History: Remembering WWII’s Navajo Code Talkers

Every year, November is recognized as Native American Heritage Month. This year, the National Security Research Center at Los Alamos National Laboratory honors the occasion with a look back at the incredible history of the Navajo Code Talkers — a group of Native American servicemembers who used simple words and phrases from their unique tribal language to baffle Japanese code breakers and spur Allied victory in World War II’s Pacific theater. Read the full article here. Courtesy/LANL

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Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) shares a compilation of news stories on Hydrogen, TA-55 and WWII’s Navajo Code Talkers.

People: Bringing excellence, and kindness, to every interaction

Technical Area 55 at Los Alamos National Laboratory includes some of the most secure facilities in the nation, including the Radiological Laboratory Utility Office Building, where more than 400 employees find themselves in and out of on any given day. For that building and others in the same area, Hermelinda Coronado is well known for conducting her work as a member of the janitorial staff with excellence, integrity — and an ever-present smile. Read the full article here. Courtesy/LANL

Science: Hydrogen production technology getting closer to road-ready

The era of viable alternatives to fossil fuel-based transportation appears to be at hand. With the transportation sector the biggest contributor of greenhouse gases in the United States, California recently became the first of potentially many states to put a 2035 expiration on the sale of new internal-combustion vehicles. Meeting climate-crisis-driven transportation challenges depends on developing new fuels and an infrastructure for producing, processing, delivering and storing those fuels. Read the full article here. Courtesy/LANL