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    Toward Plastic Spin Transistors: Ultrafast Computers And Electronics On The Horizon?  Aug 18, 2008
    12, 2004) University of California scientists working at Los Alamos National Laboratory and at the University of California, Los Angeles have demonstrated the ability to detect the spin of a single electron in. (Mar. (Science Daily)

    Nursing a nuclear test hangover  Aug 18, 2008
    The sum represents less than 20 per cent of the annual budget of Los Alamos National Laboratory, the institution that developed the first atomic bomb and one of 13 national laboratories run by the same energy department that argues it has no custodial responsibility for the Runit dome. Clyde Bishop, the US ambassador to the Marshalls, explains why his country will not simply provide more funds: In 1986, Washington and Majuro enacted a Compact of Free Association. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)

    Analysis of Lake Washington microbes shows the power of metagenomic approaches  Aug 18, 2008
    Other DOE JGI authors include Natalia Ivanova, Alex Copeland, Asaf Salamov, Igor Grigoriev, Susannah Tringe, David Bruce (Los Alamos National Laboratory) and Paul Richardson; and Ernest Szeto and Victor Markowitz of the Data Management and Technology Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, supported by the DOE Office of Science, unites the expertise of five DOE national laboratories -- Lawrence Berkeley, Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos,... (EurekAlert!)

    • Shroud of Turin stirs new controversy  Aug 17, 2008
    At a conference sponsored by the Shroud Science Group at Ohio State University this weekend, the Los Alamos National Laboratory presented findings that the 1988 test results were flawed because the samples tested came from a portion of cloth that may have been added to the shroud during medieval repairs. The shroud's historical record dates back to 1349, when a French knight wrote to the pope of his possession of a cloth he described as the burial shroud of Christ. (Q13.com, WA)

    Several options for synchronizing computers  Aug 11, 2008
    For example, the Roadrunner supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico this year became the first to sustain a petaflop: 1 million billion operations per second. Roadrunner uses nearly 20,000 processors, a majority of which are the same chips that go into the Sony PlayStation 3. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Technology)

    Switching On First Neutrons At UK's ISIS Second Target Station  Aug 7, 2008
    7, 2008) The UK's ISIS Second Target Station Project moved a major step closer to completion when the first neutrons were created in the ISIS Second Target Station. After five years of planning and construction, the first neutrons were detected by the Inter instrument at 1308 BST. ISIS, the world-renowned neutron facility at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire, is operated by the Science and Technology Facilities Council. (Science Daily)

    Jupiter, Saturn Full Of Liquid Metal Helium  Aug 7, 2008
    (July 22, 2004) A scientist at the University of California's Los Alamos National Laboratory has created exhaustive computer models based on experiments in which the element hydrogen was shocked to pressures. (Oct. (Science Daily)

    Science's awesome challenge: Creating artificial life  Aug 5, 2008
    Such a cell would be ``unrelated to any existing life form on Earth,'' Szostak said. Other experts, however, said it might take decades or centuries before scientists would be able to ``create life from scratch,'' as the quest is colloquially known. (Anchorage Daily News)

    Nanotechnology: Size-specific Cracking Shakes  Aug 5, 2008
    That is the result of new research by LLNL s Michael Manley and colleagues from Los Alamos National Laboratory that appears as a Rapid Communication in the journal Physical Review B, August 1. As the size of a structure gets to the nanoscale, atomic vibrations (also known as phonons) begin to feel its size and shape in an effect called phonon confinement. (Science Daily)

    X-ray Diffraction Looks Inside Aerogels In 3-D  Aug 5, 2008
    30, 2004) University of California scientists working at Los Alamos National Laboratory have recently demonstrated a novel method for chemically modifying and enhancing silica-based aerogels without. (May 14, 2008) Protein crystallographers have only scratched the surface of the human proteins important for drug interactions because of difficulties crystallizing the molecules for synchrotron x-ray diffraction. (Science Daily)

    Project Aims To Improve Energy Efficiency Of Computing  Aug 5, 2008
    (May 7, 2005) Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Eclipse Foundation announced the Parallel Tools Platform Project, a new Eclipse Technology project aimed at creating better open source software tools for. (May 1, 2008) Researchers from HP Labs have proven the existence of what had previously been only theorized as the fourth fundamental circuit element in electrical engineering. (Science Daily)

    New Insight On Superconductors  Aug 2, 2008
    1, 2008) An important advance in understanding how the electrons in some materials become superconducting has been made by researchers from UC Davis, the Los Alamos National Laboratory and UC Irvine ... 8, 2006) While studying a compound made of the elements cerium- rhodium-indium, researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have discovered that a magnetic. (Science Daily)

    Viterbi Algorithm goes quantum  Aug 1, 2008
    Wilde plans to work on future extensions of these ideas with researchers at NEC Laboratories in Princeton, NJ, the Center for Quantum Technologies in Singapore, and the Quantum Institute at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The research was funded by NSF.. (EurekAlert!)

