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22-Mar-2021
Next-generation tech for biofuels refining
DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Helping to strengthen the economic viability of biorefineries in the production of alternative fuels derived from biomass is critical to decreasing the use of fossil fuels and mitigating carbon dioxide emissions.
17-Mar-2021
Two-week summer physics camp for young women in New Mexico
DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
New Mexico students are encouraged to apply for the free, two-week, virtual Summer Physics Camp for Young Women, taught primarily by women scientists and engineers at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
15-Mar-2021
New machine harnesses Earth's magnetic field to detect chemicals
DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
A Los Alamos National Laboratory-designed spectroscopy instrument allows scientists, industry, and governments to decipher even trace amounts of chemicals using the Earth's own magnetic field.
11-Mar-2021
SuperCam sends first data back to Earth from the Perseverance Mars Rover
DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Following the successful landing of NASA's Perseverance rover in Jezero Crater on Mars, the SuperCam operational teams at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the French National Centre for Space Studies (CNES) received the first results showing that SuperCam is in good health and giving its first impressions of the crater.
9-Mar-2021
MEDIA ADVISORY: News conference
DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos National Laboratory and France's National Centre for Space Studies (CNES) will hold an online press conference on Wednesday, March 10, to assess the health of SuperCam, the rock-zapping laser that was developed under the auspices of the two institutions and is now on board the NASA Perseverance rover on the surface of Mars.
8-Mar-2021
Prescribed burns and other low-intensity fires are highly responsive to changes in winds
DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory and partners have used modeling to highlight the large impact that small changes in wind conditions can have on low-intensity fires or prescribed burns.
8-Mar-2021
Los Alamos National Laboratory moves 500 employees to Santa Fe
DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos National Laboratory is strengthening its presence in Santa Fe with the signing of a 10-year-lease of two adjacent office properties totaling 77,856 square feet of space at the corner of Pacheco Street and St. Michael's Drive.
25-Feb-2021
A look into the mysteries of proton structure and the dynamics of antiquarks and gluons
DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
A complex high-energy nuclear physics experiment, aiming to measure the contributions of antiquarks to the structure of the proton and neutron, has produced results that are the opposite of what had previously been understood about proton structure and the dynamics of strong interacting antiquarks and gluons.
17-Feb-2021
Colloidal quantum dot lasers poised to come of age
DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
A new paper by authors from Los Alamos and Argonne national laboratories sums up the recent progress in colloidal-quantum-dot research and highlights the remaining challenges and opportunities in the rapidly developing field, which is poised to enable a wide array of new laser-based and LED-based technology applications.