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LANL: RoboRave Rally And Science Showdown At Northern New Mexico College 9 a.m. To 3 p.m. Saturday

LANL News:

The fifth annual RoboRAVE Rally/NNM Science Showdown takes place Saturday in Española.

The event features more than 50 student robotics teams from across the region and a great range of hands-on STEM activities and demonstrations. The event promises to be a great day of seeing science in action, and is free and open to the public.

 
Date: Saturday, March 2
Time: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Location: Eagle Gym at NNMC, 921 N. Paseo De Onate in Española

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The RoboRAVE Rally is a robotics competition in which 58 registered student robotics teams (from elementary to high school age) Read More

Unsung Women Heroes Of The Space Race

The women of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) helped launch the first American satellites, lunar missions and planetary explorations. Those ‘human computers’ as they were called, are seen here in 1953. Janez Lawson was the first African American hired into a technical position at JPL. Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech
 
NMMSH News:
 
ALAMOGORDO Katherine Johnson, Barbara Paulson, Margaret Brunn, Helen Ling and Susan Finley, to name just a few, all have one thing in common. They are the women who worked alongside the men to make the space program succeed.
 
Not all
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Earth May Be 140 Years Away From Reaching Carbon Levels Not Seen In 56 Million Years

A new study shows humans are pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere at a rate nine to 10 times higher than the greenhouse gas was emitted during a global warming event 56 million years ago that made the oceans more acidic and drove some marine species extinct. Courtesy/AGU

 
AGU News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Total human carbon dioxide emissions could match those of Earth’s last major greenhouse warming event in fewer than five generations, new research finds.
 
A new study finds humans are pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere at a rate nine to 10 times higher than the greenhouse
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LAPS Students Heading To Regional Science Fair

Lillian Petersen and Garyk Brixi were named Grand Award in the Environmental Science Senior Division for their project, ‘A Novel Computational Tool to Inform Cost-Effective Nutrition Interventions in Sub-Saharan Africa’. They will next compete at the Northeastern New Mexico Regional Science & Engineering Fair March 2 at New Mexico Highlands University. Courtesy/LAPS

LAPS News:

Los Alamos Public Schools is sending 50 students to the Northeastern New Mexico Regional Science & Engineering Fair March 2 at New Mexico Highlands University in Las Vegas, NM.

Students qualified for Read More

LANL: Collaboration Opportunity To Harness Top Algae Strains For Bioenergy

LANL and partners are inviting the algae industry and academia to contribute to research to find the best algae strains for biofuels and bioproducts. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • DOE project aims to boost productivity, lower cost of algae biofuels and bioproducts

Los Alamos National Laboratory and partners are inviting the algae industry and academia to contribute to research to find the best algae strains for biofuels and bioproducts and to reduce the cost of producing bioenergy from algae feedstocks. 

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (Bioenergy Read More

Explore Wonders Of ‘Big Honking Telescopes’ Friday

Explore the wonders of big telescopes at 7 p.m. Friday at the Los Alamos Nature Center. Courtesy/PEEC

PEEC News:

 

Explore the wonders of “Big Honking Telescopes” this Friday, Feb. 22 at the Los Alamos Nature Center planetarium. Join Dave North and Akkana Peck to learn why we build extremely large telescopes and what they have told us about our universe. This talk begins at 7 p.m. and is free to attend.

 

Most of what we know about the larger universe is the result of ever larger and better optics. North and Peck will weave the story of the inspiration, design and genius behind these monster Read More

‘River Of Stars’ Streaming Through Milky Way … Hiding In Plain Sight For 1 Billion Years

In this stereographic projection, the Milky Way curves around the entire image in an arc, with the newly discovered river of stars displayed in red and covering almost the entire southern Galactic hemisphere. Courtesy/Astronomy & Astrophysics

LiveScience News:

One billion years ago, a cluster of stars formed in our galaxy. Since then, that cluster has whipped four long circles around the edge of the Milky Way. In that time, the Milky Way’s gravity has stretched that cluster out from a blob into a long stellar stream. Right now, the stars are passing relatively close to Earth, just Read More

Cornell Professor: ‘Carl Sagan, Vatican Astronomers, And A Life Of Science And Faith’ At IHM Wednesday

Cornell University Professor Jonathan Lunine

IHM News:

Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish will host Cornell University Professor Jonathan Lunine for a presentation on the intersection of faith and science and his journey to the Catholic Faith. 

Professor Lunine is the David C. Duncan Professor in the Physical Sciences at Cornell University, director of the Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, and vice president of the Society of Catholic Scientists.

The community is invited to attend this presentation at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 20 in the Parish Hall at 3700 Canyon Road. Read More

Bradbury Science Museum Association Launches STEM Education Docent Program This Month

BSMA News:
 
The Bradbury Science Museum Association (BSMA) is looking for volunteers for their latest endeavor, a docent program dedicated to supporting educational programs at the Bradbury Science Museum.
 
If you’re interested in giving of your time and expertise alongside the Bradbury staff, have a passion for science or education, enjoy working with school-aged children and adolescents, and can pass a background check, the BSMA’s new STEM Education Docent program may be a great fit for you.
 
More information and application forms are available here.
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NNSA Approves ‘Critical Decision 1’ For Advanced Sources And Detectors Project, A New Tool To Advance Stockpile Stewardship

An abbreviated concept illustration shows a portion of the ASD accelerator and target vessel. Courtesy/LANL
 
LANL News:
 
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has approved Critical Decision-1 (CD-1) for the Advanced Sources and Detectors Project (ASD), a cornerstone of the Enhanced Capabilities for Subcritical Experiments portfolio (ECSE).
 
ASD is a proposed 20-million electron volt (MeV) accelerator that will generate X-ray images, or radiographs, of subcritical implosion experiments for the nuclear weapons program.
 
“The ECSE portfolio
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