pit: Lab Director Thom Mason's statement Image

Diamond-stamping the first plutonium pit: Lab Director Thom Mason's statement

NNSA completes and diamond-stamps first plutonium pit for W87-1 warhead Image

NNSA completes and diamond-stamps first plutonium pit for W87-1 warhead

Laboratory delivers upgraded office and parking space Image

Laboratory delivers upgraded office and parking space

New substation powered up Oct. 14 Image

New substation powered up Oct. 14

Unauthorized drone flights are prohibited in Laboratory restricted airspace, including additional No Drone Zone Image

Unauthorized drone flights are prohibited in Laboratory restricted airspace, including additional No Drone Zone

Los Alamos National Laboratory commits to advancing gender equality in nuclear policy Image

Los Alamos National Laboratory commits to advancing gender equality in nuclear policy

Los Alamos and University of Nebraska team for biodefense program Image

Los Alamos and University of Nebraska team for biodefense program

Science Stories

Near-Earth asteroid data helps probe possible fifth force of the universe Image

Near-Earth asteroid data helps probe possible fifth force of the universe

New lab at LANSCE contributes to neutrino research Image

New lab at LANSCE contributes to neutrino research

Los Alamos contributes to first neutrino detection at Short-Baseline Near Detector Image

Los Alamos contributes to first neutrino detection at Short-Baseline Near Detector

ChemCam fires its laser for the millionth time on Mars Image

ChemCam fires its laser for the millionth time on Mars

Los Alamos National Laboratory teams up with OpenAI to improve frontier model safety Image

Los Alamos National Laboratory teams up with OpenAI to improve frontier model safety

New method developed for measuring thermal expansion in ‘atomically thin’ materials Image

New method developed for measuring thermal expansion in ‘atomically thin’ materials

Laboratory finds range of possibilities for quantum computing in DARPA program Image

Laboratory finds range of possibilities for quantum computing in DARPA program

New theory helps explore a wider range of phase transitions Image

New theory helps explore a wider range of phase transitions

Space Stories

New findings point to an Earth-like environment on ancient Mars Image

New findings point to an Earth-like environment on ancient Mars

New technology improves space weather monitoring Image

New technology improves space weather monitoring

First hints of nuclear fission in cosmos revealed by models, observations Image

First hints of nuclear fission in cosmos revealed by models, observations

New research points to possible seasonal climate patterns on early Mars Image

New research points to possible seasonal climate patterns on early Mars

Designing a drone that can search for life on other planets Image

Designing a drone that can search for life on other planets

Listen: Dust devils on Mars! Image

Listen: Dust devils on Mars!

SuperCam records first audio of Martian dust devil Image

SuperCam records first audio of Martian dust devil

Technology Stories

Discover innovative technologies at DisrupTECH Aug. 30 Image

Discover innovative technologies at DisrupTECH Aug. 30

Laboratory’s giant rotor headed for Switzerland Image

Laboratory’s giant rotor headed for Switzerland

Bridging the digital divide Image

Bridging the digital divide

Laboratory-developed high explosives mitigate risk of accidental detonation Image

Laboratory-developed high explosives mitigate risk of accidental detonation

Ultrasound technology helps with brewing better beer Image

Ultrasound technology helps with brewing better beer

New technology to power radiographic imaging for national security Image

New technology to power radiographic imaging for national security

Los Alamos National Laboratory and Pajarito Powder complete one of the first New Mexico-funded fuel cell projects Image

Los Alamos National Laboratory and Pajarito Powder complete one of the first New Mexico-funded fuel cell projects

New biosensor designed to detect toxins and more Image

New biosensor designed to detect toxins and more

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