LANL: Using X-Rays To Analyze New Mexico State Artifacts
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Coronado Historic Site in Bernalillo received a Community Technical Assistance grant from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to study two New Mexico state artifacts that were then provided to the laboratory to be analyzed.
X-ray analysis techniques were used to study the morphology, shape, composition and atomic information.
One of the artifacts was a copper quarrel (arrowhead) that provides more evidence of Coronado’s presence in the area.
LANL produced video interview with the two scientists can be viewed here. Read More
LANL News Roundup For Week Of April 11, 2022
Spooky Action at a Distance? Not a Chance!:
Quantum mechanics has a way of taking your mind to places it just doesn’t want to go. Famously hard to understand and impossible to intuit, concepts such as quantum entanglement and superposition really make sense only when viewed through a mathematical lens. Plain language most often leads you down dead ends or false paths that end miles away from reality, with carelessly chosen words propagating misunderstandings at the speed of the internet. Read the full article in Real Clear Science. Courtesy/LANL
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James Kunetka Speaks On ‘Los Alamos: Robert Oppenheimer’s Greatest Legacy’ April 18
James W. Kunetka
By BECKY SHANKLAND
J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Committee
James W. Kunetka, leading historian of Oppenheimer and the wartime creation of the Los Alamos Laboratory, will speak on “Los Alamos: Robert Oppenheimer’s Greatest Legacy” at the Duane Smith Auditorium 7 p.m. April 18, co-sponsored by the J. Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Committee and the Los Alamos Historical Society.
Kunetka’s talk is part of the Oppenheimer Committee’s celebration of its 50 years of honoring Oppenheimer’s influence on the city he founded.
Kunetka is a renowned writer about the development of Read More
LANL: 70 Years Of Electronic Computing
Lois Cook (Leurgans) was a programmer, operator, and problem analyst. She is pictured here next to the MANIAC’s arithmetic unit in the 1950s. Courtesy/LANL
The MANIAC’s chassis under construction in 1950. Courtesy/LANL
By NICHOLAS LEWIS
Historian
National Security Research Center
Seventy years ago this spring, the first fully electronic computer at what is today Los Alamos National Laboratory came online. Called the MANIAC, it was constructed when electronic computing and its associated industry were still in their infancy.
Early computer centers like Los Alamos had to build their Read More
LANL: Curiosity Rover ChemCam Engineering Team Awarded Explorers Club Citation Of Merit
The ChemCam Engineering Team at Los Alamos National Laboratory, from left, Cindy Little, Margie Root, Tony Nelson, Nina Lanza, Amanda Sheridan and Roberta Beal. Courtesy/LANL
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The Curiosity Rover ChemCam Engineering Team was awarded the Citation of Merit by the Explorers Club, a society that promotes exploration and scientific field study. The team was nominated for their hard work to recover the use of the ChemCam laser on Mars after the high-voltage power supply started behaving off-nominally in 2021.
The ChemCam Engineering Team members from Los Alamos are Roberta Beal, Nina Read More
‘The Periodic Table’ Resumes At Bathtub Row Brewing With Organic Chemist Amanda Evans Monday April 18
Organic Chemist Amanda Evans
LANL News:
Amanda Evans, a synthetic and physical organic chemist by training, utilizes both batch and continuous flow chemistry approaches for making molecules.
Evans will continue “The Periodic Table” gathering 5:30-7 p.m. Monday, April 18 at the Bathtub Row Brewing Co-Op at 163 Central Park Square.
She will discuss establishing more innovative, scalable and sustainable enabling methodologies for creating chiral molecules and making molecules on demand.
The Periodic Table is a free science-outreach event organized by the Bradbury Science Museum. Read More
DOE/NNSA Issues Wetland Assessment For LANL Water Line Replacement For 15-Day Public Review & Comment
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The Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration’s (DOE/NNSA) Los Alamos Field Office has issued a Wetland Assessment for the Replacement Water Lines from Technical Area 48 to Technical Area 55 Project (Wetland Assessment) for a 15-day public review and comment period commencing with publication of this notice.
DOE/NNSA is proposing to install two 12-inch water lines along an alignment from TA-48 to Pecos Road on the east side of TA-55 at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). The proposed water lines will replace aging cast iron pipes that provide water for Read More