Latest News Releases
Los Alamos Shares Nano 50 Award for Directed Assembly
September 3 — A team of scientists has discovered a more efficient way of fusing charge-carrying electrical contacts to tiny “nanowires” of silicon to create the nanotechnology at the heart of potential future advances in modern electronics, sensing, and energy collection.
Lab Announces Selection of Partner for Venture Acceleration Initiative
September 2 — The Laboratory and its operating contractor, Los Alamos National Security, LLC, plan to partner with ARCH Venture Partners and Verge Fund for the Los Alamos Venture Acceleration (LAVA) Initiative.
Magnetism and Superconductivity Observed to Exist in Harmony
August 28 — Physicists at the Laboratory, along with colleagues at institutions in Switzerland and Canada, have observed, for the first time in a single exotic phase, a situation where magnetism and superconductivity are necessary for each other's existence.
Approaches to renewable energy storage focus of Frontiers in Science talk
August 21 — The science of renewable energy storage and how nanotechnology can benefit that science is the subject of the Laboratory’s next Frontiers in Science Lecture beginning August 26.
Los Alamos National Security, LLC Helps Fund Domenici Scholarship
August 15 — Los Alamos National Security, LLC (LANS) is donating $500,000 to the Senator Pete Domenici Endowed Scholarship Fund.
Networks of the Future: Extending Our Senses into the Physical World
August 13 — The picture of a future with wireless sensor networks-webs of sensory devices that function without a central infrastructure--is quickly coming into sharper focus through the work of computer scientist Sami Ayyorgun.
Lab Scientists Shed Light on Heavy Electrons, Suggest New View of Superconductivity
July 30 — Scientists from the Laboratory, the University of California, Irvine, and the University of California, Davis have proposed a new characterization for the bizarre behavior of certain super-cooled materials.
Ancient Galactic Magnetic Fields Stronger than Expected
July 23 — Mining the far reaches of the universe for clues about its past, a team of scientists including Philipp Kronberg of the Laboratory has proposed that magnetic fields of ancient galaxies like ours were just as strong as those existing today, prompting a rethinking of how our galaxy and others may have formed.
Builders Place Final Beam in First Phase of CMRR Project
July 22 — Workers hoisted the final steel beam atop the skeleton of what will be the Radiological Laboratory Utility Office Building at the Laboratory Tuesday morning, marking a milestone for the first of three phases in the multiyear Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement Project (CMRR).
Lab hosts 12th annual HAZMAT Challenge
July 14 — Fourteen teams are scheduled to participate in the 12th annual HAZMAT Challenge taking place July 15 – 18 at the Laboratory’s HAZMAT Training Facility at Technical Area 49.
