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Los Alamos National Laboratory plants trees to mitigate construction impacts Image

Los Alamos National Laboratory plants trees to mitigate construction impacts

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New tech finding methane leaking, orphaned wells

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School retools math education with support from Lab experts

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Did rising seas play a role in Viking abandonment of Greenland settlements?

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New commercial fuel cell factory delivers on Los Alamos National Laboratory technology

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Triad announces collaboration with Bilingual Montessori and University of New Mexico-Los Alamos to expand child care options

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Francois and Pettes named American Society of Mechanical Engineers fellows

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New tech finding methane leaking, orphaned wells

Did rising seas play a role in Viking abandonment of Greenland settlements? Image

Did rising seas play a role in Viking abandonment of Greenland settlements?

New commercial fuel cell factory delivers on Los Alamos National Laboratory technology Image

New commercial fuel cell factory delivers on Los Alamos National Laboratory technology

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Limitless, renewable, nonpolluting energy? You're standing on it

Gone for good? California’s beetle-killed, carbon-storing pine forests may not come back Image

Gone for good? California’s beetle-killed, carbon-storing pine forests may not come back

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Understanding plants can boost wildland-fire modeling in uncertain future

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How we’re driving toward a sustainable future

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School retools math education with support from Lab experts Image

School retools math education with support from Lab experts

Triad announces collaboration with Bilingual Montessori and University of New Mexico-Los Alamos to expand child care options Image

Triad announces collaboration with Bilingual Montessori and University of New Mexico-Los Alamos to expand child care options

$2.5 million in grants from Los Alamos National Laboratory’s operator benefit nonprofits, students and businesses Image

$2.5 million in grants from Los Alamos National Laboratory’s operator benefit nonprofits, students and businesses

New Laboratory policy aims to smooth traffic flow during construction beginning April 17 Image

New Laboratory policy aims to smooth traffic flow during construction beginning April 17

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The woman behind the curious invention of modern software

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Attention all New Mexico girls: Apply for a free summer physics camp in Santa Fe!

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Eat like a Nobel winner: 1955 cookbook offers tastes of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s culinary past

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James Hollins: One of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s first Black project engineers

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Qubits put new spin on magnetism, boosting applications of quantum computers

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The protein-to-cellulose bond: Just how sticky is it?

Unusual gamma-ray burst reveals previously undetected hybrid neutron-star merger event Image

Unusual gamma-ray burst reveals previously undetected hybrid neutron-star merger event

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New effort underway to help revolutionize future of vaccine development

First phase of new supercomputer installed at Los Alamos National Laboratory Image

First phase of new supercomputer installed at Los Alamos National Laboratory

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AI predicts physics of future fault slip in laboratory earthquakes

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How U.S. nuclear testing moratorium launched a supercomputing revolution

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This is not your grandparents’ power grid

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Bioplastics point the way to an environmentally sustainable, green future

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

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Fusion materials research powered by new DOE funding

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

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Coalition will power move to a carbon-neutral New Mexico

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

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Research examines key factors related to COVID-19 variant dynamics

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Enlisting machine learning to pick the perfect vaccine

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

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Lab aids in global road map to better disease testing

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Microgravity in space reveals hidden microbes

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

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Study: Respiratory viruses easily misdiagnosed without better tests

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Los Alamos National Laboratory plants trees to mitigate construction impacts

New Oppenheimer documentary announced — just in time for the first director’s birthday Image

New Oppenheimer documentary announced — just in time for the first director’s birthday

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Celebrating 80 years of science, innovation and discovery at Los Alamos National Laboratory

Order by Energy Secretary vacates decision to revoke Oppenheimer’s security clearance Image

Order by Energy Secretary vacates decision to revoke Oppenheimer’s security clearance

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Adieu, 2022! Test your knowledge of a year of Lab science with this fun quiz

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Take a guided tour of the Laboratory’s operational history, 1945 to present

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New head for Physical Sciences at Los Alamos National Laboratory named

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'Frustrated' nanomagnets order themselves through disorder

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More advanced technology helps ensure the peaceful use of nuclear materials

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

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New containers keep secrets and materials safe

New silicon allotrope offers improved properties Image

New silicon allotrope offers improved properties

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Perovskite LEDs shine in metal-organic framework

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Uranium compound achieves record anomalous Nernst conductivity

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Celebrating 50 years of mission-essential research

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New substation powered up Oct. 14

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

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

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Los Alamos and University of Nebraska team for biodefense program

Science Stories

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Strings of magnetic energy shown to flex, wiggle and reconnect

Light amplification by stimulated emission from electrically driven colloidal quantum dots finally achieved Image

Light amplification by stimulated emission from electrically driven colloidal quantum dots finally achieved

New imaging technology identifies material defects and composition in unprecedented detail Image

New imaging technology identifies material defects and composition in unprecedented detail

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1 device, 2 functions: A laser and an LED

Predicting pandemics through museum animal collections Image

Predicting pandemics through museum animal collections

Machine-learning models, guided by physics, will improve subsurface imaging Image

Machine-learning models, guided by physics, will improve subsurface imaging

Los Alamos partners with DOE labs to host cybersecurity workshop Image

Los Alamos partners with DOE labs to host cybersecurity workshop

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How does AI really work? Comparing neural networks gives a peek into the black box

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Designing a drone that can search for life on other planets

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Listen: Dust devils on Mars!

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SuperCam records first audio of Martian dust devil

Curiosity still making new finds with Los Alamos tech Image

Curiosity still making new finds with Los Alamos tech

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The search for frost on Mars

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New research sheds light on when Mars may have had water

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Pair of NASA missions will help planetary defense

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Laboratory-developed high explosives mitigate risk of accidental detonation

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Ultrasound technology helps with brewing better beer

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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

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New biosensor designed to detect toxins and more

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DisrupTECH features superior plastics recycling, smart software, predictive mapping

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Sensors driven by machine learning sniff-out gas leaks fast

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Francois and Pettes named American Society of Mechanical Engineers fellows Image

Francois and Pettes named American Society of Mechanical Engineers fellows

Hoffman receives Enrico Fermi Presidential Award Image

Hoffman receives Enrico Fermi Presidential Award

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4 Los Alamos scientists honored by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Los Alamos National Laboratory physicist wins John Wheatley award for Africa outreach

5 Los Alamos researchers receive Laboratory Fellows’ Prizes Image

5 Los Alamos researchers receive Laboratory Fellows’ Prizes

3 Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists elected 2022 American Physical Society Fellows Image

3 Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists elected 2022 American Physical Society Fellows

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9 Los Alamos researchers named 2022 Laboratory Fellows

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Los Alamos National Laboratory announces winners of its most prestigious medals

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