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Celebrating 50 years of mission-essential research Image

Celebrating 50 years of mission-essential research

Naval Academy midshipman gains national security insights with Laboratory internship Image

Naval Academy midshipman gains national security insights with Laboratory internship

Brewing beer at the speed of sound Image

Brewing beer at the speed of sound

Scientist at Los Alamos recognized with prestigious Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship Image

Scientist at Los Alamos recognized with prestigious Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship

Campus Master Plan outlines the next 30 years Image

Campus Master Plan outlines the next 30 years

The search for frost on Mars Image

The search for frost on Mars

Senior leader to retire from Los Alamos National Laboratory and embark on a new opportunity at Nevada National Security Site Image

Senior leader to retire from Los Alamos National Laboratory and embark on a new opportunity at Nevada National Security Site

Climate Stories

Los Alamos-led consortium seeks undocumented orphaned oil and gas wells Image

Los Alamos-led consortium seeks undocumented orphaned oil and gas wells

Los Alamos-led federal Rapid Response Team to support Four Corners energy-based communities Image

Los Alamos-led federal Rapid Response Team to support Four Corners energy-based communities

Snow research fills gap in understanding Arctic climate Image

Snow research fills gap in understanding Arctic climate

Grid should be on the decarbonization radar Image

Grid should be on the decarbonization radar

Quantum annealing can beat classical computing in limited cases Image

Quantum annealing can beat classical computing in limited cases

Los Alamos National Laboratory to lead study of molten-salt nuclear reactor materials Image

Los Alamos National Laboratory to lead study of molten-salt nuclear reactor materials

Wildfire-smoke observations fill gap in estimating soot’s role in climate change Image

Wildfire-smoke observations fill gap in estimating soot’s role in climate change

Community Stories

Naval Academy midshipman gains national security insights with Laboratory internship Image

Naval Academy midshipman gains national security insights with Laboratory internship

Frontiers in Science: A universal method for detecting disease with Harshini Mukundan Image

Frontiers in Science: A universal method for detecting disease with Harshini Mukundan

Nation’s second highest-ranking military officer visits the Laboratory Image

Nation’s second highest-ranking military officer visits the Laboratory

Registration opens Sept. 1 for limited tours of Manhattan Project National Historical Park in Los Alamos Image

Registration opens Sept. 1 for limited tours of Manhattan Project National Historical Park in Los Alamos

Los Alamos National Laboratory honors Enewetak Atoll people and history Image

Los Alamos National Laboratory honors Enewetak Atoll people and history

Carlos Archuleta: Bring on the baritone Image

Carlos Archuleta: Bring on the baritone

Discover innovative technologies at the 8th Annual DisrupTECH virtually Aug. 3 Image

Discover innovative technologies at the 8th Annual DisrupTECH virtually Aug. 3

Northern New Mexico Integrated Security LLC awarded 5-year subcontract to provide protective services at Los Alamos Image

Northern New Mexico Integrated Security LLC awarded 5-year subcontract to provide protective services at Los Alamos

Computing Stories

Quantum AI breakthrough: theorem shrinks appetite for training data Image

Quantum AI breakthrough: theorem shrinks appetite for training data

Math error: A new study overturns 100-year-old understanding of color perception Image

Math error: A new study overturns 100-year-old understanding of color perception

Everything you wanted to know about quantum computing, but were afraid to ask Image

Everything you wanted to know about quantum computing, but were afraid to ask

Los Alamos National Laboratory and SK hynix to demonstrate first-of-a-kind ordered Key-value Store Computational Storage Device Image

Los Alamos National Laboratory and SK hynix to demonstrate first-of-a-kind ordered Key-value Store Computational Storage Device

Quantum computer programming for dummies Image

Quantum computer programming for dummies

Los Alamos National Laboratory announces details of supercomputer collaboration with Nvidia Image

Los Alamos National Laboratory announces details of supercomputer collaboration with Nvidia

Spooky action at a distance? Not a chance! Image

Spooky action at a distance? Not a chance!

Energy Stories

Magnetic impurities turn quantum dots into emitters of free electrons Image

Magnetic impurities turn quantum dots into emitters of free electrons

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

Perovskite research advances offer new possibilities for devices such as solar cells Image

Perovskite research advances offer new possibilities for devices such as solar cells

Coalition will power move to a carbon-neutral New Mexico Image

Coalition will power move to a carbon-neutral New Mexico

State and national laboratories execute agreement on development of zero-carbon hydrogen Image

State and national laboratories execute agreement on development of zero-carbon hydrogen

New research uses machine learning to better understand subsurface geology Image

New research uses machine learning to better understand subsurface geology

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Had COVID-19 already? You're now less likely to get the new BA.5 Image

Had COVID-19 already? You're now less likely to get the new BA.5

Study: Respiratory viruses easily misdiagnosed without better tests Image

Study: Respiratory viruses easily misdiagnosed without better tests

Mining the body’s immune system to boost COVID-19 virus detection Image

Mining the body’s immune system to boost COVID-19 virus detection

One of these things is not like the others, at least for viruses Image

One of these things is not like the others, at least for viruses

Pandemic's urgency drove new collaborative approaches worldwide Image

Pandemic's urgency drove new collaborative approaches worldwide

New tool can help better understand high-mutating viruses, including COVID-19 Image

