Latest News Releases
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.
Los Alamos National Laboratory technologies capture prestigious R&D 100 awards
July 3 — Cutting-edge innovations garnered Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers two of R&D Magazine's prestigious R&D 100 Awards.
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.
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.