    Cinnafilm Ships Cinnafilm HD1, the Industry's First All-in-One Format Conversion Platform  Jul 31, 2008
    These presets are the result of the company's joint development efforts with Los Alamos National Laboratories (LANL). Future collaborations may include motion tracking and super resolution capabilities, scheduled for debut in the Q1, 2009 timeframe. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)

    Victor Madsen  Jul 30, 2008
    During his years in Seattle, he spent one summer working at China Lake Naval Base (California) and several at Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico. Victor married Ruth Harrill, whom he had met at the University of Washington, at Idaho Falls in 1955. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)

    New Material May Help Autos Turn Heat Into Electricity  Jul 26, 2008
    (May 27, 1999) In a step toward finding alternatives to conventional engines, scientists at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a remarkably simple, energy-efficient engine ... 17, 2004) A University of California scientist working at Los Alamos National Laboratory and researchers from Northrop Grumman Space Technology have developed a novel method for generating electrical power for. (Science Daily)

    Exotic Materials Using Neptunium, Plutonium Provide Insight Into Superconductivity  Jul 23, 2008
    8, 2006) While studying a compound made of the elements cerium- rhodium-indium, researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have discovered that a magnetic. (Sep. (Science Daily)

    Metallicum is big deal for a small technology  Jul 23, 2008
    That wave might be much closer, due to ' acquisition of Santa Fe-based Metallicum uses break-through technology from Los Alamos National Laboratory to produce nano-structured metals that are far stronger but much lighter than normal metals. Manhattan purchased Metallicum for an undisclosed price. (New Mexico Business Weekly, NM)

    Walter Kerwin; helped create volunteer Army  Jul 21, 2008
    After the war, he held positions in intelligence and taught artillery methods to the Turkish Army before being assigned to the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico in 1953. He helped coordinate the transportation of nuclear weapons for testing in Southwestern deserts and in the Pacific. (Boston Globe)

    New Kind Of MRI Enables Study Of Magnets For Computer Memory, Plaques In Blood Vessels  Jul 18, 2008
    They collaborated with Ivar Martin, Evgueni Nazaretski and Roman Movshovich of Los Alamos National Laboratory; and Sharat Batra of Seagate Research, the research and development center of hard drive manufacturer Seagate Technologies. This work was funded by the Department of Energy. (Science Daily)

    UH chosen to help make travel safer  Jul 17, 2008
    In the summer, students will have the chance to study at Livermore National Laboratory in California or Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. He said the agency is now working on ways to amend its 3-1-1 carry-on bag rule -- 3-ounce bottle; one quart-sized, clear, plastic, zip-top bag; one bag per passenger. (Honolulu Star-Bulletin)

    * Chinese spying strategy reliant on diaspora in US  Jul 14, 2008
    Lee Wen Ho (M), a former scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory was arrested in 1999 on 59 counts involving espionage and China. All but one of the charges was dropped after a judge found significant problems with the governments case. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)

    Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows Brighter Than Expected  Jul 13, 2008
    But Chris Fryer, a theoretical astrophysicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, says it is more likely that the standard afterglow model needs revision. That model assumes that relativistic jets store energy primarily in the form of hot matter () and less in the form of magnetic fields generated by shock waves at the front of the jets. (Scientific American)

    Water Found on the Moon  Jul 13, 2008
    "That was not known," said William Feldman, a Los Alamos National Laboratory geophysicist who was not involved in the study. If that water in fact came from the Earth, then planetary geologists can be certain that our planet contained water 4. (ABC News)