New tool can help better understand high-mutating viruses, including COVID-19

Making more sense of microbial communities Image

Making more sense of microbial communities

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Campus Master Plan outlines the next 30 years Image

Campus Master Plan outlines the next 30 years

Senior leader to retire from Los Alamos National Laboratory and embark on a new opportunity at Nevada National Security Site Image

Senior leader to retire from Los Alamos National Laboratory and embark on a new opportunity at Nevada National Security Site

Building a community of engineers to support Mars exploration Image

Building a community of engineers to support Mars exploration

LANSCE at 50: Q&A with Laboratory Director Thom Mason Image

LANSCE at 50: Q&A with Laboratory Director Thom Mason

Deb Lewis: Building a life and a legacy Image

Deb Lewis: Building a life and a legacy

The petition that sought to clear Oppenheimer's name Image

The petition that sought to clear Oppenheimer's name

Los Alamos National Laboratory names Evelyn Mullen new executive officer for Weapons Image

Los Alamos National Laboratory names Evelyn Mullen new executive officer for Weapons

Cerro Pelado fire Saturday (April 23) morning update Image

Cerro Pelado fire Saturday (April 23) morning update

Materials Stories

'Frustrated' nanomagnets order themselves through disorder Image

'Frustrated' nanomagnets order themselves through disorder

More advanced technology helps ensure the peaceful use of nuclear materials Image

More advanced technology helps ensure the peaceful use of nuclear materials

Using ‘ASSESS’ to detect subtle flaws in structures and materials Image

Using ‘ASSESS’ to detect subtle flaws in structures and materials

New containers keep secrets and materials safe Image

New containers keep secrets and materials safe

New silicon allotrope offers improved properties Image

New silicon allotrope offers improved properties

Perovskite LEDs shine in metal-organic framework Image

Perovskite LEDs shine in metal-organic framework

Uranium compound achieves record anomalous Nernst conductivity Image

Uranium compound achieves record anomalous Nernst conductivity

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Celebrating 50 years of mission-essential research Image

Celebrating 50 years of mission-essential research

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

Brewing beer at the speed of sound Image

Brewing beer at the speed of sound

New method for comparing neural networks exposes how artificial intelligence works Image

New method for comparing neural networks exposes how artificial intelligence works

The Goldilocks of radioisotopes, just right for treating cancer Image

The Goldilocks of radioisotopes, just right for treating cancer

Press conference focuses on positive impact of CHIPS and Science Act Image

Press conference focuses on positive impact of CHIPS and Science Act

Research in MagLab verifies new phase of matter in material Image

Research in MagLab verifies new phase of matter in material

Experiment results confirm anomaly suggesting new physics possibility Image

Experiment results confirm anomaly suggesting new physics possibility

LANSCE: Unique capabilities for science and national security Image

LANSCE: Unique capabilities for science and national security

Space Stories

The search for frost on Mars Image

The search for frost on Mars

New research sheds light on when Mars may have had water Image

New research sheds light on when Mars may have had water

Curiosity reports back on ‘most chemically diverse part’ of Gale Crater on Mars Image

Curiosity reports back on ‘most chemically diverse part’ of Gale Crater on Mars

Perseverance analyzes first sounds from Mars Image

Perseverance analyzes first sounds from Mars

Using tiny satellites to monitor harmful gases from space Image

Using tiny satellites to monitor harmful gases from space

Un-Earthing planetary defense Image

Un-Earthing planetary defense

1 million laser zaps on Mars: ChemCam and SuperCam celebrate an impressive milestone Image

1 million laser zaps on Mars: ChemCam and SuperCam celebrate an impressive milestone

Technology Stories

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

DisrupTECH features superior plastics recycling, smart software, predictive mapping Image

DisrupTECH features superior plastics recycling, smart software, predictive mapping

Sensors driven by machine learning sniff-out gas leaks fast Image

Sensors driven by machine learning sniff-out gas leaks fast

Should Santa deliver by drone? Image

Should Santa deliver by drone?

TNT could be headed for retirement after 116 years on the job Image

TNT could be headed for retirement after 116 years on the job

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Scientist at Los Alamos recognized with prestigious Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship Image

Scientist at Los Alamos recognized with prestigious Toyota Young Investigator Fellowship

Investors and scientists converge at 2022 DisrupTECH tech-transfer event Image

Investors and scientists converge at 2022 DisrupTECH tech-transfer event

9 Los Alamos projects win R&D 100 Awards Image

9 Los Alamos projects win R&D 100 Awards

Los Alamos National Laboratory, Auburn University partner to enhance cyber and infrastructure security Image

Los Alamos National Laboratory, Auburn University partner to enhance cyber and infrastructure security

Next-gen thought leaders take their learning to Washington Image

Next-gen thought leaders take their learning to Washington

Tang wins DOE Early Career Research Award Image

Tang wins DOE Early Career Research Award

Korber honored by Caltech with Distinguished Alumni Award Image

Korber honored by Caltech with Distinguished Alumni Award

Kumar recognized as 'Future Leader' by Infection and Immunity journal Image

Kumar recognized as 'Future Leader' by Infection and Immunity journal

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