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- Trident Laser Accelerates Protons To Record Energies
- 2 Nov 2009 An international team of physicists at Los Alamos National Laboratory has succeeded in using intense laser light to accelerate protons to energies never before... Read more …about Trident Laser Accelerates Protons To Record Energies
- New genetic sequencing standards proposed
- 28 Oct 2009 LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Oct. 26 (UPI) -- U.S. and Canadian scientists say they've proposed a set of standards designed to elucidate the quality of publicly available genetic sequencing... Read more …about New genetic sequencing standards proposed
- Roadrunner supercomputer maps HIV family tree
- 28 Oct 2009 Researchers are using IBM's Roadrunner to analyze tens of thousands of genetic sequences from individuals with HIV. (Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory) Physicist Tanmoy Bhattacharya and HIV researcher Bette Korber are creating an evolutionary genetic family tree based on samples taken by the... Read more …about Roadrunner supercomputer maps HIV family tree
- LANL Roadrunner Models Nonlinear Physics Of High-power Lasers
- 28 Oct 2009 For years scientists have struggled with the difficult physics of inertial confinement fusion. This is the attempt to compress a target capsule containing isotopes of hydrogen with high-powered lasers to high enough pressure and temperature to initiate fusion... Read more …about LANL Roadrunner Models Nonlinear Physics Of High-power Lasers
- Scientists use world's fastest supercomputer to create largest HIV evolutionary Tree
- 28 Oct 2009 Supporting Los Alamos National Laboratory's role in the international Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology consortium, researchers are using the Roadrunner supercomputer to analyze vast quantities of genetic sequences from HIV infected people in the hope of zeroing in on possible vaccine target areas. Read more …about Scientists use world's fastest supercomputer to create largest HIV evolutionary Tree
- Carefully cleaning up the garbage at Los Alamos
- 23 Oct 2009 No one knows for sure what is buried in the Manhattan Project-era dump here. At the very least, there is probably a truck down there that was contaminated in 1945 at the Trinity test site, where the world’s first nuclear explosion seared the sky and melted the desert sand 200 miles south of here during World War II. But now a team of workers is using $212 million in federal stimulus money to clean up the 65-year-old, six-acre dump, which was used by the scientists who built the world’s first atomic bomb. Read more …about Carefully cleaning up the garbage at Los Alamos
- Martz names Perry Fellow at Stanford
- 23 Oct 2009 A key member of the brain trust of Los Alamos National Laboratory has gone back to school. Read more …about Martz names Perry Fellow at Stanford
- Researchers revisit ‘first experiments’
- 21 Oct 2009 Investigators at Los Alamos National Laboratory are combing through the history of modern science, looking for what might have been done differently. In an exercise called “First Experiments,” 15 teams of researchers are working on answering a highly theoretical set of questions. Read more …about Researchers revisit ‘first experiments’
- Solar systems's edge surprises astronomers
- 15 Oct 2009 The edge of the solar system is tied up with a ribbon, astronomers have discovered. The first global map of the solar system reveals that its edge is nothing like what had been predicted. Read more …about Solar systems's edge surprises astronomers
- Malicious software targeted by newly patented technology
- 15 Oct 2009 Los Alamos National Laboratory...announced Tuesday that a first patent had been issued on a new malware defense, known as support vector machine classifiers, or SVM, that appears to have a number of promising advantages over other systems currently being used. Read more …about Malicious software targeted by newly patented technology
