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- In quantum channels, zero plus zero can equal non-zero
6 Oct 2008- Physicists have discovered a strange characteristic of quantum communication channels. If two quantum channels each have a transmission capacity of zero, they may still have a nonzero capacity when used together. This effect, which has no classical counterpart, reveals a new complexity in the fundamental nature of quantum communication.
- Lab's townsite sampling project begins
3 Oct 2008- Los Alamos National Laboratory announced last week that an environmental sampling project, known as the upper Los Alamos Canyon project, is underway in the town site.
- HIV dates to around 1900, study shows
3 Oct 2008- A genetic analysis of a biopsy sample recently discovered in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has led researchers to conclude that the virus that causes AIDS has existed in human populations for more than a century, according to a study released Wednesday. . . .
- Web page highlights education resources
3 Oct 2008- A new Web site provides information about the Laboratory's kindergarten through college education programs and partnerships in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and math.
- Unsticking MEMS
2 Oct 2008- IMAGES: SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES Lube Job: The Casimir effect makes MEMS get stuck. Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory, in New Mexico, think they may have the answer to a vexing problem called stiction, which causes ultrasmall components of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)...
- Los Alamos and Sandia: R&D Treasures
1 Oct 2008- For decades, Procter & Gamble (PG) has been creating petroleum-derived materials that are engineering marvels. Tide bottles that don't explode if dropped from a high shelf onto a Wal-Mart (WMT)...
- Los Alamos shares nano award
3 Sep 2008- NANOTECHNOLOGY MANUFACTURING: Scientists from three institutions, including Los Alamos National Laboratory, have 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.
- Smartest living nanomachine: nature's protein factory
3 Aug 2008- From childhood on, we take for granted that the human body is a chemical factory that breaks down food and converts it into the molecules needed for life. But the body is also a container for a mind-blurring number of nanofactories called ribosomes, all working at full capacity around the clock to keep us alive.
- Silent sentries: smart nuclear detectors
3 Aug 2008- The Limited Test Ban Treaty came into being during the summer of 1963, just 18 years after a mushroom cloud swept the first atomic bomb's radioactive remains miles into the sky. With a stated desire to put an end to both "the contamination of man's environment by radioactive substances" and "the armaments race," the treaty prohibited nuclear explosions on Earth's surface, in its atmosphere or oceans, or in space.
