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Southwestern consortium pursues radio telescope project

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Working closely with Los Alamos National Laboratory as part of the Southwest Consortium, officials at the University of New Mexico announced today that they are leading the effort to propose a new low frequency radio astronomy observatory be built in a region covering New Mexico and Western Texas.

Modeling an asteroid impact

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

Mounting scientific evidence supports the theory that a large asteroid slammed into Earth about 65 million years ago--killing the dinosaurs and ending the Cretaceous Period. Simulations developed at the Laboratory are providing new insight into this catastrophic event.

XMM-Newton satellite uncovers X-ray emission and X-ray pulsar in Andromeda

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In the most sensitive X-ray survey of our neighboring galaxy, Andromeda (M31), the X-ray Multi-Mirror satellite observatory (XMM-Newton) has uncovered hundreds of X-ray sources and provided new insights into the nature of the interstellar medium in the spiral arms of our own galaxy as well as those of Andromeda.

Meeting: American Astronomical Society Meeting

Sandia microscaffolding fits perfectly in patient's jaw

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In an operating room in Carle Hospital in Urbana, Ill., on May 7, as scientists from the University of Illinois (UI) and Sandia National Laboratories watched, surgeon Michael Goldwasser fitted a highly unusual ceramic prosthetic device into the mouth of an elderly woman who had lost most of her teeth and along with it, much of the bone of her lower jaw.

Proton radiography at Los Alamos

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

Researchers are now using protons to probe the details of imploding weapon mock-ups. Proton radiography is enhancing the Lab's ability to predict the performance of stockpiled nuclear weapons.

Los Alamos restores U.S. ability to make nuclear weapons

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Los Alamos National Laboratory has successfully made the first nuclear weapons pit in 14 years that meets specifications for use in the U.S. stockpile.

Modeling bone remodeling

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

Los Alamos theoreticians are using algorithms developed in weapons research to understand bone dynamics and abnormalities like osteoporosis.

Z produces fusion neutrons, Sandia scientists confirm

DOE/Sandia National Laboratories
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Throwing its hat into the ring of machines that offer the possibility of achieving controlled nuclear fusion, Sandia National Laboratories' Z machine has created a hot dense plasma that produces thermonuclear neutrons.

Meeting: American Physical Society April Meeting 2003

Los Alamos weapons X-ray facility completed

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Business Announcement

Los Alamos National Laboratory has completed construction of the second stage of the world's most powerful flash X-ray machine, a key experimental tool needed to study how aging nuclear weapons behave in the absence of nuclear testing.

Los Alamos' 60th anniversary

DOE/Los Alamos National Laboratory

As it turns 60 years old, Los Alamos National Laboratory holds a special place in the modern-day genealogy of science and technology, says George "Pete" Nanos, the laboratory's interim director. "We are proud of our accomplishments. However, we will never rest on our laurels or be held motionless by the past."