    Australia joins push for open access to particle physics  Jul 8, 2008
    " Each SCOAP3 member country will contribute according to its share of high-energy physics publishing. Allowances are made for developing countries that are unable to pay their share. Australia produces 0.6 per cent of high-energy physics articles, an amount that will be covered by the contributions of the six participating universities. The USA produces 24.3 per cent of HEP articles, Germany 9.1 per cent, Japan 7.1 per cent, UK 6.6 per cent, China 5.6 per cent and CERN 2.1 per cent. SCOAP3... (EurekAlert! -- Business News)

    Hearings will gather perceptions of Los Alamos lab  Jul 8, 2008
    The sessions are designed to better understand the issues and perceptions residents of northern New Mexico have regarding LANL. ... Officials with the Environment Department said better understanding of these issues and priorities that are important to northern New Mexicans will allow the Department to incorporate these concerns into its decisions on handling potential environmental risks posed by LANL.. (New Mexico Business Weekly, NM)

    Rubber 'Snake' Could Boost Wave Power Energy  Jul 7, 2008
    17, 2004) A University of California scientist working at Los Alamos National Laboratory and researchers from Northrop Grumman Space Technology have developed a novel method for generating electrical power for. (Dec. (Science Daily)

    First Underwater Neutrino Telescope Has Been Constructed  Jul 6, 2008
    5, 2001) A collaboration of university scientists and researchers working at Los Alamos National Laboratory has published the final paper from the Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector (LSND) experiment. The. (Science Daily)

    A greener July Fourth?  Jul 4, 2008
    Defense agencies are financing research by scientists, including Steinhauser and Klapotke in Munich and explosives experts at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. Among the concerns is the cumulative contamination of military testing grounds and training sites. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Business)

    R&D Magazine honors LANL scientists  Jul 4, 2008
    R&D Magazine honors LANL scientists - New Mexico Business Weekly ... R&D Magazine honors LANL scientists. (New Mexico Business Weekly, NM)

    Visualizing atomic-scale acoustic wavesin nanostructures  Jul 4, 2008
    Using molecular dynamics simulations, the team, made up of Livermore's Reed and Michael Armstrong in collaboration with Los Alamos National Laboratory colleagues shows that the time-history of the wave can be determined with potentially sub-picosecond, nearly atomic time and space resolution by measuring the electromagnetic field. Reed and colleagues studied the effect for an interface between two thin films, which are used in LED (light-emitting diode) nanostructures, and are piezoelectric... (EurekAlert!)

    US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute announces new genome sequencing projects  Jul 3, 2008
    This project, led by Andrew Koppisch and colleagues from Los Alamos National Laboratory and five other institutions, will target the identification of specific metabolic pathways responsible for hydrocarbon synthesis to alleviate bottlenecks in biofuels production. Other CSP 2009 projects include the following. (EurekAlert!)

    The Tunguska Mystery 100 Years Later  Jul 1, 2008
    Using satellite observations of meteoric flares in the atmosphere ( shooting stars ) and acoustical data that record cosmic impacts on the surface of the earth, Peter Brown and his co-workers at the University of Western Ontario and Los Alamos National Laboratory estimated the rate of smaller impacts. The researchers have also extrapolated their findings to larger but rarer incidents such as the Tunguska event. (Scientific American)

    Plutonium Pit Plan for N.M. Lab Faces Opposition  Jul 1, 2008
    Small wonder, then, that Kotowski and others in this canyon keep a wary eye on their big, mesa-top neighbor, the Los Alamos National Laboratory ... The Los Alamos National Laboratory "is located within the food basket of northern New Mexico," said the New Mexico Acequia Association, which told the DOE it is concerned about potential radioactive contamination of land and water. (Newsmax)

    After Breaches, Head of U.S. Nuclear Program Is Ousted  Jun 29, 2008
    Energy Secretary Samuel W. Bodman has fired the head of the nation's nuclear weapons program, Linton F. Brooks, because of security breaches last year at weapons facilities, including Los Alamos National Laboratory. Declaring that it was "time for new leadership," Bodman said in a written statement yesterday that he had asked Brooks to leave his post as administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration by the end of the month. (Yahoo News -- Nuclear Weapons)

    President Bush Appoints 2008-2009 Class of White House Fellows  Jun 27, 2008
    David Loaiza is a technical staff member at the Los Alamos National Laboratory who serves as an advisor to the Department of Energy's Office of Dismantlement and Transparency. He assists in the development of U.S. non-proliferation policy at the national and international level. (White House News Releases)

