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News Releases Archive - 2007
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DECEMBER
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The Quest for a New Class of Superconductors
December 20 - Fifty years after the Nobel-prize winning explanation of how superconductors work, a research team from Los Alamos National Laboratory, the University of Edinburgh, and Cambridge University are suggesting another mechanism for the still-mysterious phenomenon.
Science Satellites Scour Skies for Santa
December 20 - International audiences (young and young-at-heart) will be closely eyeing the Santa-tracking satellite technology of Los Alamos National Laboratory in the coming week.
Los Alamos National Laboratory to work on nuclear design, plutonium research and development, and supercomputing
December 19 - The Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration has selected Los Alamos National Laboratory as its preferred alternative site for plutonium research, development, and limited manufacturing, along with nuclear weapons design and engineering, and supercomputing.
Collaboration Yields 'The Right Glasses' for Observing Mystery Behavior in Electrons
December 13 - In collaboration with the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies at Los Alamos, an international team of researchers has, for the first time, viewed on a nanoscale the formation of mysterious metallic puddles that facilitate the transition of an electrically insulating material into an electrically conducting one.
Los Alamos National Laboratory employees & LANS raise record $1.7 million for local United Way programs
December 10 - Los Alamos National Laboratory employees and their employer once again demonstrated deep concern for their communities and those in need by contributing a record $1.7 million to United Way programs in Northern New Mexico and Santa Fe.
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NOVEMBER
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A One-Two Punch That Makes You See Stars
November 15 - A Los Alamos National Laboratory astrophysicist and his colleagues have discovered that a superbright supernova observed last year might have exhibited an unusual one-two punch.
Math and Science Academy Celebration Friday
November 14 - Twenty-eight kindergarten through twelfth-grade teachers will be recognized for completing their master of arts degrees in teaching math and science at a ceremony at 2 p.m. Friday, November 16, at the Nick L. Salazar Center for the Arts at Northern New Mexico College in Española.
Prescribed Burns on Laboratory Property Set for Next Week
November 14 - Los Alamos National Laboratory is scheduled to conduct two prescribed burns on Lab property in the areas known as Fence Canyon (Technical Area 68) and Lower Potrillo Canyon (TA-36) that border New Mexico 4 near White Rock starting Monday, November 19.
Immunodeficiency Virus More Prolific than Previously Thought
November 13 - A Los Alamos National Laboratory mathematical model has helped an international research team understand for the first time the number of offspring produced by a single Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV), the first-cousin of the virus that causes AIDS in humans.
LANL Biosafety Committee To Hold Quarterly Meeting
November 7 - Los Alamos National Laboratory's Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) will hold its Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) at 10 a.m. Tuesday, November 13 in the basement conference room of Los Alamos Medical Center at 3717 Trinity Drive in Los Alamos.
Brain Science Subject of Frontiers in Science Talk
November 5 - Is the brain just a damp, squishy computer? The answer is yes and no, but mostly no, it appears, as scientists learn more about how the brain works. In a "Frontiers in Science" series talk, Garrett Kenyon of the Los Alamos National Laboratory's Biological and Quantum Physics group (P-21) will discuss "Cracking the Neural Code: Discovering the Language of the Brain."
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OCTOBER
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ASPECT plane deploys to Southern California wildfires
October 26 - At 6:30 (Mountain Daylight Time) Thursday morning, the ASPECT plane – a one-of-a-kind emergency response tool operated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and supported by Los Alamos National Laboratory – deployed to the wildfires of Southern California.
Plethora of Papers Proves Crashed Mission a Success
October 23 - Despite a resounding crunch into the Utah desert floor in 2004, scientists have mined a treasure trove of data from the Genesis mission.
Cancer Treatment Gets Software Boost
October 16 - Nearly a million cancer patients will undergo radiation therapy this year in the United States, and now a new software application, Acuros®, based on the Los Alamos National Laboratory-developed Attila® radiation-modeling software, will enable physicians to focus their beams more precisely on specific tumor sites.
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SEPTEMBER
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Grand Plans for a Dawn Launch
September 25 - NASA's Dawn mission, ready for launch Thursday from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carries an instrument ready to determine the elemental composition of the asteroid belt.
Los Alamos Wins Two Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Awards
September 24 - Two technologies developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the areas of energy and semiconductor research are among the winners of the 2007 Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Awards.
