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Los Alamos National Laboratory: New Mexico LEEP Cohort 5

NM LEEP Cohort 5 deep-tech innovators at the NM LEEP Finals Event in September 2025, from left, Holly Eagleston, Stephen Buchanan, and Sonia Dagan. Courtesy/LANL

NM LEEP News:

The New Mexico Lab Embedded Entrepreneurship Program (NM LEEP) has selected its fifth cohort of deep-tech innovators. The two-year fellowship, based at Los Alamos National Laboratory, supports entrepreneurs working to accelerate the commercialization of breakthrough technologies that address the nation’s most urgent energy, security, and economic challenges.

This year’s application cycle was one of the most Read More

Documents Added To LANL Electronic Public Reading Room

LANL News:

New documents have been added to the Los Alamos Legacy Cleanup Contract Electronic Public Reading Room.

All legacy cleanup documents required to be posted after April 30, 2018, are available on the site linked above. 

For legacy cleanup documents that were posted prior to April 30, 2018, please visit the LANL electronic public reading room.

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Los Alamos Laboratory Retiree Group Meets For Breakfast The First Tuesday Of Every Month At Muy Salsas

Put another leaf in the table! A big crowd of Lab retirees showed up for breakfast Tuesday at Muy Salsas this week. Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) retirees and potential retirees are invited to drop in at the Laboratory Retiree Group (lalrg.org) monthly breakfast social, 8:30-10:30 a.m. on the first Tuesday of each month at Muy Salsas at 1315 Trinity Drive. Come hang out and join the conversation with other Lab retirees. LRG pays for everyone’s coffee and tea, while individuals pay for their breakfast and other drinks. Photo by Morris Pongratz Read More

LANL: MicroBooNE Results Point To New Directions In Search For Sterile Neutrinos

The school bus-sized MicroBooNE cryostat, a vessel filled with liquid argon and then encased at the detector site. Courtesy/FermiLab

LANL News:

The groundbreaking MicroBooNE project, a 170-ton liquid argon neutrino detector housed at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, has offered new results in the detector’s yearslong investigation of anomalies from previous experiments. As described in Nature, final data analyzed by the MicroBooNE team disfavors the existence of a sterile neutrino in one possible model, while leaving open other possibilities for continued physics investigation. Read More

New Documents Added To Los Alamos Legacy Cleanup Contract Electronic Reading Room

LANL News:

New documents have been added to the Los Alamos Legacy Cleanup Contract Electronic Public Reading Room.

All legacy cleanup documents required to be posted after April 30, 2018, are available on the site linked above.

For legacy cleanup documents that were posted prior to April 30, 2018, please visit the LANL electronic public reading room.

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Charles And Connie Pacheco Celebrate 75th Anniversary

Charles and Connie Pacheco celebrated 75 years of marriage on Jan. 22, 2026. Courtesy photo

Charles and Connie Pacheco on their wedding day on Jan. 22, 1951. Courtesy photo

Highlights from the 75-year marriage of Charles and Connie Pacheco:

Charles and Connie Pacheco met on May 20, 1949, when Connie graduated from high school in Taos, New Mexico. Connie’s cousin Tommy and Charles were good friends; he invited him to go to the graduation and that’s when they met. Her bother-in-law, Ken Wilson, worked in Los Alamos at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (LASL), (now called Los Alamos National Read More

New Documents Added To Los Alamos Legacy Cleanup Contract Reading Room

LANL News:

New documents have been added to the Los Alamos Legacy Cleanup Contract Electronic Public Reading Room

All legacy cleanup documents required to be posted after April 30, 2018, are available on the site linked above.

For legacy cleanup documents that were posted prior to April 30, 2018, please visit the LANL electronic public reading room.

Read More

Los Alamos Laboratory Ensures National Security


National Security Research Center at LANL. Courtesy/LANL

From Los Alamos National Laboratory:

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) ensures our national security. Achieving that mission starts with the National Security Research Center (NSRC). The NSRC is the classified library at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Watch video here: https://nsrc.lanl.gov/.

The NSRC traces its lineage to the technical library formed by J. Robert Oppenheimer in 1943 as part of the Manhattan Project. We are part of the Lab’s fascinating history. Today, the NSRC is one of the largest scientific/technical Read More

Catch Of The Week: When Your Robot Vacuum Joins The Surveillance State

By REBECCA RUTHERFORD
Los Alamos

For the Los Alamos Daily Post

There are few modern purchases more comforting than a robot vacuum. You name it something cute (Mine is named “mega maid” iykyk). You watch it bonk into furniture. You pretend it is your hardworking little cleaning buddy. You fantasize about your cat riding around on it. Normal things.

Unfortunately, your hardworking little buddy may also be a mobile camera, microphone, and home mapping system waiting for a backend security mistake.

Which is exactly what happened recently, yikes!

A software engineer was trying to do something extremely Read More

Emergency-Preparedness Exercise Scheduled At Los Alamos National Laboratory Tuesday Feb. 24

LANL News:

Los Alamos National Laboratory has scheduled an emergency preparedness exercise for Tuesday, Feb. 24. The exercise will test the preparedness of personnel who would respond in the case of an actual emergency.

The exercise will last approximately six hours, beginning at approximately 9 a.m. MST. The event is only an exercise.

Some elements of this exercise may be observable to the public, such as increased emergency vehicle traffic, smoke, workers in protective equipment performing simulated activities, and “exercise in progress” signage in or near the affected areas.

The Laboratory’s Read More