    3M buys Imtec Corp.  Jun 27, 2008
    Thompson is a former design engineer for Los Alamos National Laboratory who created Hytec in 1996 with a group of LANL colleagues. They created FlashCT imaging technology, which uses X-rays to make 3-D images. (New Mexico Business Weekly, NM)

    IBM Defies Tech Sector's Slowdown  Jun 27, 2008
    com, Google, Research in Motion) at SmartMoney (SmartMoney)

    Industry, government and academia collaborate at national lab  Jun 26, 2008
    These include: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University Applied Research Laboratory, USA Biometrics Fusion Center, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Republic Aero, ATConocoPhillips. The UML works with these groups and others to develop sensor technologies needed by its clients. (EurekAlert! -- Business News)

    3 Top 500 List Means Plenty of Bragging Rights  Jun 20, 2008
    It's been beaten by another IBM behemoth, named Roadrunner, which just this month came online at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory. Roadrunner is the first computer to break the petaflop () barrier. (Datamation)

    Microsoft Buys TV Ad Technology Company  Jun 19, 2008
    The worlds fastest computer, as measured by the ability to solve an array of linear equations, is a Los Alamos National Laboratory supercomputer, assembled from components originally designed for Sony PS3 video game machines. In the twice-annual rankings called the Top 500 list, published on Wednesday morning, the machine dubbed Roadrunner reached a long-sought-after computing milestone by processing more than 1. (New York Times)

    How power-hungry are the Top500 supercomputers?  Jun 19, 2008
    Anonymous says: Too bad the author of the article doesn't understand that Roadrunner is owned and operated by Los Alamos National Laboratory. . (Computerworld)

    Argonnes computer vaults into worlds top 3  Jun 19, 2008
    Argonne was thought to be in line for second place, but a recently installed supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico was finished in time to make the list, crashing the speed barrier with a performance of 1. 026 petaflops per second. (Crain's Chicago Business)

    Top 500 supercomputers: Welcome to the petaflop generation  Jun 19, 2008
    That was the today as the new most powerful supercomputer in the world IBM's $100,000 million system installed at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory was officially named the most powerful and energy efficient supercomputer in the world. was unveiled at the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden and proclaimed that achieved performance of 1. (NetworkWorld.com)

    Space science simulation at UNH now better, faster, cheaper  Jun 19, 2008
    Indeed, as was recently announced, the new $133 million "Roadrunner" supercomputer at the Los Alamos National Laboratory will use the same technology created to power video games to solve classified military problems. The heart of the supercomputing power, and of PlayStation3's gee-whiz graphics, is a chip called the Cell Broadband Engine, which can perform up to two-hundred-billion operations per second. (EurekAlert! -- Business News)

    IBM's Roadrunner tops world supercomputer list  Jun 19, 2008
    The Roadrunner, located at the U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory, achieved a peak performance of 1. 026 petaFLOPS, overpassing IBM's BlueGene L and P systems to take the top spot. (Xinhuanet, China)

    Genome sequence of lancelet shows how genes quadrupled during vertebrate evolution  Jun 19, 2008
    The amphioxus genome was sequenced by the Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute under the auspices of the DOE's Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research Program, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory. UC Berkeley's Center for Integrative Genomics is funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. (EurekAlert!)

    World's Fastest and First Petaflop Supercomputer Uses EMCORE Connects Cables  Jun 18, 2008
    Due to this combination of high performance and excellent reliability, IBM chose EMCORE Connects Cables for Roadrunner, the Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration funded High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster that will be housed at it's Los Alamos National Laboratory. On June 9, the DOE announced that Roadrunner was the first system to break 1,000 trillion calculations per second mark known as the Petaflop. (PR Newswire)

    IBM's Cell-based RoadRunner Supercomputer Is World's Fastest  Jun 18, 2008
    The computer was commissioned by the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration for use at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and cost about US$100 million to make, IBM said last week. The arrival of RoadRunner in the ranking pushes the IBM BlueGene/L system at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory off the top spot that it has held since November 2004. (Yahoo News -- Technology)

    Melbourne to host $100 million life sciences supercomputer  Jun 18, 2008
    Melbourne Uni's news follows from IBM's big announcement last week that it had the petaflop barrier with a system at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, dubbed the RoadRunner. This system cost US$100 million. (Computerworld Australia)