Facility upgrades will facilitate repackaging and shipment of 'hotter' waste from Los Alamos to WIPP
September 20 - Los Alamos National Laboratory has completed much-anticipated upgrades to its transuranic waste repackaging facility.
Los Alamos National Laboratory Supports San Martin de Porres Soup Kitchen
September 13 - An Española soup kitchen will soon be able to expand its outreach efforts thanks to the work of Los Alamos National Laboratory and several local businesses and nonprofits.
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AUGUST
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Laboratory Researcher Awarded Bronze Star for Service in Iraq
August 24 - U.S. Army Sergeant First Class Tod Caldwell, a postdoctoral researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory, has been awarded the Bronze Star Medal for meritorious service in Iraq.
Test of Through-The-Earth Communication System Exceeds Expectations
August 6 - Rigorous testing at the Lake Lynn Experimental Mine last month proved the viability of Vital Alert Technologies' system,Through-The-Earth Communication system, for emergency warning, evacuation, and rescue communications.
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JULY
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LANL Furthering Economic Development in Northern New Mexico
July 31 - Los Alamos National Security, LLC will enter into a first-ever mentor-protégé agreement with TSAY Construction and Services, LLC, a small business 100 percent owned and operated by Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo (formerly San Juan Pueblo) located just north of Los Alamos.
Laboratory subcontractors contribute to economic development fund
July 19 - Los Alamos National Laboratory subcontract companies on Wednesday donated more than $100,000 to help further economic development efforts in Northern New Mexico.
Laboratory subcontractors contribute to economic development fund
July 18 - Los Alamos National Laboratory subcontract companies on Wednesday donated more than $100,000 to help further economic development efforts in Northern New Mexico.
Los Alamos already taking steps to address DOE security findings
July 13 - Los Alamos National Laboratory today acknowledged findings from a Department of Energy inquiry stemming from a security incident that occurred in October 2006 involving unsecured classified materials.
Understanding Killer Electrons in Space
July 10 - Settling a long-standing scientific debate, Los Alamos scientists have demonstrated conclusively how electromagnetic waves accelerate ordinary electrons in the belts of radiation outside Earth's atmosphere to a state where they become "killer electrons," particles that are hazardous to satellites, spacecraft, and astronauts.
Laboratory technologies capture R&D 100 awards
July 9 - Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory won two of R&D Magazine's prestigious 2007 R&D 100 Awards. The latest winners bring the Laboratory's total to 105 awards received since the Laboratory began entering innovations in the competition in 1978.
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JUNE
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Local company gets Laboratory environmental remediation contract
June 27 - Accelerated Remediation Company, a local small business with offices in Los Alamos, received a contract from Los Alamos National Laboratory to begin remediation of an historic waste site known as Material Disposal Area B.
Mars Rover Laser Tool Ready for Testing
June 21 - Mars mission Job One: Get there. Job Two: Find rocks and zap them with your laser tool.
Laboratory Sponsors Science Weekend in Albuquerque
June 20 - Los Alamos National Laboratory is sponsoring a one-day science carnival on Saturday, June 23, at the Albuquerque Convention Center.
Deputy and Principal Associate Directors named
June 13 - Laboratory Director Michael R. Anastasio today has filled two high-level positions: Jan A. Van Prooyen has been named deputy director and Mike Mallory principal associate director for operations and business services.
Los Alamos National Security, LLC invests in local communities
June 5 - At a Laboratory-sponsored regional community leadership breakfast, Laboratory Director Michael Anastasio presented checks for $100,000 to New Mexico Highlands University (NMHU) President Jim Fries and Northern New Mexico College (NNMC) Executive Vice President Tom Garcia.
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MAY
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Scientists Model Hepatitis C Virus
May 24 - One of the most common life-threatening viral infections in the United States today is hepatitis C virus (HCV). The standard treatment is successful in only about 50 percent of treated HCV chronic patients, with no effective alternative treatment for those who fail to clear the virus.
Tracking a deadly bacillus
May 17 - Recently, Los Alamos scientists devised an improved method for distinguishing Bacillus anthracis (the bacterial cause of anthrax) from its close cousins Bacillus cereus.
Frontiers in Science Lecture Series Mixes it Up
May 17 - Robert Ecke, a Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist, will discuss “The Turbulent World: How Nature Mixes Things Up” at a Frontiers in Science Public Lecture Series, beginning Monday (May 21).
