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

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

Understanding plants can boost wildland-fire modeling in uncertain future Image

Understanding plants can boost wildland-fire modeling in uncertain future

Making an impact Image

Making an impact

How we’re driving toward a sustainable future Image

How we’re driving toward a sustainable future

What’s driving re-burns across California and the West? Image

What’s driving re-burns across California and the West?

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

Climate Stories

Understanding plants can boost wildland-fire modeling in uncertain future Image

Understanding plants can boost wildland-fire modeling in uncertain future

How we’re driving toward a sustainable future Image

How we’re driving toward a sustainable future

Sniffing out the source of methane emissions Image

Sniffing out the source of methane emissions

New analysis sets framework for decarbonizing the Intermountain West’s energy economy Image

New analysis sets framework for decarbonizing the Intermountain West’s energy economy

Hydrogen production technology getting closer to road-ready Image

Hydrogen production technology getting closer to road-ready

New approach improves identification of natural-gas emitters Image

New approach improves identification of natural-gas emitters

Observations confirm model of sea-level change from Greenland melt Image

Observations confirm model of sea-level change from Greenland melt

Community Stories

Frontiers in Science: Wildfire, water and climate change Image

Frontiers in Science: Wildfire, water and climate change

10 moments of community connection in 2022 Image

10 moments of community connection in 2022

Student scientists win big using food waste to make organic hair dye Image

Student scientists win big using food waste to make organic hair dye

That’s a wrap! $2.7 million raised by Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Holiday Giving Campaign Image

That’s a wrap! $2.7 million raised by Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Holiday Giving Campaign

An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure Image

An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure

Bringing excellence, and kindness, to every interaction Image

Bringing excellence, and kindness, to every interaction

Raised on a New Mexico ranch, teamwork still a priority for this Los Alamos National Lab employee Image

Raised on a New Mexico ranch, teamwork still a priority for this Los Alamos National Lab employee

Computing Stories

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

New effort underway to help revolutionize future of vaccine development Image

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

AI predicts physics of future fault slip in laboratory earthquakes Image

AI predicts physics of future fault slip in laboratory earthquakes

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

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

We proved Schrödinger wrong about color perception Image

We proved Schrödinger wrong about color perception

Quantum AI breakthrough: theorem shrinks appetite for training data Image

Quantum AI breakthrough: theorem shrinks appetite for training data

Energy Stories

This is not your grandparents’ power grid Image

This is not your grandparents’ power grid

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

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

Health Stories

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

Lab aids in global road map to better disease testing Image

Lab aids in global road map to better disease testing

Microgravity in space reveals hidden microbes Image

Microgravity in space reveals hidden microbes

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

The Lab Stories

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

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

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

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

New head for Physical Sciences at Los Alamos National Laboratory named Image

New head for Physical Sciences at Los Alamos National Laboratory named

Extension of terms for Los Alamos National Laboratory’s management and operating contract announced by NNSA Image

Extension of terms for Los Alamos National Laboratory’s management and operating contract announced by NNSA

Remembering WWII’s Navajo Code Talkers Image

Remembering WWII’s Navajo Code Talkers

Los Alamos National Laboratory’s long tradition of military ties continues today Image

Los Alamos National Laboratory’s long tradition of military ties continues today

New Associate Laboratory Director for Defense Protection Program named Image

New Associate Laboratory Director for Defense Protection Program named

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

Operations Stories

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

Los Alamos partners with DOE labs to host cybersecurity workshop Image

Los Alamos partners with DOE labs to host cybersecurity workshop

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

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

Fueling the future of hydrogen Image

Fueling the future of hydrogen

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

Space Stories

SuperCam records first audio of Martian dust devil Image

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

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

Pair of NASA missions will help planetary defense Image

Pair of NASA missions will help planetary defense

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

Technology Stories

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

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?

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

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

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

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

9 Los Alamos researchers named 2022 Laboratory Fellows Image

9 Los Alamos researchers named 2022 Laboratory Fellows

Los Alamos National Laboratory announces winners of its most prestigious medals Image

Los Alamos National Laboratory announces winners of its most prestigious medals

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

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