    Supercomputer Mimics Human Sight Mechanisms  Jun 15, 2008
    15, 2008) Less than a week after Los Alamos National Laboratory's Roadrunner supercomputer began operating at world-record petaflop-per-second data-processing speeds, Los Alamos researchers are already using the computer to mimic extremely complex neurological processes ... "Roadrunner ushers in a new era for science at Los Alamos National Laboratory," said Terry Wallace, associate director for Science, Technology and Engineering at Los Alamos ... Los Alamos National Laboratory's computation... (Science Daily)

    Petaflop is no flop at all  Jun 15, 2008
    Already, people at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, where Roadrunner will take up permanent residence, are contemplating assaults on previously impossible problems in the physical sciences, biology and medicine. Second, the petaflop achievement is tantalisingly close to something far more familiar: the human brain. (Sydney Morning Herald)

    New Insights Into Hidden World Of Protein Folding  Jun 14, 2008
    13, 2008) The proteins upon which life depends share an attribute with paper airplanes: Unless folded properly, they just won't fly. But researchers have been puzzled by how the long, linear proteins cranked out by the ribosome factories in a cell are folded into the shapes they must assume to perform their function. (Science Daily)

    Scientists using Roadrunner supercomputer to mimic complex brain ...  Jun 14, 2008
    Washington, June 13 (ANI): Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have started using the Roadrunner supercomputer built by IBM at their facility to mimic extremely complex neurological processes ... Roadrunner ushers in a new era for science at Los Alamos National Laboratory. (Thaindian.com)

    Roadrunner supercomputer puts research at a new scale  Jun 13, 2008
    LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, June 12, 2008Less than a week after Los Alamos National Laboratory's Roadrunner supercomputer began operating at world-record petaflop/s data-processing speeds, Los Alamos researchers are already using the computer to mimic extremely complex neurological processes ... "Roadrunner ushers in a new era for science at Los Alamos National Laboratory," said Terry Wallace, associate director for Science, Technology and Engineering at Los Alamos ... Los Alamos National... (EurekAlert!)

    Acoustics' 08: Tigers, singers, earthquakes, buildings, caves, coveted violins, and more  Jun 13, 2008
    Joan Gomberg (), Paul Johnson () and their colleagues from the U.S. Geological Survey and Los Alamos National Laboratory are looking at a newly-recognized seismological phenomenon called dynamic triggering that occurs when faults in the Earth's crust are subjected to transient strains and stresses. These stresses and strains may be caused by seismic waves generated by earthquakes, and they may lead to additional earthquakes -- often long after the initial earthquake has occurred. (EurekAlert!)

    Va. Congressman Claims Cyber Hack Attack  Jun 12, 2008
    In December 2007, hackers believed to be in China were behind cyber attacks on three of the U.S. National Laboratories, including Tennessee's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, New Mexico's Los Alamos National Laboratory and California's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. In those attacks, hackers used e-mails with attachments sent to thousands of lab employees. (ABC News)

    Energy Dept says new computer world's fastest  Jun 11, 2008
    The IBM (IBM.N: , , ) Roadrunner supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico is the first to achieve a what is known as a petaflop of sustained performance, the department and IBM said. "Flop" is an acronym meaning floating-point operations per second. (Reuters UK)

    World's fastest computer -- thinking for you  Jun 11, 2008
    Scientists from IBM and Los Alamos National Laboratory have built the world's fastest supercomputer, named with a certain aptness "Roadrunner." It can perform 1,000 trillion calculations a second. That's actually a quadrillion, a word you don't get to throw around much. (Scripps Howard News Wire)

    U.S. supercomputer sets speed record  Jun 10, 2008
    The new $133 million supercomputer, called Roadrunner in a reference to the state bird of New Mexico, was devised and built by engineers and scientists at IBM and Los Alamos National Laboratory, in New Mexico ... "We've proved some skeptics wrong," said Michael Anastasio, a physicist who is director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. (International Herald Tribune -- Technology)

    US military makes world's fastest supercomputer  Jun 10, 2008
    The $133 million supercomputer, called Roadrunner in a reference to the state bird of New Mexico, was devised and built by engineers and scientists at IBM and Los Alamos National Laboratory. . (Sify.com, India)

