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News Releases Archive - 2008
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SEPTEMBER
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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.
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AUGUST
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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.
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JULY
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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.
Lab Partners with Local Company to Market Protein Technology
July 14 - Scientists who study how proteins assemble and fold into distinct shapes may soon see shape-shifting in the very methods they use, thanks to a partnership between Los Alamos National Laboratory and Theranostech Inc., an Albuquerque-based biotechnology company.
Lab Seeks Ideas for Venture Acceleration Fund
July 10 - The Laboratory is soliciting ideas for projects that facilitate the creation and growth of regional businesses based on Los Alamos National Laboratory technology or expertise.
Electronic Structure of Superconductivity Refined
July 10 - A team of physicists, including Neil Harrison and Charles Mielke from Los Alamos National Laboratory, propose a new model that expands on a little understood aspect of the electronic structure in high-temperature superconductors.
Laboratory, LANS develop new mentor-protégé agreements
July 8 - Los Alamos National Security, LLC recently entered into mentor-protégé agreements with two Northern New Mexico businesses, North Wind, Inc. and Performance Maintenance Inc. (PMI), under the auspices of a Department of Energy mentor-protégé program.
Astronomy Days lectures begin July 8 at Bradbury Science Museum
July 2 - A series of six evening lectures that focus on astronomy and the space sciences begins Tuesday, July 8, at Los Alamos Laboratory's Bradbury Science Museum.
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JUNE
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Roadrunner supercomputer puts research at a new scale
June 12 - Less 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.
Lab Seeks Venture Acceleration Initiative Partners
June 9 - The Laboratory is soliciting proposals to facilitate the identification, creation, and growth of spinoff companies based on Laboratory technology or know-how and is prepared to provide up to $1 million over three years to support the effort.
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MAY
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Battling bird flu by the numbers
May 27 - A pair of Laboratory researchers 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.
Turning fungus into fuel
May 4 - A spidery fungus with a voracious appetite for military uniforms and canvas tents could hold the key to improvements in the production of biofuels, a team of government, academic and industry researchers has announced.
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APRIL
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Albuquerque duo wins 2008 New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge
April 22 - Budding scientists from Albuquerque, Erika DeBenedictis of St. Pius X High School and Tony Huang of La Cueva, captured the top prize Tuesday during the 2008 New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge award ceremony hosted by the Laboratory.
Supercomputing Challenge April 21-22
April 17 - More than 250 New Mexico middle- and high-school students will be at LANL next Monday and Tuesday (April 21-22) for judging and awards in the 18th annual New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge.
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MARCH
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Continental Breakup and the Dawn of Humankind
March 31 - In the newest Los Alamos "Frontiers in Science" lecture series, geologist Giday WoldeGabriel will discuss the intriguing fossil findings from an African rift valley that he and partners at the University of California, Berkeley have been studying.
Los Alamos Technology to be Featured on CSI: NY
March 27 - A state-of-the-art, multipurpose sampling device developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory will be used in an episode of Crime Scene Investigation-New York (CSI: NY) scheduled to air at 9 p.m. Mountain Daylight Time April 2 on CBS.
Los Alamos Technologies Help Scientists Detect, Record & Interpret 'Monster' Burst of Gamma Rays
March 21 - On the ground and in space, Los Alamos National Laboratory’s science tools provided early information on the first gamma ray burst so powerful that it could be seen with the naked eye. The burst was detected March 19 by NASA's Swift satellite, thanks to software on Swift’s Burst Alert Telescope, which was the first instrument to detect the sudden rise in gamma rays.
Los Alamos National Laboratory medical plan to cover PMC services
March 14 - United Healthcare (UHC), the company that administers the physician and medical facility network supporting medical plans for Los Alamos National Laboratory employees, has agreed to retroactively treat Physicians Medical Center of Santa Fe (PMC) as an in-network facility beginning on April 25, 2007.
Language of a fly proves surprising
March 10 - A group of researchers has developed a novel way to view the world through the eyes of a common fly and partially decode the insect's reactions to changes in the world around it.
Saturn's Moon Rhea Sports a Dusty Halo
March 6 - Who'd have guessed that Saturn has its own moon-sized vacuum cleaners, circling the ringed planet and sucking up electrons from the plasma at the orbit of the icy moons. Or that one of Saturn's moons has its very own vacuum in the form of a hitherto-unknown dust halo, not quite visible as a ring, around the midsection of Rhea, discovered by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Cassini is carrying among its instruments a pair of ion-mass and ion-beam spectrometers built by Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Girls Learn About Careers in Math and Science
March 5 - Thursday (March 6) is the early registration deadline for the 29th annual Expanding Your Horizons conference. This year's conference is April 2 at the University of New Mexico, Los Alamos campus.
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FEBRUARY
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Synthetic Fuel Concept to Steal CO2 From Air
February 12 - Los Alamos National Laboratory has developed a low-risk, transformational concept, called Green Freedom™, for large-scale production of carbon-neutral, sulfur-free fuels and organic chemicals from air and water.
Laboratory Disputes Citizens' Lawsuit
February 7 - Los Alamos National Laboratory officials today expressed surprise to a lawsuit alleging noncompliance with the federal Clean Water Act filed today by citizens groups against Los Alamos National Security LLC and the U.S. Department of Energy.
Los Alamos Wins 2008 Pollution Prevention Awards
February 7 - Los Alamos National Laboratory is a 2008 winner of two Best-in-Class Pollution Prevention awards and six Environmental Stewardship awards from the National Nuclear Security Administration.
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JANUARY
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Los Alamos National Laboratory to Begin DARHT 2 Operations
January 29 - The Dual Axis Radiographic Hydrodynamic Test (DARHT) facility has officially become "dual" with authorization to begin full power operations of Axis 2, adding both new capability and higher energy to the unique accelerator facility.
Los Alamos names new head of stockpile manufacturing and support
January 22 - Laboratory Director Michael Anastasio has named Carl Beard as the new associate director for stockpile manufacturing and support.
Earthquake 'Memory' Could Spur Aftershocks
January 3 - Using a novel device that simulates earthquakes in a laboratory setting, a Los Alamos researcher and his colleagues have shown that seismic waves - the sounds radiated from earthquakes - can induce earthquake aftershocks, often long after a quake has subsided.