Los Alamos National Laboratory to hold robot rodeo
May 16 - The Los Alamos Bomb Squad will host a Robot Rodeo on May 21-25, 2007 at Technical Area 49.
Solar Wind Slowed by Helium, Researchers Suggest
May 16 - Like a sea anchor slacking the pace of a wind-driven ship, helium may be the drag that slows the solar wind in its million-mile-per-hour rush across the cosmos.
Mortandad Trail Open to Public Friday and Saturday
May 15 - In conjunction with New Mexico Heritage Preservation Month, the Los Alamos National Laboratory Cultural Resources Team is hosting public self-guided tours of the Mortandad Cavate Trail on Friday and Saturday.
Los Alamos National Laboratory Employees Again are Top Contributors to United Way of Santa Fe County
May 9 - Los Alamos National Laboratory employees for the seventh consecutive year are the largest contributors to the United Way of Santa Fe County's annual giving campaign.
Genome Institute Reaches Milestone with a Mighty Microbe
May 8 - Los Alamos scientists working as part of the Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute (JGI) recently finished the genetic code of Shewanella baltica OS185 as its 100th genomic sequence.
Los Alamos Recovery Team Sets New Record
May 7 - With the delivery of a batch of radioactive pellets from a company in California, a Los Alamos team has now recovered 15,000 unused or unwanted radioactive sources.
Laboratory installing 'sentinel well'
May 3 - The Laboratory has taken the next step toward protecting Los Alamos drinking water from byproducts of a chromium-based corrosion inhibitor that was discharged into the environment more than three decades ago.
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APRIL
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Santa Fe conference helps physics create new information technology
April 27 - Here’s a question: what do Google and cell phones have in common?
Trio wins computing challenge
April 24 - Budding scientists from Albuquerque captured the top prize Tuesday during awards ceremonies for the New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge.
Scientists discover vast intergalactic plasma cloud
April 19 - A team of researchers have discovered a new giant in the heavens, a giant in the form of a previously undetected cloud of intergalactic plasma that stretches more than 6 million light years across.
Sue Stiger to manage environmental cleanup at Los Alamos National Laboratory
April 19 - Sue Stiger has been named associate director for environmental programs at Los Alamos National Laboratory, announced Laboratory Director Michael Anastasio.
Scientists discover the roots of the fast pace of life in big cities
April 16 - Humanity has crossed a historic threshold where a majority of people worldwide now live in cities. Yet, even as the debate on how humans impact the natural environment grows, urbanization and its consequences remains poorly understood.
Los Alamos scientists take genome science to the streets
April 13 - Late last year, the Los Alamos arm of the Joint Genome Institute organized an outreach team dedicated to taking genome science activities to students in Northern New Mexico. This spring, the team created presentations about genome sequencing as well as hands-on activities for junior high and high school students.
GRaND science instrument moves closer to launch from Cape
April 10 - A mission back in time is nearing the launch pad minute by minute. The Dawn spacecraft, NASA’s mission into the heart of the asteroid belt, arrived at Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Florida, today for final processing and launch operations.
Scientists develop ecological early warning device
April 9 - Working with collaborators from around the globe, scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed a method for constantly measuring climate change impacts at ecosystem scales using the stable isotope composition of atmospheric CO2 in plants.
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MARCH
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Los Alamos scientist wins prestigious physics award
March 22 - Distinguished theoretical physicist and senior Los Alamos National Laboratory Fellow Hans Frauenfelder has been named one of three 2007 Willis E. Lamb Award winners for Laser Science and Quantum Optics at the 37th Physics of Quantum Electronics (PQE) Conference.
Risky business highlighted in symposium
March 21 - Los Alamos National Laboratory is hosting its second annual symposium on “Risk Analysis in Homeland Security and Defense: Theory and Application,” March 26-28 at the La Fonda Hotel on the Plaza in Santa Fe.
Contemplating the far away future of computing
March 20 - An unprecedented and multidisciplinary group of world-renowned scientists will gather this week in Santa Fe looking far into the future for the most promising ideas about what computers and computing may be like many decades from now.
'Software glasses' clarify view of lunar thorium
March 15 - Using a novel approach to data analysis, a sharper pair of “software glasses,” scientists are taking a closer look at spectroscopic Moon images to better understand how that body was formed.
A more complex HIV family tree discovered
March 15 - Adding another component into an already complicated effort to identify weaknesses within HIV, a team of Los Alamos scientists discovered that HIV variation in the human population is driven by more than a person's immune response.