    IBM builds speed champ  Jun 10, 2008
    The customer who has a need for such hugely long calculations is the Energy Department's Los Alamos National Laboratory, where the prime task is monitoring the nation's stockpile of nuclear weapons as they age and to do virtual tests to determine their safety, how well they would work if used and what the military might need to do with old warheads. According to Schultz, some other research functions are planned, including the study of climate, biofuels and brain simulations. (Poughkeepsie Journal)

    Scientists unveil world's fastest computer  Jun 10, 2008
    The technology breakthrough was accomplished by engineers from the Los Alamos National Laboratory and IBM Corp. on a computer to be used primarily on nuclear weapons work, including simulating nuclear explosions ... The Roadrunner computer, now housed at the IBM research laboratory in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., will be moved next month to the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. (Globe and Mail -- International)

    U.S. unveils world's fastest supercomputer  Jun 10, 2008
    Roadrunner will be housed at NNSA's Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. The laboratory worked with manufacturer IBM for six years to develop the super machine, which can meet "the nation's evolving national security needs.". (Xinhuanet, China)

    No Coyotes Could Ever Hope To Catch IBM's New Roadrunner Supercomputer  Jun 10, 2008
    The technology breakthrough was accomplished by engineers from the Los Alamos National Laboratory and IBM () on a computer to be used primarily on nuclear weapons work, including simulating nuclear explosions. The computer, named Roadrunner, is twice as fast as IBM's Blue Gene system at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, which itself is three times faster than any of the world's other supercomputers, according to IBM.. (Investors Business Daily)

    US develops mother of all computers  Jun 10, 2008
    The new $133 million supercomputer, called Roadrunner in a reference to the state bird of New Mexico, was devised and built by engineers and scientists at IBM and Los Alamos National Laboratory, based in Los Alamos, New Mexico. It will be used to solve classified military problems to ensure that the nations stockpile of nuclear weapons will continue to work correctly as they age. (India Times, India -- Health/Science)

    Supercomputer sets record...  Jun 9, 2008
    The new $133 million supercomputer, called Roadrunner in a reference to the state bird of New Mexico, was devised and built by engineers and scientists at IBM and Los Alamos National Laboratory, based in Los Alamos, New Mexico ... "We've proved some skeptics wrong," said Michael Anastasio, a physicist who is director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. (The Drudge Report)

    New Fingerprint Breakthrough By Forensic Scientists  Jun 5, 2008
    23, 2005) University of California scientists working at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a novel method for detecting fingerprints based on the chemical elements present in fingerprint residue. (Apr. (Science Daily)

    State Senate District Races  Jun 3, 2008
    He sponsored 29 bills during the 2008 session and serves on the Conservation, Corporations and Transportation, Economic and Rural Development, Information Technology and Telecommunications Oversight, Investments and Pensions Oversight, Land Grant, Legislative Finance, Los Alamos National Laboratory Oversight, Mortgage Finance Authority Act Oversight, Revenue Stabilization and Tax Policy, and Water and Natural Resources committees. The New Mexico Scorpions begin their second season of existence... (Rio Rancho Observer, NM)

    Potential Tool For Selectively Manipulating Electron Spins In New Technologies Arises Unexpectedly  Jun 2, 2008
    12, 2004) University of California scientists working at Los Alamos National Laboratory and at the University of California, Los Angeles have demonstrated the ability to detect the spin of a single electron in. (Jul. (Science Daily)

    Battling Bird Flu By The Numbers  May 29, 2008
    ScienceDaily (May 28, 2008) A pair of Los Alamos National Laboratory theorists have developed a mathematical tool that could help health experts and crisis managers determine in real time whether an emerging infectious disease such as avian influenza H5N1 is poised to spread globally. See also. (Science Daily)

    'Avalanche Effect' In Solar Cells Demonstrated  May 28, 2008
    (May 6, 2004) University of California scientists working at Los Alamos National Laboratory have proposed a new theory to explain the movement of vast energy fields in giant radio galaxies ... 5, 2006) Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have discovered that a phenomenon called carrier multiplication, in which semiconductor nanocrystals respond to photons by producing multiple electrons, is. (Science Daily)

    Scientists Characterize Protein Structure Of Environmentally Friendly Bacteria  May 23, 2008
    16, 2005) University of California scientists working at Los Alamos National Laboratory have found that the successful use of bacteria to remediate environmental contamination from nuclear waste and processing. (May 7, 2007) Researchers report the detailed structure of a key protein that helps bacteria talk to each other. (Science Daily)

    Massive New Chinese Missile Base Uncovered  May 22, 2008
    A U.S. supercomputer like those used at research facilities such as Los Alamos National Laboratory will be used by the Chinese to operate a new generation of weather satellites. There are military implications, however, for Chinas use of this powerful Silicon Graphics Inc. computing capability. (Newsmax)

    HIV Infection Stems From Few Viruses  May 20, 2008
    It was conducted by researchers in the UAB departments of Medicine and Microbiology, at Duke University, Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico, the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, the University of Maryland in College Park, the University of California, San Francisco, the University of Rochester in New York and the University of Cape Town in Rondebosch, South Africa. Adapted from materials provided by. (Science Daily)

    West keeps a nervous eye open for nuclear damage  May 17, 2008
    Closer to the epicentre of the quake that struck on Monday is Mianyang, a science city whose outskirts house the primary laboratory for the design of Chinese nuclear arms, considered the Chinese equivalent to the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. Known as the Chinese Academy of Engineering Physics, it has centres throughout Sichuan province. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)

    Western experts monitor China's nuclear sites for signs of damage  May 16, 2008
    "From what I know, they're a really brilliant people and I think they do things the right way," said Danny Stillman, a former director of intelligence at Los Alamos National Laboratory and an expert on the Chinese nuclear program because of extensive travels in the 1990s to its secretive sites and bases. Closer to the epicenter of the quake that struck Monday is Mianyang, a science city whose outskirts house the primary laboratory for the design of Chinese nuclear arms. (International Herald Tribune)

    Henry Moore Sculpture Could Be Re-erected Thanks To 21st Century Science  May 15, 2008
    26, 1997) Metallurgists at the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory who honed their craft in the nuclear weapons arena are now sharing their expertise with a Santa Fe sculptor and others. (Dec. (Science Daily)

    IBM close to breaking petaflops barrier  May 13, 2008
    IBM Corp. and the Los Alamos National Laboratory are in a race with time to break the petaflops barrier in computing. If they succeed, the milestone would give major bragging rights for both organizations. (EETimes)

    Magnet Lab researchers make observing cell functions easier  May 9, 2008
    The laboratory, which is operated by a consortium composed of Florida State University, the University of Florida and Los Alamos National Laboratory, is sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the state of Florida. To learn more, visit. (EurekAlert!)

    Fungus genes could point to cheap fuel: report  May 8, 2008
    "Our analysis, coupled with the genome sequence data, provides a road map for constructing enhanced T. reesei strains for industrial applications such as biofuel production," Diego Martinez of Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and colleagues wrote. The fungus has already been exploited commercially. (Reuters)

    Lean and mean biomass-degrading fungus reveals capabilities for improved biofuel production  May 5, 2008
    The results were published online May 4 in Nature Biotechnology by a team of government, academic, and industry researchers led by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI) and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) ... Other authors on the study include, from JGI-LANL (at Los Alamos National Laboratory), Thomas Brettin, David Bruce, Chris Detter, Cheryl Kuske, Olga Chertkov, Melissa Jackson, Cliff Han, Monica Misra, Nina Thayer, Ravi Barbote, and Gary Xie; from the JGI-PGF... (EurekAlert!)

    Sci-Fi Security  May 3, 2008
    Those in the know in government clearly agree, since SIGMA members have long consulted with agencies like the Homeland Security and Defense Departments, DARPA, Sandia Labs, NASA and the CIA. Some current members are employed by NASA and the Navy; one is a director at Los Alamos National Laboratory. So just what have these guys been thinking up. (Fox News)

    After Breaches, Head of U.S. Nuclear Program Is Ousted  Apr 23, 2008
    Energy Secretary Samuel W. Bodman has fired the head of the nation's nuclear weapons program, Linton F. Brooks, because of security breaches last year at weapons facilities, including Los Alamos National Laboratory. Declaring that it was "time for new leadership," Bodman said in a written statement yesterday that he had asked Brooks to leave his post as administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration by the end of the month. (Yahoo News -- Nuclear Weapons)

    Shirley Ann Dussart obituary  Apr 23, 2008
    Shirley came to New Mexico in 1964 and worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1978 until she retired in 1993. She was a devoted wife, mother, and homemaker. (Rio Rancho Observer, NM)

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