Scientists develop new terahertz material
March 14 - Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have created a device for manipulating terahertz (THz) radiation. The device could be the basis for novel electronics and photonics applications ranging from new imaging methods to advanced communication technologies.
Newest radiation detectors in development
March 12 - Development and commercialization of a new generation of multiplicity shift registers - devices used to better detect plutonium and other radioactive materials - are now underway.
NNSA satellite launched on Atlas-5 rocket
March 9 - A small-but-smart satellite experiment, the Cibola Flight Experiment (CFE) developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory for the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), launched at 10:10 p.m. EST last night aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas-5 rocket and was successfully placed in orbit 350 miles above Earth.
Girls learn about careers in math and science
March 8 - More than 100 girls from throughout Northern New Mexico can learn about careers in math and science at the annual Expanding Your Horizons conference on March 14 in Los Alamos.
Wallace named to Lab's top science post
March 6 - Director Michael Anastasio has named Terry Wallace as the Laboratory's Principal Associate Director for Science, Technology and Engineering, with the approval of the Los Alamos National Security, LLC Board of Governors.
Director announces management change
March 6 - In a message to Los Alamos National Laboratory employees, Director Mike Anastasio announced that he has reluctantly accepted a request from Andy Phelps, Associate Director for Environmental Programs, to be reassigned to other duties.
Sound waves turn natural gas into liquid
March 5 - Worldwide, 100 billion cubic meters of natural gas is wasted every year. Now, the Denver-based company Swift LNG aims to turn that gas into a usable liquid fuel with a thermoacoustic natural gas liquefaction technology just licensed from Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Laboratory staff earn 17 communication awards
March 1 - Los Alamos National Laboratory writers, artists, and graphic designers won seventeen Society for Technical Communication awards in the 2006 Southwest Regional Publications, Art, and Online competitions.
National conference aims to improve science education
March 1 - Improving science education is critical to Los Alamos National Laboratory's ability to work on cutting-edge science today and in the future. To that end, the Laboratory and the National Science Resources Center are cosponsoring a national science education conference this spring in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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FEBRUARY
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Radioactive liquid waste treatment facility upgrades completed
February 26 - Los Alamos National Laboratory has completed refurbishments to its high-level Radioactive Liquid Waste Treatment Facility waste tanks and collection system at Technical Area-50.
Storms and society: where things go wrong
February 26 - Tying images of a powerful ice storm to scenes of downed power lines and darkened homes does not take a great leap of imagination - but the science of their interrelationships is more complex.
Laboratory sponsors Santa Fe Neural Computation conference
February 16 - Understanding the computational power of the brain is the focus of a conference in Santa Fe next week sponsored by Los Alamos National Laboratory's Center for Nonlinear Studies and the New Mexico Institute for Advanced Studies (NMIAS).
New program a matchmaker for Laboratory volunteers
February 15 - Finding a place to volunteer in 2007 just got easier. As part of Los Alamos National Laboratory's commitment to increase its outreach to nearby communities, the Laboratory has joined VolunteerMatch, a network of nonprofit organizations that match people who want to volunteer with organizations that need them.
Los Alamos National Laboratory deploys climate station in Germany
February 13 - From the tropical islands of the Western Pacific to the lush forests of Southwest Germany, Los Alamos National Laboratory is taking global climate research by storm as an integral player in the U.S. Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program (ARM).
Los Alamos scientist named to DOE isotope post
February 7 - Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist Wolfgang H. Runde has been selected to help manage the Department of Energy's (DOE) National Isotope Program.
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JANUARY
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Los Alamos National Laboratory employees give $1.5 million to Northern New Mexico United Way programs
January 8 - Citizens served by United Way provider agencies in Northern New Mexico and Santa Fe will benefit from $1.5 million contributed by Los Alamos National Laboratory employees and Los Alamos National Security, LLC, which manages the Lab.
Los Alamos picks new chief legal counsel after nationwide search
January 3 - Steve Porter, an attorney with vast experience throughout the Department of Energy's scientific complex, has been chosen to fill the vacancy left by the retirement of Laboratory General Counsel Frank Dickson.
New vehicle access requirements begin next week
January 3 - Beginning January 8, all westbound vehicles coming into to Technical Area 3, or traveling to the Pajarito Ski Hill, and other areas on West Jemez Road will have to drive through new Vehicle Access Portals.
